^what BansheeX said.

NetRunner:
My sources, among others, are excerpts from the best selling author Milton Friedman, the 1976 recipient of the Nobel Prize in Economics, and hailed "the most influential economist of the second half of the 20th century…possibly of all of it". In "Free to Choose" he writes:

"The combination of economic and political freedom produced a golden age in both Great Britain and the United States in the nineteenth century. The United States prospered even more than Britain. It started with a clean slate: fewer vestiges of class and status; fewer government restraints; a more fertile field for energy, drive, and innovation; and an empty continent to conquer"
"During most of the period of rapid agricultural expansion in the United States the government played a negligible role. Land was made available—but it was land that had been unproductive before."
"...few other government restrictions impeded free trade at home or abroad. Until after World War I immigration was almost completely free (there were restrictions on immigration from the Orient). They came by the millions, and by the millions they were absorbed. They prospered because they were left to their own devices."
"Almost every charitable or public service organization, from the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals The Power of the Market to the YMCA and YWCA, from the Indian Rights Association to the Salvation Army, dates from that period. Voluntary cooperation is no less effective in organizing charitable activity than inorganizing production for profit. The charitable activity was matched by a burst of cultural activity—art museums, opera houses, symphonies, museums, public libraries arose in big cities and frontier towns alike."
"Perhaps even more surprising to us today, people were free to travel all over Europe and much of the rest of the world without a passport and without repeated customs inspection. They were free to emigrate and in much of the world, particularly the United States, free to enter and become residents and citizens."


And before you say these ideas no longer apply today...take a look at the economy of Hong Kong, home to 7 million people in 426 square miles.

>> ^gwiz665:
If bravo only includes "the best from the opera house, concert hall or theatre" I think it should be renamed to something less confusing.


With some channels including Bravo, and we did come up with a few other ideas for the name that didn't feel as snappy, the name isn't always going to be as self-explanatory as say Comedy. So thank gawd for the channel description.

Hm, I've always used Bravo channel if someone was an excellent musician playing live, for instance with http://bravo.videosift.com/video/Monte-Montgomery-Acoustic-Cover-of-Little-Wing-1. I suppose the someone might consider it rock, but I don't...

If bravo only includes "the best from the opera house, concert hall or theatre" I think it should be renamed to something less confusing.

Performing at the Sydney Opera House makes this *downunder to me.

This doesn't fit into the Bravo channel. From Bravo.Videosift.com: "A channel dedicated to sifting the best from the opera house, concert hall or theatre."

Never thought the Opera House was much to look at in the first place...

Granted I haven't looked at the thing yet, but you have to imagine people said what was said by the first commenter in regards to the sydney opera house.

theo, ever been to and opera house in Italy, me neither, bet there's peeeelenty of passion-stains in the ol' O-House seats, mattsy, gluomium, ya' cry-babies, save those tears for your favorite pain, and Karaidl, you really love the pain-in-the-ass, tick kinda, guest-host varmit gig, I want a bobble-head version of yer crazy ass for the dash.......

Ghostly....uhhhhh....wow. Wow.

No personal offense to you, but you've never trained wushu, san da, or san shou, have you? Because uhhh....Wikipedia isn't the source of all knowledge, contrary to popular belief.

To be TRULY pedantic, your interpretation of the word (via Wikipedia) is completely wrong. Although "wu shu" may translate figuratively as "martial arts" (it more accurately translates as "martial skill", similiar in many aspects to the comparison of "do" versus "jutsu" in Japanese martial arts), it is not generally used in the martial arts world as a blanket term for martial arts or even Chinese martial arts (CMA). This is similiar to Tae Kwon Do, which means "the art of kicking and punching", but which trains most practitioners much more on kicking techniques than punching techniques. The "meaning" of a word isn't always the definition of the thing it represents, dontcha know.

Wushu nowadays is generally used in China and in CMA communities around the world to describe this gymnastic/acrobatic activity, while the blanket term used for CMA is "kung fu" or "gong fu" if you really want to be anal about it. Also, san shou/san da is a style in and of itself (originally the ruleset under which the style developed), not a subset of wushu. In fact, if you look into the history of CMA and its transformation over the years, wushu developed into what you see in this video due to influences by the Beijing/Peking Opera House, which mimicked or incorporated CMA movements into choreographed theater fight scenes, rather than any Western influence. As a result of the change of wushu, along with the rising popularity of kung fu flicks in the U.S, "kung fu" was slowly adopted as the new blanket term for CMA.

Wushu practitioners nowadays practice forms and choreographed sequences like this one, while san shou/san da practitioners generally practice by sparring. There is very, very little overlap between the two.

The misconception of what wushu and kung fu are, I think, is largely due to the fact that people like to share their own beliefs on topics that they actually have little to no experience in.

But what do I know? Good, bad? I'm the guy with the 4 oz. gloves.

I enjoyed Ray Winstone's performance in Sexy Beast more than Kingsley's. Kingsley is playing the opera house in this film.

Great film, though. Does Glazer have to marry a washed up pop star to get more attention?

Recorded at The Kiel Opera House, St. Louis, MO, June 20, 1965.