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		<title>The Stages of Grief</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 10 Mar 2010 13:35:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Joe</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[First hear from House, then found a page here, says that there&#8217;re 5 stages of grief, they&#8217;re:
1. Denial and Isolation.
2. Anger.
3. Bargaining.
4. Depression.
5. Acceptance.
now i&#8217;m thinking, if there&#8217;s possible that someone can skip from stage 1 to the final, or there&#8217;s no stage 1 at all, straight to the stage 5&#8230;
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>First hear from House, then found a page <a href="http://www.memorialhospital.org/library/general/stress-THE-3.html">here</a>, says that there&#8217;re 5 stages of grief, they&#8217;re:</p>
<blockquote><p>1. Denial and Isolation.<br />
2. Anger.<br />
3. Bargaining.<br />
4. Depression.<br />
5. Acceptance.</p></blockquote>
<p>now i&#8217;m thinking, if there&#8217;s possible that someone can skip from stage 1 to the final, or there&#8217;s no stage 1 at all, straight to the stage 5&#8230;</p>
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		<title>Here I Am Again</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 10 Jan 2009 13:13:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Joe</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Don&#8217;t have much to say about life, i don&#8217;t know since when, but it actually nothing particular shows up for a long time, everyday is just as normal as the still water.
Last time i wanna write is the very last day of 2008, you know, to sum up what had happened or what i&#8217;ve done, [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Don&#8217;t have much to say about life, i don&#8217;t know since when, but it actually nothing particular shows up for a long time, everyday is just as normal as the still water.</p>
<p>Last time i wanna write is the very last day of 2008, you know, to sum up what had happened or what i&#8217;ve done, what i&#8217;ve accomplished in 2008, but i didn&#8217;t write that post. 2008 means a lot to me: i graduated from college; the very first job in my life; those sleepless nights worried about where to go, what to do, i can still remember those songs i listened during the three months of job searching, and i still have feelings while listening to these songs, feeling of sad, feeling of hopeless.</p>
<p>Shouldn&#8217;t these all be remembered? Coz, as the process of a man&#8217;s  life, what he thought, how he acted would have profound effect on his future, and they also serves as the evidence of a man&#8217;s growing: Nothing unless we do something.</p>
<p>Don&#8217;t know how our company&#8217;s plan for lunar new year, probably i would have only three days holiday, a day for returning home, a day for coming back, only one day staying at home. And this would be a The First too, the first time in my life only have three days holiday for lunar new year. Because of this, some promises would sold down the river, like student reunion, party, relative visiting, and i remember i have a big box filled with books, the day i left school, i mailed it to one of my friends in my county, and still have no chance to get it back for almost 6 months.</p>
<p>Sorry then, see what i can do.</p>
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		<title>Writing Your Memoirs: Enriching Your Storytelling</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 14 Dec 2008 09:40:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Joe</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The first draft is the foundation of your story. Now it can be developed into a rich, colorful tale.
My writing is all over the place&#8230;
One idea for improving your writing skills is to read your favorite authors with a critical eye. Think about what makes their stories so good. You&#8217;re not seeking to imitate. Just [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>The first draft is the foundation of your story. Now it can be developed into a rich, colorful tale.</p>
<p><strong>My writing is all over the place&#8230;</strong></p>
<p>One idea for improving your writing skills is to read your favorite authors with a critical eye. Think about what makes their stories so good. You&#8217;re not seeking to imitate. Just perhaps incorporate their style into your writing when it&#8217;s appropriate.</p>
<p>The mantra of many writing teachers is: show, don&#8217;t tell. An example of telling: &#8216;the girl was sad.&#8217; vs. an example of showing: &#8216;tears trickled through the dirt on the girl&#8217;s sunburned face.&#8217; Showing is more descriptive and there&#8217;s no doubt the girl is sad. The emotions seem more real and compelling.</p>
<p>It&#8217;s best to use common words. No one wants to frequently stop reading to look up words.</p>
<p>Your story should have a focus. Pick an event, or idea, and stick with it. Then focus on different aspects of your story. Think of how you would photograph the event, say for example at a wedding. You may take a picture of the church, of guests arriving. A picture showing the inside of the church, of the bride walking down the aisle and the happy couple exiting the church. A room full of guests at the reception. Then zoom in on the flower girl so she&#8217;s alone in your lens looking like a princess in her beautiful sparkling dress. Zoom in again on the groom&#8217;s father talking about his son as an awkward adolescence. You get the picture. <img src='http://joseph.org.ru/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_smile.gif' alt=':-)' class='wp-smiley' /> </p>
<p>Going off on an unrelated tangent, no matter how interesting, will confuse the reader and weaken your story. Leave out unnecessary facts. Don&#8217;t ramble or include irrelevant information. Or separate them into another Story.</p>
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<p><strong>How much description is too much?</strong></p>
<p>Be descriptive but don&#8217;t get carried away. When a description goes on and on, a reader loses interest in the story, maybe forgets what the story is about. Use plenty of invigorating action words (run, jump, swing). Combine a few short sentences into one sentence to make it read smoother.</p>
