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Mirumoto Yoma-shi was a bushi and a kensai of the Dragon Clan.
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Yoma-shi was a student of Mirumoto Rosanjin. [1]
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In 1170 Yoma-shi crossed with a herald that was marching to Shiro Mirumoto to inform the High House of Light was in danger. The Northern Towers of Flame had been breached, and yobanjin minions of the Dark Oracle of Fire Chosai had broken through. Yoma-shi came to the castle and met his childhood friend Mirumoto Haruhide. With the aid of the Brothers of Jade led by Togashi Chikato they destroyed the invaders. [1]
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The competition is hotting up and our dedicated dancers have been squeezing in some extra rehearsals to make sure they are ready for the big night on 21st June. John and Mary Mooney even have the Strictly event advertised all over his Van. Well done everyone. Tickets are available from all dancers or from the committee. This event is nearly sold out, so get your tickets now!!
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Delighted to announce we have our Main sponsor. Thanks you so much to Martin Beirne of DCI Energy for supporting our event. Very much appreciated.
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Well the group dance is perfect so now our dancers are working on their couple dances, cha cha, waltz, Salsa, Rumba, Disco, Charleston, Bollywood to name but a few. Dance lessons are coming on well and its amazing to see how well they are doing in just a short few weeks. The dancers train twice a week and also there is also extra dance practice going on in kitchens all over Saggart, Rathcoole, Newcastle and Brittas.
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We all had a great night at the Strictly together Launch Night on Friday in St. Marys GFC. Great turnout with over 200 people in attendance to see who would be partnered off with who and dances they will be performing on the night of the 21st June in Citywest Hotel. Thanks to Cathy Weatherson Photography for taking the Couple photos and also to Paul Joyce who was our DJ for the night.. Couple training has now commenced with the dancers learning the cha cha, Jives, Disco, Rock & Roll, Charleston .... everyone having great fun.. watch this space for more updates
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Indonesian boat capsizes, at least 8 dead
At least eight people have drowned when an overloaded boat sank in central Indonesia on Thursday during a traditional ceremony marking the end of the Eid al-Fitr holiday, an official said.
The wooden boat capsized as it travelled from Panjang island to a beach in Central Java province, local search and rescue official Agung Hari Prabowo told AFP.
Thirty-four people were pulled to safety by rescuers and fisherman, sustaining only minor injuries.
"Eight people, including two children aged 5 and 7, died in the accident," Mr Prabowo said.
"It was clearly overloaded - the boat could only carry 20 to 25 people."
Mr Prabowo said he was unsure whether other people might still be missing and rescue teams would continue searching on Friday.
The travellers were performing a ceremony to mark the Muslim Eid holiday, which comes at the end of the holy fasting month of Ramadan.
It involves putting an offering of a buffalo head into the sea to ask for good fortune and express thanks to God.
The Eid holiday fell last week in Indonesia, which has the world's biggest Muslim population, but many people are still off work and celebrating.
Indonesia's 240 million people are spread across 17,000 islands and are heavily dependent on a network of boats for transport.
However, the country has a poor maritime safety record and accidents at sea are common.
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While many NFL players have followed in Colin Kaepernick's footsteps by kneeling during the National Anthem, one player who just became an American Citizen explained why he won't be joining them.
At the age of 4-years-old, Cyrus Kouandjio arrived in the United States from Cameroon because his parents wanted him to reap the opportunities America has to offer.
The 6 foot, 7 inch, 300 pound offensive lineman got exactly what his parents wanted for him. Kouandjio was a star football player in high school, he was an All-American at the University of Alabama, and was drafted by the Buffalo Bills in 2014.
On Thursday Kouandjio and 33 others took their oath to become U.S. citizens in a Buffalo courtroom, and this is where he recalled everything that got him to America and all the opportunities he has been presented with.
"My father still tells stories of running away from the violence, hiding out in the woods, his baby sister on his back," said Kouandjio. "He lived in a far different world."
"I can't kneel during the anthem," Kouandjio added Thursday. "I don't blame Colin Kaepernick for doing what he did. But for me, I have too much respect for a flag and anthem that represent freedom and liberty."
