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A leading Japanese politician insisted an undeclared $8-million loan had been spent on personal items, including a lucky bamboo rake, as a former Tokyo governor was indicted in another cash scandal on Friday.
Yoshimi Watanabe, the head of the minor opposition group Your Party, has admitted receiving 800 million yen ($7.8-million) from the chairman of a leading cosmetic company, but denies it had anything to do with his political work.
"I borrowed the money purely personally," Watanabe told reporters on Thursday. "I decided how to use it, and obviously I do not believe it was illegal."
Japanese law requires that all political donations be made public.
Watanabe said he no longer has the money after spending it on "miscellaneous items" including a decorative "kumade" - a bamboo rake believed to confer luck on its holder.
The claim drew sneers from media and political colleagues.
"I never knew there was such an expensive kumade in this world," said Akira Amari, state minister in charge of economic and fiscal policy.
"Representative Watanabe always says politicians need to be accountable. I am sure he will offer a persuasive explanation."
But Watanabe's luck appeared on Friday to be running a little low, with his benefactor, Yoshiaki Yoshida, chairman of the huge DHC cosmetic firm, telling Jiji Press he was not being truthful.
"What he has said was untrue," Yoshida told the agency. "I still have a mobile phone message from him saying he needed money for his electoral campaign."
The fresh furore is the latest in a long line cash scandals that surface every few months in Japan as one high-profile lawmaker after another gets skewered over "loans" from powerful businessmen, furthering the public impression that influence is for sale.
It comes as former Tokyo governor Naoki Inose, who stepped down from the Japanese capital's top job in December, was indicted over a 50-million-yen payment he received from a hospital tycoon ahead of his election.
The novelist-turned-politician did not declare the money, which he said he had received in cash, giving rise to suspicions it amounted to a bribe in an attempt to influence policy.
He was ordered on Friday to pay a 500 000 yen fine, a relatively light punishment because he did not appear to have used the cash for his political campaign.
Inose was one of the faces of Tokyo's successful bid to host the 2020 Olympics. - Sapa-AFP
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No, thank you. I appreciate the criticism. I need it. It builds character, not just for him, but for me too. I wasn't sure how long or what exactly, this group of Sith's trials were, so I kinda went out on a limb. If that's a problem, I can change it. Also, I figured that the Sith would want to make sure a, potentially, unstabe person such as him, was loyal first.
Lastly, I should have clarified, he's not a slave. Or, at least I didn't mean for him to be.
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I need to get a new pair of shoes. Currently I have a set of Brooks Cascadia 7s. They fit well for my foot. The issue with them is wear on the outer section at the ball of my foot. I have a small hole on one and the other is getting a hole as well. Seems and odd place to wear but the soles are still fine. I have maybe 200-300 miles on them. Not really sure how much.So my question is should I get another Cascadia? I have concerns that the durability is not there or is it just time for those shoes. Also what is the difference between the 8s and 9s? Doesn't look like much other than some minor changes on the outer sides. I plan on using my REI dividend and the 20% so I am limited to their stock. Any other shoes I should try on, my feet tend to be a little wide.Thanks
Can you be more specific about where the hole is exactly? Is it on the upper or on the rubber tread? I couldn't quite tell from your description. A picture might also help.
IT is on the upper section. On the cloth material itself just about the sole. It is not right at the sole though. It is behind the pinkie toe right about where the ball of the foot would be only on the upper. Soles are great. No cracks and the lugs are still intact. Just an upper problem.
I've had a number of shoes do that.If I like the shoe and order it again I apply a layer of SeamGrip to that area to serve as "armor".
Here is a shot of the hole. https://lh6.googleusercontent.com/-xOgY4kz1U0c/UzjvtpJeUhI/AAAAAAAAErs/jL13bH90NR4/w1327-h995-no/2014-03-30+23.26.34.jpgHate to get a new set of the cascadias if they are going to wear in the same spot. Although the 8s look like they have more fabric in that area. The 9s seem to be more mesh like the 7s. So not sure if I should look at another brand like the la sportiva wildcats.
That's the flex point for the upper. Basically, it happens due to poor design and poor engineering. Not all brands suffer from that, but the smaller ones often do.Cheers
Perhaps you need a wider toe box. Have you looked at Vivobarefoot shoes?I've been wearing them to work and just kicking around for about the past year, and love them. I've heard there were durability issues with their running shoes, but also heard this year's models are better.for now, I'm wearing Vasque Pendulum shoes for hiking, at least until the two pairs I bought last summer wear out. They have a 4mm rise but have worked well for me.Good luck... nothing's much fun if your feet hurt, eh?
They seem to fit great. I never get blisters or sore feet with them. They are just have a hole in them lol. My big debate is if I should try another cascadia model or jump ship to another brand for durability sake.
Scott,A new pair will almost certainly do the same thing on you.If the shoes still have a lot of life in them (which they should with only 200-300 miles of wear), and you like the fit of them, why not just repair the hole?Take a small patch of cordura (or equivalent), cut it to custom fit the hole, leaving a bit extra on all sides for seam allowance, then hand sew the patch on.I don't see why this wouldn't do the trick. It'll cost you almost nothing, and you'll get the full value out of a pair of shoes that are already paid for and you already know you like.
I currently wear Cascadias for ultra running and Sierra hiking.they are the most durable running shoes I've tried so far.I've gone thru 5 pairs of 7's and they are great.up to 400 miles they wear fine.I generally push them to about 550 miles then toss them.The Cascadia line has been around a long time.they make small but significant changes each year.the 7's have been my favorite so far.I feel the 7's are better than the 8's.I just bought a pair of 9's after trying them out in the store 3 different times.the 9's seem to roll better onto the toe as you run.as a running shoe the 9's could end up being better than the 7's, I'll see.If you want to stay with Cascadias I would recommend the 9's or trying to find a 7 on clearance, rather than the 8's.p.s.regarding your wear hole on side of shoe, this sounds like an issue particular to you, never had this problem thru 5 pairs.
I have thought about repair but the cloth mesh seems fairly thin in that area and I am not sure that any repair would stay. I have about 170 miles left on them as that is how long my next hike is. Art thanks for the info on the 9s. I plan on hitting REI later today hopefully so i will check them out if they have them in stock. seems an odd that both are starting to wear in the same spot. Was not sure if it was common for the shoe.
I think the 9's have a 2 mm higher drop than the 7's,in case this is an issue for you.
I had assumed they would be the same. Not sure if that would matter or not. Guess it depends on the feel and how they fit.
With some gorilla tape and seam grip you can get another couple hundred miles out of those easy.
I may try that David to get a few more miles out of them. I am hitting the River to River trail on Friday for 170 miles. Shoes should hold up fine, although the hole may get a bit bigger. Will try the repair before I head out.
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The Holy Bible - The Second Book of the Chronicles, Chapter 5 (Latin)
1Thus all the work that Solomon made for the house of the LORD was finished: and Solomon brought in all the things that David his father had dedicated; and the silver, and the gold, and all the instruments, put he among the treasures of the house of God.
2Then Solomon assembled the elders of Israel, and all the heads of the tribes, the chief of the fathers of the children of Israel, unto Jerusalem, to bring up the ark of the covenant of the LORD out of the city of David, which is Zion.
3Wherefore all the men of Israel assembled themselves unto the king in the feast which was in the seventh month.
4And all the elders of Israel came; and the Levites took up the ark.
5And they brought up the ark, and the tabernacle of the congregation, and all the holy vessels that were in the tabernacle, these did the priests and the Levites bring up.
6Also king Solomon, and all the congregation of Israel that were assembled unto him before the ark, sacrificed sheep and oxen, which could not be told nor numbered for multitude.
