Week 1-"Brexit" A huge influences between England and European Union!

    In brief, England government gave their citizens chances to decide whether they would stay in European Union... The prime minister of United Kingdom, David Cameron, fulfilling the commitment that gives the chances to people decide "Stay" or "Brexit", the minister support to keep stay in EU, however, the citizens in UK voted to "leave". In the end, 

Britain has been a member of the European Union (or its predecessor, the European Economic Community) since 1973. But a series of crises have shaken British confidence in the EU. The European Central Bank’s disastrous handling of the post-2008 recession caused sky-high unemployment in Greece and Spain. The Syrian refugee crisis tested Europe’s open-borders policy.

In 2014, Conservative Prime Minister David Cameron was worried about gains by the far-right United Kingdom Independence Party. So to mollify anti-immigration voters in hisparty, he promised a referendum on British exit from the European Union if he won the 2015 election.

Cameron personally believed that it would be a mistake for Britain to leave the EU, and campaigned for voters to vote to remain in. But other members of his party — including former London Mayor Boris Johnson — campaigned for a "Leave" vote. Also supporting Leave was UKIP leader Nigel Farage, who argued that immigrants were costing Britons jobs, using up government services, and committing crimes. In the end, Leave won, with nearly 52 percent of voters deciding to exit the EU.

As economists predicted, the leave vote is causing economic turmoil. As the result came in, the value of the British pound fell by 10 percent to $1.35, its lowest level against the dollar since 1985. Stock markets around the world fell in Friday trading.

The vote spooked financial markets because the British economy has become deeply intertwined with the European continent. Negotiating Britain’s withdrawal could be a messy, complex process, and the new post-withdrawal rules might make it harder to do business between the UK and the EU — threatening London’s status as the financial capital of Europe.

Brexit could also create big headaches for people moving between Britain and the continent. EU rules guarantee that EU citizens of one country can live and work in any other EU country. There are about 3 million non-British EU nationals living in the UK, and about 1.2 million Brits living in other EU countries. At a minimum, Brexit will mean more paperwork and hassles — and some people could even lose their right to live in the UK and thus be deported.

But it will take years for the implications to become clear. David Cameron announced his resignation on Friday morning, so his successor will have to lead negotiations with the EU over the terms of the post-exit relationship. The leading candidate is Boris Johnson, a more conservative and Euroskeptical figure than Cameron.

EU rules specify that these parties will have a two-year window in which to negotiate new agreements to replace existing EU rules. Those rules cover trade, migration, agriculture, the environment, and more. So negotiations could drag on for years. And uncertainty about the outcome will loom over the British economy. The UK government has estimated that exit could cause the British economy to be between 3.8 and 7.5 percent smaller by 2030 — depending on how well negotiations go. Other reports have found smaller but still significant impacts.

Source:  NewYork Times

Week 3 - Uber, Taxi, Crime

Uber’s Smartphone-based taxi service has been decried as unsafe by taxi companies, derided as unfair by competitors and declared illegal by city bureaucrats.

While the San Francisco-based company faces backlash in cities across North America, partially along with a taxi industry set on defending its market share, here in Toronto, one cab company is taking a different tack.

Instead of trying to beat ’em, Beck Taxi has decided to join ’em.

For the past several months, Beck has been testing a new app that would show passengers a map and give a real-time estimate for how long a cab would take to arrive, according to taxi fleet operator Sam Moini, who runs 30 cabs with Co-op, Crown and Beck.

Passengers would know the taxi number before it gets there and could pay with a credit card on their phone, Moini said, while retaining the option of traditional payments, including cash, credit and debit cards in-car.

“It’s kinda like (Uber), but more legal,” said Moini.

Beck wouldn’t discuss any details about the new app because it hasn’t been officially released. Operations manager Kristine Hubbard confirmed the app had been built and was in the testing phase, but says it does not imitate Uber.

“We’re a tech company; we can make a taxi app,” she said. “So I decided we’re going to build our own.”

Meanwhile, Uber currently faces three dozen Toronto bylaw charges and an injunction to shut down its operations. Uber argues that it doesn’t need to be licensed because it is not a taxi service.

But having the convenience of the Uber app with the peace of mind brought by the city’s biggest taxi dispatcher might end up being the best of both worlds.

