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Here at the frontier, the leaves fall like rain. Although my neighbors are all barbarians, there are still two cups at my table.
Ten thousand flowers in spring, the moon in autumn, a cool breeze in summer, snow in winter. If your mind isn't clouded by unnecessary things, this is the best season of your life.
~ Wu-men ~
Friday, May 30, 2014
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Tuesday, May 27, 2014
Lineage in Martial Arts
Kung Fu Tea, there was a very good article about lineage in martial arts. An excerpt is below. The full post may be read here.
Five Thoughts on Lineage, Legitimacy and Manipulation in the Traditional Chinese Martial ArtsPosted by benjudkins ⋅
Anyone who has done much reading on the history of the traditional Chinese martial arts will be very familiar with the idea of "lineage politics." Even the average practitioner, on either side of the Pacific, usually has more than a passing acquaintance with this unpleasant phenomenon. Disputes typically arise within styles as different students of the same teacher vie for seniority and legitimacy.
This competition can take many forms, ranging from the subtle exclusion of individuals from high profile projects to occasional outbursts of interpersonal violence. Very often this competition is carried out through competing "folk histories" in which different sides attempt to promote narratives that shape how the past is remembered. This use of rhetoric and memory as a tool to secure social dominance coincides closely with James C. Scott's findings on the use of folklore as a "weapon of the weak" in South East Asia.
One purpose of a "lineage" is to create the image of unwavering historical continuity over time. It denotes who inherits the family legacy as well as the responsibility for preserving the memory of the ancestors through the execution of certain rites. Few institutions seem more static and non-negotiable. Yet as generations of anthropologists have warned us, few social structures turn out to be quite as plastic and open to continual renegotiation as lineage genealogies.
I think that many students, when faced with a lineage dispute, simply want to "get to the bottom of it." They would like to know which side is "right" and which is a historical pretender or fraud. In the following essay I would like to encourage readers to take a step back and consider the structure of the actual social disputes that they are witnessing. These processes reveal a veritable goldmine of information about the nature of the traditional Chinese martial arts and how they are evolving over time.
Academically speaking, who is "right" is often much less interesting than how they go about framing and promoting their argument. The first question only tells us something about the history of an individual style, but the second points to a larger set of fundamental truths about culture. Actually appreciating what is at stake, and grasping how these issues are understood and debated, can be even more difficult for the average student than resolving the purely historical issues.
As the term "lineage politics" implies, these disputes are usually "political" in nature. By definition this sort of conflict is often subtle and hard to observe. The challenge is all the more insurmountable when the drama is being played out in a language and cultural system that are very different from one's own.
This is precisely what we see in the Chinese martial arts. A few lineage disputes are loud affairs that make the pages of popular magazines. But most are much more subtle attempts at appropriating a group's legitimacy. These attempts are sometimes highly symbolic and hence opaque to foreign observers. Western students can often sense some tension, or they might guess that something odd is happening, but we need a much more finely ground lens to actually see the structure of the dispute.
In 2003 Jeff Takacs published an intriguing study of the artificial kinship systems seen in the traditional Chinese martial arts which was intended to serve just such a purpose. His article, titled "A Case of Contagious Legitimacy: Kinship, Ritual and Manipulation in Chinese Martial Arts Societies" (Modern Asian Studies 37:4 885-917) begins by noting that most traditional hand combat schools organize themselves as an artificially created family unit. He asserts that while the bonds between members of the school are technically fictive, they can be as strong as those seen in any other kinship group.
This artificial structure is supported and reinforced through the adoption of certain simple, but socially powerful, rituals. While the correspondence between the ideal ancient Chinese family and most modern martial arts associations is not exact (an important point that we will return to later), they are close enough for these rituals to be easily transported. By creating a clear set of expectations about who has the responsibility for insuring that the proper rites are observed, these guidelines also denote who is entitled to inherit the master's martial reputation and legitimacy.
This is the actual difference between a "disciple" and a "student" in the traditional Chinese martial arts. I suspect that many readers might profit by going back and reviewing Takacs very clear discussion of this point. While a disciple may or may not inherit any special secret knowledge, he or she actually gains their status from where they stands within a larger ritual process. Once that process is done away with (say in modern theater schools or some of the more progressive hand combat styles to arise in the Republic period), the term quickly loses its theoretical moorings.
Takacs argues that while it might appear that a strict lineage structure creates transparency and limits the number of individuals who can "inherit the system," the very rituals that it is based on actually create opportunities for opposing factions within the clan to creatively nudge (or sometimes shove) history in one direction or another.
He illustrates these points by reviewing a seemingly innocuous stele raising ceremony held in honor of an important Bagua teacher in Northern Taiwan. While on the surface this ceremony looked entirely uncontroversial, and even somewhat bland, subtle manipulations of the language of ritual revealed that it was actually a successful attempt by an outside teacher to appropriate the martial legitimacy of an important regional master.
