Contents The show is produced by Chuck Lorre Productions and Warner Brothers Television. The executive producers in this season were Chuck Lorre and Lee Arohnson. Gary Hovalson, Assad Kelada, Pamela Fryman and J.D. Lobue were directors in this season; Lorre and Arohnson were head writers. Other writers in this season were Susan Beavers, Don Foster, Eddie Gorodetsky, Mark Roberts and Jeff Abugov. This season was nominated for six Primetime Emmy Awards and won one Creative Arts Emmy Awards for Outstanding Multi-Camera Sound Mixing for a Series or Special. Conchata Ferrell and Holland Taylor received Emmy nominations for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Comedy Series. Charlie Sheen was nominated for a Golden Globe Award for Best Performance by an Actor in a Television Series-Musical or Comedy. This season also won the BMI TV Music Awards for the show's theme song. It also won another music award, the ASCAP Film Award and Television Music Awards. It was also nominated for a GLAAD Media Award . Alan learns that Charlie belongs to an exclusive men's group, and he begs his brother to let him join. When Charlie doesn't, Alan tries to contact his old friends, but discovers that Judith befriended them and turned almost all of them against him. Eventually, Charlie lets Alan in to his group, but Alan begins to irritate everyone and ends up getting himself tied to a streetlamp. Guest stars Elvis Costello , Sean Penn , Bobby Cooper and Harry Dean Stanton as themselves, who are part of Charlie's exclusive group. Title quotation from : Sean Penn, to Elvis Costello, about turning one of Sean's recent events into a song. Judith is dating Jake's pediatrician, Greg ( Ryan Stiles ), and Alan is upset at the thought of Judith being with another man – until Charlie points out that if she remarries, his alimony payments will end, so Alan attempts to befriend him. While giving Greg a massage, Judith walks in on them, and Alan snaps Greg's neck accidentally in panic – causing him to pay more money than he had to in the first place. First appearance of : Greg Melnick (later renamed "Herb") Title quotation from : Charlie, in response to Judith telling the pediatrician to "not forget the garlic balls". When Jake gets in trouble at school for giving his teacher, Delores Pasternak ( Missi Pyle ), the finger, Charlie decides to woo her as an attempt of saving Jake from being suspended. Jake then catches the two in the middle of the night. When Alan finds out, he insists that Charlie break it off, but later insists that Charlie not because Jake has been getting great grades on his papers. Charlie breaks it off with Delores, anyway, due to the fact she wants a commitment, and she punishes Jake by giving him double the amount of his regular homework. Title quotation from : Alan, reading out Jake's answer to the question, "What is Sacajawea ?" on his History test. Jake is very impressed with his mother's new boyfriend, Greg, after Greg teaches him various activities which annoys Alan. Meanwhile, Evelyn borrows Charlie's car to help her impress a Saudi prince she's trying to sell a house to and lends Charlie her electric car. Alan and Charlie then teach Jake how to drive in this car. Judith breaks up with Greg and Alan is there to support her; the two begin to have sex until Jake and Charlie walk in on them, but Jake doesn't believe Charlie when he explains that Alan and Judith were about to sleep together. Title quotation from : Evelyn, to Charlie, asking him to retrieve her $300 bra from his car in which she had sex. Charlie meets his match when he falls for a woman (Sherri, played by Jeri Ryan ) who's better at playing hard to get than he is. After repeatedly using him for sex, Charlie tries to get revenge on Sherri, but ends up punishing himself too. Meanwhile, Alan has a hard time teaching Jake to do his homework, and Jake is upset at the fact Charlie keeps eating all of his food. While out at a family meal, Evelyn lets out a secret of Alan's past – he shop lifted when he was younger. Alan denies having shoplifted a toy as a child and fears he has a dark side, until Charlie admits he planted the toy on Alan to stay out of trouble himself. Alan finds it impossible to forgive Charlie until Evelyn asks Alan to move in with her because of Alan's dislike towards his brother. Title quotation from : The anal Alan, after Charlie questions his habit of flossing after every meal. Charlie and Alan end up having to throw a party for Evelyn at the house. Berta hires her sister, Daisy ( Camryn Manheim ), to help out with the planning, but the two can't stop bickering. Eventually, Charlie has a talk with Daisy, and she agrees to help out. However, this backfires when the guests of the party focus on her singing rather than Evelyn. Evelyn then begins moaning at Alan and Charlie, as does Judith when she thinks they taught Jake to be sarcastic towards her. Alan meets a woman named Nancy at a grocery store, who fulfils every single one of his desires, forcing Charlie to take care of Jake. After only knowing Nancy for a few days Alan decides to ask her to marry him, prompting Charlie to try to talk him out of it, and he even gets help from the brothers' mother. Alan calls Nancy to propose to her, but she then tells him that her husband has returned from his vacation trip early—causing her relationship with Alan to terminate. Title quotation from : Rose, to Charlie, after seeing Alan chase Nancy around the house. (This was a deleted scene from the episode.) When Charlie leaves the house to avoid a date that he can't stand, he ends up at a coffee shop, where he reconnects with his old girlfriend Lisa (Denise Richards), now a divorcée with a child. Meanwhile, Alan walks in on Charlie's date in the shower and she frighteningly attacks him and Jake uses this situation to blackmail Alan; Jake tries numerous excuses to justify why he is getting bad grades. Title quotation from : Lisa, when Charlie asks her to act like a Catholic schoolgirl in bed. Charlie tries to get Jake's approval on a theme song that he is hired to write for a television show, which is based on a comic book of which Jake is a fan. But Jake doesn't like Charlie's idea and the two write a new song instead. Meanwhile, Alan and Rose begin to spend time together and eventually share a kiss; they later decide to remain just friends. After getting unusually turned down at a bar, Charlie learns from Jake that a website has been made dedicated to exposing his lifestyle. Charlie sets out to find who created the site, making amends to all those he stood up, but the website is still standing. It isn't until Charlie apologies to Rose that the website is fully shut down. Meanwhile, Alan thinks that Judith wants to get back with him after hearing her talk to her mother on Jake's webcam. Title quotation from : Berta, when explaining to Alan that she has several tattoos. Alan is jealous of Charlie when an old classmate, Jamie Eckelberry ( Paget Brewster ), who's now a beautiful woman, seems to be more interested in Charlie, before it is revealed that she hates him and worked hard to make herself a beautiful woman to rub his nose in it. She reveals that she used to be interested in Alan when they were younger, but shoots him down after he asks if they could try to go back to that now. Title quotation from : Charlie, when trying to prove to Jamie that Alan is a better man than he is, after Alan tells Charlie to talk him up. Alan invites Judith to stay at Charlie's place after an earthquake severely damages the plumbing in her house. When Judith goes out on a date, Alan becomes extremely jealous and somehow ends up letting Judith throw him out of Charlie's house. Charlie then sets Alan up with a beautiful woman he knows, which makes Judith jealous and leave the house. Title quotation from : Charlie, attempting to tell Alan how to say "go faster" in Polish. Alan and Charlie help Jake study for a History test which he passes. When Evelyn manages to make this into a bad thing and sucks the self-esteem out of Jake, Alan furiously throws her out and tells her she can't see her grandson. Later, Alan receives a call that Evelyn has been taken to hospital. He and Charlie realize that it's fake and pretend to go along with it by suggesting surgery. However, when she goes along with the ruse, it makes Charlie and Alan's efforts to expose her futile. The episode ends with Evelyn shown to be temporarily living with Charlie and Alan after the surgery. Title quotation from : A drunk Charlie, when saying to Jake what he likes to eat as a dessert. Alan starts to worry about a medical procedure that he is facing, and to get his mind off it Charlie suggests they go to Las Vegas. Berta overhears this and invites her friends over for a party. However, Jake becomes ill beforehand and then tells Judith everything on the phone. A furious Judith then comes over to scold the two, but Charlie and Alan decide to go anyway until Jake becomes ill again (causing Alan to realize he's going to face it sooner or later). Charlie and Alan then head downstairs after putting Jake to bed to find Berta hosting a party. Title quotation from : Alan, to Judith, after she disbelieves that Jake became ill. When Judith decides to take a vacation, Alan has to take care of Jake during the week. After a hard day at work, Alan forgets to pick Jake up from school, and then finds out that he has an important meeting at work the next day, meaning Charlie has to look after Jake. Charlie then forgets to pick Jake up from school as well. Title quotation from : Jake, as one of his questions to George Washington for his homework. After Charlie has back pain, he refuses to accept help from Alan, who decides to take him to the hospital, where he keeps hitting on his doctor ( Alicia Coppola ), unaware that he has dated her before. Meanwhile, Berta is fed up with Jake's inability to use the bathroom properly, and gives him a day of cleaning. Title quotation from : Charlie, at the doctor's after taking a shot of painkillers. Charlie is invited to a party hosted by a gay ad-executive named Eric ( David Starzyk ), so Charlie asks Alan to pretend that he is his life partner. Charlie then meets