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Clay Regazzoni, the former motor racing driver who has died in a road accident aged 67, was one of the most admired competitors on the grand prix circuit in the 1970s.
Regazzoni raced in 132 grand prix, achieving five victories. A flamboyant driver who liked to play to the crowds, he was passionate about the sport; but above all it was the art of driving that consumed him — unlike his Ferrari teammate Niki Lauda, the ruthless will to win was not part of his make-up.
"I consider myself a good professional," Regazzoni once remarked. "If I have a big fault, it's that I am not ambitious enough. I drive for me, sure, but also for the team and the public."
Gianclaudio Giuseppe Regazzoni (always known as Clay) was an Italian-Swiss, born at Lugano on September 5 1939. He made his Formula One debut with the Ferrari team at the 1970 Dutch Grand Prix, in which he finished fourth. Later that year he won what was only his fifth race when he took the chequered flag in front of Jackie Stewart in the Italian Grand Prix at Monza. Despite competing in only eight races that season, he managed to finish third in the drivers' championship; he also won the Formula Two title.
Regazzoni left Ferrari for BRM in 1973, and in that year's South African Grand Prix he was involved in a crash in which his car burst into flames; he was pulled to safety by Mike Hailwood, who was awarded the George Medal.
In 1974 Regazzoni returned to Ferrari, finishing second in the championship (by only three points) to the Brazilian Emerson Fittipaldi. The following year Regazzoni again won the Italian Grand Prix for Ferrari; he helped Ferrari to the constructors' championships in 1975 and 1976, coming fifth in the drivers' table both years.
Regazzoni was not impressed when, at the end of 1976, he was replaced by Carlos Reutemann: "I never understood why [Enzo] Ferrari didn't speak clean with me. Before Monza he told me there would be no problem for 1977. That weekend I had offers from Brabham and McLaren, but said I was staying with Ferrari."
When Brabham — whose team owner Bernie Ecclestone had earlier offered him a good contract for 1977 — then offered him less than half the money they had previously held out, Regazzoni declined: "I got the next flight back to Switzerland. It wasn't the money that was so important. I like to race with nice people."
Instead, in 1977 and 1978 Regazzoni drove for Ensign and Shadow respectively, before joining Williams alongside the Australian Alan Jones in 1979. During that season he won the British Grand Prix at Silverstone, Frank Williams's first success in Formula One. After the race Regazzoni toasted his victory in orange juice, having been warned by Williams not to drink the champagne out of deference to the team's Saudi-Arabian sponsors.
Regazzoni's career came to a premature end in 1980 when the brakes on his Ensign failed during the American Grand Prix at Long Beach. He crashed into a concrete barrier, suffering serious spinal injuries; for the remainder of his life he was in a wheelchair.
In addition to his victories in the Italian (twice) and British Grand Prix, he won the German (1974) and American (1976) races. He also won the Swiss Grand Prix (a non-championship event) at Dijon in 1975.
For many years Regazzoni attempted to get certification to compete in racing cars modified with special hand controls.
He ran a driving school at the Vallelunga racing circuit in Rome at which a hand-control system enabling disabled people to drive road cars was adapted for racing purposes. He competed in off-road rallies (including the Paris-Dakar Rally) as well as in endurance sports car racing.
In the 1980s he published an autobiography, E' questione di cuore (It's a Matter of the Heart). Lattterly he had divided his time between Monaco and Lugano, and he did occasional work as a commentator for Swiss and Italian television channels.
He was philosophical about his disability, saying: "You see little children with cancer, and you feel ashamed — you've had years of good life which they will never have. I can't walk, but I can drive my Ferrari, I have my driving school for handicapped people, I can still go to races. I don't feel desperate any more."
Clay Regazzoni was killed on Friday, when his Chrysler Voyager was reported to have collided head-on with a lorry on the A1 motorway near Parma, in Italy.
By his wife, Maria Pia, Clay Regazzoni had a son and two daughters.


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More details are emerging following the tragic death of Lane Graves, a two-year-old boy who was killed by an alligator at Disney World in Orlando.
The toddler was snatched by an alligator along the shore of the Seven Seas Lagoon and found dead after a 15-hour search found his body. The cause of death was drowning and traumatic injuries.
Since this horrifying incident, more reports have emerged, hinting at the fact that Orlando's Disney World has a serious alligator problem.
First, residents at the posh Bora Bora suites have been found feeding the alligators that swim in the lagoon- which has obviously prompted more gators to turn up.
Disney employees have claimed they complained in the past about this, but that their concerns remained ignored.
"Disney knew these alligators had become desensitised to humans, as they had begun to associate guests with food, and did not act in a proactive manner," one of them told The Wrap.
But if that doesn't quite prove it, then maybe this video will:
A Disney employee was forced to fight off an alligator with a pole, literally just several feet away from the park's popular Splash Mountain.
The employees tries poking the reptile, to direct it back towards the water, but the animal appears to be determined to crawl out onto the land in the video published by Inside Edition.
#Disney installs fence along beach at the Grand Floridian after deadly gator attack: https://t.co/xiKQ2Y4siJ pic.twitter.com/1R1Qd4sKZy
— Ashley Carter (@AshleyLCarter1) June 18, 2016
TMZ reports that Disney are now applying temporary measures against the gators, which include fencing off the Seven Seas Lagoon and putting up signs.

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So currently I'm working on the Lagos Jazz Series Music Festival 2012, fantastic project by the way. It's great because not only do I work with a good team but its cool to be part of this Jazz movement featuring international acts like Fourplay featuring Bob James, Lura and more.
It's a breathe of fresh air for the music industry


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The current paper presents preliminary work towards the integration of the Fujisaki model into the VnVoice Vietnamese TTS system, based on a set of rules to control the F0 contour. A speech corpus consisting of 20 sentences was compiled. Each of the sentences can have various meanings depending on the tone associated with a monosyllabic keyword which it contains. The corpus with a total of 46 sentences was recorded by a female speaker whose voice had also been used in the speech corpus for VnVoice, and labeled at the syllabic level. Tone contrast perception results and naturalness comparisons show that the Fujisaki model works well in modeling F0 contour of Vietnamese tones.
Full Paper
Bibliographic reference. Nguyen, Dung Tien / Luong, Mai Chi / Vu, Bang Kim / Mixdorff, Hansjoerg / Ngo, Huy Hoang (2004): "Fujisaki model based F0 contours in vietnamese TTS", In INTERSPEECH-2004, 1429-1432.


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Johnny Carson mugs for the camera as he gets into Parnelli Jones' STP Turbine race car. Note the microphone to record audio for clips on the Tonight Show.
