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CHECK THE KOOKMIN 'CYBERCAMPUS' WEBSITE. All digital readings have been posted. And of course the reading packet is in the Bugak Gwan copy center. Ask for them to print your copy. I have mine printed as well.
3.Yesterday, the biggest earthquake had occured in japan. This had caused loss of a lot of people. And Japan is still trying to recuperate what they'd lost.
-------------------------- A ferocious tsunami unleashed by Japan's biggest recorded earthquake slammed into its eastern coast Friday, killing hundreds of people as it carried away ships, cars and homes, and triggered widespread fires that burned out of control. Hours later, the waves washed ashore on Hawaii and the U.S. West coast, where evacuations were ordered from California to Washington but little damage was reported. The entire Pacific had been put on alert, including coastal areas of South America, Canada and Alaska, but waves were not as bad as expected. U.S. President Barack Obama said that Japan's leader told him there was no evidence of a nuclear leak after a major quake, even though the US Air Force delivered coolant to a plant. Obama said he asked specifically about the safety of Japan's nuclear plants when he spoke by telephone to Prime Minister Naoto Kan about the disaster. In northeastern Japan, the area around a nuclear power plant was evacuated after the reactor's cooling system failed and pressure began building inside. Police said 200 to 300 bodies were found in the northeastern coastal city of Sendai, the city in Miyagi prefecture, or state, closest to the epicenter. Another 178 were confirmed killed, with 584 missing. Police also said 947 people were injured. The magnitude-8.9 offshore quake triggered a 23-foot (seven-meter) tsunami and was followed for hours by more than 50 aftershocks, many of them more than magnitude 6.0. Friday's massive quake shook dozens of cities and villages along a 1,300-mile (2,100-kilometer) stretch of coast, including Tokyo, hundreds of miles (kilometers) from the epicenter. A large section of Kesennuma, a town of 70,000 people in Miyagi, burned furiously into the night with no apparent hope of being extinguished, public broadcaster NHK said. Koto Fujikawa, 28, was riding a monorail when the quake hit and had to pick her way along narrow, elevated tracks to the nearest station. ``I thought I was going to die,'' Fujikawa, who works for a marketing company, said. ``It felt like the whole structure was collapsing.''
Scientists said the quake ranked as the fifth-largest earthquake in the world since 1900 and was nearly 8,000 times stronger than one that devastated Christchurch, New Zealand, last month.
President Obama pledged U.S. assistance following what he called a potentially ``catastrophic'' disaster. He said one U.S. aircraft carrier is already in Japan, and a second is on its way. A U.S. ship was also heading to the Marianas Islands to assist as needed, he added.
Japan's nuclear safety agency said pressure inside the reactor at the Fukushima No. 1 power plant has risen to 1.5 times the level considered normal, and slightly radioactive vapor may be released to reduce the pressure.
The Defense Ministry said it had sent dozens of troops trained to deal with chemical disasters to the plant in case of a radiation leak. Trouble was reported at two other nuclear plants, but there was no radiation leak at either of them. ------------- http://www.koreatimes.co.kr/www/news/special/2011/03/182_82906.html
2. The effectiveness of the UK policy on tobacco, in Korea
3. The article below is not an example of South Korea. However, it would be relevant to Korean young people to smoke. Nowadays in Korea, I heard early some elementary school children learn to smoke a cigarette. Development of the mass media like internet gives children opportunity to access a variety of information. Although government do not sell cigarettes to children, children are provided cigarettes from some small shop which under the loose radar of law or steal them in father's pocket or pick up cigarette butts in the street to smoke. Therefore, even though it is prohibited, to obtain cigarettes is not difficult. Harmfulness of tobacco as a variety of objective indicators have been proven. Nevertheless, why does not stop young people smoking? I thought about the subjective feeling of them. In my opinion, Smoking children think they can improve their own existence by showing the smoking to other children. It is like the risky behavior considered brave behavior. If this is right factor of smoking, ban to cigarette display policy of UK is not effect in Korea.
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Cigarette displays to be banned in English stores
LONDON (AP) _ The cigarette packs piled into prominent displays behind store counters and supermarket checkouts in England can't be missed. They occupy prime retail real estate, helping to keep addicts hooked and quitters tempted.
But the government announced a ban on them Wednesday, a move that will keep cigarettes hidden away and make it just a tad more difficult for smokers to find their fix.
