1/ Joke Accidental Bonding
A woman and man get into a car accident. Both of their cars are totally demolished, but amazingly neither of them is hurt.
After they crawl out of the wreckage, the woman says, "Wow, look at our cars - there's nothing left! Thank God we are all right. This must be a sign from Him that we should be friends and not try to pin the blame on each other."
The man replies, "Oh yes, I agree with you completely."
The woman points to a bottle on the ground and says, "And here's another miracle. Somehow this bottle of Scotch from my back seat didn't break. Surely God wants us to drink this Scotch and celebrate our good fortune."
Then she hands the bottle to the man. The man nods his head in agreement, opens it, and chugs about a third of the bottle to calm his nerves. He then hands it back to the woman. The woman takes the bottle, immediately puts the cap back on, and hands it back to the man.
The man asks, "Aren't you having any?"
The woman replies, "No. I think I'll just wait for the police..."
2/ Feedback from Ki disruption
Wednesdays lesson was most entertaining,
Mark managed to mess me up big time!!! By what I would say was a gentle strike to lung 5.
It never hurt at first, it was just dull? But 10 seconds later I got serious pain in my right arm, it felt hot and got very heavy.
Mark dowsed it and he had appeared to have messed me up totally.
So he put some of the good stuff back in and then the pain went, well that's what we thought?
I then started to get pain in my right side of my chest, we fixed that, then it went to my right shoulder fixed that it was very strange, the pain was hiding and ended up in the bladder meridian.
My neck started to seize up, and what we had found was that the bad stuff Mark put in the first place was starting to simulate a cold virus! (Not good!)
Mark sorted this by re-aligning my back, and that certainly cracked, then I was sat in the recovery position, so and all the good stuff was slapped into me, literally!
Well naturally afterwards I felt great, full of energy again, and the pain from the simulated virus had gone.
Cheers for a great lesson.
Asa
3/ Comedian George Carlin's view on aging:
Do you realize that the only time in our lives when we like to get old is when we're kids? If you're less than 10 years old, you're so excited about aging that you think in fractions.
"How old are you?" "I'm four and a half!"
You're never thirty-six and a half. You're four and a half, going on five!
That's the key. You get into your teens, now they can't hold you back.
You jump to the next number, or even a few ahead. "How old are you?"
"I'm gonna be 16!" You could be 13, but hey, you're gonna be 16!
And then the greatest day of your life . . . you become 21. Even the words sound like a ceremony . .YOU BECOME 21. . . YEA!!!
But then you turn 30.
Oooohh, what happened there? Makes you sound like bad milk. He TURNED, we had to throw him out. There's no fun now, you're just a sour-dumpling.
What's wrong?
What's changed?
You BECOME 21, you TURN 30, then you're PUSHING 40.
Whoa! Put on the brakes, it's all slipping away.
Before you know it, you REACH 50 . . . and your dreams are gone.
But wait!!! You MAKE it to 60. You didn't think you would!
So you BECOME 21, TURN 30, PUSH 40, REACH 50 and MAKE it to 60.
You've built up so much speed that you HIT 70! After that it's a day-by-day thing; you HIT Wednesday! You get into your 80s and every day is a complete cycle; you HIT lunch; you TURN 4:30; you REACH bedtime.
And it doesn't end there. Into the 90s, you start going backwards; "I was JUST 92." Then a strange thing happens.
If you make it over 100, you become a little kid again. "I'm 100 and a half!"
May you all make it to a healthy 100 and a half!!
Carlin's tips on staying young:
1. Throw out nonessential numbers. This includes age, weight and height.
Let the doctor worry about them. That is why you pay him/her.
2. Keep only cheerful friends. The grouches pull you down.
3. Keep learning. Learn more about the computer, crafts, gardening, whatever. Never let the brain idle. " An idle mind is the devil's workshop." And the devil's name is Alzheimer's.
4. Enjoy the simple things.
5. Laugh often, long and loud. Laugh until you gasp for breath.
6. The tears happen. Endure, grieve, and move on. The only person who is with us our entire life, is ourselves. Be ALIVE while you are alive.
7. Surround yourself with what you love, whether it's family, pets, keepsakes, music, plants, hobbies, whatever. Your home is your refuge.
8. Cherish your health: If it is good, preserve it. If it is unstable, improve it. If it is beyond what you can improve, get help.
9. Don't take guilt trips. Take a trip to the mall, to the next county, to a foreign country, but NOT to where the guilt is.
10. Tell the people you love that you love them, at every opportunity.
AND ALWAYS REMEMBER:
Life is not measured by the number of breaths we take, but by the moments that take our breath away.
If you don't send this to at least 10 people, Whoopdeedo, who cares ... OH ! did I tell you that TODAY IS MY BIRTHDAY, I'm 35 again for the ummmmm, nineteenth time.
Cheers, Howard
4/ Joke Blonde Rows of Corn
A blonde is driving along a deserted country road with fields on either side. She looks out the window and sees another blonde in the middle of a field, in a rowboat, rowing and rowing. She stops the car, rolls down the window and yells, "You know it's blondes like you who give the rest of us blondes a bad name!"
Getting no reaction from the blonde in the rowboat, she screams, "If I could swim I'd come out there and punch you out!"
