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Jan Cox Talk #312 * Jan 14, 1988 * - 1:51
[Kyroot reading to :10 followed by reading of "who This is not for" :12. ]
[Distinction (separation) vs. connection. Men either assume external reality is an actual battle, say between 'good' and 'evil,' and unrelated to the conflict within their own consciousness (distinction-separation) or they assume external conflict is a mirror of man's internal conscious battle/contrast (distinction-connection). But both of these are the same, not opposite views. The sense of internal conflict is the essence of 3-d consciousness --it can be lessened by disease or agent (alcohol). The natural condition of consciousness is an inability to see a connection/distinction; to see internal and external reality as one. In the City any process that is thought to be deficient has for an opposite, an equally flawed condition. E.g., what has warts on one side, when turned over must have dimples (inverse warts). The People think that the opposite of a flawed condition is not flawed, is even the cure of the flawed condition. E.g., alcoholic becomes 'reformed' alcoholic. But no reform is possible; supposed perfection is impossible. There is a connection here to the mathematical impossibility of ever realizing a specifically defined, a satisfactory dream. The actual formulation/description process renders its actual achievement impossible; can't have them both. Thus the religious zealot can never find god. Thus the Real Revolutionist has plans, dreams which he cannot talk about --even with himself. The supreme exercise of cowardice is to discuss/reveal your plans. The discussion automatically negates the act. Only the fearful operate like this. Reformation is not a perfecting of flawed behavior. There is a crude awareness of this at the 3-d level: a dislike of a 'reformed' anything. This is why there are no periods, no certainty in the City; every answer raises a new, unexpected question. Everything is constantly treated (symptoms) but no cures arise. ]
["Much talk breeds miniscule sense of duty". An inverse relationship between talk and duty. Everybody is flawed; everybody has "transient systemic anomalies".]
[To be properly effective, the "Look" method must incorporate the "stand-aside" corollary. The Real Revolutionist must 'stand-aside' from the ordinary operation of his circuits in order to Look. This is how to "know thyself". The People believe that to 'know thyself' is virtually impossible, hopelessly complicated except for those who have devoted their life to it in a timely fashion—in the beginning. But as a Real Revolutionist you can know yourself: stand aside and look at everybody else, and there you are! ]
[ If you could "absolutely" do anything, be anything, you could then "forget it". Nobody in the City can be 'absolutely' anything. ]
[1:51 Epilog. Solicitation for "Index Prohibitorum" (words not to be used).
[1:54 end.
Copyright (c) Jan M. Cox, 1988
Document: 312, January 14, 1988
Ordinary people are not wired up to distinguish between, or connect, their internal consciousness and their external assumptions of what is going on in what they feel to be the "out there." As always, there are two apparently different views available to ordinary humanity, which I will illustrate -- but I am skating around something else, and we are about to hit a wall of words.
There are many people who operate on the assumption that there are indeed externally tangible good and evil forces in conflict. Yet these people cannot distinguish between or see the need to connect this externally observed conflict with their own internal conflict. On the other hand there are many, existing simultaneously within the same body of Life, who believe the externally observed struggle to be a reflection of a struggle within Man. They assume that this is simply a protection of the internal struggle between their id and their odd -- between their consciousness and their non-consciousness. At the ordinary level these two groups or views might be regarded as a distinguishing line between those still tied to the past and those more "up to date." Thus, the quite common notion: "Some of us are contemporary in our views, but a lot of us are just plain backward."
Neither of these binary views will suffice for the Real Revolutionist. Once again Life has had man go too far or cut him off short of the mark. The two views I've described are two-thirds of a tripartite balance that is unrecognized.
My equation, "I + Not-I = Everything" cannot be understood without seeing the distinction/connection between inner consciousness and the assumption of external reality. Distinction/connection should really be one word, because they are not opposites.
It is impossible for an ordinarily wired person to feel anything other than a struggle going on between decency, or good, and anti-decency, or evil. That is why This Thing can never be evangelized. Every nervous system on this planet, feels this conflict -- internally and externally.
If your nervous system becomes less than fully active at the current level, the feeling of conflict disappears. You can do this by taking in alcohol or lowering your consciousness by withdrawing from or denying something. It can happen through a physical accident or a frontal lobotomy. If you lower consciousness far enough, you'll have no sense of good and evil. Without an operative Yellow Circuit you have no sense of right or wrong. Unless the nervous system is activated up to the point of Yellow Circuit consciousness, there is no internal conflict -- no more so than in a dog or a gopher.
Consider my equation again: I + not-I = Everything. My two words distinction/connection are mutually exclusive, apparently. They are opposites and yet I am putting them together.
If I had a gun aimed at the whole world and forced them to discuss my equation, half the world would find it not to be true. They would say, "Now wait a minute. That doesn't make any sense at all, because there is no real distinction between us and "out there." We are responsible for what we do to other people. You're erecting an artificial distinction." The other half would say, "That's correct; in fact, you've got the 'I' and the 'not-I' too far apart. You should push them right up against the plus sign. I know I've been abused and misused all my life. Why, people can just ruin another's life by a word or a look. Whole nations can ruin one another."
Under ordinary conditions, back at the City born level of consciousness there is a continual inability to see any distinction/connection between what's going on in you and what's going on out there. Consciousness cannot even take into consideration that there could be a distinction between or with everybody continually. The connection/distinction is part of consciousness, and there is no way to stop the merry-go-round and say, "Ok, everybody! Jump off and look!" You cannot do that because consciousness does not operate in that manner.
There is a flow going on throughout my equation -- the plus sign might as well not be there. It is a misnomer, a misdirection. It is an addition, a separation, a combination of separation and cohesion. It is a combination of distinction and connection. There is not, contemporaneously speaking, a majority of humanity believing the "mind" is totally influenced by what goes on in the "out there." That is not the predominant voice currently, so it does not seem as valid as the other view. The view that out there is simply a reflection of the projection of "in here," seems to have more validity, but it's of no consequence, it does not answer or explain anything. One view runs all the flow of information in one direction.
If all the information flows in one direction only, it's as if you send a rocket off and never see the explosion. You would be playing Noah, sending your little bird of ignorance off, saying, "Go bring me some knowledge." The bird says, "Fine," and leaves and you never see him again. There you are seventy nine years old, still waiting for the bird to return.
If information flows in one direction, there is no loop, no access for retrieval. If you are dealing with what seem to be facts, and it only goes in one direction, what do you expect? You are continually waving Mama off on the train, and she never comes back. You are waving her off by such things as, "Hell, I went through school, it cost me four years and twenty thousand dollars to get through college." You're waving goodbye. "Look at the way I treated that woman. I was so good to her for years." Wave bye bye. "Look at what I put up with in that man." Bye bye. "Look at all those years I spent taking dope and reading strange books." You're waving bye bye.
In the 3-D world, the opposite of something that is flawed is also flawed. Consciousness cannot natively deal with this. It will tell you that evil is definitely flawed, and the answer to the flaw is good. If something starts out with warts and you turn it over, or inside out, it has dimples. It is a four-dimensional fact that the opposite of anything that starts out deficient is also deficient. It is an unanalyzed belief that the evil or false is flawed and therefore to be avoided in favor of the good or true, which would be perfection. But that is physically impossible and, to see it requires a trans-dimensional consciousness.
Remember, I am not talking spiritually or religiously about good and evil. As long as the limit of your consciousness is that the truth is the complete rehabilitation of the false, as long as you believe there is such a dichotomy -- you're wrong. I am talking not about good and evil, true and false, but the forces that run the world, for which there are no names. I just give them temporary labels: East, West and North; C, D and E; X, Y and Z.
The forces are such that as long as you continue with only a binary sampling, you can only be conscious of one of the two possibilities. Instead of good and evil, right and wrong, true and false, how about, "How will I behave in this situation should it arise again? How will other people act?" One way always seems preferable to you, particularly concerning the actions of others. "They are going to tell me no! But the opposite would set things right. I would be happy, and closer to my goal if they said yes." If No is flawed, Yes is also flawed.
