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"We've been traveling across the state in the past few months as part of our Michigan First listening tour," Peters said to reporters Monday morning before filing the petitions with the Secretary of State elections office.
"Today, we're officially filing to be on the ballot for the United States Senate," Peters said. "We're certainly humbled to be running. Carl Levin has been an outstanding public servant...It's important to have an independent voice, a practical problem-solving voice in Congress."
Peters' likely Republican opponent, former Michigan Secretary of State Terri Lynn Land, turned in 30,000 signatures from all 83 Michigan counties last month.
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Peters' delivery comes one day before all petitions are due to get on the ballot.
The election for U.S. Senate in Michigan has received national attention from media and interest groups after Democrat U.S. Sen. Carl Levin announced he would not seek a seventh term.
Republicans hope to pick up the open seat and win a majority in the Senate.
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Land and Republicans have been critical of Peters for his vote for the Affordable Care Act in 2010.
On the law, Peters said it's encouraging to see 8 million people sign up for health care plans under the exchange. He said he is working on ways to make the the system more affordable for small business owners.
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BRIDGETON — For the fourth year, United Way of Cumberland County is offering free income-tax preparation for residents through its Volunteer Income Tax Assistance Program (VITA). The free service is available to individuals and residents whose household income is $49,000 or less.
This year, two VITA sites, one in Bridgeton and one in Vineland, are open now through Monday, April 18. These sites are the only IRS approved VITA sites in Cumberland County. To find the site nearest you, call the United Way offices at (856) 205-1800, or 211, a comprehensive statewide information and referral line.
Each VITA site offers different hours of operation, including day, weeknight and weekend hours, making the service more convenient for those who work. The sites are staffed with Internal Revenue Service (IRS)-certified VITA volunteer preparers. Translation services are available. All returns are e-filed so filers can receive their refund money quickly, normally in 10-12 days.
While preparing returns, VITA volunteers also help eligible residents to apply for the Earned Income Tax Credit (EITC). EITC is a federal tax credit for individuals and families who meet certain income and eligibility guidelines. Many residents who qualify for EITC are unaware that they are eligible and haven't previously taken advantage of the credits. United Way and its partners are spreading the word to help get money back into people's pockets.
United Way of Cumberland County is focused on three areas: Education, Income and Health. Under the Income focus area, United Way provides the VITA Program and the new Prosperity Campaign, a partnership with Sun National Bank, aimed at helping hard-working individuals and families in Cumberland County achieve financial stability and asset development. Family Budgeting Workshops, provided by Sun National Bank, are offered at no cost to the public at the Vineland VITA site. Workshops will be held throughout the day on Fridays during the tax season. Having taxes prepared at the VITA site is not a requirement to attend the Financial Literacy classes. They are open to the general public.
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Our mission at HorsePower for Kids is to serve inner-city children, at-risk children, and any child that could benefit from riding, learning about, and loving horses. Studies show that horses improve self-esteem, character, work ethic, social skills, and academic performance
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I started volunteering at Horse Power for Kids in April of 2012 and I fell in love with all of the animals immediately! I was suprised that there were a few animals I didn't even know existed. There a some great people that I have met and work with at Horse Power for Kids, and a tremendous amount of work to be done each day. When you see the big smiles on the faces of the children that come to visit, it is worth it. To be a part of a childs first pony ride or watch their wonderment at petting a goat or baby chick it is so much fun. A lot is done to try and extend this experience to all children. It is the mission of the farm to allow as many underprivileged / special needs children as possible to visit and enjoy this experience for no charge. There are several programs to make this happen, my favorite being the "Fun on the Farm" day which happens every month. Kids, whether special needs or inner city or underpriveleged in some way are invited to spend a day at the farm with their family and enjoy a nice lunch to boot! It takes a lot of help from the community and volunteers to keep this going. To me it is a lofty goal, but definately worthwhile. :)
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Last year we had a chance to go to this farm. As far as I know is a non-proft and that's great. However, the way this place is ran and kept is less than desirable. I've been to many other farms and they are clean and have responsible adults working there. There were swarms of flies everywhere, the animals were free roaming right next to all the guest tables, scaring the little kids. The trash can were all open and swarming with flies. The bathrooms and places for the kids to play were all dirty and the kids didn't' want to play in there. OUr kids were in charge of doing the dancing entertainment for our Dance Company, and they promised a stage area for them to demonstrate on; instead they got a sand area full of horse "poop". Very disgusting and unsanitary. The kids faces were in horror and I don't blame them. I've been to many farms, like McMickey's in Tampa, and thconditions were very different. This year we returned for a birthday party, not realizng it will be the same place and we had similar issues. They need to get their act together because for the money they charge to host an event that they barely participate in, it's not worth the time.
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While this a great nonprofit with a wonderful mission, I believe they should keep more mature adults around than children. Kids are great for the nonprofit, but when they are out on trail rides it's nothing but a competition. The volunteers are commenting on each others riding, and beating each other down, and it's just not right. Especially when they started commenting on my childs riding. She hasn't been around horses for nearly as long as the volunteers and I would hope they'd understand she isn't going to be jumping 5ft fences anytime soon like these children are.
Also, I went during "rainy season" and while yes I understand the rain causes flooding especially when the ranch is under sea level, but is "rainy season" an excuse for dead chickens in the coop, or 45 goats in the petting zoo with runny noses that haven't seemed to be treated?
If this place would keep up their ranch/farm instead of advertising everywhere about how great of a nonprofit they are, they'd be a lot more well off than most other nonprofits. However with what it looks like now - they look no better than turkey creek.
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through the whole week of rain, and muddy paddocks.
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advise vet care for their animals.
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referral, however certainly wont be using them again.
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the change and reminder to ALWAYS get vet care for your animals. After all, they are making your money.
I first went to Horse Power for kids to go on a trail ride . I never left I loved it and the people that worked there . I saw the dream that they envisioned and I wanted to be a part of that . The founder Armando Gort is so driven in his vision to help children that it is infectious . I will always be there as long as the farm is there . My daughter Loves the animals and she LOVES the summer camp . She never wants to leave . I would suggest that you come out with your family and enjoy a picnic lunch . See all the animals ..Go for a trail ride ..Or just get away from the hustle and bustle of the daily grind . It is a treasure to the Tampa Bay community ..
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I wouldn't change anything .They are well on their way to becoming one of the best non-profits in the United States . Bravo !! Horse Power for Kids !
