Friday, December 30, 2005

WSJ: 'Calrification' of A Chinese Study


We knew movie 'Erin Brockovich' was based on a true story, but we didn't know how the legal struggle was entangled with a key journal article (and its 'clarifications') published by a little known Chinese doctor, until now.

Chromium-6 is a metal produced in the manufacturing process such as stainless steel. In 1986, Dr. Zhang Jiandong published a study of people in five villages in north-eastern China drinking polluted well water who suffered higher cancer rate. His work was cited by US federal regulatory agencies as evidence of cancer-causing effects of Chromium-6.

Chemical company PG&E, the devil Julia Roberts fought with in the movie, hired a consulting firm to nullify the Dr. Zhang's paper. The firm used Dr. Zhang's name published a 1997 paper with opposite conclusion from the same data. The new paper were also broadly cited by federal regulatory agencies in assessing the safety of Chromium-6.

The consulting firm was ChemRisk, founded by Dennis Paustenbach, a Bush appointee on the advisory board of CDC. The firm received $7 million for this work.

See also: Chrom-plated Fraud

Lien Chan Named Person of the Year


The Honorary Chairman of KMT Lien Chan was named Person of Year 2005 by Nanfang Weekend, the No. 1 newspaper in China by subscriptions.

Former Vice President (1996-2000) of Taiwan, Lien lost two presidential elections in the year 2000 and 2004. However, his political life reached its highest peak on April 26th 2005, when his plane touched down at Nanjing Lukou Airport, which marked the third hand-shake between the National Party (KMT) and China Communism Party (CCP). The two parties joined efforts in 1924-1927 to unite China from warlords, and they collaborated again in defending China against Japanese invasion.

Lien was also hailed when he voluntarily stepped down from the post of the Chairman of the KMT despite tremendous support after serving his terms. All previous leaders of KMT employed a range of techniques from declaring the martial law to redefining the constitution in order to keep their positions.

Lien Chan was born in Xi'an in 1936. He received his BS and MS from the National Taiwan University and a Ph.D. in political science in 1965 from the University of Chicago. Lien was often accused of being arrogant, partly because he never bothered to make comments or explanations on these accusations. Rumor has it that Lien is the most wealthiest person in Taiwan, which is not true but is still cited on daily basis by his political opponents. After retirement, he surrendered eligibility of treatment as a former vice president to claim benefits of retired civil servants, which technically renders more monthly income from pension because of his long serving years.

This year's list of candidates: 600 thousands adjunct rural teachers, Shenzhou 6 project group, Lu Jun, Li Yizhong, Zhang Baoqing, Li Yanhong, Chen Danqing, Lien Chan, Ding Junhui and the Super Girls.

Saturday, December 24, 2005

Ugly Wife, Nearby Farmland and Old Cotton Coat

Eleven Reasons to Marry an Ugly Wife
For your holiday joy!

娶一个恐龙,可能一时会后悔,但就长远角度来看,恐龙的好处多多,综合前人经验及自 己的切身体会,总结出恐龙十一大优点:
一、百分之百的原装
看看现在的美容广告,从拉双眼皮,架高鼻子到隆胸束腰,其手段之毒辣,过程之残忍,估计当年的地下工作者都受不了,但一个人造美女就是这样炼成的。而娶一个恐龙就不用怕她有任何地方经过人工处理,因为经过处理的也就不会是恐龙了,所以你不用担心娶了一个再造战士。

二、百分之九十的可靠
在这个流行婚外情和第三者的社会,做为一个男人,肯定不希望自己的脑袋上漂浮着一块深绿色的云彩,那是一个男人的耻辱,这意味这你在某一方面趋于低能或无能,比如在钞票或床头。如果陪伴你的是一只恐龙的话,你戴绿帽子的系数虽然存在,但将大大的低于其它男人。

三、百分之八十的安全
报纸杂志上天天都有这样那样的事情发生,做为一个女人的老公,你肯定不希望自己的老婆成为色狼下手的目标,如果你娶的是一个PLMM的话,恐怕除了第二条以外,你就怕她在外面被人非礼,但如果你娶一个让人不敢正视的恐龙,相信你怕的就会是如果她在外面非礼别人怎么办了。别的不说,起码你也要相信色狼的眼光,至于为什么不是百分之百的安全,那是因为我们不排除色狼中也有饥不择食的。

四、百分之七十的舒适
在女人最重要的外貌上不能向悦目看齐,那就在赏心上大做文章,这是恐龙的一大特点,不论是厨艺还是理财,恐龙在这些方面要大大的强于相貌出众的女子,累了,给你按摩,饿了,给你美食,善良体贴。。。恐龙一般都能把内在美发挥的淋漓尽致,除了你的眼睛因为先天原因照顾不到,嘴巴鼻子耳朵胃等都完美的让你无话可说。

五、百分之六十的保值
一个美女在二十岁和三十岁的价值可以用高台跳水来形容,江山折断英雄腰,岁月催尽红颜老,在超过二十五岁以后,美女贬值以质量乘以重力加速度来计算,等到三十以后,她也就落地了。而恐龙则不然,一个二十岁的恐龙和一个三十岁的恐龙没有太大的区别,在某些方面还有所升值,比如温柔体贴等。

六、百分之五十的节省
娶一个美丽也懂得自己美丽的女人也就意味着要同许多有同样经历的男人一起养活一个品牌的化妆品,两家制衣厂,三家鞋厂,四个美容院,五家发廊,六个咖啡厅。。。每个月的七次逛街,八次电影,你的口袋能承受的了吗?而一个恐龙一套衣服一双鞋可以穿好多年,出去理发也就是五块钱一次的那种。平时大门不出二门不迈,除了买菜就是在家看电视,你能省多少钱算过没有?娶一个恐龙也就是娶了一个帮你攒钱而不是帮你浪费的宝贝。

七、百分之四十的自由
一个女人如果是一个恐龙,她一定会对娶他的人心怀一份感激,对他的生活不会过多的干涉,而一个美女在家会怎么样我想不用多说了,从洗衣做饭擦地板不说,每月的工资就要先老实的上缴,可以说是一点自由都没有。

八、百分之三十的面子
娶一个美女固然是你炫耀的本钱,但也会引起大家的嫉妒,平时出去你也会成为大家调侃的对象,如果和老婆一起出去,你则成为被忽视的对象,而娶一个恐龙,则会让你在朋友圈里更受人同情,如果一起出门,老婆一定不会抢你的风头,完全保留了你那颗大男人的自尊心。

九、百分之二十的激励
别人娶了美女,而你娶了恐龙,对有上进心的你来说这是一个失败,虽然恐龙的好处多多,但一美遮百丑,你会始终觉得自己在这方面是一个失败者,所以你就会在别的方面去努力超过别人,娶一个恐龙其实也就是在另一方面刺激了你的进取精神,不过真正能化这种悲痛为力量的也只有百分之二十而已。

十、百分之十的荣誉
想一想吧,你娶了一个恐龙,多让人佩服,多让人吃惊,你的行为和那些下乡扶贫的人又有什么区别?不同的是他们扶的是一个物质上贫乏的穷人,你扶的是一个外貌上困难的女人,这是多伟大的事情呀。

十一、百分之零的后悔
不论从哪个角度来讲,你都不会后悔娶了一个恐龙,古人有云:赖汉娶好妻,你难道愿意当那个赖汉不成?一朵鲜花插在牛粪上,难道你愿意做那一堆牛粪?在看看前九条,你完全可以放心的娶一个恐龙,然后和她白头偕老。
看完以后心里怕怕,看来娶美女之前一定要三思而后行!!!

作者:吉星高照 (2005-12-16 17:19)

Thursday, December 22, 2005

Fudan Scissorhands, Update 2

FS, FS Update


Italian shoemakers concern over Italian shoe toxins

CHINA: Mulls Italian concerns over shoe toxins : Apparel and Textile news

The Italian government started testing imported Made-in-China shoes in response to the request from the Italian footwear association. The association claimed found potentially dangerous chemicals such as azo dye in Chinese footwear imports. However, according to the Wei Yafei, an officer of the Chinese Leather Industry Association, the dye in question was actually imported from Italy. Once again, the westerners lifted the rock, but dropped it on their own feet.

In the first 10 months of this year, China exported over 90 million shoes to Italy, the traditional famous shoe making country. The market share of Chinese made shoes in Italy increased by 700% in the past two years.

