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Australian Citizenship Test

2009-05-19T00:34:00.001+10:00

I did 19/20 correct in my Australian Citizenship Test today.

I can tell, I will totally forget all the Australian's Values, Responsibilities, History, Geography, Culture, political system, etc.. tomorrow.

I will not click on the stupid question of "Are U a terrorist or related to terrorist!" on my application form, and pay U AU$240 to get my certificate.

And now, I can play la!!

Eurovision Song Contest 2009

2009-05-19T00:31:00.001+10:00

兩天來, 聽來聽去! 我竟後悔選了靚仔. 我覺得她才是我的 NO. 1 呀!!!! 愈聽愈好聽.

真是愈聽愈正!

HQ-ESTONIA:Urban Symphony-Rändajad(Live Eurovision 2009 semifinal)

Estonia : The nomads

The lyrics:

Croatia: Beautiful Tena:

http://www.diggiloo.net/?2009hr

Iceland : Is it true:

http://www.diggiloo.net/?2009is

Russia : Mamo (Mum)

http://www.diggiloo.net/?2009ru

Estonia : The nomads

http://www.diggiloo.net/?2009ee

Eurovision Song Contest 2009

2009-05-18T23:44:00.001+10:00

原本在semi final 時, 選了她倆的歌, 可是靚仔一出現, 我竟完全忘了她們!!!

Eurovision 2009 Israel Final Noa & Mira Awad Einaiych - there must be another way!

Mira Awad, an Arab-Israeli singer, and Noa, a Jewish-Israeli artist, sing together at the Eurovision Song Contest a song that emphasises hope and understanding through common humanity. The singers describe There Must Be Another Way, as not a song of peace, but a simple call to respect the humanity of others. [3] It will be a finalist in the song contest.

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There must be another Must be another way

Must be another way

Your eyes, sister

Say all that my heart desires

So far, we've gone

A long way, a very difficult way, hand in hand

And the tears fall, pour in vain

A pain with no name

We wait

Only for the next day to come

Your eyes say

A day will come and all fear will disappear

In your eyes a determination

That there is a possibility

To carry on the way

As long as it may take

For there is no single address for sorrow

I call out to the horizons

To the stubborn heavens

We will go a long way

A very difficult way

Together to

the light

Your eyes say

All fear will disappear

And the tears fall, pour in vain

A pain with no name

We wait

Only for the day to come

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Oh!!!!!!

No way!!!! If U believed in your God. He is the only problem to create the war in your country!!!! Just get rid of this bastard!!!!

Eurovision Song Contest 2009

2009-05-18T23:40:00.001+10:00

I really want to say, I just think the director of this TV program, who is just unbelieviably great! The whole program is so colorful. Especially, I love how he/she presents the Russian song of Mamo and also this pretty woman's song - it is true. He/She is starting her with her beatiful eyes to present a love song.

我都勁喜歡這首, 我是特別找這版本的, 因為鵝語, 鬼知她唱咪鬼!!! 不過這個比賽版, PRESENT 得簡直一流. 看著這位美女慢慢老去, 我不單想起媽媽, 也勁怕自己快變成咁了!!!

Eurovision Song Contest – Moscow 2009

2009-05-18T22:09:00.001+10:00

So many great singers in Eurovision! I love really meaningful music! I don't like nosiy music! I like it when they sing in their own language representing their own country!

my vote : The first prize
E.S.C. 2009. - Igor Cukrov feat Andrea - LIJEPA TENA (Croatia)

為什麼我選CROATIA 第1名. 是因為初初我只覺裡條仔, 懶媚!!! 跟著, 唉, 有些料, 應該是唱過Opera!!! 跟著那些和音也不錯. 跟著才跑出一位極靚音的美女. 整首歌就是勁!!!

其它, 兩首都非常好聽, 當然是因為天上下凡靚女, 各多加100分.

Second prize :

Eurovision 2009 * Estonia - Urban Symphony – Rändajad

Third prize :

Eurovision 2009 *Jóhanna Guðrún Jónsdóttir - Is it true (Eurovision 2009 Iceland)

The Atheist Cartoon

2009-05-17T12:32:00.000+10:00

The Atheist

2009-05-04T22:58:00.001+10:00

http://www.abc.net.au/compass/s2517600.htm

Summary

Compass talks to atheists of different stripes.Eminent philosopher John Gray; science writer and editor of Skeptic magazine Michael Shermer; historian and writer Inga Clendinnen and Australia best known atheist Phillip Adams, all explore the philosophical and practical consequences of being an atheist.
How does their atheism shape their attitudes to science and the big questions of our time such as war and global warming? Is conflict between atheists and believers inevitable and necessary? Or, is this debate generating more heat than light?

