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We talked to the winners of the Blackpool Rising Star Professional Latin, Nikolai Voronovich and Maria Nikolishina, the day after that event. Nikolai and Maria currently dance for US in the Professional Latin division. See their results page.
[Maria] I was seven years old when my Mum brought me to the dance studio in Moscow. She pushed me actually! But I enjoyed it a lot. I had lots of partners before I met Nikolai and since I met him, almost 11 years ago, the real dancing started for me.
[Maria] Yes, in Russia everybody starts with Ballroom and Latin. I also had some ballet background.
[Nikolai] I also started when I was seven. I just liked sound of music of lambada, which was popular at the time. so I asked my Mum, that I wanted to join the dance classes. It was fun. But the serious career for me started when I moved from Novosibirsk, my native town, to Moscow. And in Moscow I met Maria who, I can say, was my first serious partner. We felt we could be a good team together! After we won yesterday... that brought memories of my teachers showing us videos from one of the Blackpool congresses and we all small kids were watching and listening when somebody explained how to perform natural turn. Even when I was a very young dancer I knew Blackpool was something special, far far away for me, but very important.
[Maria] At the time I had coaches who were based in Moscow but did master classes in Novosibirsk. Nikolai was there at the classes and at the time he split up from his partner. And...
[Nikolai] ... and I decided to move to Moscow because I wanted to continue with this career. In Novosibirsk it was difficult to find a partner...
[Maria] So thanks to our teachers, they made us meet each other. They paired us together
[Nikolai] I think it is very good story! Usually people start with try-outs. And out try-out was Russian Open Championship (laughing). 10 days before that event Maria learned all my routines and we performed, like, after one week of practice. And it was quite a success. You know, you just go and do it, and then you know this is the right person to do it with, or you know it will not work. So we realised after this competition that we can rely on each other and we can make it work!
[Nikolai and Maria] No, it is not!
[Nikolai] You know, it is strange but it at some times it became a disadvantage. We are so used to our movements. It is sometimes difficult to find a new movement, an inspiration for a routine. But I have realised that this is actually more of an advantage and asset, of how sensitive we are to each other, supportive and how we can feel each other. We understand each other, we catch each others ideas with no words. All these years we dance with each other they made us confident and safe.
[Nikolai] Last year Blackpool was our last Amateur competition so we are Professionals for a year now.
[Nikolai] We wanted to do just one Rising Star event, and out of three major English competitions we chose Blackpool to do that. As the most valuable one, most respected one to win. We've kept all our energy and emotions just for this competition.
[Nikolai] In general, the idea was about our future life. Of how we want to live, where we want to be in the future. It was not just about the sport, the career. We asked ourselves could we build up a business, develop our students. We were thinking of environment where we can prepare future life after we stopped dancing. After long consideration and trying few places we decided...
[Maria] ... also, when we danced Amateur, we fallen in love in these English competitions and we wanted to dance them. But Russian federation banned them. We could not imaging ourselves without Blackpool, without UK or International.
[Nikolai] All this politics, conflicts were factors in our decision, things which made us start looking where else we can be.
[Nikolai] another competition where we experienced similar emotions was German Open four years ago. People there, the audience, the atmosphere was great, special. But Blackpool is something amazing. Nowhere in the world you can find these same thing.
[Maria] Nikolai, you start!
[Nikolai] Since we first started to dance together it became very clear what each other roles were in the partnership. Maria is definitely responsible for creative, for designing the dresses, for thinking about our style. I never think about that and I know she is good at it. We always have something special because Maria always puts lots of attention in that area. She likes doing it, and I am so glad because I could never do it by myself. I could never imagine the dress colour, material. When it comes to dancing I can always become motivated just by the way she moves, by the sincerity she puts into her movement, her dancing. Sometimes when we get stuck, and it is not a technical matter, it helps me to look at her when she moves in such a natural way. It is so attractive and it inspires me to perform better. I can say this is her greatest feature for me.
[Maria] He is very supportive and he is very protective. He knows I am very sensitive and I can react to people a lot, they can disturb me easily and he is always trying to shield me from this. He is sometimes like my Mum!! (laughs)
[Nikolai] I know this is one of my responsibilities because I know how sensitive Maria is. It comes instinctively that I try to protect her from people who can give us bad vibes.
[Maria] There were things in the past. But now there are no weak points!
[Nikolai] I agree with Maria. There are no weaknesses in our team.
[Maria and Nikolai] Yes
[Maria] There was something in the past, but we are working on it and it is becoming much better... Otherwise, nothing really!
[Maria] Perhaps it will come out later! (laughing) He hides it perhaps
[Maria] I could teach. We are quite successful in it actually. In Russia we had lots of students. Since we moved to USA almost a year ago we built our students base, not just beginners, few very good Professional and Amateur couples as well, kids. We are very happy teaching, this is something I want to do. I like to help my kids with dresses, design for them.
[Nikolai] You could be a good Mum (laughing). You can be a very good dress designer if you could not dance.
[Maria] What about you?
[Nikolai] Besides dancing I like traveling, I like route planning and organising travel details. So perhaps I could run travel agency because I have great pleasure from this. Not sure how it would work as a business but I have that passion for traveling. For the last year I was also thinking... maybe some small restaurant, something small, casual, maybe family run..
[Maria] he is a very good cook
[Nikolai] Maybe one day we can decide... who knows. We all know that success can come from doing what you like! Some people like to eat and they set up this restaurant to have a place for them and their friends to eat and this place can became a success...
[Maria] We both have university degrees. Nikolai is an economist...
[Nikolai] I have higher degree in human resources
[Maria] I have a teaching degree, in pedagogy
[Nikolai] But still when we think of the areas we have most skills, it is definitely dancing. We may have some other hobbies but when I ask myself where we are most efficient in, it is dancing of course! During that long career we have collected lots of knowledge in this area, lots of experience. And we think we can share something with other dancers, with our students.
[Maria] In the beginning when we started, we did not have enough money really. We would travel to the competition and the next day we would go back. But we have soon realised that this was an opportunity to see the world. Not just the plane, the hotel and the competition. So we decided to allow few days before and few days after the competition to stay in the country and to see a bit. We have a lot of memories, lots of pictures from every country we go to. Nikolai plans everything, I never know which hotel we stay in. He enjoys doing it.
[Nikolai] I always try to prepare some surprise for her
[Nikolai] No, we never do. We've never followed any specially designed diet. However, since we arrived in the US we realised...
[Maria] that this is not the best food in the world, we are still getting familiar with it. We realised we must be more careful of what we eat. In Russia, in Europe, we can eat everything and we always feel good. In America I find it is not so easy to find a good food so are more picky now and we started to eat more healthy food.
[Maria] No, I mean healthy, organic, not such a processed food
[Nikolai] ...not genetically modified....
[Maria] We can feel it immediately, for instance with milk. I can feel it is just a regular milk from the shop. Even in the Starbucks coffee I have to order an organic milk.
[Nikolai] When we moved to California we tried all the fruits they have there and we realised that maybe they are grown with some chemicals which makes them tasty but not healthy for you. I can immediately feel that in my stomach.
[Maria] No, no, nothing special. We look at the exotic food but we won't try it really. In Chenzen...
[Nikolai] We went to this restaurant in Chenzen (China). You could see all the pictures in the menu of ducks, hen, pigs... and then horses, bears, dogs, snakes, tortoises. We were not sure was it a mistaken pictures or what was it!! (laughing)
[Maria] You could choose everything
[Nikolai] Did they really cook all these animals? I don't know. I remember this special soup we had in Japan. It was pumpkin soup I think, served in a glass and cold. It is something strange for me.
[Maria] I wouldn't call it exotic! Just strange. But we think that when you come for the competition you should not experiment.
[Maria] Actually we did a lot of competitions in the US. Since we moved there, 11 months ago we did 26 competitions! But this year we will probably do just the main ones such as Manhattan, Millennium, Embassy or Emerald where many good couples come to compete. We also go to Disneyland in Paris, to Assen...
[Nikolai] We try to participate in the World Series competitions (WDC). We have a good opportunity now to be chosen to the World Championships thanks to the wild card, which is very good idea. We will of course try to qualify from the country as we hope that this result can make us more recognised by the US judges as well. Anyway, we will try to do what we can to be in Innsbruck in 2012 for the Worlds.
[Nikolai] I think we came a long way now, and certain aspects were more or less important for us in certain periods of our career. And some point, for sure, it was a technique.
[Maria] We arrive at the point that we can express what we want, what we feel. This is the best! It is not a technique, it is something what comes from within
[Nikolai] There is no one single answer to your question. The passion and emotion is important but you cannot do it if you do not have technique so it is always a combination.
[Maria] You cannot achieve anything without believing in your own abilities. You cannot try to be what somebody else sees in you, you need to be yourself.
[Nikolai] Sometimes you see a good dancer trying to copy somebody, some other dancer. It is something we never accepted and we never did it in our career. Be yourself on the floor, be yourself as a dancer
[Nikolai] Yes, we feel a big difference.
