Wednesday, March 28, 2007
Monday, March 19, 2007
joey vs joey
which one is better?
i just checked linda's blog. At the very first glance.
i just checked linda's blog. At the very first glance.
i read the message "i like joey the most", then
i was very pleased and even felt a bit moving.
but after reading the whole passage, i realized
that guy mentioned was not me!
depressing!
frankly, i like that joey too.but at that moment
when i just realized that guy was more popular
than me, though that was clear,:) , i felt myself
being fooled by joey,the actor.
funny.
Thursday, March 15, 2007
sexy time
"High Five!" and "It's Sexy Time!" ,favorite expressions of the hit comic character Borat, have topped a list of the top Hollywood phrases of the year.
The Global Language Monitor, a non-profit group that monitors word use, put those two expressions at the top of its annual list of Hollywood words and phrases for the impact they made on the English language.
In second place was a Hollywood star trend of giving babies unusual names like Suri, the name of the daughter of Tom Cruise and Katie Holmes, and Shiloh Nouvel, the daughter of Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt.
Global Language Monitor head Paul JJ Payack said the trend "opens an entire new world of possibilities to young parents for either inflicting or bestowing names upon their children."
Other words and phrases on the list include were "Pursuit" from Will Smith's film "The Pursuit of Happyness" and the phrase "Nazi Bullets," used by the grandfather in "Little Miss Sunshine" to explain his crankiness.
One expression from the box office hit "The Queen," for which Helen Mirren won the best actress Oscar, made the list.
"Will someone please save these people from themselves!", Tony Blair said as he attempted to heal the rift between Queen Elizabeth and her subjects.
Actress Meryl Streep also made the list after declaring to an unfortunate associate in "The Devil Wears Prada": "The details of your incompetence do not interest me."
Last Year, "Brokeback" from "Brokeback Mountain" topped the annual survey.
当红喜剧人物“波拉特”（喜剧《波拉特》主角）常挂在嘴边的两句话High Five!（举手击掌）和 It's Sexy Time!（性感时间到！）被评为今年好莱坞的最热门表达。
专门负责监测词语用法的非营利组织全球语言检测机构基于这两个表达对英语语言所产生的影响，将其评为今年的好莱坞年度最热门词汇。
位居第二的是好莱坞影星给他们的下一代起“怪名”的趋势，比如，汤姆·克鲁斯和凯蒂·赫尔姆斯给他们女儿起名为"苏芮"，安吉利娜·茱丽和布拉德·皮特给女儿起名为夏洛伊·诺维尔。全球语言监测机构主席保尔·JJ·培雅克说，这一趋势“将为年轻父母给孩子取名开创很多新的可能。”
荣登好莱坞年度热门词汇排行榜的还包括由威尔·史密斯主演的电影《追求幸福》中的Pursuit一词（追求）和《阳光小美女》中的祖父解释自己古怪行为时所用的Nazi Bullets（纳粹子弹）一词。
源于票房大片《女王》中的一句表达也榜上有名，海伦·米伦凭借该片赢得奥斯卡最佳女主角奖。
影片中的英国首相布莱尔在试图解决伊丽莎白女王和民众之间的矛盾时说了一句话：“谁能来救赎这些人啊！”
梅丽尔·斯特里普在《时尚女魔头》中对她那“不幸”的助理所说的“我对你种种无能的细节不感兴趣”一语也名列排行榜。
去年，《断背山》中的“断背”一词当选好莱坞的头号热门词汇。
自China Daily
The Global Language Monitor, a non-profit group that monitors word use, put those two expressions at the top of its annual list of Hollywood words and phrases for the impact they made on the English language.
In second place was a Hollywood star trend of giving babies unusual names like Suri, the name of the daughter of Tom Cruise and Katie Holmes, and Shiloh Nouvel, the daughter of Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt.
Global Language Monitor head Paul JJ Payack said the trend "opens an entire new world of possibilities to young parents for either inflicting or bestowing names upon their children."
Other words and phrases on the list include were "Pursuit" from Will Smith's film "The Pursuit of Happyness" and the phrase "Nazi Bullets," used by the grandfather in "Little Miss Sunshine" to explain his crankiness.
One expression from the box office hit "The Queen," for which Helen Mirren won the best actress Oscar, made the list.