Story producer: Dina Volaric

Story researcher: Dina Volaric

Story

Mike Shermer
The problem with the word atheism is that it has become very pejorative. In America, you may as well call yourself a child molester or a rapist or something, a communist.
Inga Clendinnen
I just a common or garden variety of atheist. A person who has found no reason to believe there is any supernatural force existing outside this world and directing it.
John Gray
I belong to no religion and I have no religious beliefs. I would define myself as a skeptic.
Phillip Adams
Atheism is nothing but everything. Atheism is now the fastest-growing faith ?or faithlessness it is growing even faster than Islam in the United States.
Narration
Whether theye called godless Communists, sceptics, secularists or humanists, atheists are raising their voices ?especially in the west. So who are they and what do atheists believe?
Who are the atheists?
Phillip Adams
I’ve been an atheist for 65 years and I didn’t even know the word for the first ten, I didn’t know there was such a thing as atheists.
Narration
Broadcaster and writer Phillip Adams is arguably Australia best known atheist. Over the years he discussed religion with believers and non-believers of many kinds; on and off air. But he himself dismissed the Almighty at an early age.
Phillip Adams
When I was five I found I couldn’t believe in god. Not that I wouldn’t but I couldn’t. I tried very hard to believe in him because everyone around me believed in him. It was after all the family business of my father a Christian minister. But I found I just couldn’t find any sensible, rational reason or even irrational reason for believing in him. And it came, I have to tell you it was a great shock.
Phillip Adams
I asked one simple question. If everything had to have a beginning there had to be a creation, and if god was the beginning, who begun god? Now I asked that at four. When I passed this thought on to my grandmother she boxed my ears which made the question seem incredibly significant.
Inga Clendinnen
I not in a condition of doubt about this. I might have been in some doubt between the ages of perhaps 7 and 10, but after that Ie had no doubts at all.
Narration
Inga Clendinnen is a celebrated historian and writer whose interest in other peoples and times began early.
As a child her curiosity about other cultures led her to wonder about ?and to doubt ?the existence of God.
Inga Clendinnen
I early discovered that other people in other places had extraordinary ideas about religion.
As soon as you know that there are a variety of gods. That means that god becomes a problematical entity
When you consider the great range of different characters that gods are attributed. When you think of how the Aztecs defined their god. When you think that Aborigines didn define a god at all and that the dreaming creatures were pretty much like humans in their fallibilities and their courage and their lusts and their wants. As soon as you become aware of that, why you should project some old patriarchal figure with very strong views about women modesty and call it god, I don know, and I think that the question.
Mike Shermer
Well I was a born again Christian for a while and then I became something of a born again atheist. You know, going around knocking on those doors and telling people not to believe. And it sort of reminds me of that joke about what do you get when you cross a Jehovah Witness with an atheist: Someone who knocks on your door for no reason at all.
Narration
Michael Shermer is an American science writer and the editor of Skeptic magazine. He founded the Skeptics Society in the United States, a group dedicated to exposing and debunking pseudo-science.
Mike Shermer
In my case it was a change of milieu, different friends, a set of arguments, exposure to science and evolutionary theory, exposure to anthropology, to comparative world religions. You know you sort of put all that together.
I just remember one day taking out my little ichthus ?I had this little fish with the Greek symbols that stand for esus Christ, Son of God, Saviour.?I remember my girlfriend had given this to me and I just felt hypocritical wearing it, so I took it off and I guess that it, I guess I not a Christian any more.
As I got older I mellowed out more, and I decided at first that rationally agnostic is actually the right term.
When T H Huxley coined the term in 1869 he meant it to be, it not knowable.
Not,  not sure, could go this way, could go that way. I waiting for just a little more evidence you know.?That not what agnosticism is.
Agnosticism says it isn possible to know. So therefore no belief in god, because it isn possible to know. That agnosticism. I guess that probably what I am.
John Gray
I belong to no religion and I have no religious beliefs. I would define myself as a sceptic. I prefer not to think, to describe myself as an atheist or an agnostic because that is too restrictive a set of categories.
Narration
John Gray is one of the world most eminent and provocative political philosophers. Until recently he was Professor of European Thought at the London School of Economics.
John Gray
Well sceptic isn one who has no beliefs. A sceptic is one who keeps belief to a minimum, and also doesn always insist on making a definite decision about which beliefs one has.
Narration
Gray philosophical framework is rigorous and uncompromising.
John Gray
I have no reason to think that human life goes beyond bodily death for example, so I take that as a basic assumption. I don believe that humans are especially privileged creatures in the universe in the way that theists think they are; that they have souls which other animals don have; that they have a kind of free will that other animals don have. So I do have a variety of beliefs about humans and their situation in the world, but I try to work with as few as I can get by with.
Why does atheism matter?
Narration
For more than a century atheists assumed that with the advance of science religions would die out ?but theye refused to go quietly. Indeed theye turned up the volume, to the alarm of the atheists.
Phillip Adams
We sit in a world now which is on the edge of total disaster because of raging crusades between Christian and Muslims. The hatreds between the major religions and within them have never been more intense.
Inga Clendinnen
Now there is clearly more aggression on the part of fundamentalist sects as we call them, whether theye Christian or Islamic or whatever. But I think there also a notable increase in aggression on the part of the great organised religions; a new readiness to intervene politically.
Narration
The turning point came at the start of the new millennium with an event that shook the world.
Mike Shermer
Since 9/11 the game has changed. It become clear that religions in the modern world can still be very dangerous. And it not that only religious people become fanatics. There are Marxist ideologists that become fanatics for example, but that isn who is doing that now. At the moment it extreme religionists that are causing the problem.
John Gray
Secularisation was expected to be, believed to be up until quite recently, up until maybe the last 10 or 20 years an almost inexorable almost unstoppable process all over the world.
Now it true that some countries have become somewhat more secular, for example. Ireland, is a lot more secular than it was 20 years ago. In Britain most people have long since ceased to be practising Christians.
But on the other hand the great secular parties, the mass movements and the great secular ideologies that existed like Marxism have really crumbled away and the vitality, the energy in the world, and also to some extent the violence in the world, is coming from religions. So wee really living it seems to me in a post secular period. And in a post secular period when religion has vitality you expect what in fact you find, which is a revival of atheism.
Narration
The revival is marked by a torrent of words. In books and the media atheists are taking on religion. Their best-known proponents are Richard Dawkins & Christopher Hitchens ?leaders of the New Atheists.
Richard Dawkins ?Root Of All Evil Part 1
The time has come for people of Reason to say enough is enough. Religious faith discourages independent thought, it divisive and it dangerous.
Christopher Hitchens ?Foreign Correspondent 7 November 2001
Civilisation consists of the leaving behind of the religious mentality ?of the mentality of faith, of the mentality of fanaticism, of the mentality of certainty, of the mentality of Holy Books and the Word of God ?civilisation begins where that stops, in all societies.
Phillip Adams
I don’t disagree with Dawkins arguments. I don’t disagree with Hitchins arguments. I disagree with the atmosphere of their arguments. I disagree with adding, with fanning the flames of bigotry on this planet by taking positions which are that strong.
John Gray
All these new atheists want to convert the world from belief to unbelief. And like Christian missionaries like Christian evangelists they believe that if they can alter human beliefs on a large scale then the world will be better.
In fact we have plenty of historical evidence from the Soviet Union and elsewhere that when attempts are made to eradicate religion, to eliminate religion from human life, to de-convert people from religious belief to some other type of belief or unbelief, the results are generally pretty disastrous.
Mike Shermer
The evangelical kind of atheism is not my thing because I not a strong atheist. I just don believe. I don think we can prove there is no god. I just don think it is necessary to do that.
Look if you encounter somebody whose deepest most cherished belief is god and you say, t all bullshit man, why do you believe this crap for??That the end of the conversation. It over. Youe lost them. You have no hope of converting them.
Inga Clendinnen
On the whole atheists seem to me peaceable beings because they have no vision that they have some understanding of what is truth, which they have a moral duty to impose on others.
Mike Shermer
The problem with the word atheism is that it become very pejorative. In America, you may as well call yourself a child molester or a rapist or something, a communist. That how atheists are treated. Which is why the New Atheist Movement is something of a political social movement, because it is our way of saying, ey look, wee not going to put up with that any more. You can't say things like atheists are not moral. That's wrong. You might as well say blacks are not moral, that women are not as smart ?that kind of thing. Well you can say those other things any more, and you can say that about atheists anymore.?BR>
What do atheists believe?
Narration
But what do the non-believers agree on? Their views are diverse and they don all answer to the name atheist, yet most do share a respect for science.
Mike Shermer
These are part of our science education program. We are pro-science, wee not an anti-religious group. Religion comes up a lot. That simply because it has been such a hot button issue in the last 10 years in America.
Narration
Shermer latest book defends Darwin theory of evolution by arguing the case against Intelligent Design.
Mike Shermer
But in the long run we want to be in favour of something, not just against. Wee not just against Big Foot, UFOs, psychic power. We address those things. What are we for? Wee for critical thinking, rationality, reason, science.
Mark Simkin
Forget what you were taught in school. According to this museum, the Earth is just 6,000 years old; there were dinosaurs on Noah Ark.
Ken Ham
We believe that Christians, those that believe in the Bible, are going to be more equipped to be able to defend their faith and uphold the authority of God word
Inga Clendinnen
When I think of the rise of the Intelligent Design people, the new Creationists, I am truly appalled because Charles Darwin is to me one of my great heroes. Here is a quiet reclusive country gentleman with a giant network of fellow amateur naturalists who had such respect for facts and for care in thinking that he could come up with a theory which shook the world. And which rendered intelligible to us this whole experienced world around us in a new and absolutely thrilling way.
Now I don want to see him not taught in the schools because of some dimwit who wants to go on believing in a six day creation and one day off routine. There is something to my mind obscene about that denial of human reason and its glory.
Phillip Adams
I thought of a new term about six months ago and I rather proud of it. Faitheist. And I think in some ways I a faitheist because I have faith in science. The same way as my religious friends have faith in god, I have faith in Einstein. I have faith in the great brains that have been trying to push back the darkness through rational thought.
Where do atheists find meaning?
Narration
But is faith in science and rationality enough? Do atheists have a sense of wonder? And, where do they find meaning?
Mike Shermer
People who don believe in god are no less spiritual than those who do. I don think religion has a monopoly on spirituality.
For me my spirituality comes from an awareness of something grander than me, than you than us, something beyond the material world; whatever you want to call that, the beauty of nature.
For me just like looking at a Hubble Space Telescope photograph of galaxies expanding you know that triggers that feeling of transcendence, like there is something so much grander than me. I am so unimportant you know. And that what religious people describe.
Inga Clendinnen
I find deep gratification in trying to understand the cultural world of people different from myself. And that keeps me very happy and it gives me a sense of discovery, and even occasional bliss.
So I suspect I have some of the pleasures of religion from my secular base. Some of the pleasures typically associated with religion.
Phillip Adams
I borrow the word numinous from the vocabulary of the religious because I think it a great word. The sense of the numinous is when you stand outside at night at the farm and you look up at a clear sky unpolluted by the metropolis, and youe looking at billions and billions and billions of stars. More suns out there than there are grains of sand in the Sahara.
And if youe not overcome by a sense of the numinous ?which is a mixture of awe and wonderment and dread ?there something wrong with you. It a great emotion. It the emotion I think that drives religion and philosophy and science.
Narration
Does nature or even science hold all the answers? Can a greater understanding of our universe guarantee human progress?
John Gray
Science cannot save humanity. Science is itself a human construction, a human achievement. It embodied in growing knowledge which gives humans greater power to do what they want to do, but science does not make humans wiser or more reasonable. It leaves them as much ruled by folly as they ever were.
However, science is indispensable. Science is the only way in which we can accommodate ourselves I think to climate change for example.
Why do we need science?
Narration
It climate change that is bringing atheists and some believers closer, as Christian ideas about life on earth are changing.
Phillip Adams
The Bible got us off to a bad start with a line of argument that said, it all here for you to use folks, enjoy. Very kind of god. And until very recently that was pretty much the hard line of the hard religious right.
Mike Shermer
There is a small branch of Christians, sort of Millenarians and apocalyptic-oriented, who say, t doesn really matter what we do with the earth; it all coming, like next Saturday Jesus is coming, look busy!?
Phillip Adams
For a long time the Bible bashers, the hard right, religious right, took that view and therefore climate change was a great big left wing conspiracy.
Suddenly that has changed and it changed emphatically. And although there not much of a hint in the good book that we have environmental responsibilities, people are finding it. And many of the most ardent campaigners now to do something about climate change come from religious organisations.
Mike Shermer
I think it more important that I understand and embrace religion because we need to work together to solve say the global warming problem, rather than my first trying to convert them all into secularism and then wel solve the global warming problem. That isn going to happen. Before global warming has its problems, OK, we need to address the problem now.
Does religion have a future?
Narration
So rather than confronting believers, many atheists are now accepting the human need for religion.
Phillip Adams
I think basically it may be a virus. Ie always hoped that the CSIRO would find a virus so people could be cured of religion. But short of that, it a fact of life and I think wee all got to try and get on a bit better with each other ?atheists with God-botherers, God-botherers with us.
John Gray
It seems almost self-evident to me on the basis of anthropology, literature, observation, that the human animal comes into the world with a variety of needs to which religions answer.
John Gray
That being the case one would then think that if one doesn believe in any supernatural creator one should accept religion is part of human beings, part of human life. It like it an impulse like or like the sexual need. Repressing it or attempting to eradicate it, trying to think of a world in which there is no religion would then seem to me like thinking of a world in which there is no sex.
Phillip Adams
The great problem in discovering that you don believe in god is you feel an intense, an all-pervasive sense of loneliness.
And when I found that I didn need to believe in him, I still felt a great sense of desolation and a high degree of fear.
Ie always understood the religious impulse, the great overwhelming fear of death, of annihilation which is a part of most of it, and a desperate need to find a meaning in a universe which really doesn have one.
If you want to know what happens after, think about what happened before; infinite, infinite nothingness. Wee all been dead. We live briefly, we go back to the same state. Why can people see it as simple as that?
Inga Clendinnen
I don think we can underestimate the need for explanations among humans. And some humans will have a greater desire for their daily lives to be made intelligible than others. Their search for meaning, to coin a phrase, is going to be more intense. I suspect this has got something to do with individual psychologies and individual childhoods.
Mike Shermer
I think it is probably safe to say religion will not fall into disuse any time soon, so the John Lennonesque, Imagine no religion, I think is probably not realistic in terms of our social needs.
We may even have something in our brains that hardwires us to believe in supernatural entities, whether it is animistic spirits, ghosts, demons, multiple gods, single gods the monotheistic - whatever it is I think we our brains lead us to interpret certain events in the world to be caused by hidden spirits of some kind.
John Gray
The question is, can the point of living as a human being be simply to see. That to say to look at the world to see it as it is or as close as we can get to seeing it as it is, the finding in it perhaps what is of beauty in it. Can humans adopt seeing as the meaning of their lives?
Phillip Adams
I still think wee at the end of the religious era. It may be, what we see now is the great storms before the lull.
I think in a hundred years almost all of the religious animosities wee experiencing now will be ancient history. I think they will ebb away from exhaustion.
And I still believe that as science advances, god recedes; I still believe that little by little the world is becoming excited by a new form of the numinous as they realise that we are learning more and more and more and more than the people who wrote the Bible and other good books could possibly have imagined.

