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Want to know how to bind a book? Check out Bookbinding 101 from Amanda Marks, and easy set of bookbinding instructions for the novice bookbinder.
- Mat board (thick card board, chip board, etc. – The cardboard from the back of Legal Pads Work GREAT!)
- Book Binding Tape (I used medical first aid tape on this one. I have use canvas with glue, fabric anything that is flexible.)
- Wax Thread (I use Dental Floss)
- Book Binding Needle (I use a larger sewing needle)
- Book Binders Awl (I used an Exacto Knife and a nail. I have also used a Drumel Tool with a small drill bit– I recommend this if it is a large book – lots of holes).
- Metal Ruler
- Exacto Knife
- Rubber Bands – this is used to secure the book while putting the book together
- Paper (8 sheets folded in half)
- Draw a template (mine is of a heart) on scrap paper. Trace the Template onto the cardboard (I am using Mat Board for this project).
- Cut out the shapes with a SHARP Exacto Knife. The Sharper the knife the easier your life will be when cutting out the shape.
- I took one of the hearts and drew a line with a pencil 3/4" wide. This is what will make the book open. Only do this on ONE of the pieces of mat board!
- Take the tape (as you can see I am using First Aid Tape) and tape the pieces together leaving a 1/4" gap between the two pieces. Put the tape on the backside as well. Check to see if the piece flexes, trim any excess tape.
- Make the template of the shape you are using approixmately 1/4" smaller all around. This will ensure the pages fit in the book. Draw the template and cut out the paper.
- Secure the book together with rubber bands. You DO NOT want this to move while drilling holes!
- The base of the tortoise bind. It only works with odd number holes (for this book I am using a set of 3 – if you have a bigger book you can use 5 or 7). Each hole has three holes like above photo. Home is where everything begins.
- Start from the underneath of the book (poke pin up through the back side). Hold the thread on the back side and pull around the edge of the book and bring back through the HOME hole.
- Move either to the left or the right of the HOME hole. Then bring the thread around the side back to that hole.
- Make your way back to the HOME hole and do the other side the same way.
- Bring the thread back through and around the end.
- Your first stiches should look like the above photo (both front and back) and your needle and thread should be at the HOME position.
- Now we are going to TRAVEL (you can either TRAVEL to the left or right). All TRAVELING is is going from one HOME hole to the other HOME hole.
- Once you are finished with the stiches (red through blue) you will add the dark yellow. The dark yellow is an extra stich around the end of the book. This secures the end and gives it a nice finish.
- Continue TRAVELING to the other HOME hole and REPEAT red through blue. Add the additional dark yellow stich and finish at the ORIGINAL HOME hole. Tie knot add beads or other embellishments to the extra thread. The book should look like the above photo on the front and the back sides of the book.
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Why don't we build in historical styles?
It might be hard to believe but this isnŌĆÖt an historic building thatŌĆÖs been saved from the wrecking ball and retro-fitted for a new life. ItŌĆÖs actually a brand-new building (see exhibit).
If developers proposed something like this in Barangaroo or Docklands I suspect theyŌĆÖd be pilloried by intellectual and aesthetic elites. It'd likely be dismissed as kitsch – an "inferior,┬Ātasteless┬Ācopy of an extant style of art or a worthless imitation of art of recognized value."
But I reckon their effort would be appreciated by the masses. ThereŌĆÖs something about tradition people like. ItŌĆÖs not just history ŌĆō theyŌĆÖre also drawn to qualities like complexity, intimate scale, detail, richness, elaboration and non-abstract meaning.
This buildingŌĆÖs in Tianjin. ItŌĆÖs not a one-off, though. ThereŌĆÖre hundreds more proposed and recently constructed buildings around the world that're designed in historic styles. Not only in China but in many other countries too.
Go here and youŌĆÖll find a lengthy catalogue of buildings (24 pages to date) that show fidelity in design and materials to historic styles. TheyŌĆÖre not slavish copies of particular buildings in most cases but theyŌĆÖre hard to pick as new construction by anyone whoŌĆÖs not an expert.
Personally, I was brain-washed in modernism and I doubt I'll ever be fully accepting of historicism at a visceral level. But I can still see the appeal.
I donŌĆÖt see why some new buildings and streetscapes canŌĆÖt be in historic styles, even slavishly historic ones. After all, most people really, really like them.
Modernism was the product of a host of profound social, economic and technological changes. It was a reaction to the ideas and turmoil of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.
It's getting on in years now though. The Robie House was designed in 1906. The Schr├Čder House was built in 1924 and the Barcelona Pavilion in 1929. Construction of Villa Savoye started in 1928.
A lot has happened in the course of the last 80-100 years. For example, weŌĆÖve seen communism come and (mostly) go, great advances in equality of opportunity, and breathtaking technological advances like mass air travel and ubiquitous computing & communications.
Just why, after such a long period, so many architects refuse to countenance historic styles at all isnŌĆÖt clear to me. The circumstances of today are so different from early last century that I donŌĆÖt see the intellectual justification anymore for outright rejection.
IŌĆÖve canvassed possible explanations before for why we donŌĆÖt see new buildings in historic styles, or even highly-ornamented buildings, anymore. The possibilities discussed in that post and, as usual, in the associated well-informed comments, include:
- The high cost of designing, constructing and maintaining elaborately detailed and ornamented structures;
- Corporations and governments have other less expensive ways to ŌĆśsignalŌĆÖ to their customers;
- The demand to look ŌĆ£modernŌĆØ;
- Requirement for large glass areas and functional requirements that donŌĆÖt lend themselves to historic styles;
- The constraints on architects of designing within the confines of a fixed architectural style.
While these explanations are satisfying up to a point, they donŌĆÖt tell the whole story. They canŌĆÖt fully explain why we donŌĆÖt see at least some┬Ābuildings in historic or traditional styles, or with rich ornamentation and elaborate detail, or that have multiple literal meanings.
