Notes: game on...on the radio...interviewing Scocia..."it isn't like there's suddenly been...an "epiphany"...this in the regard to the surge in the use of "analytics"...like there has always been stats kept on players...baseball is nothing if not about 'stats'...fellow behind me at the game last night, kept commenting that he'd like to see the games pitching stats...balls and strikes I guess...I had them, keeping score as I do...but didn't offer them...old fellow with a cane, and his son and grandson talking up baseball...nice to hear, and not interfere...often I hear questions of 'what happened?' during a game...didn't know what happened at that play at second with runner coming home until seeing replay this morning...player out at second for third out. after player crossed home....announcers going over missed opportunities...Trout left on third twice...and only one rbi for him with a single triple and home run...whaped one hard to center for game's last out, and that was that, Rangers 3 Angels 2...Angels need to convert, with runners on base, with the bullpen when the game is in the bag...too many games have flopped off the hook!...they're record could be much better...oh...it was Pujol's bobble head night, not Simmon's...Terry Smith and Mark Langston are the announcers...very good and pleasant to listen too...can't stand the Dodgers'...sound like some sorts describing herbal tea...step frets....Coe's 'The Maya' on page 170 has a pic of a Mayan bowl with a 'step fret' motif...the little staircase is made of three or four balls on the arc of the Greek key...I learned with research before, that I can't possibly read all the history books word for word...much of it is fluff...so, so, I latch on to a few things, dogears, curios, and peruse indexes and illustrations for them...depending on luck, and the library angel...and sometimes I do get lucky...I don't know the nomenclatures the archaeologists use, so when I happened on Coe's term, 'step fret'...first out, fly to Upton...there's a high sky....beautiful day at the big A...I thought, oh, something to google...brb...one out single...
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Xicalcoliuhqui (also referred to as a "step fret" or "stepped fret" design and greca in Spanish) is a common motif in Mesoamerican art.[1][2][3][4] It is composed of three or more steps connected to a hook or spiral, reminiscent of a "greek-key" meander.[5] Pre-Columbian examples may be found on everything from jewelry, masks, ceramics, sculpture, textiles and featherwork to painted murals, codices and architectural elements of buildings.[6][7][8] The motif has been in continual use from the pre-Columbian era to the present
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xicalcoliuhqui
wiki has the same pic of the shield I went on about a couple posts back...this post like the twenty fifth in a series...see previous...fly out to Trout...Beltre walks...Beltre has three thousand plus hits too...like Pujols...the object of the celebration last night...Rod Carew and Tony Gywn were there too...bobble head has number 3000 sign on it...fly out to Trout...to bottom of 1st...
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The xicalcoliuhqui motif appears in embellishments on temples and other buildings at archaeological sites around Mexico.
- The xicalcoliuhqui motif is featured on either side of the staircase on The Pyramid of the Niches at the Veracruz site of El Tajín.[12]
- The stone mosaic fretwork at Mitla, a Zapotec site in Oaxaca, display many variations on the xicalcoliuhqui motif.[6]
Kinsler broken bat out...Trout up...another line out...up the middle but shift was on...another sharp hit ball, but 6-3, Upton out...hmmph...could have easily been three hits...Ranger pitcher is hitable...to top of 2nd...single, two Ks, Rangers made out...to bottom of 2nd
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Malinalli initiates and nourishes the four-phased, horizontal, ollin-defined cyclical completion and renewal of the 5th Sun, the 5th Era, and all existing things. It is symbolized by such ideograms as spirals, coils, twists, double helices, the atl tlachinolli, the xicalcoliuhqui, and the malinalli day sign glyph itself. The atl tlachinolli (“water burnt things”) in particular serves as one of the quintessential symbols of the 5th Era.
http://www.mexicolore.co.uk/aztecs/home/aztec-philosophy
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one out...Ohtani up...batting 154 last 12 games...single off first baseman's glove...Cozart up...stuff I read!...author of that site goes over Aztec cosmology...like the Egyptians, everything Aztecs made, and did, was tied up with their cosmology, which, as it is explained there, sounds like something out of moviesStarWars' concept of the "Force"...single...Ohtani was in motion, but ball hit so hard...no time to go to third...Valbuena up...Fister pitching for Rangers...there's a lot of this kind of explanatory writing, metaphysics, even about Star Wars movies...was trying to see where xicalcoliuhqui leads...finally, they get runners around...Valbuena a double...Angels 2-0...Ohtani has brain farts base running...but got around...Bersenio fly out...another liner...Hermisillo up...ground out...to top of third...Skaggs pitching for Angels...lead off double...one out with a K...Beltre up...