7And the priests brought in the ark of the covenant of the LORD unto his place, to the oracle of the house, into the most holy place, even under the wings of the cherubims:
8For the cherubims spread forth their wings over the place of the ark, and the cherubims covered the ark and the staves thereof above.
9And they drew out the staves of the ark, that the ends of the staves were seen from the ark before the oracle; but they were not seen without. And there it is unto this day.
10There was nothing in the ark save the two tables which Moses put therein at Horeb, when the LORD made a covenant with the children of Israel, when they came out of Egypt.
11And it came to pass, when the priests were come out of the holy place: (for all the priests that were present were sanctified, and did not then wait by course:
12Also the Levites which were the singers, all of them of Asaph, of Heman, of Jeduthun, with their sons and their brethren, being arrayed in white linen, having cymbals and psalteries and harps, stood at the east end of the altar, and with them an hundred and twenty priests sounding with trumpets:)
13It came even to pass, as the trumpeters and singers were as one, to make one sound to be heard in praising and thanking the LORD; and when they lifted up their voice with the trumpets and cymbals and instruments of musick, and praised the LORD, saying, For he is good; for his mercy endureth for ever: that then the house was filled with a cloud, even the house of the LORD;
14So that the priests could not stand to minister by reason of the cloud: for the glory of the LORD had filled the house of God.
1intulit igitur Salomon omnia quae voverat David pater suus argentum et aurum et universa vasa posuit in thesauris domus Dei
2post quae congregavit maiores natu Israhel et cunctos principes tribuum et capita familiarum de filiis Israhel in Hierusalem ut adducerent arcam foederis Domini de civitate David quae est Sion
3venerunt igitur ad regem omnes viri Israhel in die sollemni mensis septimi
4cumque venissent cuncti seniorum Israhel portaverunt Levitae arcam
5et intulerunt eam et omnem paraturam tabernaculi porro vasa sanctuarii quae erant in tabernaculo portaverunt sacerdotes cum Levitis
6rex autem Salomon et universus coetus Israhel et omnes qui fuerant congregati ante arcam immolabant arietes et boves absque ullo numero tanta enim erat multitudo victimarum
7et intulerunt sacerdotes arcam foederis Domini in locum suum id est ad oraculum templi in sancta sanctorum subter alas cherubin
8ita ut cherubin expanderent alas suas super locum in quo posita erat arca et ipsam arcam tegerent cum vectibus eius
9vectium autem quibus portabatur arca quia paululum longiores erant capita parebant ante oraculum si vero quis paululum fuisset extrinsecus eos videre non poterat fuit itaque arca ibi usque in praesentem diem
10nihilque erat aliud in arca nisi duae tabulae quas posuerat Moses in Horeb quando legem dedit Dominus filiis Israhel egredientibus ex Aegypto
11egressis autem sacerdotibus de sanctuario omnes enim sacerdotes qui ibi potuerant inveniri sanctificati sunt nec adhuc illo tempore vices et ministeriorum ordo inter eos divisus erat
12tam Levitae quam cantores id est et qui sub Asaph erant et qui sub Heman et qui sub Idithun filii et fratres eorum vestiti byssinis cymbalis et psalteriis et citharis concrepabant stantes ad orientalem plagam altaris cumque eis sacerdotes centum viginti canentes tubis
13igitur cunctis pariter et tubis et voce et cymbalis et organis et diversi generis musicorum concinentibus et vocem in sublime tollentibus longe sonitus audiebatur ita ut cum Dominum laudare coepissent et dicere confitemini Domino quoniam bonus quoniam in aeternum misericordia eius impleretur domus Domini nube
14nec possent sacerdotes stare et ministrare propter caliginem conpleverat enim gloria Domini domum Dei
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Since making its debut back in 2002, the RIU Explorers Conference has grown from strength to strength to become one of Australia's most popular investment forums. The conference has earned a reputation as the major Australian forum for the junior resources sector, with mineral exploration companies and emerging new miners attracting an ever-growing group of brokers, fund managers and investors to hear their presentations.
The 2013 conference starts off the Australia Resources Conference year with renewed hope and confidence after the share market success of Sirius Resources.In 2012 Sirius Resources' share price soared 679 per cent when it intercepted nickel and copper in Western Australia's Fraser Range. The discovery, known as Nova, sparked plenty of interest, despite the lagging nickel market.
Vertical Events is expecting up to 850 delegates this year with all 50 exhibition booths sold out.
Key presenters at this year's conference include:
• Hon. Norman Moore MLC - Minister for Mines and Petroleum, Government of Western Australia
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• Nathan McMahon – Managing Director, Cazaly Resources
• Les Davis – Managing Director, Silverlake Resources
• Alistair Cowden – Managing Director, Altona Mining
• Neil Marston – Managing Director, Horseshoe Metals
• Dr Mark Bennett – Managing Director, Sirius Resources
• Rob Tyson – Managing Director – Peel Resources
In addition to the presenting auditorium and exhibition area, the conference will host a second technical auditorium. Sponsored by rOREdata, the technical auditorium will cover new technologies within the Exploration and Mining industries, and will also look at issues affecting Explorers and Miners within Australia and in dealing with overseas destinations.
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"A book's cover is absolutely the single most important thing about the
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The cover of your book is the single most important promotional element. – Dick Claassen, Editor Awe-struck books.
I bought Dark Lover because of the cover, the title, and the series name – the Black Dagger Brotherhood. I bought Poison Study because of the cover, the title, and the blurb. I buy books based on their cover. I used to not buy books based on the man titty, romancelandia's term for the cover featuring the male chest, oftentimes the headless male chest.
It's irrefutable that the naked male chest cover sells books. It sells more copies than books with houses, flower gardens and lovely ladies. According to Sue Grimshaw, Buyer for Borders Group Inc., "the sexier the cover the more interest we see from our customers, especially in the paranormal and historical sub-genres. Male torsos continue to be best sellers and a good stepback never hurts. "
The clinch cover emerged in the 80s to create a genre look for romance so that the men who were stocking these books woud buy them and shelve them. Over time, the clinch has given way to the naked man chest cover. The reason for this is best described by Denise Little in an awesome piece written by Laura Resnick.
The clinch gave the genre a uniform, identifiable look which helped it emerge as a force in the late '70s and the '80s. – Denise Litte.
Genre identification is just a different way of saying branding. We associate certain things with visual clues. Coke, Pepsi, cars all use some type of branding to make consumers immediately identify the product with the manfacturer. Genre identification goes beyond the individual publisher to embrace the entire romance industry. The problem is that when one book is successful, publishers copy that packaging as closely as possible until the exteriors are as homogenized as the interiors.
I just came from Barnes and Noble and there were tables after tables of books layed out so that I could not distinguish one cover from the other. It was just all a conglomeration of colors running together. Maybe if I had stared at it long enough, it would become one of those optical illusions and one book would jump out at me, but the longer that I stared at the tables, the more the covers became one giant impressionist painting.
I am beginning to think that I can't trust covers these days because comic covers doesn't necessarily mean a comic book. (Tall, Dark & Dead by Tate Hallaway). A woman's modern day slip doesn't mean contemporary. (Undressed by Kristina Cook). In this day of greater hybridization, I can barely tell what the difference is between a chic lit a romance, a paranormal, a funny paranormal. I don't know what to buy anymore and I don't have time to read a thousand reviews, the back blurbs or the first chapter for every book that catches my eye. This is true for buyers as well as readers.
