【每日阅读训练第四期——速度越障19系列】【19-04】文史哲

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SPEED

[Time1]
New Protests Target Chinese Chemical Plant
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Protests against a planned oil refinery and petrochemicals facility broke out in southwest China for the second time this month, as pressure mounted on local leaders over environmental effects of the project.
The demonstration on Thursday in the city of Kunming, capital of Yunnan province, marks the second sizable protest there since May 4. Local activists are demanding that officials scrap plans to produce the chemical paraxylene, known as PX, as part of the refinery under construction nearby. Many are outraged that local officials won't release the results of an environmental-impact assessment of the project, according to activists and local media.
Photos posted to China's Sina Weibo microblogging service showed what appeared to be hundreds of protesters marching through downtown city streets on Thursday. Some carried signs appealing directly to Yunnan's provincial Communist Party chief, Qin Guangrong. The protests appeared to be peaceful.
Production of PX in proximity to urban centers is of particular concern for those who fear industrial mishaps at the facilities could put the health of local residents and the environment at risk.
Kunming's mayor, Li Wenrong, last week promised to take opposition against the planned petrochemical facility into account, even pledging to scrap the project if a majority of residents expressed opposition.
Opposition to the project has so far largely targeted the planned petrochemcials facility, though some residents say they oppose the oil refinery as well being in such close proximity to the city.
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[Time2]
PX production is booming in China. The chemical is a critical building block in the production of textiles and plastics, and industry advocates say under normal conditions it can be produced safely and without threat to humans.
But its production has repeatedly come under fire in recent years from local residents in multiple Chinese cities who fear it will damage their health as well as the environment. Following protests in 2007 in the eastern city of Xiamen, local officials pledged to move a planned PX plant away from the popular tourist town. But its production has repeatedly come under fire in recent years from local residents in multiple Chinese cities who fear it will damage their health as well as the environment. Following protests in 2007 in the eastern city of Xiamen, local officials pledged to move a planned PX plant away from the popular tourist town.
Similarly, in 2011, officials promised to shut a plant in the northeast city of Dalian after more than 10,000 people took to the streets in protest of PX production there. State media reported in December that relocation work for the Dalian plant was still under way.
Thursday's protests in Kunming were smaller than many environmental protests elsewhere.
Concerns over transparency and locating the planned refinery so close to the city underpin resistance in Kunming. Residents have demanded officials release results of a government-required environmental impact assessment. Others have called for third-party groups to be allowed to conduct an independent assessment of the planned refinery, which has already been approved by China's National Development and Reform Commission, the country's top economic planning body.
China National Petroleum Corp. is responsible for building the refinery, which will have a capacity of processing 200,000 barrels of crude each day. Another company, Yuntianhua Group, is responsible for the related petrochemicals facility.
A senior executive from Yuntianhua said last week that feasibility studies were continuing and that no final decision on which chemicals to produce had been made. Government documents and earlier state-media reports indicated the facility would produce PX.
The refinery is a significant piece of infrastructure as China looks to boost availability of gasoline and other refined oil products across the less developed southwestern portion of the country.
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[Time3]
Comedian Kurt Braunohler took his jokes to the sky last month through a Kickstarter campaign and an airplane. Braunohler raised nearly $7,000 on the fundraising websiteand used the money to scrawl a message into the clouds over Los Angeles. The message read: 'How do I land?'
Unfortunately for Braunohler, however, the wind in Los Angeles was whipping the day of the prank and the gusts quickly erased all the letters just as soon as the airplane ahd finished etching them into the afternoon sky. Now Braunohler has shared a composite photo of the actual letters, as they would have appeared all together had the wind not wiped them away.
'If you watched the sky for 20 minutes you could probably piece it together,' Braunohler wrote on his websitewith the release of the photo. 'BUT STILL WE DID IT!!!,' he added. 'Thanks to everyone who contributed!'Braunohler called the skywriting prank his 'Cloud Project.' He said it was meant for random passing foot traffic or people driving by.
'I was writing this really long joke about the smell of poop, and I was like, "What am I doing with my life?"' Braunohler told Fast Company about the project. 'I started to think about why I was a comedian and then I came up with a reason for existence, which is: inserting absurdity or stupidity into strangers’ lives in order to make the world a better place,' he added.
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[Time4]
DPRK has no nuke missile capability: White House
