The Nine Parries of Saber Fencing

The Parry is important for defending against attacks and offers an opportunity to counter attack. Without learning parries it will be difficult to effectively compete in fencing. Your body will be generally open to seasoned fencers. Practicing defending against attacks using multiple parries is important for creating the highest levels of competitive skill.

The most common parries used are Parry of Four, Parry of Six, Parry of Seven, and Parry of Eight (1). They are designed to protect your right side, left side, lower stomach, middle of your stomach. They are parries designed to cover the core areas of your body and help you defend against the majority of fencing attacks. 

Prime: Stops a cut to the chest.

Seconde: Stops a low cut to the flank

Tierce: Stops high cut to the flank

Quarte: Stops high cut to the chest.

Quinte: Stops cut to head.

Sixte: Stops cut to head.

Septime: Stops cut to back.

Octave: Stops cut to flank.
Neuvieme: Protects Back

Michigan State University has a pretty good fencing illustration that is completed in pictures which is better than the drawings here. The pictures are fairly ancient and in black and white but still provide the basic moves. 

https://www.msu.edu/~oberg/fencing/Barbasetti/parries.html

Call for Papers: 2014 Conference of the Association for Distance Education and Independent Learning (ADEIL)

We invite you to submit a proposal to present at the 2014 Conference of the Association for Distance Education and Independent Learning (ADEIL), to be held October 14-16, 2014 in Lubbock, Texas. The conference will be hosted by Texas Tech University Independent School District.

Each year, we seek to discuss the concerns and new developments in the field of distance, online, and independent learning. We encourage proposals on topics in research and assessment, student services, curriculum development, instructional design, marketing, administration, and teaching. Presentations may be by individuals or groups and may use a variety of formats old or new (lecture, panel discussion, group interaction, hands-on sessions).

Website:  http://www.adeil.org.

Dark Horse Coffee Brands Their Urban Barnyard

Dark Horse Coffee may be small but attracts a lot of locals from the urban barnyard. As a start-up operation the idea was to transplant knowledge from the Hawaiian coffee fields to the coastal lifestyle of San Diego. The young entrepreneur Daniel Charlson used his experimentation with coffee beans to create a successful business that frequently has a line out the door. You can’t miss the big black horse on their sign. 

 

It isn’t a large coffee shop and seating is limited but this doesn’t seem to stop anyone. They don’t have a lot of room for people to sit and lounge around with their laptops but they do have an efficient visitor flow mechanism that ensures customers don’t have to wait long before being served. Many of the patrons walk-in and out from the street buying their coffee on the go.

 

They are a specialty shop that focuses on international French press, pour over, and cold brew coffee. Unlike larger chains they operate in small batch production and strategically value quality over quantity. Many of their offerings are organic which appeals to a younger more health conscious crowd. Fresh, niche, convenient and organic are just a few relevant terms that describe their offerings.

 

One of the advantages Dark Horse Coffee has going for it its unique brand. Establishing your coffee business as a quality leader with a unique market brand can further market position (Piquet, 2014). That brand recognition can lead to customer recall when thinking of where to get coffee and that equates to dollars and cents in the owner’s pocket.

 

The coffee industry is a growing market. In 2013 coffee consumption increased 5% and this has led to adjustment of quality, upgraded operations, and remodeling investments (Rigik, 2013).  Dark Horse fits within this market through its niche brand and convenient coffee stand business approach. Low overhead and high opportunities.

 

Dark Horse has things going for it that some of the competitors do not have. They are not large or have all of the amenities but they do serve the street traffic well. If you know anything about Adams Avenue it is busy with all types of commuters. People buy their coffee on the way to work, shopping, baseball, yoga, or some other event. Their unusual brand will help customers remember them and their location will encourage them to keep coming back.

 

7am - 7pm DAILY

3260 Adams Avenue, San Diego, CA.

http://www.darkhorseroasting.com/

 

Piquet, J. (2014). Positioning your coffee shop for success. Specialty Coffee Retailer, 21 (2). 

 

Rigik, E. (2013). Courting Coffee Customers. Convenience Store Decisions, 24 (12).

Call for Papers: 2014 Summer Global Human Resource Management Symposium

Deadline: June 20-21, 2014
Los Angeles, United States of America

Call for Papers

- Submission of an abstract, topic of interest or proposal will be accepted for the purpose of registration.
- Time schedule to be determined later after all the papers have been received.
- 30 minute presentation per paper
- Approved and Peer Reviewed papers will be published in on-line proceedings.

Topics

Abstracts of research papers in 150-200 words are invited from academics, practicing managers and Ph.D. scholars/PG students on contemporary issues in Human Resources, Management befitting any of the conference tracks mentioned as under. Topics of interest for submissions include, but are not limited to:

- Organizational behavior/industrial psychology
- Organization development
- Training and development
- Strategic human resource management
- Industrial relations, social security, labor welfare
- Compensation management
- Cross-cultural management/international HRM

Web address:
http://www.uofriverside.com/conferences/global-human-resources-symposium/