"Will someone please save these people from themselves!", Tony Blair said as he attempted to heal the rift between Queen Elizabeth and her subjects.
Actress Meryl Streep also made the list after declaring to an unfortunate associate in "The Devil Wears Prada": "The details of your incompetence do not interest me."
Last Year, "Brokeback" from "Brokeback Mountain" topped the annual survey.
当红喜剧人物“波拉特”（喜剧《波拉特》主角）常挂在嘴边的两句话High Five!（举手击掌）和 It's Sexy Time!（性感时间到！）被评为今年好莱坞的最热门表达。
专门负责监测词语用法的非营利组织全球语言检测机构基于这两个表达对英语语言所产生的影响，将其评为今年的好莱坞年度最热门词汇。
位居第二的是好莱坞影星给他们的下一代起“怪名”的趋势，比如，汤姆·克鲁斯和凯蒂·赫尔姆斯给他们女儿起名为"苏芮"，安吉利娜·茱丽和布拉德·皮特给女儿起名为夏洛伊·诺维尔。全球语言监测机构主席保尔·JJ·培雅克说，这一趋势“将为年轻父母给孩子取名开创很多新的可能。”
荣登好莱坞年度热门词汇排行榜的还包括由威尔·史密斯主演的电影《追求幸福》中的Pursuit一词（追求）和《阳光小美女》中的祖父解释自己古怪行为时所用的Nazi Bullets（纳粹子弹）一词。
源于票房大片《女王》中的一句表达也榜上有名，海伦·米伦凭借该片赢得奥斯卡最佳女主角奖。
影片中的英国首相布莱尔在试图解决伊丽莎白女王和民众之间的矛盾时说了一句话：“谁能来救赎这些人啊！”
梅丽尔·斯特里普在《时尚女魔头》中对她那“不幸”的助理所说的“我对你种种无能的细节不感兴趣”一语也名列排行榜。
去年，《断背山》中的“断背”一词当选好莱坞的头号热门词汇。
自China Daily
Tuesday, March 13, 2007
ivy league
Ivy League is the name generally applied to eight universities (Brown, Columbia, Cornell, Dartmouth, Harvard, Pennsylvania, Princeton, and Yale) that over the years have had common interests in scholarship as well as in athletics. Stanley Woodward, New York Herald Tribune sports writer, coined the phrase in the early thirties.
In 1936 the undergraduate newspapers of these universities simultaneously ran an editorial advocating the formation of an ``Ivy League,'' but the first move toward this end was not taken until 1945. In that year, the eight presidents entered into an agreement ``for the purpose of reaffirming their intention of continuing intercollegiate football in such a way as to maintain the values of the game, while keeping it in fitting proportion to the main purposes of academic life.'' To achieve this objective two inter-university committees were appointed: one, made up primarily of the college deans, was to administer rules of eligibility; the other, composed of the athletic directors, was to establish policies on the length of the playing season and of preseason practice, operating budgets, and related matters. Two other inter-university committees on admission and financial aid were added later.
As President Dodds pointed out at the time, the general principles agreed on by the eight universities were essentially the same as those set forth in the Harvard-Yale-Princeton Presidents' Agreement of 1916 .
The first step toward organizing full league competition came in 1952 with the announcement that, beginning with the fall of 1953, each college would play every other college in the group at least once every five years. This plan was superseded in 1954 when the presidents announced the adoption of a yearly round-robin schedule in football, starting in 1956, and approved the principle of similar schedules in ``as many sports as practicable.''
Thereafter, the Ivy Group (as the league was called in the Presidents' Agreement of 1954) established schedules in other sports, including some in existing leagues with non-Ivy members. As of 1977, the Ivy League colleges competed, round-robin, in football, soccer, basketball, and, with certain variations as noted, in baseball (also Army and Navy), fencing (except Brown and Dartmouth), ice hockey (except Columbia), squash (except Brown, Columbia, and Cornell), swimming (except Columbia, but also Army and Navy), tennis (also Army and Navy), and wrestling (except Brown and Dartmouth). Ivy championships in cross-country and track were determined at the annual Heptagonal Meets, in golf at an Ivy championship tournament, and in rowing at the Eastern Association of Rowing Colleges Regatta.