The entire case is fascinating and well worth reading. This article is easy to follow and relatively free of jargon. It's a nice example of traditional British Social Anthropology (in the tradition of Victor Turner) and the clarity that it can bring to our understanding of social structures. While his research focused on Taiwan's Bagua community, the article's conclusions are actually fairly portable and may help to illuminate puzzles in a great many arts. In the remainder of this essay I outline, and briefly discuss, five of the broader implications of this approach to understanding lineages for Chinese martial studies.
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Saturday, May 24, 2014
The Quality of Martial Arts Training, Not the Quantity
Mokuren Dojo found a very good article that dispels some of the myths surrounding the "10,000 hour rule" and and provides some guidance towards how to make the best use of your training time. An excerpt is below. The full article may be read here.
The secret to continued improvement, it turns out, isn't the amount of time invested but the quality of that time. It sounds simple and obvious enough, and yet so much of both our formal education and the informal ways in which we go about pursuing success in skill-based fields is built around the premise of sheer time investment. Instead, the factor Ericsson and other psychologists have identified as the main predictor of success is deliberate practice — persistent training to which you give your full concentration rather than just your time, often guided by a skilled expert, coach, or mentor. It's a qualitative difference in how you pay attention, not a quantitative measure of clocking in the hours. Goleman writes:
Debunking the Myth of the 10,000-Hours Rule: What It Actually Takes to Reach Genius-Level Excellenceby Maria Popova
How top-down attention, feedback loops, and daydreaming play into the science of success.
The question of what it takes to excel — to reach genius-level acumen at a chosen endeavor — has occupied psychologists for decades and philosophers for centuries. Groundbreaking research has pointed to "grit" as a better predictor of success than IQ, while psychologists have admonished against the dangers of slipping into autopilot in the quest for skill improvement. In recent years, one of the most persistent pop-psychology claims has been the myth of the "10,000-hour rule" — the idea that this is the amount of time one must invest in practice in order to reach meaningful success in any field. But in Focus: The Hidden Driver of Excellence (public library), celebrated psychologist and journalist Daniel Goleman, best-known for his influential 1995 book Emotional Intelligence, debunks the 10,000-hour mythology to reveal the more complex truth beneath the popular rule of thumb:
The "10,000-hour rule" — that this level of practice holds the secret to great success in any field — has become sacrosanct gospel, echoed on websites and recited as litany in high-performance workshops. The problem: it's only half true. If you are a duffer at golf, say, and make the same mistakes every time you try a certain swing or putt, 10,000 hours of practicing that error will not improve your game. You'll still be a duffer, albeit an older one.
No less an expert than Anders Ericsson, the Florida State University psychologist whose research on expertise spawned the 10,000-hour rule of thumb, told me, "You don't get benefits from mechanical repetition, but by adjusting your execution over and over to get closer to your goal."
"You have to tweak the system by pushing," he adds, "allowing for more errors at first as you increase your limits."
Hours and hours of practice are necessary for great performance, but not sufficient. How experts in any domain pay attention while practicing makes a crucial difference. For instance, in his much-cited study of violinists — the one that showed the top tier had practiced more than 10,000 hours — Ericsson found the experts did so with full concentration on improving a particular aspect of their performance that a master teacher identified.
Wednesday, May 21, 2014
The Dao De Jing, #51: Nurture
found here.Below is verse #51, Nurture.
Harmony nurtures them;
Nature shapes them;
Use completes them.
Each follows the Way and honours harmony,
Not by law,
But by being.
The Way bears, nurtures, shapes, completes,
Shelters, comforts, and makes a home for them.
Bearing without possessing,
Nurturing without taming,
Shaping without forcing,
This is harmony.
51. NurtureThe Way bears all things;
Harmony nurtures them;
Nature shapes them;
Use completes them.
Each follows the Way and honours harmony,
Not by law,
But by being.
The Way bears, nurtures, shapes, completes,
Shelters, comforts, and makes a home for them.
Bearing without possessing,
Nurturing without taming,
Shaping without forcing,
This is harmony.
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Sunday, May 18, 2014
Animal Styles in Chinese Martial Arts
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Acquiring "Dark Powers" in the Southern Mantis Tradition: D. S. Farrer Examines the role of animals in the Chinese martial arts.
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Introduction: Becoming Invulnerable in Southern Mantis Kung Fu
The traditional Chinese martial arts are rich in animal symbolism. Tigers, dragons, cranes, snakes and monkeys are common fixtures in the legends and folklore of these systems. Some styles are imitative in nature, while others invoke animal powers in more abstract and psychological ways. Nor is this a recent innovation. Animal symbolism has been a feature of both Chinese martial and medical practices since the Bronze Age. There is even a bit of a literature on this subject. See for instance Ma Lianzhen's 2010 article "From Ape Worship in Ancient China to Animal Imitation in Modern Competition Wushu" in the Journal of Chinese Martial Studies (Issue 2, 20-28).