5/ Subtle energy research.
a/ Is the power from "Mind Breath Body" a back EMF?
b/ More energetic effects of Vitamin C (This stuff is great!)
c/ Ki disruption from a light touch
d/ Inducing trapped nerves in the spine for energy drainage and Ki disruption
6/ IGTSDA World Champs 2003
The championship venue is outside the £5 congestion charge zone for central London. (Its very easy to get to from the M11)
http://www.londontown.com/
http://www.londontransport.co.uk/tfl/
http://www.nhm.ac.uk/
http://www.londonhotels-discount.com/
http://www.timeout.com/london/
http://www.londontheatre.co.uk/
Team events, please try to have Black Belts in all the teams events if possible and do not make extra teams with coloured belts.
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.
Please show us where you are from on the guest map.
http://pub30.bravenet.com/guestmap/show.php?usernum=2522498725&password=&zoom=4&movetox=-900&movetoy=-525
7/ Feedback from Preston
H i folks Master Woodiwiss here just to let you all know that Mark kindly came to Preston and took the class for me this had three effects.
1) those who believe
2) those who don't and wont open there minds
3) I could get a lesson for a change.
Mark is an easy going guy a in my view good a what he does. My classes have never done internal training the way Mark does so it was a new concept for them. A couple of guys made the mistake of thinking he's a fraud most of the class took heed and enjoyed it.
I had a wild time,and I must admit to getting one or two pointers. My only complaint was we hadn't enough time to learn more, may be next time.
Master Woodiwiss TSDMKA
8/ British Championships 2003
Please find details for the venue;
http://www.multimap.com/map/browse.cgi?addr1=Newham+Leisure+Centre,+281&addr2=Prince+Regent+Lane&addr3=London&pc=E13+8SD&client=europe&gride=541372&gridn=181948&scale=10000
Address is; 281 Prince Regent Lane, London, E13 8SD
Which will show on any good mapping website / program.
There are roads works on the A13 (near the centre), if you are coming from the A406 then go past the exit for the Prince Regent Lane and follow signs for Stratford, which brings you back round on the opposite way A13 and turn left into Prince Regent Lane and immediate right (before the shops) into the Leisure Centre. If coming from the city on the A13, turn left into Prince Regent Lane and immediate right (before the shops) into Leisure Centre.
We will be looking for a 9.30am start, with the Team Forms followed by a competitor's line up ceremony at 10.00am. This will include introductions, awards, rules etc. The main competition will kick off with Dan Grade forms / weapons hyungs. We will be looking at a 18:00 finish time (long day but with the help of the judges, this should be shortened).
Hope this helps, if you have any queries, I can be contacted on 07973 726 820
Tang Soo !
regards
Arthur Fernandez
9/New "superbug" may be in Europe
A new strain of an antibiotic-resistant "superbug" that spreads through skin contact has already infected thousands of healthy people in the US and may now have arrived in Europe, say experts.
According to an article in New Scientist magazine, a new strain of the methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) bacterium has emerged in the US that is spread through skin contact and can infect otherwise healthy people. If not treated properly, the infection can result in abscesses and boils that require powerful antibiotics or even surgery.
MRSA has caused serious problems in UK hospitals and nursing homes over the past few years. Infection usually occurs among people with weakened immune systems and can result in serious, sometimes fatal, complications.
Reports from the US say the new strain of MRSA has been spreading quickly through crowded jails, but there have also been numerous smaller outbreaks in towns and cities across the US. Although most infections have occurred in gay men, infection is not limited to this group with many athletes, schoolchildren and newborn babies falling victim to the "superbug".
Exact numbers of infections are not known because MRSA is not a notifiable disease in the US, but experts at the US Centers for Disease Control (CDC) in Atlanta are worried enough to have begun investigating the outbreaks. "We are greatly concerned that MRSA has emerged in the community in people with no ties to healthcare," said Scott Fridkin, a medical epidemiologist at the CDC.
Initial tests have revealed that the same strain of MRSA, containing a gene called PVL, is responsible for all outbreaks in Los Angeles, and is the same as a strain first isolated in New York in 1997. However, experts say that this strain is still susceptible to strong oral antibiotics and that the first line of treatment is simply good wound care.
But there are now indications that MRSA with the PVL gene may have spread to Europe as it has been identified in two HIV positive gay men in the Netherlands. The Scottish MRSA Reference Laboratory has also identified two new PVL strains in healthcare workers in Scotland and a PVL strain was responsible for a recent outbreak among healthy teenagers in France.
Although it is not yet known whether these particular strains have crossed the Atlantic or have developed locally, experts say that it is only a matter of time before the US strain arrives over here. "It will come to Europe and it will spread," said Giles Edwards, deputy director of the Scottish laboratory.
He added that in the long term the fear is that this particular strain could develop a resistance to more antibiotics, in the same way as other MRSA strains have done, making it more difficult to treat.
10/ Dates for 2003
March 15th British Championships London
March 30th London colour belt test & seminar
April 6th Seminar with Grandmaster Tom Muncy (Wales - Master McCann)
April 12th Lost yoga seminar Nottingham £50
April 20th Breaking seminar Sawtry 2pm - 3.30pm
May 4th Colour belt test Sawtry
May 11th Black belt test (Please let me know your numbers)
May 15th Aberdeen seminar 6pm - 9pm
May 17th MIND seminar 11am - 5pm
June 8th Scotland Ki Do Seminar
June 29th London colour belt test & seminar
July 10th Weapons and Ki Do seminars London
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 Ki Do Seminar (Christmas party?)
December 14th London colour belt test &seminar
December 21st last class Sawtry