Love this old timey swing song from the Squirell Nut Zippers. The style and times of the 50′s are recreated with a romantic view, one that intrigues my mind towards the era. All the glitz and the glamour but non of the grim !
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Are You Training a Martial Arts “Style” or a “System”?
Current times discussions and written treatises on martial arts training often treat the terms “Style” and “System” as interchangeable, yet they are not at all synonymous. A style is a form that is distinctive and identifiable as an artistic expression with characteristics particular to the artist. In contrast, a system is a combination of intricately related elements organized into a complex whole that produces results far greater than the mathematical sum of its individual parts. A style could also be a system, but most are not. They reflect some of the attributes of a system, but are not complete.
A complete system is one that at all times adheres to a consistent philosophy yielding practical combat applications, practical training methodologies, and a complete science with principles, concepts, strategies, and tactics that do not allow the outcome of an engagement to be determined by luck.
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13 Old School Gamer Tees
Retro gaming tees are hot right now – on the streets of NYC, across the surgically enhanced chests of celebs in LA, on alt-rock band members, and even baby doll T-shirts for the ladies.
And since according to the Entertainment Software Association the average age of the modern-day gamer is thirty-three years old not 12 like your girlfriend keeps insisting, its perfectly acceptable for a grown man to show a little gamer pride. Especially if youre gonna rock the classics from back in the day. So here are a few thatll show youre a proud level seven geek. With style.
Mathematicians Map One of the Most Complicated Structures
Mathematicians have mapped the inner workings of one of the most complicated structures ever studied: the object known as the exceptional Lie group E8. This achievement is significant both as an advance in basic knowledge and because of the many connections between E8 and other areas, including string theory and geometry.
The E8 root system consists of 240 vectors in an eight-dimensional space. Those vectors are the vertices (corners) of an eight-dimensional object called the Gosset polytope 421. In the 1960s, Peter McMullen drew (by hand) a 2-dimensional representation of the Gosset polytope 421. The image shown here was computer-generated by John Stembridge, based on McMullen’s drawing. (Credit: Image courtesy of American Institute of Mathematics)
The magnitude of the calculation is staggering: the answer, if written out in tiny print, would cover an area the size of Manhattan. Mathematicians are known for their solitary work style, but the assault on E8 is part of a large project bringing together 18 mathematicians from the U.S. and Europe for an intensive four-year collaboration.
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