commerce, such as from Bayer Corporation.
Auxiliary agents and/or additives may be incorporated in the TPU, including internal lubricants, anti-seizing agents, inhibitors, stabilizers against hydrolysis, light, heat and discoloration, colorants and pigments, provided that the addition would not adversely effect the transparency of the composition.
In the one embodiment of the invention, namely the insert molding method, a laminate of polycarbonate and Photochromic TPU may first be pre-formed by any of conventional means including thermoforming and high pressure forming and may then be trimmed to fit the cavity of a lens-mold. Trimming may be carried out by die cutting, laser cutting or any of the well known hard tooling methods. The thus preformed and trimmed laminate is then placed in the mold cavity with the polycarbonate ply facing the cavityIt is believed that ancient travelers who crossed the Nazca desert thousands of years ago created mysterious sprawling circular structures during pit stops.

A group of archaeologists discovered that the strange circular geoglyphs near the famous Nazca Lines, located in the department of Ica, in southern Peru, were probably built by travelers on the move who passed through the paths of the area a long time ago.

The Nazca lines were initially ‘discovered’ around 1927 when Airlines started operating over Peru when passengers described strange lines, figures, and shapes on the ground.

Experts argue that these mysterious geoglyphs were created by the ancient Nazca people; an ancient culture which flourished in the region between the 1st and 8th century A.D.

The lines were formed by the careful removal of the reddish iron-oxide


pebbles that make up the desert surface. Once exposed, the underlying dirt, which contains high amounts of lime, hardened and resistant to erosion.

Circular Glyphs

The circular geoglyphs, which were discovered in 2016, are located along ancient ‘transport routes’, said Justin Jennings, curator of New World archeology at the Royal Ontario Museum in Toronto, Canada, and one of the leaders of a group of scientists who investigate long-distance transport in Peru in the time before Spanish colonization, according to Live Science.

According to a study published in the Journal Antiquity, the ancient ‘Circular Geoglyphs’ may have been created many centuries ago, from as early as 200 A.D. to as late as 1,400 A.D. They range from 3 to 55 meters in diameter.

“People are doing these geoglyphs ‘on the road’ in bothRisdon International, Inc., a global supplier of cosmetics packaging components such as fragrance and cosmetics caps, has named a new senior management team, which includes a new president and a new executive vice president.

Eric Bigotte, currently Risdon’s executive vice president of sales and marketing, has been appointed president of Risdon, effective immediately. Steve Pearlman, president of Risdon since 2001, will join Risdon’s board of directors as vice chairman. Edwin F. Westfield III has been appointed executive vice president of finance and operations of Risdon, also effective immediately. Jim Adams, previously vice president of Risdon’s manufacturing in North America, has been named senior vice president for global manufacturing, which includes responsibility for Risdon’s two factories in China.


Washington has signed a new defence agreement with the Philippines as US President Barack Obama landed in Manila as part of an Asia tour aiming to reassure allies wary of a rising China while avoiding antagonising Beijing.

The ten-year deal, signed by Philippine's defence minister Voltaire Gazmin and US ambassador Philip Goldberg on Monday, will not allow Washington to establish a permanent base in the Philippines or bring in nuclear weapons to the country.

However, it will allow more of the high-profile war games that are regularly conducted by the long-time allies and for some US military hardware to be stationed on Filipino soil, as part of a US rebalancing of military power towards rising Asia, the AFP news agency reported.

Anti-China sentiments run high in the Philippines, which is lockedin a showdown with Beijing over disputed atolls in the South China Sea, part of a proliferation of maritime hotspots that has stoked Asian tensions.

The Philippines has accused China of becoming increasingly aggressive in staking its claims to the sea, and has called on the US for greater military as well as diplomatic support.

During an Asian tour that has taken him to Japan, South Korea and Malaysia, Obama has repeatedly warned that small nations should not be bullied by larger ones, a clear reference to China's increasingly sharp geopolitical elbows.

Territorial disputes

"Disputes need to be resolved peacefully, without intimidation or coercion, and all nations must abide by international rules and international norms," Obama said in Malaysia on Sunday.

Opening his trip, Obama made clear that US defence treaties with Japan


did cover disputed islands long administered by Tokyo in the East China Sea, which are known as the Senkakus in Japan and Diaoyus in China.

As for Philippines' territorial disputes with China in the South China Sea over the Second Thomas Shoal, US officials have not been so specific over perceptions of their obligations towards Manila on territorial disputes.

It is clear, however, they do not believe they are covered by the American Mutual Defence Treaty with the Philippines.

"With respect to some of the difficult territorial issues that are being worked through, it is hard to speculate on those because they involve hypothetical situations in the South China Sea," said US deputy national security adviser Ben Rhodes.

The Philippines hosted two of the largest overseas US military bases until 1992, whenthat relied on contributions from experts. After a year, Nupedia offered a strange collection of only 13 articles on such topics as Virgil and the Donegal fiddle tradition. Sanger and Wales hoped Wikipedia, where anyone could start or modify an entry, would rapidly generate new articles that experts could then finish up.

When they saw how enthusiastically people embraced the notion of an encyclopedia that anyone could edit, Wales and Sanger quickly made Wikipedia their main project. By the end of its first year it had more than 20,000 articles in 18 languages, and its growth was accelerating fast. In 2003, Wales formed the Wikimedia Foundation to operate the servers and software that run Wikipedia and raise money to support them. But control of the site’s content remained with


came along with them had an unintended consequence. Newcomers to Wikipedia making their first, tentative edits—and the inevitable mistakes—became less likely to stick around. Being steamrollered by the newly efficient, impersonal editing machine was no fun. The number of active editors on the English-language Wikipedia peaked in 2007 at more than 51,000 and has been declining ever since as the supply of new ones got choked off. This past summer only 31,000 people could be considered active editors.

“I categorize from 2007 until now as the decline phase of Wikipedia,” says Aaron Halfaker, a grad student at the University of Minnesota who has worked for the Wikimedia Foundation as a contractor and this year published the most detailed assessment of the problem. “It looks like Wikipedia is strangling itselfthat anyone who understands the norms, socializes him or herself, dodges the impersonal wall of semi-automated rejection and still wants to voluntarily contribute his or her time and energy can edit.”

Because Wikipedia has failed to replenish its supply of editors, its skew toward technical, Western, and male-dominated subject matter has persisted. In 2011, researchers from the University of Minnesota and three other schools showed that articles worked on mostly by female editors—which presumably were more likely to be of interest to women—were significantly shorter than those worked on mostly by male editors or by men and women equally. Another 2011 study, from the University of Oxford, found that 84 percent of entries tagged with a location were about Europe or North America. Antarctica had more entries than any


to a disruptive technology, challenging the way energy businesses operate.’ Photo: Emma Kelly

Solar panels are revolutionising the Australian electricity market. The pace of change is faster than official projections, and the effects on customers and energy companies are profound and irreversible.

Australian homes and businesses have installed almost three gigawatts of rooftop solar photovoltaics – one of the highest rates in the world.

Solar panels have moved from being a fringe technology to a disruptive technology, challenging the way energy businesses operate. As with every revolution, the solar revolution is facing a reactionary response by the established order.

Last week the body charged with the development and maintenance of the national electricity market, the Australian Energy Market Commission, set out its priorities for developing the electricity market.

One sentence in the reportUnited States raised concerns that extremists were linked to Pakistan’s powerful intelligence service.

In one incident, then secretary of state Hillary Clinton confronted Pakistan about cell phones and written materials from dead bodies of militants that showed links to the Inter-Services Intelligence agency.

In turn, a Pakistani memo gave the names of 36 US citizens believed to be CIA agents and urged the embassy in Washington not to issue visas to them, the newspaper said.