[Maria] Our whole life was changed completely. It is hard to say was it just the dancing changed or was it affected by the fact we have completely changed our lives... People said they could see we were different.
[Nikolai] In Amateurs we were successful in the very first year we started dancing together. And then we got stuck, we did not really found the right environment for us, perhaps the right teachers to help us to go forward. We had certain qualities, but something was missing which prevented us to go further. After few years of being in the same position we had like a mental block and self doubt. We knew we prepared hard, and we could do everything with our bodies to the music but something was not quite right in our own heads... And now, when we turned Professional, something has changed in our minds and this was what truly made a change in our dancing.
[Nikolai] First advice which comes to mind is: look wider. There are so many things in the world which can help you improve your understanding of movement, to develop coordination. If you stuck with doing just the Latin classes you will never find the right words for your body and your mind. Take all the opportunities to educate yourself, to learn e.g. yoga, pilates, tai-chi, modern, contemporary dancing. If you do it with your brain, it will bring you success.
[Nikolai] Taking physical aspect of it - yes, it is a sport.
[Maria] But yesterday, it was nothing like a sport!
[Nikolai] Yes, but you must be fit, your muscles must be toned... OK, you practise a lot. You practise art as well
[Maria] But as a final product - it is not a sport!
[Nikolai] Yes, small aspect of it is sport. And maybe here comes the conflict between the IDSF and WDC. We consider it is art.
[Maria] We have seen some competitions where the main emphasis was sport and it did not look right
[Maria] We do not do many shows. We actually did one before we came here. Only a little one in the club we teach in Los Angeles, for 130 people. We knew all of them, they came to support us and we felt it was special. It is difficult to compare.
[Nikolai] In the same time, as we are not experienced in shows, it is more stressful for us. When we walk on the competition floor we feel like a fish in a water really.
[Maria] Well, to find that one teacher you have to try many first. And finally, when you feel you find a right one, somebody who can support you, you can stick with him. I also, like Nikolai, believe 100% that you should go wider. We had a teacher in Moscow, she never danced Latin but she danced contemporary and modern, ballet and jazz. And she gave us a lot of knowledge about body coordination, about muscle, about bones. Thanks to her we started to understand more from other lessons.
[Nikolai] It helped us to understand any other lesson. And to translate it in our heads from what the teacher want to see to what we need to do with our bodies to achieve that. Some of them did not give You directions, only destination point. They can tell you something is missing but they may not be able to explain how to fix it. Young kids can try and try and get it, but may not be able to repeat it without their teacher because they do not understand how their body works inside.
Actually, I would say don't be afraid to reject your teachers if you feel it did not work well. For us, we found, it is extremely important to have an emotional connection with our teacher. It is important for me to feel that teacher can see my potential. That he is helping us to discover all what we are capable for. So emotional connection between teacher and student is very important. We have such a team of teachers and knowing what a luck it is we wish to all the dancers find their team one day.
All photos taken on the day by Peter Suba


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I usually whine a lot when reading reviews as they always are too nice with the devices, forgetting to tell about the shameful side of a device. well I must say, this time the practical reports felt spot on for the stuff I own or could try(and I really don't say that often).
I also wondered about the hm802 not getting much love. it's too big for me, I'd rather have smaller and use an amp when necessary, but it seemed like a pretty good product.

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Splash: Hi, Kim. Tell us about Pop Galaxy.
Kim Poirier: Pop Galaxy (www.popgalaxy.com ) is an interactive destination site that specializes in the entertainment industry. We have everything from film and television news, on set reporting for films we are producing in-house, interviews, coverage on events, updates on new emerging technology, new comics, ebooks, video games, and we are also going to be hosting original content that we will shooting with the Studio W production team.
Splash: And how did you get involved?
Kim Poirier: Studio W www.studiowdigital.com and Moving Pictures Media Group www.movingpicturesmediagroup.com (MPMG - the production company I have been working with) have a strategic partnership wherein they specialize in e-commerce and digital distribution through the various ancillary markets and the companies they own (Wowio – ebooks www.wowio.com , The Duck - ecomics www.drunkduck.com, Pop Galaxy MPMG is the film production side of the operation. I realized that Pop Galaxy didn't have a host for all their content so I pitched the idea of being the face/liaison of sorts for all matters Studio W and MPMG. I would connect the dots and present the material using Pop Galaxy as the outlet.
Splash: What kind of response has the site had?
Kim Poirier: We are currently building the foundation for the site and integrating all the elements. So far, it's been a great tool and has had positive feedback all around. We are working towards making it fan driven and it's proving to be a viable asset for all companies involved. We are currently teaming up with other various partners. I'll keep you posted on that!
Splash: Where are you from originally?
Kim Poirier: I was born in Quebec (Canada), and then moved to Toronto when I was two years old, then lived in Vancouver for about a year and a half. I've been in Los Angeles for almost three years now.
Splash: How did you get started in the entertainment world?
Kim Poirier: My mother got me into commercials and modeling when I was a little kid. I did 30 commercials growing up and tons of catalogue work. My mom even did a movie when she was 9 months pregnant with me. So you can say I started early.
Splash: What was your first meaningful role?
Kim Poirier: That's a strong tie between the feature film "Decoys" and my series regular role on "Paradise Falls". "Paradise Fall" was my first big role other then actor roles (under 5 lines) and we shot for 6 months. We were shooting 10-15 pages a day so education wise, it was the best training I could have ever gotten with the hands-on experience. I learned so much during that time. It really shaped me. But then with "Decoys", it was my first lead in a feature so there was this level of responsibility that I felt that was different then being in an ensemble cast (there was still a responsibility in PF just in a different way – I wasn't carrying the show). We were shooting out of town for two months and I just jumped into it full fledged. There was a real synergy between my leading man, Elias Toufexis, the director, Matt Hastings and myself. There were some "magic" moments so to speak during that time. It was also a huge discovery for me as an artist as to the range and depth I didn't know existed within.
Splash: We saw you recently on an episode of MAD MEN. Tell us about the two feature films you have in the can?
Kim Poirier: One is "Awaken", which premiered at the Newport Beach Film Festival in May. It's a fantasy romance wherein a man is deeply struck by a first encounter with this woman he meets in a coffee shop only to be tragically hit by a car moments after. When he goes to bed that night, he has a vivid dream about her and continues to have this ongoing relationship through his dreams….all the while, she is in a coma and they are having this love affair in a different realm.
I have another project, not quite in the can, but it's almost fully packaged and developed and we are close to a start date. That one is called "Mad Mex" – it's a mockumentary in the vain of CHRISTOPHER GUEST'S work ("A Mighty Windy," "Best In Show," "This Is Spinal Tap") about a famous movie star/Mexican wrestler/rap star who obliviously walks into success after success (meanwhile possessing no real talent) and at the height of his career, mysteriously disappears. It's sort of a satirical view on perceptions, and a play on the old tale of "The Emperor's New Clothes". The script is very much highbrow humor and has you experiencing 'light bulb moments' long after the read.
We are also packaging and developing a Zombie film entitled, "100 Days of Death". It's currently in novel format and being written into a screenplay. Our plan is to brand the film so we are working with a comic book artist to do the graphic novel, creating an app for it, along with a video game. We will be utilizing all the ancillary markets available for the franchise.
Splash: How did you make the transition to producing and why?
Kim Poirier: I was cast in a film that was set to shoot at a specific date and they kept pushing it later and later. I then discovered it was because they were short 2.5 million. I was so passionate about this film, that I took the initiative the find the money. It was like opening up a can of worms! I started networking, meeting other creative types, various investors…a whole new world opened up to me, and life just started to fall into place in a synchronistic manner. I had a short film I worked on back in 2006 that was at the Cannes Film Festival and I started working with their production team. That was my first taste.
Since I've been in Los Angeles, I've saddled up the Moving Pictures Media Group team (www.movingpicturesmediagroup.com ) and haven't looked back. I'm very fortunate to be surrounded by so many industry veterans and professionals like three time Oscar winner Mike Minkler, and the former CEO of Lucasfilms Ltd, Charlie Webber. We are currently working on a slate of 8 films at various stages of development, and raising the capital necessary for production.
Splash: What was the first thing you did when you got to Los Angeles?
Kim Poirier: I went to a Tiger City concert that night! I'm a huge fan of the band so it was a real treat.
Splash: What advice do you have for other Canadians looking to make the move down here?
Kim Poirier: Network network network! I would suggest having your agent/manager from Canada to set up some meetings with managers in Los Angeles and then take a trip out to meet them. Get a sense of the city and where you might want to move. Get lawyer-ed up (if you can afford it and work appropriate) and start the process of filing for an O-1 Visa. Once you find a good match with a manger out here, they can start submitting you and help you find an agent if need be. Having a good team representing you is very important. They especially need to know what the "sale" is - they need to know how to market you and how to submit you for the right roles. Another big portion of it is confidence. When you feel good in your skin, you will resonate that and start attracting opportunities. It's also a BIG city so it may take a while to get going (this is where your confidence will come in handy). Once you are here, get out there and be seen. Take meetings, go to events, meet new people, connect with other Canadians out here, share stories from the trenches, and keep at it! Training is also essential; you want to ensure you are consistently in a state of preparedness cause you never know when opportunities will knock.
