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A quiet weekend with my girls, and now I'm well rested (my legs are too). So today I took advantage of that and went out for a short early morning run. Nothing too difficult, just a simple 5½km around the block. Unfortunately, I've been neglecting my running of late and the run felt harder than it should have. Despite really feeling it, I came home in a little better than 5min/km, which I'm quite happy with.
It wasn't so long ago that I was trying to keep all of my runs at 5:41min/km pace (or 4hr marathon pace). So, while that remains my marathon goal pace (as well as actually completing one), I've decided its time to increase my speed for shorter runs. So I'm now hoping to do all runs in sub 5 min/km times (for 12km or less), and sub 5m30/km for everything sub 21.1km. It really is time that I start to get faster.
Later in the day, the girls and I went down to the pools and while they splashed around with mum, I fired out a quick 22 laps, including a 16 lap (400m) non-stop set in just under 10minutes. The local tri group has a training tri on this weekend and I'm taking the 400m swim option. If I get the opportunity tomorrow, I'm going to take a crack at the 750m (30 lap) challenge I've set myself.
It's really amazing (and obvious) what a good rest does. THe last swim I did, not three days ago, drained me and I struggled to string half a dozen laps together. Today, they felt easy.
Additionally, I'm going to try to do two disciplines on at least two days each week. I'm keen to not only finish the Sprint Tri in November, but to do well. I'm thinking about my goal times now and I'm sure they'll be a stretch for me.


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- Bib with assigned number and timing chip for 50, 70 and 100-mile riders
- Cue sheets for selected route
- Refreshments and SAG support throughout rides
- Lunch
- Participant medal at finish line
- Opportunity to win a placement medal for the 50, 70 and 100-mile routes (based on timed section completion time, by gender and age category per route)
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@ David's World Cycle College Park – 2517 Edgewater Drive, Orlando, FL 32804
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At around 9am two trains collided near the town of Panhandle along Highway 60.
At around 9am two trains collided near the town of Panhandle along Highway 60.
Saturday night (technically Sunday morning as it was 3:45am) I was driving home from a station event and came up on a horrific site that included a demolished Lincoln, a railroad crossing sign laying across train tracks, a ton of blood – and the scariest part…a train coming down the tracks...
It's always tricky around the holidays to find which new Christmas songs don't suck. And which bands have done versions of Christmas classics that also don't suck...
Apparently Train recently took a trip to Mexico. Just listen to the latest single and you'll see what I mean.
Train has been one of those bands that's really hit or miss. They'll drop an amazing track like "Hey, Soul Sister" and then nothing. I don't know if they get lucky once an album or if they just write that way, but let's hope they find another hit soon...
Congratulations to Javier Colon, winner of NBC's very first "The Voice."
Train and Maroon 5 are hitiing the road this summer through the fall and all of the dates and ticket info are here. Pay special attention to the last 3 dates listed.
The International Federation of the Phonographic Industry, an organization that represents the recording industry on a global level, has released its annual list of the Best-Selling Global Digital Singles.
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Who: Leonard Rivera, 38
Town: Westbury
Occupation: Lawyer, ex-fire chief, current volunteer firefighter
Height: 5'3"
Weight before: 193 (May 2007)
Weight after: 140 (April 2009)
His story: As a former fire chief of the Garden City Fire Department, Leonard Rivera knew his weight and fitness level were not ideal. "The rigors of firefighting are extremely demanding and, frankly, I was having tremendous difficulty," he said. Taking the elevator is not an option for firefighters responding to a seventh-floor apartment fire. "That was brutal," he said.
Rivera, a civil litigation attorney based in Garden City, wasn't feeling too vital in the office, either. Just looking at a StairMaster machine was almost enough to make him break a sweat, he said. During his lunch break, Rivera, like all his co-workers, ordered a big hero coated in mayo, with chips. Instead of energizing him for the rest of his workday, the food would drag him into a "food coma" at his desk.
Today, the ex-chief is a fitter and happier firefighter. "I can scale ladders, pull hoses and climb stairs with all my equipment on, with less fatigue," Rivera said.
What he eats: With encouragement from his wife, Rivera joined Weight Watchers in May 2007. He stopped skipping breakfast and now has high-fiber oatmeal with blueberries. Sushi is his new favorite lunch. For dinner he stopped eating so much beef, opting for leaner chicken and fish.
Workouts: Rivera wanted to make working out fun. To avoid boredom or burnout, he mixed up doing the StairMaster, elliptical and weights at the gym with things he used to do as a kid, such as riding a bike, rollerblading and running.
His advice: Rivera lost the weight (and the weight didn't find him again) by shedding pounds slowly and deliberately, in addition to keeping active five days a week. "I realized weight loss is more than just going on a fad diet, thinking you are going to eat salads and drink water all day," he said.