In the same Resnick article, she relates the following:
A publisher's sales representatives go to the buyers with their publisher's current list several times a year. The "buyers" are the people who represent the major chains, the superstores, and the various distributors; they are the people who decide whether or not your book will get into bookstores, supermarkets, bus stops, airports, department stores, and other outlets, locally as well as nationally. "The buyers," says Mydlowski, "say to the publisher's representative, 'We can take twenty-two mystery titles this month. So we'll take Paretsky and Peters and twenty others.' The salesman lays out all the mystery covers on a table, and the buyers choose their remaining twenty titles from the covers they like best."
For over two decades, the male chest has adorned our covers. We associate romance with naked male chests. In this day of greater hybridization, I have yet to read a book with a naked male chest that is not strictly a romance. It's not that I want to see the romance industry go back to the days of the man titty, but at least with the man titty, I know it is a romance.
Sandra Hill is one author I recalled whose book had two different covers. The Very Virile Viking featured both a "hunk" and a "cartoon" cover. (The VVV received a starred review from PW). I asked her whether she felt comfortable sharing whether there was a difference in sales for the different covers.
The sales for both editions are roughly equal, but there were almost no stores where both copies were available. IOW, the reader did not have a choice. I write romantic humor, no matter if it is historical, contemporary or time-travel; The Very Virile Viking is a tongue-in-cheek title for a contemporary time-travel. When the first cover was shown to me, the cover was a cartoon…so awful one reader referred to it as Peter Pan on Crack, but the thing that prompted Dorchester to go for a second cover was that the Viking's shadow looked like a devil, which many, many romance readers would object to. Stefan was the model for the second cover, which was a very nice hunk cover. It was not a good experiment, readers who love hunk covers were outraged to only find the cartoon cover in their area and vice-versa.
I will say this about hunk covers, they probably established me in the early years, especially since so many of them featured John D'Salvo.
Hill goes on to share a couple of funny stories about her covers which I felt should be shared with blogland:
Funny story. I called the cover of Sweeter Savage Love, an historical time-travel, featuring John D'Salvo lying on a bed, just barely covered by a sheet, my "bag over the head" cover, meaning I wouldn't do a book signing in a mall for that book unless I had a bag over my head. And, btw, readers like to point out to me that it sure
looks like something suspicious peeking out of that sheet. This book sold very well, and at least some of it is due to that blasted cover.Writers love to hate sexy hunk covers, but ironically, when I have done book signings at author-heavy conferences, guess which book always sells out first. Yep, JohnD in the buff.
>Another funny story. When I first saw the cover art for my second novel, The Outlaw Viking, I almost had a heart attack. There was JohnD in a blond wig wearing a fur thingee, which of course my hero never wore. I swear there is a closet in cover artists' studios where clueless artists go when they need props. In my case, it's, "Oh, this is a Viking book; let's go pull out the fur thingee." As to the humor here. When I showed that cover to my hair sytlist, I expected her to remark about how silly that fur thingee was, but instead she said, "Whoo-boy! I guess that fur thingee slipped a bit." I said, "Huh?" I didn't see anything. But you know, it was kind of like those Waldo books where you look and look for the hidden object and when you finally find it she can't believe you didn't see it in the first place because it is so glaring. Well, that's how I feel about The Outlaw Viking. Everytime I look at it now, all I see is the "Waldo."
I guess I'll take a John D'Salvo or Nathan Kemp cover any day of the week when it promises me romance with a capital R instead of a the following Kensington cover discovered by The Good, The Bad, and the Unread. All this thought about covers led me to contact a few cover artists about their contribution in the romance industry. In June, we'll run a short "interview with a cover artist series."
What questions do you have about covers and cover artists? (ie. what do you want to see answered in the interview). What is the best or worst cover you've seen? Have you voted in the "cover contest" over at the Cover Cafe? If you are an author, what is your best or worst cover story? Do you have good or bad cover karma as Denise Little suggests in the Resnick article?


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The NT describes the prophetic aspect of the ministry of Jesus Christ, and also recognises that prophetic gifts are given to believers through the Holy Spirit. It provides guidance on how such prophetic gifts are to be used.
Mt 21:11; Mk 6:4; Mk 8:27-28; Lk 7:16; Lk 24:17-19; Jn 4:19
Prophecy is one among many spiritual gifts 1Co 12:28-29 See also Ro 12:6; 1Co 12:10; Eph 4:11
Not all are called to be prophets 1Co 12:29; Eph 4:11
Prophecy is valueless without love 1Co 13:1-2
Prophecy is for the building up of the church 1Co 14:26 See also Ro 12:3-6; 1Co 14:3-5; 1Pe 4:10
Prophecy superior to speaking in tongues 1Co 14:5


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The one where he shows he turns on Ajay: Ram Gopal Varma, Ajay Devgan and Vivek Oberoi in a dark film about the Mumbai underworld. Need we say more? But the scene where Vivek turns on Ajay gives us a shiver up our spine and showed off the newcomer's talent leading to his winning the praise of critics and numerous awards!


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Following the results of 2012 the scope of fuel supply of Aerofuels was 700 thousand tons (+12%), the company's press-service reports.
"The increase of the scope of fuel supply is caused by a number of factors, for example, increase of passenger traffic, entry into new prospective markets and acquisition of new customers. Many Russian airlines, the key customers of Aerofuels, have increased their passenger traffic on domestic airlines and expanded their presence at the global market", - the press-service noted.
11 out of 18 refueling enterprises of Aerofuels Group are newly established ones. These are alternative refueling enterprises offering the best value for money to the carriers. Shell&Aerofuels received the conformity certificate in late December 2012, which allows carrying out refueling in Pulkovo airport, the Russia's third largest one.
Aerofuels Group expanded its cooperation with Lufthansa, BritishAirways, AirFrance in 2012. Foreign representatives of business aviation have made use of the company's services in many countries of the world (for example, in Seychelles, Chile, Brazil, etc.). Aerofuels has also expanded its business at the airports of Ukraine, India and China, the company noted.
«One of the facts that we are really proud of is our company's entry into foreign markets in order to refuel foreign carriers. We have managed to attract a number of European and Asian airlines in 2012 by means of offering them favorable terms in the area of fuel supply at the airports of Europe, Asia and South America. We view this fact as the evidence of great confidence in Russian companies», - Vladimir Spiridonov, CEO of Aerofuels Group, commented.
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I Never Gave a Damn About the Weather.
~Title by Lucas . Story by Matty ~
"Grandpa John, you said you were once a soldier, what kind of soldier?" Julie smiled and climbed onto my lap. Julies smiled up at me with eyes of wonder, Ipatted her head and smiled, putting my arm around her small waist.
Well Julie, I was a Hitler Youth, did you learn what that is in history class? Julie shook her head, I will tell you my story, on how I became one, and how I found my first love, and how I lost her… all too soon.
Young eight year old Julie smiled and held her teddy bear close to her, "I'm ready for a story Grandpa John!"
I once new a girl, a woman she was; my friend, my lover, my only friend that I trusted while I was there. "You cry, you die…" not a risk anyone was willing to take. We were in this camp for six years since the age of fourteen… Every day, tormented, told what was right from wrong… I never knew the way of life…
Anna was my life. Every day in the camp, she and I would always try and escape from everyone else, we would try to listen to our generals-we spoke the same language, German; we were terrified of what would happen if we didn't listen, horrified of what would happen if we disobeyed their orders. Out of everything that happened there, I will never forget the day… Anna slipped away from me.
My Father brought me to this camp February 14, 1935. I remember him standing beside me, his left hand on my right shoulder-a stern look upon his face he told the man at the desk my name. My Mother and younger sister, Madeline, were in the vehicle; my Mother and sister were crying, my Mother was sobbing the loudest. I was told before I left, that if I come here, I may not make it back; I suppose that was why my Mother was crying. I was handed two sets of uniforms, two pairs of socks, one pair of black shoes, and two patches by the man; I shook his hand, and my Father turned me to him. My Father handed me a knife, and whispered in my ear,
"Never forget, no matter what, if you find the one you love, that is all that matters, defend them with your life." I looked down at the knife, my name Leonardo A. Matthews was written on the side of the blade; I looked up at my Father who gave me a sort of half smile, turned, and walked back to the vehicle.