ItŌĆÖs really remarkable that something so many people like doesn't happen in Australian cities (incidentally, I'm not talking about post-modern "references" here). However the catalogue I linked to at the start suggests there might be change in the wind.
That shouldn't be surprising because modernism only occupies a relatively short period in the history of architecture. I don't expect modernism's going away and I wouldn't personally want it to, but I think there's room for historic styles of architectural expression.
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1Krammer56Posted September 6, 2012 at 7:29 am | Permalink
Interstingly, given the age of early modernism work, most of what we see today could be classed as recreation/reinterpretation of an historic building – just one only 60 years old instead of 160.
My biggest complaint about historic recreations/interpretations is usually that they are built to a price, with plastic or sytrofoam features glued to the building and rendered. They look OK from a distance, but often quickly show that they won't actually last the distance.
I'm a fan of the "horses for courses" school of achitecture – a great building that conflicts with it's surrounds may be a great building, but it is in the wrong spot! Historic recreations, or at least sympathetic buildings, have their place.
2Dylan NicholsonPosted September 6, 2012 at 9:41 am | Permalink
Well if Ludwig II could build Neuschwanstein in a style 300+ years before its time and it still be considered a landmark building almost 150 years later (it's still almost impossible to take a bad photo of it), then I guess we should still be able to do the same today…
3Holden BackPosted September 6, 2012 at 9:50 am | Permalink
It's a bit hard to tell from that image if your imagined 'elite' critics for a similar building in Australia wouldn't be right. It's all finials and folderols, with some faily modern plans behind, the equivalent of a cabbage rose chintz on a (not-quite) Barcelona chair. But then I read Pevsner at an early age, and was marked for life. It's also someone else's past in this instance – an attempt at Gilded Age New York in Tianjin.
I have had the experience of being taken around a recreation of a Chinese temple complex in Hubei Province, which memorialised a mythic culture figure, Yandi, who allegedly invented medicine. While I'm used to an oriental approach to historic timber buildings in which guides will happily tell you a building is 500 years old and was re-built last year, this temple complex was bizzare for being traditional timber detailing realised in reinforced concrete.
(It was complete with a cave, his alleged birthplace: thank goodness one of the Chinese female students I was with had the good sense to suggest that it might have been his mother who invented medicine.)
4RussPosted September 6, 2012 at 12:34 pm | Permalink
Alan, it is worth making a distinction between "built in historic style" and "built with historic materials". Historic materials are typically labour intensive, which isn't a problem in China, but would explain why few architects use them here – and obviously in many big projects use of those materials is severely limiting. Historic style implies copying – even if it needn't have to – which goes against the principles of most architects.
I suspect the main reason that people like brick and stone is that they age a lot better than concrete and metal frames. Very few commercial or residential buildings are built beyond a 20-30 year lifepsan, even if they survive 50+, mostly because you can't derive that future value from the future tenants, whoever that might be.
It might be a very small sweet spot for a project to have: small enough scale to be viable in historic style, an owner willing to pay over the odds to get a traditional look, and an architect with the ability to incorporate historic materials into a modern structure. Most of the examples in that thread you posted are churches or small-scale government buildings, and a lot of those that aren't are actually pretty awful.
5michael r jamesPosted September 6, 2012 at 3:45 pm | Permalink
I'm with Russ at 12.34pm.
Certainly I don't think architects have much to do with it as they are slaves to developers or city building regs or master plans etc. Of course starchitects must strive for something distinctive which leads to form-over-function for most of them (Foster being an exemption; Gehry and his imitators being the worst).
My argument for using successful older styles as templates for new construction is based on proven function. All the glass boxes being built as so-called luxury apartments are mostly shocking in function–poor in both environmental parameters (obligatory all-year round air-con heating/cooling), poor in privacy and poor in internal layout (glass walls on three or even two sides is a real bitch). And even the most expensive have a tacky feel often when brand new, so I reckon they will also be poor from an investment sense. (Last week I spent a few hours looking thru realestate.com.au at the surprisingly large number of apartments for sale in Melbourne Docklands and I am not sure I found a single one I liked: most with $1M+ price tags but relentlessly tacky with low ceilings (for a million bucks!) and that 70s look despite being about 5 years old or younger.)
So the huge impediments against change are the public's lack of stylistic discrimination, developer's greed and modern building methods. It is cheaper to whack in some framed glass walls than anything else.
Incidentally I am surprised no mention of all those German cities reconstructed post-war–most recent example is Dresden in former East Germany. I am not familiar enough with Germany but I would claim Munich as a great success (most visitors would not even be aware how much of the old city is reconstructed) especially compared to say Frankfurt (which is "modern") and see which you prefer.
6Jon WardlePosted September 6, 2012 at 4:50 pm | Permalink
I think one of the big benefits of building in historical styles is that they were often built when luxuries of lighting and air-conditioning were non-existent. Being in a modern building when the air-conditioning or heating fails is unbearable, for old buildings it was the norm and was compensated for by design.
If we are to move towards more sustainable design I would think we will be taking more from the past than from the present, particularly as new buildings have a lifespan of maybe 25 years, whilst historical buildings have more permanence and save resources and energy that way too. Even the 'greenest' building compares poorly on environmental footprint to a 150 year-old sandstone one if it has to re-built 6 times more.
7supermundanePosted September 6, 2012 at 5:28 pm | Permalink
Decent article. I do have a problem with it however, in that it tacitly accepts the assumptions of modernism in arguing for greater architectural diversity. The assumption is that modernism currently rests at the pinnacle of a progressive narrative – a linear and unyielding vector which necessarily brought about modernism, rendering all previous movements and local vernaculars anachronistic.
