Week3 imitation game

“Breaking the Code” presents the story of Alan Turing

The American River Theater department will present the show “Breaking The Code” March 16 through 19. The play is about a man who helped break the complex German code during World War II and played a major role in the defeat of the Nazi Regime.

It is a biographical drama about Alan Turing and his role in breaking the Enigma, which then enabled Allied forces to foresee German maneuvers, according to the theater department’s website.

Turing helped save millions of lives during WWII, and because his work was classified and top secret, the public never knew of his contribution. Turing later found himself put on trial for being gay.

“No one knew how much was owed to him when he was put on trial for breaking another code: the taboo against homosexuality, the punishment for which would have devastating consequences,” according to the theater department.

This play by Hugh Whitmore is directed by Jason Long at ARC, and stars Daniel Dorofeyev as Turing and Carmel Suchard as Pat Green.

Director Long, Dorofeyev and Suchard joined the host for the Capital Public Radio, Beth Ruyak to discuss the play; the direction of the interview changed as listeners were later able to hear a short scene from the play.

During the radio talk, Long was asked to compare their show to the well known movie that is also based on Turing, “The Imitation Game.”

Long explained that although the material is mostly the same, “the play focuses more on personal relationships,” while in the film the focus is on the machine itself and the math behind it.

“The play really dives in deep into those relationships – it’s more of a character study,” added Long.

Next, Dorofeyev talked about how taking on the role of Turing brought him to understand more about him as a person.

“I feel he’s underappreciated for what he did,” Dorofeyev said. He then delved into an interesting fact he discovered about the death of Turing.

While researching more about Alan Turing, Dorofeyev said he learned that Turing committed suicide after biting an apple that was poisoned; the Apple icon is also a bitten apple, which shows just how influential Turing was to modern computers.

“To me that was just mind blowing,” said Dorofeyev after realizing this connection.

www.arcurrent.com/arts-culture/2017/03/17/breaking-the-code-presents-the-story-of-alan-turing/

Key words：

biographical傳記的

forsee預見

maneuver 演習

trial試用

devastating 毀滅性的

underappreciated不太讚賞的

delve探究

Structure of leading ：

Who:Alan Turing

What:He broke the complex code 

Week2哈德遜河奇蹟

2009: Flight 1549 crew praises smart, calm passengers

CNN)Capt. Chesley "Sully" Sullenberger says he'll take to the skies again -- as soon as he can shake Flight 1549 out of his head.

"I'll be going back to work as soon as I'm ready," said Sullenberger, who along with First Officer Jeffrey Skiles safely guided US Airways Flight 1549 to an emergency landing in the Hudson River last month.Sullenberger, Skiles and veteran flight attendants Sheila Dail, Doreen Welsh and Donna Dent spoke to CNN's Larry King on Tuesday. The captain and his crew have achieved national fame since their January 15 landing, in which all 155 passengers survived.

"My sleep has been disrupted ever since the incident ... It's distracting and it's hard sometimes to turn off my brain at night," Sullenberger said.

Sullenberger's crew members expressed similar experiences in the aftermath of the incident. All but Welsh, a 38-year veteran who was injured in the accident, said they felt certain they would return to work at some point.

Asked why she wasn't in uniform during the interview, Welsh replied, "I can't yet. I was the one that was injured, and I was the one in water, and it [the uniform] was ripped and bloody, and I just can't put it on yet."

Welsh said she's not scheduled to fly for "a while," adding, "I don't know what I'm going to do yet. I haven't -- I didn't get there yet."

Earlier this month, the National Transportation Safety Board said both the plane's engines contained the remains of birds, confirming the pilots' report that the engines shut down after colliding with birds less than 2 minutes after taking off.

The plane's flight data recorder "revealed no anomalies or malfunctions in either engine up to the point where the captain reported a bird strike, after which there was an uncommanded loss of thrust in both engines," the NTSB said.

Sullenberger told "Larry King Live" that bird strikes are not "terribly uncommon," though they typically have only minor impact on a plane.

"This was very different," Sullenberger said. "There were many large birds that struck all over the airplane, pelted us like hail and severely damaged both engines."

Sullenberger took over the controls from Skiles, who had been piloting the plane, and Skiles tried to restart the engines. Within minutes, Sullenberger decided to land the plane on the Hudson.

Was it a miracle?

