News synopsis

BEBA
1.
Michael Moshier’s idea about Solo Trek which would be likely to fly above the rooftops like an action hero was inspired by the fantasy of a la the Jetsons on t-v. What’s more, the developed jet belt and the rocket belt also stirred his desire of invention. Fortunately, Solo Trek even got NASA’s assistance to be promoted. Besides Moshier, Robert Fulton and Paul Moller have been pursued the new ways of flying in their own ways.

2.
Since there were a group of men in Shiite launching an attack on the U.S.
soldiers and killed about 25 people, the U.S.military decided to strike back them.
Badly, where the military hit was not elsewhere but was areas built up by locals to
protect them against attacks by al-Qaida gunmen, and dozens of guiltless civilians
were harmed. It was said that the cause of this misery was Mahdi Army, which was
splintered from the U.S.military. And because of this, Maj. Anton Alston changed his
statement about treating those Mahdi Army’s extremist militiamen

3.
The rate of breast cancer has increased in a fast speed in few years in developing China. According to experts, there are a lot of factors causing this disease to occur, such as unhealthy lifestyle, poor diet, environmental pollution, increased stress, fragile and expensive care system, growing population, rising affluence, cost, cultural barriers and lack of awareness. And the phenomenon has become more and more common.

Ocean
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A jury in Northern California has found a doctor caused elder abuse. The 85-year-old patient died of cancer patient in February 1998. His children say he had too much pain because Dr. Wing Chin didn't give enough painkillers. The jury's award of one-point-five million dollars is likely to be reduced to 250-thousand dollars because the state has a cap on awards.
2.
President Bush indicated Saturday that he would be willing to accept a larger increase for a children's health insurance program than the one he has proposed, but defended his veto of the expansion of coverage approved by Congress. Bush has offered $30 billion, a 20% increase from the current levels but not enough to maintain the existing enrollment in the State Children's Health Insurance Program, budget analysts say. The program is managed by states within federal guidelines and serves about 6 million children, including about 800,000 in California. Bush also said that six states project that they will spend more SCHIP money on adults than they do on children in this fiscal year. However, democrats have promised to try to override the president's veto later this month.
3.
A new research tells us that it may be good to someone with a five to ten overweight when it comes to certain cancers and heart disease. Besides, researchers also found that the men who are overweight may also be protected from other diseases not commonly associated with excess weight. However, it also tells that people who are more than fifteen kilos above their ideal weight will die very easily due to a variety of illnesses. Therefore, according to Dr. Flegal, we should still take care of our own bodies not to be too overly overweight.

Belinda
1.
While California is facing the problem of rate increasing, the residents of Redding city are looking forward to rate cuts. These good results are all contribute to the build of three gas turbines, a steam plant, and a small generator at a dam that can generate most of its own power. And that totals more electricity than Redding needs. So the rest are being sold in the market.

2.
The news published recently suggested that most of patients do not know what kind of drug they are taking. It is not only because the reading ability of some patients are not very well but also because the name of the drug. Most of the medicine are marked with their chemical names which is difficult for people to understand. One possible solution is for patients to physically bring their medicines to the doctor's office. In a word, doctors and patients should work together so that they can have a full understanding to each one.
3.
The rate of breast cancer has increased in a fast speed in few years in developing China. According to experts, there are a lot of factors causing this disease to occur, such as unhealthy lifestyle, poor diet, environmental pollution, increased stress, fragile and expensive care system, growing population, rising affluence, cost, cultural barriers and lack of awareness. And the phenomenon has become more and more common.





On my opinion, it is convenient to submit the assignment on the internet. And it is also a familiar way for me because I always get in touch with my friends by blogs.
As for news reading, I found that there were some novel and interesting news that gave me different views from the past. And it also broadened my views to the whole world. However, the political purposes were always the hottest topics which I had few interests to concern. Summarizing granted me an opportunity to learn how to simplify and shorten a long story and to give an extract which everyone can understand what the news’ main idea. Discussing in groups was interesting and this was the activities I like the most!

News summary 4

assignment 3

http://www.voanews.com/english/2007-11-07-voa63.cfm

summary

A new research tells us that it may be good to someone with a five to ten overweight when it comes to certain cancers and heart disease. Besides, researchers also found that the men who are overweight may also be protected from other diseases not commonly associated with excess weight. However, it also tells that people who are more than fifteen kilos above their ideal weight will die very easily due to a variety of illnesses. Therefore, according to Dr. Flegal, we should still take care of our own bodies not to be too overly overweight.

