留學代辦! Essay & Application!

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2011-10-27T17:59:00.000-07:00

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2011-10-27T17:12:00.000-07:00

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2011-10-27T16:56:00.000-07:00

T-2

2009-06-26T17:26:00.001-07:00

Let’s see how New York Times reviews Transformer 2” by MANOHLA DARGIS. It is the most sarcastic and keenest reviews I‘ve read.

The creative people behind the cretinous “Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen,” the second blockbuster inspired by the popular Hasbro toys, have segmented their demographic into four discrete categories:

1. Young teenage boys who still play with Transformer toys (or keep them under the bed).
2. Older teenage boys who identify with the professional doofus Shia LaBeouf.
3. Somewhat older teenage boys who would like to play with the professional hottie Megan Fox.
4. Boys of all ages who think it would be cool to go to war and run around the desert shooting guns.

But here I‘d like to add No.5:
The people who do not bring their brain with them into the cinema and just simply open their eyes without thinking in there will enjoy the show and have two and half hours eye-popping, ears –deafening, heart –throbbing, and nerve numbing but silly happy, exciting, frenetic time.

Michael Bay is not a complicate but a controversial filmmaker, who movies usually, not every time such as “the Island,” which I think one of his best, have big hits in the summer market but drag very bad reviews from movie critics, of course, no exception for his latest one, Transformers 2.

T-2 is absolutely a hodgepodge. Therefore, we are so familiar with many scenes which we might see before, for example, female robot killer from sci-fi Terminator 3 or Terminatress, Sam ‘s school like from teenager sex comedy American Pie 1,2, 3, war scenes from film “Blake Hawk Down, road chasing from Bad Boy 1& 2, nothing new but still exciting.

Mr. Bay’s films are too simple to bring out of the cinema. Critics always criticize his stories, storyline, and storytelling. However, he obviously understand what he want to do and who are his target audiences, teenagers, whose ages from 14-18, and who do not think as much as like their parents or critics and grows up with MV and PC games, so they don’t have to care a complete, plausible and touching story like the generation we grew.

Here I also would also like to condemn Peter Jackson, director of LOTR and King Kong, setting the new standard, 3 hour long from the first episode of LOTR, the Fellowship of Rings, which 0running over 180 min, of the length of block bluster movies. From that time, many of Hollywood summer big hits are overlong such as this one, Transformer 2.

There is no doubt Michael Bay is a blockbuster filmmaker, but not a record breaker and never a great one.

His films always drag too much adrenaline but too little true feeling and real consciousness. The viewers are easily dumbstruck by images which he created, but which hardly reach your heart. His films candy your eyes, deafen your ears, numb your nerve, shock your body but never touch your heart, once he tried to do in “ Pearl Harbor but failed, unlike James Cameron, who made classic and also hit the box office.

Just like all of our previous experiences, when we were out of the cinema, soon we found nothing left in our memory. That is always Michael Bay ‘s problem: it is hard to drag moviegoers into the cinema to his film again and again.

Frankly speaking, Michael Bay, I think, has much talent but no magic unlike Steven Spielberg, Peter Jackson, and James Cameron etc.
Movie business needs not just talent but more magic.

Are you a businessman or newsman?

2009-06-20T17:49:00.000-07:00

“Are you a business man? Or a news man?” said Al Pacino, in “the Insider, 1999”, co-starring Russel Crowe.
In the class “media leadership,” I asked the same question to the professor, Charlie, VP of marketing of America online, who gave me a more complicated answer, “in media industry, we, sometimes, ask another question: are you a business newsman or a news businessman.”

What a great answer!

Here is the same situation: former Taipei deputy, President Ma’s best partner, Kim made a final decision of turning down media mogul’s invitation to join his group and establish a new TV station.

From the beginning, I don’t believe Mr. Kim and Mr. Li can work together at all. Not about money, but all about concept, ideas, and directions, business and news. As we know, media in here suck for a long time. Readers can’t tell Good from Bad. Our news is more like entertainment news in U.S., filled with too much political, business, voyeurism and paparazzi, which, perhaps, attracts consumers temporarily, but loses its fair stand. This is the worst problem we face today.