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I have a javascript file named "a.js" located in host a. The code in a.js is as below:
function sayHello() {
alert("Hello, world");
I have a html file named
b.html located in host b, in which there are code like below:
<script type="text/javascript" src="http://a/js/a.js" />
<script type="text/javascript">
When I key in the url "http://b/b.html" in my browsers (I have tested in IE8, Chrome), my browsers don't pop the alert window. Did I miss something configuration ?
How should I do so that my b.html can include a javascript file which is located in another host and the functions in the javascript file can be executed just like we include Google's javascript API files ?
Thank you for your help.
You're having this problem because the
<script> tag is not self-closing (unless you're serving your file with a XML content-type). As Dr.Dredel said, in this case it's not related to any kind of security restriction. Change your markup to:
<script type="text/javascript" src="http://a/js/a.js"></script>
Further reference: Why don't self-closing script tags work?
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Pac-12 Men's Basketball Scores
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Drew Eubanks walks through his 32-point night
Pac-12 Network's Aaron Goldsmith and Drew Shiller talk with Drew Eubanks, who had a career-high 32 points in Oregon State's 84-59 win over Southern Oregon Monday in Corvallis.
Oregon State's Drew Eubanks, Stevie Thompson Jr. test their dance moves at 2017 Pac-12 Men's Basketball Media Day
Oregon State's Drew Eubanks and Stevie Thompson Jr. join Beavers coach Wayne Tinkle at the 2017 Pac-12 Media Day in San Francisco on Thursday.
Beavers Participate In Pac-12 Media Day
Coach Tinkle, Drew Eubanks and Stephen Thompson Jr. represented Oregon State
Open Basketball Practice and Select-A-Seat
See the men's basketball team at 10:30 a.m. on Saturday, Oct. 14 at Gill Coliseum
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Removal & Installation
The Air Bag system must be disarmed before removing the steering wheel or combination switch. Failure to do so may cause accidental deployment, property damage or personal injury.
The combination switch assembly is made up of three units; the windshield wiper/washer switch is located to the right side of the steering column, the combination switch base is attached to the steering column and the headlight, dimmer and turn signal switch is located to the left of the steering column. The two switches can be removed without removing the switch base.
- Disconnect the negative battery cable and wait at least 10 minutes for the Air Bag power supply to discharge.
- Remove the steering column covers. Disconnect the connector.
- Remove the combination switch mounting screws and remove the switch(s) from the switch base.
To install:
- Install the switch to the switch base.
- Install the steering column covers.
Connect the negative battery cable and check all functions of the combination switch for proper operation.
- Make sure the wheels are pointing straight ahead. Disconnect the negative battery cable and wait at least 10 minutes for the Air Bag power supply to discharge.
Remove the steering wheel.
CAUTIONAlways carry an Air Bag assembly with the bag and cover facing away from your body. Store the assembly with the bag and cover facing up; never place the assembly face down on the floor or workbench.
- Disconnect all combination and windshield wiper switch connectors and remove the switches from the switch base.
- Remove the base attaching screw, push and turn the base clockwise to remove the base.
To install:
- Install the switch base and the switches on the steering column.
- Install the steering column covers and the steering wheel.
Connect the negative battery cable and check all functions of the combination and windshield wiper switches for proper operation.
Be sure to align the spiral cable correctly when installing the steering wheel.
NOTEAfter installation, be sure to turn the steering wheel to make sure that it moves smoothly. Ensure the number of turns from the straight forward position to the left and right locks are the same. Be sure that the steering wheel is in a neutral position when driving straight ahead.
NOTEThe spiral cable may snap during steering operation if the cable is not installed correctly. Also if the steering linkage is disconnected the cable may snap by turning the steering wheel beyond the specified number of turns. Always perform the SRS self diagnostic test after installing the air bag module.
- Using the CONSULT-III diagnostic tool, or equivalent, perform the SRS self diagnostic test and any reconnect/relearn procedures, as required.


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Maroochy Shire Mayor, Joe Natoli is gearing up this Saturday Night to ride a bull at the 2nd Annual Palmwoods Charity Rodeo to be held at the Old Chevallum School Grounds on Old Chevallum School Road. The rodeo is in aid of the Daniel Morcombe Trust.
Time: Saturday 1 May 7:00pm
Where: Old Chevallum School Grounds on Old Chevallum School Road
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Thanksgiving Word Search
In this Thanksgiving instructional activity, students define, locate and circle or highlight thirty-nine Thanksgiving terms, themes and traditions in a word search puzzle.
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New to redecorating? Help is at hand! Follow the step-by-step instructions in this specially designed video to learn everything you need to know before plastering a wall to prepare it for painting.
In this video we are going to teach you how to plaster a wall so as to prepare for painting.
Plastering the wall before painting it will ensure that your final results are of a high quality, free of imperfections.
