2015年12月24日 星期四

Week6-Hungary journalist to sue Syrian refugee she tripped Petra Laszlo says she will sue man who was trying to escape war and terror because he "changed his testimony".

Hungary journalist to sue Syrian refugee she tripped

Petra Laszlo says she will sue man who was trying to escape war and terror because he "changed his testimony".

 | Humanitarian crises, Europe, Syrian crisis
The Hungarian camerawoman who was filmed tripping up a Syrian refugee intends to sue the man she targeted while he was trying to escape war and terror.
Petra Laszlo, who was sacked from her N1TV job after the footage went viral, told a Russian newspaper she would sue Osama Abdul Mohsen, 52, for changing his testimony after initially blaming the police, reports said on Wednesday.She also threatened to sue Facebook.
Speaking to the  Izvestia newspaper, Laszlo said: "We [her and her husband] believe Facebook played a major role in my situation. It helped embitter people against me."
After the incident in September, Laszlo had apologized for her actions which caused global outrage.
In the footage, Mohsen is shown carrying his seven-year-old son, Zaid, who fell heavily after Laszlo tripped them up.
Zaid reportedly suffered a concussion.
In the Russian newspaper interview, the camerawoman claims that following the event, several pages lambasting her were set up online.She has, she added, received death and rape threats as a result.
The story of Mohsen and Zaid caught international attention for a second time, when later in September they moved to a Madrid suburb after a Spanish football academy offered to help rebuild his life.
Who:A Hungarian camerawoman named Petra Laszlo
When:Sep, 2015
What:The camerawoman tripped up a Syrian refugee and she wanted to sue him
Why:Because he changed his testimony after initially blaming the police
Where:After the incident, they moved to a Madrid suburb
How:She tripped the man by foot

Keywords:
1.Hungarian  匈牙利的
2.sue  起訴
3.testimony  見證
4.sacked  解雇
5.footage  連續鏡頭
6.viral  爆紅的
7.embitter  怨恨
8.concussion  腦震盪
9.lambasting  揍
10.rape  強姦
















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2015年12月17日 星期四

Week.5-Curiosity, (Mars Rover), liquid water, (NASA’s discovery), the Martian, (Mark Watney)

Curiosity Rover Finds Evidence of Liquid Water On Mars

Written By Jolene Creighton
Where there is water, there is life. This is a statement that has been reaffirmed over and over again. Whether it is in the acidic waters surrounding volcanoes or in the dark and frozen wastes of the icy Antarctic, wherever we find liquid water, we find life. That’s what makes the most recent find by NASA’s Curiosity rover so amazing—Evidence of liquid water on Mars.
In 2002, we discovered that there was ice on the Red Planet. More recently, we found that Mars has more than just a little ice. It has glaciers. Ultimately, this frozen ice contains enough water to cover the entire planet in a meter of water. But liquid water is an entirely different ball game.
The major question that is now being asked is, how can a planet with an average temperature of -55°C (-67°F) have liquid water?
In work that was recently published in the journal Nature Geoscience, the scientists behind the discovery detail their ideas about the Martian water cycle. The team, led by planetary scientist Javier Martín-Torres, who hails from the Luleå University of Technology in Sweden,  asserts that salt is likely responsible for the pockets of water. Much like life is able to subsist in the near-frozen water of the Antarctic because of salt, the scientists state that salt could be present at such quantities that it alters the freezing point of the water, lowering the temperature at which the water freezes so that, in order to solidify, the water has to get a lot colder than it does on Earth.
Previously, we have detected evidence of salts on Mars, and it is this previous evidence that forms the basis of the team’s conclusion.
Ultimately, it is believed that the water cycle starts when vapor from the thin Martian atmosphere cools and gets absorbed by salt on the surface of the planet. Then, during the evening, when temperatures go well below zero, the salts become so saturated by water vapor that they form “liquid brines in the uppermost 5 cm [2 inches] of the subsurface”. These small liquid pools stick around until the daytime temperatures turn the pools back into vapor. As the day progresses, and things start to cool, the liquid water again appears.
Sadly, Curiosity hasn’t been able to capture any images of liquid water on Mars because, well, the technology hasn’t been invented yet. Yes, of course we do have cameras on Mars (as our many pictures attest); however, the cameras don’t work in the subzero temperatures where the liquid water exists on the Red Planet.
So on to the main event: Do these pools contain life? Well, we don’t know for sure. However, we do know a few things that allow us to make guesstimates. First, since the temperatures are so low, we know that life as we know it cannot exist. Second, since the pools appear to dry during the day, it is unlikely that any life at all could survive. But despite the fact that it is rather unlikely, it is certainly not impossible. And, well, that’s something.
What do you think? Is there life on Mars and, if so, will we find it?




Stucture of the Lead:
Who:NASA
When:2015
What:Find evidence of liquid water on Mars
Why:Because we want to find whether there is life on Mars
Where:Mars
How:It was discovered by Curiosity Rover

Keywords:
1.reaffirmed  重申
2.acidic  酸性
3.Antarctic  南極洲
4.Ultimately  最終
5.hails from  來自
6.subsist  生存
7.alters  造成 
8.saturated  飽和的
9.uppermost  最上面的
10.progresses  進展
  









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2015年12月3日 星期四

Week4-New Horizons, Pluto, Earth 2.0, Kepler 452b

Earth 2.0: NASA finds planet that matches our own

Space agency's Kepler mission finds planet outside solar system that may have volcanoes, oceans and sunshine like Earth.