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WASHINGTON - The White House said on Friday that Washington did not believe the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK) had the capability to deploy a nuclear-armed missile.
"First of all, I want to be clear that North Korea has not demonstrated the capability to deploy a nuclear-armed missile," White House spokesman Jay Carney told reporters at a briefing.
But he noted that the United States continued to closely monitor the DPRK's nuclear program. Carney once again called upon Pyongyang to honor its international obligations.
"We have responded to the series of provocative actions, as well as the stepped-up bellicose rhetoric emanating from Pyongyang, by taking a series of prudent measures to ensure that our homeland and our allies are defended," he said, citing the step of enhancing the missile defense system.
On Thursday, US Representative Doug Lamborn said at a hearing that intelligence indicated the DPRK might have acquired the capability to deliver a nuclear warhead with its ballistic missile.
"DIA assesses with moderate confidence the North currently has nuclear weapons capable of delivery by ballistic missiles," Lamborn read from, according to him, an unclassified intelligence assessment by the Pentagon. "However, the reliability will be low."
Tensions have been heightened on the Korean Peninsula since the DPRK conducted its third nuclear test on February 12 in protest against joint military drills between the Republic of Korea and the United States.
The DPRK has declared "a state of war" with the South and threatened to launch a preemptive nuclear strike for self-defense. The country on Tuesday urged all foreign organizations, companies and tourists in the South to evacuate in case of war, saying the DPRK "does not want to see foreigners in South Korea fall victim to the war" as the situation on the peninsula "is inching close to a thermonuclear war".
Obama on Thursday urged the DPRK to end its "belligerent approach," saying "nobody wants to see a conflict on the Korean Peninsula".
In Seoul on Friday, US Secretary of State John Kerry reiterated that the DPRK will not be accepted as a nuclear power. The chief US diplomat also said a missile launch by Pyongyang would be "a huge mistake."
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[Time5] “The Great Gatsby”（题目用鼠标刷黑即可见）
WHEN a trailer for Baz Luhrmann’s “The Great Gatsby” was released last year, aficionados of F. Scott Fitzgerald’s masterpiece wasted no time in complaining about how fast, flashy and altogether Baz-Luhrmann-ish it was. Such sceptics won’t be placated by the film itself. As we might have expected from the director of “Strictly Ballroom” and “Moulin Rouge”, his “Gatsby” is a garish sensory assault with more juddering hip-hop than jazz and more CGI than real scenery. The camera whooshes around as if it is jet-propelled, and the whirling, bacchanalian parties would put the Rio Carnival to shame. The piano played by Klipspringer in the novel has been transformed into a colossal gilded pipe organ—an emblem of a film in which every last element is amplified to fantastic heights.
What we might not have expected, however, is that even while “The Great Gatsby” resembles an unholy 3D hybrid of a rap video and a perfume advertisement, its fundamental weakness is not that it treats the novel with too little reverence, but with too much. Mr Luhrmann views Fitzgerald’s slender fable as the grandest and most operatic of tragedies, and he’s determined that we view it that way, too.
He lops off most of the final chapter, but otherwise all of Fitzgerald’s text is up there on screen. We see a young bond salesman named Nick Carraway (Tobey Maguire) renting a small house on Long Island in the early 1920s, next door to the palatial mansion of the mysterious Jay Gatsby (Leonardo DiCaprio). And we learn that Gatsby is carrying a torch for Carraway’s cousin Daisy (Carey Mulligan), who lives unhappily with her bullying patrician husband, Tom (Joel Edgerton). But in most cases we don’t just watch events unfolding, we also hear Carraway’s voice-over describing them to us. And on several occasions Fitzgerald’s actual words float towards us as 3D subtitles. Just in case we still have any doubts about what’s going on, Mr Luhrmann has written extra dialogue in which the characters articulate exactly how they feel, and extra narration in which Carraway lectures us about the economy of the period.
The director comes across as an over-eager student, so desperate for us to appreciate the book that he can’t stop grabbing us by the lapels and shouting about what it all means and how significant it all is. The resulting two-and-a-half-hour film will be a boon to schoolchildren studying the book, in that it answers every question and fills in every blank. But Fitzgerald’s ambiguity and subtlety are obliterated. “The Great Gatsby” isn’t just an adaptation of the novel, but of the footnotes, too.
It’s a shame that Mr Luhrmann didn’t have more faith in his audience and his actors, because when he calms down and lets the story play out, a lot of it is just right. Mr DiCaprio, in particular, is a touching and amusing Gatsby, dazzling everyone with his golden-boy charm, but always keeping his jaw clenched and his narrow eyes flicking around him as if he’s afraid of being found out. Ms Mulligan is beguilingly pale and fragile as Daisy, and Mr Edgerton has the King-Kong physicality of Tom Buchanan. But the audience is never allowed to spend much time with the characters themselves before Mr Luhrmann steps in to check that we’re still paying attention.
Perhaps it’s appropriate that he has the same awestruck, mythologising love for the novel that Gatsby has for Daisy. But a dash of Carraway’s disapproving detachment might have turned a besotted homage into a very good film in its own right.

