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Sunday 15 November 2015

EARLY WALT DISNEY.

IN A AUCTION IN  BONHAM  A SCRAPBOOK  OF WALT DISNEY'S EARLIEST  DRAWING -1918 FOR SALE.

An electroencephalogram (EEG) MY TEST ON MONDAY 16TH NOVEMBER 2015


Introduction 

An electroencephalogram (EEG) is a recording of brain activity.
During the test, small sensors are attached to the scalp to pick up the electrical signals produced when brain cells send messages to each other.
These signals are recorded by a machine and are looked at by a doctor later to see if they're unusual.
The EEG procedure is usually carried out by a highly trained specialist called a clinical neurophysiologist during a short visit to hospital.

When an EEG is used

An EEG can be used to help diagnose and monitor a number of conditions affecting the brain.
It may help identify the cause of certain symptoms – such as seizures (fits) or memory problems – or find out more about a condition you've already been diagnosed with.
The main use of an EEG is to detect and investigate epilepsy, a condition that causes repeated seizures. An EEG will help your doctor identify the type of epilepsy you have, what may be triggering your seizures, and how best to treat you.
Less often, an EEG may be used to investigate other problems, such as dementiahead injuriesbrain tumoursencephalitis (brain inflammation) and sleep disorders, such as obstructive sleep apnoea.

Preparing for an EEG

Your appointment letter will mention anything you need to do to prepare for the test.
Unless told otherwise, you can usually eat and drink beforehand and continue to take all your normal medication.
To help the sensors stick to your scalp more easily, you should make sure your hair is clean and dry before arriving for your appointment and avoid using products such as hair gel and wax.
You might want to bring a hairbrush or comb with you as your hair may be a bit messy when the test is finished. Some people bring a hat to cover their hair until they can wash it at home afterwards.

How an EEG is carried out

There are several different ways an EEG recording can be taken. The clinical neurophysiologist will explain the procedure to you and can answer any questions you have. You'll also be asked whether you give permission (consent) for the various parts of the test to be carried out.
Before the test starts, your scalp will be cleaned and about 20 small sensors called electrodes will be attached using a special glue or paste. These are connected by wires to an EEG recording machine.
Routine EEG recordings usually take 20 to 40 minutes, although a typical appointment will last about an hour, including some preparation time at the beginning and some time at the end. Other types of EEG recording may take longer.READ MORE-http://www.nhs.uk/Conditions/EEG/Pages/Introduction.aspx

CANCER -MEN.

THIS POST IS PART DECIATED  TO MY DAD -PAUL TONY RAINES WHO DIED OF CANCER AND WITH THIS POST I MIGHT HELP SOMEONE.PROSTATE -NEED TO URINATE OFTEN ESPECIALLY AT NIGHT ,DIFFICULTY OR PAIN PEEING AND HOLDING ON,ERECTION PROBLEMS ,PAINFUL EJACULATION OR BLOOD IN URINE OR SEMEN. SEE DOCTOR FOR BLOOD TEST -PSA ALSO HE MAY NEED TO EXAMINE YOUR PROSTATE OR REFER YOU TO HOSPITAL FOR BIOPSY.I MYSELF SUFFER FROM A BENIGN PROSTATE WHICH   ITAKE TABLETS FOR DAILY.IT CAN BE TREATED WITH SURGERY OR CHEMOTHERAPY AND  RADIOTHERAPY.TESTICULAR-SWELLING OR LUMP IN TESTICLE ,FEELING OF HEAVINESS IN SCROTUM,ACHE IN ABDOMEN OR GROIN DISCOMFORT IN TESTICLE OR SCROTUM,BACK PAIN.IF SPOT ANYTHING UNUSUAL SEE YOUR DOCTOR WHO MAY GET YOU TO DO A BONE SCAN.EARLY DIAGNOSIS CAN BOOST  CHANCE OF GOD OUTCOME.YOU MAY HAVE ULTRA SOUND ,BLOOD TESTS  TO SEE IF HORMONE MARKERS IN BLOOD IF SO YOU MAY HAVE WHOLE TESTICLE REMOVED.A SINGLE DOSE OF CHEMOTHERAPY IF EARLY MAY PREVENT RETURNING.PENILE GROWTH OR SORE ON THE PENIS THAT DOES NOT HEAL WITHIN 4 WEEKS ,RASH,BLEEDING,FOUL SMELLING DISCHARGE ,STOMACH ACHE .IF DOCTOR THINKS YOU HAVE YOU WILL BE REFERRED TO SPECIALIST FOR BLOOD TESTS,BIOPSY.NORMALLY REMOVING A SMALL PIECE UNDER ANESTHETIC FOR TESTING YOU MAY HAVE A ULTRA SOUND OF GROIN TO SEE IF  HAVE ENLARGED LYMPH NODES.IF HAVE IN EARLY STAGES YOU HAVE MINOR SURGERY OR SPECIAL CREAMS,LASER THERAPY IS AVAILABLE OR SOMETIMES  CHEMOTHERAPY OR RADIOTHERAPY.

