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Ted, Thor's lesser-known younger brother, the Norse god of bicycle repair and maintenance
Joseph is holding Mjollnir, the fabled metric wrench of the gods, feared by the Rime Giants (sometimes translated as Corrosion Ogres). His purely historical headgear should not become the subject of helmet wars.
Naturally, Joseph tries to hide his true identity by posing as mild-mannered bodybuilder and actor Trygve Lode, but the details in the story of Ted clearly point to RBT's best-known Scandiavian poster.
I even won an award for this costume of Ted, Thor's lesser-known younger brother, the Norse god of bicycle repair and maintenance. It all started when Terrylee (who was a regular on soc.singles a bunch of years ago) came into town and dropped by for a visit; we ended up wandering off to MileHighCon and she just happened to have a very well-done medieval costume. Naturally, the moment we made it into the lobby of the hotel where the con was being held, most of the members of the staff were trying to cajole Terrylee into participating in the contest. Suffering from an attack of shyness, she finally agreed that she would--on condition that I (who was not wearing a costume at the time) would as well.
Being much more the obnoxious and foolhardy type myself, I agreed, but that left the little matter of coming up with something to wear. By a fortuitous coincidence, at a garage sale not so many weeks before--through luck and an expenditure of seven dollars and fifty cents--it had happened that the so-mythical-as-to-be-utterly-forgotten Spanner of the Gods had fallen into my hands. While rushing home to fetch this legendary tool--aided and abetted by the redoubtable Terrylee--the long-lost Norse myth, "Spam and the Spanner," which told the story of how Spam came to be the sacred food of the Vikings was...um...recovered.
So that's how Ted, the Norse God of Bicycle Repair and Maintenance regained at least a little of his former glory and renown. We won the award for best presentation and I had a fine time afterwards behaving in a terribly evil and irresponsible manner by occasionally just handing the wrench to some of the people who were asking whether it was real and/or how much it weighed (fifty-five pounds, in case you were wondering). People will give you great reactions sometimes when you casually hand them something that weighs a lot more than they expect.
I didn't mean to look quite so grouchy in these pictures, but I never know how these pictures will turn out until after they've turned. Maybe it's because I couldn't get the little "wings" I'd made for the sneakers out of some metal toe-clips to stay on right; either that or maybe Ted really would be feeling grouchy because, except for a couple of Schwinn mountain bikes, these days nobody makes bicycles that are designed to be adjusted with tenth-century Norwegian tools.


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Vandals damage Workington speedway track
Vandals have caused more than £100,000 worth of damage to a Speedway training track in Workington.
A fire in the club house and slashes to the safety barriers have meant the team of volunteers have cancelled the Under 16 British Youth Championship, the biggest meeting on their calendar.
Paul Bickley, a volunteer a the track, said:
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Workington Comets speedway rider cleared of cancer
Berwick chasing Edinburgh's tails in Speedway
Workington lost another meeting to the weather when last night's fixture against Scunthorpe was scrapped.
The Comets now face a remarkable fixture crisis with 18 fixtures in the space of 28 days.
Berwick did get the action on against Sheffield on Saturday evening, and the Bandits won comfortably, which sets them up for tomorrow night's crucial fixture against Edinburgh.
George Hepburn is the Director of Berwick Bandits:
Start your engines: Berwick Bandits and Workington Comets to begin new Speedway season
Simon O'Rourke looks ahead at the upcoming Speedway season for our regions teams, and what changes have been made since last year.
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A look ahead at this weekend's sport
It's a case of out with the old, in with the new for Queen of the South. Workington have a double header in Speedway and Great Britain's ladies begin their quest to win the water polo world championships.
Comets cling on to title hopes
The speedway season is reaching a crescendo and the Comets are still alive in three competitions after they beat Edinburgh to stay afloat in the play-offs.
Workington were then leading Ipswich in the League Cup semi-final before that was abandoned.
They're still involved in the Knock-out cup, but they lost Saturday night's semi-final first leg at Newcastle by 18 points. Berwick Bandits still have the chance to salvage something from their frustrating season.
The win over Redcar Bears on Saturday means they're well placed to make progress in the Premier Clubs Trophy. The Bandits can make the final as long as they evade a big defeat when they go to Glasgow next Sunday.
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Speedway results
Workington Comets had their home fixture against newcastle rained off at the weekend.
Track staff worked hard to clear the track but the incessant drizzle meant it wasn't in a fit state to race and safety would be an issue.
A re-arranged date hasn't been fixed yet.
In the Friday meeting Workington Comets lost to Edinburgh.
Berwick Bandits lost to Newcastle on Sunday in the league cup, after a disastrous start they finished well but ultimately lost.
Weekend Speedway action from Border
The Comets could book their place in the knock-out stages of Speedway's League Cup this weekend. Workington are in Edinburgh tonight and host Newcastle on Saturday. Win both and the job's done.
Berwick Bandits could also progress, but they need a good weekend. They're home to Sheffield on Saturday and away in Newcastle on Sunday.
Workington Comets open day
Hundreds of speedway fans are expected at Derwent Park today as Workington Comets host their open day.
Fans can meet the team and management and watch them complete some practice laps.
The season starts on Thursday with an away game to Sheffield before a home game against Redcar on Saturday. The VIP guest at that first home match has ben confirmed as Boyzone's Shane Lynch.

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Livening Up Lake Garda
We go to Italy to admire the scenery, to gorge on the pasta, to saver the glorious gelaterias and, most of all, to taste the dolce vita first hand. It doesn't immediately strike us as a location for extreme water sports, or as a place where we might meet our maker, which makes Lake Garda all the more pleasant a surprise.
Come dusk or dawn, the glittering surface of the lake will be littered with eager sailors and windsurfers zipping around the edge of the water, making it appear effortless. It isn't. As any amateur windsurfer well knows, it requires brute strength to lift the sail from its resting position on the water's surface, and a keen sense for when to twist and turn the sail to keep you from careering into a passing boat. There are a number of watersports companies dotted around the lake to give you more official instructions.
Another activity that will be loved by the active traveller is canyoning. If you've never been, canyoning essentially entails jumping off cliff faces, scrambling across slippery rocks and cascading down waterfalls into pools of water. Again, this is definitely an activity that needs instruction, and you'll be able to find several different places to test your metal amongst the gorgeous mountain scenery towards the north of the lake.
Finally, if you happen to have flying experience or know someone who does, get yourself a seaplane lesson. Whilst the lake's surrounding honey-coloured towns and castles are a spectacle from the ground, the view is all the more absorbing when they look like tiny, model villages from above. These teensy planes can take off and land on the water (just be careful not to take out a stray windsurfer when you do so!)
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Y'all already know how much we love accessories designer/celeb favorite Melody Ehsani. You've probably peeped her pieces on Rihanna, Beyonce, or Nicki Minaj, just to name a few, but now, Melody is expanding her killer vision into a whole other arena—nails! She teamed up with blogger Aureta Thomollari and nail artist Yoko Sakakura to create Candy Paint: a nail wrap/art studio combined with a jewelry space. YASSS. Last year, Melody opened up to us about her longtime obsession with nail art and gave us ALL the deets on her uh-mazing NCLA nail wrap collab, but we caught up with her again to chat about the inspiration behind her new salon, the importance of nail art, and her second collection of NCLA wraps. Check out the interview after the jump!