<p>Many writers (and publishers!) feel stories and/or paragraphs must start with a smart, different angle, what they &#8216;call a hook&#8217;. Or they want to &#8216;create a mood&#8217; for the story. This often results in long, convoluted sentences that are distracting. One doesn&#8217;t need tricks to grab the reader. Your story will be compelling in its own right.</p>
<p><strong>What about conversations? </strong></p>
<p>Adding dialogue to your Story is a great way to spice up the user&#8217;s reading experience. Rather than saying, &#8217;she scolded me&#8217;, it may be more interesting to know what juicy words were used in that scolding. It&#8217;s especially appealing to hear colorful dialogue. If a comic is being talked about, it&#8217;s more pleasurable to hear his or her own words.</p>
<p>Writing dialogue in the accent of the speaker can be tricky. The result can be difficult to understand. If you comment on the way a word is pronounced, besides giving an example of how that person pronounced it, describe the way it&#8217;s pronounced in your area. If you say a visiting uncle pronounced &#8217;siren&#8217; to rhyme with &#8216;Irene&#8217;, readers who pronounce it this way won&#8217;t know why you noted it.</p>
<p>Metaphors and clichés can enrich a story, or, cause it to be muddy. Used in the right place, and not overused, they can be gold.</p>
<p><strong>Injecting YOU into the Story&#8230;</strong></p>
<p>When telling your Story, don&#8217;t forget to include yourself. How did you react to the situation? What did you wear? How did you feel about it? How did it affect you? Write your Story with both your heart and your head. Talk about what touched you and how it did that. Your readers will appreciate a heartfelt story.</p>
<p>Include all emotions the event were evoked. Holidays, a birth, weddings, all big events are usually preceded by days and days of anticipation. The actual day is filled with delight, joy and excitement or even tense or resentful moments. The following days may be cloaked in contentment, or bitterness. Tell it all.</p>
<p><strong>Telling the Good, the Bad, and the Ugly. Guidelines please!</strong></p>
<p>Some things may be unpleasant to write about. It may be hurtful to write about your parents negatively even though your childhood years were unhappy. Keep to the facts and try not to show judgment. Illustrate understanding, that you didn&#8217;t come with an owners? manual and your parents had done the best they could at the time, if you feel that was the case.</p>
<p>Examine a Story from all angles, especially an unpleasant situation. Be an objective, independent observer, or put yourself in the other person&#8217;s shoes and write how you would see it from that perspective.</p>
<p><strong>Writing etiquette for the web readers&#8230;</strong></p>
<p>Excessive use of capitals, exclamation points and bolded fonts can put off a reader. Let your words provide the emphasis.</p>
<p>Talk to other people who were at the event. Include their memories/feelings, while attributing quotes to the appropriate person. When writing about your philosophy, discuss it with others, especially those with opposing views. It will enhance what you write and it&#8217;s a good way to get ideas.</p>
<p>Look through old newspapers to find out what happened in the world on the day you&#8217;re writing about. Remember, the events of that day will most likely appear in the newspaper one or two days later. If it&#8217;s a very old newspaper, it may have been published weekly or monthly. If you remember these events yourself, write your memories of that day. Not just &#8216;where were you when&#8217;, but, &#8216;this was my involvement?&#8217; or, &#8216;this is how I was affected&#8217;. Even events that occurred prior to your birth may have affected you. Parents who lived during the Great Depression era will have influenced how your family related to money and material possessions, for example.</p>
<p>From Story to Story it&#8217;s okay to change your style of writing. Within each individual Story it&#8217;s a good idea keep to the same style. Unity allows a story to read easier. But this is not a hard and fast rule. Some days you may be angry or some days sad, let the style of your writing be you and who you are today, even if that person is not the same person as tomorrow.</p>
<p><strong>My Story is not &#8216;new&#8217;&#8230;</strong></p>
<p>It doesn&#8217;t matter if you write something that&#8217;s been written about a thousand times. This is your Story.</p>
<p>Is something too trivial to include? It depends how it&#8217;s written. You can write about your trip to the grocery store if it&#8217;s colorful: &#8216;the pears stood at attention in their green skins, holding their breaths in anticipation of whether I&#8217;d pick one of them to take home.&#8217;</p>
<p>Be careful, though, as too much information clutters stories: &#8216;I laughed so hard, I asked him to bring me a tissue.&#8217; He gave me one and I said, &#8216;thank you.&#8217; He replied, &#8216;you&#8217;re welcome&#8217;. The tissue may be a key element to your story but the &#8216;thank you&#8217; and &#8216;welcome&#8217; are not.</p>
<p><strong>Enjoying the process as well as the end result&#8230;</strong></p>
<p>Have fun with your story. Try to write a poem about an experience. Use it in your Story regardless of how it turns out. Include lyrics of a song that describes your feelings. Include videos, music, or photos to enhance and enrich the Story.</p>
<p>Let readers make conclusions on their own. Rather than saying for example, &#8216;Aunt Alice is crabby and rude and dresses like a clown,&#8217; you can write what Aunt Alice says that is crabby and rude. Describe her clothes. Readers will see it for themselves and Aunt Alice won&#8217;t see that you called her angry and rude &#8216; and become angry.</p>
<p><strong>Citing my &#8217;sources&#8217;&#8230;</strong></p>
<p>Note where all information came from and how you came about getting it. Attribute antidotes to the person you heard it from.</p>
<p>Don&#8217;t try too hard to be funny. Let it come naturally, or leave it out. Even if you truly have a gift for humor, don&#8217;t overdo it. It can distract from your story. Also, readers don&#8217;t always find an author as funny as they find themselves.</p>
<p>Let your writing be an enjoyment.</p>