I want you to consider again my statement regarding dreams. If any dream you have can be specifically formulated, it can never happen. You may dream, "Oh, if I could just one day be standing outside Carnegie Hall, playing my kazoo, and the man in charge would walk out and hear me and say, 'Oh, my god! a prodigy!'" Your dream cannot happen. No matter what the picture is, whether it's you suddenly becoming famous for your painting, or your outstanding facial beauty, the picture can never be possible. You can never achieve it. You will never realize it. If you can describe it you can't have it. You cannot do both. I am describing a scientific fact. If you can begin to get a grip on it you can take it as an Operational Directive -- that is, the Revolutionist has damn few plans and aims that he can discuss.
Everyone is wired up to believe they have been hurt and misused, that life would be better if there were a few things in the past that could be undone, some crimes that could be unwound. "I wish I could say something to my mother and father to make them forgive me for something I've done!" If you can formulate it specifically, to your satisfaction, it can never be. If you can get a grip on that, it will explain many, many things.
Insofar as the discussion of plans are necessary in the City, they are, from the view of This Activity, another veil for a kind of cowardice. As long as you can say, "Well, what I really want to do with my life is thus and so and such and such," you have marked out another place where you need not make any effort.
City people effectively hide cowardice behind a wall of words. This has a real distinction/connection with excessive talk about plans and dreams. Even when people are apparently talking about the past they are still talking about the dreams, "Well, the dreams won't be like what happened in the past. If I could undo the past, then the dreams would come to be." But the more specifically you can talk about something, the less it can actually happen.
I assume you see some of the humor you are surrounded by in the City. People will pay thousands of dollars for courses teaching them to visualize and describe exactly the kind of lover they want, all the way down to the exact color of Ferrari they drive. But all of their dreams are impossible. Even if you actually get the lover or the Ferrari, the feeling you formulated about it will never happen. It is a physical law -- you cannot achieve it.
I want you to direct your attention to the fact that nobody likes a reformed anything. At certain levels in the City there is a crude awareness of this, once it is pointed out. The obvious example is that of the reformed alcoholic -- the one that gets drunk, kills his wife and kids in a car wreck, and then apparently undergoes a drastic change. He becomes an adamant non-drunk. If you place this reformed drunk with another person, the reformed drinker is going to talk -- he has to -- and within a matter of minutes whoever he is talking to has had enough. Nobody likes a reformed anything. There is a crude awareness that something is flawed.
Although there is this kind of suspicion of a flaw, humanity in general cannot learn from it -- there is nowhere they can go with such suspicions. There is information seeping out in Life's body: Whenever somebody is apparently acting in a flawed manner, such as an alcoholic, there are immediate voices that renounce it. "It's not good for your health. It's not good for society in general. It's self destructive." But the opposite of the analyzed behavior is flawed as well, and this is why there never seems to be any certainty in the City. If you turn on the news you hear, "Recent tests show that a Type A, aggressive personality, long known to be responsible for a higher risk of heart attacks, is apparently also responsible for a higher chance of surviving those heart attacks."
In the City, there is an unending string of commas; but they are not willful commas like I use. Every time Life has some field, such as biology or physics, apparently make some great stride with a resulting new answer of some sort, what happens? "Well, it brought up a brand new question we didn't even suspect." Of course, those that are operating in that part of town, that is, in the domain of the Yellow Circuit, don't get upset. Bakers get dough on their hands and farmers step in you know what. Intellectuals step from one hole to another. But to consciousness in general, it seems as though nothing can be depended upon.
Consider again my example of the "new information regarding type A personalities." The opposite was not the opposite. There cannot be a closed loop of information. If Life is to continue growing there cannot be any certainty in the City. You cannot go out to the great Canyon of the Cosmic Truth and holler, "What is it?" and wait to hear the answer.
What remains unrecognized is the automatic belief that anything consciousness can see as being questionable, worthy of criticism or flawed, must have a solution. And the solution is always, "Turn it over." "If you're a drunk, quit drinking." That's obvious, but if you have a corn with warts on it and you turn it over, you have a corn with dimples in it.
In the City you can apparently treat things but you cannot cure anything. "When are we going to get down to the real causes and stop dealing with the symptoms?" Never. Having plans, in a Revolutionary sense, would be beyond discussion, even with oneself. Too Much talk ends up producing a minute sense of duty. Thus, many parts of Life's body believe they smell a flaw in those who are serious and vigorous proponents of some belief system.
There is a sizable part of humanity that wants nothing to do with those who passionately evangelize or promote some position or idea, religious, political or otherwise. "Yeah, I heard what you said when you handed me your pamphlet, and I've got no complaint with anything you said. But there is a flaw here somewhere." There's a flaw everywhere. Every human, every group of humans, every institution suffers from transient systemic anomalies. Try that! That sounds a lot better than saying we are all flawed. If you're human you suffer from transient systemic anomalies -- they come and they go.
A sense of duty, is related to talk by an inverse ratio. By "talk" I mean not only what you say to others, but also internally what you say to yourself about This Activity. I am speaking only of quantity -- the wrong word could be too much.
I have described the "look method," wherein to see what is really going on one simply looks around. But I should add to that the "stand aside and look" method. You have to get outside the immediate, magnetic field of the hard wired nervous system to really look.
In the City there is no such thing as a "look method." If I suggested the method to ordinary humanity the response would be what? "What the hell do I do with it? What is there to see? It's all confusion, it's all running amok." Everyone has transient systemic anomalies. Everyone is apparently screwed up. You have got to at least step aside from wherever you are. If you remain captive of the binary flow of distinction/connection, with only one-half seeming pertinent, you will continue to believe that things can ride off into the sunset and actually return with the information you want. People say, "I'd like to study the workings of my own mind. But where do I start? It's like I'm living in an infinite river and I can't find one stone on which to step." You have got to learn to stand aside and LOOK.
I'll give you a slap in the face shortcut. The whole idea of the difficulty in knowing oneself is not correct. Ordinary consciousness cannot approach this in the manner I will describe, but here it is: To know yourself, whoever you are, all you must do it stand aside and look at everyone else -- and there you are. This is more dangerous than a truth: it is a correctness.
Notice that I said Everybody. You've got to stand aside and look at Everybody else; and you can see everybody in about 10 or 12 people. There you are. Knowing yourself is a fait accompli, a piece of sweet potato pie. It's yesterday's news, honey! In the City, they would take this as some sort of allegorical message, but its not. There is nowhere else to look, there is no mystery or secret lurking in dark places. There it is and there it is! That is self-knowledge.
I should stop and applaud Life for another wonderful instance of misdirection. Humanity continues to believe that to know oneself one must study oneself, notwithstanding the fact that this has never gotten anyone anywhere. Life seems disinclined to even let some ordinary smart aleck call it a bad joke. Everyone will salute the "know thyself" flag when it rolls by. But you can't wave Mama bye bye on the train and be Mama.
I have mentioned that everyone involved with This Activity should absolutely do the best you can. I will add, you should absolutely do the best you can and then forget it. In every possible area, absolutely be the kindest, the most considerate, the most honest, you can be, and then forget it.
In the City, if I tried to convey this information of absolutely do the best you can, then forget it, there would be three responses: "Yeah, I agree with that," or, "Yeah, I've heard that, but I don't agree with it," or, "Yeah, I've heard that but it's meaningless." Any of those responses would be proof that the speaker could not absolutely do anything. If you could absolutely do anything, you could forget it. If you could absolutely be as nice as you can, you could forget it. Even if someone said to you, "Compared to my Uncle Charlie, you're not all that nice," it would not affect your forgetting it. If you accepted such a comment it would show that you were still in the City, where everything is flawed, where everything operated by contrast and there can be no agreement.
In the City you cannot absolutely be anything: If you could absolutely be a type-A personality, you would absolutely have the world's most astounding heart attack. You would have a heart attack to be written up in all the journals. Then, you would make the world's most astounding recovery. You would have a heart attack that would scare the wits out of any doctor alive and in 30 seconds you would bounce back up, ready to play football. Or, you would be able to absolutely be as nice as you can, and if people didn't like it, you could say, "To hell with you," and that would be the end of it; although you would not necessarily do it verbally.
There is misdirection in my saying "as nice as you can" because, in the City it seems open to all types of interpretation and discussion regarding circumstance and conditions. But to absolutely be anything is not open to discussion or conditions. You can't even put words on it. If you can absolutely do something, you transcend anyone's world of reason, and are not bound to such questions as, "Why did you do that? You were acting real nice and then, right in the middle of it you just walked out. It's irrational. It's illogical." You would be free to do whatever it is you do and then walk away from it. Whatever it was, you then treat it with the same respect as you do parsley.
