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<title><![CDATA[I 5 livelli di abilità del Taijiquan stile Chen [3]]]></title>
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<pubDate>Tue, 15 Jul 2008 16:59:47 +0000</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[Il secondo livello del Gong Fu
Il secondo livello del Gong Fu è caratterizzato dalla percezione de]]></description>
<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><strong>Il secondo livello del Gong Fu</strong></p>
<p>Il secondo livello del Gong Fu è caratterizzato dalla percezione del calore prodotto dal corpo durante l'esecuzione dei movimenti della sequenza (di solito si parte da una sequenza di movimenti "didattica" per poi passare gradatamente ad altre più lunghe ed articolate).</p>
<p>Se all'inizio della pratica il buon umore per le nuove scoperte è predominante, nel secondo livello del Gong Fu possono nascere i primi problemi. E' questo un punto del cammino in cui, se non seguiti adeguatamente da un buon maestro, i praticanti possono sentire un livello di frustrazione abbastanza alto e addirittura abbandonare l'allenamento. Il tutto è comunque abbastanza soggettivo.</p>
<p>La familiarità con i movimenti dovrebbe già essere abbastanza alta, il fluire del Qi lungo i canali del corpo è abbastanza chiaro e l'energia fluisce, anche se debole, in tutto il corpo. Lo studente non è comunque ancora in grado di controllarla, quindi può sorgere qualche problema di <em>sovraestensione della forza</em> (quando è una parte del corpo che si muove più velocemente rispetto al resto del corpo) o di <em>sotto estensione</em> (l'esatto contrario). In una maniera o in un'altra, l'energia viene bloccata così da far apparire il percorso di apprendimento molto duro e difficile.</p>
<p>E' necessario quindi correggere gli aspetti fondamentali del movimento, come ad esempio il rilassamento del corpo, o la postura generale, e tutto andrà meglio.</p>
<p>La coordinazione comincia a giocare un ruolo fondamentale per l'intera esecuzione dei movimenti. Curare i requisiti fondamentali può significare anche prestare attenzione: verso "l'esterno" al movimento coordinato di braccia e gambe, di gomiti e ginocchia, di fianchi e spalle; verso "l'interno" è necessario equilibrare "mente e cuore", tendini e ossa ed l'energia interna con le ossa.</p>
<p>I principi fondamentali devono essere, a questo punto del proprio cammino di apprendimento, studiati e seguiti in maniera molto approfondita. Tutto questo non può avvenire se non allenandosi duramente nella forma, possedendo sempre una buona dose di umiltà per ricominciare ogni volta tutto dall'inizio. Può accadere in questa fase, che l'allievo senta il bisogno di doversi allenare quanto più possibile per migliorare se stesso. E' questo il segreto per un buon Gong Fu.</p>
<p>Generalmente, ma ripeto che tutto è sempre soggettivo, con 4 anni di intenso allenamento si possono raggiungere dei buoni livelli di abilità. Una volta raggiunto questo punto si potranno cominciare ad apprendere <a title="Tui Shou - Taijispot  - Link" href="http://taijispot.wordpress.com/2008/01/17/il-tui-shou/">il Tui Shou</a> e le applicazioni marziali. Il proprio maestro e i propri compagni di pratica saranno qui più che fondamentali.</p>
<p>Nel Taijiquan la pratica della forma e il Tui Shou vanno di pari passo. Le eventuali lacune nell'apprendimento dei pricipi fondamentali saranno chiaramente visibili nell'esecuzione del Tui Shou. Ciò,contro un'avversario, sarebbe molto negativo.</p>
<p>Il Tui Shou prevede varie tecniche fondamentali, che sono sempre presenti nelle forme praticate:</p>
<ul>
<li><strong>Peng</strong> (parare)</li>
<li><strong>Lui</strong> (ritirarsi ruotando)</li>
<li><strong>Ji</strong> (premere)</li>
<li><strong>An</strong> (spingere)</li>
</ul>
<p>Queste quattro tecniche devono essere eseguite con la massima precisione coordinando la parte superiore e quella inferiore del corpo.</p>
<p>Il Taijiquan non prevede l'uso della forza per vincere l'avversario, per cui il detto <strong>"vincere quattrocento chili con cento grammi"</strong> significa che la forza esterna dell'avversario può essere efficacemente contrastata con il minimo sforzo. Al secondo livello del Gong Fu non si è ancora in grado di applicare tali principi perchè non si è ancora abbastanza <strong>"flessibili"</strong> e <strong>"adattabili"</strong> alle circostanze così da poter efficacemente reagire contro un'attacco.</p>
<p>Per ragionare in maniera matematica, durante la seconda fase del Gonf Fu, si possiede un buon 80% di Yang e 20% di Yin.</p>
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<title><![CDATA[I 5 livelli di abilità del Taijiquan stile Chen [2]]]></title>
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<pubDate>Tue, 08 Jul 2008 16:46:09 +0000</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[Il primo livello del &#8220;Gong Fu&#8221;
Questo è il livello iniziale di tutti i praticanti del ]]></description>
<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><strong>Il primo livello del "Gong Fu"</strong></p>
<p>Questo è il livello iniziale di tutti i praticanti del Taijiquan. Gli elementi a cui bisogna prestare attenzione in questa fase sono essenzialmente due:</p>
<ol>
<li><strong>Correttezza della postura</strong></li>
<li><strong>Rilassamento del corpo</strong></li>
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<p><strong>Nel Taijiquan la postura corretta è costituita da una posizione eretta ma non rigida del corpo</strong>. Per far questo è necessario prestare attenzione ad un punto dell'agopuntura posto alla sommità del capo, di nome <strong>"Bai Hui"</strong>. Fatto questo sarà necessario assumere una postura cosidetta "a filo di perla" o "a filo di piombo". Si deve infatti immaginare una linea retta che attraversi la schiena e arrivi al "Dan tien", zona posta in profondità tra l'ombelico e il pube. E' nel Dan Tien che secondo la medicina tradizionale cinese (MTC) risiede l'intera energia del corpo. Assumere la postura a filo di perla richiede il lieve rientramento del mento. In questo caso, e in base al punto di vista sia esso medico o marziale, si rilascia il rachide cervicale e si protegge, per quanto possibile, la debole zona della gola.</p>
<p><strong>Successivamente è alle spalle e ai gomiti che bisogna prestare attenzione</strong>. Rilassando queste parti del corpo, il torace si sgonfia lasciando libero il diaframma e, quindi, il respiro che così può diventare più profondo. La corretta posizione di spalle e gomiti favorisce la corretta circolazione del "Qi" (energia interna) all'interno del corpo.</p>
<p><strong>Particolare attenzione va prestata, ancora, al rilassamento della vita che è, assieme al rilassamento delle anche, uno dei cardini del movimento del Taijiquan</strong> (in particolar modo nello stile Chen, .ndt). Andrà così esercitata la consapevolezza del Dan tien (detto anche "campo del cinabro"). Secondo la MTC, il punto esatto in questione si chiama Qi Hai ("mare del Qi"). La consapevolezza del Dan Tien e il modo di far scaturire il movimento da esso diviene sempre meno difficile con la pratica, anche se all''inizio, e specialmente nei neofiti, è molto difficile da imparare.</p>
<p>Durante la pratica il Dan Tien diventa sempre più forte, donando stabilità e potenza a tutti i movimenti del corpo. Rilassare il Dan Tien consente tra l'altro di "aprire" la schiena e permettere così il fluire del "Qi" tra "Terra e Cielo".</p>
<p><strong>Il radicamento è uno dei punti chiave del Taijiquan. La radice dei piedi deve essere ben salda a terra, le gambe non rigide e le ginocchia non devono mai superare la linea perpendicolare tra esse e la punta dei piedi. </strong>Il punto preciso a cui prestare attenzione per ottenere questo è situato quasi al centro della pianta del piede e poco dietro le dita a sinistra. Tale punto si chiama <strong>"Yongquan"</strong> ed è collegato, secondo la MTC, al rene che nel corpo umano è l'organo in cui risiede l'energia primigenia (cosidetta "prenatale").</p>
<p>All'inizio della pratica del Taijiquan è quasi impossibile tener conto di tutti questi fattori contemporaneamente, quindi è bene esercitarsi a tenere il corpo eretto. Con allenamento e costanza tutto avverrà automaticamente, a volte senza neanche rendersene conto.</p>
<p><strong>La corretta postura nella pratica del Taijiquan favorisce effetti benefici sulla salute ("interna" ed "esterna") di ogni individuo, mentre il persistere nell'esatto contrario può causare spiacevoli problematiche. E' quindi molto importante imparare bene la corretta postura del corpo.</strong></p>
<p><em>Con un buon allenamento e tanta perseveranza è possibile superare la parte "esterna" del Taijiquan in un'anno.</em> E' possibile, in questa fase, percepire la circolazione del "Qi" al proprio interno, anche se non si può direzionarlo o utilizzarlo al meglio, come invece dovrebbe essere, perchè la <strong>"Jin"</strong> (forza) è troppo fisica e rigida e in questa fase si interrompe tra una parte e l'altra del corpo.</p>
<p>Secondo la teoria di Yin (morbidezza e cedevolezza) e Yang (durezza e rigidità), in questa fase prevale troppo la parte Yang (un buon 90%) mentre poca è la parte Yin (il 10%).</p>
<p><strong>A questo livello il proprio Taijiquan non è ancora adatto allo scopo marziale.</strong></p>
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<title><![CDATA[I 5 livelli di abilità del Taijiquan stile Chen [1]]]></title>
<link>http://taijispot.wordpress.com/?p=90</link>
<pubDate>Thu, 03 Jul 2008 15:23:51 +0000</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[L&#8217;arte del Taijiquan è una delle più complesse e profonde nel panorama delle arti marziali. ]]></description>
<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>L'arte del Taijiquan è una delle più complesse e profonde nel panorama delle arti marziali. Si dice che se si vuole combattere usando il Taijiquan non bisogna mettere il naso fuori di casa prima di 10 anni almeno (<em>tempo che presumo corrisponda ad un'allenamento "alla cinese" e cioè almeno 10 durissime ore al giorno minimo, ndt.</em>). Apprendere la vera essenza del Taijiquan richiede tempo, dedizione ed un buon maestro.</p>
<p>Tuttavia anche essendo in possesso di questi requisiti, raggiungere il <strong>"Gong fu"</strong> (traducibile pressapoco con "abilità") non è una strada rettilinea, ma tortuosa, lunga e piena di imprevisti.</p>
<p> </p>
<p style="text-align:center;"><em>"Non esiste in aria un posto<br />
per l'ultima pietra del muro,<br />
se già non hai collocato la prima<br />
e le altre sotto di essa"</em>
</p>
<p style="text-align:center;"> </p>
<p style="text-align:center;"><em></em></p>
<p style="text-align:left;">La via del Taijiquan non è quindi facile e rettilinea, e va affrontata un passo dopo l'altro. Un problema...una soluzione e così via. Soltanto il sacrificio e la dedizione portano al <strong>"Gong fu"</strong>. Chi non è disposto a fare ciò non potrà acquisire una buona conoscenza.</p>
<p style="text-align:left;">Per capire a quale punto del cammino si è arrivati si può ricorrere alla <strong>"teoria delle 5 abilità"</strong>, che sono tuttavia delle tappe non definite in maniera assoluta e in ognuna delle quali la permanenza dipende esclusivamente dall'impegno e dallo studio del praticante.</p>
<p style="text-align:left;">In realtà il 5° livello di abilità non è l'ultimo, perchè è possibile continuare a studiare e a scoprire nuove abilità all'infinito. In realtà però, l'unico limite di un praticante è la fine della propria vita.</p>
<p style="text-align:center;"><a href="http://taijispot.files.wordpress.com/2008/07/5_abilita_gong_fu.jpg"><img class="size-full wp-image-91 aligncenter" src="http://taijispot.wordpress.com/files/2008/07/5_abilita_gong_fu.jpg" alt="La rappresentazione della piramide relativa alle 5 abilità del Gong Fu" width="257" height="269" /></a></p>
<p style="text-align:left;"> </p>
<ul>
<li>
<div style="text-align:left;">Il punto di intersezione mediano tra la base e l'altezza indica l'inizio della pratica</div>
</li>
<li>
<div style="text-align:left;">La linea con andamento oscillante segna l'andamento del percorso attraverso i vari livelli di <strong>"Gong fu"</strong></div>
</li>
<li>
<div style="text-align:left;">Dal primo al terzo livello i contorni delle aree sono trattegiati. Ciò significa che il praticante può anche finire fuori strada <em>(all'esterno della piramide, .ndt) </em>se non seguito da un buon maestro.</div>
</li>
<li>
<div style="text-align:left;">Dal terzo livello in poi i lati della piramide sono continui e ciò sottolinea, anche in relazione al punto precedente, come da qui in poi il praticante è in grado di proseguire il proprio percorso da solo.</div>
</li>
<li>
<div style="text-align:left;">Le frecce indicano, quei momenti in cui è possibile smarrire la via del <strong>"Gong fu"</strong>.</div>
</li>
</ul>
<p style="text-align:left;"> </p>
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<title><![CDATA[SEO 2.0 - Digital Asset Optimization ]]></title>
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<pubDate>Mon, 30 Jun 2008 06:43:51 +0000</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[SEO 2.0 - Digital Asset Optimization
Posted by Lee Odden in Online Marketing,  SEO |
At the past two]]></description>