However this way of thinking about architecture or indeed about ourselves (the grand progressive narrative that seems to be implicit in so much discourse about society, morals, technology et al) is itself a product of our age (say the last 120 years) and would have been completely alien to the Victorians for instance, who for instance, had no qualms about reviving Medieval Gothic and making it a confident and definitive expression of their age. Take St Pancras Station in London for example; a grand Victorian Gothic edifice, which the intricacies of scale and craftsmanship, which delight us and yet a powerful and wholly contemporary (for the time) expression of confidence in the cutting technology of the age – the steam engine. The building incorporated the latest technologies into it's grand steel train-shed.
The Renaissance period saw the revival of Classicism through Palladianism, and the melding of local vernaculars, which themselves were derivations over a thousand years of regional Roman styles with High classical symmetries, forms and language as defining their age – of doing God's work of brining order and symmetry to the human domain and thereby helping to bring about a moral ordering.
The arguments for ornamentation, human-scale, human craftsmanship etc can really only be made poorly if one tacitly accepts the progressive narrative of Modernism -that the act of say building in a local vernacular or a Palladian style is a consciously and defiantly anachronistic act and that Modernism by implication is the default. To ensure greater diversity in our build-environment, we need to first discard the progressive narrative – the notion that history is a largely linear narrative – a vector charting it's way through epochs where what comes after is by virtue of being sequential, better than what came before it.
As to the cost issue – Modernism is both a reflection of and has lent itself to mechanisation, a fact that will be with us (at least until the oil runs out perhaps).This in turn has lent itself to empowering developers at the expense of all other interested parties, not least the public and the architects themselves. Most developers are motivated primarily by cost – the maximum return for a minimum effort and this culture of 'short-termism' is evident elsewhere in our culture, not least in the financial markets, and it is perhaps a partially a reflection of how compressed time has become for us with modern communication technologies. This short-termism invariably leads to building that are built to last 20 years rather than 200 years – it places the cost of replacement and renewal on a subsequent generation and upon the environment.
Taking my example of St Pancras station in London once more, we need to find the capacity to build not only to last but to build as an expression of higher values than purely monetary ones. Even the great capitalists (and I'm no capitalist) of a cventury ago saw the buildings they commisioned as a gift to society and civilisation, and an expression of what they deemed higher values. They regarded architecture as a something more than 'profit-maximisers' and Le Corbusier's 'machines'. The buildings we build say a lot about it. If we can bring ourselves as a culture to value something more than the bottom-line and if we choose to 'build-to-last' then the cost of human craftsmanship becomes less onerous. A building that potentially stands for 200 years is in the long-run, more cost-effective than the one that stands for 20. Moreover, the more buildings that engage craftsman, the lower the cost overall.
For my mind, the Arts and Crafts and Art Nouveau movements, have a lot of merit – the conscious breaking of symmetries and the intimacy of details, sometimes complex but often not, yet which still delight. Currently I live in Oslo. Not far from where I live is an area called Torshov, which was a planned development dating from 1910 to 1920, and employing a local interpretation of the Arts and Crafts movement. Details are largely confined to ornamental brickwork, however there is something about the spatial relationships, the moments of folly and broken symmetry as well and the overall plans of internal communal gardens given over to people rather than cars, which makes this area highly sought after:
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8melburnitePosted September 6, 2012 at 6:14 pm | Permalink
To answer your initial question Alan, some builders and even architects in Melbourne DO build in historical styles – have you driven around Toorak / Armadale area in the last 10 years ? There's quite a lot of not bad Classical / Victorian / Georgian style large houses, and even some apartments – by 'not bad' I mean good interpretations of historical styles built with fidelity to material and detail – have a look at the work of Nicholas Day (http://www.nicholasday.com.au/base.php). There are also loads of not very good Mock-Georgian and even more 'French Provincial' large houses complete with gilded wrought iron balustrades that owe a lot more to US house designs that anything actually French. And then in the suburbs – middle, next ring and even outer – where not so good Georgian / Tuscan and Victorian and Edwardian styles abound. So they do exist.
But perhaps you are talking about public and commercial buildings, and certainly I cant think of any of this type built in an authentic historic style. But then we luckily have plenty of the originals.
9Alan DaviesPosted September 6, 2012 at 11:54 pm | Permalink
Holden Back #3
Good thing then that I'm not endorsing it as an example of "good" architecture! My youthful mind was also shaped/brainwashed by the likes of Pevsner.
Supermundane #7
Excellent and interesting point. That POV warrants further exposure and discussion.
Melburnite #8
Thanks for the info, very interesting stuff. I was thinking in terms of large buildings but that stuff's relevant. And I haven't spent much time around Toorak at any time.
10supermundanePosted September 7, 2012 at 12:23 am | Permalink
Alan. Thanks. Apologies if I sounded too harsh in my comment – it came off harsher than I certainly intended. I very much enjoyed the article and agree with the sentiment. As trite and overused as the expression might be, our cities are in desperate need of finding the 'human-scale' (which includes often whimsical hand-made details). I very much enjoy your blog and find it, fantastic food for thought on the build environment.
Walking around places like R├Ėdel├Ėkka (admittedly once a slum – www. flickr. com/photos/ikoen/6964595696/) in Oslo or Bath in the UK, I realise that our ancestors essentially hit upon the right elements for successful urban planning and design hundreds of years ago. There is something in the DNA of these places, which intuitively works.
A final point to make. Architectural styles are not hermetically sealed entities. Local vernaculars and a range of cultural, social, technological, design and architectural influences will come into play. For some reason however, it strikes me that often the proponents of modernism wish to barricade the gates against any other architectural influence (and if they're inspired by say a local vernacular they're often reluctant to publicly admit it) for risk of being decried as 'pastische'. The purity of the idea from the genius architect (often more marketing speak than reality after the developer has had his say) is to be celebrated rather than humble journeyman honing their craft.
