……他虽走得早他青春不老
灰色的轨迹磨成血路……（Beyond，《抗战二十年》）

15年。

我不知道在家驹之后，还有谁创作出他那样的音乐。也许有，但是我不知道，因为这后现代的媒体已经把那样的音乐与我们隔离开来。

这是一个没有家驹的时代。

在输入题目的时候，“瓮安”已经是一个现有的可选词。但这个词在大陆是敏感词，是要被过滤的。

虽然群众的眼睛是雪亮的。但一部分群众也是不明真相的。还有一部分群众是别有用心的。

不知道到最后会如何定性？风波？恶性事件？暴乱？暴动？达赖集团的阴谋？恐怖主义？新华社那篇充满了诸如“不明真相的群众”和“少数不法分子趁机XX”字样的报道已被光速删除，而地方似乎定性为“特级重大暴力事件”（真实性未确认）。

对于事件的来龙去脉，网上众说纷纭。远在千里之外的人都能说得跟亲眼见到似的。

但瓮安事件不是虎照门。没有专业网友辨别真假。不会有年画老板提供证据。

瓮安事件仍有可能像每年都会发生无数起但是规模小得多的冲击事件那样，在网络上消音，在平媒上则从未发生过这件事。新华社是删除了报道，但圣旨对谁有利谁也说不准。四二六社论之前不也曾经出现过十分融洽的局面？

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更新：原来是我RPWT，新华社那篇报道没有被删除。404是暂时的，不明真相和别有用心是永恒的。

祝贺西班牙队，祝贺卡西利亚斯！

西班牙在本次欧洲杯六场比赛全胜，不包括点球大战的话共进12球，失4球。

一开始的夺冠热门似乎不包括西班牙？

虽然决赛两支球队我都支持，但是不得不说德国队今天的场面真的是差。最惨的是勒夫犯懵，作出了两个莫名其妙的换人决定。逆转祖师爷最终没能逆转，千奇百怪的失误让西班牙人44年之后再次捧杯。

范德萨、布冯、莱曼、里卡多……多位伟大门将之中，一路走到最后的卡西利亚斯或许可以说最强者吧。世界第一门神的位子，似乎已经在四分之一决赛中由布冯交给了他。

好了，又要等两年了。没有中国队的世界杯必定好看。

Reuters, Mon Jun 23, 2008 10:29am BST

By Nick Mulvenney

BEIJING, June 23 (Reuters) - Soccer in China is dead and the lack of a grassroots base is hampering the chances of a quick revival, according to the author of a new book about the world’s favourite sport in its most populous country.

China first victory in their Asian qualifying group for the 2010 World Cup against Australia on Sunday was too little, too late and they now have no chance of appearing at international soccer’s top table until 2014.

Rowan Simons, whose book “Bamboo Goalposts” was published last month, believes that only widespread reform of the whole footballing structure in China can save it.

“It’s dead, in my view, it’s never had a life,” the 41-year-old Briton said in an interview.

“It’s always been about the elite, you can do that with minor sports but not football… unless something is done soon, it’ll be the end of football in China altogether.”

Simons arrived in China in 1987 and has remained for much of the last 21 years, enjoying fame as a football commentator for Beijing TV and running a couple of media companies as well as China Club Football.

At the end of the 1990, he witnessed China’s football boom and was also around when it petered out after China’s sole appearance to date at the World Cup finals in 2002.

“For a couple years it looked like China might become a footballing power but, with hindsight, it’s easy to say why that wasn’t real, because there’s no grassroots, there’s no pyramid,” he said.

“Corruption became an issue… with referees getting large bundles of cash and then being replenished at halftime to make sure the second half went the same,” he added.

Simons thought about how to save the game he loved in the country he now considered his home and decided they needed to go back to an era that was “clean and pure”.

ELITIST SYSTEM

Settling on the 19th century when the game was growing as an amateur sport in Britain, he and his partners came up with China Club Football. Like everything else in China, running an amateur football club would require official permission.

“I don’t think they understood what we were trying to do because it’s an elitist system in China and the Chinese Football Association (CFA) doesn’t have amateur football in its remit,” he said.