This farm gives my son and myself an outlet for our energy and free time. Supporting a wonderful cause, to serve inner city and at risk children, who may not otherwise ever have the opportunity to ride a horse or pet and hold a farm animal. We benefit from the great outdoors, love of animals and awesome people, both in other volunteers and the customers and children that visit the farm. The animals are loved and well taken care of and the experience the past couple of years has forever changed us "city" folk, to experience country life on a farm.
We are so happy to be a part of this exciting horse ranch. THANK YOU!!
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Watching my son go from being a computer couch potatoe to becoming an outdoor, active and dedicated young man.
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I would encourage businesses and individuals to make generous donations, so we could touch more children's lives.
Im Lily the clown, I volunteer at Horse Power for Kids every chance I get, I love going there, and interacting with the Children and not to mention the Animals and all the amazing activities that go on at that Farm, This is such an amazing place for Children to relax and forget about their problems, even if is for at least a few hours a Day, When I look at the kids when they enter the Farm is like a door closes Behind them, and they have entered into a completely whole new world, a world of Happiness, Family, Sharing, Unity, and most of all Love.
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bring the community together, so together we can make this a better Place
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I have been at Horse Power for Kids since the begining. The farm is a wonderful place that puts many a smile on all the childrens faces. they learn farm life,the responsibilty to care for the animals. To watch them daily running and playing and laughing brings so much joy to my heart. I would like to thank Armando and the staff for making the farm such a positive experience for not only the children but also the adults. keep up the great work.
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not a one
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All four of my children have attended Horsepower for kids. My daughters 9 & 12 love it so much there, they wish they can move into a stall.
I love being around animals it's very peaceful and brings a form of tranquility to my soul.
Both my daughters ride and take English lessons and have also attended horse shows. They find it very rewarding and has really boosted their self esteem. Horsepower for kids is very family oriented and their mission is to reach out to underpriviledged children, that otherwise would not have the opportunity to ride a horse. I highly recommened you vist, it's an addicting place to be!
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I volunteer once a month to coordinate "Fun on the farm" for needy children from local organizations. They visit the farm once a month (every 3rd Saturday) to ride, interact with farm animals, eat lunch and horse around...free of charge.
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For the first time in more than 50 years, there are no players from the Jackson area in the match play field of the Michigan Amateur Championship golf tournament.
All four Jackson-area golfers in the 99th Michigan Amateur improved their scores in Wednesday's second round of stroke play. But it wasn't good enough for any of them to make the 64-player match play bracket.
Tobin Dunigan shot a 6-over-par 77 at Oakhurst Golf & Country Club in Brighton for a 157 total. But that was a stroke away from a playoff for the final spot, ending Dunigan's run of three straight years of advancing to match play.
Ten players shot 156 and played off for the 64th spot.
Zach DeFrain shot 79 for a 162 total in his first Michigan Amateur, and Nick Reynolds carded an 83 and finished at 170 in his second try. Samuel Webster of Hillsdale shot 83 to total 168.
Tim Katanski of Ypsilanti claimed medalist honors at 2-under-par 140 after shooting a 69 in the second round. He was one of just two players under par in Wednesday's round, which included a delay in the morning because of lightning.
Katanski was three strokes in front of Jonathan Pauli of DeWitt, Nick Carbary of Kalamazoo and defending champion Tom Werkmeister of Kentwood.
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The number of Galactic supernova remnants (SNRs) known to possess non-thermal components to their X-ray spectrum is small but growing. The X-ray spectra of three Galactic SNRs -- SN 1006, G266.2-1.2 and G347.3-0.5 -- are known to be dominated by non-thermal emission, while two other SNRs -- Cas A and RCW 86 -- feature prominent thermal and non-thermal components in their spectra. We have conducted a spatially-resolved spectral study of these SNRs and several others (such as G156.2+5.7) using data from several different X-ray observatories (ROSAT, ASCA and RXTE) in order to both increase the number of known sources which feature this emission and augment our current understanding of this phenomenon. Results and conclusions from this work will be presented. The authors acknowledge support for this work from NASA LTSA grant NAG5-9237.
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Commode, can, the Oval Office, and the Super Bowl. Throne, pot, loo, John. The royal flush.
The toilet, in its illustrious career, has earned a variety of affectionate nicknames. But variety extends well beyond just puns when talking about those porcelain perches: Eco-friendly options, from low-flow to entirely waterless toilets, are an important part of bringing water sustainability into homes.
Toilet flushes account for about 30 percent of in-home water usage, according to the Environmental Protection Agency. Toilets consume more water in American homes than any other individual type of appliance, such as showers, dishwashers, and washing machines.
And with climate change, drought and demand straining fresh water resources, methods of decreasing water consumption are increasingly important to environmentalists and policy-makers.
"It's easy to think that we have this enormous indispensable water supply, that we do have about 20 percent of the world's supply of surface fresh water right here at the Great Lakes," said Nancy Tuchman, an aquatic ecology researcher and director of the Institute of Urban Environmental Sustainability at Loyal University.
"We have the biggest supply on the continent, but it doesn't mean that it's going to be there forever – and especially with global climate change and all this evaporation and little precipitation that could build the water back up. So we need to conserve."
Studies show that Great Lakes water levels are dropping toward record lows.
Toilet Alternatives
One radical toilet-based solution takes water out of the equation altogether. A so-called "dry toilet" can begin as little more than a bucket filled with a layer of a carbon-rich material such as dry leaves, sawdust or newspaper. "For five bucks, or if I find a bucket and have some carbon material, I can actually build out a solution really fast," said Nancy Klehm, who founded a Chicago-based eco-solutions company, Social Ecologies, in 2010. "It takes hardly any capital; it just takes some ingenuity and knowing what to do with it."
After a visit to the dry toilet, users cover their wastes with a new layer of carbon-rich material. Once the bucket is full, the contents can be dumped out and composted.
Klehm organized a dry toilet trial-run for a group of 22 Chicagoans from 2008 to 2010, and she continues to work with dry toilets and composting today. For the aptly dubbed "Humble Pile" program, she collected waste from participants for a three-month period, and then composted it with more carbon-rich material for two years.
"People were really surprised by how much they liked dry toilets," she said. Participants in the aptly dubbed "Humble Pile" program liked the fact that the toilets were quiet and mobile, and that the toilets could be designed ergonomically. Most of all, they were pleasantly surprised that the toilets didn't smell.
It's important that anyone considering a dry toilet understand how to handle the waste. "People can generally compost anywhere at anytime," Klehm said. "They just need to do it well so not to present a nuisance or attract animals."
When dealing with the dry toilet waste rather than food or landscape waste, it is important to kill pathogens from the human body by composting at high temperature created by heat-generating microbes.
