 |
 WILLIAMS SONOMA EASTER BUNNY JACQUARD TABLECLOTH 70x126 16995 NIP SEALED $89.99 Time Remaining: 1d 17h 58m Buy It Now for only: $89.99 |
 WILLIAMS SONOMA KIDS ALL STAR COOKIE CUTTERS COLLECTIABLE TIN NIP $4.99 Time Remaining: 1d 4h 23m Buy It Now for only: $5.99 |
 WILLIAMS SONOMA RED AND WHITE PANTRY LINEN TABLECLOTH 70 X 90 NIP $38.75 Time Remaining: 5d 17h 48m Buy It Now for only: $38.75 |
 WILLIAMS SONOMA GOLDTOUCH COOKIE SHEET NIP $36.95 Time Remaining: 4d 18h 12m Buy It Now for only: $36.95 |
 Williams Sonoma Ornamental Jacquard Table Runner 108 NIP Blue Cotton Linen $55.00 Time Remaining: 1d 19h 56m Buy It Now for only: $55.00 |
 4 Williams Sonoma Cornucopia napkins red green cottonlinen NIP xmas $19.99 Time Remaining: 28d 13h 13m Buy It Now for only: $19.99 |
 Williams Sonoma S 6 Holiday Pancake Molds Halloween Christmas North Pole NIP $38.99 Time Remaining: 16d 21h 9m Buy It Now for only: $38.99 |
 WILLIAMS SONOMA AUTUMN STUDIES JACQUARD TABLECLOTH 70X90 NIP $71.10 Time Remaining: 18h 48m Buy It Now for only: $71.10 |
 WILLIAMS SONOMA KIDS ALL STAR COOKIE CUTTERS COLLECTIABLE TIN NIP $4.99 Time Remaining: 1d 4h 26m Buy It Now for only: $5.99 |
 WILLIAMS SONOMA YELLOW AND WHITE PANTRY LINEN TABLECLOTH 70 IN ROUND NIP $28.95 Time Remaining: 17h 32m Buy It Now for only: $28.95 |
 WILLIAMS SONOMA TUREEN JACQUARD TABLECLOTH 70x108 NIP $53.10 Time Remaining: 14d 17h 7m Buy It Now for only: $53.10 |
 Williams Sonoma Copper Napkin Rings Hammered Metal NIP Set of 4 $19.99 Time Remaining: 18d 5h 14m Buy It Now for only: $19.99 |
 70x126 William Sonoma Hemstitched tablecloth terracotta NIP 100 Linen hemstitch $69.99 Time Remaining: 28d 13h 13m Buy It Now for only: $69.99 |
 NIP Williams Sonoma Summer Vintage Plaid Tablecloth+Napkins 70x108 Summer $94.99 Time Remaining: 8d 13h 13m Buy It Now for only: $94.99 |
 WILLIAMS SONOMA BISTRO FRANCAIS JAM CONFITURE POT NIP $19.95 Time Remaining: 4d 18h 15m Buy It Now for only: $19.95 |
 WILLIAMS SONOMA EASTER BUNNY JACQUARD TABLECLOTH 70x108 14995 NIP $69.99 Time Remaining: 1d 18h Buy It Now for only: $69.99 |
 Williams Sonoma Kitchen Magnetic Digital Timer NIP $9.95 Time Remaining: 1d 6h 46m Buy It Now for only: $11.95 |
 Whoopie Pie Pan Williams Sonoma makes 6 sandwich cookie NIPwith recipe $19.99 Time Remaining: 14d 5h 11m Buy It Now for only: $19.99 |
 WILLIAMS SONOMA CARS 2 PANKCAKE MOLDS NIP $18.95 Time Remaining: 18d 18h 48m Buy It Now for only: $18.95 |
 Williams Sonoma RED Vintage Floral Jacquard Tablecloth 126 NIP $115.00 Time Remaining: 15d 16h 25m Buy It Now for only: $115.00 |
 NIP Set of 4 Williams Sonoma Star Wars Cookie Cutters Death Star + 3 more $21.99 Time Remaining: 21d 15h 19m Buy It Now for only: $21.99 |
