Brisbane (Free subscription) | 07/10/2008
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Today's Blog Music (Free subscription) | 07/06/2008
in post Go-Kart Mozart - Sailor Boy from Doklands .
Lawyers, Guns and Money (Free subscription) | yesterday
This is more in Rob's and Scott's wheelhouse, but Tim at Walking the Berkshires is compiling a list of the "Top Ten Movie Soliloquies." He embeds Robert Shaw's famous Jaws monologue about the fate of the sailors on the USS Indianapolis , and in comments he adds a few others -- Gregory Peck in Mockingbird , Robert Duvall in Apocalypse Now , and so on. I suppose I'm usually not a fan of...
Times Online (Free subscription) | 07/20/2008
Until recently, YouTube featured a clip of Ben Ainslie and a Greek sailor before the start of an international Gold Cup race. Ainslie is blocking the Greek, legitimately, just messing him around, and the Greek is standing in his boat, swearing at the British sailor, who is blithely untroubled by the show of aggression. This is Ainslie at work, the quiet and modest double gold medallist...
News.com.au (Free subscription) | 07/04/2008
... more to do with a stress-type fracture rather than a break." Smith is already without Blues prop Ben Cross (knee and thumb) for six weeks after Origin III and is growing frustrated at the affect the series has had on his club. The coach said he presumed Buderus' injury was due to overuse. "Some clubs just get dealt way more tough cards than others this time of the year," he said. "It's like as...
From Sea To Shining Sea (Free subscription) | 07/06/2008
I am a sailor. I have been a sailor for many years, both a racing sailor and also one who likes to poke around and just enjoy the environment. As a sailor I am also somewhat of an environmentalist, and all of the sailors I know are also environmentalists – not environmentalist extremists, but environmentalists who also realize that there must be some balance in our...
WCBSTV.com: Your Source For New Yor (Free subscription) | 07/04/2008
... France locked in the Napoleanic Wars, the British Royal Navy faced a problem -- there were British sailors abandoning the fleet, especially for the more lucrative service on American merchant ships. So the Royal Navy began to stop and board American ships, searching for British sailors. They also impressed American merchants, forcing them to serve on Royal Naval ships.So the U.S....
Northwest Navigator (Free subscription) | 06/06/2008
More than 1,200 Sailors and guests attended the Commander, Navy Region Northwest memorial, June 4, at Naval Base Kitsap, Bangor, to honor a fallen Northwest Sailor. Lt. Jeffrey Ammon, 37, was killed in an improvised explosive device attack in the Aband district of Afghanistan, May 20. Rear Adm. James Symonds, commander, Navy Region Northwest said during the memorial that peace...