"But Grandpa John, I thought your name was John A. Wolf not Leonardo A. Matthews?"
Do you want me to finish the story or not young one? I will answer all your questions at the end, now please silence.
My Father started the engine and my Mother yelled back at me as they started to pull away, motherly things such as, "Goodbye!" and "Be Safe!" Yes, those sorts of things. Before I knew it, I was there, knife in one hand, name ID in the other, bags next to me on the dirt road, dark brown hair tucked away under my Grandfathers hat, and uniform tucked under my arm….I was alone standing at the gates of what appeared to me; like Hell.
~Moments Later~
The guards let me in the gates, I turned and looked back at the gates that had just closed behind me-I knew I was not leaving for quite some time. I put my knife into my pocket, picked up my bags, and slowly walked deeper and deeper down a dark, wide, cobblestone path; looking and watching wearily in case someone wanted to ask me something. I guess the first days of camp weren't that bad, mostly because people were still getting settled in our cabins and such. I noticed that the guards were deployed so that the children could not escape this camp. As I was walking, still dragging my bags on the path behind me, I noticed the guards never smiled, or moved. They stood at every inch of the camp, making sure that anyone who left would be destroyed. I saw this symbol, it was placed all over the camp; I saw it on TV once. It was the symbol of some man, Hitler; yes, Adolf Hitler, it was his symbol.
At last, I reached my destination, the guard opened the door and helped me with my things inside, he saw the patch with my clothes and said, "Now see here boy, that swastika is meant to be warn at all times when you have the uniform on, understand?" I nodded, he took my bags from me and placed them inside the closet of my cabin, then he smiled, turned, and walked out of my cabin.
Once I had placed my things down, and dressed myself in the uniform (including the patch), I decided to wonder around a bit. As I was wondering, I found one thing in common with all the children at this time. The other children were stand 5x6 children, and had their right arms raised and were saying a chant, facing a picture of Adolf Hitler himself. They kept saying "Hail Hitler" I walked past the boys and girls, a young girl left her group and walked up to me curiously,
"Why aren't you praising Mister Hitler?" she asked, her sweet blue eyes looked up into my deep brown eyes, "Wow no answer huh? Come on then!" she took my hand and pulled me over to her group. I lifted my arm, and pretended like I was part of the group. The girl leaned into me and whispered,
"My name is Anna, it's nice to meet you. "She starred up at the picture of Hitler repeating the chant I leaned in and told her my name was Leonardo-I watched as a small but subtle smile crawled onto her face. Within I say, a good, fifteen minutes, I knew the chant; I didn't care what it was about, but I knew well… it made sense. The guards released us children to have the rest of the day to our selves.
"This is a Hitler Youth camp," Anna smiled, "The boys here are trained how to be soldiers for the armor to defend Germany. In a month you will have your first target practice, in about six weeks you will have your first shooting game. I have watched the older boys and girls do theirs, they look very… scary…" Her voice became course. The next part of our conversation I can't forget; I asked her who or what we use as targets during target practice, she pointed off in the distance to the black smoke rising from behind the trees, "My Pa runs this camp…. He said the targets are Jews… from the work camp. The Jews are evil, they are the reason we lost the Great War, they are the reason we failed." She stared out the window, her eyes filled with hatred as if she was staring at a Jew this moment. "Jews are the enemy, kill the enemy." I wanted to hit her and run, she was terrifying me; more than any one girl had terrified a boy. Anna smiled and looked at my ID poking out of my pocket, "Well, it appears we are in the same bracket, I will see you soon then Leonardo," Anna smiles and walked out and skipped towards the girls cabins. I had a deep feeling in my gut, that this place, was going to be Hell.
~Two Weeks Later~
The date was February 28, 1935, I remember waking up one morning to find Annas' cute blonde haired, blue eyed face right up against mine, "Rise and Shine!" she said, "Time to get dressed for class." Anna seemed excited, I was a bit frightened. I lazily sat up, and wiped the sleep from my eyes. I got off my bed and dragged my feet over to my closet; I turned my back to Anna and took off my shirt. I turned back to her, and looked at her, while I stood before her shirtless. I watched Annas' face go from adorably pale, to bright fuchsia. She hopped off my bed and left my cabin. I continued to change I caught her eyes looking through my window; I didn't mind. I changed my pants, tied my shoes, then added the patch to my arm; I walked out to find Anna sitting on the step of my Cabin waiting for me.
Anna and I walked to our class, shoulder by shoulder, nodding politely to every guard and general we passed on the way. After walking, what felt like miles and miles of cobblestone path, we arrived at our class. Lifted our arm and said "Hail Hitler" the teacher returned the notion and told us to take our seats. The teacher, Mister Smith, told us that this is what is really going on in the camps, and this is what is right, he turned off the lights and turned on the projector; an image appeared on the screen of a building with train tracks coming out of it, below was the title that said, "Jewish Camp, Auschwitz 1." We watched as a boy and his father appeared on the screen, we watched as the boy and the father had all their items taken from them. The boy was taken alone to this group of boys, the father stood in a line with the other men. The soldier walked behind the men, and at random shot one by one in the back of the head-the men would fall to the ground bleeding to death, and shortly dead. The boy was taken to a room where all the boys were given these pajamas and then told to work. The boys worked and worked until they all died. Mister Smith turned off the projector and turned on the lights.
"This is what Hitler has done, he wishes to rid the entire world of this horrid vermin once and for all. Repeat after me, Jews are the enemy, we must kill the enemy. And praise our great furer!" We repeated this for ten minutes; before I knew it, I believed what I said. I had become a monster; a Jew killing monster. Another saying we learned to memorize was, 'Wir loben Hitler, er ist unser Herrscher ist er erstaunlich ist. Wir lieben Hitler. Er wird unser Land zu Größe führen. Für immer wird Deutschland live! Heil Hitler!' Which translated too, 'We praise Hitler, he is our ruler he is amazing. We love Hitler. He will lead our country to greatness. For ever shall Germany live! Hail Hitler!', yes it was German. A Soldier walked in and did the usual "Hail Hitler," then looked at the class. "Boys this soldier is here to speak to you." Mister Smith stepped to the side, and the soldier started to speak.
"Boys, in two weeks time, you will be having target practice. Be ready, the targets will arrive and have been told to be ready for target practice. That is all," The man nodded politely and walked out of the room; the bell rang, I grabbed my books and ran out of the class room, Anna ran up behind me.
We walked almost half way to our cabin when we saw a fight break out, I gave Anna my books and ran straight into the fight. Before I knew it I was pinned down on the ground by a boy; people were chanting, "Tom, Tom, Tom!" Tom pulled out a knife and cut my arm deeply, luckily I was able to kick him off, by the time a guard came to break up the fight. Once the guard had left, Anna ran to me and helped me up, and walked with me back to my room. She closed the door behind us, and took off my shirt; her eyes widened looking at the cut.
"Oh my God!" Anna quickly tore a strip of my sheet, poured some of my water over the wound to clean it a bit and pressed a piece of the sheet to it, I flinched in pain, "Shh…Shh… It will be okay…" she would say every I flinched. I watched her wrap the wound in the sheet. "There," she smiled, "That should hold you for now." She smiled and handed me the new uniform. "It's late, but I can't leave, " she peered out my windows, "There are guards everywhere." Anna sighed and I gently took her hand in mine. She turned her blue eyes to me and in a soft whisper I told her that she could sleep here with me and that my cabin mate, John was already asleep-which he was, John could sleep through anything. I sat up and pulled open the covers for her. Anna took off her cute, black shoes, and climbed into bed next to me; I wrapped my arms around her, and folded the covers over us. "Thank you," Anna whispered as she fell asleep. I whispered, "You're welcome, "and fell asleep.