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Penalty kill key for Plum in PIHL playoff opener
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Nine penalty kills and outstanding play in goal proved to be the difference as the Plum Mustangs won their opening round PIHL Class AA playoff game over North Hills, 6-3.
The Plum defense kept the Indians off the scoreboard during a frantic third period when North Hills had a two-man advantage for two minutes, 45 seconds.
Mustangs goaltender Taylor Cestra made some superb saves to keep Plum's season alive. She stopped 45 of 48 shots, and the game-winning goal was scored by freshman Zach Nolan, playing in his first varsity playoff game, at New Kensington's Pittsburgh Ice Arena, formerly known as Valley Sports Complex.
No. 8 Plum (9-10-1) plays top-seeded Bishop Canevin in the quarterfinals Wednesday night at 7:10 at the Mt. Lebanon Ice Arena.
"It's not the recipe we'd like for a win, but we'll take it." Plum coach Dave Stonebreaker said. "We have been working very hard in keeping the shots down, and we didn't play a very good defensive game tonight."
"I was so nervous and tired there," Cresta said. "I had to move back and forth. I was just glad I was saving them."
With the score knotted at 3-3 with 1:21 to go in the second period, Nolan lifted a shot from about 50 feet away in front of the Plum bench.
The shot found its way over the shoulder of North Hills goaltender Max Sikorski to give the Mustangs the lead for good.
"Sometimes fate has a way, and that's a freshman call-up getting the game-winning goal in his first playoff game," Stonebreaker said. "He's a star tonight, and we're proud of him."
Cresta, a PIHL all-star, didn't want to see her career end Monday night in her last home game.
"These guys are great. I couldn't be here without them. They're my rock," she said. "This is my last year of boys hockey, and I'm glad we got the win."
Cresta now has 692 saves on the season.
"That's a credit to the players we had on the ice during the penalty kills," Stonebreaker said. "We wanted to keep that two-goal margin, and they realized what was on the line."
Andrew Pagano had scored the fifth Plum goal when the puck got behind Sikorski and rolled on its side into the Indians goal with 12:01 left in the game.
Andrew Walters scored a second-period goal for the Mustangs, his 37th on the season.
Joe Randazzo had two goals for Plum, giving him 17 for the season.
Ninth-seeded North Hills finished the season at 8-12.
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The College of Arts, Social Sciences, and Celtic Studies welcomes students whose academic interests include such fields of human activity as languages, literatures, philosophy, historical, legal, social, behavioural and mathematical sciences. Teaching and learning in the College are designed to develop in students strong capacities for critical analysis, an ability to assess evidence and probabilities, and confidence in the solving of problems. At the same time students of the College are encouraged to develop important communicative skills, such as the command of foreign languages and of information technology, and a greater proficiency in writing and speaking.
The College of Arts, Social Sciences, and Celtic Studies is the largest in the University, with over 6400 students engaged in learning and in research. These include a growing number of overseas students, mainly from North America and Europe. The College also welcomes a significant proportion of mature students and provides many avenues of full-time and part-time study to lifelong learners. There is no simple rule to determine whether a person should enrol as a student in Arts.
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Ironwood CafeRead MoreTake a trip to Ironwood Cafe in Westlake and make your next meal a good one. Skip the salad and grab some greasy goodness at Ironwood Cafe where they have their priorities straight: taste trumps everything. The bar at Ironwood Cafe is fully stocked, so pair your meal with a glass of wine or beer. Little ones are just as welcome as their parents at Ironwood Cafe. Swing by after work for happy hour, featuring a wide range of discounted drinks and appetizers. Birthday, engagement or baby shower, celebrate any exciting moment with all your loved ones at Ironwood Cafe. If dining outdoors is your idea of a good time, you'll love the gorgeous patio seating at Ironwood Cafe. It is not uncommon for Ironwood Cafe to feature live tunes or a DJ. The live music and dance floor at Ironwood Cafe are perfect for party goers ready to boogie the night away. Weeknights are often swamped, so plan ahead and make a reservation to avoid the restaurant's rush. Enjoy the vibe here with a business casual dress code. Catering makes it easier to organize any event, and Ironwood Cafe will ensure that it is delicious. Ironwood Cafe's diners can safely park on the street, as well as in a nearby lot. Conveniently charge by major credit card when cash isn't an option. If you're more of an evening diner, you're in luck. Though all three meals are served, the restaurant's dinner menu will blow you away.688 Dover Center RdWestlake, OH US
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Everytime I try to set a specific date reminder for say a persons birthday, the reminder time of that day always defaults to 11:59pm.
For instance i click the reminder icon, I type in "Every 12 months starting 12/1/2014 @ 9:00am"... The reminder output shows "Every 12 months starting 12/1/2014 @ 11:59pm"
Not a huge issues, but something i noticed that could be fixed with future updates. Thank you! Looking forward to the calendar addition to this app!
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This is caused by the incorrect date format. You're setting the time for the starting date and not for the date of the task itself.
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"The development of a meaningful, yet complex innovation like the MRI-guided radiation therapy system can only be done in partnership with leading healthcare innovators, both from an industrial, as well as a clinical perspective," says Gene Saragnese , CEO Imaging Systems at Philips Healthcare. "As a leading innovator in cancer care, the University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center will bring their unique expertise to help realize the promise of more targeted cancer treatments and transform the way healthcare is delivered today."
Prior to the establishment of the research consortium, Elekta, Philips and the University Medical Center Utrecht have built and tested a prototype system that integrates a linear accelerator and a 1.5 Tesla MRI system. The success of these efforts has enabled the project to move to the next phase of development and testing by the select group of consortium partners.
Radiation therapy and medical imaging already play an essential role in treatment planning, delivery and after care, and are proven, cost-effective and safe methods for the treatment of individuals with cancer. Radiotherapy is a critical modality for cancer treatment, either as a frontline treatment or used with other modalities, such as chemotherapy. The procedure involves identifying cancerous tissue and irradiating it with high-energy radiation beams in a way that maximizes sparing of healthy tissues near the tumor.
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Fewer and fewer Americans today can recall where they were when they heard the news that Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, had been attacked by the Japanese on Dec. 7, 1941.
As the number of first-hand accounts from World War II continues to decrease and new conflicts of the current era arise, earlier struggles begin to fade away, making it ever more important to preserve our nation's living history.
At his home in Lafayette, La., in the midst of countless books and homemade art, one World War II veteran and former prisoner of war shares his experience of the war, one that is slightly different than most.
Like many of his peers, James Bollich, barely out of his teenage years, joined the U.S. military in the midst of another world conflict brewing overseas.
"It was about the time Germany occupied Paris, everybody at school was talking about the Army, and nobody was really studying like they should've been," recalled Bollich. "That's when I decided that before long we would be in the war and just like a young kid, I wanted to be part of it and I wanted the air corps."
