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    During that time I still a young man. I’m not understand what you say. But until you find you understand it, I think somekind of things have happened. In that time you have not the ability to change. So at first time you should listen different person say about the things you will be about to do. In that case, you maybe avoid the biggest lost for you. That is my attitude for that, how to do a person. What I say maybe not good. But for me, just as somebody say that give me liberty or give me death. In some kind of stations you should listen other person say. Don’t express you idea. In my view, it’s very important for me. What’s more I want to say is you should give other people your idea from your deeply heart. Yes I think it’s right. I also want to say that you must practice you spoken ability of speak listen write English. When you do somekind of difficulty thing you should pay more attention to the other side. One side maybe bad for you, but the another side may good for you. So you just do it persistently, do it more than you can image. I think everyone have more capability to do. I will try may achieve wonderful thing ,but I can’t you will do anything. You should listen carefully what other people say what they said, maybe that is not relevant to you now, but you will find there is one day you will use what they say. In that case you just pay a little attention to them. You will avoid biggest trouble. So do everything you can to reach you purpose. When we do some thing, we have different goal to attain. Do everything do my best to reach it. Then you have more ability to do different things may that is more difficulty than your problem now.           December 13 2007

    Today is the sixth day during this week. It’s bay day for us because of this bad thing-meeting every week. I just I want to do my job well. I don’t want to pay more attation to others persons I just do my self that is enough, I think. What’s more is nothing. You say you have difficulty to do some other something, but which thing you can do well. I study the corrosion science. Other people may be think that is easy thing. But I don’t agree with his or her options. I think you will know it well when you do it by your self. That is fit many things. When you do it just fit it. Don’t consider more thing, that will make you feel not easy. when you like it please do it. Just do it or everything about you, move move.

    Just go fuck yourself, boy that is very important for us to do somekind of other things. That’s right wo should do that for us to do it do it what you like do.OK that is what I want  to say you maybe dont pay attention to me. But is for me give me liberty or give me death.

    You should do everything for yourself let yourself first, Yet I sometimes do something let others first But it’s not good for us.So hard for do somekind of useful thing, If you have the heart to do something, Please do it persist doing it always never give up halfway. So I want to do it .YOU should do it not listen other person say something. It’s not important for other person say what, But it’s more important how you see the problem for you.I want to know other person good for us.

    As we can see, this yeas is passing, we should know what we have learn, and next what we would learn, You should give youself a purpose, That is very reality, you should know that you can make it true after you have spend many times to do it. Ok that’s what I want to say, you not necessary to hurry up to do one thing, it’s just in your mind you should do,But it not need to do it quickly.So carefully do everythings.

    It’s time for me to write somekind of useful things. Today I ask what I have done this term, the answer is very simple. Just do some experience. It’s enough, But I feel I do nothing. I have see some passages, some else things, Everyday you should ask you what you have done for this day, and next you want do some other things, those things you should in you mind thoughtfully, That’s very important for us young person. Because the next day is not very much, you should remember do, yesterday was passed, today is doing, tomorrow will coming. I will clearly know what those three days you do what, you have done what you are doing and what you will do.Ok you should say some unfair thing happen to you, when some fortunately things happen to you, you have a normal heart,It’s capable of doing many things, Next I want to say is u should think carefully about the problem you want to do, you should  no not should is must must consider the question from the bad side,,,if you just think the good side, advantage side some bad things will happen to you. Consider the bad thing from many things, not just the only stock things,many other things happen to from now on, you should always,consider the diffculty first. Abouting the money.xt you want do so

    Ok I have to consider the future of mine, it’s important for me, When you have experience something kind of things you should learn some. Let me talk you a story ,how to avoid foolish opinions.to avoid the various foolish opinions to which mankind is prone , no superhuman genius is required. If the matter is one that can be settled by observation, make the observation yourself. Many matters ,however, are less easily brought to the text of experience. If ,like most of mankind, you have passionate convictions on many such matters, there are ways in which you can make yourself aware of your own bias. If an opinion contrary to your own makes you angry, that is a sign that you are subconsciously aware of having no good reason for thinking as you do. If someone maintains that two and two are five, or that Iceland is say some other person say is not useful for me, you must have the ability to do one things well. Just you work as a student ,yes study is your work do it well you should do that.  Always follow other person in all will there is one day you will lost your self. In that day you have on chance ,just like me I have that mind that, if you know the thing is stupid, you still do it,in my mind you are a foolish man, you should not do that, oh no is not should ,is must, From different people you should learn some thing, and than, you must have the ability of theirs,, I think everyone know the principle but in his fact when he do it he will not follow the things,and then do it follow theirs,you speak some things make a plan for you vacation for you, you want to some things. And at last in fact you have do somethings,make a summary for you, what is the plan for you do it by yourself you should have the mind, have the thinking, consider a problem, maybe the things is not happen to you but when the things have happened to other person you should learn it , just like I have listen a story that say about a teacher, she let her student study not only the knowledge from the text, but also the thing has happen I want to thank you for us,

    2008122 today is the last day I stay here, I will not come again to here to study but I want to have a rest yes I want to have a rest, It’s very important for every when we have a tire work we need to have a rest,and ok I know that you are a better person to study that, to study what you need to learn I just I want to study anywhere which you need to learn and set a time to study and I want to do many thing but what I say I think is not important for me but and then we need to do it ,to learn many things,ok let us do helfyourself to do it learn that and that I want to know that you say that in sometime you should make you learn that and you should to what you should study write a discourse that is you ability if you want to have a good life for you , and then ok happy new year happy spring festival Ok let stop here.

