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Don’t Miss This!

If you really want to maximize your physical self defense skills there is some great information on this site that will help you do just that.  But you’ve probably missed it.  And if you have seen it, you probably didn’t realized how valuable it is. For those of you that did realize how valuable it is, please take this opportunity to take another look at how well you’re integrating it into your training. Of all the emails I get from readers and subscribers, almost none of them mention the most valuable and useful material I have: the Covered Blast, the Fundamental Five, and the 4 Step Matrix. It doesn’t matter what martial art(s) you practice.  These are strategies that anyone can apply, and if you apply them correctly you will win every time.  I’ll write that again.  These are strategies that anyone can apply, and if you apply them correctly you will win every time.  Use them!!! The Covered Blast The Covered Blast is a strategy that maximizes your options while minimizing your opponent’s options.  It allows you to continuously attack your opponent without taking damage yourself.  It gives you a way to combine offense and defense, distance, position, and timing so that your opponent doesn’t have a chance.  I won’t go into the strategic and technical details here since I already have a page with information, pictures, and examples, but check out my page on it: http://www.functionalselfdefense.org/covered-blast The reason why Brazilian Jiu Jitsu practitioners were and generally still are able to slaughter Japanese Jiu Jitsu practitioners is because they use part of what exists in the Covered Blast – “position then submission”.  The BJJ founders and practitioners realized that if you are in a superior position you can have your way with your opponent, while he can do nothing to you. When two people fight with only techniques and no meta strategy, the fight is won by whoever happens to score first, or whoever happens to get more techniques in against their opponent.  This is a recipe for disaster, especially if you are smaller and weaker than your opponent. But if you understand how to start from a superior position and how to maintain that position throughout the fight, your opponent will always be playing catch up, at best.  That is what the Covered Blast is about.  It is the most important concept/strategy on my website. You’re already here, so make sure you apply it to your practice! The Fundamental Five The Fundamental Five is only briefly covered on this website, but there are 35 pages on it in my first book, The Ultimate Guide to Unarmed Self Defense.  And there is enough material on this site to get the gist of it if you watch the video and click through the links on this page: http://www.functionalselfdefense.org/techniques/ The Fundamental Five is the application of the Covered Blast in 5 different scenarios.  It provides practitioners with 5 default responses that are geared to real world physical self defense situations.  If you are threatened and cannot escape you can hit and run or blast the opponent until he is no longer a threat.  If your opponent attacks first with strikes, crash to get to a superior position and take him out.  If he uses a grappling/take down/tackle attack, use the grappling defense to turn the tables.  And if you find yourself overwhelmed, use the clinch entry or low strike intercept. These default responses provide you with solid solutions to a wide range of attacks.  They don’t require you to match specific defenses to specific attacks.  They work without thought.  And you don’t have to use exactly the techniques that I use.  I recommend that you do.  But if you train another system you can probably find techniques from your system that you can use in their place.  The key is to have default responses for each of the different scenarios, and to make sure that the default responses incorporate the principle of the Covered Blast.  Having solid default responses is the difference between taking out your opponent when threatened and freezing under pressure because you weren’t sure what to do. The 4 Step Matrix The 4 Step Matrix is the application of the Covered Blast for self defense with weapons.  In my second book, The Ultimate Guide to Weapon Use and Defense, there are 84 pages on it.  And here on my website there is a detailed page on it with pictures and video: http://www.functionalselfdefense.org/weapons/4-step-matrix The 4 Step Matrix works with any weapon and against any weapon, and because it is the application of the Covered Blast it ensures that you are able to continuously attack your opponent from a superior position while he is unable to do anything but attempt to block your attacks – at best. Why Are People Missing These? The Covered Blast, Fundamental Five, and 4 Step Matrix are concepts/strategies.  When I teach people in person and demonstrate these concepts, students instantly see how valuable they are.  But on the web and in print, where I can’t demonstrate these concepts *on* readers, it’s too easy to forget about the concepts and only pay attention to the techniques I’m using.  The techniques are easier to see, so people miss the concepts that are being applied. Don’t do that! These concepts will be more beneficial to you than any techniques I demonstrate, if you actually think about them and work on applying them to your practice.  Once you have a solid technical base, they’ll allow you to beat opponents who are much bigger, stronger, and faster than you.  They’ll allow you to do more with less. Please let me know in the comments below why you think people may not be seeing the value in these concepts.  Am I not explaining them well enough?  If you have any questions or comments regarding them, please ask in the comments below and I’ll be happy to answer them. The post Don’t Miss This! appeared first on Functional Self Defense.

