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string theory: Focus on contemporary Australian art brings together Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander artists from across Australia who work with expanded notions of textile and craft-based traditions.
19th Biennale of Sydney
– You Imagine What You Desire
Under the artistic direction of Juliana Engberg, the 2014 Biennale celebrates the imagination as a spirited exploration of the world, seeking splendour and rapture in works that remain true to a greater, even sublime, visuality.
War Is Over! (if you want it): Yoko Ono
This survey of works by legendary artist, musician and activist Yoko Ono is part of the 2013–14 Sydney International Art Series.
Embedded: Craig Walsh
Craig Walsh's new exhibition presents an immersive environment drawing on his recent artist residency in the Pilbara.
New Acquisitions in Context 2013
MCA Collection: New Acquisitions in Context 2013 presents a dynamic cross section of Australian contemporary art recently acquired by the MCA through purchase or donation.
JEFF WALL Photographs
Presented in association with the Art Gallery of Western Australia and the National Gallery of Victoria, this exhibition surveys of the work of Canadian photographer Jeff Wall.
Wangechi Mutu
Wangechi Mutu, curated by the MCA's Rachel Kent is a comprehensive survey of works by Kenyan-born, Brooklyn-based artist Wangechi Mutu.
Touring to: Orange County Museum of Art 4 November 2013 – 26 January 2014
Primavera 2013: Young Australian Artists
Don't miss Primavera, the MCA's annual exhibition of young Australian artists aged 35 and under.
MCA Collection
Experience the breadth of contemporary art practice in Australia and see art in all its forms from painting, photography, sculpture, works on paper and moving image.
South of no North: Laurence Aberhart, William Eggleston, Noel McKenna
Explore the vernacular, a regional sense of place and a similar visual sensibility when South of no North visits Artspace Mackay from 5 July – 25 August 2013.
The Wandering: Moving images from the MCA Collection
The Wandering: Moving images from the MCA Collection will tour Australia throughout 2013 and 2014


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DALLAS -- Eric Torres Pacheco, 17, is a brave young man. He's not hiding a secret anymore.
One year ago, Eric was admitted to Children's Medical Center of Dallas while suffering from chest pains. Equally alarming, he weighed just 92 pounds, down from a normal of 145.
Eric had decided that he wanted to eat healthy. He became a calorie counter, and carefully read over food labels. He dropped weight, but it was never enough.
I just wanted to drop more and more, Eric said.
Eric told us he didn't see a difference.
I looked in the mirror every morning, he said.
But his family noticed, and the change scared them. Eric's stepfather was the first to bring up the unhealthy weight loss.
The day that I saw him with no shirt [in his underpants,] I said, 'No, that's not right,' Juan Renteria said.
Everyone in the family suspected he had an eating disorder. Even though it was confirmed at the hospital, Eric was in denial.
After spending a week in the hospital treating his heart ailment, he went directly into in-patient treatment and intensive therapy.
He said for us to come and get him, because this place wasn't for him, said Eric's mother, Rosalva Pacheco. So it was very hard to see him cry because he wanted to come home.
Experts say males now make up 30 or 40 percent of people with eating disorders. They, like females, feel pressure to be thin and fit, as well as pressure to perform in sports and school, and are vulnerable to bullying.
Since most people including doctors associate eating disorders with young girls, it is often misdiagnosed among men.
It used to be, we'd go months without having a boy, and now we have two, three, four, six boys at any one time, said Dr. Stephanie Setliff, the director of Children's Pediatric Eating Disorder Program. We never do not have a boy in treatment.
Children's Medical Center of Dallas has the only pediatric eating disorders program in the state. In-patient treatment can be very successful, with intensive individual and family therapies.
Eric Torres is back to his normal weight of 145 pounds and the quiet teen said he's learned to open up about his feelings, and his family is proud of how he took control of his recovery.
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New album: Bakersfield
Artist: Vince Gill and Paul Franklin
Label: MCA Nashville
Rating: 4 stars out of 5
Although it seems blasphemous to say, some of the greatest country music ever recorded had its origins in California.
When Nashville recording honchos started plopping string arrangements on country music near the end of the 1950s, Bakersfield, Calif.-based producer Kenneth Nelson decided to go another way. With California native Merle Haggard and Texas born Buck Owens, Nelson helped start the first wave of what would later be referred to as "outlaw" country music. The sound these artists created during that time is now referred to as the Bakersfield Sound.