GIANT RATS FOR DINNER -YUMMMY

YES FOLKS ITS TIME FOR ANOTHER GIANT RAT POST.FOSSILS OF 7 SPECIES DATING BACK TEN OF THOUSANDS OF YEARS WERE FOUND IN EAST TIMOR.THESE RODENTS WERE ABOUT 11 LB AND 10 TIMES THE SIZE OF A NORMAL RATS AND WERE BY ANCIENT MAN ON THIS ISLAND.AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY ARCHAEOLOGISTS  SAY MARKS ON THIER BONES INDICATE THEY WERE SLICED UP FOR FOOD.

QUEUE

QUEUE.THIS IS A VERY BRITISH THING OF STANDING IN LINE WAITING TO RECIEVE GOODS OR GOING TO WATCH A FILM OR WAITING TO BE SERVED AT A TILL IN A SUPERMARKET. SO THIS MIGHT HELP-STAND IN A QUEUE WITH MOSTLY MEN IN  IT AS THIER TEND TO BE LESS  PATIENT  THAN WOMAN.CHOOSE LEFT QUEUES AS MOST PEOPLE ARE RIGHT HANDED SO  LEFT QUEUE HAS LESS IN.DONT USE EXPRESS TILL AS NUMBER OF ITEMS  DICTATES SPEED OF QUEUE.JOIN THE CASH ONLY TILL AS PEOPLE PAYING BY CARD PAYMENT SLOW YOU DOWN.SO CARRY ON QUEUING AS THATS THE BRITSH THING.

Saturday 14 November 2015

How to Practice a Kata

Most traditional Eastern martial arts have kata, hyeong, or training forms, that are practiced to develop technique, or to simply pass on a tradition. When certain people practice them, they look sharp and have a certain presence; when other people do them, they look like some kind of silly aerobic exercise. This article will help you understand the difference and apply it to your kata practice.

Kata practice is, however, more than simply performing the steps well, though that is important. Another aspect of kata practice is the analysis of the movements in the kata to determine the more advanced techniques which are encoded there.

Steps

  1. Practice a Kata Step 1
    1
    Get into the mindset. At the opening kamae (combat posture), e.g. uncrossing your arms and putting your feet at shoulder width, imagine you are about to enter a real fight. This involves two things: Projecting confidence and being aware of what’s going on around you in a full, 360 degree circle. This should continue throughout the kata, as visualising every punch striking home will keep your attacks crisp and strong. Regardless of the actual posture (there are a wide variety of opening kamae for empty-handed and weapon arts), the mindset is the same.
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  2. Practice a Kata Step 2
    2
    Perform your first step (or group of steps) against an imaginary opponent of exactly your size. Imagine that if you don’t block or strike perfectly, you will be killed. Not hurt, not embarrassed—killed. You must move with this purpose in mind, or you’re just doing some sort of strange aerobics in Japanese underwear.
  3. Practice a Kata Step 3
    3
    Relax between steps. There should be a natural build up of power in each series of techniques, then a pause in-between. If you are stiff throughout the kata (a) it will look bad, (b) you will be training your body to telegraph your moves. The key point is to relax (lower) your shoulders. It is natural to tense up; this is why kata training helps.
  4. Practice a Kata Step 4
    4
    Some styles have kamae (combat postures) in the middle of the kata. These are not meaningless breaks in the form; these are moments where you are supposed to project yourself and stare down your imaginary opponent, as if to say with your eyes "You can withdraw and I will show mercy, but if you don’t, I will kill you." Again, not "I will hurt you" or any of that shoulder-flinching stuff; I will *kill* you. This is a completely different mindset. The main point of kata practice is to develop this mindset so that when you’re actually confronted, it automatically turns on, because you've prepared for confrontation this way (as opposed to the natural way, which is to be frightened). If you haven’t imagined real opponents, you are not developing this mental skill in your kata practice.
  5. Practice a Kata Step 5
    5
    Understand that usually the last technique of the kata is the most dangerous or sophisticated. After the last move, pause a moment, and slowly return to the opening kamae (posture). This is done slowly to ensure the final, imaginary opponent is dead. Do not relax your presence or awareness until you bow, or you’ll look like you’re 

Neutron beam aimed at 'un-burning' bone

close-up photo of bone fragmentsResearchers from Portugal are using a neutron beam to study the molecular changes that occur when bones burn.
The experiments, under way at the Isis facility in Oxfordshire, are aimed at solving a problem for archaeologists and forensic scientists.
When bones get hot they shrivel, making the age, sex and size of their original owner much more difficult to establish.
By bouncing neutrons off human bone samples, burned and unburned, the team hopes to get a fix on those changes.
"The problem... is that when a skeleton is subjected to high temperatures, like in a plane crash or a bushfire, the bones are altered by the fire. One of those alterations is a change in dimensions," said David Gonçalves, a bone specialist from the University of Coimbra.READ MORE-BBC LINK-http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-34779136

Sunday 8 November 2015

SHEEP I.D.