Although ordinary people cannot do that, you can see reflections of it in literature and movies. Commonly, they are known as heroes: some figure who seems to be capable of doing something and then simply walking away. Somebody crosses them and the hero pulls out a gun, shoots the offender and then gets on his horse and leaves, without apparently giving it another thought. There has always been such heroic figures in literature and mythology. Such actions cannot happen in Life in any widespread manner: Life would essentially have landed on one foot and remained there. It would be as though Life let its breath out and you realize, "Hey, that guy isn't going to inhale again!"
I always hesitate using this, because it is almost too sticky, but if you found yourself in a situation that called for aggression or hostility, you would still have to be able to absolutely do it and then forget it. To do this, a new, non City bred molecular structure is required. The ability to do it absolutely is impossible in the binary world. In the City, if it is absolute, it is dead. The only person you can trust in the City is a dead man. A dead man is the only person who can have an unchangeable opinion.
If you could take the term I started out with, "distinction/connection," and to use metaphysical terminology, squish it all up together, you would be close to "absolutely." In a sense, you would have distinguished and connected all possible foregrounds and backgrounds with all possible peripherals. There would no longer be the difference between the nice and the un-nice, the yes and the no. You no longer simply distinguish between or simply connect, you do both. You have got to see that energy flows both ways.
If you only have a choice of two things, remember, neither one of them is correct; because the one that doesn't seem correct, even if you turned it inside out or reversed it, would still be flawed. Instead of waving Mama goodbye on the train, suddenly you are on the track, the train is right behind you and you can't get off. Do you think that you would be in better shape that way -- running the rest of your life, with that train right behind you with Mama yelling, "I'm here! Come back! I'm here!"
Try to remember that at the ordinary level of human awareness, energy flows in one direction. If it were possible to reverse what seems to be flawed in you, or in Life, the reverse would be equally flawed. If you can formulate the flaw, you can formulate the cure, but then even that would be flawed.
You ask, "Is there no hope?" There is more hope than gets used up -- it just lays around. What to keep hoping for is to find some people to use up some of the hope. Of course, I mean "hope" in another sense -- that is, "Is there no real information?" How do we escape such a quandary?" Do you have no molecules that aren't currently being used for some profitable purpose? Take your time to answer that -- don't rush into it. Okay, now rush into it. All your little molecules are useful? All of them are talking to you on their little cellular phone and it is all for your direct benefit? They all exercise and try not to be hostile of critical? They all run and eat well? They do all that; do they? Well, I sure would like to meet you, although not enough to actually meet you. Because I know that almost certainly you're going to want to tell me about it; and as far as I am concerned, that would ruin the whole thing.


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The 3rd XI arrived at Eastcote with a much changed team but in confident mood, looking for a win to put them into the mix in the league, following a disappointing abandonment the week before.
Things started well, and after winning the toss, we started nicely and raced to 30-0 off 5 overs, with newboy Todd and oldboy Austin looking good.
This quickly disintegrated to 60-5 after a series of loose shots and on a small ground with a good wicket we were staring down the barrel.
In sauntered A.Thorndyke, who when asked how was his form pre-game, had said that he was hitting it well on the beach. He continued to play his own brand calypso cricket and blazed his way to 80 off not many, well support by Matt Conelly the other newbie. Unfortunately, after following what seems to be the same family-wide diet over the winter, Thorners tired, and couldn't quite make three figures.
Aided by a good last wicket stand of 30, TCC had somehow got ourselves to 222 all-out but had still committed the cardinal sin of not using all our overs, so we needed to bowl well.
Fired up by the first non-beige tea of the season, Tommy Bangs underlined his number 1 overseas slot in the team with a brilliant 5-25. Brilliantly supported by Barney who came on and bowled very tightly when Eastcote where making a real fight of it, TCC won by 40 runs.
The game was incredibly closely fought and it was closer than the scores suggested. The positive thing was that at various points through the match, when it mattered, someone in the team stood up and was counted.
Roll on Richmond next week!

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This gorgeous poem by Morgan Harper Nichols, and cheers-ing myself to a new chapter.
I'm thinking about the Sanskrit word "santosha." (Jess Lively has a little post about it here, too.) Roughly translated, santosha means contentment or harmony. But on deeper investigation, it also captures the idea that we can hold two opposite or conflicting feelings/thoughts/experiences at the same time and they don't negate each other. What does that mean? More simply, this boils down to a very specific language shift: "And" vs. "But." Here's an example: I'm really excited for my trip BUT I'm nervous about the flight. See what happens there? The flight nerves totally negate the excitement. They can coexist! Let's try this instead: I'm really excited for my trip AND I'm nervous about the flight. The "and" leaves space for both.
The idea of "and" is something my wonderful group of high vibe friends does so well. When sharing a story, we emphasize the AND. Sometimes as a stand-alone sentence! As in: I'm sharing something positive. AND. I'm sharing something challenging. Because they can, and do, exist together. Pretty much all of life is contained in that little AND! It's not always natural but when I consciously remember to implement this little language shift, it feels really good. Especially as I start a new chapter that is exciting AND uncertain AND scary AND open to lots of new possibilities... :)
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DIY- Grow your own micro greens in vintage tins!/
Here's the thing, at the end of the day, all I really want to do with my life is have a garden and make jam. That is my ambition. I would like to write about having a garden and making jam, and if people read what I wrote I would be on cloud 9. But that would be icing on the cake, and in a pinch I could live without it. What I long for and crave and yearn for, is a garden and a kitchen big enough to make jam.
Currently, I live in a 600 square foot apartment with a teeny tiny kitchen and no outdoor space.
I'm not trying to get your sympathy, honestly, I'm way to young to have my lifes ambitions fufilled yet. I know this. I mean, anyone who has it all figured out at my age must get so bored.
So I plug along in my little space, and I make jam for my friends and I plant herbs in tins and place them on my window sills and I'm pretty happy. Which is all one can ask for I suppose.
DIY Micro Greens in Vintage Tins
Heres a quick way to get those expensive microgreens from the farmers market at home for only a couple dollars! And they last longer.
Potting Soil
Tins- vintage tins, tea tins, whatever you so wish.
Ziploc sandwhich bags
double sided tape
Seeds, arugula, mustard, swiss chard, sunflower, and romano beans are all good options,
Paper Towel
Get 2 squares of paper towel damp and place them on a plate.
Sprinkle a tablespoon or so of seeds on it, and then cover with another damp piece of paper towel.
Keep this damp for a day or so until the seeds start to sprout.
Take your double sided tape and put a few pieces on the inside of your tin around the opening.
Place your ziploc bag inside the tin and press the edges into the double sided take getting it as close to the opening as you can without having the plastic come over the edge.
Place a small handful of pebbles at the bottom- this will allow for better drainage.
Put the potting soil on top and press it in so it is pretty well packed but not hard.
Sprinkle the sprouted seeds on top and water.
Keep the sprouts well watered and watch them rise up, once there a couple inches tall cut them and put them in salads, sandwiches, on top of fish or anywhere else you might like!


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Squat to Reduce Knee Pains When Exercising
Many people write me saying that they cannot do squats because of pain in the knees and I felt I needed to address this problem more costly.
Sharp pain in your knee (or any area in your body) should never be ignored. If you feel pain anywhere during any exercise move, like squats, don't work through the pain. You want to stop, make a note of it, and see your doctor if the pain does not go away. This pain could be minor but it could also be very major and mean that you have a knee injury or strain that needs special attention. A closer look at your knee by a medical professional might tell you whether squats (or whatever exercise) just is not for you or if you should just proceed with caution.
If you have healthy knees that are weak or you are avoiding squats because of other reasons you might be harming yourself rather than helping yourself. Squats are one of the best exercises that you can do when strengthen your knees if you are doing them safely and correctly. They work the areas around you knee like your quads, hamstrings, calves which all directly effect the knees.
If you can't quite do a full squat yet or you feel pain when doing squats (and you have ruled out chronic knee injury. Try the things list below (in the video) to help build your knees and your legs to help you better perform this amazing exercise move.
