I stared into the eyes

I gazed into the eyes if an unknown face, and much to my surprise.
He stared right back, without fear or slack, and a kindly look did arise.

He wouldn’t budge, like a lump of sludge, his demeanor quite serene.
Although he seemed all covered in green, he really was ever so clean.

When I grow up, I hope to be, as confident and at ease.
As this tiny fellow, who appeared quite mellow, and so ready and willing to please.

Francis Y Takahashi

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I stared into the eyes, an unknown face, and to my surprise.
He stared right back, without fear or limp, and a friendly smile emerged.

He did not move, like a lump of mud, his behavior quietly.
Although he seemed entirely covered in green, he was really always so clean.

When I grow up, I hope, so selb...

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The bryony

The bryony (Bryonia) are a genus of the Cucurbitaceae (Cucurbitaceae).

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Bryony are strong, rapidly creeping, herbaceous climbing plants, their stems up to 4 m can grow tall. The vines die off in autumn. The beet roots are shaped. The leaves are lobed and rough.

The only few millimeters in size, inconspicuous bright flowers bloom from June to September. The flowers are unisexual. The female in small bunches, arranged in the male long-stemmed grapes. The red berry bryony (Bryonia dioica) is dioecious getrenntgeschlechtig (dioecious), that is, there are female and male individuals ...

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Alone in the night

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Aikido and Wizardry

photo: A Glorious Dawn used by kind permission of tjblackwell ( http://www.flickr.com/photos/tjblackwell/4593320873/) under creative commons licence

If you do not believe in magic, maybe not, do you want more.

I'm not talking about the magic of Aikido throw. The magic that I saw, as my teacher Asoh Sensei with 70 Years without Muehe hurled a large ex-Marine as a slice of bread around.
That was not magic. Das war Kokyu Ryoku.

I'm not talking about magic in the disappearance of a Aikidokas.
I went to the Summer Kamp in La Colle-sur-Loup in the South of France in the 80ties with Yamada Sensei Tamura and Sesei ...

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Kung Fu Applications

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Saburo equitable – Interview of K. Terasawa 2.Teil

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Has something happened, that you changed your spiritual view?

I have found no major change in particular. It was a feeling, which has gradually expanded to the present. After I had about two years training with O-Sensei, he was seriously ill. The doctor, and finally even I also thought, that he might die. Fortunately, Sensei was finally over his illness and went to convalesce in the Iwama Dojo.

In what year that was?

That was about 1942 or '43.

Inas did Tomiki and Mochizuki Sensei at this time?

You have trained hard, when I entered the dojo. I learned from them.

Was this the same place as today's Hombu Dojo?

And, the dojo was the home of today's Aikikais (ehemaliges Kobuk ...

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Mario Capecchi – of street thief to Nobel Laureates

They were for their groundbreaking work in the field of genetic manipulation of animals, with the intention, Imitate models of human diseases such as cancer or cystic fibrosis, honored. Mario Capecchi ist ein Molekulargenetiker. He is Italian American. He won the Nobel Prize for Medicine in 2007 with colleagues Martin Evans and Oliver Smithies.

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I am 71 Year old, the more I learn, the less I know and I have more fun. I was born in Verona.
“The Mine is a long history. It all starts in the First World War. ”
“My first memory is, when we lived in the Tyrolean Alps and the Gestapo came to pick up my mother.” “I was three and a half years old.”
“My mother, Lucy Ramberg, fell in love with an Italian aviator, m...

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How magical are the bubbles

How magical are those soapy bubbles.
They clean and wash away your earthly troubles.

With friends at play, you spend the day.
Your happiness grows, and before anyone knows.
You’ve built your joy by doubles.

Francis Y Takahashi

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How magical are the bubbles.
Clean and wash your earthly worries from.

With friends in the game, You verbringst the Tag.
Your happiness grows, and before anyone knows it.
Have you built your pleasure double.

Translation Carina

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The Dark European Bee

The Dark European Bee (Apis mellifera mellifera) is a naturally occurring breed (Subspecies) the Western honey bee (Apis mellifera). She is all over Northwest, Means- and north-eastern Europe to the Urals originally native honey bee and is characterized by a large Hardiness, economical use of their supplies and moderate peoples development from. An already Enoch Zander (1873–1957) and today in Switzerland breeding strain of Apis mellifera mellifera processed is called because of its dark coloring Nigra.

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From the 2. Hälfte des 19. Century it was crossed by the importation southern and eastern races partially ...

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Ein schönes Mädchen

A beautiful lass begins
her exotic journey towards
mystery and intrigue,
into the exciting world
of being a teenager.

Francis Y Takahashi

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Ein schönes Mädchen beginnt
ihre exotischen Reise in Richtung
Geheimnisse und Intrigen,
in die spannende Welt des
Teenagers sein.

Translation Carina

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