David Letterman co-owns Letterman Rahal Racing, with Bobby Rahal. As a team owner Letterman has had a lot of success in racing including a win at Indy with Buddy Rice driving in 2004. Johnny Carson, though, did something in racing that I'm sure Letterman wishes he got the chance to do. In September of 1967, Carson got to do a few hot laps at Indianapolis Motor Speedway in Parnelli Jones' STP Turbine Indy racer. That car had led the '67 Indy 500 for 171 laps, but a bearing failure consigned Jones to a 6th place finish.
Carson with STP chief Andy Granatelli
Carson's ride in the turbine car was a result of his relationship with STP boss Andy Granatelli. STP was a major sponsor of the Tonight Show and Granatelli, always a good interview, had been Carson's guest on the show a number of times. Perhaps the relationship had grown out of Granatelli's role at Studebaker. Carson was one of the first owners of the Avanti.
"I had been on his show about seven times and we'd talked about him driving one of my cars," Granatelli said. "He always liked daredevil challenges, so I talked him into running Indy in my car.
Parnelli Jones recalled Carson's Indy excursion on the occasion of the comedian's death in 2005
"Andy [Granatelli] and I took him around in the pace car. I was driving and Andy was in the backseat. After a couple of laps, while I was pointing out the proper groove, Johnny said, 'I got it, let me try it.' We switched seats and he took it around the first time. He did OK through the third turn and then the fourth turn, but going down the straightaway he was going too deep. When he didn't back off, I yelled at him and grabbed the steering wheel.
He was doing what nearly all laymen do when they get a chance to drive. They think all you have to do is stand on it all the way around. You can't do that in a race car, and you can't in a passenger car, either, but they all seem to think you can. He was no different.
"He was a quick learner. "I'd shook him up a little, but he did just what I told him. He gained a lot of respect for the race car. And I had a lot of respect for how he did. He did really well."
Contemporary photographs show Carson mugging for the camera as he got into the cockpit of the turbine car and posing with racers Mario Andretti, Rodger Ward and Parnelli. Video of Carson's Indy laps was included as an extra on a boxed set of Tonight Show DVDs.
Though not nearly as fast as Jones in the car, Carson's best lap averaged a respectable 138 mph after getting some pointers from Jones, Granatelli and Andretti. By comparison, it took a speed of at least 162 mph to qualify for the 500 that year. On the Tonight Show, Carson worked those pointers into one of his famous monologues:
Andretti asked Carson during the laps, "Now, you see where those tire skid marks go up into the wall?"
"Yes," Carson replied.
"That's NOT the groove!"
Donald Davidson, Indianapolis Motor Speedway historian said that Carson adapted quickly to the car and the track. "That doesn't seem that fast now, but it took 162 mph to make the race those days."
Granatelli was also impressed, though the STP Turbine was a relatively easy race car to drive at speed.
"The turbine ran so smooth that all you had to do was point it, but 138 was pretty darn impressive for a guy who had never driven a race car."
Granatelli remained in touch with Carson until the comic's death.
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Saturday, September 29, 2007
Yonkyo and yonkata
At this morning's aikido class the weather was perfect. Sunny, breezy, and cool. We threw open both ends of the dojo and got a lovely breeze across the mat.
I've had a kink in my low back for a few days, so we had a prolonged warmup, stretching, and kihon day. We worked on tegatana and hanasu a good bit. Patrick M. was doing especially good on his releases from his off hand. I've also had a hankering to be able to work some of the more advanced stuff, so we took to the ground with several minutes of the kneeling tekubiosae from Gokata (that's suwari shomenuchi yonkyo to you aikikai folks;-). The kneeling and the motion on the ground seemed to really stretch out my low back and helped it a lot. From there we moved on to standing Yonkata - the first seven techniques, alternately called shichihon no kuzushi. And I discovered something really cool in a moment of enlightenment (Usher will probably tell me that he's been saying this to me for years.)
The timing and offbalance in these seven techniques is varying systematically - they are not just seven random techniques grouped together. In the first two, tori must hit the paralllel offbalance right at uke's first footfall. The feeling is similar to the initial part of shomenate. On the next two, tori hits the parallel offbalance on uke's second footfall and projects uke away. On the next two, tori slips uke's third footfall and drops uke right there. And on the last one, tori is way too late for an otoshi so he gets the motion started with a perpendicular offbalance (guruma) and then follows uke around in a very large hanasu#1 motion. So, the systematic order of the thing is in the amount of delay between grab and projection. The delay is getting progressively larger with each pair of techniques, until on #7 tori is so far behind that the timing switches to a guruma action.
Friday, September 28, 2007
Mental judo for kids
Tonight at kid's judo we had all five back from last week. Three more of them had their AAU memberships and one more had a uniform, so I fugure these five will stick and be a good core group.
We warmed up with throttling on cue to the words hajime and matte. Then we did forward roll, face fall, left and right side fall, and back roll. They universally did better at forward rolls today. From here we continued warming up with the kds running continuous laps of running, skipping, hopping, laterals, and galloping as I sat on the side. On each lap I would pull one kid out and I'd do a teguruma to them so I could get them used to being spun through the air. Teguruma is also a great way to do assisted breakfalls with kids so that you can lower them into the right position and they can work on slapping the ground properly. I'll try to get a little film of this excellent exercise on the blog soon.After warming up we worked again this week on the kneeling kubinage into scarfhold and then played some combatives games, including kneeling knockdown (newaza randori) and standing pushing/pulling wars. Lots of fun.
At the end we worked on silent listening and you know what? the kid that had some challenges with some of the physical stuff did the best of any of them with the mental game. That was neat to see. I'm excited to be able to teach these kid's how to do a physical thing but also to be able to show them how to work their minds too. This is going to be fun.
Thursday, September 27, 2007
Oshitaoshi, kaitennage, and hikitaoshi
You know, Rob is one tough dude. He has spent a significant part of his time for the last 8-10 years lifting weights and working out. And what's worse, he's used to rolling with people who want to break his arms and choke him. He's comfortable in that environment. Tonight we mostly fought each other to a standstill, or to phrase it in 'bear' terminology, we took some good bites out of each other but nobody got eaten. I got him to submit once in a tateshihogatame (north-south hold) and once in something else (maybe tateshihogatame) and he got me once with a toehold which was really just a painful calf muscle compression (but I tapped) and he got me with a jaw-crushing choke of some sort. I was proud that I was able to roll smoothly out of one jujigatame at the end and end up on top crushing him.
In aikido we started with releases and worked on the fast-direct oshitaoshi, followed by hikitaoshi and kaitennage. For a while we also worked chain #7, delving into the relationships between oshitaoshi, kaitennage, and hikitaoshi. I got some video and I'll try to get it uploaded soon.
To tuck the foot or NOT
Well, I got several comments on the rolling video I posted a few days ago. I wanted to break these two rolls apart and discuss them, so I'll start with the back roll. First, what is excellent about this form of rolling? As several folks mentioned, it is very smoothe. Potatoe Fist also mentioned the demonstrator's awesome ability to roll smoothly to standing without apparently stopping and orienting in a kneeling position. This is very difficult to do - at least, I can't do it. But there is one glaring problem with this form of back roll, and that is the tucked leg.