Good architecture needn't consciously avoid say classical or baroque influence but rather should embrace it if it's fit for purpose and if it's executed well and it needn't ditch appropriate modern techniques to achieve a false sense of authenticity. The Greeks built their temples out of solid marble but the Romans happily constructed a lot of their public buildings out of brick and concrete – only cladding them in a venner of marble. Today this would be decried but the theatrics of building is certainly nothing new and shouldn't be dismissed.
Personally I'd be delighted if a new Gaudi or Hundertwasser were let loose on Australian cities.
11supermundanePosted September 7, 2012 at 12:40 am | Permalink
To add, I guess we're in need of, and are by degrees beginning to develop as your post testifies to, a more nuanced view of 'progressivism' – one that doesn't simply regard something as superior by virtue of it's newness and novelty. One that humbly acknowledges our indebtedness to our collective 'cultural memory' and draws upon the wealth of human experience over the ages to understand what which simply works for human beings as they really are. It can be 'progressive' to draw on the past for lessons and that the past is in fact, living in us. We are indelibly shaped by what has gone before. This view isn't a rejection of modernism, which has also defined us but rather an opportunity to see modernism in context, even if it loses some of its 'purity' in the process.
12Dudley HorscroftPosted September 10, 2012 at 8:57 pm | Permalink
Michael James wrote "So the huge impediments against change are the publicŌĆÖs lack of stylistic discrimination, developerŌĆÖs greed and modern building methods." (5) Don't knock the developer – he plans for what he thinks will sell. And surely the developer has his main sphere in the new suburb, whereas Alan's article seems to be more related to the CBD or near-CBD major building. Here the problem is certainly the new building owner's lack of discrimination, and the architect wanting to make a name for himself.
I was unlucky enough to work in two buildings in Belconnen, one of which was the "Magenta" building, the other possibly the "Red" building. Part of a group of about 6, diamond in plan, which made for sheer awkwardness in arranging office space. In the first case, someone had decided 'open plan' was the only suitable arrangement. This meant bedlam with telephones ringing, people talking and general distraction. OK, this is always a fault of open plan offices, but it was exacerbated by the awkward shape. The second time in an identical floor plan we had a bit of input as the previous tenants had created separate offices, so we could use their general arrangement. We had a spine of enclosed offices down the middle for the higher ranks, the 'hoi polloi' were in near open plan offices around the outside. We had our quieter offices, they had the views and since the spine of offices separated the two open plan areas, they also had comparative quiet. But the architect probably got an award for the appalling design.
You have shown us views of buildings where the architect has had free rein to produce a monstrosity, with sticky out bits and gaps here and there. An architect has to make a name for himself, and the only way to do that is to produce something daring, out of the ordinary, and convince the prospective building owner that this is the absolute peak of modern architecture. Witness the poorly designed Sydney Opera House, a good building to look at but not fit for purpose (it did not comply with the competition specifications). The architect who finds out what the client needs, and ensures that within the financial limitations he designs a building fit for purpose probably has a couple of paras on page 119 of "Architectural Review" – and he is lucky if he gets that.
And that, Alan, is why you don't get (many) buildings built in 'historical' styles.
13M JeffresonPosted September 20, 2012 at 2:23 pm | Permalink
I fully agree with the comments from Supermundane. The rise of modernism in the interwar period essentially resulted in the dropping of the thread of coherent urban form making that had extended from antiquity up until that point. Modernism introduced a fundamentally different understanding of the relationship between individual buildings and urban form. The building was celebrated primarily as an object to be experienced 'in the round', set against a neutral ground, whether this be a plaza or open space. When modern buildings are inserted into an urban environment informed by traditional urban design (most of inner Melbourne), they are designed to treat the urban context as a 'ground' against which they are contrasted. At times, there are token gestures to context, but the general intent is to highlight the new building against the setting.
Traditional buildings were seen as building blocks of the urban environment, and form coherent urban walls framing contained urban spaces, whether these be streets or squares. The only buildings that were viewed in the round were those of civic, religious or in some cases commercial importance. In early suburban forms, freestanding houses were configured to create a dialogue between the building form and the garden setting, so here again the architecture was more a servant of urban form, rather than celebrated as an object in its own right.
As noted by Supermundane, modernist philosophy explicitly rejected earlier forms of architecture and urban form making and advocated the concept of succession, where subsequent styles superceded earlier ones, rather than seeing various styles as design traditions with the capacity for ongoing development. However this resulted in the rejection of a rich tradition of urban form making as well. Unfortunately, most contemporary architecture is not compatible with good urban form. If you line up a set of ordinary traditional buildings you can get quite a rich urban environment (think of just about any of Melbourne's older inner urban areas). If you line up a set of ordinary modernist object buildings, you get Docklands. The public recognizes this, there are good reasons why town planning controls such as Urban Character overlays and Heritage overlays exclusively seek to protect traditional urban forms, comprised of traditional buildings.
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Turn off the computer and go outside and play! We've all heard the conventional wisdom that says video games will turn your brain to mush. But a host of new studies show that gaming might actually be good for your health. Researchers at Nottingham University found that playing certain video games could achieve in one hour what eye patches achieve in 400 hours, while researchers at the University of Rochester found that first-person shooter video games improve visual skills by increasing the brain's capacity to spread attention over a wide range of events. But wait, there's more! The Mind Research Network in Albuquerque, N.M., found that Tetris players developed a thicker cortex than those who didn't play. And the Nintendo Wii has been helping Parkinson's patients improve balance. So, are video games good for you?
To help answer that question we turn to technology writer Clive Thompson, the blogger for Collision Detection and a frequent contributor to Wired and The New York Times, and The Takeaway's tech contributor Baratunde Thurston, host of "Popular Science's Future Of," a TV show on the Science Channel, to tell us how video gaming has more positive effects than you might think.