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BOUQUET FOR YOU ONLY, Baljit Chadha

A Rose is a Rose is a Rose is a Rose (Gertrude Stein, from the poem Sweet Emily, Geography and Plays, 1913) A contemporary, timeless perspective of a subject dearly beloved to artists, poets, horticulturalists and beings throughout epochs, flora depictions range from botanical illustration (for example, the German Baroque naturalist and illustrator Maria Sybill Merian, d. 1717) to Old Master still-lives, from illuminated manuscripts and miniature paintings, to classic East Asian ink paintings, to Surrealism, Fauvism, to pop-art and graphic media. Flowers have always fascinated artists owing to their pureness, and provided a wonderful way for them to express themselves. Traditionally, flowers in life and in art imbue their appreciators with symbolic sense. The still-life in this day and age has lost much of its memento mori or vanitas meaning, and many contemporary artists shallowly forsake the intense discipline and attention to detail required by this genre for mere technical slights of hand and machine. Fortunately, there are still devotees of the love for the rose! In the floral work of Baljit Chadha, his pathway began with basic flowers, in pen and ink due to the inspiration of classic sumi-e (ink painting) during his sojourn in Japan. He understood this as the simple, basic embrace of nature –“to pluck a flower and paint it!” Pursuing this spirit further, he declares that “I do not believe in straight lines, rather a spontaneous use of colour.” He is more known in artistic circles to date in India for his abstract paintings. This series, thus introduces his 11,000 flower oeuvres. Earlier he added colour and then fexicol to bind the ink. Currently, he has incorporated the following materials into his process: watercolour, acrylic paint, as well as oil and wax pastels. This melange enables a broader depiction of the living element of his floral subjects, such that these blossoms spring to life off the standard sized Chinese imported paper upon which he steadfastly works. From the most mannered to the most abstract, passing through each field, medium, technique, genre and school of painting, the realms of flora bespeak individual expression. Such iconic images abound as the Iris and the Sunflowers by Vincent van Gogh (1853-1890), the Water Lilies of Claude Monet (1840-1926), the pop art flowers based on photographs with a simple motif by Andy Warhol (1928-1987), and fecund depictions by Georgia O’Keefe (1887-1986) who synthesized abstraction and representation in her myriad paintings of natural elements. One of the great painters of flowers, the Belgian painter Pierre-Joseph Redoute (1759- 1840), court painter for Marie Antoinette, eventually emphasized the aesthetic over botanical accuracy or depiction, having been inspired by the Dutch masters (Jan Breughel and Rachel Ruysch). Ruysch (1644-1750) was the most celebrated classical female flower painter. [For reference, the seminal tomes by Sam Segal of Flowers and Nature: Netherlandish Flower Painting of Four Centuries (1991) and Jan van Huysum, 1682-1749: The Temptation of Flora (2007)] In China, bird and flower painting constituted a special genre from the 9th century onwards, rising to great levels in the Song dynasty (960-1279 A.D.). It heralded a marvellous deployment of ink and brush. The individual finesse of the artist conveyed the spirit (qi) of plum blossoms, peonies, chrysanthemums, bamboo, pines and cypresses, each symbolic of aspects of existence. In 2004, the BBC Four hosted a four part series entitled Painting Flowers examined personal artistic themes associated with different species/genres of flora. The following year, the Flower Myth exhibition in Switzerland at the Fondation Beyeler examined the evolving approach to floral representation from the late 19th century to the present day. Ulf Küster, one of the two curators of the exhibition, maintains that "Any painter reveals his true self by painting flowers.” Chadha incorporates his personal embrace of abstraction within the depiction of the ‘divine flower’. Thereby extending the spatial component and fertilising the surrounding air with colour and stroke. His idiosyncratic method, reminiscent of spin/ action painting, is to squeeze the paint from plastic bottles. A pansy, gladiolas, lilies, asters, hyacinth, to cite but a few, each painting is unique. In spirit they are homage to Chadha’s passion to paint. Just as for the Old Master painters of still-lives and floral subjects, each flower imparts his personal connection and interpretation. The Mother of the Sri Aurobindo Society also penned a tome on the significance and meaning of flowers. Chadha earlier had photographed flowers all over the world, as part of his journeys and daily life. The kinetic nature of his paintings departs from the photographic lens. In consideration of the palette and use of materials, Chadha’s works bear a shimmering sensibility akin to that of stained glass, a sort of translucence reflecting his rhythm of life. One which he shares with the facets of nature he so consecrates on a daily basis, a true immersion in this realm of his natural imagination. For Chadha, this lexicon of intimate and universal beauty celebrates the diversity and complex, ever startling web of interconnectivity of life. At its core, a true marvelling of the adavaita, non-duality of humanity and the natural world which surrounds us, one which we must heed to protect and admire. Elizabeth Rogers February 2011