The performances turned in on those original recordings by Owens and Haggard were more stripped down and direct than those coming out of Nashville. The performances still featured fiddles and pedal steel guitars, but in a radical move the drums were pushed up in the mix and the twang of the Telecaster electric guitar made up the majority of the musical personality.
The last artist to make a huge commercial splash with this style was Dwight Yokam, and Brad Paisley has managed to pepper his work with it as well.
The new "Bakersfield" album by Gill and Franklin is more than a couple of buddies cutting a few of their favorite tunes. Gill's talents as a singer are well known, and his ability to recreate the feel of Buck Owens' guitarist Don Rich is uncanny.
Multi-instrumentalist Franklin turns in pedal steel performances so eerily similar to the originals by Thomas Brumley it almost sounds as if the original recordings were sampled — but they weren't.
The production and overall execution of "Bakersfield" is an incredibly sincere tip of the hat to the original sessions. Spirited performances of "Branded Man," "The Bottle Let Me Down" and "Nobody's Fault but Yours" stand out, but the entire album is a gem. The vocal harmonies shine throughout, displaying Gill and Franklin's bluegrass roots.
Rock and jazz fans have obsessed over their favorite musicians for decades, but that's not always been the case in the country music world. Gill and Franklin's instrumental prowess on "Bakersfield" should impress jazz and rock snobs alike. Gill's mastery of the Telecaster on "Foolin' Around" is enough to make any guitar store rat tip his mullet in admiration.
Hopefully there will be further volumes of this project, and a few people will take the time to sniff out the originals.
Classic album: The Chess Box
Artist: Howlin' Wolf
Label: Chess
Rating: 5 stars out of 5
Not many artists warrant three-disc box set retrospectives, but blues legend/rock and roll founding father Howlin' Wolf certainly does.
"The Chess Box" contains all of Wolf's hits for the venerable Chess label, along with unreleased tracks and solo acoustic performances. Many of these performances feature guitarist Hubert Sumlin, who himself influenced generations of rock guitarists such as Peter Green and Jimmy Page.
The sinister opening of "Moanin' at Midnight" is spookier than an acre of Marilyn Manson albums. Wolf's primal moan pitched up against a guitar riff that sounds like it crawled out of a burning swamp still raises hairs.
A cover of Willie Dixon's "Evil" is just that, and blues landmarks "Smokestack Lightning," "Who's Been Talking?" and "Sitting on Top of the World" are all here.
Howlin' Wolf's booming, coffee-cut-with-battery-acid vocals inspired Roger Daltrey's howling rock vocal style, and his harmonica and guitar playing helped lay the groundwork for the blues-rock boom that flooded the late 1960s/early 1970s.
Wolf doesn't get as much mainstream press as B.B. King, Muddy Waters or even John Lee Hooker, but as far as electric bluesmen go he's just as influential.
This collection also features segments of an audio interview with Wolf that are nearly as fascinating as the musical performances. As it turns out, this scary dude who looked like he could bite a guitar in half was a pretty nice guy who never recovered from his mother's disappointment in his choice of profession. See Wolf's "Mama Died and Left Me" for further details.
"The Chess Box" may be too much of a good thing for the average music consumer, but if you really want to get what Wolf was all about, this set is the only way to go.
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The Broward County Commission and County staff are channeling your hard-earned tax dollars to provide scores of helping hands. Some are modest projects, such as alerting you when construction may snarl traffic on I-595. Others are profound, such as the 2-1-1 Broward Hotline, which provides immediate crisis advice and referrals to long-term solutions to those dealing with crushing problems.
This community should be proud that we have joined together to help each other in these times of need. This newsletter focuses on some of these tiny and major shafts of sunlight providing help and hope for our residents.
An elderly mother slipping into the grip of Alzheimer's disease. A wife concerned her husband is suicidal. A family finding itself homeless in the middle of the night. A student afraid to tell her parents that she is the target of cyber bullies. A parent wondering whether her child has hearing problems.
The recession has hurt our ability to cope with the challenges of surviving troubled times. It certainly has crippled the elderly and the disabled, as well as the growing ranks of needy in our community.