You will need: protective canvases, masking tape, sandpaper, a Stanley knife, a bucket of water, wall scraper and putty knives.
Protect any windows, light switches and electrical outlets with the canvases and masking tape.
Be careful to cut off all electricty in the room before covering the switches and power outlets.
Mix the powder and water together until you obtain a smooth paste.
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18 October 2007
A wailing air horn cracks through the silence of the early morning. The boat jolts into frantic movement. Ahead is a fifteen kilometre course along the Hunter River. It is a gruelling journey which requires the entire team to move like a single entity.
Ahead of us is fifteen kilometres of twisting water.
Our destination is unremarkable; a lone boat-house in a wind-buffeted cattle field.
We have seen it a thousand times before. Instead of this, the image of a gleaming prize and lasting glory is in our minds.
A wailing air horn cracks through the silence.
A gasp, and the boat jolts into frantic movement. Frenzied shouts are lost to the open water, and our wincing faces respond to startling splashes from the polluted Hunter River.
Soon, we glide through the lush and ever changing riverside community.
Water dragons escape the cool river to bask on jagged stones and the tendrils of ancient willows lean inwards to caress our oars.
In the awkward silence of nature, meaningless conversations arise; last night's television shows, celebrity infatuation and the like.
An overexcited mullet collides with my oar, enticing screams and hysterics.
After an hour the conversation dies down. The blistering sun is high and my friend regrets her decision to neglect sun block.
Our legs begin to ache; soon all feeling below the waist is gone. I savour short breaks after each stroke before moving forward again.
Twenty strokes a minute for three hours. The monotony causes friction between my oars and hands, forming searing blisters down my hands.
Only strained gasping and a quiet chorus of guttural profanities can be heard now. Sometimes, the boat seems to be going backwards.
I begin to think; one swift movement and the boat would stop so easily, is the prize worth this? But there is a drive that keeps us all going and I force myself to ignore my bleeding hands and throbbing muscles.
To finish we have to be a well-oiled machine, free of distractions. We are like a single entity; moving together, breathing together, working together.
We are a team.
Wordlessly, the boat arrives at the finish.
We collapse on the bank in painful relief, our legs barely able to function. The last three hours have felt like an eon and my body will be feeling this for days but I can see other boats being hosed down and it's obvious we didn't win.
The Marathon seems pointless and utterly painful, but will we do it all again?
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The IT staff needed to upgrade its on-premises solutions for messaging and communications, but after it investigated the costs and effort involved, it decided to consider a Microsoft hosted solution.
First with its pilot of the Microsoft Business Productivity Online Standard Suite, to now with its upgrade to Microsoft Office 365, Cornerstone is moving its messaging and communications solutions to the cloud.
Cornerstone considers communication critical to the business. For example, employees must stay in constant communication with support staff and customers. Customers typically have a limited time to arrange their mortgages, so Cornerstone must provide them with information as quickly as possible. Communications are complicated by the fact that many employees work outside the office and often attend home loan closings. Since employees are not always in the office together, they rely on messaging and communication tools to stay in constant touch with each other and their customers.
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For daily server administration, the IT staff had one person to support these solutions. The administrator spent the majority of his time on server issues and routine employee requests, which included application support, hardware failures, server maintenance, mailbox creation, distribution list creation, and help desk team support. Sandoval adds, "I was the lone person for server support, which led to delays in responding to employee requests. I needed to reduce the amount of administrative tasks I handled, so I could better serve our employees." The IT staff also struggled to help business divisions accurately budget for its software licensing based on headcount due to the fluctuations in the employee base.
To meet those challenges, Cornerstone considered an upgrade to Microsoft Exchange Server 2010. The IT staff also sought to enhance its instant messaging application with Microsoft Office Communications Server 2007 R2 to provide communication capabilities such as presence, conferencing, and desktop sharing. However, because the company is headquartered in Houston, the IT staff worried about seasonal hurricanes that could damage its infrastructure and disrupt company communications. This potential threat, combined with administration and communication needs, led Cornerstone to consider a hosted solution from Microsoft. Sandoval says, "We liked what we saw with Exchange Server 2010 and Office Communications Server 2007 R2. However, when we investigated what it would take for us to deploy and administer these on-premises solutions over a five-year refresh cycle, we became concerned with our long-term hardware costs, physical space requirements, and administration needs as our company continued to expand."
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To start the Office 365 pilot, the IT staff focused on understanding what new administrative and security settings were available. They were excited to see the option to set up Active Directory Federation Services on-premises so that it could provide a single sign on experience for its employees. Sandoval says, "It took us less than two days to set up Active Directory Federation Services to test single sign on with Office 365." The IT staff also liked the Role-Based Access Control capabilities and a significant increase in the number of local administrative controls available in the Office 365 web portal. The IT staff can use these user-friendly controls to access logs, set email transport rules, and complete routine and daily requests locally for its employees. Sandoval adds, "We were happy to see a more complete offering of administrative controls for things we want to control locally."