First Check Your Form: Always perform squats with your knees behind your toes. Your thighs parallel to the ground. Your hips back and your spine neutral.
Alternative Ways to do Squats
- wall sit
- Ball sit
- Chair sit
- Decrease Range Of Motion


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After the coffee. Before figuring out if I need a new hairstyle.
The Skinny: While I'm not a fan of Thursday night football, I do want to see the Chiefs-Eagles game because former Eagles coach Andy Reid now coaches the Chiefs. Should be good drama. Speaking of drama, today's stories include Deadline editor Nikki Finke's ongoing fight with her owner Jay Penske. Also, reality producer Mark Burnett looks to conquer new genres.
Daily Dose: A helicopter owned by Long Island-based Cablevision Systems Corp. is causing headaches for a Syosset resident who made his complaints public at a meeting of town leaders. Cablevision is based in nearby Woodbury. Ralph Catapano said he has reached out to Cablevision to try to talk about the situation but gets no response. If he's a subscriber, maybe he should threaten to drop Cablevision in favor of DirecTV or Dish. More on this amusing tale from the Oyster Bay Patch.
Dinosaur delay. Pixar has pushed the release of "The Good Dinosaur" from next May to November of 2015. This is the latest sign that all is not well with the movie about dinosaurs and humans living together. This summer, director Bob Peterson was removed from the movie and Pixar still hasn't named a successor. The move means there will be no Pixar release in 2014. But, as Pixar President Ed Catmull told the Los Angeles Times, people will forgive that quicker than they will a subpar movie.
PHOTOS: Hollywood backlot moments
Remember us? Much of the focus on this Sunday's Emmy Awards has been whether the Netflix series "House of Cards" will score big wins. But heading into the show, it is once again HBO that has the most nominations, and it is still a huge cash cow for parent company Time Warner. Reuters takes a look at HBO's efforts to keep growing in a more competitive media landscape.
Broken news. Deadline Hollywood founder and editor Nikki Finke is turning up the volume in her fight with owner Jay Penske. Finke has been at odds with Penske since his Penske Media Corp. bought Variety and opted not to give her a role in running it. Now Finke thinks Variety is getting preferential treatment from Penske and wants to buy Deadline Hollywood back or be cut loose from her contract to start another site. So far, Penske has shown little interest in granting Finke -- who has reduced her presence on the site as of late -- her wishes. The latest on the Hollywood drama from the New York Times and Los Angeles Times. The New York Times says the site has become "bland" since Finke lowered her profile, which I'm sure made the rest of the staff there feel real good.
Hopping mad. The broadcast networks were dealt another blow in their legal fight against satellite company Dish Network and its AutoHop, a device that makes it easier to skip commercials while watching television. A New York federal judge denied ABC's request for a preliminary injunction against Dish. Last year, Fox's request was denied by a California federal judge. More on the legal battle over the AutoHop from the Wall Street Journal and Hollywood Reporter.
PHOTOS: Celebrities by The Times
Writing a new script. Producer Mark Burnett, who rose to fame with the reality hit "Survivor" in 2000 and made the transition to scripted fare with the miniseries "The Bible," now wants to add sitcoms and dramas to his impressive resume. Variety chats up Burnett on his goals and looks back at his unusual rise to the top of the television industry.
Inside the Los Angeles Times: Kenneth Turan on "Enough Said," which stars the late James Gandolfini and Julia Louis-Dreyfus.
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Trial to Assess the Effects of Vorapaxar (SCH 530348; MK-5348) in Preventing Heart Attack and Stroke in Particpants With Acute Coronary Syndrome (TRA•CER) (Study P04736)
TerminatedPhase 3 Results
Summary of Purpose
The study is designed to determine whether vorapaxar, when added to the existing standard of care (eg, aspirin, clopidogrel) for preventing heart attack and stroke in patients with acute coronary syndrome, will yield additional benefit over the existing standard of care in preventing heart attack and stroke. The... Trial Stopped: The trial was terminated at the request of the Data and Safety Monitoring Board.Read More →
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The following dates are available for this trial. Trial information last updated on 8 October 2015.
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- Allocation: Randomized
- Masking: Double Blind (Subject, Investigator, Outcomes Assessor)
- Purpose: Prevention
- Endpoint: Safety/Efficacy Study
- Intervention: Parallel Assignment
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Caring For Your Coloured Hair
Now we have all seen the commercials advertising at house hair color products and the aisles and aisles of boxed hair coloration at the native drugstore or grocery store. Temporary hair dyes mean you can change your hair shade with none lasting results. "Rinses" are a type of momentary hair color, often applied to hair during a shampoo and washed out again the following time the hair is washed. It must not be used to dye eyelashes or eyebrows, to take action could trigger harm to the eyes.
Utilizing at-dwelling hair color can provde the look you want without breaking the bank. For those who would fairly DIY the method, AT PRESENT Style spoke to skilled hair colorists to get their greatest at-dwelling recommendations and software tips.
This season, let's start fresh — with a fresh coloration job, that is. To this point, hair coloration trends are actually mixing it up, suggesting fashionable gray hues, the subtlest highlights you can imagine and hair color that seamlessly slims your face.
Change hair colour, a make-up instrument with 70+ sorts of hair colors choice. It is easy to get your perfect shade with these hair color tutorials. Lightening products are utilized to the sections of hair that you would like lightened. Issa Rae's rich brown shade is close in tone to her skin, creating a monochromatic but multitonal look that enhances her skin's gorgeous glow.
In this short video meet with Nine Zero One Salon artists (and finest mates) who offer tips on how-to maintain long, blonde hair healthy. Why we ask: Figuring out how light or dark your handled hair is helps effective-tune our suggestions to seek out your good match.


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Director August Aguilar takes a different approach to his usual style of filmmaking with his newest release, The Sound of You & Me.
Steering away from the STRANGE FILMS universe, Writer/Producer/Director August Aguilar takes a step towards the more indie side of filmmaking, with his newest drama release: The Sound of You & Me.
The plot of a young man named John, heartbroken and torn from the color in his world by the loss of his longtime girlfriend, Anne, takes him through stages of grief and memories that hopes to overcome his emotional despair.
Featuring three original tracks by musician Chance Lawson of the East Tennessee band, Smokehouse Crickets, and one original song by singer/songwriter Max Bemis of Say Anything.
A story that anyone can relate to, man or woman. Please watch below and let the filmmaker know what you think!


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Interview: Tips & Advice
"The application process is slightly different from other investment firms. A good tip for the application process is to be friendly and demonstrate that you are able to work in a team."Graduate, London
"Make sure you're aware of recent developments in the firm and industry. Show that you are a genuine, pleasant and enthusiastic person to work with and would fit in with the company's inclusive culture."Graduate, London
"I did a spring week, internship and then the grad scheme. I would say that you should make sure you are a little clued up on major stories in the markets (a thorough read of the week's Economist should do it for you before the interview). Be willing to admit you don't know things as the interviewer really just wants to know that they could get on and work well with you."Graduate, London
"It's quite a long process. You should prepare some questions, read the news and know the division. I believe the best thing to do is to prepare with friends."Graduate, London
"The process consisted of filling out an application form, doing a virtual (video) cover letter, two telephone interviews and then an assessment day. The assessment day consisted of four interviews with senior members of the team. My best advice would be to really understand what the company and team do and to keep up to date with recent news around BlackRock and the fund management industry."Entry level, London
"It's important to know the market, but also know the culture and BlackRock values inside out. When you go to the interview, you have to embody those beyond anything else. You have to know what it means to be a fiduciary and what it means to you."Graduate, London
"Make sure to brush up on your coding and understand different concepts of things such as Java."Technology, Graduate, London
"My advice would be to really understand the BlackRock principles and how they differentiate us from competitors. This is something that's very highly valued and will, without doubt, come up in an interview."Graduate, London
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Jaycon Systems Welcomes Summer Interns
Jaycon Systems welcomes 6 new interns who will be gaining valuable skills through project-based learning activities and collaboration. The 2015 Jaycon Systems Summer Internship Program brings together talented young minds who come from as close as the Sunshine State and from places as far as China and Brazil.
From left to right: (top) Jared, Edgar, Gui, Steven, (bottom) Alex, Andre.
