Download or read book CNN 2022 2 No 257 written by LiveABC編輯群 and published by 希伯崙股份有限公司. This book was released on 2022-01-25 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 政治 Leading a Continent 德國鐵娘子梅克爾 告別16年政壇生涯 Germany Marks the End of an Era as Angela Merkel Steps Down 安格拉．梅克爾在四個任期結束後正式卸下總理一職，本文回顧她如何帶領德國走過這動盪的16年。 商業 The Empire Returns 挺過新冠疫情 帶您重登紐約地標帝國大廈 An Icon of New York City Reopens at Last 紐約市知名地標帝國大廈挺過新冠疫情，終於重新對外開放，繼續承載著大蘋果帶給人們的希望和夢想。 科學 Collaboration and Contest 邁入太空競賽的新時代 The Space Race Heats Up as More Nations Join Forces 有愈來愈多國家及私人企業加入太空探索的行列，使得新時代的太空競賽不再只是單打獨鬥，更走向協力合作。 體育 The Ultimate Pitch 台灣研發全球首顆智慧棒球 開啟運動科學大革命 Taiwanese Company Strikes a Home Run with Its Smart Baseball 台灣新創公司研發一款智慧棒球，可記錄球的轉速、速度和軌跡等，盼透過運動大數據增進球員的表現。 旅遊 A Wonder in Stone 約旦沙漠中的失落古城──佩特拉 Richard Quest Explores the Majestic City of Petra 隱藏在約旦一處狹窄峽谷內的佩特拉曾是古文明中的貿易要塞，鬼斧神工的通道與鑲建在赤褐色砂岩中的神殿讓人窺視遙想其往日風華。 科技 A New Eye in the Sky 探索宇宙奧秘的窺天之眼──詹姆斯．韋伯太空望遠鏡 NASA’s Bigger and Better Space Telescope Is Set to Launch 詹姆斯．韋伯太空望遠鏡提供超高解析度及紅外光觀測能力，將取代哈伯太空望遠鏡，可望成為人類揭開宇宙起源之謎的強大工具。 環境 Taming Water 還地於河──荷蘭因應極端氣候的妙方 The Netherlands’ Multipronged Approach to Cope with Floods 地勢低窪的荷蘭名列地球上第一批可能受極端氣候衝擊的高風險國家，為防範於未然，該國採取了一種另類妙方──還地於河。 專題報導 Beware the Next Wave 變種病毒Omicron將成下一波大流行？！ The US Gears Up to Tackle Delta and Omicron Outbreaks 新冠疫情一波未平一波又起，Delta變異株方興未艾，南非變異株Omicron又迅速席捲全球，各國無不繃緊神經、全力應戰。 專題報導 Boosting the Fight 施打疫苗加強劑真能提高防護力？ The Importance of an Extra Shot in Battling COVID-19 初步資料顯示，接種第三劑新冠病毒疫苗可為人體帶來不錯的保護力，公衛專家呼籲民眾追加接種，以降低重症率。 娛樂 An X-Cellent Console 軟體霸主進軍遊戲界──Xbox問世二十週年 The Past, Present and Future of Xbox 微軟的遊戲主機Xbox問世20年，持續以高相容性及精緻畫質帶給玩家極致暢快的遊戲體驗。 編輯精選2021年十大新聞 焦點話題 CNN 全球瞭望 Biden and Putin Face Off 拜登與普丁視訊峰會對決 Rare Einstein Document Goes Up for Auction 愛因斯坦相對論手稿付諸拍賣 Fashion Pioneer Virgil Abloh Dies 路易威登藝術總監阿布洛逝世 談天說地話英文 全方位搞懂CNN The Carbon-Tracking Satellite 太空糾察隊——衛星追蹤溫室氣體排放源 新聞片語通 CNN主編教你唸 天文學大人物 單字聯想地圖 天文占星