“In their thinking this was stupid, ‘Why would you get involved with football for people who will never be any good at it?’ They said ‘you’re mad but go ahead’.”

The club now has 60,000 members with more than 100 teams playing weekly five-a-side competitions.

“It’s a mission, the goal is to have the largest amateur football network in the world.”

Simons points out that in FIFA’s “Big Count” in 2006, China had only 708,754 amateur and youth players from a population of 1.3 billion compared to 738,800 from 41 million in England.

“If China could get to the same level of participation as England, that’s an extra 40 million players,” he said. “It can happen really quickly if there’s political change.”

Simons was hoping August’s Beijing Olympics would be a catalyst for that change and that his book would be part of the conversation that preceded it.

“I wrote it for China, I wrote it for Chinese people and the Chinese government but it doesn’t look now like it will be published in China before the Games,” he said.

The Chinese system is not only bad for the game, Simons feels, but also contravenes FIFA’s rules on government interference in the game.

“Give China a bit of time, five years let’s say, and if they don’t get the government out of football, they should be banned from international competition,” he said.

“How can China still be a member of FIFA when the CFA is a government-controlled body and there are no elections to it at all?”

Simons believes there is a “massive groundswell” of support for reform.

“People feel disenfranchised, they feel angry at the way football is being treated and the way the national team always fails,” he said. “When will China be mature enough to allow people to organise their own football matches?” (Editing by John O’Brien)

官方翻译：

老外建言：中国足球已死 必须推倒重来
2008年 6月 24日 星期二 10:43 BJT

路透北京6月23日电(记者Nick Mulvenney)—英国人罗文(Rowan Simons)上个月出版了一本关于中国足球的新书《足球无疆》(Bamboo Goalposts)。他表示，中国足球已死，而且由于缺乏群众基础，其复苏恐怕也将十分缓慢。

中国足球队周日终于在与澳大利亚的比赛中赢得了2010世界杯外围赛的首场小组胜利，但这场胜利来得太晚了。现在中国队在2014年之前都不会再有机会出现在世界顶级赛场上。

罗文认为，只有全面的体制改革才能拯救中国足球。

“中国足球已经死了，在我看来，它甚至从来就没有活过，”41岁的罗文在接受采访时说。

“中国足球总是围着精英转，小的体育项目可以这样做，但足球不行。如果不马上做出改变，中国足球就全完了”。

罗文1987年来到中国，此後大部分时间都在这里度过。他在北京电视台担任足球评论员，开了两家媒体公司，还创立了北京万国群星足球俱乐部(China Club Football)。

他在1990年代目睹了中国足球的蓬勃发展，也目睹了2002年世界杯昙花一现後，中国足球的逐渐衰落。

“有几年，中国大有成为足球强国的趋势，但是没有。事後看来，我们很容易找到原因，那就是它没有群众基础，也就不可能有金字塔的塔尖，”他说。

“腐败也是问题，裁判赛前大叠大叠地收黑钱，中场休息的时候还要收一次，保证下半场继续那麽吹，”他说。

罗文已经把中国当成了自己的家，他总在思考如何在这里拯救这项他最热爱的运动。在他看来，中国足球需要重新回到“干净纯洁”的时代。

精英系统

就像19世纪足球刚刚做为一项业余运动兴起时那样，罗文和夥伴们创立了业余性质的万国群星俱乐部，并向政府申请批准。

“我认为他们并不知道我们要做什麽，因为中国的体育是精英体制，中国足协根本就不管业余足球的事，”他说。

“他们认为我们的想法很愚蠢，他们说：‘为什麽你们要让这些对足球没有用的人参与进来？’”

现在，俱乐部已经有了六万名会员，每个周末的五人制比赛都有100多个队参加。

“这是我们的使命，目标是建成世界上最大的业余足球网络”。

罗文援引国际足联2006年的资料称，中国拥有13亿人口，但业余和青少年足球运动员只有70.8万人。英国只有4,100万人口，业余和青少年足球运动员却有73.8万人。