The projects include electronics design and manufacturing, supply chain management, and product life cycle development. From printed circuit board assembly, to quality process learning and procedure development, interns are getting real-life engineering and high-tech skills that are resume builders.
Jaycon Systems' goal is to develop future staff by providing ongoing internship and apprenticeship programs. Eventually, the company wants to expand its outreach to include developing teenager talent as well as returning retired expertise to "workspace" here on America's Space Coast.
This article was published by the Jaycon team. Learn more about how we can take your product design and hardware idea to the next level here.


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My full name is Wahe Guru Kaur Khalsa, but you can call me Wah. I was born into the lineage of Kundalini Yoga and the Sikh faith, hence my Indian name:) I have been teaching Kundalini Yoga since I was 18 when I graduated high school as a certified Yoga teacher. I live a yogic lifestyle more than a religious one, and I'm a big believer in all paths and practices that lead us to our personal truth. I am so blessed to get to share these teachings and feel like I have the best job in the world!
My mama is Gurmukh Khalsa and she is a world-renowned Kundalini Yoga teacher, so I have had the honor of learning from one of the best. My goal in life is to empower people, to give them tools to become the masters of their own lives. Hopefully our paths will cross, but for now thank you for visiting me online!
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Wednesday, October 10, 2007
Charles Burwell: 'Continuum'/Susie Brandt: 'Dam'
White Clusters & Blue Figures, 2007, oil on canvas, 16" x 16"
White Clusters & Blue Figures (detail)
Zones, 2007, oil on canvas, 23 1/2" x 18"
Stopped by the gallery to drop off a commissioned painting this afternoon and took the chance to see the Charles Burwell show sans the First Friday crowd. The show and work looked great. I've followed Burwell's work for years as a student and now I find myself exhibiting in the same gallery as him. Life's funny that way.
Burwell's canvases are filled with multiple layers of dripped paint patterns interspersed with hard-edged, sripped graphic elements-some curved and others straight. As inconcruous as this combination sounds, Burwell makes it work well. Using imagery that he began experimenting with in the 80's, Burwell adds layer upon layer of controlled paint drips and at some point, starts integrating the patterns and hard-edged curves into the works.
Also on display are several digital prints featuring his signature patterns in addition to multitudes of organic shapes. Some look like seashells and primitive life forms while others resemble cells of some sort, suggesting the intermingling of biology and technology. While digital, the prints have the look of very well executed etchings.
In conversation during the opening, Burwell told me that he never feels that the works are finished, regardless of how done they might look to the viewer. I've had those feelings myself about some of my exhibitions, but looking at Charle's paintings, I'd be hard-pressed to imagine anything else being done to them. The exciting thing is knowing he's nowhere near done and there's more to come, hence the title of his show, Continuum
Charles Burwell: 'Continuum' at Bridgette Mayer Gallery through October 27th, 2007
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Susie Brandt: 'Dam'
In the vault room is a piece by Baltimore-based textile artist, Susie Brandt. With Dam, Brandt has stacked folds of multicolored and texured fabrics along the back wall of the vault room at Bridgette Mayer. The first thing I noticed even before stepping into the truncated space was the vibrant colors and layers that allude to geology and other types of layering (metaphorical and literal). Secondly, the change in sound, or rather, the dampening of sound in the room brought another dynamic into play.
The fabric absorbs much of the sound that would ordinarily echo in the space, much the same as the walls of music studios. Not only are your visual senses engaged, your aural senses relay a message of calm that is at odds with the vibrant hues of the fabric. Dam works very well in the vault room and makes good use of an unusual space to great effect.
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Sparrow Necklace (True Love)-D94G
$ 59.00
This round, reversible pendant features a sparrow and reads: love is not blind. love sees what is most true. true love has no ending. true love never dies, it only gets stronger with time. love is sweet when it's new, but it is sweeter when it's true. true love begins when nothing is looked for in return. be you, be true, love what you do.
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Large Pendant: Gold Vermeil, 7/8-inch round, double-sided (18K gold over sterling silver, Handmade in the USA)
Chain: 16" Plus 2" Adjustable Gold Vermeil Chain (18K Gold Over Sterling silver, Made in Italy)


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illuminati hotties is the project of Sarah Tudzin, a recording engineer turned punk rocker. Her debut album Kiss Yr Frenemies, combines clever, emotional lyrics with distorted guitars and impeccable production. Rare Candy got the chance to talk Sarah about lyric writing, performance, and the perfect burrito.
Rare Candy: You often call your music "tenderpunk." What does tenderpunk mean to you?
Sarah Tudzin: Tenderpunk is the perfect fusion of punk rock ethos and sentimentality. It came from me writing a lot of sadgirl shit for a really long time and then finding a voice in the punk and rock background that I had. I was fusing the two and suddenly music was coming out in this sweet tongue-in-cheek, surfy, punky, wild way.
RC: Is writing a cathartic thing for you or is it something you do because you have to?
ST: I'm just always doing it. I always collect little ideas and lyrical moments. I've always been pretty observational and I love to see the little details that are happening and I'm always writing them down. Then eventually, kicked off by some sort of cathartic thing, I smash them all together in a song. It feels cathartic at times but it's just something I think I do anyway. Some of the songs that have come together quickly are more cathartic and deal with emotions that I'm microscopically looking at.
RC: Like "boi"?
ST: Yeah, something like that is just a blip. You get the feeling and you have the hour to make something happen.
RC: Do you tend to write lyrics first? Or melody?
ST: Lyrics, but they kinda come up at the same time – lyrics and melody. Melody writing is something I actively try to be better at, while lyrics come more naturally to me. The melody usually involves an edit after the fact, but lyrics generally come in a rhythm.
RC: All of your lyrics are so personal and so specific, but I think you have a lot people who really connect to them. Were you surprised to see people connecting to your private experiences?
ST: A little yes and no. I think, when you write music, the stuff that touches people the most deeply is when you take a very specific thing that can be applied to a more universal truth. If you write a chorus that says "love rules!" – that's a universal sentiment but it doesn't connect with anybody. You have to give people the very specific things that give them that feeling. If you give them a tiny keyhole into somebody's room to peak through: they see the half-finished glass of whiskey next to the book upside down, and the lamp on, and somebody's asleep. If you look into that tiny keyhole, that detailed observation is what makes something feel much more universal in the long run. Maybe they've never been in that situation, but the overarching theme can be latched onto.
RC: Are there any lyrics that you don't connect to anymore? Do you feel weird singing those lyrics live?
ST: I think I've been able to spin them in a way that still connects. There are definitely feelings I don't feel anymore that were felt very strongly when I was writing. But now I've spun them to make more sense with whatever's happening in my life at the moment or found a way to make them performatively feel good to everyone.
Photos by Samantha Walla
RC: You recorded your album in a piecemeal way. It was never a live band in the studio, so how did you turn that into a live act?
ST: I'm still working on it! I think there are things I can improve. It doesn't sound exactly like the record, but that's part of going to see a live show. You could just listen to the record at home, but there's not as much participation involved. It was definitely a challenge to orchestrate it for a live band and figure out what pieces can go where. We're still finessing the details of how to make that work.
RC: Before this, you were working as a producer and recording engineer. How did that influence your work on this album?
ST: It started as a calling card for my production. I've been writing my whole life but I've been shy about sharing it anywhere or performing it. This summer, I was very productive on the writing front. Everything was sounding like it could be a part of a similar project, and so I thought I should throw this more cohesive collection together and make something that flexes my production chops. Then, I could have something to show, and create something for people to latch onto if they were interested in me recording their band.
RC: Did you always think you would start a band or did you think you would stick with production?
ST: I was just doing it for fun. As it started coming together more and more, I was hoping to try to figure out a way to put out the album that was more than just like dropping it on Bandcamp or showing it to my friends. A lot of my friends were encouraging me to play out more and so I got over that fear of performing those feelings in front of people and figured out how to make it a show.
RC: How was the process of transitioning from being someone working behind the scenes in a studio to being the frontwoman of a band?
ST: It was wild! It's confusing sometimes because I'm so used to letting someone else be the artist, which is fun. I love creatively guiding an artist, but in this case I can just do my thing. I think having those production and engineering skills made the record turn out a certain way. As I started playing and getting more comfortable playing it out more, I definitely thought, "Maybe I could do this". It's really fun and I love it just as much as being in the studio now.