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<p>Posted by Lee Odden in <a title="View all posts in Online Marketing" rel="category tag" href="http://www.toprankblog.com/category/online-marketing-blog/">Online Marketing</a>,  <a title="View all posts in SEO" rel="category tag" href="http://www.toprankblog.com/category/seo/">SEO</a> &#124;</p>
<p>At the past two conferences I’ve spoken at, Search Insider Summit and Media Relations Summit, one of the popular topics that has been floating around the after session meet-ups and dinner conversations concerns the changing nature of search optimization. Some speculate SEO is on the way out. Others say social media is the new SEO.</p>
<p>Whatever the speculation, companies need to figure out how to best adjust their search marketing strategies to maintain a competitive advantage. One way to do that is to focus the right proportion of effort on standard text optimization as well as the optimization and promotion of all other digital assets.</p>
<p>Both <a href="http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2007/05/universal-search-best-answer-is-still.html" target="_blank">Google’s Universal Search</a> and the new <a href="http://www.toprankblog.com/2007/06/ask-morphs-into-ask3d/" target="_blank">Ask3D</a> interface that show users more information from more sources (news, images, products, video, etc) in the first page of results illustrates the need to consider more media types than standard text documents. There are already quite a few <a href="http://www.seroundtable.com/archives/013594.html" target="_blank">opinions</a> on <a href="http://falkow.blogsite.com/public/item/169494" target="_blank">what</a> <a href="http://clickz.com/showPage.html?page=3625906" target="_blank">effect</a> such a combination of data sources presented within first page search results will have on the future of SEO. Google offers some <a href="http://googlewebmastercentral.blogspot.com/2007/05/taking-advantage-of-universal-search.html" target="_blank">advice here</a>.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.toprankblog.com/2007/06/digital-asset-optimization/" target="_blank">Continues @ Online Marketing blog</a></p>
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<title><![CDATA[One of the Great Taoist Classics - the Classic of Purity]]></title>
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<pubDate>Thu, 26 Jun 2008 16:03:36 +0000</pubDate>
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Origin&#8217;s of the Classic of Purity

This short but profound work is, with the exception of th]]></description>
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<p style="text-align:left;"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Verdana;color:green;">Origin's of the Classic of Purity<br />
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<p style="text-align:left;"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Verdana;color:#ac7237;">This short but profound work is, with the exception of the writings of Lao Tsze, the founder of Taoism, and those of Chuang Tsze, his disciple, one of the earliest of the Taoist Classics.<br />
</span></p>
<p style="text-align:left;"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Verdana;color:#ff8000;">By some authorities it has been attributed to Lao Tsze himself, but it more probable that it is the work of Ko Hsuan, who lived in the Wu Dynasty (A.D. 222-227)</span></p>
<p style="text-align:left;"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Verdana;color:#ac7237;">Of Ko Hsuan, many extraordinary occurrences are recorded. He is said to have been able to work miracles, to walk upon water, to have known the secret of the Elixir of Life, to have been translated at last to heaven in the full light of day, and to have attained the rank of an Immortal.</span></p>
<p style="text-align:center;"><a href="http://thezenfrog.wordpress.com/files/2008/06/dao1.png"><img class="size-medium wp-image-3608 aligncenter" src="http://thezenfrog.wordpress.com/files/2008/06/dao1.png?w=150" alt="" width="150" height="153" /></a></p>
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<p style="text-align:left;"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Verdana;color:#ff8000;">Among Chinese students of the subject, there is a diversity of opinion as to whether Ko Hsuan did actually write this work; but that it was composed by a Taoist of an early date is generally conceded.<br />
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<p style="text-align:left;"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Verdana;color:#ac7237;">The question of authenticity and authorship of the Classic, however is, of quite secondary importance, if we are chiefly concerned with the inner Reality with which it deals.<br />
</span></p>
<p style="text-align:left;"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Verdana;color:#ff8000;">The true test of the value of any scripture, or presentation of truth, be it what it may, and whatsoever its source, may be found by the discriminating in the teachings themselves, and consist in their intrinsic truth. This is the standard by which any writing should be tested, for this alone is to be found its essential worth.</span></p>
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<p style="text-align:left;"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Verdana;color:#ac7237;">There have been several previous English translations of the Classic of Purity, all of which possess merits of their own, but none of them have been widely known. One of the earliest was that of F. H. Balfour, which appeared in the little volume entitled Taoist Texts, which was published in Shanghai about 1880. A second is that of James Legge, which is given as an appendix to Vol. XL of The Sacred Books of the East, published in 1891. Another is an undated pamphlet by W. H. Midhurst, which may have been the earliest of the three. The original appears in the Collection of the Most Important Treatises of the Taoist Fathers (Vol. 49).<br />
</span></p>
<p style="text-align:left;"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Verdana;color:#ff8000;">In this new translation, an endeavour has been made to restore many of the obscure passages to there original purity.<br />
</span></p>
<p style="text-align:left;"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Verdana;color:#ac7237;">The Taoism of Lao Tsze and the early exponents of this Mystical Philosophy, has a simplicity and profundity which in its own way, has perhaps never been surpassed, and the fact that modern forms of Taoism have degenerated into a system of divination and magic, shows the curious depths into which the ignorance and selfish desires of man lead him, when the spiritual reality is obscured.</span></p>
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<p style="text-align:left;"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Verdana;color:#ff8000;">In The Classic of Purity, however, we have a precious jewel in the diadem of Truth. It is, in a concentrated form, a treatise on the Way of Attainment through the purifying of the mind and the stilling of desires. It has many points of similarity with Asvaghosha's Awakening of Faith in the Mahayana, for the attainment of Tao and the attainment of Nirvana are the same, and the Path thereto is essentially the same Path.<br />
</span></p>
<p style="text-align:left;"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Verdana;color:#ac7237;">There is also a certain resemblance between Eastern Mysticism and the Western School known as the Quietists, wherein the undue accentuation of externals is restrained and the tendency to live exclusively in the outward world of time and sense is corrected.<br />
</span></p>
<p style="text-align:left;"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Verdana;color:#ff8000;">Basically, there are two ways of approaching God, that of the Via Affirmativa, in which the mind is concerned with what He is, in relation to that which the finite is not, and that of the Via Negativa, which denies of Him all finite limitations or attributes whatsoever.</span></p>
<p style="text-align:center;"><a href="http://thezenfrog.wordpress.com/files/2008/06/lion.png"><img class="size-medium wp-image-3615 aligncenter" src="http://thezenfrog.wordpress.com/files/2008/06/lion.png?w=240" alt="" width="240" height="241" /></a></p>
<p style="text-align:left;"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Verdana;color:#ac7237;">By the negative approach, no limitation of the Divine is implied, but by this method, veil after veil is removed, until Diety Itself is beheld.<br />
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<p style="text-align:left;"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Verdana;color:#ff8000;">The Via Affirmtiva and the Via Negativa have also been termed two modes of Contemplation of the Divine; they are said to mark the equilibrating Pulse of the true Mystical Life.<br />
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<p style="text-align:left;"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Verdana;color:#ac7237;">"In the former case, beginning from on high, there is an out-flowing and a down-flowing of the consciousness, which passes from universals to particulars and sees God in all things, in the lowest as well as the highest. But in the latter case, there is an up-drawing and an in-drawing of the consciousness, passing from particulars to universals, which sees God is not any of the things contemplated (because He transcends them all ), and therefore, by abstraction, it arrives at the Super-essential Darkness which outshines and obliterates the light of all sensible things. Or, in other words, an approach is made to the Light Unapproachable."</span></p>
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<p style="text-align:left;"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Verdana;color:#ff8000;">It is this approach which is described in the Mystical Theology of Dionysius the Areopagite, wherein it is portrayed almost exclusively in terms of pure intellect, rather than by a freeing of the mind by the stilling of desires as in The Classic of Purity, yet the Super-essential Darkness of the Western Mystics is none other than Tao.<br />
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<p style="text-align:left;"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Verdana;color:#ac7237;">That the teachings of sages and mystics of all ages and lands should confirm one another is not surprising; in fact, it could not well be otherwise, for the inspired authors of sacred scriptures and mystical and philosophical works, although they may be unknown to each other, as well as to the world at large, are yet, in that they have touched Reality itself, expounding different aspects of one unalterable Truth.<br />
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<p style="text-align:left;"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Verdana;color:#ff8000;">The Source of their inspiration is the same, but the manner of their presentation is adapted to the needs and conditions of the time and place in which they live and work. Thus, the Eternal Verities are unfolded in new and beautiful settings to the never-ending upliftment and joy of the awakened mind and heart.</span></p>
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<p style="text-align:left;"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Verdana;color:#ac7237;">In the Chinese Classics, as in other Eastern writings, a word is often repeated in order to impress a truth more forcibly upon the mind, as for example, in the passage in The Classic of Purity, which states that " the nothingness of nothing is also nothing." Again, it will be noticed that throughout these teachings, constant use is made of paradoxes, and this method of presentation enables truths to be glimpsed that are beyond expression in a literal sense.<br />
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<p style="text-align:left;"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Verdana;color:#ff8000;">Thus, the mind may be led through the uttermost negation to the Transcendent Reality of Tao Itself, and thus come to the realization that the Via Affirmativa and theVia Negativa are but different modes of approaching the same ultimate Goal; that the method of all mystics has been the endeavour to express the inexpressible by means of paradox, and in a symbolic imagery which only those who have walked long and persistently on the Mystic Path will comprehend with any degree of fullness; that affirmation and negation are processes of the mind which may be overpassed when the soul is at-one with That Which it seeks.</span></p>
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<p style="text-align:left;"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Verdana;color:grey;">The following preface, attributed to Ko Hsuan on account of its mystical character, forms a significant and fitting introduction to the work itself.<br />
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<p style="text-align:left;"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Verdana;color:green;">The Preface of Ko Hsuan:<br />
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<p style="text-align:left;"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Verdana;color:#ac7237;">When I attained to union with Tao, I had meditated upon this Canon ten thousand times. Only the spiritually-minded are able to realize its true meaning and it cannot be communicated to the worldly.<br />
