A louse is one bug, lice are plural. Nits are the lice eggs. An adult female louse can lay 3-5 waterproof, hard to remove nits 2 times a day. A female adult louse only needs to be fertilized 1 time and is then fertile for life.
Scratching your head yet?
Palouse, yeah yeah. It works. And you guys put up with my bad jokes.
IMPAC Medical Systems was, before being purchased by Elekta of Stockholm, Sweden, a software manufacturer of Oncology Management Systems. As a medical device manufacturer, IMPAC was subject to external audits to establish and recertify compliance with standards for medical devices, CE Marking, FDA GMP/QSR compliance, and IEC and ISO standards. At one audit, an auditor took issue with software bugs being classified as
1 - High
2 - Medium
3 - Low
4 - Nit
Specifically, he did not like ‘Nit’. What’s a Nit?, he asked. A nit is a very minor bug, came the answer. Not satisfied with the company’s answer, IMPAC had to revise their software bug classifications.
‘Stockholm syndrome’ is a condition that causes hostages to develop a psychological alliance with their captors as a survival strategy during captivity. This term was first used in 1973 when four hostages were taken during a bank robbery in Stockholm, Sweden. The hostages defended their captors after being released and would not agree to testify in court against them.
Swedish National Road 66 runs from Västerås in central Sweden, hometown of film actress Mai Zetterling, to the Norwegian border.
Swedish actress Ingrid Bergman won three Academy Awards, two Primetime Emmy Awards, four Golden Globe Awards, a BAFTA Award, and a Tony Award. She is in the top five of most critics’ choices for best actress of all time.
The Iron Man character in both the Movie and Comic book had similar origin stories. A wealthy American business magnate, playboy, and ingenious scientist, Anthony Edward “Tony” Stark suffered a severe chest injury during a kidnapping. When his captors attempt to force him to build a weapon of mass destruction, he instead created a powered suit of armor to save his life and escape captivity.
Former British Prime Minister Tony Blair, in his memoir, remembered as a little boy being taken by his mother to visit a wealthy and elderly great aunt and told to be on his best behavior, in hopes that she would leave the family something in her will. She never did.
Musician Peter Blair has written and or arranged many works, including (USMC) Bobby Troup’s (Get Your Kicks on) Route 66.
Legendary heavy metal music group Led Zeppelin performed together for the first time fifty years ago on Sept. 7, 1968, but not under that now-famous name. By summer 1968, the Yardbirds had all but fallen apart. Their lead guitarist Jimmy Page picked up the pieces and put together an all-new version of the band for an already-booked tour. This combo would include vocalist Robert Plant, bassist John Paul Jones and drummer John Bonham. The site of their low-key (but clearly now history-making) debut was the modest Gladsaxe Teen Club of Gladsaxe, Denmark.
Actor Ronny Cox’s character played the guitar, and 16-year old Georgia school boy Billy Redden’s character played the banjo, in the 1972 movie, Deliverance starring Jon Voigt and Burt Reynolds, and also Ned Beatty and Ronny Cox in their big screen debuts.
Burt Reynolds, who passed away yesterday at the age of 82, called Deliverance “by far” his best film. “I thought maybe this film is more important in a lot of ways than we’ve given it credit for," said Reynolds in an interview years after the film was released. The movie’s infamous rape scene may have helped the public – especially men – better understand the horrors of sexual attacks, Reynolds said. “It was the only time I saw men get up, sick, and walk out of a theater,” he added. “I’ve seen women do that (before),” but not men.
R.I.P., Mean Machine
The movie Midnight Cowboy, starring Dustin Hoffman and Jon Voigt, won three Academy Awards: Best Picture, Best Director and Best Adapted Screenplay. It was the only X-rated film and the first gay-related film to win the Best Picture Oscar.
In his early days before acting, Burt Reynolds used to fall off a roof in a Western show at Ghost Town in the Sky, an amusement park in North Carolina. He got paid $75 a week. In this show he worked with Herbert “Cowboy” Coward, whom Reynolds called “a wonderful actor”. Cowboy Coward played Pa Clampett in the gunfight scene at Ghost Town in the Sky.
Years later, when Deliverance was being cast, Director John Boorman wanted authentic southerners to play certain roles — leading to local Georgia high school kid Billy Redden playing the banjo for “Dueling Banjos”
Said Reynolds, of Cowboy Coward, “His two front teeth were missing and he stuttered. So I suggested him to the director and…he came to read. God love him, Cowboy couldn’t read, so I gave him the lines and he was a marvelous actor.”
In the reading of the script, John Boorman said to Cowboy Coward, “Do you realize what you have to do in this picture?” and explained that he’s have to rape Ned Beatty’s character.
Replied Cowboy Coward (as related by Burt Reynolds). “I’ve done a lot w-w-w-worse things than that.”
(A good article, Delivering ‘Deliverance’ — Forty-five years after the publication of James Dickey’s acclaimed novel, an oral history of one of the most unforgettable Southern movies of all time:
Deliverance was definitely an eye-opening movie when I first saw it in the theater many years ago. It is certainly on my top 10 list of favorite movies.
In play: Burt Reynolds was Hollywood’s top-grossing star every year from 1978 through 1982, when he appeared in the ‘Smoky and the Bandit’ and ‘Cannonball Run’ movies. But he also turned down the part of Han Solo in the first ‘Star Wars’ movie. In an interview with CNN, Reynolds said ‘I took the part that was the most fun… I didn’t take the part that would be the most challenging…’
Burt Reynolds voiced himself in a 2012 episode of the FX animated spy parody Archer. The title character, voiced by H. Jon Benjamin, is a huge Burt Reynolds fanboy and was almost beside himself. It turned out to be Reynolds’ last TV role.
In the same quote from Railer13’s play (post 39,987), Burt Reynolds also turned down the role of playing James Bond.
Ian Fleming named his best-known creation, the suave British superspy James Bond, after a noted ornithologist. Fleming admired the simplicity and strength of the name. Initially opposed to the casting of the Scottish Sean Connery in the role, he came to appreciate Connery’s portrayal, and in later books gave Bond Scottish roots similar to those of the actor.
Parts of The Hunt for Red October (1990), starring Sean Connery, were filmed in Alaska. The wintery forests of ‘Poljarny Inlet, near Murmansk in the Soviet Union’ in the opening sequence are of Port Valdez, an inlet east of Anchorage.
The 1964 earthquake was centered only 45 miles from Valdez, AK. The damage was so severe, and stability of the ground under the town was so compromised, that the entire town was moved to a new site. Some 62 buildings were relocated. 31 people died in Valdez from the quake and resulting tsunami.
That 1964 earthquake hit at 0536 on Good Friday, 27 Mar 1964. It lasted 4 minutes and 38 seconds. It was a magnitude 9.2 megathrust earthquake and was the most powerful earthquake recorded in North American history, and the second most powerful earthquake recorded in world history.
Its epicenter was at 60.908°N 147.339°W (gMap Google Maps), just off of Prince William Sound.
ETA: on my vacation next Feb/March, I’ll be in Porter AK, which will be my closest approach to the epicenter and about 50 miles due west of it.
I think you mean Portage, which is now a ghost town. The small hamlet sank ten feet during the quake, destroying all of the few buildings there. The salt water from Turnagain Arm killed all of the trees in the area.