At least, one man insists on his idea. Good for him, Mr. Kim.

baseball fans get fat ? Citi-field & Yankees stadium menu !

2009-05-27T01:54:00.000-07:00

Subway Series ,one of the most important events in NYC, is coming again. first let's check the ballpark menu first. they look extremely palatable! how can we resist them.however, do not forget to check the price before you order.

the following acticle excerpts from NY Times: http://www.nytimes.com/2009/05/27/dining/27ball.html?_r=1&hpWith

their new ballparks this season the Yankees and Mets got new kitchens, new menus and grander ideas about ballpark cuisine, reflecting a nationwide push toward better eating in settings where mere calories were once considered enough......

Welcome the truly Master and Intellectual Paul Krugman to visit Taiwan!

2009-05-14T01:22:00.000-07:00

the following information from New York time website: http://topics.nytimes.com/top/opinion/editorialsandoped/oped/columnists/paulkrugman/index.htmlPaul

Krugman joined The New York Times in 1999 as a columnist on the Op-Ed Page and continues as professor of Economics and International Affairs at Princeton University.

Mr. Krugman received his B.A. from Yale University in 1974 and his Ph.D. from MIT in 1977. He has taught at Yale, MIT and Stanford. At MIT he became the Ford International Professor of Economics.

Mr. Krugman is the author or editor of 20 books and more than 200 papers in professional journals and edited volumes. His professional reputation rests largely on work in international trade and finance; he is one of the founders of the "new trade theory," a major rethinking of the theory of international trade. In recognition of that work, in 1991 the American Economic Association awarded him its John Bates Clark medal, a prize given every two years to "that economist under forty who is adjudged to have made a significant contribution to economic knowledge." Mr. Krugman's current academic research is focused on economic and currency crises.

At the same time, Mr. Krugman has written extensively for a broader public audience. Some of his recent articles on economic issues, originally published in Foreign Affairs, Harvard Business Review, Scientific American and other journals, are reprinted in Pop Internationalism and The Accidental Theorist.

On October 13, 2008, it was announced that Mr. Krugman would receive the Nobel Prize in Economics.

Send an E-Mail to Paul Krugman

Star Trek is back!

2009-05-06T17:57:00.000-07:00

"To boldly go where no man has gone before"

Once upon a time, when I was a kid, I saw “Star Treks,” and I was totally overwhelmed by this sci-fi series. At that time, I made a decision, some day, I would go abroad to see “how big the world it is!”

I always love sci-fi stories and films. However, neither started with “Star Wars”, George Lucas’s space classic, nor started with “Close encounters of the third kind” or “ET”, Steven Spielberg’s friendly alien-drama.

It began with James T. Kirk, captain of Starship “ USS Enterprise”, Spock, a Vulcan whose behavior always follows logic, Dr. Macoy, whose tongue is as tough as his expertise. I love these guys. Without them, how could I grow up so interesting and so fancy?

I always admired starship members who could use tele-communicator to talk to each other in the very long distance, and tele-transmitter to another place or planet. What an amazing idea! Who knows one day almost person in the world can use the similar hi –tech tool to communicate with each other anytime and anywhere.

So who say sci-fi writers are not great scientists?

The One

2009-04-09T17:32:00.000-07:00

See! The One how to express his attitude to his teammates! Awesome !so complicated. and Santana explains each different handshock!

http://weblogs.newsday.com/sports/baseball/mets/blog/2009/04/santana_explains_the_handshake.html

Victory formula!

2009-04-06T19:38:00.001-07:00

Santana + K-Rod = VICTORY !

The two consecutive season collopse won't happen this year! Guarantee!

The nightmare and darkness have gone! The dawn is coming! finally We Mets prepare for another title! Go!Go! Mets!

the axis of the evil : derivatives

2009-03-01T01:54:00.000-08:00

someone is telling the truth: read how Warrent E. Buffett to say about the axis of the financial crisis.