Wednesday, December 21, 2005

Boing Boing: Ninetendo threatens lawsuit over cancer gene "Pokemon"

Boing Boing: Ninetendo threatens lawsuit over cancer gene "Pokemon"

I guess we can only love the gaming industry so much, and after all, there are always good guys and bad guys. Just in case you are wondering, zbtb7 comes from zinc finger and BTB domain containing 7A.

Monday, December 19, 2005

Chinese Quotes


  1. 这个政府你批评它的时候它呈暴怒状,它们花你钱的时候呈白痴状
  2. 孩子交给老师,人民交给警察,都是要命的事!
  3. 一个鸟巢,一个蛋,真逗
  4. 这是一片神奇的土地,这是一个伟大的民族。在这片土地上,什么人间奇迹都可以创造出来。

Del.icio.us is down; this is inconvenient

Sunday, December 18, 2005

Top 10 Internet Events in China 2005

Top 10 Events that Shaped the Internetscape in China for better or worse in the year of 2005:

10. Fudan Scissorhands
Fudan University graduate student Zhang Liangliang tortured over 30 cats over a period of less than half year. Zhang bragged himself as the Fudan Scissorhands, after he hurt a cat with a long sharp scissor. He was caught red hand on the last cat, whose pictures of a cat with bleeding eyes were circulating around the world. The cat did not survive despite rescue efforts made by local animal lovers.

9. Chen Yi vs. Netizen Audit
Chen Yi, a Southwest University student offered herself for bid on Sep 15th, 2005, to raise money for her mother's liver transplant surgery, which drew concerns over proper managing of the donations account. Right before a self-appointed investigator team about to make public their findings, Chen's mother died in an unrelated surgery. The incident generated big debate over whether the donors have says over the usage of their donations.

8. Bright Dairy
Bright Dairy (Guangming Milk) was caught on tape for making milk product with re-manufactured rotten materials. The program made by Zheng Zhou TV station was aired on Jun 7th, 2005. Instead of correcting the wrong doings, Bright Dairy chose to wage a full scale bluff war with its superior political resources. One of its ex-CEO was Jiang Zemin. The initial TV report was cut short, and traditional media was shut up, but Internet message boards pushed for a broad disclosure of the scandal. It is widely believed that Bright Dairy will never recover in the retail sector. Bright Dairy was the forth largest milk manufacture in China with plants all over the country.

7. Real Names for University BBS IDs
The Higher Education Ministry ordered all Electronic Bulletin Board System operated by students employ real name policy. Beginning in March, most BBSs allow only current registered students to register online IDs, and many of them no longer allow off-campus access.

6. MSN Spaces
Chinese Internet enthusiasts adopted blogging as early as their oversea counterparts, however, it is the introduction MSN Space which made blogging a habit among young Chinese. It seems every thirteen years old boys and girls get their spaces overnight.

5. Podcasting
Web 2.0 is a very cool word in Chinese IT 2005. While everybody have been talking about it, a few worked on it. An example is douban.com, where members make comments on books they have been read. Also check out the podcasting page at the High School Affiliated to Fudan University.


4. Yahoo! The Collaborator
For a while, Chinese political dissidents rely on foreign Internet services providers to avoid political censorship. They were shocked when a journalist Shi Tao of the China Business Herald was sentenced by the Changsha Intermediate People's Court to 10 years in jail on the charge of divulging state secrets on Apr 30th, 2005. Yahoo! Holding (Hong Kong) provided the communism prosecutors with Mr. Shi's detailed online log entries, which helped to identify and convict him. Mr. Shi Tao shouldn't have used a Yahoo EMail account.

Although Yahoo's Jerry Young brushed off the responsibility as 'complying with local law', Yahoo Holdings (Hong Kong) is not obligated to operate within the laws of China or to cooperate with Chinese police, because its legal entity is not in mainland China, according to Mr. Guo Guoting, attorney for Shi Tao.

Listen carefully Yahoo, there was a huge gap between doing nothing to help and stabbing on the back. You crossed the line, and this is getting very personal. If all you care are profits, we netizens who do have a moral consciousness vow to see you pay, including but not limited to never using any products bearing your name again. Shame on you Yahoo! Shame on you! boingboing

3. Kai-Fu Lee joined Google
In Microsoft vs. Google over Lee's jumping boat, Lee characterized his role at Microsoft Research Asia as no official job function, he is seen as the God Father of the institute, and the idol of Chinese young talents in the field. His job function is very clear at Google, which is recruiting. Google announced Lee's appointment as the president of Google China, and Lee started on Sep 15th, 2005.

2. US Company Helps Block VoIP
Las Vegas Based Verso tested software with their Chinese partners on Blocking Skype. The high price charged by Chinese telecommunication companies is responsible for the unbalanced rate between China and the outside world. For example, it costs $0.02 per minute to make a phone call from the US to China, while $0.20 per minute the other way. VoIP casts even greater fear on the Chinese telecommunication companies. Although there are several telecommunication operators in China, their international policy is closely coordinated by the China Ministry of Information Industry, and form a monopoly in reality.

1. Baidu IPO
Baidu.com Inc is the largest Internet search engine company in China. Baidu grows with suspicious ties to the Chinese government. It was not a surprise when Google was blocked by the Chinese government in 2002, however, inquiries to Google were redirected to a few Chinese search engines, with the great majority went to Baidu. The IPO was big success at the beginning with a 354% first day rise on Aug 8th, 2005. The initial price was $27, and the highest price was $153.98. The price has been sliding ever since. Google holds around 2.6% stake in Baidu.

Friday, December 16, 2005

Lieutenant Colonel's New Hot Tub


Via boingboing

Lt. Col. Debra Harrison of the U.S. Army posed in front of her Trenton, New Jersey home on Wednesday, Nov 30th, 2005. Her recent home improvement project including a new hot tub and deck had been funded by money intended for a library in the holy city of Karbala and an Iraqi police academy.

Colonel Harrison was charged with taking cash brides of $80,000 to $100,000, a Cadillac Escalade, a trove of illegal weaponry and other items in connection to construction contracts in Iraq, where she received a bronze star. Lt. Col. Ruslan N. Miroshnichenko praised Colonel Harrison in his nomination letter, "......have the highest regard for their professionalism and very real ability to get things done. I have also witnessed at first hand how they built a strong and loyal team around them, and how they developed and managed that team. A team that has achieved excellent results in an often difficult environment."

Back home, Harrison works for the city of Trenton as an accountant.

Adopted Chinese Baby Slain by Her Tennessee Mommy


A Williamson County grand jury indicted Jennifer Alvey on charges of first-degree murder, aggravated child abuse, aggravated child neglect and reckless homicide in the death of Emma Mei. Jennifer and Phillip Alvey adopted Emma from China on Feb 27th, 2005 through Bethany Christian Services Adoption Agency. Emma Mei was born in Huangmei, Hubei province of China on Feb 11th, 2004.

"The mother held the baby and shook the baby back and forth, striking the baby's head on a coffee table in their living room", said Spring Hill police detective Sgt. Steve Cretin. Emma died five days later on Oct 24th, 2005, suffering a skull fracture in the Monroe Carell Jr. Children's Hospital at Vanderbilt, Tennessee. Jennifer is a medical assistant and her husband Phillip is a used car manager.

Jennifer originally said that Emma had fell from her plastic bicycle, when she screamed for help hysterically on Oct 19th. However this was not Emma's first accident at the Alvey's. On Sep 27th, she was treated at the Williamson Medical Center after "fallen down the steps".

The couple posted death of Emma on the Bethany Christian website: "We thank all of you for your prayers, thoughts and kind words. Emma was everything we dreamed of as our daughter…. We don't pretend to know the reason her time with us was cut so short, only that it must have happened to save her from something down the path of her life that would have caused her pain. … Emma fell asleep for a nap in her Mommy's arms never to awake again and passed away at the hospital in her Daddy's arms. … She was an angel on Earth and is now a beautiful angel in Heaven. Emma, your Daddy and Mommy love and miss you so much."

Two Chinese Students Fatally Shot, Update


Link to the initial blog entry

Ottawa police issued a nationwide two counts of first degree murder warrant for the arrest of Wei Fu Kwok age 27 in connection with the slaying of two Chinese students Liu Tailang and Tian Linhai in a downtown Ottawa karaoke house on the morning of Dec 6th, 2005. A Vancouver, B.C. resident, Wei is also known as his street name Jackie Wei. Wei is believed to be armed and dangerous. The police advised people not to get close to the suspect if seen, instead call 911 immediately. They can also call the criminal division of the Ottawa police at 236-1222 ext: 5493.