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Optical Interconnect Market Comprehensive Research Study, Regional Growth, Business Top Key Players Analysis

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Global Optical Interconnect Market research report analyzes top players in the key regions like North America, South America, Middle East and Africa, Asia and Pacific region. It delivers insight and expert analysis into key consumer trends and behavior in market place, In addition to an overview of the market data and key brands. It also provides all data with easily digestible information to guide every businessman’s future innovation and move business ahead.

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Major Players in Optical Interconnect market are: Furukawa OFS Ciena 3M Company Infinera Huawei Molex Acacia Communication Mellanox Dow Corning Oclaro Inc Finisar Most important types of Optical Interconnect products covered in this report are: Chip & Board Level Backplane Level Board-to-board and Rack Level Long Hual & Metro Most widely used downstream fields of Optical Interconnect market covered in this report are: Optical Interconnect Products Manufacturers Raw Material Suppliers Original Device Manufacturers (ODMs) System Integrators Technical Universities Research Institutes and Organizations

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8 Competitive Landscape

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India is trying to create an indigenous chip-making industry

INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY can make a good claim to being India’s biggest and most successful industry. Tech hubs such as Bengaluru and Hyderabad contribute more than 13% of GDP. The country’s computer-science graduates are lauded worldwide: the bosses of two of America’s biggest tech firms, Satya Nadella of Microsoft and Sundar Pichai of Google, were born and educated in India. It is also home to the fast, cheap Jio phone network which has made Indians the world’s biggest consumers of mobile data.

Yet although many Indians work with computers, very few are employed in building them. All the components used to create Jio’s network were imported. Bengaluru and Hyderabad live off dull business-process outsourcing and back-office management. Last year India imported $55bn of electronic goods. It exported just $8bn. The fact that India’s most celebrated industry depends entirely on imports in an era in which many countries are increasingly capricious about what goods they will allow to be exported makes some officials nervous. So India is attempting to build its own chips.

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It is starting from close to zero. The only factory in India that makes semiconductors—the processors at the heart of all electronic gadgets—is a government-run outfit in the city of Chandigarh. It was built in 1983 in partnership with an American chip company that no longer exists. The fab, as chip-making factories are called (it is short for fabrication plant), is managed by the Department of Space, and makes specialised chips for military use. The Centre for Development of Advanced Computing (CDAC), another government body, has designed some chips of its own, but got foreigners to make them.

In 2017 the Indian government approved $45m of funding for CDAC to design a new collection of chips that would be built on top of a set of open-source technologies called RISC-V. Unlike the chip designs of Intel or Arm, which are proprietary, RISC-V designs are available to anyone with an internet connection to download free of charge, and to incorporate into their chip designs without a licence (see article). This means any resulting chips will be cheaper for CDAC to produce, as they don’t have to pay royalties to Western companies. Their production will also be harder for foreign governments to disrupt. CDAC has finished the design of its first RISC-V chip, and will soon start manufacturing it.