The report came a day after Amnesty International said that the United States may have broken international law by killing civilians with drones.

It pointed to an October 2012 attack that killed a 68-year-old grandmother as she picked vegetables. For the first six months of 2011, 152 combatants were killed, according to a table cited by the


quality and impairment-free life.
Many of the teachers accompanying students said lessons must be incorporated into curriculum about prevention of different diseases.
Some of the parents, particularly mothers, present on the occasion said communities needed to get together to counter elements trying to sabotage polio eradication efforts in the country.
Many of them also had their reservations on the commitment of the polio workers and questioned absence of strict vigilance vis a vis monitoring of their performance. Some of them also questioned arrangements made to maintain the cold chain, pre-requisite for efficacy of the OPV.
Pakistan, in the current year has reported more than 40 cases of polio, mainly pertaining to tribal areas and KPK. However, three cases each have also been reported from Sindh and Punjab.
Reports of people refusing to administerto administer polio drops to their children. The fatwa also demands the UN formulate laws to ensure global spies are kept away from healthcare organisations. It strongly condemns the actions of Shakil Afridi, a Pakistani physician who helped CIA track al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden, and says that people in tribal regions and many areas of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa and Balochistan have refused to administer polio drops to their children to protest against the actions of Shakil Afridi. staff report

ABBOTTABAD: When Shazadi Gillani, the highest ranking female police officer in Pakistan’s most conservative province, wanted to join the force she had to defy her father, forego marriage and pay for her own basic training.

During the next 19 years, Inspector Gillani and her faithful sidekick Rizwana Zafar, brought up


misrepresentations not occurred").
Contrary to plaintiff's assertions, Lazar does not teach otherwise. In Lazar, the plaintiff alleged that he was induced to relocate from New York to California and leave a secure job as head of the family company where he had worked all his life, based on defendant's verbal representations of continued employment, the defendant's financial position, and pay raises, all of which were false. Two years later, plaintiff was terminated and was unable to find comparable employment either in California or New York, where his contacts had "dried up." Lazar, 12 Cal.4th at 637, 49 Cal.Rptr.2d 377, 909 P.2d 981.
Lazar contended he was entitled to pursue causes of action for fraud in addition to claims of breach of employment contract and violation of Labor Code § 970.present in their original amounts, but in which a runability and usability remain to the extent that the safety of a vehicle is not unreliably limited. The emergency running state allows the driving to continue for a certain distance, at least to the nearest repair shop.
In the emergency running state of such a vehicle tire with an emergency running support, in which the tire and/or the inner side of the tread is in contact with the emergency running surface, a slip, i.e., a relative movement and therefore friction between the emergency running surface and the inner side of the tread region, occurs due to the rolling radius of the shell-shaped ring body on the inside of the tire tread having the emergency running surface and due to the


in the emergency running condition. However, problems arise either in the mounting of the tire, due to the additional installation of the containers and their holders with regard to handling, or in view of the impermeability to be achieved in the pressurized inner chamber of the tire when the containers are arranged in the open inner rim space and their openings are connected to the inner chamber of the tire.
DE 40 32 645 A1 discloses arranging containers filled with greasing agent in the inner chamber of a tire inside a specially embodied rim that provides emergency running surfaces on its circumference on both sides of the container. Here as well, the container is opened by contact of the inner side of the tire tread surface with a pressureformed between the emergency running support body and the rim. The devices for distribution of the lubricant are connected to the ring chamber formed between the emergency running support body and the pneumatic tire.
The containers are arranged inside a ring chamber between the emergency running body and the rim, and the devices for distributing the lubricant are connected to the ring chamber formed between the emergency running body and the pneumatic tire. Such a construction makes the expense for attaching the containers conceivably low, with the container itself being located in a ring chamber that lies outside of the regions that come into contact with the inner side of the tire under emergency running conditions. Additionally, the mounting expense is negligibly low because the emergency running support body


can already be provided with the containers when the total mounting, and therefore the mounting of the tire as well, occurs.
A particularly advantageous embodiment lies in the fact that the containers are arranged on the inner side of the emergency running support body and each has at least one extension extending through corresponding recesses of the ring body into the space formed by the emergency running support body and the pneumatic tire and ending essentially in the plane of the emergency running surface of the emergency running support body and on whose end the devices for distributing the lubricant are arranged.
By this embodiment, the containers themselves are supported against the shell-shaped ring body by centrifugal forces, such that additional securing is not necessary and, optionally, clamping or adhesioncomprising a tread, two side walls, a carcass, reinforcing elements, and two tire beads with bead cores. The pneumatic tire is mounted on the rim. An emergency running support body is supported on the rim which is arranged to support one of the pneumatic tire and an interior of the tread in an event of an emergency condition. The emergency running support body includes a shell-shaped ring body located inside the pneumatic tire and an emergency running surface on its exterior. The emergency running support body is arranged to form a first ring chamber between the emergency running support body and the rim and to form a second ring chamber between the emergency running support surface and the pneumatic tire. At least one container, which contains a lubricant,


is positioned inside the first ring chamber, and the at least one container includes at least one device for distributing the lubricant in the event of the emergency condition. The at least one device for distributing the lubricant is coupled to the second ring chamber.
According to a feature of the present invention, the at least one container can be positioned on an interior of the emergency running support body, and the emergency running support body can include at least one recess and the at least one container may include at least one extension. The at least one extension can be arranged with the at least one recess such that an end of the at least one extension at least partially extends into the second ring chamber, and theat least one device for distributing the lubricant may be located on the end of the at least one extension. The end of the at least one extension can be essentially in a plane of the emergency running surface.
In accordance with the instant invention, the at least one extension may be provided essentially in the end section of the emergency running support body in a level of the emergency running surface with predetermined breakage points. The predetermined breakage points may include areas with one of thinner exterior walls and grooves.
In accordance with another feature of the invention, the at least one device for distributing the lubricant can include removable covers positioned at ends of extensions of the at least one container. The ends of the extensions can be


tread, two side walls, a carcass, reinforcing elements, and two tire beads with bead cores, that is mounted on a rim, at least one container, which contains a lubricant, that includes at least one device for distributing the lubricant, and an emergency running support body supported on the rim which is arranged to support one of the pneumatic tire and an interior of the tread in an event of an emergency condition. The emergency running support body includes a shell-shaped ring body located inside the pneumatic tire and an emergency running surface on its exterior, and the emergency running support body is arranged to form a first ring chamber between the emergency running support body and the rim and to form a second ring chamber between the emergencyrunning support surface and the pneumatic tire. The process includes positioning the at least one container inside the first ring chamber, and positioning the at least one device for distributing the lubricant to at least partially extends into the second ring chamber.
According to a feature of the instant invention, the emergency running support body may include at least one recess and the at least one container may include at least one extension that includes an end on which the device for distributing the lubricant is located, and the process can further include inserting the at least one extension through the at least one recess such that the end of the at least one extension at least partially extends into the second ring chamber. The end of the at


least one extension can be essentially in a plane of the emergency running surface.
In accordance with another feature of the invention, the at least one device for distributing the lubricant can include a removable cover positioned at an end of an extension of the at least one container, and the process may further include positioning the end of the extension essentially at a level of the emergency running surface.
A shape of the at least one container can be structured to correspond to an interior profile of the emergency running support body.
Further, the emergency running support body may include a slitted ring and the at least one container comprises a plurality of containers, and the process can further include connecting the ends of the slitted ring together with aflat surface.
The instant invention is directed to a process for lubricating a tire in an event of an emergency, the tire having a pneumatic tire that includes a tread, two side walls, a carcass, reinforcing elements, and two tire beads with bead cores, that is mounted on a rim, at least one container, which contains a lubricant, that includes at least one device for distributing the lubricant, and an emergency running support body supported on the rim which is arranged to support one of the pneumatic tire and an interior of the tread in an event of an emergency condition. The emergency running support body includes a shell-shaped ring body located inside the pneumatic tire and an emergency running surface on its exterior, and the emergency running support