First, the leg is not made to bear weight with the top of the foot against the ground. Rather, it is made to bear weight with the bottom of the foot against the ground. This means that once the leg is tucked, it cannot be effectively used to slow the fall down.
Second look at what we are trying to do with these falling exercises. We're trying to build a reflex that will save you when you are surprised and forced to take a fall from an awkward position. In order to execute this form of the backfall, you must first be in a prepared position, then you have to shift your weight forward, tuck the leg, then fall. There are a lot more steps than it first appears. What happens when you internalize this skill of this way and then you are placed in an awkward position in which you don't have time or control enough to do the weight shift and foot tuck?
One more point against the foot-tuck fall. It is somewhat against the "Budo Spirit." By that, I mean by placing yourself into a weak, helpless position, you're giving up before it is necessary. What if, during the technique, something happened and tori lost control of the technique? Could uke reverse the fall and stand back up? IF you tuck the foot you commit yourself to the role of uke. Falling without the foot-tuck offers you the option of reversing the technique for a longer period of time.
The way we teach this back fall is to take a half step backward, squat onto the heel bearing your weight on the ball of the foot. This way the foot becomes a smooth extension of the curve of the back. Then you just allow the foot and back to act like the rocker it is shaped like. This way your bottom leg is in a much better position to help you slow the fall.
I used to think that this backfall was just a superficial difference between judo and aikido training methods. Judo guys tend to teach to fall like i'm talking about while the foot-tuck fall is most often seen in aiki classes. But then I saw an interesting thing - The non-foot-tuck fall is demonstrated as the basic form in Gozo Shioda's book, Total Aikido. You also see the non-foot-tuck fall in old videos of Tomiki. So, The old, "hard style" aikibudo guys were doing non-foot-tuck falls. I don't really know where this foot tucked fall originated from?
I've had students who had started learning this backward fall in other classes and it is a difficult habit to break, but once broken, they have all admitted that falling from a crouching position with the bottom of the foot on the ground is much better than falling with a tucked leg. One even mentioned that he broke his tailbone learning to do that tucked-leg backfall and never knew why. Well, it's because you can't use that leg to slow your fall, so if anything goes wrong with the smoothe curve of the thing then you just plop down onto your coccyx. I'm surprised you don't hear of that sort of thing more often.
Tuesday, September 25, 2007
Rhadi video clip
A while back I mentioned Rhadi Ferguson in a couple of posts. Here is a really good video excerpt from one of his seminars. He has a lot of great stuff to say here. Pay attention.
Monday, September 24, 2007
Promote Three TKD
I'm about a week early on this month's Promote Three, but I figured I'd go ahead and do it while I have the time.
This month I wanted to use the Promote Three Meme to honor the martial art that got me started in martial arts in the first place - taekwando. I think the following three blogs deserve honors, traffic, and link-love greater than they are getting:
Blue Wave has great video footage of specific techniques. Anyone who thinks they're not afraid of the taekwando guy's flashy dance, check out some of these videos. These are some seriously fast, powerful, surprising dudes.
Traditional Taekwando in Perth is written by a great, thoughtful coach. He gives these wonderfully detailed descriptions of techniques and training practices.
Sun In Sun Ka - alright, I know it's not really taekwando, but it is such a close cousin that I wanted to mention it. My best friend in college was a Tang Soo Do 4th Dan and was one majorly tough dude. I learned a ton from him and grew to respect TSD greatly and TKD to a greater degree from him. Tom at Sun In Sun Ka writes great posts similar to Colins' at Traditional TKD above.
Sunday, September 23, 2007
Forward and backward rolls
Alright, here's a demonstration of two forms of ukemi (falling). What do you guys think of it? I'd like some specifics to discuss. What do you think is excellent about these two forms? What needs work or rethinking? Is this level of refinement on these two skills sufficient or should one continue to strive to improve these two basic forms? Are these two forms good ones to teach a beginner?
Saturday, September 22, 2007
Direct irimi techniques
In aiki class today we worked on the idea of falling out of the way vs. stepping in tegatana. Then we worked on Nijusan #2-6, emphasizing the short, direct irimi variants that were explicit in Junana but are now sorta just assumed in Nijusan. These were fun and we got a goodly amount of repetition on these.
Kid's judo season is starting
Yesterday we had a good beginning to Kid's judo season. Let me back up a minute. Judo, like most other martial arts does not usually work on a seasonal basis, like baseball or soccer. It's a year-round thing. Well, we've had some difficulty getting people to go for kid's judo and it seems that part of the reason is because parents are so caught up in a seasonal sports mindset. Teeball and soccer are big sports around here. Well, we decided to try Judo as a seasonal thing here too.
We're going to initially try an 8-month season through the cooler parts of the year and take off during the most sweltering season. We've gotten a lot of interest in this thing and have set up a 4-8 year-old class on Fridays with red-white tourneys the second Saturday of each month. We've signed our club and all our athletes up with the AAU and yesterday we had our first practice.
We're going to initially try an 8-month season through the cooler parts of the year and take off during the most sweltering season. We've gotten a lot of interest in this thing and have set up a 4-8 year-old class on Fridays with red-white tourneys the second Saturday of each month. We've signed our club and all our athletes up with the AAU and yesterday we had our first practice.
And the best thing is the price. You can do an eight-month season of Judo with me for almost the same price as one month at the nearby competition club and the organization membership, insurance, and tournaments are included in that price. That's a deal you can't possibly beat anywhere!
Five kids showed up. Somewhat less than the ten or so families that expressed interest but I figure a couple of families were just being polite and a couple more families will trail in during the next couple of weeks, so we should have a nice sized class. I started by giving them the ultra-short explanation of what Judo is...
Five kids showed up. Somewhat less than the ten or so families that expressed interest but I figure a couple of families were just being polite and a couple more families will trail in during the next couple of weeks, so we should have a nice sized class. I started by giving them the ultra-short explanation of what Judo is...
Judo is a kind of Japanese wrestling in which the goal is to throw your opponent onto his back or hold him on his back for 25 seconds. The name Judo means "the smart way of using your strength.' It was invented about 120 years ago in Japan by a man named Jigoro Kano. When we practice Judo, we wear a uniform called a gi and a belt called an obi. The teacher, or coach, is called sensei. In judo you bow to each other as a salute – just like in the army.
... followed by talking about the terms hajime ("go") and matte ("stop and listen right now"). We enforced this by pairing up by size and having them throttle each other roughly by the shoulders every time I said hajime until I said matte and they had to stop. They though that was great fun. I figure to reinforce this response this way for a while.
We warmed up with some ROM and some running, hopping, skipping, galloping, and laterals back and forth across the mat. From there we worked on falling exercises and moved into a kneeling takedown resembling kubiguruma into kesagatame. Next week we'll repeat some of the exercises, adding others and particularly enforcing the skill of getting into kesagatame. Toward the end of class we had a rousing round of toestomp randori.
