pairs terror attack '' french father and son''

A French father explained the horror of the Paris terror attacks to his young son .

In the video, which was taken by a Le Petit Journalreporter, a little boy and his father talk to the French news outlet about the attacks that claimed the lives of at least 129 people in Paris on Friday. The news outlet posted the video on Facebook on Nov. 16.

Brandon Le, who is preschooler, tells the reporter that "bad guys" committed the terror attacks and notes that "they have guns" and can "shoot" people.

In the clip, Angel Le tells his son the meaning of the flowers and candles that people brought to a square to honor the victims of the attack.

Angel Le reassures Brandon that their family does not need to move in the wake of attacks.

Father: "Don't worry … We don't need to move out. France is our home," Angel tells Brandon in the video.

Brandon: "But there's bad guys, dad."

Father: "Yes, but there's bad guys everywhere."

Brandon: "They have guns, they can shoot us because they are really mean, daddy."

Father: "It's ok, they might have guns but we have flowers," Angel tells Brandon.

Brandon: "But flowers don't do anything ... "

Father: "Of course they do. Look, everyone is putting flowers."

Brandon: "Yes?"

Father: "It's to fight against guns."

Brandon: "It's to protect ... And the candles too?"

Father: "It's to remember the people who are gone yesterday."

Angel Le identified himself on the Le Petit Journal's Facebook page and thanked people for the "great comments."

"When I see all this support that tells me one thing: I'm proud to be French and proud of my fellow countrymen," he wrote.

victims 犧牲者

outlet  出口

 countrymen   國民

preschooler    學齡前兒童

What :pairs terror attack

Why : about the this terror attack 

When : November 2015/18

Where : french

Who : father and son

How :a little boy and his father talk to the French news outlet about the attacks

http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation-now/2015/11/18/french-dad-explains-paris-terror-attacks-son-touching-video/75990360/

China's Alibaba Singles Day

What is Singles Day?

Singles Day is a consumer holiday in China and the world's biggest online shopping day of the year. Last year, Chinese consumers spent almost £6bn online through Alibaba stores alone in just 24 hours. Singles Day takes place every year on November 11.

What does that have to do with single people?

Astute readers will have noticed that the November 11 is written 11.11, or one-one-one-one.

Known in China as "bare sticks holiday", because of how it looks numerically, Singles Day began as an anti-Valentine's Day in the 1990swhen students started celebrating their singledom.

The day is also known as Bachelors' Day because of China's gender imbalance. The country's one-child policy, which it recently said it will bring to an end next year, along with the cultural and economic pressures for that child to be a son, has led to a male surplus.In 2011, official Chinese data showed that there were 20m more men than women under the age of 30. By 2020, sociologists expect that discrepancy to have widened to 35m. By 2030, it is estimated that one-in-four Chinese men in their late 30s will never have married.

How did Singles Day become a shopping holiday?

In 2009, Alibaba – the Chinese online shopping platform that is now one of the world's biggest retailers – spotted a commercial opportunity in this celebration of singlehood. It was also a chance to boost sales in the lull between China’s Golden Week national holiday in October and the Christmas season.

In that first year, consumers spent 50m yuan (around £5m) and 27 merchants offered discounts. By 2011 – which was dubbed the Singles Day of the Century because it was 11.11.11 – more than £500m was spent across Alibaba's platform during the day.

When sales almost quadrupled the following year, Alibaba trademarked Singles Day.Some of the featured sales centre around singledom, such as boyfriend pillows and single travel tickets, but the day has now widened to an all-inclusive shopping holiday.

 numerically  數字
singledom     單身
gender          性別
economic        經濟
estimated       預計
 platform       平台
 lull               麻痺
widened        擴大


What ; Singles Day is held every year on 11 November.
When ;11 November 2015
Where :China
Who ;Alibaba
Why : November 11 is written 11.11, or one-one-one-one.
How ;the Chinese online shopping platform that is now one of the world's biggest retailers.







http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/newsbysector/retailandconsumer/11974535/What-is-Singles-Day-and-is-it-bigger-than-Black-Friday.html

New Horizons, Pluto, Earth 2.0, Kepler 452b

NASA said Thursday that its Kepler spacecraft has spotted "Earth's bigger, older cousin": the first nearly Earth-size planet to be found in the habitable zone of a star similar to our own.

Though NASA can't say for sure whether the planet is rocky like ours or has water and air, it's the closest match yet found.