Julie , my darling, I would never tell Anna that I liked her, maybe even loved her! I would never tell her that she set my heart a blaze, and that she was the only reason I got up in the morning.
"Oh Grandpa I bet she loved you a ton! She wouldn't have agreed to stay in your cabin with you if she didn't love you right!?"
Well, yes Julie but-
"So did you tell her Grandpa!? Did you tell her how you felt!?" Julie looked up at me bright hazel eyes,
You know the saying, "If you don't tell them, you could lose them?" I told her how I felt, Julie… but I didn't know, that I would never get the chance to show her... Now on with my story.
~One Week Later~
The date was March 6, 1935. I had woken up to find Anna still asleep in my arms, I gently slipped out from under, and by accident I fell onto the floor. I looked up at my window and saw the final snow of the winter on the ground. I got dressed then nudged Annas' shoulder-she awoke quickly. Anna sat up and tied her shoes, and blushed realizing that she had slept in my cabin; she tied her hair up in a pony tail and we scurried off to our class. There was a line of boys, which I joined, and Anna ran to sit on the bench with the girls. The guard walked down the line, handing each of us a rifle.
A whistle blew, and we watched as about fifty men and or boys where grey and white stripped pajamas, walked out in front of us. They looked dirty, dourer, tentative, and scared. Each one of them stood about ten yards in front of us, we held up our rifles so that we could see them through the eye glass-the pop gun went off and it became a massacre. People were running, and guns were going off, blood was falling onto the fresh March snow. In less than fifteen minutes, half of the bodies were bloody, lifeless, and gone. I glanced over at Anna, to see her face pale, hiding her face behind her hands, avoiding looking at the blood at all costs-I couldn't blame her. I looked through my eye glass, to see a boy, my rifle targeted right at him, I pulled the trigger, and watched his eyes go from normal and brown, to wide open as the bullet pierced his throat; he dropped to the ground. We all breathed deeply after we all shot the remainder of the, "Targets," the general smiled and spoke handsomely,
"You boys did well, those Jews needed that." I looked at all the lifeless carcasses and sighed, one girl had begun to cry. The soldiers quickly grabbed her and dragged her away behind a building, the girl kicking and screaming. We heard three gun shots, and the crying stopped. We sat silent; Anna sat quietly struggling not to cry. The guards dismissed us to go back to our cabins for the day. Anna and I sprinted back to my cabin, once inside, Anna buried her pale face into my chest, wrapped her arms around my waist, and cried, Iquickly closed the door behind us and locked it.
"She was my best friend," she wept, I closed my eyes and allowed her tears to seep through my shirt, I wrapped my arms around her, one hand behind her head, and let her cry. I held her close, and listened to her cry, I felt miserable for having her lose her friend like that-I couldn't dare imagine it. After a few moments her crying stopped; now it was just a few sniffles here and there. I wiped her tears, and she looked up at me, a small gentle smile on her face, she whispered, "I love you…" I brushed her long, blonde hair out from her face and smiled looking into her eyes, "I love you too…" she looked up at me and sighed, I knew she had to go, she pressed her lips to my cheek, grabbed her book bag, and quickly ran off to her cabin. I took off my shirt, and my pants, so that all that remained were my under garments, and I fell back onto my bed.
That was the first time I truly felt love, Julie that was the first time I knew who I wanted to spend the rest of my life with.
"Wow Grandpa, that must have been amazing, to feel love! I wish the boy I love could know how I am feeling." Julie smiled,
Well Julie, maybe one day, he will. You just have to show him, by little things, like flowers or a simple smile.
"Grandpa! Don't be silly, Johnny will never find out, because my friends say he likes me! So, I'm just waiting for him to tell me!" Julie giggled and her face blushed, she looked just like Anna when she would blush.
Well Anna, I mean Julie… just wait for the right moment.
~Six Years Later~
The year was 1941, it was about May, Iam now twenty years old, Anna is seventeen, Iwas now six foot two, strong, muscular, Anna was five foot six, and the most beautiful woman Ihave ever seen. I arose to the sound of gun shots and screaming girls. I got dressed as soon as I could and ran outside to find two boys dead-shot to death, their blood staining the gravel. I noticed the other boys were standing in Attention, I quickly joined them. My friend and cabin mate, John, leaned over and whispered softly,
"Those boys were Jews, accordin' to the cap'in they snuck in." I just stood there silently looking down at the boys, they uniforms stained with blood. I couldn't understand how they had snuck in-I know their families will not be alive much long. The longer I stared at the boys bodies, I couldn't help to feel hatred-but this hatred slowly grew. The guards dug a hole, about twenty yards from my cabin. They threw the two dead boys into the hole, spit on it once or twice, and then filled it with dirt.
Anna ran and jumped up behind me, to be honest it gave me quite the scare. When she saw my face she was shocked, "I..I'm sorry I didn't mean to scare you! But I was trying to cheer you up, because you looked so sad, after seeing the boys-so I thought I would cheer you up." I looked down into her eyes, and smiled, she was forgiven.
I had already been at this camp for a good six years-and I was still home sick. I missed my warm bed, fresh clothes every day, my Mother's fresh, hot breakfast, my sister breaking my toys; I missed it all. I would lie on my bed for hours reminiscing the old memories of home, I'm not the only one; John would do the same.
"Do you reccon' we will be having letters from home anytime soon?" John would ask, every time we thought of home. My answer was always, no. John was a boy, who came from Southern Germany, from the farms. He was blonde, and freckled.
"Grandpa he sounds like my John! 'Cept, my John has brown hair, and grey eyes, and no freckles and-"
You can't continue to interrupt my stories. You won't ever get to the fun part.
"I know Grandpa but you never finished telling me what John looked like, and you certainly never told me what Anna looked like; I wanna know!" she smiled brightly. Ismiled and continued speaking.
John was a boy, about twenty, we had the same birthday, but he was taller than me, and a lot more quieter than me. Anna, was a small little thing, well she was my chest level, as mentioned before, and had long, wonderful blonde hair, the eyes that sparkled like stars, and were the color of the day time sky-she was my dream.
To make my home sickness much worse, I had forgotten that I would have to fight that boy, Smith, in a month or so. He was a giant kid, both wide, and tall, he scared me. Each time I thought of this boy, I would go pale. Anna would tease me, and say I looked like a little ghost; she adored teasing me, and I adored getting her back, it was our past time.
In the next month to follow, pain and blood was all this place was. In this time, thirteen boys died-either by refusing orders, or by crying, only seven girls died mainly by crying. Now they made it, so we would have to kill them, the people who cried or refused orders. I shot John, and Markus, to boys I was friends with from my class-John was my cabin mate. Anna had too shoot a girl from her class, not her cabin mate, that was Sarah, the girl who died by crying a year back.
Classes got worse, every day I sat taking notes, pledging my loyalty, learning who the enemy was, learning to fight, learning right from wrong. I would day dream about me and Anna escaping from this horrid place, and leaving to go start a family or a life of our own. I thought it was a great idea-I decided I would tell her, after the one-on-one fights. That would be in about two months; but I swear I will tell her.
Anna I got some alone time, and I told her how I felt; my feelings towards her. Now every time I smile at her, look at her, walk with her, she would turn the cutest pink color. It was like an adorable blush that I longed for every day. I wrapped my arms around her later today, and I asked her to be mine, and she said yes-bringing joy to my heart. I pray these memories with her will last forever.