A National Hero Tumbles

"He's not a politician, a tycoon, or a pop star. But these days, Hwang Woo-suk may enjoy more popularity and respect in South Korea than the hottest celebrity..... The government even issued a postage stamp in his honor in February that juxtaposes an image of growing stem cells with silhouettes of a man rising from a wheelchair, walking, and embracing another person."
Businessweek Article
Earlier this year, South Korea scientist Hwang Woo-suk reported to have cloned the first tailored human embryo to use for research. His group at Seoul National University was also known for cloning the first human embryo, and first clone dog in the world. The study is an important step stone between cloning research and therapeutic needs, as it found how to grow stem cells from a piece of skin taken from the patient. He was hailed by his colleagues all around the globe, "I am amazed at how much they have accomplished in just a year and the amount, the quality and the rigorousness of their evidence," said Dr. Gerald Schatten of the University of Pittsburgh in a telephone interview. Dr. Schatten is also a co-author of Dr. Hwang's 2005 Science paper. Dr. Schatten has been a wisteria around the pergola of Dr. Hwang discoveries in stem cell researches. Two duo recently met in October, when Schatten was reported asking for the chair of the board of a research center funded by South Korean government. Soon various questions and speculations surround Dr. Hwang's research began emerging in the South Korean press.

Today, Dr. Hwang and his team were accused of data fabrication. The issue came into spotlight after reports in the Korean press alleged Dr. Huang of using young female subordinates' eggs, which would be a serious violation of scientific and academic ethics. However, on Nov 10th, Dr. Gerald Schaten reassured the Science that 'none of the oocytes used in Dr. Hwang's 2004 or 2005 science papers were obtained from reimbursed women donors'. By now we have learned that his reassurance was not true, but it did effectively quell the debate until more controversies was raised by a Nov 22nd TV report on Dr. Hwang made by a Korean television station MBC. The plot has another sharp turn on Dec 4th 2005 when MBC publicly apologized for the aforementioned report.

Dr. Schatten was back on the center of the turmoil as the corresponding author for high resolution images when Science noticed some discrepancies of the images they presented in the peer-reviewed version PDF file, and the file camera-ready version file. The images were alleged and later admitted to be duplicated or fake. On Dec 13th, 2005. Dr. Schatten asked Science to have him removed as a co-author of Dr. Hwang's 2005 paper.

On Dec 14th, Dr. Ian Wilmut of the University of Edinburgh, teams up with a crew of first class scientists expressed concerns over the public awareness of the scandal. They made an appeal to the Science which called for containing the dispute within the 'scientific community', in stead of the on-going 'trail in the press'. Join the choir, there are Drs. Michael West and Robert Lanze of Advanced Cell Technology, Dr John Gearhart of John Hopkins University, Dr. Austin Smith of the University of Edinburgh, Dr. Alan Colman of EL Cell International, Dr. Alan Trounson of Monash University and Dr. Keith Campbell of University of Nottingham.

In South Korea, thousands women lined up at the door of Dr. Hwang's lab to donate their eggs for his experiment. They hold mugunghwa, the national flower, and sing Aegukga, the national anthem to support their national hero at a very difficult time.

Science Reactions

Tuesday, December 13, 2005

Nancy Olivieri vs Miriam Shuchman


A physician noticed a serious issue during the clinical trail of a new drug, and decided to inform her patients and the academia the life threatening risk associated with using this drug. After all, presumably that's the whole point of doing this kind of trails. What a crime!

It is exactly the crime for which Dr. Nancy Olivieri had been punished by "five years of personal vilification, reprisals and harassment." And neither the Hospital for Sick Children where the trail was conducted, nor the University of Toronto who operated the hospital supported Dr. Nancy Olivieri in fulfilling her ethical obligations to her patients or her scientific obligations to the public.

The University of Toronto even makes a distinction between academic faculty and clinical faculty in terms of the range of academic ethics and freedom, in response to a report issued by the Canadian Association of University Teachers in which the University was accused of wrong doings in the case strangled with corporate money, in this case, money from the largest Canadian pharmaceutical company Apotex.


However ten years after the drug was pulled from North America, and five years after Dr. Nancy Olivieri won her substantial settlement and job reinstatement, Dr. Miriam Shuchman's new book "the Olivieri Case Revisited" offers an even blurred view of boundaries between right and wrong among major roles involved in the scandal as well as on what had really happened. In her book, Dr. Nancy Olivieri was portrayed as "one of these people who thinks whatever tune she has chosen at the moment, everyone must be dance to it". The argument is supported by the fact that it's Dr. Nancy Olivieri who made the questioned drug passed the scrutiny of FDA without setting proper protocol and monitoring, which ultimately resulted in the death of at least one patient. Dr. Nancy Olivieri's observing of academic ethics was also put in question when she inexcusably omitted warning data from her grant proposal to Canada's Medical Research Council seeking money for a long-term study of the drug. Further more, because of the media frenzy made by the publicity of the scandal, the otherwise helpful drug was basically blocked from the North American thalassemia patients.

A story always has two sides, or more. Perhaps we can say the same on the fact.

Saturday, December 10, 2005

Academic Misconduct in its Deadliest Form

Merck deleted data of three heart attacks among Vioxx users before they submitted its study of the clinical trail to the New England Journal of Medicine (NEJM) in 2000.

Three additional patients who suffered heart attacks while taking Vioxx surfaced after the original cut-off date for information collection set by Merck researchers, but at least two weeks before submitting to the most prestigious US medical journal the first of two revisions, and four-and-a-half months before the actual publication. The extra three cases would have account for an extra 80 percent increase of heart attacks rick compared to naproxen, a generic over the counter painkiller. All three patients are in a group at low risk of heart attack.

The Journal published a rare Expression of Concern on December 8th, 2005 alleging Merck deliberated withhold the information from the journal and public after they recovered the deleted data from the original electronic media submitted by Merck for publication. The editorial found the last minute tweaks of data made certain calculations and conclusions in the article incorrect.

The Merck funded research was carried out by a team of twelve scientists. The clinical trail on Vioxx, code named VIGOR, was conducted at Toronto's Mount Sinai Hospital, where the lead author Dr. Bombardier holds a position.

In response to the editorial, Dr. Claire Bombardier of the University of Toronto said 'the VIGOR paper appropriately disclosed the data as per the pre-specified plan of analysis'. This is bullshit. Electronic records recently discovered from the computer diskette that had been submitted to the NEJM showed the numbers of heart attacks and deaths were deleted two days before submission.

Although Dr. Bombardier claimed that the missing data was later made available to FDA and the public, her 2000 paper was used extensively as strong argument for the drug's safety. "The health of the public, of many, many thousands of people, was at stake here', Dr. Geoffrey D. Curfman, the executive editor of the Journal said in an interview. He also noted that the authors deleted additional relevant data about strokes and other heart problems caused by the drug from their manuscript prior to submission.

The third author of the paper was Dr. Alise Reicin, Merck's vice president for clinical research. She is also accused of failing to reveal her Merck affiliation in the study's disclosure section. Dr. Reicin testified on December 7th, 2005 in a trail in Houston that the company never misled doctors and the public about studies linking heart attacks to Vioxx. Again, this is nothing but bullshit, and worse, it invites a perjury investigation. Dr. Eric Topol whose publication on Vioxx's safety in 2001. together with the exposure of several independent studies, leads to the drug's withdrawn in September 30th, gave an opposite story. When he noticed some discrepancies in Merck's data and contacted Merck, Dr. Alise Reicin paid him an unprecedented personal visit. She told Dr. Topol she couldn't get access to all the data. After Dr. Topol published his study, Merck launch a smear campaign sending letters to doctors all over the country to discredit his study. Merck also threatend Dr. Gurkirpal Singh, a professor of Stanford University and also a Merck consultant, of 'sevear consequences' if he kept studying the risk of Vioxx. Several top medical schools complained about a consistent pattern of intimidation of investigators by Merck. Dr. Topol accused Merck of engaging in scientific misconduct, suppressing clinical evidence and stifling medical disclosure in its promoting of the Vioxx.