Eric's gorgeous ex-wife ( Lucy Lawless ) who doesn't believe him when he claims he is straight. Charlie then returns home to find out that Eric had tried to hit on Alan. Title quotation from : Charlie, correcting his mother as to which play he dressed up as characters in as a child. After Charlie injures Alan by throwing toast at him, he takes Alan to an eye doctor; they later end up at the coffee shop where they bump into Charlie's ex-girlfriend, Sherri (previously seen in " Bad News from the Clinic "). While there Alan shows an interest in Sherri, and decides to ask her out. The problem is that Alan can't get over Sherri's relationship with Charlie, causing her to angrily break up with him. Title quotation from : The sound that Alan uses to name "the planet" that Sherri is from immediately after he says to Charlie, "She's just like a regular person, except for, you know, being from the planet". [ 20 ] Evelyn rings the house phone, and Charlie answers. Evelyn frustrates him in a matter of minutes. Meanwhile, Alan answers the door to Judith, who ends up frustrating him. Alan and Charlie then take their problems out on each other. The next day, they reconcile, until Charlie finds out that Berta threw out his expensive clothes. Rose steps in to resolve the issue, and they spend the afternoon discussing Charlie and Alan's problems with each other. Title quotation from : Charlie, when explaining to Rose why he told all of his friends that Alan was a shaved monkey. Evelyn reads in the obituaries that her second husband, Harry, has died. They all attend the funeral, including Jake who is excited at the opportunity of seeing a "dead guy." Charlie is excited by the opportunity of a newly single widow, and Alan is just happy to pay his respects to Harry. Evelyn tells her sons a secret: her husband had cheated on her, and she still loved him; it turns out that her husband then cheated on the girl with whom he cheated on Evelyn. Title quotation from : Alan, accusing Charlie of hitting on the widow at the funeral. Alan gets a new sports car which everyone claims is a woman's car. When asked where he got the money, Alan claims he "found it," until finally telling Charlie that his mother lent him the money. Charlie warns that she'll want pay back, and sure enough she asks Alan to go on a double-date with her. She then doesn't show up, leaving Alan with his recovering alcoholic date, Trudy ( Chloe Webb ). After she passes out, he takes her home and leaves her in his car, but accidentally leaves the keys in the car and the garage door open. Trudy is then seen on the news driving his car down a freeway at high speed. Title quotation from : Alan, to Trudy, correcting her when she says that her father is doing "some old hose bag". Evelyn demands Jake spend a night at her place when she finds out he spent Spring Break with Judith's parents. Neither Alan nor Charlie are keen on the idea, but going to a bar after dropping off Jake quickly erases their concerns when a group of attractive women show up. Evelyn tries to get Jake to eat sushi and squab , which Jake doesn't like. She then makes him spaghetti, which she throws over him after he scares her, making her jump. Jake then takes a bath but leaves the tap on, causing the ceiling to break and the wave of water to come crashing down on Evelyn. Alan and Charlie then decide that Jake is "the chosen one" because he "broke her" (Evelyn). Title quotation from : Jake, experimenting in different voices the name of the food Evelyn offers him. Jake has to read a report of his weekend to his class. In the report, it is revealed that Charlie slept with an older man's (Norman) wife, who then came to the house to seek revenge on Charlie. Charlie and Norman eventually talk things out, and Norman becomes attracted to Evelyn when she shows up. Evelyn tells Berta, Alan, Charlie and Jake to go and see a movie. When they return, they walk in on Evelyn and Norman having sex. Meanwhile, Jake is oblivious to everything around him (even Norman's wife sneaking out of the house) because he has lost his Game Boy and can't find it. He eventually finds it when taking a pee in the plants. Orson Bean guest stars as Norman, the older man whose wife had slept with Charlie. Title quotation from : Jake, when asking Alan if his Game Boy smells funny. (It is implied that it is because Jake peed on it.) This season was the highest rated season of Two and a Half Men, with an estimate viewership of 16.5 million. Also, the episode "Squab, Squab, Squab, Squab, Squab", received the show's second highest viewership with 24.2 million viewership, only surpassed by the ninth season's premiere, "Nice to Meet You, Walden Schmidt" with 28.74 million.


The TV miniseries was supposed to première at the very beginning of April 2005 in the Vatican , but it was delayed due to the Pope's death. It was broadcast for the first time by the Italian television station Canale 5 on the first day of the 2005 papal election . Although it was originally broadcast on television, it was also released in theaters, which allowed the film to be shown in Poland. At Lublin University, a student gives his name as Martin Mickiewicz, and Father Karol responds, "That's quite a name to live up to." This is a reference to Polish national poet, Adam Mickiewicz . People did not talk and/or clap in church until the late 1970s and early 1980s due to a canon law that still exists, forbidding actions that are "contrary to the sacred nature" of the Church. (Canon 1210)


Buy & download fulltext article: In 1923 Air Ministry regulations explicitly excluded recruits who were not of `pure European descent' from joining the Royal Air Force. Similar restrictions were placed on the British army and Royal Navy in the interwar period. Such rejection was present but occurred less systematically during the First World War. Kushner analyses the intellectual foundations of this discriminatory policy and the problems of definition it created before September 1939. He then explores how and why policy was changed during the Second World War, asking whether greater inclusivity was based on expediency or a change in attitudes due to the fight against Nazism. In particular, the role of race science is highlighted, explaining the persistence in exclusion of those deemed non-European well beyond 1945. Finally, he argues that the implementation of a wide-ranging colour bar has still to be acknowledged or subject to sustained memory work within the armed services and British society as a whole.


We're in for a Long, Exhausting World Series It was a surprise to learn that last night's oh boy that happened fast ninth-inning "comeback" 2-1 win for the Rangers over the Cardinals in Game 2 of the World Series was the first time a team had lost a ninth-inning lead since Game 7 of the 2001 World Series. Sorry to bring that up, but that does seem like a long time. You mean to tell me that every single time a team has led after eight innings in the World Series for the last ten years they've won the game? That takes some of the drama out of it, don't it? Well, it did until last night. [ Cries. ] Of course, we haven't had a Game 7 of the World Series since 2002, and it kinda looks like we're in for one of those too. Jason Motte, the fireballing former catcher who might have been born with a beard, really only threw one bad pitch last night, a cutter that caught too much of the plate and was ripped by Elvis Andrus for a single in the ninth inning. This was right after a bloop hit by Ian Kinsler, and right before an error by Albert Pujols sent Andrus to second. Before you knew it, the Cardinals had gone from three outs away from a 2-0 World Series lead to a near-impossible situation: runners on second and third, no outs, and the meat of the Rangers' order coming up. We agree with those who say Tony La Russa, whose hot streak finally cooled last night, probably should have left in Motte to face Josh Hamilton; more than anything, the Cardinals needed a strikeout, and they were far more likely to get that from Motte, no matter how rattled he might have been, than from Arthur Rhodes, whose fastball could not dent a Buick. But it's not as if Rhodes and Lance Lynn, who came in after Rhodes gave up a sac fly to Hamilton, were lit up. They each gave up sacrifice flies, and that was all the Rangers needed. By the time La Russa made the switch from Motte, the damage was done. The real problem wasn't the bullpen, as much as it feels like it this morning. (For the record, it also feels like my brain is engulfed in flame this morning, as I type. October baseball, with the late nights and the screaming and the alcohol that comes with it, is hazardous to vital organs.) The problem was the fact that the Cardinals couldn't hit. Jaime Garcia threw seven brilliant shutout innings, but the Cardinals couldn't get him more than one run against Colby Lewis, a solid but hittable pitcher. Albert Pujols didn't stay and answer questions after the game -- a practice that annoys media people and only media people; no one else cares, at all  -- but his 0-for-4 night wasn't the only Cardinals issues. Pujols, Lance Berkman, Matt Holliday, and Yadier Molina, the Cardinals' four All-Star hitters, went a combined 1-for-13 last night. The only run scored thanks to another pinch hit by Allen Craig off Alexi Ogando; you'll be seeing a ton of Craig when the series gets to the American League tomorrow. But the Cardinals can't expect to win with those four guys going 1-for-13. That's what cost the Cardinals last night. Motte just caught some bad luck ... and threw one bad pitch. If you have been enjoying these tight, taut, quick, low-scoring games, that enjoyment is about to end. The series heads to the launching pad  -- such a great baseball term, "launching pad"  -- and features some league-average starters facing some of the best hitters in baseball. The level of offense in this series is about to increase exponentially. As is the level of tension. The series, so close to a 2-0 Cardinals lead, is tied, and it's gonna be a damned opera every freaking night for the next week. We're in for an all-timer here, folks. It's not going to be easy for anybody. Gird your livers.