RC: Was there anything specific you learned from working on a certain project or album that influenced a choice you made on Kiss Yr Frenemies?
ST: Probably? I think having experience in the studio and learning how other people work was big: picking up recording tricks and production tricks, listening to a lot of records, and stockpiling that vocabulary that you can use in the studio. I'm always referencing other music and other art. Some artists create in a vacuum and they don't want to hear anything else, but I am always drawing from everywhere. Listening back after having time away from the record, I can totally pick out these moments where I know exactly what record I was thinking about. I can see where the influences come together. Part of being an artist is collaging that stuff together and then making it your own thing.
RC: What have you been listening to recently?
ST: I always return to Motown: that music is so perfectly crafted. They knew how to write hits, they wrote hits every single day, and they recorded them all in a day. My record took a lot of pieces and a lot of tweaking and I had the computer as a crutch. For Motown, they had a couple mics up, the band would play the song twice, and then they had a record at the end, which was a magical and cool way to make music. What else? Lucy Dacus, still on repeat. Courtney Barnett, always on repeat.
RC: What's playing in the tour van?
ST: Mitski has played more than once for sure. We were also listening to this podcast. When we started listening to it, I thought it was really lame, but then I was getting into it. It's so awesome. It's these guys playing Dungeons & Dragons and narrating it. I don't know anything about Dungeons & Dragons, but they're funny so we were listening to a bunch of that. We listen to a lot of friends' records. I've been listening to a lot of people in LA who have not yet put out their music. I really love it and I'm hoping they will come out very soon. It's always fun when people send over demos or mixes and I just can't wait for everyone else to hear them. I'm so excited to have it and I'm so bummed that I haven't been able to share it
RC: How has touring been so far?
ST: I didn't know what was gonna happen. We did one tour that was hella DIY. We never knew what we were showing up for and we were always expecting the worst. I planned really ambitious drives where we were just driving eight hours every day, no matter what. It was horrible. But this tour is great. The most fun part is that every day is different for better or for worse.
RC: Do you pick the music that goes on in venues before you play?
ST: I don't have a playlist for these shows, but I'm going to make one because we've had some terrible house music. We've also had some great music. On the run we just did with Diet Cig, they had a playlist so right before they went on it was just their Spotify going. I have a walk-on song and only two people have played it this whole tour! Mostly because they don't want to play it.
RC: What is it?
ST: KISS's "Lick It Up!"" I would love for "Lick It Up" to be on full-blast before I go on stage tonight. I think for the next tour I want to curate the vibe a little better. It can be such a bummer. One venue we played had this indie rock playlist playing and two of our songs played, just before we played!
RC: The video for "Cuff" is amazing. How did you come up with the idea for the video?
ST: I wanted to make another video and my friend Sam Lane is a fantastic animator. I saw her final project for school which was a short animated film. It was so flawlessly done and really beautiful. Something about animation is really sentimental and special in this childlike way. A lot of animation now plays with adults who grew up watching cartoons, latching onto something. I just sent her the album and told her to pick whatever song she wanted and to pitch me a story. It was the most hands-off I've ever been with anything illuminati hotties. She had this idea of the fish with the dream to fly and she loved Cuff, so it worked. I loved it immediately. It was amazing to work with her. She's just so talented.
RC: It's October, so do you know what you are going to be for Halloween?
ST: We were talking about this because we're going to be doing a tour with Los Campesinos! down the West Coast and then across the bottom of the US with Vundabar. I think we're going to be in Seattle on Halloween. We won't have started the tour yet; we're just stopping there on our way to Vancouver, and hanging out with some friends and some bands out there. I don't know if we're going to do a group costume.
RC: I feel like you should!
ST: I want to! There have been a couple ideas. I have a Spider-Man onesie that I wore last year. It's just easy and comfortable, so there was talk of all of us being Spider-Man, but I don't know. The guys will wear whatever they want to wear.
RC: So you're from LA. Do you have strong feelings about breakfast burritos? What makes a good burrito?
ST: Proportions? Crucial. Distribution? Really important. I love guacamole but it sucks when you get a bite that's just cold guacamole in the middle of a hot burrito. That's weird! You gotta spread it out. The way you roll it is really important. The ingredients are really important. There are a lot of amazing burritos. I love breakfast burritos, but I especially love when they use hashbrowns instead of the chunky potatoes. Spiciness! Good spice is also very important.
RC: Do you skateboard a lot? I know you do in the "(You're Better) Than Ever" video.
ST: Yeah! I've never been able to do tricks; I just cruise around and keep my longboard in the trunk of my car, because LA parking is a shitshow. I park wherever and skate. I think my friends hate when I show up with the skateboard at the bar, but it's so much easier to find a good spot and then skate half of a mile rather than pay twelve dollars or something for parking.
RC: Were you ever in a skate crew?
ST: I don't think so. I wasn't very cool in middle school and high school. I do it for convenience's sake now and cruise around. If I have twenty minutes to kill, I'll just go back and forth on a flat street for a while. I'd like to be able to learn tricks or have a skate crew at the park.
RC: It's never too late!
ST: It's never too late! But I am more afraid of breaking my bones than I was when I was younger.
RC: You've had a lot of west coast time and a lot of east coast time. Do you consider yourself bicoastal?
ST: You know, coast doesn't matter in 2018! However, I would consider myself West Coast for sure. I grew up out there. I spent some time in school on the East Coast and I do love the East Coast a lot, but I think it's pretty hard to shake the California out of me.
RC: Do you have any advice for people who are graduating soon or for people in their twenties?
ST: Just make sure you're doing something you love. Don't be afraid to learn how to bite it for a while and learn from somebody better than you. Put your pride away and cut your teeth. Everything takes time. There's this weird flash phenomenon of being twenty-three or twenty-four and seeing somebody have a startup and now they're a billionaire. They're only twenty-five and they live in a highrise and you're trying to figure out what you're doing wrong. But that's the loudest and smallest percentage of people in their twenties. If you work really hard and you just do something as hard as you possibly can, it pays off eventually. The slow burns end up being the longest lasting careers. As far anybody I've ever seen whose done it longer than me at least. With the Internet, it seems like everything's happening really fast. With this band, people think it happened so fast, but it didn't! It took me two years to get from point A to point B of putting the record out. That's not even that long of a time, but it still is solid work. It wasn't like I just woke up with the record and I put it out and everybody heard it. We're still working hard to get people to hear it.
RC: What's next for you?
ST: The tour in November with Los Campesinos! and Vunderbar. And then the holidays happen. I'm going to hibernate and start working on the next record. I'll be working with a couple other bands in LA and outside of LA on mixing and production projects. Just trying to get into the studio when we're off the road. I don't know… dig up some other trouble I guess! Sit on the beach maybe for a day! Hopefully!


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Who is blocking Internet access, acting against government policy?
happens at least on one more Internet connection: Metfone. I cannot
verify this information myself. And I do not know if Internet access is
hindered also on other systems.
to another Cambodian ISP – Cellcard – there is no restriction.
of blatant actions against government policy which has been stated by
two Ministers of the Royal Government of Cambodia.
- acting against fundamental rights: the access to information,
- they do things for which there is no legal basis,
- they make some ISPs supply deficient services to customers who have paid for full services.
"We don't have any policy to shut down, to close the sites," he said. "Sometimes … there is a problem with the ISP."But a member of the staff of this Ministry had written to ten
Internet service providers, using the name of the Ministry, urging them
block the access to certain places on the Internet.
"The right to access to information is the key to good
governance." In his speech on the occasion of World Press Freedom Day on
3 May 2011 he referred also to the on-going blocking of some websites
by some, not all, Internet Service Providers. "We don't have any
intention to block any websites, any, even a website where they put an
obscene photo of the King – we never block," he was quoted from an
interview after his address to the meeting. "Shutting a communication
system isn't beneficial to the state," he added. "The government does
not have a policy to block this website. Even I myself need to access
and read this website too."
But my own access to some sites is still blocked on my Online
Internet access line. However, the Cellcard Broadband service is not
restricted. There may be also others like that – I appreciate to get
information which ISPs provide normal services, and which ISPs withhold
the full Internet access contracted.