The government is also funding a commercial chips project called Shakti, which uses RISC-V too. Whereas CDAC is building chips for government use and so keeping the final design secret, Shakti’s engineers will publish the final designs of their chips so that any other company can build upon them. G.S. Madhusudan of IIT Madras, who leads the project, has started a company to make and sell Indian processors using Shakti’s designs. He says the chips made by the new company, called InCore, will cost less than imported chips. The Shakti project has already produced a chip to demonstrate its technology—the first commercial chip designed in India—using factories in Taiwan to do the physical manufacturing.

By lowering costs for Indian tech firms through open-source chips and by helping to develop a technical ecosystem, Mr Madhusudan hopes to keep more of India’s engineers at home, perhaps even starting new technology companies. Computer chips are finding their way into everything from household appliances to running shoes, and he believes India has a shot at making these lower-end processors.

The RISC-V projects also aim to insulate India from geopolitics. That RISC-V has become the first open-source chip design to reach a wide audience at the same time as America clamps down on semiconductor exports in the name of national security is not a coincidence. S. Krishnakumar Rao, the head of hardware design at CDAC, says that eliminating the risk of a technology embargo is one of the primary reasons that India is pursuing its own semiconductor program. Chinese firms are adopting RISC-V quickly too. Interest is also growing in Europe.

Developing an indigenous semiconductor industry will be hard, however. India does have talented engineers, but only from a handful of elite engineering institutes. The country’s infrastructure is nowhere near the standards of southern China and Taiwan, where most of the world’s chips are made. Foxconn, Apple’s main contractor, is investing billions of dollars to make more iPhones in the southern state of Tamil Nadu, but in much of India reliable power, water and transport are harder to come by. The Indian government does not typically welcome foreign investment on the scale that would almost certainly be required to produce chips, computers and smart devices at scale. Although China is host to plenty of this sort of manufacturing, almost all the companies that carry it out are Taiwanese.

Then again, the incentives for success are strong, too. When India looks east, it sees Huawei, a Chinese tech giant, being cut off from American-made components as a result of the trade war. To the west, it sees its most talented engineers working in Silicon Valley. By pouring millions of dollars into Indian-made semiconductors, India’s government hopes to solve both problems at once. ■

This article appeared in the Asia section of the print edition under the headline "Fab in India"

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Technical Analysis of ETH/USD for June 2, 2020:

Technical Analysis of ETH/USD for June 2, 2020:

Crypto Industry News:

The Swiss Financial Market Surveillance Authority (FINMA) authorized InCore as the first business-to-business to conduct transactions on digital assets, enabling clients worldwide to access the service and conduct transactions at the bank.

The official announcement is an important step in creating a blockchain-friendly environment in the entire EU banking sector. InCore Bank…

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So I’ve been on a curly hair routine for a year now, and I couldn’t be happier with how much healthier my hair is. Not that I had a crap ton of damage to recover from, but I can’t imagine ever going back to how I used to take care of my hair. Some weeks are rougher than others with all the experimentation I do, but I finally nailed down on what works and what doesn’t for the best results.

Now anyone who begins a curly hair routine knows some of the basics: don’t wash your hair every freaking day, avoid sulfates and silicons, don’t brush your hair dry, et cetera, et cetera. Since going on a curly hair routine, I learned a few other things I wish I knew when I began. These are little topics I may see brought up time-to-time from social media influencers, but they’re not as widespread talking points. And of course, I had to make it into a list.

Here are 5 Things to Know Before Starting Your Curly Hair Journey!

1. Flaky scalp =/= Dandruff

One of the major suggestions for starting a curly hair routine is washing your hair less and less until you’re down to once a week or every other week, depending on your hair type. As such, this sparks a lot of worry about dandruff and flakes. Rest assured fellow concerned readers, I guarantee most of y’all do not actually have dandruff.