body is arranged to form a first ring chamber between the emergency running support body and the rim and to form a second ring chamber between the emergency running support surface and the pneumatic tire. The process includes engaging an end of the device for distributing the lubricant with one of the interior of the tread and the tire in the second ring chamber, whereby the engaging removes the end of the device for distributing the lubricant. The at least one container in the first ring chamber is separated from the one of the interior of the tread and the tire by the emergency running support body.
In accordance with yet another feature of the instant invention, the device for distributing the lubricant can be composed of a materialPaul II and their work together to promote freedom, which changed the course of history. “Not only was Margaret Thatcher a role model for conservative women across the globe, but she was also one of the most consequential political leaders of our time. She was a life-long champion of free markets, freedom and individual liberty and had the courage to fight for her convictions even in the face of undeserved ridicule. Though she was misunderstood by her critics, she proved them wrong by the results of her policies, which brought prosperity and increased happiness to the people of Great Britain. While we mourn her loss, we also remember the extraordinary legacy she left behind. May the great Lady rest in peace.”

Boehner notes in his statement that the delegation


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Fellow Inmates Ease Pain of Dying in Jail

COXSACKIE, N.Y. — Allen Jacobs lived hard for his 50 years, and when his liver finally shut down he faced the kind of death he did not want. On a recent afternoon Mr. Jacobs lay in a hospital bed staring blankly at the ceiling, his eyes sunk in his skull, his skin lusterless. A volunteer hospice worker, Wensley Roberts, ran a wet sponge over Mr. Jacobs’s dry lips, encouraging him to drink.

“Come on, Mr. Jacobs,” he said.

Mr. Roberts is one of a dozen inmates at the Coxsackie Correctional Facility who volunteer to sit with fellow prisoners in the last six months of their lives. More than 3,000 prisoners a year die of natural causes in correctional facilities.

Mr. Roberts recalledinmate volunteers in 2001. The change saved money and was well-received by the patients.

Perhaps more significant, said William Lape, the superintendent, was the effect the program had on the volunteers. “I think it’s turned their life around,” Mr. Lape said.

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Eddie Jones, 89, was convicted of murder at age 70. He is dying of multiple causes.Credit
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John Henson, 30, was one of the first volunteers. When he was 18, Mr. Henson broke into the home of a former employer and, in the course of a robbery, beat the man to death with a baseball bat. When he entered prison, with a sentence of 25 years to life, he said, “I thought my life was over.”

At Coxsackie he met the Rev. J. Edward Lewis, who persuaded


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Virginia Caroline Rappe was born in Chicago, Illinois to an unwed mother, Mabel Rappe, who died when she was 11. Virginia was then raised by her grandmother in Chicago.[1][2] At age 14, she began working as a commercial and art model.[3]

In 1916, Rappe relocated to San Francisco to pursue her career as an artist's model, where she met dress designer Robert Moscovitz, to whom she became engaged. However, shortly after the engagement, Moscovitz was killed in a streetcar accident, whereupon Rappe moved to Los Angeles. In early 1917, she was hired by director Fred Balshofer and given a prominent role in his film Paradise Garden, opposite popular screen star Harold Lockwood. Balshofer then hired her again to costar with early drag performer Julian Eltinge and newcomer Rudolph Valentinoin Over the Rhine, for which she was awarded the title of "Best Dressed Girl in Pictures".[3] This film was not released until 1920, when Balshofer recut it and released it under the title An Adventuress, and later in 1922 as The Isle of Love.

In 1919, Rappe began a relationship with director/producer Henry Lehrman. The two eventually became engaged and lived together, although in the United States Census of 1920, the young actress is listed simply as a "Boarder" in Lehrman's home in Los Angeles.[4] Rappe appeared in at least four films for Lehrman: His Musical Sneeze, A Twilight Baby, Punch of the Irish and A Game Lady. However, since many of Lehrman's films are lost, the exact number of roles she performed for him cannot be determined.

Rumors


A few hours after sunset on Thursday, a jacaranda tree that has been missing for nearly nine months was returned to the University of Sydney's quadrangle.

It isn't exactly the same as the iconic tree that stood in the quadrangle for 88 years before collapsing in October last year, but it is as close as you can get.

Sydney University Grounds Manager Mark Moeller and ground staff with a jacaranda tree which was successfully cloned from the original tree in the main quadrangle. Credit:Wolter Peeters

The new tree is a genetically-identical clone of the original jacaranda, grown by grafting cuttings from the original plant to the root of another jacaranda tree.

"There's a little scar on the base of the tree, you can see it if you look carefully," the university's landscapebut via purchases of content, after the device is sold.

Apple's model is opposite that of Amazon's in that, to state the obvious, Apple enjoys healthy gross margins on all of their devices and uses content sales, which are basically a break-even business, to make the purchase of the device more attractive.

Also, despite the introduction of the Kindle Fire, Amazon worldwide quarterly media sales have gone from a year over year growth of 19% in 1Q12, the quarter after the Fire went on sale, to 7% in 2Q13. So, media sales growth has actually decelerated during the time the Kindle Fire has been on sale.

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by Ronald H. Alenstein, New York City, for Defendants CEP Consultants, Inc., Comprehensive Consulting Group.
*60 Rosenman & Colin by Arthur S. Linker, New York City, for defendant Edward Isaacs & Co.
Norman L. Tolle, New York City, for The Equitable Life Assurance Society of the United States.

MEMORANDUM & ORDER
WEXLER, District Judge.
Plaintiffs, a purported class of former employees of defendant Job Shop Technical Services, Inc. d/b/a International Technical Services, Inc. ("ITS") and participants in the International Technical Services, Inc. 401(k) Profit Sharing Plan and Trust (the "Plan"), brought the above-referenced action for violations of, inter alia, the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 ("ERISA"), 29 U.S.C. §§ 1001 et seq., and the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act ("RICO"), 18 U.S.C. §§ 1961 et seq. against ITS, the Plan'sincluding audits, preparation of financial statements, and rendering of certified opinions as to the financial condition of the Plan. Id. ¶ 214.
In 1991, EIC allegedly became aware that ITS was delinquent in making contributions to the Plan, yet declined to notify the Plan's participants or the United States Department of Labor. Id. ¶¶ 214-215. In 1993 and 1994, the quarterly statements, indicating that ITS had fully contributed to the Plan, were prepared by CEP with "actual or constructive" knowledge that the information contained therein was false. Id. ¶ 217. Again, in 1993 and 1994, EIC had "actual or constructive" knowledge that funds were being diverted from the Plan, yet failed to take action. Id. ¶ 219.
The first cause of action asserts that ITS, Corace, and CEP are "fiduciaries,"


in fiduciaries' breaches and that ERISA typically preempts state law claims of that nature, the Second Circuit's holding filled a "gap" by providing employee benefit plan participants and beneficiaries with a mechanism to hold nonfiduciaries accountable for wrongdoing that contributed to the deprivation of ERISA benefits. Id. The Supreme Court's dicta in Mertens addresses the Second Circuit's logic head on, explaining why the gap, if one exists, is narrow at best. The majority reasoned:
Under traditional trust law, although a beneficiary could obtain damages from third persons for knowing participation in a trustee's breach of fiduciary duties, only the trustee had fiduciary duties. ERISA, however, defines "fiduciary" not in terms of formal trusteeship, but in functional terms of control and authority over the plan, thus expanding the universe ofHenry Louis Gates, Jr. vs. the Cambridge PD

Harvard professor Henry Louis Gates, Jr., was recently arrested trying to get into his own house, the front door of which was jammed. One of his neighbors called the police to say that two black men (who were actually Gates and his Moroccan driver) were trying to break into the house, and the police didn't leave even after Gates showed his ID and explained that it was his house. Instead, these thugs kept grilling him, and in response he "exhibited loud and tumultuous behaviour", which in Copland is automatic grounds for arrest.