With Office 2010 and Office 365, Cornerstone will get the latest capabilities of the Microsoft Office desktop applications and the Microsoft Office Web Apps. Office 2010 and the Office Web Apps are seamlessly connected with the online services in Office 365 so employees can access their documents, email, and calendars from virtually anywhere. With Exchange Online and Microsoft Outlook 2010, employees can take advantage of tools such as Conversation View, Ignore Conversation, and MailTips to help them better manage emails in their inboxes. Conversation View enables employees to organize and view their email messages by conversation topic, so they can access information more quickly. Employees can use the Ignore Conversation feature to delete a selected email and also delete any future emails in the same email conversation, which is useful in situations where "reply all" is overused. With MailTips, employees can see—before they click the Send button—whether a message recipient is out of the office, a distribution list or attachment is too large to send, or a distribution list contains external recipients. Employees also have the latest version of Microsoft Outlook Web App to access their inboxes, contacts, and calendars when they are away from their laptops.
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With Lync Online and Office 2010, new employees can take advantage of capabilities like contact cards, desktop sharing, and conferencing to contact and collaborate with veteran employees. The IT staff plans to eliminate a third-party remote desktop application and use Lync conferencing and desktop sharing to provide remote IT support to its employees. As a potential business process solution, Cornerstone has a Builders Division which assigns loan originators to builders who are trying to sell hundreds of houses to potential buyers. With Lync Online, the loan originators can use conferencing to help train builders on how to explain the application process to potential borrowers. They can also use desktop sharing to instantly connect with borrowers and answer questions while customers complete paperwork at the builder's office. Sandoval says, "Our employees will use Lync Online as a better way to communicate with each other. Since our employees will already be familiar with Lync Online from daily communications within the company, we foresee us using Lync for other business processes, like the Builders Division example, without the IT staff having to provide additional training or technical tools."
Before the company starts to work with SharePoint Online, it plans to build a strategy for how the business can optimize the core capabilities of SharePoint Online. Sandoval says, "We want to establish a model for how our employees can use SharePoint Online and Office 2010 to execute business processes and workflows before we allow them to start using the solution. We look forward to the new opportunities SharePoint Online will bring to our business."
With Lync Online, the IT staff can also eliminate the cost to maintain licenses of its third-party remote desktop support tool. Sandoval says, "We will save an additional $8,000 a year with the desktop sharing feature in Lync Online."
Cornerstone will also lower its cost for RIM BlackBerry support because RIM now provides hosted support for these servers in the cloud for no additional charge with Business Productivity Online Standard Suite or Office 365. Sandoval says, "Blackberry support was a major expense for us in the past; we see this as a great benefit from our move to the cloud."
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ATLANTA, Sept. 20, 2016 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The 2016 Atlanta Metro Export Challenge, a JPMorgan Chase-powered grant program created to help businesses begin or expand their exporting programs, today announced its top three winners. Narrowed down from five finalists, the three winners received a combined $35,000 in additional grants to grow their export strategies.
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"Over the past decade, Atlanta has climbed to 64th from 71st amongst the Top 100 U.S. metros for exports. In fact, export businesses can now be found in every single metro Atlanta county and in more than 80 percent of Georgia's 159 counties," said Dwayne C. Meeks, UPS South Atlantic district president and Atlanta Metro Export Plan (MEP) chairman. "For companies that may be considering Atlanta for an expansion or relocation, this competition, along with the Atlanta Metro Export Plan (MEP) demonstrates that our regions is serious about using our tools, resources and network to further our economy through exports."
Launched in January, the Atlanta Metro Export Challenge is a key component of the Atlanta MEP, which aims to increase global trade in the region. The Atlanta MEP is being implemented by MAC, the Georgia Department of Economic Development and the City of Atlanta, working in partnership with several other regional and local economic development agencies as well as public and private organizations. The MEP is a product of Atlanta's participation in the Global Cities Initiative ("GCI"), a joint project of The Brookings Institution and JPMorgan Chase that aims to help leaders in U.S. metropolitan areas reorient their economics toward greater engagement in world markets.