Against his mother's wishes, Bollich joined the U.S. Army Air Corps on Aug. 23, 1940, in Bossier City, La., at what was then Barksdale Field, and was assigned to the 16th Bomb Squadron, 27th Bomb Group.
Bollich spent time at a base in Savannah, Ga., and then reported to technical school in Dallas, where he studied airplane mechanics and took part in maneuvers and exercises at an airfield in Lake Charles, La., all before heading overseas.
"As soon as the maneuvers ended we were shipped overseas," he said. "We left San Francisco Nov. 1 and arrived in the Philippines on Nov. 20, and 18 days later we were already at war with Japan."
Four months later, 20-year-old Corporal Bollich would become a prisoner of war.
When word got back to Bollich and his outfit that the Japanese had made a major landing about 35 miles from where they were, they were instructed to quickly pack-up and told that they would be evacuated, by boat, from Manila to the Bataan Peninsula across Manila Bay.
Thousands of American and Filipino troops now occupied the Bataan Peninsula, leaving the U.S. Army responsible for feeding everyone. In the meantime the Japanese controlled the surrounding seas and skies, making it difficult for American support to resupply these men.
"We were running out of food," Bollich said frankly. "That's when we tried to get extra food by going up into the mountains. People ate monkeys, snakes, lizards, just about anything that they could find."
When most food sources were exhausted, including mules, "essentially what we were living on was a slice of bread made out of rice flour, covered with gravy made out of water and rice flour. We were essentially starving to death and weren't in any shape to fight and the Japanese easily broke through our front lines," he said.
When their front lines did eventually break, they were ordered to retreat to the tip of the Bataan Peninsula, where they eventually surrendered to the Japanese.
"We were told to destroy all of our arms and ammunition. Finally here came the [Japanese]. They lined us up, counted us and started us out on what is now known as the [Bataan] Death March."
For the next five and a half days, thousands of American and Filipino troops walked day and night enduring exhaustion and physical pain.
"We had no idea what was ahead," said Bollich. "I'll never forget our old first sergeant, when the surrender came he said, 'we survived the war, the Japanese are going to take us and put us in a prison camp. We'll get fed, have water and rest and just sit and wait out the war.' That guy was dead within three weeks after we were captured. It didn't turn out that way at all."
Bollich recalled marching out of the peninsula with Japanese guards on either side of the line of prisoners.
"They took our wallets, anybody who had a ring they took those, took our dog tags. Then they began to beat us. They beat us with rifle butts, sabers, clubs, anything they could get their hands on. That went on all day long. They wouldn't let anybody have a drink of water or let us rest and they didn't feed us.
"And then I think it was around the middle of the second day that people began to collapse. We hadn't had water in a day and a half and in the tropics it's almost beyond what you can take. And of course once anybody collapsed, the Japanese immediately killed them, it looked like they were really trying to kill us all."
Upon arrival at the first prison camp, Camp O'Donnell, a former Philippine Army training camp, Bollich said the soldiers were met by the general who had called for their surrender. General King spoke in front of the crowd, assuring his men that he would take full responsibility for the surrender and for his troops not to feel bad.
"Then the Japanese commander got up and laid down the rules of the camp," said Bollich. "He said that if any were broken, the person would be shot, which are words we expected to hear. But he was speaking through an interpreter and the interpreter said that you have come here to die. At first I didn't believe it and that he'd misquoted the Japanese commander, but it didn't take us long to realize that he was telling the truth."
Bollich admitted that the exact number of Americans who died on the march remains unknown, but is estimated anywhere between 800 to 2,000 troops. However, Bollich is sure of the death toll of the first 40 days of being in Camp O'Donnell, because he witnessed it. His best estimate is approximately another 1,800 Americans in that time period, averaging about 45 per day.
"All we were doing was burying the dead," remembered Bollich. "I remember looking around and deciding that the way people were dying that within a few weeks we would all be dead. Our food was nothing but a handful of cooked rice a day. The barracks we stayed in were made out of bamboo with thatched roofs, no doors or windows. At night the mosquitos would chew us alive and during the daytime the flies would get all over us. The big killer was dysentery. They had open latrines that had flies by the billions, covering our camp. Once you caught dysentery you were gone."
Bollich recalled that within the first four weeks of confinement at Camp O'Donnell, three men escaped to find food and were caught trying to sneak back into the camp. For breaking the rules, the men were tortured for days until all the prisoners were called out to an area in the camp where the three men had dug their own graves and witnessed each man get executed.
Bollich became one of 2,000 prisoners selected to be transported to Japan for confinement in another POW camp. He described the packed ship as having two holds, one in the front and one in the back, each holding 1,000 men.
"We were only allowed two guys at a time to crawl up the steel ladder to go top side to use the latrine," he said. "A lot of the guys had dysentery and within a matter of a few hours, the place was already like a cesspool."
He went on to describe the atmosphere below deck.
"At night the hold was completely dark. There'd be crying and screaming and praying. And inevitably in the morning when the Japanese would open up the hold there'd be one or two POWs that had died. We'd just hand them up to the Japanese and the Japanese would just throw them over board."
Conditions below deck got so bad that the ship docked in Taiwan so that the POWs could be taken off the ship and hosed down.
"That was about seven months from the time we had surrendered and we were still in the same clothes that we surrendered in. That was the first water we had on our bodies in all that length of time," he said.
After what seemed like many more days at sea, the boat reached its final destination: Pusan, Korea. Once everyone was pulled out of the ship, the POWs were put into trucks and transported to a military camp situated on the shore.
The ones who were in weak physical condition stayed until they were strong enough to move again.
"Of the 80 or 90 of us that stayed there [in the military camp] about 30 or 35 of us survived, the rest died and were taken out each day and cremated and their ashes were brought back and given to us," said Bollich.
When the surviving POWs were strong enough to leave, they boarded trains and headed off to Mukden, Manchuria, which according to Bollich was "one of the coldest places in the world and that's where I stayed until the war ended."
Once at the POW camp in Mukden when he became physically well enough to work, Bollich was sent to a factory originally set-up to manufacture automobile parts. In the midst of dozens of unopened crates containing American machines, the POWs were instructed to cement the factory floor, make sturdy foundations for the machines, set them up and start production.
In his book, "Bataan Death March: A Soldier's Story," Bollich mentioned that although he and his fellow POWs were ordered to correctly perform certain tasks in the factory, they took the opportunity to be discreetly insubordinate. For example, he wrote that the men discovered smaller but important machine parts, such as handles, knobs, dials and screws, in empty crates. Once the small but necessary items were discovered, the POWs defiantly disposed of them in the holes they had dug, quickly filling them in with concrete and making it impossible for the machines to function.
His life continued with little food and walking what he estimated as five miles either way to and from the factory day after day until the day the air raid sirens rang. Off in the distance, Bollich recalls seeing miles of contrails and big black planes flying toward the factory.