Download or read book Live 2022 9 No 257 written by LiveABC編輯群 and published by 希伯崙股份有限公司. This book was released on 2022-08-31 with total page 98 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 4 Live關鍵時事新聞 9 焦點話題 10 大師名作選 The Lady, or the Tiger? 〈美女或猛虎？〉 14 科技生活 An End to Passwords? 無密碼時代即將來臨？ 16 節慶習俗 How Moon Festivals Are Celebrated 亞洲各國如何慶中秋 20 英語聽力測驗1 21 主題式會話 Starting University 開學：認識新同學 24 飲食與文化 Turkish Coffee: A Taste of Culture 土耳其咖啡：文化體驗 28 在地臺灣 Journey to Taitung 來趟臺東輕旅行 32 生活科學素養 The Science of Melting Ice 家中的融冰利器 35 唱歌學英語 Studying English with Songs: Lauv：〈 All 4 Nothing (I’m So in Love)〉 36 旅遊好去處 The Top Four Things to Do in Dublin 在都柏林一定要做的四件事 40 生活情境對話 At the Stationery Store 在文具店 43 英語聽力測驗2 44 心理健康 Social Media Envy: What It Is and How to Stop It 如何避免社交媒體妒忌 48 閱讀素養專欄 Skimming and Scanning 讀門祕笈：略讀與尋讀 Finn Wolfhard: Not Your Typical Teenage Actor 芬恩．沃夫哈德：非典型的少年演員 54 天南地北說英語 55 翻譯練習 Translation Practice 翻譯練習 58 歷史揭密 Popular History Myths Debunked 終結歷史流言！ 62 全民英檢中級模擬閱讀試題 64 看預告片學英文 65 中文翻譯與解答 72 全民英檢中級模擬試題解答

Download or read book The Languages of COVID 19 written by Piotr Blumczynski and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2022-11-30 with total page 202 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection advocates languages-based, translational research to be part of the partnerships and collaborations required to make sense of, and respond to, COVID-19 as one of the major global challenges of our time. Bringing together scholars and practitioners from a wide range of disciplines, this volume is bound by a common thread stressing the importance of linguistic sensitivity, (inter)cultural knowledge and translational mediation in the frontline response to COVID-19. Featuring contributors from around the world and reflecting on the language used to frame COVID-19 in diverse cultural contexts of the Global North and Global South, the book proposes that paying attention to the transmission of ideas, ideologies, narratives and history through processes of translation results in a broadening of social, cultural and medical understandings of COVID-19. Spanning nearly 20 signed and spoken languages, the volume argues that only in going beyond an Anglophone perspective can we better understand the cultural, social and political facets of the pandemic and, in turn, produce a comprehensive, efficient global response to disease management. This book will be of interest to scholars in translation and interpreting studies, modern languages, applied linguistics, cultural studies, Deaf Studies, intercultural communication and medical humanities.

Download or read book The Supermajority written by Michael Waldman and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2023-06-06 with total page 310 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A “terrific, if chilling, account” (The Guardian) of how the Supreme Court’s new conservative supermajority is overturning decades of law and leading the country in a dangerous political direction. In The Supermajority, Michael Waldman explores the tumultuous 2021­­–2022 Supreme Court term. He draws deeply on history to examine other times the Court veered from the popular will, provoking controversy, and backlash. And he analyzes the most important new rulings and their implications for the law and for American society. Waldman asks: What can we do when the Supreme Court challenges the country? Over three days in June 2022, the conservative supermajority overturned the constitutional right to abortion, possibly opening the door to reconsider other major privacy rights, as Justice Clarence Thomas urged. The Court sharply limited the authority of the EPA, reducing the prospects for combatting climate change. It radically loosened curbs on guns amid an epidemic of mass shootings. It fully embraced legal theories such as “originalism” that will affect thousands of cases throughout the country. These major decisions—and the next wave to come—will have enormous ramifications for every American. It was the most turbulent term in memory—with the leak of the opinion overturning Roe v. Wade, the first Black woman justice sworn in, and the justices turning on each other in public, Waldman previews the 2022­–2023 term and how the brewing fights over the Supreme Court and its role that already have begun to reshape politics. The Supermajority is “a call to action as much as it is a history of the Supreme Court “ (Financial Times) at a time when the Court’s dysfunction—and the demand for reform—are at the center of public debate.

Download or read book The Spirit of Recovery written by Aji Prasetya Wibawa and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 2024-01-31 with total page 359 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The scope of this book focuses on how information technology may assist in achieving goals and in providing solutions to problems such as a pandemic. Research on the Internet and on technology has been done, and the findings have applications in various sectors that rely on interdisciplinary knowledge. This book explores and describes state-of-the-art research conducted during the COVID-19 pandemic. Topics covered include the IT viewpoint and the rules governing digital transformation throughout the pandemic. The Digital Revolution sped up by a decade during COVID-19, which impacted both the user experience and that of software developers. As a component of the digital transformation process, this book explores the experiences of both the user and developer when attempting to change and adapt while utilizing an information technology program. This book includes five topics: (1) multidisciplinary artificial intelligence, (2) Smart City and Internet of Things applications, (3) game technology and multimedia applications, (4) data science and business intelligence, and (5) IT hospitality and information systems. Each topic is covered in several book chapters with some application in several countries, especially developing countries. The chapters provide insight from contributors with different perspectives and several diverse fields who present new ideas and approaches to solving problems associated with the worldwide pandemic.