The rest of the team is comprised of Drs. Loren Laine of University of Southern California, Deborah Shapiro of Merck, Ruben Burgos-Vargas of Hospital General de Mexico, Barry Davis of the University of Texas, Richard Day of the University of new South Wales, Marcos Bosi Ferraz of Universidade Federal de São Paulo, Christopher J. Hawkey of University Hospital in Nottingham UK, Marc C. Hochberg of the University of Maryland, Tore K. Kvien of Diakonhjemmet Hospital in Oslo Norway, Thomas J. Schnitzer of Northwestern University, Arthur Weaver of Arthritis Center of Nebraska Lincoln.

The painkiller was approved by FDA in 1999, and around 20 million people had been using Vioxx before its withdrawal in 2004. More than 7,000 lawsuits have been filed against Merck on Vioxx caused heart attacks and deaths, and many more are expected. In a June 9th, 2005 NPR report, it was estimated that at least 38,000 Americans were believed to have died from taking the painkiller. Because elevated risk of heart attacks only effects long-term users who had been using Vioxx for more than 18 months, had we known what Dr. Clair Bombardier decided to hide from us in her 2000 paper, many, if not all, of these lives could have been spared.

Moral Collapse of Chinese Intellectuals

The scandal that a Fudan University graduate tortured dozens of cats generated intensive discussion on the Chinese Internet community, with the great majority strongly condemned the crime, and asked for legislature on animal cruelty. However, there are also voices that this is no more than a misdemeanor, and that it shouldn't have been such a big deal. Specifically, some people argued that there were illiterate country workers who catch and eat cats everyday without drawing this kind of attention, and that Liangliang Zhang being a college student should not be treated differently.

When Liangliang Zhang's father Baihe Zhang receive an interview with East Morning, he emphasised that he's a senior intellectual, and that there was huge pressure of being a senior intellectual. He apparently thinks being an intellectual justifies ZLL behaving as a sub-human. This is not only disgusting, but also a shame of the Chinese society.

The 'intellectuals' are used to be the conscience of the society throughout Chinese civilization, until after the 1949, when Chairman Mao told them that they need to study from the proletariat. It was used as a way to humiliate the intellectuals, but now they are so used to it, that they no longer feel ashamed of it. They even started to make excuses out of it.

The society used to have a higher bar for intellectuals on always every aspects of social life, not to say count on them in time of adversity of the country. See what are they doing now? Doctors take kickback from salesmen, teachers exchange grades for money, college students torture kittens for fun.

We need to bring back the self esteem and pride of being an intellectual, and we can only achieve that before we correct what we did wrong. We should no longer play the trick of being a sub-proletariat to get away from behaving like a sub-human. We also should no longer sit indifferently when one of us doing just that.

Fudan Scissorhands, Fudan Scissorhands Update

Friday, December 09, 2005

Two Chinese Students Fatally Shot in Ottawa on Dec 6th, 2005



Linhai Tian(Bob) from Qinghai and Tailang Liu (太郎) from Inner Mongolia, two young promising lives were killed by a cold blood Vietnamese trash. Both 20 years old. Bod wrote in his profile, a simple person working on nontrivial stuff. 太郎 wrote, hard life is the steps to success. These were the dreams they had before the double homicide 2:45 am Dec 6th, 2005.

According to witnesses, five Chinese students went to a local Karaoke place, Fullhouse Karaoke Tea Cafe, on 718 Somerset St West late night. The Chinatown Karaoke Cafe is popular among local Chinese student community. The two students had an argument with a group of Vietnamese over the use of the bathroom. One Vietnamese later walked out the Cafe to retrieve a handgun, and forced into the room occupied by the Chinese students. The murderer shot 7 times at Tian sitting close to the door, and 2 times at Liu with the gun pointed at his left eye.

One local Chinese was angered by the slow investigation progress when he read the police's statement saying that the weapon was believed to be a 'semi-automatic handgun'. He questioned, "how come bullet shells were all over the place, and they still couldn't tell exactly what kind of gun is it".



Wish you two fellow Chinese students peace up above. At the least, you are with your good friend. Any Chinese who made comments on the cars they drive, shame on you!


Deadly Fight Began in Karaoke Bar's Bathroom, Ottawa Citizen, Thursday, December 08, 2005

Linhai Tian didn't even want to go to the Chinatown karaoke bar for a birthday party, but at around 1 a.m. Tuesday, his friends finally convinced him to go. Ninety minutes later, he was shot to death.

Mr. Tian, 20, had been just a few blocks away, finishing up rice noodles with the longtime girlfriend he followed to Ottawa from Shenzhen, China.

Mr. Tian, known to his friends as Bob, drove her back home, then headed to Fullhouse Karaoke and Bubble Tea, where he met up with best friend Tailang Liu, also 20.

Then, just after 2:30 a.m., the men got into an argument with an apparent stranger inside the Somerset Street West bar. It ended with the stranger drawing a handgun and shooting Mr. Liu once in the face, and pumping Mr. Tian with at least 10 bullets.

Yesterday, as police detectives worked around the clock to track the killer, Mr. Tian's girlfriend met with the Citizen. Shaken, running on little sleep, and fearing a gunman on the loose, Selina Mi said she wanted the public to know that her boyfriend's life was far removed from violence, let alone organized crime.

"Bob is not the kind of guy who would stir anything up. If anything, he was at the wrong place at the wrong time," she said. "We never even talked about gun violence because it was so far away from our world. As students, our life was isolated and pure," she said.

According to his friends, Mr. Tian spent his free time studying business administration at the library. An avid photographer, he would also wake up early, again and again, to try to capture the perfect sunrise in the city.

"He was a warm-hearted person to everyone around him. Now that he's gone, I want everybody to remember the good things about him. Everybody that knew him says it was unfair, and that this shouldn't be his fate," she said through a translator.

He and his girlfriend, also an international business student, had planned to take skiing lessons and hoped to one day make it to Niagara Falls, a place Mr. Tian had always talked about photographing.

Though he didn't sing on stage like his best mate, he was considered the life of the party, always cracking jokes.

He was a top student who made a name for himself on the side as the guy to call when you needed your computer fixed.

Once they arrived in Ottawa, the two men were inseparable, according to friends -- whether it was playing basketball, having a drink at the bar, or cruising the neighbourhood.

Mr. Tian had been taking English as a Second Language training at Carleton University before moving to Algonquin College's photography department this year. Mr. Liu was in the first year of the business administration program at Algonquin College.

Tall with long hair, Mr. Liu drove a light blue Ford Mustang, its seat covers decorated with stylized black and blue skulls, while Mr. Tian drove a silver Mercedes C230. Both cars, which had Quebec plates and featured Chinese flag stickers over the gas caps, were left parked one in front of the other at parking meters on the opposite side of Somerset Street West from the karaoke bar.

The two friends spent many weekends at the Ha-Ha Restaurant and Karaoke bar in the industrial district of Ottawa's east end. At the time, it was the city's only place set up with Asian karaoke tunes.

In October, Mr. Liu entered a karaoke contest and sang I'm a little bird -- a popular Chinese rock ballad about finding happiness and friendship.

He didn't make it to the finals, but he had a good voice, said bar owner Rudy Gao who called them both "good boys."

Making things worse, Ms. Mi, 22, was called to the Chinese Embassy yesterday, where she said an official kept asking her insulting questions. Was Mr. Tian a gambler? Did he owe a loan shark? "I feel extremely outraged with (wrong) assumptions that are insulting," she said.

He Zuoxiu Interviewed

He Zuoxiu was interviewed by South People Weekly on Dec 4th, 2005. What a living crap and a shame of the Chinese intellectuals!

Kaidi Net

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何祚庥说矿难:“谁叫你不幸生在中国了?”

下文是最新一期《南方人物周刊》封面报道(分标题已由本楼主改过)。如果你嫌长,请阅读红字部分――当然建议你全读!不会让你失望。

■《南方人物周刊》》记者 刘天时 发自北京

下面对话是记者12月4日下午对何祚庥先生的采访实录。需要说明的是,访谈中间有一个插曲——与记者随行拍摄的摄影师娄林伟先生,旁听采访,对何先生的说法不能同意,并且到了一定程度,以至激愤地插话,打断采访,如此与何先生你来我往,颇有一番争执。记者以为这段插曲,双方的观点和态度颇有些代表性的意味,所以保留于此。

一.何祚庥谈矿难:“谁叫你不幸生在中国了?”