Born in Cameroon.
Raised in Maryland.
Schooled in Alabama.
Naturalized as a US citizen today in Buffalo.
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Nebraska Athletic Director Tom Osborne speaks after the Big Ten accepted NU's application. The Huskers will begin competing in the Big Ten starting in the 2011-12 academic year.
KENT SIEVERS/THE WORLD-HERALDPublished Friday June 11, 2010
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LINCOLN — It was a whirlwind courtship.
After several weeks of sidelong glances, subtle signals and not-quite-asking, the University of Nebraska-Lincoln and the Big Ten Conference accepted a mutual proposal Friday.
By day's end, UNL Chancellor Harvey Perlman was wearing a Big Ten pin on his lapel, while Big Ten Commissioner Jim Delany was sporting a Big Red "N'' on his jacket.
Though many key details of the new relationship have yet to be resolved, UNL will officially join the Big Ten on July 1, 2011.
Sports competition won't happen until after that date, although academic collaboration between Nebraska and other Big Ten universities may happen sooner.
In a press conference Friday announcing the agreement, Delany hinted that the conference still may be flirting with some other prospective members. He wouldn't name names.
"One of our goals is not to embarrass ourselves and not to embarrass other universities," he said. "Not every institution is interested in the Big Ten, and the Big Ten is not interesed in every institution."
It was clear that UNL had reached some sort of understanding with the Big Ten before Perlman and Athletic Director Tom Osborne asked the Board of Regents for their blessing on Friday.
Delany was literally waiting in the wings. Only two hours after the regents voted unanimously in favor of the move, Delany appeared at a campus press conference to announce that the Big Ten had unanimously voted to approve UNL's application. The Big Ten is based in Park Ridge, Ill.
In fact, asking the regents' approval was essentially a nicety. Their permission was not required and the deal had already been reached.
Nonetheless, the regents' meeting room was crowded with reporters from across the country, along with other spectators hoping to witness what Perlman said was an event that could transform UNL.
"This is a big event in the history of Husker athletics," said Ryan McCormick of Omaha, a 23-year-old engineering graduate student. "I figured I was close enough to be a part of it."
In his remarks, Perlman insisted that Nebraska should not be blamed for potentially breaking up the Big 12.
"Nebraska did not start this discussion," he said. "One school leaving a conference does not destroy a conference. Every school in a conference, every president of a university, has a fiduciary obligation to defend and preserve the best interests of their institutions."
Both Osborne and Perlman stressed that the decision was not based on hard feelings toward their Big 12 counterparts. They remain friends with the coaches and administrators at those universities.
But next season might be uncomfortable.
"Once you make the change, you'd like to do it tomorrow," said Osborne. "It may not be a real easy year for us on the athletic field."
Both Osborne and Perlman said they were attracted to the Big Ten because it offered a stable long-term relationship.
"In athletics, stability is something that whenever you see it, you want to grab onto it," said Osborne.
It appears the courtship between Nebraska and the Big Ten actually began with a chance meeting in Lincoln between Osborne and Ohio State football coach Jim Tressel.
Tressel was in town to speak at a banquet and Osborne gave him a courtesy tour of Nebraska's facilities.
Tressel told Osborne that he had been hearing talk of Big Ten expansion and "had heard Nebraska's name come up,'' Osborne said.
Osborne said he would eventually have a similar conversation with Barry Alvarez, the former Nebraska football player who is now athletic director at Wisconsin. Alvarez also said Nebraska's name was coming up.
It was based on the Tressel conversation that Osborne e-mailed Perlman the next day, suggesting they talk soon about "the expansion landscape.''
About three or four weeks ago, Perlman said, he and Osborne first approached the Big Ten. By then, reports were circulating that Colorado and Missouri were considering leaving the Big 12. Colorado this week said it would move to the Pac-10.
"We thought Nebraska was in a very vulnerable situation," Perlman said. "By geography, we sit here with not a lot of options, nor a lot of schools that could be added to the conference to bring it back to 12, that are consistent with our competitive position."
