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廣東話拼音參考表 Dec 4, 2016

wherestip wrote:

They must have a special way of pronouncing the Chinese character "柯" in HK.   :D  

http://www.taitau.net/lukko/lukko-3.htm
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O 呵 | OH 柯 | OI 愛 | OK 岳 | ON 安 | ONG 昂 | OO 塢 | OR 柯 |


 
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Cantonese Pronunciation Dec 4, 2016

ysun wrote:


http://www.taitau.net/lukko/lukko-3.htm
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O 呵 | OH 柯 | OI 愛 | OK 岳 | ON 安 | ONG 昂 | OO 塢 | OR 柯 |



Thanks, Yueyin.

That's a great piece of reference material you provided.


 
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“柯士甸”地铁系统 Dec 4, 2016

Steve,

这是约两年前的一条“旧闻”。不知这 “Serious discussions” 至今有何新进展?

Serious discussions underway about Austin subway system
http://www.kvue.com/news/local/serious-discussions-underway-about-austin-subway-system_20160425095527429/152631397


 
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pipe dream? Dec 5, 2016

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Steve,

这是约两年前的一条“旧闻”。不知这 “Serious discussions” 至今有何新进展?

Serious discussions underway about Austin subway system
http://www.kvue.com/news/local/serious-discussions-underway-about-austin-subway-system_20160425095527429/152631397


Yueyin,

I haven't heard anything about this. The discussions must not have been too "serious".

Anyway, a subway system for Austin seems like overkill to me. What works well for a big metropolitan area doesn't necessarily work well for a place like Austin that has a less concentrated downtown but has more of a sprawled out urban development.


 
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Obstacles Dec 5, 2016

wherestip wrote:

Anyway, a subway system for Austin seems like overkill to me. What works well for a big metropolitan area doesn't necessarily work well for a place like Austin that has a less concentrated downtown but has more of a sprawled out urban development.

Steve,

I think you are right. Another obstacle is its big cost.

http://kut.org/post/why-cant-austin-have-elaborate-subway-system


 
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Austin's Public Transportation Dec 5, 2016

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Steve,

I think you are right. Another obstacle is its big cost.

http://kut.org/post/why-cant-austin-have-elaborate-subway-system



Yueyin,

Definitely. Not only is it cost-prohibitive, you have to wonder how much benefit the majority of Austin's population could really get out of an expensive subway system like this built in and around downtown Austin.


BTW, here's a couple of opposing views on how successful the once much-ballyhooed Capital MetroRail really was ...



 
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Traffic jams in Austin Dec 5, 2016

wherestip wrote:

Yueyin,

Definitely. Not only is it cost-prohibitive, you have to wonder how much benefit the majority of Austin's population could really get out of an expensive subway system like this built in and around downtown Austin.


BTW, here's a couple of opposing views on how successful the once much-ballyhooed Capital MetroRail really was ...

Steve,

Probably, they put the Capital MetroRail system in wrong places at a wrong time. With traffic jams during rush hours in Austin like this, they must find a solution to the problem sooner or later.



 
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Relaxation Dec 5, 2016

It seems to me that some of the travelers enjoy being caught in a traffic jam in Beijing:




[Edited at 2016-12-05 18:52 GMT]


 
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实拍高速路堵车6小时 大妈跳起广场舞 Dec 5, 2016

http://v.ifeng.com/vblog/dv/201611/04c07447-60c0-4f3f-a68b-519ca0523fb8.shtml

[Edited at 2016-12-05 18:53 GMT]


 
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Pearl Harbor Remembered Dec 7, 2016

http://www.history.co.uk/study-topics/history-of-ww2/pearl-harbor



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The causes of the attack on Pearl Harbor stemmed from intensifying Japanese-American rivalry in the Pacific. Japan’s imperial ambitions had been evident from as early as 1931, when she invaded Manchuria. The conquered region’s bountiful resources were then used to supply Japan’s war machine. Leaving the League of Nations in 1933, Japan pursued an aggressive foreign policy aimed at creating the ‘Greater East Asia Co-prosperity Sphere’, a euphemism for a Japanese empire modelled on European ones of the 19th century.
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The following day, the US declared war against Japan, where a shared sense of outrage and hatred had united the country’s bitterly divided media and public behind Roosevelt. On 11 December 1941, Germany and Italy declared war on the United States, thus bringing America into World War II.

Pearl Harbor appeared to be a huge success for Japan. It was followed by rapid Japanese conquests in Hong Kong, Singapore, Burma, the Philippines, Malaya and New Guinea. Yet in the long term, the attack was strategically catastrophic. The ‘sleeping giant’ had been awoken, and in America, a sense of fury now accompanied the mobilisation for war of the world’s most powerful economy. The losses at Pearl Habor would soon be more than made good, and used to take a terrible vengeance on Japan.



 
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2001 movie "Pearl Harbor" Dec 7, 2016

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YYYX5LB-O1g

At about 2:01:22 of the movie, Lt. Colonel Doolittle said to the pilots: “I have a phrase I want you to memorize - wo shi yi ge mei guo ren.” He said so just because the sixteen B-25B bombers were supposed to land in China after bombing Tokyo since coming back to land on the aircraft carrier HornetHornet was impossible. 风萧萧兮易水寒,壮士一去兮不复返!

A very touching song: Pearl Harbor - There You'll Be
http://www.proz.com/post/1007936#1007936
http://hk.youtube.com/watch?v=JkUGmm3F7qE

Doolittle Raid
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doolittle_Raid


[Edited at 2016-12-07 23:58 GMT]
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Lt. Col. Robert L. Hite Dec 7, 2016


https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doolittle_Raid
U.S. Army Air Force Lt. Robert L. Hite, blindfolded by his captors, is led from a Japanese transport plane after he and the other seven flyers were flown from Shanghai to Tokyo. Hite was co-pilot of crew 16 (B-25B s/n 40-2268 Bat out of Hell, 34th Bomb Squadron) of the "Doolittle Raiders". After about 45 days in Japan, all eight were taken back to China by ship and imprisoned in Shanghai. On 15 October 1942 three were executed, one died in captivity. The four others, including Hite, were liberated on 20 August 1945.

Lt. Col. Robert L. Hite was born in Odell, Texas on March 3, 1920. He died on March 29, 2015 in Nashville at the age of 95.


 
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Before-During-After Dec 8, 2016

Pearl Harbor: The Photo Story
By Paul Sorene

http://flashbak.com/pearl-harbor-the-photo-story-of-japans-1941-attack-before-after-and-during-8890/


 
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True Grit Dec 10, 2016


QuoteDict.com


True Grit - Title Song by Glen Campbell
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xNflbwMFvp0


[Edited at 2016-12-10 17:59 GMT]


 
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Lt. Col. Richard “Dick” Cole Dec 11, 2016

上面提到的 Lt. Robert L. Hite (曾被日军判以死刑)于2015年3月29日去世后,Lt. Col. Richard “Dick” Cole 就成了唯一活着的 Doolittle’s Raider。

轰炸东京前:


100 岁老兵讲故事,往事记忆犹新:
https://vimeo.com/157210748


 
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