When Japanese fighters took off to defend their positions, in his book Bollich describes the scene: "From the ground it looked like a swarm of mosquitoes going after a flock of geese and the comparison is good, because that is about how effective the Japanese fighters were."
"They were B-29s," he continued. "[At the time] we didn't know what B-29s were, but we were happy to see them. After all that time, finally it looked like the war was maybe coming to an end. Those B-29s, I've never seen anything like it, it just looked like the sky was black with bombs."
The B-29 bombs fell in December 1944, and eight months later Mukden POW camp was liberated. After three and a half years of confinement, Bollich was free and heading home. He and the remaining POWs were taken to a nearby railroad station and transported to Port Arthur, China, where they boarded a ship for their journey back to the United States.
They finally docked in San Francisco, the same port Bollich left nearly four years earlier.
Bollich rested in a hospital for five to six weeks before returning home to Louisiana. He described his return home as less than the jovial occasion he had dreamed about, as he learned that two of his brothers had been killed in the war, and his mother was devastated.
Today, Bollich is part of a group that gets smaller as time passes.
"As far as World War II, all my friends are gone. In my outfit I only know of one other guy who's still alive," he said.
When asked how he managed to survive the Bataan Death March and then life in a prison camp, he has a very clear answer, "I couldn't imagine people going to my mother and saying that [I'd] died. I think that's what kept most young people alive, the fact that they had families to go to."
Had he decided to give up, he's sure he could have found a quick end to the misery.
"Everybody prayed, and apparently it didn't work for everybody. But maybe it did. I think things got so bad that a lot of guys prayed to die and if you wanted to give up you could die in a hurry. There were two or three times in my confinement that if I had decided to die I could of died within a couple of days," admitted Bollich.
After Bollich returned home, he decided to remain in the reserves for three years, taking the time to decide if after his experience as a POW he could still stay in the military. He ultimately decided to pursue higher education, a choice he said helped him deal with the dreams of confinement that ensued upon his return to the states.
"The thing about it," he said, "in prison camp, when you went to bed at night you'd dream about being free and then you woke up and you were still in that POW camp. When you got back home, at night when I'd go to bed, I'd dream I was back in POW camp, so I didn't want to sleep. And that really helped my studies, because instead of just staying up and doing nothing, I studied. So going to school helped a lot."
After his experience as a POW and survivor of the death march, when asked what advice he'd give to young service members facing challenges in their personal and professional lives, he suggests considering what veterans went through.
"Talk to some of the old soldiers," he said. "Some of those Marines who fought in the Pacific and the soldiers who fought in Europe, look at what they went through."
Bollich reflects on the decision to drop the atomic bombs over Hiroshima and Nagasaki, which effectively led to Japan's surrender in World War II, and wonders what would have happened had U.S. forces conducted a land invasion of the country instead.
He said toward the end of the war, the Japanese higher command put out a directive to all of the POW camps saying the minute it was learned the Americans had landed on Japanese soil, the commander was to kill all of the POWs under their control.
Bollich continued, "There was no doubt in my mind that had we not dropped the atomic bomb and we invaded Japan, not a single POW would have gotten home."
And being honest about what may have been his fate, Bollich understands that, "of course, that includes me."
Bollich has authored 11 books, including "Bataan Death March: A Soldier's Story," about his time as a POW.


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Vin Diesel is usually pretty private when it comes to his family life -- but he let his Facebook fans get a new glimpse at one of his two kids, and he's ADORABLE!
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Though posted yesterday, the picture of Vin and son Vincent was taken on the "Fast & Furious 7" set last week, when Diesel's girlfriend Paloma Jimenez stopped by for a surprise visit.
Apparently the two boys both got some temporary tattoos done during Vincent's visit, as the little guy is sporting some shark ink on his forearm.
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"One appreciate's [sic] those we have... the special ones, who have been there since the beginning," Vin also posted on Facebook with another photo from the same day. "A reflective moment on set... family."
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Star filly Mosheen provided reassurance to her trainer and a warning to her rivals when she made her public reappearance at Monday's Cranbourne trials.
Mosheen wasn't asked to do a lot by jockey Danny Nikolic to finish third in an 800m heat on a bog track, but it was enough to confirm she is making the required progress from autumn to spring.
"She was always in her comfort zone but still had a good gallop," said trainer Robert Smerdon.
"Danny Nikolic rides her in all her work as well as her races, he's our barometer, and he said she was very happy, very strong."
The VRC Oaks, Australian Guineas and Randwick Guineas winner hasn't raced since winning the Group One Vinery Stud Stakes (2000m) at Rosehill in April.
Smerdon said he hadn't made a final decision on a race for Mosheen's return, but would now begin some definite planning.
"I thought she might have been a bit behind before today," he said.
"But she showed us today that she's on track.
Mosheen is likely to have another barrier trial in two weeks before beginning a campaign that connections hope will culminate in the WS Cox Plate.
"We think she's a Cox Plate horse and that's the race her preparation is aimed at," Smerdon said.
"The thing about her is that she's got a great capacity for racing and work, so we have plenty of options with her lead-up."
The daughter of Fastnet Rock finishes the current racing season among the top half dozen horses in Australia, having accumulated more than $2.6 million in her first two seasons of racing.
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Philharmonia At The Movies: Sci-Fi
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James Shearman conductor
Barry Norman presenter
Williams, Flying Theme, E.T. (1982)biography
Bliss, March, Things to Comebiography
Barry, Space March (Capsule in Space), You Only Live Twicebiography | programme note
Bach, Ich ruf zu dir, Herr Jesu Christbiography | programme note
Barry, Overture & Main Theme, The Black Holebiography
Williams, Suite, Star Warsbiography | programme note
Silvestri, Theme, Back to the Future
Strauss, Blue Danube Waltz (excerpt)biography
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Giacchino, Main Theme, Star Trek: Into Darkness
We are delighted to present Philharmonia At The Movies: Sci-Fi, hosted by the legendary Barry Norman. From Luke Skywalker entering the Death Star's trench to E.T. riding through the night sky, music has the ability to make great movie scenes iconic. In this special concert, music from some of the best sci-fi films ever made is performed live in concert by a vast ensemble of musicians. The programme also includes music from Things To Come and Star Trek.
1.45-2.20pm Join us for a free pre-concert talk in the DMH auditorium to find out more about today's artists and delve into the background behind the music.
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(PW076) When is the production and use of iron and steel environmentally sustainable?