摄影师:中国煤矿每天死多少人您知道吗?
何祚庥:报纸上说100多人……
摄影师:您相信这个数字?
何祚庥:大体上是真实的……
摄影师:您看过《盲井》(注:一部反映小煤矿死人的电影)吗……
何祚庥:我告诉你中国死人最多的不在煤矿,在小轿车(交通事故),每年12万!
摄影师:交通事故死人,其他国家也是一样,是没法避免的……
何祚庥 :你为什么认为小轿车(死人)是没法避免呢?为什么这就不是问题?哈,你这话就对了,没法避免!中国煤矿死人也没法避免!因为中国的老百姓太穷了。
摄影师:您认为是穷而不是腐败吗?
何祚庥:主要是穷,而不是腐败。为什么工人能接受较低的工资、较危险的条件?老百姓不是傻子,他们不是不知道啊。那为什么还接受?因为不接受活不下去。
摄影师:那他们就该接受这样的命运吗?
何祚庥:(怨就怨)谁叫你不幸生在中国了?
摄影师:您不是说中国发展得很好吗?
何祚庥:是的。但我们中国的问题只有一步步走,社会发展要有个过程。中国要发展,某些代价是不可避免。
摄影师:但不应该死无辜者,有些是可以避免的……
何祚庥:谁是无辜的?谁是可以避免的?它有一个概率分布。何祚庥也不希望死人,但有时候发展过程中的牺牲是不可免的。你希望没一点牺牲,是很不切实际的想法。
摄影师:那您的意思就是煤矿工人应该死了?
何祚庥:煤矿工人应该是做了贡献的。他们的贡献我们应该正确评价。
摄影师:他们什么贡献?提高了GDP?
何祚庥:一点不错。解决了中国的能源短缺问题。
……
二.何祚庥:“自由主义没有用处…马克思主义找到了通向人本的道路”

《南方人物周刊》:概括您的意思是,您的“科学”,专指马克思主义?
何祚庥:马克思主义不能简单归结为科学发展,重要的是人文理念、以人为本。我何祚庥高讲人文主义,高讲以人为本,反对以大自然为本。他们是什么?他们是狗文工作者、鸡文工作者、牛文工作者……科学发展是通向以人为本之路,马克思主义找到了通向人本的道路。道路会有一定曲折,直线是没有的,这个大家要理解。

《南方人物周刊》:刚才您谈了很多马克思主义,其他思潮不曾对您有过影响和冲击吗?您关注自由主义思潮吗?
何祚庥:关注。我认为自由主义思潮是对社会没什么贡献的思潮。前天李敖还在电视里批评自由主义。说自由主义者只能说话,不能办事,而要紧的是办事。说半天只是发表感想,主张不能实现,有什么用?我基本赞同。我觉得为人在世,要尽可能多做事。

《南方人物周刊》:您认为自由主义这个主义本身有缺陷、缺乏行动力,还是自由主义现在的位置,使他们不能像您说的那样大有作为?
何祚庥:是因为没位置吗?不见得。因为他们不按客观规律办事,他们凭自己想法办事。自由主义的信条是与科学发展观相对立的,他们只知道发表感想,对中国没什么好处。

《南方人物周刊》:您认为他们只是发表感想?
何祚庥:那你说他们的理念是什么?目标是什么?我搞不清,我不知道。但马克思主义有——科学精神加上以人为本。自由主义者追求什么?追求个性解放?人的概念复杂,既看到全人类的利益,也关注到每个人的利益。以人为本,就是要处理好个人和全人类的关系的问题。

《南方人物周刊》:您说您“不知道”,是认为自由主义混乱,表达您的贬抑呢?还是您真的“不知道”?您阅读过哪些有关自由主义的著作?
何祚庥:太多了,我没精力看。但胡适是看过的,罗素也是看过一点的。我总的意思是他们没有统一的理念。有人能告诉我的话,欢迎。

三.何祚庥不做“狭隘的物理学家”:“高度关注物理和马克思主义结合…能写成套三个代表文章”

《南方人物周刊》:您现在还做理论物理研究吗?
何祚庥:做啊,我刚才给你展示的不就是吗?

《南方人物周刊》:那个利用镜子反射提高光电池能力的小发明吗?那个是不是太简单了点?
何祚庥:没有哇。你没看到李政道说那是“理论与实践的完美结合”吗?

《南方人物周刊》:哦。您在理论物理上的贡献是什么?您1980年被选为院士主要是因为您在哪方面的贡献?我在科学院网页上看到您的简历,介绍说您在两弹研究上……
何祚庥:先要说明的是核弹工作是个集体工作,不是任何一个人能包办的。当然参与的人贡献有大有小。何祚庥不是最大的一位,但也是有一定贡献的一位。至于我为什么被评为院士,当然不止因为这个,你要我数名称可以数一堆出来。那时候选院士不像现在,我根本不知道是怎么选上的,突然之间宣布,“何祚庥选上了”,我完全没预料到。

《南方人物周刊》:您应该知道,有些人对您的理论物理水平乃至您的院士资格表示怀疑。您用马克思主义毛泽东思想论证层子的存在,如今国际上也有证明是错误的。
何祚庥 :我不知道。我没看到(这样的评价)。我可以告诉你的是,我在进行理论物理研究时,每年发表文章10篇以上,算是高产的了。至于说贡献有多大,最好自己少说,由历史做结论。

《南方人物周刊》:由历史做结论,的确。但有人也由此揣测您转向所谓科学哲学以及后来反伪科学、对众多社会事务发言,是因为您在自己的专业——理论物理领域成绩不大、无以慰藉。
何祚庥:我做物理研究,高度关注物理和马克思主义相结合。评价何祚庥,有一位半友好人士,山东大学一位谢教授说得好。他说:年轻的时候,何祚庥高度关注马克思主义哲学运用到物理学;晚年,何祚庥又高度注意把物理学理念用到马克思主义哲学上。

《南方人物周刊》:也有人批评您在太多领域发言、全知全能、不误正业……这些当然是一些说法而已。我想问的是,您的价值感建立在哪里?
何祚庥:我在很多领域发言,是因为我是个哲学家。这个您同意吧。哲学家就应该关注各领域。而且我的确年轻时对马克思主义下过工夫,我现在能写很成套“三个代表”的文章,水准不比一般社会科学家差。我为什么不把我这些知识贡献出来,非要做一个狭隘的物理学家呢?
我知道很多人(因为我做的事)骂娘。可是为什么要(分)正业副业呢?关键是要对社会对国家对人民负责。国家人民需要什么我就做什么。

《南方人物周刊》:您给自己的定位是?对于您现在做的事情——比如打假——来说,您是不可替代的吗?
何祚庥:我的定位是推进时代进步。我愿意为中国的崛起贡献一小份力量。
我现在做的事情,从某些方面来讲的确是不可替代的,因为既懂马克思主义又懂当代科学的人实在不多。后辈中有一位……方舟子!对了,我非常欣赏,他办事理念和我一样!

四.何祚庥:“三个代表是对马克思主义的重大发展”

《南方人物周刊》:您早年从清华物理系毕业后,在宣传部门工作过5年。这段经历对您的思路应该有很大影响吧。
何祚庥:我那时还很年轻。此前虽然很早就入党并且一直追随马克思主义,但是(思想)一直很表面。宣传部工作使我有机会更深入地研究马克思主义。有很多搞不懂的问题,随时可以问。当时那里有很多马克思主义理论修养很深的前辈。你说哪还有比宣传部更适合学习马克思主义的地方?

《南方人物周刊》:您应该知道,有人批评您“左”吧?
何祚庥:说我左?我“文革”的时候,我也没都跟了毛(泽东)啊。邓小平复出的时候,胡耀邦来科学院,我可是积极拥护的。

《南方人物周刊》:听说您最近在写一些有关“三个代表”的文章,题目和基本内容是?
何祚庥:对。3万5千字。题目是“以人为本和科学发展的若干个问题的反思”。一听“三个代表”,很多人会怀疑是空话套话,何祚庥不然。何祚庥认为“三个代表”是对马克思主义的重大发展,为什么呢?不是因为它是江泽民说的。是因为,马克思主义传统观点认为社会生产力是社会发展的决定性力量。江泽民多说了句话,“人类社会发展进程就是先进生产力淘汰落后生产力的进程”。这不是马克思主义的进一步发展吗?“先进生产力”这个概念很重要。我们如何发展生产力问题上更清楚了。