OBSTACLE

George Whitesides: Toward a science of simplicity（题目用鼠标刷黑即可见）
Most of the talks that you've heard in the last several fabulous days have been from people who have the characteristic that they have thought about something, they are experts, they know what's going on. All of you know about the topic that I'm supposed to talk about. That is, you know what simplicity is, you know what complexity is. The trouble is, I don't. And what I'm going to do is share with you my ignorance on this subject.
I want you to read this, because we're going to come back to it in a moment. The quote is from the fabled Potter Stewart opinion on pornography. And let me just read it, the important details here: "Shorthand description, ['hardcore pornography']; and perhaps I could never succeed in intelligibly defining it. But I know it when I see it." I'm going to come back to that in a moment.
So, what is simplicity? It's good to start with some examples. A coffee cup -- we don't think about coffee cups, but it's much more interesting than one might think -- a coffee cup is a device, which has a container and a handle. The handle enables you to hold it when the container is filled with hot liquid. Why is that important? Well, it enables you to drink coffee. But also, by the way, the coffee is hot, the liquid is sterile; you're not likely to get cholera that way. So the coffee cup, or the cup with a handle, is one of the tools used by society to maintain public health. Scissors are your clothes, glasses enable you to see things and keep you from being eaten by cheetahs or run down by automobiles, and books are, after all, your education.
But there's another class of simple things, which are also very important. Simple in function, but not at all simple in how they're constructed. And the two here are just examples. One is the cellphone, which we use every day. And it rests on a complexity, which has some characteristics very different from those that my friend Benoit Mandelbrot discussed, but are very interesting. And the other, of course, is a birth control pill, which, in a very simple way, fundamentally changed the structure of society by changing the role of women in it by providing to them the opportunity to make reproductive choices.
So, there are two ways of thinking about this word, I think. And here I've corrupted the Potter Stewart quotation by saying that we can think about something -- which spans all the way from scissors to the cell phone, Internet and birth control pills -- by saying that they're simple, the functions are simple, and we recognize what that simplicity is when we see it.
Or there may be another way of doing it, which is to think about the problem in terms of what -- if you associate with moral philosophers -- is called the teapot problem. The teapot problem I'll pose this way. Suppose you see a teapot, and the teapot is filled with hot water. And you then ask the question: Why is the water hot? And that's a simple question. It's like, what is simplicity? One answer would be: because the kinetic energy of the water molecules is high and they bounce against things rapidly -- that's a kind of physical science argument. A second argument would be: because it was sitting on a stove with the flame on -- that's an historical argument. A third is that I wanted hot water for tea -- that's an intentional argument. And, since this is coming from a moral philosopher, the fourth would be that it's part of God's plan for the universe. All of these are possibilities.
The point is that you get into trouble when you ask a single question with a single box for an answer, in which that single question actually is many questions with quite different meanings, but with the same words. Asking, "What is simplicity?" I think falls in that category. What is the state of science? And, interestingly, complexity is very highly evolved. We have a lot of interesting information about what complexity is. Simplicity, for reasons that are a little bit obscure, is almost not pursued, at least in the academic world.
We academics -- I am an academic -- we love complexity. You can write papers about complexity, and the nice thing about complexity is it's fundamentally intractable in many ways, so you're not responsible for outcomes. (Laughter) Simplicity -- all of you really would like your Waring Blender in the morning to make whatever a Waring Blender does, but not explode or play Beethoven. You're not interested in the limits of these things. So what one is interested in has a lot to do with the rewards of the system. And there's a lot of rewards in thinking about complexity and emergence, not so much in thinking about simplicity. One of the things I want to do is to help you with a very important task -- which you may not know that you have very often -- which is to understand how to sit next to a physicist at a dinner party and have a conversation. (Laughter) And the words that I would like you to focus on are complexity and emergence, because these will enable you to start the conversation and then daydream about other things.
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kimwang53

