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The Expendables

2:13 AM, Aug. 20, 2010 .. comments .. Link

If that sounds a little Zen-like, that’s because the new action opera co-written and directed by and starring Sylvester Stallone exists in a “Twilight Zone” dimension of its own outside of normal critical time and space.

A cartoonish symphony of muscles, bullets, tattoos and cigars, “The Expendables” is so determinedly old-school that its brisk action and bracing explosions take place not in the real world but on a mythical South American island named Vilena. If it does nothing else, it will make you nostalgic for a time when its more august actors, including Bruce Willis and Arnold Schwarzenegger in tiny cameos, were at least age-appropriate for their roles.

With its roster of action stars listed on posters like a high-powered team of urologists — Stallone, Statham, Li, Lundgren, Couture, Austin, Crews and Rourke — “The Expendables” is also a place where lines like “Friends don’t let friends die alone” and “Don’t talk to me, cockroach” can find a happy home.

“The Expendables,” in case you couldn’t guess, are not urologists but top-of-the-line mercenaries whose motto is “If the money’s right, we don’t care what the job is.” Barney Ross (Stallone) is first among equals, followed by Lee Christmas (Jason Statham), Yin Yang ( Jet Li), Gunnar Jensen ( Dolph Lundgren), Toll Road (mixed martial artist Randy Couture) and Hale Caesar (Terry Crews). Names, like the rest of the film, not to be taken seriously.

The gang is introduced by co-writers Stallone and David Callaham in a flashback involving the expeditious rescue of a group of hostages from Somali pirates. The Expendables turn out to have a penchant for bickering with one another, however, and Jensen has to be let go for attempting to murder a prisoner. They have standards after all.

The team gets offered a new job by the shadowy Mr. Church (Willis). The job means going down to that fictitious island and taking on not only the evil general who runs it (David Zayas) but also his nefarious American enabler (Eric Roberts) and his brutal right-hand man, Paine (Steve Austin).

Ineptly disguised as members of the Global Wildlife Conservancy, Barney and Lee go down on a recon and find the island too hot for them to handle. The only bright spot is their local contact, the sultry Sandra (Giselle Itie), a woman with an agenda of her own. When Barney is forced to abandon Sandra in a tight spot, he vows to return.

For the Expendables would have you understand that they are not just behemoths with biceps as big as the Ritz; they have hearts and souls and, yes, tarnished ideals. Their attitude is expressed by Mickey Rourke as Tool, a tattoo artist and retired Expendable who smokes a long-stemmed pipe and bemoans a woman whose suicide he walked away from years ago in Bosnia. Friends may not let friends die alone, but bogus philosophizing is apparently business as usual.

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Village

1:52 AM, Jul. 2, 2010 .. comments .. Link
 

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The south of the lower reaches of the Yangtze River is always unforgettable. Whether experience the old and winding street in the rain in spring of flower of apricot, or feel the wall which climbs all over moss with the finger, that is the pure the South small town, it has already become the pale yellow photograph of memory depths, but can not get rid of in any case.
    That is my mother's homeland, enclosed with hills on four sides, three are leant against water, the Shen 's builds the nest in the bamboo grove depths. Can imagine mother comes out from such a gully ditch, how difficult to prop up a warm home in the noisy city. The Shen 's of today, although can not rich, have already come out from the poor mountain area, I am not only say with feeling sentimental limitlessly to the years passing floating in the air the development of hometown is not so joyful as the one that spoke, here, I have seen the real the south of the lower reaches of the Yangtze River.
    The cogongrass eaves are low and small, the blue and green green grass on the small stream. Small town ten years ago, say like that as stated in poem in the main. The house was folded of earth and fragment of brick, stood up hard crookedly, did not look very neat. But in every silk earth, in every brick, are all hiding long history and moving story. Others are tiles, the steel gray tile is arranged on the roof neatly, lift the eyes prospect, sunshine color of hexagon faint, sew through tile scattering get off, play up the five colours and beautiful sky. There is much rainwater in the South, when it rains, play the pleasant music on the roof, it is unable to be palpitated with excitement.
    The granddad's old house, was once the tallest and biggest building in the village, it's a pity when my mother is still young, have been burnt by all a handful of fires. Only have pitch-dark wall and broken frustrating tiles left, become the place where others pile up the incidental, laying down becomes one and of ruins rightly. See such ruins, I shake and not excited and vast and hazy startled. At that time, the granddad made the surprising decision, is taking family and leaving the homeland, the whole family moves to and faces Pu, remember a humble meeting become there in the farm, have built the university ways of mother and sister in law.
    In front of granddad's door of the old room, there is big but old Mei Shu of one. The granddad says: "Red plum, bloom every year, and the result. " I learn traditional Chinese Painting draw plum blossom, plum blossom grow leaf, it withers to be full tree bleak and desolate turn on, just as failed person's whole face falls quietly. I deeply feel and suspect externally common words.
    The granddad does not answer either, he looks at one's own old room and stares blankly and stares flankly. I look at his kindly face, seem to see the tongues of fire are how to engulf this family, seem to hear mother and how the grandmother is nestle together to cry, seem to experience it is calm and nervous how the granddad is. Flame, north shadow, old man, overlapping three degrees of deep scenes.
    Will bloom. The granddad answers staring blankly.


iPad e-mail addresses exposed

2:45 AM, Jun. 10, 2010 .. comments .. Link

AT&T on Wednesday acknowledged a security breach that exposed the e-mail addresses of some 114,000 high-profile users of the Apple iPad.

