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Can you imagine what the press coverage in the US would be if, in the run up to and during the early parts of a US hosted Olympics there had been three separate , successful terrorist attacks in, say, Utah or California? Would we the press not be going pretty much nuts covering that?

In a statement to the (Party controlled) Xinjiang Daily , he said Chinese security forces must “stick to strategy of seizing the initiative to strike preemptively.” But his statement barely made a dent in China’s news coverage, which remains resolutely focused on China kicking the rest of the world’s butts in the almighty race for Gold.

Jinmen Island bridge to link Taiwan, China

由于美国队搞特殊化，不住奥运村花钱把我们学校租下来（官方说法见http://www.china.com.cn/sport/zhuanti/2008ay/txt/2008-07/15/content_16008048.htm）。因此，我们整个学校80%的地方围着铁网，操场更是封着塑料皮，全校荣升奥运村安保级别，到处有岗，晚上九点后入门查学生证。学校发龟腚操场周边的宿舍不能开窗。校内的小店全关了。周六早我很不适应地要从宿舍走去东门，几经周折都被网拦住了，保安还彬彬有礼地拦我说某几条道不能走了。我要去东门，和跨越封锁线一样难。最后只能绕最大的圈子从西到东。

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"I will promise to not watch ONE second of the China Olympics but only if 50 other people will do the same."

A new piece of information that I have to add at what I have already seen at the other sites, that no one else has covered, is that I recently was sitting in a clients office when their HR person gave us some bad news Anyone born after 1983 can no longer get a Z visa. What struck me about this was that if true this would represent the first real change in policy. After all, working on an F visa was always outside the rules, and even extending a Z visa to rep office employees was a poorly enforced rule… but but restricting Z visas to those older than 25… THAT IS NEW Surely, if true, we are going to see a bunc of China bashing, but where I would like to frame this is that when there were economic downturns in Asia circa 1997 and the US circa 2000, there was almost an immediate visa restriction that came along with it. Leadership looked to save jobs for citizens, and those firms who wanted to import labor had to jump a lot of hurdles to prove that doing so was a last report… .that they could not find someone locally.

while most karaoke evenings might be innocent affairs, the risk of finding yourself in a compromising situation was not worth it. He advised me to make a polite excuse to avoid them.

By contrast it is precisely when you ignore your own culture and principles that you risk losing face or risk your Chinese partners thinking you are so weak you can easily be taken advantage of.

《Python 核心编程》第二版总算要出了，这本是一个振奋人心的消息，毕竟有超过 10 位以上的 Python 爱好者一起合作翻译了这本书，能够翻译完这本长达 1000 页的 Python 巨著，这是非常不容易的。

最早是在 《Core Python Programming》(中文第二版)有奖书评活动 看到这个消息的，里面的链接指向 CPUG 的推广页，打开就能看到清风同学帅气的照片了 :D。不过仔细一看译者却另有其人，封皮上赫然写着“宋吉广”，但这本书可是 CPUG 组织翻译的啊，为什么译者却另有其人了呢？

看一下 China-pub 中此书的序言部分，可以很有意思的看到贡献者列表，但正是这些贡献者们完成了本书超过 90% 以上的翻译任务。

I am deeply saddened by the loss of many lives and many more who have been injured in the catastrophic earthquake that struck Sichuan province of China.  I would like to extend my deep sympathy and heartfelt condolences to those families who have been directly affected by the strong earthquake on 12 May 2008.  I offer my prayers for those who have lost their lives and those injured in the quake.    The Dalai Lama

They have money for prostitutes and second wives but they don't have money for our children. This is not a natural disaster - this is done by humans.

政府对民众的情感不再置若罔闻，它与人民同舟共济，这是因为它认识到，从来就没有什么空洞的“天秩”、“天序”，只有崇德保民，顺应民意，这样的社会才是“与天同德”的社会。勿轻言天谴，也别说天佑，我们所生活的时代，是一个“自助者天助”的时代，是一个信息意味着生命的时代。在这个时代，曾有的绝望，要靠希望——还有信息——来加以拯救。

This slideshow was modified from a post provides a guide to how you can donate toward China earthquake relief efforts. The original post was written by Elliott Ng of CN Reviews.(http://cnreviews.com)

Oliver, this is incredible!! Thanks for getting this info out to people in such an easy to browse way. Thanks for all your awareness building about the Sichuan Earthquake to the English speaking world.

Much of the volunteer effort has involved individuals or small groups. China is still wary of large NGOs and has none that is truly independent of the government specialising in disaster relief. But in recent years the party has begun to acknowledge more openly that there may a role for them. Official press coverage of the earthquake, although careful to highlight the party's contributions, has also paid rare tribute to the unofficial volunteers. The government has been encouraging firms to give more generously to worthy causes. From this year it has increased tax incentives for corporate donations to charities. But this applies to only a small number of government-approved organisations. For the sake of earthquake relief the authorities are letting down their guard. But the government gives little encouragement to new NGOs and often treats the small existing ones as potential germs of political opposition. The response to this disaster might ease its fears.