    08.3.4,         \2000,1100

    this day I come here morning, I hope this term should helpful for my graduate. And then what I want to say, today topic is say about my family members, my mother father and brother. The first person I want to say is my mother and father. They are important for me and brother, to begin with, my father earn money from the market, so we have money to eat, dressing and read books, I think he also want to see his sons have high degrees, because is a dream from him which he can’t make it true, he want to see we do it for him and for ourself. Also my mother play an important role in my family and me. There somekind of time I just want to hear say something from her, in face I hate it say somekind of bad word and don’t support, do something to just for not follow her. But in my deeply heart I lover her, she do some useful things for me, Let me how to say, what I can do is just study hard to repay her and my father, from some details things you can feel her, love her, My mother always do everykind of things for me, they are the only persons who help in the world when I in trouble, so I just want to say thank my parents, thank you very much, thank you. There is one more person in my family is my brother, we grow up together, eating sleeping all things tighter, I hope he is an authenciate person make himself . do it , I hope we all right.

    Pay attention to you money ,,,fish fish  2000,1100 in your hand.

    Today I want to talk some about the music. Yes the civilivation of social have develop so many years, many field has got deeply development, including the industry music. When I was small boy my dear mother sometimes buy some record tape, during that time I have the chance to listen somekind of music, knowing the word popular music. With the development of society, the technology of music become easy, when I was a middle school student, some person having the walkman they usually but music tape, I remember clearly the tape cost is RMB10. About two years later, I was a high school student, a student instructed a songer to me, his name is 500. increaselly I start enjoying his music. During the middle rest I listen some music of his. Yes that tape is he load me, about several days I made it lost, although I have some friendship with him, that time is a money time, so I paid RMB10 to him at last. I still remember clearly that things, that making me remember treasure other person’s things. About five years later, that is to say , at present time, listening music is a so easy things, even me who have no interesting in it , I have sometimes listen it when I was in trouble. The computer is not mine, however, I should cherish the opportunity to learn more acknowledge about it.

     Yes all right, that person is me, I is me. Today I meet two important things, I say the first thing, also that is the more important one, I make a plan for me, that is I do three thing during the evening ,three hours, I will spent each one hour to revise one object, including English methmathic prefessonal lesson, studying them is a important things during this term, I want to do them well, don’t want to waste my time in the unuseful things, just like the last term, so I study them well, for myself have a good day. What’s more I want to say is say some about myself, I should do thing which you have determined to it, do it well. During you make you dream true there will barried thing disturb you, I will persist until I succeed. The next thing which I want to say is never give up half way, I don’t want to say is in my nature, I there is some I can’t control, however, I still do some to improve it, still that speak I will persist until I succeed. There is some time I can say other things, yes have a good relationship with every person you don’t know whichone is helpful to you, maybe is today, the person you have hurt will give you a hand, so preventing that things happen.

    Ok let me say some today things, person. Different person you will meet during your life, so I want to deal them with different ways. Person have women and man, and I’m a man, so I will do some of man things. I’m the son of my parents, the first thing I want to do is have a good job, and then you will have money to support them to do somekind of helpful things, but that is not enough, as a man you have many things need you to be done, may be have different attitude to them. And then we should do some kind of useful things to us, do a good job for us. During you different life, just like our oral English teacher say, will have different problem need you solved. So the first things we should do is keep good body, and do some helpful things to our body during the every day. At my middle school the boring things for me is have to go high school, at that time, the big problem for me is Chinese. I have a trouble in it, that’s very difficulty for me. The big thing helpful to me is have not the lesson of Chinese during the graduation. English is not my interest. So go have a meeting.

     

     

     

     

     

    December 31

    do you like do

    Fuck, today is the last 2007.I have to make a sum of me.When I look back of mine this year,I find I don't learn many acknowledge, that is the purpose of me.Next I learn many brothers.I have the chance to study in DLUT during the second year of my postgraduate.Others may think is a good things.but bad thing.I have come here six month.The important thing I realize is that it's very important for us to choose a good thecher.You may dont realize thing,because you have a good teacher.But when you have a realistic bad bad bad teacher,you want to change it,it's almost impossible thing.OK let's talk somekind of interesting things,2007 is a different year for me.Y,you can learn many kind of useful thing from other person,that things is what you can't learn from book.That's good for us.Communicate with others,learn what they know, make it service for us.Everyone you should have good touch with him,maybe next day he or she will help you.Ok let’s go on talking somekind of other things.We should make useful every opportuniy to study everythings.Yes, I agree with you.We do somekind of thing may diffult for us. But we should do it always,never give up it half way.When we come over the diffulty during the study process, next we will over come the same thing. Next we should not pay more attention to the past, we must see the future, the tomorrom of us, yesterday is past, today is doing,tomorrow is coming. Let’s go to the tomorrow belong to us.