 WILLIAMS SONOMA ORNAMENTAL JACQUARD TABLECLOTH 70X108 NIP $89.10 Time Remaining: 18h 15m Buy It Now for only: $89.10 |
 Williams Sonoma RED Vintage Floral Jacquard Table RUNNER 16 x 108 NIP $55.00 Time Remaining: 7d 3h 20m Buy It Now for only: $55.00 |
 Williams Sonoma S 3 North Pole Pancake Molds NIP Christmas Metal Reindeer ++ $24.99 Time Remaining: 2d 8h 4m Buy It Now for only: $24.99 |
 Williams Sonoma Spatulas NIP Set 3 Yellow $18.50 Time Remaining: 2d 5h 45m |
 Williams Sonoma Pantry 70 Round Printed Tablelcoth NIP Red Khaki White $44.00 Time Remaining: 14d 3h 54m Buy It Now for only: $44.00 |
 Williams Sonoma Hemstitch Linen Tablecloth Light Blue 70x126 70 126 NIP NWT $69.99 Time Remaining: 23d 1h 40m Buy It Now for only: $69.99 |
 NIP WILLIAM SONOMA CERAMIC CRANBERRRY MOLD RARE RARE RARE DISCONTINUED PATTERN $25.99 Time Remaining: 2d 15h 19m Buy It Now for only: $25.99 |
 Williams Sonoma Pantry 70 x 90 Printed Tablelcoth NIP Red Khaki White $46.00 Time Remaining: 17d 8h 4m Buy It Now for only: $46.00 |
 Williams Sonoma 90 Acorn Jacquard Tablecloth NIP Green Cranberry Red Rust Fall $79.99 Time Remaining: 20d 23h 37m Buy It Now for only: $79.99 |
 NIP WILLIAM SONOMA ACORN JACQUARD SET 4 NAPKINSRARE $44.99 Time Remaining: 16d 5h 40m Buy It Now for only: $44.99 |
 Williams Sonoma RED Vintage Floral Jacquard Tablecloth 90 NIP Cotton Linen $95.00 Time Remaining: 15d 16h 28m Buy It Now for only: $95.00 |
 Williams sonoma Kids Thanksgiving Tablecloth and 4 Napkins Set NIP $69.95 Time Remaining: 2d 14h 1m |
 70x90 Williams Sonoma Fruit Damask tablecloth pomegranate RedNIP 100 Linen $109.99 Time Remaining: 11d 1h 10m Buy It Now for only: $109.99 |
 NEW Williams Sonoma Santas Favorite Mini Pancake Molds 4 pc NIP 4045282 $18.99 Time Remaining: 1d 17h 55m Buy It Now for only: $18.99 |
 Williams Sonoma Garden Jacquard 70 in x 70 in Spring Linen Tablecloth NIP $59.99 Time Remaining: 2d 19h 6m Buy It Now for only: $59.99 |
 WILLIAMS SONOMA Christmas Xmas Holiday Santas Mini Pancake Molds Tree NEW NIP $12.95 Time Remaining: 4d 20h 40m Buy It Now for only: $12.95 |
 Williams Sonoma ORCHARD NAPKINS Set of 4 NIP $34.95 Time Remaining: 2d 7h 2m Buy It Now for only: $34.95 |
 Williams Sonoma Acorn Jacquard Napkins S 4 NIP Orange Pumpkin Red Rust Fall $48.99 Time Remaining: 16d 12h 8m Buy It Now for only: $48.99 |
 70x108 Williams Sonoma Fruit Damask tablecloth pomegranate RedNIP 100 Linen $109.95 Time Remaining: 7d 16h 1m Buy It Now for only: $109.95 |
 William Sonoma Fall Leaves Piecrust CuttersNIP $0.99 (1 Bid) Time Remaining: 3d 5h 7m |