Yothu Yindi

2009-04-20T23:31:00.001+10:00

因為Geoffrey Gurrumul-Yunupingu曾在 Yothu Yindi (樂隊), 所以今天我要介紹這樂隊:
Yothu Yindi - Dots on the Shell

Yothu Yindi - Treaty

Yothu Yindi - Djäpana

Yothu Yindi - Tribal Voice

Yothu Yindi - World Turning RIght

我在想, 為什麼那些黑mungm mungm(黑墨墨) 的人音樂感是那麼重的呢????
http://www.youtube.com/results?search_type=&search_query=yothu+jindy&aq=f

Geoffrey Gurrumul-Yunupingu

2009-04-20T16:51:00.001+10:00

從電視上”RockWiz” 看到的這位 Aboriginal singer(唱 From little things big things grow”, 我想起了另一位天才 Aboriginal singer, 他是盲人, 但他作的歌極為動聽, 完全不知道他唱什麼(因為他用土話唱), 但是旋律非常優美, 他是use left hand, and he can't play the guitar in the begining. As a child he learn to play it up side down, and then finally he know how to play it better, and now he still play it up side down.
This is his story:

Djarimirri - Gurrumul Yunupingu

Bapa (HQ)

'Wukun'

Geoffrey Gurrumul Yunupingu performing at WOMADelaide 2009

Gurrumul History (I Was Born Blind)

Geoffrey Gurrumul's concert with Elton John, 17 May 2008

http://www.youtube.com/results?search_type=&search_query=Geoffrey+Gurrumul-Yunupingu&aq=f

Paul Kelly

2009-04-20T00:40:00.001+10:00

I saw a gram call "RockWiz", Saw a Aboriginal singer, he sing "From little things big things grow", it is so good! So I asked Edward what is the name of this song, He told me that is Paul Kelly wrote it:
他是澳大利亞人, 寫給Aboriginal people who flight for their land. 主意是叫他不要放棄, 什麼事都是從小到大的. 非常好聽又有意思的歌:0
http://www.lyricsmode.com/lyrics/p/paul_kelly/from_little_things_big_things_grow.html

Paul Kelly
From Little Things Big Things Grow lyrics

Gather round people let me tell you're a story
An eight year long story of power and pride
British Lord Vestey and Vincent Lingiarri
Were opposite men on opposite sides
Vestey was fat with money and muscle
Beef was his business, broad was his door
Vincent was lean and spoke very little
He had no bank balance, hard dirt was his floor
From little things big things grow
From little things big things grow
Gurindji were working for nothing but rations
Where once they had gathered the wealth of the land
Daily the pressure got tighter and tighter
Gurindju decided they must make a stand
They picked up their swags and started off walking
At Wattie Creek they sat themselves down
Now it don't sound like much but it sure got tongues talking
Back at the homestead and then in the town
From little things big things grow
From little things big things grow
Vestey man said I'll double your wages
Seven quid a week you'll have in your hand
Vincent said uhuh we're not talking about wages
We're sitting right here till we get our land
Vestey man roared and Vestey man thundered
You don't stand the chance of a cinder in snow
Vince said if we fall others are rising
From little things big things grow
From little things big things grow
Then Vincent Lingiarri boarded an aeroplane
Landed in Sydney, big city of lights
And daily he went round softly speaking his story
To all kinds of men from all walks of life
And Vincent sat down with big politicians
This affair they told him is a matter of state
Let us sort it out, your people are hungry
Vincent said no thanks, we know how to wait
From little things big things grow
From little things big things grow
Then Vincent Lingiarri returned in an aeroplane
Back to his country once more to sit down
And he told his people let the stars keep on turning
We have friends in the south, in the cities and towns
Eight years went by, eight long years of waiting
Till one day a tall stranger appeared in the land
And he came with lawyers and he came with great ceremony
And through Vincent's fingers poured a handful of sand
From little things big things grow
From little things big things grow
That was the story of Vincent Lingairri
But this is the story of something much more
How power and privilege can not move a people
Who know where they stand and stand in the law
From little things big things grow
From little things big things grow
From little things big things grow
From little things big things grow

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EAZq74-Qe7g
http://www.youtube.com/results?search_type=&search_query=paul+kelly&aq=f

JJ cale

2009-04-19T21:43:00.001+10:00

Edward also has one CD of JJ cale
Magnolia(我家也有一顆白色Magnolia 耶!!!):

Tijuana (Tijuana is the town on the Mexican side across the border from San Diego, where the main business is smuggling people and contraband)

Cajun Moon (Cajun is the americanized word for the Arcadians, Arcadians are German religious people that were persecuted in Germany and moved to Canada where they suffered the same fate, until they finally moved to the American South, settling around the New Orleans area where they continued their own tradition and developed what we now call the Cajun culture with their own food and music that is so popular now)

Call me the breeze:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=21PHsqnG-qI&feature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=II_9EhvEzCI
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZHs5XVrVKTM
http://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=jj+cale&page=2
why we likes JJ cale, it is because he has a talent to use a songs telling a current affair.
Just like the Tijuana Lyrics:
Just below san Diego
Tijuana, land of broken dreams
Senoritas (Mexican girls) dancing in the moonlight
Flashing Spanish dark eyes to everyone, it seems
They say "hey, gringo (White American man)
Can you take us across the border
Just tell them I'm your daughter
Of a local."
Down the backstreets, through the alleys
All the young men stand with pride
They guard the palace to the kingdom
Called Tijuana, their heritage they decide (they are proud of where come from - Mexico)
They say "hey, gringo
Can you take us across the border
We'll work for just a quarter ( we are happy to work for 1/4 of the money that you earn)On the other side
(the faint Mexican guitar in the background gives it a real authentic scene)

Trio II

2009-04-18T16:58:00.001+10:00

Edward 有一隻她們的CD(Trio II), 我非常喜歡!

我一直喜歡南方二重唱, 芝痳龍眼等的二重唱的樂隊, 因為我好想學和唱那個, 因為和唱先至最難!

另外, 就是兩把, 三把聲和在一起, 非常好聽. 我也很喜歡country songs!

Emmylou Harris, Linda Ronstadt, Dolly Parton:

http://draft.blogger.com/
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Ar-Ufs0nP0
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Ba90u0ycQ0
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a6o1Lpa9AeY
Jonny Cash & Emmylou Harris:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LYCy8pHsVnI
Jonny Cash, Edward 也有他的CD, 有些歌也很好聽.
Emmylou Harris "The Angels Rejoiced" w Hot Band 1976 Louvin:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n7-4fnpIpug
http://www.youtube.com/results?search_type=&search_query=Emmylou+Harris%2C+Linda+Ronstadt%2C+Dolly+Parton&aq=f

Zinmag Tribune 2.0 template 安裝

2009-04-14T21:38:00.001+10:00

裝了幾次Falcon Hive 的 template 後, 對於改新版面, 應不成問題了吧. 而且他的模版已愈來愈是懶人包無痛安裝的了.

下載: http://www.falconhive.com/2009/03/blogger-template-zinmag-tribune-20.html

下載Zinmag Tribune 2.0後, 將所有圖片上載並將圖片URL 貼回XML file去. 然後將XML file 上載去BLOGGER. (去看我網誌的更改Template 基本功)

安裝:

1. Set up the Top Navigation Menu
You can customize your header navigation link to your own preferred link. To achieve this, access into 'Layout' and under the 'Page Element' section, click on the 'Edit' of the 'Top Navigation Menu' and configure the Link Gadget setup.

2. Set up the Second Navigation Menu
You can customize your header navigation link to your own preferred link. To achieve this, access into 'Layout' and under the 'Page Element' section, click on the 'Edit' of the 'Second Navigation Menu' and configure the Link Gadget setup.
以上(1, 2)兩點可去看以下:
http://mei-wechner.blogspot.com/2009/03/zinmag-primus-template_31.html

3. Set up the Subscription Section on the top of the blog
You can personalize the Subscription section to your own personal news, comments and email RSS. To get this done, access into 'Layout' and under the 'Edit HTML' tab, press [CTRL+F3] to find the code below and edit it with corresponding item:
<a href='POST-RSS-LINK-HERE'>
<a href='COMMENT-RSS-LINK-HERE'>
<a href='RSS-EMAIL-SUBSCRIPTION-LINK-HERE'>
If you are using the Feedburner, the RSS email subscription link should look like this:
http://feedburner.google.com/fb/a/mailverify?uri=FalconHive&loc=en_US

