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- 1st section : Politics / Social Affairs / Education / People / National
PyeongChang makes Olympic presentation in London
PyeongChang, a South Korean alpine town bidding for the 2018 Winter Olympics, made a presentation Thursday in front of members of the International Olympic Committee (IOC) and world sports leaders at an international sports meeting in London.
PyeongChang, some 180 kilometers east of Seoul, held its presentation after its rivals ― Germany’s Munich and France’s Annecy ― at the ongoing SportAccord Convention in London, a gathering of leaders of international sports federations.
PyeongChang last month held a similar presentation for an international audience during the International Sports Press Association (AIPS) Congress in Seoul.
PyeongChang bidders, led by chairman Cho Yang-ho, again stressed that PyeongChang has four ambitions to be achieved through the 2018 Winter Olympic Games under its vision called “New Horizons.”
They said PyeongChang will create a new market for winter sports, host an athlete-friendly Olympics, organize a successful Winter Games based on its experience in hosting major events and build a modern and sustainable winter sports hub on the continent.
They also said its athlete-friendly Winter Olympics plan will be the key point in its efforts to bring home the event for the first time.
PyeongChang intends to host “the most athlete-focused” Winter Games, with a compact plan that all arenas will be accessible within 30 minutes of one another across two main clusters that would share snow, sliding and ice sports.
Olympic figure skating champion Kim Yu-na was originally set to give the presentation but missed it as the 2011 World Figure Skating Championships were rescheduled for April 24 in Russia.
PyeongChang, along with the two other candidate cities, will have another chance to give a presentation to IOC members at IOC headquarters in Lausanne, Switzerland, in May, before the host country is chosen at the IOC General Assembly in Durban, South Africa, on July 6.
Summary
PyeongChang, a South Korean alpine town bidding for the 2018 Winter Olympics, made a presentation Thursday in front of members of the International Olympic Committee (IOC) and world sports leaders at an international sports meeting in London. PyeongChang bidders, again stressed that PyeongChang has four ambitions to be achieved through the 2018 Winter Olympic Games under its vision called “New Horizons PyeongChang, along with the two other candidate cities, will have another chance to give a presentation to IOC members at IOC headquarters in Lausanne, Switzerland, in May, before the host country is chosen at the IOC General Assembly in Durban, South Africa, on July 6.
Question
1. Do you think PyeongChang is going to host winter Olympic games this time? What kind of advantages(maybe economically) do you expect if PyeongChang wins the competition?
2. We have hosted big global sports events. Do you think they were really good for the Korea ? How should we evaluate between investment and return of profit about PyeongChang Olympic games?
3. We had invested a lot of energy and resources during the last two time trial.
What do you think are the main reasons for the failure?
Sunday January 9 at 10 pm ET/PT on CBC News Network
How much do we know about the food we buy at our local supermarkets and serve to our families? Though our food appears the same - a tomato still looks like a tomato - it has been radically transformed.
In the Oscar-nominated Food, Inc., producer-director Robert Kenner and investigative authors Eric Schlosser (Fast Food Nation) and Michael Pollan (The Omnivore's Dilemma) lift the veil on the U.S. food industry - an industry that has often put profit ahead of consumer health, the livelihoods of American farmers, the safety of workers and our own environment.
With the use of animation and compelling graphics, the filmmakers expose the highly mechanized, Orwellian underbelly that's been deliberately hidden from the American consumer.
They reveal how a handful of corporations control our nation's food supply. Though the companies try to maintain the myth that our food still comes from farms with red barns and white picket fences, our food is actually raised on massive "factory farms" and processed mega industrial plants. The animals grow fatter faster and are designed to fit the machines that slaughter them. Tomatoes are bred to be shipped without bruising and to stay edible for months. The system is highly productive, and Americans are spending less on food than ever before. But at what cost?
Cattle are given feed that their bodies are not biologically designed to digest, resulting in new strains of E. coli bacteria, which sickens roughly 73,000 Americans annually. And because of the high proliferation of processed foods derived from corn, Americans are facing epidemic levels of diabetes among adults and alarming increases in obesity, especially among children.
And, surprisingly, all of it is happening right under the noses of government regulatory agencies, the USDA and the FDA. The film exposes a "revolving door" of executives from giant food corporations in and out of Washington D.C. that has resulted in a lack of oversight and illuminates how this dysfunctional political system often operates at the expense of the American consumer. In the nation's heartland, farmers have been silenced - afraid to talk about what's happening to the nation's food supply for fear of retaliation and lawsuits from giant corporations.
Laws today are such that corporations are allowed to patent seeds for crops. As a result, Monsanto, the former chemical company that manufactured Agent Orange and DDT - in a span of 10 years - has landed its patented gene in 90% of the nation's soybean seeds. Farmers are now forbidden to save and reuse these seeds and must instead buy new seed from Monsanto each season. Armed with a team of employees dedicated to enforcing their seed patents, Monsanto spends millions every year to investigate, intimidate and sue farmers -- whom are financially unable to fight the corporation.