<p><a href="http://knol.google.com/k/kristen-kuhns/writing-your-memoirs-enriching-your/2okxrv9yzgj7x/6#">via </a></p>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 13 Dec 2008 09:37:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Joe</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[2008 is coming to an end, and that reminds me a lot of things which happened at the same time last year: worry about passing the test; the graduation; find a god damn job, no doubt under a lot of pressure. But things happen a year later, i mean now, nothing has changed, sulky days [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>2008 is coming to an end, and that reminds me a lot of things which happened at the same time last year: worry about passing the test; the graduation; find a god damn job, no doubt under a lot of pressure. But things happen a year later, i mean now, nothing has changed, sulky days still&#8230;</p>
<p>Just talkd to a <a href="http://mooovie.poco.cn/">friend</a>, she said she&#8217;s on her biz trip to Vietnam and will back on Christmas eve, and i said finally, getting out of this evil country, fucking harmonious society, fucking fake relationships between people, fuck! On the other hand, that would be a good opportunity for self-development, though Vietnam is not a developed country, but at least she&#8217;s out, and me? Never been out of GD, not even a chance. And then i told her how envy i am and how sorry about myself of being at the company which i&#8217;m start to feel sick of it, she told me: maybe you&#8217;re just thinking too much.</p>
<p>That&#8217;s just like a strike to my head and i said, that&#8217;s the point, that&#8217;s what i&#8217;m doing! That would be the key point to eliminate my growing resentment to my job! And that&#8217;s what i&#8217;m gonna do, to get myself busy and don&#8217;t get disturbed by someone else. Sometimes i think of myself: a dreamer without dreams, what&#8217;s this all about?</p>
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		<title>Memories Which Belong to Those Post-80s</title>
		<link>http://joseph.org.ru/2008/11/memories-which-belong-to-those-post-80s.html</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 27 Nov 2008 14:20:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Joe</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This clip represents those post-80s who were born in cities, which supposed to be a great generation, but they&#8217;re too small to live in the environment of reconstruction of the society, therefore, they have the similar experience and memories, and that makes the post-80s a symbol of social development. Thank our parents and those predecessors who [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>This clip represents those post-80s who were born in cities, which supposed to be a great generation, but they&#8217;re too small to live in the environment of reconstruction of the society, therefore, they have the similar experience and memories, and that makes the post-80s a symbol of social development. Thank our parents and those predecessors who help to raise us up, cultivate us and help us.</p>
<p>Happy thanksgiving, happy our lives.</p>
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		<title>8-10 Summaries</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 18 Oct 2008 14:53:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Joe</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[There&#8217;s a draft i wrote few months ago which i had no intention to publish was published. Why? coz when i look back to those words, i have a profound feeling about lives of those days and call up my memories about everything at work. So if i don&#8217;t publish it, maybe i&#8217;ll feeling sorry about [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>There&#8217;s a draft i wrote few months ago which i had no intention to publish was published. Why? coz when i look back to those words, i have a profound feeling about lives of those days and call up my memories about everything at work. So if i don&#8217;t publish it, maybe i&#8217;ll feeling sorry about that years later.</p>
<p><img height="331" width="357" src="http://pic.yupoo.com/decode/5517265d6d75/b5z6ogr3.jpg" align="right" border="0" />Alright, let me summarize both life and work for the past few months. First is life, as arranged, i took part in the PETS4 a month ago, and according to the <a href="http://joseph.org.ru/buzz-ep05.html">previous experience</a>(that&#8217;s the benefit of keeping diaries), result will come out in early Nov., or maybe late Oct., hope i get pass this time:) Talking about English, i started the morning read few weeks ago, the book is called How to <em>Stoping Worrying And Start Living</em> by Dale Carnegie, a book i brought from Dangdang few months ago, along with another book also written by Dale Carnegie: <em>How to Win Friends And Influence People</em>, and it will be my next target to take it down. The way i&#8217;m doing morning read is first download the audio book from the Internet, copy into my mp3 player, following the speaker and read my book in hand. Benefits i learned from this way of praticing, which i&#8217;ve never found out before, is that it can pratice only the listening, reading, but also oral skills. Besides, people like me can learn some worry solving techniques from this book too, i think that&#8217;s what others say: kill two birds with one stone.</p>
<p>Next think i wanna talk is work, obviously time can change anything, and now i can handle some jobs directly by myself, tough though, but as i said, time can change anything, so let&#8217;s see. And i wanna thanks my colleagues, their tolerance and willingness to help makes me feel a lot better. Our team, total 22 of us had a lunch last week, most of us had a great time and had a great fun, including me&#8230; There&#8217;re photos, but there&#8217;re too large to send out by mail to my inbox, maybe i&#8217;d show you some other time.</p>
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		<title>Was iPhoneGirl A Phony?</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 07 Sep 2008 09:50:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Joe</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[(yWeekend)   Was iPhoneGirl A Planned Beauty?  By Ma Jun.  September 4, 2008.
Was this a &#8220;marketing show&#8221; that was staged    by people behind the scene? Or was this a spontaneous incident that occurred    by chance alone?