"I wouldn't say that," Skiles said. "I would still say that it's just everybody did our jobs and we had good fortune, as well."

The crew praised the passengers remaining remarkably calm throughout the ordeal.

"It was incredible," said Dent, a flight attendant with 26 years of experience. "They did very well, a very educated group of travelers. I think that helped a lot. We had a lot of frequent fliers."

Key words:

veteran老手

incident事件 

ripped扯破

bloody 流血的

colliding 碰撞

anomalies異常現象

malfunction 故障

uncommanded指令性

thrust推力

pelt投擲

hail冰雹

Structure of leading：

Who：Chesley "Sully" Sullenberger 

https://www.google.com.tw/amp/s/amp.cnn.com/cnn/2016/08/11/us/hudson-landing-archive-crew-reaction/index.html

week1 菲國掃毒

Philippine army to create task force to chase 

big drug syndicates

The Philippine army will create a "battalion size" task force to help the government's anti-narcotics agency run after high-value targets in President Rodrigo Duterte's war on drugs, the country's military chief said.

Duterte - who recently suspended the national police from the anti-narcotics campaign that has killed over 7,700 people in seven months - has ordered the military to play a role in his crackdown. He has said that he also wants to grant troops powers to arrest "scalawag" police.

The announcement came after it emerged last month that drug squad officers had killed a South Korean businessman at national police headquarters.

The troops, however, will only provide back-up in the campaign and not patrol the streets or play any kind of leading role, Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency (PDEA) Chief Isidro Lapena told Reuters earlier this month.

"We are ready to operate with the PDEA. (The task force) is yet to be created, but we are talking about a battalion size," Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP) Chief General Eduardo Ano told reporters late on Saturday in Baguio City, where Duterte attended a military alumni homecoming.

Up to 5,000 soldiers could be mobilized under the task force, or only 500 depending on the threat, he said.

Ano, however, ruled out a bloody operation by the task force, unlike some of the raids conducted by the national police.

"The AFP will not do that, we will not be involved in the street, we'll not be involved in running after street pushers," he said. "The armed forces will help the PDEA in running after high-level drug syndicates."

In his speech during the military alumni homecoming, Duterte said: "I need the help of each one, especially the military, not for social control but protection (for) the citizens from the lawless, the reckless, and the selfish."

He declared his war on drugs to be "by and large successful", but added the problem was more complex than he had thought and that is why he needed the military to play a role.

http://www.reuters.com/article/us-philippines-drugs-military-idUSKBN15Y051

key words: 

anti-narcotics緝毒

suspended暫停

crackdown打擊

squad隊

patrol巡邏

mobilized 動員

raids襲擊

syndicates集團

alumni校友

lawless無法無天

reckless魯莽

structure of lead:

who:The Philippine army

what:will create a "battalion size" task force 

when:in President Rodrigo Duterte's war

Week9 里約奧運

China’s swimmer Sun Yang out of 1,500m final

China’s world record holder and Olympic 1,500 metres freestyle champion Sun Yang blamed fever and flu medication for his failure to qualify for the Rio final.

Sun, who has already won a 200 metres freestyle gold and 400 metres silver and also become embroiled in a “drugs cheat” controversy, was 16th fastest overall in Friday’s heats with the top eight going through to Saturday’s final.

Italian Gregorio Paltrinieri, the world champion, was fastest in 14 minutes 44.51 seconds.

Sun, who set his record of 14:31.02 at the London 2012 Olympics, laboured through the heat and touched the wall in 15:01.97 — more than 30 seconds off his best.

“I feel better today but the past two days were worse,” he told reporters, saying he had resorted to flu medication. “I was afraid of catching a fever and affecting my other races so I had no choice but to increase the dosage.

“I didn’t expect my body’s condition and skill to deteriorate so quickly.”

Sun added that his muscles had been tired after the 800 metres race and the late nights of the Rio swimming programme had also taken a toll.

“I’ve been training in the U.S. for a while, and now I’ve suddenly come to Brazil, this has knocked my body clock and I find myself staring at the ceiling…awake at 3 or 4 a.m.,” added the swimmer.

The swimmer, the first Chinese to win gold in the pool, also missed the 1,500 metres final at last year’s world championships in Russia when he made a shock withdrawal.

China’s most successful male swimmer said at the time that he had felt uncomfortable while warming up.