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<p style="text-align:left;"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Verdana;color:#ff8000;">I received it from the Divine Ruler of the Eastern Splendour; he received it from the Divine Ruler of the Golden Gate; and he received it from the Royal Mother of the West.<br />
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<p style="text-align:left;"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Verdana;color:#ac7237;">It has always previously been transmitted by word of mouth, and never before has it been written, but now, while I am still in the world, I have committed it to paper with great care.<br />
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<p style="text-align:left;"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Verdana;color:#ff8000;">Enlightened Sages who have truly comprehended the meaning of this Canon will become Ambassadors of Heaven; those of the middle order who endeavour to put its precepts into practice will be ranked among the Immortals of the Southern Palace; and those of the lowest order who gain even a limited understanding of it, will achieve longevity, traverse the Three Regions, and ascending at last on high, they will enter the Golden Gate.</span></p>
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<p style="text-align:center;"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Verdana;color:green;">THE CLASSIC OF PURITY<br />
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<p style="text-align:left;"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Verdana;color:#ff8000;">The Supreme TAO is formless, yet It produces and nurtures all things.<br />
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<p style="text-align:left;"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Verdana;color:#ac7237;">The Supreme TAO has no desires, yet by Its power the Sun and Moon revolve in their orbits.<br />
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<p style="text-align:left;"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Verdana;color:#ff8000;">The Supreme TAO is nameless, yet It supports all things eternally.<br />
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<p style="text-align:left;"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Verdana;color:#ac7237;">I do not know its name but for title call It "TAO".<br />
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<p style="text-align:left;"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Verdana;color:#ff8000;">TAO manifests both the pure and the turbid, both as movement and stillness.<br />
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<p style="text-align:left;"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Verdana;color:#ac7237;">The Universe is Pure, our World is turbid.<br />
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<p style="text-align:left;"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Verdana;color:#ff8000;">The Universe moves, our World is still.<br />
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<p style="text-align:left;"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Verdana;color:#ac7237;">The light is pure, the dark is turbid.<br />
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<p style="text-align:left;"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Verdana;color:#ff8000;">The masculine is active, the feminine is passive.<br />
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<p style="text-align:left;"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Verdana;color:#ac7237;">Manifesting in Its Radical Essence, TAO flows even to the last of things, bringing forward The Universe and our World and all that belongs to them.<br />
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<p style="text-align:left;"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Verdana;color:#ff8000;">The pure is the cause of the turbid, and movement is the cause of stillness.<br />
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<p style="text-align:left;"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Verdana;color:#ac7237;">When people attain the power to transcend that which changes, abiding in purity and stillness, The Universe and our World are united in them.<br />
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<p style="text-align:left;"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Verdana;color:#ff8000;">The Inner Spirit of people loves purity, but the mind of people is often rebellious. The mind of people loves stillness, but the desires of people draw them into activity. When a person is constantly able to govern their desires, their mind becomes spontaneously still. When the mind is unclouded, the Inner Spirit is seen to be pure. Then, with certainty the desires will cease to come forward and the poisons will be eliminated and dissolved.<br />
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<p style="text-align:left;"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Verdana;color:#ac7237;">The reason people do not possess the ability to achieve this is because their minds are not clear and their desires are unrestrained.<br />
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<p style="text-align:left;"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Verdana;color:#ff8000;">Those who have the power to transcend their desires, looking within and contemplating mind, realizes that in mind, mind is not; looking without contemplating form, they realize that in form, form is not; looking at things still more remote and contemplating matter, they realize that in matter, matter is not.<br />
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<p style="text-align:left;"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Verdana;color:#ac7237;">When they have clearly thought about these three they perceive only a void, and when they contemplate the void, they realize that the void is also void and has become nothingness. The void having vanished into nothingness, they realize that the nothingness of nothing is also nothing, and when the nethermost nothingness is reached, there is truly to be found a deep and unchanging stillness.<br />
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<p style="text-align:left;"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Verdana;color:#ff8000;">In this profound stillness how can desires come forward? When desires can no longer come forward, there is essential and unchanging stillness.<br />
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<p style="text-align:left;"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Verdana;color:#ac7237;">Truth is essentially unchanging.<br />
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<p style="text-align:left;"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Verdana;color:#ff8000;">All things in The Universe and in our world are in essence unchanging.<br />
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<p style="text-align:left;"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Verdana;color:#ac7237;">The unfolding of a person's mind leads them to this unchanging truth.<br />
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<p style="text-align:left;"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Verdana;color:#ff8000;">In unchanging Stillness, unchanging Purity and Rest are found.<br />
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<p style="text-align:left;"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Verdana;color:#ac7237;">Those who attain Purity and Stillness enter into the Immutable TAO.<br />
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<p style="text-align:left;"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Verdana;color:#ff8000;">Having entered the Immutable TAO they are named Possessor of TAO.<br />
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<p style="text-align:left;"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Verdana;color:#ac7237;">Although they are named Possessor of TAO they know they do not possess it.<br />
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<p style="text-align:left;"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Verdana;color:#ff8000;">Only when they can transmute all living things can they be truly named Possessor of TAO.<br />
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<p style="text-align:left;"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Verdana;color:#ac7237;">Those who are able to understand this can lead others to Sacred TAO.<br />
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<p style="text-align:left;"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Verdana;color:grey;">source<br />
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<span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Verdana;color:grey;">http://civet-cat.skandinaviskzencenter.org/civet-cat/zen-writings/classic-of-purity.htm</span></p>
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<p><span style="font-size:9pt;font-family:Verdana;color:grey;">Love is of all passions the strongest, for it attacks simultaneously the head, the heart and the senses<br />
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<description><![CDATA[I just tried a new product here at The Spanish Table that is so good that I am stepping away from my]]></description>
<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p style="margin:0;"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Georgia;">I just tried a new product here at The Spanish Table that is so good that I am stepping away from my usual wine related patter to alert you to this new taste treat. </span></p>
<p style="margin:0;"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Georgia;">My new favorite product is a 2004 vintage canned tuna. </span></p>
<p style="margin:0;"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Georgia;">Ageing canned fish is a well respected tradition in many Spanish homes. Some people (those with great forethought and discipline) even wait over a decade before opening the tin. </span></p>
<p style="margin:0;"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Georgia;">Ortiz, one of the top brands of canned <em>bonito del norte</em> tuna packed in olive oil, have recently started marketing several <em>reserva</em> varieties of canned tuna that are aged on purpose before sale. These vintage dated products develop a richer, creamier texture and a nutty, delicate flavor over time.</span></p>
<p style="margin:0;"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Georgia;">I know, I know, many of you will be skeptical when I sing the praises of ‘old canned goods’ but this is something you need to just try for yourself.<span> </span>Take one small can of regular Ortiz tuna and compare it side by side with the same sized can of Ortiz <em>Reserva de la Familia</em> 2004 vintage tuna. I already think of Ortiz tuna as on of life’s great pleasures, so you can imagine my surprise when I tasted the vintage variety and found it to be a deliciously different version of the original. </span></p>
<p style="margin:0;"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Georgia;">To taste this line caught, dolphin safe tuna at its best (and to get back to my primary mission) pair it with some of the fresh white and <em>rosado</em> wines from this week’s selections. These warm weather wines will refresh your thirst and stimulate your appetite without emptying your wallet.</span></p>
<p style="margin:0;"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Georgia;">If eating tuna straight from the can with a fork seems wrong to you (it is hard to resist!) then may I suggest the following simple appetizer that I have been served at numerous wineries and informal gatherings in Spain.</span></p>
<p style="margin:0;"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Georgia;"> </span></p>
<p style="margin:0;"><em><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Georgia;">Tuna and Piquillo montaditos (serves 4 as a tapa, 2 per person)</span></em></p>
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<p style="margin:0;"><em><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Georgia;">Ingredients:</span></em></p>
<p style="margin:0;"><em><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Georgia;">2<span> </span>4 oz. cans of Ortiz Reserva 2004 Bonito del Norte tuna</span></em></p>
<p style="margin:0;"><em><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Georgia;">8<span> </span>whole jarred piquillo peppers</span></em></p>
<p style="margin:0;"><em><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Georgia;">8<span> </span>½” slices of baguette</span></em></p>
<p style="text-indent:-0.25in;margin:0 0 0 0.25in;"><em><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Georgia;">¼ cup<span> </span><span> </span>Spanish extra virgin olive oil</span></em></p>
<p style="text-indent:-0.25in;margin:0 0 0 0.25in;"><em><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Georgia;">1 tblspn.<span> </span>flor de sal (sea salt)</span></em></p>
<p style="text-indent:-0.25in;margin:0 0 0 0.25in;"><em><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Georgia;">8<span> </span>toothpicks<span> </span></span></em></p>