This newest &#8220;Internet fairy tale&#8221; occurred as    follows:  The photos of [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><font size="2" face="Verdana">(<strong><a href="http://www.yweekend.com/webnews/080904/A02/080904A0201.shtml">yWeekend</a></strong>)   Was iPhoneGirl A Planned Beauty?  By Ma Jun.  September 4, 2008.</font></p>
<blockquote><p><font size="2" face="Verdana">Was this a &#8220;marketing show&#8221; that was staged    by people behind the scene? Or was this a spontaneous incident that occurred    by chance alone?</font></p>
<p><font size="2" face="Verdana">This newest &#8220;Internet fairy tale&#8221; occurred as    follows:  The photos of a Shenzhen female worker with a radiant smile    appeared in the brand new iPhone purchased by a young English man.  He    posted these photos onto the Internet, and it drew the attention of an    uncountable number of netizens.  From overseas to China, from the    Internet to the print media, &#8220;the prettiest iPhone Chinese girl&#8221; became    red-hot in a mere six days!</font></p>
<p><font size="2" face="Verdana">Is this a real event?  Could it be    planned by some company behind the scene?  Some netizens still refuse to    believe it.  The yWeekend reporter pursued the case down many lines of    inquiry.  One Internet promoter claimed that he knows the details of the    case!  Since it is not possible to assess the reliability of this    assertion, the yWeekend reporter will try to present the various angles of    this case.  Yes, that includes all the questions and doubts too.</font></p>
<p><font size="2" face="Verdana">=====</font></p>
<p><font size="2" face="Verdana">A netizen with ID &#8216;markm49uk&#8217; claimed that he    is an Englishman and he bought a brand new 3G edition iPhone.  He found    that there were several photos of a smiling &#8220;pretty girl.&#8221;  He posted    those photos to the website macrumors.com for Apple fans.  This post    aroused the interest of overseas netizens.  Some people believe that the    workers on the production line of the factory took the photos for fun and    forgot to delete them.</font></p></blockquote>
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<font size="2" face="Verdana">The manufacturer of the 3G iPhone is the    Foxconn group from Taiwan with the factory being located in Shenzhen, mainland    China.  So were the photos taken by Foxconn workers who forgot to delete    them and then reached England?  The yWeekend reporter went to the    information office of Foxconn and received a confirmation.</font></p>
<p><font size="2" face="Verdana">These photos are of high-resolution quality    of more than 300k in size.  Some netizens praised the quality of the 3G    edition of iPhone.</font></p>
<p><font size="2" face="Verdana">This post has generated 11 pages of comment    at macrumors.com so far.  One netizen said that this reminded of him of    his childhood.  Some netizens even connected these photos to world peace.</font></p>
<p><font size="2" face="Verdana">This incident rapidly went back into China    where it was discussed enthusiastically at most of the websites.  At some    of the forums, netizens called for a human flesh search for this young girl.     As of September 3, Google has 18,200,000 results for iPhoneGirl; Baidu has    903,000 results where the term is also the ninth hottest search keyword of the    week (behind &#8220;Chinese national soccer team players going to the hotel&#8221;).</font></p>
<p><font size="2" face="Verdana">&#8220;In six days, iPhoneGirl became red-hot    across the Internet.  This affair was propagated through the Internet at    an astonishing speed,&#8221; said an Internet promoter.</font></p>
<p><font size="2" face="Verdana">On September 3, Chinese media claimed that    iPhoneGirl was a hoax and that &#8216;markm49uk&#8217; was the webmaster Arnold Kim of    macrumors.com.  The netizens analyzed that the evidence from the Chinese    media and thought it was fuzzy, unclear and faulty.  Therefore, it is    hard to reach that conclusion.</font></p>
<p><font size="2" face="Verdana">The Chinese media raised one question:    &#8216;markm49uk&#8217; claims to be English, so why is the ISP on the photo the American    company AT&amp;T.</font></p>
<p><font size="2" face="Verdana">This is actually a misunderstanding.     The original photos that &#8216;markm49uk&#8217; posted did not identify the ISP.     The photo that showed AT&amp;T was composed by Southern Metropolis Daily for its    story, according to their reporter Wang Chengbo.  Southern Metropolis    Daily provided an explanation alongside the photo.</font></p>
<p><font size="2" face="Verdana">In the original macrumors.com post, some    foreign netizens raised questions, and &#8216;markmuk49&#8242; make several responses and    clarifications.</font></p>
<p><font size="2" face="Verdana">Based upon the content of the original    photos, if they are forged, then they must necessarily be connected to people    inside China.</font></p>
<p><font size="2" face="Verdana">=====</font></p>
<p><font size="2" face="Verdana">Upon hearing the request from yWeekend    reporter, Foxconn media specialist Mr. Guo said that the company is not doing    media interviews about this affair.</font></p>
<p><font size="2" face="Verdana">More than 30 minutes later after receiving    the interview outline, Mr. Guo agreed to be interviewed.  When the    interview began, Mr. Guo read out the official response from Foxconn about    this affair.</font></p>
<blockquote><p><font size="2" face="Verdana">iPhoneGirl is a worker on the assembly line      of the mobile phone testing division of the company.  An iPhone quality      inspector took photos of her and forgot to delete them.  This worker is      presently still at her original post.  She has requested the company      not disclose her name.  The company respects her decision, and hopes      that the media will protect this girl.</font></p></blockquote>
<p><font size="2" face="Verdana">This response was more or less the same as in    the previous media reports.  Mr. Guo declined to reveal more details    about this female wroker.</font></p>