When I inquired with Online by phone, I was told: "We know there are problems, but we do not block!" So I wrote to Online:
"Since several days, we experience that several web
sites are not accessible… I am informed that the same sites which we
cannot access with the Online connection are available through other
ISPs in Cambodia.
As this situation continues now already for several days and you are
aware of it, it is surprising that you did not rectify this
Would you please inform us about your response to us, your paying
customers, who suffer from problems at your company, with interventions
that do not affect other ISPs in the country. Will you offer a financial
compensation for service not delivered for the period of time of this
blocking? When will you reestablish to deliver the proper service for
which we are paying?"
More than one week later, and after a reminder was sent, the
administration of Online did not care to respond. I am now considering
to change to another ISP, one that provides the legally contracted
On 6 March 2011 I had written:
Ms. Sok Channda, the CEO of Cambodia Data
Communications, maintaining MekongNet and AngkorNet, said she had
received the email, but no official letter from the government. "We work
on letters, not email. If the government orders, they send us a letter.
We do business under the government and the government allows us the
license… We must follow but we cannot follow just email or phone call."
This raises, of course, the question, why the leadership of other
ISPs did not take the same stand, based on a clear application of
principles of public administration.
It raises a similar question: Why do consumers maintain contracts
with companies that do not deliver what they promised? It is, of course,
understandable that there can be temporary unforeseen technical
problems, where we as consumers have to wait until the problems are
fixed in a timely manner. But when access is blocked for a long period
of time by some ISPs and not by others, it is obviously not a technical
computer or network problem.
Fortunately, consumers can make choices, by selecting ISPs that
deliver reliable services within the framework of government policy and
the law.
Source: Thinking21.org


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Ep 134: Don't Not Talk To Don't Not Talk To Strangers
Guests: Dustin Allen, Brooklyn Melnyk & Jesse Harlton
With: Chris W. Cook
Hosted by Taylor Chadwick
Creative Commons Music by Josh Woodward
Contains Coarse Language
Things get a little sketchy when the team behind Edmonton's hottest sketch troupe, Don't Not Talk To Strangers, swing by Living Room Studios for a chat and to share a pair of their sketches. The crew talks about the process behind creating a successful comedy, where the root of comedy lays, and stamp factories. Plus, we plug some local arts happenings and get into a rousing (fixed!) round of The Good, The Bad & The Ugly Advice. Get this funny freakin' ep in your ear holes!
Ep 133: Let's Get To It
Guests: Mieko Ouchi, Kristi Hansen & Daryl Cloran
With: Chris W. Cook & #theatremari
Hosted by Taylor Chadwick
Creative Commons Music From Josh Woodward
Contains some coarse language
The boys are back in podcast town! What It Is returns to the Edmonton Theatre scene in fine form with a top notch ep full of top notch guests. Join Taylor as he chats with The Citadel Theatre's Daryl Cloran and artists Mieko Ouch & Kristi Hansen as they get the bullseye on The Silver Arrow: The Untold Story of Robin Hood. Plus, Taylor works out the rust (there's a lot of it) in a round of The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly Advice. You'll also hear from Netflix darling Chris W. Cook and get your Arts News fix from the one and only #theatremari. It's been too long so get this ep in your ear holes!
Fringe Artists! We Want to Interview You!
Yo Fringe Artists!
We want to interview you!
What It Is Podcast is Edmonton's Award-Winning Arts Interview show dedicated to promoting the artists who live and visit our theatre-crazy-city.
We have a dedicated listenership of arts-lovers in the city and many look forward to our huge collection of interviews to get to know the artists of Fringe and to help them pick shows they might want to see.
Get interviewed by What It Is Podcast as part of the Fringe!
WHERE: The NORTH Beer Tent on the Fringe Grounds
WHEN: Saturday August 19: 12pm – 3pm, Sunday August 20: 1:30pm – 4:30pm
HOW: Interviews are done a FIRST COME, FIRST SERVE basis. Arrive at the tent, look for the dudes with microphones on a high table, check in and chill out!
Recording with each guest will be approx. 5mins. We only require one or two reps per show at a time. Please do not send multiple people to discuss the same show at different intervals. These interviews will be collected, edited into hour long episodes and released on Monday August 21, Tuesday August 22, and Wednesday August 23. They will be available on iTunes and other podcast apps on our feed "What It Is podcast" and whatitispodcast.com.
Be prepared for a loose and casual conversation about your show. It would also be great if you could bring a copy of your handbill so I can read the information for our listeners and keep it for our records. You will also be encouraged to give your short elevator pitch during the interview.
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Ep 129: It's Frickin' Found Fest
Guests: Beth Dart, Julie Ferguson & Lady Vanessa Cardona
With: Colton Taylor Thomas & #theatremari
Hosted by Taylor Chadwick
Creative Commons Music by Josh Woodward
Contains some coarse language
What will you find in this new ep? You'll find a lively, serious, silly and energized discussion about Common Ground Art Society's latest edition of Found Fest – a site specific/sympathetic/generic festival celebrating theatre and performance right in your hood! Taylor chats with Artistic Producer Beth Dart who is in charge of getting this fest together and artists Julie (NuiBoi) and Lady Vanessa about their inclusive and personal new pieces of theatre happening in spaces you've totally been to. CTT is in the hizay, #theatremari stops by, and we even squeeze in a round of Good, Bad, Ugly Advice. Get this ep in your ear holes and take in Found fest 2017!
Ep 128: Good… But
Guests: Eva Foote & Karen Unland
With #theatremari
Songs perfromed by Eva Foote
Creative Commons Music by Josh Woodward
Contains Coarse Language
This is ep is totally good… but actually it's great! Taylor sits down with songstress (with a dress made of snakes), Eva Foote and The Fairy God Mother of Edmonton Podcasts (who can only be set to boil), Karen Unland. Plus, #theatremari joins the crew for an awesome conversation about moving away, keeping yourself busy, dream podcast projects and a hot round of The Good The Bad and The Ugly Advice. We also hear some tunes from Eva and get the details on some Edmonton-based event in a round of The Arts News. Waste no time and get this ep in your ear holes for so much Edmonton arts & podcast goodness.
Ep 127: Docs and Robbers
Guests: Fawnda Mithrush and Trevor Schmidt, Matthew Lindholm & Amanda Neufeld
With Brian Bergum & Ainsley Hillyard
Hosted by Taylor Chadwick
Creative Commons Music from Josh Woodward
Contains Some Coarse Language
The theatre season is winding down and that means that festival season is winding up! We cover the International Documentary & New Media Festival North West Fest with Fawnda Mithrush who made some room in the fest for podcasters like us! Then, we get into personal stories with Trevor Schmidt, Matthew Lindholm and Amanda Neufeld while discussing NLT's new production Bonnie & Clyde: The Two Person, Six Gun Musical. As always, we give you an update on other cool events to check out in Edmonton. It's a timely ep and these events will soon be gone so get this ep in your ear holes!
Ep 126: Theatre Is My Niche
Guests: Farren Timoteo & Andrea Rankin and Colleen Murphy
With: #theatremari & Brian Bergum
Hosted by Taylor Chadwick
Creative Commons Music from Josh Woodward
Contains some coarse language
The What It Is podcast team proves that theatre is their expertise in an ep covering two theatrical presentations currently playing in Edmonton including The Citadel Theatre's Peter and the Starcatcher & U of A Studio Theatre's World Premiere of Bright Burning. We have two new guests in Farren Timoteo & Andrea Rankin who are tracked down at The Citadel to discuss how theatre can be pretty special when it's left simple. Then, returning to the show is Colleen Murphy who talks to Taylor about her big 12 person world premiere play at the University of Alberta. There's lots of great chatter about art, life, and the amazing work of our local artists so get it in your ear holes!


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The movements of life are a strange phenomena. Like the flowing of water, and its structural phase changes from liquid, solid and vaporous. Like a musical composition, how the song can seamlessly blend textures, moods and tempos. It's a rhythmic repetition of syncopated beats, transposed patterns, harmonic intervals, ascending octaves and no scale is mutually exclusive on the staff of life. Symbolism is a key to unlock synchronicity and there's no such thing as a wrong note in the sea of spirit our species is swinging in.