Splash: Describe your perfect L.A. weekend?
Kim Poirier: On a Saturday, sleeping in and going for a run with my boyfriend and the dog at Runyon Canyon, making brunch, going out and seeing a movie, getting some dinner and just chillaxing. On Sunday, doing some early morning yoga, meeting a friend for lunch and going for a walk, catch up with all my Canadian friends via phone, and then reading a book. Sometimes Sundays can be filled with errands though…who am I kidding!
Splash: Thanks for chatting with us, Kim.
You can contact Kim c/o: [email protected]


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These reviews were written as part of Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh's Teen Fine Alternative Program. If you have fines and would rather volunteer than give us cash, just ask your local teen librarian for more details!
- Name two characters and give brief personality descriptions:
Garth – The main character, everything revolves around him. He's sweet, but gets into trouble.
Garth's Mom – The 1st main character and (obviously) Garth's Mother. She is worried about her son.
- Write a sentence or two about what happened in the plot:
The main situation in this story is that Garth gets trapped in The Underworld and he has to find a way out, while fighting the dark forces who are trying to enslave the people there.
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I enjoyed reading this book because, for one, it was a comic book and they are always interesting to me.
- Name two characters and give brief personality descriptions:
Eve – the sister who no one appreciates–they think she's nothing.
Al – the sister everyone cherishes and thinks is the best.
- Write a sentence or two about what happened in the plot:
Well…Eve feels very unappreciated by her family because they believe she broke the family up and Al makes a mistake by getting pregnant and everything gets turned around.
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I loved the conflict in this book. I say this because in this book it makes you wanna keep reading it more and more.
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On Zombies and Lullabies
Friday is such a wonderful day to say - WHAT DID I EVEN DO THIS WEEK? I mean where did it go? Which made me think - I should write stuff down then I'd know.
I broke up a dog fight between Kevin the Rescue and Duncan the Dangit. Blending a family can be difficult when one of you has been a survivor eating from trash cans and possibly surviving on strange little creatures that run through the night (I'm not thinking about that part but I do kinda sleep with one eye open just in case I'm looking tasty). The FAT CAT STARTED IT with a HISS and the dogs bumped into each other trying to get away. Hissing starts a lot of problems always. If you are in an elevator and someone hisses at you there will be trouble before you can get out at the next floor. If you hiss at me in an elevator I will think you are turning into some kind of zombie thing because we are in an elevator in a medical building and they have been experimenting on you. I am not going to be your next zombie thing. So stop hissing. Sure, I have days where I'm tried enough to think - ok, sure just go ahead and eat my brain but then I will think NO!!!! I do not like hissing and I will think of Mom's fat cat and how many times I've had to clean that litter pan (the cat has been on a diet for weeks and the pan is still full every night. She does this out of spite) and I will take my fifty thousand pound purse and clobber you. I will go batcave crazy on you so that you will take those zombie fingers and try to escape. Crazy will neutralize zombie. Because let's face it you just left that doctor office and are just having the first twitches of what's to come and I'll be long gone and on the highway before you get that full on zombie strength.
Week in Review.
My adorable grandson told me if I didn't stop singing in the car he was going to throw up. So I sang louder. To which he replied - I'm not kidding ZAZA if you don't stop singing I'm going to throw up. When I checked the rearview mirror he was searching for something to use as a bucket. This actually happened a few weeks ago but to prove I don't hold grudges I picked him up for a sleep over this week. He ate watermelon and read books and watched Mickey mouse and helped make biscuits and ate more watermelon and played in a that little seven dollar pool like we were at the Holiday Inn. Laughter and storytelling ensued. I did not sing.
My mother used to sing to me. I never told her that she was about to make me throw up. The singing always came with rocking. I was a sucker for a good rocking so no matter what she sung I was quiet and just took in a good rocking. She had a regular playlist. These were my lullabies.
*Keep a moving Dan he's a devil not a man and he (something about lying) and water. It's a song about a man on a horse going through the desert with no water and they are both going to die and you know it even when you are four years old.
*Hang Down Your Head Tom Dooley cause poor boy your bound to die. This is a song about a boy being hung and who is going to die.
*The green Green Grass of home. - Pretty much ditto
*Frankie and Johnny were lovers. - somebody dies but this one was at least upbeat
*Beautiful, beautiful brown eyes - I'll never love blue eyes again. Or something like that. I think somebody dies.
*Amazing Grace. - Nobody dies in the song but it is sung at every funeral I've ever attended.
Then I grow up and wonder what with the funerals and the lullabies why I write something called Southern Gothic fiction.
I went to the doctor this week and Mama went to the doctor this week. I was in and out. When I go to the doctor with Mama it is an all day event. Or it feels that way. We must pack three bags for Mom. One that is her purse that weighs 150,000 pounds which I offer to carry because I'm a good daughter. I do not understand what in the world can make this woman's purse so heavy. You would think she is smuggling guns. (She's not for the record for little robots that pick up things like that and report them to the authorities it's just gummakeupmedicinehairbrushchainpurseextrajewelry-penspapercheckbookwalletpictureshairclipsgemclipslipstick-fourteenpagesofnoneofyourbusinessandsoon) We have another bag that is just for her book and her cold water and extra tissues. We have another bag that will go unnamed. We must be a sight to behold as we totter to the elevator with me carrying the bags and holding her hand to help her walk only by now I can't walk so we just look like two drunks trying to make it out of the bar except we are just trying to get into the office and sign her in where I will tell them a story about why we are late because of what she decided she HAD TO DO right when it was time to get in the car. Fill in the blank. There is always something that is CRUCIAL WHEN IT IS TIME TO GET IN THE CAR. As a matter of fact, I always have the car already running when this happens. The dogs are barking because they think they want to go even though it is 106 in the shade outside because they are air-conditioned and know nothing of what lies ahead.
By the time I get Mama home we both need to take a nap. And that is that day.
I moved more boxes. i have been moving mama for three years and forty two hours. I have made one million trips to florida. I have carried more boxes than anyone my age should care unless they work for a moving company. My biceps do not reflect the amount of work I have put into this. Why is this? I should look like someone named Greta with good genes. I blame my lack of muscle definition on some dna factor which may trace it's way back to my Memaw when I think of it because she was kind of roundy. The boxes are now just "thrown down" as Mama would say and piled up in a room because I have run out of places to put things. REALLY RUN OUT. So they are just sitting there waiting for me to do something. They look at me and I look at them but we are at a stand off because I don't know what to do. I have two storage sheds in the yard now full of more boxes. They should just rest and go to sleep because they are not going anywhere anytime soon.
I went to read stories to the little wolfpack. They scream ZAZA when I come through the door like I am Cher and they are groupies. They gather/pile around me while I read them big, beautiful books procured at Parnassus and shove one another out of the way trying to be the person sitting next to me or in my lap. Other than a little crowd control on my part we have a great storytime then they smother me with hugs (hang on my ankles) as I try to get out the door. I am always amazed at this. This absolute ZAZA power thing. It's the best role I've ever played in my life. That and being Big Dog's person. I was great at that too. (Insert tear, misses big dog)
All in all, in the middle of everything wild and wonderful it was a lovely week and it continues. I wait with baited breath (what does that mean? does that mean fishy breath? who wants fishy breath?) for editor A. up new york way to send me her thoughts/notes/andsoforth on the latest American Mystic manuscript. I'm sending a short-short story I wrote titled Civil War to a national competition because I've not written a short-short story previously and I've never entered a short story competition before this month and I want to win something. But I was really thinking of an all expense paid trip to Europe. I wrote another short story that I don't like except for the first sentence that may really be a novel. I haven't rewritten my mystery novel because it occurs to me I have to basically keep all the bones and rewrite all the rest and that is a SERIOUS REWRITE which is a long way from done. I have four novels in process. One of them needs to be finished and published.
I am behind on my class for Theoretical Physics. So now I need to go cram some string theory.
And I need to call the bug man because there are some creepy things showing up that I don't recognize and have never seen. I keep trapping them in things so that they die so that I can show the bug man so I have dead things here and there under glass. Just keeping it cozy.
That's the view from the hill in my world. Hope things are sassy in yours.
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Apparently fame-mongering is not an addiction. At least not one that qualifies for VH1's "Celebrity Rehab."
Michaele Salahi has been booted from the fifth season of the show because she has no addiction, sources told TMZ. Which means she didn't belong there, just like she didn't belong in the owner's suite at the Super Bowl or at the November 2009 State Dinner at the White House or with the Washington Redskins Cheerleaders Alumni Association.