Interpreting these stories, and tracing the ways in which they are borrowed, evolve and change can be a challenge. Rarely is there a single correct reading. Still, these legends hint at some of the issues that concerned martial artists in the late Qing dynasty, as well as illustrating the avenues by which this type of folklore was transmitted.
Recently I resolved to do a little research on the motif of the "crane fighting the snake." This image appears in a variety of arts stretched from Northern China to the islands of Indonesia. While there is an abundance of historically interesting sources, I felt that this project was lacking something. Why would martial artists of diverse geographic, linguistic and social backgrounds go to such lengths of spread these specific stories? Why did the same motifs appear so often? Were these stories simply a marker of cultural legitimacy, or did they convey something more to their intended audience?
The question is even more puzzling when one considers that a number of the southern Chinese schools that seem to have been most eager to adopt this motif do not really have much "imitative content." Wing Chun has traditionally drawn on the image of the crane, possibly borrowed from Fujianese White Crane Boxing. After the introduction of the Taiji legend of the "crane fighting a snake" to Guangdong Province in the early 20th century, the Wing Chun community quickly absorbed this new story into its ethos as well.
Yet compared to their more northern neighbors Wing Chun players do not spend much time "imitating," or even consciously invoking, the crane. That would be contradictory to the philosophical basis of the art. So what does it mean to "become like a crane" in this context? How can we understand this as either a training strategy or a cultural process?
As luck would have it D. S. Farrer has recently advanced his own framework for thinking about these very issues. This chapter, "Becoming-animal in the Chinese Martial Arts" (in Living Beings: Perspectives on Interspecies Engagements by Penelope Dransart (ed.) Bloomsbury 2013) provides us with exactly the tools that we need to start thinking about these questions in a more constructive way.
Farrer is no stranger to martial arts studies. In 2007 he earned his doctorate from the National University of Singapore. His research fits naturally within the emerging field of performance ethnography, and he currently teaches at the University of Guam where he is an associate professor.
In 2009 he released Shadows of the Prophet: Martial Arts and Sufi Mysticism (Springer). In 2011 he coedited the volume Martial Arts as Embodied Knowledge: Asian Traditions in a Transnational World (SUNY Press) with John Whalen-Bridge. Students of Chinese martial studies will find his own chapter "Coffee-Shop Gods: Chinese Martial Arts of the Singapore Diaspora" (which I have discussed here) to be particularly valuable.
In the current article Farrer draws on his extensive experience within the Southern Mantis (Chow Gar) clan to delve more deeply into the relationship between the Chinese martial arts and their seemingly totemic animals. Again, this is interesting precisely because Southern Mantis is not generally considered to be an "imitative" style, such as "drunken boxing" or any of the various schools of Monkey Kung Fu.
Instead he argues that martial artists seek to push the boundaries of the normal human body by engaging in a process of "becoming-animal" through their ascetic and mystical practices. Here "animals" are understood not as static objects but as verbs. They are agents of change and transformation. The process of "becoming" that he outlines mirrors some aspects of shamanistic practice.
Farrer draws from Eliade's seminal 1974 volume Shamanism: Archaic Techniques of Ecstasy. His thoughts on the subject of "becoming" are heavily informed by the writings of Deleuze and Guattari (2002). This leads him to the somewhat controversial conclusion that the "traditional Chinese martial arts are embodied Daoist practices, with tangki, Buddhist and Confucian influences, passed down from the ancestral masters and brought to life in the practice of current and future generations" (Farrer 2013, 146).
I myself am hesitant to totally agree with this statement if only because the Chinese martial arts have been many things to many people. In my own review of the subject I have come to suspect that popular ideas about Confucianism have probably played much more of a role in the formation of the southern styles than most people realize. Still, by the end of his chapter I found myself agreeing that this may be an accurate characterization of the quest to transcend that which is" merely human" within the Southern Mantis system. After going back and reviewing Eliade and few other sources on Shamanism, it does not take a great deal of imagination to see many of the parallels in mental and physical training that Farrer described.
Of course that makes one wonder how widely spread this pattern actually is. As Eliade himself pointed out in the opening pages of his 1974 work, Shamanism is a minority player in the religious landscapes of many of the societies in which it is found. It is a technical art drawn on by those with specific problems at an appropriate moment of crisis. Most of the time it coexists with other much larger religious and spiritual systems of practice.
