Yaxley class is 6pm - 7pm on the 7th of Feb because of the Play.
Award for Master McCann British National Martial Arts Associations (BNMAA) for contribution to the development of martial arts in Britain for 2002.
The IKA is born! International Ki Do Association.The way of Energy! This is a parallel system so traditional external martial artists can learn the internal elements to the martial arts without losing what they already know, more in the next Update.
I'm looking to do a Saturday seminar at my house on the 8th of February.
Start time 11am (that gives us travelling time) Finish around 6pm.
For those wishing and with a long way to travel.....Stay at my house train on the Sunday finishing off at the 2pm - 3.30pm Class.
Covering and including Life Skills Certification:-
a. Reiki
b. Image streaming
c. Dowsing
d. Creative Visualisation
e. Feng Shui
f. Empty force
g. Energy applications for self-defence
Cost £35
Total numbers 8 (Total for over night stay 5)
Hi Mark,
Count on me of being a future member of the KI DO movement!
An engineer dies and reports to hell. Soon, the engineer becomes dissatisfied with the level of comfort in hell and starts designing and building improvements.
After a short while, hell has air conditioning, flush toilets, and escalators. The engineer is becoming a very popular guy.
One day God calls Satan rings up on His cell phone and says with a sneer, "So, how's it going down there in hell?" Satan replies, "Things are going great. We now have air conditioning, flush toilets, and escalators. There is no telling what this new engineer is going to come up with next."
God shouts, "What? You've got an engineer down there? That's a mistake. An engineer should never have been sent to hell; send him up here right now."
Satan says, "Sorry, no way. I like having an engineer on the staff, and I'm keeping him."
God replies, "Send him up here, or I'll sue."
Satan laughs uproariously.
"Yeah, right. And just where are you going to get a lawyer?"
Mark,
Well I do not know if it is coincidence, but while sitting at my desk at work, I purposely put pressure on the balls of my feet. The muscles in question felt a little tinge of tightening, and then the next time I got up to walk the pain was virtually gone.
I am right as rain today just in time for class this evening.
Thanks,
Jason
a/ Energetics of grip strength
b/ "Power zone" and why this is energetically the place to work
c/ How rooting increases perceived mass
d/ Function of the belt and crown vessels
http://www.igtsda.co.uk/ for your world championship update Entry forms are here! Team forms for the world championships are free! As a good will gesture Master Adlington and Mr Fernandez agreed to include this free event at our IGTSDA world championships July next year.
Each country can enter 2 teams. Junior team X5 students under 16years old. Senior team X5 students 16 years and above. Any combination of male and female.
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UK herbalists have criticised the ban on the substance kava Kava, which came into force on Monday (13/01/03). The National Institute of Medical Herbalists (NIMH) has condemned the government's decision to outlaw kava kava as "folly" and says removing the right of herbalists to use the substance will harm more patients than it will protect. The herb is used to treat anxiety, insomnia and the pain caused by long-term illness. According to the NIMH, it is used by eight out of ten herbal practitioners.
Kava kava was voluntarily moved from shelves a year ago after being linked to 70 cases of liver toxicity worldwide, four of which were in the UK. The cases prompted the UK's Committee on the Safety of Medicines to recommend a ban. The Medicines Control Agency (MCA) is now acting on that advice and the ban came into force this week, although it will be reconsidered in two years time.
Trudy Norris, president of the NIMH, described the decision to ban kava kava as "ridiculous". The institute says the reported cases of liver toxicity referred to the use of concentrated extracts rather than the whole plant. "The government has banned the wrong thing," she said. "They have banned a safe, effective plant that has helped thousands of people for hundreds of years.
"I can understand that they want to look at standardised extracts, which are often highly concentrated, but they shouldn't confuse the traditional use of the herb with the commercial over-the-counter product." The institute is to launch a letter-writing campaign and petition in a bid to persuade the government to reinstate the use of the plant. Ms Norris added that the use of kava kava and other herbs was influenced by the advice of experts who knew little about herbal medicine.
"Members of the NIMH are the key professionals to demonstrate the safety and efficacy of kava kava," she said. "We submitted evidence to the MCA but they ignored it. If the government say they are entering a period of consultation about these things, then they should be prepared to listen." Dr Liz Williamson, an expert on herbal medicine from the London School of Pharmacy, who advised the MCA, said that, although rare, cases of liver damage associated with kava kava were idiosyncratic and it was impossible to predict who was at risk before they used the herb.
"In addition, no measures to reduce the risk, or the severity of liver reactions are available," she said. "It is therefore in the best interests of patients that the herb be withdrawn at present."
All European Union countries have removed kava kava from sale, and it has also been withdrawn from the Canadian market. An Australian investigation is in progress and the US Food and Drug Administration has taken the precaution of warning consumers of the risk of liver damage while it conducts its own investigation. Muppets! Why ban a simple herb when the drugs that are prescribed in there millions every day cause far more problems. Tina Sales had her drug changed by her doctor and the side effect of this new "anti-inflammatory drug" was hideous swelling! I was treating another RSD sufferer a few years ago and we were making great progress until Jo suffered the same massage swelling of the stomach, we now know what the problem was!
We will run the session in tracksuit or jeans.
