Karate: The Art of "Empty-Hand" Fighting is the definitive guide to Shotokan Karate--the most widely practiced style of Karate--and has inspired millions of Karate practitioners worldwide. Authored by one of the great masters of the art, Hidetaka Nishiyama, this book is a classic, groundbreaking work on the sport of Karate, and one of the first published in English. An Olympic sport, Karate is today practiced by over 100 million people worldwide. Nishiyama began his training under the instruction of Gichin Funakoshi, the legendary founder of Shotokan Karate. He helped establish the Japan Karate Association and, as head of the JKA's instructors training program, was instrumental in bringing Karate to the U.S. and other Western countries. When he arrived, he proceeded to train the first great generation of Karate instructors spawning a whole new generation of martial artists. Highly accessible and richly illustrated with over 1,000 photographs, this book is a comprehensive manual with step-by-step instructions to all the basic movements and techniques of Karate. Topics covered include: A brief history of Karate Theories and principles of the martial art Effective training and exercise methods Karate techniques including stances, blocks and attacks Defenses against weapons With a new foreword by Ray Dalke, who trained under Nishiyama and, at 8th Dan, is the highest ranking American in Shotokan Karate, Karate: The Art of "Empty-Hand" Fighting provides analyses from the standpoint of physics, physiology, philosophy, and body dynamics. The book's techniques apply to all styles of the martial art and is a valuable reference for any Karateka--stressing Nishiyama's lesson that mastery of the basics is not the end but merely the beginning of a lifelong journey.

West Toward the Setting Sun Eric G. Dalke Introduction The migration up the Oregon Trail which started in Independence, Missouri and followed through to Oregon City, Oregon was considered one of the greatest feats of all times. From 1843 to 1863, before the railroads came, approximately 300,000 men, women and children with all their belongings strapped to the inside or the outside of their heavily built Conestoga wagon or the lighter Yankee Schooner headed West toward the promised land. However about 30,000 or 10 percent of the emigrants didn't make it and lost their lives along the journey. With their animals following behind, riding within, or pulling the vessel, the Pioneers traveled alongside their mules or Oxen for 2000 miles of hard, rugged untamed wilderness to reach a destination to be described by many as the closest thing to the biblical Eden that North America had to offer, or better known, as the Oregon Country. This story focuses on the Carpenter family, the boy's uncle Slim Bodine, and to a lesser extent many other pioneers who wanted to leave their past behind and start a new life free of landlords, droughts, taxes, inclement weather, over-crowding, bad crops and to some- freedom from the law. The intense need to travel to new lands and conquer them sometimes can't be explained, other than to say that mankind has always been searching over the horizon for something new and different and the trek to Oregon was definitely that.

This book is a collection of poems that I wrote almost 40 years ago - as a young man in his 20's. Many of them were written while I was a wrangler on a beautiful dude ranch in Northeastern Oregon, called the Bar M. It's full of passion, tears, and examples of expanding awareness.

I wrote these stories over 15 years ago as assignments for a long distance writing class I took through the mail. These assignments are just as I wrote them, showing the progression I made as my writing style (hopefully) improved.

This is a story about a young girl who learns from an angel about improving the environment - not just the physical environment of trees, water, and air, but also about the mental, emotional and spiritual environment we all live in.

This is a seven month journal written in Haiku style poetry from April to November, 2002. I got the idea from Angeles Arrien, PhD, who suggested writing down what we'd learned from her workshop by using Haiku. I kept at it for 7 months, "capturing" each day's journey using Haiku. A great way to journal

This is the story of three generations of the Barker family, in the backwoods of East Texas. It is a story of their sins and retributions, good and evil, and horror in which they lived and died in the isolation of those ever daunting woods.

Cornelius is the story of one man's self realization. Under the guise of sanity versus insanity, and reality versus fantasy, Cornelius finds out who he really is and what will make him happy. Cornelius Kopernik has problems. He has an eating disorder that has made him incredibly obese, and he has a problem with alcohol. Then one night, he unwittingly stumbles into an insane world. that he cannot seem to get out of. Based loosely on the author's own experiences, Cornelius goes from a studio pianist, to the stage that may or may not be real. Lost in a world that seems insane, he fights for his sanity, from his tiny apartment in Seattle, on the Interstate, to a plush rehabilitation facility on Barinbridge Island. All of which may be real or may be unreal.

The University of Kansas (KU) is a public research university and the largest university in the state of Kansas. Created by the staff of the KU libraries, KU ScholarWorks is the digital repository of the University. It contains scholarly work created by KU faculty and staff, as well as material from the University Archives. KU ScholarWorks makes important research and historical items available to a wider audience and helps assure their long-term preservation. The University of Kansas's KU ScholarWorks Pre-1923 Theses and Dissertation collection was digitized by the Scholarly Communications program staff in the KU Libraries' Center for Digital Scholarship. These theses and dissertations range from 1883 - 1921 and reflect topics from Engineering and History to Economics and Chemistry, including titles like "A Study of Terpeneless Lemon Extracts, English Interest in the Abolition of the Slave Trade, and Aspects of the Gothic Romance."

Firewalls became an indispensable part of computer networks. Corporations buy commercial firewalls or use open source firewall software packages to meet their need. Most of these are Linux or FreeBSD based and few of them are OpenBSD based, which has few features or are command line tools. In this project, creating an OpenBSD based firewall software package, which has a graphical user interface, an extensible infrastructure and targets embedded systems, has been aimed.Firstly firewall has been described and then previous studies about firewall software packages have been discussed. Since this study aims OpenBSD operating system and embedded hardware, the basics of OpenBSD and the design decisions for an embedded system have been discussed. Finally the infrastructure of the implementation of this study has been explained.

In PILGRIMS OF ANOTHER SORT, the past marries the present. Simon, the narrator, taps into the challenges of the historic Puritans of 1620 by lifting out a modern-day "Pilgrim" event - a highly competitive and rugged game of touch football - known as The Turkey Bowl. Without fail, in Lawrence, Kansas, this game has been played on Thanksgiving Day for 35 straight years. In 1971 three guys began meeting after their abundant Thanksgiving meal to toss the football. Each year a few more joined in on the fun, and teams were formed. The momentum continues to grow. What makes this Thanksgiving Holiday Bowl game so unique? Why are men in their 40's and 50's throwing down the gauntlet at the feet of hopeful young upstarts and placing their years of Turkey Bowl wisdom against unbridled energy? The answer is TRADITION. Everyone gathers at Johnny's Tavern the night before to "initiate" new "Pilgrims" and hear any announcements regarding the next day's Bowl Game. As Simon points out, these PILGRIMS OF ANOTHER SORT are engaged in the power of choice, which is the theme throughout the book. Turkey Bowlers negotiate postponement of family travels and holiday meals, risk injury on the field of play, flow with the ever-changing rules of the game and vote for the most valuable players after the final whistle is blown. The Pilgrims of 1620 and the modern day "Pilgrims" have weathered the storms, each in their own way. One group found a rock called Plymouth. Another continues to find a frozen tundra called a football field. The game is exciting, but the life lessons are clearly bigger than the game itself.