Definition
A Human Macaw is up and coming nickname used to describe people who babble using no real words. This term is usually used when the babbler is babbling in a high- pitched or strange sounding voice. Sometimes even, the "human macaw" runs around much like a macaw flies.
Origin
The name seems to have originated in Philadelphia, or somewhere else in the Delaware Vally.
A Human Macaw is up and coming nickname used to describe people who babble using no real words. This term is usually used when the babbler is babbling in a high- pitched or strange sounding voice. Sometimes even, the "human macaw" runs around much like a macaw flies.
Origin
The name seems to have originated in Philadelphia, or somewhere else in the Delaware Vally.
Shihan
Dan S. Soller
Shihan Soller (born 1956) is a noted karate practitioner, chief instructor and managing director.
Shihan Soller founded the Phoenix Karatedo Association Kyokushinkaikan, a world-class international karatedo organization, in 1981. Headquartered in the USA, the Association comprises small dojo throughout the world. He was named the Association’s second generation Kancho - I.e., Chairman and Chief Instructor - upon the death of his long time instructor and the Association’s first Kancho, Shihan Raymond Elmore, in June, 2006.
Shihan Soller began his study of Oyama-Ryu Kyokushin Karate under Shihan Elmore when he was 16 years old (Virginia, USA). He later served as Chief Instructor in Elmore’s dojo before being awarded a full teaching scholarship in 1979 to develop martial arts programs at Southern Illinois University. While there, he trained hundreds of students and redesigned the curriculum to better reflect the goals of karatedo training and to meet the needs of his students. He organized and developed karatedo clubs in the eastern United States before going on to spread his Phoenix Karatedo throughout the world. He is the author of Teaching in the College Dojo (1983), the Club Guidebook (1984), and The Phoenix Karatedo Guidebook (1996), which was expanded into a new publication, The Phoenix Way, 2000 Millennium Gold Edition (Second Edition, 2006).
Perhaps unique among noted world karate instructors, Soller is also a highly successful university administrator. He holds academic degrees from James Madison University, the Richard Bland College of the College of William and Mary, and the aforementioned Southern Illinois University. He currently serves as Executive Vice President of the University and Adjunct Professor at Mount St. Mary's University, Maryland, USA. Prior to Mount St. Mary’s, Soller held a number of leadership positions at other universities.
Best known for his commitment to his students and his dynamic leadership, Shihan Soller’s teachings place a special emphasis on the educational value of karatedo along with individual development and human potential. He continues to train and teach regularly in his small dojo located at Mount St. Mary’s University, USA, where his classes are taught in a disciplined atmosphere with additional emphasis on kihon and direct, proactive movement.
Widely traveled, Shihan Soller has received a number of educational grants that have allowed him to visit diverse countries and permitted him to teach in such places as Eastern Europe and Africa. He counts his travels as his “greatest education,” believing that world travel opens the “educational possibilities and human realities” in a far greater and faster way than any other endeavor.
Sources:
http://www.australiankyokushin.com/
http://www.msmary.edu/presidents-office/Dan_Soller.html
http://www.phoenixkarate.com/sensei/sensei.html
La Roche College Magazene (Fall / Winter, 1997)
The Phoenix Way, 2000 Millennium Gold Edition (Second printing, 2006)
The Yudansha Handbook of the Phoenix Karatedo Association (2002)
Dan S. Soller
Shihan Soller (born 1956) is a noted karate practitioner, chief instructor and managing director.
Shihan Soller founded the Phoenix Karatedo Association Kyokushinkaikan, a world-class international karatedo organization, in 1981. Headquartered in the USA, the Association comprises small dojo throughout the world. He was named the Association’s second generation Kancho - I.e., Chairman and Chief Instructor - upon the death of his long time instructor and the Association’s first Kancho, Shihan Raymond Elmore, in June, 2006.
Shihan Soller began his study of Oyama-Ryu Kyokushin Karate under Shihan Elmore when he was 16 years old (Virginia, USA). He later served as Chief Instructor in Elmore’s dojo before being awarded a full teaching scholarship in 1979 to develop martial arts programs at Southern Illinois University. While there, he trained hundreds of students and redesigned the curriculum to better reflect the goals of karatedo training and to meet the needs of his students. He organized and developed karatedo clubs in the eastern United States before going on to spread his Phoenix Karatedo throughout the world. He is the author of Teaching in the College Dojo (1983), the Club Guidebook (1984), and The Phoenix Karatedo Guidebook (1996), which was expanded into a new publication, The Phoenix Way, 2000 Millennium Gold Edition (Second Edition, 2006).
Perhaps unique among noted world karate instructors, Soller is also a highly successful university administrator. He holds academic degrees from James Madison University, the Richard Bland College of the College of William and Mary, and the aforementioned Southern Illinois University. He currently serves as Executive Vice President of the University and Adjunct Professor at Mount St. Mary's University, Maryland, USA. Prior to Mount St. Mary’s, Soller held a number of leadership positions at other universities.
Best known for his commitment to his students and his dynamic leadership, Shihan Soller’s teachings place a special emphasis on the educational value of karatedo along with individual development and human potential. He continues to train and teach regularly in his small dojo located at Mount St. Mary’s University, USA, where his classes are taught in a disciplined atmosphere with additional emphasis on kihon and direct, proactive movement.
Widely traveled, Shihan Soller has received a number of educational grants that have allowed him to visit diverse countries and permitted him to teach in such places as Eastern Europe and Africa. He counts his travels as his “greatest education,” believing that world travel opens the “educational possibilities and human realities” in a far greater and faster way than any other endeavor.
Sources:
http://www.australiankyokushin.com/
http://www.msmary.edu/presidents-office/Dan_Soller.html
http://www.phoenixkarate.com/sensei/sensei.html
La Roche College Magazene (Fall / Winter, 1997)
The Phoenix Way, 2000 Millennium Gold Edition (Second printing, 2006)
The Yudansha Handbook of the Phoenix Karatedo Association (2002)
Creovation™ is a concept created by fictional character Martin Lukes, and comes from fusing the words "creativity" and "innovation".
Taken seriously by Lukes, it is in reality a satirical term created by Financial Times journalist Lucy Kellaway and has become a by-word for corporate gibberish and is featured in her novel Who Moved My BlackBerry™.
Taken seriously by Lukes, it is in reality a satirical term created by Financial Times journalist Lucy Kellaway and has become a by-word for corporate gibberish and is featured in her novel Who Moved My BlackBerry™.
Eric Ness (1980 - 1999) made national headlines in the United States in 1996 when the Make-A-Wish Foundation arranged for Eric, of White Bear Lake, Minnesota, to travel to Alaska to shoot a Kodiak brown bear. Following pressure from animal rights groups Make-A-Wish backed down, however Eric eventually went on a bear hunt, arranged by and paid for by the Safari Club. Eric Ness died of cancer in 1999.