texting and driving

Boxing

This is what happened when a young man broke into his neighbor's house! The 23 year old intruder had a knife, but 72 year old Frank Corti, a former junior boxing champion, had his fists!

The punks name is Gregory McCallium from England. Frank Corti the 72 year old knocked him down with 2 punches, then sat on him until the police arrived. The judge had no sympathy for the punk and said he got what he deserved. 4-1/2 years in jail.

Annie Laurie

Annie Laurie, cantada en las trincheras

Un exitoso concierto con armónicas, peines y papel de seda e incluso silbidos fue dado por los guardias británicos en las trincheras de primera línea cerca de Loos. Tocaron viejas melodías inglesas, armonizadas con gran emoción y habilidad técnica.

Esto atrajo a un público inesperado: Los alemanes hacinados en su línea frontal - no muy lejos - aplaudían cada número.

Repentinamente, en buen Inglés, una voz alemana gritó desde su trinchera: "Tocad 'Annie Laurie' y yo la canto".

Los Ingleses tocaron 'Annie Laurie', y un oficial alemán se puso de pie sobre el parapeto - el sol de la tarde de color rojo brillaba trás de él - y cantó la antigua canción escocesa, admirablemente, con gran ternura.

Al terminar hubo aplausos en ambos lados.

Nota histórica: 'Annie Laurie' es una vieja canción escocesa, basada en un poema de un tal William Douglas (1672?–1748). La melodía de la canción fue creada por una tal Alicia Scott quien modificó los versos originales de Douglas allá por 1850. Puede oírse una de las versiones de esta popular vieja canción aquí.

REUNIONES EN LA TIERRA DE NADIE

A medida que se acercaba la Navidad de 1914, una serie de treguas improvisada estallaron en el frente occidental en los que las tropas alemanas y británicas intercambiaban saludos, canciones, e incluso alimentos. El riflero Oswald Tilley de la Brigada de Rifleros de Londres escribió a sus padres el 27 de diciembre en relación con un incidente ocurrido cerca Ploegsteert, justo al norte de la frontera franco -belga:

"La mañana de Navidad, ya que habíamos dejado prácticamente de disparar contra ellos, uno de ellos comenzó haciéndonos señas, por lo que uno de nuestros soldados salió de nuestras trincheras a su encuentro a mitad de camino en medio de vítores. Después de un poco algunos más de nuestros soldados salieron al encuentro de otros más hasta que, literalmente, cientos soldados de cada lado estaban en la tierra de nadie saludándose e intercambiando cigarrillos, chocolate y tabaco, etc ... Sólo piensen que mientras ustedes estaban comiendo pavo yo estaba afuera hablando y dando la mano a los mismos hombres que había estado tratando de matar un par de horas antes... Fue asombroso!"

En los años siguientes las autoridades trataron de desalentar esas treguas. Porque además de romper la disciplina, se tenían problemas para que la guerra se reiniciara.

A finales de 1915 Ethel Cooper, una mujer australiana que vivió en Alemania, conoció a un soldado de permiso del Cuerpo de Saxon XIX que le dijo que su unidad había fraternizado extensamente con un batallón británico durante dos días a partir de la víspera de Navidad. Ella escribió: "El problema comenzó el día 26, cuando se dio la orden de disparar, fue un duro golpe para los hombres. Herr Lange dice que nunca había escuchado el lenguaje empleado por los oficiales y que logró, como único resultado, la siguiente respuesta de los soldados: " No podemos dispararles- son buena gente , y no podemos hacerlo". Finalmente, los oficiales volvieron con los soldados, "Disparan, o nosotros lo hacemos y no contra el enemigo". Ningún disparo había venido del otro lado, pero al fin iniciamos las hostilidades, y posteriormente no llegó un fuego de respuesta, pero ningún un hombre caía. "Pasamos ese día y al día siguiente desperdiciando municiones disparándole a las estrellas del cielo"

The Morality of Evolution

As a watchman on the tower, I feel to warn you that one of the chief means of misleading our youth and destroying the family unit is our educational institutions. There is more than one reason why the Church is advising our youth to attend colleges close to their homes where institutes of religion are available. It gives the parents the opportunity to stay close to their children, and if they become alerted and informed, these parents can help expose some of the deceptions of men like ... Charles Darwin.

Ezra Taft Benson

More than other modern societies, United States relies, even depends, on myth to cement its confidence. Americans are profoundly ahistorical.

Our national myths are representations of identity and the actual instrument of acculturation. This process of acculturation through myth, moreover, is achieved through entertainment: television and movies. The culture of a society—its ethos—defines distinctive patterns of individual and group behavior. Culture shapes the way we look at the world. Whatever our immediate group membership, our final sense of identity is shaped by larger cultural patterns. If we define ourselves according to myth, what kind of worldview has it given us?

First, at the core,  the United States has an essentially religious value system. The primal myth of our origin is that of the "Pilgrim’s Progress," with the Plymouth Colony completely overshadowing Virginia and its lineal transplanting of British class and caste. We believe that the source and inspiration of America is bound up in religion: religious freedom, but also the moral vantage of Calvin. The impact of Protestant thought is felt in the ways we talk about mission, service, sacrifice, restraint. It underlies the sense that Americans share of serving a higher calling. This underpinning remains dominant today even though it is highly secularized, and transmuted into legal, constitutional language.

Second, Americans still hew a set of specific myths about the United States. One of these is that America is the source of human progress and can achieve perfection as a society. Americans believe that there has never been a society quite like our own. This American "exceptionalism" suggests that we are a people graced with unusual natural endowments. We think of ourselves literally as a "people of plenty." But our mythology also reminds us that this land was a great "untamed wilderness," a "land of savagery." It was the exceptional will, unity and vision of the American people and their beliefs that transformed the landscape. The twin icons of national bounty and national achievement have inspired two senses of an American national purpose: a conviction that the United States should serve as an example to the world, that America and its people are the model for all human development; and an impulse to change the world for good, to become the active agency of human progress. Tyranny and resistance to change are so entrenched in the world that only direct American intercession can shift the direction of history. America’s gifts demand that it assume a missionary role.

In the United States at the turn of the 20th century, Darwinism was greeted with glee because it seemed so compatible with the prevailing ideology of theday,  where robber-baron capitalists like the Carnegies, Mellons, Sumners, Stanfords and yes, even Jack London, could not stop rattling on about how the "survival of the fittest" justified crushing unions, exploiting immigrant labor or being left unregulated to amass huge fortunes while administering monopolies. In the popular ethos of the United States, there is a confusion of Capitalism with the American worship of the individual and the nuclear family. It can be argued that these ideas are related but they are different and independent. According to the American work ethic you only get what you work for, but this is not what Capitalism is. Capitalism is the idea that market forces, carried out by intelligent agents looking for profit (self interest), let by themselves will generate wealth and prosperity for society as a whole. The dichotomy Capitalism/Socialism is actually dated. If one understands socialism as government control of the economy, all, 100%, of the world's governments are socialist to some degree. In any case, we now live in a competitive society and are often told that to get ahead we require drive, commitment and determination, that we must expend a great amount of energy and, if necessary, use force to get what we want. A ‘survival of the fittest’ mentality is deeply entrenched in our culture. Despite the fact that this Wild West mentality  is a historical byproduct, it is now attributed to Darwin’s Origin of the Species.

