Shintai Kempo is a martal art formed in 1994 by Tommy Kedja. It has influences from both Shaolin Kung fu and Shorinji Kempo. Shintai kempo is a school in traditional martal arts.
Accourding to the legend Drauma came to China from India to teach martal arts - Kalari Payat - that later became what we know as Shaolin Kung fu.
Shorinji Kempo (Japanese for Shaolin Kung fu) was founded by So Doshin in 1947.
Shintai Kempo history
Style founder, Tommy Kedja, was born in Stockholm, Sweden in 1958. At the age of 8 his dad Peder made sure that both Tommy and his older brother Roger started practicing judo. Peder had just opend Gotlands (Swedish island in the Baltic Sea) first Budo-club. Here Tommy trained karate under the training of his father until he met a Kung fu master in the year 1980. He then practiced kung fu for two years. When a Shorinji Kempo club opend in Visby (largest city on Gotland) Tommy got so interested that he decided to practice Shorinji Kempo instead. It brought him to Japan in the year 1984 where he went to study Shorinji Kempo at Hombu (the Shorinji headquarters). During a visit at hombu tommy got a revelation, he dreamed of magnetism och leadership. The message was that he was supposed to become a leader and create his own style in the future. Once back in Sweden, Tommy continued his Shorinji Kempo combined with classic Ju jutsu and discovered that Shorinji Kempo were missing something. Tommy now started to develop a new style by combining his knowledge from traditional Karate, Judo, Shorinji Kempo, Kung fu and classic Ju jutsu. The result was Shintai Kempo, a self-defence system based on hard (Goho) and soft (Juho) techniques. In 1994 tommy opend his first Shintai Kempo club. The club requested and got in to the Swedish Budo Federation and World Kobudo Federation. The Swedish Shintai Kempo Federation started in July, 2000.
Shintai Kempo has a start but no ending. Slowly it spreads...
Shintai Kempo schools exist in:
Eskilstuna, Sweden
Linköping, Sweden
Visby, Sweden
Miami, USA
Norrköping, Sweden
Accourding to the legend Drauma came to China from India to teach martal arts - Kalari Payat - that later became what we know as Shaolin Kung fu.
Shorinji Kempo (Japanese for Shaolin Kung fu) was founded by So Doshin in 1947.
Shintai Kempo history
Style founder, Tommy Kedja, was born in Stockholm, Sweden in 1958. At the age of 8 his dad Peder made sure that both Tommy and his older brother Roger started practicing judo. Peder had just opend Gotlands (Swedish island in the Baltic Sea) first Budo-club. Here Tommy trained karate under the training of his father until he met a Kung fu master in the year 1980. He then practiced kung fu for two years. When a Shorinji Kempo club opend in Visby (largest city on Gotland) Tommy got so interested that he decided to practice Shorinji Kempo instead. It brought him to Japan in the year 1984 where he went to study Shorinji Kempo at Hombu (the Shorinji headquarters). During a visit at hombu tommy got a revelation, he dreamed of magnetism och leadership. The message was that he was supposed to become a leader and create his own style in the future. Once back in Sweden, Tommy continued his Shorinji Kempo combined with classic Ju jutsu and discovered that Shorinji Kempo were missing something. Tommy now started to develop a new style by combining his knowledge from traditional Karate, Judo, Shorinji Kempo, Kung fu and classic Ju jutsu. The result was Shintai Kempo, a self-defence system based on hard (Goho) and soft (Juho) techniques. In 1994 tommy opend his first Shintai Kempo club. The club requested and got in to the Swedish Budo Federation and World Kobudo Federation. The Swedish Shintai Kempo Federation started in July, 2000.
Shintai Kempo has a start but no ending. Slowly it spreads...
Shintai Kempo schools exist in:
Eskilstuna, Sweden
Linköping, Sweden
Visby, Sweden
Miami, USA
Norrköping, Sweden
Domain Operating Platform, DOP, represents a set of innovative technologies, represents a new computing strategy for conquering complex application domains. DOP also stand for a new type of software platform to support dynamic data modeling, provide service oriented runtime environment for applications, supports DOP oriented application developing and etc.
DOP pushes modern Operating System concept and technology one big step further. It invades into conventional application layer, narrows down its applicable scope to a specific application domain, such as healthcare, but broadens its resource management scope to the field that is traditionally belonging to applications.
Different from common middleware and other software platforms, DOP carries domain knowledge, also manage data and services. DOP is a new generation software platform with intelligence.
