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路透社:四川洪水来袭 五人成功获救
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Five rescued from China flood
四川洪水来袭 五人成功获救
Stranded by flash floods, these five men in the Chinese province of Sichuan await rescue. The workers had been trying to cross a channel near the city of Leshan, according to state media.
在中国四川，突如其来的洪水将五人困住，等待救援。据国家媒体报道，当时工人正经过乐山附近的一河道。
EYE WITNESS, ZHANG FENG, SAYING: "They drove down there at 8 o'clock this morning on their way to work, and then the water came and it was too late.'' Several attempts to reach the men with a rope fail. But a fishing rod does the trick. A firefighter crosses to the men who pull themselves across the raging torrent. This man has a close call but all five make it safely to the river bank. Summer flooding is common in southern China, sometimes killing hundreds of mostly rural residents.
目击者张峰说：“今天早上八点钟去上班的时候，他们开车经过那里，然后大水来了，但为时已晚。”起初尝试扔了几次绳子，但失败了。最后，一根钓鱼竿把问题搞定了。一名消防员顺着绳索爬过去，然后其他人自己穿过湍急的洪水。该男子险遭意外，但最后五人都安全的到达了对岸。在中国南方夏季发洪水并不是什么新鲜事，有时会造成数百人遇难，其中大部分是农村居民。
Floods man saves himself using rope trick
洪水中男子使用绳索自救
Surging waters below, video footage shows emergency workers struggling to rescue one local man from his home as severe floods hit southwest China. A mountaineering-style traverse rope allowed the man to "zip-line" across to safety, as rising waters raged around his house.
中国西南部发生特大洪水，滔滔洪水下，录像记录了紧急救援人员奋力营救一名当地男子从家中逃生的画面。随着洪水上升房子被围，男子使用登山式绳索“滑行”到安全地方。
VILLAGER, LI JINGPING, SAYING: "It thundered yesterday and then rain followed. I thought it might be like the day before yesterday when there was nothing serious. But when the day broke at six am, the flood became more and more torrential. At four pm it was impossible to go out." Powerful storms and heavy rains have inundated parts of southwest China, according to state media. Vast areas of cropland have been flooded and many roads are impassable. Two more days of torrential rain are forecast.
村民李京平说：“昨天打雷下雨，我以为可能是像前天那样，没什么严重的。但早上六点天刚刚亮时，洪水越来越猛烈。到了下午4点就出不去了。”据国家媒体报道，强风和暴雨淹没了中国西南部分地区。大面积的农田被淹没，许多道路无法通行。未来两天预计还会有暴雨。
Former Pakistani PM urges restraint after son's abduction
巴基斯坦前总理儿子遭绑架 望不要冲动
It is an indication of just how violent things have become in Pakistan that the son of a former prime minister was kidnapped by gunmen. Yusuf Raza Gilani, the country's former prime minister called for restraint after his son Hader's abduction. He also says the incident should not deter people from voting.
前巴基斯坦总理的儿子被持枪歹徒绑架，彰显巴基斯坦暴力事件的严重。儿子Hader遭绑架后，前巴基斯坦总理Yusuf Raza Gilani呼吁群众不要冲动。同样，他还表示这起事件不应阻止人们投票。
Former Pakistan Prime Minister Yusuf Raza Gilani saying (Urdu): "My message to the masses is that they should show patience. They should remain patient. Let the law take its own course. Election is a national obligation. They should go out to the polls thinking of it as a national obligation. But our protest is there."
前巴基斯坦总理优素福·拉扎·吉拉尼说：“我想告诉大伙的是，他们要有耐心。他们要保持耐心。让法律来履行它的职责。选举是国家义务。他们应该走出房门去投票，把它当作国家义务。但我们发生了抗议。”
Since April, the al Qaeda-linked Pakistani Taliban have killed more than 100 people in attacks on candidates and at political rallies, particularly those of secular-leaning parties.The polls, already Pakistan's most violent, will mark the first time a civilian government has completed a full term and handed over to another administration.