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A new paperback edition of The Complete TurtleTrader came out late February 2009. Except for a new Afterword it is the same book (except less expensive as a paperback!). That said, the new Afterword offers a new take on all that is "Turtle". For example, here are some excerpts:
Once final drafts of The Complete TurtleTrader started making the rounds feedback from one individual in particular struck a chord. Bob Pardo is a seasoned trader…During an ensuing phone conversation I told him that many of his questions and concerns were part of an unpublished Afterword, but that my publisher had elected to leave it out saying essentially that it was 'inside baseball.' Upon reflection that was a mistake and perhaps a harder fight should have been fought to include more of the behind-the-scenes drama, especially when to this day some Turtles spin a story contrary to the truth. However, more behind-the-curtain glimpses into the research and writing and research process had definite pros and cons. Would more drama be perceived as petty and inconsequential? Or would these insights reveal missing details of human frailty that further clarified the dividing line between Turtle winners and losers? In my opinion, especially given the mythical Turtle legend that existed for over two decades, opening up the blinds and letting sunshine in could only help investors without Turtle-like access and success to realize that the Turtles were human. If the original Turtles could learn, the ones chosen off the street, anyone could. Yes, the trading rules they were taught were critical, and yes, some were very intelligent, but the human element can't be ignored when analyzing the experiment's results from 1983 to 2008.
On the Turtle name:
Mike Shannon contradicted the legend that Dennis named his students after seeing a turtle-breeding farm in Singapore: "Our original name, in the first year of our existence, was the Disciples. Because it was the name, at the time, of a prominent street gang on Chicago's West Side, we agreed to go with the 'Turtle' idea." Accurate? No one else told me that story, but then again Shannon had told me many other things that I later confirmed as true that no one else had told me. On the other hand, Lucy Wyatt Mattinen, one of the two female Turtles, said the name actually traced back to Richard Dennis's fondness for the music of the '60s pop group The Turtles.
On Turtle paranoia 25 years later:
"It is my belief that my confidentiality agreement with Richard Dennis is still in force. Therefore I do not give interviews." [Turtle Phillip] Lu is an intelligent man (graduate of Brown). He apparently made millions as a Turtle and is well respected by many other Turtles, but what was with the ludicrous confidentiality assertion? Another Turtle responded bluntly to an interview request saying he was 'not interested.' Months later that same Turtle appeared to warm up when his assistant asked for a list of those who had agreed to cooperate. When I sent him a detailed list of everyone who had participated, his response was, 'no.' Unknown to me at the time, the exact list I handed over was then used to contact Turtles who had completed their interviews to persuade them to not talk. That tactic did not work and in fact irked Turtle Michael Cavallo (one of several pressured not to talk after already talking) who told me he thought the story should be out there.
On visiting Jerry Parker's offices at Chesapeake Capital:
The furnishings of his sparse conference room gave no indication of what Chesapeake Capital did except for a huge Swiss alphorn leaning against the wall. Its 'thank you' engraving to Parker and Chesapeake Capital from a Swiss 'concern' spoke volumes about his firm's global reach. Why was there that second meeting years later to begin with? Chesapeake Capital was a billion dollar fund at the time, but their brain trust still wanted fresh marketing ideas. They were investigating whether the Internet would enhance their business, and if so, how to use it effectively. Our meeting must have given them some good food for thought because shortly thereafter Parker sought to buy the domain trendfollowing.com from me. It was a wise move not to sell, since the domain name trendfollowing.com became the catalyst in launching my first book, 'Trend Following', four years later. Today Jerry Parker's firm Chesapeake Capital still has no online presence to speak of, but that has not stifled his success. He is still far and away the most successful Turtle by a long country mile.
While both publicly and privately almost everyone involved in the experiment expressed appreciation for my effort in objectively telling the story, one Turtle was not happy when some of the legend was investigated. He basically went nuts once documents were made public about how his trading firm imploded:
"[Covel] is a parasite who lives off of the creation and energy of others instead of contributing something to humanity…When it comes to trading Covel is an idiot." Another [comment]…referred to me as 'an idiot shyster.' The…lawsuit threats started: "Covel has been duped by his own anger and his own blindness to the possibility that there might be others out there who are not dishonest charlatans…The courts will prove [Covel] the spiteful jealous liar that he is…[Covel is] an asshole who has made himself my mortal enemy despite my many attempts to get him to stop…Mike [Covel's] continuing actions are only going to make it clearer to a jury that he is being malicious."
The take away:
Maybe the Turtle story is too perfect. Maybe for some people it is just not believable. The refusal to accept obvious truths is the biggest obstacle to getting more people to adopt sound investment behaviors. Why? People have always struggled with perceptions of truth. It comes down to a general rule: We believe what we want to believe.
The paperback edition of The Complete TurtleTrader is available now.


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Wednesday, 17 June 2009
Interview with Andrew Morrish 10/3/2003
Old interview, but some beautiful wandering thoughts on performance and politics, conducted in the comfortable environs of the Rose of Australia Hotel in Erskineville as the rain poured down outside. This was supposed to be research for my thesis, but never made it in anywhere in the end. I love this conversation, and miss Andrew working in Australia - he was a continuing inspiration.
AM: what can I help you with David?
DW: I just wanted to have a brief conversation with you about improvisation, because I'm very interested in ummm improvisation, obviously, and you, Andrew Morrish are the guru of improvisation…
AM: Scheisser.