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ABSTRACT- In 2003 global annual iron and steel production exceeded 960 million metric tonnes, more than 40 times the annual output of aluminium. Even though iron itself is not a toxic substance and not threatened by resource depletion, the iron and steel industry is a large consumer of fossil fuels and emitter of wastes and emissions. The environmental impacts per ton of iron and steel multiplied by the enormous scale of their global production and use result in a formidable environmental challenge. A mix of technological advances, economic incentives and environmental regulations has lead to continuous and substantial reductions in resource consumption and environmental pollution per ton of iron and steel. This, together with high recycling rates and levels of recycled content, encouraged some managers to claim that the iron and steel industry has already reached sustainability. However, roughly two thirds of the annually consumed iron still comes from primary resources, while significant amounts of end-of-life scrap are still lost from the iron and steel cycle. Reuse and remanufacturing of many products and components are shown to offer environmental benefits that far outweigh those of recycling their iron content, but seem to be on the decline and without much support from industry. Finally, the unabated growth of global iron and steel production is counteracting the environmental impact reductions per ton of output. This paper employs life cycle models of eco-efficiency, reuse and recycling and complements environmental with economic analysis to better understand the drivers and bottlenecks of environmental improvements in the use of iron and steel. These life cycle models are then combined with datasets on global material flows and life cycle inventories to explore the relationship between relative and total environmental performance and work towards an understanding of what it means for an industry to be environmentally sustainable.
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ALL the teamlists for Round 23 of the VB NSW Cup competition, thanks to the NSWRL.
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TEAMLIST Tuesday is here for Holden Cup Round 23 as we look ahead to the weekend's fixtures.
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(Source: Yahoo!)
USA had removed Singapore from the list of countries involved in Human Trafficking after "angry protest" and "blasting" from our MHA to the USA. The list is suppose to list countries that are not doing well enough to protect people from being trafficked and what governments deals with such cases. Apparently, the Pot (USA) is calling other Kettles (countries such as Singapore) black because domestically, USA faced a bigger human trafficking problem than Singapore aka, little red dot.
The USA's case against Singapore was that our government (MHA) did not classified "victims" of sex trafficking such as women from poorer nations such as Philippines, Vietnam etc as victims of sex trafficking even when they were "coerced" into the trade after the promised dream jobs turned out to be a bar girl in a sleazy pub.
Great news for Singapore to proof our human rights practice is sound to protect women from the underground sex industry.
We have news of Vietnam women being caught with their bras and panties off in some sleazy bars by Singapore Police at Joo Chiat recently. But we can't face the fact that despite the actions from the Anti-Vice from Singapore Police, there are still endless supplies of flesh meats to feed our sexual appetites, especially the Foreign Trash prostitutes from China. I will not surprised if alot of them are Singapore PRs!
(Source: asiaone.com)
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No, no, we are not closing our eyes on human trafficking, these women come willing. Especially those from China and these advertisement proofed it. How to forced these China Foreign Trash prostitutes wear sexy lingerie and posed nicely in front of camera? They come and bang willingly! I am not sure if the Singapore Police Force have a unit to surf the net looking for vices and plan enforcement actions. after all, we are in the Internet age.


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Winter Rains Lashed Kashmir Valley
A waman collecting water on the banks of Dal Lake as a brief... News PhotoCollection,Dal Lake,Eye,Horizontal,India,Jammu and Kashmir,Looking Over,Mountain,Mountain Range,Outdoors,Picking Up,Snow,Srinagar,Water,WeatherPhotographer Hindustan TimesCollection: Hindustan Times 2013 Hindustan TimesSRINAGAR, INDIA - FEBRUARY 5: A waman collecting water on the banks of Dal Lake as a brief sunshines dazzled the eyes after getting reflected from the snow covered mountains of Zabarwan range overlooking Dal Lake, on February 5, 2013 in Srinagar, India. Since Sunday night, Kashmir has been lashed with intermittent snow and rain which weather office predicted will continue for two more days. (Photo by Waseem Andrabi/Hindustan Times via Getty Images)


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Lance Armstrong's downfall leaves movie fans upset and angry
- From: News Corp Australia Network
- January 21, 2013
DISGRACED cyclist Lance Armstrong's downfall has claimed many victims, but few could have predicted that fans of the movie Dodgeball would count themselves among that number.
Armstrong appeared in a scene from the 2004 film when he had won five of the seven titles the USDA would later strip him of for using performance enhancing drugs.
In the comedy, Armstrong announces himself a fan of the main characters Peter La Fleur's style of Dodgeball and inspires him to keep going just when he's contemplating quitting by talking about how he beat cancer and won his titles through hard work and perseverance.
"I guess if a person never quit when the going got tough they wouldn't have anything to regret for the rest of their life. But good luck to you Peter, I'm sure this decision won't haunt you forever," Armstrong says in the scene. His speech fires up the main character to do all he can to beat his rivals at Globo Gym.
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Occam Posted at 12:09 PM January 21, 2013
Look, he didn't kill small children or rob an orphanage. And even with drugs it still wasn't easy to win those many races! And are the critics saying ALL his opposition were drug free?! Come off it! Personally, watching skinny men in gay-porn like spandex tights ride on roads bores me. And yes, he comes over as a narcissistic driven man. But he had a crewel childhood he overcame and I just think the outrage is so over the top! Why do people demand saints from sportsmen!? So immature! I summarise it thus, "driven man from sad childhood who overcame cancer and self pity, raised $43 million for kids with cancer turned out that only 97% of what he achieved he did on his own".
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july james of toronto canada Posted at 12:15 PM January 21, 2013
lance rode those bikes up those mountains regardless of how many blood boosters he took before the races. I'm sure Usain Bolt, Djokovic, Nadal, Serena and all of their bizarre illnesses and super human feats are all done au naturel. As if. They guy is an awesome athlete and a hero plain and simple even though he is dumb and arrogant. All of this sanctimonious bs from the sports bodies and discarded friends is embarassing.
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Andrew of Australia Posted at 12:54 PM January 21, 2013
He may not have killed anyone, but he did 'steal' millions from sponsors who he guaranteed (legally) that he was NOT cheating. Just because he has done good things doesn't mean he can break the law.
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Andy Posted at 12:55 PM January 21, 2013
He won the hardest race in the world 7 times.. that takes more hard work than any of us could ever imagine doping or no doping its a huge feat
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Matt R of Adelaide.. Posted at 1:01 PM January 21, 2013
july james of toronto canada Posted at 12:15 PM Today lance rode those bikes up those mountains regardless of how many blood boosters he took before the races." - COMPLETE BOLLOCKS. He is a LIAR and a CHEAT and wouldnt have won ANYTHING without drugs. THEY WERE BLOOD DOPING ON THE SUPPORT BUSES IN THE TOUR DE FRANCE, . "They guy is an awesome athlete and a hero plain and simple" - no he's not a hero, he is a CHEAT. Said it from his first TDF victory, and people thought I was crazy.. Get over it, he is a bit fat lying cheater, who WON NOTHING..
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Matt R of Adelaide.. Posted at 1:02 PM January 21, 2013
Occam - "Why do people demand saints from sportsmen!" - ridiculous comment, we expect them NOT TO CHEAT TO WIN... Nothing more.. Pathetic comment..
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Muzza of Brizvagus Posted at 1:04 PM January 21, 2013
Aren't both movies Fiction?
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Dan of Port Melbourne Posted at 1:30 PM January 21, 2013
Who cares about the movie dodgeball??
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Mick Peslo Posted at 1:34 PM January 21, 2013
arnold schwarznegger took steroids - governor of california. who cares.