Download or read book This Was CNN written by Kent Heckenlively and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2023-02-07 with total page 209 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A CNN insider reveals what he saw behind the scenes at the cable news giant and the investigation that revealed even more shocking secrets. Cary Poarch started working at CNN in the summer of 2017 as a die-hard Bernie Sanders supporter. But on his first location shoot during the Charlottesville riots, he quickly became disillusioned with how the network created the “fine people” hoax. This began a political odyssey as he documented numerous incidents of outright bias, eventually leading him to contact James O’Keefe of Project Veritas. For months, Cary Poarch documented CNN’s rampant political bias for Project Veritas, and saw how the network was dividing the country. When the story was released by Project Veritas, it was seen by millions. This book continues his investigation and uncovers even more shocking information about the behavior of network personnel, CNN’s ties to the Biden White House, CNN’s creation of a terrifying digital warfare capacity, and the possible penetration of CNN by our own intelligence agencies. Cary partnered with two time New York Times bestselling author, Kent Heckenlively, and together they uncovered even more shocking secrets about “the most trusted name in news.

Download or read book The Rats Had Never Left written by Abdusamaad (Sam) Karani and published by FriesenPress. This book was released on 2023-01-05 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Systemic racism underlies post-colonial societies, due in part to the undeniable legacy of historical racism. The conquering colonist (often mistakenly referred to as the “settler-colonist”) dominated the colonized, especially their minds. Overcoming destructive colonialism and systemic racism requires the decolonization of the mind—the mutually embedded mindsets of the conqueror and the colonized. Eliminating this legacy requires that we know who we are and admit to and rectify past mistakes. The Rats Had Never Left draws on the lived experiences of Abdusamaad (Sam) Karani in Apartheid South Africa, including his personal advocacy for mental health and psychology in society, and the cost he paid in the process. Having lived abroad in London, UK, and now Canada, Karani shares his experiences with the destructive legacy of systemic racism. Liberal democracies need to overcome the legacy of systemic racism. So how do we move forward? How do we keep ourselves from being stuck in the destructiveness of the blame game? Enhancing tolerance is the way forward. The racialized must not be reluctant to take the initiative. Society’s institutions—police, the justice system, etc.—need to self-reflect for long-term change, keeping in mind that power has traditionally never been shared, as a natural process, with society’s disadvantaged.

Download or read book The Last Politician written by Franklin Foer and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2023-09-05 with total page 433 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The instant New York Times bestseller! Franklin Foer tells the definitive insider story of the first two years of the Biden presidency, with exclusive access to Biden’s longtime team of advisers, and presents a gripping portrait of a president during this momentous time in our nation’s history. "You might love Biden or you might hate Biden, but either way, if you want to understand him, you will want to buy this book." — Politico “A triumph of reporting.” — Geoff Bennett, PBS NewsHour “Deeply reported…a terrific read.” — Chuck Todd, Meet the Press “Fantastic…The first real insider account of the Biden White House and a fascinating read about Biden himself.” — Jon Favreau, Pod Save America On January 20, 2021, standing where only two weeks earlier police officers had battled with right-wing paramilitaries, Joe Biden took his oath of office. The American people were still sick with COVID-19, his economists were already warning him of an imminent financial crisis, and his party, the Democrats, had the barest of majorities in the Senate. Yet, faced with an unprecedented set of crises, Joe Biden decided he would not play defense. Instead, he set out to transform the nation. He proposed the most ambitious domestic spending bills since the 1960s and vowed to withdraw American forces from Afghanistan, ending the nation’s longest war and reorienting it toward a looming competition with China. With unparalleled access to the tight inner circle of advisers who have surrounded Biden for decades, Franklin Foer dramatizes in forensic detail the first two years of the Biden presidency, concluding with the historic midterm elections. The result is a gripping and high-definition portrait of a major president at a time when democracy itself seems imperiled. With his back to the wall, Biden resorted to old-fashioned politics: deal-making and compromise. It was a gamble that seemed at first disastrously anachronistic, as he struggled to rally even the support of his own party. Yet, as the midterms drew near, via a series of bills with banal names, Biden somehow found a way to invest trillions of dollars in clean energy, the domestic semiconductor industry, and new infrastructure. Had he done the impossible―breaking decisively with the old Washington consensus to achieve progressive goals? The Last Politician is a landmark work of political reporting—which includes thrilling, blow-by-blow insider reports of the botched withdrawal from Afghanistan and the White House’s swift response to the Russian invasion of Ukraine—that is destined to shape history’s view of a president in the eye of the storm.