In his letter, Mr. Buffett explained that the danger of derivatives was not merely the difficulty in assessing their value; rather, it was the “web of mutual dependence” they create among financial institutions. Derivatives contracts keep various parties entangled for years, which, as he vividly explained, can create real hazards once those assets start deteriorating.

Participants seeking to dodge troubles face the same problem as someone seeking to avoid venereal disease,” he wrote. “It’s not just whom you sleep with, but also whom they are sleeping with.”

Get off my lawn!(Dirty Harry is back!)

2009-02-27T17:04:00.000-08:00

If I have a chance to snap with the well-known Hollywood moguls, who will be my NO.1 choice? George Lucas? Steven Spielberg or Clint Eastwood? Of course, I would like to pick Eastwood. The reason is simple：He is tough, cold, old school- actually I am not sure- he is definitely a legend.

Not only did I think so, but many of American movie goers even critics. See what they said: Roger Ebert: I would like to grow up to be like Clint Eastwood. Eastwood the director, Eastwood the actor, Eastwood the invincible, Eastwood the old man. What other figure in the history of the cinema has been an actor for 53 years, a director for 37, won two Oscars for direction, two more for best picture, plus the Thalberg Award, and at 78 can direct himself in his own film and look meaner than hell? None, that's how many.

(New York Times) MANOHLA DARGIS: Twice in the last decade, just as the holiday movie season has begun to sag under the weight of its own bloat, full of noise and nonsense signifying nothing, Clint Eastwood has slipped another film into theaters and shown everyone how it’s done. This year’s model is “Gran Torino,” a sleek, muscle car of a movie Made in the U.S.A., in that industrial graveyard called Detroit. I’m not sure how he does it, but I don’t want him to stop. Not because every film is great — though, damn, many are — but because even the misfires show an urgent engagement with the tougher, messier, bigger questions of American life.

No doubt. I am a die-hard fan for Mr. Eastwood. Not because he is always a tough hero on the screen, but because he have a sensitive and open heart and mind, especially covered under his stiff face.

He starred many different characters in diverse genres: romance “The Bridges of Madison County,1995 " ；violent cop “Dirty Harry "；countless lonely western cowboys；from different angles ,both American and Japanese, about the same battle , Iwo Jima – Flags of our fathers and Letters from Iwo Jima ,2006；cold, dire and gloomy “ Mystic River.2003"；touching and heartbreaking baby, "Million Baby,2004"；not to mention, anti –hero classic “ Unforgiven, 1992.”；Oh, gush, he also sang in the movie “Paint Your Wagon (1969)”

God damn it ！This guy is incredible!I almost have seen his every movie since 1990s. No doubt, Gran Torino is one of his best films, another classic. Come on! Who cares the damn Oscar winner! Mr. Eastwood has already won twice for "best director". He is the best living director in the U.S..

Gran Torino talks about “races ", minority VS. Majority. Racial problem in the U.S. is much tougher and more complicated than in Taiwan. It is hard for Taiwanese to imagine the problems if you never lived in the U.S..

Mr. Eastwood, once again, starred a tough, quirky, isolated white old man, even for his sons and grandchildren hard to be with. God damn it! You see The Dirty Harry phantom on the screen again. What a pity, local people have no memory or background about this legendary icon. However, the character he played, I don’t think, is a racist.

See how a American viewer said：
Was it Clint, or my dad??-- by wasntmedude (movies profile) Jan 7, 2009 --how many of us white guys have dads or uncles who are the inspiration for this film? Not truly racist, but mad at the changing world, and all the different looking people invading their way of life. This film will hit home for all of you who had dads that would warn you once, and then smack your butt instead of telling you twice.

Today is 62nd 228 anniversaries. Compared with the U.S., the racial problem here is minor. For me. The truth is definitely needed to reveal even though, the murderers and victims died long ago. This is the only way to let people mitigate their long- time trauma and pain.

In my point of view, I always say, 228 and the following white horror is not the problem about races but about the relentless rulers and the innocent people.