DOP pushes modern Operating System concept and technology one big step further. It invades into conventional application layer, narrows down its applicable scope to a specific application domain, such as healthcare, but broadens its resource management scope to the field that is traditionally belonging to applications.
Different from common middleware and other software platforms, DOP carries domain knowledge, also manage data and services. DOP is a new generation software platform with intelligence.
QCubed is a PHP5 Framework with an Object Oriented approach to database access and webpage design. The framework adds additional tools to a developers kit such as database abstraction, Object Oriented querying and development automation via a code generation system. It also has an interface library (known as QForms) who's use is very similar in style to ASP.NET, separating code from presentation, and using an event-driven methodology.
History
QCubed was born as a fork of QCodo to become a community driven framework and not a one-man-only framework.
Features
The goal of the framework is to provide a unique alternative to other frameworks available, by making different architectural decisions.
First is the code generator, used to reduce hand-coding of predictable parts of the application.
The two major pieces of the runtime QCubed framework are the ORM layer and the graphical user interface layer. Each layer plays a separate and unique role, and is designed to be able to operate independently of the other.
The Code Generator
The first major piece is the Code Generator. Because of the nature of PHP, a major efficiency step is to allow the developer to make short and concise code. The less code that has to be written by hand, the better. The Code Generator is a sub-system of QCubed that generates PHP code based on templates and data derived from your database structure. These PHP files are then written out into the project and made available to use. This drastically increases the efficiency development.
The Object-relational mapping Layer
The Object Relational Modeling layer is generated using the default templates, and provides an Object Oriented API to manipulate the database contents of your project. It includes full support for relational tables, even when the underlying database does not.
The Graphical User Interface Layer
The Graphical User Interface Layer (GUI) layer is a state and event-driven layer over the stateless HTTP protocol (similar to ASP.NET). Advanced Web 2.0 features like Ajax based controls allow quick creation of usable and attractive websites. The GUI layer can easily be extended with additional controls (known as QControls).
History
QCubed was born as a fork of QCodo to become a community driven framework and not a one-man-only framework.
Features
The goal of the framework is to provide a unique alternative to other frameworks available, by making different architectural decisions.
First is the code generator, used to reduce hand-coding of predictable parts of the application.
The two major pieces of the runtime QCubed framework are the ORM layer and the graphical user interface layer. Each layer plays a separate and unique role, and is designed to be able to operate independently of the other.
The Code Generator
The first major piece is the Code Generator. Because of the nature of PHP, a major efficiency step is to allow the developer to make short and concise code. The less code that has to be written by hand, the better. The Code Generator is a sub-system of QCubed that generates PHP code based on templates and data derived from your database structure. These PHP files are then written out into the project and made available to use. This drastically increases the efficiency development.
The Object-relational mapping Layer
The Object Relational Modeling layer is generated using the default templates, and provides an Object Oriented API to manipulate the database contents of your project. It includes full support for relational tables, even when the underlying database does not.
The Graphical User Interface Layer
The Graphical User Interface Layer (GUI) layer is a state and event-driven layer over the stateless HTTP protocol (similar to ASP.NET). Advanced Web 2.0 features like Ajax based controls allow quick creation of usable and attractive websites. The GUI layer can easily be extended with additional controls (known as QControls).
Myopia Myth is a term coined by myopia prevention proponent, Donald S. Rehm, in the controversial book, The Myopia Myth to describe what he claims is the "misconception" that myopia in inherited. Rehm's theory of myopia as an acquired condition due to close work is not commonly accepted by the main stream eye care industry. However, it has the verification of various smaller medical studies, many of which are not highly conclusive on Rehm's theory. Due to the availability of some research data suggesting the environmental causes of myopia this article is not Pseudoscience but an inadequately tested "alternative theoretical formulation." It must be clear that the limited evidence that exists is inconclusive to classify "acquired myopia theory" under Scientific consensus. Furthermore, Donald Rehm's book and theory is strongly critical and Anti-establishment of standard optometric practice. For mains stream views on myopia, please see Myopia.
Rehm's Book
Book Overview: The Myopia Myth book details the many sides on the debate over myopia cause and prevention.
Overview of the concept: Donald Rehm asserts in the book that the general public "falsely" holds the "myth" that nearsightedness is inherited and will arise in certain individuals due to congenital defects and heredity. Rehm proposes instead that nearsightedness is caused by excessive use of our eyes to do close visual work.
The book asserts that myopia is not inherited by citing various studies and statistics. It also used diagrams and some demonstrations (pinhole, convex lenses, parallex, etc) to "show" how the eye works and "how" myopia develops. The book dismisses heredity as the caause of myopia and suggests simple prevention measures a person can take. Rehm is dismissive of other methods such as the Bates method.