<p><font size="2" face="Verdana">When the reporter asked whether Foxconn is    conducting a joint investigation with Apple, Mr. Guo said that after the    affair appeared on the Internet, Foxconn contacted Apple and got their    understanding.  He said that this was as far as he could say.</font></p>
<p><font size="2" face="Verdana">Why did an iPhone have photos upon leaving    the factory?</font></p>
<p><font size="2" face="Verdana">Mr. Guo of Foxconn said that the female    worker in the photos was a quality inspector.  At the time, another    inspector must check the photo capability of the iPhone and took some photos    of this girl.  The inspector forgot to delete the photos which ended up    with the end-user.</font></p>
<p><font size="2" face="Verdana">Some questions arise from this explanation:    How does Foxconn inspect the production line?  Do they check samples?     Or do they inspect every item?  After testing the photo capability of the    iPhone, isn&#8217;t there a standard procedure for restoring all the factory    settings?</font></p>
<p><font size="2" face="Verdana">The yWeekend reporter posed these questions    in the interview outline as well as during the telephone interview.  But    Mr. Guo of Foxconn never answered them.</font></p>
<p><font size="2" face="Verdana">Previously the media reported that the    Shenzhen factory of Foxconn can produced 800,000 iPhone&#8217;s each week. Are these    iPhones tested manually by workers for their photo capability?  Mr. Guo    did not answer that either.</font></p>
<p><font size="2" face="Verdana">=====</font></p>
<p><font size="2" face="Verdana">Apple&#8217;s public relations firm East-8    Strategic Consulting gave virtually the same response as Foxconn.</font></p>
<p><font size="2" face="Verdana">Concerning the globally interesting subject    of when &#8220;iPhone will officially enter Cina&#8221; and the media report that &#8220;China    Mobile is holding discussions with Apple about 3G services,&#8221; East-8 used a    very official tone to say that there are no comments.</font></p>
<p><font size="2" face="Verdana">Three or four days ago, a certain portal    published a post titled &lt;Apple and China Mobile are arm-wrestling; the    iPhoneGirl becomes the lethal weapon&gt;: &#8220;Following the global popularity of    iPhoneGirl, the discussions between Apple and China Mobile for iPhone will    accelerate.  Analysts believes that the discussions between Apple and    China Mobile are reaching a critical moment, and the iPhoneGirl could be a    lethal weapon for Apple.&#8221;  The public relations firm of Apple has no    comment on this.</font></p>
<p><font size="2" face="Verdana">What does Apple (China) have to say for    itself?  Sohu.com Technology editor Chen Zhong contacted Ms. Huang who is    responsible for media communications at Apple.  Sohu.com said that Ms.    Huang also declined to comment.  Instead, she asked, &#8220;How do netizens and    the media view this affair?</font></p>
<p><font size="2" face="Verdana">=====</font></p>
<p><font size="2" face="Verdana">How did things happen?  Was the    iPhoneGirl manipulated by the maker?  Was this really an Internet    promotional campaign?</font></p>
<p><font size="2" face="Verdana">The yWeekend reporter started from the first    post and investigated how the photos were propagated.</font></p>
<p><font size="2" face="Verdana">The reporter went to the Apple fan site    macrumors.com where the photos first appeared.  He found the original    post.  He looked up the information on the poster &#8216;markm49uk&#8217; and found    out that he was a newbie who had registered at macrumors.com in March this    year.  Previous to posting the iPhoneGirl photos, we had made a total of    six comments on news about Apple.</font></p>
<p><font size="2" face="Verdana">This post on the iPhoneGirl photos was his    first original post.  On August 20, at 11:43am, &#8216;markm49uk&#8217; posted &lt;iPhone    5G &#8211; already with pictures! (aka &#8220;iPhone Girl&#8221;)&gt;.  He described how we    found the iPhoneGirl photos and posted the three photos of the girl with the    radiant smile.</font></p>
<p><font size="2" face="Verdana">&#8220;There is no evidence to show that he is a    tool and we cannot judge.  But it is suspicious that he was so inactive    and unrevealing before the iPhoneGirl photos.  Based upon these    information, we cannot treat as an ordinary netizen.&#8221;  A netizen analyzed    this way.</font></p>
<p><font size="2" face="Verdana">According to what &#8216;markm49uk&#8217; said, he found    a total of 10 photos in his iPhone, of which 3 belong to the girl.  He    has posted those ten photos on his own photo album page.</font></p>
<p><font size="2" face="Verdana">Concerning the doubts about whether the    photos came from an iPhone, he countered: Just look at the exif information on    the photos and you will find out that they were taken by an iPhone.</font></p>
<p><font size="2" face="Verdana">The reporter used software to look at the    exif information in these photos and confirmed that they were taken by an    iPhone at around 7:20am on July 26, 2008.  The ten photos were taken    during a space of about 20 seconds.  The girl figured in the last three    photos.</font></p>
<p><font size="2" face="Verdana">But the reporter understands that exif    information on photos can be freely edited.  &#8220;It is meaningless to use    exif information to determine whether some photo is real or not.&#8221;  A    netizen wrote this at the famous photography website Xitek.</font></p>
<p><font size="2" face="Verdana">This says that it is unreliable to use the    exif information as suggested by &#8216;markm49uk.&#8217;</font></p>
<p><font size="2" face="Verdana">=====</font></p>
<p><font size="2" face="Verdana">The English-language website iPhoneGirl.net    was said to be established specifically for this girl, and it served an    important role in propagating the information.  This website stated that    &#8220;this blog searches for all the news around the world on the wonderful    iPhoneGirl photos.&#8221;  On August 25, the website published two news items:    one of them was &#8220;this blog has been reported on Chinese news&#8221; and the other    was &#8220;Even Holland knows about the iPhoneGirl blog.&#8221;</font></p>