Playing on the 'other' Gazza We  arrived  in  the  land  of  big  things  and  took  in  the  new  ground.  Metricon  Stadium  has  a  roof  like  a  crinkle  cut  potato  chip;  a  really  big  potato  chip.  It  curves  around  the  top  of  the  stadium  in  a  horse  shoe  shape  leaving  one  end  open  to  the  world  like  a  giant  front  door. What  does  Metricon  mean?  What  do  they  do?  I  believe  they  build  things. In  Queensland  they  are  trying  to  build  another  football  team;  the  Suns.  But  football  teams  are  made  of  people.  The  building  process  is  infinitely  complicated.  At  least  they  have  a  home. They'll  assemble  the  Suns'  squad  around  a  muscular,  sporting  freak.  A  man  who  can  swivel  and  baulk  with  magic  in  his  legs.  The  ball  sits  in  his  hands  with  the  same  ease  that  a  bunch  of  grapes  lay  in  the  grasp  of  a  Roman  Emperor  and  he  kicks  it  with  uncanny  precision.  He  can  also  run  this  bloke.  It's  an  interesting  gait  that  he  has;  hunched  at  the  shoulders,  low  like  a  prowling  leopard,  a  combination  of  burst  and  bust.  His  shiny,  sweaty  head  makes  him  look  even  more  poised  in  full  flight.  He's  my  little  bald  mate.  He's  Gazza. I'll  play  on  Gazza  but  not  the  one  I  know.  He  won't  be  wearing  the  blue  and  white  hooped  jumper  that  was  once  tattooed  onto  his  body;  he'll  be  wearing  the  jarring  red  guernsey  of  the  Gold  Coast  Suns.  It  sits  awkwardly  on  his  frame  like  a  hat  on  a  horse.  He's  now  our  foe.  But  how  can  he  be  an  enemy?  We  both  have  the  same  premiership  medallions  forged  out  of  blood  and  sweat  and  worn  around  our  necks  on  those  last  Saturdays  in  September  2007  and  2009.  We're  brothers.  Isn't  that  what  premierships  do,  make  men  brothers? But  once  he  puts  on  his  new  red  armour  we  must  try  to  bring  him  down.  We'll  batter  him,  pound  him,  and  exhaust  him  until  his  skill  is  blunted.  It's  an  outrage.  Scotty  wants  me  to  stay  goal  side  of  him.  I'll  do  my  best,  but  it  will  be  a  bit  like  staying  goal  side  of  the  equator.  You  can't  simply  corner  a  player  like  Gazza  for  the  same  reasons  that  you  can't  hold  back  water  with  an  open  hand  or  crush  the  human  spirit  by  erecting  a  wall. The  scoreboard  doesn't  matter.  We'll  win.  A  bigger  battle  will  be  unfolding;  the  battle  with  ourselves.  When  we  crunch  Gazza  we'll  be  crunching  a  little  piece  of  us,  when  we  sing  the  song  in  the  rooms  after  the  game  a  note  will  be  missing. The  fireworks  blast  off,  the  first  siren  sounds,  and  we  go  after  Gazza.  We  block  him,  cajole  him,  and  harass  him.  But  it  seems  the  Suns  have  the  planets  aligned.  Kids  with  pimples  and  blotchy  arms  kick  some  goals  and  we  look  old;  old  and  tired.  We  feel  old.  The  ball  is  falling  their  way  because  they  haven't  been  around  long  enough  to  question  its  shape.  Experience  tells  players  to  be  wary  of  the  oval  ball,  to  acknowledge  the  absurdity  of  the  unpredictable  bounce.  But  a  lot  of  the  Suns  have  no  experience.  The  ball  is  the  toy  and  the  paddock  is  the  stage  and  they  want  to  play. Names  are  placed  in  the  reference  library  of  my  mind  for  future  seasons;  Zac  Smith,  McKenzie,  Swallow,  Weller,  May,  Krakouer.  The  Suns  are  21  points  clear.  Incredible.  We're  scrapping  our  way  around  the  turf  like  a  walrus  on  the  sand.  Red  flags  and  music  bursts  greet  moments  of  joy  for  the  Suns.  In  the  first  half  they  have  nine  of  them. I  find  Gazza  at  the  centre  bounces  when  it's  my  turn  to  block  out  the  sun  in  the  light  towers.  With  each  attack  he  takes  longer  to  get  up.  Skill  is  succumbing  to  the  brutality  of  defence.  We  are  taking  turns  to  knock  the  stuffing  out  of  him.  It  seems  to  me  that  as  Gazza's  energy  is  sapped  so  the  shine  of  the  young  Suns  fades.  He's  the  barometer,  the  peg  in  the  ground  upon  which  the  Sun's  tent  will  be  hitched.  When  it's  loosed  so  are  they.  They  are  learning  about  the  value  of  physical  strength;  of  concerted,  unflinching  concentration.  But  they  are  learning  quickly. Johnno  plucks  the  ball  inside  our  forward  fifty  like  he's  picking  apples  from  a  tree  and  kicks  four  goals  in  the  third  quarter.  The  kids  with  pimples  and  blotchy  arms  fall  apart  like  wet  paper.  Pods  grabs  the  ball  out  of  the  sky,  we  win  it  in  the  middle  and  slice  through  their  hearts  like  a  fisherman  gutting  a  trout.  Thirteen  goals  to  one  after  half  time  kill  the  red  army's  joy. He  went  to  Queensland  for  the  challenge,  for  the  opportunity  to  be  part  of  something  new,  to  lead  a  team  of  youngsters  to  the  dais  on  Grand  Final  day.  He  plays  in  a  team  whose  front  door  is  wide  open,  welcoming  the  locals  to  be  involved  in  the  story.  One  day  they  might  get  there  and  if  they  do  Gazza  will  have  another  family  of  premiership  brothers,  but  I  still  think  he'll  call  Geelong  home. The Suns actually impressed me a lot (even though the Cats were awful early). They'll be good in a few years, especially up there. The young fella McKenzie is the best kick of the football I've seen since Jarman. I agree re Trent McKenzie. Played his early junior football at Altona before coming across to Williamstown for a couple of years prior to getting selected by the GC. I think he is a relative (nephew?) of Williamstown Team of the Century player Brett McTaggart. Seeing the comraderie between Gazza and Geelong players after the game reminded me again to not soak up the media's views verbatim. There was genuine love and respect, built from years of knowing and trusting one another. These are profound and resiliant qualities. For all the superficial analysis of whether someone is following the money there has been scant regard given to what the players truly know and think of each other. We got a glimpse after the siren sounded. I also saw the sign and wasn't so impressed. But I suppose if you are at risk of losing more players to interstate clubs, and you aren't confident that your offering is going to be sufficient to make them stay, you have to provide more. Especially if history has already shown star players and successful coaches are very keen to leave. You have to introduce additional incentives for players. However, if I was Chappie, I would want to see some photos before making any decision. I found the whole game difficult to take. Seeing Geelong players trying to tackle Ablett instead of blocking for him just didn't look right. Seeing Ablett running at full speed in the opposite direction to the Geelong goal looked even worse. At least we won. Not looking forward to the day when the Ablett Suns actually beat us. Regarding Chappy: I think he was distracted by that sign. He had three shots at goal and missed them all. Dips, very creative way of telling the yarn. I think R. Kane's point re the media constructing the terms of the discussion is a good one. More on that from me tomorrow, once I have a few things out of the way today. I am also enjoying the AF style of jousting. Very parliamentary. Menzies: the member ofr Woop Woop has the brains of a sheep. Speaker: retract that statement. Menzies: the member ofr Woop Woop does not have the brains of a sheep. Gold Coast did well for the first half and could be a a very good team in four or five years. As a Geelong supporter, I was pleased with the Geelong players treatment of Ablett during and after the game. I agree with Rick Kane's comment on the media. Most of the mainstream media coverage of AFL football is trivial and celebrity nonsense. On the question of Gary Ablett, I believe he was given an offer that he could not refuse; it was reported to be $1.8 million dollars per year for five years with most of it to be paid in the first few years. Ablett gave great service to Geelong for nine years and will be remembered as a great player. The Gold Coast offer to Ablett reminds me of what the great Bob Rose once said. He left Collingwood in the late 1950?s to coach Wangaratta Rovers in the Ovens and Murray League for more than double money. Apparently, He was earning 400 pounds a year at Collingwood and Wangaratta Rovers offered him 1,000 pounds a year. He said it was like winning Tattslotto. I have great memories of watching Rose play for Wang. Rovers, especially the 1962 O & M League grand final; he was a fantastic footballer. Mark -- Bobby Davis retired from football because the media offered him a better deal. I think he was only 28. I've heard a few commentators saying that Geelong players showed too much love to Gazza after the game.If Gold Coast were at the top of the table and a September rival this might be valid, but given they are not I thought the scenes after the game were very uplifting. JB Can't see why Carlton should be more upset than Geelong about mercenary behaviour if Judd were to go. After all that was how you got Judd in the first place. Phanto, your comments about Magpie players going to GWs are becoming increasingly shrill. Is this a sign that you are finally realising that none of our key player are leaving? Daisy Thomas, after his brilliant last few weeks, will be getting a lot more money next year, but he will be getting it from the Pies not the Giants. If every one at Collywood is to get remuneration commensurate with their superstar premiership player status next year (when ten premiership players will be out of contract) there will have to be some salary cap pressure unless there is some special deal akin to