~Two Months Later~
The date is July 9, 1941. Today had finally come, the day I would fight that gargantuan boy, Smith, in the one-on-one fights. Anna grabbed my hand, and pulled me to the "Arena," thought I was shocked, the "Arena," was nothing more, then a wide field, with electric fences around it, and one set of benches so that we could watch each match. We were split into boys, and girls. Anna ran to join the girls and was given a rifle, I was as well, but I joined the boys. We all knew who our opponents were, whoever didn't have a rifle, got a knife; the logic of this, I never understood. They called pairs up one at a time, and no matter what weapon you had, someone died. Some people were shot to death, others stabbed in the neck or heart. It was one bloody thing to watch; to make matters worse, they left the dead ones in there, so it was full of bloody, dead people.
I looked over at Anna, who was shaking, holding her rifle tightly. I felt bad for her, because she looked scared; and second, the girls had to fight in their skirts, and their knee socks, which I bet made fighting difficult. This one pair, got really bloody, this boy shot his opponent to death, then took his knife and stabbed the boy over, and over, and over again. Then carved his name into the boys forehead, they shot him in the chest over and over; then just to prove his point, he took the knife and put it in both of the boys eyes, and twisted it until boy eye sockets were just empty wholes. I bet that boy, was just showing off for his father; who was a guard that watched over us. Just to finish him off, the boy shoved the knife into his opponents nose, and walked off-he was cheered on. I looked at the body and gulped, "My life…is over."
My fight was over, a bit too quickly. We entered the arena and I help my rifle tight, the whistle blew and Smith ran to me, like a giant beast, knife clutched in his hand. I walked to the side to avoid the boy. Then I held my gun aimed at him and pulled the trigger, at least three times. Smith stumbled and fell to the ground; I was surprised that I hadn't been hurt, so this fight was easier for me then I thought. I looked at the boy petrified and shot him once more to make sure he was dead. His body quickly leaked blood and stained the gravel. I looked at Anna, it was her turn next. I walked out of the arena and went to sit among the boys. I was congratulated, but Anna was hiding her face, trying not to look at the bloody scene.
It was Annas' turn now, I looked at her and sighed, she was walking into the arena shaking, holding her gun tightly. Once the whistle blew, the other girl, Katharine had tackled Anna and stabbed the knife deeply into her leg; Anna was screaming in pain, and grabbed her rifle and shot Katharine in the arm to get her away, she jerked the knife from her leg and let out a scream-trying to shoot Katharine again. One boy leaned over and looked at me,
"Hey that girl, Anna, she is your girl right?" I nodded, "Boy, that would be a shame if she died. Katharine was John's girl, maybe she is trying to avenge him by killing your girl as pay back." I watched the fight nervously, watching both girls wrestle and fight; Katharine stabbed her knife deeply into Anna and smiled, luckily Anna was able to shoot Katherine a few times and kill her. Anna was crowned winner, she struggled to move. She weakly limped over to the set of chairs. I ran over to her to help her, the guards said we could take her to the nurse. So I picked her up and took her to the nurses quarry. The nurse undressed her, and cleaned her wounds; I knelt beside Anna and held her hand in mine gently, to keep her company. Here and there, Anna moaned from the pain when the nurse began to stitch her up.
"I take it she a good friend of yours?" I nodded and looked at her, as the nurse pulled the covers over Anna, "Just let her rest, she should be fine in the morning. If I'm correct, her father owns this place? She is a strong girl then." The nurse smiled and walked away. I kissed Annas' forehead, and walked to my cabin and fell asleep, I failed to sleep, hoping that she would be okay.
"Wow Grandpa, that was so intense! Did she live?" I smiled and nodded.
Yes Julie, she did live, now let me finish, we are almost done.
"Okay Grandpa!" she smiled.
~Two Weeks Later~
The date was July 23 1941. After class today, me and Anna walked back to my cabin, and I helped her lay down on my bed-her wounds have still not fully healed yet from that fight.
"M…my father was proud of me for winning that fight," she smiled, "I have never been able to make him happy, so I was thrilled that I did." I smiled and looked at her; and took her hand in mine. I told her that we could escape, and we could start a family, and live in a house, with a pet, and maybe have children. Annas' face went from blushing, to a subtle smile, "Leonardo, I can't leave. My father is head of this camp; he found out we left, he would hunt you and I down, and kill us." I held her hand tighter, and sat by her feet on my bed. Anna tried to sit up, but her attempts were shot down by pain, and moans; I put my hand gently on her shoulder and helped her lay down, I brushed her blonde hair from your eyes and smiled, then kissed her forehead. She mouthed the words, "Thank you." and relaxed.
We both knew
this escape would be hard, but we would have too, especially if
we wanted to live free, and happily. I looked through the book of
camp rules, that we had received when we got to the camp. The
rule was, if you tried to escape, you were punished by death ; I
told Anna this, and she began to cry. If we both knew it was
punished by death, we probably wouldn't had even thought of
it-but it's what we need to do. I smiled at her, and leaned into
her close, her face filled with pink, I closed my eyes and kissed
her, on the lips.
"Woah woah!
Grandpa you kissed her! John won't even let me hug
A kiss his how you show someone you love them Julie, you should try it. Anna ws the first, and last girl I ever kissed, ever since her I swore to never kiss a girl or a woman again.
"But why Grandpa? I don't understand...."
ssssshhh... Let me tell the story.
When our lips parted, she was as red s a cherry; she was a cute cherry, but a cherry nonetheless. Anna closed her eyes and relaxed, "I can't wait until we can leave this wretched place." I couldn't wait either, she was the love of my life, I wouldn't have it any other way to be with her forever. I closed the curtain and laid down beside Anna on my bed, and closed my eyes.
This escape would change our lives. We would need to change our names, move far away; If our parents knew about this, none of us would have a great time. I didn't care about possibly losing my life, if it meant being with her forever, then I would do anything. I had longingly wished my life and Annas had not been corrupted by Hitlers reign. I just wanted my life to be happy, like back when I was a kid. Care free worlds, where nothing mattered-why can't it be like that now?
"Wow Grandpa, so what happened next?! Did you guys do it!? Did you guys escape?" Julie smiled.
Let me finish the story please, I am so close to answering your questions.
~Three months Later~
Today is October 23 1941, the day we are going to escape. Anna and I packed all of our belongings into one single bag, and I flung it over my shoulder. I took Annas hand in mine, and we walked out of the cabin; we turned and looked back at it for the final time. I thought to myself, "If only one of us dies, let it be me, to protect her." We walked passed Annas fathers' office, and she looked in the window and whispered, "I'm sorry daddy," I looked at her and said we needed to go, I grabbed her, and pulled her close to me; after a few minutes, I let go, and continued holding her hand. We continued to walk over to our secret spot, where we would make our escape. I began to climb the fence, in a short time, guards had surrounded us, and so had Annas father. I climbed down and got in front of Anna.
Anna was sobbing and crying when she saw it was her father. Her father was yelling at her, calling her a disgrace, and saying that he couldn't believe she was his daughter. The guards aimed their guns at us, I told them to stop. I explained to her father that it was my fault and that you should spare her life. I turned back and smiled at Anna who was crying horribly. General Lewis, Annas father, grabbed a rifle from one guard, and aimed it at me, his finger on the trigger. Anna and I stood there, watching General Lewis shaking, trying not to breath. General Lewis pulled the trigger, from then on, it was like it was all a dream; that I wouldn't wake up from. Anna pushed me out of the way, we heard three gun shots, they all went into Anna. One into her chest, one into her arm, and one into her stomach-she fell limp to the ground, her breath unsteady; she fighting to stay alive.