Religious fundamentalists are sincere on their view of the World as a battleground between Good and Evil. For them anything that undermines faith in God, specially with regards to children, is utterly evil. The teaching of Science to children, in particular Evolution, is seen as a threat to children indoctrination. Nonetheless,  the attack on Evolution is an attack on Science as a whole. Science is not about what to believe but rather a method to perceive Reality. It is the critical objective look at reality aspect of Science that is perceived as a treat by the religious establishment. However, teaching religious ideas as an alternative to factual descriptions of reality undermines science education by misinforming students about the scientific method — the basis for science literacy.

The scientific method teaches students the fundamentals of science — how to observe data, perform experiments and form scientific theory. Religious explanations for creation are not science – they cannot be confirmed or denied by the scientific method. Teaching them as science confuses and misleads students about the scientific method, thereby warping their ability to live in a technology-driven society

Most people don't read scientific papers because they are extremely complex. Even college science students have a hard time digesting scientific papers. But what is easy to understand is that, since the bible says this, science says that, therefore science is the devil, and since we hate the devil and our job is to fight him, we must hate science and fight it. Christian leaders can be blind sighted to the outside world at times. All this commotion about a science that goes against the bible. The Bible today, still says that the Earth does not move around the sun as much as it did thousands of years ago. The Bible did not change. At the end of the Middle Ages, Christian leaders threatened heavy punishment to Galileo for suggesting that, based on his scientific evidences, the Earth revolved around the Sun. 

Any effort to introduce a theological doctrine into public school science curricula would inevitably offend some teachers and students. After all, a Protestant fundamentalist's "literal" reading of Genesis would likely differ markedly from that of a Catholic or an Orthodox Jew. Both public school educators and religious leaders should be concerned about the prospect of biology lessons degenerating into debates on Biblical or religious interpretation.

Evolution by natural selection, at its core, works like this: living organisms are characterized by heritable variation for traits that affect their survival and reproductive abilities. This heritable variation originates from the (truly random) process of mutation at the level of DNA. The process of evolution turns out to be largely the result of two components: mutations (which are random) and natural selection (which, again, is not random). It is the joint outcome of these two processes that—according to evolutionary theory—explains not only the diversity of all organisms on Earth, but most crucially the fact that they are so well adapted to their environment: those that weren’t did not survive the process. Because the environment changes overtime, and therefore, what characteristics of life forms are better changes, and it cannot be said in absolute terms that extinct forms are inferior to those present today.

You may find it intuitively difficult to believe that two relatively simple natural processes can produce the complex order we observe in living organisms. But the beauty of science is that it so often shows our intuitions to be wrong. Because nature does not always function according to our common sense or intuition, the scientific method a necessity on the quest of the human race for survival.

Evolution is both a theory and a fact, contrary to simplistic creationist views. How can this be? Evolution is a fact in the sense that it is beyond reasonable doubt that living organisms have changed over time throughout the history of the earth. It is a theory in the sense that biologists have proposed a variety of mechanisms (including, but not limited to, mutation and natural selection) to explain the fact of evolution.

The theory of evolution is a fundamental concept of biology and it is supported by the overwhelming weight of scientific evidence. Simply eliminating evolution from the public school curriculum in order to ease community tensions would do a great disservice to all students. It would deny public school students an adequate science education – which is more and more becoming a necessity for professional success in a high-tech world.

It must be said that there is a propagandistic perversion of language, and there are religious groups that use the language of science to mislead and actually undermine a scientific conceptualization of Reality. Religious opponents of evolution have cloaked religious beliefs in scientific sounding language and then mandating that schools teach the resulting "creation science" or "Intelligent Design" as an alternative to evolution. Intelligent Design organizations are fundamentalist religious entities that consider the introduction of creation science into the public schools part of their ministry. Creation science rested on a "contrived dualism" that recognized only two possible explanations for life, the scientific theory of evolution and biblical creationism, treated the two as mutually exclusive such that "one must either accept the literal interpretation of Genesis or else believe in the godless system of evolution," and accordingly viewed any critiques of evolution as evidence that necessarily supported biblical creationism. Creation science is simply not science because it depends upon supernatural intervention, which cannot be explained by natural causes, or be proven through empirical investigation, and is therefore neither testable nor falsifiable.

The argument for Intelligent Design (ID) is not a new scientific argument, but is rather an old religious argument for the existence of God, traced back to at least Thomas Aquinas in the 13th century, who framed the argument as a syllogism: Wherever complex design exists, there must have been a designer; nature is complex; therefore nature must have had an intelligent designer. Although proponents of ID occasionally suggest that the designer could be a space alien or a time-traveling cell biologist, no serious alternative to God as the designer has been proposed. The writings of leading ID proponents reveal that the designer postulated by their argument is the God of Christianity. Dramatic evidence of ID's religious nature and aspirations is found in what is referred to as the "Wedge Document." The Wedge Document, developed by the Discovery Institute's Center for Renewal of Science and Culture. The Discovery Institute, the think tank promoting ID whose CRSC developed the Wedge Document, acknowledges as "Governing Goals" to "defeat scientific materialism and its destructive moral, cultural and political legacies" and "replace materialistic explanations with the theistic understanding that nature and human beings are created by God."

ID fails on three different levels, any one of which is sufficient to preclude a determination that ID is science. They are: (1) ID violates the centuries-old ground rules of science by invoking and permitting supernatural causation; (2) the argument of irreducible complexity, central to ID, employs the same flawed and illogical contrived dualism that doomed creation science in the 1980's; and (3) ID's negative attacks on evolution have been refuted by the scientific community.

Because Science wins over Religion on factual description of Reality, the attack on Science is made nowadays on moral grounds.  From the point of view of religious fundamentalists, Science is a competing religion, although a silly one at that. Then the scientific community is under attack with this straw-man argument against evolution:

But if design, conversely, is rational, why do so many scientists reject it? Because this is not an issue of science, but of religion. Their religion is that of materialism and naturalism, and they are under no illusions as to the implications of design.

James M Tour, in the blog entry Layman’s Reflections on Evolution and Creation. An Insider’s View of the Academy, claims insufficient understanding of what he calls Macroevolution. Macroevolution is evolution on a scale of separated gene pools.^[1] Macroevolutionary studies focus on change that occurs at or above the level of species, in contrast with microevolution,^[2] which refers to smaller evolutionary changes (typically described as changes in allele frequencies) within a species or population. However, contrary to claims by creationists, macro and microevolution describe fundamentally identical processes on different time scales.