“如果中国足球的参与度能达到英格兰的水平，运动员就会比现在多四千万，”他说。“如果现在进行体制改革，这个目标很快就能达到”。

“这本书是我为中国、中国人民和中国政府写的，但是在奥运会前恐怕不会有出版的机会，”他在谈及《足球无疆》时说。

罗文认为，中国的足球体制不仅不好，而且还违反了国际足联关于政府不得干预足球的规定。

“给中国一些时间，比如五年吧，如果他们的政府不退出足球，那就全球禁赛，”他说。“中国足协是一个政府控制的机构，完全没有选举，这样的情况下中国怎麽还能是国际足联的成员？”

罗文表示，他的改革建议赢得了广泛的支持：“人们感到自己没有权利，对足球的处境和国家队失利的方式感到愤怒。中国什麽时候才能足够成熟，让人们自己组织自己的足球比赛？”(完)

翻译：余乐 发稿：王丰

朱介寿说，此次地震受灾面积巨大，烈度在8—10度的地区就有3万多平方公里，受灾人口上千万。值得庆幸的是，尽管环境、建筑、经济严重受损，但相对整个受灾人口而言，因灾死亡、失踪的人毕竟还是极少数。特别是成都的都江堰和彭州，与震中只相距20多公里，可以说绝大多数人都曾与死神擦肩而过，在这种情况下幸存下来，更应该理性面对地震灾害，重建美好家园，而不应该沉湎于悲痛，或者怨天尤人。

出处：成都日报2008年6月26日，地震是毁房罪魁 幸存者应理性看未来，成都传媒集团记者 向朝阳 赵倩

周正龙自始至终都只是一盘下得很大很大的棋局里的一枚棋子。下棋的人是谁呢？

以下报道中属于道听途说的地方很多，相信与否请慎重。

据传周正龙被警方带走 坦白虎照原型为老虎图片
成都商报记者 龙灿
2008年06月25日

昨日，陕西省林业厅一知情人士向本报记者透露，周正龙已于两周前因“私藏违禁物品”被陕西警方带走。为了彻底查清周老虎事件，陕西省公安厅、安康市公安局联合成立了专案组，目前，对虎照和所有涉虎官员的调查已经基本结束，陕西方面正在研究对官员的处理意见。

记者多方证实未果，看来闹腾了大半年的“周老虎”风波，大幕即将落下。

邻居讲述：十多天没看到周正龙在家了

据不愿意透露姓名的知情人介绍，两周前，来自安康市公安局的警察突然带走了周正龙。由于此事严格保密，镇坪县只有很少人知情。

据周正龙的邻居介绍，确实有十多天没看到周正龙在家了。有消息说他“出事”了，是被警察带走的。而周的妻子罗大翠自从丈夫“消失”后，也经常不在家。

知情人介绍，周已经向警方坦白了作假的过程，该虎照的原型，确实只是一张老虎图片。由于严格保密，更多的细节只有专案组的办案人员才知道。一周前，专案组派出两组办案人员，对陕西林业厅所有涉案的官员进行背靠背的调查。

官员透露：重点追查2万元“奖金”来源

据陕西省林业厅的一位官员说，一周前，陕西省公安厅和安康市公安局的办案人员分别找了厅里的领导、部分中干以及参与老虎调查项目的官员进行了询问，并做了详细的笔录。整个调查持续了4天。其中，警方追查的重点是给周正龙从林业厅拿到的20000元奖金的来源。主要是调查谁决定的给周奖励，奖金从何而来，由谁签字等。根据周领“奖”的材料显示，这笔奖金的签发人是当时刚上任不久的动管站站长周灵国，为了确定这笔“奖金”的来龙去脉，办案民警对周灵国进行了两次询问，其中一次询问从下午6点一直持续到晚上9时。所有被调查的官员还在询问笔录上签字，按了手印。这个知情人告诉记者，当时的新闻发布会后，厅领导研究决定给予周正龙20000现金奖励，周灵国没有参与老虎调查，只是按照厅领导的意见给钱。

昨日下午，记者拨通周灵国的手机时，他称自己正在陕北出差，什么都不知道。

记者调查：“挺虎派”官员集体闭口

昨日，记者与陕西林业厅副厅长朱巨龙取得了联系，一直高调挺虎的朱巨龙称自己不知情。林业厅信息中心主任关克则说，不接受采访。

而镇坪县林业局局长覃大鹏称，省上的调查组在独立调查，他也在等待消息。镇坪县长吴平一听说是周正龙的事，立即挂了电话。

曾参加陕西省林业厅虎照新闻发布会的镇坪县副县长杨高称，他不知道最新的结果。但省上在统一安排发布调查结果。当问及是否追究相关官员的责任时，杨高说，这是省上统一的安排。

