Agree

I am agree, are you agree? (Incorrect)

I agree; do you agree? (Correct)

"Agree" is a verb, not an adjective.

I agree Mr Chan; do you agree what he said? (Incorrect)

I agree with Mr Chan; do you agree with what he said?

You agree with a person or idea and you agree to do something.

First Man on Planet Who'll Get an iPhone 3G

The guy grinning in this photo is called Jonny Gladwell, and he's from Auckland, New Zealand. Why's he grinning? He's first in the queue at the Auckland Vodafone shop. And due to the timings involved, that should make him the first person in the World to buy an iPhone 3G. Lucky bastard. [Image credit: Darryl Carey]

Gizmodo.

Across

I acrossed the road. (Incorrect)

I crossed the road. (Correct)

The verb is "to cross" while "across" is an adverb or preposition, as in:

I went across the road.

Protestor beheads Hitler waxwork

A waxwork model of Adolf Hitler was beheaded by a protester today in Berlin minutes after the controversial exhibit was unveiled.

Just after the opening of the new branch of Madame Tussauds museum in the German capital, a 41-year-old German man pushed aside two security men guarding the exhibit and wrenched the model’s head off.

The protester did not resist arrest when police arrived shortly afterwards and he is being investigated for assault and damaging property.

Critics have attacked the waxwork figure of a glum-looking Adolf Hitler in a mock bunker during the last days of his life as being in bad taste.

It is illegal in Germany to show Nazi symbols and art glorifying Hitler and commentators have said it is inappropriate to display the Nazi dictator alongside celebrities, pop stars, world statesmen and sporting heroes.

Institutions such as the foundation for Germany’s central Holocaust memorial site condemned the idea of the exhibit as tasteless, saying it had been included simply as a commercial stunt. The wax figure is the latest in a gradual breaking down of taboos about Hitler in Germany more than 60 years after the end of the war and the Holocaust in which some six million Jews, and other groups, were killed.

It took around 25 workers four months to make the waxwork, using more than 2,000 pictures and pieces of archive material. They were also guided by a model of the “Fuehrer” in the London branch of Madame Tussauds.

Unobtrusive signs near the exhibit asked visitors to refrain from taking photos or posing with Hitler “out of respect for the millions of people who died during World War Two”.

Camera surveillance and museum officials were meant to stop inappropriate behaviour.

The Times.

Nike "Back to the Future" McFly Basketball Sneakers

It was the launch of the limited-edition Marty McFly-inspired Nike Hyperdunk sneakers. 350 pairs were sold almost instantly (some are now for sale on eBay for as much as US$2,000), a hundred of them at the UNDFTD shop in Santa Monica, where L.A. Lakers' megastar Kobe Bryant arrived in a DeLorean time machine to be greeted by hundred of fans, some of them camping outside for more than 24 hours.

Gizmodo.

According to

According to my opinion, we should go hiking. (Incorrect)

In my opinion, we should go hiking. (Correct)

"According to" is used with another person or source of information and is not used with 'opinion'. 

According to all these reasons, she decided to change jobs. (Incorrect)

For all these reasons, she decided to change jobs. (Correct)

"According to" is not used with "reason".

William's Europe Trip Preview

Since we have to stuck in this smelly city to struggle with our AL, and Bill will have his vacation in Europe, I would like to preview his trip so u may feel u are with him there.

4/7 ROME
5/7 VENICE
6/7 FLORENCE

8/7 Splitz,Coratia
9/7 Zagreb,Coratia
10/7 Dubronvik, Coratia


U CAN JUST READ,but I AM SORRY TO TELL THAT U CAN'T ASK FOR souvineior
since IT IS OPENLY KNOWN THAT BILL WILL NOT DO IT!!!

A perfect day to sweat for democracy

Thousands of protesters take to the streets under blue skies and a blazing sun

In the weeks leading up to the July 1 march, some activists worried that the record-setting rainstorms and relative lack of galvanising political issues would conspire against the annual gathering.

But as the city awoke yesterday, the blue skies, rampant inflation and general dissatisfaction with the government proved the perfect combination, drawing thousands of people to march under a blazing sun.

"It's strange that year after year, protesters will march under such a strong sun. It seems sweating together for democracy has become a collective memory," said Democrat Gary Fan Kwok-wai.

While universal suffrage remained a key issue, also prominent among the sea of placards and slogans on display were complaints about inflation and public anger over Chief Executive Donald Tsang Yam-kuen's naming of political aides.