Russian entomologist Yuri Filipchenko first coined the terms "macroevolution" and "microevolution" in 1927 in his German language work, "Variabilität und Variation". Since the inception of the two terms, their meanings have been revised several times and the term macroevolution fell into limited disfavour when it was taken over by such writers as the geneticist Richard Goldschmidt (1940) and the paleontologist Otto Schindewolf to describe their orthogenetic theories.^[7]

A more practical definition of the term describes it as changes occurring on geological time scales, in contrast to microevolution, which occurs on the timescale of human lifetimes.^[8] This definition reflects the spectrum between micro- and macro-evolution, whilst leaving a clear difference between the terms: because the geological record rarely has a resolution better than 10,000 years, and humans rarely live longer than 100 years, "meso-evolution" is never observed.^[8]

As a result, apart from Dobzhansky, Bernhard Rensch and Ernst Mayr, very few neo-Darwinian writers used the term, preferring instead to talk of evolution as changes in allele frequencies without mention of the level of the changes (above species level or below). Those who did were generally working within the continental European traditions (as Dobzhansky, Ernst Mayr, Bernhard Rensch, Richard Goldschmidt, and Otto Schindewolf were) and those who didn't were generally working within the Anglo-American tradition (such as John Maynard Smith and Richard Dawkins). Hence, use of the term "macroevolution" is sometimes wrongly used as a litmus test of whether the writer is "properly" neo-Darwinian or not.

At the end of his article, Tour makes a reference to the movie, “Expelled. No Intelligence Allowed.” He asserts that a subset of the scientific establishment is retarding the careers of Darwinian skeptics. He closes citing  Viktor Frankl , The Doctor and the Soul with the comment If Frankl is correct, God help us:

“If we present a man with a concept of man which is not true, we may well corrupt him. When we present man as an automaton of reflexes, as a mind-machine, as a bundle of instincts, as a pawn of drives and reactions, as a mere product of instinct, heredity and environment, we feed the nihilism to which modern man is, in any case, prone.

“I became acquainted with the last stage of that corruption in my second concentration camp, Auschwitz. The gas chambers of Auschwitz were the ultimate consequence of the theory that man is nothing but the product of heredity and environment; or as the Nazi liked to say, ‘of Blood and Soil.’ I am absolutely convinced that the gas chambers of Auschwitz, Treblinka, and Maidanek were ultimately prepared not in some Ministry or other in Berlin, but rather at the desks and lecture halls of nihilistic scientists and philosophers [emphasis added].”

The movie Expelled main theme is that what it calls Darwinism inherently contain the seeds of Nazism, and even more Darwinism equals Nazism. This frighteningly immoral narrative is capped off a la Moore, with shots of the Berlin Wall, old stock footage of East German police kicking around those trying to escape through the wall to the West and some solemn blather by Ben, who calls upon each one of us to rise up in defense of freedom and knock down a few walls in order to get creationism back into the curriculum at American Schools.

There were many nations, such as Britain which embraced Darwinism but saw a considerable number of their population killed trying to eliminate Nazism. There were other nations, such as the Soviet Union, where Darwinism was seen as so dangerous and subversive to State sponsored dreams of social engineering that those who espoused it were killed or exiled and a complete biological fairy tale, Lysenkoism, put into classrooms and agricultural policy ultimately leading to the deaths of millions from starvation.

Now, Christian groups are tying a neutral scientific theory to racism, antisemitism and xenophobia.That is extremely irresponsible and untrue. In fact, Christianity has a stronger link to anti-semiticism and xenophobia than Evolution which is a scientific theory that purports every man is from the same ancestor.
Throughout history, especially in the Crusades, European Christianity has consistently been a xenophobic culture - Jews were expelled out of England, were treated as second class citizens by Christians, and were not allowed to own lands. Black people were expelled by the Protestant Queen Elizabeth during the food shortage in England. Nazi Hitler, had Christianic themes in support of his treatment of the Jews.

The linking of Nazism to Evolution is a dishonest and cheap attempt at trying to personify a scientific theory as the root of all evil in the world. Evolution implies is that every human came from a single
ancestor. Darwin himself was anti-slavery and he said that there was "no clear distinctive characteristics to categorize races as separate species, and that all shared very similar physical and mental characteristics
indicating common ancestry". However this went against Christian beliefs of that time. A German philosopher, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, who wrote "Life of Jesus", "The Positivity of the Christian
Religion" and thought to be Christian by many critics believed that scientific racism - or the use of science to propose that other races such as blacks are of different heritage and descended from apes "fitted well with the Christian belief of a divine Creation following which all of humanity descended from the same Adam and Eve.

The Bible sanctions slavery, and from the 1820s to the 1850s it was cited in the Southern States of the United States of America to support the idea that negroes had been created unequal, suited to slavery, by writers such as the Rev. Richard Furman, Joseph Smith Jr. and Thomas R. Cobb." (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scientific_racism).

Christians are very uncomfortable with the idea that Adam and Eve were Africans - who, by the now debunked scientific racism are deemed to be descendants of apes. This was a central Christian tenet for much more years than evolution was around, and it was the catalyst for the systematic degradation of a particular group of people - the fact that black people were descendants of apes, gave Christians the biblical right to rule over them. Now that evolution has equalized and showed that all men are equal, and given the current taboo of identifying oneself as racist as well as the demise of Scientific racism. Many xenophobic people turn to Intelligent Design as their last ditch attempt to salvage some element of supernatural support for dominion over a certain group of people. This does not mean all Intelligent Design supporters are racists, but it is certainly a comfortable place for xenophobic individuals to channel their energies to.

Mind and reality

alan watts - simplicity and complexity

La teniente Barbara Balanzoni

Publicado: 22 dic 2013 | 23:47 GMT Última actualización: 22 dic 2013 | 23:47 GMT

Texto completo en: http://actualidad.rt.com/sociedad/view/115009-militar-procesada-salvar-gata-kosovo-otan

La teniente Barbara Balanzoni, que fue enviada para ser juzgada en un tribunal militar la semana pasada, está acusada de insubordinación grave. Cometió un presunto delito mientras se desempeñaba como oficial médico en una base de la OTAN en Kosovo.

Se afirma que al atender a una gata que se moría, Balanzoni hizo caso omiso de una orden emitida por su oficial que prohibía a las tropas en la base "traer a los animales salvajes, callejeros o no acompañados". Ahora se enfrenta a una pena mínima de un año en una prisión militar.

Balanzoni dijo a 'The Guardian' que intervino tras recibir una llamada a la enfermería del personal militar que alarmaba por los ruidos que hacía un felino. La italiana reveló que la gata –que fue llamada más tarde Agata– normalmente vivía en el techo de una choza. "Hay un montón de gatos en la base", dijo.

Según Balanzoni, en aquel momento el funcionario veterinario estaba en Italia. "Lejos de desobedecer órdenes, yo estaba siguiendo los reglamentos militares, que establecen que en ausencia de un veterinario, el médico debe intervenir", insistió.

Reveló que encontró que la gata no podía dar a luz al último de sus gatitos, que ya estaba muerto, y ella seguramente se moriría también. "Si la gata se moría, toda la zona tendría que ser desinfectada", argumentó la militar añadiendo que los gatitos sobrevivientes no podrían haber sido alimentados. "Así que ellos también habrían muerto, lo que habría creado un mayor problema de salud pública".

El juicio de Balanzoni se iniciará en Roma el 7 de febrero. Su caso ha sido asumido por la asociación de defensa de los animales más antigua de Italia, el Ente Nazionale Protezione Animali.