<p><font size="2" face="Verdana">The iPhoneGirl photos appeared on this    website was August 20, the same day as &#8216;markm49uk&#8217; posted the original photos.     &#8220;That is to say, someone established a website for this girl on the same day.     The two events were practically simultaneous.&#8221;</font></p>
<p><font size="2" face="Verdana">This was enough to raise suspicions: Someone    saw the post on the iPhoneGirl that day, got the idea to set up a website,    registered the domain and obtained a web space all within a single day?     The reporter checked out the website via &#8216;whois&#8217; and learned that the    registrant is someone named Jeff Blakely.  No matter who that is, he may    be deeply connected to the iPhoneGirl incident.</font></p>
<p><font size="2" face="Verdana">The iPhoneGirl.net website also posted some    photos about the Foxconn factory and the assembly lines.  The photos    seemed very standardized as workers dressed in uniforms go about their work    meticulously.  The photos also showed the workers playing basketball and    other things.</font></p>
<p><font size="2" face="Verdana">The photos show that the Foxconn workers were    leaving a decent life.  On this website, the reporter also saw a video    which presented life in a factory dormitory via interviews.  This video    was taken before the Spring Festival.  The workers have decent living    conditions.  The dormitory was not crowded, and the workers sat around    the table eating hot pot.</font></p>
<p><font size="2" face="Verdana">Why would a blog for iPhoneGirl show so many    photos about Foxconn workers?  What is it trying to say?  Was this    website actually established by netizens?</font></p>
<p><font size="2" face="Verdana">These questions inevitably make one want to    link the website with Foxconn.</font></p>
<p><font size="2" face="Verdana">There was another website inside using the    name iPhoneGirl.  According to the webmaster, he is an Apple user and he    wanted to take advantage of the situation.  On September 1, the webmaster    announced in &lt;The media are silly; netizens are deceived; END!&gt; to say that he    is quitting and that there won&#8217;t be anything else more on the iPhoneGirl.</font></p>
<p><font size="2" face="Verdana">=====</font></p>
<p><font size="2" face="Verdana">The yWeekend reporter then investigated the    propagation process, and found out that it only took one day for the    information to reach China from overseas.</font></p>
<p><font size="2" face="Verdana">Though the search engines, the reporter found    out that after &#8216;markm49uk&#8217; made his post, the overseas technology website    gizmodo.com posted it at 1:30pm on August 20 (New York time).  On the    next day (August 21), the Chinese blog &#8220;Moonlight Blogger&#8221; copied this story    from gizmodo along with the three photos of the iPhoneGirl.  This was    less than 24 hours after gizmodo picked the story up.</font></p>
<p><font size="2" face="Verdana">On that day, the Chinese IT website Kuqin.com    posted the blog post of &#8220;Moonlight Blogger.&#8221;</font></p>
<p><font size="2" face="Verdana">On August 22, Hexun, NetEase Technology,    Pacific Computer Net, Paopao and other Chinese websites began to carry the    post.</font></p>
<p><font size="2" face="Verdana">On August 24, SIna.com Technology carried the    post.  Other major portals began to report too.</font></p>
<p><font size="2" face="Verdana">After August 26, Southern Metropolis Daily    (Guangdong province), South China Morning Post (Hong Kong) and other print    media began to report on the story.</font></p>
<p><font size="2" face="Verdana">By this time, the postings at the various    websites and forums have reached a new height.</font></p>
<p><font size="2" face="Verdana">From the end of August to early September,    the major American media joined the coverage.  The Washington Post    reported the story, followed by USA TODAY and others.  According to the    Washington Post, the Associated Press reporter tried to contact the    spokesperson at Foxconn by email but received no response.</font></p>
<p><font size="2" face="Verdana">From the time when iPhoneGirl first appeared    to the heavy media coverage, the battlefield shifted several times.  The    iPhoneGirl was exported and then re-imported.  After becoming very    popular in China, it was then &#8220;re-exported again&#8221; to the traditional foreign    media brands.</font></p>
<p><font size="2" face="Verdana">=====</font></p>
<p><font size="2" face="Verdana">When the story was featured in the Chinese    media, the two reports from Southern Metropolis Daily were especially    influential.</font></p>
<p><font size="2" face="Verdana">The Southern Metropolis Daily reporter Wang    Chengbo who wrote those reports told yWeekend that he went twice to the    Foxconn factory to look for the girl with no success.  He retold what he    went through to find the girl.</font></p>
<p><font size="2" face="Verdana">&#8220;At first, I saw the reports about iPhoneGirl    at Hexun and other Chinese websites.  Based upon the tips offered by    netziens, I went to the Guanlanyuan factory district of Foxconn to find the    girl on the afternoon of August 25.&#8221;</font></p>
<p><font size="2" face="Verdana">The factory district of Foxconn is actually    immense.  Wang Chengbo first went to Level 2 of the building indicated on    the Internet.  A security guard looked at the photo that he had and said    that he has never seen this girl before.  But her uniform looked like the    work clothes for the quality inspection department on Level 5.</font></p>
<p><font size="2" face="Verdana">At Level 2 and Level 5, Wang Chengbo asked    more than 60 workers.  Oddly enough, none of them said that they knew or    met this girl.  Very soon, he was stopped by the security guards.     He did not manage to enter the factory floor on Level 5.</font></p>
<p><font size="2" face="Verdana">On the next day, he took a copy of the    newspaper published that day and went to the Foxconn factory district to look    for the girl again.  This time, Wang Chengbo was even more unlucky than    the day before.  The security guards recognized him and prevented him    from entering the building altogether.</font></p>
<p><font size="2" face="Verdana">The Foxconn media office rejected Wang    Chengbo&#8217;s request to meet with the girl.  The reason was to protect the    girl from media harassment.</font></p>