Download or read book Seeing and Believing written by Ellen T. Armour and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 2023-07-04 with total page 117 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Social media platforms are often denounced as “bubbles” or “echo chambers.” In this view, what we see tends to reinforce what we already believe, and what we already believe shapes what we see. Yet social movements such as Black Lives Matter rely heavily on the widespread dissemination of digital photographs and videos through social media. In at least some cases, visual images can challenge normative and normalized ways of grasping the world and prompt their viewers to see differently—and even bring people together. Seeing and Believing marshals religious resources to recast the significance of digital images in the struggle for social justice. Ellen T. Armour examines what distinguishes digital photography from its analogue predecessor and places the circulation of digital images in the broader context of virtual visual cultures. She explores the challenges and opportunities that visually saturated social media landscapes present for users and organizers. Despite the power of digital platforms and algorithms, possibilities for disruption and resistance emerge from how people engage with these systems. Armour offers ways of seeing drawn from Christianity and found in other religious traditions to help us break with entrenched habits and rethink how we engage with the images that grab our attention. Developing theological perspectives on the power and peril of photography and technology, Seeing and Believing provides suggestions for navigating the new media landscape that can spark what Armour calls “photographic insurrection.”

Download or read book Changing Patterns of Warfare between India and Pakistan written by Rizwana Abbasi and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2023-05-12 with total page 185 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Changing Patterns of Warfare between India and Pakistan analyzes how advanced nuclear technologies and the advent of disruptive technologies have affected the evolving conflict between India and Pakistan. Advanced nuclear technologies such as nuclear submarines, aircraft carriers, ballistic missile defence systems (BMDs), multiple independently targetable re-entry vehicles (MIRVs), anti-satellite weapons (ASAT); and disruptive technologies such as hypersonic weapons, artificial intelligence (AI), lethal autonomous weapons (LAWs), unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) / drones and space-based and cyber technologies have all complicated crisis dynamics and the domain of warfare in the region. Further, the employment of India’s compellence strategy is an indication of a change in its stance that demonstrates smart/surgical strikes are now more likely. The phenomenon of surgical strikes raises the question of how disruptive technologies will be used to gain direct/indirect military control and hence challenge the existing status quo and deterrence stability. Against this backdrop, the authors predict how this conflict may develop in the future and evaluate the ways to stabilize deterrence and regulate the militarization of artificial intelligence and disruptive technologies between India and Pakistan. This book will be of interest to all those researching and working in the fields of security studies, strategic studies, nuclear policy, deterrence thinking and proliferation/non-proliferation aspects of the nuclear weapons programme within South Asia and beyond. It will also be relevant for the academic community, policy-makers, diplomats, members of international non-governmental organizations (INGOs), professional research institutes and organizations working on India–Pakistan relations.

Download or read book Proceedings of the European Test and Telemetry Conference ettc2022 written by The European Society of Telemetry and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2022-10-14 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The way we prepare and analyse tests has evolved, as well as the way we perform and conduct those tests. However, we all concluded that the face-to-face exchange could not be replaced by any digital event. The ettc2022 was the first in-person telemetry event since the outbreak of the pandemic in 2020. The conference presented a dense technical program of more than 40 high quality papers, merged in the Conference Proceedings. As always, you could find the latest and most promising methods here but also hardware and software ideas for the telemetry solutions of tomorrow.

Download or read book Proceedings of the International Conference on Applications of Machine Intelligence and Data Analytics ICAMIDA 2022 written by Sharvari Tamane and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2023-05-01 with total page 1027 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is an open access book. As on date, huge volumes of data are being generated through sensors, satellites, and simulators. Modern research on data analytics and its applications reveal that several algorithms are being designed and developed to process these datasets, either through the use of sequential and parallel processes. In the current scenario of Industry 4.0, data analytics, artificial intelligence and machine learning are being used to support decisions in space and time. Further, the availability of Graphical Processing Units (GPUs) and Tensor Processing Units (TPUs) have enabled to processing of these datasets. Some of the applications of Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning and Data Analytics are in the domains of Agriculture, Climate Change, Disaster Prediction, Automation in Manufacturing, Intelligent Transportation Systems, Health Care, Retail, Stock Market, Fashion Design, etc. The international conference on Applications of Machine Intelligence and Data Analytics aims to bring together faculty members, researchers, scientists, and industry people on a common platform to exchange ideas, algorithms, knowledge based on processing hardware and their respective application programming interfaces (APIs).