申請FeedBurner, 請看: http://wong-wechner.blogspot.com/2009/03/feedburner_24.html
申請 Subscribe to Email :

access into 'Layout' and under the 'Edit HTML' tab, press [CTRL+F3] to find the code below and edit it with corresponding item:
<a href='RSS-EMAIL-SUBSCRIPTION-LINK-HERE'>
以下是我在FEEDBURN 中COPY 出來的CODE:
<a href="http://feedburner.google.com/fb/a/mailverify?uri=meiwechner&loc=en_US">Subscribe to 陶陶樂 by Email</a>
於是將以上紅色字貼成: <a href='http://feedburner.google.com/fb/a/mailverify?uri=meiwechner&loc=en_US"'>
在"修改html" 版內.
Comment - 這部份不會做!
4. Set up the 'Featured Content Scroller' on the top of the main page
There's also got a wide space under the sliding carousal, which you can access into the space through the 'Page Element' section. Simply copy the code below, then access into 'Layout' and under the 'Page Element', click on the 'Edit' of the 'Featured Content Scroller', paste and edit the code with the corresponding item.
<a href='POST-LINK-HERE' title='LINK-TITLE-HERE'><img src='IMAGE-LINK-HERE'width='60' height='40' alt=''/></a> <div class='fmeta'>POST-DESCRIPTION-HERE</div>
If you want to have more than 1 Featured Content slide, you can copy, paste and edit the code above again in the same HTML/ JavaScript gadget.
以上的程式碼, 我攪了很久, 也沒辦法成功, 於是用回version 1 那邊的碼:
<div class='panel'>
<a href='POST-LINK-HERE' title='LINK-TITLE-HERE'><img alt='' height='40' src='IMAGE-LINK-HERE' width='60'/></a>
<div class='fmeta'>POST-DESCRIPTION-HERE</div>
</div>
例子:
<div class='panel'>
<a href=' http://www.einarlunden.com/' title='Einar Lunden'><img alt='' height='40' src='http://i165.photobucket.com/albums/u66/meiwechner/zinmag-scoller/SNAG_Program-0017.jpg' width='60'/></a>
<div class='fmeta'>Einar Lunden很多幻想的畫作</div>
</div>
photos size : 66x46, can not large then 70 x 50, 效果都沒很好! 最好是66x46
5. Set up the 'Featured Content Glider' on the top of the main page
There's also got a wide space under the sliding carousal, which you can access into the space through the 'Page Element' section. Simply copy the code below, then access into 'Layout' and under the 'Page Element', click on the 'Edit' of the 'Featured Content Glider', paste and edit the code with the corresponding item.
<div class='glidecontent'>
<div class='glidemeta'>
<h2><a href='POST-LINK-HERE' title='LINK-TITLE-HERE'>POST-TITLE-HERE</a></h2>
POST-DESCRIPTION-HERE</div>
<a href='POST-LINK-HERE' title='LINK-TITLE-HERE'><img src='IMAGE-LINK-HERE' width='650' height='250' alt='IMAGE-TITLE-HERE'/></a>
</div>
例子:
<div class="glidecontent">
<div class="glidemeta">
<h2><a href="http://www.nicholsoncartoons.com.au/" title="Nicholson Cartoons">National Broadband Network</a></h2>
這裡有很多澳洲新聞漫畫</div>
<a href="''http://www.nicholsoncartoons.com.au/'" title="'Nicholson Cartoons'"><img width="650" alt="National Broadband Network" src="http://i165.photobucket.com/albums/u66/meiwechner/zinmag-photonew/SNAG_Program-0032.jpg" height="250"/></a>
</div>

If you want to have more than 1 Featured Content slide, you can copy, paste and edit the code above again in the same HTML/ JavaScript gadget.
6. Set up the Minipost Section under the Featured Content Glider
There's actually got minipost section installed under the Featured Content Glider, which you can only access into the section through the 'Edit HTML' section..
To setup the featured content on the sidebar, simply copy the code below, then access into 'Layout' and under the 'Page Element', clicks on the 'Edit' of the 'Featured Content (number)', paste and edit the code with corresponding item.
<div class='hentry'>
<h2><a href='POST-LINK-HERE' title='LINK-TITLE-HERE'>POST-TITLE-HERE</a></h2>
<div class='categ'>POST-CATEGORY-HERE</div>
<div class='minicontent'>
<img src='IMAGE-LINK-HERE' width='120' height='80' alt='' />
POST-DESCRIPTION-HERE
</div>
</div>
<div class='minimeta'>POST-DATE-HERE I <a href='POST-LINK-HERE'>Read the full story</a></div>
例子:
<div class='hentry'>
<h2><a href='http://meilingwong-wechner.blogspot.com/2009/04/how-to-sketch-cats.html' title='亂畫黨'>How to Sketch cats</a></h2>
<div class='categ'>painter, 學畫</div>
<div class='minicontent'>
<img src='http://i165.photobucket.com/albums/u66/meiwechner/zinmag-photonew/SNAG_Program-0050.jpg' width='120' height='80' alt='' />
Love them or hate them, cats make wonderful subjects for your drawings. We take a look at some of the rules in capturing their character.
</div>
</div>
<div class='minimeta'>9 April, 2009 I <a href='http://meilingwong-wechner.blogspot.com/2009/04/how-to-sketch-cats.html'>Read the full story</a></div>
7. How to hide article's content on the main page
As this template got 'Read More' function, you probably want to hide some text from being displayed on the main page. In fact, you just need some extremely easy step to achieve this. Simply copy the highlighted code below, then access into 'Settings' and under the 'Formatting' tab, paste the code into the 'Post Template'.
<span class="fullpost"></span>
On the next time you write an article, you just need to add this line of code to hide the text. For example,

After the dark professional Zinmag Remedy template, Zinmag Tribune Blogger template is a white professional magazine style template.
<span class="fullpost">Zinmag Tribune has unique feature installed like featured content scroller and graphical featured-content glider.</span>

Then the main page would show only the 'After the dark professional Zinmag Remedy template, Zinmag Tribune Blogger template is a white professional magazine style template', while the other text is hid and only can be seen through 'Read More' click.

可去看以下網址:
http://wong-wechner.blogspot.com/2009/03/zinmag-primus-template.html
8. Set up the 'Video of the day'
There's a video section on the bottom of the mini post section, and you can put favorite Youtube video inside the section by just few simple steps.
To setup your favorite Youtube video, just copy the video's embed code link, then access into 'Layout' and under the 'Page Element' tab, click on the 'Edit' of the 'Featured Video', paste the code then 'Save' to show the video!
Your Youtube video's embed code link is located below the profile of the video uploader, and you can adjust the <embed>'s width and height inside the code to fix the section size. The recommended width and height for the video is 310 and 255.
可去看以下網址:
http://wong-wechner.blogspot.com/2009/03/zinmag-primus-template.html
9. Set up the JavaScript-based Tabber on the sidebar
You can probably notice that there's got a dynamic tabber with 3 gadget inside on the sidebar. By clicking the 'Popular', you can actually set up the 'Popular' part of the tabber with any gadget, same as clicking 'Archive' and 'Recent', which directs you to the setting of second and third part of the tabber.
To setup the Popular (post) section, you can simply copy the code below then access into 'Layout' and under the 'Page Element' tab, add a HTML/JavaScript gadget into the 'Popular' section then paste the code inside the gadget and edit it with corresponding item:
<script type="text/javascript">
function pipeCallback(obj) {
document.write('<ul style="text-transform: capitalize;">');
var i;
for (i = 0; i < obj.count ; i++)
{
var href = "'" + obj.value.items[i].link + "'";
var item = "<li>" + "<a href=" + href + ">" + obj.value.items[i].title + "</a> </li>";
document.write(item);
}
document.write('</ul>');
}
</script>
<script src="http://pipes.yahoo.com/pipes/pipe.run?_render=json&_callback=pipeCallback&_id=a7d3195528df5e96181a3d2712266226&url=http%3A%2F%2FYOUR_BLOG_ADDRESS_HERE_WITHOUT_http://&num=10" type="text/javascript"></script>
<a href="http://bloggerstop.net" target="_blank"><span style="font-size: xx-small;">Popular Posts Widget</span></a>
將以下紅字貼上以上紅字代替之, 然後將程式碼貼去你BLOG,
meiwechner.blogspot.com (即你BLOG地址去了前頭的http://)

要看到效果, 必須你的網誌有人回應才行. 所以我只有自己在某篇網誌上留了兩次屁話好了!

For the 'Archive' section, you can just install Archive gadget inside the section, with the 'flat list' as recommended option. As for the 'Recent' section, you can put your Feed gadget together with your blog's feed into the section.
10. Set up the 125x125 Ads
You can change the 125x125 ads image to your own ads image. To achieve this, simply copy the code below and access into 'Layout' and under 'Page Element' tab, click on the 'Edit' of the '125x125 Ads', paste and edit the code with corresponding item.
<a href='YOUR-TARGETED-LINK' rel='bookmark' title='#'><img src='YOUR-IMAGE-LINK' alt='#'/></a>
例子:
<a href='http://apps.corel.com/painterx/us/gallery_profiles.html' rel='bookmark' title='Corel Painter X'><img src='http://i165.photobucket.com/albums/u66/meiwechner/zinmag-photonew/SNAG_Program-0055.jpg' alt='Corel Painter X'/></a>
11. Set up the Footer Navigation Menu
You can customize your header navigation link to your own preferred link. To achieve this, access into 'Layout' and under the 'Page Element' section, click on the 'Edit' of the 'Footer Navigation Menu' and configure the Link Gadget setup.
以上(9)點可去看以下:
http://mei-wechner.blogspot.com/2009/03/zinmag-primus-template_31.html
加一個 login - http://draft.blogger.com/home 非常有用.

Grace Kelly

2009-04-13T23:16:00.001+10:00

昨晚, 看到了Grace Kelly, 她真是好靚!!

原本要去睡, 才從書房出來, 看到她在電視! 咿! 咁鬼靚女, 便站著看了起來, 開始看時, 一直介紹她拍了什麼戲和得什麼獎! 我還在想她面形都幾方, 哎! 如果我早出世幾十年, 我都做到明星喇!

我老公也從書房跑出來, 一看, 他說Grace Kelly, 摩洛哥皇妃!! 哈! 我早出世幾十年, 豈不是皇紀都有得我做!!! 嘿!

Grace Kelly: Destiny Of A Princess

11:05pm Sunday, 12 Apr 2009 Documentary Repeat CC G

Grace Kelly was at the height of her career when she decided to leave Hollywood to marry a prince, never to act again.

看完了, 還未夠, 還上網看了共5PART的 Grace Kelly Biography:

Edward 說 "High Noon" & "Rear Window" 一定要看!
更多相片:
http://www.gracekellyonline.com/pictures/

mobile phone

2009-04-12T22:07:00.001+10:00

4月2日, LATELINE -ABC 看了他們報導了有關最近科學家對手提電話作出十年的研究, 發現了人類用那一邊的耳去聽手提, 那一邊的腦就易患上腦癌.

報導又指出在歐洲已有5個國家, 政府已警告市民不可給他們的年青兒女使用手提電話, 以至影響他們的腦部. 而這5個國家中竟包括了芬蘭(Nokia 的發源地).