“We want to make sure that customers understand we’re doing all we can to make sure they are satisfied,” Moini said. “You are told, ‘Oh, the cab will be there in five minutes,’ but you don’t really know where the cab is. This way, you know exactly where your cab is and exactly how long it will take to come to you.”

Beck is rolling out the app at the same time as it is installing tablets in its cabs, giving drivers a similar interface as passengers would have on their phones.

The tablets, which are already in 99 per cent of the fleet, display a real-time GPS-driven map that allows drivers and passengers to follow their progress, Hubbard said.

Uber spokesperson Susie Heath said traditional taxi companies have tried to imitate their app in other cities, and they encourage it.

“Riders and the community at large benefits from more competition, and Uber has helped drive change in an industry that hasn’t made efforts to adapt in decades,” she wrote in an email.

Beck is the biggest brokerage in the city, with more than 1,900 taxis and 8.5 million radio dispatches per year. Hubbard stressed, however, that while their current app brings in about 1 million orders a year, the radio will remain the backbone of their business.

“We want to make sure that the senior citizen who doesn’t have a smartphone is still going to be able to get to the grocery store,” she said.

Source: http://www.thestar.com/news/gta/2015/03/10/beck-taxi-to-launch-app-to-rival-ubers.html

Who : Taxi drivers , Taxi companies 

When : Recently

Where : Around the world

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Week 2 - Two NYPD cops "assassinated" by police-hating gunman

Two NYPD officers were "assassinated" while sitting in their patrol car in Brooklyn Saturday afternoon by a gunman who had vowed online hours earlier to kill cops.

The gunman traveled to New York to carry out his plot after shooting his ex-girlfriend near Baltimore. His online postings said he was avenging the controversial deaths of two black men at police hands in Ferguson, Missouri, and Staten Island.

The officers, Wenjian Liu, 32, and Rafael Ramos, 40, were shot execution-style at point-blank range in the ambush attack near the intersection of Myrtle and Tompkins avenues in Bedford-Stuyvesant at 2:47 p.m., police said.

The killings happened just as the NYPD received word from police in Baltimore County, Maryland, that the gunman, Ismaaiyl Brinsley, 28, had shot his former girlfriend and might be on his way to New York to harm police.

"Two of New York's finest were shot and killed with no warning, no provocation," NYPD Commissioner William Bratton said during a news conference last night at Woodhull Medical Center, where both officers were pronounced dead. "They were quite simply assassinated, targeted for their uniform and for the responsibility they embraced to keep the people of the city safe."

The officers were working a critical response detail, aimed at combating a crime surge at the Tompkins Houses, a public housing project, when Brinsley walked up to the passenger side of the car, "took a shooting stance," and opened fire, Bratton said.

Ramos was in the driver's seat and Liu in the passenger seat when they were hit, Bratton said.

"They never had the opportunity to draw their weapons," Bratton said. "They may never even have actually seen their . . . murderer."

After the shootings, Brinsley fled into the nearby G train subway station and fatally shot himself on the platform as pursuing officers closed in, police said.

The murder weapon, a silver-colored semiautomatic Taurus pistol, was recovered in the subway station, police said.

Bratton said investigators believe Brinsley lived in Atlanta and had traveled to suburban Baltimore, where he shot his ex-girlfriend Saturday morning.

The gunman posted a photo of a silver handgun on Instagram about three hours before the Brooklyn shooting, writing "I'm Putting Wings on Pigs Today" and using a #ShootThePolice hashtag, a police source said. In another post, he wrote: "They Take 1 Of Ours . . . Let's Take 2 of Theirs. This May Be My Final Post," the source said.

The posts also made reference to Eric Garner and Michael Brown, both of whom were killed during encounters with police this year.

Brinsley, whose criminal history included numerous arrests on charges ranging from robbery to carrying a concealed weapon, had also urged his Instagram followers to "burn the Flag" in protest of police violence a few days before killing the officers, the source said.

Detectives were investigating whether he might have belonged to a street gang, the source said.

The ambush shootings of the two officers turned the busy commercial stretch of Bedford-Stuyvesant into a scene of violence and chaos.

Courtney Felix, 23, said he was at a friend's apartment near the Tompkins Houses when he heard the gunman open fire. He looked out the window and saw the two officers struggling to get out of their car, clutching at their wounds before falling to the ground.