His presence in Rio was already controversial, with the run-up to the Olympics overshadowed by a Russian doping scandal, since it emerged in 2014 that he had secretly served a three-month ban after testing positive for a banned stimulant.

China opted for a lenient punishment because Sun had been given medication, which had only just been added to the banned list, to treat a heart issue.

Australian swimmer Mack Horton, who qualified fourth fastest for the 1,500 metres final, stirred up a social media storm when he branded Sun a “drug cheat” before their 400 metres final on Saturday.

Horton went on to win that gold, with Chinese web-users bombarding his social media accounts and state media calling Australia “uncivilised” and “Britain’s offshore prison”.

Sun’s failure came after Chinese female swimmer Chen Xinyi was a no-show in the 50 metres freestyle heats.

Chinese state media, citing the country’s swimming association (CSA), said Chen had tested positive for a banned substance on Aug. 7.

網址：https://www.google.com.tw/amp/indianexpress.com/sports/rio-2016-olympics/chinas-sun-yang-out-of-1500m-final-swimming-2971776/lite/?client=ms-android-oppo

who:Sun Yang
what: He was blamed fever and flu medication
when:at the London 2012 Olympics

key words:
qualify有資格
embroiled始捲入
controversy爭議
dosage劑量
condition狀況
deteriorate惡化
presence出席
overshadowed黯然失色的
emerged出現
stimulant興奮劑
opted選擇
lenient寬容的
stir up煽動
branded烙印
bombarding轟炸

week8 pokemon go

Psychology Experts Explain Why ‘Pokemon Go’ Is So Addictive

I’ve spent my past few days staring at a screen, scouting the nearby terrain for imaginary creatures known as Pokémon.

I could have written that same sentence 18 years ago, when I was eight years old and addicted to playing Pokémon Blue on my Game Boy Color. But here I am as a 26-year-old in 2016, just as enchanted by these little critters as I was back in 1998. In the Pokémon universe, each fictional creature has its own special powers that correspond to its “type.” An aquatic Pokémon like the turtle-themed Squirtle, for example, attacks its enemies with blasts of water. A grass Pokémon such as Bulbasaur whips its enemies with vines. Each game encourages players to catch as many different varieties as possible and pit them in battles against one another to advance.

I’m far from the only adult hooked on Pokémon Go, the first official game in the Pokémon franchise made specifically for smartphones. The evidence is easily seen — unlike other Pokémon games, Go requires players to explore the real world around them in order to collect Pokémon. I could barely walk around for 10 minutes this weekend without hearing a fellow player excitedly yelp about a nearby Pikachu or Bulbasaur. Less than a week after it was launched in the U.S., Go sits atop the iPhone and Android app store popularity charts.

What’s creating all this excitement? In part, the fans that embraced Pokémon during their childhood in the 1990s are once again indulging in their old obsession. Nostalgia, experts say, can be a powerful force luring users to a new but familiar experience.

“If nostalgia is in play, and it evokes this positive emotion . . . our brain can substitute the question, ‘Does this make me happy’ for ‘Is this a good game?'” says Dr. Jamie Madigan, author of the book Getting Gamers: The Psychology of Video Games and Their Impact on People Who Play Them.

Indeed, nostalgia commands a powerful influence throughout pop culture, as evidenced by the sequels and reboots that seem unavoidable at movie theaters this summer. That’s because it is often associated with positive feelings and can help people feel more connected to others. At root, nostalgia is a kind of acute homesickness. The word comes from the Greeknostos, a return home, and algos, or pain.

“Nostalgia is just as much about the future as it is the past,” says Dr. Clay Routledge, a professor of psychology at North Dakota State University who has been studying the psychological effects of nostalgia for 10 years. “It wouldn’t surprise me at all if this Pokémon Go phenomenon was making people make new friends because they have these shared memories.” (A recent story in The Wall Street Journal suggests that is indeed the case.)

To be sure, nostalgia is not the sole cause of Pokémon Go’s overnight success. Pokémon fans have long clamored for a way to enjoy the franchise on smartphones. This represents their first chance to do so without using unofficial emulation software. “Putting [Pokémon] on the accessibility of a smartphone means the total available markets are monster numbers,” says P.J. McNealy, chief executive of consumer research firm Digital World Research. Also driving downloads is the game’s clever use of smartphone components like its GPS chip and camera, which together provide the illusion that wild Pokémon are out there in the real world, waiting to be caught.