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<p style="text-indent:-0.25in;margin:0 0 0 0.25in;"><em><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Georgia;">Directions:</span></em></p>
<p style="margin:0;"><em><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Georgia;">This simple preparation calls for the best quality ingredients. Open the cans of tuna and drain some, but not all, of the oil. Divide the contents of each can in fourths and fill each pepper with tuna. Top each slice of bread with a filled pepper and secure with a toothpick. Drizzle the peppers with the best olive oil you can find and sprinkle with top quality sea salt. Plate and serve.<span> </span>That’s all there is to it!</span></em></p>
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<p style="margin:0;"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Georgia;">Paella alert-two weeks away: The ever popular and always delicious Paella class at Kitchen On Fire is back. On Friday June 13<sup>th</sup> at 6:30 pm I will be leading a bunch of enthusiastic food lovers in this hands-on class that is guaranteed to give all participants the knowledge and confidence to make this classic Spanish one-pot meal at home. Whether you want to make paella for two or for two hundred this high spirited class will reward you with a plateful of Paella wisdom. We’ll be making a few tapas and trying some wines too (hey, it’s me teaching the class, so we’ve got to try some wines, don’t you think?). Go to the <a href="https://www.kitchenonfire.com/course_class.php?class=443">Kitchen On Fire</a> website to sign up. This will be the only class like this all summer and the class is limited to 20 participants so act now to secure your spot. </span></p>
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<p style="margin:0;"><strong><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Georgia;">Ameztoi Rubentis 2007</span></strong><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Georgia;"> This <em>rosado</em> Txakoli, the first of its kind, was the big hit of last summer in its inaugural vintage. </span><span class="table1"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Georgia;">Ignacio Ameztoi Aranguren, a 7<sup>th</sup> generation basque winemaker produces this wine from the fruit of his 50 acre vineyard in the Getaria region overlooking the Cantabrian Sea. Rubentis is composed of a blend of indigenous Hondarribi Zuri (white) and Hondarribi Beltza (red), creating a light pink colored wine with just a touch of residual effervescence. The refreshing grapefruit and mineral notes found in the white Ameztoi are supplemented here with a slight note of wild strawberry. </span></span><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Georgia;">We have just a few cases of this wine so act now if you wish to try it for yourself. $18.99</span></p>
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<p style="margin:0;"><strong><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Georgia;">Gurrutxaga Rosado 2007</span></strong><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Georgia;"> Following on the success of Ameztoi Rubentis, DeMaison Imports has brought yet another <em>rosado</em> Txakoli to our shores. Gurrutxaga Rosado is made in the little coastal village of Mendexa in the heart of the basque lands.<span> </span>This wine is made from 100% Hondarribi Beltza, the traditional red grape of this region. Aromas of wet limestone punctuated by bright flavors of grapefruit and tannic grape skin remind me of traditional white Txakoli, here with the addition of intriguing pale pink color and the aroma of unripe strawberry. $18.99</span></p>
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<p style="margin:0;"><strong><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Georgia;">Avinyó Vi D’Agulla 2007</span></strong><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Georgia;"> Another DeMaison import (their ship recently came in… literally) is this new vintage of refreshing, spritzy white wine from the makers of Avinyó Cava. Made in the Penedès region of Catalunya, this summertime thirst quencher is composed of Petit Grain Muscat, fermented to dryness and bottled with a bit of residual effervescence. The rich Muscat scent is present here but the sweetness usually associated with this grape is only barely perceived. In its place is tart citrusy fruit character and background flintiness. $14.99</span></p>
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<p style="margin:0;"><strong><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Georgia;">Quinta Da Aveleda Vinho Verde 2007 </span></strong><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Georgia;">We just received the new vintage Vinho Verde from Aveleda in Portugal. Most Vinho Verde is non-vintage but this wine is produced each year from a blend of traditional grapes (</span><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Georgia;">Alvarinho, Loureiro and Trajadura) from the best parcels of Aveleda’s estate vineyards. This finely tuned Vinho Verde displays fresh citrus and light floral aromas along with bright fruit character and the spritzy effervescence that is typical of wines from this region. $8.99</span></p>
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<p style="margin:0;"><strong><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Georgia;">Quinta da Cabriz Branco 2007</span></strong><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Georgia;"> If you have wanted to try white Portuguese wines beyond Vinho Verde, this white Dão region wine will be a real treat. Quinta da Cabriz makes some excellent and well priced red wines, but their white wine is only now making it to our part of the world. Composed of 40% Encruzado, 20% Malvasia, 20% Cerceal and 20% Bical, this unoaked blend of typical Portuguese grapes is fresh and delicate with moderate acidity and white peach fruit character. $10.99</span></p>
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<description><![CDATA[I am planning some fun for the weekend in Shanghai as we have not done too much since i arrived, and]]></description>
<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I am planning some fun for the weekend in Shanghai as we have not done too much since i arrived, and just concentrated on setting things up and keeping things simple. There are obviously plenty of things to do in Shanghai so it doesnt take much work to plan a couple of things. I am little skint after buying the Wii last week so the following seem suitable. </p>
<p><strong>Moganshan Road Art District</strong></p>
<p>"...If you'd like to see what's happening on the contemporary art scene in China, take a taxi to Moganshan Road near Suzhou Creek. Once just factories and warehouses, the area is now a thriving art colony full of galleries of all sizes. There's a café near the entrance to the lane where you can have a nice coffee once you've seen the scene..."</p>
<p><strong>French Concession Walking Tour</strong></p>
<p>"...The French Concession is a lovely part of Shanghai because, despite the fact that you're in the heart of a city with a population exceeding seventeen million, it feels like you're just in a local neighborhood. The French imported plane trees in the early 1900s and these trees still line both sides of every street in the area. These days, old villas and lane houses are being renovated and turned into lovely shops and homes. It's fun to wander the less-congested streets and watch oldies chatting on the sidewalks and vendors market their wares..."</p>
<p>My inspiration was this website <a href="http://gochina.about.com/od/whattoseeinshanghai/tp/Top10SHwkd.htm" target="_blank">http://gochina.about.com/od/whattoseeinshanghai/tp/Top10SHwkd.htm</a>. After these on Saturday daytime we will then go to a British pub in the evening where i plan on "unwinding". Ruby isn't much of a drinker though, so i dont expect it will get too messy. But after 3 weeks here it is about time i had a good session.</p>
<p>I am certainly still hoping to go to the Olympics in beach city Qingdao (where they make Tsingtao beer) next month. <strong>See photos of Qingdao below</strong>. But it might be expensive on my current wage. I thought it was quite near Shanghai, but the train trip is ten hours which im not really up for, we'll be flying! It is nicknamed the "city of beer" due to previous German roots and with the Chinese Olympics on, could be a great 30th if i can organise it with Ruby.</p>
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<p>Ooooh, and finally a little shout out to <a href="http://tommycmusicsnob.wordpress.com/" target="_blank">Mr Carpen who has set up his own blog here, discovering all things Music</a> - ooh, he's such a Music Snob!</p>
<p>On a different note i am pleased to have learnt the word for takeaway now. I am not really one for eating in a restaurant by myself in the week whilst Ruby is in Ningbo so prefer to eat at home. I can now avoid pointing madly at my flat from local restaurants and get them on with cooking my dinner without any confusion.</p>
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<link>http://businesswired.wordpress.com/?p=156</link>
<pubDate>Mon, 14 Jul 2008 17:49:41 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Monika Maeckle, Vice President New Media Business Wire</dc:creator>
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<description><![CDATA[JUST as we&#8217;re mastering an explanation of SEO (Search Engine Optimization) and its importance]]></description>
<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>JUST as we're mastering an explanation of <a title="what is SEO" href="http://www.webopedia.com/Term/s/seo.html">SEO</a> (Search Engine Optimization) and its importance to press releases for our clients, an email is forwarded, touting the virtues of <a title="what is DAO" href="http://www.mediapost.com/publications/index.cfm?fuseaction=Articles.showArticle&#38;art_aid=85420">DAO</a>, digital asset optimization, as one of the niftiest twists in the Web 2.0 evolution.</p>
<p>In breathless text and two--count 'em!--videos, DAO is championed as the key strategy for achieving "effective visibility across multiple platforms" for press release videos, graphics and other<a href="http://businesswired.files.wordpress.com/2008/07/acronymsgonewild1.jpg"><img class="alignright size-medium wp-image-158" src="http://businesswired.wordpress.com/files/2008/07/acronymsgonewild1.jpg?w=263" alt="Acronyms Gone Wild" width="263" height="158" /></a> digital assets.</p>
<blockquote><p><em><strong>So does DAO make SEO seem DOA?  Just ask your BW AE for the DL on EON and SNR and find out ASAP!</strong></em></p></blockquote>
<p>If you're getting indigestion from this overdose of alphabet soup, you're not alone.  Even those of us who make a living trying to keep up are getting nauseous.   Seems like at least once a month, Web 2.0 pontificators invent a new acronym to hang their hats on.    Uh...didn't we just go through this with the SMPR?</p>
<p>Just this week, a blog post at Video Insider introduced a grand new acronym for our collection:  the <a title="Internet Gross Rating Point" href="http://blogs.mediapost.com/video_insider/?p=188">iGRP</a>,  Internet Gross Rating Point.   Blogger Todd Sacerdoti introduces a new method of measuring online video viewership. </p>
<p>Will iGRP catch on?   How about DAO?  Only time will tell.  In the meantime, confusion reigns as we sift through the jargon.</p>
<p>Staking out a new acronym doesn't automatically imbue its letters with meaning.  Well, maybe if you're Steven Colbert.   Colbert, star of the <a title="Colbert Report" href="http://www.colbertnation.com/">Colbert Report</a>, shown most weeknights on Comedy Central, champions <a title="What is truthiness" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Truthiness">truthiness</a>, the modern notion that just because you say or believe something, that makes it true.</p>
<p>The rest of us have to let our acronyms play out.    Sometimes they stick and assume real meaning.   More often, they fade into the rear view mirror.</p>
<p>Business Wire has been doing digital asset optimization since 1998 when we introduced our Smart News Release (we even earned an acronym:  SNR).   To see how we optimize digital assets, check out our <a title="Business Wire multimedia news" href="http://www.businesswire.com/portal/site/home/news/multimedia/">news with multimedia</a>.  And for a free education in text optimization, watch our archived <a title="Be an SEO Hero" href="http://www.businesswire.com/portal/site/home/event-archive/seo/">webcasts on how to be an SEO hero</a>.</p>
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<title><![CDATA[The Dao Of Nature]]></title>
<link>http://wormgirl.wordpress.com/2008/07/14/191/</link>
<pubDate>Sun, 13 Jul 2008 22:37:03 +0000</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[The Dao Of Nature

This is an amazingly beautiful cartoon
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This is an amazingly beautiful cartoon</p>
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<title><![CDATA[8/7]]></title>
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<pubDate>Sat, 12 Jul 2008 12:27:23 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>jedrzejewski</dc:creator>
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Wrocław.