Since no parent likes having their kids worked into a froth and then given back to them, we're instituting a few minutes of quiet sitting at the end. The best intro to this that I've ever heard was to close your eyes and be quiet for 1 minute, while trying to remember every sound you can hear. Then you go in a circle and everyone names one sound they heard. This is a good intro to meditation/focus training for little kids.
The kids had a lot of fun and so did I. I'm looking forward to next week already.
We warmed up with some ROM and some running, hopping, skipping, galloping, and laterals back and forth across the mat. From there we worked on falling exercises and moved into a kneeling takedown resembling kubiguruma into kesagatame. Next week we'll repeat some of the exercises, adding others and particularly enforcing the skill of getting into kesagatame. Toward the end of class we had a rousing round of toestomp randori.
Since no parent likes having their kids worked into a froth and then given back to them, we're instituting a few minutes of quiet sitting at the end. The best intro to this that I've ever heard was to close your eyes and be quiet for 1 minute, while trying to remember every sound you can hear. Then you go in a circle and everyone names one sound they heard. This is a good intro to meditation/focus training for little kids.
The kids had a lot of fun and so did I. I'm looking forward to next week already.
Thursday, September 20, 2007
Class cancellation
No aikido or judo classes today, Thursday September 20, 2007. I have a church meeting that I forgot I was committed to.
Wednesday, September 19, 2007
Tae Bo for Chris
Here's one for Chris, who commented on TaeBo on my last post. I'm planning to implement this workout immediately (as soon as I can find a 110 pound Russian girl) in all my classes, and I pitty the poor fool who doesn't have the opportunity to train at Mokuren Dojo.
To be fair in my warrior discussion, I should give some better exposure to some of the great counter-examples that some of the commentators gave in our previous thread on the Ranger grappling video. First, I'd like to mention something that stuck out to me – the video contradicts itself pretty blatantly.
"Fort Benning…is a place where the study of martial arts is not geared toward spiritual development, sports, or self-defense."
But then, the narrator says explicitly, "our task is to imbue them with the warrior ethos." That is, by definition a spiritual pursuit. That does not make it a less noble or less functional goal, but these guys seem to want folks to think that the Army BJJ program is all about practical combat efficacy, when it is really about spirit, heart, and gut.
But on the other hand, The BJJ stuff that the military had gotten into is not without its apparent functional utility, as demonstrated by this news article that Nathan pointed us to a while back. Here the soldier grappled from a position of extreme weakness against an armed opponent long enough and successfully enough to save his own life.
Rick Fryer made another excellent point, that it takes heart and guts to stand toe-to-toe in a boxing ring (for instance) and trade rib-crushing body shots. This is true. There's a different kind of feeling to it, but it's still courage. Incidently, for years the army combatives program emphasized boxing/karate type skills, and apparently found it sufficient for combatives skills but found it insufficient (or at least less-so than BJJ) for instilling the desired ethos.
Dan Paden brought up the fact that it may not be illusory (as I phrased it) to think that a clean, hands-down victory might be possible. This is a great video that Dan had recently posted of a one-shot clean knockout in a street fight.
Chiron has posted a couple of great articles that, if they weren't inspired by this discussion, fit perfectly into it. I wish he'd enable post links so that I could reference them directly, but of you go to his blog and find his September 18 and 19, 2007 posts - they're well worth your time. Some of the best material on the spiritual side of martial arts that I've ever read. While youre there, read the rest of his posts. Great material.
And, while it's not exactly a counter-example, there's another great tangent on the subject that was posted at Aikithoughts.
UPDATE: Steve has posted a very good opinion piece that touches on the subject at hand - but from a very practical, non-woo-woo way.
Tuesday, September 18, 2007
Old-Bear regains his honour
Another good class. Tonight in judo we worked the Meatgrinder entry into groundwork and focussed on entering into jujigatame from the rear mounted position. Cool and easy. Standing we worked on some nice, easy ukigoshi followed by some uchimata. Good work. Rob needs to work on getting the standing leg placed properly under himself as a fulcrum. That involves:
- toe-out and hipswitch
- standing foot slightly farther back underneath our collective center of mass.
- standing foot, knee, both hips, and all abdominal muscles pointing in the same direction
- butt cheek underneath uke, almost through uke's groin
On the ground the old bear recovered his honor. I got Rob in 4-5 good submissions, including a kesagatame (i think), a couple of tateshiho, and a jujigatame. Rob crushed me at least once with something or other - maybe a kesagatame? Good stuff. Neither of us got clean throws tonight in randori. I got a partially successful kouchigari and he attempted several single leg picks, which mostly got him sprawled-on and grounded. I think I may have gotten an arm-snapdown and I know I got a great cross-face turnover.
At aikido tonight, Kel and Patrick M. and I worked on hanasu into ukemi, a little light randori, some kata shomenate and several variants of aigamaeate, including some from goshinjitsu and kimenokata. Cool stuff.
Monday, September 17, 2007
What is it about grappling?
Rick Fryer posted a good comment on my last post. He reminded us that you don't want to grapple with a guy who has a knife. I agree. Of course you don't want to grapple with (or even be near) a knife guy. The guy in the video says that. The idea of teaching to defend against a knife is nearly ludicrous because you can't afford to screw around with knife guys. It's such a good weapon it makes virtually anyone mortally dangerous.
But the point that the guy in the video made that was so interesting to me was that there is something about grappling that seems to bring out the warrior spirit in people. They are not teaching soldiers to grapple; they are explicitly involved in fostering the warrior spirit in these soldiers. This is because, as he puts it, we don't win wars by grappling, but we win wars by being warriors (my paraphrase).
But the point that the guy in the video made that was so interesting to me was that there is something about grappling that seems to bring out the warrior spirit in people. They are not teaching soldiers to grapple; they are explicitly involved in fostering the warrior spirit in these soldiers. This is because, as he puts it, we don't win wars by grappling, but we win wars by being warriors (my paraphrase).
So, what is it about grappling that fosters the warrior spirit?
Grappling instills a willingness to get down and dirty and closely involved with things that inspire primal terror (i.e. being immobilized and choked, being dominated and forced to submit, being in peril of broken joints, the possibility of grappling with a guy who might have a knife, having your every action make your situation worse, impending total anaerobic fatigue, etc...).
It is this willingness to engage the enemy even under conditions of terror that defines courage, and grappling instills this ethic better (in my opinion) than stand-up fighting styles because the student of stand-up fighting is allowed to hold out the illusion that it might just be possible to achieve a nice, clean, hands-down victory. It is this stand-offishness, this unwillingness to dirty oneself for the cause that seems antithetical to the warrior spirit.