於是在我們家立即成了熱門討論的話題, 手機是必須有的緊急求救的工具, 不可能沒有. 如果你有工作, 那也是必備的. 一天聽10個8個手機也是常事.
還是我5弟提醒了, 用耳筒聽手機, 那應是最佳辦法了!

Scientists speak out on mobile phone, cancer link

Australian Broadcasting Corporation
Broadcast: 02/04/2009
Reporter: Ticky Fullerton
Over half the world now pays to have a mobile phone. But any research into a link between mobiles phones and brain cancer looks like 'unfinished business' especially with children. Some countries like France and even Finland, the home of Nokia, are changing policies on mobile phones and two leading Australian scientists have spoken out.

Transcript

LEIGH SALES, PRESENTER: They've sold in the billions, and now they're even being marketed to five-year-olds.
Along the way the prevailing scientific opinion has been that mobile phones don't really have any significant health effects.
But in the past year some governments including the European Union have suddenly changed their policies on how cell phones should be used, especially when it comes to children.
And they're not the only voices breaking from the orthodoxy that mobiles are safe.
The epidemiologist in charge of Australia's part in the biggest ever study of mobile phone safety is now warning of an increased risk of potentially deadly brain tumours.
And another Australian doctor, whose controversial recent findings of a similar link were attacked by the mobile phone industry, has this month had his research endorsed by peer review.
Even so, the Australian Government is yet to shift its approach to mobile phones and human health.
Ticky Fullerton reports.
TICKY FULLERTON: There are more mobile phones than people in Australia, now a necessity for both the public and the Government.
Mobiles pump $6.5 billion a year into the economy. Many of us grew up about that niggling doubt about the heat of the phone from those half hour calls. But life goes on.
And let's be clear, the World Health Organisation, the US Federal Drugs Administration and Europe's top scientific committee all agree that the weight of scientific evidence does not link mobile phones with any major health problems and that this machine i.e. benign and safe.
So why, then, are some governments warning their citizens and some Australian scientists urging we take precaution, particularly around children.
It's all happened in just the last 12 months.
Two very different Australian voices have questioned the orthodox view. Epidemiologist Professor Bruce Armstrong has broken ranks on the world's largest research study, and top neurosurgeon Dr Vini Khurana has this week published his research review. Both find an increased risk of brain tumours on the side of the head the mobile is used after 10 years of calls, reflecting growing concerns around the world.
PROFESSOR DEVRA DAVIS, UNI OF PITTSBURGH CANCER INSTITUTE: When it comes to proof of human harm, we've kind of been led down a garden path that says the only proof that really counts is enough sick or dead people. And I think that approach has got to change and particularly with respect to something like brain cancer. Brain cancer can take 10, 20 or 30 years to develop. It may affect people 30, 40 years after they've been exposed. Our children are using cell phones in growing numbers. They're marketing cell phones now to five-year-olds.
TICKY FULLERTON: The country's major research centre in any possible link is the Australian Centre for RF Bioeffects Research run by Rodney Croft.
Should we be worried about this?
RODNEY CROFT, EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR, ACRBR: No. There really has been a lot of research done to date and the research has very clearly shown that there aren't any effects. With children, I really don't think that there is any evidence suggesting that this might be a problem. There isn't anything to suggest that we may have to be a little bit more cautious.
TICKY FULLERTON: The ACRBR boasts some of our most experiences scientists, but as we'll see, it also has strong links with the industry.
In New York, Louis Slesin runs Microwave News, which has tracked the mobile story for over 20 years. He's become highly critical of those he sees downplaying a link to cancer.
LOUIS SLESIN, MICROWAVE NEWS: The people who are not inside, the insiders if you will, are much more willing to speak out and say, "we've got to be careful." The resistant comes from the people in the field, you know, the so-called expert groups, those who make their bread and butter out of this, and they're saying, "No, no, there's nothing to worry about," which is what they've been saying for 20 years.
TICKY FULLERTON: Last month a survey found over a third of British children had a mobile at eight-years-old.
It was 10 years ago that a British documentary raised concerns about children and mobiles.
10 years on, what more do we know?
The research that was supposed to answer this question was Interphone, a huge $15 million population study. Thirteen different countries, including Australia, compared thousands of tumour cases with healthy people and their use of mobiles.
Interphone completed in 2006 but the conclusions have never been published. Insiders tell Lateline that the scientists can't agree on the results and have refused to talk to the media.
LOUIS SLESIN: The fact that Interphone has not come out yet is a scandal.
TICKY FULLERTON: What has come out are some results for individual countries, particularly northern Europeans.
So far, for people using mobiles for less than 10 years, there's no increased risk of gliomas, the killer brain tumour. That's the message that the industry wants the public to hear.
Chris Althaus runs the industry's peak body.
CHRIS ALTHAUS, AUS MOBILE TELECOMMUNICATIONS ASSOC: Having looked at the results of Interphone and having looked at the studies that have been longer than Interphone, there's a Danish study that's two decades long. There is no medical, no biological or statistical substantiation of an adverse health outcome between brain and noble phone use.
TICKY FULLERTON: But the Interphone study tells a different story for people using mobiles for 10 years or more.
LOUIS SLESLIN: It's been a couple of years now that we have data from the Interphone project that indicates that we have a potential problem.
TICKY FULLERTON: Late last year in Melbourne, the scientist running Australia's Interphone study spoke out.
Bruce Armstrong declined an interview with Lateline citing Interphone sensitivities, but his opinion is now on the public record from the keynote speech he made a Rodney Croft's ACRBR conference, streamed on the internet.
Professor Armstrong's conclusions, if correct, are an industry nightmare: for long-term users; suggestions of an increased risk of gloom, the deadly tumour, on the same side of the brain that a mobile is usually used; enough to be a cause for concern; and that we should limit exposure, especially for children, to as low as reasonably achievable.
RODNEY CROFT: Certainly in terms of the research that Professor Armstrong is talking about, I certainly do not believe that it is as strong as what he would think.
LOUIS SLESIN: Armstrong says, "Be cautious." ACBR, which has all these connections to the industry, is saying, "Listen, you know, don't worry, be happy," if you will. He is their keynoter, he is the guy who's putting it all together. So he's not really an outsider, he's just not a member of the club. He is, you know, certainly a card carrying member of the epidemiologist - I mean, he's a world class epidemiologist.
TICKY FULLERTON: The Interphone data has been widely criticised for inaccuracies. After all, can you remember the number of calls and how long you spent on the phone, say, four years ago?
But the link of tumours to the side of the head a mobile is used relies only on people remembering which side that was.
RODNEY CROFT: Well, there are many difficulties with this kind of research, trying to determine what side of the head, for instance, someone uses their phone on, particularly after they've been diagnosed with a brain tumour.
TICKY FULLERTON: Is it really that difficult, though? I mean, how many minutes you might have been on a phone might be difficult, but most people remember what side of the phone they've used over the years.
RODNEY CROFT: You would think so. Someone actually tested this recently to see how difficult it was. And there was very little correlation between the side that they actually used and the side that they reported.
TICKY FULLERTON: Why is that, though? Because certainly the research that Professor Armstrong has done on this supports the view that there isn't recall bias in this particular area, so what was the piece of research that you are talking about?
RODNEY CROFT: I would have to find that for you.
TICKY FULLERTON: When Lateline asked to see the research showing people couldn't remember the side they used the mobile, Rodney Croft admitted to some difficulties. The research was not yet published but he says the conclusions drawn by Armstrong are wrong.
RODNEY CROFT: We're looking at about 50 cases across the entire world. So far all that's been reported in the literature is 23 cases.
TICKY FULLERTON: Bruce Armstrong's findings now sit neatly alongside independent research from a scientist here in Sweden.
Lennart Hardell has been talking about a link between the side of the head and since the lates1990s. Again sample groups are small, but in the same month that Armstrong spoke out, Hardell presented his latest research at the Royal Society in London.
PROFESSOR LENNART HARDELL, UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL, OREBRO: What is actually worrying us now is recent analysis of our data where we find that the risk for gloom and acoustic melanoma is highest among those persons who have started their use of a mobile phone or cordless phone before the age of 20.
TICKY FULLERTON: Dr Hardell found that for people who started to use cell phones as teenagers, by the time they were in their really late 20s, they had four to five times more malignant tumours of the brain.
TICKY FULLERTON: Professor Armstrong acknowledged he was delivering the same message about side of head as Hardell, who the industry largely ignores, and that he, too, would be downplayed.
BRUCE ARMSTRONG: Will everyone go away tonight and say, "Well, that stuff about side of the brain and use of mobile phone, that's interesting, but I don't think it can be real."
LOUIS SLESIN: He's basically changed the conversation. He's saying, "We can't accept these denials that there's nothing there anymore." I think this is a watershed moment.
TICKY FULLERTON: Other research by the ACRBR itself has found the power of a mobile does affect the brain.
RODNEY CROFT: We've been exploring effects on mobile phones on very subtle changes to brain function. We have been finding reliable changes in a particular frequency of brain activity called the alpha rhythm.
TICKY FULLERTON: Why is it such a leap of faith to think that if there's a biological change, that that might not be a health impact?
RODNEY CROFT: I think one of the reasons is that the only known mechanism for interaction is heating. But we must remember that it's also possible that holding a block of wood to your head, which is going to increase the temperature by more than the radiofrequencies, could cause a problem.
LOUIS SLESIN: We don't understand the mechanism, but, you know, Croft himself has shown that it does something in there. I find it so interesting that people find facts which could lead them to a breakthrough in terms of understanding basic science and say, "Oh, listen, don't pay attention, it doesn't matter. It's a subtle thing, throw it out." That's completely unscientific.
TICKY FULLERTON: Bad science was behind a YouTube clip in March last year, which got four million hits in its first week.
It looks like radio waves from the four mobiles are strong enough to cook popcorn.
At the ACRBR's conference, Telstra was on board. It was easy to expose the popcorn hoax.
TELSTRA REPRESENTATIVE: I think we have enough phones on the table to successfully prove that at the moment these phones are not cooking the popcorn.
TICKY FULLERTON: Not so easy is explaining close ties with the industry. The ACRBR was created with Telstra funding and Telstra lab equipment. Rodney Croft denies the industry buys influence.
You have Telstra researchers working through the ACRBR. Your board consists of at least one director who's a Telstra board member, who's a former chief Government scientist and a former head of the CSIRO. Can you see the potential for some heavy influence there?
RODNEY CROFT: It would still be very difficult. I mean, you really have a board of six that make the scientific decisions.
Money going into this research comes from a levy on industry, but it goes to Government, Government sends it to National Health and Medical Research Council of Australia, they then have independent groups to decide what research is important.
TICKY FULLERTON: Telstra declined an interview with Lateline, leaving the industry peak body to speak on its behalf.
CHRIS ALTHAUS, AUST. MOBILE TELECOMMUNICATIONS ASSOC: It's for the scientist to use funds to investigate these subjects. They are very expert at doing so. It's a very complex area. So this industry is responsibly contributing but in no way influences the outcome of the research.
TICKY FULLERTON: Epidemiologist Deborah Davis says industry research has shown that the radiation penetrates the brain of a child more deeply than an adult.
PROFESSOR DEVRA DAVIS: Should we insist, we won't act until we have proof of sick or dead kids before acting? I don't think so, and neither does the European parliament.
TICKY FULLERTON: In September the European parliament voted 522 to 16 to recommend tighter safety standards for mobiles. Five countries have now warned their citizens about the dangers of mobile phones around children - even Finland, where Nokia makes up a third of the Stock Exchange.
There are other players sounding the alarm. In Canberra, neurosurgeon Dr Vini Khurana deals with tumours day to day.
In March last year he made headlines with his review of research. He found that 10 years of mobile use doubles the risk of brain cancer on the same side of the head the mobile is used. He later appeared on Larry King in the US.
VINI KHURANA, NEUROSURGEON (archival footage, 'Larry King', 2008): Just Because we don't know the mechanism or the link, at a molecular level, between how cell phones may generate the milieu at a molecular level that results in a brain tumour does not mean that there is no mechanism. There's no known mechanism, but not necessarily no mechanism. And I'd like to point you to the long term data that's coming out of the Interphone studies.
TICKY FULLERTON: What's your reaction to Vini Khurana's research paper from last year?
RODNEY CROFT: Look, I really don't think it's a good research paper scientifically. There are many limitations with that, and I don't think the conclusion that he reached make any sense.
TICKY FULLERTON: If that paper was peer reviewed favourably by respectable scientists, would you change your view?
RODNEY CROFT: By respectable scientists, yes. There is certainly different levels of peer review.
TICKY FULLERTON: Just this week a peer review of Dr Khurana's research has been published in the international journal 'Surgical Neurology'.
Co-authors include Lennart Hardell and high-profile neurosurgeon Charles Teo.
Dr Teo was asked recently if mobiles had anything to do with the onslaught of brain tumours.
DR CHARLES TEO, NEUROSURGEON: In my view, yes, but not scientifically, no. I think the scariest thing is that we know that when you give radiation for cancer to the brain, you can develop brain cancer from the radiation. So we know that, we know that radiation causes cancer. But it takes about 10 years for it to develop.
TICKY FULLERTON: Elsewhere in the world, eminent scientists have taken very public stands.
Last September, the head of Pittsburgh University's cancer centre put out a memo to 3000 staff warning them about mobiles.
And in France last June, 20 top health professionals used a newspaper to lobby the Government. They were not epidemiologists, but the campaign drew out a clear comment from the then head of the very guarded Interphone group.
LOUIS SLESIN: When the statement came out in the French press saying we should be careful, she endorsed it too. Now, who - is there anybody more central to this than Elizabeth Cardis?
TICKY FULLERTON: So what does the Australian Government make of all this?
DR COLIN ROY, AUST RADIATION PROTECTION NUCLEAR SAFETY AGENCY: There's no real evidence, no convincing evidence that there's any adverse effects from mobile phone exposure. We don't receive here a lot of express concerns about mobile phones, and I think this is because people can take control. You know, it's up to them how they use that phone.
TICKY FULLERTON: For those anxious, the Department website advises shorter calls and using a hands free and a mobile without a built in antenna.
But the website description of Interphone research had a curious omission; it said,"... for prolonged mobile use, there were reports of a small association with the benign tumour, acoustic neuroma, but did not mention the nasty one, gloom.
DR COLIN ROY: That is an emission if it doesn't. Certainly in our briefings and that, we keep the Government and the Ministers up to date with the latest findings from Interphone.
TICKY FULLERTON: After Lateline pointed out the emission, the website was updated.
Besides what the public can do, changes could also be made to the radiation level coming out of a mobile phone, called the SAR. SAR levels are often buried on company websites, but the industry is required to keep the SAR below two watts a kilo.
Yet if mobile phones are causing brain tumours, they're causing them at this level of exposure. I'm a high user, and the ABC mobile that's been given to me has a SAR of at least twice many others on the market.
I asked the industry peak body if it was worried that making SAR levels more prominent might be admitting a problem.
CHRIS ALTHAUS: No, because there isn't a problem. We go back to the rationale around an SAR reading and of course, again, it comes back to standards that have been set with large safety margins.
TICKY FULLERTON: For Devra Davis, as long as industry holds the purse strings, its influence on research will continue.
PROFESSOR DEVRA DAVIS: And I think the motto for how to do this comes from the movie 'Thank You For Smoking'. 'Thank You For Smoking' was all about how you lobbied promote products that are, shall we say, a little questionable. Products like tobacco, and alcohol, and guns.
TICKY FULLERTON: At the end of the movie, the newest recruit is the mobile phone industry.
(Excerpt of film 'Thank You For Smoking')
CHRIS ALTHAUS: And what we know is that there's no medical, biological or statistical evidence of any adverse health outcome from the use of a mobile phone.
But that's not sufficient to just rule a line on research. 10 years and beyond is now a new dimension of research, and industry supports that approach.
TICKY FULLERTON: Yet in reality, there's little effort into new research. The US National Research Council has called for large population studies into the future, and others for long term high users, which is a lot of us these days.
Do you think the research should be done urgently?
RODNEY CROFT: Well, I wouldn't say urgently. I really think it's more a matter of following up some of the reports out there, which don't seem to fit in to our understanding of science.
LOUIS SLESIN: Here's the killer: there is not a single study on cell phone radiation going on in the United States today. Nothing. There's a big study in the wings, but it hasn't started yet. But if that gets under way, we'll have one study. That's it. Now, with four billion people worldwide using cell phones, could we spend a few dollars finding out whether our children are at risk or not?
TICKY FULLERTON: The powers of the mobile reach into governments and business as well as into our brains.
So, after years of trusting that pressing a mobile to our heads is safe, should the growing dissent now be ringing in our ears.
Ticky Fullerton, Lateline.