Nearly everyone needs help at some time. Unfortunately, many people are paralyzed by embarrassment or because they simply have no idea where to find the help they need.But that help is a simple phone call away. Just dial the digits 2-1-1 from any telephone 24 hours a day, 365 days a year.
2-1-1 Broward is a free, confidential gateway to a wide variety of services in our community. No call goes unanswered. You are connected to a trained counselor who can offer help in any language. Empathetic listeners give emotional support, assess your need, list options and services available, provide contact information for exactly the right agency, and help you develop an action plan before you get off the phone. No run around.
Despite state budget cuts, a surprisingly wide array of social services remains available to all Floridians. They range from support groups to informational Web sites to hotlines. 2-1-1 Broward has been a "front door" that has opened to help between 110,000 and 130,000 people each year. Callers include business owners seeking family services for an employee, homeless families living in their cars, parents with children with special needs, uninsured diabetics needing insulin, single mothers who can't feed their children, seniors who live alone and need a daily call, people helping friends with substance abuse issues and widowed dads who need child care to keep their job.
If you are too self-conscious to talk to someone, details about services plus instant advice for individual problems, can be found by visiting, www.211-broward.org. The Web site also provides an easy method for donating to this non-profit service.
2-1-1 Broward is funded by your County tax dollars as well as by grants from the United Way, Children's Services Council and the state Department of Children and Family Services, among other groups and individuals. It's an example of government, non-profit agencies and private citizens still providing practical help to you and your neighbors in times of trouble.
Summer may mean tanning on the beaches to tourists, but Broward residents know it better as the start of hurricane season.
Your County government is ready to help you if and when a disaster strikes. But disasters across the country in recent weeks remind us all that it may take some time before the help you need reaches you.
We strongly urge you to make plans with your family and friends for the likelihood that you will have to provide for your own needs for at least three – even five days –if a hurricane strikes Broward County.
Some people are overwhelmed by the prospect of preparations. What do I actually need to do before a storm forms offshore? What food and materials do I need to buy? How can I afford it?
The County provides many tools to assist you, including checklists to take the panic out of preparations, and informative facts sheets on topics ranging from trimming your trees before an emergency to reporting home damage after an emergency. These are available on our Web site, www.broward.org/hurricane. There's also additional emergency preparedness information for the elderly and those with disabilities and/or special medical needs, available at www.broward.org/atrisk.
One of the most helpful and popular tools on our hurricane preparedness Web site is a list of food and other items to buy in order to be fully prepared for a storm. Our Shopping Guide is especially useful because it spreads the cost of assembling your hurricane kit over eight weeks.
Other services can be very important to you in an emergency, but involve a little preparation:
The county also has added new ways for residents to stay up to date with important public safety information before, during and after a storm.
The patience to cope with sluggish and backed-up traffic will become as necessary as a driver's license for at least the next three years during the mega-overhaul of Interstate 595. Astute motorists can ease the pain by becoming aware of precisely when and where work will be concentrated. Armed with this information, drivers can plan detours or add extra travel time to trips.
A map of lane and ramp closures, updated every few days, is available at www.i-595.com/construction. The maps take a little practice to decipher at first, but reading them can become second nature. A detailed list of work and closures accompanies each map. With two major exceptions in our district, immediate plans call for keeping open the same number of lanes during the busiest hours, although the configuration of lanes might change. Full lane closures and/or detours are to be limited, usually between 9 p.m. and 5 a.m., Sundays through Thursdays.
The major exceptions involve creating much smoother on and off access to the highway on so-called braided ramps. But the limited working space between I-595 and SR 84 requires shutting down some current ramps while building them.
Two ramps will be closed completely for 135 days beginning sometime in July:
The new replacement ramps will open in the late fall. Major closures aside, anyone who has seen how a stalled car on the shoulder can stymie traffic knows that construction itself can snarl some flow at any time.
A wise precaution is to identify alternatives routes now for the days when specific sections of I-595 and its exits are under construction. Comprehensive information about the project, including opportunities for feedback from the public, can be found atwww.i-595.com.
A few weeks ago, a crane slowly settled a live oak on top of the roof of the Young At Art Museum and Broward County Library complex being built at 11584 W. State Road 84 in Davie.
Setting the official tree of the Town of Davie on the 55,000-square-foot building symbolized continuing progress on the $21 million project.