the you don'thave to travel clause. Those who miss out, and some will have to, will move on and subsequently the list will be weakened. It's not rocket science. Currently injuries are a challenge at Collywood as they are at all clubs. You don't want grumpy monkies going elsewhere after they fill in for the injured superstars only to be dropped when the finals campaign that they underpinned starts. I am sure that Collingwood will eventually lose players through salary cap pressure but they will not lose their top players. A lot of experienced players left at the end of last year. That decreased salary cap pressure. Two out of Tarrant, Davis and Johnson will be veterans next year (and the third may well retire if we win a second flag). Many of our best players are young and can be offered structured contracts because they will be at the club long enough to collect if the contracts are backended. Even though our seconds "lack depth" we do have a few players struggling to force their way into the firsts who would look good at GWS. With free agency looming and Collingwood having a lot of young talented players there might be problems holding players in the future but it won't happen until long after the Gold Coast/GWS special concessions have passed that looks like you are shifting a bit. Pleased to have been of assistance in this important break through in attitude adjustment. We can add another quality to the list for Pies supporters: strategically flexible. I still strongly believe that one, or more, of your big boys will go soon. It will be interesting to see how much Collingwood bleat about the salary cap pressure on stars and how many they are able to keep. More importantly, will the top tier take reduced contracts to be part of an era, or will they take the crazy money? I am not bitter about Gary going, as that has allowed many who were in his shadow to bloom in the light (thinks, James Kelly). I was impressed by the fact that the game plan against Gazza was so subtle and profound and above all else, effective. Never has he had 30 touches to so little effect, and the give+go which was the foundation stone of his game was utterly obliterated. I am proud that we didn't need to go the cheap shot to make our point, and that the context of the contest was highlighted both by he and Bomber Thompson sitting together at Bob Davis' funeral service, and by the expressions of respect and genuine undying cameraderie after the game. Kudos to Gary for that as well. The willingness of key players to committ to, and to receive long term committments from the club also speaks volumes of a deep club culture that is vastly more appealing than the superficial flirtations evident in certain some other clubs. Stars such as Selwood, Bartel, Scarlet and Kelly are now, and will always be Cats. The incredible imbalance of footy reporting and representation was inadvertently highlighted in a segment of The Marngrook Footy Show tonight. Andrew Krakouer was the special guest. After highlighting several of his great marks and extraordinary goals Gilbert McAdam took pause. He raised the issue of when Krakouer made a x sign with his arms after kicking a goal. The issue had been the subject of great debate in the mainstream footy media when it occured. McAdam said, "Andrew, you brought a tear to my eye when you sent a message to your brother. It really took my breath away. I knew you as a kid and with what you've been through, it was just ..." and he trailed off. Andrew replied, "I am honoured that you would say that". He went on to explain that he wasn't trying to offend anyone. He had spoken to his brother earlier in the day and his brother had asked him to give him a sign when he scored a goal. "It was for my brother, no one else". The conversation was touching and genuine. You almost felt like you were eavesdropping. In all the discussion about Krakouer's gesture, I haven't heard one commentator say that it almost brought him/her to tears. Wow! That's a story, that's footy right there. Brothers, family, struggles, hard work, luck, belief, and within the corporate controls of the product we know as Australian Rules, individuals will still find individual ways to show the undying determination that the circle be unbroken. I reacted as you did Rick. I hope some of the tabloid reporters who tried to get a cheap "outrage" story out of Krakouer's gesture were watching the Marn Grook show tonight, but I suspect even if they were they wouldn't have "got it" Rick -- great point you make. I take no offense at all if a bloke wants to make some sort of gesture so long is its not an obviously insulting one. The other great gesture of course was Nicky Winmar's jumper lift -- what a profound impact that had. And Damian Oliver's signal to the heavens after his Melbourne Cup victory in memory of his brother. This all goes to one of my great gripes with the modern media -- they want to make the news not report it. They sit in anticipation of a bloke like Krakouer doing something that they can jump on. They even made a story of the banner held up at Metricon Stadium last week where a bloke was suggesting to Chappy that he would let him roll with his wife in the hay. How pathetic. Was it bad taste? Probably but is there no humour anymore? As the great Neil Young sings on his magnificent album called Greendale: "They (the media) don't have any respect, so they'll get none of mine." Or as little Elvis (that's Elvis Costello) said about radio: "I wanna bite the hand that feeds me, I wanna bite that hand so badly". I was aghast when I saw the sign from the Gold Coast game but more angered that Channel10 or 7 or whoever chose to screen it. It's one thing for a dickhead to make a throwback banner that maybe 10,000 might see, it's another thing for the TV station to screen it for upwards of hundreds of thousands. There is also the messaging behind screening the banner (which was not solely done in good humour) and that is to reinforce a balance of superiority of the more cultured (gentrified) states against our more simple new friends. Ie.- They have a lot to learn (from us). It was a cheap gag but an even cheaper shot.


Lyrics Depot is your source of lyrics to It Had to Be You by Ray Charles. Please check back for more Ray Charles lyrics. It Had to Be You Lyrics Artist: Ray Charles Album: The Genius of Ray Charles [Atlantic] It had to be you. It had to be you. I've wandered around, finally found somebody who, could make me be true. Whoa whoa whoa could make me be blue. And, even be glad just to be sad thinkin' of you... Some others I've seen - might never be mean. Might never be cross. Or, try to be boss. But, they wouldn't do. For nobody else gave me a thrill. With all your faults I love you still. It had to be you. Wonderful you. It had to be you... <Piano Solo> 'Cause nobody else gave me a thrill. With all yo' faults - I love you still now. And it had to be you. It just had to be you. It had to be you... Comments/Interpretations by Darlene hampton on 8/13/2012 8:24am I read the new york times bestselling fifth shades so, when the movie comes out I hope this song is recognize in the movie as it is in the book because the lyric in the song is what christian grey saw in anastasia steel. Love the books can not wait for the movie.


Self employed lone parent Hi everyone, here's my situation: I'm a lone parent with 2 small kids and I've been offered a job in Central London as mother's help/nanny. Since I have a Bachelor's Degree in Preschool Teaching and I have experience in childcare, how much do you thing I should charge per hour? The thing is that I will be self employed and I don't really know how much your salary is reduced, so I was wondering what rate should I tell my employer? By the way, she agreed to pay my travelling expenses as well, which will be 25,50 pounds per week (I will be working 16 hours per week and I will pay aproximately 250 pounds per week in childcare for my kids). Nannies / mothers help are not self employed. You will be doing a part time job just like anyone else. Your employer will I expect, tell you when to arrive, when to leave, what to do. What makes you think it's something that you can do as a business? Nannies get paid various salaries depending on location and experience. You may be looking at somewhere from 7 to 13 per hour calculated out to an annual salary. You will be paying 200 a week for childcare for your own children. That means that your job will need to pay more than that. Assuming no other income (such as income support or other benefits), then to get a take home pay of 200 a week, I make it that you have to be earning 13.92 gross an hour, if you work 16 hours a week. PAYE Calculator which will do Net to Gross Working in childcare is not going to pay you enough in my view for you to afford childcare for your own two children. It may be more financially viable once both children are in full time school, so you are able to work a significant number of hours during which you are not paying for childcare. Perhaps you can get some funding towards the cost of your own childcare, such as childcare element of working tax credit. However that funding may be available now but it might not in future and will be affected by how much you earn. Are you being forced to find a job? Thanx everyone for your advice but i've decided not to take this job because it turns out that i will be paying 300(!) per week for childcare and only getting 160. Yes, i'm entittled to working tax credit because i'm a lone parent, but still that wouldn't be enough... My children are 3y and 20m but the nursery hours won't much (for the 3y old) because it was an afternoon job 15:00-20:00. Anyway, other than that, we had a disagreement about my employment status which she was insisting that i would be self employed but in the HMRC website says that this is not a matter of choice, so according to my circumstances i was going to be employed.