Gates is rare among victims of aggressive police officers in that he is well-connected; three of his Harvard colleagues showed up to the station to bail him out. He has


Muko (Takeo) Nishikido

Muko (Takeo) Nishikido (錦戸無光／武夫) was born in 1940 on Tinian in the Northern Mariana Islands near Saipan. After school in Kumamoto he moved to Osaka, where he began to train in Daito-ryu Aiki-jujutsu in 1959 and later established a dojo in Tokyo. In 1973 he met Daito-ryu Aiki-jujutsu Kodokai Founder Kodo Horikawa in Kitami City in Hokkaido through the introduction of a friend. Upon feeling his Aiki for the first time he decided to discard his previous study of jujutsu and focus on Horikawa Sensei’s approach to Aiki.

Muko Nishida with Mr. and Mrs. Horikawa in Hokkaido, 1973

After commuting to Kitami for two years, he decided to relocate with his family to Hokkaido in order to further his training and received severe individual instruction in addition tomore that one uses Aiki the more that their Ki increases, their harmony increases, their spirit enters into the world without limits.

When those people who have inhabited the world of physical strength, the world of power, the world of the ego until this time train in Aiki-jujutsu they will draw closer to the zero point. That is, nothingness. The world of enlightenment. Return to the origin. From there begins the determination of whether one will either return to the world of physical strength, power, the world of the ego again, or depart for the world of Ki, the world of Aiki.

In Hikari-do there are many types of training done in order to return to the point of nothingness. That can be called the enlightenment of the physical body


– once the body has gone that far then next one is able to enter the world of Ki, the world of Aiki.

Demonstration at Police Headquarters in November 1973

Seigo Okamoto – Kodo Horikawa – Muko Nishikido

Building the Ki Body

Daito-ryu Aiki-jujutsu first builds the “Ki Body” through training in the kihon (“basics”) and then enters into training in Aiki. When building the Ki Body physical strength (power) is not used. When the use of physical strength has ceased completely, there for the first time is the Ki Body.

There was a time during my third year of receiving instruction from Kodo Horikawa Sensei in Kitami, Hokkaido that I realized that my entire body was the Ki Body. “Ah, my entire body is the Ki Body”, I realized. When I trulyof court on the issue of release of Jadhav and also requested it to sought response from the Centre on the possibility of seeking legal remedies through International Court of Justice for Jadhav's release.

The Pakistan Army has ruled out any consular access to alleged Indian spy Kulbhushan Jadhav, saying he is not eligible for it as per the laws.

"Kulbhushan is not eligible for consular access nor will be granted consular access," said Pakistan Armed Forces spokesperson Major General Asif Ghafoor.

He alleged that Jadhav, caught on anti-state activities, was trialed under court martial.

"This was purely an act by the Army to which the Army as an institution said we will not compromise on his sentence," he said.

The Pakistan Army had earlier said there will be 'no compromise' on the


Last week, Tyler, The Creator dropped two new songs—"Who Dat Boy" and "911/Mr. Lonely" featuring Frank Ocean. Now, Tyler's made an even bigger announcement: his new album Scum Fuck Flower Boy drops July 21, and you can peep the tracklist below.

There are two covers, one done by Eric White and another by Tyler himself. No features for the album have been revealed yet, besides Frank. According to Pitchfork, Frank is also credited on "Where This Flower Blooms," while Lil Wayne is listed on "Dropping Seeds." Estelle is also named on "Garden Shred," while Michael Karoli, Jaki Liebezeit, Irmin Schmidt and Damo Suzuki, members of experimental band Can, are listed on "Foreword." Gap Band's Raymond Calhoun is also named in the iTunes credits for "911/Mr. Lonely."

You can pre-order thedesign and period {#Sec4}

The study was conducted at Hiwot Fana Specialized University Hospital (HFSUH), Harar which is located 526 km away from Addis Ababa to the east. There are three governmental hospitals in Harar town and HFSUH was purposely selected as it is a tertiary care teaching hospital of Haramaya University and hosts majority of patient attendees from Harar city and its surrounding. An institution-based cross-sectional study was conducted from March 1 to April 20, 2018 on one year medical records (from September 1, 2016 to August 31, 2017) of pregnant women attending maternal and child health (MCH) clinic of the hospital.

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The invention relates to an ink jet recording apparatus. More particularly, it relates to an ink jet recording apparatus for obtaining on recording paper, output images capable of meeting needs in a wide range from the printing business world in which the high speed output of a high quality image is required, to the printer industry which manufactures printers on the basis of office and personal requirements, as well as the consumer goods industry which manufactures inexpensive general-purpose output equipment employing various recording paper.
Shown in FIGS. 6 and 7 are examples of ink jet recording apparatuses which are used for an electrostatic acceleration type ink jet recording system in the conventional art.
Referring to FIG. 6, a slit 200 is formed by flat members 100 and 101, and itthe ink is not jetted, and the desired printing cannot be done.
Even with the construction wherein the plurality of electrodes are arrayed dividing the space between the upper plate and lower plate of the head so as to partition the openings, in the case where the intervals of the plurality of recording electrodes disposed within the head are set sufficiently small in order to attain a high resolution, the phenomenon of electric discharge similarly arises across the plurality of recording electrodes through the ink, and the desired printing cannot be done.
It is accordingly an object of the present invention to provide an ink jet recording apparatus in which, even when the intervals of a plurality of recording electrodes disposed within a head are set sufficiently small in order


recording electrodes.
Further, the insulating members are arranged near the opening.
Still further, the insulating members are arranged in parallel with the recording electrodes on the supporting frame.
Yet further, the insulating members are arranged at a front end of the opening, and a region of the each insulating member is so shaped as to enlarge confronting the counter electrode.
In addition, the insulating members are arranged so as to lie nearer a front end of the opening than the recording electrodes, in the vicinity of the opening.
Besides, an ink jet recording apparatus according to the present invention consists in comprising the ink jet recording head; supply means for supplying the ink into the opening; a recording medium being arranged between the counter electrode and the opening; and a conveyance mechanism whichSpend a Lidl Get a Lot: International Wine Challenge Announces its Geat Value Wines of 2013

May 17, 2013

IWC announce its eighteen best value wines of 2013.

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Lime Rock: SunTrust Racing race report

A Truly Memorable Memorial Day for SunTrust
Angelelli Scores His 15th Career Rolex Series Win, Helps Taylor Get His
First As SunTrust Racing Moves Into Second in the Championship at Lime Rock
It was all in a day's work for veteran Max Angelelli...

A Truly Memorable Memorial Day for SunTrust
Angelelli Scores His 15th Career Rolex Series Win, Helps Taylor Get His
First As SunTrust Racing Moves Into Second in the Championship at Lime Rock

It was all in a day's work for veteran Max Angelelli and his 20-year-old
co-driver Ricky Taylor as the SunTrust Racing duo stayed out of trouble
and benefited from a perfect race strategy to score their first GRAND-AM
Rolex Sports Car Series victory of the season in Monday's Memorial Day
Classic at Lime Rock Park in Lakeville, Conn.