"Composting human waste should not be taken on unless someone is a very skilled composter," Klehm said. When done correctly, though, microbial digestion should naturally turn waste to soil and the process should be odor-free.
After the two year "Humble Pile" composting period that Klehm took on for the participants, she returned the compost to its original owners, which she said grew participant's appreciation for dry toilets even more. "They were really excited that they were building soil," she said.
"It's a larger issue than just how much water we're using," explained sustainable water expert Wendy Pabich, who holds a Ph.D. in environmental engineering from Massachusetts Institute of Technology. "When you buy a dry compost toilet, that's all about recycling the nutrients and carbon in our waste, rather than sending them to rivers where the organic and nutrient loads drive eutrophication – algal blooms, fish kills and ecosystem changes."
Dry toilets probably aren't for everybody. "The 'yuk' factor is definitely there," but that reaction is largely a cultural bias, Pabich said. She added that commercially produced dry toilets have eliminated many of the un-pleasantries consumers might expect.
But there are many other, more conventional toilet options for people looking to lessen their lavatory's environmental impact.
If every American home were to swap out old toilets for new, water efficiency-certified toilets, the EPA estimates that it would collectively save 640 billion gallons of water every year – equivalent to two week's flow over Niagara Falls.
Toilets from before 1980 can use up to 7 gallons of water per flush, but federal regulations require that new toilets use no more than 1.6 gallons per flush. Simply by replacing old toilets, people can dramatically reduce their water consumption. And new dual-flush toilets (with one setting for wet wastes and one for solids] or low-flow toilets), marked with an EPA WaterSense label, are certified to use at least 20 percent less water than that national baseline.
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In her recent book, "Taking on Water," Pabich shared her personal experience renovating her entire home to be more water-efficient. The process involved installing meters on every water-consuming element of the house, analyzing the results, and devising ways to minimize water consumption. She chose the low-flow toilets, for instance.
Improving water sustainability at home need not be so involved for everyone, though. "I don't think people need to go through all the effort I went through, nor to the level of analysis and understanding," Pabich said. Instead, they can focus on a few core changes that Pablich shared in the form of a "Water Cheat Sheet" when she spoke at Chicago Ideas Week in October.
Some changes are a matter of updating home hardware. Pabich switched out her hold toilets and self-installed low-flow alternatives. "It's not very hard, and it's not very expensive," she said. Toilets, though, are only a piece of the puzzle. The cheat sheet prescribes other improvements such as water-efficient washing machines and dishwashers.
Other conservation measures requires behavioral changes, though. From eating less meat (livestock consume an enormous amount of water) to turning off the shower while lathering, small adjustments in daily routines add up. Turn off the sink while you brush your teeth, and don't run your dishwasher until it's full.
"One thing that's become really clear to me is the impact of our aggregate decision-making," Pabich said. If each one of us does something to reduce our direct water use or our larger water footprint, by eating less meat or replacing our toilets, the collective impact is significant."
The big picture: water pricing
Though individual choices have major impacts on water conservation, achieving long-term sustainability will require top-down policy changes too.
"There are clearly some major structural problems," Pabich said. "Water is entirely underpriced, and the second that price signal is corrected I think things will dramatically change."
Bill Christiansen, program planner for the Chicago-based Alliance for Water Efficiency, agreed. "Here in Chicago, the water rates are very reasonable, so that's probably not going to be a motivator for lots of people."
The city of Chicago will charge $2.89 per 1,000 gallons of water beginning Jan. 1, 2013, up from $2.51 this year. The rate is scheduled to increase again for 2014 and 2015 in increments of 15 percent. Sewer rates will be at 92 percent of water bills for 2013, but will hit 100 percent in 2015.
"I think the public will be most interested in water efficiency when the need is more urgent," Christiansen said.
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-Welcome to Family Circle's Kitchen Basics. How often do you get home from the store and find out that the avocado you picked is either over or under ripe? Today, I'll show you how to select, pith, and peel an avocado. Selecting avocados can sometimes be tricky. Unless you wanna eat them right away, it's better to pick them while they're still slightly firm. So, they should be bright green in color, shiny with a pebbled texture, and as I said firm to the touch like this one. Once you get home, you should ripen the avocados on the counter for 3 to 4 days. Test ripeness by holding the fruit in your hand. Gently press with your thumb on the stem end. The fruit should yield to gentle pressure. Starting at the stem end, slice into the avocado until your knife meets the pith then carefully cut all the way around. Grab each half of the avocado in a hand and twist in opposite directions to separate. Hold the half with the pith in your nondominant hand and carefully tap the pith with your knife. Twist the knife and the avocado half in opposite directions, pulling knife and pith out of the fruit. Discard the pith. Now, either slice the flesh or cut in a crosshatched pattern and then use a large serving spoon to scoop the flesh from the peel and that's how you select, pith, and peel an avocado. I'm Julie Miltenberger and thanks for joining us today on Family Circle's Kitchen Basics.


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Gibbons, the Skyland Conference and Somerset County champion in cross-country, is the second star runner from the Skyland Conference to to commit to Columbia. Jon Harper of Phillipsburg is also headed there.


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NORTHAMPTON – A judge has denied a motion to dismiss the charges against Steven J. Morse, of Westfield, who is accused of killing a 10-year-old boy in a kayak by running him over in his motor boat on Lake Norwich in Huntington.
Prosecutors say Morse, 37, was impaired by a combination of marijuana and alcohol when he crashed into Augustus Adamopoulos, who was kayaking on the lake with his father on Aug. 17, 2010. The boy, known to all as Gus, died as a result of his injuries.
Last week, defense lawyer Michael O. Jennings asked Hampshire Superior Court Judge Bertha D. Josephson to dismiss the manslaughter and homicide by boat charges against his client, arguing that the grand jury did not have sufficient evidence for the indictments. According to Jennings, a breathalyzer test administered at the scene by police showed that Morse was not legally intoxicated. A subsequent test at the police station showed little or no alcohol in Morse's system, Jennings said.
Citing a police attempt to reconstruct the incident, Jennings suggested that Morse was blinded by the glare of sunlight on the water and did not see the kayak. In her ruling, Josephson said the jury had probable cause to believe the defendant diminished his ability to operate the boat safely through consuming a combination of drugs and alcohol.
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There will be a £6bn funding shortfall for adult social care services by 2027 if increases in expenditure only keep pace with economic growth and eligibility criteria remain at their present level. By 2027 the number of people over 85 will have doubled and disabled people will be living longer, so that an estimated additional 1.7 million people will require support. In this context the consultation asks:
S. Erwin-Jones
Community Care, June 5th 2008, p. 26-27
Briefly reports the results of the Shared Services Survey of 178 public sector managers drawn from the UK's health, social care, education and fire services. The majority of organisations confirmed that they were taking part in shared services, and 88% of respondents supported the agenda. The article also provides practical advice on how to make multi-agency partnerships work.