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Le fair-play

Desiderata

Go placidly amid the noise and haste, and remember what peace there may be in silence. As far as possible without surrender be on good terms with all persons. Speak your truth quietly and clearly; and listen to others, even the dull and the ignorant; they too have their story. Avoid loud and aggressive persons, they are vexations to the spirit. If you compare yourself with others, you may become vain and bitter; for always there will be greater and lesser persons than yourself. Enjoy your achievements as well as your plans. Keep interested in your own career, however humble; it is a real possession in the changing fortunes of time. Exercise caution in your business affairs; for the world is full of trickery. But let this not blind you to what virtue there is; many persons strive for high ideals; and everywhere life is full of heroism. Be yourself. Especially, do not feign affection. Neither be cynical about love; for in the face of all aridity and disenchantment it is as perennial as the grass. Take kindly the counsel of the years, gracefully surrendering the things of youth. Nurture strength of spirit to shield you in sudden misfortune. But do not distress yourself with dark imaginings. Many fears are born of fatigue and loneliness. Beyond a wholesome discipline, be gentle with yourself. You are a child of the universe, no less than the trees and the stars; you have a right to be here. And whether or not it is clear to you, no doubt the universe is unfolding as it should. Therefore be at peace with God, whatever you conceive Him to be, and whatever your labors and aspirations, in the noisy confusion of life keep peace with your soul. With all its sham, drudgery, and broken dreams, it is still a beautiful world. Be cheerful. Strive to be happy.

Max Ehrmann, "Desiderata"

"Desiderata" (Latin: "desired things") is a 1927 prose poem by American writer Max Ehrmann. Largely unknown in the author's lifetime, the text became widely known after its use in a devotional and after spoken-word recordings in 1971 and 1972.

American writer Max Ehrmann (1872–1945) wrote the prose poem "Desiderata" in 1927.^[1] In 1956, the Reverend Frederick Kates, rector of Saint Paul's Church in Baltimore, Maryland, included Desiderata in a compilation of devotional materials for his congregation. The compilation included the church's foundation date: "Old Saint Paul's Church, Baltimore A.D. 1692". Consequently, the date of the text's authorship was (and still is) widely mistaken as 1692, the year of the church's foundation.^[1][2]
When US Democratic presidential hopeful Adlai Stevenson died in 1965, a guest in his home found the Desiderata near his bedside and discovered that Stevenson had planned to use it in his Christmas cards. This contributed further to the poem becoming widely known.^[1]

The text was widely distributed in poster form. Calling it "Spock Thoughts", Leonard Nimoy recited the poem on his 1968 album, Two Sides of Leonard Nimoy. This version also appeared on the 1995 re-release of Leonard Nimoy Presents Mr. Spock's Music From Outer Space. His rendition is not the only one to change the second-to-last sentence from "Be Cheerful" to "Be Careful". In late 1971 and early 1972, Les Crane's spoken-word recording of Desiderata (the lead track on his 1971 Warner Bros. album Desiderata)^[3] peaked at #8 on the Billboard chart, #4 on the Canadian RPM Magazine chart, and #6 on the UK Melody Maker's chart. It made #4 on the Australian singles chart in 1971. The producers of Crane's recording assumed that the poem was too old to be in copyright, but the publicity surrounding the record led to clarification of Ehrmann's authorship and his family eventually receiving royalties. The British band In the Nursery adapted the poem to music on its 1992 album Duality.^[4]

In response to his Government's losing its majority in the Canadian federal election, 1972 Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau quoted the Desiderata by reassuring the nation that "the universe is unfolding as it should."

On August 26, 2010, a bronze statue of Ehrmann sitting on a park bench was unveiled in Terre Haute, Indiana, his hometown, with the sculpture done by Bill Wolfe. On a nearby walkway, some lines of the poem are also available to be read by passers-by.^[5]
Recently in 2012, actor Morgan Freeman interviewed on Oprah Winfrey's Master Class television special, Freeman expressed how deeply the poem, 'Desiderata' shaped his life.

Luis Aguilé

Luis María Aguilera Picca (* Buenos Aires, Argentina, 24 de febrero de 1936 - † Madrid, España, 10 de octubre de 2009), conocido artísticamente como Luis Aguilé, fue un cantante y autor de música pop. Activo desde los años cincuenta, y siendo ya famoso en toda Latinoamérica, se estableció en 1963 en España.

Grabó más de 800 canciones, la mitad de ellas de su autoría, y algunas se han convertido en estándares de la música popular en castellano, como Cuando salí de Cuba, quizá su canción más conocida, grabada por muchos otros artistas. También compuso canciones para niños y publicó varios libros.



Las canciones de Luis Aguilé se han caracterizado por estar alejadas de temas sociales o políticos. Algunos críticos las han considerado como pasatistas. Él personalmente tampoco ha tenido una actuación política o social, aunque se ha declarado contrario a la Revolución Cubana. La canción Cuando salí de Cuba se refiere precisamente al momento en que decidió dejar Cuba, donde estaba radicado y era un ídolo juvenil. Aguilé cuenta que al momento de vender sus propiedades, el gobierno revolucionario había sancionado una ley de control de cambios, que limitaba la cantidad de dólares que se podían comprar, y que por esa razón sólo pudo sacar de Cuba una cantidad limitada; el resto se la regaló a sus amigos:

Allí gané muchísimo dinero porque era un ídolo juvenil. Pero un mes antes de salir decretaron una ley que decía que no se podía cambiar el dólar y no se podía sacar dinero. Tuve dos entrevistas con el Che Guevara y me autorizó a retirar una pequeña cantidad.²

En 2007 Aguilé se vio involucrado en un escándalo político de corrupción, a causa de una colaboración suya con autoridades del Partido Popular de Castellón.² Ese mismo año lanzó un tema nuevo, titulado Señor Presidente. La canción es un mensaje mordaz dirigido a un Presidente a quien Aguilé dice haber votado, al que le hace saber sus quejas, para pedirle que cumpla las promesas de campaña y que "mi humilde voto no caiga en su olvido".
Durante la promoción del disco, algunos periodistas le preguntaron si la canción estaba dirigida al Presidente de España José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero.³ Aguilé aceptó que podría aplicársele, pero declaró también que su destinatario era el Presidente de Venezuela Hugo Chávez.³ También declaró que la canción había sido prohibida en Venezuela y censurada en Argentina y Guatemala, sin mayores precisiones.³ Aguilé sostuvo entonces que él "había sido más perseguido que Serrat".³
Sin embargo, en Argentina la canción fue presentada con un recital realizado ese mismo año en Buenos Aires, sin ningún tipo de incidentes,⁴ mientras que en Guatemala, la canción fue utilizada incluso en un video del programa Libre Encuentro, del Canal 3, para promover las buenas prácticas democráticas.⁵



Pese a ello, la canción ha sido desde entonces difundida como "la canción prohibida de Aguilé".
Aguilé también hizo público su apoyo a posición de la Sociedad General de Autores y Editores (SGAE) de España, en una serie de controversias en la que esta entidad se ha visto involucrada relacionada con los alcances de los derechos de autor, y ha defendido el alto precio de los discos como un acto de libertad comercial.

