The Eternal Spring - 3 Main Principles of Wing Chun Kung-Fu
Wing Chun Kung-Fu is a style of Chinese martial arts which literally means "Eternal Spring". In Chinese character symbols it is sometimes replaced with the symbols for Eternal Springtime. Wing Chun's history is somewhat interesting as many associate it's origin to a woman named Yim Wing Chun. Yim means beautiful and Wing Chun means spring time so her name literally means 'beautiful spring time.'
The legend relates that Yim Wing Chun was forced into a marriage with a local warlord, and after she rebuffs the offer, she is challenged by the warlord to a martial arts fight. The challenge- if she can defeat him he will rescind his proposal. She consults a Buddhist named nun- Ng Mui from a Shaolin Sect who had survived the destruction of the Southern Shaolin temple at the time when the Qing dynasty had overtaken most associate temples. She then asks him to teach her boxing. She finally wins the match and later marries Leung Bac-Chou and teaches him her style of boxing which he names after her.
This story still remains a legend but the practicality and efficiency of Wing Chun is undisputed. It is a form of martial arts that is focused on achieving results and thus, defeating the enemy. It's focus is on the center line of the opponent's body and fast and subsequent punches along that line are placed to disrupt the enemy.
There are 3 key features that distinguish it from other forms of martial arts in its practicality:
1. Balance and Structure: A good body structure is need to stay firm and rooted on the ground. This helps to strike better and firmer punches, and also helps to deflect the opponent's strikes. All attacks or counter-attacks are initiated from this firmly rooted base.
2. Close Range: Wing Chun's close range is one the most important aspects of this technique. It believes in staying close to the enemy and using "entry techniques" by getting past the enemy's kicks and punches.
3. Protection and Strength: The elbow is always held low, and the arms and hands close to protect the mid-section of the body. The punches are made in a close range deriving strength from the whole body instead of just the swinging fist, and so have a greater impact.
Besides these three main principles it also focuses on close range power kicks and trapping techniques to achieve its goals.
One of the most distinguishing aspects of Wing Chun is perhaps it's wooden dummy. This is a thick wooden post with three arms and a leg mounted on a slightly springy frame representing a human opponent that is stationary. It is used to derive full body power and strength while refining the understanding of angles, footwork and positions. It also helps to make the practitioner's blows and punches stronger as they are practiced on hard wood compared to soft body muscle tissue.
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How do we define three binary dummy variables, one for each of the three companies you have selected out of the ten.
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type "genr dummy1=0" then open up the series and edit its first observation to be 1.
repeat for other two firms.
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Wing Chun wooden dummy, also called as muk yan jong, represents an arm and leg pattern designed to simultaneously develop fighting skill and chi in Wing Chun. The Hong Kong version (new version) of the wooden dummy is a wall mounted version of the original, which were placed in the ground. The Hong Kong wooden dummy is wall mounted using two wooden slabs piercing through the body of the wooden dummy. The new version of the Wing Chun wooden dummy was invented by Yip Man and was redesigned to fit the needs of apartment living. The new version of the Wing Chun wooden dummy has only three arms and a leg. They represent the body of an opponent in different positions and lines of energy that it can give out. The wood base in which the dummy is mounted has springiness similar to the actual reaction of an opponent when attacked. This gives the Wing Chun dummy user to practice absorbing energy in his stance. The new version of the Wing Chun wooden dummy is called a "live dummy" because of its ability to react like a live opponent while the old version is called a dead dummy because of its immobility.
Benefits of training Wing Chun with a wooden dummy are;
• Allows you to train even without a live partner.
• Conditions you to correctly position your arms and legs for maximum defense and attack.
• Conditions you for proper posture for maximum defense and attack.
• Trains you to guard against attacks.
• Trains you to counterbalance an enemy
• Trains you to oppose an attack
• Trains you to hit and attack
• Trains you to simultaneously use two limbs.
• Trains you to simultaneously use three limbs.
• Trains you to simultaneously use four limbs.