<p><font size="2" face="Verdana">According to Wang Chengbo, a woman who    claimed to have last name Xu called him on the day when his report appeared in    the newspaper.  She said that she is the cousin of iPhoneGirl.  When    Wang Chengbo called her back, the other party refused to pick up and only    replied by SMS.</font></p>
<p><font size="2" face="Verdana">This Ms. Xu sent a SMS to Wang Chengbo to say    that she is forwarding a message from her cousin who did not want her life to    be disrupted.</font></p>
<p><font size="2" face="Verdana">After all the effort, the Southern Metropolis    Daily did not get to meet the girl.  &#8220;We have some doubts.  But    since we did not meet the girl, we cannot make any conclusions.&#8221;</font></p>
<p><font size="2" face="Verdana">=====</font></p>
<p><font size="2" face="Verdana">So what do the Internet promoters feel about    this affair?</font></p>
<p><font size="2" face="Verdana">Interestingly, the two relatively famous    Internet promoters held different views when interviewed by yWeekend.</font></p>
<p><font size="2" face="Verdana">Internet promoter Chen Mo had promoted famous    Internet celebrities such as Little Celestial Girl and February Girl.     Upon receiving the telephone call from the yWeekend reporter, he did not even    require an explanation of the purpose.  He snickered and said: &#8220;You are    going to ask about the iPhoneGirl, right?&#8221;</font></p>
<p><font size="2" face="Verdana">&#8220;When it first started, it may have been    real.&#8221;  Chen Mo speculated.  There have been occasional reports that    users found photos in their new mobile phones.  But this is the first    time that there were photos of the pretty worker who made the machine.     It is not impossible for this to occur in the natural course of events.     The post made by the Englishman did not contain any obvious flaws.  So in    the absence of evidence, let us assume that it is real.</font></p>
<p><font size="2" face="Verdana">&#8220;But once the affair gets propagated back to    China, the manufacturer definitely took the opportunity to carry out a    successful hype.&#8221;  Chen Mo told the reporter: &#8220;You can go to check the    major websites and forums to see what type of people are stirring things up.&#8221;</font></p>
<p><font size="2" face="Verdana">&#8220;Based upon my observations, it is mainly the    Internet promoters who are writing about this.  I don&#8217;t have to name    names.  We are all in the same circle.  This affair became so hot in    just a few days.  It is hard to believe that there wasn&#8217;t anyone pushing    it in the background.&#8221;</font></p>
<p><font size="2" face="Verdana">The other Internet promoter is Li Er, who    created incidents such as &#8220;exchanging a safety pin for a villa.&#8221;  He told    the reporter directly that he already knows that the whole caper was planned    from start to finish.</font></p>
<p><font size="2" face="Verdana">&#8220;This is clearly a case of Internet    promotion.  You can tell just from the process.  I know who handled    this &#8216;case.&#8217;  It is a team of people.  But I cannot tell you who    they are, because I am acquainted with them.&#8221;</font></p>
<p><font size="2" face="Verdana">Li Er analyized: &#8220;This &#8216;most beautiful    Chinese worker&#8217; is like that &#8216;most beautiful cleaning girl&#8217; that we did    before.  The concept is completely identical.  You bring up a clean    and pure image of a pleasant-looking beautifu lfemale worker.  The only    difference is that this affair was triggered by having a foreigner post photos    to an overseas website.  But this is precisely where it is brilliant.&#8221;</font></p>
<p><font size="2" face="Verdana">&#8220;The planners of this affair thoroughly    understand the Chinese mind &#8212; a lot of Chinese people think that anything    that happens overseas must be real.  On this point, they were very    successful.&#8221;  Li Er said that almost all of the popular &#8220;most beautiful    girls&#8221; on the Internet were promoted by Internet promoters from behind the    scene.</font></p>
<p><font size="2" face="Verdana">These so-called &#8220;most beautiful girls&#8221; are    part of the &#8220;girl series.&#8221;  From Tianxian MM to the girl who swapped a    safety pin for a villa,&#8221; they were all variations of the same &#8220;girl series.&#8221;     The rapidity by which iPhoneGirl became red-hot popular on the Internet showed    that the planning and execution of this campaign was perfect and effective.</font></p>
<p><font size="2" face="Verdana">&#8220;Why do I say that this was a perfect    promotion?  Because it successful used the girl to showcase the product    and the manufacturer.  The whole process looked very natural and    unaffected.:</font></p>
<p><font size="2" face="Verdana">But Li Er said that the affair was not    traceless.</font></p>
<p><font size="2" face="Verdana">For example, there was the news that Foxconn    fired the girl.  Li Er thought that this was another stage in the    promotional campaign.  The purpose was to create another twist in the    story to continue to draw attention.  But it was a bit too obvious.     Actually, the girl had nothing to do with the actual taking of the photos.     It was her co-worker who did it and that should have been the person to be    fired.  Bringing the fate of the girl into the process was done to secure    the continual attention of the netizens.</font></p>
<p><font size="2" face="Verdana">Then Foxconn came out to dispel that rumor    and assured everybody that the girl will not be fired.  Foxconn said that    this was just a &#8220;beautiful mistake.&#8221;  That kind of statement gives clue    to the promotional effort.</font></p>
<p><font size="2" face="Verdana">&#8220;Before I even knew who the Internet    promoters were, I had sensed that the whole matter was not so simple.&#8221;     Li Er said that ordinary people have no way of knowing the truth with such    Internet promotional campaigns unless something goes wrong.  The    operators may disclose the truth some day, but certainly not while iPhoneGirl    is hot.</font></p></blockquote>