The mid-seventies brought the inclusion of women's teams in the Ivy League program with the institution of championship tournaments in basketball and ice hockey, and a move toward round-robin competition in field hockey, lacrosse, and other sports.
Other instances of increasing formalization of the Ivy League occurred in the seventies -- two of them involving Princetonians.
Since 1971, the Bushnell Cup has been awarded to the Ivy football player of the year, who is selected by vote of the eight coaches. This trophy, presented to the Ivy League by the Eastern Association of Intercollegiate Football Officials, was named in honor of Asa S. Bushnell '21, the first commissioner of the Eastern College Athletic Conference, in appreciation of ``his great contribution to the advancement of college athletics.''
In 1973, to provide greater coordination of the athletic interests of the eight universities, the post of executive director of the Council of Ivy League Presidents was created, and Ricardo A. Mestres '31, financial vice-president and treasurer of the University, emeritus, was elected first incumbent. Mestres served in this post until 1976, when he was succeeded by James M. Litvack, visiting lecturer in economics and public affairs in the University.
In 1936 the undergraduate newspapers of these universities simultaneously ran an editorial advocating the formation of an ``Ivy League,'' but the first move toward this end was not taken until 1945. In that year, the eight presidents entered into an agreement ``for the purpose of reaffirming their intention of continuing intercollegiate football in such a way as to maintain the values of the game, while keeping it in fitting proportion to the main purposes of academic life.'' To achieve this objective two inter-university committees were appointed: one, made up primarily of the college deans, was to administer rules of eligibility; the other, composed of the athletic directors, was to establish policies on the length of the playing season and of preseason practice, operating budgets, and related matters. Two other inter-university committees on admission and financial aid were added later.
As President Dodds pointed out at the time, the general principles agreed on by the eight universities were essentially the same as those set forth in the Harvard-Yale-Princeton Presidents' Agreement of 1916 .
The first step toward organizing full league competition came in 1952 with the announcement that, beginning with the fall of 1953, each college would play every other college in the group at least once every five years. This plan was superseded in 1954 when the presidents announced the adoption of a yearly round-robin schedule in football, starting in 1956, and approved the principle of similar schedules in ``as many sports as practicable.''
Thereafter, the Ivy Group (as the league was called in the Presidents' Agreement of 1954) established schedules in other sports, including some in existing leagues with non-Ivy members. As of 1977, the Ivy League colleges competed, round-robin, in football, soccer, basketball, and, with certain variations as noted, in baseball (also Army and Navy), fencing (except Brown and Dartmouth), ice hockey (except Columbia), squash (except Brown, Columbia, and Cornell), swimming (except Columbia, but also Army and Navy), tennis (also Army and Navy), and wrestling (except Brown and Dartmouth). Ivy championships in cross-country and track were determined at the annual Heptagonal Meets, in golf at an Ivy championship tournament, and in rowing at the Eastern Association of Rowing Colleges Regatta.
The mid-seventies brought the inclusion of women's teams in the Ivy League program with the institution of championship tournaments in basketball and ice hockey, and a move toward round-robin competition in field hockey, lacrosse, and other sports.
Other instances of increasing formalization of the Ivy League occurred in the seventies -- two of them involving Princetonians.
Since 1971, the Bushnell Cup has been awarded to the Ivy football player of the year, who is selected by vote of the eight coaches. This trophy, presented to the Ivy League by the Eastern Association of Intercollegiate Football Officials, was named in honor of Asa S. Bushnell '21, the first commissioner of the Eastern College Athletic Conference, in appreciation of ``his great contribution to the advancement of college athletics.''
In 1973, to provide greater coordination of the athletic interests of the eight universities, the post of executive director of the Council of Ivy League Presidents was created, and Ricardo A. Mestres '31, financial vice-president and treasurer of the University, emeritus, was elected first incumbent. Mestres served in this post until 1976, when he was succeeded by James M. Litvack, visiting lecturer in economics and public affairs in the University.
Friday, March 09, 2007
Friday, March 02, 2007
Thursday, March 01, 2007
go back to work
back to my position again.
glad to see my buddies here in school.
new start, isn't it?
glad to see my buddies here in school.
new start, isn't it?
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