M. Doel and L. Best
London: Sage, 2008
The book contains many positive stories of social work practice and the difference it has made to the service users lives. These stories help us to understand good practice and to reflect on the lessons learned. They emphasise social work's potential for positive change, support and social justice. Each chapter is constructed around one or more case examples, emphasising the importance of service users' own knowledge in developing our learning about good practice. Other key features include: a wide range of service user groups, including people with mental health problems, disabilities, parenting difficulties, living in care, those experiencing loss and other life transitions; editorial commentaries that unpack the core themes and issues from each practice example; and a strong grounding in the ethical guidelines and skills-base required of all social work trainees and practitioners.
J. Smith
Professional Social Work, June 2008, p. 11
The author expresses doubts about the mechanisms proposed for maintaining standards in care homes when the Care Quality Commission (CQC) replaces the Commission for Social Care Inspection as regulator. The level of care required to meet minimum standards has been watered down in the consultation document which considered the rules under which the CQC will operate.
M. Hunter
Community Care, May 15th 2008, p. 28-29
Many social care workers who are required to visit clients alone experience physical and verbal abuse on a daily basis. Some have even been murdered. The article asks whether the new Corporate Manslaughter and Corporate Homicide Act 2007 will put pressure on employers to reduce the risks posed to social care staff by violent service users.
T. Hafford-Letchfield and others
London: Sage, 2008
Government policy, particularly since the modernization of social services, has placed a strong emphasis on developing choice, independence, participation and control for service users in the process of delivering social care services. Strong professional leadership and effective management hold the key to the successful implementation of these objectives. This textbook provides an overview of the leadership and management of learning in social care education and practice. Written in response to recent policy and continuing professional development frameworks, the book provides the underpinning knowledge for candidates following post-qualifying awards for social work in leadership, management and practice education
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Quality in Ageing, vol. 9, June 2008, p. 12-17
This article describes the first steps towards involving users and carers as partners in teaching some sessions of the MSc in Applied Studies in Ageing and Mental Health at Staffordshire University. It explores the impact that this had on students on the course and describes evolving plans to develop the work further.
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Community Care, May 15th 2008, p. 18-19
Since it came to power in 2007, the Scottish National Party has introduced major reforms of the management and funding of social services. Key changes include:
The changes have been well-received, but it is too early to assess their full impact.
J. Glasby and H. Dickinson
Community Care, May 15th 2008, p. 32-33
If health and social care practitioners are to make a positive difference to service users, they must work with other professionals. Partnership working is also likely to occupy an increasing amount of the time of public service managers, and to consume more and more of their budgets. Policy has recognised that partnership working is essential to address the complex problems presented by service users. Frontline practitioners and managers are being asked to work in partnership, but are not given the training and support they need to do so successfully.
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A coalition of 18 charities representing disabled people, older people, people with long-term medical conditions and carers has released a report stating that thousands of vulnerable people in Britain are going without food and heating to pay soaring costs of homecare services provided by local authorities. Charges for assistance with dressing, washing and eating have more than trebled since 1997.
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Care Services Minister Ivan Lewis has commissioned a review of local authority eligibility criteria from the Commission for Social Care Inspection. He is concerned that: 1) cash-strapped councils are not funding preventative services; 2) eligibility criteria are being interpreted inconsistently by care managers; and 3) some councils are still helping people with moderate needs while others have raised the bar to exclude all except those with critical needs. The author argues that the minister is missing the point, which is that there are insufficient resources for local authorities to supply all the care needed.


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Evelyn Ntoko Mase was born on 18 May 1922 in Engcobo, Transkei. She was the daughter of a mineworker who died at an early age. He mother died when she was 12 and she then moved on to live with her family in Soweto. Evelyn was the first wife of the former President of South Africa Nelson Mandela. Evelyn was an African National Congress Activist and a nurse from Engcobo, Transkei.
Evelyn met Nelson Mandela through family friends Walter and Albertina Sisulu, subsequently marrying him at the Native Commissioner's Court. Evelyn married the former state president 05 October 1944 and they had four children Madiba Thembekile Mandela (born 1945, died 13 July 1969 aged 24), Makaziwe Mandela (died 1948 aged nine months), Magkatho Lewanika Mandela (born 1950, died 6 January 2005 aged 55) and Pumla Makaziwe Mandela (born 1954). She divorced Nelson Mandela 19 March 1958. However, their relationship came under strain as Nelson Mandela became increasingly involved in the African National Congress, organising the Defiance Campaign and Congress of the People, and being charged with sedition during the Treason Trial. Eschewing politics, she converted to the Jehovah's Witness religious movement. Accusing him of adultery, they divorced in 1958, and he went on to marry Winnie Mandela that year.
Evelyn moved to Cofimvaba in the Eastern Cape, where she opened up a shop, and pinned a notice to the gate asking media to leave her alone. She remained a Mandela until 1998, when she married a fellow Jehovah's Witness and retired Sowetan businessman, Simon Rakeepile.
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One of my favorite little quirks in Fringe is the Observer. The Observer shows up in most of the episodes at one time or another. It is like playing "Where's Waldo" while watching the show. He has a purpose but what it is has not been revealed yet in the show.
Here is a clip that shows how he makes his appearance in various shows. Who is this actor? I still have not been able to find his name. Anyone with some clues, help me out.
In the last episode he came for Walter Bishop (John Nobel) . Walter does not seem to fear him and he is related to something in the past. On one of the earlier episodes, Walter disappears and is shown having coffee with the Observer and discussing what he is doing. I am curious to see what happens next week with Walter and the Observer.
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Kevin Krause shook hands with his dad, Jim, and kissed his mom, Valerie.
The rookie slugger for the Jamestown Jammers then signed a couple of autographs for adoring youngsters and hustled off to catch the eight-hour bus ride back to upstate New York.
It was Camp Day at the Richmond County Bank Ballpark, but it could easily have been Kevin Krause Day at the waterfront stadium that the former Tottenville HS and Stony Brook catcher knows so well.
"I remember coming to this park as a kid with my dad and watching Robinson Cano and Shelley Duncan play," said Krause after going 1-for-3 with a double in a 2-1 loss to the Staten Island Yankees. "Now I get to play here ... it's very special."
Krause, a recent ninth-round draft pick by the Pittsburgh Pirates, experienced the ups and downs of professional baseball during his team's six-game swing to New York City. The Jammers swept the Brooklyn Cyclones three straight in Coney Island before being swept by the Baby Bombers.