錄音
http://www.wretch.cc/blog/KO525252&article_id=11610783

News summary 2

(1)URL http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20071010/ap_on_he_me/diet_childhood_obesity;_ylt=AjznNiWxQ4_II_8pzWd8yaTVJRIF

(2)Q&A
1.How many percent of children are overweight in America?
34%.
2.who heads the weight management program at Washington University
Denise Wilfley.
3.How many groups did this research assign?
3 groups.
4.What did the alarming number of obese kids mean in Denise Wilfley’s view?
He thought researchers have to develop better ways of helping them lose and keep the pounds off.
5.What kind of children could maintain their weight after progress?
Socially adept children who were encouraged to change their playmate networks.


(3)keywords
1. wane to grow less; decrease
2. counsel to recommend; to give advice to
3. vigilance caution
4. intervention the act of coming between for any purpose
5. haul the distance over which anything is drawn
6. modification a slight change in form
7. pilot one who flies a balloon, airship, or flying machine
8. underscore to underline
9. therapist person trained in therapeutics
10. assign to allot; apportion; set apart for a particular purpose

(4)summary
American children had serious obesity problems, and the researchers made up a team to have children lose weight effectively. They assigned three groups, and the groups in behavior skill and social kept losing weight in a good condition. While their lost
weight always regained after two years. In this respect, children in social adept had the best result. Because this group was given pieces of advices to change their playmate networks, they were capable of maintaining their weight after the research.

Doctor Found Guilty of Elder Abuse

URL http://literacynet.org/cnnsf/elderabuse/home.html

Summary

There was a case in Northern California that Dr. Wing Chin was condemned to elder abuse. He was sued by the patient William Bergman's children who assumed that Dr. Wing Chin didn’t use enough medicine to soothe their father’s pain leading to the fact that their father felt agonal in his dying days. William Bergman's children wanted to remind the society of this subject because of the increase of elder population. And the result was that the jury judged Dr. Wing Chin should award one-and-a-half million dollars to the patient's family.

thoughts and reflections

In the content it mentioned that the family members didn’t tell the doctor their father’s painful situation because they all believed in experts. It was a pretty awful thought. A doctor had many patients to treat so that he/she may ignore some minor but vital facts. Being family members, they should tell the doctor how hard their father suffered and discussed how to relaxed him even they are not professional. And they can also find another doctor to get some pieces of advices, instead of sitting beside the bed looking their father passed away with strong pain. Although they won the lawsuit, I thought they had other choices to make their father passed away sedately if they were not so passive.
Elder abuse is doing something or failing to do something that results in harm to an elderly person or puts a helpless older person at risk of harm. This includes
• Physical, sexual and emotional abuse
• Neglecting or deserting an older person you are responsible for
• Taking or misusing an elderly person's money or property
Elder abuse can happen within the family. It can also happen in settings such as hospitals or nursing homes or in the community. Elder abuse is a serious problem in this country. All 50 states have laws against elder abuse. The laws differ, but all states have systems for reporting suspected abuse.
(Quoted from http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/elderabuse.html)
From the information above, we could see elder abuse involves a variety of aspects. On one hand, it is hard to find victims if the elders are constrained in the house or nursing homes. They may suffer from mental or physical abuse and have no way to call for help even unable to call for help. In this way, nobody will know that until someone find it by chance or it might be a secret forever. On the other hand, it is difficult to judge when it involves in professional part like the story I found in CNN Interactive. It will take a long time for the jury and the judge to know whole thing, and it will be less efficient to deal with this matter.
Floridisation is a big problem in modern society. The higher rate of old population becomes, the more concern we have to pay on. While we are conscious about it, our government seems not to make a perfect law about elder abuse because we are not completely in this form of society, and we will be in the near future. Therefore,we have to build a complete law to protect the elders from being abused as soon as possible.

self introduction

Hello, my name is Isabella. I graduated from Changhua girl senior high. I like thrillers, and I always see that kind of movies or fiction at leisure. My favorite fictionist is Giddens who was used to posting his works on the internet. Sometimes I suspected he had multiple personality, because there were big contrasts in his works. I’m glad to be admitted to such a big and beautiful university-NCU. And I hope that we'll be good friends in the future~