That said, Pokémon Go’s clever game mechanics alone can’t explain why the game has become such a runaway hit. Go developer Niantic has a similar but non-Pokémon game, Ingress, that has a dedicated but comparatively small number of players. That’s evidence that Pokémon nostalgia, not gameplay alone, is the driving force behind what looks to be the breakout hit of the summer. Pokémon Go, says Routledge, is “this perfect marriage of nostalgia, bringing something old that people have these memories of from their childhood. And coupling that with technology that allows people to connect and share these experiences in ways they could not in the past.”

網址:http://time.com/4402123/pokemon-go-nostalgia/

who:psychology experts

what:explain why pokemon go is so addictive

key words:

terrain地型

enchant附魔

critter小動物

correspond 對應

aquatic水

blast爆破

franchise特許經營

indulging沉迷

obsession癡迷

luring 誘惑

nostalgia懷舊

evoke喚起

sequel續集
reboot重新啟動
sole唯一
clamored叫囂
emulation仿真
accessibility可接近性
illusion錯覺
dedicated專用
breakout爆發

week7尼斯恐攻

Nice attack: truck driver named as France mourns 84 killed in Bastille Day atrocity – as it happened

Nearly 24 hours after a Bastille Day celebration was transformed into a nightmare, “locals and visitors returned to the Promenade des Anglais to lay   flowers for the dead and to wonder exactly how, and why, the unthinkable had   come to pass,” my colleague Sam Jones reports from the city.

Throughout Friday, impromptu shrines had sprung up along the metal barriers that closed off the promenade. From one hung a tricolor with a black ribbon sewn on to the white central stripe. At another, a picture of Buddha watched over a dozen small candles. Someone had left a cigarette lighter and more nightlights on the ground so others could light candles and offer prayers.

Madame Bourmault, who lives two minutes from the promenade, came to one of the shrines with a bunch of flowers in her hand and tears in her eyes.

“I can’t sleep and I can’t breathe. It’s just horrible,” she said.

“What else can you say?” She had been down by the firework display on Thursday night, and seen a sudden tide of people screaming and running away. “In a fraction of a second, the music stopped and there was a lot of screaming. Everyone was running and no one was helping.”

On Bormault’s mind was a question that many around the world are asking: how had the truck managed to get on to the promenade? “It’s normally closed to traffic,” she said. However, she did not blame the police. “I don’t know what else the police could have done, but I don’t understand how the truck got in.”

She added: “You can’t put a policeman behind everyone - and there area lot of crazy people in this world.”

網址:

https://www.theguardian.com/world/live/2016/jul/14/nice-bastille-day-france-attack-promenade-des-anglais-vehicle

when:24 hours after a Bastille Day celebration

what: celebration was transformed into a nightmare

key words:

atrocity殘暴;殘酷

transform改變

unthinkable難以想像的

impromptu事先無準備的

shrine神殿;聖壇

spring up突然出現;迅速成長

barriers 障礙

promenade散步場所;海濱人行道

tricolor三色旗

a fraction of 一小部分

week6美古關係

Barack Obama: 'Change is going to happen in Cuba'

President Barack Obama is in Cuba for a historic three-day visit to the island and talks with its communist leader.

He is the first sitting US president to visit since the 1959 revolution, which heralded decades of hostility between the two countries.

Mr Obama said change would happen in Cuba and that Cuban President Raul Castro understood that.

The two leaders met to talk about trade and held a joint news conference.

Mr Castro denied that there are political prisoners in Cuba, telling journalists to "give him a list" and then they would be released "tonight".

He also defended Cuba's record on human rights and pointed to problems in the US.

"We defend human rights, in our view civil, political, economic, social and cultural rights are indivisible, inter-dependent and universal," Mr Castro said.

"Actually we find it inconceivable that a government does not defend and ensure the right to healthcare, education, social security, food provision and development."

Mr Obama said the trade embargo would be fully lifted in Cuba, but he could not say exactly when.

"The reason is what we did for 50 years did not serve our interests or the interests of the Cuban people," he said.

網址:http://www.bbc.com/news/world-latin-america-35856126

who:President Barack Obama

when: since the 1959 revolution

what:The two leaders met to talk about trade and held a joint news conference.

key words:

historic歷史上著名的

revolution革命

herald宣布

hostility敵意

joint聯合的

defend防禦

inconceivable不能想像的

embargo禁運