Winnipeg Manitoba - Welcome All to ROBIN's HOOD

A brief digression from the CAL-Ender Mysteries to share some info on another of my favorite topics...

The Magical Mystical City of WINNIPEG

Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada...
"The HEART of the Continent"




Winnipeg is located at:
49°54′N 97°08′W
49.9, -97.133333

W,I,N,N,I,P,E,G
23+9+14+14+9+16+5+7 = 97

Winnipeg begins at "97 West" encoding within the value of its name a nod to the rest of Canada to its East and the UK at "0°00′00″E".

By international convention, the modern Prime Meridian passes through the Royal Observatory, Greenwich (at 51°28′38″N 0°00′00″E (Greenwich Observatory)), in southeast London, United Kingdom, known as the International Meridian or Greenwich Meridian.

Below (east of) 97 West begins with 96
96° W also falls within the borders of the province of Manitoba.

96 or 69 (the astrological symbol for the sign of CANCER)
is the "KEYSTONE" of Freemasonry's Royal Arch...



Manitoba is known as the "KEYSTONE" province in Canada.





The MAGNA CARTA displayed in Winnipeg was authored by the successor to King Richard the LIONHEART, King John - who is featured towards the end of the Robin Hood (2010) movie.



After Robin is told his true history by Sir Walter Loxley, that his father was a stonemason and a philosopher (essentially the historical progenitors of modern "Freemasonry") and that Sir Walter and Sir William lost him as a child, Robin goes to speak on behalf of Sir Walter to King John...

When Robin speaks for Sir Walter Locksley (Loxley) he proposes a charter of freedoms and liberties...
to which King John gives his word shall be written...

This reference to a 'charter' depicted in the movie is what essentially became the MAGNA CARTA (Now on display in Rm 200 of the Manitoba Legislative Building in Winnipeg until October 8, 2010)


The Winnipeg "Heart of the Continent" sign should contain another line:

Welcome All to "ROBIN'S HOOD"!



Also of interest:

Queen gives Canadian Museum for Human Rights a piece of history


See other Strange Eye articles about Winnipeg



BONUS:

It remains the contention of this author that something lies buried in the general region of +51° 28' 38.00", -96° 0' 0.00" - Lake Winnipeg...


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If you zoom out a bit you might notice the resemblace of the Fisher Bay preserve area of Lake Winnipeg to a boot or big foot.

Under the north-gazing Watchful Eye of MERCURY (aka the Greek Hermes)...





... and ROBIN is, of course, a Longstride (Longitude)



Stefan from the Sync Whole astutely notes that ROBIN's HOOD = "Robin’s 42" (HOOD = 8+15+15+4 = 42)

... and I'll add to Stefan's observation that the difference between ROBIN and HOOD is "16" or 4 squared (4^2).

... and ROBIN'S = 77, the height in meters of the Golden Boy's TORCH.

... and ROBIN HOOD (the ARCHer), Mr Russell Crowe himself, may also recall that he once attended our Event evening at a former investment of mine, that was at the time called:
'Green Gates' located at 6945 ROBLIN BLVD
in Headingley, Manitoba R4H 1A2


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the Mysteries continue...

Frank Albo - The Mystery of the Manitoba Ledge from CBC National News (UPDATEs)

The Mystery of the Manitoba Ledge | CBC News: The National

A NEWS segment, known as Canadiana, from the CBC National News on the Manitoba Legislative Building featuring SynchroMason Frank Albo:

Click HERE for Direct Video Play Link



The Mystery of the Manitoba Ledge
September 30, 2009 (Runs 5:30)
What do Dan Brown's book The Lost Symbol and the Manitoba legislature have in common? Reg Sherren meets a Winnipeg man who may have the answer.



(In case you didn't notice I thought I'd point out here that the segment runs exactly 330 seconds)

I find it fitting that at this time of NASA's Messenger mission to MERCURY, the CBC National News should run a segment on one of two buildings in the world with a golden MERCURY on top of it:






See for more REF:
The second half of my March post or
Galactic Center Temple by Jake Kotze @ The Blob




UPDATE

SIDE NOTEs:

Unexpected turn of events leaves loyal Saturn dealers, owners stunned at demise
By Stephen Manning (CP) – 3 hours ago

WASHINGTON — Charlie Eickmeyer says he was a fan of Saturn vehicles years before he was able to drive. Today he's in shock.