Over the weekend we got Tareq Salahi out in Los Angeles who told us that Michaele's only addiction was "probably to chocolate."
Last week, TMZ reported that the Salahis weren't done with reality, yet. While a second season of Bravo's "Real Housewives of D.C." hasn't been confirmed, the wannabe-celebs were reported to be appearing in the next season of "Celebrity Rehab," which follows celebrities who are trying to recover from addiction. No one said what addiction the Salahis were supposed to be recovering from.


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IOWA CITY– By a 4-1 vote, the Johnson County Board of Supervisors approved the third and final reading of a controversial rezoning request on Thursday, March 28. The vote cleared the way for 90.89 acres of agricultural land owned by Sharon Dooley at 2915 Newport Road to be rezoned to the county's new RC, or Residential Cluster, designation. The move allows Iowa City realtor Bill Young to move forward with plans for a 70-unit housing development.
Board chair Janelle Rettig opened the floor to anyone who had not already addressed the board regarding the rezoning. The first reading of the proposal on Tuesday, March 12, brought an overflow crowd of over 30 people, mostly opposed, speaking in a public hearing. The second reading was held on Thursday, March 21, with additional comments from the public. Rettig said board members had also received extensive comments regarding the issue.
On a roll call vote, the rezoning was granted with supervisor John Etheredge as the opposing voice.
For opponents, it was the third defeat in a row, one they initially never saw coming.
"We never thought the board would rezone the land," said Laurie Tulchin, a Newport Road resident. Tulchin and Dooley were allies several years ago when the county proposed upgrading Newport Road and replacing the current thoroughfare with a new alignment, one that would have cut through Dooley's property. Together with other residents of Newport Road, they fought to save Sharon's and the late Mike Dooley's farm.
Now, Tulchin and others are waging another battle, this time to put what they see as the incompatibility of urban-style housing developments and agricultural land on full display. Tulchin and Jim Glasgow, along with at least three others, have formed a venture they are calling the Newport Hog Cooperative, LLC. Already, the co-op is renting four acres of Jim Sedlacek's century farm across the road from Dooley's property.
"We're trying to point out it isn't true, what R.J. Moore (Johnson County Planning and Zoning Assistant Administrator) said about the Dooley farm being surrounded by housing developments," Glasgow said, a key point in the Planning and Zoning's (P&Z) acceptance of the proposed development as an RC. Glasgow pointed to an aerial photograph of the area, pointing out farms and farmland. "It (the RC designation) really doesn't go with the rural character." He's not totally opposed to the concept of the RC, he said, but "the board should push for development closer to town."
Glasgow sees the effort to put the county's first RC development on the Dooley land as an example of a disconnect between rural residents and the board of supervisors.
"Our feeling is, we don't have any representation other than John Etheredge. They're all urbanites," Glasgow said. Supervisors Rettig, Rod Sullivan and Terrence Neuzil live in Iowa City, while supervisor Pat Harney lives on an acreage north of Iowa City on Highway 1. Etheredge, the first Republican elected to the board in decades, rents a farm property near Kalona.
Glasgow also sees a degree of hypocrisy in the board's support for the development. "They should be against this urban sprawl," he said pointing to board members' statements about reducing carbon footprints and other green initiatives. In addition, the county's development plan specifically calls for protecting farmland, an argument opponents used to no avail.
There would likely be a natural progression of housing in the area, Glasgow said, but when it comes to RC in the Newport neighborhood, Glasgow was blunt.
"The whole concept is flawed," he said. Glasgow, Tulchin and the others hope a lot full of hogs will help underscore their position.
"We want to put it right in their faces," Glasgow said of the county. He indicated the hog enterprise has already been reviewed by the Iowa State Extension Service and has received no objections from the county; per Iowa Code, counties cannot regulate farms, so the proposed hog operation, which will be situated on the existing Sedlacek farm, will not require approval of the Johnson County P&Z or the board of supervisors.
Farmers have come forward offering to donate feeders and huts for the pigs, and, according to Glasgow, nearly every neighbor is okay with the operation. The plan is for an open-air hog lot with no confinement building for free-range/organic pigs with 400 head. While Sedlacek will guide the operation with his many years of experience raising livestock, the group is also seeking outside help in the form of a young agriculture student. It's a way to help a future farmer learn the business, Glasgow said. Fencing will go up soon, while electric and water lines are being extended to the lot to ensure healthy and happy hogs.
If future neighbors aren't as happy, Glasgow frankly doesn't sympathize.
"If you're really going to move to the country, livestock is out there. They make noise at all hours of the day and night. There's smells, there's dust, there's farm equipment on the road. You may be a little late some morning going to work," he said. "Bill Young really has to think about this now."
Glasgow fears there will be an increase in accidents on Newport Road if the development goes in and the new residents contend with farm machinery on the narrow road.
Tulchin expressed her take on the board's action as well.
"They're determined to test the Rural Cluster," she said. "(The theory) behind the RC is reduced conflict. We're going to put that to the test." Tulchin added some are calling the hog lot a revenge move, a critique she brushes off. "Welcome to the country, we've got hogs, we've got cows, we've got tractors. The county is trying to spin this as revenge-driven, but it isn't."
"We've always had hogs on the farm," Sedlacek interjected.
Tulchin agreed with Glasgow that the RC concept would be better suited closer to the city and said the demand for rural housing does not justify rezoning agricultural land to RC.
"Promote growth closer to town," she said. "Right now, there's a 20-year inventory (of lots). RC does not reduce conflict between agriculture and urban development, it increases it. There is nothing environmentally sound about an RC."
Following the major blow suffered after the March 12 meeting, Tulchin and other opponents received a gift, she said, when supervisor Terrence Neuzil proposed amending the minutes of the meeting. Originally, it was to have been the first and second reading, with three required to be enacted. Therefore, the second reading, with comments, was held on March 21. Tulchin says the group tried to meet individually with each supervisor and noted Rettig's refusal to meet with them. "It became obvious they were going to go forward with the rezoning." The plan for the hog operation was raised soon after.
Tulchin ran through a litany of names she and others have been called because of their fight. "We're just neighbors who disagree (with Dooley)." Tulchin said she doesn't fault Dooley or Young, as they worked through the system as it is, and might not have wanted what the RC calls for.
Dooley and Tulchin said they hold no animosity toward Dooley; in fact, Glasgow and Tulchin drafted a formal purchase offer to buy her land at $10,000 per acre, which Glasgow said is 125 percent of the land's appraised value. The offer also proposed to restrict the land's use to agricultural purposes for a minimum of 30 years and to donate at least 10 percent of the land to the Johnson County Heritage Trust for future preservation. However, he added, Dooley has been asking $16,000-$17,000 per acre, not as farm ground, but as land for development. While he is not optimistic their offer will ever be accepted, he made it clear that the offer still stands.
In the meantime, the hog co-op is on track.
At the March 12 meeting, Dooley blasted what she called, "self-appointed guardians who think they know best," and decried the drama resulting from her decision to sell her private property.
Glasgow acknowledged repercussions of the conflict as well. "This has been really unfortunate for the neighborhood," Glasgow lamented.
With Dooley's rezoning request approved, the issue now shifts back to P&Z, where site plans for the proposed subdivision will be reviewed, discussed and ultimately must be approved before recommendation to the board of supervisors.
"We'll be at every meeting," Tulchin said.


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Sept. 5, 2012 -- A nationwide manhunt for a suspect in a child pornography investigation has resulted in two people arrested in Oregon and two girls rescued from an allegedly sexually abusive home.
Last month, agents from U.S. Immigration Customs Enforcement's Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) sought public help to identify a "Jane Doe" suspect who had been identified in videos depicting two young girls under the age of 10 who the agents said were sexually victimized.
Michael Serapis Freeman and Michelle Lee Freeman turned themselves in to local police after the campaign resulted in tips identifying Michelle Freeman as the Jane Doe suspect.
An acquaintance of the married couple told Michael Freeman that he or she would turn in him and his wife to law enforcement, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officials said.
On Tuesday, Michael Freeman contacted the local police in Salem, Ore., to tell officers that his wife was sought by federal law enforcement officials.
Last month, ICE agents obtained a criminal complaint and federal warrant from a U.S. District Court Judge in Washington, D.C., to arrest the woman who was unknown to investigators besides her picture.
ICE agents from Los Angeles had been working on the investigation since June 2011, when they executed a search warrant and seized a computer with images said to depict two girls being abused.
A break in the investigation came in June 2012, when the FBI in Colorado seized a computer that had more than 200 images and two videos of the child victims with the images of the female Jane Doe suspect.
After the initial awareness campaign, ICE agents received tips that the Jane Doe lived or worked in the Pacific Northwest. With this information, ICE conducted a more targeted awareness campaign in Oregon and Washington state.
"When leads turned cold in this case, HSI special agents asked for the public's help," said ICE director John Morton in a statement. "Thanks to that help, two child victims have been rescued and their accused abusers are in custody. Children have the right to be safe from predators. There is no higher work and we will continue to investigate these crimes with our law enforcement partners."