    OK let see the 2008. The olimpic game will hold in my hometown Beijing. It’s a good chance for us to show the world that china is a great country. We not have the classic of history,now we have the ability to do a beautiful today and tomorrow. We will do the nice tomorrow with our two hands. We can do everything by ourself, you should do everything by yourself,Just we can do by ourself. My brief is you should do by yourself, depending on yourself.I have said the country, next we say about me.That is important for me.

    Next year,I will love my father and mother, although sometimes I find it’s boring things for me but I should change myself, do somekind of useful for our family,for ourself.I love them. I will show that.

    When you have decided do somethings,just do it. Don’t consider many things, other person say what is not important.

    Last,good luck with me, learn many knowledge, earn much money, members of my family keep good healthy.

    Good person safe all life.

    December 19

    just go fuck yourself

    cao ,just do it. Don.t consider more things.you like it ,do it .
    October 24

    Let's go

    Dozens of Defense Department personnel are actively engaged in fighting the wildfires raging in Southern California, Pentagon officials said Tuesday, and thousands more National Guard and active-duty military personnel are available to help.
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    The Rice fire, east of Camp Pendleton, caused the evacuation of the Fallbrook community.

    Paul McHale, assistant secretary of defense for homeland defense, said that 12 Defense Department firefighting teams, with 12 engines, are already working the blazes and more than 17,000 National Guardsmen are potentially available if needed.

    In addition, he said, 550 Marines from Camp Pendleton are preparing to deploy to the fire area.

    "All of the aid that we provide is the result of a request ... from the state," McHale said. "However, we have been very proactive in independently preparing those capabilities for the possibility of such requests, and we have reached out early to state officials."

    California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger has already called up 1,500 National Guard troops, including more than 200 taken from border duty to help with supplies and security at San Diego's Qualcomm Stadium and DelMar Fairgrounds and Racetrack, where thousands of evacuated residents are taking shelter.

    Schwarzenegger also requested and received from the federal government six "modular airborne fire fighting systems" units -- which are C-130s that drop water and fire suppressant on the blazes. Video Watch California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger talk about the crisis »

    The Pentagon provided 11 helicopters equipped with water buckets to fight the fires, McHale said. Aerial attacks on the fires, however, have been minimal because of high Santa Ana winds with gusts approaching 70 mph.

    In an effort to make room for more civilians who have had to evacuate their homes, sailors stationed in Southern California are abandoning their barracks.

    "Orders have been given to all sailors ashore in barracks to move to shipboard billeting to provide room for evacuees," said a Tuesday statement released by the U.S. military.

    Only essential personnel are requested to report to duty at Naval Base San Diego, Naval Amphibious Base in Coronado, and Naval Air Station in El Centro.

    Those bases have also set up cots and tents for evacuees.

    Also, the Navy has offered an Aegis cruiser, a guided missile destroyer, and two fast frigates to support evacuation efforts.

    Meanwhile, the Pentagon designated March Air Reserve Base as the primary staging area for medical and relief supplies coordinated by the Federal Emergency Management Agency, McHale said.

    And some 100 California National Guard medical personnel are helping alleviate "critical staffing shortfalls" at the San Diego Veterans Center, whose hospital staff are under voluntary and mandatory evacuation orders.

    July 07

    Fuck

    As the heavy rains that have pounded parts of Texas for weeks mercifully began to taper off, a four-day search came to an end when the body of a young boy swept away by the swollen Brazos River was recovered.

    Floodwaters in Texas City, Texas, force a pedestrian to wade to cross the street on Friday.

    The bodies of two people, including 6-year-old Cesar Aparicio, were found Friday. The search for Aparicio ended when his body was found on a beach about 15 miles from where he washed into the Gulf of Mexico, said Freeport Police Chief Jeff Pynes.

    A volunteer searcher in a private plane spotted the body on a remote stretch of uninhabited beach, Pynes said late Friday. The boy's body was taken to the Galveston County Medical Examination's office.

    "The family has been notified and we believe this will be his son," Pynes said. "This is a pretty tough deal but it gives the family some closure."

    The boy was at a family gathering on Bryan Beach, where the Brazos River feeds into the Gulf of Mexico about 60 miles south of Houston, when he was swept into floodwaters, Pynes said.

    The boy's father and another relative were found clinging to trees and rescued Tuesday afternoon. Since then, Freeport authorities had been searching for the boy but were hampered by intermittent heavy rains and a river that, at 47 feet, was 4 feet above flood stage, said Pynes.

    The river was moving so fast that it was pushing out 20 miles into the Gulf on Friday, and taking everything caught upstream -- from cars to refrigerators to trees -- with it. One rescue boat borrowed to aid in the search was damaged by the debris, Pynes said.

    The river is "in really bad shape and very, very dangerous," he said. "That tree is a missile, essentially."

    At Fort Hood, the body of a civilian worker was found downstream from where his vehicle was pulled out of a creek, post spokeswoman Col. Diane Battaglia said. Isidro Felix Alicea-Acosta, 74, went missing Wednesday night after a fireworks show.

    "An hour before he crossed it, the creek was fine," Battaglia said. "He was caught in a flash flood that he was not aware of."