DW: No pressure.
AM: No pressure. No we gurus don't feel pressure. That's how you know guru, 'cos you say 'oh you're a guru' and they say 'sure' they don't say, maybe?
DW: The thing that I'm interested in at the moment, well there's a couple of things – your description of the 'Rushing for the Sloth' [a monthly improvised performance event in Sydney] as an engagement with openness and presence and I'm very interested in those notions, but in the last couple of weeks I've become very interested in the notion of uncertainty, and the radical uncertainty of improvisation. What is a radical performance act now, and I'm starting to think sort of well it one that's undecidable, that's uncertain, that's in a real state of flux that can't be easily reduced to 'well this is what its all about'.
AM: In a real way, the potential for that lies in any form, I don't reckon its necessarily more likely to happen in improvisation than anywhere else, because there's always a certain discrepancy between what you think you are doing and what other people think you are doing, as a performer anyway. There's always that. So there's always a degree of uncertainty and when I think about that in improvisation… I don't think… as you know I promote the idea of self deception as a fundamental aspect of training really, so I certainly imagine I know exactly what I'm doing when I'm performing. I live in the world of certainty in that sense, even though I'm not certain what material might come, but on a moment-to-moment basis I'm always trying to be as certain as I can. So this is really a position of self-deception in a way – you create one idea so that another can emerge. There's this idea that I use that is the idea that the improvisational moment is like the totem animal of a primitive tribe, its a little deer. If you direct too much attention to the deer, it's never going to come anywhere near you. You actually have to get on with something else and the deer might get curious and come close. But the minute you go 'hello deer!' it runs away again. So it feels like that too, you have to distract yourself with certainties so the possibility of maybe something which is not totally known or controlled can emerge. I think that does emerge from a state of absolute confidence that everything is ok, for me anyway in my experience of it. I think these things interact in really interesting ways. I think you do have to convince yourself of…I'm sorry, not you, there's no you… I convince myself that I know exactly what I'm doing. That means I don't need to put any energy into planning my material. So sure, I don't plan my material, but in the act of improvising…. I'm pretty much feeling very confident.
One of the hardest things to perform is indifference, because how can you be fully committed to presenting the idea that you're indifferent? And it's a bit the same with uncertainty which is if you going saying 'I must be uncertain' then what does that mean? At one level I could say 'are you sure you want to be uncertain'? And you go 'YES, I'm sure I want to be uncertain'
DW: And therefore you are certain…
AM: And the consciousness of going in going 'I will be uncertain' will produce a certain kind of material, so it almost seems its one of things that best achieved by not directing yourself at it, its actually you distract yourself towards another place. And I find myself teaching that; I'm continually telling people exactly what I want them to do. In my classes people have the experience that they are always completely certain about what my expectations are, and the tasks are completely concrete – I want you to do THIS. I just don't tell them what the material is, I don't tell them what the content is, I don't tell them what to do it about. And so most people go I'm completely certain this is what I'm supposed to be doing. So I do think there's a level of distraction in improvisation for me the idea of distracting myself is an important one. And another one is trying to overwhelming myself, trying to do too much is another great idea; trying to do an impossible combination of ideas that can't actually be done because I don't have the skill to do it. What I love about that is that something else happens that's actually more interesting. So there's an overloading principle, a distraction principle and these are kind of the ideas….
DW: I am very interested in this idea of the impossible task too, that's a really nice one. I do remember you talking about it once; I think was after an impro that I did for one of the Sloths… maybe it was a Taming [the Sloth - a training session]. You told me that what I did was impossible. I think it was trying to pick myself up through the air…
AM: That's right, yes. I remember once, it happened to be a German student…
DW: Because everything's German at the moment…
AM: It's a bit thematic, everything European… So I said: 'Speak convincingly in Spanish' to this German woman as an improvisational score, and she just looked at me and said, 'I can't do that.' And I said, 'Why not?' And she said, 'Because I can't speak Spanish', and I said 'Well neither can we'. I don't actually imagine that you will be able to magically speak Spanish, what I wanted was for you to be so committed to the act of trying something that's vaguely like Spanish, that something much more wonderful might come into that space as you attempt to do something that's actually not possible. So its very close to that self deception principle; its to give yourself something that's not possible to do, but do it with all the goodwill you could imagine, and if you like, at a complete level of certainty and confidence that you're doing it, even though you know you're not, if you want to. So in a way, there's a first level of talking about improvisation, but I do think you do get very quickly to a level where the conversation becomes about notions of paradox and all the philosophical sophistication that arises from that, that very quickly, once you've kind of done the first principles of what improvisation is, you end up, especially I find this as a teacher, but I've also found this as a performer, that you're talking in paradoxical terms, and immediately I go this is a more interesting place to be. But at any one moment within the paradox, I am completely certain of one of the contradictory elements of a paradox, so its not like I go…I don't think a response to that is the dithery position. You need to be completely certain about the choice, but you know you could have made any other choice and it would be equally as good as long as you were equally committed to it. Dithering I try and not encourage. This is why if you take uncertainty as a score, it's a bit like performing indifference. It could lead to you becoming, working in a dithering mode, of the audience going – he is not certain. Which I don't think that is this uncertainty that you're talking about is about. It's not an attitude of going…
DW: …I don't know what I'm doing
AM: And I just think that finding language that points at those particularities of meaning is kind of quite important.