"Today, Earth is a little less lonely," Kepler researcher Jon Jenkins said.

The planet, Kepler-452b, is about 1,400 light-years from Earth in the constellation Cygnus. It's about 60% bigger than Earth, and is located in its star's habitable zone -- the region where life-sustaining liquid water is possible on the surface of a planet.

 While it's a bit farther from its star than Earth is from the sun, its star is brighter, so the planet gets about the same amount of energy from its star as Earth does from the sun. And that sunlight would be very similar to Earth's, Jenkins said.Kepler-452b's atmosphere would probably be thicker than Earth's, and it would have active volcanoes.

It takes 385 days for the planet to orbit its star, very similar to Earth's 365-day year, NASA said. And because it's spent so long orbiting in this zone -- 6 billion years -- it's had plenty of time to brew life.

Before the discovery of this planet, one called Kepler-186f was considered the most Earthlike,according to NASA. That planet, no more than a 10th bigger than Earth, is about 500 light-years away from us. But it gets only about a third of the energy from its star as Earth does from the sun, and noon there would look similar to the evening sky here, NASA says.

The $600 million Kepler mission launched in 2009 with a goal to survey a portion of the Milky Way for habitable planets.

From a vantage point 64 million miles from Earth, it scans the light from distant stars, looking for almost imperceptible drops in a star's brightness, suggesting a planet has passed in front of it.

It has discovered more than 1,000 planets. Twelve of those, including Kepler-425b, have been less than twice the size of Earth and in the habitable zones of the stars they orbit.

Missions are being readied to move scientists closer to the goal of finding yet more planets and cataloging their atmospheres and other characteristics.

In 2017, NASA plans to launch a planet-hunting satellite called TESS that will be able to provide scientists with more detail on the size, mass and atmospheres of planets circling distant stars.

spacecraft   太空船
habitable     適合居住的
rocky          岩石構成的
constellation 星群
life-sustaining 維持生命
atmosphere  大氣
brightness   亮度；明亮
cataloging  目錄
circling   還騎

What :  in the habitable zone of a star similar to our Earth
Who : NASA researcher
When : Thursday
Where ; NASA
Why : it's the closest match yet found
How ; It takes 385 days for the planet to orbit its star, very similar to Earth's 365-day year


http://edition.cnn.com/2015/07/23/us/feat-nasa-kepler-planet-discovery/

Malala Yousafzais, shot, Nobel Peace Prize

Since then she has been shot in the head by the militants, and has become the youngest person ever to win the Nobel Peace Prize and accepting the award in Oslo on 10 December, she said she was "humbled" and proud to be the first Pashtun and the first Pakistani to win the prize.

When she was shot in the head in October 2012 by a Taliban gunman, she was already well known in Pakistan, but that one shocking act catapulted her to international fame. She was discharged from hospital in January 2013 and her life now is unimaginably different to anything she may have envisaged when she was an anonymous voice chronicling the fears of schoolgirls under the shadow of the Taliban.

She was named one of time magazine's most influential people in 2013, put forward for the Nobel Peace Prize in 2013, won the European Parliament's Sakharov price for Freedom of Thought and her autobiography "I Am Malala" was released last year, and reversion for younger audiences.

 Militants destroyed scores of girls schools in the time the Taliban wielded power over the valley. And her identity as the girl blogger from Swat eventually became known as she became more vocal on the subject of the right of girls to education

When she finally returned to Swat, Malala took advantage of the improved security and went back to school. Malala and her family were the subject of threats and it was on 9 October 2012 that these were borne out.

The Taliban said that they targeted her for "promoting secular education" and threatened to attack her again.

Shs  began attending Edgbaston High School in March and her father has been given a job with the Pakistani consulate in Birmingham for three years.

But she has continued her campaign and taken it around the world.

A fund set up in her name helps children in education around the world. Among other trips, she has travelled to Nigeria, meeting President Goodluck Jonathan to press for action to free the 200 girls held by Boko Haram Islamist militants.

It is all a far cry from the girl who wrote in her diary only four years ago: "Today, I also read my diary written for the BBC in Urdu. My mother liked my pen name Gul Makai. I also like the name because my real name means 'grief stricken'."

http://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-23241937

What :  Women's education in Pakistan

When : 10 December 2014

Where : Pakistani

Why : to speak up for the right of education for every child and she want education for the sons and daughters of the Taliban and all terrorists and extremists.