As I have thought about Farrer's argument I have found myself wondering if there might not be a similar process at work in the world of the traditional martial arts. Do the various styles represent or attach themselves to different aspects of society? Are the students who voluntarily seek out this type of training and community in East London and Mongkok basically the same sorts of individuals who might seek a Shaman in other settings? In their personal struggles, do they perceive a "sickness of the soul?" Is this what drives them to "become-animal" in an attempt to restore a sense of balance and security in their own lives?
Again, it is very interesting to see this sort of a conversation unfolding around the beliefs and practices of Chow Gar students. This is not a branch of the martial arts that is generally thought of as being overly "internal" or "new age" in its cultural orientation. Rather Southern Mantis boxers are among the most dedicated proponents of "real world self-defense" that one is likely to find in the Chinese martial arts. It is fascinating to realize that these issues of "being" and "becoming" can exist not just in the more occult aspects of the "internal arts" (where most of us would look for them), but even in the most "practical" areas of the Chinese hand combat community.
If one can see the Shamanistic impulse here it might be worth taking another look at the question more generally. Further, students of the southern Chinese martial arts will appreciate this chapter for its clear and concise summary of the Chow Gar sect, including its history, training methods and goals. When read together with the works of Daniel Amos [1983, Marginality and the hero's art: Martial artists in Hong Kong and Guangzhou (Canton) [Dissertation]; 1997 "A Hong Kong Southern Praying Mantis Cult." Journal of Asian Martial Arts 6(4): 31-61; 1999. "Spirit Boxers in Hong Kong: Two Observers, Native and Foreign." Journal of Asian Martial Arts. 8 (4) pp.8-27] readers can begin to construct a much more accurate view of this area of Chinese martial culture.
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Thursday, May 15, 2014
Hidden Transmission in Martial Arts
Today we have another guest post by Jonathan Bluestein. Jonathan's guest posts have a habit of ending up on the all time favorite list.
This one is about the topic of transmission in the martial arts.
Hidden Transmission in the Martial Arts
There is a coach, and there is a teacher. A coach provides you with tools to success. A teacher passes unto you a system of thinking and doing for personal growth.
A teacher teaches, but his shadow also speaks. Have you ever heard the whisper of a teacher's shadow? It is thick, and resonates through your core with the might of an earthquake, though so elusive you may not notice.
A future You carries on a movement long ago taught, and then it strikes the unsuspecting onlooker, that your shadow is not truly yours. It fluctuates to the rhythm of another, and others that came before.
The Japanese call this Isshin Denshin (以心伝心) – a heart-to-heart transmission. A way shown without being described, a path drawn without being illustrated; a book of knowledge that contains not a single word.
Thus, the technique of martial teaching is Shamanic, unwieldy. Growing another's skin on top of yours. Such is the traditional method of apprenticeship.
It is often pondered why a lot may bend a knee to a master, yet few if any reach his status. Many a time, the answer is that skill is only absorbed by him who had been observant.
For how many a things can be verbally elucidated? There is a limit to what can be willfully given; and the rest, stolen property it ought to become, as have noted the clever T.T. Liang.
Then it remains, that by being the thief of another's spirit, we can borrow a pair of eyes with a vision of a thousand things which are beyond the colour spectrum of most men.
Unbeknownst to us, our progress is also an evolution in the assimilation of the mindset, mannerisms and character of he who shares the wisdom. For an intangible presence is manifested in every moment, and our ability to contain it largely affects long-term understandings.
A tone of voice, an expression of one's face, a trait of gait or the calmness of bearing. These and others are more than mere aspects of the personality. They are seamless stitches in the fabric of martial expression. To give heed by these attributes is the making of an astute investment. To embody them, truthfully and sincerely, is to be able to accept a full transmission.
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How to Prepare the Perfect Cup of Jasmine Scented Sencha-Style Green Tea. Be Zen...
"A woman is like a teabag. You never know how strong she is until she's dropped into hot water." -- Eleanor Roosevelt. It's not very relevant but I love this quote!
We are a family of tea drinkers. My father-in-law is addicted to black tea, specifically PG-tips. My husband prefers the lighter fare, especially green tea. Besides tasting great, green tea has some serious health benefits.
Tea consumption had its origin in China more than 4000 years ago. Green tea has been used as traditional medicine in areas such as China, Japan, India and Thailand to help everything from controlling bleeding and helping heal wounds to regulating body temperature, blood sugar and promoting digestion.
Why green tea?
According to Wikipedia, green tea consumption is associated with various health-promoting properties. For example, it has been shown to promote fat oxidation in humans at rest and to prevent obesity and improve insulin sensitivity in mice. Another study has shown that the main antioxidant polyphenol of green tea extract, EGCG, when fed to mice induced with Parkinson's and Alzheimer's disease, helped to protect brain cells from dying, as well as 'rescuing' already damaged neurons in the brain, a phenomenon called neurorescue or neurorestoration.
To learn more check out the full Wikipedia article entry on green tea.