I crawled to her, and held her in my arms, for the final time, her eyes barely open, her cheeks no longer pink; she was almost gone. I tried to shake her, kept asking if she was there, but only last words I could hear from her lips were, "I love you.." then… nothing. It was silent. Her breath ceased, her eyes closed, her body motionless. I laid her down, buried my face into her chest, and cried. I didn't care that blood was getting on my clothes or anything, none of that mattered to me. All that I cared about was that, the one I loved-was gone. I got a flower, and laid it on Annas stomach, and put her hands over it; I looked down at her and cried, then I kissed her soft lips once more, and I got my things and attempted to escape once more. This time, I was successful. I ran, and ran, and ran far away, until I was some place safe. That is how I was able to write this journal entry.
I am grateful that I got out of there, even more grateful that I never have to go back. I lost Anna but I will now live on my dreams that I wish I could have shared with her. A boy, at the age of fourteen, back in 1935, was now twenty years of age, leaving this place. I found my love, and I lost her, far too quickly for my likings. I will write back when I find my new home.
"I can't believe she died! She was the love of your life right!??! So tell me Grandpa what happened next?" I smiled,
That's it Julie. From there, I got a train to France, changed my name to John Annabel Wolf, and from there, rode to Spain, from Spain I got on a boat, and sailed to America, and now this is my home. This is where I live. You don't have a Grandmother. Because after I lost Anna, I vowed to never love another woman. Your Father was adopted, Julie, just to make my life slightly easier.
"Oh daddy never told me that Grandpa!"
But Julie you want to know something? No matter how long I was there, no matter who I was with, no matter who I killed, no matter who suffered, no matter who I loved-I never gave a damn about the weather.
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This excludes construction and demolition waste, chemical waste and other special waste. MSW is disposed of at landfills. Food waste is the major constituent of the municipal solid waste in Hong Kong. It comprises waste produced during food production, processing, wholesale, retail and preparation, as well as after meal leftovers and expired foods. It is highly degradable which can easily cause odour and hygiene problems. Construction waste includes waste arising from such activities as construction, renovation, demolition, land excavation and road works. Ideally, the waste is separated and inert material is used as fill in reclamation sites, when available. However, a significant portion of the waste still goes to landfills. Chemical waste comprises substances specified under the Waste Disposal (Chemical Waste) (General) Regulation as posing a possible risk to health and/or the environment. 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Sunday, March 27, 2011
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Yesterday's Panel Quiz Answer
As he opened a safe in Police Comics #1 (Aug 41), the first words in comics uttered by Eel O'Brien (the soon-to-be Plastic Man) were, "Here's the swag! A hundred grand!"
Whose first words in comics were, ""I can do more than fly, friend."?
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Found 315 Records with the keyword term of "Topography"
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2014 Karst-Related Sinkholes: Dynamic Compaction as an Effective Remediation Option
2013 Deformation Behavior of Topographic Unsymmetrical Loaded Tunnels and Their Pre-Reinforcements after Excavation
2013 Hinged, Pseudo-Grid Triangulation Method for Long, Near-Linear Cliff Analyses
2013 Linear Programming Method Considering Topographical Factors Used for Estimating Missing Precipitation
2013 Modeling Curvature- and Topography-driven Secondary Currents in Sine-generated Meandering Channels
2013 Preliminary Study on the Effects of Surface Microtopography on Tracer Transport in a Coupled Overland and Unsaturated Flow System
2013 Seismic Response of a Real Basin Site Considering Topography Effect and Nonlinear Characteristic of Soil
2012 Bare Earth LiDAR to Gridded Topography for the Pascagoula River, MS: An Accuracy Assessment
2012 Development of Computational Tools for Large Scale Wind Simulations
2012 Effect of Friction on Spurious Oscillations in Open Channel Modeling with Variable Bathymetry or Roughness
2012 Effects of Surface Microtopography on Hydrologic Connectivity
2011 Effects of Lifting Force on Bed Topography and Bed-Surface Sediment Size in Channel Bend
2011 Flow Structure over Bed Irregularities in a Straight Cohesive Open Channel
2011 Rate of Growth and Other Features of the Temporal Development of Pool-Bar Complexes in Meandering Streams
2011 Simulating Hydrologic Effects of Raised Roads within a Low-Relief Watershed
2011 Surface Seiche Formation on a Shallow Reservoir in Complex Terrain
2010 Design Challenges of a NYC Waterfront Development
2010 Flood Simulation Using a Well-Balanced Shallow Flow Model
2010 The Influence of River Bottom Topography on Salt Water Encroachment Along the Lamone River (Ravenna, Italy), and Implications for the Salinization of the Adjacent Coastal Aquifer
2010 Quantitative Evaluation of the Relationship between Grid Spacing of DEMs and Surface Depression Storage
2009 Analysis Method for Topology Vulnerability of Transportation Network
2009 Mathematical Modeling of Bed — Topography Changes at Bridge Abutments
2009 New Method That Solves the Three-Point Resection Problem Using Straight Lines Intersection
2009 On the Quantification of the Bed Development Time of Alluvial Meandering Streams
2009 Use of the Basin Development Factor to Evaluate Urban Watershed Response
2009 Waves Generated by a Pressure Disturbance Moving in a Channel with a Variable Cross-Sectional Topography
2008 ANN-Based Soil Moisture Retrieval over Bare and Vegetated Areas Using ERS-2 SAR Data
2008 A Comparison between BIOCHLOR and the Analytical Contaminant Transport Analysis System (ACTS) for a Case Study in Coastal Georgia
2008 Finite Volume Model for Shallow Water Equations with Improved Treatment of Source Terms
2008 Operational Analysis of Water Applications of a Sprinkler Irrigation System Installed in a Golf Course: Case Study
2008 Parametric Analysis of the Seismic Response of Irregular Topographic Features
2008 PIV Techniques for Velocity Fields of Internal Waves over a Slowly Varying Bottom Topography
2008 Regional Changes of the Northern Gulf of Mexico 2004-2005
2008 Rip Currents with Varying Gap Widths
2008 Seismic Behavior of 2D Topographic Features Subjected to Vertically Propagating Incident SV at High Frequencies
2007 Characterisation and Modeling of Washover Fans
2007 Coupling Bank Stability and Bed Deformation Models to Predict Equilibrium Bed Topography in River Bends
2007 Geomorphic Features Shaped by Crossing Waves
2007 Importance of the Swash Longshore Sediment Transport in Morphodynamic Models
2007 Modeling the Effect of Topography on Wind Flow Using a Combined Numerical — Neural Network Approach
2007 Modified Topographic Amplification Factors for a Single-Faced Slope due to Kinematic Soil-Structure Interaction
2007 Projection of Topographic Change of an Estuary Terrace by Horizontal 2-D Simulation Model, Considering Grain Size
2007 Seismic Spatial Coherency at a Site with Irregular Subsurface Topography
2007 A Study of Intertidal Bar Dynamics Using the Argus Video System
2007 The Use of Historic Topography for the Characterization of Time-Dependent Geomorphic Change and Sediment Delivery
2007 Using Topographic LIDAR Data to Delineate the North Carolina Shoreline
2006 Analytical Study of Turbulent Pollutant Dispersion near a Low Hill
2006 Ancient Climate
2006 Back Matter
2006 Buildings and Structures
2006 The Central Terraces
2006 Civil Engineering Planning
2006 Development of a Continuous Bathymetric/Topographic Unstructured Coastal Flooding Model to Study Sea Level Rise in North Carolina