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wow. so hostile. maybe your violent energy would be better taken out on virtual enemies than real people online not in a video game who could be offended.
Where did you find these studies? I want to prove to my parents that there are some good apsects to video games and the the bad aspects (i.e. spending all my time in the basement, not going out, etc.) are controllable with some parental work and some rules that could be enforced (i.e. only half an hour a day).
Yes, video gaming is good for me...video gaming is good for me...video gaming is good for me...video gaming is good for me...
In case there wasn't enough brainwashing and mind-numbing crap in this country already. Yeah, video gaming is grand, particularly, when you consider that's how the army is recruiting sucker kids from high school to fly the drones and mass murder innocent women and children by remote control.
And, yeah, shame on you NPR for promoting this crap!
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Alliance hunter in a good guild on my server.
It was nice to hear you say you;re a GM in a top raiding guild. Very cool!
Would you mind sharing some more details about it?
P.S. I can't decide whether you're more likely to be Alliance or Horde.
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Wu Yuxiang
Wu Yuxiang
|Wu (Hao)-style taijiquan
|Notable students
|Li Yiyu (李亦畬)
Li Qinuan
|Wu Yuxiang
|Part of a series on
|Chinese martial arts (Wushu)
Styles of Chinese martial arts
|Wushu in the world
Historical locations
Chen Village (陳家溝)
|Wushu athletes/practitioners
Legendary figures
Bodhidharma (菩提達摩)
Historical individuals
Yue Fei (岳飛; 1103—1142)
Modern celebrities
Bruce Lee (李小龍 1940—1973)
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Wu Yuxiang or Wu Yu-hsiang (1812–1880) was a Chinese t'ai chi ch'uan (taijiquan) teacher and government official active during the late Ch'ing dynasty.[1] Wu was a scholar from a wealthy and influential family who became a senior student (along with his two older brothers Wu Ch'eng-ch'ing 武澄清 and Wu Ju-ch'ing 武汝清) of Yang Lu-ch'an.[1] Wu also studied for a brief time with a teacher from the Chen family, Chen Ch'ing-p'ing, to whom he was introduced by Yang.[1]
There is a relatively large body of writing attributed to Wu on the subject of t'ai chi ch'uan theory, writings that are considered influential by many other schools not directly associated with his style.[1][2]
His most famous student was his nephew, Li I-yu (李亦畬, 1832–1892), who also authored several important works on t'ai chi ch'uan. Li I-yu had a younger brother who was also credited as an author of at least one work on the subject of t'ai chi, Li Ch'i-hsuan.[1][2]
The style of t'ai chi ch'uan that Wu taught was eventually known, because of its later transmission by three generations of students of his nephew named Hao, as Wu (Hao)-style t'ai chi ch'uan. Hao Wei-chen subsequently taught Sun Lu-t'ang, the founder of Sun-style t'ai chi ch'uan.[2]
T'ai chi ch'uan lineage tree with Wu (Hao)-style focus[edit]
|Family of Wu (Hao)-style t'ai chi ch'uan lineage tree
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- ^ a b c Yip, Y. L. (Autumn 1998). "A Perspective on the Development of Taijiquan – Qi, The Journal of Traditional Eastern Health and Fitness Vol. 8 No. 3". Insight Graphics Publishers. ISSN 1056-4004.
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Joshua Eric Sawyer, known professionally as Josh Sawyer or J. E. Sawyer (born 1975[citation needed]), is an American video game designer, known for his work on role-playing video games.
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Sawyer grew up in Fort Atkinson, Wisconsin, and is the son of Linda Sawyer and sculptor Gerald P. Sawyer.[1] He is of German ancestry.[2] He earned a BA degree from Lawrence University in Appleton, Wisconsin. In addition to being a history major, Sawyer participated in the theatre (including mounting a production of Assassins). After Lawrence, Sawyer moved to California.
Starting as a web designer at Black Isle Studios, he quickly worked his way up the ladder to an associate designer position and then lead designer on Icewind Dale II.[3][4]
While at Black Isle he was known for coming up with the "Ex-Presidents" project naming system. When Interplay closed down Black Isle Studios many team members ended up at Obsidian Entertainment, which would eventually come to include Sawyer.
In November 2003 it was reported by Tor Thorsen of GameSpot that he had abruptly quit his role as lead designer of Fallout 3 to pursue other projects.
On July 19, 2005 GameSpot announced that he had left Midway's Gauntlet: Seven Sorrows, and was already employed by Obsidian Entertainment to work on Neverwinter Nights 2. He was preceded in that move by memorable game designer John Romero, who left work on the Gauntlet remake in June 2005. He was the project director and lead designer on the canceled[5] Aliens RPG.[6]
He was the project director and lead designer of Fallout: New Vegas. It was the longest shipped project he has been involved in from start to finish (about 18 months).[7] In December 2011 Sawyer publicly released a New Vegas mod designed for his own personal use adding a large variety of small tweaks to the game ranging from rebalancing the karma of certain characters to slowing down the level up speed.[8] As of November 2012 this mod is up to version 5.1 which was released in September 2012.[9]
He served as project director and design lead on Pillars of Eternity, a role-playing video game that was crowd funded through Kickstarter.[10][11]
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- Pillars of Eternity (2015), Obsidian Entertainment
- Fallout: New Vegas (2010), Obsidian Entertainment
- Alpha Protocol (2010), Obsidian Entertainment
- Neverwinter Nights 2 (2006), Obsidian Entertainment
- Icewind Dale II (2002), Interplay
- Icewind Dale: Heart of Winter (2001), Interplay
- Icewind Dale (2000), Interplay
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- ^ Ooi, Will (September 25, 2011). "An Interview with JE Sawyer - game developer, biker, and cat lover". Gamasutra. UBM TechWeb. Retrieved September 26, 2011.
