The United States National Karate-do Association (USNKA) is one of the oldest martial arts organizations in the USA. Founded in 1961 by Jim Mather, it has long been committed to the advancement and preservation of true Japanese/Okinawan Karate-do and in maintaining the traditional goals and values of this art.
The USNKA recognizes those martial artists who have achieved the absolute highest possible levels of skill and knowledge within their art and/or made major contributions to the betterment of our arts by issuing what many feel is the most prestigious title a martial artist can receive - that of Living Martial Arts Treasure. Recipients also serve as Senior Advisors to the USNKA. Those who have received this high award to date are WKF (formerly WUKO) President Jacques Delcourt, Takayuki Kubota, Richard Kim , Tatsuo Suzuki, Sig Kufferath, Zenpo Shimabukuro, and Rob Zwartjes.
Certification, Titles, & Positions
One of the USNKA’s primary focuses is the creation of unique educational opportunities for martial artists of divergent arts and styles. These opportunities include the education and certification of qualified instructors, coaches, and tournament officials and the issuance of appropriate certification, positions, and titles.
The USNKA awards the traditional instructor titles of Shihan, Renshi, Kyoshi, and Hanshi to those who reach exceptionally high levels as instructors.
The USNKA also trains and certifies State, Regional, Coastal, and National Coaches in Kata, Kumite, and Kobudo. These men and women are charged with training and leading official USNKA teams into national and international competition. The organization also trains and certifies several levels of tournament officials in Kata, Kumite, and Kobudo.
The USNKA recognizes those martial artists who have achieved the absolute highest possible levels of skill and knowledge within their art and/or made major contributions to the betterment of our arts by issuing what many feel is the most prestigious title a martial artist can receive - that of Living Martial Arts Treasure. Recipients also serve as Senior Advisors to the USNKA. Those who have received this high award to date are WKF (formerly WUKO) President Jacques Delcourt, Takayuki Kubota, Richard Kim , Tatsuo Suzuki, Sig Kufferath, Zenpo Shimabukuro, and Rob Zwartjes.
Certification, Titles, & Positions
One of the USNKA’s primary focuses is the creation of unique educational opportunities for martial artists of divergent arts and styles. These opportunities include the education and certification of qualified instructors, coaches, and tournament officials and the issuance of appropriate certification, positions, and titles.
The USNKA awards the traditional instructor titles of Shihan, Renshi, Kyoshi, and Hanshi to those who reach exceptionally high levels as instructors.
The USNKA also trains and certifies State, Regional, Coastal, and National Coaches in Kata, Kumite, and Kobudo. These men and women are charged with training and leading official USNKA teams into national and international competition. The organization also trains and certifies several levels of tournament officials in Kata, Kumite, and Kobudo.
White-supremacist capitalist patriarchy is a term coined by bell hooks in order to talk about the structures of domination that she claims are at work in the United States. The premise that informs this term is that different forms of oppression, the most prominent, according to hooks, being racism, sexism, and classist oppression, are all manifestations of a larger root cause. That root cause is the conception of power in society, the idea that might equals right, that the ability to dominate another through violence is somehow an imperative to do so.
The term white-supremacist capitalist patriarchy itself is a critique of this common conception of power, as well as an implicit claim that capitalism, racism, and patriarchy are interconnected forms of oppression and as such, must be reckoned with as whole rather than individually. hooks has also used the term imperialist as a modifier for this concept, connecting imperialism with racism, sexism, and capitalism.
Hooks refutes the idea of men as the "enemy" as untrue, ineffective, and a simplification of the complex societal issues at hand.
The term white-supremacist capitalist patriarchy itself is a critique of this common conception of power, as well as an implicit claim that capitalism, racism, and patriarchy are interconnected forms of oppression and as such, must be reckoned with as whole rather than individually. hooks has also used the term imperialist as a modifier for this concept, connecting imperialism with racism, sexism, and capitalism.
Hooks refutes the idea of men as the "enemy" as untrue, ineffective, and a simplification of the complex societal issues at hand.
Alessandro Simonetto (born in Bassano del Grappa, 1974) is an Italian musician and sound engineer.