Mar Adentro- The sea inside

2009-04-12T20:15:00.001+10:00

Mar Adentro -The sea inside

(Mar Adentro) - Winner of an Oscar for Best Foreign Language Film, this is an absorbing masterpiece about a quadriplegic's desire to die with dignity. Based on the true story of Ramon Sampedro (played by Javier Bardem), who was left a quadriplegic after a swimming accident some 28 years prior, the film focuses on the final months of Ramon's life and his attempts to win the right to an assisted suicide through the courts. Following a lengthy and mostly unsuccessful struggle, Ramon decides to take matters into his own hands with some help from a voluntary euthanasia group and grudging loved ones. Although this is a poignant and moving film, it is also packed with humour. It has sixty film festival wins. Directed by Alejandro Amenabar, and stars Javier Bardem, Lola Dueñas and Belen Ruedas. (From Spain, in Spanish, English subtitles) (Drama) 2004 (Rpt) M (A) WS

Mar Adentro – Trailer

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PxXb_YZ-CQI

中文名: 安乐死之谜
英文名: Mar adentro
安乐死之谜/出海 Mar adentro (2004)
导演：亚历桑德罗·阿曼巴 Alejandro Amenábar
主演：贾维尔·巴尔登 Javier Bardem .... Ramón Sampedro
Celso Bugallo .... José
Joan Dalmau .... Joaquín
Lola Due[$ntilde]as .... Rosa
Nicolás Fernández Luna .... Christian
Francesc Garrido .... Marc
上映： 2004年09月02日 ( 西班牙 )
地区：法国西班牙意大利 ( 拍摄地 )
对白：西班牙语加泰罗尼亚语
颜色：彩色
时长： 125 分钟
类型：剧情
分级：西班牙：13
外文别名：
Out to Sea(2004) (USA)
Sea Inside, The(2004) (USA)
本片榮獲威尼斯影展評審團大獎、男主角獎
剧情简介：
阿梅納巴自三年前的驚世之作《小島驚魂》(The Others)之後的首部作品，這位出名慢工出細活的導演此次大膽觸碰“安樂死”這一禁區題材，以西班牙人雷蒙·桑佩羅的真實經歷為本。三十年来，他一直致力于支持安乐死的斗争中，并且努力争取他自己死的权利。
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4月11日晚上在SBS看了一套真人真事的電影, 使我想起了爸爸和Annelies.

故事很感人, 有很爭議性的問題, 有感情的互相矛盾! 特別最後他找到一女友幫他死, 他離開家人時, 他爸爸, 哥哥, 哥哥老婆, 哥哥個仔, 一家人的感情, 每個人的表達都很精彩!! 他去死時, 在車行程中, 他往車外望, 看到的盡是生命, 人們在幹活, 吃東西, 行路.... 甚至有兩隻狗正在做那會事, 一個極大的對比!
生命最後的一幕:
他朋友知道他去死了, 又悲又喜:

他爸爸萬般無奈:

他大嫂是最勞苦功高的, 服侍他無微不至:

他大哥的仔, 也是幫他最多的人:

他大哥發很大的脾氣罵他的仔, 問他為什麼要幫主角去死, 問他明不明白, 死亡是永遠都不能再見的了!!