At 9:30a.m., today, Angelelli, Taylor and their fellow Rolex Series
Daytona Prototype-class competitors officially hit the 1.5-mile,
seven-turn road circuit nestled in the hills of northwest Connecticut
for the first time in series history. By 4:50 p.m., the checkered flag
waved to signal the end of today's grueling two-hour, 45-minute event,
and a triumphant Angelelli was the first to cross the finish line to
earn his 15th career Rolex Series victory and help his new co-driver
for 2010 score the very first win of his career in just his 25th career
start.

The race was grueling not only because of the fast-paced but tight,
seven-turn layout that made passing the slower, GT-class competitors a
constant challenge, but because of uncharacteristically warm, 84-degree
temperatures that are certainly not typical in this part of the country
at this time of year. Angelelli and Taylor


the first 20 laps. On the 21st lap, as the leaders were trying to
make their way through a pack of GT-class cars, Taylor slipped past
Jonsson and into the lead, which he held until pitting at the 43-minute
mark for fuel, tires and driver change.

Meanwhile, on the opening lap of the race, the championship-leading
No. 01 Chip Ganassi Racing with Felix Sabates BMW Riley of Memo Rojas
was out of contention before even getting through the fast, sweeping
right-hand turn one. Rojas was forced off-course and into soft dirt that
ripped the nose and front-mounted radiator right off the car, and that
marked the end of its day. It limped around the track for 13 laps after
attempts to repair the damage, but then was retired, in last place.

"This being such a short track, and thethe outside. I was able
to slide in there behind Jonsson. Then I saw Rojas coming around the
outside and I was thinking that was a big risk, considering where they
are in the championship and everything. And then I didn't see anything
after that."

Angelelli resumed in sixth place after taking over for Taylor at the
43-minute mark, 45 laps into the race. He broke back into the top-five
17 laps later with a pass of Terry Borcheller in the No. 9 Action
Express Racing Porsche Riley that won the season-opening Rolex 24 At
Daytona. He then got by Brian Frisselle in the No. 6 Michael Shank
Racing Ford Riley on lap 72 before making a fuel-only stop under yellow
just four laps later. The sequence of stops, which also brought the
three cars of ahead of him into


the pits, enabled Angelelli to move
back into the lead. He stayed there until lap 99, when the SunTrust
team called him back into the pits for what they hoped would be the
final fuel-and-tire stop of the day with a little more than an hour to
go. Angelelli resumed in ninth after the green-flag stop but gradually
made his way back to the front as the remaining competitors also had to
fuel up for the run to the finish over the next 20 minutes. He was up
to second, behind the No. 9 Porsche now driven by Joao Barbosa, after
several of the leaders stopped under yellow. Angelelli stayed in close
pursuit of Barbosa on the lap-123 restart, then moved past him into the
lead for good on lap 126 with 40 minutes remaining.

Angelelli weathered two morerestarts before the checkered flag flew,
most notably the doggedly determined No. 60 Michael Shank Racing Ford
Riley of Oswaldo Negro behind him that made numerous attempts to get by
the SunTrust car despite being a lap down.

"The heat was bad enough, but in the end, the No. 60 really killed
me because I wanted to have him stay behind me and in front of the
(lead-lap) cars that were trying to catch up to me," Angelelli said. "He
(Negri) hit me three times. He was a lap down, so I don't understand
it. But, because of that, I was done, physically. The pace I had to
maintain, and for the amount of laps that I had to do it, that became
the problem. Pushing, pushing, never time to relax. I knew I had to
drive two hours


today. And it was tough, hot, it was difficult. But, in
the end, when you pull out a win like this, it's a relief. You forget
how difficult it was. But it still was very demanding."

With the win, the SunTrust team moved from third to second in the
championship after five of 12 events, now 21 points behind the leading
Ganassi car, which finished second at the Rolex 24 and then reeled off
three consecutive wins before today's 13th-place finish in the prototype
class. The No. 59 Brumos Porsche of Darren Law and David Donohue is now
third, seven points behind the SunTrust team.

"Could I have imagined we were going to be the winners today?" asked
team owner Wayne Taylor, the three-time sports car racing champion who
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The 28-year-old Green has been among Premiership Rugby’s leading locks in recent seasons with the Falcons, particularly in his work at the set-piece.

Originally from Norwich, Green came through the Tigers academy, leading the team as captain in his final year before moving into senior rugby and made his senior debut for the club at the end of the 2008/09 season as a teenager.

After a spell with Yorkshire Carnegie, he joined Newcastle in 2014 and has made more than 100 first-team appearances for the Falcons.

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men spoke from God as they were carried along by the Holy Spirit” (2 Peter 1:20–21).

Both Jesus and His Apostles undoubtedly regarded Genesis as history. Jesus, for example, affirmed the creation of Adam and Eve (Matthew 19:4), the murder of Abel (Luke 11:50, 51), the Noahic Flood (Matthew 24:37–39) and the destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah (Matthew 10:15). Moreover, for Him, these were not simply interesting stories; rather they provided the basis for understanding important spiritual truths. Similarly, the Apostle Paul built his teaching on events recorded in the Old Testament, such as the doctrine of Original Sin (Romans 5) and the role of men and women in the church (1 Timothy 2:12–14). The writer to the Hebrews referred to the accounts of Abel, Enoch and Noah asreal events that happened to real people (Hebrews 11). Significantly, this letter was written to encourage Christians who were facing serious persecution; but what use are mythical characters to those potentially facing death? The idea that anyone would think that such people might be helped by reminding them of stories suitable only for Sunday School children is absurd. The writers of the New Testament undoubtedly accepted the first book of the Bible as historical and Huxley was right: if Genesis is wrong, Christianity was built upon no more than “legendary quicksands”.

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Salvant told prosecution and defense attorneys they had two weeks to review the ruling and see if they could “change my mind” about the sentence.

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"I spoke with him at some length about the various consequences of his driving and drinking," a police officer wrote in a report, "such as effects on (his) driver's license and his path in life, especially DWI and even killing someone in a DWI."

Couch's father, Fred, runs a roofing and construction company and has faced lawsuits over a $100,000 debt and allegations of sexual harassment. Tonya, Couch's mother, has been charged with hindering the apprehension of a felon for helping Ethan flee to Mexico.

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The human heart longs for a Shangri La, but human efforts to establish one here on Earth have failed horrifically.

After his father died his mother abandoned him to go to China in search of food. So Joseph Kim, at 12 years old, became homeless, left to fend for himself in the throes of the great famine of North Korea, which started four years after the USSR collapsed and withdrew its financial support for the communist state.

With no one to turn to, Kim joined other streets urchins begging in the marketplace: “May I have your last spoonful of soup?” he asked with a plaintive cry.

A kkotjebi in North Korea (not


Joseph Kim)

But his stomach was never filled from the handouts of a few gracious diners in his native town.

“They called us kkotjebi, ‘wandering sparrows,’ because of the way we would bend over and look for grains of rice or kernels of corn on the ground,” he said.

Next he resorted to stealing. He wouldn’t pilfer manhole covers because if he got caught he would face execution (since the manhole covers belong to the state and any crime against the state was severely punished). He fell in with a band of thieves who believed they were re-distributing wealth. His comrades eventually were arrested, but mercifully, he was absent when the police raided.

“The famine had thinned out the village, as many of our friends lost grandmothers, aunts, sons and cousins,” Kimbordering China on foot in plain daylight. His audacity contributed to his success. No one ever dared defect during the day. At night, those who got caught were either shot or tortured in prison.

When North Korean soldiers finally caught sight of him on the far side of the river, their shouts were more of astonishment than outrage. Not a shot was fired. He was only 14-years-old.

Once in China, Kim decided he would try to find his long-lost sister, Bong Sook, who had been sold off by their mother – either to be wedded or to sex exploitation, he didn’t know which. But before he could find her, he had to avoid capture by Chinese soldiers who would send him back to North Korea, where he would be imprisoned.