    In Fort Worth on Friday night, rescue personnel and divers searched for a missing 26-year-old man whose rubber raft overturned on the Trinity River. A 23-year-old man who was also on the raft was rescued on the side of the river, Fire Department spokesman Lt. Kent Worley said.

    The men had little experience rafting and were not wearing life preservers, Worley said.

    Meanwhile, rivers in Oklahoma and Kansas continued to recede, revealing millions of dollars in flood damage to at least a few thousand homes and businesses. Authorities found a man believed to be the flood's first fatality in Kansas.

    The region may get some relief beginning this weekend. Much of Texas may get some daytime showers and isolated thunderstorms over the weekend, but the large swaths of pounding rain were expected to dissipate, forecasters said.

    "You're going to see less and less," National Weather Service meteorologist Cristy Mitchell said.

    But river waters could keep rising in some places. Forecasters warned that the Trinity River in East Texas would crest near 43 feet on Sunday -- well above the 28-foot flood stage. Flood warnings were in effect for rivers in Oklahoma, including the Neosho River.

    While much of the West has been parched under record temperatures and drought, Texas has been drenched day after day since late May, filling lakes and rivers, washing out bridges and roads, and damaging 1,000 homes. Since May 23, there have been 15 weather-related deaths in Texas.

    In Oklahoma, water threatened to overflow from swollen Lake Texoma into a spillway Friday.

    The lake, which straddles the border between Oklahoma and Texas along the Red River, stood about one inch below the top of a 640-foot-high concrete spillway, said Ross Adkins, a U.S. Army Corps of Engineers spokesman.

    "It's lapping over the spillway now," Adkins said.

    The Corps is pumping an estimated 27,000 cubic feet per second of water into the Red River to help steady the lake's level. Water levels in the river have fallen following heavy rains that swelled it and other streams.

    In Coffeyville, Kansas, search teams going door-to-door found a man dead late Thursday in a motel room, city clerk Cindy Price said.

    The cause of the man's death wasn't immediately available, but authorities said he had apparently ignored warnings to leave the southeast Kansas town, where a flash flood triggered a 42,000-gallon crude oil spill into the Verdigris River.

    State officials said the flooding has left about 3,150 homes damaged or destroyed. Kansas Gov. Kathleen Sebelius wondered what had befallen her state this year -- flooding, a winter ice storm and May tornadoes

    June 30

    YOU son of a bitch

    LONDON, England (CNN) -- Security across London has been increased after police on Friday discovered two cars filled with explosives.

    Meanwhile, police increased patrols across London in a hunt for what they said is a man seen running from one of the cars on Friday.

    British officials said hundreds of people could have been killed if the devices in the cars had been set off.

    The first car was discovered parked near Piccadilly Circus; the second was found about an hour later, less than a kilometer away near Trafalgar Square.

    Scotland Yard authorities said they believed the two incidents were connected.

    On Friday, London police said the second discovered car -- containing fuel, gas canisters and nails -- was "clearly linked" to the first explosives-packed car found outside a nightclub near Piccadilly Circus, Metropolitan Police said.

    A "considerable" amount of fuel and gas canisters, along with a "substantial quantity of nails," was found in the blue Mercedes 280E, said Peter Clarke, Metropolitan Police deputy assistant commissioner, said about the second car.

    He called the discovery of the second bomb "troubling," but urged the public to remain vigilant and report suspicious behavior to authorities.

    The second vehicle was ticketed about 2:30 a.m. Friday (9:30 p.m. Thursday ET), Clarke said. It was near Trafalgar Square, roughly a half-mile from where the first vehicle -- also a Mercedes -- had been found about an hour earlier. (Watch how the second car was armed Video)

    About 3:30 a.m., Clarke said, the Mercedes was taken to an impound lot in Hyde Park. Security sources earlier told CNN that workers who towed it thought the car smelled of gasoline, and became suspicious because of the reports that gasoline was among the explosive materials found in the first vehicle.

    Clarke said the second device, like the first, was "potentially viable" but was rendered safe by police explosives officers.

    "These vehicles are clearly linked," he said.

    The first car, a silver Mercedes-Benz sedan, was discovered about 1:30 a.m. when an ambulance crew called to treat an ill person noticed what appeared to be smoke inside the car and notified authorities, London police said.

    The car was parked in front of the Tiger Tiger club, and the discovery prompted the closing of several streets until the vehicle was hauled off nine hours later.

    "In the car, they found significant quantities of petrol together with a number of gas cylinders," Clarke said. He could not immediately say how much fuel was there.

    "I can tell you it was in several large containers," Clarke said. "There were also a large number of nails in the vehicle."

    He said explosives officers manually disabled "a potential means of detonation for the gas and the fuel in the vehicle," which preserved crucial forensic evidence for investigators.

    A cell phone was found as part of the device in the silver car, according to security sources with knowledge of the investigation, although it was not immediately known what role the cell phone may have played in the device. The sources said the device was apparently set up to be remotely detonated.

    Metropolitan Police Counterterrorism Command officers are reviewing closed-circuit security camera video to see if they can determine who parked the car there, Clarke said.