So were employees at Day Automotive Group in Pittsburgh when they read the news online that a deal to rescue Saturn had fallen through. And Mike Martin is left wondering how he can move the Saturns left on his lot or what to do with the employees at his Manassas, Va. dealership now that the brand is apparently doomed.

"It seemed like the deal was going through," said Eickmeyer, 34, who started following Saturn when he was 10 years old and now runs a website for enthusiasts of the brand. "I was really excited about the next chapter in Saturn's history."

The chapter was supposed to be a future under former race car driver Roger Penske with the novel approach of filling dealerships with cars made overseas and rebranded as Saturns.

Instead, the collapse of talks between GM and Penske Automotive Group Inc. this week likely means the end of the nearly 25-year-old brand, sending Saturn dealers like Martin and Day Automotive scrambling over what to do with their soon-to-be empty showrooms and leaving the company's loyal owners mourning the apparent demise of a company that built its reputation on customer care.

GM said it will cease making Saturns at plants in Kansas, Mexico and Michigan almost immediately, but will continue to honour warranties after Saturn dealers stop selling cars. Saturn owners can still get their vehicles serviced at GM's remaining dealerships once their Saturn dealer shuts down.

Saturn's future has been in doubt since GM said earlier this year it planned to phase out the brand by 2011. GM was shrinking to four brands as part of a deep restructuring. Just five days after GM filed for bankruptcy, Penske emerged as a possible buyer for Saturn. Wednesday, Penske backed out, unable to find another company to supply vehicles after GM stops making Saturns in two years.

...more at Unexpected turn of events leaves loyal Saturn dealers, owners stunned at demise

Saturn rides into history
By The Kansas City Star Editorial Board

When the Saturn brand was launched, it quickly gained a following among motorists seeking a car that was both dependable and inexpensive. Customers who loathed the exercise of dickering over price also liked Saturn’s no-haggle merchandising.

But the small car once envisioned as a worthy competitor to Japanese imports appears destined for the General Motors scrap heap.

Fortunately, GM’s announcement of the Saturn phase-out won’t mean a loss of jobs at the company’s Fairfax plan in Kansas City, Kan.

Fairfax made the Saturn Aura, but most of the plant’s output is the Chevrolet Malibu and the Buick LaCrosse. The plant will still expand to three shifts in January, a move that will create 950 new jobs — very good news given the current state of the economy and the car business.

...more at Saturn rides into history




Hmmm... The end of Saturn....
At the same plant that made the Buick LaCrosse
and NASA's LCROSS is about to bombard the Cabeus Crater on the Moon...



The CABEUS Crater is named after Niccolo Cabeo

The decision means that when NASA's LCROSS probe and its spent Centaur rocket stage slam into the moon on Oct. 9, they will crash into the large crater Cabeus, and not the nearby (and smaller) Cabeus A crater that was previously targeted.

...more at Moon-crashing probe aimed at bigger target


The West sky view from Washington DC on 10.01.09 at 2155GMT (17:55 EDT / 5:55 PM EDT)

Check out the SON (Mercury) of a Saturn / Venus (and SUN/VIRGO) union...
The Son (Mercury/Hermes) "born" of the Virgin, replaces the father Saturn.

The "END" of Saturn.

Between Virgo (the Virgin) and Leo (the Lion of Judah)


Beyond that, SATURN was a GM (General Motors) Family brand and MERCURY is a FORD family brand.

Ford also kept its "Virginity" by not accepting any automotive bailout money from the U.S. Government at the end of last year.



UPDATE:

For more SATURN See Chris's Latest on Secret Sun - Secret Sun Picture Parade: Clowns in Space


Chris spots U2 (Utu) on the Cover of Rolling Stone (issue 1089 - October 15, 2009) with SATURN on the top right over the "ONE" of Stone. (and more!)

The Sun meets ISiS and The Messenger snaps Mercury (UPDATE)

9-30-09






NASA Probe Snaps Photos of Mercury But Suffers Minor Glitch
By Andrea Thompson
Senior Writer
posted: 30 September 2009
09:50 am ET

This story was updated at 10:45 a.m. EDT.