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77? e Horizontal Plane and the Surface of the Earth
In the story that explains the creation of the horizontal plane,
the original divine couple are participants: Ome Tecuhtli and
Ome Cihuatl, located on the cusp of the celestial planes, in
Omeyocan. Because of their constant activity as creators, they
generate the four Tezcatlipocas, their children, who incorporate
the boundaries of the quadripartite vision of the cosmic universe.
Each one is characterized by a specific color, which will
give an identity to the region each one must build: Tlatlauhqui
Tezcatlipoca, the smoking mirror, red in color; Yayauhqui
Tezcatlipoca, the real Tezcatlipoca whose characteristic color is
black; Quetzalcoatl Yohualli Ehecatl, the plumed serpent, night
wind, linked to the color white; and Omitecuhtli Maquizcoatl
Huitzilopochtli, the emaciated man, the two-headed serpent,
the southern hummingbird, or Hummingbird on the Left, to
which the color blue or green is attached.
https://www.guggenheim.org/wp-content/uploads/2004/08/guggenheim-pub-the-aztec-empire-2004.pdf
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hmmph...fly out to Upton ends the inning...Skaggs got three outs after having two runners get on...bouncing around as I do with my dogears and curios, I eventually get to the point where I can follow what authors are going on about, when they are going on like that!...when the Egyptian metaphysicists get together with the Mesoamercans, it's a cacophony..coquis...one wants to cover one's ears...Kinsler fly out...bottom of 3rd...Angels made out quick...to top of 4th...strike'm out throw'm out...and inning is over...that page is a pdf file, and it's very hard to read and navigate...text tiny, and when enlarged, don't know where I am!...the writing sounds like the author of the previous site...Pujols K...Ohtani up...pop to center...Cozart up...made out...to top of 5th...Trout makes an out on the warning track...a save...well, it looks to have multiple authors...noted and dogeared...moving along...double Choo, K...
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from same wiki
It is also possible that the motif represents the cut conch shell which is an emblem of Ehecatl,
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was trying to hook up the motif with a mollusk...wondering if it is the same the Inca's were importing from Ecuador...K...to bottom of 5th...Skaggs got out of trouble again...there's kind of a simple minded notion to this...that the entire panalopy of things pre historic cultures made in their 'art' was linked to dreams...a thought I've likely carried around since I read 'The Secret Life Of Plants'...see yesterday's post mention of talking plants!...brb...
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The Secret Life of Plants (1973) is a book by Peter Tompkins and Christopher Bird. The book documents controversial experiments that reveal unusual phenomena regarding plants such as plant sentience, discovered through experimentation. It goes on to discuss philosophies and progressive farming methods based on these findings. The book was heavily criticized by scientists for promoting absurd pseudoscientific claims.[
... ... ...
Parts of the book attempt to disparage science, particularly plant biology, for example by claiming science is not concerned with "what makes plants live", in order to promote its own viewpoint that plants have emotions. The authors further say the authorities are unable to accept that emotional plants "might originate in a supramaterial world of cosmic beings which, as fairies, elves, gnomes, sylphs, and a host of other creatures, were a matter of direct vision and experience to clairvoyants among the Celts and other sensitives."
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Secret_Life_of_Plants
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from 1973 about, I may well be counted among the 'sensitives'!...grounder for third out...to top of 6th...but, but....brb...