I advise you to drink a Japanese-Style Sencha tea. You've probably noticed that is usually how your meal ends at a sushi place. Green is a nice clean palate cleanser.
What / Where to buy?
One of the keys to cooking great food is getting the best ingredients, and preparing the perfect cup of tea is no exception. In fact, since there are so few ingredients in a cup of tea, it's all the more important. I'm a big fan Tea Forte for their superior grade Sencha Jasmine Pearl green tea. I love their elegant pyramidal-shaped tea bags that evenly diffuses all the green tea essence in the water. It tastes great and has excellent visual appeal.
Another great option is Teavana or whatever neighborhood teashop you might have. They have tons of varieties of green teas (yes there is more than one) and many of the shops I've been to have a tea sample of the day so you can try new flavors whenever you go. You can also buy Tazo (Starbucks) tea, or for a more reasonable price the San Francisco based tea company Ten Ren Tea. They're all great options, and the most expensive one may not be the best for you.
How to make great green tea
Serving good tea is an art. I'm going to share with you how to prepare green tea "properly". To start with, always use filtered water. You don't want a chlorine taste. Heat up the water, but don't bring it to a full boil. No more than 160°F. The water should basically be bubbling a little and there should be some steam starting to rise whereas with black tea, you should reach a roaring boil.
Green tea will taste best when steeping times last for 1 to 2 minutes. Don't steep too long otherwise it will alter its flavor and might bring a bitter taste.
To add or not to add. I know I might get in trouble with tea lovers but I like to add a teaspoon of sugar cane or raw sugar in my green tea but never add any milk or cream. Anyways, I don't think there is a right or wrong way to appreciate green tea at its best wether you add a sweetener or not.
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The tea was served with some raw sugar and paired with homemade dark chocolate truffles. It's a delicious combo of antioxidants!


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This excellent cookbook starts out with a description of the
author's visit with her husband to Turkey.
Unusually, the first 77 pages give details of the trip, accompanied by
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Whether flying over the city of Coruscant or swimming to the underwater city of the Gungan, it's as if the screen extends back in space, rather than zooming up to slap you in the face. Which is fortunate as I have a kid who isn't the bravest when action scenes turn into "duck and cover" moments in 3D.
Since I had such a unique chance to visit Skywalker Ranch and tour the Letterman Digital Arts Center in the Presidio, I wanted to share some of my favorite moments from the weekend with you Star Wars devotees:
-Those lightsaber toys your kids have? Yeah, they can whack the heck out of them. They are pretty tough, even when fighting a Jedi master like ObiShawn.
-And speaking of games, if our sneak peek of Star Wars Kinect is any indication, it's going to be a big deal when it's released later this year: Very active, very fun and tons to do. And, yup, there is a 3D feature. Expect to read more about it on Cool Mom Tech.
-Oh, poor Jar Jar Binks. A fan made George Lucas a huge, "life sized"
model of Jar Jar Binks in carbonite, probably as a sign of how he feels
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Porshyne arrive back in Brighton fresh from a string of UK dates and some time in the studio, InTechnicolour make their live debut following the release of their first single 'Lend Me A Crushed Ear' and Mechanical Monkey complete what is set to be a fantastic a line-up.
Porshyne recently announced they have entered the studio to record their highly anticipated debut EP. The band have been swimming around the depths of Brighton's eccentric music scene for the past couple of years, previously headlining BLEACH for Small Pond's #1 show about 18 months ago. In the time since then they have released four videos for Hubris, Locked In Residue and Warp. Now they rightfully return to the summit of Small Pond's #14, bringing with them premieres to new material. For anybody who has been fortunate enough to catch this group of five exceptionally talented musicians previously, you know exactly the colossal sound they can produce. There is a ton of hype that has landed upon the shoulders of this group following their announcement of new material, we for certain are excited. Get down to The Prince Albert this Thursday to get your senses ready for what will prevail.
InTechnicolor, a local 'supergroup' as you will. Formed between members of some of Brighton's finest groups – The Psychics House Band, Porshyne, Calico and Delta Sleep make their debut appearance with the gig on Thursday. They have recently dropped the heavier than lead single 'Lend Me A Crushed Ear' which has earnt spins on Totally Radio and MetalSucks.net. The single has also being plugged on the other side of the pond with America's 'Decibel Magazine' giving it the sacred thumbs up.
Mechanical Monkey open the night, hailing from Brighton via Ashford, this math-rock band appear to have largely bubbled gently below the surface of the past year. Small Pond have done the scene a favour now, they have placed them on a busy bill and heck, do Mechanical Monkey deserve the spot. After never catching these before, we sure as hell can't wait. Check out 'Capiche', adored by the likes of Huw Stephens, it certainly is worth your time.
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"Clinton, at 67, is far older than most first-time grandmothers in the United States, whose average age hovers around 50," the article notes.