最後, 他喝下了毒水:

生命對他來說是已經失去了尊嚴, 他25年來就是求合法一死!
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真人真事:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IZSRzseb3vg

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我在上兩星期才看了另TV program (call : Australia story)講到老婆和一個女朋友在澳洲被判有罪, 兩人幾年前買了毒藥毒死有老人痴呆的丈夫! 老公知道有老人痴呆症, 叫老婆和女朋友買毒藥讓他早死. 但是澳洲法律不容自殺. 老公死後, 老婆成了謀殺, 坐了幾年監! 出來後在電視節目中說後悔, 不應將別人的生命扼殺在自己手中. 老公和那女朋友是在(有一教授在開扮如何安樂死中心)教人去墨西哥買自殺毒藥中心而認識的. 她被判有罪, 在去服刑前, 她已死了, 因為她本身有癌症, 在進入監獄前, 她服同一種毒自殺了.
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Nuclear Nightmares

2009-04-12T13:19:00.001+10:00

前些日子(4月5日)中午, 我看了一個電視的documentary, 有關很多年前核能源製造廠在蘇聯爆炸, 科學家一直估計這次核能的散播會死很多人. 科學家估計10年內附近居民應出現血癌, 20年後附近居民應出現任何的癌症.
但是, 到了現今, 附近居民竟沒患上任何癌症! 這次核能廠爆炸就了死了那49人, 那些去clean up 的人.
而科學家在該區收集了WILD LIFE 動物, 竟然發現他們身上的副射很高, 但沒有一隻死亡, 動物對副射所帶來的損害竟比我們人類少，甚至沒什影響!!
科學家又研究, 在美國愈高的地區就愈高副射. 竟然癌症最多的地區不出現在高地, 而在低地近海線地域! IRAN是全球副射最高的地方, 他們人民才是最健康少癌症的地區! 同時高山居民亦比平地居民健康!
雖然影片這樣記, 但是我仍是怕怕啊!
大家去看看啊, 很值得一看的:
Climate change is one of the major hot topics in politics today. Faced with potential global catastrophe, a controversial technology is back on the policy agenda - nuclear energy. But it's taken as a given by most people - experts as well as lay people - that radiation is terribly bad for our health, and that an expansion of nuclear power would inevitably lead to thousands of deaths from cancer. But what is the truth? In the aftermath of the Chernobyl disaster, experts predicted thousands of deaths from cancer. Yet, when an authoritative report was published it found that 50 workers in the plant died from acute radiation sickness and so far only nine of those can be attributed to the accident. This documentary explores the possibility that it is our fear of radiation that is the problem. Are we fighting a technology which may be vital in the fight to save our civilization from the effects of global warming? (From the UK, in English and Russian, English subtitles) (Documentary) (Rpt) PG CC WS

共5節, 請點擊以下圖片去YOUＴＵＢＥ收看：

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Victoria BushFires - little notes

2009-02-16T17:22:00.001+11:00

前兩天忘了寫到, 在節目中還有一個人投訴COUNCIL:"為什麼不準許居民拾取倒下的樹木作為FIREWOOD(柴火) 呢! 如果不是COUNCIL這無理的條例, 我們家居附近就不會那麼多易燃物料了.

澳洲是有法例去保護樹木的.

我還記得有次去狗散步, 走到海邊前有一間屋, 屋前有一大樹插了一很大的COUNCIL警告牌, 大概說誰人砍伐或毒害大樹都是犯法的.

我那時很奇怪, 那大樹有3至4人圍在一起般粗,看來還好吧!! EDWARD說, 大樹已為被人用藥毒害了, 相信是COUNCIL發現了才插下此鐵牌的. 明顯下毒手的就是這屋主. 因為無敵大海景, 千億豪宅就因屋前一棵大樹. 就化為烏有啊! 因為一棵健康的大樹, COUNCIL 是不易下批給你砍伐的.

所以維省不準許居民拾柴, 是因為他們很難知道那棵樹是你自己砍下來的, 還真是倒下來的.

還有, 在這場火災中, 有一居民是因為砍掉了門前三棵大樹, 大火才不至燒至他家, 而COUNCIL會不會追究呢?

看到最近幾年的天災人禍! 我們要好好活每一天啊!

長恨歌-白居易

2006-02-05T22:08:00.000+11:00

《長恨歌》作者：白居易
漢皇重色思傾國，御宇多年求不得。
楊家有女初長成，養在深閨人未識。
天生麗質難自棄，一朝選在君王側。
回眸一笑百媚生，六宮粉黛無顏色。
春寒賜浴華清池，溫泉水滑洗凝脂。
侍儿扶起嬌無力，始是新承恩澤時。
云鬢花顏金步搖，芙蓉帳暖度春宵。
春宵苦短日高起，從此君王不早朝。
承歡侍宴無閒暇，春從春游夜專夜。
后宮佳麗三千人，三千寵愛在一身。
金屋妝成嬌侍夜，玉樓宴罷醉和春。
姊妹弟兄皆列土，可怜光彩生門戶。
遂令天下父母心，不重生男重生女。
驪宮高處入青云，仙樂風飄處處聞。
緩歌謾舞凝絲竹，盡日君王看不足。
漁陽鼙鼓動地來，惊破霓裳羽衣曲。
九重城闕煙塵生，千乘万騎西南行。
翠華搖搖行复止，西出都門百余里。
六軍不發無奈何，宛轉蛾眉馬前死。
花鈿委地無人收，翠翹金雀玉搔頭。
君王掩面救不得，回看血淚相和流。
黃埃散漫風蕭索，云棧縈紆登劍閣。
峨嵋山下少人行，旌旗無光日色薄。
蜀江水碧蜀山青，圣主朝朝暮暮情。
行宮見月傷心色，夜雨聞鈴腸斷聲。
天旋地轉回龍馭，到此躊躇不能去。
馬嵬坡下泥土中，不見玉顏空死處。
君臣相顧盡沾衣，東望都門信馬歸。
歸來池苑皆依舊，太液芙蓉未央柳。
芙蓉如面柳如眉，對此如何不淚垂。
春風桃李花開日，秋雨梧桐葉落時。
西宮南內多秋草，落葉滿階紅不掃。
梨園弟子白發新，椒房阿監青娥老。
夕殿螢飛思悄然，孤燈挑盡未成眠。
遲遲鐘鼓初長夜，耿耿星河欲曙天。
鴛鴦瓦冷霜華重，翡翠衾寒誰与共。
悠悠生死別經年，魂魄不曾來入夢。
臨邛道士鴻都客，能以精誠致魂魄。
為感君王輾轉思，遂教方士殷勤覓。
排空馭气奔如電，升天入地求之遍。
上窮碧落下黃泉，兩處茫茫皆不見。
忽聞海上有仙山，山在虛無縹渺間。
樓閣玲瓏五云起，其中綽約多仙子。
中有一人字太真，雪膚花貌參差是。
金闕西廂叩玉扃，轉教小玉報雙成。
聞道漢家天子使，九華帳里夢魂惊。
攬衣推枕起徘徊，珠箔銀屏迤邐開。
云鬢半偏新睡覺，花冠不整下堂來。
風吹仙袂飄飄舉，猶似霓裳羽衣舞。
玉容寂寞淚闌干，梨花一枝春帶雨。
含情凝睇謝君王，一別音容兩渺茫。
昭陽殿里恩愛絕，蓬萊宮中日月長。
回頭下望人寰處，不見長安見塵霧。
惟將舊物表深情，鈿合金釵寄將去。
釵留一股合一扇，釵擘黃金合分鈿。
但教心似金鈿堅，天上人間會相見。
臨別殷勤重寄詞，詞中有誓兩心知。
七月七日長生殿，夜半無人私語時。
在天愿作比翼鳥，在地愿為連理枝。
天長地久有時盡，此恨綿綿無絕期。

