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/