Ruth Singer recaps some of the interesting points of the last week's Linguistics in the Pub , an informal gathering of linguists and language activists that is held monthly in Melbourne A number of linguists in Melbourne have recently begun documenting child language in the field. In the November 2011 LIP we discussed what you need to think about if you want to document child language and why you might document child language as part of a broader language documentation project (see blog at http://www.paradisec.org.au/blog/2011/11\\... The most recent LIP, led by Lauren Gawne and Birgit Hellwig last week, revisited the topic of child language documentation. This allowed those who have recently returned from the field to discuss some of the problems they faced and how they dealt with them. In particular, we looked at the gap between what is possible in remote fieldsites and some of the assumptions in the field of child language acquisition about what type of data is needed to study child language development. The quantity and frequency of data that can be collected in remote fieldsites is quite different to what can be done in the developed world. The limitations can be quite simple. For example, not being able to get accurate information on children's ages. To kick off the discussion we looked at ethics, from a personal point of view. The previous LIP on child language was criticised for focussing too much on the requirements of institutional ethics boards at universities, schools etc. So we discussed what types of decisions researchers had made to satisfy their own ethical concerns. A number of researchers said that they had no plans to make their recordings public. This goes against the current trend to make recordings of endangered languages as open as possible, given community consent. Just to give an example, I have decided to keep access to my recordings of child language closed, until the children are 18. If they are happy for me to open access to their recordings after they are 18, I will do so. However since I am currently recording children in groups at least 3 people, it is likely that in many cases I will not be able to contact all participants so the recording will remain closed. One of the issues we returned to a number of times in the evenings is that our recordings are often made in open environments, which means that many people wander through the field of view. This is in contrast to mainstream child language data, which is usually made in a room through which only a limited number of people pass by. It was mentioned that the CHILDES language database is a great example of an open access archive but it lacks much data from endangered languages. CHILDES contains data recorded from many different studies of child language acquisition. However to upload data to CHILDES you must have the consent of every person who appears, even if just walking past. This is not going to be possible for many recordings of endangered languages in remote areas. It is often difficult to find a room to record in and even if one is found, it is likely that many people will pass through it. Some of the other assumptions about child language acquisition research that can prove difficult in remote settings: that a mother and child pair form natural conversational partners (they may rarely engage in idle chit-chat) that adults typically play with children (it may be the case that children typically play with other children, not adults Since it is often difficult for a mother-child pair to engage in conversation in front of the camera, some suggested structured tasks, such as those used at Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics. Although others pointed out that this makes it difficult to study language socialization, because you are asking people to engage in a culturally foreign activity. Others suggested identifying local games that could be used in language acquisition research. One big problem in applying the standards of child language acquisition research to remote contexts is the difficulty of obtaining recordings of the same child over regular intervals. Many of the linguists attending the LIP session work in Papua New Guinea and Australian Aboriginal communities. They pointed out that children and often their whole families move around much more than they had expected. The set of children living in a community may barely overlap from one fieldtrip to the next.  In addition, some child language researchers recommend making recordings every 2 months or so, and it is not possible to do this in remote settings. The limitations are partly financial and partly due to the time needed for the linguist to travel to the remote location from their home. There was quite a bit of time devoted to the technology used to record children, who are rather more mobile than adults. One researcher recommended the use of teddy-bear shaped backpacks for children. These can carry the heavy transmitter of the radio microphone. Everyone agreed that noise is a big issue. Even if there is no wind, which small radio microphones don't handle well, children's motion invariably causes noise. One researcher only recorded in areas without many leaves as the noise of these being crushed beneath children's running feet was too loud. Birgit Hellwig discussed some of the data from her recent 2 month fieldtrip to Papua New Guinea which she did with child language acquisition specialist Evan Kidd (ANU). She said that by the end of the 2 months, the community they were visiting had more or less gotten used to the cameras and exactly what it meant to have child language researchers in the community. One thing that Birgit emphasised is that what participants need to do is not as obvious to them as we might think. Birgit gave a lovely example in the use of the frog story task. The frog story 'Frog: where are you?', is a short children's picture book without any words. Children were asked to tell the story in their own words. It became apparent during the course of Birgit's 2 month fieldtrip that changes in how children told the story from week to week were related to narrative practices in the community. The story was circulating in the community, just as any story does, and changing slightly over the course of time. Rather than each new child that particpated in the task telling the story afresh, 'in their own words', each told it as it was in its current form in the community. This resulted in remarkable convergence between tellings that were recorded around the same time. It became clear from the discussion that we can't expect to do research on child language in the same way as it is done in more controlled environments. We will not get comparable quantities of data for each child. However, whatever we do record is likely to be really interesting. We only have data on child language for a small number of languages, so anything will help. 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My Dad used to sing a song to my brother in about 1938, which had the opening lyric "There was a china man with pig tail spic and span ha ha ha ha he he..." Unfortunately that's all I know of the song and would really like to find out the name of it. Any help would be appreciated, thank you. There was a man from Chinatown his name was Licka Lacka Lee Law Chan His head was tall and his feet were small and this little man had no nose at all Licka Lacka Lee Law Hey Indora Icky Picky Pikey OK They rolled him in the park one day and frightened all the kids away They rolled him here, they rolled him there, they rolled him in a bamboo chair. Licka Lacka Lee Law Hey Indora, In-Di-Ora, Icky Picky Pikey OK There was a Chinaman With pigtails spick and span Ah hah ha ha ha ha Who never would go out When there was rain about Ah hah ha ha ha ha For rain, he used to say, Washed pigtails all away Ah hah ha ha ha ha ha ha So indoors he would stay On every rainy day Ah hah ha ha ha ha My Great Grandma used to sing this song to me and I would dearly love to find the lyrics. She sang it something like this: In China there lived a China man, his name was Ching-a-rie-Ching-a-rie Chan, His legs were long and his feet were small, this ChinaMan couldn't walk at all...singing, Ching-a-rie, ching-a-rie Chan, riddle me this and (?)... Scallopy, wallopy chinaco My grandfather used to sing this one to all the grandchildren back in the 70's & 80's :) Chick a chaloo chaloo chapan wallapa wallapa China Man... There once there was a China man, his name was Chicka chaloo chapan His head was big and his feet were small, so the poor China man couldn't walk. Alas the China man to die and in his coffin he did lie They sent the coffin to Japan and that was the end of the China man. my grandma taught me a version of this song, though it went a little different: in all japan there lived a man: his name was chika-racka-chi-chai-chang. his legs were long, his feet were small, the poor old man couldn't walk at all, and they were singing; chicka-racka-chi-chai-cho-chocalorum-win\\... the servants used to carry him out on their backs and the folks did shout: "here he comes! there he goes! the poor old chap with the funny funny nose!" and they were singing: chicka-racka-chi-chai-cho-chocalorum-win\\... Ok so my version I was thought when I was young is nothing like this.... The once was a china man called chickaraca chickaraca chichickalora bombilora willy willy wack ohko ohko tiddy fi tiddy fi chinese talk they took him on a motor car told him not to go to far the word was said he fell on his head and that was the end of the china man Once in China there was a funny man his name was chikaraka chou chai chan his body was long his legs were short the poor little man could hardly walk, chikaraka chou chai chan chatty borra umdiddle ora alow wallow waxi oki doki hit him on the boki itchi gotchi itchi gotchi twinkle, There are more verses to this but can't remember them and there seems to be many different versions to this?? There was a poor old China man, his name was Chinka-chaloo-chahan, His teeth were short, his nose was long and this is the way he walked along. Chinka-chaloo-chaloo-cha-pan, al-up-ee, al-up-ee, chinka-cha-lol-up-ee, Chinka-chaloo-chaloo-cha-pan, al-up-ee, al-up-ee, Chinaman. At last, this poor o;d man he died, and in his coffin he did lie, They sent his coffin to Japan and this is the way his epitaph ran. Chinka-chaloo-chaloo-cha-pan, al-up-ee, al-up-ee, chinka-cha-lol-up-ee, Chinka-chaloo-chaloo-cha-pan, al-up-ee, al-up-ee, Chinaman. there was an old man from china town his name was inki pinki poo pa chan he had long legs and a turned down nose...the poor old man with the turned up toes. inki pinki poo-pa chan chickalo-ra bobtailo-ra paddywaddywack oko doko witamonatoko wittama dittama cheerioko Lots of different versions of this song! My mother would sing a version of this when my brothers and I were children - 1950's. She also loved to sing Johnny Rebeck to us. These are the words she taught us: There once was a Chinaman, who lived in old Japan, His name was Chick-a-rie, Chick-a-rie Chan. His feet were long, his toes were short And this is the way the Chinaman talked, There once was a man a funny little man His name was kinko kine-a- man His legs were tall and his feet were small And the poor little msn couldnt walk at all Sing ching- GA-lora, ching- GA-lora ching- GA-lora hidey - pok- aWAY! There once was a man, a funny little man, his name was Chingco china man His legs were tall and