    London has a long history of bomb attacks and alerts during decades of violence mounted by Northern Irish guerrilla groups. Lone attackers also have previously targeted the city's gay and immigrant communities. (Timeline of attacks)

    Friday's incident came days ahead of the second anniversary of July 7, 2005, when four Islamic extremist suicide bombers killed 52 people on London's transport system in the deadliest strike on the city since World War II.

    Witness Daniel Weir said he was walking home from work when he noticed police had cordoned off the area around the nightclub and a nearby vehicle.

    He snapped several photos, including one that showed a canister labeled "patio gas." (See the photos)

    Clarke said it was too early to determine if the smoke the ambulance crew saw was an indication that the car bomb had been activated but failed to explode.

    While Clarke would not speculate that Tiger Tiger was the target, he said "some features of what's happened resonate with previous plots."

    "In one previous case we heard talk about nightclubs potentially becoming targets. ... We, of course, saw reference to vehicles being filled with gas or fuel in order to create an explosion," he said.

    There had been no intelligence warning of an attack, he said.

    "It is obvious that if the device had detonated there could have been significant injury or loss of life," Clarke said. "The vehicle was parked in one of the busiest parts of central London in the early hours of Friday morning when many, many people were leaving nightclubs and other places after the evening hours." (Watch police describe potential blast Video)

    British Home Secretary Jacqui Smith said, "We're currently facing the most serious and sustained threat to our security from international terrorism."

    The bombs were found just two days after new Prime Minister Gordon Brown took office, and one day after he appointed members of his Cabinet. (Full story)

    "For Gordon Brown, it is a rude awakening to the realities you take on as prime minister," CNN's European political editor Robin Oakley said. (Watch Oakley comment on 'rude awakening' for Brown Video)

    Brown, whose predecessor, Tony Blair, stoked anger among Islamic militants with his support for the Iraq war, said Britain faces "a serious and continuous threat" and the public "need to be alert" at all times.

    The incident also came days ahead of the second anniversary of July 7, 2005, when four Islamic extremist suicide bombers killed 52 people on London's transport system in the deadliest strike on the city since World War II.

    June 23

    I can do no less

    Atlantis and its seven astronauts returned to Earth safely Thursday, ending a two-week mission to deliver an addition to the international space station and bring home a crew member from the outpost.

    Atlantis had to use its backup landing strip in California after rain and clouds over Florida ruled out Kennedy Space Center.

    "We couldn't quite get comfortable with [Kennedy]," Mission Control told the Atlantis crew. "We are going to target Edwards."

    The crew executed the landing on its first opportunity at Edwards at 3:49 p.m. ET.

    Rain and clouds that scrubbed a planned Thursday landing in Florida continued Friday, and NASA waved off the first planned landing there, which would have been at 2:18 p.m. ET.

    The landing site at Edwards had clear skies, and wind gusts there were not expected to pick up until late in the day.

    "Our mind-set down here is we're going to land you somewhere safely today," Mission Control told the shuttle crew Friday morning.

    Aboard Atlantis, the astronauts closed the shuttle's payload bay doors in preparation for landing. The doors are opened during flights so heat doesn't build up in the orbiter.

    Atlantis commander Rick Sturckow said the crew would put on their orange spacesuits for landing.

    "That sounds great, Houston," Sturckow said. "We're going to suit up then."

    Among the crew returning to Earth was astronaut Sunita "Sunni" Williams, who spent 195 days on the space station, a women's endurance record.

    The crew had three chances Friday to land at Edwards, the last at 6:59 p.m. ET. If the weather had spoiled all those opportunities, mission managers would have tried again Saturday, with another backup landing site in New Mexico in the lineup.

    The preferred landing site is Kennedy, where it is easier and far cheaper to get Atlantis to its hangar to be prepared for its next mission in December.

    Lands in California means it will cost $1.7 million and take up to 10 days to get it home to Florida aboard a jumbo jet.

    Atlantis had enough power for its systems to orbit until Sunday, but managers didn't want to wait that long. The flight would have been extended to Sunday only if technical problems needed to be fixed.

    During Atlantis' two chances to land Thursday, showers were within 34 miles of the landing strip at Kennedy Space Center, and clouds hung below an altitude of 8,000 feet, both violations of flight rules.

    During the crew's 14-day mission to the international space station, the astronauts installed a new truss segment, unfurled a new pair of power-generating solar arrays and activated a rotating joint that allows the new solar arrays to track the sun.

    Originally scheduled for 11 days, the mission was extended by two days to give astronauts time to repair a thermal blanket that had peeled away during the June 8 launch. Astronaut Danny Olivas stapled it back into place during a spacewalk. Another extra day in orbit was added after the weather in Florida prevented a landing Thursday.

    The shuttle's visit to the space station was complicated by the crash of Russian computers that control orientation and oxygen production.

    June 09

    Go fuck yourself

    Both have seen big growth. Starting from zero about eight years ago, swapalease now brokers about 7,000 deals a year, according to Scot Hall, a company executive.

    LeaseTrader is a bit older and larger, on track to handle about 35,000 transactions this year, according to LeaseTrader President Sergio Stiberman.

    Stiberman said he has seen a 30 percent increase in people looking to sell their SUV leases this year.