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Glen of Australia Posted at 1:35 PM January 21, 2013
He still overcame cancer to keep on fighting for multiple win's, surviving cancer and to continue to ride is achievement enough
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Markus of Melbourne Posted at 1:37 PM January 21, 2013
I've watched Dodgeball quite a few times and never realised that was Lance Armstrong haha. Just thought it was a random bloke, and the part about the Tour de France was a joke!
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PhilO Posted at 2:01 PM January 21, 2013
Not to mention his appearance as a bicycle-riding rabbit in the cartoon "Arthur." Sob. I'll never be able to view it in the same light again.
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John Sprme of Melbourne Posted at 2:03 PM January 21, 2013
Which successul business person or theif donates there money back to helping other people? give this guy a break - he deserves what he got but at the same time his also helped a lot of people look forward to life and probably saved alot of people, his not greedy.
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dt Posted at 2:08 PM January 21, 2013
bit of an over-reaction to a fictional movie scene. the scene is still funny. amazing how many people are jumping up and down screaming about armstrong. sure he and every other juicer in cycling robbed the top clean athlete of winning (or maybe even a chance to compete) but the fact of the matter is that putting the icon aside, the person still overcame horrible illness, which should still make him a role model to others trying to beat the same crappy sickness. his story also put the world's biggest cycling race into public view which i think 99% of the world didn't care about before his story. and because of that he was able to help raise millions of $ for cancer research. he did some horrible things to some people, which he needs to sort out, but to the bulk of us he is just some guy riding a bike.
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SJM Posted at 2:11 PM January 21, 2013
I thinks some people need to get over thier own stupidity and let it be
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ohh no Posted at 2:16 PM January 21, 2013
Oh cry me a fricken river, get over it please.
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scott of canberra Posted at 2:19 PM January 21, 2013
The movie is a comedy, his speech now fits in perfectly.
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BigWindows of Malvern Posted at 2:21 PM January 21, 2013
Nah... I think people should embrace their inner stupid... It makes for some hilarious reading... And I still can't work out why they don't have 3(three) of everything nowadays. i.e. 100m - Able bodied drug enhanced 100m - Able bodied not drug enhanced (Or no drug enhancement detected yet!) 100m - Paralympics (Only honest competitors and truly inspirational to the rest of the sporting world, how sport should be approached in general) Maybe 4 actually.. 100m - Completely enebriated (30 minute time limit)
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EveryonesDoingIt Posted at 2:25 PM January 21, 2013
You know, John Sprme of Melbourne is right. Motorcycle gangs also deliver toys to children in hospitals at Christmas time. We should let them be as well. Why should selling a few drugs or standing over a few small businesses get in the way of that? They ride bikes. They obviously aren't greedy.
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pedaler of Perth Posted at 2:39 PM January 21, 2013
Somehow saying he didnt kill anyone, so that makes him a great guy doesnt wash. He's a cheat and a liar. Lot people looked up to him, think about that. As for his charity, all kinds of scoundrels seeked legitimacy by posing in front of charities, some of the worse people imaginable. Nope, charities were just a vehicle for his ego. He didnt give his $100M away.
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dt Posted at 2:53 PM January 21, 2013
andrew of australia - yeah he made millions from sponsors but you can bet your rear end that whatever the sponsors paid, they made back significantly more by using his image. you can also bet that not one of those sponsors will part with the dirty money they made from this whole thing.
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LeaveLanceAlone Posted at 3:07 PM January 21, 2013
Oh my god. Once again people on news.com.au taking social media FAR too seriously. Wake up. Leave lance be. All you keyboard warriors now coming out of the woodwork to crap on with your moral highgrounds. The view I held him in whilst watching him win those tours and the view I hold him in now are no different from each other. BUT, that is my POV and I'm sure to be chastised for it by one of you. Sport is entertaining. You all still watched him win those titles.
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Laura Bell Bundy has been touring the country with the Dance Y'all troupe on Rascal Flatts' Live & Loud Tour. The group's goal is to get the crowd going between The Band Perry and Rascal Flatts by teaching them line dances. Their Dance Y'all EP features Laura Bell's song "Two Step," which she performs each night. She's especially enjoying being on the road with one of her favorite bands.
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"I grew up being a big fan of theirs so it is exciting to be out on the road with them," she said. "I've become fairly good friends with them, Jay and I write together," she said. "He's produced a couple of tracks of mine. So I have a great relationship with the band and I'm really grateful for the opportunity to go out and perform."
In addition to her music, Laura Bell has landed a role on Charlie Sheen's Anger Management and will reprise her role as Shelby on Hart of Dixie this fall.


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Dyske, couldn't the original expression as well be "[Hope you] don't mind if I do."
Is it a new trend to eliminate punctuation, like what Dave suggests? For example BBC even has it like "2300" instead of 23:00 to indicate time. Was not it suppose to be helping readers to punctuate te
Language evolves, you know? I think one way of explaining/understanding the change in this case is to figure out what different sense would the same kids make when they use "by accident", if at all. D
I just think (but not 253% sure) that the term Heather is looking for is infix and not tmesis. Tmesis: i.e. "any more" (in oppose to anymore; without space) basically means to "cut" parts of a compo
As xylo said it is called inversion and is rooted in Germanic languages. In today's English it is used as an emphasis when one wants to be formal. In Danish for instance it is very common and yo
I think the morning whisky had left a great "impact" on the dude the day he uttered that utter nonsense. I just want to say that I believe one great advantage of English language is that almost alwa
Thanks Sarah, I did not know the other meaning of "yank." So it apparently pans with "yank" and "Yank." I'm sure of that because I checked the subtitle for "hard of hearing" and Yank was capitalized.
margaret, that was quite fun!
what is this video game? And how new? I heared this V-card last September.
I just found this: http://www.englishpage.com/verbpage/pastperfect.html
Although Sean has made some sense, but I think making scenario to describe grammatical point is almost misleading. I prefer the comprehensive definitions. I think, too, all three are right, dependin
Dear Sarah Yes it was "race" but I wasn't sure what I heard was race or raise. Speedwell suggested that it is more likely to be raise. You seem to be a good slang source! Keep in touch :-)
So what does "Go raise some V-cards" mean then?
Aima Akhazemea, you gotta read Barba's books then. And see some of the videos fron Odin Teatret.
I dunno about that, but Marx says, "Quantity effects quality!" I think when the Communism gets as soupy as goulash then it goes as awry as it went. Hence Goulash Communism! ;-)
"In the beginning was dictionary and dictionary was God!"
Speed, if beforehandedly isn't wrong, I'm happy with it. as to the ignorance stuff, I wouldn't take statements like lysdexia's serious. Because s/he is either an English speaker so that THINKS s/he k
Speed, You should be careful that "poet Rilke" and "the poet, Rilke" (note the comma) are not grammatically the same.
But we are getting far from the subjevt here. My post was about deliberate alternative spelling in purpose. Of course it is wrong spelling to write 2 instead of to. because they are two different thin
Copy Dog, I guess you first should clarify what you mean by "faster, cleaner and much more listenable [sic]". These words are not grammatical terms and do not count when discussing grammar. If you kn
Steph, are you suggesting that Shakespeare spelled his words "however he wanted?"