"They looked like they were really hurt, they were struggling to get out of their car," Felix said.

Both officers were assigned to the 84th Precinct in Downtown Brooklyn but were working in the 79th Precinct as part of the special detail.

Ramos, formerly a school safety officer who fulfilled his dream of becoming a cop two years ago, had celebrated a birthday Dec. 12, officials said.

He had a wife and 13-year-old son, New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio said at the news conference Saturday night, adding that he and other officials prayed over the bodies of both men at the hospital.

Liu married his wife two months ago, officials said.

The mayor called their killings "a particularly despicable act" that "tears at the foundation of our society."

"It is an attack on all of us," he continued. "It is in attack on all we hold dear . . . on the very concept of decency. Therefore, every New Yorker should feel they were attacked . . . the entire city was attacked, by this heinous individual."

Officials also urged New Yorkers to immediately report any threats made against police on social media.

Brinsley's violent spree began about 5:45 a.m. in Owings Mills, Maryland, when he shot and wounded his ex-girlfriend, who has not been identified. Baltimore County police later received information that he was posting anti-police messages on the woman's Instagram account, Bratton said, and at 2:45 p.m. sent a wanted flier to the NYPD and other agencies warning that Brinsley might be headed their way.

"Tragically, this was at the same time they [Liu and Ramos] were being murdered," Bratton said.

The killing of the officers followed more than two weeks of protests in response to a grand jury's decision not to indict NYPD Officer Daniel Pantaleo in the apparent chokehold death of Garner during an arrest on July 17.

The decision in the Garner case came just days after a grand jury in Missouri declined to indict former police Officer Darren Wilson in the Aug. 9 shooting death of Michael Brown.

The killing of two officers was at least the third unprovoked attack on NYPD cops in recent months and the first line-of-duty shooting deaths since 2011.

Source: http://www.newsday.com/news/new-york/wenjian-liu-and-rafael-ramos-killed-by-ismaaiyl-brinsley-nypd-officials-say-1.9734523

Who: Wenjian Liu . Rafael Ramos

When: December 18 , 2014

Where:Brooklyn 

Why:It's because the police had killed two innocent people before. 

How:There are more and more people began to adapt some impulsive action to attack police officers in America. 

Week 1 - Taiwan detains Ting Hsin Wei Ying Chung cooking oil scandal

        Oct 17 (Reuters) - Taiwan prosecutors have detained a key member of the family that controls Ting Hsin Intentional Group over the alleged sale of tainted cooking oil, media reported on Friday, amid Taiwan's second food scandal in less than two months.

        Wei Ying Chung, one of the Wei family's four brothers, has been detained on charges of fraud and violating trust, according to TV stations and newspapers.

        Taiwan's High Prosecutors Office said in a statement it had searched Wei's home.

        Ting Hsin is the parent company of Hong Kong-listed Tingyi Cayman Islands Holding Corp and makes China's popular Master Kong instant noodles and beverages.

        The food scandal has been mainly confined to Taiwan markets, rather than China

       "The State Administration of Quality Supervision, Inspection and Quarantine said that since 2013 China has not imported edible oils from pigs in Taiwan," China's Taiwan Affairs Office said in a statement earlier this week.

        Ting Hsin's unit, Cheng-I Food Co, is already being investigated on suspicion of mixing animal feed oil with cooking oil and selling it for human consumption, prosecutors have said.

        The incident has triggered widespread outrage in Taiwan and led to a boycott of Ting Hsin's products across the island.

        Ting Hsin said late on Thursday it would donate T$3 billion ($100 million) to the government to set up a food safety fund.

        In September, another company, Chang Guann Co, said it had sold adulterated cooking oil to restaurants, schools and food processors.

Source : http://www.reuters.com/article/2014/10/17/taiwan-food-scandal-idUSL3N0SB37420141017

Who : Wei Ying Chung and his enterprise, Ting Hsin.

Where : Ting Hsin International Group.

When : In 2014.

What : In 2014, this international group had been found three cooking oil scandal in public. More and more people feel disappointed about the foods ingredients Ting Hsin produces.

Why : Ting Hsin enterprise had sold the tainted cooking oil which would cause the bad effect in body to make more profits. 