We will be offering some of the conflict resolution model we teach to martial artists, women's groups, doormen, health workers etc. and outlining our courses.
I am pleased that I will be joined by 3 of my training partners and fellow instructors at the club: PC Jim Sullivan who I have learned much about conflict resolution from.
Jim wrote the 'sixth sense' self defence course adopted by crime prevention panels and the police; a 'safe cab' programme dealing with taxis and potential dangers. His work as a police officer in the control and if necessary restraint and arrest of violent men is legendary. he now works for the Family Support Unit dealing with abuse and domestic violence. He is a police senior trainer for first aid, baton, gas, cuffs and self defence. he has 3rd dan grades in Ju Jutsu and Judo and a blackbelt in kempo. He is a former international judo player and one of the most knowledgeable and able martial artists I have ever trained with - bar none. PC Paul Marenghi a former Met PTI and senior instructor for cuffs, gas, baton, self defence, first aid, public order and riot. He is a blackbelt in Jujutsu and another knowledgeable martial artist. Mark Gittins 3rd Dan shotokan. Mark has an interest in martial arts as a whole including fencing, shooting etc. He has bodyguard training experience and weapons, particularly knife skill. I am pleased you will be able to meet these guys, though I think you have met Paul before. I anticipate the morning to be largely theoretical and conceptual with instructors 'tapping in' to the presenters' experience. The techniques taught will be simple - bearing in mind that instructors will want to teach many to non martial artists, children or the infirm. We hope to give the instructors some teaching experience allowing for feedback in the afternoon when others arrive.
Master McCann's new email andrew.mccann1@ntlworld.net
London Contact Mr Fernandez afernandez@lbba.co.uk
All welcome to this seminar, any style, family and friends.
February 2nd CTC self-protection seminar
London February 6th Seminar Milton Keynes (Ki Do)
February 8th Healing/Energetics seminar 11am - 6pm my house.
February 16th Sawtry Testing (Moved from the 2nd)
February 23rd Ki energy seminar Sawtry (Ki Do)
February 24th No Oundle Class.
March 2nd Weapons seminar Sawtry
March 9th Testing and seminar Rugby
March 15th British Championships London
March 30th London colour belt test & seminar
May 4th Colour belt test Sawtry
May 11th Black belt test
April 5th-6th TSD England Boot Camp?
April 6th Possible Seminar with Grandmaster Tom Muncy
June 8th Scotland Seminar (Ki Do)
June 29th London colour belt test & seminar
July 10th - 12th World Championships London
August 3rd Colour belt test Sawtry
August 16th-17th Scotland TSD Boot Camp
September 9th instructors AMA insurance
September 20th Master Adlington's Championships
September 28th London colour belt test & seminar
October 25th Scotland Championships
November 2nd Colour belt test Sawtry
November 9th Black belt test
December 7th Scotland Seminar (Christmas party?)
December 14th London colour belt test &seminar
December 21st last class Sawtry
These days, a compass on the moon doesn't do much because there is no magnetic field to entice its hands to move. But it may not have always been so. Analysis of rocks recovered during the Apollo missions has uncovered telltale signs of ancient lunar magnetism. A new computer model may help explain the magnetism mystery. According to findings published today in the journal Nature, movement of a radioactive-enriched layer inside the moon--like the rising of the waxen blobs in a lava lamp--could have been responsible for a brief period of internally-created magnetism.
When volcanic rocks cool in the presence of a planet's magnetic field, they can preserve information about the strength and direction of the field. Current theories suggest that the nascent moon could not support the internal dynamo necessary to create a magnetic field. The magnetized moon rocks, which date to between half a billion and a billion years after earth's satellite was formed, thus eluded explanation. Dave R. Stegman of the University of California, Berkeley, and his colleagues adapted a computer model previously used to study planet formation to analyse the moon. By taking into account the different elements present in the young moon, the scientists propose that a layer of titanium and thorium-rich rock surrounded the moon's core and inhibited heat transfer between the core and the overlying mantle. The band eventually heated up and became more buoyant, the scientists say, creating a number of so-called superplumes of molten material that rose to the moon's surface. Maria T. Zuber of Harvard University explains in an accompanying commentary that "with the removal of the thermal blanket, the core is then able to convect vigorously to cool itself, and this can produce a short-lived dynamo." The model suggests that these new conditions persisted for about 300 million years.
The results are by no means the final word on moon magnetism, however. For one thing, the early composition of the moon remains uncertain. In addition, some scientists posit that phenomena other than an internal dynamo--asteroid impacts, for example--might account for the magnetism of the Apollo rocks. Comments Zuber, "Further simulations, continued analysis of the palaeomagnetic properties of lunar samples, and low-altitude global mapping of the Moon's magnetic signature will be required to truly grasp the elusive nature of lunar magnetism."
-- Sarah Graham
A Northen Bloke and his misses sat down in their living room and the man said, ''I'm going down to the pub for a bit, so put your coat on.''
The woman replied, ''Oh, sweetie, why? Are you taking me with you?''
The man replied, ''No, I'm turning the heat off.''
Thanks again for your help and the newsletter. It's too bad that I am on the other side of the planet. You seminar for ?35 is a very good price, the same kind of seminar in the USA would be $150 to $200...
-- Fabien