When


he knocked on doors in the countryside asking for food, some Chinese were gruff and told him to go away. He had heard about the limitless riches of China and couldn’t understand why they wouldn’t share. A few gave him food. He slept in an abandoned house or under the stars.

Eventually, Kim made his way to the city of Yanji, where he looked for churches. He asked for money, and some of them gave. One kindly pastor’s wife took him in, even though, he learned later, she didn’t have money to fix her husband’s teeth at the dentist.

After a few weeks, someone in the church hired Kim for household help. He called the elderly Christian lady “Grandma,” and she taught him many things about the Bible.

Except for thelonging to find his sister and see his mother (who was in prison in North Korea for defecting to China), he was happy. He was eating his fill, dressing his version of cool and reading the Bible, which he slowly began to understand.

Once when he sang a hymn with Grandma, he was deeply moved by the lyrics: “Father, I stretch my hands to Thee, No other help I know; If Thou withdraw Thyself from me, Ah! Whither shall I go?”

The Holy Spirit touched his heart and imparted saving faith. “I felt something pierce my heart,” Kim recalls. “I understood this. This was my life. That night alone in my room, I began to cry.

He attempted to talk to God for the first time. “I don’t know who you


like rowdy Korean-American tourists. Once in the market, Kim grabbed his fellow North Korean in a headlock that drew stares and mutterings from the local Chinese about the poor behavior of Americans.

Adrian bought them American clothes, and Kim was transformed into a “skater type – baseball cap turned to the side, bright graphic T-shirt and narrow pants.” Decked out as new personas, they rode the train to Shenyang.

There, they were taken to the U.S. consulate. But when the guard subjected Kim to a black wand metal detector search, Kim panicked. He thought he was being arrested.

Seeing the terror in his face, Adrian realized he should have explained the drill beforehand. “You’re safe now!” he shouted to Kim.

After months of paperwork, Kim was flown to the U.S. and movedin with host families. He attended high school and became a speaker on behalf of human rights organizations. He currently attends Bard College on full-ride scholarship in New York.

He is serving Jesus, happy and free. His only remorse is for his mother and his sister, Bong Sook, whom he still longs to see. Once while giving a speech in Scotland, he opted to sleep in the airport under a glass roof that allowed him see the stars. He meditated that somewhere in China was his cherished sister.

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"President Trump believes in total energy independence and dominance, and that keeping America’s energy grid and infrastructure strong and secure protects our national security, public safety and economy from intentional attacks and natural disasters," said White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders in a statement.

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The change of colour eventually spread towards Ruby, engulfing the ground she stood on into bloodied snow.

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"Ruby! What's wrong!?" A concerned voice said as Ruby quickly panned to see who it was coming from. Yang was by the door , with the light shining from outside. "What happened? Are you okay?" Her sister asked, a concern face over her features. "I-It's nothing really, it's just a bad dream. Nothing much." Ruby quickly assured her sister, but the


concern from her face never faded.

"You've been unconscious for the whole day. It's evening now." Yang stated as Ruby got up from her bed. She recalled the events that led her to this situation. They were following the hazelnut haired guy, then he kicked Hide and her… then Kaneki saved them but then he lost his senses, and the last thing she saw was Touka and Kaneki…

"W-Where's Hide and Kaneki!?" Ruby quickly asked as she remembered clearly what happened. Kaneki tried to eat Hide in a fit of extreme hunger, and Ruby wanted to know exactly what happened. "Follow me. I'll show you." Yang replied, as she gestured her sister to follow.

"Oh my… Hide!" Ruby followed Yang through the corridors to the room her blonde friend was located.Yang opened the door to the room where Ruby saw Hide bandaged up on the bed. "He's okay… Thank goodness." Ruby made a sigh of relief. Hide was still alive, and knowing that he was made the half-ghoul huntress calm down from major concern. "Before you ask, your other friend already woke up. The manager invited him to join Anteiku and now he's busy with him learning how to brew coffee." Yang stated.

"That's wonderful!" Ruby jumped in joy knowing how everything turned out. Everyone was okay, and Kaneki joined Anteiku! Now they could both work here as buddies, serving coffee and maybe having a coffee competition similar to the one the two sisters had. "I'm glad your fine yourself. I got here immediately when Yoshimura called me. I


a long glance at him. He was Kaneki's best and only friend, and the events that turned Kaneki into a half-ghoul had substantial consequences on his peers. The least Ruby could do was open the blinds of the room. She wasn't afraid of the dark herself, she just didn't like it. Ruby walked to the curtains and pulled the string that opens the blinds, releasing white moonlight into the room. The half-ghoul looked outside to see the dimly lit streets outside of Anteiku, with barely any people walking by. Ruby glanced into the moon as she found herself charmed by its appearance. The shattered moon of Remnant was quite a symbolic figure itself, a sign of what conflict could do to this world.

"This world of humans, ghouls andto the resting blonde on the bed. "Thanks for being a great friend to him, and also thanks for matchmaking us." The half-ghoul giggled as she remembered how she met them, the childish act of the blonde sealed the fates of them together. Who would have thought that would happen?

"Bye, Hide." Ruby exited and closed the door on her way out of the room. With that done and out, the half-ghoul pondered on what she could do now. "Oh I know! I'll go see how Kaneki's doing with his coffee. I bet it sure is tasty!" Ruby made up her mind as she strolled towards the corridor.

Three figures stood at the top of a building, all wearing grey coats in the rainy weather that stormed.

"It's the rain lovely?"


the course of three days within Beacon Academy. Of the two hundred students who applied, there were only three did the best with Weiss being one of them. As a reward, the three were offered to venture to Vale as junior investigators. Weiss wasn't too keen on the topic, but accepted it anyway. The CCG needed all the help they could get in their war against the ghouls, and The Ice Queen herself wanted to offer some retribution to the foul degenerates.

"According to the 20th ward's branch report, there was a predatory incident involving a binge eater in this building three months ago. What's interesting is that eyewitnesses claim to have seen Jason and a red figure in this area as well." Kotarou Amon stated as he stoodwatch by a railing. "A Binge eater and Jason?" Weiss asked. "What could two S-Rated ghouls be doing here, and who was the red guy?"

"Well, it's hard to say. But I'm sure the three of them weren't co-ordinarily sharing a meal." Kureo Mado replied. Immediately, the old dove suddenly reacted. His eyes twitched as he looked back and forth for the source. "What is it?" Amon questioned his mentor. "Is there something on?" Weiss asked as well. Kureo quickly jumped off the railing and dashed on some big square metal platforms.

"Mister Mado!" The two of them shouted in concern at the mentor's rash actions. Their concern quickly faded when the mentor quickly picked up and held up an object for both of them to see. "Weiss was right!


This weather is working in our favour!" Amon and Weiss looked up in satisfaction. Their mentor had found a lead to go on in the 20th ward. "The only downside to this rain really." Mado began, grinning in amusement of his thought. "We aren't able to hear the screams of death they will cry! Hahaha!"

Weiss smiled at her mentor's enthusiasm. She was willing to kill some ghouls herself. The Ice queen had killed hundreds of Grimm before during her time at Beacon, especially during the rigorous entrance exam she faced before with her team. Ghouls were going to be no different from Grimm, monsters who kill people.

"Come, let's get back to the CCG. I'm sure this will get them to let us patrol the 20th ward." Kureo said,eyeing the object he had picked up. It was medical equipment, sort of like a wrench. He wasn't an expert in biology but he could at least infer that it had something to do with limbs. "Jason must've used this to tear out people's limbs. I'm sure he wouldn't mind if we did the same to him."