228 has passed for 62 years；however, without an open mind facing the issue like Mr. Eastwood, the pain and sadness will keep going forever. That is really sad.

Solute to you! Mr. Eastwood!

Hugh Jackman is awesome!

2009-02-23T16:17:00.000-08:00

did you see him singing, dancing and expressing enchanting humor and characteristic

....

yes, he is charming, he is smart, and, the worst or the best, he is handsome. to good to be true ? no! here is a exception. he is Huge Jackman.

for most of Taiwanese have no idea how good he is. i , fortunately, saw his performance, a couple years ago, when he hosted Tony Award. that was awesome. did you see his vibrating butt during the Tony 's show?? yes, awesome,too.

no problem! if you missed once. here is your second chance to his extraordinary performance. this year Oscar show !

THE BEST DRESS I PICK !

2009-02-23T16:13:00.000-08:00

from the world top fashion school,NSU, here is my NO.1 pick for best dress in Oscar . of course, i always like the mermaid design and Ms Tomei.

how bad and which real?

2009-02-04T16:58:00.000-08:00

Allen Greenspan, former chairman of FED, said this financial crisis is a unprecedented storm, a one- hundred-year-unseen disaster.

Paul Krugman, Nobel economics prize winner 2008, said,” if we do not do something drastically, the situation will continue to 2010."

This time the crisis impact all markets, industries and nations, unlike 911,SAS, 2001 Internet bubble, which only impact one city, one region or one industry.

As a result, if someone still is optimistic, I would say he's insane.However, there are many different predictions about our future. Some may be true. Some may be exaggerating. Some may be disappointing.

However, some are definitely insidious such as CLSA.Actually, if we did not easily erase your memory, the main reason causing this unprecedented crisis comes from those investment banking. Those financial criminals made a big mistake, created a blak hole in global economy, stole people money and national wealth. This is why now the majority governments keep adding bailout on diverse industries, in particular to these financial giant criminals.

Thus, can we trust their forecast that Taiwan's GDP will be going down to minus 11 percent. Of course not, although the situation is tough, severe and rigid, never, never trust those vampires because they are attempting to do something absolutely malicious again. Damn it.

can government be trusted?

2009-01-14T16:36:00.001-08:00

Without a doubt, Keynes theory is back, because the market system failed to deal with the crisis. In fact, until now, no effective treatments have been cured for it. Therefore, when the private sector lost its vitality, such as GM, Citi, Merri Lynch etc., it is the time that government should go in.

Am I afraid of authority? Absolutely. However, there is no other hope we can expect. So the reason we believe is that we don't have options. Here is another question, which always bewildered economists so much: are governments reliable? Of course not. If they do, how could they let it happen?

A dialogue happening in Paul Krugman column is very interesting: a fed official said in a seminar, “how could we see it coming earlier?”

Krugman replied, “what do you mean “we”, white man?” that is cool. That is the damn cool.

new era

2008-11-06T00:14:00.000-08:00

i lived in Texas. so i know what is the meaning of "red states". i lived in New York and New Jersey. therefore, i know what is "blue states."

in the twlight of the centuary, i traversed the prodigious continent from Texas to New York, from conservative to liberal. so i know how much different between both colors and states.

now one man crosses the boundary, and fulfills one dream. i am overwhelmed and jubalation. i know there is no easy way to face those challenges and crises, but i will put my hope on you.

Wall E : romantic, prophetic and nostalgic apocalypse

2008-07-27T16:00:00.000-07:00

Take a look. Those guys are who to evaluate Pixar? Pixar is impeccable, incredible and never goes wrong…So you have to see Wall-E.

If you are familiar with the director, Andrew Stanley whose last file was “Finding Nemo,” you will never miss this movie.

At the first sight, you might think Wall-E is just another Pixar film, another animation, filled with a hot issue, ecology, and , of course, plus romance.

However, you might be wrong. This film is deeper than you think.

Apparently, Stanton pays a tribute to Stanley Kubrick, whose “2001 Space Odyssey” is a classic. Not only imitate its plot, computer controlling the captain, but even use the same music “Genesis”. So you will peek what Stanton was attempting to do.