Curly haired scalps are naturally dry as is because sebum takes forever to distribute to the ends. Some flakes may also be from product-build up if you put too much on your scalp, and your roots definitely don’t need the conditioners, leave-ins and what-have-yous. But for the most part, flakes are just doing what dead skin is supposed to do: shed. If your skin isn’t shedding regularly, well, you might have some other weird shit going on, and you probably wanna consult a doctor on that.

On the other hand, dandruff flakes are much larger and oilier, and may be accompanied with scaly, itchy, red patches of skin. They may also be a sign of a fungal infection or skin conditions like seborrheic dermatitis, psoriasis or eczema.

Yeah, unless your scalp’s White Christmas is THIS bad, you’re fine

Regardless of what kind of flakes you produce, your best bet is to switch over to more curly hair friendly products immediately. Hell, regardless of hair type, if you’re a fool still using shit like Selsun Blue or Head & Shoulders, stop. That much sulfates and silicons aren’t doing you any favors, especially if you wash your hair every day or every other day. I had to give up Head & Shoulders years ago cause I kept getting zits on my scalp and in my hairline which are two of the worst places to get them. And if you do have dandruff or some other harsh skin condition, these kinds of products are making everything worse. There are dozens upon dozens of alternative brands and natural remedies which will actually get the job done and not further destroy your hair and skin.

It takes quite a bit of time to get used to not washing your hair that often, and it is pretty itchy and flaky at first since your scalp needs to get used to producing a different amount of sebum. But after a while, you don’t notice it, and your scalp will adjust accordingly to your new products and frequency of washing. And although the Curly Girl Method suggests doing away with shampoo altogether (even if it’s technically sulfate-free), I have yet to see anyone strictly follow this in the long term; most everyone I know agrees this rule is bullshit. If your dandruff, psoriasis or whatever is STILL bothersome after all that, then you might wanna consider going to a dermatologist so they can prescribe you a little something extra.

2. You might accidentally use non-curly-hair-friendly products

No one is a perfect consumer, and this is a situation where it’s okay to make some mistakes in figuring out what works for you. There are a crap ton of ingredients to stay on top of and avoid at all possible. It ain’t easy to memorize them all at once, especially when there are a bajillion variants where some are safe but others aren’t so much. I definitely made my fair share of mishaps in the past year with some of the products I bought (i.e. OGX, which has silicons out the wazoo), and I still occasionally use stuff which technically isn’t curly hair friendly.

For example, one ingredient which the Curly Girl Method advises against using is waxes, but beeswax shows up in quite a few Cantu products, which is a major safe and cheap go-to brand for curly hair. Rubbing alcohols are another no-no in the Curly Girl Method which often falls under the radar since there’s a huge variety of drying and moisturizing alcohols; the only items you can for sure cut in this regard are hair sprays and most dry shampoos. Hell, I still use my Lush shampoo bar at least once a month for my really greasy days cause the sulfates help get that extra clean I need, and it’s balanced out with a ton of other natural ingredients.

And figuring a whole new routine really comes down to balance between your products and what will garner the best results. At the bare minimum, it is best to transition to mainly sulfate and silicone-free products. Every head of hair reacts differently to certain ingredients, and if you use something that isn’t curly hair friendly, you may not even notice much of a difference. What matters most is that you make an effort to shift to better hair care habits, and you have all the time in the world to figure out what that means for your hair type.

3. More expensive or “salon” brand name doesn’t mean better quality

A curly hair routine is quite the investment to get all the basics, and depending on your hair, you may need a few more products than others to get good results. By no means does that mean you have to blow out your bank account to get there. Most safe, go-to brands like Maui Moisture or Shea Moisture are easy to find for fair prices at your closest drug store. And if you’re being a good noodle and not washing your hair too frequently, your products will last much longer than they used to.

And of course, there’s nothing wrong with splurging once in a while, but the idea that “you get what you paid for” doesn’t always ring true. I can only think of maybe 3 expensive brands off the top of my head which are safe for curly hair. Obviously, one of those is the renowned DevaCurl, but as I said before, every head of hair reacts differently to certain products and ingredients. There’s actually a fair share of YouTube videos dedicated to why folks swore off of DevaCurl; and it’s not just a casual dislike, no, they hate it. In any case, most expensive or “salon-quality” brands I find are kinda garbage. And that’s weird, cause you’d think they’d have more than enough money to put in good ingredients, but nope.