How : Taiwanese have begun to restrict to buy the product Ting Hsin produces.

Week 7 - Canadian parliament Ottwa shooting gunman

    Canadian parliment Ottwa shooting gunman

       Security forces are on alert across Canada after a gunman attacked the nation's parliament, shooting a soldier dead before himself being killed by a parliamentary official.

       Canadian prime minister Stephen Harper declared that the nation would "never be intimidated" and said the soldier, who was standing on ceremonial guard duty outside the nation's main war memorial in Ottawa, had been "murdered in cold blood".

       The gunman has been identified as Michael Zehaf-Bibeau, a Muslim convert who was born Michael Joseph Hall, who reportedly fought in Libya during the uprising which deposed strongman Moamar Gaddafi.

       He was shot dead by the parliament's sergeant-at-arms, who has been hailed a hero by MPs who were caught in the building as dozens of shots were fired.

       Soldier shot in chest while on guard duty

       The violence began about 10:00am Wednesday (local time) when a soldier Nathan Cirillo, a 24-year-old reservist serving with the Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders of Canada regiment, was shot in the chest with a rifle as he stood on guard.

       It is believed that Zehaf-Bibeau then hijacked a car and ran into the nearby parliament building where he opened fire when confronted by security staff.

       Pictures from inside the parliament showed MPs barricading themselves into a room as security guards traded fire with the gunman.

      "I literally had just taken off my jacket to go into caucus. I hear this 'pop, pop, pop', possibly 10 shots," Liberal Party member John McKay told reporters.

      "Suddenly the security guards come rushing down the hallways and usher us all out to the back of the parliament buildings."

       Witnesses said they saw a man armed with a rifle running into parliament after the shooting at the war monument.

       A construction worker on the scene said he heard a gunshot, then saw a man dressed in black with a scarf over his face running towards parliament with a gun.

       The gunman rushed past a woman with a child in a stroller, who ran away screaming. He did not attack the woman or child, construction worker Scott Walsh told Reuters.

       Another witness, Marc-Andre Viau, said he saw a man run into the parliament precinct, chased by police who yelled "take cover".

       That was followed by "10, 15, maybe 20 shots", possibly from an automatic weapon, he said.

       Veterans affairs minister Julian Fantino, a former policeman, said parliament's head of security, sergeant-at-arms Kevin Vickers, shot dead a suspected gunman.

      "All the details are not in, but the sergeant-at-arms, a former Mountie, is the one that engaged the gunman, or one of them at least, and stopped this," Mr Fantino said.

Source : http://www.abc.net.au/news/2014-10-23/canadian-parliament-in-lockdown-after-gunman-shoots-soldier/5834692

Who : A gunman and soldiers.

Where : Canadian parliament.

When : October 22, 2014

Why : The Islamic State of Iraq and Syria has urged supporters to carry out attacks against Western countries, including Canada.

What : Tragedy and terror struck Canada's capital city Wednesday as a gunman shot a soldier standing guard at the country's National War Memorial before storming the Parliament building.

How : Canada's prime minister called the incident the country's second terrorist attack in three days.

Week 6 - Taiwan actor Ko Chen-tung cut from blockbuster after drug arrest with Jaycee Chan

        The fourth instrament of the Chinese blockbuster franchise Tiny Times will not feature Taiwanese actor Ko Chen-tung, after he was arrested for drug use in Beijing in July, state media reported.

The 23-year-old actor, also known as Kai Ko, served 14 days in detention in Beijing for drug offences after he was detained along with Jaycee Fong Cho-ming, son of Hang Kong action star Jackie Chan.

China’s media watchdog has warned mainland production companies not to use stars involved in prostitution, gambling or drug abuse. China Radio International reports that Ko’s scenes in Tiny Times 4, due for release in February, are being reshot.

The Tiny Times franchise, which has been called China’s ‘Gossip Girl’, has been hugely successful. On its release in July, the third film knocked Transformers 4 off the top of the Chinese box office, taking more than 306 million yuan in its first four days and setting a record for a 2D film.

Writer-director Guo Jinming said earlier this year he might have to cut Ko from the fourth film, though he later denied he was in talks with an actor to replace him.

“The movie has to be submitted for censorship and it’s beyond my ability,” Guo told the Beijing News in September.

