Week 4

Week 4-Julianne Moore: Oscar winning Still Alice role taught me that Alzheimer's can't kill a person's soul

09:00, 6 March 2015 By Alun Palmer

When her moment of glory arrived it was well overdue.

Nominated four times before – for Boogie Nights, The End Of The Affair, The Hours and Far From Heaven – Julianne Moore finally bagged a Best Actress Oscar last month.

In Still Alice, she plays a highly respected Columbia University linguistics expert who starts to get lost on her regular jogging runs and, ironically, begins to grasp for words.

In a devastating diagnosis, she finds she has early-onset Alzheimer’s disease.

Since the film’s American release she has been touched by viewer’s reactions.

She said: “I got a note from a friend of mine’s wife saying she’d had a family member with Alzheimer’s too, and she suddenly felt close to her and felt like she understood something about the experience.

“For me, after all the research that I did, people have this notion that with Alzheimer’s, somehow the ‘self’ disappears. They’re like, ‘That’s not the person I knew,’ and ‘Somehow the self has gone away, somehow they’re not present anymore’.

“But in all my research and dealings with people, I’ve found the opposite. The people, they were changed, certainly, but their personality somehow remained. That was really, tremendously moving to me.”

Moore, 54, spent four months researching the role, speaking to sufferers and their relatives, immersing herself fully into the disease.

“I started watching everything I could get my hands on,” she said.

“Every film, documentary and interview. The head of the national Alzheimer’s Association talked about her 

experiences and then they set up these Skype calls with three women across the country — all who had been diagnosed with early onset, or what they call ‘younger onset’, which means before the age of 65.

“And the youngest person I spoke to was a woman who was diagnosed at 45, which was astonishing.”

● Still Alice is released today.

Source:http://www.mirror.co.uk/tv/tv-news/julianne-moore-oscar-winning-still-5280850

Structure of the Lead：

WHO-  not given

WHEN-6 March 2015

WHAT-Julianne Moore finally bagged a Best Actress Oscar last month.

WHY- Julianne Moore accepts the Best Actress in a Leading Role Award for "Still Alice"

WHERE- not given

HOW- not given

Keywords：

   1.Alzheimer’s disease 阿茲海默症

   2.linguistics 語言學

   3.documentary 記錄片

   4.onset 發作

Week 3-36 Killed In New Year's Stampede In China

Week 3-36 Killed In New Year's Stampede In China

State media and a witness claim the tragedy happened after "fake money" was thrown from a bar overlooking New Year celebrations.

(18:16, UK,Thursday 01 January 2015)

Thirty-six people have been killed in a stampede at a New Year's event on Shanghai's historic waterfront.

Forty-seven more people were injured, 13 of them seriously, in the chaos, city officials said.

The disaster happened shortly before midnight on Wednesday as people packed the Bund area to usher in 2015.

Angry family members clash with security personnel in a hospital where some of the victims of a stampede by new year's revellers were sent in Shanghai

The official news agency Xinhua said a Taiwanese person was among the dead, and that 25 of those killed were women.

Chinese President Xi Jinping has demanded an immediate investigation.

It was not immediately clear what triggered the stampede, but state media and a witness said the incident was caused when people tried picking up fake money thrown from a building.

A man who brought one of the injured to a local hospital for treatment said fake money had been thrown down from a bar above the street as part of a New Year's celebration.

People rushed to pick up the money, triggering the stampede, said the man, who declined to be identified.

Relatives of a victim hug as they wait at a hospital where injured people of a stampede incident are treated in Shanghai

But Xinhua reported that surveillance footage showed the notes had been thrown after the stampede, at 11.47 pm, citing the Shanghai police official microblog.

Local TV reported authorities were investigating the money-throwing incident, but attributed the cause of the stampede to people slipping and falling in crowded conditions.

In an unusually critical commentary, Xinhua said the tragedy was a "wake-up call that the world's second-largest economy is still a developing country which has fragile social management."

Authorities had shown some concern about crowd control in the days leading up to New Year's Eve.

They had cancelled an annual 3D laser show on the Bund that last year attracted around 300,000 people.

The historic riverfront strip runs along an area of narrow streets surrounded by restored old buildings, shops and tourist attractions.

Source:http://www.mid-day.com/articles/peshawar-school-attack-perpetrator-arrested-by-pak-military/16013188

Structure of the Lead：

WHO-  not given

WHEN-18:16, UK,Thursday 01 January 2015

WHAT-36 Killed In New Year's Stampede In China

WHY-Pakistani Taliban militants attacked an army school in Peshawar on December 16 killing 150 people, mostly children. 

WHERE- not given

HOW- not given

Keywords：

   1.perpetrators肇事者

   2.massacre大屠殺

   3. disguise 偽裝

   4.terrorist activities 恐怖活動

Week 2-Peshawar school attack

Week 2-Peshawar school attack perpetrator arrested by Pak military

By PTI |Posted 24-Feb-2015

One of the main perpetrators of the Peshawar school massacre who was disguised as an internally displaced person, was arrested today, the Pakistani military said. 