Técnicas básicas

Las técnicas generalmente se dividen en OMOTE (IRIMI) y URA (TENKAN). Pueden ser practicadas como TACHIWAZA, SUWARIWAZA o HANMIHANDACHI. Además se pueden practicar de manera básica (KIHON) o fluida (KI NO NAGARE).


* DAI IKKYO
* DAI NIKKYO
* DAI SANKYO
* DAI YONKYO
* DAI GOKYO
* SHIHONAGE
* IRIMINAGE
* KOTEGAESHI
* KAITENNAGE
* KOSHINAGE
* TENCHINAGE
* JUJINAGE
* KOKYUNAGE
* KIRI OTOSHI
* KIRIAGE
* HENKAWAZA

Michael Jai White

Mental control

Weaving the Aztec Cosmos

Weaving the Aztec Cosmos: The Metaphysics of the 5th Era

by James Maffie, Visiting Associate Professor, Department of Philosophy Affiliate, Latin American Studies Center, University of Maryland (USA)

Mexica Weaponry

Mexica Weaponry: Classification, Systems and Latest Research

Our knowledge of the weapons used by the Mexica (Aztecs) has tended to focus on the listing and classifying of known artefacts, deliberating in some cases on their possible offensive and defensive roles and capabilities. However, present-day classification-type studies are proving less and less adequate as demands from the academic community continue to grow for a clearer understanding of Mexica army fighting techniques and the role that particular weapons played on the field of battle.
New methodologies and above all new theories are leading to a deeper knowledge of these weapons, going beyond mere description and classification.

Miyamoto Musashi

Mark Dacascos travels to Japan to trace the footsteps of the ultimate samurai warrior Miyamoto Musashi.

teotl (sacred energy).

Weaving the Aztec Cosmos: The Metaphysics of the 5th Era

by James Maffie,
Visiting Associate Professor,
Department of Philosophy Affiliate,
Latin American Studies Center,
University of Maryland (USA).

Pre-Columbian societies included individuals who reflected systematically upon the nature of reality, human existence, knowledge, proper conduct, and goodness. The Nahuatl-speaking peoples or Nahuas of Central Mexico – including those residing in Mexico-Tenochtitlan known today as the “Aztecs” - were no exception. Aztec tlamatinime (literally, “knowers of things”) i.e., sages or philosophers, sought answers to such questions as “What is the nature of things?”, “What is real?”, “What is good?” “How shall we live?”, and “What can humans know?”.

The life of a man is a circle

"You have noticed that everything an Indian does in a circle, and that is because the Power of the World always works in circles, and everything tries to be round.

In the old days all our power came to us from the sacred hoop of the nation and so long as the hoop was unbroken the people flourished. The flowering tree was the living center of the hoop, and the circle of the four quarters nourished it. The east gave peace and light, the south gave warmth, the west gave rain and the north with its cold and mighty wind gave strength and endurance. This knowledge came to us from the outer world with our religion.

Everything the power of the world does is done in a circle. The sky is round and I have heard that the earth is round like a ball and so are all the stars. The wind, in its greatest power, whirls. Birds make their nests in circles, for theirs is the same religion as ours. The sun comes forth and goes down again in a circle. The moon does the same and both are round. Even the seasons form a great circle in their changing and always come back again to where they were.

The life of a man is a circle from childhood to childhood, and so it is in everything where power moves. Our teepees were round like the nests of birds, and these were always set in a circle, the nation's hoop, a nest of many nests, where the Great Spirit meant for us to hatch our children."

Black Elk, Oglala Sioux

The Phantom Menace Choreography

Choreography is the art of designing sequences of movements in which motion, form, or both are specified. Choreography may also refer to the design itself, which is sometimes expressed by means of dance notation. The word choreography literally means "dance-writing" from the Greek words "χορεία" (circular dance, see choreia) and "γραφή" (writing). A choreographer is one who creates choreographies.
The term choreography first appeared in the American English dictionary in the 1950s.^[1] Prior to this, movie credits used various terms to mean choreography, such as "ensembles staged by"^[2] and "dances staged by".^[3]

Choreography is used in the fields of cheerleading, cinematography, dance, gymnastics, fashion shows, ice skating, marching band, show choir, theatre, and synchronized swimming.

Referencia basica

Como ponerse la hakama
Conceptos de la asociación italiana de Aikido
Glosario en Microsoft Access
Glosario en Microsoft Word
Glosario en Microsoft Word estilo Iwama
Glosario en Microsoft Word en ingles
Glosario en Microsoft Word de tecnicas

Tȟašúŋke Witkó

Crazy Horse (Lakota: Tȟašúŋke Witkó, IPA:tχaʃʊ̃kɛ witkɔ in Standard Lakota Orthography^[2]), literally "His-Horse-Is-Crazy" or "His-Horse-Is-Spirited";^[3] ca. 1840 – September 5, 1877) was a Native American war leader of the Oglala Lakota. He took up arms against the U.S. Federal government to fight against encroachments on the territories and way of life of the Lakota people, including leading a war party to victory at the Battle of the Little Bighorn in June 1876.

After surrendering to U.S. troops under General Crook in 1877, Crazy Horse was fatally wounded by a military guard while allegedly resisting imprisonment at Camp Robinson in present-day Nebraska. He ranks among the most notable and iconic of Native American tribal members and has been honored by the U.S. Postal Service with a 13¢ Great Americans series postage stamp.

Proyección vital

Desde tiempos ancestrales la naturaleza ha impresionado al ser humano con comportamientos que parecieran indicar a la existencia de alguna fuerza o presencia superior.

Por ejemplo:

• La capacidad de la materia para interactuar a distancia, i.e., ondas electromagnéticas y gravedad.
• La capacidad de los elementos, aire y agua, de pasar de un estado estático y tranquilo a otro de un fuerza y violencia incontenible, como tifones, tornados, tormentas.
• La esencia indefinible pero evidente de la vida, comparada con las cosas inermes.
• La capacidad de la actitud mental de alterar o inducir resultados.
• La capacidad de algunas personas de controlar y dirigir multitudes.
• El efecto de una situación de estrés en las capacidades físicas y mentales de las personas.

De estas observaciones surge el concepto de ki, 気. Es un concepto difícil de entender en parte porque en diferentes contextos y para distintas personas significa cosas distintas. Etimológicamente, el carácter 気 denota el vapor de arroz cocido. En Japón, el arroz es 米, pero al prepararlo como alimento se convierte en　御飯. Un término de respeto y agradecimiento. Entonces 気 se refiere a la esencia de la vida, la vitalidad fundamental. Se entiende como un fluido que permea todo. En este contexto los seres vivos son como receptores de radio que tienen la capacidad de sintonizar el 気 del universo.

En aikido （合気道）el punto de conexión con el 気 universal es el tanden （丹田). Los conceptos basicos para que fluya el 気 es estar relajado, con la mente tranquila, y el culo apretado, de tal manera que mente y cuerpo coinciden en un punto, el tanden （丹田).