又抢到一沙发  坐等排版


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强迫自己加速看，看懂了，但写不出回忆。越障应该是ted之类的演讲吧，相对易懂

yangzexin

前排留名，谢楼主
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irvan

前排占座〜

Speed
01:26
People in Kunming are against the PX project.
02:00
The refinery is an important part, but the government and residents have not reached an agreement.
01:22
The jokes Braunohler took to the sky last month
02:03
America and DPRK's deploying a nuclear-armed missile.
03:15
The complaint about the film "The Great Gatsby"

Obstacle
05:09
Main idea: What is simplicity.
Attitude: Objective
Structure:
                1)Topic---What is simplicity
                2)Examples
                    Coffee cup, cellphone, birth control pills and so on
                3)Two ways of thinking about this word
                4)Complexity

yyjfantasy

速度：
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越障：1.Main idea:没咋看懂。。究竟说的是神马。。

1.the writer can't distinguish simplicity from complexity.
2.show an fabled man's opinion on pornography.
3.show examples such as a coffee cup, a book and glasses to definite simplicity.
4.Another sample of simple things.simple but important.
5.Academic workers will not be responsible for outcomes.

JennyF

谢谢楼主，obstacle 的内容 很有趣呢

1‘ 20  a new protest in kunming for the oil refinery, and it is peaceful. the mayor say the government will against the program since most of the citizen oppose it.

2'10 the plant says the risk of PX can be under control, but residents still fear, since the the plant cause fire in the recent years. other kinda same cases in other places. two big companies are responsible for the PX.

1'30 comedian did sth crazy in the sky…. why he exist in the world? make it a better place.

2'09 US demonstrated that North Korea won't employ nuclear missile. though the tension in Korea and North Korea threat South.

3'56 a comment on a film that transform from a novel
       attitude: negative -> push too much

5'13 what we may gonna do for when don't understand the complexity in the conversation .
      -> the definitions of simplicity and complexity.
      ->  the simplicity in life always has complexity side, such as the coffee cup, the question that "why the water is hot? "
      as a academic, the author likes complexity. ..
      one piece of advise: focus on the complexity when you want to start a conservation

beckybei11

谢谢LZ，辛苦了！！
                       

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Whatis simplicity, the author took a coffee for example. Coffee is simple

Anotherclass of simple things is simple in function. The author took thecellphone and birth control pills for example. Their function issimple.

Anotherway to interpret simplicity is using the tea port problem. Differentinteroperation of tea port problem lead to complexity. Simplicity isnot pursued at least in academy world.