For example, let’s take a gander at Marc Anthony’s Strictly Curls hair mask.

Garbage™

Deep Hydrating? Defrizz and moisturize? Seems too good to be true, especially for $10, right? Let’s see what happens when you check the back (since apparently online listings REALLY don’t want you to know the ingredients before you buy).

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Let’s see here: cyclopentasiloxane, cyclohexasiloxane, isopropyl alcohol, amodimethicone, AND dimethicone. That is four silicons and a rubbing alcohol within the first 20 ingredients! Even though it has shea butter and avocado oil, they’re just buried under so much garbage ingredients that it really makes no difference. You can’t get any deep hydration if that much silicons are building up on your strands and preventing moisture from getting in along with a drying alcohol which will add to the inevitable frizz. This makes shit like Pantene look like the good guys by comparison.

So yeah, by no means do you have to feel pressured to buy big name brands which may not actually work for your hair’s needs. There are plenty of better and cheaper options at any drugstore. And once you know what your hair does and doesn’t like, the shopping trips will become much easier, whether resupplying on your favorites or testing out a new product. As a general rule of thumb, never go by the packaging in the front and make it a reflex to check the ingredients on the back.

4. Regular hair cuts are an absolute must

One of the major differences with my hair now versus before is that it grows way faster. If I straightened my hair, it’d definitely be down to my hips. Right now, I’m too attached to my long hair for a big chop, but every now and then, my ends become a little too scraggly, and they just gots to go.

Even with your best efforts of a healthy hair care routine, your ends will eventually split, even if only a little. If you leave them as is, they’ll keep splitting and splitting until your whole ass head of hair is damaged beyond repair, and you have no choice but to chop most of it off. And if your hair is already damaged to begin with, avoiding haircuts altogether adds fuel to the fire. A good chunk of curly hair influencers I follow at some point in their journeys went ahead with a big chop to get rid of the already damaged ends and allow room for growth of new, healthier hair. Having healthy hair is always a priority over long hair, and at the very least, you need to regularly trim your ends. And the longer you keep to a healthy hair care routine, the frequency of needed haircuts will decrease over time.

Penny Tovar (AKA Curly Penny) has a great video on DIY hair trimming, which I absolutely recommend if you’re looking for a quick fix without a big chop or throwing down money at a salon. As with any DIY haircut, cut off less than you think you need to and adjust accordingly. And for the fucking love of Jesus H. Tap-Dancing Christ, please, PLEASE use proper hair-cutting scissors.

5. The biggest keys are patience and persistence

Depending on how your hair is when you begin your curly hair journey, it can take anywhere from months to years to see significant results. You can’t immediately switch your whole routine overnight and expect perfect ringlets. You have to steadily incorporate the new products and healthy practices, and seriously pay attention how your hair reacts. Some steps may work; others, not so much. Right now, my biggest challenge is adjusting my routine for the summer since the heat constantly shifts. I began co-washing as needed cause my scalp gets way too grody with sweat since I walk and bus everywhere throughout the week. I don’t co-wash every single week; just on those days where I’m far too greasy than I should be.

The more effort and time you put into keeping these healthy habits, the better your hair will look and feel. Here’s how much my hair changed in over a year.

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Christ Almighty, my roots were SO FLAT.

Since I rarely heat-styled and never dyed, I saw noticeable changes rather quickly. It was definitely a lot of trial and error, and even now, my hair is never guaranteed to look the same on each wash day. But I’m excited to see what this next year holds for my hair by continuing these healthy habits and using the right products.

If you’re looking to get a proper start on your curly hair journey, then definitely add the above tips to your research. Best of luck to all y’all curly haired guys, gals and non-binary pals!

5 Things to Know Before Starting Your Curly Hair Journey So I've been on a curly hair routine for a year now, and I couldn't be happier with how much healthier my hair is.

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