自4月份以来，与基地组织有关的巴基斯坦塔利班针对候选人，政治集会发动袭击，造成100多人死亡，特别是那些非宗教的党羽。此次投票已经成为巴基斯坦最为暴力的一次，将标志首个平民政府的完全结束，以及另一个政府的开始。
马云正式辞去阿里巴巴CEO 回顾传奇人生
Jack Ma steps down as Alibaba CEO
马云正式辞去阿里巴巴CEO 回顾传奇人生
Jack Ma, CEO of Alibaba group, the world’s largest online retailer, is about to step down from the top job. Ma is expected to formalise his resignation at the 10-year anniversary ceremony of Taobao.com, China’s largest online sales platform. The decision comes as Alibaba prepares a huge stock offering set to dwarf even Facebook.
"Jack Ma will not have to supervise the daily operations of the company. But I’m sure he will have the final say on some important things such as investments, merger and acquisitions, and other strategic decisions of the company. So I think there are no fundamental changes to Ma’s role,” Chairman of Alabs.com Fang Xingdong
Jack Ma is one of China’s most well-known corporate personalities and has single-handedly inspired a whole generation of young aspiring entrepreneurs.
From a college English teacher to China’s e-commerce tycoon, Ma’s journey to the top has certainly been an unconventional one. For a look back, we’re joined in the studio by our reporter Yin Hang. Yin Hang, it seems Jack Ma is bowing out at the peak of his career?
YH: As one of China’s best known corporate figures, billionaire Jack Ma, will step down as CEO of Alibaba Group, passing the reins to "a younger, better equipped" generation, as he puts it. Ma, a former tour guide and English teacher and self-styled "China’s Forrest Gump", said most of Alibaba’s executives "born in the 1960s" would also pass their leadership responsibilities to younger colleagues. Now let’s look back at his success with Alibaba and Taobao.com.
奥巴马演讲:奥巴马谈创新与制造
President Obama Speaks on Innovation and Manufacturing
奥巴马谈创新与制造
THE PRESIDENT: Hello, Austin! How you doing? (Applause.) Well, it is wonderful to see all of you here today. First of all, give Nicole an outstanding round of applause for the great job that she did. (Applause.)
It is wonderful to be here at Applied Materials. I want to thank Mike and everybody who helped out hosting us and a wonderful tour of the facility. It was incredible. Rick was showing me some of your “clean rooms” where you are building the equipment that makes the chips that is basically powering everything that you guys are taking pictures with right now. (Laughter.) Smartphones, computers, iPads, laptops. And it is just remarkable to see. Every time I walk through these kinds of facilities I'm thinking, this is just magic. I don't know how they do it.
Somebody was explaining to me that -- I guess one of the wafers was being cleaned, and he said, this would be the equivalent -- it was Alex who told me this -- Alex is around here somewhere -- the equivalent of if you were mowing the South Lawn but every blade of grass was exactly cut at the same height within a single human hair. That's how precise things are. That sounds pretty precise to me. And if that's, by the way, the precision that you operate on, if that’s how you define a clean room, then Sasha and Malia are going to have to step up their game at home. (Laughter.) Because it is not that clean. (Laughter.)
I want to thank your Mayor, Lee Leffingwell, who’s doing a great job. (Applause.) Lee is doing outstanding work every day and helping to bring the Austin community together. Congressman Lloyd Doggett is here. (Applause.) They’ve been great hosts. We actually have a special guest -- the Mayor of San Antonio in the house -- my friend, Julian Castro is here. (Applause.)
Now, I’ve spent the day in Austin talking with folks about what we can do to reignite the true engine of America’s economic growth -- a thriving, rising middle class and a dynamic, cutting-edge economy. That’s our priority. That should be Washington’s top priority. (Applause.) And I see three things that we need to focus on to do it.
Number one, we've got to make America a magnet for good jobs. Number two, we've got to help people earn the skills they need to do those jobs. Number three, we've got to make sure people’s hard work is rewarded so that they can make a decent living doing those jobs.
And if you watch the news, sometimes you may think that there’s just doom and gloom out there. But the truth is there’s incredible stuff going on all across America and right here in Austin that I think can be good models for the rest of America to follow.
This morning I visited Manor New Tech High School, where students are learning high-tech skills that companies like Applied are looking for right now. They are getting excited, working with math and science and technology and engineering. And it's a hands-on high school where subjects are integrated, and kids are building things and conducting experiments at very early ages. And it's sparking their imagination in ways that may lead them to start up the next Applied, or come here and work at Applied.