Background
Alessandro Simonetto graduated, as an autodidact, in pianoforte in three years at the “Steffani” Conservatory of Music in Castelfranco Veneto (Treviso) and in Electronic music (countemporary composition) at the “Pollini” Conservatory of Music in Padua. He also studied harpsichord, choral conducting and (traditional, jazz and electronic) composition.
Activities
At the very early age of 6 he started composing music for piano (including a Mazurkas book inspired by Chopin). He then was mostly inspired by the contrapuntual method: here he wrote for disklavier, organ and chamber music, choral music (choral settings). With the electronic he confined in the field of algorithm.
Alessandro Simonetto is the founder of the Kunst der Fuge website, an exhaustive, and probably the largest, resource of classical music in MIDI format. The resource counts counts over 16,000 free files. The files have been produced by many contributors and are ordered by composer. A plethora of these files are licensed under CC BY-NC-SA license. OnClassical also adopts the philosophy of Creative Commons (complete previews in MP3 files and other material are release under a CC license).
Simonetto is also founder of classicaland.com, a free of sheet music books in (PDF), he scanned from his old music library, now out-of-copyright.
Background
Alessandro Simonetto graduated, as an autodidact, in pianoforte in three years at the “Steffani” Conservatory of Music in Castelfranco Veneto (Treviso) and in Electronic music (countemporary composition) at the “Pollini” Conservatory of Music in Padua. He also studied harpsichord, choral conducting and (traditional, jazz and electronic) composition.
Activities
At the very early age of 6 he started composing music for piano (including a Mazurkas book inspired by Chopin). He then was mostly inspired by the contrapuntual method: here he wrote for disklavier, organ and chamber music, choral music (choral settings). With the electronic he confined in the field of algorithm.
Alessandro Simonetto is the founder of the Kunst der Fuge website, an exhaustive, and probably the largest, resource of classical music in MIDI format. The resource counts counts over 16,000 free files. The files have been produced by many contributors and are ordered by composer. A plethora of these files are licensed under CC BY-NC-SA license. OnClassical also adopts the philosophy of Creative Commons (complete previews in MP3 files and other material are release under a CC license).
Simonetto is also founder of classicaland.com, a free of sheet music books in (PDF), he scanned from his old music library, now out-of-copyright.
Tim Addison is a London and Hampshire UK based entrepreneur.
After completing a Business and Economics degree in 1992 Tim set-up and sold several businesses.
Tim Addison has authored several books on various aspects of business start-ups and marketing including “Make A Profit In Desktop Publishing” and “How To Win Customers And Influence Them” which is currently being updated and due for republishing in 2010.
In 2002, on completion of a Marketing Masters Degree, Tim founded New Career Skills which became the fastest growing education company between 2004 and 2007 and the 25th fast growing UK company according to the Sunday Times Fast Track 100 .
Media coverage from the Southampton Echo newspaper:
NCS was sold in early 2008 to Private Equity House Bridges Ventures .
Today, summer 2009, Tim concentrates on a small investment business focusing on entrepreneurs with great ideas and a specialist marketing company called BIG Strategies .
Tim Addison is also a Visiting Fellow at Southampton Solent University in various aspects of their Master Degrees .
Tim also runs a charitable organisation called Disabled Work Experience that helps disabled school leavers find valuable work experience and hopefully a career.
After completing a Business and Economics degree in 1992 Tim set-up and sold several businesses.
Tim Addison has authored several books on various aspects of business start-ups and marketing including “Make A Profit In Desktop Publishing” and “How To Win Customers And Influence Them” which is currently being updated and due for republishing in 2010.
In 2002, on completion of a Marketing Masters Degree, Tim founded New Career Skills which became the fastest growing education company between 2004 and 2007 and the 25th fast growing UK company according to the Sunday Times Fast Track 100 .
Media coverage from the Southampton Echo newspaper:
NCS was sold in early 2008 to Private Equity House Bridges Ventures .
Today, summer 2009, Tim concentrates on a small investment business focusing on entrepreneurs with great ideas and a specialist marketing company called BIG Strategies .
Tim Addison is also a Visiting Fellow at Southampton Solent University in various aspects of their Master Degrees .
Tim also runs a charitable organisation called Disabled Work Experience that helps disabled school leavers find valuable work experience and hopefully a career.