ESPALDA

by "EL CODIGO DE SANACION EMOCIONAL" C.S.E. on Sunday, June 3, 2012 at 10:39am ·

Trabajemos, sanemos, reconozcamos, y aceptemos, las diferentes emociones

Pensamientos, juicios y criticas causantes de esta dolencia que se manifiesta y padecen un porcentaje altísimo de la población de la tierra.

La rodilla

La rodilla es la articulación que más carga soporta en todo el cuerpo, tiene un rango de movilidad discretamente limitado y es susceptible de un sinnúmero de lesiones de diversa índole.

¿QUÉ ES LA RODILLA?

Es una articulación cuyas estructuras óseas comprenden:
• La parte final del muslo => fémur (1)
• La parte superior de la pierna => tibia (2) y peroné (3)
Es una de las articulaciones que se lesiona con más frecuencia.

La rótula o patela (4) se desliza sobre el surco que hay al final del fémur.

Mejora la eficiencia del cuádriceps incrementando el brazo de palanca del mecanismo extensor.

Centraliza las fuerzas divergentes de los cuatro fascículos del cuádriceps.

Los ligamentos unen estas estructuras óseas, las orientan en función de la tensión de cada uno de ellos, determinan la movilidad de la rodilla, protegiéndola además contra determinados movimientos anómalos.

HAY CUATRO LIGAMENTOS PRINCIPALES:

• LLE: Ligamento Lateral Externo (5)
• LLI: Ligamento Lateral Interno (6)
• LCP: Ligamento Cruzado Posterior (7)
• LCA: Ligamento Cruzado Anterior (8)

Existen dos meniscos en cada rodilla: menisco externo (9) y menisco interno (10).
Son cartílagos semilunares que aumentan la congruencia entre el fémur y la tibia.

Transmiten y distribuyen el peso corporal, tanto con la rodilla extendida (hasta un 75 % de transmisión de carga) como flexionada (hasta un 90%)

Su ausencia comporta importantes cambios degenerativos del cartílago articular que pueden conducir a la artrosis.

El cartílago (11) es una capa de aproximadamente 3 mm que envuelve las zonas articulares de las estructuras óseas que forman la rodilla.

Actúa como una superficie lubricada que permite la fricción entre uno y otro extremo óseo, y como una almohadilla deformable que distribuye y atenúa la carga asociada con la actividad física (mantenerse de pie, caminar, deporte).

La lesión y desgaste del cartílago articular comporta cambios degenerativos que pueden conducir a la artrosis.

• ¿Cómo se diagnostican las lesiones de Rodilla?
o Historial médico
o Examen clínico de la rodilla
o RX, Resonancia Magnética, TAC

No todas las lesiones de rodilla son de “menisco” como comúnmente escuchamos, en la rodilla tenemos además, tendones, ligamentos, bursas, huesos, cartílago articular, etc.

Todas estas estructuras son potencialmente propensas a lesionarse y cada una de ellas dará una sintomatología diferente, ocasionalmente las lesiones pueden ser poco claras y dificultar su diagnóstico.

En el corredor la lesión de rodilla se produce principalmente por el impacto repetitivo al momento del apoyo en la carrera, el cual sin duda siempre produce micro traumatismos que a la larga pueden ocasionar dolor de leve a moderado condicionando la actividad física; es muy importante remarcar que la técnica con la cual se efectúe la carrera es determinante en la aparición, o no, de lesiones en la rodilla. Mencionaremos algunas para darnos idea.

LA LESIÓN SE PRODUCE POR EL IMPACTO REPETITIVO

LESIÓN DEL CARTÍLAGO ARTICULAR

El cartílago articular de la rodilla es un tejido muy delgado que recubre la superficie de los huesos que conforman la rodilla, que al inflamarse produce dolor al momento de caer, agacharse, ponerse de pie, etc. Este dolor se percibe principalmente e la cara anterior (frontal) de la rodilla y en la línea interarticular, normalmente no se aprecia una inflamación desde el exterior, esta lesión incrementa con la actividad deportiva y no es grave, en este caso es importante diferenciar si la molestia se debe a una carga de entrenamiento o a un proceso degenerativo atribuible a la edad.

TENDINITIS ROTULIANA

Se observa más en saltadores, sin embargo cuando el corredor incluye sesiones de fuerza y/ o saltos en su entrenamiento, esta estructura puede lesionarse, se percibe como un dolor leve a moderado muy bien localizado a lo largo del tendón rotuliano (debajo de la rótula, hasta la tibia) y a pesar de ser una estructura pequeña puede doler en diversas zonas y causar o no limitación funcional.

Puede haber inflamación y en algunos casos hasta dolor de las estructuras óseas (rótula ó tibia). Un hecho muy común en esta patología es la tendencia a volverse crónica, ya que el dolor es intermitente, y permite continuar con las actividades, sin embargo cuando la molestia no desaparece en la mayor parte del tiempo y se percibe de moderado a intenso, orilla al deportista a descansos no deseados.

MENISCOPATÍAS

Los meniscos proveen amortiguación entre los huesos de la rodilla, (fémur y tibia), es un de cartílago especializado, formando un cojín que absorbe el impacto en el apoyo y rotaciones de la rodilla, aunque normalmente se lesiona con golpes, impactos directos o giros, un menisco lesionado previamente puede empeorar con entrenamiento o competencias.

Se manifiesta con dolor al agacharse, flexión de la rodilla, y dolor en la zona de la unión inter articular fémoro-tibial; frecuentemente se percibe chasquido (la rodilla truena) y /o bloqueo (imposibilidad para extender).

EL SOBREENTRENAMIENTO ES CAUSANTE DE LESIONES

LIGAMENTOS

Los ligamentos de la rodilla no se lesionan con frecuencia en los corredores, ya que para tener este tipo de lesiones se requiere de un traumatismo, caída brusca o rotación forzada, sin embargo en nuestro medio existen, además de corredores puros, deportistas de otras disciplinas que pudieran acarrear una lesión de este tipo con anterioridad y agravar sus dolencias.

En este caso el dolor se puede manifestar al flexionar la rodilla al agacharse pero principalmente pueden sufrir inestabilidad de a articulación, si la lesión es de los ligamentos de soporte anterior-posterior.

BURSITIS

De la misma forma éstas estructuras (en forma de pequeñas bolsas) puede infamarse y causar dolor por micro traumatismos repetitivos, manifestándose como pequeños aumentos de volumen en la cara anterior de la rodilla y con dolor al tacto; normalmente son espacios virtuales sin contenido en su interior.

Si presentas alguna de estas dolencias, lo más conveniente es acudir con un médico especializado, que realice el diagnóstico, inicie el tratamiento y te reincorpore gradual y efectivamente a la actividad para prevenir recaídas.

Rendez-Vous with Adventure

50 años después, las mismas ideas de la gente que ve Aikido por primera vez.

YouTube - Morihei Ueshiba and Aikido - Rendez-Vous With Adventure 1

YouTube - Morihei Ueshiba and Aikido - Rendez-Vous With Adventure 2

YouTube - Morihei Ueshiba and Aikido - Rendez-Vous With Adventure 3

The Bible on suffering

Dr. Michael Brown and Dr. Bart Ehrman debate the topic: Does the Bible Provide an Adequate Answer to the Problem of Suffering? at Ohio State University on April 15, 2010.

