Apparently some Okinawan karateka can acquire a skill, which usually is associated with Chinese martial arts and requires to be an expert in qìgōng (traditional: 氣功 / simplified: 气功). The article on Jesse Enkamp’s blog making a connection between problems with the hemorrhoids and the kata Sanchin (三戦) has several comments. I found one of these, […]

Athalia is asteroid #515 and also known as 1903 ME. Athalia is a carbonaceous asteroid and belongs to the Hirayama-family Themis. Athalia’s orbit is characterized by a semi-major axis of 3.13 Astronomical Units, an eccentricity of 0.17, a period of revolution of 2 020 days, and an inclination of 2.0 degrees. Athalia was discovered by […]

Catholicism has some strange tenets. So shall altar bread not only really turn into Christ’s body, but also stay this way whatever happens with it. This can have serious consequences. I found some examples on a website in German language. The following incidents happened in Indonesia in 2002 and in 2005. An Islamic merchant took […]

After astrologically assigning kyūdō, kendō, jūkendō, and naginatadō, five of the by the Dainippon-Butokukai (大日本武徳会) acknowledged gendai-budō (現代武道) still are left. These constitute two more sub-groups. Karate, aikidō, and shōrinji-kempō teach self-defense, although they have to hold competitions. Jūdō originally had been meant for self-defense, but nowadays is a mere combat sport, similar to sumō, […]

Sportsmen and martial artists admire knights as role models because knights still lived virtues and used to train hard. But this only is a legend. The majority of knights in truth exhibited a total absence of discipline. Their wealth and their status allowed this. Knights furthermore displayed their wealth at every opportunity. Like myself, they […]

Armida is asteroid #514 and also known as 1903 MB. Armida’s orbit is characterized by a semi-major axis of 3.05 Astronomical Units, an eccentricity of 0.04, a period of revolution of 1 943 days, and an inclination of 3.9 degrees. Armida was discovered by the German (from Baden, a grand-dukedom with Karlsruhe as the capital, […]

If you sometimes watch anime and if you prefer those about romance and magick over those, which merely show ball sports, then you watched already how Japanese authors imagine magick of the healing type. It sometimes is, especially when no classification system is introduced, an own type of magick. When a classification system is introduced, […]

Centesima is asteroid #513 and also known as 1903 LY. Centesima’s orbit is characterized by a semi-major axis of 3.02 Astronomical Units, an eccentricity of 0.08, a period of revolution of 1 914 days, and an inclination of 9.7 degrees. Centesima was discovered by the German (from Baden, a grand-dukedom with Karlsruhe as the capital, […]

I recently followed a link to some local news. One of the reported cases happened at the beginning of this year, though really reported only recently. The case was a marital quarrel. Police report and news mention only what happened after the marital quarrel escalated. The husband barehanded punched his wife and broke her nose […]

European member countries of the NATO accept the idea that five percent of a country’s Gross Domestic Product must be spend on the military. The European member countries decided to gradually increase their military spending until 2029 because they had figured out that Russia has the plan to attack the European member countries in 2029. […]