Who : Malala Yousafzai

How :unshakable belief in the equality of genders and liberation of learning.

key word :
1 rehabilitation   復興

2 envisaged     設想
3 anonymous     無名的
4 implemented   執行
5 edict                布告/法令
6 grief stricken  悲痛欲絕   

Nepal earthquake, 2015, death toll, kill

Nepal earthquake: Death toll passes 4,800 as rescuers face challenges

In Nepal more than 4,800 people dead. More than 9,200 injured. Eight million affected across Nepal. One million children urgently in need of help.

Those are the startling numbers that indicate the scale of the devastation from the huge earthquake that struck the Himalayan nation on Saturday.

And some of the grim figures are likely to get even worse as hopes of rescuing any more survivors diminish every hour.

'Many people are crying'

Elsewhere in the city, many shaken residents are sleeping in the open. Some have lost their homes, others are afraid to stay in buildings that may be vulnerable to aftershocks.

Villagers trapped, crushed in their homes

Drava’s of World Vision said he had been told of frightening levels of damage in villages in the region surrounding Gurkha district, which is near the earthquake's epicenter. They included one where 35 out of 45 homes were destroyed and another where 70% of the houses had collapsed, trapping and crushing the people inside, most of them children and the elderly.

Terrain, weather hamper relief efforts

Nepali Home Ministry Joint Secretary Sager Mani Parajuli, who is coordinating relief efforts, said government efforts to get aid to remote areas had been hampered by rugged terrain and poor weather, which limits the use of helicopters.

http://edition.cnn.com/2015/04/28/asia/nepal-earthquake/

What : the Nepal earthquake

When : May, 2015

Where : In Nepal

Why : with a magnitude of 7.8M earthquake

Who : Nepal victims

How : 7.8M earthquake

Key word:

1 indicate  指出

2 devastation 荒廢/蹂躪

3 survivor 倖存者

4 diminish 減少/縮減

5 shaken 動搖

6 epicenter 震央

7 coordinate 調整

Formosa Water Park/Formosa Fun Coast, explosion/ blast, injure

Hundreds injured in Taiwan water park blast 'hell'

Taipei- Witnesses described the scene at a Taiwan water park as "hell" after a ball of fire ripped through a crowd, with authorities putting the injured at nearly 500 on Sunday, more than 200 of them seriously hurt.

Horrifying amateur video footage showed crowds of young revelers dancing in front of a stage and cheering as clouds of green and yellow powder covered them at the "color party" Saturday night.

But their joy turned to terror when the powder suddenly erupted into flames engulfing the partygoers in an inferno as they ran screaming for their lives.

Some were dressed only in swimwear and images from the scene show many with severe burns being tended by those who escaped.

The injury toll from the blast sharply rose Sunday morning as officials began to track down victims who had taken themselves to the hospital or had been ferried there by others.

One male student who sustained minor injuries described the scene as "hell".

The injury toll from the blast sharply rose Sunday morning as officials began to track down victims who had taken themselves to the hospital or had been ferried there by others. Public Health Department said 498 people had been injured.

 The reason why the burns were so severe was that in addition to burns to the skin, there were also injuries caused by burns to the respiratory organs from the large amount of color powder inhaled , about this explosion and fire... was caused by the powder spray. It could have been due to the heat of the lights on the stage.

Deputy fire chief Chen Chung-yueh said Sunday the blast may have been caused by "sparks from machinery or lighting equipment".

Five people including event manager Lu Chung-chi were detained by police.

They are being questioned by prosecutors on charges of offences against public safety and negligence of duties that caused severe injuries, a police spokesman said.

Lu and a hardware technician named as Chiu Po-ming were released on bail and banned from leaving the country, China's state news agency, CNA, reported.

Color Play Asia has also run other "colour parties" in Taiwan in the past two years.

Taiwan's premier Mao Chih-kuo, who visited the injured Sunday, ordered that all such events be banned unless their safety could be assured.

http://news.yahoo.com/number-injured-taiwan-water-park-blast-rises-509-022510078.html

what : Hundreds injured by the explosion and fire

when :  June 28, 2015

where  :Taipei-Taiwan water park 

who :  Lu Chung-chi and Hundreds injured people

how ; this explosion and fire was caused by the powder spray.

key word : 

1  authorities  官方/當局

2   horrifying    令人驚恐的/使人驚駭的

3  engulfing   吞沒的/包住的

4  inferno       地獄

5 respiratory  呼吸