Pewnym już  
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<p style="text-align:center;">Wrocław.<br />
Pewnym już:)</p>
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<title><![CDATA[Ji Gong道濟禪師, 濟公~The Drunk Monk(a bit more)]]></title>
<link>http://liefintaiwan.wordpress.com/?p=319</link>
<pubDate>Tue, 08 Jul 2008 18:28:23 +0000</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[ He goes by many names. Commonly known as Ji Gong (Chee Gong), Dao Ji(Daoji) and Ji Gong Huo Fuo. Al]]></description>
<content:encoded><![CDATA[<div><span style="font-size:small;font-family:Times New Roman;"><a href="http://None"><img class="aligncenter size-medium wp-image-287" src="http://liefintaiwan.wordpress.com/files/2008/06/rjm_nankunshen_18.jpg?w=200" alt="" width="200" height="300" /></a> </span><span style="font-size:small;font-family:Times New Roman;"><span style="font-size:small;font-family:Times New Roman;">He goes by many names. Commonly known as Ji Gong (Chee Gong), Dao Ji(Daoji) and Ji Gong Huo Fuo. Also; Master Ji, Rinpoche Ji Gong, Li Xiuyuan, Hu Yin (Recluse from the Lake) and Elder Fang Yuan (Square Circle) and colloquially; The Mad Monk, The Drunk Monk and The Crazy Monk.</span></span></div>
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<div><span style="font-size:small;font-family:Times New Roman;"><span style="font-size:small;font-family:Times New Roman;">Ji Gong, along with Chi Yeh, Ba Yeh, Ba Jia Jiang, San Tai Tz etc. are certainly the most commonly seen figures in marching troupes during street parades and festivals here in Taiwan. Ji Gong is also one of the better known and understood gods by the general populace due to the popular TV series Ji Gong. Surprisingly there is very little English literature about him. In my three main Taiwanese folk religion references (one is English, two are Chinese) he is only mentioned in one, and then only in passing. Apparently the most influential work about Jigong is the 評演濟公傳(1898-1900)Pingyan Jigong Chuan, which has Ji Gong helping the poor and righting wrongs; much like a magical Chinese Robin Hood who is a martial arts master. When I asked about Ji Gong at a Taoist temple, I was told he was a Buddhist god, at a Buddhist temple on the same day I was told he was a Taoist figure. This follows Taiwanese folk religion in general, but it seems Ji Gong's place in the pantheon is more murky than most.</span></span></div>
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<p><span style="font-size:small;font-family:Times New Roman;"><span style="font-size:small;font-family:Times New Roman;">Belying his popularity amongst Taiwanese, Ji Gong ranks only as a minor deity in the Chinese god pantheon. Ji Gong(1130-1209), was born a mortal, Li Xiu Yuan, to parents who were unable to have children yet, obviously, had one anyway. It is said that upon his birth in a temple, a statue of Mahakasyapa fell off its throne, signifying that the luohan had descended to earth. After his parents death he entered the monastic life in the Ling Yin Temple in Hangzhou. Differing from other monks, Li Xiu Yuan ate meat, drank wine and basically spurned the vinaya (traditonal code for monastics). For this and other eccentric behaviour, Li Xiu Yuan was expelled from the monastery.</span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size:small;font-family:Times New Roman;"><span style="font-size:small;font-family:Times New Roman;">For the remainder of his life, Li Xiu Yuan wandered from village to village in the coastal parts of Zhejiang 浙江 helping people. Through his good deeds, compassion and continued cultivation of Buddhism he gained magic powers. He died at the Jing Ci monastery on May 14th (solar-17 June 1207. Not long after his death, Ji gong was deified in Taoism and later recognized in Buddhism.</span></span></p>
<div><span style="font-size:small;font-family:Times New Roman;"><span style="font-size:small;font-family:Times New Roman;"><span style="font-size:small;font-family:Times New Roman;">Some other interesting things about Ji Gong is his ties to the boxers, Taiwanese spirit-writing, spirit-possesion and spirit painting. As well as gambling. I am planning a Ji Gong temple trip around KHH and Tainan counties with a friend to find out more about this colorful fellow.</span></span></span><img class="aligncenter size-medium wp-image-290" src="http://liefintaiwan.wordpress.com/files/2008/06/rjm_nankunshen_21.jpg?w=200" alt="" width="200" height="300" /></div>
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<title><![CDATA[La gran pérdida]]></title>
<link>http://daoismo.wordpress.com/?p=127</link>
<pubDate>Mon, 07 Jul 2008 08:12:17 +0000</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[El que fue dueño de un importante tesoro se acercó al sabio Kai y le preguntó:
-Venerable, hace u]]></description>
<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>El que fue dueño de un importante tesoro se acercó al sabio Kai y le preguntó:</p>
<p>-Venerable, hace unos años fuí dueño de un tesoro de incalculable valor, si bien el mismo se me perdió inesperadamente. ¿Hay alguna magia recomendable para éstos casos?</p>
<p>A lo que el Maestro respondió:</p>
<p>-Sí, la de la resignación.</p>
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<title><![CDATA[Dào (道)]]></title>
<link>http://tornadomaravilla.wordpress.com/?p=37</link>
<pubDate>Sat, 05 Jul 2008 10:50:19 +0000</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[Una de las pocas cosas que tengo que agradecer a mi educación en un colegio religioso es el haber t]]></description>
<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Una de las pocas cosas que tengo que agradecer a mi educación en un colegio religioso es el haber tenido una inquietud espiritual que ninguna religión ha saciado.</p>
<p>El taoísmo es una filosofía que nace con la civilización china. Sus conceptos y enseñanzas son la base de otras muchas filosofías, como el budismo zen. Curiosamente pese a su antigüedad y a su gran influencia el taoísmo es algo casi desconocido hoy en día.</p>
<p>La pieza fundamental del taoismo es el <em>Dào Dé Jing (Tao Te King), </em>un libro de unos 2500 años atribuido a Lao Tse (Viejo maestro), que probablemente no se llamaba así. El libro consta de 81 capítulos (de una página cada uno) en el que se condensán una gran cantidad de enseñanzas.</p>
<p>Como he dicho al principio siempre he tenido una inquietud filosófica, que fue calmada cuando conocí el taoismo por las siguientes razones:</p>
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<li>El taoísmo <strong>NO ES UNA RELIGIÓN. </strong>En el taoísmo no hay mandamientos, ni reglas, ni dios al que contentar. Hay gente que piensa que el Dào es como el Dios de los cristianos pero es totalmente erroneo. Intentar explicar que es el Dào es tarea imposible porque el Dào simplemente no es.</li>
<li>Los libros sagrados de las religiones alinean a la gente, te dicen como tienes que actuar, como tienes que vivir y lo que puedes y no hacer. El taoísmo entiende que cada persona es distinta y que lo que vale para uno no tiene porque valer para los demás (Que las patas largas sean beneficiosas para las cigueñas no quiere decir que un gato con patas de cigueña sea lo mas adecuado)</li>
<li>El taoismo no tiene un fin, no hay salvación para los que lo sigan ni recompensa alguna al que se armonice con el tao.</li>
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<p>También es cierto que el taoismo puede resultar contradictorio y confuso para la mentalidad occidental. La mejor manera de acercarse al taoismo es con indiferencia (contradictorio no?). No hay que intentar comprender de una manera lógica lo que dice el tao te king, al fin y al cabo el Dào no se puede explicar con palabras y como ya he dicho es absurdo hacer una guia para entender el taoismo porque estaría basada en mi propia experiencia y solo valdría para mí. Entonces ¿que hay que hacer para enterarse de algo con el taoismo? La respuesta es NADA (La no-acción es la esencia del taoismo). Pero esto no lo digo porque lo diga el tao te king sino porque he llegado a la conclusión de que es así.</p>
<p>Si alguién sigue leyendo esto le diré cual es mi metodo (avisando de que puede que a el no le sirva), yo intento leer un capitulo del tao te king cada mañana, no intento entenderlo, simplemente lo leo y lo dejo dentro de mí, al principio hay muchas dudas y ninguna respuesta pero las respuestas llegan, y las verdaderas son las que llegan sin buscarlas. Por ejemplo en un fragmento el capitulo 26 del libro dice:</p>
<p style="text-align:center;"><em>El sumiso vence al opresor.<br />
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<p style="text-align:center;"><em>El débil triunfa sobre el fuerte.</em></p>
<p style="text-align:left;">Estas dos frases de por sí pueden tener muchas interpretaciones y ser muy ambiguas. Una persona normal analiza el texto para entenderlo, pero un taoista te diría "si quieres entenderlo no intentes hacerlo". Así que te olvidas y un día paseando al perro (Como me paso a mí ayer) te percatas de lo siguiente:</p>
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<p>Estas son las típicas plantas que crecen en el asfalto, desgastándolo poco a poco hasta cubrirlo.</p>
<p>Cuando yo vi esto fue cuando se encendio la luz y vino a mi cabeza: "Lo sumiso vence al opresor, el débil triunfa sobre el fuerte" y fue cuando cobró sentido.</p>
<p>Este es un claro ejemplo de no-accion. El taoismo es una filosofia naturalista, su esencia es la de hacer todo lo mas simple posible y actuar de un modo sutil, como en la misma naturaleza.</p>
<p>Espero que no me tomen por loco, mis escasos amigos lectores y recuerden:</p>
<p style="text-align:center;"><em>Treinta radios convergen en el eje de una rueda,</em></p>
<p style="text-align:center;"><em>y sin embargo es el espacio vacío lo que le da utilidad al carro.</em></p>
<p style="text-align:center;"><em>Moldeando la arcilla se hacen vasijas, </em></p>
<p style="text-align:center;"><em>y sin embargo es su oquedad lo que las hace útiles.</em></p>
<p style="text-align:center;"><em>Puertas y ventanas se abren en las paredes de una casa,</em></p>
<p style="text-align:center;"><em>pero es la nada de su abertura lo que hace habitable la vivienda.</em></p>
<p style="text-align:center;"><em>Lo que existe,sirve para ser poseido</em></p>
<p style="text-align:center;"><em>Lo que no existe sirve para cumplir una función</em></p>
<p style="text-align:center;">Tao Te King, capítulo XI</p>
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<title><![CDATA[Der Bienen-Daoist aus Wudang]]></title>
<link>http://seisui.wordpress.com/?p=219</link>
<pubDate>Sat, 05 Jul 2008 06:49:49 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>sui fēng</dc:creator>
<guid>http://seisui.wordpress.com/?p=219</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Ich bin Ismet Himmet (youlihan) so dankbar, dass er uns die Möglichkeit gegeben hat, den Worten des]]></description>
<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Ich bin <a href="http://wudang-deutschland.com/" target="_blank">Ismet Himmet </a>(youlihan) so dankbar, dass er uns die Möglichkeit gegeben hat, den Worten des Bienen-Daoisten aus Wudang zuhören zu dürfen.</p>
<p>Diese Freude in seiner Stimme, das Strahlen in seinen Augen, seine tiefgründigen und bewegenden Worte. Unbeschreiblich.</p>
<p>"Von heute an... habe keine Angst! Der Wind wird hinter dir sein."</p>
<p>Teil 1</p>
<p><span style='text-align:center; display: block;'><object width='425' height='350'><param name='movie' value='http://www.youtube.com/v/2ZxuWE1FnY8'></param><param name='wmode' value='transparent'></param><embed src='http://www.youtube.com/v/2ZxuWE1FnY8&rel=0' type='application/x-shockwave-flash' wmode='transparent' width='425' height='350'></embed></object></span></p>
<p>Teil 2</p>
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<p>Teil 3</p>
<p><span style='text-align:center; display: block;'><object width='425' height='350'><param name='movie' value='http://www.youtube.com/v/fl9wc_cy9LE'></param><param name='wmode' value='transparent'></param><embed src='http://www.youtube.com/v/fl9wc_cy9LE&rel=0' type='application/x-shockwave-flash' wmode='transparent' width='425' height='350'></embed></object></span></p>
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<title><![CDATA[pzk_i_pr]]></title>
<link>http://jedrzejewski.wordpress.com/?p=171</link>
<pubDate>Fri, 04 Jul 2008 22:23:46 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>jedrzejewski</dc:creator>
<guid>http://jedrzejewski.wordpress.com/?p=171</guid>
<description><![CDATA[
Patrzymy. Nie wierzymy.