Part of this cohort's grandmotherly concern for posterity may have to do with its shared experience of parenthood itself, says Laurel Elder, a professor of political science at Hartwick College who, along with Steven Greene at North Carolina State University, has published the only study of how being a mom affects choices at the ballot box.
"We've found very consistent motherhood effects," she told me. "Even when you're controlling for other variables, motherhood predicts more liberal attitudes. Being a mom makes you more supportive on government spending on education and daycare and on a whole range of social-welfare issues: spending on the elderly, spending on the poor, overall government services."
(Interesting. Not that I've done any academic studies, but in my own experience, many of the non-moms I know tend to hold more liberal values, while the moms are more conservative/traditional. As non-mothers, whether by choice or otherwise, we are certainly not following a traditional life pattern.)
Anyway -- as a late boomer/early Gen Xer, this article rubbed a few sore spots with me. First, the reminder (as if I needed another one) that not only did I never get to be a mom (let alone a soccer mom) -- that "shared experience of parenthood" is not something I can claim as mine -- I won't ever get to be a grandmother, either. (Not that I needed a reminder: a growing number of my friends & cousins have become grandmothers in recent years, filling my Facebook feed with adorable photos and gushing posts about how great it is to be a grandparent.)(Infertility: the gift that just keeps on giving... :p )
(To rub salt in the wounds -- I'll be attending a baby shower this weekend :p -- the one I went shopping for awhile back. The mom-to-be is the daughter of one of dh's cousins. Her older sister already has three children under the age of 5. The grandparents are younger than dh & me. Oy.)
Two, as neither a Soccer Mom nor a Boomer Granny, I clearly don't have the political clout that my mommy/grandma friends have had, and continue to have. When politicians babble on about "family values" and "helping hard-working families," I know they are not referring to me & dh.
And yet, childless women alone are a large & growing segment of the population (& voter pool), with needs and interests that are not always the same as those of parents. But you would never know it when it comes to policymaking. Several of us were commiserating with Bent Not Broken recently about the lack of tax breaks available to non-parents. (There are a number of deductions that Canadian parents can claim -- including (believe it or not) for enrolling children in sports or arts-related activities.) And I've been horrified to read that, historically, childless adults have not been eligible for coverage under Medicaid in the United States. (Another reason I am glad to be Canadian...!)
Jody Day of Gateway Women is part of a new group in the United Kingdom that is working to bring attention to the growing number of childless -- and aging -- adults, and (hopefully) affect social policy changes there. Governments in the UK (& I daresay North America too) seem to assume that seniors will have children and other family members to fill the gaps in community care -- which is not necessarily true, even for parents, whose children may be dead, estranged, living far away, or frantically juggling children, career and other things, on top of eldercare duties.
I don't know what the answer is -- but if someone has taken the trouble to do a study on how being a mom affects ballot box choices, I would love to see something similar done to bring attention to non-moms (and non-dads) as voters. (Melanie Notkin of Savvy Auntie has done some research on "The Power of the PANK (Professional Aunt, No Kids)", identifying non-moms as a sizeable group that has yet to be recognized or tapped by marketers.)


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Samsung Galaxy On5, the best budget smartphone for multitasking finally launched in India along with Samsung Galaxy On7. Samsung Galaxy On5 with 5"-inch HD display, 8-MP+5-MP Camera is available online through Flipkart priced at Rs 8,990 in Black and Gold colour option while Samsung Galaxy On7 is available at Rs 10,990. It's rivals Lenovo A6000 Plus, Lenovo A7000 and Xiaomi Redmi 2.
The all new Samsung Galaxy On5 supports 4G LTE, NFC, Dual-SIM, Micro Sim with 3G, Wi-Fi 802.11 b/g/n, Micro-USB, A-GPS, Bluetooth 4.0, 3.5mm audio jack, GPS, Glonass, and FM radio comes with a bigger 5-inch (720×1280 pixels) HD TFT display promising crystal clear wide-angle view perfect for your multi-tasking.
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Samsung Galaxy On5 runs on Android 5.1 Lollipop OS powered by a 1.3GHz quad-core Qualcomm Snapdragon 410 processor with 1.5GB RAM which offers you superior gaming environment and allows to run your apps smoothly while 8GB internal memory and 128GB external memory offers you enough space to store your favorite music, video, games and apps.
For shooting Samsung Galaxy On5 sporting a 8-MP Primary autofocus camera with LED flash and CMOS Sensor for low light photography and a 5-MP front-facing camera for clicking selfies and video calling packed with a 2600mAh battery measures 142.3×72.1×8.5mm and weight 149gm.
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My rating: 5 of 5 stars
Lately, I just can't get enough Snicket!