还是有点不敢相信。

虽然对希丁克不抱好感，但是不得不承认俄罗斯踢得的确是好。

葡萄牙、克罗地亚、荷兰，三个小组第一都挂了。祝西班牙明天对阵意大利时走好运。

德国能不能赢土耳其，现在看来也还是未知数。但俄罗斯要赢西班牙或者意大利，照今天的表现看估计不成问题。

假如最后真的是土耳其和俄罗斯会师决赛，估计很多人会疯掉的。

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1. 日本之窗 (日本を知る), 板坂元著, 関正昭編 [株式会社スリーエー　ネットワック　3A Corporation], 大新書局印行, 1993, 201 pages

This is a very comprehensive book about a common Japanese family’s daily life, activities in 12 months, different aspects in Japanese society that a commoner would encounter, and little boxes of general knowledge about Japan. It is fully in Japanese, without any other language, and is originally intended to serve as a reading practice textbook for foreign students in Japan, but it is not dry or boring. Quite the opposite, it is really a fun read.

2. Principles of Economics (An Asian Edition), N. Gregory Mankiw, Euston Quah and Peter Wilson, Cengage Learning Asia, 2008, 862 pages

Although I studied Principles of Economics as one of the compulsory modules in college, the content was too brief and the lecturers were too monotonous. However, this book, as a college textbook, is the most fun and easy reading economics text I have ever tried to read. It does not only cover the economics knowledge, but also inspires the readers to think about government policies and judge whether to vote for a candidate by examining his economic promises.

Prof Mankiw’s (Harvard) original text has been claimed to be a ‘market-leading textbook’ in the US. Prof Quah (NTU) and Dr Wilson (former professor in NUS) have inserted many Asian materials and made the text more relevant to Asian readers.

I have effortlessly finished one eighth of the whole book within 3 days using spare time, with all the revision questions done. So hopefully I can finish this “course” in one month.

3. Europe: A History, Norman Davies, HarperPerennial, 1998, 1365 pages

I just read the introduction (45 pages). Built upon careful reconsideration of mainstream European history writing, which was previously overwhelming, with a broad scope and a balanced viewpoint, this introduction alone is a magnificent work. I am looking forward to enjoying reading it.

Before I decided to purchase this book, I found a Chinese translation to it (titled as 《欧洲史》). Comparing the texts of the introduction, it was obvious that, although considered as high quality and serious as a 21st century Chinese translation, the sentences in the Chinese version really sounded weird and awkward. The beauty of Davies’ language had completely vanished.

网上“福娃灾难论”被删除
（2008-06-20）

（北京讯）奥运年，中国灾害频频，五个奥运福娃吉祥物也被网民对照成五种厄运。而近日南方爆发水灾，正巧补上一角，意外凑成了网上盛传的“福娃灾难论”。

四川地震发生后，大陆网上就盛传“福娃灾难论”。橘色的福娃代表的是藏羚羊，预示了“3·14”西藏抢烧打砸事件，绿色的福娃代表燕子和风筝，而风筝就代表潍坊，这预示了胶济火车相撞事件，红色的福娃头上代表着奥运火炬，这预示火炬境外传递遭遇风波，黑色的福娃代表的是四川卧龙大熊猫，预示着汶川大震。剩下象征鱼的蓝色福娃没有应验，那时就有人预测，那将是一场水灾。 不料，南方在6月份就真的发生水灾。

按奥运官方的解释：蓝色福娃叫贝贝，蓝色，代表水。形象“鱼”取自中华鲟，头部纹饰是取自新石器时代半坡遗址中出现的鱼纹图案。

据路透社报道，一名网友就在天涯论坛上称，他来自深圳，那里连下了两天的雨，雨没有要停的迹象……现在最后一个“鱼”的诅咒也灵验了，我们该怎么办？

报道说，网络审查单位已经删除这些含迷信成分的言论。