This seems to me the basis (besides friendly competitiveness) of why Marines and Army guys ridicule Air Force and Navy guys. Marines and Army are stereotyped (or maybe archetyped) as the guys that are willing to get dirty to win a war, while the Flyboys and Navy guys are portrayed as stand-back, technological fighters or as bus-drivers for the real warriors. Well, in this world of advancing technology, it is easy for the Marines and Army to develop this same creeping stand-offishness and lose part of the warrior spirit. Has anyone seen, for example, the Newsweek some years back about the new generation of electrically-fired rifle that will shoot timed, exploding bullets around corners?. So it seems the Marines and Army have instituted this jujitsu grappling training to nurture that old-style jarhead/grunt ethic of willingness to engage in the mud.
And that is what I think the guy in the video is talking about that makes the video so interesting to me.
And that is what I think the guy in the video is talking about that makes the video so interesting to me.
Saturday, September 15, 2007
Army Ranger grappling training
Interesting video. he has some good comments on some things we've been discussing on this blog for a while, including the knife thread and the warrior thread.
Taiwan SWAT and Iron Penis
No, you didn't read the title of this post wrong! This is a super cool old BBC martial arts documentary similar to the new Human Weapon series, but without the irritating numbskulls for hosts. There are a lot of episodes available and they are all so interesting I had a hard time choosing which to put up here. It came down to a choice between the Taiwan SWAT team episode vs. the Iron Penis episode. You see which one I picked to post. I recommend watching all the episodes.
Thursday, September 13, 2007
Day of the bear
I got schooled tonight by a measley judo shodan! Rob tapped me 5-6 times to my 1-2. Mostly positional deals, but I do recall him getting one fine jujigatame and one good choke of some sort. I think I tapped him with a sodegurumajime (sleeve wheel choke) and with a head-crushing tateshiho (north-south hold). But I know for sure that my mat mobility was off tonight and Rob did very well. Standing I got a sode tsurikomigoshi (sleve lifting hip throw) and a morotegari (double leg pick). Rob, as I recall, mostly got these clinches and dragged me into the ground, from which position he crushed me. He must have had a good judo instructor at some point in his past.
And that was all before aikido class started! By the time Kel got there I had the shaky jelly triceps fasciculations. We worked releases into ukemi, tegatana, and the atemiwaza (striking throws) from Nijusan. Kel is getting very good at shomenate and his aigamaeate and gyakugamaeate were better than mine tonight. We'll keep working on his rank requirements and solidify his skill and knowledge and have a rank test in a few weeks. At the end we played with the offbalance for kubiguruma and the kata otoshi brushoff from Owaza Jupon. Fun, but not very sklled performances on my part by that late point in the night.
If I did not already have a great name for the dojo, I think I'd come up with a name involving a bear - as in my defacto motto, "Sometimes you eat the bear and sometimes the bear eats you."
Tuesday, September 11, 2007
Kohaku shiai
A while back I wrote about differing opinions on weight classes in judo competition. Some folks say they are necessary to promote fair competition and prevent injury. Others blame weight division for the apparent technical decline of Kodokan judo from a high point in the 1950's (before weight classes).
Well, recently I came across some references to a kind of competition used traditionally in judo schools that pretty much negated the need for weight classes while retaining the variability in the competitor pool that made for great judo in the 1950's. From the 2006 AAU Rules:
STAND-UP CHALLENGE Contestants lined up from lightest to heaviest. Winner of each match stays on mat against next challenger in moving from lightest to heaviest.
And a more complete description from judoinfo.com:
Traditionally Judo competitions were organized using the "winner stays up" or Kohaku shiai method. In this method contestants were lined up by size, or sometimes rank and experience were also considered, and the smallest two competitors in a division would fight. Then the winner would stay on the mat to fight the next biggest competitor. The winner of each match would again stay up until losing. The largest person, if he won, would be permitted to fight back down the line a limited number of matches. The person with the most wins at the end would be declared the winner.
Perhaps the best discussion of this sort of old-style tournament and the plusses and minuses of modern tournament systems is Ichikawa and Draeger.
I, for one, wish I'd come up through the ranks in a club that did monthly red-white interclub tourneys with this "winner-stays-up" lineup method (as opposed to 3-4 'real' tournaments per year against folks from other clubs). I can't wait to get this going with my judo kids class.
Monday, September 10, 2007
Masahiko Kimura and Doug Rogers
The longer form of this doccumentary can be found in three parts at:
Saturday, September 08, 2007
Judo, baby!
Yeah! This is a fantastic judo video. I'd love to be there playing with them. How could anyone in the world not think that this is the most fun sport around?
Though, I'll have to admit, I bet it's hard to catch a fish anywhere around there after a good practice!
Friday, September 07, 2007
The way of all flesh
This is amazing and breathtaking. The story of a lifetime told in pictures. Offtopic, but worth checking out.
Thursday, September 06, 2007
Releases, shomenate, and udegaeshi
Another class of aikido with Kel and I. I've been really enjoying the classes with just Kel because I get to move more and uke more and generally do more aiki than when I have to stand on the side and coach. (not that I wouldn't like to have a half-dozen more regulars...) Kel seems to be enjoying the individual attention too.
Tonight we worked on hanasu a lot, making little adjustments. We completely skipped over tegatana tonight and went back into shomenate and oshitaoshi just like 3 classes ago. We used that as a lead into working on #7 (udegaeshi) a lot - that was our big repetition technique of the night. We also worked a good bit on the initial evasion and brush-off (kokyunage) concepts, part of the time with a knife.
Wednesday, September 05, 2007
Carnival of Martial Arts Blogs #2
Hi, all. Just a quick note to let you know that Carnival of Martial Arts Blogs #2 is up. I've skimmed it but haven't digested all of it yet. Looks interesting. Check it out...
Tuesday, September 04, 2007
Gyakugamae, wakigatame, and kotegaeshi
Another great class with Kel. The new schedule really seems to be jiving with his schedule and he is able to make more classes. Tonight we warmed up on ukemi from releases and tegatana focussing on different chest wall positions for different types of pushes. From there we moved into gyakugamae ate from nujusan. After repping that a while, we talked for a few seconds about how the assumptions you start with govern the techniques that pop up in your syllabus.
Well, we begin with three atemi to the face (shomenate #1, aigamaeate #2, and gyakugamaeate #3), which suggests that uke might respond by blocking the strike (technique #4) or running into you (#5) or running away from you (#6). Tonight's option was to grab or parry the hand in the face into waki gatame. Funny thing about waki gatame, it can serve as a follow-up or a counter to shomenate. We worked on both of these situations. Then we worked on wakigatame as an unorthodox release from a reverse forearm grab. Then we moved into Chain #3 and worked on wakigatame and kotegaeshi from both sides.
Starting on the path
This is some very good advice from Aikithoughts for beginners in aikido. I'll probably proudly steal it and give it to all my beginners. I particularly like the "commit" part. It's the same advice I give my cardiac rehab patients - The frequency and intensity of training don't matter as much as the regularity.