• Trains you to master footwork
• Trains you to move in the most effective manner.
• Trains you to master your kick
• Trains you to correctly apply the techniques learned in three forms
How Old Time Radio Became the Medium of Choice for a Ventriloquist
It may seem hard to believe that a ventriloquist could make a successful career out of a radio show, but incredibly the Edgar Bergen/Charlie McCarthy Show was a massive hit due to the comedic timing and talent of Edgar Bergen.
Bergen was born in 1903 and learned the art of ventriloquism at a young age. Edgar commissioned the creation of a dummy from a local craftsman and gave him the name Charlie McCarthy and the cheeky personality of a boy and womanizer who was able to get away with double entendre.
Edgar Bergen and Charlie McCarthy first became a duo when they appeared on talent shows in the Midwest while Bergen was still at college in Northwestern. Eventually he left school and began to perform his act full-time.
In the 1930s he performed in New York and even toured Europe and South America with his show, but slowly vaudeville lost popularity due to new forms of media such as film and radio.
Radio wasn't the obvious choice for a ventriloquist, but Bergen didn't let that put him off. In the mid 1930s Bergen and his dummy made an appearance on the Royal Gelatin Hour on NBC. As odd as it seemed to have a ventriloquist on the radio, his humor and wit made him a fan favorite instantly.
In 1937 he was rewarded with his own spot, The Edgar Bergen/Charlie McCarthy Show, on NBC, which became an overnight success. The show was so popular that it ran on various networks until 1956.
In the first year of the show, Bergen was involved in a controversy while performing the Mae West 'Adam and Eve' skit. He made remarks that were considered inappropriate, which brought unwanted attention from the Federal Communications Commission in 1938. However, the controversy passed and the show gained even more popularity.
Over the years, Edgar added more characters to his act. The most famous of these were the man-eating Effie Klinkerthe and the slow-witted but loveable Mortimer Snerd. While one would normally consider a ventriloquist act dependent on visualization, the show continued to be popular on the radio and although it would seem a natural progression he did very few television performances.
In the late 1970s, Bergen decided to retire and he donated Charlie to the Smithsonian Institute. A week later he passed away after performing in a show with Andy Williams.
Today, Charlie and two other puppets, Mortimer Snerd and Effie Klinker, are on display at the Radio Hall of Fame and Museum in Chicago and in 1990 The Edgar Bergen & Charlie McCarthy Show was inducted into the Radio Hall of Fame.
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Ned Norris is the webmaster of www.rusc.com, one of the most highly regarded old time radio web sites on the Internet. On RUSC you can relive the golden days of radio, download or listen online to 1000s of classic shows, and enjoy regularly updated editorial and reviews on old time radio and related topics.
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They aren't as useful as you might think however, because they don't give a very accurate depiction of how the the back legs of an animal really moves. The front legs work alright, but they still have a few too many joints for a real quadruped.
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Eg: 3 groups A,B,C D(1) = 1 for A and 0 for B and C D(2) = 1 for B and 0 for A and C D(3) = 1 for C and 0 for A and B
But what if I could code it this way?
D(1) = 0 AND D(2) = 0 for A
D(1) = 0 AND D(2) = 1 for B
D(1) = 1 AND D(2) = 0 for C
This way I use only 2 variables to represent 3 groups, so I gain degrees of freedom right??
But I haven't come across any good explanation for why I should not code the variables this way.
This is fine - if you don't really want to include A.
The problem with this is that you can't distinguish between A and the complement of (B or C). You could tweak the numbers a little to get around this, but fundamentally if you only have m dummy variables for n>m groups, you can only recover some set of m linear combinations of the n groups; you can't resolve this uniquely into n separate effects. So if you have n groups of interest, you really do need n dummy variables.
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"Wag the Dog" is a euphemism for when a politician in trouble at home wages a war or does some other diversion to divert attention. President Barack Hussein Obama and the Democratic Party are in trouble. With only a couple months until the midterm elections, some pundits say they may loose control of both houses of congress.