THEY SAY FARMERS KNOW THIER SHEEP BUT THIS IS BEYOND.FARMERS RECOGNISED 116 OUT 151 SHEEP ,NO TAGS OR MARKINGS THAT HAD BEEN TAKEN BY A RUSTLING GANG ,THIS WAS BY A ID PARADE.

FOOD -WHAT A WASTE.

HERE IS A SMALL GUIDE TO WHY NOT THROW AWAY FOOD.USE-BY-DATE-IF YOU HAVE FRESH FISH ,READY MADE SALADS,MILK,YOGHURT THIS IS ITEMS THAT GO OFF QUICKLY.BEST -BY -DATE-THIS IS MAINLY FOR TEST AND TEXTURE EATING AFTER EXPIRY DATE IS GENERALLY FINE IF STILL SMELLS AND TASTES OK.SELL -BY-DATE-NOT LEGALLY REQUIRED ,NOT INTENDED FOR CUSTOMERS ,JUST TO HELP STAFF WITH STOCK CONTROL.SO THINK BEFORE YOU EAT.

STAR TREK ON T.V IS BACK.

STAR TREK IS COMING BACK AS A SUBSCRIPTION SHOW.THIS SERIS IS  SEPARATE FROM LATEST FILM-STAR TREK BEYOND -AND WIIL BE PART OF US.A SERVICE C.B.S ALL ACCESS .

MARS NEWS.

A PHENOMENOM  CALLED  VOG  HAS BEEN FOUND ON MARS.THIS IS A VOLCANIC ACID FOG EATING AWAY AT THE ROCKS ON THE PLANET THIS IS ALSO FOUND ON EARTH IN HAWAILI.

OLD TREE CHANGES SEX.

THIS IS A 2,0000 YEAR OLD TREE CALLED THE FORT INGALL  YEW.THIS TREE RESIDES IN PERTHSHIRE AND  WAS CLASSIFIED  MALE  BUT HAS BEGUN TO SPOUT FEMALE BERRIES IT IS ALSO BRITIANS OLDEST TREE.

Saturday 7 November 2015

The Karate Grading System-British Combat Karate Association

The Karate Grading System
The grading system for Karate, like all Japanese, derivative martial arts is very formalised. In 1924 Gichin Funakoshi, founder of Shotokan Karate, adopted the Dan system from Judo founder  Jigoro Kano, using a rank system with a limited set of belt colors. Kano himself adopted the Dan ranking system, which was invented by Honinbo Dosaku a professional go player in the Edo period. Dosaku valued the then highest title holder, Meijin at 9 Dan.
In modern Japanese martial arts, holders of dan ranks often wear a black belt. Dan ranks are still given in arts such as the strategy board games  Go and Renju, the art of flower arrangement (ikebana)and tea ceremony. The character of Dan (段 dan) is used in Japanese to mean step or grade, and is commonly equated with degree. However, the origin of the Chinese character, pronounced duán in modern Pinyin, was used to mean “phase”. Dan rank is often used along with the lower rank system, Kyu(級 Kyū) rank. Kyu is a Japanese term used in martial arts, go and ikebana, such as Japanese traditional culture, and academic tests and in other similar activities to designate various grades or levels or class of proficiency or experience.
Other Okinawan teachers also adopted this practice. In the late 1800s, even Kano had no external differentiation between yūdansha (black belt ranks) and mudansha (those who had not yet attained a grade). Kano began the custom of having his yūdansha wear black obi (belts) in 1886. These obi were not the belts karateka and jūdōka wear today—Kano had not invented the  judogi (judo uniform) yet, and his students were still practicing in kimono. They wore the wide obi still worn with formal kimono. In 1907, Kano introduced READ MORE-http://britishcombatkarate.co.uk/karate/gradings/