A NASA spacecraft that completed its third and final flyby of the planet Mercury yesterday, snapping new pictures of the innermost planet, had a small data hiccup that has delayed release of the images, mission engineers said today.

The MESSENGER probe skimmed just 142 miles (228 km) above Mercury at its closest approach as it whipped around the planet during the flyby, the last of three designed to guide the spacecraft into orbit around the planet in 2011.

The spacecraft did snap several new images of the rocky planet on the inbound leg of its close approach.

"We do have some new science from the flyby," said MESSENGER project scientist Ralph McNutt of Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory.

MESSENGER also took snapshots during its close approach, but "we had a little bit of a hiccup in the data" that has delayed the release of those images, said Eric Finnegan, systems engineer for the mission at Johns Hopkins APL. "It's coming," he added.

The anomaly appears to have happened right around the spacecraft's close approach, so there may not be images from the outbound leg of the journey, McNutt said.

"We missed a little icing on the cake," McNutt told SPACE.com.

Despite the hiccup, the spacecraft is in good health, Finnegan told SPACE.com.

"What is important is that the spacecraft and the instruments are healthy," McNutt said.

The team is sifting through all the data and new images to see just how much they got before the glitch, McNutt added.

"We're all working through this," he said.

MESSENGER made its closest approach to Mercury at about 5:55 p.m. EDT (2155 GMT) when it sped by at about 12,000 mph (19,312 kph). The probe then flew behind Mercury, passing out of communications with Earth for about an hour before restoring contact.

Mercury's gravity was expected to slow MESSENGER by about 6,000 mph (9,656 kph) during the flyby and place it on track to enter orbit in March 2011.

The $446 million spacecraft flew by Mercury twice in 2008 to map the planet in unprecedented detail while using the rocky world's gravitational pull to refine its flight path through space.

The spacecraft is the first probe to visit Mercury since NASA's Mariner 10 mission in the mid-1970s.

When MESSENGER arrives in its final orbit around Mercury, it will begin a long-awaited observation phase that will complete its new maps of the planet. NASA launched MESSENGER - short for MErcury Surface, Space ENvironment, GEochemistry, and Ranging - in 2004. The probe swung past Earth once and Venus twice before beginning its three Mercury flybys.

Read the story on Space.com and see video of Mercury.

Official NASA Messenger site - MESSENGER will fly by Mercury for the third and final time on Sept. 29

Wikipedia entries for Mercury





Former Montreal, Quebec busker and clown, now Canadian Billionaire, Guy Laliberté, founder of Cirque du Soleil launches on his way to ISS...

Cirque founder launches into space
Last Updated: Wednesday, September 30, 2009 | 7:51 PM ET

Guy Laliberté, founder of Cirque du Soleil, became Canada's first space tourist early Wednesday when he blasted off for the International Space Station aboard a Russian Soyuz capsule.

The 50-year-old Canadian creator of the famed circus troupe paid $35 million US to accompany cosmonaut Maxim Surayev and astronaut Jeffrey Williams on the two-day journey to the space station.

The Soyuz capsule shed its rocket stages and entered orbit minutes after shooting up from the Baikonur launch facility.

The Soyuz spacecraft is scheduled to dock at the International Space Station on Oct. 2, where Laliberté, Surayev and Williams will be welcomed by Canadian astronaut Bob Thirsk, who is on a six-month visit, and five other astronauts.

Family and friends on the ground chanted "Guy! Guy!" and sang Rocket Man as it was announced the ship had reached orbit.

"I'm very happy for him. It's amazing," Laliberté's partner, former model Claudia Barilla, tearfully told The Associated Press while she still wore a yellow clown nose.

"I feel a lot more mesmerized than I ever thought I would be," Quebec singing star Garou said after the launch. "Having your friend rising up that fast and that impressively is beyond what I expected."

Laliberté gave the cabin's in-flight camera a double thumbs-up just minutes into the flight and told ground control he felt "super."

Footage from the capsule showed Surayev and Williams strapped in, operating controls and waving occasionally for the camera. Laliberté has a seat on the right-hand side of the cabin, next to a small porthole.