And then I joined a few local families for lunch to talk about how we can make sure that hard work pays off with wages you can live on and raise a family, with health care that you can count on, and the chance to put away some money for retirement. And we also had good barbeque -- (laughter) -- which is necessary for economic growth. (Laughter.) Some good barbeque once in a while. And then I came to Applied Materials to talk about what we can do to make America a magnet for new jobs in manufacturing.
After shedding jobs for a decade, our manufacturers have added now about 500,000 new manufacturing jobs over the past three years. (Applause.) That’s good news. Caterpillar is bringing jobs back from Japan, and Ford is bringing jobs back from Mexico. And after placing plants in other countries like China, Intel is opening its most advanced plant right here at home. This year, Apple started making Macs in America again. (Applause.)
So there are some good trend lines there, but we've got to do everything we can to strengthen that trend. We've got to do everything we can to help the kind of high-tech manufacturing that you're doing right here at Applied. And we want to make sure it takes root here in Austin and all across the country. And that means, first of all, creating more centers of high-tech manufacturing.
Last year, we launched our first manufacturing innovation institute in Youngstown, Ohio, to develop new technologies and equip workers with the skills required to master 3-D printing techniques. And in my State of the Union address, I called on Congress to set up 15 more of these manufacturing hubs all across America, and I said that my administration was going to go ahead and move forward with three new hubs on our own, even without congressional action.
Well, today, we're launching a competition for those hubs. We are looking for businesses and universities that are willing to partner together to help their region -- help turn their region into global centers of high-tech jobs. Because we want the next revolution in manufacturing to be “Made in America.” (Applause.) We’re going to do that.
The truth is, over the past couple decades, too many communities have been hit hard when plants closed down and jobs dried up. The economy obviously is changing all the time. Nobody knows that better than folks here at Applied. I was talking to somebody who’s -- after showing me the wafer and some chips, and then they showed me a smartphone, they pointed to the smartphone and they said, 40 years ago, there’d be about $3 billion just trying to get this much computing power in this little thing, except it would fill up a whole room.
And so the economy is dynamic. Technology is constantly changing. That means we’ve got to adapt as well. And even as we’re working to reverse the trend of communities that have been hard hit with old manufacturing leaving, we’ve got to propose partnerships with local leaders in manufacturing communities to help attract new investment in the infrastructure and the research that will attract new jobs and new businesses, so that communities that have been knocked down can get back up and get back on their feet.
And we should help our workers get the training they need to compete for the industries of tomorrow. No job in America should go unfilled just because we don’t have anybody with the right skills. (Applause.) And that’s a priority. Now, some of your colleagues that I met, some of them have advanced degrees. Some of them came to apply basically right out of high school. But all of you, whether it was, in some cases, through a university education, in some cases the military, in some cases just on-the-job training -- all of you have specialized skills that are exactly what we need to continue to grow our economy. But we’ve got a whole bunch of folks out there who don’t have those skills, either because the education system failed them or because their skills have been rendered obsolete.
And that’s why I want to rethink how our high school kids are prepared. I want to make sure that we’re training two million Americans at our community colleges for skills that will lead directly to a job. (Applause.) And that’s also why we’ve got to make sure that college is affordable and people aren’t burdened by a mountain of debt so that they can continue to upgrade their skills as well.
Now, if we want to manufacture the best products, we’ve also got to invest in and cultivate the best ideas. Innovation, ingenuity -- that’s the constant of the American economy. That’s one of the constants of our character. It’s what keeps America on the cutting-edge.
And just before I came here, I visited the Capital Factory, which, as some of you know, is a place that helps start-ups take off. And everywhere you turn, somebody has got a new idea. They’re all thinking big. They’re taking risks. It’s exciting.
There was a young woman who is in a wheelchair and physically disabled but is just incredibly inspired to make sure that she’s not in any way confined by that situation. And she’s basically designed and is now manufacturing a car that people in wheelchairs can just drive their wheelchair right into the car and start driving.