Food, Inc. also introduces us to courageous people who refuse to helplessly stand by and do nothing. Some, like Stonyfield Farm's Gary Hirshberg and Polyface Farm's Joel Salatin, are finding ways to work inside and outside the system to improve the quality of our food. Others are brave men and women who have chosen to speak out, such as chicken farmer Carole Morison, seed cleaner Moe Parr and food safety advocate Barbara Kowalcyk. Their stories, both heartbreaking and heroic, serve to demonstrate the level of humanity and commitment it takes to fight the corporations that control the food industry.
It's important to note that the filmmakers attempted to interview representatives from Monsanto, Tyson, Perdue and Smithfield, but they all declined.
Food, Inc. reveals how complicated and compromised the once simple process of growing crops and raising livestock to feed ourselves and our families has become. But, it also reminds us that despite what appears to be at times a hopeless situation, each of us still has the ability to vote on this issue every day - at breakfast, lunch and dinner.
Summary
An industry that has often put profit ahead of consumer health, the livelihoods of American farmers, the safety of workers and our own environment. Though the companies try to maintain the myth that our food still comes from farms with red barns and white picket fences, our food is actually raised on massive "factory farms" and processed mega industrial plants. The animals grow fatter faster and are designed to fit the machines that slaughter them. Tomatoes are bred to be shipped without bruising and to stay edible for months. Americans are facing epidemic levels of diabetes among adults and alarming increases in obesity, especially among children.
Question
1. In US, a few companies are holding control of food industry. For more productivity, they genetically engineer vegetables and raise cattle and poulty in massive factory farms. On the other hand, these companies claim that they are supplying all customers with food at cheaper price.
What do you think about food supply system of the mega-company ?
2. Interest in organic food is growing. Are you willing to buy it despite of the fact it is relatively expensive ?
3. Are you worried about the safety of food? Tell me about your concerns( like chicken with antibiotics, genetically engineered fruits, ground beef infected with bacteria ..)
- 3rd section : Culture / Entertainment / Food / Travel / Sports / Life
Where’s the future?
Automatic Dog Translator
I would’ve bet a lot of money that by now we’d have a device that would let us talk to dogs. Perhaps a helmet that would immediately decode a dog’s bark into “Hey!” or “Hungry!” or “Oh my God — cat!” But I guess maybe we just don’t care enough about saving animals. Or the world.
Self-Driving Cars: Safe Texting at 65 mph!!
To traffic-weary drivers, it sounded great: Let technology handle tedious tasks like accelerating, steering, and braking. Cars — linked to road sensors and controlled by computer — could drive closer together, increasing highway capacity and fuel efficiency while reducing accidents and the need for new roads. Home, Hal!
It’s not hard to make individual vehicles at least partly automatic — luxury automakers have recently introduced adaptive cruise control, which adjusts a car’s speed based on the position and speed of the vehicle ahead of it. But a completely driverless network requires pricey road sensors. Litigation risks are another concern — imagine the lawsuits that could stem from faulty autopilot systems.
Despite these drawbacks, Richard Bishop, a former federal researcher and now an industry consultant, says that “low-speed automation” systems, which control vehicles in heavy congestion, could be in high-end autos by 2015. Translation: Traffic jams will be with us for a while. — Daniel McGinn
Invisibility
If you want to make something invisible to an infrared or radio receiver, cloak the object in a plastic shell covered with a pattern of ultrafine copper or silver lines. Called a metamaterial, this surface acts like thousands of tiny repeating antennas. When that infrared beam or radio wave hits one “antenna,” the signal gets passed to the next and then the next and so on, eventually getting seamlessly relayed around the object. The receiver never registers that the signal encountered interference. To it, the object in question is invisible. Now move along the electromagnetic spectrum from infrared to visible light and everything should work the same way, right? There’s a catch: Our receivers — i.e., eyeballs — are pretty good at seeing stuff, so the slightest flaw in the metamaterial would reveal objects hidden beneath it, but they’d look fuzzy, like a bad hologram. So we’ll have to wait until someone invents a way to produce absolutely uniform metamaterials. That could take 20 years or 200 — but at least we can see it coming. — Erin Biba
Designer Babies
That’s because our genetic makeup is as complicated as it is capricious, and very few traits are expressed by a single gene. Height, for example, is controlled by at least 20. And even then, these genes are only 5 percent of the reason people reach a particular height. The other 95 percent is a mystery. Traits like skin color, intelligence, and susceptibility to cancer and heart disease are even less well understood.
Then there’s the matter of ethics. Genetic manipulation is frowned upon by the science community, not least because we’d be messing with stuff we don’t understand. Instead, researchers are using their knowledge of the genome to try to cure life-threatening diseases. Besides, doesn’t everyone think their baby is already perfect? — Erin Biba
Question
1. I wish there some sort of Automatic Dog Translator or Baby Translator. What do you want to really happen to you among these 4 things?
2. Sometimes I am so amazed at how far we've moved forward when I use my Smartphone. What are some things you cannot certain it can happen but now it is normally happen?
3. Think about something else you want to do in the future. What can you suggest to make world better for our future. How about Time travel or Flying car?
4. The future can be stranger than we can imagine. Do you agree with those who say that I am happy right here in our more "limited" present?
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