Ko, who made a tearful confession of drug use on state TV in August, has already lost a number of high-profile endorsement deals, including with Canon, KFC, and Quaker Oats.

The actor will also reportedly be cut from ‘Monster Hunt’, the live-action debut of Chinese director Raman Hui, who previously co-directed ‘Shrek the Third’.

Jaycee Chan was formally arrested in September on suspicion of “accommodating drug users” and potentially faces as much as three years in prison.

Jackie Chan, who was named a Chinese anti-drug ambassador in 2009, haspublicly apologised for his son’s behavior and blamed his failings as a parent.

“I am always a father. I used to be an unqualified father. Now, after this event, I want to be a qualified father,” Chan told reporters last month.

Ko and Chan were detained as part of an ongoing anti-drug campaign. This week Chinese police announced that more than 100,000 drug users had been "investigated" and 12 tonnes of narcotics seized in the past 50 days alone. 

Source : Http://www.scmp.com/news/china-insider/article/1644480/taiwan-actor-ko-chen-tung-cut-upcoming-blockbuster-after-jaycee

Who : The 23-year-old actor, Ko Chen-tung.

When : Thursday,20 November, 2014.

Where : China Beijing.

What : Ko Chen-tung and his friend Jaycee Chan took drug.

Why : Ko Chen-tung was arrested in China,he claimed that he encounter a huge stress so...he choose a wrong way to relax...... After that he will cut from blockbuster for a while..

How : Ko Chen-tung was sent to Taiwan court.

Week 5 - Ferguson. Michael Brown. Darren Wilson. Mission

What Michael Brown's autopsy tells us

Editor's note: Judy Melinek, MD, is a forensic pathologist who served as a medical examiner at the Manhattan Office of the Chief Medical Examiner for two years. She is the co-author of "Working Stiff" (Scribner). The opinions expressed in this commentary are solely those of the author.

(CNN) -- Michael Brown, Eric Garner and John Crawford all have one thing in common: It's not just that they were unarmed men of color killed by police officers -- it's that the responsibility to investigate each of their deaths fell to a medical examiner.

We medical examiners investigate all homicides and violent deaths, and it is also part of our legal duty to investigate any death of a person under the control of, or in the custody of, a law enforcement agent.

I have worked as a medical examiner for 13 years in four large cities in the United States. Medical examiner offices are independent public agencies, and one of our responsibilities is to act as quality control over law enforcement agencies. The medical examiner is the final arbiter of whether a death was the direct result of an arrest, or, instead, the result of natural disease or an incidental event.

Medical examiner reports in most states are public records. We all deserve and should expect transparency in death investigation. The family of the deceased, the news media and anyone who asks for it can get a copy of the medical examiner's or coroner's autopsy report on any case that is not sealed as part of an active investigation.

Medical examiners are physicians, specialists in forensic pathology. We are professionally protective of our independence. We know that it is our duty and responsibility, as the doctors who perform the autopsy, to speak for the dead.

Unfortunately, in the wake of the death of a civilian at the hand of police officers, the public is often suspicious of the medical examiner.

Because the law requires a local government agency to perform the death investigation, people often assume that this agency falls under the jurisdiction or influence of the police. News reports critical of the amount of time the dead body was left at the scene, or the amount of time it takes to get a final autopsy report, exacerbate this distrust.

In St. Louis County, Missouri, where Michael Brown was autopsied,Dr. Mary Case, the chief medical examiner, is a board-certified forensic pathologist. She has years of experience and reports to the Health Department, not the police.

Brown's official autopsy report was expedited and finalized on Monday. It was made available to the prosecuting attorney, who is now in charge of any release of information.

Why does a death scene investigation take so long? An outdoor death scene is a messy and complicated place. As soon as the person has been declared dead, the area has to be frozen in time to ensure that we, the public, can later learn what really happened there.

Crime scene photographers and trained evidence collection analysts have to "process the scene," an hourslong procedure when done properly. The body, the position of any vehicles, the lighting, the height of adjacent structures --everything needs to be photographed from multiple angles.

In a shooting, crime scene investigators will have to measure and document the number and location of the casings, bullets and strike marks. If the evidence and its undisturbed location are not documented in this painstaking way, then criminal or civil complaints against the officer may not stand up in court.