I feel like I'm at one of those key turnaround points in my life and I'm transitioning from a diminished chord of challenges and now find myself making it into an augmented chord resounding with ripened potential. Gratitude stands at the front door of my heart, willing to greet everyone I meet. The individual I am today is not exactly the one I was yesterday. Every moment is fresh and ripe with possibilities. Creativity is evolution in our hands and I'm charged to recreate myself as an evolving artist of life in search for significance.
Through lots of life lessons, I've cultivated compassion for others and the resulting sympathetic awareness has brought me to strange and wonderful circumstances. Like the required pressure that it takes to manifest a diamond, I feel a sustained tension has begun to crystallize the clarity for me to see brilliant opportunities and believe in dreams awakening. Regaining an intimate touch with my souls passion and starting to reanimate the qualities of what this means. How did this happen? What is it that I could do? And why would any of this be beneficial to you?
A substantial prelude to the first question can be elucidated if you go here to read my previously composed meditation. The most recently profound inspiration in my life appeared when I acted on an impulse and decided to take a ten day vacation from the organic micro farm I worked on in the Northern California wilderness. During that respite, I relaxed into the small coastal town of Arcata. On the very first night, my psychological perspective dissolved into an ecstatic symphony of supersonic beatitudes and the spontaneous nature of this playful solitude was a transcendent experience of mellifluous landscapes. The fabric of my foundation was subtly refined and further enriched. To be saturated with serotonin is a superlative feeling. I caressed secrets ensconced within my soul and found a fresh relationship with my ultimate passion for music.
I did find some new friends as well. Some were fleeting, yet filled with potency and meaning. My heart still swells for the innocence of these young souls. But the real treasures were found when I had a most pleasurable stay at the resplendent Redwood Lily Eco Hostel. Not only was the renovated old home comfortable, stylish and health promoting, I found the staff to be so genuinely amiable that we effortlessly fell into friendships. There were deep, soul connecting conversations and inspirational sharing that truly spoke to the heart. We supported each other in creatively honest ways and some of us went for a wonderful walk through the University's Redwood Forest Oasis. I composed an image journal of that field trip which you can go see here.
What else I did with the surprising surge of energy was to suddenly find myself sitting down and taking the time to create this new website. My old one seemed stagnant and somehow, not an accurate representation of my personality. This new platform feels like a superior suit for me to express the characteristic qualities of me, as I am right now, with magnified precision. I feel virtually liberated and am motivated through amazing grace to call this a cathedral for contempla(y)tion. I'm designing this place to be a playground for ideas and a launchpad for inspirations. My desire is connection through reflection and I hope there's complimentary substances within these pages that reach out and touch you.
Navigation starts by taking flight from the launchpad. It's all in alignment with my intrinsic passions and the qualities of highest importance that support my mission. I've devoted a page just for the articulation of my mission statement you can read right here. Another aspect I'm compelled to convey is a more transparent view of myself and I invite you to learn more about me in this way. I believe quality is job number one and I wish to show you how I engage the art of doing what I love, this page is dedicated to work as play. I wouldn't be who I am today if it weren't for the miraculous powers of the water element, so I channeled that depth of knowledge for you into a reservoir right here.
Water is practically paramount to me, but perhaps I saved the best for last. Music, is my love supreme. It was my first great teacher and the recurring catalyst for me to remember who I am again and build this better website. Tune in here to that page.
I'm eager to see how this new territory will ignite greater authenticity in me, so that I can be of better service to increasing the value of your life. I'm resolved to more magnificence and broadcasting with verve. The conviction of purpose is visceral and I'm fully invested in being radically direct in my communication and actions. I refuse to sink and am committed to excellence through self improvement while simultaneously supporting you.
Now, in all of this, if you're not already experiencing the divine reflection of a similar personal transcendence, I would encourage you to remember that serenity can strike at any moment and present surprises are certainly stalking you around the corner of tomorrow. The person you are right now is not the same one as yesterday. You have the choice to reinvent yourself through amazing grace and recreate your life like an elemental phase change.
Use the force, go with the flow and have fun. Compose your reality with passion and improvise with plasticity. The sacred geometrical structure of existence is steeped in significance and you are supported by a thing called love. Feel the inner mounting flame of third eye activation, animated in 3D.
I wish to initiate connections with you, as a collective community of aspiring individuals who are committed to making a positive difference in this world of magic and madness. Meet me somewhere in the middle way, let's balance the continuum and generate a gestalt of seamless integration. If you dig the vibes, please use any of the social media links at the bottom of this page to contact me, leave a comment and share my continuity with others.


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Graduate Program Director
I am currently serving as the Graduate Program Director (GPD). As a GPD, I am responsible for: answering questions from prospective students; overseeing the admissions process, including application review and selection of graduate students; maintaining recruitment and advising documents; overseeing the graduate program assessment process and reporting; advising new graduate students and/or assigning advisors for new graduate students; overseeing the graduate program's curriculum and making changes where appropriate; ensuring that the program's curriculum and related experiences are preparing students for the workplace or for future graduate study; and handling any student grievances.
Head of Cultural & Critical Studies Division; AEJMC
At AEJMC, I have served in various leadership roles. Currently, I am the Head for Cultural and Critical Studies Division. In the past, I have held several other positions. I have been the Vice-Head, Secretary, Lead Research Chair and Paper Competition Chair, and the Teaching Chair.
Undergraduate & Graduate Assessment Plan Developer
I developed a detailed assessment plan for the Department of Mass Communications which was required by the accreditation body ACEJMC. I also developed the assessment plan for the graduate program.
Faculty Development Chair & Faculty Senate Member
As a faculty development chair, my role was to coordinate various activities related to faculty development, including Excellence in Undergraduate Education grant, various workshops, Continuous Improvement Symposium, Teaching Excellence Award and other activities.
Reviewer for Journals
and Conferences
I have frequently reviewed for prominent international conferences and journals. Some of the conferences for which I have reviewed include, International Communication Association Conference (ICA), The Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication (AEJMC), Central States Communication.
Association (CSCA). I have reviewed for Feminist Media Studies, Journal of International and Intercultural
Studies, Communication, Culture and Critique, Journal of Popular Culture, Sport and Society, and Journal of
Mass Comm Week
I have organized week-long mass comm week where industry professionals and experts from the academics are invited to give lectures and workshops to students and wider university community.
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In a sleepy village known as Slovo Park near Siyabuswa, villagers were torn with joy and surprise as they witnessed a rather strange wedding where, a mother and son exchanged wedding vows.
The son, a traditional healer from Siyabuswa in Mpumalanga, said he married his biological mother in a wedding ceremony to appease his ancestors. He now calls his mother "my wife".
On Sunday more than 2000 people turned up to witness the wedding of Buti Mphethi , 28, to his mother Francinah Makunyane, 62.
Mphethi said that his forefathers had instructed him to pay lobola to his mother's family before he could marry his wife, who stays separately from her own husband, Buti's father.
Mphethi paid the lobola of two cows to his mother with a street value of R14 000.
The wedding was arranged and took place at his mother's home in the same village on Saturday and finished at his home at the weekend.
Mphethi dropped out of his second year studies in sound engineering at the Tshwane University of Technology in 2003 to become a sangoma.
He felt it was a calling from his ancestors.
Mphethi said he had been married before, but it did not work out. His wife left him four years ago.
Mphethi said that his father William Mphethi was still alive, and had four wives. The father stays with the elder wife in Burgersfort, Limpopo.
He was confident that marrying his own mother had been in line with his culture.
Speaking to The New Age, the beaming bride, Makunyane, said she never imagined having a 'white wedding' because she was a grown up.
"I am now old enough and getting married was never in my mind. My son really did a good thing to marry me before he can marry his wife.
"This process is part of our culture. I am now a married woman because he represented his father," she said, before bursting into tears of joy


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|Introducing the research and development deputy
The research in our country has been in forlorn state for a long time especially in the scope of vocational education and job fields. The statistics in the said filed are our reasons. Hardly we can say that scientific, educational and research centers are able to offer a native and adopted version of these sciences in interaction with other countries.
The birth of our center is the product of this idea that education would not be successful without having research support. There is a significant pre-requisite in planning and standardization of the courses and that is nothing except research. Thus, R&D unit has been concluded as the most important part of the Iran's Vocational and Technical Complex by the aim of creating proper relation between the research and practical education.