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The Beijing News reports that the man in question, Li Yuejun, received 1000 yuan for recruiting the performer in the video. The woman in the video, a Ms. Wang, worked in hospital in Luobei County in Heilongjiang. The county government said that she was divorced, and a little not right in the head.
Li did not shoot the video, however. Two employees of a Hangzhou Internet company were the producers of the film, and sent one to Heilongjiang to shoot it.
As for punishment, the county government issued a statement saying, "We have fully investigated the details of the cat torturing video, but we can only condemn the producers of the cat torturing video on moral grounds."
So that's probably the end of this sad episode, unless it spurs delegates to take action and pass an anti-cruelty law that would give an outlet for all the outrage.
Included below is a translation of Li's letter. We've used the version printed in TBN; there's another version printed in Huashang Morning Post that has slight differences - additional phrases in some places, deletions in others.
Respected Netizens:
Here I would like to say a thousand apologies to all the people who are concerned about the cat torture affair, to express my heartfelt respect for all those caring netizens who truly love animals, and to express my deepest regret over the horrible deaths of those animals.
I would like to explain three things:
1) This affair indeed had something to do with me;
2) This movie I have indeed sold over the Internet;
3) This movie was not in fact shot by me.
The detailed story goes like this: In summer, 2005, I added a friend to my QQ. In talking for a bit, the contact learned that I work for a TV station, and he became more chatty. He said that he was from Jilin Province, and that he really liked shooting movies. He then asked me about my invome, and said that there was a kind of movie that made big money. I asked him what it was about. He said that the film had no sex whatsoever, it wasn't illegal, but the actors were hard to find.
Through his explanation, I found the type of film was called beauties crushing animals. I said I couldn't do it. He said, there's nothing for you to be afraid of. First, it's not illegal, second, you don't need to put in any money, and third, you don't need to shoot it. You only need to contact the performers. After it's finished shooting I'll send the film to you, and you can sell it for money. I said I'd give it a try. I asked for his phone number, and he said to use QQ for contact.
After over a month, in July or August, I wanted to tell him that I couldn't find anyone, but he never answered. (Now I realize that after talking to me he would put my name on the blacklist, and every time he wanted to talk to me again he would add me. His QQ name was a long string of English letters, different each time.)
After a while, I met the performer in this movie. Seeing her I suddenly remembered that event. In talking to her a few times, she was not too enthusiastic. She was most worried about having her image revealed on the Internet. I told her what that person had said, and said that the people who watched these films were psychologically abnormal, and wouldn't let anyone know. After a few days, that person added me and asked how things were coming. I asked him what was up, why he kept adding me. He said that you can't be too careful.
I said that the performer had pretty much agreed.
He set the time at midday on a Saturday in September, to meet in front of the bus station. He told me that he was called Changlong. When I saw him he was driving a small grey car with Heilongjiang plates. He was average height, around 30 years old. When I got in the car I saw a cardboard box with animals and a camera. Then we got the performer and went to the shooting location.
After October, he sent me the film and wired the money, and asked me to continue to help him scout performers. He planned a long partnership. Afterwards I spoke to him once.
...
According to what the man called Changlong said, he was not with crushworld. The editing of the two films together was probably done by another seller; the original details were just these. I could also add that the first person to post the pictures openly on the Internet was not some good-hearted crusader. Every person selling these films will often run into a few people calling themselves college students, who say that they have no financial support, and ask if they could have a film sent over. Usually send one or two clips for them to look at, but these people are insatiable. Probably some seller didn't grant their request, and they were shamed into anger, and posted the pictures online publicly.
After this affair, I have undertaken a deep self-reflection, how I debased myself for a little flyspeck of profit. I have hurt far too many people, and have stained what is lofty and holy. I am willing to accept anything the organization or work unit choose to do. I am willing to accept the righteous condemnation of the good-hearted citizens.