He blasted a two-run homer at MCU Park and sat out Saturday's opener against Staten Island because manager Brian Esposito, the former big-league catcher from McKee/S.I. Tech, didn't like the way he reacted to a particular at-bat a night earlier.
Krause left his home borough Monday afternoon with a .277 batting average in 23 games. He ranks third in the 14-team New York-Penn League with six home runs and 26 RBI, and has six doubles and two triples.
He would seem to be on target for the league's All-Star Game next month -- Aug. 19 -- in Brooklyn.
"It's been an adjustment (going pro)," said Krause. "The day-to-day approach and the preparation that goes into it is something everybody needs to work on. I've been having some success. I've been seeing the ball well and hopefully that continues. I'm looking forward to the rest of the season."
Krause saw a steady diet of breaking balls in his three at-bats Monday. He was caught looking on a 3-and-2 curveball in his first trip, then pulled a 1-and-1 curveball down the left-field line for his fifth-inning double.
In the seventh inning, he hit a hard grounder up the middle but Staten Island shortstop Vince Conde fielded it near the bag and converted an inning-ending double play.
His father, Jim, watched the proceedings from a seat to the left of Jamestown's dugout.
"Every time he gets up I'm looking for him to hit the ball hard," said Jim Krause, who was a hitting star at Seton Hall. "I know it doesn't always happen but as a ballplayer that's what you want to do. See it, hit it, put it in play.
"Kevin's always hit the ball. We were always looking for an open field, whether it was Miller Field or somewhere else, to have some batting practice. He knows it's all about preparation."
Krause's grandfather, Joe Zazzera of Annadale, watched all six of Jamestown's games during the New York trip.
"We're very proud of him," said Zazzera, a Korean War veteran. "I've been watching Kevin since his Little League days at South Shore and I'm very thrilled and happy for him."
The home run in Coney Island came as no surprise to the family.
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MUSKEGON, MI – A 50-year-old Muskegon man had no shortage of prescription pills on him or cash – roughly $77,000 – when he was busted recently by the West Michigan Enforcement Team, authorities said.
Bobby Louis Hunter, 50, has been bound over to circuit court as a fourth-time habitual offender and faces a maximum prison sentence of life in prison due to his habitual status.
Hunter has been charged with one count of possession with intent to deliver a substance, a 20-year felony, with a second-offense notice; possession with intent to deliver a controlled substance, amphetamines, a seven-year felony; and possession with intent to deliver marijuana, a four-year felony.
He is currently being held in the Muskegon County Jail on a $15,000 cash or surety bond.
His habitual offender status not only increases the penalty to life for the 20-year felony, but also for the seven-year felony. The penalty for the four-year felony increases to 15 years, said Muskegon County Chief Assistant Prosecutor Timothy Maat.
Maat said WEMET did "a great job" on this case and took thousands of prescription pills off the streets.
It's alleged that Hunter had 6,674 various prescription pills on him, "dozens of different kinds," Maat said. Hunter allegedly had Vicodin, Aderall and Oxycodone among the drugs, Maat said.
Authorities also seized $77,000 in cash from Hunter's home in the 400 block of West Forest Avenue in Muskegon, where he was apprehended on Jan. 30.
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Ueshiba on the future of Aikido
As I begin to once again -do- Aikido I wonder.
There is an old adage about the life of a corporation having to renew itself.
1. The company begins with an entrepreneurial spirit and vision
2. It succeeds and sets a new standard
3. It becomes well known and begins to rest on it laurels
4. It struggles to keep up in new burgeoning markets and wonders why the market is no longer looking to it, as it continually looks backwards.
5. It fades against a backdrop of a new company with an entrepreneurial spirit and vision who.......
Ueshiba Morihei was both an internal Artist and a supreme MMA'er of his culture, of his time... his whole life. If we look, he left the traditional arts and went full-bore into MMA.
In his old age showing up at the Kodakan. Aikido against Judo folks!! of an era still talked about today with the then judo "greats." What on earth was he thinking?
I can only imagine where he would train were he to come back today, say as a thirty year old. I'd venture a guess that Aikido, as it is commonly practiced today would probably not entice him in the least. I say he would be doing MMA.... with internal skills, and perhaps reading the Non-Aikido Martial traditions section of his own arts forums.:cool:
I re-read a whole lot these past weeks to help a friends research. Part of it was to reread a series of interviews regrading Ueshiba. Everywhere he was pointing to MMA, Martial research and internal power. THAT....was his AIki way, and he both demonstrably and verbally kept talking about personal Aikido....your Aikido. Never corporate, company aikido. Odd that so many slaved away under him, while -HE- pointed outside of his own "company" and said "They or he or she are doing -real- Aikido!" And then he went to his own corporate Headquarters, walked in the door and shouted "This is not my AIkido!!" and preceded to lecture.
He, as the CEO, was scoffed at then and there. Taken lightly or dissmissed as being a cranky old guy when he boomed!. Today, more so. Maybe the company founder knew exactly what he was talking about and was pointing to the right path all along.
I wonder if George, and Ikeda are not on to something profound by looking outside too. I wonder what following Ueshiba's vision really means to begin with?
Who would Morihei say was doing "real Aikido" today? Place that MMA mindset, and internal training in todays dojo's. Where would that mind be looking and heading toward?
1. He would be in BJJ dojo's, Judo dojo's (as he actually WAS)
2. Sword schools
3. Then solo internal training that was NOT aikido technique based at all.
4. Then bringing in guest instructors from outside arts (as he actually DID) 5. Then back to those dojo's, researching, testing, proving his research.
6. Then back to his own dojo testing, researching proving his work.
Now imagine he's you.
You are the future of Aikido.
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Hi Dan,
To be honest with you I'm not entirely sure what the point you're trying to make in your post is. I know of many many people who cross train in various other martial arts in addition to aikido. I have students who are mainly from Tae Kwon Do or Judo backgrounds, guys from karate backgrounds. I practice three arts: aikido, kendo and iaido and I enjoy training with people from other arts than these whenever possible. I know plenty of people who are BJJ students who also do aikido. Kung Fu guys, Taiji guys. One of my sempai practices Taiji alongside aikido and finds them both extremely rewarding. I'm not the only one either, I'm pretty sure that if Jun were to put a poll up (assuming he hasn't done so in the past already) asking how many people cross trained in other arts the numbers would be fairly high. Isn't that representative of a lot of what you said above? Or is MMA something that in your mind has a different definition? i.e. separate from simply cross-training as you described the reincarnated Ueshiba doing in your previous post?