Perlman said he and Osborne met with Big Ten officials in "a remote location," which he declined to name. They described what Nebraska had to offer in terms of its athletic program, history, values and traditions, as well as its academic standing.
"Both he and I walked away from that meeting thinking those were attributes the Big Ten was looking for," said Perlman. "But that's all we came away with."
The situation intensified at the Big 12 meetings in Kansas City, Mo., the first week of June, Perlman said.
During the meetings, it was confirmed that six Big 12 schools had been approached to join the Pac-10. Perlman said officials with those schools said that if Nebraska stayed with the Big 12, they would stay with the league, too. They issued an ultimatum for all conference members to affirm their commitment to the Big 12, or they would take up the Pac-10 offer.
Perlman told them he needed to consult with NU President J.B. Milliken and the Board of Regents.
He also was asked if UNL would stay with the Big 12 if both Colorado and Missouri left. Perlman said they made no promises.
Nebraska was given a deadline to make an "unequivocal, long-term commitment to the Big 12,'' he said.
Perlman said he again contacted Big Ten officials the evening of June 4, after his return from the Big 12 meetings. He told them he was in a difficult position and asked them to consider Nebraska as a candidate for the Big Ten.
On June 6 — last Sunday — the Big Ten's chancellors and presidents held their first conference call to discuss Nebraska's potential bid. The discussion was favorable, which enabled Delany to then inform Perlman that the bid would be given full consideration.
Two days ago, Perlman said, Big 12 Commissioner Dan Beebe left him a message asking that Nebraska commit to the league "at least until 2016."
"Neither Tom nor I thought that was a very long-term commitment," Perlman said.
Big Ten officials indicated they would give "careful consideration" to an application submitted by Nebraska. An application letter was submitted to the Big Ten on Friday afternoon, with Big Ten leaders making the favorable vote via conference call shortly afterwards.
The regents enthusiastically endorsed the deal, saying that it could help move Nebraska to a new level of athletic and academic success.
Osborne said the opportunities for collaborative research with Big Ten institutions could provide a boon to Nebraska taxpayers by creating spinoff jobs and businesses.
Regent Kent Schroeder of Kearney said he was sold after Perlman and Osborne told him details of the arrangement during a conference call with the board's executive committee Thursday.
"The key for me was the academic side," Schroeder said. "The ounce of gold is the academic side."
Schroeder said it's unclear whether the change will require more state funding for Nebraska to keep up with its new peers.
He noted that Nebraska already compares itself against several Big Ten members, including Purdue and the University of Illinois, on indicators like faculty salary levels.
Gov. Dave Heineman said he welcomed the change, even if it might someday require increased state support.
"This is important and significant and it's a very positive step forward athletically and academically," he said.
World-Herald staff writer Henry J. Cordes contributed to this report.
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Surface plasmon resonance reflectance imaging technique for near-field (~100 nm) fluidic characterization
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Surface plasmon resonance (SPR) reflectance imaging technique is devised as a label-free visualization tools to characterize near-field (100 nm) fluidic transport properties. The key idea is that the SPR reflectance intensity varies with the near-field refractive index (RI) of the test fluid, which in turn depends on the micro/nano-fluidic scalar properties, such as concentrations, temperatures, and phases. The SPR sensor techniques have been widely used in many different areas, particularly in the biomedical and biophysical societies. While flow visualization techniques based on RI detection have been extensively well documented (Merzkirch 1987), the use of SPR imaging for fluidic applications has been introduced only recently since the author's group presented a series of related studies in the past few years. The primary goal of this review article is two-fold: (1) Introduction of the working principles of the SPR imaging as a fluidic sensor, and (2) Presentation of example measurement applications for various fluidic scalar properties using the SPR imaging sensor technique. Section 1 summarizes the history and the basic principle of SPR by focusing on the Kretschmann's theory and Sect. 2 describes the laboratory SPR imaging system specifically designed for fluidic applications. Section 3 presents the optical and material properties that affect the SPR measurement capabilities and sensitivity. Section 4 presents example applications of the implemented SPR for different near-field characterization problems, including (1) micromixing concentration field, (2) convective/diffusion of salinity distributions, (3) full-field thermometry, and (4) fingerprinting of crystallized nanofluidic self assembly. Sections 5 and 6 discuss the spatial measurement resolutions of the SPR imaging technique and the overall measurement sensitivities, respectively. Section 7 presents a few suggestions to further enhance the SPR measurement accuracy particularly for near-field fluidic characterization.