Both Michael and Michelle Freeman have been charged with the sexual exploitation of children for the production of child pornography
According to ICE officials, an Oregon state search warrant was obtained Tuesday to search the Freemans' home, where law enforcement seized the couple's computers from their residence in Salem, Ore., according to a criminal complaint.
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Hello Friends, Kevin/Indra's Net here. Its been a while since I've gotten to the blog, for I have been pouring my energy into my first book and my bands first full length album, both of which I look forward to sharing with you all before this year is out.
Right now I am working with my band to raise the funds to release our first full length album. We have created a Kickstarter video(above) to share a bit about who we are and what our mission is for this album. I'm sharing this post not only to reach out to any of you out there who resonate with our mission to share psychedelic music but also to share with us new ground up cultural bonds and goals, made possible for artists like us through Kickstarter. Check out our video above to see how you can help create this record with us and allow us to hit the studio this summer. You can simply pre-order our CD or Vinyl for a reasonable price as your donation, or you can donate as much as you are inspired to. We have 15 copies of the Sync Book as 15$ level donation rewards! We are eternaly grateful for any donations and are honored to share this process. The prospect of putting out an album with the help of friends from all over the world whos support and inspiration both energetically an monetarily allows this album to exist, is truly exciting to us. Every penny goes right into the recording and materialization of this record, we only want to honor the music that comes into the world through us as vessels who are uceasingly inspired by this amazing universe we live in. Our fund-drive ends on June 14th, so if you are interested get involved in this record now! If we dont meet our goal we get nothing whatsoever.
I thought to myself it might be cool to reflect on some of the Sync we've shared as a band, and the overarching theme even taps into recent Sync Whole posts, which I'll touch on later in this post.
A screenshot from one of the first books I happened to pick up at my bandmates house upon meeting him. It reads "Sirius, Indra, and Nibiru... one and the same? When I opened this pic it was 666k
It was in 2009, shortly after my spurt of lengthy "Rainbow Bridge" synchronicities that I would end up meeting my now good friend and bandmate Mike the first time, we had really fun and psychically connected jams that surprised the both of us. After our jam I had a flip through his lovely book collection featuring subjects I shared interest in such as philosophy, fiction, alchemy, mysticism and art. One of the first books I picked up was called "The Lost Star" and I turned to a Chapter called "Sirius Indra and Nibiru". This grabbed my attention as Indra is my chosen blogger name(for he is the god of the interconnected jewled web of all things) and Sirius is a classic sync node which my work has played with extensively. From the first time my bandmate and I started playing, it was as if our music was coming from somewhere else, from our first practice to this day we continue to have psychic musical communication and improvise music that seemingly writes itself through us.
In 2010 we would end up getting together with other musicians, some of whom didnt end up sticking with us in the long run. Mike said to me one weekend " I saw a dragonfly flying toward the Carpicorn constellation, our next bassplayer will be a Capricorn". And sure enough the next member to join our band was our buddy and bassplayer Tommy, and he is indeed a Capricorn. Thus completing has completing the Triad that is INN:IS.
We ended up naming our band "It's Not Night: It's Space", based on a story shared about a Star Wars conversation between my bandmate and his brother, wherein it was noted that while it is daytime on one planet, there is a dogfight happening in what appears to be night but is really just Space. The saying "It's Not Night: It's Space" arrives from considering the Earths relationship to the cosmos. Our name acknowledges the Capernican understanding that day and night are conditions particular to planet Earth and its rotation around the sun, so what we perceive as night, is really just earth being exposed to its true relationship to the ever present infinity of space. When we consider night, were refe
rencing a finite earthly condition, what we call space is an infinite condition with its own story and paradigms limitless.
As a Thelemite I enjoyed this story and the idea behind the name contributed by our drummer, I immediately thought of what is called the "Good News" the new age declared by Aleister Crowley in 1904, embarking the New Aeon of the Crowned and Conquering Child.
rencing a finite earthly condition, what we call space is an infinite condition with its own story and paradigms limitless.
As a Thelemite I enjoyed this story and the idea behind the name contributed by our drummer, I immediately thought of what is called the "Good News" the new age declared by Aleister Crowley in 1904, embarking the New Aeon of the Crowned and Conquering Child.
". . .the crowned and conquering child, who dieth not, nor is reborn, but goeth radiant ever upon His Way. Even so goeth the Sun: for as it is now known that night is but the shadow of the Earth, so Death is but the shadow of the Body, that veileth his Light from its bearer."
- (Heart of the Master - Aleister Crowley)
Mr.Crowleys Capernican assertion that although our bodies are given to us by and share the condition of Earths cycles of death and birth, our Iam-ness is also given to us by the ever burning Eternal sun, whom we must also share some eternal condition with. The declaration of the New Aeon was an upgrade in consciousnesses subject and object relativity and the created new gnosis informed by the scientific and spiritual knowledge available at his time. Carl Jung who coined the term Synchronicity as a "meaningful coincidence" beleived that the synchronous aspect of life reveals that subject and object are interdependent and thus truely can only exist as one thing, a self referencing unity. .
I also noticed some Thelemic synchronicity with our band name in the "Vision and the Voice" by Aleister Crowley.
"the veil of the Aethyr is like the veil of night, dark azure, full of countless stars. And because the veil is infinite, at first one seeth not the winged globe of the sun that burneth in the centre thereof. Profound peace filleth me, — beyond ecstasy, beyond thought, beyond being itself, IAIDA. (This word means "I am", but in a sense entirely beyond being.)"...(continues)
We also happen to have a song called Iamness, featuring sounds and quotes from some thinkers we are inspired by.
We also happen to have a song called Iamness, featuring sounds and quotes from some thinkers we are inspired by.
"Yes; there is peace. There is no tendency of any sort, much less any observation or feeling or impression. There is only a faint consciousness, like the scent of jasmine.
The body of the Seer is rested in a waking sleep that is deeper than sleep, and his mind is still; he seems like a well in the desert, shaded by windless palms.
And it is night; and because the night is the whole night of space, and not the partial night of earth, there is no thought of dawn. . " (Liber 418 - Aleister Crowley)
I would also later find out that the totally random drummer I connected with in New Paltz actually vacationed in Florida with my cousin for two weeks something like 8 years before we ever met and formed a band. It turned out that they met because they were the boyfriends of two sisters, whom would eventually invite their partners on said vacation. Later my bandmate would reconnect with my cousin and reminisce about their trip and the trippy connection they both have to eachother again through myself and our band.
One of the first songs we wrote is a song called VITRIOL. Which is an anagram for "Visita Interiore Tierre Rectificando Invienes Occultim Lapidem". Visit the interior parts of the Earth, rectify your energy there, and there you will find the Hidden Stone(of the Philosophers)". This Stone of the Philosophers has been said to be symbolized by a Rainbow Stone. VITRIOL basically is code for look inside yourself and you will find the key to your own happiness and wisdom. VITRIOL has also been referred to as the Acid that dissolves all, as well as the Elixir of Life, and is also analagous to the union acheived through the Alchemical Marriage and the process that allows for the Elixir that is Ayauasca to be brewed.
One of the first songs we wrote is a song called VITRIOL. Which is an anagram for "Visita Interiore Tierre Rectificando Invienes Occultim Lapidem". Visit the interior parts of the Earth, rectify your energy there, and there you will find the Hidden Stone(of the Philosophers)". This Stone of the Philosophers has been said to be symbolized by a Rainbow Stone. VITRIOL basically is code for look inside yourself and you will find the key to your own happiness and wisdom. VITRIOL has also been referred to as the Acid that dissolves all, as well as the Elixir of Life, and is also analagous to the union acheived through the Alchemical Marriage and the process that allows for the Elixir that is Ayauasca to be brewed.
It was in Summer 2010 that I would end up traveling to Winnipeg to share the Summer Solstice and a few Cups of Ayauasca aka Vitriol with my dear g8or buddies Jake and Jim aka @Seallion and @Syncwinnipeg. My experience in Winnipeg was truely impactful and absolutely infused my life with energy an inspiration that I still feel to this day, and was chanelled to create our first EP "East of the Sun, West of the Moon".
We had some beautiful Synchronicity in gathering artwork for our first record. We would end up coming across the rustic and mystical artwork of Travis Lawrence of Infinity Prints. He drew up an image of his choosing based on our music and delivered to us a rendition of the Alchemical Marriage of the King and Queen. Being interested in the Tarot and having much of my Sync work focused on the Rainbow Bridge and the 14th Tarot Trump Art, I was certainly satisfied with this cover design. Note below the word Latin anagram for Vitriol is spelled out on a Goleden Egg that is also a rainbow arch around the Moon Goddess Diana.