    "They definitely mention gas prices as a reason for getting out," said LeaseTrader spokesman John Sternal.

    The fees are similar at both sites.

    LeaseTrader charges $79 to sellers to post an ad; buyers pay $40 for a 60-day membership. The site runs credit checks so sellers know buyers can afford to assume their lease payments. If a transaction takes place, each party has to pay a $149 fee to the site.

    Swapalease has a listing fee ranging from $49 to $149, depending on the amount of exposure the seller wants the ad to have. Membership fees for buyers run about $40. A transaction fee is only charged if a seller has the cheapest listing fee, in which case it's $95.

    There are other costs too, noted Alex Rosten, an industry analyst at the auto research site Edmunds.com.

    The leasing company usually charges a $200 to $400 fee to switch the names. And if the car isn't purchased when the lease runs out, there's often another $200 to $600 charge. If the car isn't local and needs to be shipped, that could run another $500.

    "It's not as simple as signing on the dotted line," said Rosten. "Always research the fees before you pull the trigger."

    For people looking to sell a lease, they'll have the best chance if the vehicle is still far from the mileage limit in the lease contract and the original lease terms are financially attractive.

    Many of the ads feature cars that have used up all their allotted miles or where the original lease was expensive.

    In those cases, the seller will usually try to sweeten the deal by offering a cash incentive, often thousands of dollars, to the prospective lease buyer.

    Getting a good deal on these sites is possible, but it depends entirely on the details of the lease and the incentives being offered.

    Sites like these can be good places to shop for a short term lease, say a year or less, said Rosten, for the simple reason that it's hard to find new car leases that short.

    You can also benefit from someone's mistake, said Rosten. Some people still make big down payments on leased vehicles - something experts advise against - which can reduce the monthly cost substantially.

    "If that happens, you can end up with a real bargain," he said.

    But he offered one more word of caution: some of the ads on those sites are put there by dealers or leasing companies, not legitimate third parties.

    "You're going there to take over a lease, not start a new one," he said. Top of page

    June 02

    Bullshit

    In a summer set for domination by inflated franchise movies in exhausting (and often exhausted) mega-mode, "Knocked Up" is a designated sleeper, the little movie that could -- and should -- clean up.

    For once, critics and moviegoers are likely to be on the same page. Who isn't ready for a refreshingly frank, funny odd-couple comedy with engaging leads and too many belly laughs to count? (Lemme guess: I had you at "refreshingly.") Indeed, who isn't up for a movie that doesn't come encumbered with so much as a digit in the title, or even a colon?

    OK, so "Knocked Up" sits comfortably on the same well-worn couch as "The 40-Year-Old Virgin," the previous hit from writer-director-producer Judd Apatow. Several of the same actors crop up, many of them veterans from Apatow's short-lived but fondly remembered small-screen gems, "Freaks and Geeks" and "Undeclared." But in this case, those are signs of high quality.

    First and foremost there's Seth Rogen, an amiable, beer-bellied slob with a tight mop of curly hair, permanent five o'clock shadow and a voice like Baloo the bear, who seemed likely to play sidekicks for the foreseeable future.

    Rogen's obvious limitations in the romantic leading man department aren't just the butt of the humor here, they're also the plot. It's "Beauty and the Beast," and he's the beast: his character, Ben Stone, is a twentysomething non-achiever living with four likeminded slackers. Their only employment is idle research into movie-star nudity for a proposed Internet start-up.

    Beauty comes in the form of Alison Scott (Katherine Heigl from "Grey's Anatomy"), a perky blonde E! Entertainment presenter. Attractive and goal-oriented, she's on the fast track to success -- that is, until she has the misfortune to cross paths with Ben. Letting her hair down to celebrate a promotion, Alison is charmed by his gallantry at the bar, and then tipsy enough to take him to bed.

    "You're prettier than I am," he acknowledges in a fleeting moment of bemused revelation as their clothes come off. But it's not until the morning after that she appreciates how far she's strayed from type, and another couple months before the consequences of this otherwise forgettable one-night stand come home to roost.

    She's adamant about having the baby, and he wants to do the right thing. First, though, the parents will have to get to know each other and find out if they can fall in like.

    None of this is exactly unexpected, and as the movie gestates the pregnancy's ballooning crises feel rather familiar, from finding the right obstetrician to the inevitable push-comes-to-shove about-face on an epidural.

    But if this material has been thoroughly homogenized by decades of situation comedy, it's a tribute to Apatow that even the most hackneyed scenes get a new lease on life from his ruder instincts, steeped as they are in the vulgar, anarchic energies of adolescent angst.

    In this movie -- as in "The 40-Year-Old Virgin" -- we can sense the "American Pie" generation growing up and settling down, but only with the very greatest reluctance. Ben and his buddies' slacker lifestyle isn't what you would call hygienic, but Apatow pictures it with a fond indulgence -- a note less evident in the barbed E! scenes featuring allegedly adult careerists.

    Amid the candid jokes about pregnant sex, the earthy language and promiscuous drug use, "Knocked Up" is also surprisingly grown-up, a fundamentally honest, family-affirming picture in which even Alison's sister's severely strained marriage proves eminently salvageable. Leslie Mann and Paul Rudd contribute some of the movie's sharpest, funniest asides as the unhappy couple -- though in truth, the entire extended cast delivers the goods right down the line.