 WILLIAMS SONOMA 12 Twelve Days of Christmas 12 NAPKINS Older Design NIP $75.99 Time Remaining: 2d 18h 46m Buy It Now for only: $75.99 |
 NIP WILLIAM SONOMA ACORN JACQUARD SET 4 NAPKINSRARE $44.99 Time Remaining: 20d 12h 12m Buy It Now for only: $44.99 |
 Williams Sonoma 12 NAPKINS Twelve 12 Days of Christmas OLDER DESIGN NIP $75.99 Time Remaining: 2d 19h Buy It Now for only: $75.99 |
 Williams Sonoma Nappe Jacquard Autumn Studies Tablecloth 70x90 + 8 napkins NIP $129.00 Time Remaining: 3d 16h 41m Buy It Now for only: $129.00 |
 WILLIAMS SONOMA VINTAGE SANTA CLAUS NORDIC WARE CAKE PAN 3D MOLD 10 CUP NEW NIP $19.95 Time Remaining: 3d 9h 36m Buy It Now for only: $19.95 |
 NIP WILLIAMS SONOMA RARE OLIVIER 70X90 TABLECLOTH + 8 MATCHING NAPKINS $79.99 Time Remaining: 29d 16h 36m Buy It Now for only: $79.99 |
 NIP WILLIAM SONOMA ACORN JACQUARD TABLECLOTH 70x90 $89.99 Time Remaining: 15d 18h 40m Buy It Now for only: $89.99 |
 SET 5 WILLIAMS SONOMA PAINTED FIG 70 X 90 TABLECLOTH AND 4 NAPKINS NIP $59.95 Time Remaining: 5d 17h 51m Buy It Now for only: $69.95 |
 Williams Sonoma LINEN PLACE MATS S 4 Crimson NIP $19.99 Time Remaining: 27d 6h 14m Buy It Now for only: $19.99 |
 NIP WILLIAM SONOMA ACORN JACQUARD TABLECLOTH 70x90 $89.99 Time Remaining: 15d 18h 34m Buy It Now for only: $89.99 |
 NIP WILLIAM SONOMA ACORN JACQUARD TABLECLOTH 70x108 $129.99 Time Remaining: 15d 18h 37m Buy It Now for only: $129.99 |
 NIP WILLIAM SONOMA ACORN JACQUARD TABLECLOTH 70x108 $129.99 Time Remaining: 15d 18h 36m Buy It Now for only: $129.99 |
 Williams Sonoma TAYLOR WINE THERMOMETER Reg20 NIP $3.49 Time Remaining: 18d 12h 47m Buy It Now for only: $3.49 |
 Williams Sonoma VINTAGE SANTA CLAUS CAKE PAN Reg35 NIP $6.25 Time Remaining: 19d 8h 35m Buy It Now for only: $6.25 |
Nip Williams
Mateship and Military madness
Somewhere on the northeast coast of Papua New Guinea, a blanket of jungle stretches almost to the shoreline, and waves dissipate to ripples on a small patch of silvery sand, warmed by the midafternoon sun.
The jungle wall shudders, silently. Hard faces, smeared with green war paint, dripping sweat, poke through the foliage. Slouch hats identify these as Australian soldiers, eleven in total, their dirty khaki green clothes and battered boots worn beyond their time.
The fresh faces and pale skin of two of the company contrasts with their worn and sunburnt companions. They are replacements in this unit of the Jungle Division of the 7th AIF on patrol in December 1942.
‘Alright, rest! Good place as any,' says Sergeant Tommy Levine.
Men drop with their packs, weapons topple beside them as they exchange whispered whinges, but no one talks to the new recruits.