Download or read book Young Black Changemakers and the Road to Racial Justice written by Laura Wray-Lake and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2023-12-31 with total page 245 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Young Black changemakers work toward racial justice every day for themselves, their families, their communities, and future generations.

Download or read book The Marginalized in Death written by Jennifer F. Byrnes and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2022-08-31 with total page 373 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume bridges the gap between forensic and cultural anthropology in how both disciplines describe and theorize the dead, highlighting the potential for interdisciplinary scholarship. As applied disciplines dealing with some of the most marginalized people in our society, forensic anthropologists have the potential to shed light on important and persistent social issues that we face today. Forensic anthropologists have successfully pursued research agendas primarily focused on the development of individual biological profiles, time since death, recovery, and identification. Few, however, have taken a step back from their lab bench to consider how and why people become forensic cases or place their work in a larger theoretical context. Thus, this volume challenges forensic anthropologists to reflect how we can use our toolkit and databases to address larger social issues and quandaries that we face in a world where some are spared from becoming forensic anthropology cases and others are not. As witnesses to violence, crimes against humanity, and the embodied consequences of structural violence, we have the opportunity—and arguably, the responsibility—to transcend the traditional medico-legal confines of our small sub-discipline, by synthesizing forensic anthropology casework into theoretically grounded social science with potentially transformative impacts at a global scale.

Download or read book Complicit Participation written by Carrie J. Preston and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2024-06-18 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this incisive critique of the ways performances of allyship can further entrench white privilege, author Carrie J. Preston analyses her own complicit participation and that of other audience members and theater professionals, deftly examining the prevailing framework through which white liberals participate in antiracist theater and institutional "diversity, equity, and inclusion" initiatives. The book addresses immersive, documentary, site-specific, experimental, street, and popular theatre in chapters on Jean Genet's The Blacks, Branden Jacobs-Jenkins's An Octoroon, George C. Wolfe's Shuffle Along, Lin-Manuel Miranda's Hamilton, Anna Deavere Smith's Notes from the Field, and Claudia Rankine's The White Card. Far from abandoning the work to dismantle institutionalized racism, Preston seeks to reveal the contradictions and complicities at the heart of allyship as a crucial step toward full and radical participation in antiracist efforts.

Download or read book Why Journalism A Polemic written by Toby Miller and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2024-03-29 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This new book from Toby Miller engages with journalism from within the cultural studies tradition, addressing fundamental claims for the profession and its biggest contemporary challenges: critiques, objectivity, and insecurity. Why Journalism? A Polemic considers four key aspects of contemporary journalism in terms of theoretical relevance and historic tasks that are not usually considered in parallel: Citizenship: political, economic, and cultural Environment: the climate crisis and reporters’ material impact Sports: the importance of the popular; and Technology: its former, current, and future significance With examples drawn from Latin America, Spain, and France as well as the US and Britain, the query animating these investigations returns again and again, implicitly and explicitly: why journalism? Miller argues for an answer to that dilemma that will involve a fundamental shift in how reporters, proprietors, professors, students, and states view the profession. This is essential reading for scholars and students of media and cultural studies as well as journalism studies.

Download or read book Asia Pacific Regional Security Assessment 2023 written by The International Institute for Strategic Studies (IISS) and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2023-06-02 with total page 163 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Asia-Pacific Regional Security Assessment examines key regional security issues relevant to the policy-focused discussions of the IISS Shangri-La Dialogue, Asia’s premier defence summit convened by the International Institute for Strategic Studies. It is published and launched at the Dialogue and the issues analysed within its covers are central to discussions at the event. Since February 2022, the war in Ukraine has provided a bleak backdrop for discussions about international security. While the war has affected many aspects of security and defence in the Asia-Pacific, the region also has its own dynamics, and important security-related developments have occurred there since the invasion. Among these, China’s ever-growing power and increasingly assertive posture remain the leading long-term challenges for the region. This tenth edition of the Asia-Pacific Regional Security Assessment contains an introduction and six chapters, authored by IISS experts, which investigate important dimensions of the regional security environment, supported by maps, graphs, charts and tables. Topics include: the war in Ukraine and the Asia-Pacific balance of power; strained US- China relations and the growing threat to Taiwan; Asia-Pacific naval and maritime capabilities; China’s Belt and Road Initiative; Japanese security and defence policy; and the conflict in Myanmar and the international response. Authors include leading regional analysts and academics at the forefront of research and analysis: James Crabtree, Euan Graham, Nigel Inkster, Nick Childs, Meia Nouwens, Robert Ward, Yuka Koshino, Aaron Connelly and Shona Loong