    Even if, like most pregnancies, it goes on too long, "Knocked Up's" winning combination of benevolence and belly laughs will leave audiences smiling. In a nice touch, the end credits are illustrated with the cast and crew's baby pictures. And in Seth Rogen, for sure, a new star is born.

    May 26

    I shit on all of you

    BAIKONUR, Kazakhstan (Reuters) -- Not many things are less challenging than staring at the Kazakh steppe all day. Such was our distraction on our drive to the Baikonur Cosmodrome.

    Forest became grassland, grassland turned into desert and desert reverted to grassland. A river flashed by and a shepherd on horseback turned to watch our car speed past. It felt a bit like being in outer space.

    Then, in the midst of this barren, monotonous expanse, rose Baikonur, the world's oldest space launch facility and a storied vestige of the rivalries of the Cold War.

    The vast complex, itself the size of a small country, found itself adrift in Kazakhstan with the break-up of the Soviet Union. It is now technically part of Russia, which pays rent on it under a lease that runs until 2050.

    Just 125 miles east of the Aral Sea and 10 times that far from Moscow, Baikonur is surrounded by a big fence and administered by a Russian mayor, a stocky man with straightforward manners.

    We had gone there for the launch on April 7 of the Soyuz TMA-10 spaceship, bound for the international space station with two Russian cosmonauts and American space tourist Charles Simonyi.

    Simonyi, one of the founders of Microsoft, paid $25 million for his two-week trip, which made him the first billionaire in space.

    The event was another first for Baikonur, set up by the Soviet Union in the mid-1950s initially as a secret long-range missile test facility.

    It was the venue for the launch in 1957 of Sputnik 1, the world's first artificial satellite, then in 1961 for the historic flight that made Yuri Gagarin the first man in space.

    Capturing the cosmos

    In many ways Baikonur has changed little since it was set up.

    The town that caters to the cosmodrome, now also called Baikonur but known as Leninsk until 1995, is a collection of quiet, orderly streets lined with buildings that look older than they should for their age.

    A poster in one shop shows a rocket in flight, leaving a trail of fire.

    It reads: "Cosmos".

    "Cosmos is inside you," said one journalist, a phrase repeated by Baikonur residents inexplicably often.

    The place still has a feel of the Soviet Union about it, tinged with an air of the wild frontier. But these days it is accompanied by a touch of the surreal.

    We checked into the Central Hotel on Lenin Square, where guests register on the ground floor, pay on the second and receive the keys on the fourth.

    Then there was Martha Stewart, the American queen of sophisticated domestic styles for the masses, who showed up to see off her friend Simonyi.

    Stewart, who had selected the menu for a special dinner for Simonyi and the crew of the space station, wore the same charming smile each time she made a public appearance.

    "Baikonur is beautiful," she would say.

    One day a camel appeared at a ceremony in her heavily guarded hotel.

    "Very lovable," Stewart said.

    Simonyi and the two Russian cosmonauts he flew with had to go into quarantine before their flight.

    When they emerged from their quarantine zone, they were greeted by journalists wearing surgical masks and white coats who flashed their cameras and thrust microphones at them.

    They felt excited, they felt great, they were really looking forward to it. They had nothing much else to say. We took down every word.

    Pretending not to notice us, the cosmonauts played table tennis and pool. They ate vegetables, pork and a muffin for lunch.

    Then they were gone in the dead of night, propelled into space by a rocket that puffed and exhaled a cloud of smoke, roared skywards, turned into a bright dot and disappeared from sight.

    May 19

    What's NACE INTERNATIONAL?

    Since 1943 we've been dedicated to a single mission – to protect people, assets, and environment from the effects of corrosion.

    From just 11 engineers, our association has grown to more than 17,000 members in 100 countries.
    Built upon decades of knowledge and expertise from dedicated members all around the world, NACE International is involved in every industry and area of corrosion prevention and control, from chemical processing and water systems to transportation and infrastructure protection.

    NACE International is your inside track to the corrosion engineering and science community, and is recognized around the world as the premier authority for corrosion control solutions.
    NACE International serves its members by:

    • Setting standards for the corrosion industry
    • Disseminating the latest technology worldwide through peer-reviewed journals and technical papers
    • Hosting and managing the most important international conferences, exhibits and topical meetings in the corrosion industry
    • Recognizing distinguished achievement in corrosion through the presentation of well-respected awards
    • Linking you to colleagues and important career information
    • Enhancing programs, services and connections with the corporate community
    • Promoting the interests of the corrosion science and engineering industry through government relation activities in Washington, D.C.

    The NACE International mission to protect people, assets, and the environment from the effect of corrosion is global. Our members work in corporations, educational institutions, research facilities, and the federal government. Whether you are a scientist, engineer, contractor, student or simply someone who possesses a real commitment to the advancement of corrosion control, you are invited to become part of this dynamic and influential organization

    May 14

    The Corrosion Prevention Act of 2007

    The Corrosion Prevention Act of 2007
    NACE International announces a "Call to Action" for support of new U.S. legislation that will reduce both damage to the environment done by corroding industrial structures and the negative financial impact of corrosion on the U.S. economy.