 | Space, Science & Technology, US & Canada, United States, NASA
Astronomers hunting for another Earth have found the closest match yet, a potentially rocky planet circling its star at the same distance as the Earth orbits the Sun, NASA has said.
Named Kepler 452b, the planet is about 60 percent larger than Earth. It could have active volcanoes, oceans and sunshine like ours, twice as much gravity and a year that lasts 385 days, scientists said on Thursday.
"Today we are announcing the discovery of an exoplanet that, as far we can tell, is a pretty good close cousin to the Earth and our Sun," said John Grunsfeld, associate administrator for NASA's Science Mission Directorate in Washington.
"This is about the closest so far, and I really emphasize the 'so-far,'" he added, describing Kepler 452b as "the closest twin," or "Earth 2.0."
The planet was detected by the US space agency's Kepler Space Telescope, which has been hunting for other worlds like ours since 2009.
This planet sits squarely in the Goldilocks zone - where life could exist because it is neither too hot nor too cold to support liquid water, the US space agency said.
"Today the Earth is a little less lonely," said Jon Jenkins, Kepler data analysis lead scientist at NASA's Ames Research Center in Moffett Field, California.
Kepler 452b's star is 1.5 billion years older, four percent more massive and 10 percent brighter than our sun.
But at a distance of 1,400 light-years away, humankind has little hope of reaching this Earth-twin any time soon.
"You and I probably won't be travelling to any of these planets without some unexpected breakthrough, but you know, our children's' children's children may," said Jeff Coughlin, Kepler research scientist at the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence (SETI) Institute in Mountain View, California.
The Kepler mission launched in 2009 to search for exoplanets, which are planets outside our solar system, particularly those about the size of Earth or smaller.
On Thursday, NASA released the latest catalog of exoplanet candidates, adding more than 500 new possible planets to the 4,175 already found by the space-based telescope.
The new list includes 12 candidates that are less than twice the diameter of Earth and which are orbiting in the habitable zones of their stars.
Of those 12 new candidates, Kepler 452b "is the first to be confirmed as a planet", NASA said.
The Kepler mission has cost NASA about $600m, and the US space agency said in 2013 that two of its orientation wheels had lost function, leaving the space telescope beyond repair.



Stucture of the Lead:
Who:NASA
When:24, July, 2015
What:Find a new planet that is simillar to Earth but far from Earth
Why:Because people want to find another place to live and wonder whether there is any life out of solar system
Where:1,400 light-years away from Earth
How:It was found by the US space agency's Kepler Space Telescope

Keywords:
1.potentially 可能的
2.orbits 軌道
3.exoplanet 系外行星
4.squarely 筆直
5.Goldilocks zone 可居住區
6.massive 大量
7.breakthrough 突破
8.catalog 目錄
9.diameter 直徑











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2015年11月12日 星期四

Week.3-same sex marriage, legal, the US

Love just won 不同又相同的愛

Sat, Jul 04, 2015 - Page 11

Nine US Supreme Court Justices have ruled that the gay marriage ban is unconstitutional and have legalized same-sex marriage across the fifty states of the US. Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) Legislator Yu Mei-nu remarked, “I hope that our grand justices can also base their decisions on the Constitution, not just public opinion polls, and reach a milestone for gender equality in Taiwan in the near future.”
Gay actor Ian McKellen, who played Magneto in the X-men films, rejoiced at the news and without hesitation accepted fellow actor Derek Jacobi’s marriage proposal. McKellen has frequently spoken out for the gay community, but, in fact, did not come out of the closet until he was forty-nine, which he regretted bitterly. He believes that if he had come out much earlier, he would have turned into a completely different person.
Exiled Chinese democracy activist Wang Dan published his opinion on Facebook, saying that it is through prolonged and arduous effort that this step has finally been achieved; the legalization of same-sex marriage in the US shows the world that the US’s insistence on basic values and its capacity to tolerate diversity have not abated. Wang said, such a capacity is the foundation on which the US, or any nation in the world, depends to establish itself as a nation. The US not only realizes gay rights, but also reached a social consensus that says “all men are created equal.” This is a principle so holy that no obsolete customs, religions or political doctrines should be allowed to violate. Lastly, Wang gaily called out to the Bread of Life Christian Church and the Alliance of Religious Groups for the Love of Families Taiwan, “Welcome to the civilized world.”
Lawyer Lu Chiu-yuan said the US is the biggest Christian country in the world, hence the US Supreme Court’s ruling is worth celebrating, but it would be foolish to think that this will help Taiwan take a big step forward in gender equality. “The reason is, we have elected a group of irresponsible legislators,” said Lu. “In the future four to eight years, Taiwan’s gender equality movement will be in the hands of the legislators and grand justices. However, none of the four new grand justices recently ‘elected’ by the legislature are liberals; all of them are conservatives.“
Lu urged those who care about gender equality movements not to just rainbow-ify their Facebook profile pictures, but to remember to elect those who can really represent them in next year’s elections; those elected politicians will then select the best grand justices, who will counteract majority public opinion, which is prone to errors, for the sake of disadvantaged minority groups.
http://www.taipeitimes.com/News/lang/print/2015/07/04/2003622190

Stucture of the Lead:
Who:Nine US Supreme Court Justices
When:June, 2015
What:Legalized same-sex marriage
Why:The gay marriage ban was unconstitutional
Where:the US
How:Gays around the world were very glad about the result.



Keywords:

1.unconstitutional  違憲
2.polls  民意調查
3.rejoiced  歡欣鼓舞
4.prolonged  經久
5.arduous  艱鉅
6.diversity  多樣

7.abated  減輕
8.consensus  共識
9.obsolete 陳舊的
10.conservatives  保守派
11.counteract  抵制
12.prone  易於
13.sake  為了




































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