But Mr Tsang's administration was not the only party feeling the heat. A daughter of Civic Party leader Audrey Eu Yuet-mee, who brought her family to the march, felt dizzy and almost fainted, prompting some to fear that the sun, rather than any rain, would end up turning away marchers.

Earlier in the day, a red-faced and agitated Jackie Hung Ling-yu, vice-convenor of the Civil Human Rights Front, said: "The heavens might not be helping Donald Tsang, but they are not helping me, either. Look at the small numbers." But her fears soon subsided as protesters filled three soccer pitches in Victoria Park.

While pan-democrats said that unlike in previous years, Beijing seemed to be paying less attention to the turnout for the march because of an apparent lack of major controversies that might endanger Mr Tsang's rule, some researchers working for the central government said Vice-President Xi Jinping had deliberately delayed a visit to the city until the week after July 1 to avoid coinciding with the march, which could have been embarrassing.

And with the Legislative Council election not far off, some politicians capitalised on the march as a platform to drum up support ahead of September's poll.

Rolling out a team of second- generation candidates who are considered rising political stars, the Civic Party spared no effort to ensure maximum exposure by equipping them with loudspeakers in Causeway Bay - one of the bottlenecks where the procession was slowed down by traffic police.

But Civic Party candidates such as Tanya Chan and Tsang Kwok-fung were taught a lesson after being tricked into repeating their competitor's slogan - shouted by a 100-strong group of protesters claiming to be pan-democrats who called for "alternative health care".

The group's leader, Alexander Yuan, a doctor who campaigns for naturopathic therapy, among other issues, has openly distributed campaign booklets announcing his plans to contest the Hong Kong Island constituency.

"He must be very rich, because the Electoral Affairs Commission could easily count the cost of the entire protest into his election expenses," one Civic Party member said. There is a HK$2 million cap for campaign spending for candidates running on Hong Kong Island.

Both Cyd Ho Sau-lan and Lo Wing-lok mobilised supporters to promote their campaigns.

All their campaigning pointed to one issue echoed by the protesting crowds - a desire for the government to improve its governance, both in style and in substance.

"What angered me most was how Donald Tsang appointed his political appointees. Why are they paid so much with so little ability, while I am paid peanuts despite being a good worker and have to put up with inflation?" said one female marcher.

The Reverend Ralph Lee Ting-sun of the Methodist Church, who led a pre-march prayer session, said the crowd would return every year until universal suffrage was introduced in response to public demand.

"Some people said July 1 has become a ritual. It is because our annual marching for democracy has become Hong Kong's tradition," he said.

SCMP. Jul 2, 2008.

The Southern Lights Time-lapse footage of the Aurora Australis

Aurora Australis: The Southern Lights Time-lapse footage of the Aurora Australis, or Southern Lights. This is the Southern Hemisphere equivalent of the Aurora Borealis or Northern Lights. Filmed during the Antarctic winter in the general vicinity of McMurdo Station and Scott Base, where the sun is below the horizon for 4 months of the year. Most of the individual clips here were each taken over about a 10 minute period to give you an idea of how much they were moving in real time. Have a look at my time-lapse clip "A Year on Ice" for more Antarctic footage which includes other aurora clips in the winter section. Original footage is 8 or 12.8 megapixel resolution, converted to 1080p Other clips are available on youtube here...

Only two students received 6As results in this year's HKAL

Only two students scored perfect 6 straight A passes in this year's Hong Kong Advanced Level Examination (HKAL), local media reported on Monday.

Both of the students attend the Hang Seng School of Commerce at Sha Tin.

Yuen Yip-kan who scored 6As at HKAL examination and 5As at HKCEE, said he felt surprised and happy when he received his results.

He said he hoped to enter the University of Hong Kong's Bachelor of Business Administration (BBA) department. The other top student, Yuen Si-wai said she was very pleased with the results and intends go to either the University of Hong Kong or the Chinese University's BBA department. She said the reason for her good results was paying attention in class and preparation.

Of the other five students who scored 5As in the HKAL examination, three of them came from St Rose of Lima's College, one student came from St Paul's Co-educational College and one from Carmel Pak U Secondary School in Tai Po, respectively.

Of the 37,000 students who attended this year's HKAL examination, the results of 16,000 students met the minimum university entry requirements.

Students in Hong Kong who sit these exams are unusually aged 18- 20 years. The exams, which are regarded as being tough by international standards, allow students to matriculate to university.

SCMP. Jun 30, 2008.