- ^ (July 2005). "The Arcade Classic Is Back, and It'd Better Be Good", Official U.S. PlayStation Magazine (94): 38.
- ^ Faylor, Chris. "Aliens RPG Cancelled, Says Ex-Obsidian Staffer". Shacknews.
- ^ SEGA Signs Obsidian Entertainment To Develop Alien Title For Next-generation Systems
- ^ GameStar: Knights of the Roleplaying Table. Josh Sawyer.
- ^ Kayatta, Mike (December 30, 2011). "Fallout: New Vegas Project Director Releases Personal Mod". The Escapist. Defy Media. Retrieved March 8, 2015.
- ^ "JSawyer.esp - v5.1".
- ^ Purchese, Robert (December 4, 2012). "Project Eternity crowd-funding ends, grand total now $4.3 million". Eurogamer. Gamer Network. Retrieved June 29, 2015.
- ^ Purchese, Robert (December 10, 2012). "Obsidian renames Project Eternity, releases a proper video". Eurogamer. Gamer Network. Retrieved June 29, 2015.
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Apples and pineapples taste great together in this tropical fusion smoothie. They also make the perfect blend to try out a new (to me) type of leafy green – escarole.
Escarole is a type of endive. It has broad leaves and is much less bitter other endives or even kale. Like most leafy greens, it is a rich source of vitamin A (as beta-carotene), vitamin K, folate, calcium (21% RDA per head), iron (4.4 milligrams per head) and six grams of protein per head. Yes, I stuff the entire head into my blender pitcher!
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Apples are loaded with healthy fiber to help you feel fuller longer. This smoothie lasted me until mid-afternoon. Fiber also helps promote colon health and may reduce the risk of colon cancer.
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- 8 ounces homemade almond milk
- 2 apples, cored
- 2 cups pineapple, cubed
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Calories: 447
Fat: 2g
Protein: 9g
Carbohydrates: 112g
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Iron: 5.8mg
Vitamin A: 389% RDA
Vitamin C: 233% RDA
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Serving Size: One. (This recipe makes a large, 32-ounce smoothie. It is a meal-replacement smoothie and not a snack. I recommend drinking half right away and the other half about 30 minutes later. If it is too much for you, store leftovers in a sealed container in the refrigerator for up to 24 hours.)
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Open iTunes to buy and download apps.
Catalogue allows the user to create product photo catalog and distribute to the customers in the secure way. After the catalogue provider adds products information to the catalogue, the provider can now upload the encrypted catalogue to our server. Every provider is now assigned to a unique catalog ID. You can create the passcode associated with that ID. Those pairs can be distributed to your customer. Your customer can download Catalogue Free app for free.
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Nigel Shola Andre Reo-Coker is an English football player who currently features for the English Premier League side Aston Villa. He plays as a defensive midfielder.
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KIWI flying machine Sean Maitland is aiming for instant take-off with Glasgow after touching down at Scotstoun to begin his two-and-a-half year deal with Warriors.
The 24-year-old hopes to persuade Glasgow head coach Gregor Townsend to hand him a place on the bench for Saturday night's PRO12 crunch with Munster at Thomond Park.
Despite the winger having been out of action for 12 weeks with a finger tendon injury, Maitland has already completed his first training sessions with Townsend's troops and can't wait to pull on the black and blue jersey.
The 24-year-old said: "I am fresh and raring to go. I have met the boys and completed a training session with them and I am just desperate to get back on the pitch and get some competitive game time under my belt.
"Fitness-wise, I am in very good shape and for me the quicker I am back in amongst it the better. Fingers crossed that could happen with a slot on the bench at Munster on Saturday night.
"I know I need a big week in training but that is what I plan to deliver and see where that takes me. But if I am not involved this weekend then hopefully it will be the week after."
Maitland arrives at Scotstoun with the reputation of not only being among the best finishers from the land of the long white cloud, but also among the fastest.
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He said: "I have always had a fair turn of speed and when I was at high school I managed 100 metres in 10.8 seconds.
"So speed is a big part of my game, as is versatility, and I can play anywhere across the back three.
"But I have a proven record as a finisher and I am here at Glasgow to score tries.
"I have been really impressed with Scotstoun since I arrived at the beginning of the week and there are not many teams who have their stadium and their training facilities all in the one venue.
"Really, I just can't wait to get going."
Maitland is Scottish- qualified through his grandparents and although keen to train his focus solely on making an impact for Warriors, the new kilted Kiwi – who was sourced by former Warriors head coach Sean Lineen in his role as SRU director of player acquisition – admitted he has Scotland aspirations.
He said: "I am Scottish-qualified and when I realised my international ambitions would not be recognised through New Zealand I had no doubts about coming to Scotland.
"No small part of that was the meeting I had with Sean Lineen back home and maybe one day I can emulate what he achieved with Scotland."
Glasgow coach Townsend has no doubt Maitland will make an impact for Warriors.
Toony said: "We know the quality Sean brings with him from his record in Super Rugby. But he knows he will have to earn his place in our back line and I am sure he will do just that.
"We have so many big games coming up through December that his arrival is a case of perfect timing."
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Are GMOs Really Bad for You?
Are GMOs really bad for you? This is a question a lot of Americans have on their minds. Personally, having done some research on whether or not GMOs are bad for you, I believe GMOs are not bad for you.
Organic food is good for us! Right? It's certainly more expensive, and defiantly advertised towards "heath-conscious" people. Yet, there are apparently some articles out there saying it's not actually that much healthier, if healthier at all. Being someone who grew up eating and drinking organic food and being told it was better for me, this shocked me. So, I've decided for a research project I'll look into the argument of whether or not organic food really is worth the money. I'll gather evidence from both sides, choose the convincing side, and refute the loser with my new-found knowledge.