Weiss looked around as the two other doves were busy examining their find. There was still one aspect left unanswered: The red figure. The most probably scenario Weiss could picture was the Binge Eater and Jason having a confrontation, but for what purpose? From what she was briefed on, Jason usually worked alone. He had one grunt to rely on, but he usually didn't travel with him to places like this. Weiss


thought deeply for a few moments as she inferred how the confrontation possibly turned out.

"Binge Eater was busy eating, and then Jason shows up. He probably tried to attack her but failed as the only bodies found were the corpses…" Weiss paused her train of thought when she thought of the bodies of the deceased. Only lowly ghouls would ever eat that. "Maybe Jason's attack was foiled by the red figure… so then he probably has some good relations with the Binge Eater. No evidence to confirm it though…"

The temporary junior investigator looked around the area. It was only the rooftop mechanisms that inhabited the area, the metal fans spinning around to cool the interior of the Aqua Building, and large generators that ran down long rows. Therewas nothing to go on, and a simple Ghoul Medical apparatus wasn't enough to satisfy Weiss.

Sighing, Weiss walked towards one of the generators and learned on it. It had a cool steel feeling despite being well, a generator. She glanced around the area when suddenly a red mark caught her eye. It was a symbol of sorts, some sort of red marking on one of the generators across the one she leaned on. Curious, Weiss made her way towards the marked generator to see what it was. Blood didn't last this long before drying out, so what was the mark?

As Weiss got closer to it, she could make out the mark much clearer than before. It was a stripe of red ink, with two black marks on it,


giving it the look of a blindfold of sorts. "Hey guys, I found something!" Weiss called out to the doves. Kureo and Amon made their way to Weiss's location and saw from themselves the familiar marking. "Kureo, isn't that…?" Amon began, as the mark became more familiar to him.

"Yes… I know this marking." Kureo said, as one of his eyes squinted to allow his other eye to take a good look at it. "It's one of the marks we were briefed on before. The mark of the Betrayer… I wonder what he's doing here though?" Kureo questioned, having only been told that the ghoul worked in another part of Remnant." I thought he only hunted around in the Mistral region."

"Whatever he is, at least we found a newthat had plagued the 14th ward before, but he was taken down long ago. He was one of the commanding generals for the White Fang too, as we found out." Amon explained. "Most nicknamed him The Jeff of the ward."

"Ugh, Ghouls in the White Fang as well?" Weiss said annoyed by this new concept. What was worse than fanus and ghouls attacking your family's company for ages on end? The both of them combined, as White Fang executives. "Sigh. Ghouls just make me so mad."

The three of them looked up to the sky to see the dark evening night, with Remnant's broken moon shining brightly down onto the city of Vale. "It's getting late. You should return to your Academy Weiss." Amon said. "We thank you for your


assistance in this investigation."

"You're welcome. Goodbye." Weiss stated as she began to walk away from the two doves.

"You know, she'd really be useful in the CCG." Mado said. "Such a young little girl defending such a large company, really makes you wonder if there are more youngsters like them too."

"I know. If the heiress of Schnee began fighting back, I'm sure the company won't be raided as much." Mado replied. "She's really determined. I hope she does join us."

The two huntress sisters walked back to Beacon Academy from its entrance, the older one heaving in a big yawn. The younger one saw the action, and she yawned along with herself. Yang and Ruby were both really bummed out by the events that happened. Ruby's friend along with herselfwere attacked by that Nishki Ghoul, with Kaneki going insane from food withdrawl, and Yang rushing over to Ruby once she got the memo of what happened. All in all, Ruby should be the one heaving the big yawn, not her sister. The half-ghoul was pierced through the chest by that Hazelnut haired ghoul…

Ruby touched her chest, feeling the big hole in her stomach not even being there. The regenerative properties of her Ghoul traits had benefits it seems, and Ruby sighed in relief. She didn't want to return to her dorm with her insides visible, with the thought of her teammates reacting to it and possibly freaking out making her giggle. She couldn't let them know, for she was sure they wouldn't be so accepting as her


huggable look Ruby was giving her made her unable to reject her cute sister.

"I… Fine fine I'll try it, but I won't like it! It's disgusting on like ten levels you know…" Yang gave into Ruby's offer, with the half-ghoul rejoicing in the air. Handing the elder sister one of her red-hued cookies, Yang held it arm's length away. "This is… ugh. Can I not eat this? It's disgusting on like twenty levels now."

"But Yaaaaaaaaang, you agreed! You are a lady of your word, are you not?" Ruby teased her sister, making her frown in regret. With an extremely heavy and regretful sigh, Yang broke a piece of the surprisingly crunchy cookie, and tossed it into her mouth.

"Sooooooooo Yang, how'd it taste?" Ruby asked. The half-ghoul herself was"Hey, Ruby! Who's the hot chick behind you?" The blonde boy changed subject as he noticed Ruby and Yang. Kaneki raised an eyebrow at the choice of words his friend chose to describe the newcomer.

"That's my sister, Yang. She's working here with me now since the… yeah." Ruby replied. "Hello everyone! My name's Yang Xiao Long and I'm sure to make this place burn to the ground!" Yang said, enthusiastically pumping her fist in the air. Hide chuckled at the joke as other two staff of Anteiku deadpanned at her statement. "Well there's someone else who isn't as down as the ground! I'm Nagachika Hideyoshi, but that's a mouthful, so call me Hide!" The blonde introduced to the fellow blonde, as they both shook hands.

"I'm glad the both


for the encouragement."

The four waiters got to their places, with Touka by the entrance podium and Ruby and Kaneki at the counter. Yang returned to her seat however, wanting to relax in the good ole Coffee Shop. The blonde looked outside the windows to see a storm kicking off, rain droplets falling from the sky. "What a relaxing weather to be sleeping in." She muttered.

The doors to Anteiku opened, and Touka immediately responded to it with politeness. "Hi! How can I help you!" She greeted, before seeing who the ones by the door were.

"Hello, Touka." A brown haired woman greeted, with a young striking similar girl standing behind. The woman had a side ponytail with three flowers adorning it, and she wore a pale pastel dress tied toshout. "Thank you very much." Ryouko said to the kind waiter, as she received the towel from him, handing the used one back. The half-ghoul waiter panned down to see her daughter looking at him, and Kaneki smiled in return. She looked back down however, giving Kaneki a confused face.

"Where's Yoshimura?" Ryouko asked, with Touka pointed to the door by the counter. "He's inside." The waitress replied. Ruby couldn't help but notice the cute girl by the mother's side. "Hello there." Ruby walked over and greeted the daughter, as she looked at the half-ghoul huntress. "I'm Ruby, what's yours?"

"H-Hinami." She said. Ruby extended her hand out to the daughter. "It's nice to meet you." She said as Hinami hesitantly extended her hand out. They shook hands, with a


getting on my last nerve. You can't do anything right you know?" The raven-haired girl retorted. "I'm well aware." The half-ghoul replied.

Touka sighed as she cleaned the tray she had on her. "Whatever. So did the manager have a talk with you about the box carriers?" She asked the others. "The who?" Kaneki innocently muttered up, earning another sigh from Touka. "I think she means the doves." Ruby whispered to him, making Kaneki even more confused. "Doves? Who are they?" Yang walked up from her seat to answer his question. "She means Investigators." Kaneki still didn't understand this at all. "What are Investigators?"

With her patience long gone from the idiot's constant questioning, Touka yelled back at Kaneki. "Did he or did he not talk about you about theguys in suits with overly large briefcases!?"

Weiss paid close attention to the briefing she was invited to, with Mado and Amon sitting by her sides. This was her first time being invited to such a place, and the heiress had to keep her image up. She looked at the representative giving a summary on the holographic screen with a coloured map being shown behind him.