I, of all people, surely know about being busy and having a life and I understand all that. It is good and necessary to do other things. Aikido is not religion and it is not family and it's not employment - so it's pretty far down most sensible folks' lists. But you get the most benefit from consistent attendance - even if it is once a week.
(And again, I'm not ragging on my current students about their attendance. I'm just stating a fact. ;-)
Chiron on knife defense
Rory at Chiron posted a superb piece (September 3, 2007) about knife defense training that mirrors and amplifies some of what I've said before while adding some GREAT simulation exercises. Check this out...
A few days ago, Aikido Journal linked to one of my articles, Attack of the Living Dead, and sent several hundred interested visitors my way. I sure appreciate the extra exposure and am grateful for folks' interest in Mokuren Dojo.
Today I'd like to return the favor (in a small way - I don't have several hundred readers to refer) while maybe doing something to retract/correct a post I made a good while back that demonstrated my ignorance and prejudice (I do that every so often).
Aikido Journal recently posted a set of links to resources on the Russian martial art of Systema. The Journal's commentary of Systema, from folks with many years experience in aikido as well as direct experience of Systema, was glowing. Indeed, from reading the articles at Aikido Journal about Systema, the teachers as well as the system seem very interesting.
My earlier post stated that from what I could tell, Systema looked ridiculous. That was based on my viewing several videos that were poorly done and must have misrepresented the system. I should have just shut up and waited to be educated, because from what the Journal guys are saying, Systema appears to be a highly effective, parallel evolution of aikido, and appears to be paired with some great modern training methods.
I'm looking forward to getting some better, more representative video info about Systema. Thanks again, Aikido Journal, for the link love and for the education.
Monday, September 03, 2007
For a while now, I've been doing a series of posts about various styles of ethnic folk wrestling. The following videos are of a Korean foot art known as Taekkyon. I don't know the rules and it's not easy to infer the rules from what we see below - at least not as easy as some videos of folk wrestling, but it obviously involves kicking and throwing. I seem to recall reading a while back, perhaps in Journal of Asian Martial Arts, that this was basically a kids' folk wrestling game with the object of kicking the opponent off his feet. In any case, it's a pretty cool game.
Saturday, September 01, 2007
Another aiki basics class
Another good aiki class (is there any such thing as a bad one?) with just Kel and myself. We spent a goodly long time warming up stiff low backs and hips and worked on some ukemi, including releasing into rolls and backfalls. From there we worked tegatana a couple of times emphasizing walking on the balls of the two longest levers in the foot instead of the outside toes.
Last time we worked on #1 and #6 (shomenate and oshitaoshi) so this time we worked on #2 (aigamaeate) and #8 (hikitaoshi). Kel took to doing hikitaoshi as if he'd been born to it.
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MIA: History: ETOL: Documents: International Communist League/Spartacists—PRS 3
8 July 1944
New NMU Hall–Facade to Hide Union Retreat
Written: 1944
Source: Prometheus Research Library, New York.
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From the Socialist Workers Party's Militant, 8 July 1944. Dick Fraser sailed out of the port of New York as a member of the National Maritime Union from 1943 to 1948.
The new hall of the National Maritime Union in New York City is now open and in full operation after a big National Maritime Day dedication ceremony. This is reputed to be the most elaborate union hall that American seamen have ever owned. It has an illuminated dispatchers' board, recreational facilities including a bar with free beer on occasions, upholstered benches and, as President Curran promised, sweet music while the seamen wait for their next ship out. A good union hall is a good thing to have. All militants, of which the NMU has its share, are in favor of good and better things for the seamen; that is why they built the union in the first place.
After the government smashed the seamen's unions after the last war (in 1921) and herded the "heroes in dungarees" into government fink halls, crimp joints, and shipowner controlled employment offices, the seamen conducted an unremitting struggle to establish their own hiring halls.
It was not until the great maritime strike of 1934, which culminated in the San Francisco general strike, that the seamen took the first step toward regaining union control of the hiring hall. In the strike of 1936-37, the 99-day strike on the Pacific Coast, the seamen were finally able to force the shipowners to sign written agreements embodying recognition of the union hiring hall.
For seamen, union control over the hiring hall meant an end to the vicious system of blacklisting by which the government and the shipowners victimized union militants; it meant an end to discrimination, favoritism, miserable working conditions, low wages, and a condition of sea-slavery. It meant, above all, the independence of the union, free from domination or control by the shipowners or their political agents in the government! The unions formulated their OWN shipping rules based on the principle of rotary shipping. Union members who violated the shipping rules, the union contract, union working conditions, were disciplined by the democratic action of the union membership. The union hiring hall for seamen became the symbol of free, independent unionism in the maritime industry.
It is against this background that seamen must assess the value of either old or new hiring halls. What are the conditions that go with the new NMU hall? During the last two years the shipping rules have been "modified" until there is little left of the rights of members. For example, the "Wartime Shipping Rules" of the NMU for the port of New York contain the following provisions:
Wartime Regulations
1. "All men between the years of 18 and 38 who persist in turning down ships without any good reason that they can substantiate, will have their names turned over to the Draft Board by the Agent and the Dispatcher as not being bonafide seamen."
2. "All men over 38 years of age who persist in turning down ships without any good reason that they can substantiate, will have their names turned over to the War Manpower Commission as not being bonafide seamen."
These provisions in the shipping rules mean that the union officials have become finger-men for government agencies upon whom they depend to enforce the union shipping rules! The union shipping card has been abolished and in its place there has been substituted the RMO (Recruitment and Manning Organization of the War Shipping Administration) time allotment card with the union's name on it. These measures, only a few of a number of other like measures that have been put into effect by the Curran-Stalinist leadership, serve to undermine union control over the hiring hall. And flowing from these, there arise certain vicious practices, especially a system of favoritism.
Shore-time allotments run from four to thirty days. This inequality in shipping cards makes rotary shipping impossible, forcing a man, say, with a ten-day card to compete with others with thirty-day cards. A seaman is doubly penalized for quitting even a ship on which the worst conditions prevail. First, he has to take a short shipping card. Second, he incurs disciplinary measures by the union for getting off without a replacement.
A most vicious practice has resulted from this. The ship's officers and company officials have fostered a system of favoritism whereby a seaman who permits himself to become so involved can get little protection against the stringent RMO rulings. This divides the crew and always leaves the company with a few stooges on the ship. With a divided crew a seaman willing to fight for conditions finds himself fined. Because of the short shipping card he will then get, along with other possible penalties, and the unwillingness of the Patrolmen to back him up, even a good union man becomes reluctant to fight.
The end result is that bad conditions get worse and there is no way to stop it. A seaman is cajoled or threatened into taking a job where he must sleep in a crummy bunk on a lousy ship, while the shipowner gets praise for keeping it in operation.