Allen Wingfield, war weary veteran of the North Africa campaign, bites a string of tobacco protruding from a roughly made cigarette and spits in their direction. He mumbles to his mate, ‘Bloody Chocos'.
The sergeant, tough but uninspiring, tugs a well-used map from his chest pocket and points out a spot for the benefit of his corporal.
‘Reckon we're about here. Another day's march before any settlement and action. Best—'
‘Look! Round the point!' shouts Private Skinny Barker.
Skinny is one of the new recruits. He desperately struggles to establish his place in this band of warriors, which has the opposite effect of further isolating him. But this time everyone tracks his pointing arm out to sea as a small dinghy appears around the corner of the cove.
Only fifty yards away, a lone Japanese soldier rows steadily on, apparently unaware of being watched. His slight build and fine bones gives him a school boyish appearance.
‘I'll do it! I haven't killed any Nips!' says Skinny.
Skinny raises his rifle and aims at the boatman, who by now is aware of the Australians. Instead of attempting to row away, he turns his boat towards shore and then raises his arms in the universal sign of surrender.
‘Don't shoot, ya bastard!' warns Allen. ‘He's tryin't give in.'
Skinny hesitates. ‘Sarge?'
The sergeant nods his approval and Skinny fires, but misses. The boat is tossed by rolling waves.
‘Jesus!' shouts Allen.
‘Shut up, Wingfield! No prisoners,' says Sergeant Tommy Levine.
Skinny fires again and misses again. Surf pushes the boat nearer and then undertow drags it back to sea, but each time it comes closer to shore. The Japanese soldier kneels in the boat, holding his hands in supplicant's fashion, and mouths a prayer.
Faces turn from the botched execution. Wingfield is distressed, unsure what he should do. Skinny keeps firing apart from a long interval whilst he reloads. The boat sticks in the sand as the water recede and Skinny finally finds his mark. The Japanese soldier kneels unchanged, apart from an ugly bullet hole in his forehead and a stream of blood at his lips.
Unmoved, Sergeant Levine stands and prepares to leave. To Allen's disgust, Skinny chuckles in triumph.
‘Move! Who knows what'll come down with that racket,' says Sergeant Levine. ‘He come from the west! That's where we head.'
The soldiers depart and the beach is deserted again, apart from a lone boatman kneeling in prayer.
The Australian soldiers did not come to habitation til late in the day. Any longer and they would have had a miserable spend the night in the jungle on full alert. They fan through an abandoned native garden and then an equally deserted native village. Eyes and weapons sweep the area; all except Private Allen Wingfield's, whose gaze and submachine gun are drawn like magnets to Skinny Barker and Sergeant Levine.
There's no sign of life, but inside Allen Wingfield the mother of all battles rages. The war had started as an adventure, a break from the boredom of farm life and strict God-fearing parents. They could have stopped him joining up, especially as he lied about his age, but Allen made sure they didn't find out until it was too late. However, the fun was now gone and war was just what it has always been, an obscene nightmare, but he never doubted that he was on the side of good, until now, and he was not yet twenty-one.
A soldier points to a narrow track on the far side of the village. Levine smiles as he waves his men in that direction. They can't be far now, he reasons, and imagines he can hear the surf.
In what seems like a heartbeat, Levine and his men are cautiously peering through foliage to a Japanese encampment, set within a semi-circular clearing facing the sea. The Australians have removed their packs and hold their weapons ready.
Some enemy movement occurs around a couple of rough bamboo huts, but most activity happens in the area beside a large open fireplace in the centre of camp. Two Japanese soldiers tend cooking pots dangling over the fire, others laze on the ground nearby, and a sentry sways unsteadily supported by his upturned rifle. They are in a bad way: ragged uniforms, some are shivering from the effects of malaria, and all look thin and hungry.
Sergeant Levine whispers commands. ‘I'll take the sentry. That's my signal. Grenades first, go through the middle, shoot anything left. Maximum fire.' He eyeballs each man. ‘Jono, Skinny, round the sides, pick off any trying to escape. Davo, Allen, cover'm.'