Tylko czasem&#8230;


Moszna.
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<p style="text-align:center;">Patrzymy. Nie wierzymy.<br />
Tylko czasem...
</p>
<p style="text-align:center;">
<p style="text-align:center;">Moszna.</p>
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<title><![CDATA[Despertar]]></title>
<link>http://daoismo.wordpress.com/?p=106</link>
<pubDate>Wed, 02 Jul 2008 09:21:34 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>8</dc:creator>
<guid>http://daoismo.wordpress.com/?p=106</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Sin confundir el despertar con las palabras, las ondulaciones que produce el viento parecen de lo m]]></description>
<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Sin confundir el despertar con las palabras, las ondulaciones que produce el viento parecen de lo más natural y el agua del viejo lago se serena por sí misma: la primavera se ha transformado en verano, pero toda distinción es una formalidad.</p>
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<title><![CDATA[Visual Studio + NHibernate: Construindo aplicações em camadas - (cont. IV)]]></title>
<link>http://reginaldojr.wordpress.com/?p=77</link>
<pubDate>Sat, 28 Jun 2008 17:16:04 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>reginaldojr</dc:creator>
<guid>http://reginaldojr.wordpress.com/?p=77</guid>
<description><![CDATA[No post anterior criamos as classes e os mapeamento O/R do Hibernate. Vimos que essas classes farão]]></description>
<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>No post anterior criamos as classes e os mapeamento O/R do Hibernate. Vimos que essas classes farão o papel de transferir dados entre as camadas. Neste post vamos construir os DAO´s. Vamos definir os componentes que farão acesso ao banco de dados, ou seja, os DAO´s.</p>
<p>Vamos falar um pouco sobre alguns detalhes importantes neste processo. No post anterior indicamos um material sobre conhecimentos preliminares em relação ao Hibernate. Importante ter lido antes de continuar.</p>
<p>Nunca tive muita afinidade com a arquitetura cliente/servdor. Aquela onde existe um servidor de banco instalado em algum lugar da rede e as aplicações acessam diretamente este servidor fazendo requisições e persistindo dados. Esse processo é muito comum em Delphi e Visual Basic. Os programadores constroem um executável, embuntindo as regras de negócio e os comandos SQL no programa. Sempre achei isso meio complicado de gerenciar. E, de certa forma, é mesmo. Controle de transação, travamento de linhas, várias máquinas com o mesmo executável instalado e acessando o mesmo banco, etc. passam a ser preocupações do desenvolvedor que deve embutir soluções no programa. Mesmo usando o Delphi eu preferia separar alguns papéis. Eu fazia assim: a aplicação era responsável apenas por solicitar e exibir dados so servidor. As procedures do banco eram responsáveis para incluir, alterar e excluir dados (regras de negócio e DAO). Nenhuma aplicações poderia efetuar inserções, alterações ou deleções diretamente nas tabelas. Essas operações tinham que passar pelas procedures. As aplicações parametrizava dados e passava para a procedure. A aplicação permanecia aguardando o final da execução da procedure para saber se houve algum problema ou tudo foi realizado com sucesso. Nas procedures eram definidas regras da aplicação: validações, integridades, restrições, procedures paralelas (nada de triggers), etc. Inclusive acho isso muito bom. Não existe nada mais rápido pra banco de dados do que procedures. Eu disse NADA!!!!!!!!</p>
<p>Como nada é perfeito, tem um problema: se mudar a aplicação para outro banco as procedures teriam que ser reescritas!!!! Eu tinha uma aplicação mediana em SQL Server com mais de 200 procedures que teria que migrar para Oracle. Sem chances reescrever as procedures novamente. E se tivesse que mudar pra outro banco? Reescrever tudo outra vez?.</p>
<p>Neste cenário entrou o Hibernate! Com ele foi possível ganhar indepêndencia de banco de dados. Mas nem tudo são flores. As procedures do banco geram pouco tráfego de rede. O Hibernate gera auto nível de tráfego. Por isso é importante ter cuidado ao utiliza-lo. Sem falar em outras situações: gerenciamento de sessão, conectividade com outros bancos, HQL (o SQL do Hiberante), configurações, etc. Por tudo isso é importante planejar bem o seu uso. Dediquei um pouco do meu tempo a pesquisar e  planejar. Construi uma biblioteca que gerencia inúmeras situações que acabam sendo repetitivas nas aplicaçãoes com Hibernate. Eu a chamei de <strong>Regisoft.Camadas</strong>. Ela faz parte de um pacote (Regisoft Library.NET) com outras bilbiotecas que utilizo no processo de desenvolvimento. Veja as classes que a biblioteca Regisoft.Camadas possui:</p>
<ol>
<li>NHibernateHelper - (Regisoft.Camadas.NHibernateHelper) Responsável por configurar e gerenciar o Hibernate dentro da aplicação. Inicialização das classes de mapeamento, gerenciamento da sessão,  conectividade com um ou vários bancos de dados ao mesmo tempo são responsabilidades desta classe. Não precisa ser instanciada nem utilizada diretamente. Uma outra classe chamada BaseDAO fará uso desta classe internamente.</li>
<li>BaseDAO - Todos os DAO´s devem herdar dessa classe abstrata. É um DAO genérico que é  responsável por dar suporte, através de seus métodos e propriedades, ás operações envolvendo persistência: inserções, alterações, exclusões, transações, seleção de dados, validação de campos not-null, controle de objetos persistentes e transientes, verificação de  integridade antes de uma exclusão e outras mais. Existe uma versão bem completa usando o Generic da versão .NET 2.0 (Regisoft.Camdas.Generic.BaseDAO&#60;T,ID&#62; )  e uma versão descontinuada sem Generic (Regisoft.Camadas.BaseDAO). A versão sem Genéric existe por compatibilidade retroativa. Aplicações desenvolvidas em Visual Studio 2003 utilizam esta versão (não valia a pena mudar).</li>
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<p>Eu utilizo esta biblioteca em TODAS as aplicações que desenvolvo. Ela me permite abstrair da problemática do Hibernate. Não será diferente na nossa aplicação de Agenda Telefônica On-Line. Vamos gerar nossos DAO´s herdando da classe abstrata dessa biblioteca. Quem desejar escrever seu próprio BaseDAO ou sua própria biblioteca fique a vontade. Tem um post aqui que fala sobre as funcionalidades básicas que todo DAO genérico tem que ter. <a href="http://reginaldojr.wordpress.com/2008/02/24/classe-dao-generica-com-hibernate/">Leia mais...</a></p>
<p><a href="http://reginaldojr.files.wordpress.com/2008/06/regisoftzip.doc">Clique aqui</a> e baixe a bliblioteca. Vamos utiliza-lá em nosso projeto. ATENÇÃO: <span style="color:#ff0000;">Voce deve renomear o arquivo baixado para .ZIP antes da descompactação. Não é um .DOC</span>.</p>
<p>Utilizando a biblioteca assima não precisaremos escrever manualmente um DAO para cada tabela do banco. Podemos utilizar o MyGeneration para gerar os arquivos necessários. E vamos fazer isso agora. No segundo post sobre nosso assunto disponibilizei os scripts que são utilizados neste projeto e também a explicação de como utilizar o MyGeneration. Neste vamos repetir o processo utilizando dois scripts: <strong>DAO Class for Nhibernate.csgen</strong> e <strong>DAO Interface for Nhibernate.csgen</strong>.</p>
<h2><strong>Gerando as interfaces e os DAO´s</strong></h2>
<p>Abra o MyGeneration, efetue as confiurações necessárias se for o caso, abra, primeiramente, o script das interfaces:<strong>DAO Interface for Nhibernate.csgen.</strong> Execute o script preenchendo os campos como mostrado abaixo. <span style="color:#ff0000;">Na selecção da pasta voce deve apontar para o local do projeto AgendaTelefonica.Interface e na pasta DAO</span>.</p>
<p><a href="http://reginaldojr.files.wordpress.com/2008/06/gera_interface_dao.png"><img class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-79" src="http://reginaldojr.wordpress.com/files/2008/06/gera_interface_dao.png" alt="" width="302" height="473" /></a></p>
<p>Agora abra no MyGeneration o segundo script <strong>- DAO Class for Nhibernate.csgen.</strong> Vamos gerar os DAO´s. Note que a pasta destino deve ser a pasta onde o projeto AgendaTelefonica.DAO está hospedada. Quando executar o script voce deve entrar os dados da mesma forma que o fez para a geração das interfaces, modificando apenas a pasta destino. Veja a figura acima que é similar!!</p>
<h2><strong>No Visual Studio</strong></h2>
<p>Com os arquivos gerados nas suas respectivas pastas precisamos agora inclui-los em seus projetos. O Visual Studio precisa reconhece-los como parte do projeto. Os passos a seguir devem ser efetuados em cada projeto do Visual Studio, no local onde os arquivos foram gerados.</p>
<ol>
<li>Selecione o projeto. Se os arquivos gerados não tiverem aparecendo clique no botão "<strong>Show all Files</strong>". Depois selecione os arquivos, clique em qualquer dos arquivos com o botão direito do mouse e selecione a opção "<strong>Include In Project</strong>".</li>
</ol>
<p>Chegou a hora de utilizar a nossa biblioteca. Voce terá que adicionar as bibliotecas que voce baixou aos projetos.</p>
<ol>
<li>Projeto AgendaTelefonica.DAO: Clicando com o botão direito do mouse sobre o projeto selecione "<strong>Add Reference...</strong>". Selecione a aba Browse e localize as bibliotecas <span style="color:#ff0000;">Regisoft.Camadas.dll</span>, <span style="color:#ff0000;">Regisoft.dll</span> e <span style="color:#ff0000;">Regisoft.Camadas.Interface.dll</span> no local onde foi descompactada. Selecione-as e clique em Ok.</li>