When a seaman comes in from a trip, he is confronted in the Union Hall with all the red tape of a first rate government agency. On the conveyer belt of this red tape he gets pushed from pillar to post and from office to office, and finally lands in the Trial and Rules Committee which, to save time, will read him the rules and give him a trial at the same time.
Enforcing the RMO rulings is the job of the RMO and not of a union. However, the NMU officials even use the practice of reporting violations of RMO rulings to the RMO and Selective Service officials!
The Union Hall is no longer a place where a union man can expect to find protection and just representation against a shipowner or a government bureaucrat. On the contrary, this system by which the Union has undertaken the functions of the WSA, the RMO and the Selective Service System makes going to sea just like being in jail, only more efficient. It is hardly surprising, therefore, that the shipowners eagerly accept when they are invited into the Hall and are received with open arms.
At the April 27 membership meeting Curran boasted: "For the first time in history personnel representatives of 60 shipowners were sitting in the Hall, talking cooperation. I told them that for seven years we've been fighting to keep them out of the Hall, and now we're fighting to get them in." Shipowner Taylor of the Merchant Marine Institute dedicated the new Hall. An evil omen for the future!
Among the fruits of Curran's "fight" is this, that, as everyone knows, recently there has been an epidemic of seamen shipping off the dock through company offices and on unorganized lines (Standard Oil, Isthmian, etc.). National Vice-President of NMU Meyers has complained to the War Shipping Administration that seamen do this in order to escape and evade the shipping rules of the NMU. The Pilot, official weekly of the Union, reported on May 5: "The union has even gone so far as taking drastic action against men who violate our shipping rules...after the union takes this action however its hands are tied because the individual...is free to go to any one of the few unorganized lines..."
The policies of NMU leaders in supporting the government and its bureaus become so oppressive that seamen are driven away from the Union Hall to the protection of—the shipowners and their crimps. This is virtually what the Pilot itself says.
This is the price that the seamen pay for the support their officials give to Roosevelt and the war machine. This is the price of the new Hall.


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Review of Chlamydia Control Activities in EU Countries
This report illustrates the scope and the findings of Project SCREen, arguably the biggest study to date on chlamydia control activities in the EU. In addition to data from EU Member States, SCREen also collected data from EU candidate countries, EFTA member states, and the USA.
HIV prevention in Europe: Action, Needs and Challenges
HIV testing in Europe: From policies to effectiveness
Towards a coordinated risk assessment framework? - 3rd meeting of the Chairs of the Scientific Committees and Panels
Evidence synthesis for Guidance on HIV testing
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Control measures used during lymphogranuloma venereum outbreak, Europe
Timen, A., Hulscher, M.E.J.L., Vos, D., van de Laar, M.J.W., Fenton, K.A., van Steenbergen, J.E., van der Meer, J.W.M., Grol, R.P.T.M.
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Hey guys! I decided to add a new facet to the blog. Today I am introducing the new Food category, which means… recipes! I'll try and keep them paleo-ish. And maybe sometime I'll throw in some good learned nutritional knowledge I gleaned from a RD I know pretty well. But for now, I submit my first delicious dish, Coarse Ground Honey Mustard Salmon.
First of all, this is my first time ever publishing a post that I want to be "pretty". I've never taken photos of food before that I wanted to share with people and actually have the food look delicious. So bear with me as I teach myself how to do this!
Ok, salmon. Some people, myself included, would argue that salmon is one of the best foods you can eat. Salmon is high in protein and rich in Omega-3s. You know Omega-3s, those wonderful little guys that help protect your heart by lowering bad cholesterol while raising good cholesterol, lower triglycerides, and reduce inflammation in the body. Omega-3s are essential fatty acids, meaning our body can't make them; we have to get them from our diet. Salmon is one of the very best providers of Omega-3s, and getting nutrients from food always trumps getting them from supplements.
So why don't more people eat salmon? Too many people have had bad salmon and decided they don't like it – it tastes too fishy. Here's a helpful hint… don't eat bad salmon!
If you're going to buy salmon, buy the best you can afford. A good filet should not smell like fish. Just like quality beef, it generally is better when it is purchased wrapped in paper. And for goodness sakes don't ever buy frozen fish to thaw and cook. Eww. No.
I prefer to get my filets with the skin already removed for this recipe. Ask your fishmonger to trim it for you. If they won't, no big deal. This is just a personal preference. This super easy recipe is for two pieces of salmon.
Alright, you've got your beautiful salmon filets. Here's everything else you need:
- Honey
- Coarse ground mustard
- Worcestershire sauce
- Salt
- Pepper
Start by preheating your oven to 400 deg F. While the oven is warming, line a baking dish with foil.
Place your filets in the dish. Top them with some salt and freshly ground black pepper.
In a separate bowl, add 2 tablespoons of the mustard and 1-2 teaspoons of honey, depending on the level of sweetness you want. I usually go right in the middle with about a teaspoon and a half.
Shake in 3-4 shakes of the Worcestershire sauce. Stir all that together until incorporated.
Spread the sauce over the salmon. Place them in the oven for 18 minutes. Fix whatever sides you want (sautéed veggies and some brown rice pairs amazingly) while working in an EMOM of 2 burpees… just kidding about the burpees.
Remove and enjoy! If you left the skin on the fish, you should remove it now before serving. And if you're really concerned about potential fishy taste, scrape off the gray meat that resides under the skin, leaving just the delicious pink flesh. Yummy!
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Okay, well this another classic Philippa Gregory story, telling the tale of Anne Neville; daughter of the Earl of Warwick, the "kingmaker" of the late Plantagenet era. It's a good tale if all you want is a simple story of a vaguely historical nature, but that is all it seems to provide. I was expected something a bit more, because I'd been told that it was better than her other recent novels, but I found it sitting quite comfortable alongside them in terms of mediocrity.
Now don't get me wrong, Philippa Gregory has written some really great books, I loved her Tudor Series, but the things she's written lately seem to just have been the same story and all she's done is edited the names before sending the book to the publishers – it seems one dimensional and fairly flat with little new to offer regular Gregory readers. I found myself skipping pages as I got bored with the repetitive nature of the style, diving back in again when I stumbled across something that it felt like I hadn't read before.
I would recommend this if you like comfortable historical novels and just want a light and easy read. Otherwise, if you want better historical fiction, go for Gregory's earlier novels, in my opinion they are far superior to her later works.


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Yes, it's April 15th but it's not Tax Day!
This year, with the weekend and Emancipation Day, taxes aren't due until Tuesday April 17th. So, you have a few more days to procrastinate. If your taxes aren't filed yet you have a few options.
First, you can get them done and filed/mailed by April 17th. However, if you are planning to drop them on a tax pro's desk and expect to pick them up a few hours or a day later you might get a surprise. Be prepared to file an extension. If your tax pro is like me, the last couple of days are spent answering questions, getting forms signed so I can file completed returns, replacing lost voucher (balance due and estimates) and filing returns and extensions. That doesn't leave much time for preparing return.