RESPECT THE 2 MINUTE SILENCE

At 11am on each Remembrance Sunday a two minute silence is observed at war memorials and other public spaces across the UK. The silence is meant as a tribute to those who lost their lives fighting for their country - but what is the significance of that date and time?
On the eleventh hour of the eleventh day of the eleventh month in 1918 the guns of Europe fell silent. After four years of bitter fighting, The Great War was finally over. The Armistice was signed at 5am in a railway carriage in the Forest of Compiegne, France on November 11, 1918. Six hours later, at 11am, the war ended.
The first Remembrance Day was conducted in 1919 throughout Britain and the Commonwealth. Originally called Armistice Day, it commemorated the end of hostilities the previous year. It came to symbolise the end of the war and provide an opportunity to remember those who had died.
In a letter published in the London Evening News on 8 May 1919, an Australian journalist, Edward George Honey, had proposed a respectful silence to remember those who had given their lives in the First World War. This was brought to the attention of King George V and on 7 November 1919, the King issued a proclamation which called for a two minute silence:
"All locomotion should cease, so that, in perfect stillness, the thoughts of everyone may be concentrated on reverent remembrance of the glorious dead."
After the end of the Second World War in 1945 Armistice Day became Remembrance Day to include all those who had fallen in the two World Wars and other conflicts.
Since 1919, on the second Sunday of November, otherwise known as Remembrance Sunday, a two minute silence has been observed at 11am at war memorials, cenotaphs, religious services and shopping centres throughout the country.
The Royal Family, along with leading politicians and religious leaders gather at The Cenotaph in Whitehall, London for a service and all branches of the civilian and military services are represented in ceremonies throughout Britain and the Commonwealth.

Tuesday 3 November 2015

1939 survey September 29

This is a one off  register was a  one off compulsory survey taken on September 29 1939 ,26 days  before the  war declared  on Germany. 41 million people were asked their  age,job,address,name and was updated in 1991.This is  a important  document as the 1939 cenus was destroyed  by fire in world war 2.Y ou can view the digitalised  document  at www.findmypast.co.uk and it was used to help rationing  during the  war i  think,

Pixie,s hallows art...illustrator..photographer

I am inspired by nature and how it moves and changes not only inform but by colour. Natures colour can be so bright and colourful but then change to the darker elements as the nature moves with earth as it revolves around. No image is the same and I like that challenge and try and catcher that moment in time. The weather also apart of natures way set mood to a image and try catch that before it changes is really tricky  to quickly paint and rember the scene as it moves as the earth rotates. I would love to continue to try and catcher nature and earths rotation from sultal to the dramatic setting  as nature revolves to it many spendered forms of colour, drama, setting. Also I hope to expand the studio and open to the public in near future.
My style is unique by mixing the old with the new and by doing this I am able to catcher nature as she moves with earths rotation. To be free to be able to move around the board freely to let the paint creatively move with the ever changing setting of nature is what I love and the many challenges that it comes with.

Sunday 1 November 2015

DEAR DEPARTED

IN INDONESIAN RITUAL CALLED MA,NEH-THE CEREMONY OF CLEANING CORPSES FAMLIES DIG UP  DEAD RELATIVES AND DRESS THEM IN NEW CLOTHES AND PARADE THEM AROUND THIER VILLAGE. THIS IS TO HONOUR ANCESTORS AND HELD EVERY 3 YEARS.THE FAMLIES  WELCOME THE SPIRITS OF DEAD BY REPAIRING THIER BROKEN COFFINS THEN LAY CORPSES INSIDE BACK IN THIER GRAVE.

UNKNOWN IN HOLSWORTHY ,DEVON

HALLOWEEN -LETS GET SCARED&&

THIS IS TO ME WHEN I WAS YOUNGER BEING SCARED WATCHING HAMMER HOUSE OF HORROR FILMS LIKE DRACULA-YES DATED NOW THEN ONTO SO CALLED VIDEO NASTIES WHICH NIGHTMARE ON ELM STREET  WAS ONE.THE AMERICAN IDEA OF  DRESSING UP YOUR HOUSE AND YOURSELFS IS GROWING STRONGER IN THIS  COUNTRY AND YOU SEE THIS IN THE SHOPS.WHY DO WE LIKE TO BE FRIGHTENED  IT COULD  BE DUE TO TO THE PART OF US THAT IS STILL A TINY BIT PART CAVEMAN AS THIER HAD TO BE ALERT BUT MODERN HUMANS LEAD A MUCH EASIER LIFE.SO BEWARE THE WITCHING HOUR AND SHADOWS THAT MOVE WITH A BUMP IN THE NIGHT.

SUGAR CRAZED WILD PONIES.

THIS IS A HERD OF WILD PONIES ,QUANTOCK HILLS NEAR  BRIDGWATER ,SOMERSET.THESE PONIES HAVE GOT USE TO BIENG HAND FED MINTS AND EATING LEFTOVERS.NOW WE W
ARE BEING WARNED THEY ARE IN DANGER TO THE PUBLIC DUE TO BECOMING SUGAR CRAZED AND THEY HAVE BITTEN AND BUTTED AND EVEN BROKE A LEG.