注解】：１、漢皇：指唐明皇。２、御宇：治理天下。３、姊妹句：楊貴妃受寵后，其姊妹三人皆封夫人。４、漁陽鼙鼓：指安祿山在漁陽起兵叛亂。５、薄：臨近、靠近。６、信：任憑。７、碧落：道家稱天空為碧落。８、玉扃：門閂。９、迤邐開：一路敞開。１０、闌干：縱橫。【韻譯】：唐明皇好色，日夜想找個絕代佳人；統治全國多年，竟找不到一個稱心。楊玄瑛有個女儿才長成，十分嬌艷；養在深閨中，外人不知她美麗絕倫。天生就的一身麗質，很難長久棄置；有朝一日，被選在皇帝身邊做妃嬪。她回眸一笑時，千姿百態嬌媚橫生；六宮妃嬪，一個個都黯然失色万分。春寒料峭，皇上賜她到華清池沐浴；溫泉水潤，洗滌著凝脂一般的肌身。侍女攙扶她，如出水芙蓉軟弱娉婷；初蒙皇恩潤澤時，就這般嬌嬈涔涔。鬢發如云顏臉似花，頭戴著金步搖；芙蓉帳里，与皇上度著溫暖的春宵。情深春宵恨太短，一覺睡到日高起；君王深戀儿女情，從此再也不早朝。承受君歡侍君飲，終日陪伴無閒時；春從春游夜專守，雙雙形影不分离。后宮妃嬪有三千，個個姿色象女神；三千美色不動心，皇上只寵她一人。金屋中阿嬌妝成，夜夜嬌侍不离分；玉樓上酒酣宴罷，醉意伴隨著春心。姊妹封夫人兄弟封公卿，封地受獎；楊家門戶生光彩，令人羡慕又向往。使得天下的父母，個個改變了心愿；誰都看輕生男孩，只圖生個小千金。驪山北麓華清宮，玉宇瓊樓聳入云；清風過處飄仙樂，四面八方都可聞。輕歌慢舞多合拍，管弦旋律盡傳神；君王終日都觀看，欲心難足無止境。忽然漁陽戰鼓響，惊天動地震宮闕；惊坏跳舞的歌伎，停奏霓裳羽衣曲。九重城樓与宮闕，烽火連天雜煙塵；千軍万馬護君王，直向西南急逃奔。翠華龍旗一路搖，隊伍走走又停停；西出都城百來里，來到驛站馬嵬亭。龍武軍和羽林軍，六軍不走無奈何；纏綿委屈的美人，最終馬前喪了生。貴妃頭上裝飾品，拋撒滿地無人問；翠翹金雀玉搔頭，珍貴頭飾一根根。君王寵愛救不了，掩面哭成個淚人；回頭再看此慘狀，血淚交和涕淋淋。秋風蕭索掃落葉，黃土塵埃已消遁；回環曲折穿棧道，隊伍登上了劍門。峨嵋山下路險隘，蜀道艱難少人行；旌旗黯黯無光彩，日色淡淡近黃昏。泱泱蜀江水碧綠，巍巍蜀山郁青青；圣主傷心思貴妃，朝朝暮暮戀舊情。行宮之內見月色，總是傷心怀悲恨；夜雨當中聞鈴聲，譜下悲曲雨霖鈴。天旋地轉戰亂平，君王起駕回京城；到了馬嵬車躊躇，不忍离去斷腸人。萋萋馬嵬山坡下，荒涼黃土墳冢中，美人顏容再不見，地上只有她的墳。君看臣來臣望君，相看個個淚沾衣；東望京都心傷悲，任憑馬儿去馳歸。回到長安進宮看，荷池花苑都依舊；太液池上芙蓉花，未央宮中垂楊柳。芙蓉恰似她的面，柳葉好比她的眉；睹物怎能不思人，触景不免雙目垂。春風吹開桃李花，物是人非不胜悲；秋雨滴落梧桐葉，場面寂寞更慘凄。興慶宮和甘露殿，處處蕭條長秋草；宮內落葉滿台階，長久不見有人掃。當年梨園的弟子，個個新添了白發；后妃宮中的女官，紅顏退盡人衰老。夜間殿堂流螢飛，思想消沉心茫然；終夜思念睡不著，挑盡了孤燈心草。細數遲遲鐘鼓聲，愈數愈覺夜漫長；遙望耿耿星河天，直到東方吐曙光。冷冰冰的鴛鴦瓦，霜花覆蓋了几重；寒刺刺的翡翠被，誰与皇上來共用？生离死別遠悠悠，至今已經過一年；美人魂魄在何方，為啥不曾來入夢？四川有個名道士，正到長安來做客；能用虔誠的道術，招引貴妃的魂魄。輾轉相思好傷神，叫人對王表同情；就叫方士去努力，專意殷勤去找尋。駕馭云气入空中，橫來直去如閃電；升天入地去尋求，天堂地府找個遍。找遍了整個碧空，找遍了整個黃泉；天茫茫來地蒼蒼，找遍天地沒看見。忽然听說東海上，有座仙山蓬萊山；仙山聳立在云端，云來霧去縹渺間。玲瓏剔透樓台閣，五彩祥云承托起；天仙神女多無數，個個綽約又多姿。万千嬌美仙女中，有個芳名叫太真；肌膚如雪貌似花，仿佛是要找的人。方士在金闕西廂，叩開白玉的大門；他托咐侍女小玉，叫雙成通報一聲。猛然听到通報說：唐朝天子來使者；九華帳里太真仙，酣夢之中受震惊。推開睡枕攬外衣，匆忙起床亂徘徊；珍珠廉子金銀屏，一路層層都敞開。烏去發髯半偏著，看來剛剛才睡醒；花冠不整都不顧，匆匆跑到堂下來。輕風吹拂揚衣袖，步履輕輕飄飄舉；好象當年在宮中，跳起霓裳羽衣舞。寂寞憂愁顏面上，淚水縱橫四處洒；活象春天新雨后，一枝帶雨的梨花。含情凝視天子使，托他深深謝君王：馬嵬坡上長別后，音訊顏容兩渺茫。昭陽殿里恩愛情，年深月久已斷絕；蓬萊宮中度時日，仙境幽幽万古長。回頭俯身向下看，滾滾黃塵罩人間；只見塵霧一層層，京都長安看不見。只有寄去定情物，表表我深情一往；鈿盒金釵寄你去，或許能慰藉君王；金釵儿我留一半，鈿合儿我留一扇；擘金釵來分鈿盒，一人一半各收藏。但愿我們兩顆心，有如釵鈿一樣堅；不管天上或人間，終有一日會相見；臨別殷勤托方士，寄語君王表情思。寄語之中有誓詞，唯有他倆心里知。當年七月七日夜，我倆相會長生殿；夜半無人兩私語，雙雙對天立誓言：在天上，我們愿作比翼齊飛鶼鶼鳥；在地上，我們甘為永不分离連理枝。即使是天長地久，總會有終了之時；唯有這生死遺恨，卻永遠沒有盡期。【評析】：這首詩是作者的名篇，作于元和元年（806）。全詩形象地敘述了唐玄宗与楊貴妃的愛情悲劇。詩人借歷史人物和傳說，創造了一個回旋宛轉的動人故事，并通過塑造的藝術形象，再現了現實生活的真實，感染了千百年來的讀者。詩的主題是“長恨”。從“漢皇重色思傾國”起第一部分，敘述安史之亂前，玄宗如何好色、求色，終于得到了楊氏。而楊氏由于得寵，雞犬升天。并反复渲染玄宗之縱欲，沉于酒色，不理朝政，因而釀成了“漁陽鼙鼓動地來”的安史之亂。這是悲劇的基礎，也是“長恨”的內因。“六軍不發無奈何”起為第二部分，具体描述了安史之亂起后，玄宗的倉皇出逃西蜀，引起了“六軍”駐馬要求除去禍國殃民的貴妃“宛轉娥眉馬前死”是悲劇的形成。這是故事的關鍵情節。楊氏歸陰后，造成玄宗寂寞悲傷和纏綿悱惻的相思。詩以酸惻動人的語調，描繪了玄宗這一“長恨”的心情，揪人心痛，催人淚下。“臨邛道士鴻都客”起為第三部分，寫玄宗借道士幫助于虛無縹渺的蓬萊仙山中尋到了楊氏的蹤影。在仙景中再現了楊氏“帶雨梨花”的姿容，并以含情脈脈，托物寄詞，重申前誓，表示愿作“比翼鳥”、“連理枝”，進一步渲染了“長恨”的主題。結局又以“天和地久有時盡，此恨綿綿無絕期”深化了主題，加重了“長恨”的分量。全詩寫情纏綿悱惻，書恨杳杳無窮。文字哀艷動人，聲調悠揚宛轉，千古名篇，常讀常新。令人丁毅、方超在《（長恨歌）評价管窺》一文中認為，此詩是白居易借對歷史人物的詠歎，寄托自己的心情之作。文章說，詩人年輕時与出身普通人家的姑娘湘靈相愛，但由于門第觀念和風尚阻礙，沒能正式結婚。分手時，詩人寫了“不得哭，潛別离；不得語，暗相思；兩心之外無人知……彼此甘心無后期”的沉痛詩句。文章指出，《長恨歌》作于作者婚前几個月，詩人為失去与湘靈相會之可能而痛苦。為此，丁、方二人認為，《長恨歌》并不是對歷史的記錄与評价。“在天愿作比翼鳥，在地愿為連理枝。天長地久有時盡，此恨綿綿無絕期”，正是詩人借前代帝妃的悲劇，抒發自己的痛苦与深情。從“詩言志”，“詩傳情”上說，丁、方二人之說不無道理。但就作品所反映的歷史真實和社會意義以及千百年來的影響而言，不能不說它是歷史的記錄和對歷史事件的評价。至于白氏自身有愛情悲劇的經歷，無疑有助于他對李楊愛情悲劇的体察和分析，才使其詩寫得肌理細膩，情真意切，賦予無窮的藝術魅力。

天才輩出的盛唐詩

2006-01-05T23:27:00.000+11:00

中國詩歌發展史的頂峰　　
自玄宗開元元年（公元713年）至代宗永泰元年（公元765年）是詩歌的盛唐時期，這是唐代詩歌史的頂峰，也是整個中國詩歌發展史的頂峰。
在短短的50多年間，湧現出十幾位大詩人，他們經歷各異，風格不同，懷著宏偉的理想和抱負，以蓬勃熱烈的感情，激昂慷慨的聲音去表現盛唐時代的種種面貌。正如李白所說：「群才屬休明，乘運共躍鱗，文質相炳煥，眾星羅秋旻」(《古風》其一)。
人們談盛唐詩人，喜以派別區分，但實際上盛唐詩壇並沒有形成嚴格意義上的詩派。無論如何也不能把創作題材極其廣泛的李白、杜甫歸屬於其中任何一派，而且所謂山水田園詩派的代表王維，也絕不僅僅寫作山水田園詩，他的政治感遇詩和邊塞詩都很出色。所謂邊塞詩派的代表詩人之一高適又何嘗是邊塞二字所能概括的呢？
盛唐氣象　　盛唐詩壇具有共同的時代風格，強烈的時代特色，這就是博大、雄渾、深遠、超逸；充沛的活力、創作的愉悅、嶄新的體驗，以及通過意象的運用、意境的表現，性情和聲色的結合，所形成的那種新型的美。這一切構成盛唐氣象，一種後人企羨不已，足以代表一個時代風貌的總體風格。
值得注意的是，盛唐氣象本來是歌詩上的一種說法，但已經被歷史學家所接受，用來說明中國歷史上的那個黃金時代。從文明史的角度看來，盛唐氣象的形成有一個根基，那就是開明與開放。唯開明才能除舊布新，雲蒸霞蔚；唯開放才能百川匯海、博大深邃。盛唐詩歌的氣象是那個時代文明的集中表現。
在盛唐詩歌裡除了山水、田園、宮怨、離情等傳統題材外，政治詩和邊塞詩集中地體現了盛唐詩歌的特色。這個時期政治詩的內容主要是反抗權貴、要求人才解放。邊塞詩也帶著一種積極奮發的精神。

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