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By eating only "acceptable" meat, does it help our body maintain balance and keep it healthy? We often tell others that, by avoid the "fatty-kind" of meat that we would be alright, but then what about processed. By eating less of the fat-consuming meat, will that make us guaranteed as healthy? Does this mean that by eating the meat we socially think is healthy makes us really healthy?
I picked fried oreos because it taste good and I love it.
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There are over a million words to chose from in the English language. Personally my favorite word is "food". It is my favorite word because I like food a lot. Food can nurture people and can kill people. Food is what keeps everything alive. Food can bring back memories. It can also bring people together for parties or holidays.
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Would You Eat Insects?
Eating insects is a gross thing to do, as many people think. The majority of people today would say that eating insects is not something they want to or will do. Nowadays, food that is good-looking, delicious, and fulfilling is all people want. That way they can enjoy it, like it, and fill their stomachs. However, eating insects can actually benefit everyone in multiple ways. Whether it may be gross to some people, remember that insects used to be a daily meal in the past.
In our American culture fast-food plays a large role. Many other countries in the world stereotype America as a country that is based of off fast-food. Why do other countries believe our fast-food restaurants are such a big deal? In America, eating has become something we must do rather than something we do for pleasure. Some countries have meals that may last to be three hours long. Fast-food restaurants allow us to consume food on the go, taking no time at all. Also, the popularity of fast-food restaurants is growing and so are the size of the food and drink options.
My research question is: Is the development of GMOs a good or bad thing for our world?
During my twitter research, I discovered an interesting article discussing how drones can revolutionize and change the way we produce and eat in America. The FAA has recently issued its first permit for the agricultural use of unmanned aerial vehicles. This technology, already being used in other countries, can greatly improve farming efficiency. They can help locate bad spots in large fields, effectively lower prices for consumers, and improve the environment by targeting areas with chemicals more accurately.
Through my research about organic food and genetically modified organisms I found that more and more Americans are demanding less pesticides in their food. In the article I read it talks about how the demand for organic food has increased: USDA economists reported that organic produce sales spiked from $5.4 billion in 2005 to an estimated $15 billion last year and increased by 11 percent between 2013 and 2014. This shows how more people are becoming aware of how conventionally grown foods are processed.
In todays society the organic food movement has grown significantly, since people have realized the importance of eating healthy.
What is organic food, and is it actually healthier than non organic food?
Organic food is food that has been grown without the use of chemicals or pesticides. Organic farms use natural methods to grow and maintain their crops.The U.S. Department of Agriculture has established an organic certification program that requires all organic foods to meet strict government standards. These standards regulate how such foods are grown, handled, and processed.
Italy is the home to many great beginnings like birth of the western civilizations, the Roman Empire, the Roman Catholic Church, the Renaissance and the Risorgimento . The first civilization that lived in Italy were the Etruscans. They were an ancient civilization that historians know very little about the Etruscans much of what is known about this civilization is derived from grave goods and tomb findings. Italy was also the home of the powerful Roman Empire and the Renaissance that helped form the way western civilization is now.
The author of The Omnivore's Dilemma wrote about the wrongs and rights of the food we choose to eat in depth. I feel like he knew that the people reading this book wouldn't know half the things he's written about food. "Don't eat anything incapable of rotting." A lot of people wouldn't care where the chicken in their chicken nuggets grew up, but the author tried to raise awareness by writing this book that you should care.
Genetically modified organisms (GMO's) have been under question since they began to appear in grocery stores and markets across the world, with all of us wondering whether we should eat them or not. A GMO is a plant or meat product that has had it's DNA artificially altered in a laboratory by genes from other plants, animals, viruses, or bacteria. This allows the modified products to last much longer than organic products, and prevents the products from a number of diseases it might otherwise have in nature. The question currently out there: are GMO's bad for our health?
GMO stands for genetically modified organisms. GMOs are foods that have been modified in order to produce different traits. Many farmers are beginning to use GMO crops because these specially engineered foods are built to withstand harsh and unexpected climate changes. You could be eating GMOs in your bread, cookies, cakes, and other processed goods. Genetically modified foods affect me and my family directly. I want to know what I am putting into my body, and I feel like I have a right to know that. Too many times producers are masking the truth from their consumers.
One question I have in this life is when will this world, our earth, run out of resources? With the population of the world growing exponentially and the food growth growing linearly the world is bound to run out of food and resources for all at some point. We already can't support food for every human on Earth but when will everybody run out of food? It's a scary thought to think that the smartest human race could run out of basics needs, especially food and water.
I decide to do my senior project about animals abuse because I'm an animals lover. I feel extremely bad every time I find out about an animal abuse case. That's why I want to learn more about it and actually find some effective solution for it.
While doing my research, I came across an interesting question that made me think a lot. As a result, I went on and researched more about it. The results are pretty stunning.
I'm currently reading the book If I Should Die Before I Wake, And i have to say its a fantastic book so far. Even though it can be kind of depressing at some points, and that theres a lot of death, but i'm really interested in the Holocaust. I was reading a part in the book, "I could no longer concentrate on my studies; it had been days since I had been to school, all I could think about was food."
"A few days after we came home from the hospital, I sent a letter to a friend, including a photo of my son and some first impressions of fatherhood. He responded, simply, 'Everything is possible again.' It was the perfect thing to write, because that was exactly how it felt. We could retell our stories and make them better, more representative or aspirational. Or we could choose to tell different stories. The world itself had another chance."
Should schools ban junk food? President Obama wants to ban junk food. I think that they shouldn't ban junk food. They shouldn't ban junk food because students wouldn't eat at all if junk food is banned.
President Obama wants to ban junk food in schools. Junk food may be cheap, but sugar, fat, and other unhealthy ingredients make it unhealthy.
"Because school children consume a high percentage of their daily caloric intake during the school day, they should have the highest-quality nutritional choices available to them at these times."- Will Dunham, Reuters.