A mission control official communicating with the astronauts said they are all in excellent spirits.

Laliberté said before liftoff that he had packed a collection of clown noses to give to the astronauts on the space station.

"I promise I will plant as much as possible nose clowns in space," he said. "So it will be not only brilliant stars but colourful stars in the future."

Laliberté and his two fellow astronauts were cheered by supporters wearing red clown noses during pre-launch preparations.

As the trio climbed into their capsule on the launch pad, they sang the pop song Mammy Blue.

Laliberté, who is now the seventh private citizen to blast into space, hopes his 12-day stay aboard the station will help raise awareness of drinking-water problems around the world when he hosts the first multimedia event from the station on Oct. 9 to highlight that crisis.

The two-hour show, called "Moving Stars and Earth for Water," will feature former U.S. vice-president Al Gore, and musicians including rock band U2. It is to be carried live on the website onedrop.org.

'The first clown in space'
"I’m not a scientist, I’m not a doctor like the other participants. I’m not a professional. So I’m really the first clown in space,” he told CBC News earlier. “So it's important they understand that. But they also understand that the guy behind the nose of a clown is the chief of the Cirque du Soleil. That I have a mission in regard to humanitarian cause.”

Guy Laliberté jokes after putting on his space suit on Wednesday. (Shamil Zhumatov/Reuters)Earlier this month, Laliberté told reporters he will try to lighten things up on the orbiting station.

"I'm a person with a pretty high spirit, who's there to crack jokes and make jokes to those guys and while they're sleeping, you know, I'll be tickling them," Laliberté said.

Laliberté has been in quarantine for the last two weeks getting ready. To prepare for the trip, he worked out for several hours a day, losing more than 25 pounds. He has spent the last five months biking, studying and preparing for the weightlessness of space.

More story in "Cirque founder launches into space" on CBC.ca

'Clown' tourist blasts into space on the BBC
"The vessel lifted off from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan at 0714 GMT."







And now the for Sky views:

Messenger 3rd flyby of Mercury:

At the Messenger Mercury 3rd flyby 21:55 GMT 9.29.09 from Washington, DC (South View):

WOLF - Lupus (REF:see my Shakira Posts this month!) and Galactic Center/Milky Way straddling the Horizon with Ophiuchus at zenith due South. Mercury Setting in the West with Venus setting at horizon due West.



At the Messenger Mercury 3rd flyby 21:55 GMT 9.29.09 from Washington, DC (West View):




Guy Laliberté Launch:

At the Guy Laliberté Launch 07:14 GMT 9.30.09 from Baikonur Cosmodrome, Kazakhstan (East View):

Archangel URIEL (Satevis) - the star Antares and WOLF/Lupus rising in the East. Saturn, Mercury, Venus, Virgo, due South.


At the Guy Laliberté Launch 07:14 GMT 9.30.09 from Baikonur Cosmodrome, Kazakhstan (West View):

The Hunter (Orion), Archangel Michael - the star Aldebaran (Tasoheter), The Bull (Taurus), Sirius setting in West.


At the Guy Laliberté Launch 07:14 GMT 9.30.09 from viewed from Washington, DC (East View):

Regulus (Archangel Raphael), Sirius, the Hunter (Orion) rising in the East.

At the Guy Laliberté Launch 07:14 GMT 9.30.09 viewed from Washington, DC (South View):

Aldebaran at zenith, Archangel Gabriel - the star Fomalhaut (Hastorang) setting in the SouthWest.


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Lovin the Space Alchemy of it all...
We have Mercury, to Gold (SUN / Soleil) with a son (Laliberté / Freedom) of Alcan Aluminum exec...



Side Notes:

ISS / ZARYA:
Zaria / (ZARYA, is the name of the goddess of beauty in Slavic mythology who's associated with the morning/dawn/sunrise. In Russian, Zaria (also Zarya) is the word for 'sunrise'.



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(Sky/Star images from Redshift 7 - Free download @ http://www.redshift-live.com)



UPDATE:
September 29 - the Catholic Feast day of the Archangels - Saints Michael, Gabriel and Raphael.