``We cannot ignore the targeting of young people through these displays,'' England's chief medical officer Sally Davies said in a statement, adding the can't-miss-it advertising encourages teens ``to start smoking at an age when they are less able to make an informed choice.''
England is following the lead of countries such as Iceland, Ireland and Canada, all of which have already forced cigarettes under the counter. Finland is also planning to introduce a ban on over-the-counter advertising in 2012, and a similar ban went into force in Norway at the beginning of last year.
That last ban even applies to imitation tobacco products such as chocolate cigarettes and licorice smoking pipes.
Cigarette packs in the U.K. already carry gruesome images of cancer-ridden lungs, corpses and tumors. Authorities are still mulling proposals to impose generic packaging on all tobacco products _ a move that would force cigarette makers to use plain, logo-free packs, aside from health warnings. Australia is already working toward a generic packaging system. If it followed suit, England would be the first nation in Europe to do so.
The Association of Convenience Stores said the new regulations would impose 40 million pounds ($65 million) in costs as owners dismantled displays and refit counters, while the National Federation of Retail Newsagents described it as a ``betrayal of our nation of shopkeepers.''
Both groups argued that there was no evidence to show such a ban would help improve public health.
The association's only complaint was about the deadline _ which forces larger stores to take down their displays by April of 2012 and gives smaller stores an extra three years to comply with the ban.
In north London, most shopkeepers interviewed said they believed the new rules would be counterproductive.
Mohammad Mahmoodi, the Afghan-born manager of Capital Food convenience store in Camden, said that by shutting down displays the government would be ``opening a window to a dodgy business.''
England's ban doesn't apply to other regions in the U.K. such as Scotland, where the implementation of a similar law has been held up by litigation.
2. RFID Journal LIVE! 2011 to Feature RFID-Enhanced Social-Media Networking Seminar
3. Mar. 9, 2011—RFID Journal announced today that it will host an RFID-Enhanced Social Networking preconference seminar at RFID Journal LIVE! 2011, the world's premier conference and exhibition focused on radio frequency identification and its many business applications. The seminar, sponsored by ODIN, will be held on Apr. 12, 2011, and will focus on one of the hottest RFID applications for manufacturers, retailers and marketers interested in capturing the attention of tech-savvy consumers. This year's LIVE! event will be held at the Orange Country Convention Center, in Orlando, Fla., on Apr. 12-14.
ODIN, a leading supplier of RFID solutions and a pioneer in the RFID-enhanced social-networking space, will explain how to set up an RFID system to ensure consistent and accurate interaction with customers, as well as gain understanding about how to create a successful social-media experience. Patrick J. Sweeney II, the company's president and CEO, will explain how RFID combined with social media has proven itself to be a valuable asset for improving customer engagement and managing interaction, while strengthening brand loyalty.
The preconference seminar will also feature end users that have successfully applied RFID technology to enhance their customers' social-networking experience.
Vail Resorts was among the first businesses to employ RFID to enhance social-media experiences (see Vail Resorts Links RFID With Social Media). Robert Urwiler, the company's CIO and the system's architect, will explain how visitors to Vail's five mountain locations are using their RFID-enabled lift tickets to connect with each other via social-media tools, as well as track their ski or snowboard metrics over the Internet, thereby earning virtual pins and competing on vertical feet and days skied.
ASICS, a manufacturer of athletic shoes and technical active sports apparel and accessories, discovered an innovative method for enhancing brand awareness, based around the New York City Marathon. Tom Sullivan, a principal at Vitro, the advertising agency that developed the campaign, will outline how his firm successfully encouraged supporters to create personalized messages for those taking part in the race, to be triggered by RFID tags.
Jeff Sommers, the owner of Izzy's Ice Cream Café, will describe how his company utilizes RFID to inform customers about its ever-changing menu of flavors, with updates available in near-real time on the company's Web site, which it promotes through Twitter and Facebook (see RFID Finds Flavor at Izzy's Ice Cream Shop).
"RFID truly brings a new dimension to the social-media experience," Sweeney says. "Companies and marketing firms that pay per click or for 'likes' are not getting users at the time of engagement, and so they miss out on very valuable opportunities to manage the right people at the proper time for their brand. It's a chance to leverage their virtual world and extend their brand, while deepening engagement. RFID is a unique standards-based technology that enables users to engage at the time that an event is happening—it's very sticky."
1.Park Kyu Hwan
ReplyDelete2.The worst thing had happend on earth.