his feet were small, and the poor little fellow couldn't walk at all. Sing chingalor chingalor chingalora hidy chuckaway Iddy oddy ocka, hit him in the poka Iddy oddy ocka , um pa pa Hi, Stephen- Well, the song is certainly racist. Whether the thread is racist or not, is another matter. Whatever the case, racist or not, the song in question is certainly a real folk song and a very good example of the folk process, how a song may take many different paths and develop many different versions. But you're right...I cringe every time this thread comes up on the Forum Menu. Thanks for your constructive answer. I agree that Mudcat is not racist and sometimes very progressive. However a lot of people happen upon this site and a thread like this doesnt give a good first impression when they look at Mudcat. My own personal view of such playground songs is that they can lead to bullying and worse. I would really love to know the origin of this song too. Again, to me it was a silly weird song my mother used to sing back in the 60's and 70's when my sister and I were very young. Our version very similar. In China once there lived a man, His name was Chik-a-lee Chik-a-lee Chan His feet were long and his toes were short, And this is the way the Chinaman talked... dad sang us this song handed down to his family from the ballarat goldfields there once was a jolly little chinaman with a nid nod nid nod nid youve never seen such a little chinaman with a nid nod nid nod nid, down to the woodshed he went one day ,went one day,went one day to gather little sticks together so , so just to gather little sticks together so and his dear little wife she would say oh! with a nid nod nid nid nod nid nod nid nod nid nid nod nid nid Once in China I met a funny man his name was Chicaracka Chu Chi Chan His arms were long - his legs were short the poor old man could hardly walk Chicaracka Chu Chi Chai Chickanora punchinorra ala wala winkle Chicaracka Chu Chi Chai Chickanora punchinorra ala wala winkle This old man he went to sea to see the sights of the Kangaree The ship got lost and so you see The poor old man got drownded Chicaracka Chu Chi Chai Chickanora punchinorra ala wala winkle Chicaracka Chu Chi Chai Chickanora punchinorra ala wala winkle My grandad taught me this song, I am reading it at his funeral next week. I remember telling this poem to a pair of chinese exchange students asking them to translate it as I really thought it was in the chinese language! (well i was only 11) :0) There once was a China Man, His Name was Chicka Lacka Lee Chaw Chan, his head was big and his feet were small and this little china man, he couldnt walk at all.... ere's how i heard it in the 50's at camp china man had a wife led him such an awful life cut his pigtails off so long sold them for a chinese song chikerack a chee chy cho chickalarro bungo lorro piggy wiggy wago hoco poco hit em on the coco chitterbee chitterby chee chi cho We had a version of this song which has passed through the generations...we wanted to research tongue twisters for a project that my son is doing and I am amazed at all the versions I have found on this site. In China there lived a Chinaman, his name was chickaracka-chee-chan-chan. His feet were long and his legs were small and the poor little man couldn't walk at all. So they took him up to the top of a hill And they rolled him down like a rolling pin. With a.... Chicka-racka-chee-chan-chor-chickalorum, pongo-lorum,many-pee-cat, Cat go to go etty-ketty-catty-go, aye Japan Chinaman, chinese coo. From what I remember my mom used to sing to me when I was 4 or 5.(I'm 70 now) In China there lived a little man, his name was Chingling, chingling Chan. His legs were short, his feet were small, this little man couldn't walk at all. Miska Hi was short and fat, she had money & he had none, under her window he would go and play a tune on his little banjo. Miska Hi with notes of love, held her washboard high above, let it fall on Chingling Chan and that was the last of the China man. If this thread offends you...why do you click on it? It doesn't just..come up. This was just a little song my mom used to sing to us kids. Was curious when & why it originated. There was no bigotry or racist comments in it...click on something else or get a life. Ginner, the song stereotypes and ridicules an ethnic group - that fits the classic definition of bigotry to a "t," even though you and your mother think it cute. We don't suppress songs like this because they have historic and folkloric value - but that doesn't mean we can't complain about them. Songs like this aren't cute - they're nasty, obscene, and bigoted. Although it's a song that comes from a history of ethnic bigotry, it's still worthwhile to study the song and its versions. Such songs are often true examples of the "folk process" because they aren't the kind of songs publishers would publish. This song became a pop song called "Chickery Chick" in the 1940s, with lyrics that had nothing to do with anybody of any ethnic descent. Here's an article about the song from Time Magazine, December 3, 1945: In the '70s, collegians at Amherst set the l00-year-old jingle to music and sang it over pots of ale, when they wanted to prove that they could walk a musical straight line. One of the many versions ran like this: In China there lived a little man His name was Chingery-ri-chan-chan, His feet were large and his head was small, And this little man had no brains at all. Chingery-rico-rico-day ekel tekel Hap py man. Kuan-a-desco cartty-o gallopy-wallopy-china-go. Last week this old tongue twister, with new and even less intelligible lyrics, was the fast-climbing No. 2 seller in Billboard magazine's poll of record sales. It was well on its way to join Mairzy Boats and the Hut Sut Song in the jabberwocky Valhalla of the jukebox. Twenty-nine-year-old Arkansas-born Jo Proffitt had changed the Chinaman into a chick, and called it Chickery Chick. She sent the lyrics to Tin Pan Alleysmith Sidney Lippman, who added some new notes. Now it describes a chicken who got bored with saying "chick chick" all day, astounds his companions with some jived-up poultry poetry: Chickery-chick cha-la cha-la, Check-a-la-romey in a ba-nan-i-ka... . Tin Pan Alley actuarians estimate that the U.S. will need about three months to get over it. CHAPTER XXI. CUPID'S LAST APPEARANCE. A picnic supper on the grass followed the games, and then, as twilight began to fall, the young people were marshaled to the coach-house, now transformed into a rustic theater. One big door was open, and seats, arranged lengthwise, faced the red table-cloths which formed the curtain. A row of lamps made very good foot-lights, and an invisible band performed a Wagner-like overture on combs, tin trumpets, drums, and pipes, with an accompaniment of suppressed laughter. Many of the children had never seen anything like it, and sat staring about them in mute admiration and expectancy; but the older ones criticised freely, and indulged in wild speculations as to the meaning of various convulsions of nature going on behind the curtain. While Teacher was dressing the actresses for the tragedy, Miss Celia and Thorny, who were old hands at this sort of amusement, gave a "Potato" pantomime as a side show. Across an empty stall a green cloth was fastened, so high that the heads of the operators were not seen. A little curtain flew up, disclosing the front of a Chinese pagoda painted on pasteboard, with a door and window which opened quite naturally. This stood on one side, several green trees with paper lanterns hanging from the boughs were on the other side, and the words "Tea Garden," printed over the top, showed the nature of this charming spot. Few of the children had ever seen the immortal Punch and Judy, so this was a most agreeable novelty, and before they could make out what it meant, a voice began to sing, so distinctly that every word was heard: "In China there lived a little man, His name was Chingery Wangery Chan." Here the hero "took the stage" with great dignity, clad in a loose yellow jacket over a blue skirt, which concealed the hand that made his body. A pointed hat adorned his head, and on removing this to bow he disclosed a bald pate with a black queue in the middle, and a Chinese face nicely painted on the potato, the lower part of which was hollowed out to fit Thorny's first finger, while his thumb and second finger were in the sleeves of the yellow jacket, making a lively pair of arms. While he saluted, the song went on: "His legs were short, his feet were small, And this little man could not walk at all." Which assertion was proved to be false by the agility with which the "little man" danced a jig in time to the rollicking chorus: At the close of the dance and chorus, Chan retired into the tea garden, and drank so many cups of the national beverage, with such comic gestures, that the spectators were almost sorry when the opening of the opposite window drew all eyes in that direction. At the lattice appeared a lovely being; for this potato had been pared, and on the white surface were painted pretty pink cheeks, red lips, black eyes, and oblique brows; through the tuft of dark silk on the head were stuck several glittering pins, and a pink jacket shrouded the plump figure of this capital little Chinese lady. After peeping coyly out, so that all could see and admire, she fell to counting the money from a purse, so large her small hands could hardly hold it on the window seat. While she did this, the song went on to explain: "Miss Ki Hi was short and squat, She had money and he had not; So off to her he resolved to go, And play her a tune on his little banjo." During the chorus to this verse Chan was seen tuning his instrument in the garden, and at the end sallied gallantly forth to sing the following tender strain: It never occurred to me that it was bad. I just thought it was full of nonsense words and the rythem was catchy. My version is COMPLETELY different from all that I have read here. My grandmother who was born in 1918 sang this to me when i was little. In china once there lived a man. His name was Chickala Chickala Chan. His fingers were long and his toes were short. And this is the way the poor china men talk. Wow, I had no idea there were so many versions! Here's how it was sung to us as kids: There was a Chinaman; lived in Japan His name was Chickala Chickala Chan His legs were long and his knees were knocked And this is the way the Chinaman talked A chickala chee chileye chilo A chickala Romeo and a banana go Walaka walaka chance to see In a banana go alchio The Chinaman he did up and die and in his coffin he did lie They sent him back to old Japan and this is the way his epitaph ran (Refrain) P.S. This version of the song goes back at least four generations in my family. My Great Grandpa worked in the coal minds. I have Irish and Chinese blood. Talk about a double whammy. This Song was not passed down in my family to be derogatory. I think it would be sad if we ever take political correctness to the point where we are afraid to laugh at ourselves. As long as you are fair about it, humor can just as easily unite us. I have never listened to this song, and thought, hay man, that??s me. Even as a Child I didn??t make that leap. I know I tease with my friends all the time, but the intent is never mean. This is just a nostalgic and historic breakdown of a song. This is not a political statement. I am an American, but I??m not going to take Yankee