Нотович, Николай Александрович

Uploaded on Jul 3, 2011

Documentary produced by the government of India showing how that Jesus came to India for lessons and to teach Dharma.

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Nikolaj Aleksandrovič Notovič, known as Nicolas Notovitch (born 1858) was a Russian aristocrat, Cossack officer, spy^[1][2] and journalist. Notovitch is known for his 1887 book claiming that during his unknown years, Jesus left Galilee for India and studied with Buddhists and Hindus there before returning to Judea.^[3][4] Notovitch's claim was based on a document he said he had seen at the Hemis Monastery while he stayed there, but later confessed to having fabricated his evidence.^[5][6] Modern scholars view Notovitch's accounts of the travels of Jesus to India a hoax which includes major inconsistencies.^[6][7] Notovitch also wrote some political books on the role of Russia in war.

Notovitch claimed that he broke his leg in India and while recovering from it at the Hemis monastery in Ladakh, he learned of the "Life of Saint Issa, Best of the Sons of Men" - Isa being the Arabic name of Jesus in Islam. Notovitch's story, with the text of the "Life," was published in French in 1894 as La vie inconnue de Jesus Christ. It was translated into English,^[10] German, Spanish, and Italian.

Notovitch claimed that the chief lama at Hemis told him of the existence of the work, which was read to him, through an interpreter, the somewhat detached verses of the Tibetan version of the "Life of Issa," which was said to have been translated from the Pali. Notovitch says that he himself afterward grouped the verses "in accordance with the requirements of the narrative." As published by Notovitch, the work consists of 244 short paragraphs, arranged in fourteen chapters. The otherwise undocumented name "Issa" resembles the Arabic name Isa (عيسى), used in the Koran to refer to Jesus and the Sanskrit "īśa", the Lord.

The "Life of Issa" begins with an account of Israel in Egypt, its deliverance by Moses, its neglect of religion, and its conquest by the Romans. Then follows an account of the Incarnation. At the age of thirteen the divine youth, rather than take a wife, leaves his home to wander with a caravan of merchants to India (Sindh), to study the laws of the great Buddhas. Issa is welcomed by the Jains, but leaves them to spend time among the Buddhists, and spends six years among them, learning Pali and mastering their religious texts. Issa spent six years studying and teaching at Jaganath, Rajagriha, and other holy cities. At twenty-nine, Issa returns to his own country and begins to preach. He visits Jerusalem, where Pilate is apprehensive about him. The Jewish leaders, however, are also apprehensive about his teachings yet he continues his work for three years. He is finally arrested and put to death for blasphemy, for claiming to be the son of God. His followers are persecuted, but his disciples carry his message to the world.

Notovitch's book gained significant controversy as soon as it was published - historian Max Müller expressed incredulity at the accounts presented and suggested that either Notovitch was the victim of a practical joke, or had fabricated the evidence.^[11][12] Müller said: "Taking it for granted that M. Notovitch is a gentleman and not a liar, we cannot help thinking that the Buddhist monks of Ladakh and Tibet must be wags, who enjoy mystifying inquisitive travelers, and that M. Notovitch fell far too easy a victim to their jokes."^[5]

Hemis monastery, Ladakh in 1949

 

Muller then wrote to the head lama at Hemis monastery to ask about the document and Notovitch's story and the head lama replied that there had been no Western visitor at the monastery in the past fifteen years, during which he had been the lama there, and there were no documents related to Notovitch's story.^[5][13] Other European scholars also opposed Notovitch's account and Indologist Leopold von Schroeder called Notovitch's story a "big fat lie".^[5]
J. Archibald Douglas who was a professor of English and History at the Government College in Agra India then visited the Hemis monastery to interview the head lama who had corresponded with Müller and the lama again stated that Notovitch had never been there and no such documents existed.^[13] Wilhelm Schneemelcher states that Notovich's accounts were soon exposed as fabrications, and that to date no one has even had a glimpse at the manuscripts Notovitch claims to have had.^[6] Notovich at first responded to claims to defend himself.^[14] But once his story had been re-examined by historians, Notovitch confessed to having fabricated the evidence.^[5]

Although Notovitch had been discredited in Europe, Swami Abhedananda wrote a book called Journey to Kashmir and Tibet in which he stated that had visited Hemis and seen a document similar to the one Notovitch had mentioned, and produced a Bengali translation of parts of it.^[15] But after Abhedananda's death, one of his disciple admitted that when he went to the monsatery to ask about the documents he was told that they had disappeared.^[15]

Bart D. Ehrman, a Bible scholar and historian famous for his best sellers, says that "Today there is not a single recognized scholar on the planet who has any doubts about the matter. The entire story was invented by Notovitch, who earned a good deal of money and a substantial amount of notoriety for his hoax."

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Николай (Шулим) Александрович Нотович (1858 — ?) — российский разведчик, писатель, журналист, дворянин и казак-офицер. Известен написанной по-французски книгой «Неизвестная жизнь Иисуса Христа» (более известной как «Тибетское Евангелие»), якобы содержащей ранние проповеди Иисуса и предполагающей, что Иисус от 12 до 30 лет жил в Индии.

Looking At Fear. That Extraordinary Jewel

Uploaded on Feb 14, 2012

Jiddu Krishnamurti was born on 11 May 1895 in Madanapalle, a small town in south India. He and his brother were adopted in their youth by Dr Annie Besant, then president of the Theosophical Society. Dr Besant and others proclaimed that Krishnamurti was to be a world teacher whose coming the Theosophists had predicted. To prepare the world for this coming, a world-wide organization called the Order of the Star in the East was formed and the young Krishnamurti was made its head.

In 1929, however, Krishnamurti renounced the role that he was expected to play, dissolved the Order with its huge following, and returned all the money and property that had been donated for this work.

From then, for nearly sixty years until his death on 17 February 1986, he travelled throughout the world talking to large audiences and to individuals about the need for a radical change in mankind.

Krishnamurti is regarded globally as one of the greatest thinkers and religious teachers of all time. He did not expound any philosophy or religion, but rather talked of the things that concern all of us in our everyday lives, of the problems of living in modern society with its violence and corruption, of the individual's search for security and happiness, and the need for mankind to free itself from inner burdens of fear, anger, hurt, and sorrow. He explained with great precision the subtle workings of the human mind, and pointed to the need for bringing to our daily life a deeply meditative and spiritual quality.

Krishnamurti belonged to no religious organization, sect or country, nor did he subscribe to any school of political or ideological thought. On the contrary, he maintained that these are the very factors that divide human beings and bring about conflict and war. He reminded his listeners again and again that we are all human beings first and not Hindus, Muslims or Christians, that we are like the rest of humanity and are not different from one another. He asked that we tread lightly on this earth without destroying ourselves or the environment. He communicated to his listeners a deep sense of respect for nature. His teachings transcend man-made belief systems, nationalistic sentiment and sectarianism. At the same time, they give new meaning and direction to mankind's search for truth. His teaching, besides being relevant to the modern age, is timeless and universal.