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THE SECRET SOCIAL LIVES OF PLANTS: Contrary to the long-held long-held idea that plants are uncommunicative, recent research has made it clear that many species conduct lively and informative conversations with one another. Scientists have revealed that plants communicate through the air, by releasing odorous chemicals called volatile organic compounds (VOCs), and through the soil, by secreting soluble chemicals into the rhizosphere and transporting them along thread-like networks formed by soil fungi. And this is more than mere gossip: these signals warn neighbors of the many dangers facing plants.
https://www.the-scientist.com/?articles.view/articleNo/38727/title/Plant-Talk/
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two quick outs...well, leaped from that to see if animals evolved from plants, as I have this notion that dreams are part of evolution--animals' dreams, where our evolution heritage gets them from--Nature, like the Aztecs monuments, a manifestation, an 'art' derived from dreams....not explained well...for sometime how animals are reading their 'books'...anyway, the question 'are animals evolved from plants' gets asked, one of those crowd source things, and the consensus seems that they are not, but maybe they are from fungi, which brought me back to the mention of fungi in the 'plant talking' searches!...the scientist divide the natural world into kingdoms...a home run for Upton!...Angels 3-0...Plants, Fungi, and Animals, three of them...I liked biology in college...only class I got a B in...all the others were Cs...content I was with just passing...my musings then, as now, took me else ware than classwork!...to top of 7th...if Angels could just consistently get four runs average a game, and the bull pen shut down opponents, they'll do very well....and to see now is how the bullpen goes!...Skaggs might pitch one more inning...yep...ground out to Pujols...one out...well, it's a back and forth I find, if animals came from plants...
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Humans may have evolved with genes acquired from plants, micro-organisms and fungi according to a new study.
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/science/11467685/Humans-may-have-evolved-with-genes-from-plants-study-finds.html
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Johnson came in and got two outs...to top of 8th...do cells dream?...a somewhat fantastic question...if they think...oh, but wait, do cells think?...brb....
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Can a Single Brain Cell "Think"? If So, What Does That Imply about the "Neural Code"?
https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/cross-check/can-a-single-brain-cell-think-if-so-what-does-that-imply-about-the-neural-code/
I think, therefore...I dream...lol...Ohtani is up...and I see this at the stadium:...a fan, then their friends, get it into their heads to start the 'wave'...this when fans stand up, cheer, with their hands over head, in sequence around the stadium...much fun...and waves are hard to start...but it just takes one with the notion...and everyone is capable of the notion!...this kind of related to the hologram notion...a laser hologram has the entire image in each of it's parts...so if it's broken, the pieces still show the full image when lazed...or something...I gather things for their notions!...not their practical applications!...Angels go down one two three on nine pitches...Ohtani K...to top of eighth...nail biting time...how crowds respond to things is a study...the Ranger who spiked Kinsler sliding into second the game before, was boooed roundly yesterday at each of his at bats...(he eventually scored the winning run, to everyone's chagrin)...so, there was a kind of display of collective memory...looking at a crowd milling about not paying attention you would think they are collectively numbskulls...but we can observe very precisely!...K, first out...Mazara hits his 14th home run...Angels 3-1...eesh...Beltre up...Rangers make out...well, a real test ahead, and repeat of last night...hold the lead in the top of the 9th...to bottom of 8th now...game is a real bookend of yesterday's!...Angels made out..."can the Angels hold on!"...
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One of the first neurons of this type was the so-called Bill Clinton cell, which was buried deep in the amygdala of a female patient. The cell responded to three very different images of the former President: a line drawing of Clinton laughing; a formal painting of him; and a photograph of him mingling with other dignitaries. The cell remained mute when the patient viewed images of other people, including male politicians and celebrities. Fried’s group found cells in other volunteers that responded in this same highly selective way to actors, including Jennifer Anniston, Brad Pitt, and Halle Berry.
https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/cross-check/can-a-single-brain-cell-think-if-so-what-does-that-imply-about-the-neural-code/
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Anderson on the mound...two outs...
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Do Animals Dream?
Scientists are taking a closer look at slumbering cats, rats, and even cuttlefish to find out what happens during their Zzzs.
https://news.nationalgeographic.com/2015/09/150905-animals-sleep-science-dreaming-cats-brains/
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too much to ask what the fungi are up to!...count 3-2...W, on a check swing...Gallo pinch hitter up...1-2 count...fans standing...2-2...3-2...W...Choo coming up...top of order...much consternation!...1-0...1-1...'a boatload of pressure in the ninth'...2-1...2-2...three batters in a row to the last strike!...kinda typical of Angel pitching...3-2...foul back...W...bases loaded...'bought this time my hands holding my head...for sometime gestures!...0-1...0-2...Hermisillio holds on to grab a pop out in right...geezzzluezzz...onward to tomorrowmorrow...
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