Is it just a romantic film or animation? Oh! No! of course not.
In the first 30 minutes of this film, there is no dialogue. Yes, no dialogue. It is just like a silent film； not to mention, Wall-E watches dance on TV. I would say it is more over nostalgia but a tribute to the cinema past. especially, the last news told Fritz Long‘s “Metropolis” copies found in Argentina. Now I have one more muse.

an untold bloody history!

2008-07-06T23:20:00.000-07:00

the real killing story and cruel history just declassified. what a shock story. in my point of view, there is no diffence from Nazi and any other tyrannt regimes in history.

here are folloings reports:

AP IMPACT: US wavered over S. Korean executionsBy CHARLES J. HANLEY and JAE-SOON CHANG, Associated Press Writers Sun Jul 6, 1:42 PM ETSEOUL, South Korea - The American colonel, troubled by what he was hearing, tried to stall at first. But the declassified record shows he finally told his South Korean counterpart it "would be permitted" to machine-gun 3,500 political prisoners, to keep them from joining approaching enemy forcesIn the early days of the Korean War, other American officers observed, photographed and confidentially reported on such wholesale executions by their South Korean ally, a secretive slaughter believed to have killed 100,000 or more leftists and supposed sympathizers, usually without charge or trial, in a few weeks in mid-1950.Extensive archival research by The Associated Press has found no indication Far East commander Gen. Douglas MacArthur took action to stem the summary mass killing, knowledge of which reached top levels of the Pentagon and State Department in Washington, where it was classified "secret" and filed away.Now, a half-century later, the South Korean government's Truth and Reconciliation Commission is investigating what happened in that summer of terror, a political bloodbath largely hidden from history, unlike the communist invaders' executions of southern rightists, which were widely publicized and denounced at the time.In the now-declassified record at the U.S. National Archives and other repositories, the Korean investigators will find an ambivalent U.S. attitude in 1950 — at times hands-off, at times disapproving."The most important thing is that they did not stop the executions," historian Jung Byung-joon, a member of the 2-year-old commission, said of the Americans. "They were at the crime scene, and took pictures and wrote reports."They took pictures in July 1950 at the slaughter of dozens of men at one huge killing field outside the central city of Daejeon. Between 3,000 and 7,000 South Koreans are believed to have been shot there by their own military and police, and dumped into mass graves, said Kim Dong-choon, the commission member overseeing the investigation of these government killings.The bones of Koh Chung-ryol's father are there somewhere, and the 57-year-old woman believes South Koreans alone are not to blame."Although we can't present concrete evidence, we bereaved families believe the United States has some responsibility for this," she told the AP, as she visited one of the burial sites in the quiet Sannae valley.Frank Winslow, a military adviser at Daejeon in those desperate days long ago, is one American who feels otherwise.The Koreans were responsible for their own actions, said the retired Army lieutenant colonel, 81. "The Koreans were sovereign. To me, there was never any question that the Koreans were in charge," he said in a telephone interview from his home in Bellingham, Wash.The brutal, hurried elimination of tens of thousands of their countrymen, subject of a May 19 AP report, was the climax to a years-long campaign by South Korea's right-wing leaders.In 1947, two years after Washington and Moscow divided Korea into southern and northern halves, a U.S. military government declared the Korean Labor Party, the southern communists, to be illegal. President Syngman Rhee's southern regime, gaining sovereignty in 1948, suppressed all leftist political activity, put down a guerrilla uprising and held up to 30,000 political prisoners by the time communist North Korea invaded on June 25, 1950.As war broke out, southern authorities also rounded up members of the 300,000-strong National Guidance Alliance, a "re-education" body to which they had