The Controversial Proposed Theory of Environmental Factor(s) Caused myopia: The theory asserted in the book on Myopia Myth would explain the sharp increase in rates of myopic people in the last century. However, this empirical observation is at best a theory as correlation does not imply causation and many other factors surrounding our lifestyle has changed drastically in the last century (diets, sleeping habits, daily stress levels etc). Also, the reporting of and recording of cases of myopia has presumably improved. Therefore, the 1800s statistics used may suffer from under coverage bias as people with light to moderate myopia were not diagnosed.
Support for the theory in the Book Rehm uses numerous scientific studies to show that most cases of myopia are caused by close focusing (like reading) and the condition can thus be prevented. This alternative theory has being criticized due to the lack of large scale clinical trials.
Criticisms
Some critical reviews and responses disagree on the most basic ideas presented by the book.
WebMD has an article on Myopia Prevevention and states that Myopia is caused by "too much close work".
Another line of criticism draws on that closework may causes Pseudomyopia, which has similar symptom of blurred distance vision as Myopia but Pseudomyopia is temporary.
Rehm promotes the use of, and markets pinhole glasses, the clinical benefits of which are controversial and the use of which is potentially dangerous from a health and safety perspective.
Support for the book's theory
The environmentally-caused myopia theory in the book is indpendendently partially partially by the eyecare trade organization of American Optometric Association which have stated on it's official site that the evidences suggesting environmental cause of myopia is strong. AOA has not cited the studies that lead to their position and the AOA's official site has not made any statements regarding using reading glasses as a preventative measure (a preventative method Rehm encourages in his book).
An investigative article published by the New York Times concluded that close focusing and heredity both are contributing factors in myopia developement
New reserach supported articles have also arisen that follow The American Journal of Human Genetics (vol 75, p 294)</ref>
See Also
*Preventive medicine
*List of controversial non-fiction books
Rehm's Book
Book Overview: The Myopia Myth book details the many sides on the debate over myopia cause and prevention.
Overview of the concept: Donald Rehm asserts in the book that the general public "falsely" holds the "myth" that nearsightedness is inherited and will arise in certain individuals due to congenital defects and heredity. Rehm proposes instead that nearsightedness is caused by excessive use of our eyes to do close visual work.
The book asserts that myopia is not inherited by citing various studies and statistics. It also used diagrams and some demonstrations (pinhole, convex lenses, parallex, etc) to "show" how the eye works and "how" myopia develops. The book dismisses heredity as the caause of myopia and suggests simple prevention measures a person can take. Rehm is dismissive of other methods such as the Bates method.
The Controversial Proposed Theory of Environmental Factor(s) Caused myopia: The theory asserted in the book on Myopia Myth would explain the sharp increase in rates of myopic people in the last century. However, this empirical observation is at best a theory as correlation does not imply causation and many other factors surrounding our lifestyle has changed drastically in the last century (diets, sleeping habits, daily stress levels etc). Also, the reporting of and recording of cases of myopia has presumably improved. Therefore, the 1800s statistics used may suffer from under coverage bias as people with light to moderate myopia were not diagnosed.
Support for the theory in the Book Rehm uses numerous scientific studies to show that most cases of myopia are caused by close focusing (like reading) and the condition can thus be prevented. This alternative theory has being criticized due to the lack of large scale clinical trials.
Criticisms
Some critical reviews and responses disagree on the most basic ideas presented by the book.
WebMD has an article on Myopia Prevevention and states that Myopia is caused by "too much close work".
Another line of criticism draws on that closework may causes Pseudomyopia, which has similar symptom of blurred distance vision as Myopia but Pseudomyopia is temporary.
Rehm promotes the use of, and markets pinhole glasses, the clinical benefits of which are controversial and the use of which is potentially dangerous from a health and safety perspective.
Support for the book's theory
The environmentally-caused myopia theory in the book is indpendendently partially partially by the eyecare trade organization of American Optometric Association which have stated on it's official site that the evidences suggesting environmental cause of myopia is strong. AOA has not cited the studies that lead to their position and the AOA's official site has not made any statements regarding using reading glasses as a preventative measure (a preventative method Rehm encourages in his book).
An investigative article published by the New York Times concluded that close focusing and heredity both are contributing factors in myopia developement
New reserach supported articles have also arisen that follow The American Journal of Human Genetics (vol 75, p 294)</ref>
See Also
*Preventive medicine
*List of controversial non-fiction books