DW: I guess where I'm heading with this idea of radical uncertainty, as a principle not necessarily of a mode of performing – I'm not performing indifference, I'm not performing uncertainty – its just that the work…OK, this is two examples of what I've been working with and have been talking with another colleague with… we're on the bus, and we're talking about three different performances, classics from different areas. One is Don Giovanni, the Mozart opera verses Cosi Fan Tutte, another Mozart opera, and the reason why Don G is OK, because all of these morally very shaky things go on in that opera…and I'm not valorising opera as an art form here, I'm just talking about things in that…the moral universe becomes uncertain. Why are we enjoying this man doing horrible things? But it's OK, because in the end, certainty is restored, you know, he goes to hell, he's taken to Hell, he goes to Hell, and he is judged, and made to pay. So that's why Don Giovanni is OK. It's certain in its moral and ethical convictions, it's certain. And we can feel that our principles have been reinforced, in the way that you were saying in the last Sloth that I'm glad there's a crisis so I can feel righteous again. Because I was uncertain, and now I'm…
AM:…I've got something else to be certain and righteous about…
DW: Because I know I'm right…
AM: …On this one.
DW: On this one.
AM: Absolutely. It's very clear.
DW: The thing I liked about the implication of that statement is that you're not just saying that 'I think I'm right about the war', you're saying 'it makes me feel right about everything. The great crisis of the left is that Communism has proved to be a completely and utterly totalitarian system, an impossible task to make the liberation…it didn't work in practice. That doesn't mean that it can't work in practice, but the fact that it didn't is such a, you know, a pulling of the rug, the rug of certainty, out from…
AM: There's still plenty of communist local governments in France. And you can go there and get, well not free, but very cheap lunches for the community every day…So, yeah. Sorry, I've interrupted your flow about certainty and uncertainty…
DW: No, no, no, I was just sort of raving really.
AM: Certainly. It's interesting really, the other part of the self-deception it's… is like, you know, having spent twenty years trying to be a good improviser, and now feeling like I am a good improviser, and then going, well, what do I have to say? That question hasn't come up so often as I've worked through this other form of self-deception called becoming a good improviser. But know I find myself drawn to making statements at certain times. You know, going what is the purpose of what I do? And, like you're kind of alluding to in a way, I think there is a kind of a, I wouldn't call it radical, but certainly a subversive element to choosing to perform improvisation in the way that I do, so that feels like, I guess, a consistent message, which is – what are those other people doing with all that time? You know, if I can whip up this piece of theatre for you right now, in a way that seems to enliven all of us for the next twenty minutes, what are all those other wankers spending their time doing? That's hopefully a question I would like to think of occasionally. So there's that, there's kind of the politics of choosing improvisation as an act, as a message, but I'm also at a point now where I'm asking, …the Maxwell Smart position- do I use it for good or for evil? I've noticed, in my longer pieces over the last two years, a tendency towards a moralising kind of content, content about a moral stance, in different ways, and this troubles me enormously. Because when it happens, you go: I am old enough and mature enough to know that my views aren't that special that I deserve the forum to express to people my political views. It's not the contract really. And just like there was a time where I wanted to tell coherent stories in improvisation, and I'm going hang on, sit down and write it and have respect for the form. And surely improvisation points at the possibility of a less conventional form being more interesting, and if you're going to do a more conventional form, then do it properly. So I have this question about this moral and ethical kind of element that coming into my work; at a certain point I feel smug about it, or I feel pretentious, and I go, really, if you want to talk about those things, you should be writing about those things. There are better forms for that. So, this trend is of concern to me. I wouldn't say that I worry about it, but its of interest to me that its coming, and nearly always I have that moment of making the statement and then within the piece questioning my right to have done that.