《南方人物周刊》:您虽然学自然科学出身,但是您似乎一直和政治离得很近。先是宣传部、后来在科学院党支部、再后来做政协委员。您怎么看知识分子与政治与权势的关系?您参与政治的原则是什么?
何祚庥:政治是全国人民的大事情。什么是政治?政治是经济和文化的集中表现,体现各方面利益关系,冲突的最高级,会影响社会全局。何祚庥年轻时就追随马克思主义,我不赞成知识分子不过问政治,何祚庥在自己的岗位上参与政治。我得清楚,哪些是符合人民利益的,哪些不符合。你是为个人、还是为国家为人民?何祚庥一生坦荡,我从来没有为个人的事情找过领导,没有为房子,工资、院士资格找过领导。我找领导都是为国家人民的事情。范仲淹的话,我改了两个字,叫“同天下之忧而忧,共天下之乐而乐”。

《南方人物周刊》:您曾经有走仕途的愿望和努力吧?
何祚庥 :是的。曾经有一个可能性,但我拒绝了。从我的经历看,是可能的。改革开放后,我做理论物理所副所长,实际上是所长的权力,所长是我的老师,他把一切大权托付给我。何祚庥的话呢,1947年入党,没什么重大错误。领导也找我谈过。但是我考虑到我的个性不适合做官……

《南方人物周刊》:您的个性不适合做官?做官要哪些个性?
何祚庥:当官的嘛,就不能完全按照我自己的想法办,要按照您管的那个范围(的原则)来办。不能讲个性发展。我可能办不了。所以我可能还是做现在的事情对国家对人民的贡献更多一些。

《南方人物周刊》:您不适合做官,但似乎您很少和官方立场发生分歧。
何祚庥:那是因为我关注最广大人民群众的利益。比如胡锦涛上台,我就是觉得他做得不错。我甚至听到(别人)说,胡锦涛在台湾问题上,(比J主席――正式出版时删除)处理得很好。
我也不是凡是政府的我就拥护啊,我不是批评国家环保局吗?关于磁悬浮铁路问题,我还批评铁道部;我也批评教育部,教育经费不到位啊……什么事情好,什么是科学发展以人为本,我当然拥护。

五.何祚庥:“工农群众应当有心平气和地接受别人先富起来的觉悟,然后等待自己被带动富起来?――不认识到这一点,(共同富裕)是做不到的…这就是共产党员要做的工作”

《南方人物周刊》:知识分子与时代的关系,您怎么看?您曾经说,做人的根本是要抓住时代特征。我们时代的根本特征是什么?
何祚庥:讲我的理念啊,共产党领导下的中国走在一条非常正确的道路上。杨振宁回来说过两句话,关于21世纪的。第一句多数人都会承认的,就是科学技术广泛地运用到生产;二呢,就是“中国的崛起”。这后一个事实在21世纪全世界都会承认的。你知道现在中国的经济实力吗?

《南方人物周刊》:啊……按照您的购买力的换算方法,仅次于美国。(见注2)
何祚庥:对喽!过20年要超过美国!这个美国都得承认。

《南方人物周刊》:您是如此乐观啊。可以说现在中国的现实情况,是非常符合您的马克思主义理想的?但比如刚才您和摄影师争论的“关于煤矿工人”的问题,中国目前工农的状况,也符合马克思主义理念吗?
何祚庥:煤矿死人当然要减少,但要完全不死人是做不到的。现在贫富差距拉大,是个问题,但这几年想通了。邓小平说,让一部分人先富起来,让先富起来的人带动后富起来的人,最后是实现共同富裕。“文革”以前的错误经验证明这是富裕的必然道路。马克思说,工人阶级是无产阶级的先锋队,无产阶级只有解放全人类才能解放自己。无产阶级最后解放的才是自己。要先让全人类富起来。不要看人家富起来了,就看不得,你是无产阶级的代表,这是(对)你的要求……

《南方人物周刊》:您的意思是,工农群众应当有心平气和地接受别人先富起来的觉悟,然后等待自己被带动富起来?
何祚庥:差不多这个意思。你不认识到这一点,(共同富裕)是做不到的。

《南方人物周刊》:这个觉悟好像不那么容易普遍达到。
何祚庥:这就是共产党员要做的工作啊。发展是个历史过程,要在发展中解决问题。拉平了是不能解决问题的。

六.何祚庥:“开始我逍遥,到了该和江青斗争的时候,我积极参加...一生没什么问题”

《南方人物周刊》:回忆您的过去,是否有遗憾的、觉得做错的事情?
何祚庥:年轻时候,何祚庥跟着正确主张干过事情,也跟着错误的主张干事情——但是我干的时候也有怀疑,都是很消极的。我的确介入很多事情,但是凡是在共产党有错的时候,我都很不积极推动。比如大炼钢铁的时候,我也响应了,但是我也没做什么。“文化大革命”我是逍遥派,开始我逍遥,到了该和江青斗争的时候,我积极参加。整个来讲,没什么问题。所以我说,我后来是可能当官的。

何祚庥新闻若干:
1.2003年谈磁悬浮列车:又便宜又容易又好

速度快、效益高、能耗省、噪音低、污染少。中国100个主要城市,每个城市平均需要100公里的磁悬浮铁路作为公共交通线路。建造磁悬浮干线铁路能最有效、最快速、最实际地改变交通的落后状况。

2.“三个代表”应成为评价一切科学工作的根本标准

刊登于《昆明理工大学学报》,通过量子力学的建立与发展,奠定了原子能、计算机、光纤通讯、激光技术的理论基础,证明了科学技术是第一生产力的论述的科学性。通过量子力学的发展,论证了“三个代表”的理论是科技创新评价体系的根本性标准。

3.何祚庥批判梁思成

1955 年10月《学习杂志》上发表了何祚庥的《论梁思成对建筑问题的若干错误见解》,近万言。文章开篇指出“他近年来所鼓吹的中国建筑的方向却有着严重的错误。”他认为梁思成片面地强调了建筑的艺术性,颠倒了建筑学中美观和适用、经济的正确关系。重视艺术性强的民用建筑,而非工用建筑,这与当时的建国方针不符。其次,梁思成所提倡的“民族形式”实际上是复古主义的主张,把“民族形式”看成是和现实生活无关、一成不变的范畴,和中国古代的宫殿、庙宇等建筑形式等量齐观起来。他还批判梁思成的建筑理论是直接违反总路线的错误理论,其错误思想源自资产阶级唯心主义。

PS:此文原稿据说还有一段是何祚庥谈16年前那件事的,涉及那事的,各处都不便见光。当然你也不必好奇何院士具体说了什么,如果实在抑制不住好奇心,那翻一翻《人民日报》就清楚了。

40 Thousands Fingers

China Youth Daily article, "salary of foreign companies in China unchanged for 20 years". In the Zhujiang delta (Guangzhou and surrounding areas) alone, more than 30 thousands work related accident happened, and more than 40 thousands of fingers were cut by manufacturing machinery.

Postings I read on TianYa

Link to Original Posting on TianYa

作者:lilyyoki 回复日期:2005-12-9 02:03:08
 
  我觉得卢老师的教育很成功,她的儿子女儿都很好
  
  她让我又想起了我为什么这么喜欢猫
  
  很小很小的时候,我和爷爷奶奶生活在一起,还有一只老猫,在一个不大的老房子里,每天晚上,爷爷就抱着我看黑白电视,我坐在左腿上,老猫坐在右腿上,等我们看完了电视,出现雪花屏的时候,老猫还是坐在电视前,很好奇的看电视,爷爷都会特意多开一会,等我们洗好了睡觉了再关电视,晚上爷爷和奶奶通脚睡,我睡在奶奶一边,老猫在床头盘个窝,也不到被子上来,就像守护着二老一小一样的。有个木畚箕,是晚上专门用来放沙子给老猫上厕所的,后来它被毒死了,就被放到这个畚箕里面,爷爷拿到外面去了,我很恐惧,装作看不到它,不知道放到那里去了,这件事是我有记忆以来记住的第一件事情,但是不需要解释,人类动物的天性让我看到它躺在畚箕里面的第一眼就知道它死了,那个时候甚至我还不认识字,但是我知道它死了。这件事在我的脑海中淡忘了很久,当我初中开始养猫的时候,我开始记忆起来,而且一点比一点深,现在10多年过去了,很多细节已经历历在目,成为我心中除了爷爷奶奶过世以外最痛的事情,只要一想到它在看雪花屏的样子,我就会泣不成声,我痛恨张亮亮,是因为他不但不能理解,人和动物,特别是猫之间的那种心灵感应的快乐,而且是用了完全破坏这种快乐的方式!!!
  张亮亮那些被你折磨死的猫会用他们临死前对人类最大的仇恨来诅咒你!!!
  如果我们一起下地狱!我会请求变成一只最邪恶的猫一点一点的撕裂你的每一存肉体!!