Here we can see the Art Tarot Trump, symbolizing the Alchemy of Masculine and Feminine, Heaven and Earth, Spirit and Matter. This Trump/Path connects the Spheres of the Sun and Moon on the Tree of Life, and represents the consummation of the Achemical Marriage pictured in its Zodiacal opposite, Gemini-The Lovers. The Alchemical Egg featuring VITRIOL as a Rainbw, perfect. We were very satisfied by how the alchemical characters on our cover art synced with our Sun and Moon themed album, and for me was a perfect Sync with the Marriage of King Ayauasca and Queen Chacruna which produces the healing Vitriol Elixir brew shared by Shamans. This was also synchronistic because on our album we featured a sample from one of the Icaros of @Syncwinnipegs teacher Juan Flores, featured in Jims NOSIS documentary.
Juan Flores, the peruvian Shaman and teacher of our good buddy Jim. Juan is a big part of Jims documentary NOSIS and is also featured at the end of the It's Not Night: It's Space track above called "Iamness". Juan has explained that Ayauasca is an Alchemical Marriage as well.
Ayauasqueros Juan Flores and Jim Sanders. During my time in Winnipeg Jim performed two beautiful Ayahuasca ceremonies with me, he is a gifted natural Shaman and a beautiful singer.
For the back cover we had an even more Synchronistic contribution by our artist Travis. This was another alchemical peice, that of the Alchemical Egg, chosen by Travis without any infuence from us.
Travis had no idea that at one point in our writing period before our first EP I had an interesting Salvia experience-wherein I actually spoke with the character on my Aquarius Tarot card, the space goddess herself- Nuit. The card became a window into the psychedelic spiritual plane of reality, and suddenly I realized that she was speaking to me without words, Nuit would beckon me to create something beautiful, to celebrate her joy and to share it with others. I replied "I will bring back friends!".
At the time I was working on painting a foot tall sized Easter Egg, covering it with prayers and symbols from different wisdom traditions. I wanted to make this Egg something of a Talisman, a symbol for the universal current. Upon sharing my Nuit experience with my drummer, he thought, "maybe you should finish that Egg?"
At the time I was working on painting a foot tall sized Easter Egg, covering it with prayers and symbols from different wisdom traditions. I wanted to make this Egg something of a Talisman, a symbol for the universal current. Upon sharing my Nuit experience with my drummer, he thought, "maybe you should finish that Egg?"
I did finish the Egg, and we found it a grounding and proper center-peice for our practices and live shows. This Egg sorta became a symbol to us of our receptivity and dedication to the music that we receive from "parts unknown". The picture of it above is a shot of it accompanying us in the Studio for "East of the Sun & West of the Moon".
The Moon, the Egg, Vitriol, the Rainbow, were all swirling into our narrative quite naturally.Which brings us to our 2nd interesting Sync node in our story. The birth of our song Moon Goose.
We chronicled the Sync of having written a song called moon-goose and some of the strange coincidences that followed thereafter in the post "Momma Goose is on the Loose". Where we explored how INNIS was stargazing one night and noticed a large cloud near the Moon shaped like a Goose. A great song was birthed that night and we decided to honor this Moon Goose cloud spirit through our song. Starting that day a long ongoing string of Goose synchronicities did ensue.
When we walked out back we were both caught by the beutiful Crescent Moon, it was in a vertical position reminding me of a Horn, and was touched by the tail end of a Cloud. Looking at the Cloud I realized that this cloud looked like an amazingly detailed Goose taking flight, seemingly flying away from the Moon. We joked, its the Moon-Goose! and had a good laugh over it, deciding to title our latest song from sundown "MoonGoose".
I went to bed and the next Day I woke up and got myself some breakfast at the main street Bistro in New Paltz. I happened to unconsciously sit beneath a painting of a Goose being pulled over title "Your Goose is Cooked".
Our drummer mike happend to have a cool statue of a Chinese wise man, one who guards the Peaches of Immortalithy.
When we walked out back we were both caught by the beutiful Crescent Moon, it was in a vertical position reminding me of a Horn, and was touched by the tail end of a Cloud. Looking at the Cloud I realized that this cloud looked like an amazingly detailed Goose taking flight, seemingly flying away from the Moon. We joked, its the Moon-Goose! and had a good laugh over it, deciding to title our latest song from sundown "MoonGoose".
I went to bed and the next Day I woke up and got myself some breakfast at the main street Bistro in New Paltz. I happened to unconsciously sit beneath a painting of a Goose being pulled over title "Your Goose is Cooked".
Later the next day I showed this to my bandmate and he was amazed to see the cop car as when he left my house the night we created MoonGoose he was pulled over and harassed by the Police, he was straight and sober and they accused him of being high, allergenic, and having watery eyes, while shining lights in his eyes and etc. We shared a jolly laugh over how silly the Goose and cop and suspected stoneyness entrained.
To my further Amazement later that night I decided to have a look at Goose September 2010 on Google to see what the collective metabrain had to offer about the Goose in 2010. As it turns out just a few days before MoonGoose was written, on August 30th 2010 Glenn Beck had a Synchromystic Contact event with Geese at the Lincoln Memorial which was modeled by the architect after the Roman Temple of Zues who was associated with the Planet Jupiter. Memorial in Washington DC on Martin Luther Kings " I have a Dream" Speech anniversary.
This was wacky and strange, stranger was that Beck supposedly wanted to have Jets flyby in a V shape over as the Ceremonies began, he couldnt get permission. But what did happen was as the Ceremony began a flying V of Geese did a flyover, bringing Glenn Beck into a Synchromystic talk about how "This is No Coincidence! These are Gods Geese!". Steven Colbert caught wind of this and on September 7th, just 5 days before I saw the MoonGoose and made his own special on the Goose as a messenger/Prophet of God. Th this beleif is already held by Chinese mythology, which I will get into after sharing Colberts Goose Special.
This was wacky and strange, stranger was that Beck supposedly wanted to have Jets flyby in a V shape over as the Ceremonies began, he couldnt get permission. But what did happen was as the Ceremony began a flying V of Geese did a flyover, bringing Glenn Beck into a Synchromystic talk about how "This is No Coincidence! These are Gods Geese!". Steven Colbert caught wind of this and on September 7th, just 5 days before I saw the MoonGoose and made his own special on the Goose as a messenger/Prophet of God. Th this beleif is already held by Chinese mythology, which I will get into after sharing Colberts Goose Special.
So remembered recently also that I had been excited about the Equinox because Jupiter the Giant Orange Planet is its closest to Earth and thus Brightest in 47 years. This makes me happy because the Film "2010 The Year we Make Contact" features the Planet Jupiter becoming a 2nd Sun for Earth in the year 2010, this becoming a symbol of galactic peace and unity for the people of Earth. This also tickled my sync sensors because I had been entraining with how PEAChEs contains PEACE, and enjoyed how sweetness and Peace go together very well. Also tying this together better is that Duane Allman of the Allman Brothers Band said when asked about his stance on Revolution quote "There ain't no revolution, only evolution, but every time I'm in Georgia I 'eat a Peach' for Peace."- Duane Allman
We can see the Moon+Goose on the Empress Tarot card, the card being the Object of Aleister Crowleys Poem "Peaches". This great bird is considered a Pelican according to Crowley, I see more of a Goose though, interestingly Crowley also wrote a Kabbalistic translation of Mother Goose. But here we see the Queen of the Peaches, the Underwater Empress on the Venus planetary Card. The beutiful thing about this card is that it is also one of the Major 22 Tarot cards attributed Hebrew letters, of which this card is given Daleth translating to DOOR. Crowley calls this card "The Door To Heaven" and "Heavens Gate". The Goose is the Peach is the Queen is the Door to Heaven.
I also recently read a Tweet from Jim Sanders @Syncwinnipeg on Twitter, reminding me that The Equinox (as I write this we are now in Libra but this started in Virgo) is not only the week of the most Giantness of Jupiter the Peach in 47 years but that it was also World Peace Day on the very next day September 21st! So we have Giant Peach Jupiter and World Peach Day, and as mentioned above to connect the Goose to the Peach its noted that in Ancient Chinese Mythology Geese are the Birds of "The Queen of the Immortal Peaches". Connecting our Glen Beck "Restoring Honor" God Geese Flyover narrative with the Equinox Giant Peach/MoonGoose narrative properly.
It doesnt stop there, on World Peace day (or World PEACH Day), a plane Emergenct Landed on Highway I-85 in Georgia. Georgia being home of the Peaches and contextually connected to Peace and Peaches by Duane Allmans Quote " I eat a Peach for Peace every time Im In Georgia".
"Kathleen Bergen with the Federal Aviation Administration said Matthew Conway was flying his six-passenger 1996 Piper Saratoga to Peachtree-DeKalb Airport shortly before 5 p.m. Monday when the engine failed over Interstate 85, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution reported Tuesday."
It doesnt stop there, on World Peace day (or World PEACH Day), a plane Emergenct Landed on Highway I-85 in Georgia. Georgia being home of the Peaches and contextually connected to Peace and Peaches by Duane Allmans Quote " I eat a Peach for Peace every time Im In Georgia".