When the complex opens next spring, the structure is expected to be the epicenter of cultural arts education for families. It will feature four permanent galleries: GreenScapes, CultureScapes, WonderScapes and ArtScapes. The Institute Studios will offer painting/drawing, ceramics, printmaking, digital photography, 4D video design and a preschool curriculum.
The structure will house a 10,000 square-foot branch library, a national traveling exhibition gallery, a theater, a teen center, recording studio, gift shop, Creative Café and a preschool classroom that will accommodate 22 children.
During the topping off ceremony, Young At Art officials announced that it has been named the only children's museum in the state to be accredited by the American Association of Museums (AAM), the highest national recognition to be bestowed on a museum.
Accreditation is a formal process that examines and qualifies all of a museum's operations. Young At Art was noted for its steady, smart and strategic approach to expanding its services to the public, developing model art programs for children and families and creating strong school and community partnerships.
To be accredited by the AAM signifies that a museum meets and often exceeds the standards and best practices of the museum field. This enhances opportunities for loans from other museums, funding from foundations and other philanthropies, as well as support from local, municipal and state government. For more information, visit YoungAtArtMuseum.org.
The low-tech transportation of a bicycle joins with the high-tech tool of computerized mapping software to make pedaling across the County a far easier – even more scenic and safer – ride than ever before.
The Broward Metropolitan Planning Organization's BiKE Broward online route planner provides detailed, printable turn-by-turn maps from and to any locations you select.
The planner at http://bikebroward.fiu.edu/mpobike/ presents the route by several criteria: shortest, fastest, simplest, most scenic and least interaction with traffic. It also pinpoints nearby public transportation and the location of bike lanes.
The project is a joint effort by Florida International University GIS Center and University of Florida Geomatics Program at Fort Lauderdale Research and Education Center. The programmers were aided by the Broward County Bicycle/Pedestrian Advisory Committee, various cyclists and transportation professionals.
Many of you run businesses that work hard to be environmentally responsible, but it's rare that anyone publicly honors your efforts to safeguard our community.
The Broward Emerald Award program does just that. Since 2000, the annual program has recognized businesses, governments, individuals or organizations in Broward County that demonstrate a commitment to preserving and protecting the environment.
You know that many of your customers and colleagues are as concerned as ever about the environment, even choosing to do business with firms that care about the quality of our community. The Emerald Award signals to customers and employees that the company is dedicated to Broward's ecology.
The award recognizes achievements in categories such as Pollution Prevention/Hazardous Waste Reduction, Recycling, Green Practices/Innovation, NatureScape Broward and Climate Change Leader.
Any Broward County business can apply for the award. The company must demonstrate ongoing compliance with environmental regulations, submit an Emerald Award Application and receive an on-site visit from Emerald Award staff.
More information can be found at www.broward.org/PollutionPrevention/EmeraldAward. You can also contact Kay Sommers at 954-519-1257 or email@example.com.
While budget cutbacks have forced hours to be reduced at some parks, one city park closed since October has now reopened in Davie with more and better facilities.
Liberty Park at 13500 S.W. 8th Street now has a new basketball court, playground, shelter with picnic tables, a bike rack, park benches, signs, fencing, security lighting, a recreational path, an open play area, landscaping and additional parking spaces.


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The Beginner's Guide to Camel Trekking and Venomous Snakes
By Marika Hill
The last thing you want to see on an overnight camel safari is a six-foot (2m) long, highly poisonous cobra slithering in front of your camel, especially if you will be spending the night under the stars with only a warm sleeping-bag separating you and the desert sand.
A group of five of us had decided to do an overnight camel safari in the Thar desert, within the state of Rajasthan, India.
First Obstacle: The Ascent
Camels offer numerous complications to their domestication, the first of these is getting up top. For one thing it has a large hump sticking out the prime saddle position.
Secondly, a camel is an extremely tall animal. Finally there were no fancy leather saddles; the locals generally throw a few makeshift blankets across, all tied down with a single rope strap. These factors canceled all romantic riding fantasies from Indiana Jones.
Our guides clicked their tongue signaling the beasts to sit, shrinking their frame to a mere meter tall. This bit was easy, all you have to do was sit on top.
Step two got far more technical: the camel stretched out its hind legs first, leaving the front of its body (along with the rider) lurching precariously forward.