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Soccer: Only a Game — Or Is It?
June 17, 2011
Sometimes Life's Biggest Lessons are Found Where You Least Expect Them
When is a sport more than just a sport? When it comes to youth soccer, the answer is: always. Soccer, and youth sports in general, teaches many lessons and helps develop numerous character traits that aren't necessarily learned and developed in the classroom. We are often told about the great importance of sportsmanship and being a good teammate, but there are so many more things that we can take from this wonderful game. Whether you are a recreational or a premier player, the many lessons and traits that we learn as soccer players will carry over to life off the field. And these lifelong gifts are the greatest value of youth sports.
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Iraq Border Crossing – Getting there and away
This page is a collection of information, stories, questions and answers about crossing the Iraqi border.
Did you ever cross a land border into or out of Iraq If so, please let us know of your experience below.
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I'm a US citizen who has lived in Iraq for 2 years. I'm going to Israel this summer. How do I go in and then get back to my home in Iraq?? Can I get a second US passport to do this?
As far as going to Israel, unless you are Jewish and have a Jewish name (seriously, this works wonders) expect to go through a lengthy interrogation process that runs upwards of 10 hours. Though don't worry too much, they will more than likely let you in.
The problem comes when reentering Iraq. If you show any sign of having gone to Israel, officially speaking, they probably will not let you in. It is possible to receive an additional temporary passport for the reasons of visiting both Israel and other Arab countries who do not allow the entry of travelers who have been to Israel. Apply for this at the nearest US consulate to you. But be warned: the immigration officials in Arab countries that do not have good relations with Israel look for ALL signs of having visited Israel, not just a stamp in your passport. In point, if you have unanswered entry or exit stamps (an exit stamp from one country in your passport that does not correspond with an entry stamp from an adjacent country) you can expect problems when returning to Iraq. Also, for what it could be worth, trying to have Israel not stamp your passport is a luxury of the past. So if you do get a temporary second US passport, be sure to use it very wisely.
For more information, go to Can I visit Arab countries with an Israeli stamp in my passport.
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Whether you're travelling for business or leisure, as a photographer, you're going to want to be sure to sneak in some time to take photos of your experience. Working with limited time in a place you've never been before is a challenge in itself, so you may want to do a little research before you travel so you have an idea of all the locations you want to photograph. That way you can locate them all on a map and use that information to make an itinerary to help make sure you can squeeze in everything. And once you've got your travel plans all laid out, you can spend more time taking photos.
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Do some sightseeing! Visit any landmarks or points of interest that appeal to you. If you've done some research beforehand, you may already have a few ideas for some shots. Once you arrive, take a visiual stock of the setting and start thinking about some compositions and the best way to shoot them. If able, walk all around the location so you can get a good idea of how things will look from different perspectives. You may also get lucky and find more interesting shots to take, so, while it's nice to have a plan, maintain a little flexibility and look for new opportunities, too.
Local Culture
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It's worth mentioning, however, in some places the locals may prefer to not have their photos taken so make sure you familiarize yourself with any traditional or cultural restrictions that may exist where you're traveling.
Cityscapes and Landscapes
Depending on where you're travelling, having a nice wide shot that shows the destination from afar is a wonderful complement to any travel photo album. In cities, it's possible to highlight the local architecture and show off the bright colors of the city lights and signs. If you're traveling to more open settings, a landscape gives the viewer a sense of atmosphere and an opportunity to experience remote locations of the world just by looking at a photograph.
Be sure to grab a few good landscapes and cityscapes to round out your album!
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If you're traveling with family or friends, don't forget to snap a few typical tourist shots, too! Heck, you can even sneak in a selfie or two if you want! Even if it sounds cliche now, it's always fun looking back at these photos later on down the road. So, remember to take time to relax and have a little fun while you're out there.


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