Dancer What does traditional belly dancing and the Cossack movements foundational to Cossack martial arts have to do with each other? Completely natural moves. There are preset efficient movement patterns in our body frames that turn fitness into…
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I have plenty of subjects to discuss in September and later. I want to spend three weeks far from Internet, the worldly (bad) news, ... I will monitor my open positions, but not much more. I will not validate the hundreds of comments that I have…
2 years ago
Dignity is said to be the right of a person to be valued and respected for their own sake, and to be treated ethically with inherent nobility and worth. Said another way, then, is dignity the quality or state of being worthy of esteem or…
2 years ago
DVDs Then and Now This evening, my wife and I sat down to watch a couple of movies that we haven’t seen for a while. First, we watched “A Knight’s Tale”, which is one of the first movies we ever purchased on DVD. This was back in 2001; almost…
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Purpuricenus budensis…, Cerambycidae
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Excerpt from Basic Wing Chun Kuen: Art and Science by Hendrik Santo…
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Not much different from the last post, but a bit closer to completion. Well, after a lot of tweaking, I think the base is pretty much done. I added the fill cap, the wick, and a small adjustment knob for the wick height. I think there is one detail…
2 years ago
While on a recent holiday up to the north of Scotland, I tried Cullen Skink. It was delicious, so I tried my hand at cooking some myself. It is a thick fishy creamy soup according to a traditional scottish recipe. Mine likely differs from the…
2 years ago