assigned leftist sympathizers, and whose membership quotas also were filled by illiterate peasants lured by promises of jobs and other benefits.Commission investigators, extrapolating from initial evidence and surveys of family survivors, believe most alliance members were killed in the wave of executions.On June 29, 1950, as the southern army and its U.S. advisers retreated southward, reports from Seoul said the conquering northerners had emptied the southern capital's prisons, and ex-inmates were reinforcing the new occupation regime.In a confidential narrative he later wrote for Army historians, Lt. Col. Rollins S. Emmerich, a senior U.S. adviser, described what then happened in the southern port city of Busan, formerly known as Pusan.Emmerich was told by a subordinate that a South Korean regimental commander, determined to keep Busan's political prisoners from joining the enemy, planned "to execute some 3500 suspected peace time Communists, locked up in the local prison," according to the declassified 78-page narrative, first uncovered by the newspaper Busan Ilbo at the U.S. National Archives. Emmerich wrote that he summoned the Korean, Col. Kim Chong-won, and told him the enemy would not reach Busan in a few days as Kim feared, and that "atrocities could not be condoned." But the American then indicated conditional acceptance of the plan. "Colonel Kim promised not to execute the prisoners until the situation became more critical," wrote Emmerich, who died in 1986. "Colonel Kim was told that if the enemy did arrive to the outskirts of (Busan) he would be permitted to open the gates of the prison and shoot the prisoners with machine guns." This passage, omitted from the published Army history, is the first documentation unearthed showing advance sanction by the U.S. military for such killings. "I think his (Emmerich's) word is so significant," said Park Myung-lim, a South Korean historian of the war and adviser to the investigative commission. As that summer wore on, and the invaders pressed their attack on the southern zone, Busan-area prisoners were shot by the hundreds, Korean and foreign witnesses later said. Emmerich wrote that soon after his session with Kim, he met with South Korean officials in Daegu, 55 miles north of Busan, and persuaded them "at that time" not to execute 4,500 prisoners immediately, as planned. Within weeks, hundreds were being executed in the Daegu area. The bloody anticommunist purge, begun immediately after the invasion, is believed by the fall of 1950 to have filled some 150 mass graves in secluded spots stretching to the peninsula's southernmost counties. Commissioner Kim said the commission's estimate of 100,000 dead is "very conservative." The commission later this month will resume excavating massacre sites, after having recovered remains of more than 400 people at four sites last year. The AP has extensively researched U.S. military and diplomatic archives from the Korean War in recent years, at times relying on once-secret documents it obtained through Freedom of Information Act requests and declassification reviews. The declassified U.S. record and other sources offer further glimpses of the mass killings. A North Korean newspaper said 1,000 prisoners were slain in Incheon, just west of Seoul, in late June 1950 — a report partly corroborated by a declassified U.S. Eighth Army document of July 1950 saying "400 Communists" had been killed in Incheon. The North Korean report claimed a U.S. military adviser had given the order. As the front moved south, in July's first days, Air Force intelligence officer Donald Nichols witnessed and photographed the shooting of an estimated 1,800 prisoners in Suwon, 20 miles south of Seoul, Nichols reported in a little-noted memoir in 1981, a decade before his death. Around the same time, farther south, the Daejeon killings began. Winslow recalled he declined an invitation to what a senior officer called the "turkey shoot" outside the city, but other U.S. officers did attend, taking grisly photos of the human slaughter that would be kept classified for a half-century. Journalist Alan Winnington, of the British communist Daily Worker newspaper, entered Daejeon with North Korean troops after July 20 and reported that the killings were carried out for three days in early July and two or