Taj Mohammad, 27, was the commander of the second group that attacked Army Public School. The second terrorist group involved was led by Atiqur Rehman alias Usman, who has already been captured by security forces, according to an Inter Services Public Relations (ISPR) spokesman. Mohammad is a resident of Sippah in Khyber's Koi Chowk Bara.

He was disguised as an internally displaced person (IDP) in the village of Pawakai in Peshawar, Dawn reported. Muhammad said he was a member of Tehreek-i-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) and admitted his involvement in numerous other terrorist activities around Peshawar and North Waziristan, the report said. 

Previously, the army had claimed to have made key arrests in connection with the school attack and said that all those involved, except six suspects, had either been killed or captured. "The gang involved in the APS attack...comprised of 27 terrorists, 12 of whom have been arrested in Pakistan and Afghanistan, nine have been killed and six are at large," Director General ISPR Maj Gen Asim Bajwa had previously said.

 Pakistani Taliban militants attacked an army school in Peshawar on December 16 killing 150 people, mostly children. Following the attack, government and political parties expressed a renewed resolve to fight terrorism in the country. Pakistan has resumed executions after lifting moratorium in the wake of attack at the Peshawar school massacre. - See more at: http://www.mid-day.com/articles/peshawar-school-attack-perpetrator-arrested-by-pak-military/16013188#sthash.QjBfLGhr.dpuf

Source:http://www.mid-day.com/articles/peshawar-school-attack-perpetrator-arrested-by-pak-military/16013188

Structure of the Lead：

WHO- the Pakistani military

WHEN-24-Feb-2015

WHAT-One of the main perpetrators of the Peshawar school massacre who was disguised as an internally displaced person, was arrested today -

WHY-Pakistani Taliban militants attacked an army school in Peshawar on December 16 killing 150 people, mostly children. 

WHERE- not given

HOW- not given

Keywords：

   1.perpetrators肇事者

   2.massacre大屠殺

   3. disguise 偽裝

   4.terrorist activities 恐怖活動

Week 1- AirAsia flight QZ8501

AirAsia flight QZ8501: Co-pilot was flying doomed plane when it crashed into 

The French first officer and co-pilot of AirAsia flight QZ8501 was controlling the plane in the last moments before it crashed into the sea off Indonesia, killing all 162 on board.

Captain Remi Plesel, 46, is believed to have been in charge from take-off until the cockpit voice recording, recovered from the Java Sea earlier this month, ends.

Mr Plesel had 2,247 hours experience, according to a Bloomberg report last month, in comparison to his co-pilot captain Iriyanto, 53, who had clocked up more than 20,000.

Shortly after the plane went down, Mr Plesel’s mother Rolande told French newspaper Le Parisen: “He wanted to be a pilot ever since he was a child.”

The head Indonesian investigator Mardjono Siswosuwarno claimed that information from the flight data recorder provided a “pretty clear picture” of what happened in the last moments of Flight QZ8501.

The data recovered allows a partial reconstruction of the final minutes before the crash.

Investigators said the plane, travelling from Indonesia’s Surabaya to Singapore, rose sharply upwards in 30 seconds to 37,400ft before dropping back to 32,000ft in a three minute stretch.

"The second-in-command, popularly known as the co-pilot, who usually sits to the right of the cockpit. At the time, he was flying the plane," said Mr Siswosuwarno. "The captain, sitting to the left, was the pilot monitoring."

Source:http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/asia/airasia-flight-qz8501-copilot-was-flying-doomed-plane-when-it-crashed-into-java-sea-10010281.html

Structure of the Lead：

WHO- not given

WHEN-Thursday 29 January 2015

WHAT-AirAsia flight QZ8501 was controlling the plane in the last moments before it crashed into the sea off Indonesia, killing all 162 on board.

WHY- not given

WHERE- not given

HOW- not given

Keywords：

   1. Co-pilot 副機長

   2.flight data recorder 飛行數據記錄器

   3.reconstruction 重建

Week 7-Hong Kong occupy

Week 7-Hong Kong occupy

What is Occupy Central? 10 key facts about Hong Kong’s pro-democracy movement

Why have thousands of demonstrators taken to the city's streets and what do they want? 10 important questions answered about the protests

1. What is Occupy Central(佔領中環)?
Formally called Occupy Central with Love and Peace, the movement is promoted as a peaceful civil disobedience campaign in which the leaders would mobilise protesters to stage a mass sit-in to blockade Central district as a means to force Beijing to allow Hong Kong what they consider genuine universal suffrage.

2. Who are the key players?
Occupy Central is led by University of Hong Kong law professor Benny Tai Yiu-ting, Chinese University sociologist Dr Chan Kin-man, and Baptist minister Reverend Chu Yiu-ming. Meanwhile, students’ groups – the Federation of Students and Scholarism – are also playing a big role in the campaign.

3. Who started it?
Benny Tai raised the idea of Occupy Central last year in a commentary entitled “Civil disobedience is the most powerful weapon”.

4. How did it start?
The leaders had planned to start the protests on October 1. But they announced the campaign had officially kicked off in the early hours of Sunday after clashes at government headquarters between police and student activists during a rally in which three of the student leaders were arrested.