Finally the camel straightens both legs and you find yourself ten feet (3m) in the air wondering how the hell you get off this beast. This is when the nerves really kick in.
I asked my guide, Gamara, whether there is many people seriously injured by falling off camels.
"But have people died?" I nervously inquire.
He took a little more time to consider his answer, "No snakes, it is too cold, now in summer, many, many snakes. But no, no snakes now, far too cold."
Second Obstacle: Momentum
Just my luck that I chose the stoner-type camel. No matter how much I tugged it and groaned, and whistled, and hit it and made funny mouth signals it seemed to just want to lag behind, scoffing down shrubbery and staring into space.
Contrary to what one might think of Aladdin's magical world, the desert is not all dry, perfect sandy dunes stretching through the distance. There's actually a lot of bleak dry shrub, dust and dirt mixed in with the sand, ultimately redefining my glossed-over perspective of desert. Within a few hours the constant sight of shrub and sand lent my mind to thoughts of tea and curry.
Third Obstacle: Privacy
The first break allowed us all to do something we had always wanted to do. Pee in the sand. I suspect it's some faded memories from the childhood sandbox that lead us to each chose a desert shrub, grinning nervously and crouching low. All was going well until the local school children began giggling at us about 100 yards (100m away). It turns out we had stopped near Gamara's village.
Our guides lived within a remote desert village, and conducted these tours as it offered a better paid alternative to subsistence living.
Fourth Obstacle: Deadly Snakes
After a nice hot curry it was back on the camels and further into the desert. With my scarf tied round my face like true desert explorer, I felt unbeatable. That is when the deadly cobra stopped us in our tracks. We all waited nervously as it gingerly wriggled past, undeterred by terrified Westerners. The guides seemed quite experienced with these situations, allowing it to quietly pass before we continued. We were later warned not to have toilet stops too close to the shrubs.
Another four hours riding and we reached our camping spot: miles of remote and unspoilt desert sand dunes. The rippled texture image seemed conceived by a squadron of top graphic designers using the latest digital technology.
Once darkness fell, a communal fire was lit and Gamara and Bemar shared stories and songs. Zipping up tightly in our sleeping-bags, with blankets over our heads – we felt semi-secure against snake attacks.
We woke the next morning, alive and with exquisite views of the glowing sun reaching over the infinite sand dunes.
Soon we were back on our camels, grudgingly making our way back to the jeep that would take us back to civilization.
How to book
Overnight camel treks begin at £5 for a basic 24 hour came trek including vegetarian food, camels, guides and a few extra blankets. From here the price goes up depending on your choice of food, length of trek and opting for luxuries such as desert huts and portable beds.
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Ware-(August 14, 2013) Baystate Mary Lane Hospital was among a select group of hospitals nationwide recognized by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) for reaching gold, silver, and bronze levels of outreach for organ and tissue donation and registration.
Baystate Mary Lane Hospital conducted awareness and registry campaigns to educate staff, patients, visitors, and community members about the critical need for organ, eye, and tissue donors and, by doing so, increased the number of potential donors on the state's donor registry. The hospital earned points for each activity planned between September 2012 and May 2013 and was awarded bronze recognition through the Workplace Partnership for Life Hospital Campaign, a program launched in 2011 by HHS's Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA).
Of the 924 hospitals and transplant centers participating in the campaign, 322 were awarded recognition. See a full list of hospitals recognized here.
"We are grateful to be recognized by the Department of Health and Human Services for our commitment to saving lives through organ donation," said Lisa Beaudry, MPH BSN CNM, Director of Patient Care Services. "This award is a reflection of the collaborative efforts of our staff to increase education and understanding of the organ donation process with our patients and our community members. We hope that by being recognized for this award, we can continue to create awareness about the ongoing need for organ donation."
This campaign is a special effort of HRSA's Workplace Partnership for Life to mobilize the nation's hospitals to increase the number of people in the country who are registered organ, eye, and tissue donors. The campaign unites donation advocates at hospitals with representatives from their organ procurement organizations (OPOs), Donate Life America (DLA) affiliates, and state and regional hospital associations. Working together, the teams leverage their communications resources and outreach efforts to most effectively spread word of the critical need for donors.
Baystate Mary Lane Hospital worked with LifeChoice Donor Services, the nonprofit federally designated organ procurement organization serving the hospital, on the campaign.