Why did President Obama suddenly take the moral high ground and come out in favor of building the Manhattan Muslim mosque so close to the site of the 9/11/2001 World Trade Towers ground zero attack? He knew 70% of New Yorkers are against building the 51 Park Avenue Islamic place of worship at that particular site. President Obama, it appears to me is doing a "Wag the Mosque" as a smokescreen for the rotten state of the economy during his administration and to help his parties election chances in November.
The libertarian in me applauds liberty, freedom of religion and the free market in any form. The realist in me knows this a a big diversionary tactic. He recently actually had the nerve to bash the state of Arizona over their newly passed Mexican border immigration law. A law closely matching Federal guidelines. The explosion in media coverage of both sides of this illegal alien issue was a wonder to behold. Isn't it the federal governments job to protect our borders? "Wagging Arizona?" Was that a movie in 1987 starring Nicolas Cage and Holly Hunter? OH! "Raising Arizona" was the name. That makes this the second "wag" in so many months!
The Democrats want all those illegals made into citizens so they can get their votes. Don't they?
See the movie: Wag the Dog (1997), directed by Barry Levinson. Staring Dustin Hoffman, Robert De Niro and Anne Heche. Funny. Priceless!
On Sunday 8/22/2010, Meet the Press on CNBC, with David Gregory hosting, spent one half of the program on the mosque issue and on Iraq and Iran. Meet The Press and the President should be more concerned about rising unemployment, the tight money crisis, real estate problems and deflation cropping up everywhere.
People out of work can't buy stuff. That means businesses have to cut back and layoff. The newly laid off plus the 9.7% already unemployed mean more reductions in consumer spending. This thing can turn into a vicious cycle catching us all in a snowball rolling down the hill. Watch out below, stocks.
"To put it succinctly, the stock market is a thermometer of public mood and a barometer of public action," Robert Prechter.
"A deflationary crash is characterized in part by a persistent, sustained, deep general decline in peoples' desire and ability to lend and borrow. A depression is characterized in part by a persistent, sustained, deep, general decline in production. Since a decline in production reduces debtors' means to repay and service debt, a depression supports deflation. Since a decline in credit reduces new investment in economic activity, deflation supports depression. Because both credit and production support prices for investment assets, their prices fall in a deflationary depression. As asset prices fall, people lose wealth, which reduces their ability to offer credit, service debt and support production. The mix of forces is self-reinforcing." Robert Prechter, Conquer the Crash (2002).
Xenophobia is the fear and loathing of strangers. Xenophobic trends increase as economies regress into deflation and peoples attitude turns sour. In deflationary downturns, people in general become afraid and therefore hateful of strangers. The mood of the total populace wanes. People are rabidly against the mosque. A recent poll asked the question: Is it appropriate to erect a Mosque and Islamic Community Center close to the 9/11 site? 37% said "yes", 62% said "no."
In addition to xenophobia, during a waning mood swing society does not start new businesses, loan money or invest. This retrenchment is textbook Robert Prechter Socionomics. According to him, socionomics is a marriage of sociology and economics that sees societal mood swings from positive to negative and back again as the driving force behind booms and busts in the economy. Man is a herd animal so he can't help following the herd. Not the way to invest, by the way. Buying more as prices go up and buying "hand over fist" at price peaks.
Robert Prechter, President of Elliott Wave International, has written about socionomics in his book, "The Wave Principle of Human Social Behavior and the New Science of Socionomics (1999). To me, the mosque situation is proof positive we are in a negative social mood change era evidenced by fear, xenophobia, pessimism, conservatism, thrift, savings and a general retrenchment. A waning instead of a waxing.
The deflation dead ahead is destined to morph into a deep dangerous depression. All credit inflations end badly according to the Austrian School of Economics. We have had a 100 year doozie of a runaway inflation. The 1913 dollar is now only worth 5 cents. Deflation, however, is the only cure for inflation.