"This map shows the current status of the eleventh ward." The representative said, as Weiss gave her fullest attention. "As you can see they are demonstrating organised movement. I'd hate to say it, but I think it'll be a matter of time before we have a war on our hands."

The heiress quickly took down the note on her scroll, with Mado chuckling at the


girl's dedication in her efforts. "Well that's all I've got. I don't suppose there's someone else with something to report." The representative stated. Seeing the opportunity, Weiss raised her hand up high for him to see.

With his attention caught, Weiss stood up from her seat as she began to introduce herself. "Weiss Schnee, Junior detective under the Ghoul Investigation programme." She began. "Keep cool Weiss, you got this. Just say whatever evidence we collected at the Aqua Building and state it with confidence and inspiration." She told herself. This was her first time being here, not to mention sharing the evidence they collected, and the first impression was everything for the heiress.

"I'm sure everyone remembers the incident involving the well-known Jason and an S-Rated Binge Eater from thequickly raised his hand to have a turn to speak. The heiress noticed it, and quickly ended her statement. "That is all. Thank you." Weiss ended, before sitting down and allowing the more experienced investigator to take over.

"Kotarou Amon, First class detective in charge of the Junior Detective here." He introduced. "There was also a symbol found at the site, it being the mark of the ghoul known as The Betrayer." The screen showed the red marking, with two black spots to make it look like a sort of blindfold. "Interesting. The Betrayer in the 20th ward as well…" The representative thought out loud.

"While Jason's and The Betrayer's objective is currently unknown, there is one fact that we do know. Ever since the encounter with the S-Rated Binge


back me up, I'll become unstoppable when I finally conquer Remnant! BWAH HAH HAH!" The heiress evilly schemed to herself as she thought of the possible future to come. "Is there something going on, Weiss?" Amon asked, looking at her with confusion. Why was she looking like a mad scientist you would see in kids movies?

"Oh? It's nothing." Weiss replied as she snapped out of her trance, however she quickly returned to it as she left it, scheming once more within herself. "The Binge Eater, Jason, The Betrayer and the Gourment! It'll be fun watching them run before us! We'll be unstoppable...! MUAHAHAHAHAAAAAA~ " The two white-haired investigators unknowingly chuckled together in union, simply making Amon raise an eyebrow at his colleagues.

"It's going to be fun with thesePANAMA — And the new star in Latin America is ... the United States?

The reviews are in, and while the United States still faces plenty of tricky relations in a diverse region of 35 states, President Obama walked away with more salutes than swipes from a regional Summit of the Americas where the United States usually takes a drubbing.

The question now is whether Mr. Obama and his successors can capitalize on the new credibility Washington has earned, primarily through his reconciliation with Havana.

Mr. Obama sat down for an hourlong meeting with President Raúl Castro of Cuba, which the United States allowed to attend the summit for the first time since the meetings began in 1994. It was the first meeting between leaders of the Cold War-era foes.

Mr. Obama


and lawyers, David Sobotta was thinking of a more basic challenge. Man again nature. That sort of thing.

Finally Decided on Nova Scotia

In his last two years of college, he had started looking for some land. He wanted to make sure that it was well away from the centers of civilization, and he began his search in the Northwest, then went on up into Alaska. But the place he finally decided on was Nova Scotia. It was a beautiful place, and he had found 340 acres with a 200-year-old shingled house on the Bay of Fundy that he could get cheap. He bought it as soon he graduated from college and stunned his family by telling that he was going to be a Canadian farmer instead of a Harvardlawyer.

Three friends from college went with him to work the place at first. Two did not last long. The third married the village school teacher, settled down across the road from his farm and still helps him with it.

The plan was to raise cattle (he has 150 acres of pasture), but after he bought the farm equipment that he had to have, he only had enough money for seven cattle. There are now several more and he has made enough money to pay some taxes. "Fortunately it doesn't take a lot of money to live in Nova Scotia," he says.

He has learned a lot in the last two years. With help from his friends he ripped out the insides of the old house and started to restore it.


He has put up hay for his cattle, grown vegetables and put them up for his larder, raised pigs, butchered them and cured the meat, butchered a steer and even netted herring to salt away for winter. Until he went to Nova Scotia, he'd never had any experience with anything like that.

"We pretty much learned as we went along from the neighbors," he says. "They're friendly people."

There aren't a lot of neighbors of course. David figures maybe 12 or 15 within three miles of his place. But then his farm in St. Croix Cove, is only about 10 miles from Bridgetown which has about 1,500 people.

"We aren't isolated from the world," David was saying.

"Just about," said Glenda, barely audible.

"I was just teasing," she said quickly.

"After all," he saidas she said, she'd led a sheltered life. Nothing in her experience had prepared her to do battle with the elements. But the place was beautiful and captivating and she was convinced.

Their wedding was at 2 p.m. Saturday at Holly Springs Baptist Church in Mount Airy. They planned to leave immediately after the ceremony for Nova Scotia.

The Friday night before the wedding they sat in Glenda's old apartment awaiting the arrival at the airport of David's friend from across the road in Nova Scotia, and talking about their plans for the future. Those plans may include moving on from their place in Nova Scotia, although they have no current plans for selling it. David has worked too hard on it, especially on the house, to get rid of


it quickly, and besides, the value of the land has already doubled since he bought it and maybe even tripled.

But David has it in his mind that he would like to pioneer a little and anyway, it's getting a little crowded for him in Nova Scotia. He'd like to go up to Newfoundland and homestead in virgin territory, build a house and clear the land and make it produce. Why"

"Oh, just sort of a challenge." He paused. "Even fewer people." And he looked at Glenda and smiled. "We haven't really made that decision yet."

"All I had to promise," she said, "was that I'd go and look at Newfoundland at least twice. Give it a chance."

March 06, 2015

I still remember the first time that I really wanted to befor nothing.

July 11, 2013

Writing is one of those things that operates on sparks of imagination. Something starts to nag you and if it is truly important, eventually what is in the back of your mind ends up being a blog post or a book.

In the next few days, my wife, Glenda and I will be publishing our fifth book. The working title is "A Journey To My Country." This is a paragraph that sets the stage for the book.

It's often late at night on a dark country road when people and places, both remembered and imagined, become the sparks that light the memory defining our lives.

As my wife and I glide through the black night on Union Cross Church Road, we cross a small creek, and it hits


me. I see the long-gone millpond, the house with five fireplaces, and the mill itself. I see the shadows of three young girls, my mother and her two sisters, picking beans in their garden. Next, I remember the place as it was when I was young, an old, crumbling concrete dam with trees growing in the former millpond.

The memory fades as fast as it comes, and the dark road continues on into the night.

The story has been there for a long time and the first chapter of this book has been written for a while, but the rest of the pieces did not fall in place until recently. There seemed to be no urgency until North Carolina's state government decided to roll back years of moderate governance withundergraduate degree at Harvard. After Harvard, I moved to Canada to farm.

My wife and I built a large cattle operation and lived for over ten years in the hardwood hills of New Brunswick. We had over two hundred head of cattle and grew almost all of our own food. Then in a quick twist of fate, in a couple of years I was working for Apple where I had a career of nearly twenty years including directly reporting to Tim Cook for a short time.

I have written a lot about my time at Apple including a book, the Pomme Company. I am one of the few people who worked at Apple and has written a about the company without ending with any challenges from the company. However, when


of the large house and gardens that are now Sobotta Manor Bed & Breakfast. Going back to Mount Airy and also visiting our youngest daughter who had relocated to North Carolina at almost the same time helped us understand how much we missed being back in our home state.

We lived in Virginia for twenty years, but it was no North Carolina. Living in Virginia did let us enjoy many summer, fall, and spring vacations to North Carolina's beaches. It awakened a love for the Southern Outer Banks that clearly never died.

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