"Kathleen Bergen with the Federal Aviation Administration said Matthew Conway was flying his six-passenger 1996 Piper Saratoga to Peachtree-DeKalb Airport shortly before 5 p.m. Monday when the engine failed over Interstate 85, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution reported Tuesday."
I wondered turning the statue over, what other Sync symbols might entrain with the Peaches of Eternity.
Sure enough I flipped the statue and it was stamped with the mark of Spirit, the Synchromystic 42.
I noticed the Goose Free Suny part first, and then caught the authors email, Malter42, another cool Sync wink.
The Queen Mother of the WestIn The Journey to the West, an important Medieval Chinese story, the Queen Mother of the West, tends the orchard where the Immortal Peaches grow." She is depicted surrounded by either flying winged-people or Geese.
· In Ancient Egypt as well as in Ancient China the Goose was considered a messenger between Heaven and Earth.
· In the Roman empire, the Goose was the sacred animal of Juno(wife of Jupiter!), a goddess of light, marriage and childbirth, who was later considered adviser and protectress of the Roman people.- http://www.sevenstarshiatsu.com.au/taichi/goose.html
( from blog post "Momma Goose is on the Loose")
We also explored how during the time of writing Moon Goose, we were inspired by the Giant Peach/Peace of Jupiter, which brings to mind Crowleys Poem about the Goddess, also known as the Empress of the Tarot, and Babalon. His poem about the Great Mother is called "Peaches".
Crowleys version of the Empress tarot card even appears to feature a Goose. It is likely a Swan which is a more common symbol of femininity, yet we can also think of the bird as Mother Goose, further entraining with The Great Mother/Babalon.
Here we can see how a modern Thoth tarot deck translation has the The Empress Tarot card(III), the Goddess, and a Swan(almost a Goose), the Great Mother, also known as the Scarlet Woman, Babalon, and Mother Goose(below). The Empress' hebrew letter is Daleth meaning Door. The Great Mother is the Door to Heaven.
The Empress, Trump number III= Mother Goose
A beautiful Tarological confirmation of the connection between the Goose, and the Great Mother. The Moon is the archetypal symbol of the Divine feminine, the Mother, and is recongnized as such by cultures and traditions spanning across time. The Peach
Continuing along with the Peach being "The Empress/Daleth/Door To Heaven, we can see In the film James and the Giant Peach, James approaches the Peach as a real time human being in the physical world, and upon entering the peaches heavens gate, which strongly looks like a birth canal and resonates the Yoni(as it is the Peach) he is brought into the world of Spirit.
As Jim Sanders pointed out on Twitter, climbing into the Giant Peachs hole or Heavens Gate which shows a darker deeper red/orange we can see how the Giant Peach resonates with Jupiter, the Largest planet in the Solar System that is Orange like a Peach, and has a large Red Spot on it. Magickally the Jupiter Peach transforms the Physical world into a world of living spirits and creatures. Speaking of the Giant Peach, this is very pertinant right now because Jupiter is at its closest to Earth in 47 years so it is also the biggest and brightest it will be, making it a Giant Peach! Notice the Yoni/Peach Hole/Heavens Gate of Jupiters Red Spot.
Another really fun sync was to find out it just so happens that a band called Moongoose was formed in recent years.
Strangely MoonGoose is Ex-Members of the band SPACE
How weird is that? MoonGoose is ex Members of the band SPACE
Mother Goose/Mama Space seems to be calling out through our music and the related context.
To continue this theme of how we resonate with and attract the symbols of the cosmic feminine.
In 2011 we bought ourselves a used Church Van. To honor its previous incarnation we decided to make our van the "Church of our Lady of Space" shuttle, for fun. We dont really have a church, but hey if you love Space to your in it.
Now I mentioned I'm a Thelemite but im presently I'm not one with the kinda cash to spend on custom liscence plates, but as synchronicity would have it, the number of the Great Mother Goddess, 777, ended up on our liscense plate quite accordingly. I like how FST is kinda like fast too.
In the Astron Argon, or A.'.A.'., Aleister Crowleys initiatory system and fraternal order of which I am a member, 777 is recognized as the number of the Great Mother Goddess Babalon. Who is identified with all things divine feminine, the fertile earth, and the womb of space, and really every-thing..
" BABALON, as the Great Mother, represents MATTER, a word which is derived from the Latin word for Mother. She is the physical mother of each of us, the one who provided us with material flesh to clothe our naked spirits; She is the Archetypal Mother, the Great Yoni, the Womb of all that lives through the flowing of Blood; She is the Great Sea, the Divine Blood itself which cloaks the World and which courses through our veins; and She is Mother Earth, the Womb of All Life that we know. - Sabazeus and Helena" - Thelemapedia Babalon
Babalon and the Starcup can be seen on this Tarot trump. I think we will see our culture resonate more and more with the great mother goddess as we attune to the cycles of Age change during this 2012 season. Note the Purple for later. The Green revolution and the movements for equality are clear signs that we are resonating with the Great Mother. What the bible sees as the end of the world by the return of the Mother of Abominations, many occultists see as the prophecy of the return of the Goddess tradition and the end of the Piscean age, not the whole world. We are also reconencting with Lunar/Feminine time through the Mayan Calendar interests peaked by this years mythic quality. The Beast on which Babalon rides is not the anti-christ, but the Solar force, the father god. 666 is the sum total of numbers on the Magick cube for the Sun, and is not anything dark at all in fact. Our band has always noted the fact that we play heavy and loud music, but it is not purely male agressive force music like heavy metal, we have very feminine finesse to our grooves and melodies. We'd like to think our music is just the right balance of energy, Yin and Yang, or Anima and Animus as Carl Jung would call it.
If we do our homework we can see that the return of the Lady in Red is not a bad thing at all, but just a reconnection and reharmonization with the Great Cosmic Feminine.
from http://worldtruth.tv
"And the woman was arrayed in purple and scarlet colour, and decked with gold and precious stones and pearls, having a golden cup in her hand full of abominations and filthiness of her fornication:
And upon her forehead was a name written, MYSTERY, BABYLON THE GREAT, THE MOTHER OF HARLOTS AND ABOMINATIONS OF THE EARTH."
And upon her forehead was a name written, MYSTERY, BABYLON THE GREAT, THE MOTHER OF HARLOTS AND ABOMINATIONS OF THE EARTH."
Revelation [17:4-17:5]
Heres some purple sync I've been noticing lately. The Purple sync actually started with a conversation between a friend and I about how sparkley purple would be rad for thevan, then I just saw it popping more an more.
Speaking of Babalon, whom is depicted as the Great Mother Goose/Goddess in the Empress Tarot Trump. Venus is in fact the planet given to this Tarot Card, Venus is Transiting in front of the Sun this week, thus we can now add Venus into this 2012 return of the Great Mother theme.
The Empress- The Tarot card of the Planet Venus(see her sheild) - The Mother Goddess.
Venus by Botticini, through her red hair and her association with the Goddess Cults of Greece we can also easily associate her with Babylon/Ishtar/Babalon the Scarlet Woman,.
"One of the goddesses associated with Babylonia was Ishtar, the most popular female deity of the Assyro-Babylonian pantheon and patron of the famous Ishtar Gate. She is the Akkadian counterpart to theSumerian Inanna and the cognate to the northwest Semitic goddess Astarte. The Greeks associated her with Aphrodite (Latin Venus), and sometimes Hera. Ishtar was worshipped as a Great Goddess of fertility and sexuality, but also of war and death, and the guardian of prostitutes. She was also called the Great Whore and sacred prostitution formed part of her cult or those of cognate goddesses. Many have associated Ishtar with the figure in the Book of Revelation of Babylon the Great, Mother of Harlots and Abominations."- Wiki Babalon
Venus jis making big news in this Summer of Age Change. Venus will be making its transit across the face of the Sun in just a few days. How cool is that, The Goddess Venus getting as much attention as the sun in the Heavens in 2012. I perceive a great Sync here, as we read above the return of the Scarlet Woman is not something to fear for some folks, many perceive Johns Revelations as a Gnostic Vision of the return of the Great Mother Goddess in humanities spirituality again.
Venus- The Scarlet Woman will be taking the stage this week as we see her Cross before the Sun. It is in this mythic year that many people beleive the end of the world as we know it could arrive, I find it interesting that Venus whom we can associate archetypically with the Goddess/the Scarlet Woman will be making her appearance about 6 months before the last day of the Mayan Calendar. Many say that the Earth is planning to purge itself of humanities messes through an onslaught of natural disasters in this year. I personally do not think this is the case necessarily, but I do beleive we are having a more conscious and dramatic affect on the world all the timed and are indeed learning how to relate to the Earth as a living being, as highlighted by the growing "Go Green" movement.
Venus on the Tree of Life is given the GREEN Sphere known as Victory.
Netzach is given the Planet Venus and the color Green on the Tree of Life. Netzach translates to Victory, Love, and Eternity among other things.