2006 Divergence Form for Bed Slope Source Term in Shallow Water Equations
2006 Front Matter
2006 Hydraulic Engineering
2006 Hydrology of Tipon
2006 Inca Design and Construction Technology
2006 The Inca Heritage
2006 Index
2006 Outer Wall and Cruzmoqo
2006 Three-Dimensional Topography of Debris-Flow Fan
2006 Tidal Datum Modeling in Support of NOAA's Vertical Datum Transformation Tool
2006 Tipon, Water Engineering Masterpiece of the Inca Empire
2006 Tipon: Estate for Inca Nobility
2006 Tipon's Canal System
2006 An Unstructured Immersed Boundary Method for Simulation of Flows over Bottom Topography
2006 Vegetative Flow Resistance: Characterization of Woody Plants for Modeling Applications
2006 Walking Tour of Tipon
2005 Considerations for the Design and Installation of SDI Systems in Humid Areas
2005 Effect of Bed Armoring on bed Topography of Channel Bends
2005 Topographical Scattering of Waves: Spectral Approach
2005 Wave Propagation over Irregular Topography Using Green Function
2004 Bridges: Second Panama Canal Crossing Nears Completion
2004 Effect of Microtopography, Slope Length and Gradient, and Vegetative Cover on Overland Flow through Simulation
2004 Generation of Triangulated Irregular Networks Based on Hydrological Similarity
2004 Influence of Dredged Channels on Wave Penetration into Harbors: The Malamocco Inlet Case
2004 Numerical Evaluation of Wind Flow over Complex Terrain: Review
2004 Numerical Modeling of Wind Flow Over Different Types of Topography
2004 Numerical Prediction of Dam-Break Flows in General Geometries with Complex Bed Topography
2003 Delaunay Triangulation Algorithms Useful for Multibeam Echosounding
2003 Floodplain Gravel Mine Restoration: Peril or Opportunity?
2003 Investigation and Remediation of Karst Features at Foundry Landfill Site
2003 Site Characterization of Sinkholes Based on Resolution of Mapping
2002 Behavior of Dilative Sand Interfaces in a Geotribology Framework
2002 A Biomodal Directional Distribution Model for Directional Buoy Measurements
2002 Finite-Difference Analysis of Horizontal Gradients in Sigma-Coordinate Models
2002 Finite-Volume Model for Shallow-Water Flooding of Arbitrary Topography
2002 Landslide Modelling on Real Topography
2002 Modeling Nearshore Bed Topography with Principal Oscillation Patterns
2002 Network Reliability: Topological Effects and the Importance of Information
2002 On the Validity of the Shallow Water Equations for Violent Wave Overtopping
2002 Phase Profilometry Measurement of Wave Field Histories
2002 Responses of a Hybrid z-Level Model to Various Topography Treatment Methods for a Boundary Value Problem and an Initial Value Problem
2002 White House Honors ASCE Members
2001 Boussinesq-Type Model with Boundary-Fitted Coordinate System
2001 Finite Volume Model for Nonlevel Basin Irrigation
2001 Numerical Prediction of Bottom Topographical Change around Coastal Structures Using Quasi-3D Nearshore Current Model
2001 Suspended Sediment and Morphological Response on Banzu Tidal Flat, Japan
2001 Three-Dimensional Near-Shore Bar Morphology


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Born 09 June 1898
(Brighton, Victoria)
Died 20 February 1976. (Moorabbin. Cheltenham new cemetery)
Parents: Robert Brooke, market gardener, and Jane Annie Boxshall
Marriage: c1924 Hilda Grace Hedberg; 1s. 1d.
Occupation: Cigar maker
Religion: Methodist
Education: Moorabbin State School
Career: Cigar maker States Tobacco Company; Trades Hall Council delegate; after parl. clerk Melbourne and Metropolitan Board of Works; member Australian Natives Association; life member and president Frankston-Glenhuntly Cricket Association 1934-1954; founding president McKinnon Bowls Club 1950-1953; member Moorabbin Technical School Council 1954-1976; president McKinnon High School Council 1954-1964; JP; chairman Nepean Co-operative Housing Society 1960-1976; member management board Kingston Centre 1963-1976, Hospital and Benevolent Wages Board 1969-1976; administered Moorabbin Meals on Wheels 1964-1976; founding and life member Moorabbin Cricket Club; helped initiate move of St Kilda Football Club to Moorabbin 1964; member St Kilda Football Club committee 1965-1970. Moorabbin city councillor 1947-1974, mayor 1949-1950, 1953-1954, 1961-1962, 1969-1970
Party: Australian Labor Party
Party Note: Left 1964 after losing Moorabbin preselection, rejoined 1972
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|6 December 1952
|27 May 1955
*The Start date for Members elected after 1900 is the date they were elected. The start date for pre-1900 Members is the date they were sworn in.


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According to Valleywag, application developers will now be able to use Adobe's Flash in their work . . . I guess it's safe to say you'll soon be able to "pimp" your Facebook page — yikes!
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animatedpunk 7 years
nooooooooooooooooooo. the reason i love facebook is because it's not as cluttered and annoying as myspace. =(
pink-elephant 7 years
luv-bug, I know exactly what you mean! I have to turn down an invite to one of these stupid apps almost every day! I like some of the apps, but others like "Which fairy princess are you?" or whatever are just useless junk that take forever to load and tries to spam me into inviting more people.
cottonpoots 7 years
I remember when glittery, shiny stuff used to be "in", but now they're just plain annoying. It irks me that Facebook would even go to this level.
luv_bug1211 7 years
I hate the fact that my beloved facebook is turning into another myspace. I hate getting at least 100 invitations for using various apps and i hate that you have to invite at least 20 people to be able to use the ones you might thing are interesting. Cant they just give us a button to click so we wouldnt get any of that if we didnt want it. You can keep your various apps that would tell me how many kids im having, or what my stripper name will be. Im happy not knowing that information.
lcterp 7 years
I like how facebook is clean, apparently not anymore.
kitkatkay_o8 7 years
noooo. i dont like this idea. those things breed viruses and spammers. =(
Meike 7 years
On that note, I'm all for customizable design excluding the crap people put up who have no clue about css/html and design in general.
Meike 7 years
Eww...another myspace disaster in the making.
FrannyA 7 years
Ooh no...
omilawd 7 years
I joined Facebook because I thought I could get away from this tacky crap like those "Who will you marry?" apps and glitter "bling."
x_juicyfruit 7 years
I don't like this kinda stuff.
Merlin713 7 years
Yes, I agree. A big UGH to this crap.. I hate all the apps that get sent my way. So annoying!!
melizzle 7 years
Ugh... one of the reasons I loved Facebook cause it didn't have this junk!


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Mackey with two of his trusted teammates. / Simon Bruty / Sports Illustrated / Getty Images
Lance Mackey, the 2007-2010 Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race champion, is at it again as teams set off from Anchorage March 2. Though he has struggled this winter, Mackey, 42, a cancer survivor, says, As far as my determination and love for the sport, it hasnt changed.
Mackey, whose father co-founded the race, has a close relationship with his dogs. We live in a barn together and hang out, he says. They are my best friends. He doesnt pick his team for speed or strength; he covets a good attitude, a willing appetite, and cooperation.


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Joe Nathan's first season with the Tigers will be his 20th season in pro baseball. The most soaring moment and most troubling moment in that long journey came less than six months apart.
On Oct. 6, 2009, in the AL Central tiebreaker game, Nathan escaped trouble to hold off the Tigers in the eighth and ninth innings and keep the game tied. Minnesota won in the 12th inning. Nathan considers it the most exciting game in which he has ever played.
In spring training the next year, Nathan felt discomfort in his pitching elbow. A few weeks later, he decided to have the "Tommy John" surgery, in which a ...


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