Doodle out of context. There lived in China a very fine man His name was chee karaka cheek you can his legs were fat and his feet were small The chinese man he couldn't walk at all. Chee karaka, chee karaka, cheek you can Cupa laura, cupa laura was a very fine man. Banga, hoola, izzy kizzy kizzy was a chinese moon. She was a lovely kind and gentle person and no racist comment was every intended. It was a fun tongue twister - plain and simple. I've been looking for lyrics to this song for a number of years. I never knew there were so many versions or that it went back so far, but I guess that is common. I believe my mom and her sister learned this song in camp back in the 30's/40's. My mom used to sing this "silly song" to me when I was a kid (60's/70's) and I loved it. Of course, we didn't worry about political correctness back then. I've never been successful in finding any reference on the internet - probably because of the differences in the version that they sang: the refrain of which went something like: Sadly my mom passed away recently, but I'll have to see if my aunt can still recall or rederive the lyrics that they learned. I think my mom was hesitant to sing this song to me in recent years because my own daughters are Chinese and she didn't want to give the wrong impression. Ironically, it wasn't until my own daughter learned the song "Chickery Chick" in music class this year and came home singing it that I was able to make the connection. I'd never heard of that song, but it was apparently a pop hit in the 40's. I'll be sure and post "our" version of the song if my (now 85 year old) aunt can remember it. Once there was a Chinaman His name was Chika Chika Chan His body was long his legs were thin Huliga Muliga Chinaman. Chinaman he did die. In a coffin he did lie Took his body to Japan To buy some tea for the Chinaman. Hickory choo, choo July, Hockery Rooney In a pialli pialli padu It doesn't agree Huliga Muliga Chinaman.


In the December 2012 issue of World Soccer maverick Manchester City striker Mario Balotelli is the subject of our Player Profile. Secrets of the Dressing Room is a special report into what goes on behind closed doors in the world of professional football. Vincent Kompany is interviewed about the renaissance in Belgian football, and we also speak to international coach Sinisa Mihajlovic about Serbia's problems on and off the pitch. This month's tactics looks at the changing role of the playmaker, while our players to watch are the stars of the Euro Under-21 play-offs. This month's Dispatches features the man prepared to take on the hooligan gangs in Argentina, Malaga's march in Europe, incompetent officiating in Italy, plus many more reports from around the world. In today's World Soccer Daily, Zlatan Ibrahimovic scores the goal that his talents deserve, Suarez linked with move though cynics may wonder who is doing the linking, kung fu fighting on the pitch, father sacks son and installs himself in his place, social media blunting players communication. In today's World Soccer Daily, do foreign players dive more than English players, Chelsea case against Clattenburg evaporates, which country's players play the most passes, most popular clubs in the world according to Facebook likes, Bebeto's genes were successfully passed on to his son, coach trips player as he races down the touchline. In today's World Soccer Daily, Levante mock Real Madrid, former great Popescu given three-year suspended sentence for his part in corruption ring, fans rally round to help save Real Oviedo, Zenit fans decide to burn down the stadium, international arrested for drug dealing, Zimbabwe coach warned by FIFA. In today's World Soccer Daily, Lampard set for China adventure, Italian fans confront players over poor form, Suarez demonstrates his enduring unpopularity, arrival of Del Piero proves too much for Sydney FC coach, Solskjaer can do little wrong, the numbers stack up for Messi to set new milestone. After defecting from his native Yugoslavia, international striker Steve Zungul carved out a hugely successful career for himself playing indoor football in the United States, before returning to the outdoor game and enjoying further success.


get connected Connect with neighbors and improve your neighborhood's safety on the 29th annual National Night Out on Tuesday. For more information visit, www.natw.org/nno/about.html , or to go to WhitePages at neighbors.whitepages.com, to look up and get in touch with neighbors or to use the site's Block Party Invite and RSVP System to coordinate get-togethers. WhitePages partners with the National Association of Town Watch to make reaching out to neighbors easier. JENNY BRITT admits she doesn't know her neighbors in Ghent on the Square in Norfolk - not the ones upstairs who occasionally used to leave loud music on when they left their condo, or the ones who walk their dogs when she walks Scooter, her Welsh corgi. Ironically, though, she knows the neighbors' dogs' names. With a bid on a single-family home under consideration, Britt and her boyfriend are hoping with a move comes change. "I'm trying to be better when we meet (neighbors) by saying their names over and over in my head," she said. "I have a lot of work to do." Britt shouldn't be embarrassed by her admission; She's far from alone. According to a survey conducted online in June 2011 by Harris Interactive on behalf of WhitePages, 41 percent of participants could identify their neighbors' first names, while 27 percent knew their neighbors' pets and 24 percent their neighbors' kids. WhitePages provides contact information for millions of people and businesses in the U.S. Activities and gatherings such as the annual National Night Out by the National Association of Town Watch - being held Tuesday - started in 1984 to promote neighborhood involvement in crime and drug prevention, strengthen police-community relations and encourage camaraderie among neighbors. Since its inception, the event has grown to involve more than 37 million people from more than 15,000 communities, according to Town Watch's website, natw.org. "In our fight for a safer nation, National Night Out has proven to be an effective, inexpensive and enjoyable program to promote neighborhood spirit and police-community partnerships," said Matt Peskin, the association's executive director and National Night Out creator. "If you look at the 1940s and the 1950s, neighborhoods were safer places because people knew each other. Neighborhoods today are not as tightly knit as they used to be, even with Facebook and other social media tools at their disposal." For Brenda Armitage, a real-estate agent with All Pros Realty in Virginia Beach, a close call with tragedy ignited her passion to connect with neighbors. Six years ago, Armitage's then-3-year-old daughter was hit by a car on her bike in front of the family's Carolanne Farms neighborhood at the Beach. Armitage began advocating for the neighborhood children by trying to get a sign installed warning drivers to go slow because children were at play. This effort led Armitage, a mother of three, to revitalize Carolanne Farms' civic league, organize block parties, and start an annual luminary event called "Share Your Light Night" and an annual Fourth of July parade in the Kempsville neighborhood. "Create a village," said Armitage. "The meaning of your life day-to-day is enriched" by neighbors, she said. Armitage also advocates the use of social media to communicate with neighbor. It's successful, she said. On Facebook, the Carolanne Farms - Arrowhead Neighbors page is rich with comments; 357 people are members. Neighborly posts include a missing-dog notification, an inquiry about a reliable auto mechanic, a yard-sale post and a warning that cars had been broken into and registrations, or a phone, stolen. "Honestly the most effective communication tool is Facebook or email," said Armitage, who recently used the Neighbors' page to find a tiller and a teenager to help her whip her flower beds back into shape. "In a community everybody has a set of skills that can be utilized," Armitage said. Armitage's passion carries over into her profession. During a recent sale of a house in Indian Lakes, she asked the neighbors selling their house to compile a list of four neighbors on either side, and eight across the street, plus other information, like which neighbor kids baby-sit, which mow lawns and other pertinent information for the buyers. It's all about making an effort, she said. But not every neighbor is cooperative. There's the neighbor who doesn't pick up after his or her dog, or uses the leaf blower at early hours, or blares music in the middle of the night. Denise Holden, who lives with her family in Hunt Club Forest in Virginia Beach, has seen - and heard - it all. "I was block captain, and as soon as people found out I was in the civic league, they would bring me their issues," wrote Holden on Facebook. "At first, I tried to be helpful, and then I thought, 'Why am I always the bad guy?' " The department's inspectors have the power to decide if something is bad enough, and fine the home owner if the problem continues, she wrote. "I used them to get rid of some drug dealers" because it's much "faster to go after the house," Holden said. Cities' animal control divisions also are a good source, she said, because they try to help smooth things over with neighbors and animal lovers. "You are insulting someone's 'family' when you complain about their barking dog," Holden wrote. And, of course, there are the police. "If you're unsure, if you don't feel comfortable talking to someone, the best thing to do is pick up the phone and call us, and we'll send somebody out there, and we'll go out and talk to them," said Sharon Brady, custodian of records for Emergency Communications, Citizens Services 911 Division with the Virginia Beach Police Department. But, Brady said, it's much better to have a rapport with your neighbors so you don't have to call the police to mediate. "Strike up a conversation with them," Brady suggested. But, "if you're uncomfortable, and you don't know them well enough, send a police officer, it's what we do." While Holden said she has called the police about things like fireworks being shot over their house and kids egging cars, she and her husband know "almost all of our neighbors, even vacation with them. We remember birthdays, celebrate events, and borrow mowers." Holden said you'd be surprised at what having a good, old-fashioned conversation can do. "Let them know what's important to you," she said. "Inviting (neighbors) over for a beer in the driveway works wonders!" As for Jenny Britt at Ghent on the Square, connections and relationships are important. That's why, if the house sale off Lafayette Boulevard in Norfolk goes through, she will make the effort to get to know her neighbors. "To not have a connection to people who are right next to you is strange to me," Britt said. COMMENTS ADVISORY: Users are solely responsible for opinions they post here; comments do not reflect the views of The Virginian-Pilot or its websites. Users must follow agreed-upon rules: Be civil, be clean, be on topic; don't attack private individuals, other users or classes of people. Read the full rules here. - Comments are automatically checked for inappropriate language, but readers might find some comments offensive or inaccurate. If you believe a comment violates our rules, click the report violation link below it.