    On March 29, 2007, Congressman Michael K. Conaway, 11th District Texas, introduced H.R. 1770, the "Corrosion Prevention Act of 2007," which will provide businesses with a tax credit for costs associated with preventing or mitigating corroding metals for amounts expended on corrosion prevention and central measures above and beyond federal or local requirements.

    It is crucial that anyone interested in investing in the future and helping to protect people, assets and the environment from the effects of corrosion be involved in this pending legislation. "The net result of the Corrosion Prevention Act of 2007 will be the creation and retention of jobs, the overwhelming positive impact on the environment and the regaining of a global competitive advantage for many industries," said Tony Keane, Executive Director of NACE International.

    May 12

    China allows its banks to buy overseas stocks

    BEIJING, May 11 (Xinhua) -- China has eased restrictions on its commercial banks by allowing them to invest in overseas stock markets for the first time, according to the China Banking Regulatory Commission.

        Commercial banks can now invest up to 50 percent of their funds in the qualified domestic institutional investors program to buy overseas stocks, the commission said in a statement on its website on Friday.

        The statement said no more than five percent of the net assets of each fund product is allowed to be invested in one stock.

        It added each investor will need at least 300,000 yuan, or the equivalent in foreign currency, to buy such money management products.

        Analysts said the measure would help to rein in the growth of China's foreign exchange reserves that already total 1.2 trillion U.S. dollars, which have resulted in excessive liquidity and the flooding of the domestic stock markets.

        According to the statement, the commercial banks are still banned from investing in commodity derivatives, hedge funds and securities rated below a BBB investment grade rating.

        In China, individuals are banned from investing directly in overseas financial markets.

    May 04

    MM

    昨天,是一张作废的支票;明天,是尚未兑现的期票;只有今天才是现金,有流通性的价值之物......
    May 03

    AGREMENT

    Someone say:When the matter become the worst,it's becoming well increasiely.So,pereisten is victory.(情况坏到极点,通常开始好转。因此,坚持就是胜利。)
    I'm agree with him。

    SHIT?

    There is something I need to say? Oh,No.Nothing.I am so sorry.
    I am a man of my word.
    I have no time to lost.
    Don't cry,I'm not cry.Because I'm here.
    You are right,my brother is right.I'm going to home.
    Second car.Call me in the gate.Keep tight.
    She's here.Five minutes.
    What's your name children.Put gun down.Please!Read it.Louder
    I promise you.This little boy respent my country.
    I want to say goodbye.
    May 01

    Fuck you?

    I don't know what should I do in my spare time.Now I have many many spare time.So I want not study sometimes.But next time surf is the last chance for me.I do don't like surf however,I can't control myself,coming to net bar.Increasely,I impose me go another place.At least this long time.
    What's more important,we should do something quickly.Don't worry.

    Nothing impossible

    Today,I spend RMB40.That is a big number for me as I have no cablity of learn money now.Go to have a long walk with money,however ,I spend part of them although I decide to spend no.Seeing many good basketball shoes,in fact I have many shoes,so I think this problem carefully.Not buy.Another things I learned is you shoule do something quickly which you think it worhy.
    Play have not a ending,study so.But play have no good result.For my future?
    I should have some friends during postgraduate,not like my graduat,having no friends.
    I want to talk some about study English.I don't know why I study many English.I find I am interested in english.No matter reading,listening,writing,watching film of english.I want to use it in the future.Our purpose is use it well.I hope there is one day my english become very well.What is your future is decided by yourself.Now you shoud see some thing what will happen in the next severl years,just like my father.
    April 29

    SON OF THE BITCH?

    Yesterday,I have a long walk,from XINGHAI square to EAST SEA PARK.Very long,today I feel so tired.I have stay 5 years in DALIAN,almost never go other palace,so I want to change,change everything of mine.What's more important,I need to change many thing of mine in my life.You konw? DALIAN is a good city for rich man,just as any other city.During the sea sides,there are many beautiful scence,expensive house but it's worthy in my opinion.I seen many good palace but no DC,very regret.My classmates tell me they don't come,howerer I have prepare many things such as food,house,bed.Good relationship with each person can help for me in my future.Hurt someone?
    So long vocation for me,I don't konw what I should do during this long time,maybe study or relax,recreation for the future well study.I have decided to buy a DC to record the good time of mine,my family.If I have enough money,I will buy a DV in the future..
    April 26

    YOU ARE FULL OF SHIT?

    English,use it ,learning,speaking,reading.I am a man of my word.My almight god.Classmates come,I feel busy,but should feel
    happy.No money,No something.I want to have a DC.It should cheap,but helpful to me,to my family.I want to have  one.Before the end of the year.
    Now I have long days of 11 days to relax.Beautifully.Loving it.Enjoying life.No knowledge No future.May be is ture.
    Every one has his family member,loving father,mother,brothing.I want to say to them when I have trouble,recalling them.
    Want to see their pictures,almost everyday.
    I want to say my father is the great one in the world.He can see future thing,which will happen.What is more,he love me,and my brother although he is not say out.My mother,loving her.