Skinny, hunches over and moves cautiously into position around one side of the clearing, careful to keep out of sight of the camp. Allen follows at a distance, his submachine gun pointed towards Skinny, finger stroking the trigger, still indecisive. The time to act will be when the battle is at its peak.
(A Japanese soldier squats to crap within the privacy of jungle cover, looking back at the camp. A crack of gunfire is followed by multiple explosions, and then cacophonies of firing. The still squatting man sees Skinny break cover and fire in the direction of his fellows.)
Allen, still partially hidden by the jungle, levels his weapon at Skinny, who guns down an unarmed Japanese running from the camp. Another Japanese diving from the jungle, knife drawn, towards Skinny's back, startles Allen into action and settles the other battle inside his head. Instinctively he blasts the Japanese attacker with withering fire. Skinny turns, notes the dead Japanese soldier, nods towards Allen, and turns back to the camp.
As suddenly as it started, the fighting is over and exhausted Australian soldiers stand amidst blackened devastation. Charred remains of huts, battered pots and other utensils, and barely recognizable corpses are all that remain of the encampment.
Skinny grins broadly and takes a pouch of tobacco from his pocket. He hands the packet to Allen, who hesitates and then accepts the gift; and a smile, the first we've seen, creases his face. Skinny and Allen share a smoke.
About the Author
William lives in a rambling ever-expanding house in one of Adelaide's inner eastern suburbs. He has been a social worker, manager and bureaucrat for more than thirty years. He loves travelling to unfamiliar places, and learning something of the history of the people and places he visits. William has also completed an embarrassing mix of degrees/ diplomas in pursuing his chosen careers from economics to social work to health management and writing.
He is interested in writing and the spiritual, and has had a number of articles published, mainly in professional journals. In his Master's thesis A Social Work Perspective on Changing Service Approaches to People with Disability, he wrote about what happens when disablement, mental health, greed, politics and disempowerment collide. William has had numerous articles published: many far too serious; but some are whimsical like ‘Confessions of a Social Worker' (Whats Up in Disability, April/May Vol 2, Issue 29, 2009). In 2010 he published his first book Bloodied Brains and Bureaucrats. He has blog sites about travel to Japan in the ‘80s and his battle with prostate cancer (http://wbloganau.blogspot.com; http://japantravel1980.blogspot.com; and http://godprostatecancerandme.blogspot.com). Adelaide Centre for the Arts Award 2009 for outstanding achievement.
What do you guys think of this?Nipped on nipple, man sues, By Chrystian Tejedor, South Florida Sun-Sentinel?
http://www.sun-sentinel.com/news/local/southflorida/sfl-pdog26may26,0,2312548.story?track=rss
A Fort Lauderdale attorney has sued a Boca Raton family for $1 million after he said their dog bit his left nipple.
According to the suit, William R. Cohen needs the money to pay for medical treatment, loss of income and for general damages for pain, suffering, physical disfigurement and "loss of sexual comfort and desire."
Taz, the 2-year-old terrier, was playing and running around during his first outing to the dog park at Military and Banyan trails, Steven Bushouse, 29, said.
"He's a typical terrier. They tend to be active and can be territorial, but that's normal," Michelle Bushouse, 28, said of her adopted pooch.
"Then William Cohen decided to pick up my dog, and he in turn got bit on the nipple," Steven Bushouse said.
no blood ,
guy sueing is a insurance lawyer. if anyone wants to say anything about how insane this is http://www.bnlaws.com/Bio/WilliamCohen.asp
Cohen, huh? Go figure.
You can't just go around picking up other people's dogs, period.
He was hoping this would happen so he could sue. I'm sure the people will see the suit for what it is... I hope.
Hank Williams, Jr. with Don Helms - The Ballad of Hank Williams