"It is encouraging to see the hospital's commitment to the donation process for their patients and families both at the time of death and before through education about an important end of life decision," says Chas Mackenzie, Director of Education and Hospital Services, LifeChoice Donor Services. "We are grateful for the continued partnership and efforts to help their community understand the life-affirming benefits of donation."
To date, the campaign has registered a total of 221,834 donors nationally.
Baystate Mary Lane Hospital's mission is to improve the health of people in our communities every day, with quality and compassion. A recipient of the Stroke Silver Plus Quality Achievement Award our hospital offers 24-hour emergency care with a pledge that all patients will see a provider within 30 minutes of arrival; intensive care, inpatient and outpatient surgical care, orthopedics; and cancer services through the Baystate Regional Cancer Program.


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Found this on Youtube today (from around 2000). Some great, insightful stuff from Geoff Thomspon from around 11 minutes onwards. Can't believe I missed this first time around!
Watched both parts last night really enjoyed them, nice insite into martial arts etc
Good find thanks
Like I said, can't believe I missed it first time around. I would love the chance to train with some of these peopel (especially Geoff - his theory on dojo etiquette it quite impressive and forward thinking).
The only issue that got me was the guy with the long hair in the Hakuma with "40" blackbelts. Sorry but how would you get the time to study all these styles.
The only issue that got me was the guy with the long hair in the Hakuma with "40" blackbelts. Sorry but how would you get the time to study all these styles.
Yeah I found that a bit unbelievable too. Apparently the majority of his blackbelts are in various weapons systems. And hey, if the Guiness Book of Records says it is true, who are we to argue? LOL
The only issue that got me was the guy with the long hair in the Hakuma with "40" blackbelts. Sorry but how would you get the time to study all these styles.
Yeah I found that a bit unbelievable too. Apparently the majority of his blackbelts are in various weapons systems. And hey, if the Guinness Book of Records says it is true, who are we to argue? LOL
The gent is question is Michael Finn and he's a skilled guy with a sound reputation. If I recall correctly he has "40 black belts in 10 martial arts". So an average of 4th dan in each – he started training in the 1950s – which is impressive and certainly not beyond the realms of legitimacy. He also was a serving police officer, a police trainer, and he's been used many times as an expert witness in UK criminal and civil cases involving self-defence, weapons, martial arts, etc. He used to write a lot in the martial arts magazines, but you don't hear that much from him these days. He's written a few good books as well. Never met him personally, but I know a few good guys who were students of his.
Sadly, I can understand the scepticism, but Michael Finn is not a self-promoted "multi-master" :-)
All the best,
Found this online, which shows Mike Finn would be listed as having 50+ black belts now. As you see, it's impressive, but not outlandish.
All the best,
Black Belt qualifications undertaken in Japan include:
- 1st Dan: Shindo Muso Ryu Jojutsu (Traditional Stick)
- 1st Dan: Kodokan Judo (Judo)
- 2nd Dan: All Japan Jodo Federation (Traditional Stick)
- 3rd Dan: All Japan Aikido Federation (Aikido)
- 3rd Dan: All Japan Kendo Federation (Japanese Fencing)
- 3rd Dan: Muso Shinden Ryu Iaido (Traditional Sword)
- 3rd Dan: Shindo Muso Ryu Jodo (Traditional Stick)
- 4th Dan: All Japan Iaido Federation (Traditional Sword)
- 4th Dan: Japan Karatedo Seikokai - Nunchaku, Rokushakubo, Sai, Tonfa, Kamma
Other Black Belt qualifications include:
- 1st Dan: Karate (Kyokushinkai)
- 7th Dan: Dokuritsu Jodo Renmei (Traditional Stick)
- 6th Dan: Dokuritsu Iaido Renmei (Traditional Sword)
- 7th Dan: Seiti Tanjo (Short, Medium and Long stick)
- 7th Dan: Hoshinjutsu (Modern Self Defence)
- 6th Dan: Ryukyu Kobudo
I don't understand that. If you're a fourth Dan you don't have four blackbelts, you have one. If we are going to start adding everything up then I'm a 28th Kyu :-/
I guess "40 black belts" sounds much more impressive to the layman and is easier to understand than "An agregate dan ranking of 40 across 15 or so martial syllabi" or something more accurate.