Academyworld love complicity because the reward they can get.

huizhuo0309

占座！！！！

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IrisZZZ

Time1 – 2’01’
Protests against a planned oil refinery broke out in KM, people were feared that it might do harm to the residents.
Time2 – 2’43’
PX production is booming in China, many cities have planned to build plants, some have been cancelled under the pressure of the local.
Time3 – 1’32’
A comedian wrote a joke into the clouds over LA
Time4 – 2’31’
The white house doesn’t NK is capable of deploying a nuclear-armed missile.
Tension on the Korean peninsula has been heightened because of NK’s nuclear activities
Time5 – 4’01’
看得有点小吃力这篇。。
Obstacle - 6’12’
What is simplicity –
      Example – coffee cup
          Another type – simple in function, but complex in how it constructed
          You will know when you see it
Another way --
Simplicity is not pursued in academic word, it is obscure, complexity has many rewards.

dsphao

今天是第一次训练,感觉还是有很大差距阿! 看来要多多加油啊.下面是我的成绩,汇报如下!

May 19th 2013
SPEED
Time1 00:01:48.64
Citizens of KUNMING protested the PX project planned in their city. On May 4th , they carried out the second protest activity in the street , in sina weibo micro blog  someone posted the photos of live activity and the authority of Yunnan province officials promised to take some measures even without actual plans.
Time2 00:02:37.81

PX project is now popular in China, because it is widely used in different applications ,such as plastic and so on. However,  residents of china are more and more concerned about the damage from PX to environment and human health, so many protest activity such as Kunming took place more than  one time .In 2007, a PX project was protested by Xiamen people and the government promised to get rid of the factory from the southeastern tourist city. In 2011, another PX project happened in Dalian, but aftermath it is reported that the factory still was founded there.
Protest activity happened in Kunming is smaller than then former two,  and the project is carried out by China petroleum oil and yuntianhua, surprised by development and reform commit of China. The spokesman of Yuntianhua said the which kind of product would be producted had not be determined ,  even in the temporary plan  is PX.
Time3 00:02:47.72

A comedian  carried out a show in the airplane and he raised $70,000 on his website to show the solan “how do I land”. Unfortunately, a big wind happened after the plane took off , but finally he did it and he showed some photos on his website.
Time4 00:02:34.62
American government don’t believe the North Korea has the ability to launch the nuclear weapons. North Korea warned the foreigners that war would happened in the korea but US government called for North Korea to by the international obligations and Obama said no one want to see war in the korea peninsula , the secretary of state John Kerry and the chief diplomat  of US also appealed that North Korea stopped launch nuclear weapons.


Time5 00:03:45.09
The great Gatsby is a film , it is introduced from a novel . In the article, the author described some sceneries of the film, that is the ****and her husband’s life in the long island and the author thought the film is good for school children to understand the book comprehensively.  
OBSTACLE
00:24:47.57
This article is very interesting , maybe , I think it is a scientist lecture or university professor’speech for starter of a science or philosophy curriculum. What the author want to do is to motivate the audience to accept the inquiring of what the complexity is very interesting.

In the beginning, he came up with the topic : what simplicity is and what complexity is. He quoted Potter Stewart’s opion about pornyphotography “I can’t intelligibly define what it is ,but, I know when I see is  ” .His purpose is to illustrate the simplicity is from the function side, then he used the examples of coffee cup and scissors and glasses. This is the first set of examples to prove the simplicity; these examples have the same characteristics that they are simple in function as well as simple in how they constructed. But the second set examples is different because they are not simple in how they constructed even they are simple in function. They are mobile phone and birth control pills.

About the complexity he used the example of hot water. There are several different answers to explain why the water is hot. The first one is that because of the kinetic energy the water molecules bounce into each other; the second one is the teapot is place on the stove ; the third one is I want to drink hot water and the fourth one is because of the God.

Finally , the author draw the conclusion about simplicity and complexity. He thought that whay one is interested depends on the rewards of the system. The inquiring of what complexity is can get the rewards while simplicity can’t.