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Lets enjoy the classical Swedish music performance

What do you expect besides Vasa running during the 2013 Vasa Cross Country Running Festival in Changchun?It’s classical Swedish music performance!To celebrate the opening of 2013 Vasa Cross Country Running Festival in Changchun, 42 prominent musicians of Swedish Motala’s Koumra Music School will present a series of classical Swedish music shows in mid June.

With blessings across the Atlantic and passions for Vasa sports, they will also make exchanges with students at No 3 High…

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Added by nordicways on June 17, 2013 at 11:38 — No Comments

See You in 2013 Lining China 10k Running League

We are happy to get the chance to cooperate with Lining Company Ltd and be honored to be one of the eight 10K-run cities.

League city 10K run is in the IAAF standard competition system, with innovational category in combination with the practical situation of Chinese road run and Chinese characteristics, the game was set to 10 km, so that no matter old or young, men or women and those who are difficult to adhere to the long distance running can join in the…

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Added by nordicways on June 16, 2013 at 11:31 — No Comments

The Summer Ski is back in June

The Summer Ski Sprint is back with a competition in Yakeshi in Inner Mongolia on June 19th. In total there will be 20 foreigners and 20 Chinese skiers fighting for the fame and glory. The concept and scale will be almost identical to the event in Yakeshi last year with the change that after the skiing on June 19^th the international skiers will continue to Changchun in Jilin Province and participate in the Vasa Cross Country Running Festival (…

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Added by nordicways on June 16, 2013 at 11:29 — No Comments

A tip from Race office：Get your number bibs in the RACE OFFICE before the event!

Only 1 week to start for the Vasa Cross country Running Event in Changchun Jingyuetan National Forest Park. Everything is prepared for this fantastic cross country running event, our race office is now announced to be open during June21st -22nd from 9:00AM till 16:00PM.

So far, more than 1000 runners have signed up, we kindly remind those who registered to please go to our race office and get your number bibs at Jingyuetan…

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Added by nordicways on June 16, 2013 at 11:25 — No Comments

E-mail hacked

My e- mail was seriously compromised yesterday. This is how it happened. I received a message from Yahoo ( well, I thought it was)telling me that I had to confirm whom I was as my messaging was over the limit. In good faith I typed in all my details...........

Added by Richard Roman on June 14, 2013 at 18:11 — 2 Comments

Vasa running, a part of the Summer Ski Tour.

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Added by nordicways on June 13, 2013 at 16:30 — No Comments

2013 Vasa Running Program

This year’s Vasa Running Festival will offer a great challenge to participants, especially since the event has now been extended to two days. The running and hiking events have now been separated, which both allows more opportunities for the hikers to make friends from all over the world as well as raises the relative level of the running event. Another exciting feature will be the presence of a…

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Added by nordicways on June 13, 2013 at 16:25 — No Comments

Welcome to Vasa Running 2013

The 2013 edition of the Vasa Running Festival will be held in the same spirit and atmosphere as the previous events, with a focus on providing entertainment for everyone. It will be a high-quality international sports event, which will bring cross-country running to a wide audience. The event will serve both as a running competition and as a celebration of the Swedish midsummer holiday. For this reason it is highly appropriate that the event is called a running “festival”.…

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Added by nordicways on June 13, 2013 at 16:00 — No Comments

Just for you, King Richard. Britain's best Fish & Chip Shops

http://edition.cnn.com/2013/06/10/travel/best-fish-and-chips/index.html?hpt=hp_c6

"Finding superlative examples of Britain's national dish isn't as easy as tracking down great cheese in Paris or sublime sushi in Japan.

Serving originally as cheap and filling fodder for the country's burgeoning 19th-century working class, most of the 250 million portions of fish and chips…

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Added by Chris Knight on June 11, 2013 at 8:45 — 2 Comments

I wiSh I had been on this flight from Beijing to Macau!

An orchestra stuck on board a delayed plane decided to pass the time with an impromptu performance - much to the delight of their fellow passengers.

Members of the Philadelphia Orchestra found themselves stuck on the tarmac for three hours while they waited for their flight from Beijing to Macau.

So four of them decided to treat their fellow-passengers to a movement from a string quartet by Dvorak.…

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Added by Richard Roman on June 9, 2013 at 8:26 — No Comments

Who is the highest paid sports star in the world?

It is to be based on three thing

Endorcements

Prize Money

And Salary Combined.

The Year is 2013

Added by Jack Field on June 6, 2013 at 2:53 — 5 Comments

Shibboleth

Love this word but what does it mean and what's is its etymology?

Added by Richard Roman on June 4, 2013 at 9:56 — No Comments

one day one word

靠谱=kào pǔ

“kào pǔ” originally comes from the dialect of North China. But now it is used almost everywhere. When it used to describe people, it means the people are very reliable. And when it used to describe things, it means the thing is feasible.

Sentence pattern：

Subject+adverb（/）+（不）+靠谱 +…

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Added by Eva on May 31, 2013 at 13:40 — No Comments

The latest "FBI letter" in my e-mail.

I could not stop laughing.

Anti-Terrorist and Monetary Crimes Division

Fbi Headquarters In Washington, D.C.

Federal Bureau Of Investigation

J. Edgar Hoover Building

935 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW Washington, D.C. 20535-0001 Website: www.fbi.gov

Attention, this is the final warning you are going to receive from me do you get me?

I hope youre understand how many times this message has been sent to you?.…

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Added by Chris Knight on May 30, 2013 at 20:03 — No Comments

Cricket and its exquisite sadness

Cricket and its exquisite sadness

What is it about this unobtrusive game and the wistful yearnings it never quite fulfils?

A few fans drink in the joy and sorrow of the game unfolding before them. Photograph: Rebecca Naden/PA Archive/Press Association Ima

Somewhere within it, cricket has a deep, maybe unending, payload of sadness. It's there in its history, in its psychology and perhaps more than that, it's part of what the game actually is.

By sadness, I don't… Continue

Added by Richard Roman on May 26, 2013 at 13:32 — 2 Comments

I don't buy APPLE products and I don't support sweat shops !!

http://goodelectronics.org/news-en/sacom-leaflet-apple-products-made-in-sweatshops-1/image/image_view_fullscreen

Added by Pierre Robichaud on May 26, 2013 at 9:21 — No Comments

If you could be a world expert...

If you could be a world expert and master scholar on any subject what would it be?

Jack - The entire history of Christianity

Added by Jack Field on May 15, 2013 at 20:56 — 12 Comments

North Korea's silent football matches

Quite an amusing read:

Foreign visitors to North Korea are allowed to attend sports matches alongside their minders. But football in this secretive republic has little in common with the passion and glamour of Europe's major leagues.

The game was a sell-out, though you would never have guessed it.

As we entered the 50,000-seater Kim Il-Sung Stadium below the watchful eye of the Eternal President and Great Leader, not forgetting his son, the Supreme Leader Kim… Continue

Added by Richard ridealgh on May 12, 2013 at 10:51 — 3 Comments

3D printing: the new, bottom-up industrial revolution

I don't know much about this but it appears to be a staggering development. 20 years ago we had no Google or Facebook or Twitter, indeed no World Wide Web to speak of. I wonder if this new idea will have a similar effect

Remarkably, 3D printing allows actual objects to be designed and created (or “printed”) surprisingly quickly with a computer connected to a printer-like device, using special material (often plastic, but increasingly almost anything) as “ink” and “paper”. With the… Continue

Added by Richard Roman on May 8, 2013 at 16:36 — 11 Comments