Second, you can file an extension. Here is all the info on that.
Lastly, you can file your return late. This may be the answer if you are sure you don't owe a balance due.
This is also a good time to think about 2018 taxes. This is for anyone whether their taxes are done or not. Will there be life changes happening in 2018? That includes, but not limited to, marriage, divorce, a baby, empty nest, retirement or starting a business. You might want to talk to your tax pro or do some research so you don't get a nasty surprise at tax time next year.
The plan is to post more after tax season so I'll cover life changes in more depth then.
One special note: If you are planning to file a Kansas Homestead Return, the due date is Monday April 16th. Returns not filed on time will lose their refunds.


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I've tried drawing a parallel chord to the tangent but then how would you prove that the chord is perpendicular to the radius?
How to prove that the tangent to a circle is perpendicular to the radius drawn to the point of contact?
Let $O$ be the centre of the circle, let $\ell$ be a tangent line, and let $P$ be the point of tangency. Suppose that $OP$ is not perpendicular to $\ell$. Draw the line through $O$ which is perpendicular to $\ell$. Then this line meets $\ell$ at a point $Q\ne P$.
Note that $Q$ is outside the circle. Now consider the triangle $OQP$. This is right-angled at $Q$. So $OP$ is the hypotenuse of this triangle, and is therefore bigger than $OQ$. But this is impossible: since $Q$ is outside the circle, we must have $OP\lt OQ$.
Suppose $\Gamma$ is a circle centered at $O$. Let $\ell$ be a line tangent to $\Gamma$ at a point $A$. Suppose the line from $O$ perpendicular to $\ell$ meets $\ell$ at a point $B$. If $B\neq A$, then there exists a point $C$ on $\ell$ on the other side of $B$ from $A$ such that $AB\cong BC$. (This follows from Hilbert's first axiom of congruence for line segments.)
By the side-angle-side theorem, $\triangle OBA\cong\triangle OBC$, and thus $OA\cong OC$. Thus $C\in\Gamma$. But $C\neq A$, a contradiction, since the tangent line $\ell$ can only meet $\Gamma$ at one point by definition of tangency. Thus $B=A$. Thus $\ell\perp OA$.
By using derivatives, slope of tangent at any point is -x/y. Slope of radius is y/x, which is negative reciprocal of slope of tangent. Therefore, angle OAQ is 90 degrees, because, straight lines whose slopes are negative reciprocals of each other are perpendicular
$\begingroup$ [Here's a MathJax tutorial](meta.math.stackexchange.com/questions/5020/mathjax-basic-tutorial-and-quick-reference) :) $\endgroup$ – Shaun Dec 7 '14 at 15:05
Basically, since the tangent is perpendicular to the radius drawn to the point of contact and the chord is parallel to the tangent, thus the chord is perpendicular to the radius drawn to the point of contact.
The following shows how a chord ( between separate real root intersections ) become a single real repeated root at tangent point.
Let the circle be $ (x-h)^2 + y^2 = a^2 $. Let it be cut by a straight line through the origin $ y = m x $. There are two roots. For point of tangency there should be a double root or a single coincident root.
Let $ h^2 = a^2 + T^2, $
$$ x^2(1+m^2) - 2 x h + T^2 = 0 $$
Discriminant $\Delta$ should vanish.
$$ \Delta =0, h^2 = T^2 (1+m^2) $$
The Pythagoras theorem is satisfied with $h$ as hypotenuse, $a$ radius and $T$ length of tangent, sides $a$ and $T$ are perpendicular with:
$$ \tan(\alpha) = m = a/T , \sin(\alpha) = a/h $$
Extend the radius to a line $L$ and use reflection symmetry with respect to this line.
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So this past Saturday was my birthday! On Friday my Dad was in town and took Aaron and me and my sister's family out to dinner. We went to Carrabba's and I think everyone enjoyed themselves but for some reason I got the most boring meal on the menu...chicken and broccoli...??? I still can't figure out what I was thinking when I ordered that but at least I found out that I definitely DON'T like goat cheese...
On Saturday Aaron and I went to Bear Lake to stay at his family's famous "Bear Lake House"! We drove up with his mom and met his brother's family up there. It was so fun to get away from Provo for a couple days and we had a really fun time with everyone! We did some really cool stuff and it was actually kind of freezing up there (I swear it was like 30 degrees...in JUNE...) but I had such a fun birthday and we can't wait to go up again when the weather actually feels like summer!
Here is a picture of Aaron and me outside behind the house making s'mores. I know I look kind of ridiculous in my puffy coat but how cute is Aaron in that flannel?!?
We got back into Provo Sunday night and went straight to my sister Jenna's apartment for some homemade apple pie (with crumb topping)!!!! My sister Jenna made it for me for my "birthday cake" and it was so gooooood! (Thanks Jenna!)
So now I'm officially 22 and feeling pretty old and mature...and SO READY to get married (in 7 days!!!!)!


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'The triumph – and it is a triumph – of Chris Jordan and the company is to create a production which stays true to all the wonderful pantomime traditions, but which is also inventive, intelligent and adventurous.' – The Eastbourne Herald
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The Eastbourne pantomime audience just keeps on growing and growing and 2014 was no exception as Hollyoaks and West End actress Carley Stenson headlined the cast in Beauty and the Beast at the Devonshire Park Theatre.
Carley was joined by Eastbourne's favourite Dame Martyn Knight and comedy legend Tucker who once again had the audience rolling around the aisles with laughter!
This show was packed with all the elements that make an Eastbourne pantomime so memorable; live music and comedy fun with stunning costumes and glittering sets.
'All the elements are there – the heroine and hero, the boos and cheers, the big musical numbers, the slapstick, the dazzling visual spectacle, the broad humour.' – The Eastbourne Herald
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AKA is an artist-run centre operating on Treaty Six Land that encompasses the traditional homeland of numerous First Nations, including Cree, Dene, Plains Cree, Nakota, Saulteaux, and Ojibwe, and the homeland of the Métis Nation. Our work unfolds with a commitment to honour and continually learn about the histories of this land, and we acknowledge that our efforts to be supportive allies and to enable safe and open exchange are both ongoing and never complete.
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Our choir is approximately 65 strong and welcomes new members of both sexes of every age. Musical Beginners will be very welcome.
We give 2 major concerts each year, plus a lighter concert in the Summer and a Carol Concert at Christmas.
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[Watch] White Rabbits - "Danny Come Inside" x "Are You Free" Live on Kimmel
On Wednesday evening White Rabbits paid a visit to the stage of Jimmy Kimmel Live! to put in some performances of tracks from their album Milk Famous. We saw them perform "Temporary" earlier in the month on Fallon but on Wednesday they played "Danny Come Inside" and "Are You Free". See what you make of their live chops at the top courtesy of the wonderful Audio Perv. It's Friday people, let's do this!