Li Yuejun
2006.3.4
听说内地的同行接到通知，在一些题材的报道上，需要用从正面的方式，当中包括了医疗，教育等等，虽然自己在所谓的境外媒体工作，由于在内地也算看得到的频道，所以肯定也会有影响。还好，当初制定华闻大直播两会每天的主题的时候，把这些东西放在了前面，刚刚在今天谈完医疗问题，想想还算是运气不错。
请来的学者，对于印度的医疗体系有很长时间的研究，对于她讲的一点印象深刻，四九年之后，中国采取的全民医疗保障服务，使得中国人的人均寿命，从四九年的三十五岁，上升到七八年的，啊呀，不记得了，好像是五十多岁。而印度，在这段时间，推行的是高精尖的医疗服务，比如从国外进口高级设备，昂贵的药品，于是印度人的平均寿命远远低于中国。
看到中国取得的惊人的成就，印度在七十年代痛定思痛，全盘改革，向中国取经，于是形成了现在的全民医保的局面，他们采取了降低成本的方式，自己生产价廉物美的医疗器械，以及价格低廉的药品，而现在，这些器械和药品已经出口国外，成为发展中国家的主力使用产品。虽然印度目前在农村的免费医疗水平和城市比较要低，但是印度的医疗服务现在的特点是分类细致，分成不同的价格，不同的服务，甚至把旅游医疗形成向外国人开放的产业。总的一句话，印度向中国学习，但超过了中国。而现在，中国走的是当年印度高精尖医疗服务的路子。
卫生部感叹，真得很难管，学者也理解卫生部的难处，比如价格是由法改委控制，即使是医院，卫生部也只是管下属的，其他地方的则由地方卫生局负责。这个时候，谁来承担这个管理的责任，其实就是政府本身，学者认为，政府应该成立一个综合各部门权力的统筹机构，来统筹医疗卫生的问题。
说到平价医院，学者认为是个不错的尝试，但是不要忘记，公立医院都应该是平价的，政府必须投入。这点我非常的赞同，好像香港，纳税人付了钱，当然要享受到应有的权利和服务，政府的公立医院，目前承担的就是这样的角色，比如每次几十元，就可以看一次病，包括所有的药品和检查，当然如果要更好一点的服务，大家就可以付多一些钱，比如享受一下公立医院的单人病房，而且对于公立医院的使用，除了急诊室对外开放之外，但是专科门诊，则需要私家诊所的转介，确保不造成滥用的情况。但是公立医院的专科门诊，往往需要轮候很长的时间，于是有能力的病人，或者已经有医疗保险的人，则会选择要昂贵很多的私家医院。
小时候在上海，看病记得有学校的医务室，稍微严重一点，就到地段医院，除非很大的毛病，才会到大医院去看。还有那个时候的药，非常的便宜，而现在，到了医院，都是包装精良的药品，其实很多时候，三天的药剂量对一个病人来说，就可以了。
全民医保，其实我的理解，就是政府要提供最基本的医疗服务，而这样的医疗服务，可能有些承担能力强的人会觉得有点不满意，这样，这些人就可以选择到服务更好的私立医院去。政府加大对公立医院的投入，提升公立医院医生的收入，使得公立医院的医生不需要依靠开药，或者收取红包来提高收入，因为公立医院的医生也是公务员的一分子，如果这样做，就是收贿，就是犯罪。
今天北京刮起了风，同事告诉我，要有沙尘暴了。想象来了北京这麽多次，呆了两年多，倒是从来没有经历过沙尘暴。明天早上，不知道是怎样的天气。怎麽觉得天气也和这里的气氛有点点相同，刚刚觉得阳光明媚，好像春天已经到来，却又突然吹出一阵冷风。
Che Dong posted a photo:
MaxMind的GeoIP非常流行的地理信息Web应用包。原先提供的免费版只提供了一个IP=>国家的，但是对于网站的统计来说：精确到城市级别的才有比较好的分析价值。最近MaxMind提供了一个IP=>城市的简化版本。可以用于AWStats的分析统计。
安装流程如下：先安装一下GeoIP的C API和Perl API
www.maxmind.com/download/geoip/api/c/
www.maxmind.com/download/geoip/api/perl/
wget www.maxmind.com/download/geoip/api/c/GeoIP-1.3.14.tar.gz
tar zxf GeoIP-1.3.14.tar.gz
cd GeoIP-1.3.14
./configure
make
sudo make install
wget www.maxmind.com/download/geoip/api/perl/Geo-IP-1.27.tar.gz
tar zxf Geo-IP-1.27.tar.gz
cd Geo-IP-1.27
perl Makefile.PL
make
sudo make install
下载MaxMind's GeoLiteCity database
www.maxmind.com/app/geolitecity
www.maxmind.com/download/geoip/database/GeoLiteCity.dat.gz
gzip -d GeoLiteCity.dat.gz
大约25M
复制GeoLiteCity.dat到/usr/local/share/GeoIP/下，然后修改awstats.yoursitenam.conf中的
LoadPlugin="geoip_city_maxmind GEOIP_STANDARD /usr/local/share/GeoIP/GeoLiteCity.dat"
效果如图：Peking/Beijing居然是2个不同的记录。看来60%的准确度的确不是很高，商业版的(每月90$)准确度为75%。
消息来源：
www.antezeta.com/awstats.html#geoiploc
This week, FeedBurner's cofounder and CTO, Eric Lunt, was invited to present at O'Reilly's Emerging Technology conference in San Diego. In addition to a "Feed the Future" presentation, Eric also participated in Marc Hedlund's The Data Dump: Fun with Charts and Graphs session where we were asked to develop a visualization that illustrates a larger theme about the Internet. In our case, we wanted to present the industrywide growth of feeds over the past two years.
As you know, FeedBurner currently manages more than 227,000 text, audio and video feeds for 145,000 publishers with nearly 1,000 new feeds being created every day. In the spirit of the soon-to-be Spring season and to illustrate the rate of this growth, we developed Feedstorm, a visual and audible rainstorm of feed growth. This 90-second visualization is available for your viewing pleasure in both fixed and scalable formats (Flash 8 player required).
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