I enjoyed this interjection into the All the Wrong Questions series. This is a collection of 13 short mysteries that Snicket solves while working on his "big investigation" in the town of Stain'd by the Sea. In addition to many of the regular characters and Snicket associates readers know from the series, many new strange and suspicious characters from the seemingly lifeless town are introduced in these stories.
Filled with all the quirky humour and excellent quotable quotes I've come to expect from Lemony in this series. I totally loved it!
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We are sharing top methods to get free twitter followers easily. Today on the special demand of Qd Tricks visitors, we are sharing this most demanding twitter tricks to get free twitter followers.
To define Twitter in simple terms, it is a renowned social networking website which currently has more than one billion users. Yes! Like the other social networking sites such as Facebook, Pinterest, G+, etc.; Twitter is one such social networking sites that can keep you hooked 24/7. Today, the internet is full with the spam activity that is why the competition is very high. You have to be very smart if you want to achieve better results, especially from the social networking websites like Twitter.
Twitter is famous for two basic things:
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The primary reason why people stay on Twitter for a long time is to find means of expanding their Twitter followers, so that they can publicize their tweets to a huge crowd of audiences. So, if you are on the lookout of to get more twitter followers free without following, then reading this article will help you to sail through it.
Through this article – exclusive by Qd Tricks, you would learn some shiny twitter tricks to expand your twitter fans within a short period of time. So, the below given are some of the twitter tricks that can easily help you to know what audiences to target and how to attract a good number of followers. However, one must do, keep in mind that to get more twitter followers free is not as easy as a walk in the park.
- 1 Free Twitter Followers (Tricks)
- 2 Get Twitter Followers For Free (Tips)
- 2.1 Follow People & Get Followers
- 2.2 Use Picture for your Tweets
- 2.3 Tweet Constantly Even the Silly Things
- 2.4 Re-tweet the Tweets of other Users
- 2.5 Don't Spam Your Twitter Profile with Links
- 2.6 Do Share your Work on Twitter
- 2.7 Must Add your Twitter Follow Me Button to your Website
- 2.8 Twitter Search can be your Best Tool
- 2.9 Do Participate in Hot Topics
- 2.10 Write a Killer Bio for your Profile
- 2.11 Make your Website More and More Popular
- 2.12 It is All About Give and Take
- 2.13 Must Use #Hashtags
- 2.14 Use your Twitter Account in Back linking Process
- 2.15 Write Eye Catching Headlines
- 2.16 Promote your Twitter Account through Social Media Platforms
Free Twitter Followers (Tricks)
The following are some of the websites where one can get more twitter followers free:
Twimod is the best way to get more twitter followers free. All you have to do is just login using your Twitter account and just follow other users. This will help you to achieve mods and convert those mods into real fans. Now Twimod will only accept real profiles from their website. Every user profile should have a valid biography, picture and at least about hundred tweets and twenty five followers to get approved to their website network.
Twimod Features:
- Sign in with your Twitter profile in seconds
- Spam free user base
- Get only real Twitter followers
- You can get targeted Twitter Followers
- Easy dashboard to gain Twitter followers
- Get Twitter followers filtering by interests
500 Followers
Another great website to get twitter followers free and increase them is the 500Followers.com. To get Twitter followers for free, all you got to do is just go to the 500Followers.com and login by using your normal twitter account. Now you ought to follow some of their followers to get some quick points.
In case if you plan to follow some followers, then you would get some steady cash. The charge for following a single follower is five points. In addition, one can even get twenty bonus points on a daily basis. 500Followers is the best website to get more twitter followers free.
500 Followers Features:
- Powerful system to gain new followers
- Give 20 free credits everyday
- Credits are renewed at the end of the day
- Get real time followers
- VIP Membership
- Interest filtering feature
30 Followers
Another means to get twitter followers free is from the 30followers.com website. This website is quite similar to another twitter website called jetfollowers and you get about twenty free points, that is too on daily basis. Just imagine, you can easily spend the twenty points to get twenty twitter followers.
30 Followers Features:
- 20 free credits everyday
- Real followers
- Spam free filters
- Get targeted twitter followers
Jet Followers
This is one of the best websites to get more twitter followers free and you can easily get about twenty points on a daily basis and make sure to invest these twenty points in getting about twenty followers without doing any work.
Yes! It is quite simple and to get the free followers, one has to login in to the Jetfollowers.Com website with their twitter account. Jetfollowers is really a great answer for how to get twitter followers free.
300 Followers
This is a normal clone website of the jetfollowers. Here also, one can get more twitter followers free daily. They claim that their system will provide you daily 20 credits for free. You can get new followers with the free credits. You can easily login on this website with your twitter account directly. Visit the website and start getting more twitter followers free without following.
It is also one of the best site to get more twitter followers for free. It is just a substitute of another website called twiends and helps to improve the number of followers on Twitter. Here you can get addmefast points through various means. Plus you can simply invest those points to get more twitter followers. You can get real twitter followers for free with the help of this website.