And then you had a young man who had a 3-D camera -- it was about this big -- and basically from filming either a static image or in the round, can basically download that immediately and create a 3-D image, and then use that for 3-D manufacturing -- 3-D printing and manufacturing. And what currently costs about $80,000 costs about $3,000 -- the technology that he’s developed. So they're doing amazing stuff.
And one of the things we’re doing to fuel more inventiveness like this, to fuel more private sector innovation and discovery, is to make the vast amounts of America’s data open and easy to access for the first time in history. So talented entrepreneurs are doing some pretty amazing things with data that's already being collected by government.
So over at the Capital Factory, I met with folks behind the start-up called StormPulse, which uses government data on weather to help businesses anticipate disruptions in service. And then you’ve got a Virginia company called OPower that’s used government data on trends in energy use to save its customers $200 million on their energy bills. There’s an app called iTriage, founded by a pair of ER doctors that uses data from the Department of Health and Human Services to help users understand medical symptoms and find local doctors and health care providers.
And today I’m announcing that we’re making even more government data available, and we’re making it easier for people to find and to use. And that’s going to help launch more start-ups. It’s going to help launch more businesses. Some of them undoubtedly will be using this data powered by chips that essentially started right here at Applied Materials. (Applause.)
It’s going to help more entrepreneurs come up with products and services that we haven’t even imagined yet.
This kind of innovation and ingenuity has the potential to transform the way we do almost everything. One-third of jobs in Austin are now supported by the tech sector. And we should do all we can to encourage this kind of innovation economy all across America, in ways that produce new jobs and new opportunities for the middle class.
And we’re poised for a time of progress -- if we’re willing to seize it. Not even five years after the worst economic crisis in our lifetimes, our jobs market, our housing market are steadily healing. Our deficits are falling at the fastest rate in decades. The American auto industry has made a comeback. It’s thriving. American energy is booming. But we’ve got to keep moving forward, and we’ve got to make sure that Washington is not administering self-inflicted wounds when we’re making progress.
So Mike and I were talking about the fact that if we can reform our tax system to eliminate some of these loopholes potentially we could lower some rates. That would make our businesses more competitive.
Basic research, you’ll hear people talk about how government is not going to do anything for us. Well, we all understand that the private sector powers and drives our economy. On the other hand, most of the private sector right now has a lot of trouble financing basic research. And that basic research is the foundation for everything that's done at this company, and everything that's done for most of your customers. And we can't afford to fall behind when it comes to basic research. So there’s some key things that we can do that shouldn't be ideological. They're not Democratic ideas or Republican ideas or independent ideas. They're just good ideas that allow the government to help create the foundation, the platform, the environment in which companies like Applied Materials can thrive. And that's what we've got to constantly champion.
And when you're talking to your members of Congress or you're talking to elected officials, you've got to remind them we don't want government to do everything for us, but it's got a role to play on infrastructure, basic research -- making sure that we've got a tax system that's fair, making sure that we've got some basic stability in our budget so people aren't always guessing what's going to happen around the corner.
Think about how this company was built. Back in 1967, when Applied Materials was just getting off the ground, there were five employees. They worked out of this small industrial unit in California. And I suppose they had a “clean room” in there, but I don't know what it looked like. (Laughter.) But what they lacked in size, they made up with ingenuity and imagination and risk-taking. And over the years, as you grew to become a leader in high-tech manufacturing, that ingenuity never faltered. Whether you’ve been with this company for decades -- as I know some of you have -- or just for a year, you’re all focused on the future. Every day you're pushing the limits of technology a little bit further.
And you're not alone, because somewhere over at the Capital Factory, there’s an entrepreneur mapping out a new product on a whiteboard that may be the next big thing. Somewhere over at Manor New Tech High School, there’s a kid scribbling down an idea for a new invention that one day may turn into an entirely new industry. That’s America.
And when you look out across this room, what you also notice is there's talent drawn from every segment of our society. We don't care what you look like, where you come from, what your last name is. We just want to make sure we're all working together to create a better future for our kids.
That's America. We innovate. We adapt. We move forward. That's what Austin is all about. That's what's going on in this city. (Applause.) And that's what I want to keep on promoting as your President of the United States of America.
Thank you, everybody. God bless you. God bless America.
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