But what about the autopsy report? Why does that take so long?

That's because a competent job in the morgue, too, takes time. The work I do as a doctor in the autopsy suite after a typical gunshot wound homicide case may take three or four hours to complete, but after I leave the morgue, the report is not done.

I have to wait for the report from the toxicology lab, which usually takes a minimum of two weeks, and for histology slides to come back before I can examine them under a microscope. Any of these findings could impact the cause of death.

As part of an investigation I have to try to figure out which defects in the body come from bullets entering, and which from their exit. Usually these wounds are distinctly different in appearance, but the more complex the body position of the deceased, the more complicated things get. Exit wounds in flesh pressed against the ground or against tight clothing can appear just like entrance wounds. An entrance wound inflicted through an intermediary target that deformed the bullet can look just like an exit wound. Sometimes I have to wait for the police reports or witness transcripts in to correctly interpret what I see on the body in the autopsy suite.Even gunshot wounds cannot be interpreted in a vacuum.

After the shooting in Ferguson, Michael Brown's family hired Dr. Michael Baden, a former New York State Police medical examiner, to conduct a second autopsy, and the federal Department of Justice instructed the Armed Forces Medical Examiner to conduct a third.

In the course of the first, legally mandated autopsy, the forensic pathologist will have taken the organs out and sliced them apart for examination. The gunshot wounds will have been probed, and sometimes even cut into.What you can tell from a second or third autopsy is limited by autopsy artifact -- changes to the evidence caused by the performance of the first autopsy.

More importantly, any pathologist hired by the family, regardless of expertise, does not have access to the crime scene and other evidence. Even Baden, in the report he prepared for the Brown family, concluded that without the clothing, evidence or scene information, he had "too little information to forensically reconstruct the shooting."

Why weren't the St. Louis medical examiner's autopsy findings made public immediately? Because releasing preliminary information when the investigation is still ongoing is premature and potentially inflammatory.

Already the results of Baden's limited investigation are being used to support the contention that Brown was surrendering, and that the wounds were distant range, even though Baden himself said neither.

To a forensic pathologist, the body diagram Brown's attorneys released tells a different story. The wound at the top of the head, the frontal wounds and angled right hand and arm wounds suggest that the victim was facing the officer, leaning forward with his right arm possibly extended in line with the gun's barrel, and not above his head.

The image of a person standing upright with his hands in the air when he was shot does not appear compatible with the wounds documented on that diagram. Whether a forward-leaning position is a posture of attack or of surrender, however, is a matter of perspective.

From the perspective of a witness, it could appear that the leaning person is complying with the officer and getting down. From the perspective of the officer, he may appear to be coming at him. Partial evidence yields partial answers, and a rush to conclusions based on one isolated set of data from a second autopsy only raises more questions.

That is why it is so important to be patient and wait for all the scene information to come to light.

But "be patient and wait" is not a demand that anyone has the right to make on a family that has lost a loved one in a sudden and violent event. When I have been assigned to investigate an in-custody or officer-involved death, I will often call the family right away.

It's important to me to reach out to them, to tell the people who are awaiting answers from me that I am qualified to do the job I am trained for; that I will hide nothing from them; that everything I do on their behalf will be part of the public record; and to give them some idea of how long the process might take.

When the report is finished, I meet with family members or their attorneys to discuss the findings and explain the medical diagnoses I have come to. This solemn conference takes place behind the scenes, months after the incident, and is never reported in the news media -- but it is probably the most important part of my job.

As a doctor and a civil servant, I take my public role seriously. I strive to with all my ability, training and effort to answer any questions that person's family may have. I know that others in my field strive with the same effort. It's why we went into our field of medicine. We are servants of the public -- not of the state, not of any single law firm, and not of the police.

Source : http://edition.cnn.com/2014/08/20/opinion/melinek-michael-brown-autopsy/index.html?iref=allsearch

Who : Michael Brown (A black teenager)  Darren Wilson (A white police)

Where : On the street

When : On August 9

What : The police  fatally shot an unarmed black teen in August.

Why : The police considered that Brown would rush toward him, so he did the justice which he thought directly, he ended up shooting down the black teen by 6 bullets...

How : Darren Wilson changed homes, preferred dark movies theater to avoid detection.