作者:song_girl 回复日期:2005-12-8 14:45:51
 
  张也好,张的父母也好
  说了那么多
  都是在辩解,都是在说网友们不宽容
  可是为什么就是没有一句真诚的忏悔和道歉。
  我相信网友们就是因为他们这种死不悔改,
  总是为自己找理由的态度才寒心,才不肯原谅他们吧。
  
  不由想起了小泉参拜靖国神社……

作者:greenbird2000 回复日期:2005-12-8 15:46:02
 
  这种人渣即使不能用法律制裁他,也决不能让他去国外丢人现眼!
  还有他那个人渣父亲,有什么资格做复旦的校董?

作者:尤三姐 回复日期:2005-12-8 15:49:44
 
  大家仔细听,卢荻女士是含泪哽咽着参加访谈的
    
  节选:这个叫张亮的学生,做了这样的事情不是为了钱,和他所学的专业也毫不相关,完全是一种宣泄,不好说是兽性,兽以其它动物为食是为了生存。他都已经不是兽性的问题了,这种人性的沦丧到边缘的程度要如何解释呢?我们只能说野蛮,或者残忍,或者是怎么样呢?

  从这个学生的情况来看,我觉得震撼的,和我周围年轻的朋友们谈到此事的时候还有另外几点感受。第一,这件事情是发生在复旦,复旦是我国的名校之一,而且复旦是名校中以文科著称的,培养的应当是一个文明的人才。可是在这样的学府里,居然有这样的一个学生,而且持续的时间如此之久,竟能够被容忍下来,这样血淋淋的事实,一直到昨天早上才把他的名字公布出来,这个就让人很困惑,困惑的就是学生管理这方面的工作,学生的思想工作、教育工作究竟做到哪里去了?
  
  第二点,一些女孩子、男孩子,早已经对张亮的行为有所怀疑了(我从网上是这样看的,真相如何还不知道),他们为了自己宿舍里收养的动物不被报复,居然不敢揭示张亮的暴行,其实这个想法就等于很小的孩子才能够有这样的推论,有这样一种自保的方式。实际上从九月到现在,这已经是两个多月了。这种事情存在了两月啊,在那样的情况下,大家群体生活的高校里面都是应该马上应该暴光的,却延迟至今,允许他一再地犯罪,这是另一个让人困惑的。这个困惑的问题归根到底还是和第一点连带的,就是学校的问题,我是这样看,因为我也是高校的一个老师了,我认为学校的思想工作、道德教育是很脆弱的。
  
  卢荻:我有一段往事,是很内疚的,我的孩子在美国已经二十多年了,回来的时候还提到这个往事。文化大革命的初期,我的女儿养了一只小猫,视于当时的形势,我无论如何是要她把那只猫送走,她就向恳求,我坚持说不行。最后她含着眼泪把那只小猫送给了一个同学,那个同学是一个老干部的家庭,最后小猫的命运如何我不知道,这件事情在我孩子的心灵上一直是一件创伤,在我的心理上也一样。回顾过去,我本来是非常爱动物的一个人,但是有时候可能给自己带来某种不利的条件下就忽视掉了另外一条生命的存在,所以会做出一个错误的决定,而这件事情会给自己终生心灵上留下一些斑斑点点。

  卢荻:我这里又要讲一个杂志,南京有一个妇女杂志叫《莫愁》。他们写了一篇采访我的文章,我那时候从美国回来不久,记者一再追问我你为什么要救护这些动物,成立这个组织呢?我给他讲了一个例子,美国别的社会生活我们都不谈,就谈动物,当时是在一个大学城,还没有毕业,我从他们租的一个房子,到另外一个房子是一块草坪,草坪上总有一些小猫小狗晒太阳,我经过它们的时候都很小心,怕惊扰它们,它们就追我了,我说我没惊到它们,它们怎么追过来了呢?我女儿就说我们这里经过的它们的人都会问问它们,打个招呼,或者摸摸它们,确实后来我们摸过它们以后猫就走了。
  
  当时我真的很震撼,因为在中国我已经看惯了,如果你看到一只猫,你想过去和它打一个招呼它都要奔窜,甚至你要碰它一下,它都要面目狰狞和你死搏。在美国的猫和中国的猫有什么不同吗?中国的猫难道天生就是暴力的吗?就这样和人如此对抗吗?我想这个答案我们有一点社会经历的,我们能够看得见我们外面流浪动物如何生活的人都会明白的,就是它们受到的伤害太多了,在它们的心目中,在中国,人几乎成了它的天敌。

作者:鸵鸟般d爱 回复日期:2005-12-8 16:00:21 
  
  我知道,所以我先給復旦校方打了電話,見識到他們惡劣的態度和無恥的推託后,便又給了上海保護協會電話,我和負責此事的人談了很久,並且表達我對復旦的處理方式及某些新聞媒體迫於壓力不敢公開這些行爲的不滿。她說她會努力解決此事給我們一個交代。
  
  然後我再致電給我上海的外國朋友,讓他們給幾個歐洲國家領事館寫信,描述了zll虐貓的事實。我想我們寫未必有用,可能外國人會比較得領事館的重視,由他們開口會好很多。我還讓他們隨便關注上海那邊的消息,爲此我真的是把我的國際考試忘光光了,我的朋友們也很憤慨,他們說會盡他們的能力幫助貓咪,讓我好好準備考試。
  
  30只貓咪,我發誓不會讓你們枉死的!!!
  
  如果zll能夠真正認識到自己的錯誤,我並不會這麽激烈,可是看倒他跟他父母想要開脫的醜陋嘴臉,我就覺得不能同情他,他竟然把虐貓當成一種小事,只供玩樂,發洩的小事!復旦同學不是沒有給過他機會,可是他竟然一犯再犯,將小貓這樣通人性的生靈用這樣殘酷的方法虐殺,我想起來就毛骨悚然。這種人絕對不能姑息!
   
  有人說我們是僨青,無聊多管閒事,我tmd今天就當定這個僨青了!!

Thursday, December 08, 2005

Fudan Scissorhands, Update


Link to the early blog

Little Bunny (right) is one of over 30(verified number, real number could be much higher) cats tortured and killed by cold blood Liangliang Zhang, a.k.a. ,yuhzll(Fudan BBS ID), a.k.a. Fudan Scissorhands(ID he registered after gouging out a kitten's eyeball with a pair of scissors) over a time period of less than 180 days. This is one of three pictures Bunny left to the world.


Now more about the incident and Liangliang Zhang himself has been made available. During an interview with East Morning, his father Baihe Zhang who is a senior officer in the People's Liberation Army, referred to himself as an 'senior intellectual' graduate from Yale University. With a physician's caring of details, he didn't fail to remind the reporter that Liangliang Zhang's grandfather was a senior Communism Party official. No wonder in an earlier encounter, Liangliang Zhang challenged the cat lovers to show him 100 million RMB ($12 million), or walk. He also praised that Liangliang Zhang has been 'brave' in handling the incident. The irony is, according to a posting by Liangliang Zhang himself, his father did not graduate from Yale University, but rather visited Yale one time in his life. When I was reading this, it is becoming clearer how a monster was raised up.

In an interview with University Weekly, a female Fudan student who refers herself as Xinxin (not real name) told the reporter her impression of Liangliang zhang was 'simple', 'fearfully simple'. Although she heard of some of Zhang's bad name such as release confidential information of online surfer obtained by his role as the master of the university BBS system, she could not believe Zhang did this to those innocent lovely kitten. According to Xinxin, Zhang is always polite with people, and even sometimes sky. On the other hand, Zhang is very smart, and active in social activities. Mr. Zhuge Hui, the associate director of the Fudan University Propaganda Department praised Zhang of being a high IQ student leader.


Little Autumn is another cat brutally abused and abandoned by the Fudan Scissiorhands. This is the only picture he left to this world. On October 20th, 2005, the cat lover MazelTov (Fudan BBS ID, her MSN ID is samanthamht1984)who rescued little autumn asked Liangliang Zhang whether she could visit the kitten. Liangliang Zhang replied her message saying little Autumn had been abandoned by his parents without his knowledge. MazelTov posted a blog that day, worried about little Autumn as it was chilly and raining outside. She didn't know little Autumn had already been tortured to death by the Fudan Scissiorhands. Another cat lover Bonypan (MSN ID), post a blog on December 3rd, 2005 vowing to revenge for his cat Jiaojiao who also fell victim of the Fudan Scissiorhands.