three days in mid-July. He wrote that his witnesses claimed jeeploads of American officers "supervised the butchery." Secret CIA and Army intelligence communications reported on the Daejeon and Suwon killings as early as July 3, but said nothing about the U.S. presence or about any U.S. oversight. In mid-August, MacArthur, in Tokyo, learned of the mass shooting of 200 to 300 people near Daegu, including women and a 12- or 13-year-old girl. A top-secret Army report from Korea, uncovered by AP research, told of the "extreme cruelty" of the South Korean military policemen. The bodies fell into a ravine, where hours later some "were still alive and moaning," wrote a U.S. military policeman who happened on the scene. Although MacArthur had command of South Korean forces from early in the war, he took no action on this report, other than to refer it to John J. Muccio, U.S. ambassador in South Korea. Muccio later wrote that he urged South Korean officials to stage executions humanely and only after due process of law. The AP found that during this same period, on Aug. 15, Brig. Gen. Francis W. Farrell, chief U.S. military adviser to the South Koreans, recommended the U.S. command investigate the executions. There was no sign such an inquiry was conducted. A month later, the Daejeon execution photos were sent to the Pentagon in Washington, with a U.S. colonel's report that the South Koreans had killed "thousands" of political prisoners. The declassified record shows an equivocal U.S. attitude continuing into the fall, when Seoul was retaken and South Korean forces began shooting residents who collaborated with the northern occupiers. When Washington's British allies protested, Dean Rusk, assistant secretary of state, told them U.S. commanders were doing "everything they can to curb such atrocities," according to a Rusk memo of Oct. 28, 1950. But on Dec. 19, W.J. Sebald, State Department liaison to MacArthur, cabled Secretary of State Dean Acheson to say MacArthur's command viewed the killings as a South Korean "internal matter" and had "refrained from taking any action." It was the British who took action, according to news reports at the time. On Dec. 7, in occupied North Korea, British officers saved 21 civilians lined up to be shot, by threatening to shoot the South Korean officer responsible. Later that month, British troops seized "Execution Hill," outside Seoul, to block further mass killings there. To quiet the protests, the South Koreans barred journalists from execution sites and the State Department told diplomats to avoid commenting on atrocity reports. Earlier, the U.S. Embassy in London had denounced as "fabrication" Winnington's Daily Worker reporting on the Daejeon slaughter. The Army eventually blamed all the thousands of Daejeon deaths on the North Koreans, who in fact had carried out executions of rightists there and elsewhere. An American historian of the Korean War, the University of Chicago's Bruce Cumings, sees a share of U.S. guilt in what happened in 1950. "After the fact — with thousands murdered — the U.S. not only did nothing, but covered up the Daejeon massacres," he said. Another Korean War scholar, Allan R. Millett, an emeritus Ohio State professor, is doubtful. "I'm not sure there's enough evidence to pin culpability on these guys," he said, referring to the advisers and other Americans. The swiftness and nationwide nature of the 1950 roundups and mass killings point to orders from the top, President Rhee and his security chiefs, Korean historians say. Those officials are long dead, and Korean documentary evidence is scarce. To piece together a fuller story, investigators of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission will sift through tens of thousands of pages of declassified U.S. documents. The commission's mandate extends to at least 2010, and its president, historian Ahn Byung-ook, expects to turn then to Washington for help in finding the truth. "Our plan is that when we complete our investigation of cases involving the U.S. Army, we'll make an overall recommendation, a request to the U.S. government to conduct an overall investigation," he said. ___ Associated Press investigative researcher Randy Herschaft in New York contributed to this report. ___ On the Net: South Korean Truth and Reconciliation Commission:

Hippo!

2008-06-25T17:27:00.000-07:00

hey, we look cute but fierce. we look chubby but run fast. over 30 mph, we run faster than the world champ.

just one bite, we can easily chop nile crocodiles into two pieces.

so who is the king of Africa? Hippo!

2008-05-21T19:48:00.000-07:00

the old soldiers never die, they just fade away. thank you for your tremendous contribution giving us so many amazing moments. Mike, you are one of the best moments in the Mets history. I will miss you, slugger!

Piazza retires from baseball2 hours, 43 minutes agoBuzz Up PrintBEVERLY HILLS, Calif. (AP)—Mike Piazza is retiring from baseball following a 16-season career in which he became one of the top-hitting catchers in history.“After discussing my options with my wife, family and agent, I felt it was time to start a new chapter in my life,” he said in a statement released Tuesday by his agent, Dan Lozano. “It has been an amazing journey … So today, I walk away with no regrets.“I knew this day was coming and over the last two years. I started to make my peace with it. I gave it my all and left everything on the field.”The 39-year-old Piazza batted .275 with eight homers and 44 RBIs as a designated hitter for Oakland last season, became a free agent and did not re-sign. He was not available to discuss his decision, according to Josh Goldberg, a spokesman for Lozano.Taken by the Los Angeles Dodgers on the 62nd round of the 1988 amateur draft, Piazza became a 12-time All-Star, making the NL team 10 consecutive times starting in 1993.“He was one of those hitters who could change the game with one swing. He was certainly the greatest-hitting catcher of our time, and arguably of all time,” said Atlanta pitcher Tom Glavine, Piazza’s former teammate on the New York Mets.Piazza finished with a .308 career average, 427 home runs and 1,335 RBIs for the Dodgers (1992-98), Florida (1998), Mets (1998-05), San Diego (2006) and Oakland (2007).“It’s the end of a Hall of Fame career,” Mets manager Willie Randolph said. “It was a privilege to manage him for the short time that I did.”Los Angeles Angels manager Mike Scioscia was a teammate of Piazza’s on the 1992 Los Angeles Dodgers and remembered back to Piazza’s first season in the majors and what he accomplished.“To put yourself in the same ballpark with what a guy like Roy Campanella did is saying something and Mike is definitely up there with what Roy did,” Scioscia said.Piazza’s 396 homers are easily the most as a catcher, according to the Elias Sports Bureau. Carlton Fisk is second with 351, followed by Johnny Bench (327) and Yogi Berra (306).“If I’m half the hitter he was, I’ll have a pretty successful career,” said Atlanta’s Brian McCann, one of the top-hitting catchers currently in the majors. “He did a lot of great things for the catching position.”Piazza never had a great throwing arm but was praised by pitchers for his game-calling.“You’d have to really go back and see Mike from the early days of trying to catch to where he ended up, the hard work he put in, the dedication he had to get good enough on the defensive end to where he could get his at-bats,” Scioscia said. “He made himself into a guy who could go out there and catch and do the job he needed behind the plate.”Piazza thanked his family, teams and managers, some of his teammates—and even owners, general managers, minor league staffs and reporters.“Within the eight years I spent in New York, I was able to take a different look at the game of baseball,” Piazza said. “I wasn’t just a young kid that was wet behind the ears anymore—I was learning from other veteran guys like Johnny Franco, who taught me how to deal with the pressures of playing in New York, and Al Leiter, who knew what it took to win a world championship.”He did not bring up two of the more memorable moments in his career: When the Yankees’ Roger Clemens beaned him on July 8, 2000, and when Clemens threw the broken barrel of Piazza’s bat in his direction in Game 2 of the World Series that October. Clemens denied intent both times.“Last but certainly not least, I can’t say goodbye without thanking the fans,” Piazza said. “I can’t recall a time in my career where I didn’t feel embraced by all of you. Los Angeles, San Diego, Oakland and Miami—whether it was at home or on the road, you were all so supportive over the years.“But I have to say that my time with the Mets wouldn’t have been the same without the greatest fans in the world. One of the hardest moments of my career, was walking off the field at Shea Stadium and saying goodbye. My relationship with you made my time in New York the happiest of my career and for that, I will always be grateful.”

A new era

2008-05-06T17:30:00.000-07:00

If you see the NBA playoffs this season. What have you found? Many new stars have been rising.

As you can see in the games, Chris Paul is faster, better and calmer than Jason Kidd, who is a star guide and has dominated plays for a long time.
On the other hand, Tony Parker fast pasted Steven Nash. What can I say? Nash is old. This is true.
No one can doubt Lebron James’s talent. In my point view, he is the most talented player since Michael. He has a kind of leadership and charisma than many other stars such as KG,T-Mac…etc.

He is absolutely capable of dominate games. He is like young Michael. All he needs now is to have his sidekicks as Michael had Pippen, Rodeman…

How about Shaq,TD? Big guys? You can see Dwight Howard is so young, powerful and unstoppable in the painted areas. Now even Tyson Chandler, his good defense made Tim Duncan awkward in offense.

Those guys present and exclaim the young age and new era has come.