I think that junk food should be banned in schools because it doesn't give the nutrition and energy that students need in school.
I basically organized my information into two separate parts divided even further into subtopics and my information continued. My central topic is food but mostly about the two parts, organic food and non organic food. Then those each have three subtopics economic, health environment. This makes sense for my paper because I need to see both sides in order to see wich is better. My biggest problem was finding out what goes where.
My concept map relates to the rest of my research I already found because it is my research just that its more organized.
Those who don't know any better think that Mexicans eat Mexican food all the time. For example, this one time a taco truck went to my sister's school and this girl was trying to cut my sister. My sister told her no and the girl was like that why did she care that she ate tacos and burritos everyday. It's just how people think that black people like chicken, and not all of them do. They might think that we eat Mexican food because they mostly see Mexican cooks in the taco truck.
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King Burger: "I wish I was here with good news"
Princess Fries: " What is it"
"It's easy, it's filling, and it's convenient and inexpensive. Compared to other foods it's something that working people and ordinary people can go out and enjoy. "
"Fast food chains spend a large amount of marketing to get the attention of children."
"Today a typical fast food hamburger has dozens or hundreds of strips of beef from different cattle, in different regions blended together. So, if you have one sick cow in the batch, then the risk of getting sick is greater. "
-Eric Schlossor
The production of fast food has affected out country in several ways as the book displays. It highers obesity, ruins our landscape, and deepen the separation between rich and poor. There is a big affect on fast foods on the U.S, mostly negatively. It makes consumers gain weight and get addicted to the health-risking food. It poses big possibilities in diseases in where their products are made from as well. The high demand for the fast food causes the producers to take over more and more of fresh and beautiful land in the U.S.


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Climate Change: It's Just Too Difficult, Darling ... [1]
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While acknowledging that Ambrose's proposed Clean Air Act is a joke that won't begin to address climate change within a realistic time frame, Wente goes on to say that nothing Canada does will solve the problem worldwide.
(Aside from, perhaps, showing leadership and establishing a national economic advantage in developing alternative energy technology, she's right. But I lose the thread of her argument. What's her point: that we should give up?)
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Good answers depend on good questions. That's why we work so hard on the content of our questions and why we should work with students on how they ask their questions. What also helps to make questions good is asking the right type of question. It goes to intent—what we want in the way of an answer. The type of question we ask conveys this intent to the listener.
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The Mobile Banking and Payments Summit 2015 has now passed. You can get access to all of the audio recordings and presentations using the linke below.
Speakers at the 2015 event included:
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Benjamin van-Rooy, Director of Business Strategy, American Express
Darrin Peller, Managing Director, Barclays Investment Bank
Khalid Fellahi, Senior Vice President and General Manager, Western Union Digital
Michael Sullivan, Senior Manager of Mobile Banking, HSBC
Michael Hagan, CSO, LevelUp
John McDonald, VP of Marketplace, Poshmark
Jason Gross, VP, Strategy & Innovation, Verifone
Dean Tseretopoulos, Senior Manager of Emerging Payments and Digital Channels TD Bank
Rachid Molinary, VP of Technology, Banco Popular
Melissa Jankowski, Executive Director of Issuing, BBVA Compass
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The Mobile Banking and Payments Conference is back after its success in 2014 and is the best in class Mobile Banking event for networking and learning. You can expect:
- 20+ Crucial Industry-Focussed Debates: independently researched and structured agenda to give you key profitable business case-studies through delivering a strong value proposition across the value chain and to the customer
- Growing with 150+ Senior Executives and C-Level Attendees: This event will attract the leaders and pioneers from the ever expanding mobile banking and payments industry. If you are serious about developing your business and making new partnerships it is crucial to join them
- 20+ Hours of Networking: Use our networking breaks to their full advantage, mingle with the key players in the mobile finance space and get those crucial conversations started.
Here are some of the comments made about our other Open Mobile Media events from the audience present:
Mobile Banking and Payments gathered a good level of contacts and being a sponsor of the event was a valuable investment.
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Mobile Banking and Payments was a great opportunity to take down the barriers to communication between all the stakeholders in the mobile wallet space. Learning more about each other's goals and issues helps facilitate progress towards the results we all want to achieve, especially in delivering real value to consumers.
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Once again a great summit full of great content, conversations and networking. Can't wait 'til the next event
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Open Mobile is a revelation: incisive C-level players and thinkers at the top of their game. Highly recommended for senior executives looking for the right mobile intersection
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The single best place to connect with people in the mobile world
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One of the best conferences I've been to in 40 years of doing business. The topics were bang on, the speakers best in class and the networking amazing
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Di Canio was furious at the way his team were defeated by two second-half goals and insists he will have his squad in for Sunday morning training.
The Italian said: "I would like to fine my players but it may not be possible because they have too much protection. When I tell players they are average they get angry, but that was the case in this game. Now the club has to say sorry to everybody because they damaged themselves."
Macclesfield goalkeeper Lance Cronin made good saves from Raffaele de Vita, Andy Williams and Gary Roberts but Swindon paid for their wastefulness.
Tony Diagne put Macclesfield ahead with a fierce 35-yard free-kick into the top corner after 63 minutes and after Aden Flint was sent off, the win was confirmed when Robins substitute Louis Thompson scored an own goal.
Town were narrowly beaten by Aston Villa in the Capital One Cup in midweek and Di Canio admitted he hardly recognised his team.
He added: "For three days after Villa I was happy. Now I am angry. Tomorrow (Sunday) at 7.30 we will be training at Liddington and Di Canio will be the first to arrive. I know how to manage my players. Sometimes they think they are Barcelona players, but they are not."
Macclesfield boss Steve King said: "This is massive for us and our fans. Look at the gulf between the clubs. Last year we were in the same division but now they are looking to get into the Championship.
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