In additional to the Chinese online community, some traditional media as well as foreign language media also started to pick up the topic. Concerned readers can checkout from following links:


These two lovely kitten were among the dozens cats brutally tortured to death by the Fudan Scissiorhands. Their lives on this world were too short that they didn't even leave a name. We only know that they died within days, estimated from the interval before Liangliang Zhang "adopted" his next victim from the online chat room. However, they left endless memory to the animal lovers who rescued them on the street and looked for a welcoming cozy home for them. We were told a cat has nine lives to spare, and we can't even imagine what kind of abuses they suffered before their painful deaths in their short lives.

It is 30 Fahrenheit, feeling like 25 in Beijing when I am typing in my office with heater on. My cat is sleeping on my lap as usual. All the poor kitten could have asked is a little warm from the more powerful owners, Liangliang Zhang, and they were treated by cold sharp scissors.


This is yet another cat adopted by the Fudan Scissiorhands. Also she took everything she has with her when she left this world, although she can't take away our memories. And may the guilt of being an ugly human being stay in our hearts.

We also learned that Fudan University not only issued a prompt gag order on any information related to this incident, but they also called the students who revealed this to the outside and threatened them personally. Under the Communism system, Fudan University has jurisdiction over broad issues on campus. Their attitude is effectively an endorsement of what Liangliang Zhang did to the cats, which we angrily protest. However, under this system, the only way to have it corrected is communication with the Fudan University authorities. Readers can find the contact information of the Math Department of Fudan University in my initial report. You are encouraged to contact them for more information. More telephone numbers to call:

Department of Mathematics:
Communism Party Secretary: +86-21-65642340
Chairperson: +86-21-65642342, +86-21-65642344

Fudan University:
Communism Party Committee: +86-21-65642205
President: +86-21-65642240, +86-21-65642644
Propaganda Director: +86-21-65642610
Dean of Graduate School: +86-21-65643306
Provost: +86-21-65642273
Switchboard: +86-21-65642222, +86-21-65643333

The greatness of a nation and its moral progress can be judged by the way its animals are treated, Mahatma Gandhi

Tuesday, December 06, 2005

Drinking Alcohol May Reduce Obesity Risk


A great news indeed. Together with last year's discovery on the Pizza's cancer fighting magic power, now the two main ingredients of my life, pizza and beer, are all justified.

Hiding Behind the BAR

Hiding Behind the BAR
Interesting and Insightful.

Sunday, December 04, 2005

Xizhimen - 1900?


Xizhimen - 1900?
Originally uploaded by jiulong.

This gate (West Gate, a.k.a. Xizhimen) should be no more than 2 miles to where I work, if it still stood. Actually, I should have passed it thousands of times in the past 30 years, alas all after it was torn down. The pictures feels so familiar, though it looks so remote.

I am sending this picture to my Dad..

Saturday, December 03, 2005

Fudan Scissorhands

I read on MITBBS today about a graduate student of Fudan University in Shanghai who tortured dozens of cats to death for fun. According to the information revealed on MITBBS, PetSky and TianYa, Liangliang Zhang is a 3th year graduate student in Master program of Mathematics. His school BBS ID is yuhzll. He is also the Head of the Department of Propaganda, Graduate Students Association at Fudan University.

It was alleged that he adopted dozens of cats from his classmates, animal shelters and pet stores, only to have their eyes removed, and then either discarded or tortured to death. Some of these cats were originally rescued by cat loving students.

Some students of an online pet discussion forum noticed that he had adopted dozens of cats from members of that forum alone within a couple of months. One of the previous cat owner and her friends insisted in visiting his house to see how is the cat doing. They found the cat in a case, but the places used to hold the eyes were bleeding holes. The photo they took at the scene has been archived, but is determined too bloody to be displayed. Confronted by the students, Liangliang Zhang denied it's the same cat that he took from the previous owner. He told them the cat was purchased from a pet store with wound in eyes.

Under mounting pressure from Chinese Internet surfers and especially bloggers, Liangliang Zhang later confessed (voice recorded) that torturing cats had been a way for him to handle pressure, and that he had beaten several cats to death. The pictured cat found with bleeding eyes was stabbed by a pair of long sharp scissors more than 20 times. On the peak of the controversy, Liangliang Zhang registered an ID 'Fudan Scissorhands', which was booed as a contempt to the public outcry. The analogy couldn't be worse: in the 1990 movie, Edward Scissorhands is such as nice person that he won every body's heart, while the Fudan counterpart has little heart of his own.

With more information surfaced, it turned out that Liangliang Zhang had been caught with abusing cats approximately one month ago, but was let go as pet lovers wouldn't want to see his otherwise bright future doomed. He swore that he would never adopt cats from Fudan students, which he would have little chance to, as the online forum members alerted each other not to give him any cats. After that, he turned to local pet stores. Dozens more cats were beaten and stabbed to death. In his most recent posting title 'Last Confession', Liangliagn Zhang threatened that if he were not let go again, he would use all his life time searching for cats on every corner of the street, and torture them to death. At this point, the students were determined to alerte the public. Although Liangliang Zhang will not be punished by any legal measure with no animal cruelty law in existence in China, students wish their voice could be heard by all pet owners and shelter operators so that Liangliang Zhang will not obtain any cat in the future.

Confronted by fellow schoolmates, Liangliang Zhang touted that his father was a trustee of Fudan University. According to document online, there are two Fudan trustees whose names are Enzhao Zhang, and Rongkun Zhang. Because Zhang is one of the most popular family names among Chinese, it's not immediately clear whether either has family tie to Liangliang Zhang. However in a stunning move, Fudan authority abruptly closed an online forum where the incident was firstly reported and issued a gag order on any discussions surrounding this subject.

Liangliang Zhang has been actively seeking opportunities of advanced study in western counties such as the UK, Australia, Singapore, Canada and the US, correlated by his online posting records tracked by the pet caring community. In one post, he claimed he had an interview scheduled with the University of Cambridge at the time of writing.

Telephone numbers of Department of Mathematics of Fudan University
Chair: +86-21-65642344 Associate Chair: +86-21-65642342
Assistant: +86-21-65649916 Operation: +86-21-65642341
Communism Party: +86-21-65642340 Switchboard: +86-21-65642350

Working against the Law



No, 'not working against the law' costs money, and maybe lives.

It was reported that Princeton Professors Edward Felten and Alex Halderman submitted an application for a waiver to by-pass the digital protections of spywares. The Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DCMA) made it impossible or inconvenient to submit any such applications. The significance of this particular application is that the two people had known about the Sony rootkit malware, but didn't alert the society in fear of legal intricates. While they were sitting, thousands of people fell victim of Sony.

What did China do?

China has always been enjoying bad reputations on blocking information exchange over Internet, which was nicknamed 'the Great Firewall'. What exactly did China do to earn this name?

A Vegas based company Verso is contracted by the government monopoly China Telecom to supply techniques to block VoIP applications, including skype. China has long been accused of blocking information exchange on the Internet, however, it's always the western that came with the idea on how. One of my friends in China, work unfortunately works in the area of supplying VoIP to people, has to work on technique to subdue the western technology. Verso sucks.

Also, China has long been accused of being the origins of junk EMails. However, most of those EMails are US originated, taking advantage of unprotected Chinese hosts as relays.

Also recently, South Korea made a big deal on the quality of Kimchi imported from China. It turned out that all Kimchi made in China were produced by Korean factories run by Koreans, and operated by Koreans. In response, China inspected Kimchi made in Korea, and found just as many quality issues. Now many people in China stopped eating Kimchi.

Friday, December 02, 2005

Quotes

"The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, but wiser people so full of doubts." Bertrand Russel

Well I don't recall where did I read this, "I am too old to be capable to indulge myself, while I'm too young to be able to pretend indifference".

"I hate flowers – I paint them because they’re cheaper than models and they don’t move." Georgia O'Keefe

Thursday, December 01, 2005

Slow Netflix service

I have been a happy Netflix customer until very recently. Their turnaround time suddenly more than doubled, and they started to send out many corrupt or even cracked disks. The latter is more likely a growing problem, but the former is very suspicious at look.

Under profound frustration, I did what I used to do, that is Googling about this on the Net. What I found was astonishing, see this link, and specifically, this link. I was not a conspiracy theorist, but I have been so amazed by how many otherwise seemingly 'big' companies playing some 'small' tricks. Netflix is slow.