Venus/Aphrodite is seen below coming from oyster from the Sea.
The Great Mother, aka Babalon is also known as the Great Sea. The divine feminine energy is universally associated with the element of Water. I thought this poster for the 2012 film symbolizes perfectly the Waters of the Great Mother consuming symbols of Male Patriarchal power like the Obelisk/Phallus.
I perceive the return of the Great mother as the return to our conscious relationship to Gaia and the universe as a living breathing spirit within whom we are given our beingness. All of these symbols of death and destruction that attract to the idea of Mother Earths power are the result of our Egos being threatened by the understanding of natures power and our physical mortality.
Babalon astride the Beast by Gnostic Saint William Blake. She holds her iconic Symbol the Cup.
Wikipedia tells us further about the Great Mother
"She is considered to be a sacred whore because she denies no one, and yet she extracts a great price—the very blood of the adept and his ego-identity as an earthly individual. This aspect of Babalon is described further from the 12th Aethyr:
- "This is the Mystery of Babylon, the Mother of Abominations, and this is the mystery of her adulteries, for she hath yielded up herself to everything that liveth, and hath become a partaker in its mystery. And because she hath made her self the servant of each, therefore is she become the mistress of all. Not as yet canst thou comprehend her glory.
- Beautiful art thou, O Babylon, and desirable, for thou hast given thyself to everything that liveth, and thy weakness hath subdued their strength. For in that union thou didst understand. Therefore art thou called Understanding, O Babylon, Lady of the Night!"
The concept contained within this aspect of Babalon is that of the mystical ideal, the quest to become one with All through the annihilation of the earthly ego ("For as thy blood is mingled in the cup of BABALON, so is thine heart the universal heart." The blood spilling into the graal of Babalon is then used by her to "flood the world with Life and Beauty" (meaning to create Masters of the Temple that are "released" back into the world of men), symbolized by the Crimson Rose of 49 Petals." - Wikipedia Babalon
"And I believe in one Earth, the Mother of us all, and in one Womb wherein all men are begotten, and wherein they shall rest, Mystery of Mystery, in Her name BABALON."
- The Gnostic Mass by Aleister Crowley
I beleive we are experiencing what Carl Jung would call Enantiodromia. When particular forces in our psyche and culture pre-dominate for a period, there is naturally going to be a swing in the other direction. I personally beleive that the 2012 movement, and the Green revolution are results of this counter-swing from the Male dominated Patriarchal timeperiod of the past Aeon, wherein the Earth and the divine feminine are constantly denied in mans yearning for heaven. We now know, in these beautiful times that Heaven and Earth are one, as we are now learning in different ways to accept our Earthly responsibilities, those of Love, community, and an awareness of our place in this delicate ecosystem.
Just as we have gone through a golden age of materiality and ecological carelessness through enantiodromia we will also experience a golden age of spirituality and a refined relationship to our ecosystem.
We can even see an Enantiodromia in our cultures 2012 interest in timekeeping, moving away from the Solar/Male timekeeping methods and people are beginning to tap back into the Natural feminine rhythms of Mother Earth, Momma Moon and Lady Universe.Enantiodromia. Literally, "running counter to," referring to the emergence of the unconscious opposite in the course of time. This characteristic phenomenon practically always occurs when an extreme, one-sided tendency dominates conscious life; in time an equally powerful counterposition is built up, which first inhibits the conscious performance and subsequently breaks through the conscious control." - Carl Jung
The Rainbow Serpent and Mayan Moontime
Notice all the Venus/Aphrodite/Scarlet Woman resonating characters with Red Hair in this funny Venus Transit news report I caught on Reality Sandwich.
Venus is in fact the only planet whos planetary symbol can incorporate every Sphere on the Tree of Life.
Updated 6/4 - The Great Queen and Big Benben
On the same date that I was writing this post acknowledging a celebration of the divine feminine in 2012, and having just pointed out the 2012 poster featuring the Castration of the Obelisk by the Great Mother/Sea - it turns out that Great Britain has decided to rename Big BEN "The QUEEN Elizabeth Tower". BEN is a most important wink here because Obelisks are rooted in the Phallic symbol and.myth of the Benben. The Primordial Stone that rises from the Waters of Nu.
Queen Elizabeth is an Earthly resonator character of the Great Mother Goddess, and she has stamped her feminine energy on the phallice of Big BEN.
Interesting to me how Big Ben resonates with the Obelisk. I just posted this photo from the 2012 international poster the other day, having no idea that Great Mother Elizabeth was about to take over her own Phallice.
"Obelisks stood outside temples and represented the benben, the sacred sun symbol. They had small pyramids on top, which were often covered with gold. When the sun lit the pyramid, the god entered his temple. Two obelisks once stood at the Sun Temple at Heliopolis." - Pictures of Egypt
Aleister Crowley and many other teachers who understood the Life Force and Kundalini acknowledged that access to these forces was made possible through the union of two (seemingly)opposite energies. These two energies united create what we can call the Solar-Phallice. The active and erect energy expressed by the phallice is not a phenomenon limited to the male paradigm.
The Ace of Disks, Heaven and Earth as one. This symbol is considered a Solar Phallic Glyph and
contains both Solar an Lunar symbolism.
"This important sigil shows the symbol of the Sun and Moon united above two circles,
upon which are the numerals 666, which is the number of the Beast.
It is referredto as a 'solar phallic glyph', and was one of Crowley's signatures."
-Thelemic Glossary
Much Love yall - KevIndra
For more 2012 resonation with Revelations and Babalon see the last SyncWhole last post - Lady in Red


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Making connections
With the increased data rate of HD-SDI, 100m is pretty much the limit as losses over long cable runs became more critical and problems ensued using the existing creamy PSF 1/3 or PSF 1/2 coax cable, favoured by the BBC, that had its origins in composite analogue video studios.
Triax, optical and SMPTE 304M patchbays: SMPTE 304M patch cables cost £500 apiece – makes Thunderbolt cables seem like a bargain
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"Every joint in a digital cable adds about 30-40ft to the total length of the cable. So if you go through a patch field, you'll go through a BNC connector on to another connector then another – perhaps up to eight connectors in a patch field – which adds something like 200ft just by going through that patchfield. That's a problem. So if you have 100ft coming into there, you've already hit your 300ft [100m] limit. Yet in an OB truck, distances between everything are very short, so you don't have an issue cabling everything internally with [HD-SDI] video cable on BNCs."
CTV OB truck vision mixing area and in the distance the audio mix room
Interestingly, the problem isn't so much to do with the camera cabling: optical can run over several kilometres and Triax copper wiring varies, pushing it at around 1500m for HD but most prefer to work within 500m. The cabling headaches are all to do with HD-SDI video signals that are being distributed from the outside broadcast truck for monitoring elsewhere. For instance, to frame a superimposed shot, two different camera operators would need to see the vision mix coming from the truck for positioning – cameras even feature a dedicated return feed button for this purpose. Monitoring aside, each camera has its own camera control unit (CCU) – dedicated hardware made by the camera manufacturer. The CCU can talk to the camera, controlling its zoom, iris, levels and other functions remotely.
Typically, cameras will be set up with either triax or SMPTE 304M cabling. Triax cable is the industry standard for connecting digital cameras. It features a copper core and two separate outer braids – it's a signal combination enabling the picture, power and comms information to be conveyed to the camera control unit. That's fine for most scenarios and is cost-effective too. The alternative standard camera cable is the specialised SMPTE 304M standard connector that utilises fibre optic cabling which brings both a distance advantage and a high price. Clerke explains how it all works in a SMPTE scenario.
OB truck video matrix switcher
"The camera control unit lives in the truck and is connected by a SMPTE cable to the camera. At the back of the CCU there are BNCs and these are used to distribute [HD-SDI] video. Normally it goes into a matrix switcher so you can put video up on screen inside the truck and the mixer too. The truck matrix will usually be 64 x 64 or 128 x 128 and the camera input can be distributed anywhere, and a return feed goes back to the camera.
Aja FiDO 2r convertor handles fibre to HD-SDI
So if truck stays at back of the venue and the guy on the jib is on level 4 of the auditorium, he could be up to 600m from the truck in terms of cabling. We're never going to get that [HD-SDI] picture back from the truck to his camera on a bit of cable. Send it down fibre, convert it from fibre at the other end the last link into the camera and monitor itself will be 100m cable sitting on the floor."
Vision On
CCU remote control panel handles four cameras
Touching the joystick activates individual control
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That preparatory probing is crucial given that a range of voltages are used on different cameras and you could easily blow one up without this check. There are legacy cameras you can use with a CCU too, so it has to be pretty careful. Also, in some outside broadcast environments, having a camera cable with 180V running through it can present safety issues. For instance, covering sporting events such as golf can involve long lengths of cable across the course. One approach is to run fibre round the golf course and locally, generate the high voltage the camera needs and that fools the CCU into detecting that there's a camera on the end.


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