Over 3,000 Leaks Found in Study of Boston's Natural Gas Pipelines Benefit From the Latest Energy Trends and Investment Opportunities before the mainstream media and investing public are aware they even exist. The Free Oilprice.com Energy Intelligence Report gives you this and much more. Click here to find out more. The city's aging natural-gas pipeline system is to blame, according to a new study by researchers at Boston and Duke Universities. Their findings appear this week in the journal Environmental Pollution . The new study comes in the wake of devastating fires fueled by natural gas during Hurricane Sandy. Potential damage to gas pipeline pressure regulators, caused by flooding in Hurricane Sandy, has raised ongoing safety concerns in New York and New Jersey. "While our study was not intended to assess explosion risks, we came across six locations in Boston where gas concentrations exceeded the threshold above which explosions can occur," says Nathan Phillips, associate professor in Boston University's Department of Earth and Environment and co-author of the study. Nationally, natural gas pipeline failures cause an average of 17 fatalities, 68 injuries, and $133 million in property damage annually, according to the US Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration. In addition to the explosion hazard, natural gas also poses a major environmental threat: methane, the primary ingredient of natural gas, is a powerful greenhouse gas that degrades air quality. Leaks in the United States contribute to $3 billion of lost and unaccounted for natural gas each year. "Repairing these leaks will improve air quality, increase consumer health and safety, and save money," says co-author Robert B. Jackson, a professor at Duke. "We just have to put the right financial incentives into place." Phillips and Jackson's teams collaborated with industry partners Robert Ackley of Gas Safety, Inc., and Eric Crosson of Picarro, Inc., on the study. They mapped the gas leaks under Boston using a new, high-precision methane analyzer installed in a GPS-equipped car. Driving all 785 road miles within city limits, the researchers discovered 3,356 leaks. The leaks were distributed evenly across neighborhoods and were associated with old cast-iron underground pipes, rather than neighborhood socioeconomic indicators. Levels of methane in the surface air on Boston's streets exceeded fifteen times the normal atmospheric background value. Like Boston, other cities with aging pipeline infrastructure may be prone to leaks. The researchers recommend coordinated gas-leaks mapping campaigns in cities where the infrastructure is deemed to be at risk. The researchers will continue to quantify the health, safety, environmental, and economic impacts of the leaks, which will be made available to policymakers and utilities as they work to replace and repair leaking natural gas pipeline infrastructure.


When the convenience of being able to leave gear securely locked up in vans and trailers causes the odd headache. The condensation on all my gear was terrible last night as i loaded from a cold van in the a very warm and humid marquee. One of my active speakers had a fault light on for a couple of hours and a lighting fixture failed, water was dripping off it so god knows what the pcb was like. Power leads were rigid and Lamps are also replaced more often, its not too bad if you can let things acclimatise but thats not always a luxury A dehumidifier is brilliant in a van or trailer (as long as the trailer is fairly airtight). Just run it on an extension cable. Unfortunately it won't solve the cold gear coming into a warm moist venue and the resulting condensation. Never mind the humidity, it's the temperature difference that's the real problem. If you have the space in the van, get yourself one of those paraffin pancake style coldframe/greenhouse heaters. They are very safe and stupidly cheap to run. Although this will raise the humidity slightly, this is more than outweighed by the fact that the warmer air can hold on to far more moisture. That heater burning direct in the van will make a lot of moisture that'll condense onto -- and inside -- the gear. I was rather assuming the O/P was taking the gear from a warm environment (home?) to a cold one (van) and then to a warm one again (venue). If the van is pre-heated by any means at all to something near the destination temperature then there will be no condensation. Water vapor is only released from saturated air when it becomes colder. If the equipment stays sensibly at the same temperature it will not cool the air, therefore there will be no condensation. Within reasonable limits it doesn't matter how much moisture the heater generates. While the walls of an unlined van will get quite wet (being a lot colder) anything completely within the enclosure and being kept warm will be fine. Finally, the actual dew point is a combination of humidity and temperature difference. You can play games with that fact. Re: Its that time of year [Re: Folderol ] #1018619 - 14/11/12 08:11 PM Edit Reply Quote Quote Folderol: I was rather assuming the O/P was taking the gear from a warm environment (home?) to a cold one (van) and then to a warm one again (venue). I think assuming this is dangerous. Quote Folderol: If the van is pre-heated by any means at all to something near the destination temperature then there will be no condensation. In the process of preheting with a wet heat source, water will condense onto the equipment being heated. I bet the gear will inevitably be somewhat cooler than the atmosphere from the heater. And even if the gear isn't cooler than the hot gasses from the heater, there will be times when the gear does get cooler, and then the 100 percent saturated air will give up it's moisture. Including inside the gear. Quote Folderol: Water vapor is only released from saturated air when it becomes colder. Water vapour is a gas. It condenses and this makes condensation. Quote Folderol: If the equipment stays sensibly at the same temperature it will not cool the air, therefore there will be no condensation. Gear, and our environment does not stay sensibly at the same temperature! So there will be condensation. Quote Folderol: Within reasonable limits it doesn't matter how much moisture the heater generates. Sorry, I want no water anywhere around. Quote Folderol: While the walls of an unlined van will get quite wet (being a lot colder) anything completely within the enclosure and being kept warm will be fine. Sorry, can't accept that. Water coating the inside of the van will evaporate, the humidity of the air inside will be 100 percent so any (even minute) changes in temperature and air pressure will result in condensation. Quote Folderol: Finally, the actual dew point is a combination of humidity and temperature difference. You can play games with that fact. I think you are playing games! One more point... apart form the fact that the world is much more complex than just one idealised aspect of theory. Burning hydrocarbons releases not only water but carbon dioxide, which when dissolved in water forms carbonic acid. Apart form being an acid, with all that implies, carbonic acid is a conductor. And that conductor will be present in switches, ribbon connectors, potentiometers and so forth, which often have different metals in contact ... which will result in galvanic corrosion and much electronic havoc. Please, people do not use wet, acidic heat to 'solve' a problem! Keep it simple, and assume nothing! By all means warm the gear up, but with nice dry heat.