GP, get outa town! :-) Some British (or Irish probably) may not pronounce the H in some words. 'Ope instead of Hope for example in Cockney accent. You would say "an hour" because the H is mute there
Ruth, I know theatre. I didn't know Latin! ;-)Thanks anyway.
Back to this again. Is in "a H" or "an H?" With Irish accent I am sure it is "a H" because they pronounce it like "heych" but in English and American I hear something like "eych." Huh?
As some of you know my mother tongue is Persian. Because of historical reasons, which mostly has to do with the first Iranian students going abroad to France in the 18th century, most of European word
Ananymos, It is oUrangutan. So I think that conection is mere guess. I've read that before.
No, no, no, Thomas! You better read the post and other comments before answering.
Well Speedius, So we can just simply say "scenic life" instead of "scenic bios" and not be marked as hillbilly, right?
Janet, Not everywhere in Europe. I guess it is very German. I've never been in Austria, but in Germany and Switzerland one always drinks bottled water which is bought. Tap water is never used. In D
...and Don Quixote was considering the windmills akin to Satan.... Speedwell it is completely clear in the book what Don was thinking when he was "tilting at windmills." Unless you are agree with me
Perenna, I guess that has to do with a Scandinavian symptom that came to exist during 60's and 70's. Although Finland may not be consider "Scandinavian", however it was and is fashionable to upload th
Guys I'm the expert on this matter. "People" call me (or people like me) "foreigner" here in Denmark. "We" foreigners call other non-Danish folks "foreigners" too. Danish Constitution Act calls us all
I like Kaurismäki, no matter how he titles his films! :-) I know that he meant "... go America" in the same way one may say "... go crazy." But just wonder is the title just the same in Finnish? Or h
Once again, I think whatever answer one may come up with will in some way or another have to do with a great consideration on spelling. The French language has historically played the role of pimp for
As a non-English speaker who spant ages to pronounce the word, "word" properly, I can say that that R is not droped in British accent, its just pronounce diferently than American. I have listen very v
Dave, don't try that at home! :-) In Roger Waters' The Pros And Cons Of Hitchhiking we here him saying: "Hello...ya wanna cup coffee? [...] I'm sorry, would you like a cup of coffee?" I think it's j
Speedwell! I guess you've been influenced by some bad companies. :-) You are not answering Marta's question. The question is WHY that N is mute. It is curius: the words ending with the mute N such
fuff Dave! That was funny.
Just thought it sounded cool! And also being a none-adjective in a short manner. Let alone the show-off!
According to David, isn't it more common to refer to oneself as third-person in England than in the US? i.e. Hamlet page one: "Ferancisco: Bernardo? Bernardo: He." I've got an English friend who
OK Speedwell, in that case if I were a doctor I would rather be an "abuser" than a "misuser!" Any comment on Belinda's "about?"
I think that has a lot to do with whereabout you are. I am always afraid of speaking to elderly native English speaking people since the way we speak English here in Denmark may sound totally vulgar.
Oh yeah, "abuse" why did it skip my mind? "Mr. Speedwell" got my question quite write. I was looking for the words that could get "ab" as prefix. Use-abuse, normal-abnormal etc. no matter what the roo
Abbie, we are just a bunch of dumb-ass red-necks, we have never saw a book in our lives. You should consider the fact that not everyone is as smart as you are. Does anyone have a comment on Jutta's
I had a problem to find a word (an adjective) which meant "related to or derived from Zen" when I was writing an article about a Japanese performance. I searched to see what adjective I can find. I d
I'm sexist! Sexi[e]st, sexy st. or/and St. Sexy! However does S EXIST? S: "X is T." (Here S stands for Socrates; don't mix up with Samuel Beckett or Saddam) Yeah, SEX is TEA.
I just did not know that this kinda trade still exists. I guess I'm being too inosent!
I was reading the translation of Wim Wenders' The Act of Seeing and there the translator had a footnote that ended thus: ...(Trans.). I guess that publishers use different system of punctuation. The
OK. Webster online says "A verbal or acted enigma based upon a word which has two or more significant syllables or parts, each of which, as well as the word itself, is to be guessed from the descripti
Y stands for year. Do you mean K stands for "kilo"? The year 2 kilo problem?!!!
Sorry, it was stupid of me to spell pawNshop, pawnshop three times. Nevertheless, I still wonder, is a pawnshop TODAY a place to pawn something for money? Or it became generalized to some sort of shop
that was a great remark speedwell.
Jun-Dai, I too said that "he" is the subject. Noone said "seasons" is the subject. I was referring to the proposition matter you mentioned. I thought that "in" better stay where it is. You didn't answ
Just a guess; Don't you people think that "to be in (a show)" is a phrasal verb in "Which seasons is he not in?" which is a spoken way of asking "Which season [is it that] he is not in?". I have hear
Jun-Dai you did not get the point mate.
In to my surprise I found this word that we use every day: Become!
What I've learned is: "Subject + used to + verb" indicates an activity or a state which does not occur any more. "When she was young, she used to sing at the church." means that she did it ONLY when s
I too always thought of it in the sense MDT mentioned below. Once I was asking a guy if he had a girlfriend and he sang: " No woman, no cry!" However Speedwell is right, you gotta ask a native Jamai
Just remembered that Q.T. in Pulp Fiction script had things like "whatch ya're gonna..." as far as I recall. Is that a correct way of writing it?
That qoutation ain't really hitting nothing about Grotowski, I should say. Check out the "tata, hoho" post, by the way
Sven,you got it wrong man. Though you, mentioning the New Oelean Jazz may ring a bell. However, it's Dean Andrews who says "You got the right ta-ta, but the wrong ho-ho" when he denies that Clay shaw
Not quite postmodern, but I'm troubled with a beardy Polish man, named Jerzy Grotowski who once said "I said yes to past". However, he had a research program known as the paratheatre. Do you know an
Scots? That's a wee bit difficult, though nice try. We mighn't ge' whatch ya sayin' anymore, love"!
Speedwel I think Alec is somehow right. I don't know about Australia but I can notice this "he" and "His" a lot more in the English English books more then one could find in American's for instance.
OK! The charactor who says this "ta-ta, ho-ho" (if you have seen the film) says a hell a lot of other wierd stuff. The thing is that thoes things which he adds to the end of his lines in the film are
You're teacher was right speedwell. The "gender" in language(s) has little to do with "sex". Even in the languages where a same pronoun is used for the both "sexes" there could still be a distinguish
So I just wonder why can't one create the new word, "odditiness". I mean what's the red line of right or wrong when it comes to composing new words? I have before mentioned that Derrida for instance d
By the way, could you give some example of the facetious use of "be-"?
I'm sorry speedwell, but I just don't get when this "modern times" are! You agree that the words mention "below" are still used, so what does "in modern times words are no longer formed by adding "be-
Being obsolete is actually helpfulin this case, I think. It gives a hint of the ansient and archaic taste as the word has it originaly. But I must make sure if using "be-" is not wrong. If so, "bemart
sorry I miss spelled, I meant "Benighted".