Looking over the actual ranks and disciplines/ organisations involved, this is not unreasonable for a man who would have trained for 50 odd years or so. A great many of those grades (especially the weapons ones) are in very similar and related disciplines which have a massive overlap in technical content. As far as I am aware, Mr Finn trained a lot in Japan and It must also be said that lower dan ranks (up to around 4th) are much more freely given there than is common in Europe and many other places. Not to devalue any of his grades of course, but while a list like this might look outlandish and a little suspect to European martial artists, many of the senior Japanese practitioners have similar legitimate credentials (Plenty of charlatans there too though!).
If he were claiming a 10th dan from the Kyokushinkai honbu, a 10th Dan in Brazillian jujutsu from the Gracie family, a 10th Dan in Aikikai aikido from their honbu and a 10th dan in judo from the Kodokan then something would clearly be amiss, but I don't see a problem here.
I suppose it was the Film Makers "enhancing" his credentials to make the film better. Supprised they didn't do a similar thing with the other Masters.
Good programme anyway
I trained with Mike Finn in the early 1980s I really enjoyed it he was an excellent instructor and a 110% kosher, I did Judo and the GoshinJutsu kata from Judo with him. I endorse what Gavin said re Dan grades in Japan when I went their to train in the late 1980s the average Japanese grade on the mat were 5th dans and they were considered beginners!! Me pondlife; in Japan a 1st /2nd is a beginner grade much like depending on your method is a yellow belt here. He was a training partner for Donn Drager and also Quetin Chambers who co authored the stick fighting book with Dr Hatsumi.
He is a very interesting person to talk to he was very big on the basics; I am not certain now the new generation of Martial artists would necessary have that patience. I glad I trained with hm even though I went a seperate way. I have got copy of his police self defence book somewhere.
I do remember seeing this documentry but it was great to see it again; as i picked up on other minor details I didt see the first time around so many thanks for posting it.


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LOS ANGELES (AP) - The end of one labor crisis at the nation's busiest port complex could be a prelude to another.
The resolution of an eight-day walk-off by clerical workers at the Los Angeles and Long Beach harbors that stalled billions of dollars of cargo and left container ships stranded off the California coast points to the stakes for upcoming contract talks with dockworkers at western U.S. shipping terminals.
The clerical workers represent a sliver of the membership of the International Longshore and Warehouse Union, whose 24,000 dockworkers handle everything from car parts to computers at ports in Washington, Oregon, California and Hawaii. The strikers numbered only about 450, but thousands of dockworkers refused to cross the picket lines and halted work at the sister ports that handle 44 percent of all container traffic that arrives in the U.S. by sea.
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Similar issues are likely to color the dockworkers' talks, as workers see their jobs potentially threatened by automation and competition for shippers after the Panama Canal expansion is completed.
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After the eight-day strike _ which stranded $760 million worth of cargo a day and sent some 20 ships to other ports in California and Mexico _ "both sides will see how much damage there can be if one side walked out or one side locks out," Wong said.
California has a long history involving dock labor _ a strike in the 1930s led to the unionization of ports across the West. The western dockworkers reached their last deal with shipping companies and terminal operators in 2008, when both sides were worried that a strike or lockout could further damage the U.S. economy. A 10-day lockout in 2002 caused an estimated $15 billion in economic losses.
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The State of Texas should be ashamed for allowing this abuse to exist. These poor dogs are treated inhumanely and fed diseased food but yet expected to perform for profit of the track. Disgusting. I am utterly appalled at the suffering animals go through because of the stupidity and greed of humans. These race tracks should be immediately closed and these poor dogs should be released to a sanctuary or rescue group that will care for them and love them!!!!!!!
The losers responsible for this. Lets torture them. Please give me there personal info. Animals are so much better than people.
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I am so sick of humans who think that it OK for them to treat animals that way and to make profit of them!!!!!!!!!!! Who in the hell do they think they are,i hope they all will pay for all the cruelty dearly when their time comes!!!!!! The US is in desperate need of more Laws that protects any living animal!!!!!!!!!