5. How many people are taking part?
Organisers claimed there were more than 30,000 people on the streets during the early stage of the first day of the campaign. Crowds reportedly grew to more than 50,000 as anger was fanned by the police use of tear gas against unarmed protesters.

6. Where is it taking place now?
Protesters started occupying the main roads outside the government headquarters in Admiralty. Crowds grew, spilling over into Central, Wan Chai, and Causeway Bay on Hong Kong Island. Separate crowds spontaneously blocked a section of Nathan Road in Mongkok in Kowloon.

7. What do the protesters want?
They demand Chief Executive Leung Chun-ying resign and that Beijing retract its decision on the city’s 2017 chief executive poll, which would restrict the number of candidates to two or three approved by a 1,200-strong nominating committee. They have also called on workers and teachers to strike, students to boycott classes and shops to close for business.

8. Does everyone agree with the protesters?
Pro-Beijing politicians have called the movement illegal. Business groups warn it will hurt the economy. Some local residents also complain about disruption to daily life because of road blockades.

9. What happens now?
The protesters show no sign of leaving. The government has said it has no plan to ask the People’s Liberation Army to help clear the blockade.

10. Why is it dubbed the "Umbrella Revolution"?
Some protesters used umbrellas to defend against the use of pepper spray by police on the first day of the protests.

http://www.scmp.com/article/1604649/what-occupy-central-10-things-you-need-know

Structure of the Lead：

WHO- not given

WHEN-not given

WHAT-Occupy Central with Love and Peace, the movement is promoted as a peaceful civil disobedience campaign in which the leaders would mobilise protesters to stage a mass sit-in to blockade Central district as a means

WHY- to force Beijing to allow Hong Kong what they consider genuine universal suffrage

WHERE- Hong Kong 

HOW- not given

Keywords：

   1.pro-democracy 民主派

   2.genuine 真正的

   3. universal suffrage 普選

   4. civil 公民的

   5.campaign 運動

Week 6- Mount. Ontake

Week 6- Mount. Ontake

Japan's Mount Ontake 御嶽山volcanic eruption injures 30

At least 30 people have been seriously injured in Japan after Mount Ontake volcano erupted, sending huge plumes of ash and stones into the sky.

More than 10 remain unconscious, police said. Some were covered by the debris.

The eruption at the 3,067m (10,120ft) peak, situated between Nagano and Gifu prefectures, trapped hundreds of climbers who were forced to seek shelter in lodges near the summit.

Some 230 have managed to descend - some 40 have yet to be rescued.

Prime Minister Shinzo Abe authorised army units to help those trapped.

Officials warned residents within a 4km radius of the risk of debris.

Mount Ontake last erupted in 2007.

"It was like thunder," a woman who runs a lodge near the summit told Japanese broadcaster NHK.

"I heard boom, boom, then everything went dark."

"There are 15cm [six inches] of ash on the ground," she said.

One of the climbers who managed to descend told NHK, "I escaped with my bare life."

"Immediately after I watched the eruption, I rushed away but I was soon covered with ash."

Source:http://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-29392810

Structure of the Lead：

WHO- not given

WHEN-not given

WHAT-At least 30 people have been seriously injured in Japan 

WHY- Mount Ontake volcano erupted, sending huge plumes of ash and stones into the sky.

WHERE- Japan 

HOW- not given

Keywords：

   1. volcanic 火山的

   2.eruption 爆炸

   3.summit 頂峰

   4. resident 居民

   5.debris 碎屑

 

week5-Kaohsiung gas explosions

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Deaths caused by Kaohsiung gas explosions increase to 31

2014/08/30 12:11:49

Taipei, Aug. 30 (CNA) A volunteer firefighter died Saturday of injuries sustained in the chemical gas explosions in Kaohsiung almost a month ago, bringing the number of fatalities in the incident to 31.

Tao Ting-chou, a volunteer firefighter for 16 years, died in a hospital shortly after midnight, family members and the hospital announced. He was 46.

Tao suffered burns and severe head and back injuries and had been in a coma since the explosions that occurred late July 31.

The explosions caused by an accumulation of inflammable chemical gas leaking from a illegal pipe in a box culvert killed 30 others and injured more than 300.

The blasts also ripped apart roads along several blocks of commercial and residential buildings in Cianjhen District and repairs are expected to last until December.

The authorities are still investigating why a section of petrochemical pipeline crosses paths with the culvert and who should be held responsible. 

http://focustaiwan.tw/news/asoc/201408300005.aspx

Structure of the Lead：

   WHO- A volunteer firefighter

   WHEN-  Aug. 30

   WHAT-gas explosions 

   WHY- an accumulation of inflammable chemical gas leaking from a illegal pipe in a box

   WHERE-Kaohsiung

   HOW-not given

Keywords：

   1.explosion 爆炸

   2. fatality 死亡

   3.coma 昏迷

   4.inflammable 易燃的

   5. illegal 非法的

   6. pipe 管

   7. blasts 爆炸

   8.authorities 當局