The Greater Depression started in 2000 with the dot com bust and may last into 2016-2018 with a 90% drop in most assets and 30% plus unemployment rate. Better to lower taxes this time and let business make the jobs that will last and not disappear when the project is finished.
President Franklin Delano Roosevelt did us no favor. He made up government jobs and delayed recovery from the 1930"s depression with all his hair-brained socialist programs and ideas that took us to where we are today. He outlawed gold ownership. How crazy is that! Keynesianism-BAD!
You want conspiracy theory? I bet you can't handle this conspiracy theory. Read The Creature From Jekyll Island by G. Edward Griffin (1994). Every word is true! Here is a sample.
1913 was the year the Federal Reserve Board, a cartel and a monopoly, was formed in secret to create a one-world-order. International bankers figured they will plunder the world via taxes, debt, inflation and the farce of fiat currencies. Since the U.S. was so strong back then, they needed the cover of a private central bank to bring America down. Wars and even global warming were planned to be smokescreens for the big hustle. What a fraud. What a bunch of dummies we are to let them take our freedoms so slowly we hardly notice.
The Fed is not federal, a reserve or a bank. It is not even subject to an audit or accountable. Who owns it? The shares are not traded on any exchange. It is a private corporation watering down our money with inflation. The U.S is now policeman and foreign aid giver of the world. We fund bailouts left and right. All this will be paid for by you and I the taxpayers. Both parties are in on the nefarious scheme, by the way.
Now, we get deflation leading up to the Greater Depression. Will the banksters foreclose on everything and get richer? Probably. Smaller government due to reduced tax revenues will be a good thing. Mark my words! Unless a private money backed by gold catches on we are doomed to a repeat driving gold to $5,000 per ounce in the distant future. Money with no backing in Germany after WWI lead to hyperinflation helping Hitler hustle everyone. You don't want to elect the next antichrist besides the one we have in office now, do you? Only gold is not also a debt instrument. Only gold is honest. Not like politicians playing "Wag the Dog" with our LIBERTY.
New York City has a long history of intolerance. First called New Amsterdam by its Dutch founders. The leaders back then delayed letting the early Jewish immigrants build their own church until 1730. Waves of Irish, Italian and other foreigners passing the Statue of Liberty to be processed at Ellis Island were greeted with the same initial intolerance. The last ones onshore got the worst jobs with the lowest pay. Let us find another place for the mosque and not open up old wounds. I think they will find another place for the mosque.
The 70% coordinated collective citizen reaction against the mosque at this spot at this time is further socionomic proof we are indeed heading into the Greater Depression. It will be three times larger and longer than the depression in the 1930's due to the excess government, excess waste, excess war and excesses in general.
So, President Obama took the high road coming out for the mosque in theory. What a hornets nest he stirred up. Of course, he is right. Not allowing it would be against the law and a violation of the constitution. Denying the mosque would only engender a huge unproductive wasteful loosing lawsuit. The courts would have to rule on the side of religious freedom. It's a given.
Unfortunately, he is also on a program of weakening the constitution by appointing left leaning Supreme Court Judges and beating up on banks and business. Remarkably, only 10% of his administration have any business experience. Obamas' policies are making business uncertain and cautious. Business is frozen up because of all the bank bailouts, auto company bailouts, ObamaCare costs and financial reforms and regulations.
Obama know he is only a one term president. That is why he wants the U.S. to get wrapped up around the axle. So that his socialistic and many wealth redistribution job killing aspirations can be foisted upon us. There is no better way than this to help the onslaught of deflation and depression and make them worse in the long run. Socialism is economic death. Period!
Obama is the most distructive political figure America has ever had. Period!
The peoples mood is downright nasty these days. Stocks are topping out. Israel is reporting Iran will have a working nuclear bomb in 9 months. A "Wag the Dog" war with Iran is next. Another smokescreen for the power elite with the help of the Federal Reserve to finalize their one-world-government to take our FREEDOMS forever. Say hello to Big Brother!
This is not what our freedom favoring founding fathers had in mind.
This is TYRANNY!
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By Delwyn Lounsbury
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