I've personally always been slightly wary of MMA as a principle not so much because I disagree with it in theory (I like the theory, hence the reason I like to cross train), but the people I've met who are MMA devotees have overwhemingly been cherry-pickers who take bits and pieces from whatever art they fancy as being 'effective', though they never actually define what they mean by 'effective'. That doesn't mean all or even most MMAers are like this mind, just the ones I've met. I recall one guy telling me that aikido wristlocks didn't work, he practically screamed when I put a nikyo on him. I think that says more about individuals than the principle as a whole though.
I am genuinely curious as to how and if you would differentiate between cross-training (a relatively common practice for many aikido students in my own personal experience) and MMA?
Mike Haft
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Another view of Ueshiba Morihei's power...
Quote from "Aikido Shugyo - Harmony in Confrontation", Shioda Gozo's book:
"Sensei (Ueshiba Morihei) was invited to go there and give a demonstration as part of a big martial arts tournament. There were a lot of Judo practitioners around and one of them who had watched Sensei's demonstration came and challenged him, saying that he didn't believe what he had just seen. The challenger, whom I will call Mr. N was known at that time as the rival of Masahiko Kimura. Of course, Mr. N was considerably larger than the average person and when he and Sensei faced each other, it looked just like an adult with a child.
Suddenly, Mr. N came in to grab Sensei's inside collar and, pulling him in, tried to execute a hip spring throw. That was it. Mr. N's gigantic figure buckled and he crumpled to the floor right there. As for Sensei, he was standing very quietly as if nothing had happened. The spectators were thrown into an uproar because nobody quite understood what they had just witnessed.
As it happens, Sensei had delivered a light blow with his fist to Mr. N's hip just as he stepped into Sensei's chest. The timing was absolutely perfect. From a conversation I overheard later I learned that Mr. N's hip bone was broken so severely that he would never fully recover.
This same principle can be applied in free-for-all fights as well. Discerning the opponent's movements and delivering an atemi at just the right moment will result in a very effective technique."
My gut level understanding of this is: Mr. N wanted to test his technique against something he thought was not real... he wanted to throw a fellow senior budoka with a judo hane goshi that would have no lasting effect other than most likely a strong fall from the ukemi. Something judoka do with each other every time they get on the tatami together. On the other side, Ueshiba Morihei must have viewed the "confrontation" differently because he "delivered a light blow" with the "same principle can be applied in free-for-all fights" which resulted in Mr. N's hip bone being broken so severly that he would never fully recover.
I just thought this first hand memory from Shioda would illustrate one encounter that Ueshiba Morihei had with a judo man that left a strong impression on both Shioda and Mr. N.
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I find the contrast of approach interesting. My reliance on an authoritative, well-attributed interview in which O Sensei (with Kisshomaru Doshu also present and speaking) makes an emphatic point on "absolute non-resistance" several times, in several different ways, all to the same essential effect, is dismissed. I am told, among other things, that I do not understand the plain words, that it must be a bad translation, or alternatively, that what was said could not possibly be what was meant. http://www.aikiweb.com/forums/showpo...&postcount=612
Why the uncritical willingnness to believe that THIS statement means just exactly what YOU want it to mean? Especially since the anecdotal account seen so far does not in the least bit elaborate on WHY the instance of practice he was observing was objectionable. Nor is there any indication that what ever he was observing was not subsequently corrected following from that comment. Nor any explanation of why whatever he (the Founder) did criticize would not have been immediately corrected.
One cannot support a persuasive position on a chain of inferences, leaving questions such as these unanswered with regard to a statement with such an ambiguous reference. Suggestive rhetorical questions are no substitute for some actual facts.
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Hey, chill out Erick or Jun will move this thread to the troll-pit down in the cellar of aikiweb... oops, sorry I mean the 'non-aikido martial traditions forum'....
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Hi Mike
I think you're reply very probably makes Dan's point from my reading of his initial post. Which is that while Aikido, Kendo and Iaido may well provide a individual with an excellent skill set were he living in pre-modern Japan they would not necessarily be your first port of call were you living in a 21st century western country and your primary interest was in maximising your fighting ability for the enviroment you find yourself in.
Aikido may have been an appropriate vehicle through which Uesbiba expressed his internal power given the time and place he was born in but were he alive now and exposed to the present information available on the relative merits of different approaches to developing fighting skills then his Aikido may have developed very differently indeed.
Dave H
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How is cross training different from MMA? That's what I was asking really. I'm sure it is differerent, just not exactly sure how you'd define the difference.
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No worries Mike
I'll leave Dan to comment on how he personally makes that distinction between cross-training and mma. I know its a distinction I make but now you ask I'm not exactly sure even in my own mind where one ends and the other starts.
Dave H
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I can't speak for Dan, obviously, but I have always viewed the concept of MMA as being less an actual set of techniques and more a methodology of training and employment.
The MMA methodology, in my opinion, is to take your skillset and put it up against another's skill set in an environment with increasing levels of resistance, and work what you know till you reach the failure point, i.e. you are submitted or dominated positionaly and can no longer defend yourself, or you have achieved said control over the other guy.
Cross-training is, to my mind, more of a "putting tools in the toolbox" sort of thing. You study different arts and methods as individual activities. In essence, you learn several arts under the assumptions those arts make about training and combat.
Because all arts make assumptions about training and combat, you need a venue in which to experiment without the need to "do technique" and see how things can play out when you forego some of the assumptions. That is the role of mma-style training.
MMA is taking that cross-trained knowledge and removing the assumptions it was gained under in a "live" environment where the other guy is under no obligation to share the same assumptions. I do not believe that all cross training has to be mma any more then all mma has to be thai boxing crossed with BJJ and wrestling. You could practice any set of arts, in any combination of armed or unarmed, with a mindset more aligned with removing assumptions and reliance on the "techniques" of an art. I would term this randori, and I personally view it more along the lines of judo's randori then what most folks consider aikido randori.
Even in MMA-style training, you are still going to have assumptions and limitations. There is no way to practice safely without some guidelines. But by removing the arts you train in from their standard context, you will create a less restricted environment to experiment with what you know.
If you watch the mma guys train, they don't just train in the sort of thing you see in a UFC match. They will do striking combo work, BJJ drills, heavy bag work, a wide variety of skill sets acquired from different places (Crosstraining). They then train different combinations of those skills as drills, i.e. standup to create opportunities for takes downs, or newaza till you have position to ground and pound (randori). They will integrate more and more aspects of the game into the drills they do till it looks like MMA. Then, when they get to the actual event, they are able to put the skills into practice. It doesn't always look exactly like what they trained, but because they have remained aware of the underlying assumptions in their game, they are able to have a full-contact, few holds barred type of fight. When they go back to training for the next fight, they also break stuff down again, and work the elements in isolation as well as incorporating them into drills, and the cycle repeats itself.