AT&T issued a statement saying it had fixed the security hole that was tapped by a research group calling itself Goatse Security, according to the Associated Press. Goatse researchers said they tricked AT&T's website into coughing up the e-mail addresses from iPad accounts owned by New York Times CEO Janet Robinson, New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg and White House Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel, among other famous media personalities and important government officials.

A representative for the group told The Associated Press late Wednesday that the group contacted AT&T and waited until the vulnerability was fixed before going public with the information.


The vulnerability only affected iPad users who signed up for AT&T's "3G" wireless Internet service. It involved an insecure way that AT&T's website would prompt iPad users when they tried to log into their AT&T accounts, says the Associated Press.

AT&T says it was notified about the security hole by a business customer, and intends to inform all iPad users whose e-mail addresses "may have been obtained."

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A Slave to Money

8:38 PM, Nov. 26, 2009 .. comments .. Link

Waiting at the XuanWuMenDong bus stop, I could not help shivering with cold. I had waited for the No.T4-bus for at least half an hour, while approximately five No. 7-buses which brought me to that bus stop had passed by.

The day before, the weather forecast reported that it would be -4~4. Quite nice! I felt lucky. But was it really that nice?

Why was it so cold? Had the weather forecast report made a mistake? Or did my feeling go wrong? I could not stop shivering and my feet became senseless. Looking up at the grey sky, I could do nothing but just sigh.

I was going to a shop to fetch my hairdryer, which I had ordered from the internet. I had finished the payment using online banking. Mostly in this case, people would wait at home for the courier to bring him the goods. However, I intended to argue myself into believing that I went to the shop not because I wanted to save that 8yuan of freight, but to have a look at the shop and see whether it deserve further “cooperation”.

Why did I buy the hairdryer from the internet, while it could be seen on the shelves of all super markets? Why did I keep my little room in a simplest decoration? Why did I do the cooking every day?

I could, anyhow, find a reason for everything I did. I liked simple decoration, especially when I was not determined about where I would be the next month. I cooked because I had a light taste which could only be satisfied by my own.

However, someone could easily lay bare my lie. “You are just niggardly with money.”

He-he…yes, I am merely a niggardly woman; I have been a slave to money…I have been used to economize on money since I have a poor family and that I am a good girl. But I have grown up now, I earn my own money now, yet I still have to save on money. What a shamed…

I know that money doesn’t grow more by saving, but grows more by making. However, sometimes if you could not make something grow more, you have to stop it from getting less.

I wrote this article, to some extent, to comfort myself in mind. Sometimes I really feel ashamed when my friends kid with me about my penny pinching. What’s more, I am a little worried that I will be still too niggardly in future even when I become a millionaire. Ha-ha…



Baby Cold

1:50 AM, Sep. 4, 2009 .. comments .. Link
What would cause the child flu complications?

The common cold do not have to worry about, but if the cold lead to other diseases, such as:

1, myocarditis. There are many viral infections can cause myocarditis, an infection usually begin showing symptoms of a cold, and then may be against the myocardium, triggered myocarditis.

2, pneumonia. In the cold in children, especially premature infants, low birth weight or congenital heart disease, malnutrition, anemia, rickets in children, due to infirmity, if active treatment can be complicated by bronchitis, pneumonia, often threatening illness life or persistent unhealed.

3, nephritis. Influenza virus can not only secondary to upper respiratory tract infections, such as streptococcal infection, caused by tonsillitis, 2 to 4 weeks can lead to acute glomerulonephritis, especially children, can be sudden edema, hematuria and proteinuria, condition serious can be developed into acute renal failure.

Common cold with antibiotics as soon possible?

Virus or bacteria can cause colds. The common cold virus belonging to a cold virus, bacteria, colds are caused by bacterial cold. Antibiotics only for bacterial cold be useful. In fact, many belong to the common cold virus cold. The strict sense, the right viral influenza, and there is no effective drug, only symptomatic treatment, without the need for the use of antibiotics. You may have had this experience, cold a habit of buying some cold medicine at the pharmacy, while a slight increase in antibiotic use. In fact antibiotics at this time is useless.

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Sony Ericsson Purchases Spice?

3:36 AM, Jul. 14, 2008 .. Link
The news on July 14 reported Sony Ericsson launched a takeover of Indian mobile phone manufacturer SpiceMobile Companies, both sides have already launched negotiating at present. SpiceMobile Company under the jurisdiction of India BKModi group at present, mainly sell the mobile phone products taking Spice as brand name.


According to medias of foreign countries, there are 64% of the stocks of SpiceMobile Company in BKModi group, the news of market thinks this group is looking for one with chances to sell this company of 164 million dollars, and this price will be about 3 times of the market value of the stock at present of this company.

Meanwhile, there is news that claims, still in process about selling the negotiation of Spice, the purchase agreement has not been decided yet either. It is said, SpiceMobile initial reason that contacts with Sony Ericsson lies in planning to establish a kind of " extensive cooperation and partnership " among both sides ,But the progress with the talks, two companies think and purchase it will be a better choice. The well-informed person still reveals, if Sony Ericsson obtains the stock right above SpiceMobile50%, it must be sold publicly according to the regulation of India. Sony Ericsson hopes to obtain most stock rights at present, but does not determine so far whether to purchase the a hundred per cent stock right yet.

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