संसार

Saṃsāra or Sangsāra (Sanskrit: संसार) (in Tibetan called 'khor ba (pronounced kɔrwɔ [IPA] in many Tibetan dialects), meaning "continuous flow"), is the repeating cycle of birth, life, death and rebirth (reincarnation) within Hinduism, Buddhism, Bön, Jainism, Taoism,^[1] Yârsân In Sikhism this concept is slightly different and looks at one's actions in the present and consequences in the present.
According to the view of these Asian religions a person's current life is only one of many—stretching back before birth into past existences and reaching forward beyond death into future incarnations. During the course of each life the quality of the actions (karma) performed determine the future destiny of each person. The Buddha taught that there is no beginning or end to this cycle. The goal of these Asian religions is to escape this process, the achievement of which is called moksha. In popular use, Samsara [a westernized spelling] may refer to the world (in the sense of the various worldly activities which occupy ordinary human beings), the various sufferings thereof; or the unsettled and agitated mind through which reality is perceived.

Elementos de la practica

Dosa, shuden, giho, saho


* (動作)DOSA Movimiento
* SHUDEN Repetición
*( 技術)GIHO Pureza de la técnica
* (作法)SAHO Etiqueta

Ejemplos de ataques

Uchi, dori, tsuki, shime



* SHOMENUCHI
* YOKOMENUCHI
* KATATEDORI
* RYOTEDORI
* MOROTEDORI
* SODEGUCHIDORI
* SODEDORI
* MUNAKATATEDORI
* MUNARYOTEDORI
* KATADORI
* TSUKI
* KOSADORI
* USHIRORYOTEDORI
* USHIROMUNADORI
* USHIRO ERIDORI
* Hiji dori Agarre al codo
* Eri dori Agarre al cuello
* Kubishime Estrangulación

Samsara

Published on Nov 18, 2012

Después de tres años, tres meses y tres días de reclusión voluntaria en una ermita perdida en la región del Ladakh en el Himalaya, Thasi (Shawun Ku) emerge de un trance profundo. De vuelta en el monasterio budista donde vivió desde los cinco años, el joven va recuperando poco a poco sus fuerzas vitales. Pero el regreso trae resultados inesperados. Fuera de los rigores de una vida entregada al desarrollo espiritual, Thasi empieza a experiementar el despertar a la vida sexual. Estos sentimientos coinciden con un viaje a una villa cercana donde Tashi conoce a Pema (Christy Chung), una bella joven de la que se enamora. Por primera vez el joven lama comienza a cuestionarse los valores de su vida monacal en el monasterio.

Un Buda

"Un buda" es la historia de un joven que, inserto en el mundo de la gran ciudad, lucha por evadir y posponer sistemáticamente su particular y profunda necesidad espiritual, el desesperado anhelo de su alma por saber quién es él. La pérdida, el desengaño y la tragedia lo llevan irremediablemente a adentrarse de un modo extremo en el abismo de prácticas espirituales ascéticas, abandonando completamente su vida, su entorno, su alimentación y sacudiendo profundamente el mundo de las personas que lo rodean.

sniper

As US forces surged into Iraq in 2003, Chris Kyle was handed a sniper rifle and told to watch as a marine battalion entered an Iraqi town.

A crowd had come out to greet them. Through the scope he saw a woman, with a child close by, approaching his troops. She had a grenade ready to detonate in her hand.

"This was the first time I was going to have to kill someone. I didn't know whether I was going to be able to do it, man, woman or whatever," he says.

"You're running everything through your mind. This is a woman, first of all. Second of all, am I clear to do this, is this right, is it justified? And after I do this, am I going to be fried back home? Are the lawyers going to come after me saying, 'You killed a woman, you're going to prison'?"

It's killing that is very distant but also very personal - I would even say intimate”

But he didn't have much time to debate these questions.

"She made the decision for me, it was either my fellow Americans die or I take her out."

He pulled the trigger.

Kyle remained in Iraq until 2009. According to official Pentagon figures, he killed 160 people, the most career sniper kills in the history of the US military. His own estimate is much higher, at 255 kills.

According to army intelligence, he was christened "The Devil" by Iraqi insurgents, who put a $20,000 (£13,000) bounty on his head.

Married with two children, he has now retired from the military and has published a book in which he claims to have no regrets, referring to the people he killed as "savages".

The US marine sniper course is one of the hardest training courses in the military, with a failure rate of more than 60% and a long list of prerequisites for recruits, including "a high degree of maturity, equanimity and common sense".

Research in Canada has also found that snipers tend to score lower on tests for post-traumatic stress and higher on tests for job satisfaction than the average soldier.

"By and large, they are very healthy, well-adjusted young men," says Peter Bradley at the Royal Military College of Canada, who is studying 150 snipers in Afghanistan. "When you meet them you're taken by how sensible and level-headed they are."

When former Soviet sniper Ilya Abishev fought in Afghanistan in 1988 he was immersed in Soviet propaganda and was convinced what he was doing was right.

Regret came much later. "We believed we were defending the Afghan people," he says. "Now I am not proud, I am ashamed of my behaviour."

For police snipers, who operate within normal society rather than a war zone, doubts, or even trauma, can arise much sooner.

Brian Sain, a sniper and deputy at the sheriff's department in Texas, says many police and army snipers struggle with having killed in such an intimate way.

"It's not something you can tell your wife, it's not something you can tell your pastor," says Mr Sain, a member of Spotter, an American association that supports traumatised snipers. "Only another sniper understands how that feels."

But for the US's deadliest sniper, remorse does not seem to be an issue.

"It is a weird feeling," he admits. "Seeing an actual dead body... knowing that you're the one that caused it now to no longer move."

But that is as far as he goes.

"Every person I killed I strongly believe that they were bad," he says. "When I do go face God there is going to be lots of things I will have to account for but killing any of those people is not one of them."

They are us, we are them

Everyday, more and more people become aware of Rachel's work in Palestine and the positivity she left behind. Her parents have tirelessly been working for the last 7 years to bring justice for the shocking and disgraceful behaviour shown by the Israeli and American governments regarding Rachel's death.

I sincerely hope you will help Rachel, her parents and supporters by spreading this video and learning more about her.

Please visit the Rachel Corrie Foundation

lealtad de perro

http://noticias.prodigy.msn.com/internacional/articulo-uno.aspx?cp-documentid=28038353

En medio del caos que envuelve a Japón, hay espacio para las historias de amor, en esta ocasión fue la especie canina quien dio muestra de la solidaridad, fidelidad y nobleza que distingue a su especie.
Y es que tras el terremoto de nueve grados y posterior tsunami que azotó Japón, un portal de noticias difundió imágenes donde se aprecia a un perro que se mantiene cerca de otro que está herido, con la finalidad de llamar la atención de un grupo de rescatistas.

Gandhi’s doctrine of nonviolent civil resistance

The essence of love is empathy, the ability to put oneself in place of the other. Love requires courage, as Gandhi put it, to go smiling into gun fire. But love should not be an excuse to allow evil, even if we do not have the courage to be slaughter with a smile on the face. We must take action and strike back when we must.

the following is taken from

Resolving the Israel-Palestine Conflict: What we can learn from Gandhi
Tans Lecture, Maastricht University (13 November 2008)