<html><body bgcolor="#FFFFFF"><div>Dear Harrison and OS friends,</div><div><br></div><div>Allow me to share recent news from the Chinese national basketball teams, which in my view indicates change towards a more open, passionate sports choice and society.</div><div>By the way during all OST events facilitated by me in Shanghai, I saw enormous enthusiasm and openess; foreigners and Chinese alike. This did not surprise me, but it did surprise others.</div><div><br></div><div>The total link<br><a href="http://www.china.org.cn/video/2011-04/13/content_22346728.htm">http://www.china.org.cn/video/2011-04/13/content_22346728.htm</a><br></div><div><br></div><div>Excerpt </div><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 3px; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-left: 3px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.292969); -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175, 192, 227, 0.230469); -webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(77, 128, 180, 0.230469); font-size: 14px; line-height: 23px; ">Lasting for years, the traditional mode emphasizes discipline and hard work, and has yielded tremendous results for Chinese sports teams so far. Many athletes born in the '70s and '80s, including some star players, also received insults and beatings from coaches.</p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 3px; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-left: 3px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.292969); -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175, 192, 227, 0.230469); -webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(77, 128, 180, 0.230469); font-size: 14px; line-height: 23px; ">But today, many athletes, born in the '90s, reject this disciplinarian approach, likely due to the fact their lives and training facilities have seen great improvements from their predecessors. And most of today's Chinese athletes are playing sports out of passion, instead of a choice made to achieve wealth or success, which was the case for most of the previous athletes.</p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 3px; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-left: 3px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.292969); -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175, 192, 227, 0.230469); -webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(77, 128, 180, 0.230469); font-size: 14px; line-height: 23px; ">best wishes,</p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 3px; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-left: 3px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.292969); -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175, 192, 227, 0.230469); -webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(77, 128, 180, 0.230469); font-size: 14px; line-height: 23px; ">From shanghai, Gijs van Wezel</p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 3px; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-left: 3px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.292969); -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175, 192, 227, 0.230469); -webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(77, 128, 180, 0.230469); font-size: 14px; line-height: 23px; "><br></p><div style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.292969); -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175, 192, 227, 0.230469); -webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(77, 128, 180, 0.230469); font-size: 14px; line-height: 23px; "><br></div><div><br><div><br></div>Send from iPad<div><br></div></div><div><br>On Apr 14, 2011, at 6:37 AM, "Harrison Owen" <<a href="mailto:hhowen@verizon.net">hhowen@verizon.net</a>> wrote:<br><br></div><div></div><blockquote type="cite"><div><div class="WordSection1"><p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">I don’t know if this fits, but some many years ago I had the privilege of spending some time in the African Bush with some wonderful people. I think this was my first awareness of open space (Open Space?). Anyhow I wrote about it and it went like this (in my first book, “When the Devil Dances” and I should add that the Devil is not the familiar figure with long horns but rather the missionaries mistaken appellation for a central actor in village life.)<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D"><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">In the village<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">All things go in a circle,<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">And everything fits.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">To speak of the drums<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">Is to speak of the dance,<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">Is to speak of the Devils…<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D"><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">Weaving and Forging<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">Fire and Steel – The Bush<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">Life, Death, and Life again.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D"><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">When the Devil Dances Life goes on.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D"><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D"><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">Harrison<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D"><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">Harrison Owen<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">7808 River Falls Dr.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span 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href="http://lists.openspacetech.org/listinfo.cgi/oslist-openspacetech.org"><a href="http://lists.openspacetech.org/listinfo.cgi/oslist-openspacetech.org">http://lists.openspacetech.org/listinfo.cgi/oslist-openspacetech.org</a></a><o:p></o:p></span></p></div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D"><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div><div style="border:none;border-top:solid #B5C4DF 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0in 0in 0in"><p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:windowtext">From:</span></b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:windowtext"> <a href="mailto:oslist-bounces@lists.openspacetech.org">oslist-bounces@lists.openspacetech.org</a> [mailto:oslist-bounces@lists.openspacetech.org] <b>On Behalf Of </b>Harold Shinsato<br><b>Sent:</b> Wednesday, April 13, 2011 2:24 AM<br><b>To:</b> <a href="mailto:oslist@openspacetech.org"><a href="mailto:oslist@openspacetech.org">oslist@openspacetech.org</a></a><br><b>Subject:</b> Re: [OSList] Poet Laureate?<o:p></o:p></span></p></div></div><p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12.0pt">Two submissions for the contest:<br><br>1.<br><br>There still is a list for OS<br>It started as ListServ oh Yes!<br>When Boise said it must move<br>From its original groove<br>The Mailman would give it a rest<br><br><br>2.<br><br>Rhythmic cursor blink<br>Yin yang zero one parade<br>Of discrete digits<br><br>One thing no thing moves<br>Flowing through the cracks of form<br>No thing is moving<br><br>Playing with silence<br>Everything is moving<br>It sits where it wants<br><br>Between black and white<br>Not gray but open to change<br>The muse and the dance<br><br><br><o:p></o:p></p><div><p class="MsoNormal">-- <br>Harold Shinsato<br><a href="mailto:harold@shinsato.com"><a href="mailto:harold@shinsato.com">harold@shinsato.com</a></a><br><a 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