3.Yesterday, the biggest earthquake had occured in japan. This had caused loss of a lot of people. And Japan is still trying to recuperate what they'd lost.
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A ferocious tsunami unleashed by Japan's biggest recorded earthquake slammed into its eastern coast Friday, killing hundreds of people as it carried away ships, cars and homes, and triggered widespread fires that burned out of control.
Hours later, the waves washed ashore on Hawaii and the U.S. West coast, where evacuations were ordered from California to Washington but little damage was reported. The entire Pacific had been put on alert, including coastal areas of South America, Canada and Alaska, but waves were not as bad as expected.
U.S. President Barack Obama said that Japan's leader told him there was no evidence of a nuclear leak after a major quake, even though the US Air Force delivered coolant to a plant. Obama said he asked specifically about the safety of Japan's nuclear plants when he spoke by telephone to Prime Minister Naoto Kan about the disaster.
In northeastern Japan, the area around a nuclear power plant was evacuated after the reactor's cooling system failed and pressure began building inside.
Police said 200 to 300 bodies were found in the northeastern coastal city of Sendai, the city in Miyagi prefecture, or state, closest to the epicenter. Another 178 were confirmed killed, with 584 missing. Police also said 947 people were injured.
The magnitude-8.9 offshore quake triggered a 23-foot (seven-meter) tsunami and was followed for hours by more than 50 aftershocks, many of them more than magnitude 6.0.
Friday's massive quake shook dozens of cities and villages along a 1,300-mile (2,100-kilometer) stretch of coast, including Tokyo, hundreds of miles (kilometers) from the epicenter. A large section of Kesennuma, a town of 70,000 people in Miyagi, burned furiously into the night with no apparent hope of being extinguished, public broadcaster NHK said.
Koto Fujikawa, 28, was riding a monorail when the quake hit and had to pick her way along narrow, elevated tracks to the nearest station. ``I thought I was going to die,'' Fujikawa, who works for a marketing company, said. ``It felt like the whole structure was collapsing.''
Scientists said the quake ranked as the fifth-largest earthquake in the world since 1900 and was nearly 8,000 times stronger than one that devastated Christchurch, New Zealand, last month.
President Obama pledged U.S. assistance following what he called a potentially ``catastrophic'' disaster. He said one U.S. aircraft carrier is already in Japan, and a second is on its way. A U.S. ship was also heading to the Marianas Islands to assist as needed, he added.
Japan's nuclear safety agency said pressure inside the reactor at the Fukushima No. 1 power plant has risen to 1.5 times the level considered normal, and slightly radioactive vapor may be released to reduce the pressure.
The Defense Ministry said it had sent dozens of troops trained to deal with chemical disasters to the plant in case of a radiation leak.
Trouble was reported at two other nuclear plants, but there was no radiation leak at either of them.
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http://www.koreatimes.co.kr/www/news/special/2011/03/182_82906.html
1. Yeo Min Sook
ReplyDelete2. The effectiveness of the UK policy on tobacco, in Korea
3. The article below is not an example of South Korea. However, it would be relevant to Korean young people to smoke. Nowadays in Korea, I heard early some elementary school children learn to smoke a cigarette. Development of the mass media like internet gives children opportunity to access a variety of information. Although government do not sell cigarettes to children, children are provided cigarettes from some small shop which under the loose radar of law or steal them in father's pocket or pick up cigarette butts in the street to smoke. Therefore, even though it is prohibited, to obtain cigarettes is not difficult. Harmfulness of tobacco as a variety of objective indicators have been proven. Nevertheless, why does not stop young people smoking? I thought about the subjective feeling of them. In my opinion, Smoking children think they can improve their own existence by showing the smoking to other children. It is like the risky behavior considered brave behavior. If this is right factor of smoking, ban to cigarette display policy of UK is not effect in Korea.
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Cigarette displays to be banned in English stores
LONDON (AP) _ The cigarette packs piled into prominent displays behind store counters and supermarket checkouts in England can't be missed. They occupy prime retail real estate, helping to keep addicts hooked and quitters tempted.
But the government announced a ban on them Wednesday, a move that will keep cigarettes hidden away and make it just a tad more difficult for smokers to find their fix.
``We cannot ignore the targeting of young people through these displays,'' England's chief medical officer Sally Davies said in a statement, adding the can't-miss-it advertising encourages teens ``to start smoking at an age when they are less able to make an informed choice.''