I thought it's worth to add that this "Were" and its conjugation for the first and the third singular person in the old English has to do with the old Germanic roots. There were no distinguishes of th
American Herutage says: "Subjunctive: Of, relating to, or being a mood of a verb used in some languages for contingent or hypothetical action, action viewed subjectively, or grammatically subordinate
C'mon for the sake of all poor-second-language-learners Speedwell. That's the whole point with my problem. If only I were living in an English country I wouldn't have much trouble as I do now. That't
But can one classify the Major methods of teach/learning English? How have they been made? When and where have these method been started? I'm getting curious all about it. It's now more than just
No comments on relationship. Though I had the same confusion when I for the first time came across "If I were...". I couldn't understand why it was "were" where I would expect it should be "was". The
Hi speedwell Do you also say "Let me know the 411" in your erea or it's just NY slang? I got that in an e-mail from a guy who's originally from San Francisco but lives in NYC. By the way, may I ask
I was confused on the S because I see that Iranian and Spanish peoples have difficulty pronuncing the words which beging with S following a consonant, such as speak. They'd pronunce "Espeak". So I was
How about the word like reconceptualization? Do you consider it as a three-major-stressed word?
What are those "few examples" Adam?
Speedwell Tanx f' da link! How the hell did you find it? I've still got difficulties to make sense of many of them.
Dear Adam The kind of D you are talking about I guess have nothing to do with the sound of TH in English. Because I do believe the TH stuff comes from Indo-European roots. i.e. Mithra in Indian. It
Dear Adam The kind of D you are talking about I guess have nothing to do with the sound of TH in English. Because I do believe the TH stuff comes from Indo-European roots. i.e. Mithra in Indian. It
Right you are. You just add an apostrophe to the end of the word when it ends with S, I do believe. I'm learning Danish now and there is a bigger problem there, that is in Danish possessive form of
It may clarify the question. We never say "People is..." We always say "People are..." Besides, many of dictionaries say "plural: people ". See Longman for example. Or check this out: http://www


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Shel Silverstein, Lafcadio: the Lion Who Shot Back (HarperCollins, 1963)
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"I never planned to write or draw for kids. It was Tomi Ungerer, a friend of mine, who insisted ... practically dragged me, kicking and screaming, into [editor] Ursula Nordstrom's office. And she convinced me that Tomi was right, I could do children's books." Shel Silverstein
The first time I bumped into the work of Shel Silverstein, he was an aging Lothario whose poems and distinctive line drawings and cartoons graced the pages of Playboy magazine. I was a teenager, and I read this glossy monthly for the quality short stories and lifestyle articles they published. I so treaured this bastion of 20th century literature and taste that I hid my copies of the magazine in a box in my closet so they would not be accidentally lost or destroyed. Silverstein, long, rangy, bald, with a chin-lining beard, was also a songwriter (and folk-singer) who provided hits for Johnny Cash and Dr. Hook. However, in true Renaissance-man style, that wasn't the end of his talents. He wrote books for children too!
He called himself Uncle Shelby, and in 1963 HarperCollins released the first of a series of Uncle Shelby's tales that would charm children and parents for over 40 years. The earliest book for discussion, his first, is Lafcadio: the Lion Who Shot Back. It seems as though the title tells the whole story. But does it? The hero of the tale doesn't even have a name when he is introduced. He's simply a lion, living in the jungle with a bunch of other lions: "if he did have a name ... it ... wasn't ... like Joe or Ernie ... it was more ... like ... Grograph or Ruggrrg or Grmmff or Grrrrr." He is awakened by the sound of a gun. The great white hunter confronts our lion and, after a brief negotiation in which the lion volunteers to act as a lion skin rug in front of his fire without all the shooting, discovers that he forgot to load his gun. This proves to be a costly mistake as the lion eats the hunter and takes possession of his rifle. After some practice he finds himself able to shoot quite well, and begins a collection of "hunter skin rugs." He is taken to the city by an entrepreneur who names him Lafcadio and makes him a star. How does it end? Well, that would be cheating. Uncle Shelby spins a clever and playful yarn. Suffice it to say you'll be pleasantly surprised.
A Giraffe and a Half followed the next year. It's an imaginative example of one of those add and subtract prose poems that children find so appealing. I should mention that Silverstein's books are all filled with his quaint and humourous pen and ink drawings to illustrate the tales. In this volume, a little boy starts with a giraffe stretches him by half puts on a hat in which resides a rat dresses him in a suit that looks rather cute well, you get the idea. About halfway through he starts removing the items until at the end of the book there's a little boy with a giraffe. The rhyming and juxtaposition is fun and entertaining. It's not rocket science, but then it doesn't take rocket science to entertain a five or six year old. We road tested these stories on my wife's kindergarten class ... and teacher got a laugh too!
The Missing Piece is a brief fable about a circle with a piece missing (as you might imagine). Dissatisfied with life as an incomplete sphere he rolls clumsily along trying to assimilate many and varied pieces and having adventures. It all comes down to not being happy with the way you are. Sound familiar? Uncle Shelby provides a sly and satisfying conclusion, which should keep everyone happy, except for the real stick-in-the-mud out there. The drawings are primitive and absolutely delightful.
While The Missing Piece is, well, "missing" from the first book, it is (dare I say it?) the pièce de resistance of the second volume. The Missing Piece Meets the Big O is an equally charming fable teaching a different (but every bit as important) lesson. The Missing Piece shows us that we can be happy just the way we are while ...Meets the Big O teaches us that change is not only possible, but sometimes is as healthy as it is inevitable. These two complementary books are my favourites of this Silverstein collection.
The final book is an anthology of unrelated poems and drawings entitled Falling Up. Silverstein understood the children's mentality. He knew to avoid the sentimentality and treacle which pervades the weakest of children's literature. He understood the young person's fascination with jokes and worms and mice and bodily functions, and the edge that is often required to keep kids interested.
"I tripped on my shoelace
and I fell up[high in the sky 'til]
...it got me so dizzy
when I looked around,
I got sick to my stomach
and I threw down."
You get the idea? A sneaky cousin goes for a ride in a washing machine; a dancing bear escapes from a county fair; the furniture got broke HOW?
"The hand of the clock
punched the foot of the bed,
so the foot of the bed
kicked the seat of the chair,
so the seat of the chair
sat on the head of the table..."
...and on it went until nothing was left but "sawdust and springs."
Brilliant and hilarious, and lots of fabulously funny drawings to illustrate the poems.
Shel Silverstein (who died of a heart attack in 1999) was much more than the aging Lothario who was Hef's right-hand man. He was more than the singer-songwriter who was "being swallowed by a boa constrictor," or found himself on "the cover of the Rolling Stone." He was a gifted and sensitive author of books for young people who managed to write in a way that would entertain parents and kids alike. So that no one would get that sinking feeling when their little girl says, "Read ...the Big O again, Daddy."
Thanks, Uncle Shelby.
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