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		<description><![CDATA[A month again, and i&#8217;m here to continue my &#8220;journal&#8221;, this time i didn&#8217;t write it at office but at dorm, the reason is simple: I&#8217;m busy while at office. You might curious how&#8217;s that possible, me? busy? A month ago, it is not possible, as i have told you guys all my diary activities at office, and [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>A month again, and i&#8217;m here to continue my &#8220;journal&#8221;, this time i didn&#8217;t write it at office but at dorm, the reason is simple: I&#8217;m busy while at office. You might curious how&#8217;s that possible, me? busy? A month ago, it is not possible, as i have told you guys all my diary activities at office, and most of the time i was just sitting and doing nothing, that&#8217;s why i can wrote my words during working hours. Ever since i was transferred to another team, everything has changed: colleague, job responsibility, daily work routing. For me, this is just another month of training. Though that&#8217;s not easy, but i feel a little bit excited coz i don&#8217;t have to pretend  doing something (actually nothing) and feeling awful.</p>
<p>&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;-above wrote a month ago</p>
<p>22th Aug, two months after transferred, life has not been easy&#8230;</p>
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		<description><![CDATA[IT SEEMS THAT I SHOULD GO TO SLEEP BEFORE 10PM, BECAUSE I JUST FEEL SO TIRED SITTING HERE. PASSIONLESSNESS PROBABLY IS THE MAIN REASON WHY I FEEL TIRED, &#8220;LIVE FREE OR DIE HARD&#8221;, I CHOOSE LIVE FREE IF I CAN. &#8220;I CAN&#8221; MEANS I DON&#8217;T HAVE TO WORRY ABOUT PLACE TO LIVE, FOODS TO EAT [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>IT SEEMS THAT I SHOULD GO TO SLEEP BEFORE 10PM, BECAUSE I JUST FEEL SO TIRED SITTING HERE. PASSIONLESSNESS PROBABLY IS THE MAIN REASON WHY I FEEL TIRED, &#8220;LIVE FREE OR DIE HARD&#8221;, I CHOOSE LIVE FREE IF I CAN. &#8220;I CAN&#8221; MEANS I DON&#8217;T HAVE TO WORRY ABOUT PLACE TO LIVE, FOODS TO EAT AND CLOTHES TO WEAR, THAT&#8217;S THE MOST BASIC ELEMENTS OF A  &#8220;LIFE&#8221;, I WOULD APPRECIATE SOME ADDITIONAL &#8220;BONUSES&#8221; OF COUSE, BOOKS, CUBES, NO WOMEN, IT DOESN&#8217;T MATTER WHERE TO LIVE, EVEN IN A FORREST, I WILL BE AS GOOD AS THE RICHEST PERSON ON THE PLANET, OR EVEN BETTER.</p>
<p>BUT THE FACT IS THAT I WILL NEVER BE A GUY LIKE THAT, NON OF ANYONE WHO LIVES ON THIS PLANET. BECAUSE WE HAVE SO MUCH TO CARE ABOUT, FIRST AND THE MOST IMPORTANT OF COURSE IS YOUR FAMILY, YOUR FATHER, YOUR MOTHER, AND THE SO CALLED &#8220;RESONSIBILITY TO GET MARRY, THEN NEED TO HAVE A CHILD AND RAISE HE/SHE UP&#8221;, WHAT A TRADITIONAL THOUGHT! ANOTHER IS THE SO CALLED &#8220;SOCIATY RESPONSIBILITY&#8221;, AND THAT LIMITES EVERY WORDS YOU SAY, EVERY MOVES YOU MAKE, OTHERS LIKE &#8220;WORK FOR YOUR COUNTRY&#8221;, &#8220;FOR THE COUNTRY&#8217;S FLOURISHING&#8221;, ANYTHING! LIFE SHOULD BE FREE RIGHT?</p>
<p>ANYWAY, I CAN CHANGE NOTHING, IF YOU SAY SOMETHING, THAT SOMETHING MUST BE ME.</p>
<p>SEE, I&#8217;M WRITING ALL THESE CRAPS DURING MY WORKING HOURS AGAIN, I DON&#8217;T WANNA DO THAT HOWEVER, BUT WHATELSE I CAN DO?</p>
<p>FORGIVE ME FOR THE ALL CAPITAL-LETTERS WRITING STYLE, IF YOU FEEL NOT GOOD OF READING ALL THESE STUFF, JUST SKIP THAT.</p>
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		<title>June 11th</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 11 Jun 2008 11:31:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Joe</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m almost forget I&#8217;ve ever owned this blog and always will, seriously, the day since I started my job career, English seems no longer that important to me, though I need to read mails contracts whatever materials that related to my job funtioning, what i&#8217;ve learned is just enough. i have to say, that&#8217;s the [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I&#8217;m almost forget I&#8217;ve ever owned this blog and always will, seriously, the day since I started my job career, English seems no longer that important to me, though I need to read mails contracts whatever materials that related to my job funtioning, what i&#8217;ve learned is just enough. i have to say, that&#8217;s the main reason why i didn&#8217;t write my blog for a month and i don&#8217;t want to pick up my vocabulary book anymore. Suddenly i realized that this is the begining of the end, the end of my growing, the end of my knowlodge, the end of my life.</p>
<p>People just can&#8217;t simply satisfied with the currently condition, for me, I&#8217;m the person who don&#8217;t willing to change, everything, if I have my girl, I bet I won&#8217;t change her easily, and that&#8217;s me. After two months of working (actually is training), I experienced what i believe the hardest time to live with people, so what? I&#8217;m nobody, so there won&#8217;t be some so called &#8220;mercy&#8221;. My defectiveness, my own problem, no one can solve it unless i&#8217;m willing to, and that&#8217;s me too.</p>
<p>I don&#8217;t know why my supervisor leave me in this team, because I got not so many things to do and the relationships with others also not that satisfied, I can get my job done, only if I have something to do. I thought about requesting, requsting to transfer to another team, another so called &#8220;always busy&#8221; team, so that i don&#8217;t have to care about relations something like that, all i have to do is to get my job done and that is it, when it&#8217;s time to off to go, i will leave on time, it&#8217;s better if i have to OT, because i can get the extra money. But all these is just what i&#8217;m thinking, that doesn&#8217;t means i have to implement it. Why not quit after the several days remaining training period if i don&#8217;t get what i want or what i need, and that would be a more moral alternative for me. Life is a struggle, just like the lyrics of this song, no matter what happened, no matter how things change, just be myself.</p>
<p>By the way, i wrote all these during my mid-day break at the company, hoping you can find no mistakes during your reading, because i didn&#8217;t use English for a long time&#8230;</p>
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