DW: Which is actually the thing that interests me about improvisation as being something being uncertain, in that sort of, moral ethical sense, because, for instance, I'm talking about, just because it's the most recent performance of yours that I've seen, you had a few rants, some of which were completely ridiculous. Actually all of which I hope were completely ridiculous…your dark German phase, should we say? But what you do really, through improvising is that you question what is OK? I can say whatever I like, because there is a contract here between me the improviser and you the audience, and I'm going to ask lots of questions. About myself, about my own material, with a commitment to openness, with a commitment to engagement, …
AM: I had this moment in the last season of Gosh!, which I have three of the shows on video, and I hated that season myself, as a performer, and it took me a long time to watch the videos, but there's one moment in one of them where I go, on this issue – I seem to have started picking on minorities. Convenient ones, you know, asthmatics. The night Robyn Archer was there I started picking on asthmatics. And I said, hang on, I'm the biggest minority out here. Because in a way I do feel there's an underlying reassurance for me at an ethical level, which is what I'm actually doing is not convincing people of my view, what I'm actually doing is exposing my prejudices. And in the end I think whatever it is I say, if it reflects upon anyone, it reflects upon me. And people go away and think, there's a guy who hates asthmatics. They might say that. But what they'll probably think is that there's a guy who'll say anything to get a laugh, and that's closer to the truth anyway. So whenever I do that kind of material there's often that edge of rant in it, and I don't actually feel like I'm being persuasive; I actually feel like all I'm doing is exposing an aspect of myself and also sometimes daring myself to say things that I don't even believe, just as a challenge, as a performers challenge, go can I get away with saying this, will I go too far and alienate the audience? So its all quite local in the end, all of that.
DW: Its interesting - how can I go without alienating the audience – so much of your stage persona is love me, love me, here I am, love me! Here I am, I'm your best friend!
AM: And you're my best friend, and where will we go tonight? And things like that…you know, and it's the same as…I like a bit of lemon juice in the meal every now and then, and I do like it to go – he can't say that! When I performed in Berlin I did this thing, I started doing this thing about dead German choreographers, of which I know about three, so it was a little bit short…I had to stick in a little bit of Isadora Duncan, just to help, and that was all good. And then I started saying, I'm not going to talk about Sascha Waltz, because she's alive, and I sill want a career, you know. And I said to the audience: do you think its good that I'm just picking on dead people. And they said: no, it's not good. And I could see every single German going: no that is not good. And just a few minutes ago we were all laughing, and that was not good. So there is always a moral uncertainty to every certainty. If you would. Certainly I have it. Certainly whenever I put out a statement of my own value I go, what's on the other side of that? What is on the other side of that? I did a piece with Tony the other week when I was kind of accusing the audience of being gratified with my ability to play in the worms…of my own material. And I said to myself: look, Andrew, of all the people you know, you're probably the one who has the most positive regard for the audience, and actually what you just said is quite cynical about an audience. And so in the piece I went into the whole idea of disdain for the audience as a persona that I never usually feel. But whatever it is it seems to me…and I'm not Jungian in any way, but whatever it is in any way, there's always another side. There's always a dark side to every light side and vice versa, and I'm very interested in getting lost between those two things. There's something I wanted to say about…you're talking about certainty and uncertainty but there's also this thing…a relation, a shift I've had in my own understanding of the world that I've really only had in the last five years is this relationship between knowing and not-knowing. Which is kind of close to this idea, and as someone trained to be an educator, a primary school educator, I thought education was about things I was certain of, things I knew. Because I was teaching basically, things I knew. How to spell, how to count and all of that sort of stuff. But I've changed my model through teaching improvisation. Maybe what education's about is creating a situation where people can stand to look into…stand on what they know to look into the dark space of something they don't know, and that education's actually supporting people in that place, and that learning is actually about what you don't know instead of the way I was brought up and educated, which is about what you do know. And I think that's something, in the conversation that we've had about the nature of improvisational performing. I can make a list of all the things that I do know, when I perform, all the things about which I am certain, and their role is to help me face the things I don't know. And so I'm actually right in that, looking to support myself in the space between knowing and not-knowing. But, like a lot of these things, I don't actually think you can be there without having both present. You can't be unskilled. To be an improviser, its about uncertainty, but you bring your skills and experience to that place. You can't be in the uncertain place without having some certainty to support you to be there. If you like, it's equating trust and risk, the intimate relationship between those two things. Like you can't take a risk unless you know you can stand up and you'll be ok or whatever it is. And it's right in that zone. So it's about both of the things, it's not about one or the other.
DW: Excellent. That's fantastic.
AM: Openness and presence? C'mon, you got time? You haven't? You haven't. You haven't got time for openness and presence.
DW: Well, I always have time for those kinds of things, but I have to go to a soccer game right now.
AM: It's been called off, give me a break!
DW: It's indoors, unfortunately.
AM: The roof's leaking. Well OK then, bugger off!
Posted by David Williams at 12:33 pm
Labels: Andrew Morrish, improvisation
2 comments:
- jesus said...
I recently came accross your blog and have been reading along. I thought I would leave my first comment. I dont know what to say except that I have enjoyed reading. Nice blog. I will keep visiting this blog very often.
- 31 July 2009 at 5:50 pm
- Matt Prest said...
thanks for posting that up David. a few nice reminders in there.
- 9 August 2009 at 8:04 pm
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