Addmefast Features:
- Leaders in the field of Social Promotion
- Userfriendly interface
- Fast supports
- 500000 active users from 221 countries
- Several secure payment methods
This twiends is a follower exchange network – can help you to get more twitter followers free. You can follow other users, and to earn the seeds. Once you get seeds, you can invest them to improve the number of twitter followers. You can easily get a lot of Twitter followers on this website, but you would need seeds and even you may have to follow other people in order to get seeds.
The above given websites are some of the easiest and effective ones to get more twitter followers free. If you regularly use above websites then surely your twitter followers will be increased by 400 – 500 daily.
Get Twitter Followers For Free (Tips)
Let us have a look at some unique tips about how you can get more followers on your twitter account.
Follow People & Get Followers
This is a fact that only famous celebrities can get twitter followers without any hard work. If you are not that famous then best thing you can do is, follow other people and they will follow you back.
Just explore the profiles of famous people in your niche and then explore the users those are following these famous people. Just follow the followers and they will definitely follow you back.
Once you start getting followers it is totally up to you to be more attached with them. Do not let them go and give your best to attract more and more genuine followers for your Twitter profile. This is one of the best tip to get twitter followers for free 2019.
Use Picture for your Tweets
Web users feel more attracted towards posts with pictures. Try to involve relevant pictures to your tweet. It is a proven fact that tweets with pictures have more chances to get retweeted and retweet is the best way to get more and more followers on twitter.
Tweet Constantly Even the Silly Things
Yes, the key of getting more and exposure over Twitter world is updating your status constantly. Try to tweet something after every 1 hour.
I know it looks difficult to update your twitter account with some sophisticated tweets so, don't worry about that and tweet each and every thing you are doing like you are eating something, going somewhere of anything like that. This will really helps you to gain followers on twitter.
Re-tweet the Tweets of other Users
Twitter users just love when someone else retweet their tweet. This is a proven fact to get more followers on twitter.
Don't Spam Your Twitter Profile with Links
Twitter is one of the best micro blogging website and the best platform where you can share your website links but, please do not use Twitter only and only for your website promotions. Try to be more genuine Twitter user. Share and retweet the posts of other users. Twitter can provide you with the loads of traffic if you use in a way that is more meaningful. This will make your followers count and high & give you the answer of how to get twitter followers.
If you are contributing somewhere else then do share that work on your twitter account. This will help you to update your twitter account with quality content and your followers receive can more things to explore.
Must Add your Twitter Follow Me Button to your Website
It is must to consider thing that you should add your "Follow me" button on your website. In my SEO career, I found many websites where owners were having a twitter account but there was no "follow me" button to their official website.
If you are also making this mistake then please ignore this from now and add a "Follow me" button to your website so that your target audience can find you easily. And it will help you to get followers on twitter.
Twitter Search can be your Best Tool
Today, there are millions of webmasters those are receiving more traffic from their Twitter account rather than the Google search. This is because Twitter search is faster in indexing the feeds of it's users.
You can make the best from Twitter search by writing hot and trending news highlights for your users.
Do Participate in Hot Topics
Get involved in the topics, which are trending over twitter. Answer the questions, give your views and don't forget to use the hash tag in your tweet.
Write a Killer Bio for your Profile
Your bio is the first thing your future followers read about you. This bio can be one single point you can lose your follower. Try writing very simple and genuine looking bio for your profile.
Make your Website More and More Popular
Another trick for getting more twitter followers is making your website more and more popular. This will surely help you to get more target followers.
Internet users love to follow the owners those are sharing quality content to their website. Create quality content for your website (here you will find the best on page optimization techniques to write better content) and update your website regularly.
It is All About Give and Take
If you are expecting that, your followers Like, Retweet and Visit the links of your posts then you have to do the same.
Must click the links other Twitter users are sharing and must like and retweet their posts.
Using hash tags are the best way to get involved with the conversations you are tweeting about. You can easily make your reach to the target audience if you are using hash tags smartly.
Use your Twitter Account in Back linking Process
If you are working for creating backlinks for your official website then try to promote your twitter account as well.
You can share your twitter account on the websites where you found the options of social media platforms. This will help you in two ways first is, you can get a strong profile on that website and second is, your backlinks will look more genuine.
Write Eye Catching Headlines
Twitter is a micro blogging social website and you don't have much space to explore your thought. Best thing you can do is writing killer headlines for tweet.
People are just curious about reading controversial things. Be smart while choosing headlines for your tweets.
Promote your Twitter Account through Social Media Platforms
Link your twitter account on different social media websites so you can give more and more exposure to your twitter account. Like, you can link your twitter account with your Facebook account, YouTube account and many other platforms.
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