I do not think that cross training is necessary for MMA and more then MMA is necessary for crosstraining, so long as you understand the assumptions inherent in what you are practicing. I have had no formal training outside of aikido, and have enjoyed several sessions with judo, bjj, and stand-up striking guys where we would play by a certain set of rules and do drills or roll or whatever, and all I had was my aikido. I should note that these were friendly, half-speed and power things, and that in areas where I am weak I would find myself dominated. Sometimes I would find myself in the better position, and able to execute things I had learned from my aikido.
So, in essence, the question is what venue do we use to determine how well we are able to express the principles of our aikido? How do we want to structure our exploration of the principles underlying the techniques? And how can we train under increasing resistance without having it become a competition?
I apologize for the long post.
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Mike, you say that you practice three different arts/systems. Do you combine them and use the "other" skills to augment your aikido, when you're in the aikido dojo? Or does your aikido "remain aikido" and not look anything like TKD, or taiji, etc. when you are nage/tori?
I'd say that in MMA, the skills you acquire from a variety of sources are bound into a cohesive and cogent system unto itself. It is custom-tailored to the needs of the individual practitioner, who makes a deep study of a variety of arts that provide what he needs to be a well-rounded fighter based on his capabilities as well as limitations.
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If you think aikido today is better than aikido was then, and that we have moved closer to O-Sensei's ideal, then soldier on. I don't know that I can agree that aikido today is appreciably different from aikido as it was practiced then. If it is, I'm not sure that it is *better* than it was then.
All we know is that O-Sensei was telling them in no uncertain terms that they had it wrong, and that they didn't know what to do to make it right. It's a depressing thought, but also an inspirational one. It's inspirational because there are people with direct links to the training O-Sensei had who are pointing to practices that make for more effective aikido that appear to be known only to a minority of aikido practitioners today, if any. I don't know how anyone can see a statement like "the practices we were doing were different from what O-Sensei expected us to do" from someone who was there and not be in the least bit interested in seeing what's out there while the people who have it are generous enough to show it.
I have a hard time believing that O-Sensei would be that upset if they were practicing the right techniques with the wrong attitude. I think they were doing something fundamentally different from what he wanted.
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I just am over trying to convince anyone. I'm not even interested in talking to the ones who sort of endlessly debate. It isn't a real discussion. I'm talking past them to folks who are really taking this stuff in and then moving forward in their training and in the discussion.
The interviews in support of what Ueshiba was saying are so numurous that its pointless to deny them. Chiba went on to state when Ueshiba did these things and then lectured;
a. They didn't have a clue what he talking about
b. They couldn't wait for him to finish so they could go back to training.
c. Training.....what? They just go tolkd it wasn't his Aiki?
What were they doing that he considered it to be "Not his aikido?"
Why was he blown-off as just an old man booming. Becasue they had no cluse how to find it? How to begin to do it? I haven't found many of that crop who were solo training. They were doing waza looking for technique to eventually instill aiki in them.
Who was really listening?
The more things change the more thay stay the same
I demonstrated what I do to a teacher who also trained with Ueshiba Morihei. When that teacher watched then felt me it was stated flatly and in no uncertain terms the following: "This is Ueshibas Aikido! They don't teach ths anymore you know! It's not in modern aikido."
One fellow and I were somewhat taken a back and explained how this is such a debate on aikiweb.The teachers looked at us puzzled and said.
"What do they know? Did -they- train with Ueshiba sensei?"
We all were sort of stumped being faced with such simple logic.
I posted that experience before. No I'm not going to reveal the source. Ellis and Chuck know who it is as well as a fellow who posts here. Here it will just get debated just like all the other personal witnesses. Somehow in today's internet, anyone with a keyboard is equal to everyone else.
That teacher doesn't post or read so I don't want to reveal their name. Its not relevant ot the point I'm making anyway The point of it is to the discussion's of what Ueshiba's Aiki really was and how he trained it. As well as HIS openess as a MMA practioner in his day.
He was NOT cross training to add to some "collection" of techniques called Aikido. Most of which came from his son as a syllabus later-on. he was concerned with testing his real skills against all comers, Sumo, Judo, jujutsu, Koryu kenjutsu, kendo etc.
He was leading and exploring and testing his power, his Aiki
Not doing a collection of techniques to add to his techical base as a cross trainer.
It's wonderfully challenging to look ahead and think like that.
I think Ikeda sensei has a keen idea and so doea George of looking outward to move Aikido forward.
Just like Ueshiba would be doing.
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For what it is worth, I believe that Ueshiba's anger at the type of practice he witnessed stems not from the fact that the deshi were doing techniques wrong, but rather from the fact that the FOCUS of the training had become the technique.
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Amen to Non-cooperation from stangers to us and our "views" Who only want to kick our butts and are perfectly willing to demonstrate that presently.
Amen to understanding it isn't about adding more techniques.
Good on ya John
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Whirly-twirly dance is justly to be criticized, but it is also not what I was taught nor those alongside me. I just don't get the point of all this hand-wringing. That is not to say that the discussion is not worth the attention and the effort. I have certainly spent some effort in engaging it.
In every lineage in which I learned aikido (Saotome's, Saito's, and even briefly, Chiba, himself) we were specifically instructed in how to hit and kick, quite effectively. I see no problem in the typicality of my arc of training on that score. Mechanically, his overall point makes perfect sense: concentration of force and dissipation of force are the same exact prinicple in operation and to understand the one you must also understand the other. "In-yo ho" as Dan likes to say.
But also mechanically, his explanation of how this is occurring, while more than adequate in the idiom he learned it, needs some serious work to put into to the idiom of physical mechanics.
Some of what I have proposed, in terms of manipulating angular momentum, centers of inertia, gyrodynamics and related principles of waveforms are all applicable to his general description. Aspects of the Huygen/Fresnel Principle on wave gates, which I have mentioned previously, come into play to precisely the same effect that Ushiro describes for the internal rotation action noted above.
I won't belabor my thoughts on these things at any greater length than I have already. It seems like it should be unobjectionable that work on defining the nature and operation of that internal rotation in the idiom of physical mechanics of the principle would be helpful. In our increasingly technological society this seems an inevitable and long overdue development in the art, to me, especially if the art is to not only survive and keep attracting and helping practitioners in the future but also to develop and grow in depth of understanding, and ability to relate its prinicples even more broadly in society.