<li>Proejto AgendaTelefonica.Interface: Clicando com o botão direito do mouse sobre o projeto selecione "<strong>Add Reference...</strong>". Selecione a aba Browse e localize as bibliotecas <span style="color:#ff0000;">Regisoft.dll</span> e <span style="color:#ff0000;">Regisoft.Camadas.Interface.dll</span> (não inclua neste projeto Regisoft.Camadas.dll) no local onde foi descompactada. Selecione-as e clique em Ok.</li>
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<p>Se tudo foi feito como indicado o Solution Explorer estará como abaixo quando apresentar os projetos AgendaTelefonica.DAO e AgendaTelefonica.Interface.<br />
<a href="http://reginaldojr.wordpress.com/files/2008/06/solution_explorer_6.png"><img class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-80" src="http://reginaldojr.wordpress.com/files/2008/06/solution_explorer_6.png" alt="" width="222" height="290" /></a><a href="http://reginaldojr.wordpress.com/files/2008/06/solution_explorer_7.png"><img class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-81" src="http://reginaldojr.wordpress.com/files/2008/06/solution_explorer_7.png" alt="" width="222" height="304" /></a><br />
Tecle Ctrl+F5 para montar o projeto. Se nenhum erro ocorrer voce concluio com sucesso essa etapa. No máximo, voce receberá uma mensagem informando que não há nenhum projeto que possa ser executado.</p>
<p>Vamos agora analisar os arquivos gerados.</p>
<ol>
<li>Abra primeiro o arquivo CidadeDAO.cs. Veja que não existe nada de extraordinário nele. Apenas 03 construtores diferentes na classe. O mais importante é a definição da classe que herda de uma BaseDAO&#60;Cidade,long&#62; e uma interface ICidadeDAO. A BaseDAO é a classe que implementa as funcionalidades de persistências que já estão prontas para serem usadas. Como é uma classe genérica estamos usando &#60;Cidade,long&#62; que diz que o DTO a que esta classe se refere é 'CIDADE' e diz também que possui um campo chave primária do tipo 'long'. É provável que precisemos de algumas novas funcionalidades na classe CidadeDAO.cs mas iremos adiciona-la depois. O principal (inclusão, exclusão, alteração, seleções de dados, transações, ect.) já está disponível pela herança. Abra também a classe ICidadeDAO.cs e veja que lá também não existe nada de mais. Apenas as herança de outra interface genérica.</li>
<li>Abra agora o arquivo DAOFactory.cs. Este será o arquivo por onde as regras de negócio farão acesso aos DAO´s. Voce entenderá isso melhor quando trabalharmos na geração dos BO´s. Veja que também possui uma inteface na sua declaração. Veja que seu construtor possui maneiras para acessar os DAO´s: com ou se servidor remoto. É possível planejar este sistema paraexecutar DAO´s e banco de dados numa máquina, regras de negócio em outra e servidor web em outra. Mas isso não faz parte do escopo do nosso projeto. Quem desejar conhecer mais sobre este assunto aguarde post posteriores ou registre algum comentário. Por hora voce deve entender que os DAO´s permitem flexibilidade de acesso graças a sua estrutura e o factory dos DAO´s sabe disso, permitindo que o programador escolha a forma de acesso que deseja trabalhar. Mas abaixo no arquivo voce vê exatamente os construtores dos DAO´s sendo chamados de acordo com aqueles construtores que mostramos no item 1, na classe CidadeDAO.cs que usamos como exemplo. O mais importante na nossa arquitetura é saber que os chamados aos DAO´s serão feitos através deste Factory (um padrão de projeto).</li>
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<p>Estude bem este processo e os arquivos gerados. No próximo post vamos gerar os BO´s com suas interfaces. O procedimento é similar ao utilizado na geração dos DAO´s e suas interfaces. Estamos abertos a dúvidas e sugestões.</p>
<p>Até o próximo.</p>
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<title><![CDATA[El olvido]]></title>
<link>http://daoismo.wordpress.com/?p=103</link>
<pubDate>Fri, 27 Jun 2008 08:24:47 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>8</dc:creator>
<guid>http://daoismo.wordpress.com/?p=103</guid>
<description><![CDATA[&#8220;Cuando la virtud es grande, se olvida el aspecto externo. Los hombres no olvidan lo que debie]]></description>
<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p style="text-align:left;">"Cuando la virtud es grande, se olvida el aspecto externo. Los hombres no olvidan lo que debieran olvidar y olvidan lo que no debieron olvidar. Este es el olvido verdadero".</p>
<p style="text-align:right;">Zhuang Zi</p>
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<title><![CDATA[Visual Studio + NHibernate: Construindo aplicações em camadas - (cont. II)]]></title>
<link>http://reginaldojr.wordpress.com/?p=53</link>
<pubDate>Sun, 22 Jun 2008 16:25:32 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>reginaldojr</dc:creator>
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<description><![CDATA[No post, anterior foram definidos o ambiente de trabalho e requisitos do Sistema Agenda Telefônica ]]></description>
<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>No post, anterior foram definidos o ambiente de trabalho e requisitos do Sistema Agenda Telefônica on-line. Agora vamos definir o ambiente de desenvolvimento da aplicação no VS 2005. Lembre-se que será definido em camadas. É comum definir um único <em>Project</em> no VS e criar pastas dentro deste projeto para definir os DAO´s, BO´s e DTO´s, etc. Faremos um pouco diferente. Vamos criar uma Solution e, nela, adicionaremos projetos que irão acomodar os objetos das camadas.</p>
<p>Criar a solução...</p>
<p><a href="http://reginaldojr.files.wordpress.com/2008/06/cria_solution.png"><img class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-54" src="http://reginaldojr.wordpress.com/files/2008/06/cria_solution.png" alt="" width="500" height="338" /></a></p>
<p>Agora vamos adicionar projetos a nossa solução. Vamos adicionar inicialmente 4 projetos:</p>
<ol>
<li>AgendaTelefonica.OR - Para acomodar os objetos de transferência de dados (DTO´s). Neste projeto iremos adicionar as classe e os arquivos de mapeamento do NHibernate com o banco de dados;</li>
<li>AgendaTelefonica.Interface - Para acomodar as classes de interface dos DAO´s e dos BO´s. Internamente haverá duas pastas, DAO e BO, que acomodará as interfaces respectivas.</li>
<li>AgenteTelefonica.DAO - Para acomodar os DAO´s;</li>
<li>AgendaTelefonica.BO - Para acomodar os objetos de negócio.</li>
</ol>
<p>Falta ainda adicionar um último projeto qué é exatamente a aplicação web; o site por onde o usuário irá acessar o nosso sistema. Mas vamos deixar isso para o final.</p>
<p>Adicionando os projetos...<br />
<a href="http://reginaldojr.files.wordpress.com/2008/06/add_project.png"><img class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-55" src="http://reginaldojr.wordpress.com/files/2008/06/add_project.png" alt="" width="371" height="255" /></a></p>
<p><a href="http://reginaldojr.wordpress.com/files/2008/06/add_class_library.png"><img class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-56" src="http://reginaldojr.wordpress.com/files/2008/06/add_class_library.png" alt="" width="500" height="323" /></a></p>
<p><a href="http://reginaldojr.files.wordpress.com/2008/06/add_class_library_interface.png"><img class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-57" src="http://reginaldojr.wordpress.com/files/2008/06/add_class_library_interface.png" alt="" width="500" height="323" /></a></p>
<p>Após ter criado este projeto, crie duas pastas: DAO e BO. Até o momento o Solution Explorer deve estar assim:</p>
<p><a href="http://reginaldojr.files.wordpress.com/2008/06/soluction_explorer_1.png"><img class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-58" src="http://reginaldojr.wordpress.com/files/2008/06/soluction_explorer_1.png" alt="" width="232" height="212" /></a></p>
<p><a href="http://reginaldojr.files.wordpress.com/2008/06/add_class_library_dao.png"><img class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-59" src="http://reginaldojr.wordpress.com/files/2008/06/add_class_library_dao.png" alt="" width="500" height="324" /></a></p>
<p><a href="http://reginaldojr.files.wordpress.com/2008/06/add_class_library_bo.png"><img class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-60" src="http://reginaldojr.wordpress.com/files/2008/06/add_class_library_bo.png" alt="" width="500" height="320" /></a></p>
<p>Ao final da criação dos projetos o Solution Explorer deve estar assim:</p>
<p><a href="http://reginaldojr.files.wordpress.com/2008/06/soluction_explorer_2.png"><img class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-61" src="http://reginaldojr.wordpress.com/files/2008/06/soluction_explorer_2.png" alt="" width="232" height="297" /></a></p>
<p>Antes do próximo passo precisamos lembrar alguns conceitos.</p>
<ol>
<li>A biblioteca <strong>AgendaTelefonica.OR</strong> receberá os arquivos de mapeamento de Objetos Relacionais do NHibernate. Funcionará como DTO´s, ou seja, este objetos trafegarão livremente entre as camadas levando e trazendo informações. Portanto todas as outras bibliotecas, inclusive o site que ainda vamos criar, precisam "ver" essa biblioteca.</li>
<li>A biblioteca de interface - <strong>AgendaTelefonica.Interface</strong> - será utilizada na declaração dos DAO´s e dos BO´s. Inclusive essas intefaces tem uma utilidade importante que é desacoplar as camadas no sistema e ajudar na escalabilidade. Inclusive, instanciamento dos objetos das camadas deve ser através das suas intefaces. Isso garante o desacoplamento. Logo todas a camada de acesso a dados, negócio e a aplicação devem "ver" esta biblioteca.</li>