I pray I live to see the day when the beautiful greyhounds are sitting in the stands....watching the cruel and thoughtless humans run and chase the bait.....imagine that...and keep praying with all your might that will happen. I will not rest until this is finished!!! DRB
First is all, racing these beautiful animals for profit and treating them the way they do is absolutely animal abuse. The industry would like for the public to believe that they talk great care of the racer, but there are too many horror stories to believe anything different. We rescued our "joyful thunder" two years ago and she is an absolute joy to have in our lives. It is an honor to be her "DogDad".
First is all, racing these beautiful animals for profit and treating them the way they do is absolutely animal abuse. The industry would like for the public to believe that they talk great care of the racer, but there are too many horror stories to believe anything different. We rescued our "joyful thunder" two years ago and she is an absolute joy to have in our lives. It is an honor to be her "DogDad".
the same abuse goes on in Sarasota and Pinellias ,Florida, someone needs to investigate what goes on here also, its sad, so so sad.
IT NEEDS TO COME TO A STOP !!!!!! THEY ARE DOGS DAMN IT NOT HORSES, even horse racing needs to stop.
We adopted our very first retired racing greyhound,Swanson almost 2 years ago and every day I am amazed at how gentle these dogs are. My Swanson loves to run at the dog park and everyone always stops to look because he is so fast, but "he runs because he chooses to" and that's how it should be - every living being deserves to be have a good life.


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GRAND PRAIRIE, Texas (Friday, September 27, 2013) – Three stakes races are carded at Lone Star Park Saturday, September 28. The main feature is the 17th running of the Grade 1, $75,000-guaranteed Refrigerator Handicap, for three-year-olds and up going 440 yards. Gates open at 5:30 p.m. First live race is at 6:35 p.m.
The race is named after World Champion Racing Quarter Horse Refrigerator, who was the first American Quarter Horse to surpass $2 million in career earnings. In six racing campaigns, the gelding won 22 of 36 races, including 11 stakes events. In addition to capturing the 1990 All American Futurity, Refrigerator is the only horse to capture three runnings of the prestigious Champion of Champions at Los Alamitos. He was named the AQHA's Champion 2-Year-Old & 2-Year-Old Gelding in 1990; Champion 3-Year-Old Gelding in 1991; World Champion, Champion Aged Horse & Gelding in 1992 and '93, and Champion Aged Gelding in 1994. Owned by Jim Helzer and trained by Blane Schvaneveldt in California and C. Dwayne "Sleepy" Gilbreath in New Mexico and Oklahoma, Refrigerator was inducted into Quarter Horse racing's Hall of Fame in 2000.
The Refrigerator has drawn a field of eight accomplished contenders. Feature Mr Bojangles, Champion 2-year-old colt in 2011 and winner of the Grade 1, Rainbow Futurity has been winless in his past eight attempts, but could out class the rest. Owned by R. D. Hubbard and Heysol Howlet and trained by Sleepy Gilbreath, the 4-year-old son of Feature Mr Jess has career earnings of $686,324 from a record of 16-7-3-2. He will be ridden by 10 time AQHA World Champion Jockey and all-time leading money earner in Quarter Horse Racing, G. R. Carter, Jr.
Last year's winner of the Refrigerator, Charal Kid will attempt to become the first horse to win the Grade 1 race twice. The 7-year-old gelding by Streakin La Jolla has career earnings of $504,119 from 18 wins from 49 starts.
The lone female horse in the race, Loves Brown Sugar is currently on a five-win streak. The last three were stakes wins at Retama Park. Can she continue that streak against the boys?
The field for the Refrigerator from the rail out, with jockey and morning line odds listed in parentheses, consists of: Charal Kid (Manuel Gutierrez, 4-1); Loves Brown Sugar (Cesar Zuniga, 7-2); A Toss Up (Jimmy Dean Brooks, 10-1); Joker On Jack -(Raul Gutierrez, 3-1); Bar Struck (Jose Amador Alvarez, 15-1); Lota Pyc (Roy Baldillez, 8-1); Feature Mr Bojangles (G. R. Carter, Jr., 5-2) and Jess Fly With Me (Luis L. Vivanco., 20-1).
The Refrigerator Handicap is the sixth of nine races Saturday at Lone Star Park. The $30,000-added Red Cell Distance Challenge, for 3-year-olds & up at 870 yards is the third race on the card with the $30,000-added Merial Distaff Challenge, for fillies & mares, 3-year-olds & up at 400 yards, slotted as the eighth race.
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