England is following the lead of countries such as Iceland, Ireland and Canada, all of which have already forced cigarettes under the counter. Finland is also planning to introduce a ban on over-the-counter advertising in 2012, and a similar ban went into force in Norway at the beginning of last year.
That last ban even applies to imitation tobacco products such as chocolate cigarettes and licorice smoking pipes.
Cigarette packs in the U.K. already carry gruesome images of cancer-ridden lungs, corpses and tumors. Authorities are still mulling proposals to impose generic packaging on all tobacco products _ a move that would force cigarette makers to use plain, logo-free packs, aside from health warnings. Australia is already working toward a generic packaging system. If it followed suit, England would be the first nation in Europe to do so.
The Association of Convenience Stores said the new regulations would impose 40 million pounds ($65 million) in costs as owners dismantled displays and refit counters, while the National Federation of Retail Newsagents described it as a ``betrayal of our nation of shopkeepers.''
Both groups argued that there was no evidence to show such a ban would help improve public health.
The association's only complaint was about the deadline _ which forces larger stores to take down their displays by April of 2012 and gives smaller stores an extra three years to comply with the ban.
In north London, most shopkeepers interviewed said they believed the new rules would be counterproductive.
Mohammad Mahmoodi, the Afghan-born manager of Capital Food convenience store in Camden, said that by shutting down displays the government would be ``opening a window to a dodgy business.''
England's ban doesn't apply to other regions in the U.K. such as Scotland, where the implementation of a similar law has been held up by litigation.
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http://www.koreaherald.com/world/Detail.jsp?newsMLId=20110310000307
1. Jaewoo Sung
ReplyDelete2. RFID Journal LIVE! 2011 to Feature RFID-Enhanced Social-Media Networking Seminar
3. Mar. 9, 2011—RFID Journal announced today that it will host an RFID-Enhanced Social Networking preconference seminar at RFID Journal LIVE! 2011, the world's premier conference and exhibition focused on radio frequency identification and its many business applications. The seminar, sponsored by ODIN, will be held on Apr. 12, 2011, and will focus on one of the hottest RFID applications for manufacturers, retailers and marketers interested in capturing the attention of tech-savvy consumers. This year's LIVE! event will be held at the Orange Country Convention Center, in Orlando, Fla., on Apr. 12-14.
ODIN, a leading supplier of RFID solutions and a pioneer in the RFID-enhanced social-networking space, will explain how to set up an RFID system to ensure consistent and accurate interaction with customers, as well as gain understanding about how to create a successful social-media experience. Patrick J. Sweeney II, the company's president and CEO, will explain how RFID combined with social media has proven itself to be a valuable asset for improving customer engagement and managing interaction, while strengthening brand loyalty.
The preconference seminar will also feature end users that have successfully applied RFID technology to enhance their customers' social-networking experience.
Vail Resorts was among the first businesses to employ RFID to enhance social-media experiences (see Vail Resorts Links RFID With Social Media). Robert Urwiler, the company's CIO and the system's architect, will explain how visitors to Vail's five mountain locations are using their RFID-enabled lift tickets to connect with each other via social-media tools, as well as track their ski or snowboard metrics over the Internet, thereby earning virtual pins and competing on vertical feet and days skied.
ASICS, a manufacturer of athletic shoes and technical active sports apparel and accessories, discovered an innovative method for enhancing brand awareness, based around the New York City Marathon. Tom Sullivan, a principal at Vitro, the advertising agency that developed the campaign, will outline how his firm successfully encouraged supporters to create personalized messages for those taking part in the race, to be triggered by RFID tags.
Jeff Sommers, the owner of Izzy's Ice Cream Café, will describe how his company utilizes RFID to inform customers about its ever-changing menu of flavors, with updates available in near-real time on the company's Web site, which it promotes through Twitter and Facebook (see RFID Finds Flavor at Izzy's Ice Cream Shop).
"RFID truly brings a new dimension to the social-media experience," Sweeney says. "Companies and marketing firms that pay per click or for 'likes' are not getting users at the time of engagement, and so they miss out on very valuable opportunities to manage the right people at the proper time for their brand. It's a chance to leverage their virtual world and extend their brand, while deepening engagement. RFID is a unique standards-based technology that enables users to engage at the time that an event is happening—it's very sticky."
http://www.rfidjournal.com/article/view/8271