I have heard much analogy and pointing to websites, and mention of things like tensegrity structures, but little in terms of the actual proposed dynamics of those (or any other) structures in physically meaningful internal actions in the terms that Ushiro Sensei puts it. Dan, Mike (S.), Rob, and the others in their line of thought would do well to aid everyone if they would give their thoughts in line with what Ushiro says above, on a couple of fairly simple points:
1) What structure(s), to their way of thinking is/are rotating internally?
2) How do they rotate internally ?
3) What mechanism(s) transmit that rotation externally to the other person?
Feel free to point the response to any of the other threads if you so desire. But I think I made the topicality of my point fairly clear.
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If Osensei was unhappy about the training, he obviously would have done something about it. I believe he did have the necessary power to do it, being the founder of aikido and all. However, in his lectures that were so boring for the deshi, he was talking about heaven and earth and the kami and the universe...etc. No one understood a word of what he was saying. That's why they were so eager to go back to practice instead of sitting in seiza for an hour listening to an incomprehensible speech.
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I believe that the concepts, principles, and execution of aikido is dependent upon a knowledge of basic fighting. O'Sensei (and many of his senior students) had significant experience in at least one other martial art before training aikido. Today, many aikido people do not have a pre-existing knowledge of basic fighting. I feel this element of "pre-training" is important to overall understanding of aikido. Can you learn aikido without knowing karate? Sure. But the knowledge of basic striking, kicking or blocking contributes to aikido training. I encourage serious students to learn basic skill sets to accelerate their aikido training, karate, judo, jujitsu, all provide good training in Japanese stylistic fighting.
That said, I differentiate cross-training from Mixed Martial Arts (MMA). To me, cross-training implies training multiple activities simultaneously. Mixed Martial Arts denotes mixing multiple activities together in one instance. I encourage cross-training to build a better understanding of aikido, but mixing arts promotes the bastardization of technique. Many people who train aikido do not understand the difference between aikido technique and bastardized aikido technique. This misunderstanding contributes to deficient technique and deficient technique contributes to poor aikido.
Sometimes we are so quick to take something, repackage it, and call it ours, and we forget to take enough time to figure out what the heck we repackaged. MMA is a great sport, and there are great athletes who are great fighters within that sport. Aikido is not MMA. Train aikido and learn aikido using other martial arts as the foundation of knowledge.
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Let's get past that silliness for once and for all. Being able to apply power -- from whatever source derived, does not mean you understand the principles of the power you are invoking and applying. Hunderds of millions of people, every day, flip a light switch without the faintest clue as to the principles they are applying in doing that. The President can launch the power of several thousand megatons of thermonuclear warheads. He almost certainly does not understand the principles that make them do what they do. I am on fairly safe ground to say that he likely can't build one even if given sound instructions, because he does NOT understand the principles he may be trying to apply.
Application does not necessarily result in discernment. Discernment may often be divorced from any possibility of application. Stephen Hawking has surely proved that.
For budo, these things must go hand in hand. It is a deep principle of Japanese budo, stemming from Neo-Confucianism, that knowledge and action be unified. For an art that is expressly intended to be instantaneously adaptive and creative, it is doubly essential.
For an art that has made many inroads toward becoming endemic in the West, it has yet to make the Western idiom a comfortable fit. It is time that this changed. That does not mean that if we just work long or hard enough then we can just flip the proverbial light switch on our aikido.
Budo doesn't work that way. It is by definition a commitment of one's entire being. Unlike the casual invocation of incidental light, it requires the whole spirit and mind as well. We cannot reach deeply into the mind of the typical Westerner until we can pass the gates of his understanding -- the idiom that is used to learn and understand things deeply.
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Lest this thread get too bogged down in cross-training vs. MMA discussions, I'd be curious to ask those that have more information and insight than I do, was aikido ever formally codified as being comprised of x number of techniques with x variations against x number of attacks (other than testing requirements)? If so, can you please point me to the source?
Also if so, was the codification done in such a way as to declare whether the technical syllabus was the basis of the art or examples of how the principles of the art were manifested?
Thanks in advance!
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I for one am not being an advocate for MMA. It's just that Ueshiba was...in spades. Weird huh? Since I chose it.
That really isn't what I would focus on were I in Aikido and didn't have internal skills. In many ways you're just adding even more techniques to do...externally. But everyone decides for themselves.
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Yes, but then one could say, "I do aikido AND MMA!!". Plus, I enjoy collecting comic books and baseball cards.
(darn, I'm getting drawn into the madness -- now how do I hide this edit -- stupid flu)
I'm not arguing, per se, against the cross-training or MMA approach (guilty here, of both, at times). I'm more curious as to the formal pedagogical/hoplological underpinnings of the technical syllabus of aikido. I have no doubt that the founder tested himself against others. My own belief is that's one way that you train your skills (as JAB put above, we're of like minds on the subject). How you go about doing it is another subject entirely.
Anyhow, just wondering what info people may have of how exactly the ikkyu-rokkyu x-nage series of techniques were templated into the syllabus. At what point were they implemented as the teaching method of aikido and was the emphasis on the form or the "stuff" that made it happen? If the paradigm changed over time, when, where, why?
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I'm a bit curious. Do you practice MMA?
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The tournament has been an annual tradition at the Malone Golf Club for more than 20 years and features the top players from Section VII and Section X competing. This year's event took place on the par-72 East Course. For some golfers, the tournament is a final tune-up for this weekend's state championships at Cornell University, and for others, it offers an opportunity to play in one more match at the end of the high school season.
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The nine golfers and the alternate representing Section VII at the upcoming state championships gather for a photo following the second round of the sectional tournament at the Westport Country Club on Friday. Front row, from left: Tyler White (Elizabethtown), Dustin Fischer (Saranac Lake), Ethan Votraw (Plattsburgh) and Lucas Wood (Plattsburgh). Back row, from left: Nolan Reid (Northeastern Clinton), Brock Marvin (Elizabethtown), John Hickey (AuSable Valley), Matt Clark (alternate, Saranac Lake), Kyle Dora (Saranac Lake) and MaCullen Cope (Beekmantown).
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Hi Joe,
I know the difference between a 38 cm and a 42 cm very clearly..... and, MC did not ask about anything
smaller than a 42 cm.
My guess would be that if she figures out "sailing a shortboard"/ gains some control on the Futura 133 with a 42 cm fin, her husband will find a way to get her onto smaller board (Futura 122/111/101) with a 32-38 cm fin.
Under finning her board with a 38 cm or smaller might give her more control, but also that small a fin on a board the tail width of the Futura 133 could induce a whole different set of control issues.
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