<li>Uma hierarquia de acesso precisa ser obedecida na construção em camadas. A <strong>aplicação web ou desktop</strong> faz requisições somente à camada de negócio; representada pela biblioteca <strong>AgendaTelefonica.BO</strong>. As regras de negócios fazem requisições soment à camada de acesso a dados (<strong>AgendaTelefonica.DAO</strong>) que, por sua vez, acessa o banco de dados através de uma camada extra chamada Camada de Persistência que, no nosso sistemas, será responsabilidade do NHibernate.  NUNCA e NUNCA MESMO, em camadas, essa hierarquia de acesso pode ser desobedecida. A camada superior faz requisições à cada imediatamente inferior e, esta, apenas responde as requisições. Em outras palavras, a camada superior executa um método de um objeto presente na camada inferior para realizar alguma operação e/ou receber alguma informação. Nunca ao contrário. Se em algum momento o DAO, por exemplo, fizer uma chamada ao BO, isso pode ser tudo. Menos arquitetura em camada. Ou se, a aplicação web fizer uma chamada diretamente ao DAO pulando o BO, ou se o BO fizer um acesso ao banco de dados diretamente pulando o DAO, ou mesmo, se o DAO fizer chamada diretamente ao banco pulando a camada de persistência, em qualquer uma das situações a aplicação perde a característica do que nos chamamos ARQUITETURA EM CAMADAS.</li>
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<p>No Visual Studio é possível garantir as hierarquia de camadas. Teremos que adicionar a referência de um projeto em outro segundo o que foi discutido nos itens acima:</p>
<ol>
<li>Em AgendaTelefonica.Interface adicionamos referência a AgendaTelefonica.OR;</li>
<li>Em AgendaTelefonica.DAO adicionamos referência a AgendaTelefonica.OR e AgendaTelefonica.Interface;</li>
<li>Em AgendaTelefonica.BO Adicionamos referência a AgendaTelefonica.OR, AgendaTelefonica.Interface e AgendaTelefonica.DAO;</li>
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<p>Lembre-se: OR e Interface estão em todas pelas suas características: Transferência de dados para OR e desacoplamento para Interface.</p>
<p>Como nosso DAO utilizará o NHibernate voce deve adicionar em AgendaTelefonica.DAO referrência ao NHibernate também (localize a instalação que voce fez). Detalhe: adicione somente no DAO.</p>
<p>Para adicionar uma referência a um projeto voce deve clicar no botão direto do mouse sobre o projeto e selecionar <strong>Add Reference...</strong> Selecione a aba Projects e faça as adições ao projeto atualmente selecionado.<br />
<a href="http://reginaldojr.files.wordpress.com/2008/06/add_reference.png"><img class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-62" src="http://reginaldojr.wordpress.com/files/2008/06/add_reference.png" alt="" width="478" height="383" /></a></p>
<p>Depois de ter feito isso para cada projeto, adicione referência do NHibernate a AgendaTelefonica.DAO. Clique no projeto com o botão direito, Selecione <strong>Add Reference...</strong>, selecione a aba <strong>Browse</strong> e localize o arquivo NHibernate.dll na pasta de instalação.</p>
<p><a href="http://reginaldojr.files.wordpress.com/2008/06/add_referencia_browse.png"><img class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-63" src="http://reginaldojr.wordpress.com/files/2008/06/add_referencia_browse.png" alt="" width="476" height="384" /></a></p>
<p>Como todas as referências adicionadas o Solution Explorer deve se apresentar assim:</p>
<p><a href="http://reginaldojr.files.wordpress.com/2008/06/solution_explorer_3.png"><img class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-65" src="http://reginaldojr.wordpress.com/files/2008/06/solution_explorer_3.png" alt="" width="233" height="615" /></a></p>
<p>Pronto. Mais uma etapa cumprida. Nosso ambiente está pronto. Vimos como criar uma aplicação em camadas no VS  2005 respeitando a hierarquia. Registrem comentários e dúvidas.</p>
<p>No próximo post iremos começar a criar os arquivos de cada projeto, iniciando pelo OR.</p>
<p>Até o próximo.</p>
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<p style="text-align:center;">Agnieszka.</p>
<p style="text-align:center;">Choć nie widać tego,  Wrocław to.<br />
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<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Devido a grande quantidade de dúvidas recebidas, decidi escrever um pequeno tutorial de como construir uma aplicação em camadas utilizando o NHibernate no Visual Studio. Vamos construir uma aplicação completa utilizando estes recursos e o conceito de camadas. Tentaremos fazer uso de alguns padrões de projeto para enriquecer nosso tutorial.</p>
<p>Não vamos tratar de conceitos. Iremos apenas utilizar as ferramentas na aplicação dos mesmos. Na internet existe uma vasto conteúdo sobre os assuntos aqui relacionados. Também é importante que o leitor tenha conhecimento da utilização do Visual Studio já que não iremos explicar seu funcionamento detalhamente no desenvolvimento da nossa aplicação.</p>
<p>Então vamos lá.</p>
<h2>Montagem de Ambiente</h2>
<p>Inicialmente vamos definir os requisitos para nosso trabalho:</p>
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<li>Visual Studio profissional com suporte a C#. Caso utilize a versão Express voce deve ter o <a title="Ambiente oficial .Net de desenvolvimento" href="http://msdn2.microsoft.com/pt-br/express/aa975050.aspx" target="_blank">Visual Web e o Visual C#</a>. Instale os plugins <a title="Componente para montar relatório no Visual Studio 2005 Express" href="http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=E7D661BA-DC95-4EB3-8916-3E31340DDC2C&#38;displaylang=en" target="_blank">Microsoft Report Viewer Redistributable SP1 (Full Installation)</a> e <a title="Visual Studio 2005 - Update to Support Web Application Projects" href="http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=8b05ee00-9554-4733-8725-3ca89dd9bfca&#38;DisplayLang=en" target="_blank">Visual Studio - Update to Support Web Application Projects</a> em qualquer das versões. Caso já tenha instalado o SP1 do Visual Studio, estes plugins são dispensáveis.<span style="color:#ff0000;"> <em>Para informação, quando escrevi este tutorial estava utilizando o Visual Studio 2005 Profissional com SP1 instalado</em>.</span></li>
<li>Instale um banco de dados. Neste tutorial utilizo o <a title="Banco de dados e utilidades relacionadas" href="http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=9028" target="_blank">Firebird</a> v2.0.4.13130.  Baixe e instale também o driver do firebird para utilização em .net. Para administração do firebird utilize o <a title="Administração do Firebird" href="http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=124340" target="_blank">FlameRobin</a> v0.8.6. Você também pode utilizar banco de dados da sua preferência.</li>
<li>Baixe e instale o <a title="Persistência de dados" href="http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=73818&#38;package_id=73969" target="_blank">NHibernate</a> v1.2 GA.</li>
<li>Baixe e instale o <a title="Gerar mapeamento O/R para NHibernate" href="http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=198893" target="_blank">MyGeneration</a> v1.2.0.7 (não testei a versão mais nova).</li>
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<p>Com tudo instalado e funcioando corretamente já podemos iniciar os trabalhos.</p>
<h2>O Problema</h2>
<p>Vamos imaginar o seguinte problema: a secretária do diretor não quer mais ser encomodada pelo resto da empresa, que toda hora liga para ela perguntando dados e telefones de clientes e pessoas em outras filiais. Ela explicou a situação para o diretor e ele concordou. O diretor então chamou o gerente de TI e determinou que ele resolvesse o problema.</p>
<h2>Especificação de Requisitos</h2>
<p>Após análise e discursão, chegou-se a conclusão que deveria existir na empresa uma Agenda Telefônica na intranet, para que todos possam acessar, cadastrar, alterar, consultar e listar contatos. Mas, para ter acesso a agenda, cada usuário precisaria de uma senha. Uma regra importante é que somente o usuário que incluio o contato pode ter a permissão para excluí-lo. Porém, todos podem alterar, listar e consultar quaquer contato registrado. Se um contato for definido como confidêncial, somente o usuário que cadastrou teria o direito a visualizar, modificar, consultar ou excluir. Se um usuário for excluído, seus contatos passam a ser de domínio público, ou seja, todos ganham o direito de gerenciar os contatos do usuário excluído.</p>
<p>Vamos construir este sistema para WEB e em camadas.</p>
<h2>A Modelagem</h2>
<p>Fiz um pequeno diagrama do módelo conceitual do sistema.</p>
<p><a href="http://reginaldojr.files.wordpress.com/2008/06/mc_agenda.jpeg"><img class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-47" src="http://reginaldojr.wordpress.com/files/2008/06/mc_agenda.jpeg" alt="" width="363" height="173" /></a></p>
<p>Como pode ser visto o sistema terá 4 classes: Usuario, Contato, Cidade e UF. UF compõe Cidade que, por sua vez, compõe Contato. Usuário gerencia o contato.</p>
<p>Fiz também o diagrama de entidades relacionais.</p>
<p><a href="http://reginaldojr.files.wordpress.com/2008/06/erd_agenda.png"><img class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-50" src="http://reginaldojr.wordpress.com/files/2008/06/erd_agenda.png" alt="" width="500" height="524" /></a><br />
<a href="http://reginaldojr.files.wordpress.com/2008/06/agendasql.doc">Clique aqui</a> e baixe o script do banco.<span style="color:#ff6600;"> O script foi gerado para o Firebird.</span><span style="color:#ff6600;"> </span>Utilize o FlameRobim para criar o banco de dados e rodar o script ou, então, utilize um banco de dados e ferramenta administrativa de sua preferência.</p>
<p>OK! O projeto foi definido e o banco está pronto. No próximo post utilizaremos o Visual Studio 2005 para definir a aplicação. Fique a vontade para comentar e registrar suas dúvidas até aqui.</p>
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