week7- Chang Guann. gutter oil(tainted tard oil)

Chang Guann ‘sorry’ for tainted lard oil

Fri, Sep 05, 2014

By Stacy Hsu  /  Staff reporter

GUTTER INGREDIENTS: The Greater Kaohsiung company said it was recalling all of its Chuan Tung ‘fragrant lard oil’ that have an expiry date prior to March 1 next year

Chang Guann Co (強冠企業), a food oil manufacturer in Greater Kaohsiung, yesterday apologized to the public after one of its lard products was allegedly found to be tainted with “gutter oil” illegally recycled by an unlicensed factory in Pingtung County.

Gutter oil, also known as drainage oil, is recycled oil collected from various sources such as kitchen fryers, restaurant drains and grease traps. It is mainly used in the production of soap.

“We only began purchasing lard from the Pingtung factory on Feb. 25 this year. As of last month, a total of 243 tonnes of lard had been bought from the factory, 216 tonnes of which have been used as a base oil in the manufacturing of 780 tonnes of edible lard oil,” the company based in Daliao District (大寮) said in a press release.

There was an immediate trickle-down effect after Chang Guann Co’s apology. Wei Chuan Foods Corp (味全食品工業) said it had immediately pulled 12 pork floss and meat paste products from stores.

Wei Chuan has purchased oil products that have been found to have questionable ingredients from Chang Guann Co and used them in the 12 products, so it decided to temporarily stop sales for the products and accept returns from consumers, Wei Chuan said in a statement to the Taiwan Stock Exchange.

The company said it had informed Taipei’s Public Health Bureau and would fully cooperate with the government regarding inspection on these products.

Wei Chuan said it will consider seeking reimbursement from Chang Guann to protect its rights and interests if the oil products purchased from Chang Guann are confirmed to have included the suspect ingredients.

Chang Guann said the 780 tonnes of processed lard oil were divided into 51,700 cartons and marketed as “fragrant lard oil” (香豬油) under its cooking oil brand, Chuan Tung (全統), and that 48,500 cartons had been sold.

“We are also a victim in this case. Although not all of our fragrant lard oil products contain the alleged gutter oil, to safeguard consumers’ interest, on Tuesday we ordered the recall of all products with an expiration date before March 1 next year,” the company said.

The statement was issued just hours after Chang Guann deputy general manager Tai Chi-chuan (戴啟川) was summoned for questioning by the Pingtung District Prosecutors’ Office, following a raid carried out by the Criminal Investigation Bureau’s southern crime combat center on the unlicensed factory in Pingtung.

The factory’s owner, Kuo Lieh-cheng, (郭烈成) and an employee surnamed Shih (施) were also questioned yesterday, along with Kuo Chun-yeh (郭春葉), the owner of animal feed manufacturer Ching Wei Co (進威) — which allegedly bought gutter oil from the same factory for use in its pig feed products — Kuo’s wife and an employee surnamed Su (蘇), Pingtung Chief District Prosecutor Yang Wan-li (楊婉莉) said.

“The office joined hands with the Food and Drug Administration [FDA] and the health departments of Pingtung and Greater Kaohsiung to investigate whether the factory sold gutter oil disguised as lard, and where and to whom such products were sold,” Yang said.

FDA Southern Center Deputy Director Liu Fang-ming (劉芳銘) said a preliminary investigation showed that Chang Guann’s fragrant lard oil products manufactured between March 1 and Aug. 29 could have been mixed with the alleged gutter oil.

“Since the potentially contaminated products were packaged in 15kg and 16kg cartons, they were likely to have been sold to small restaurants or eateries rather than consumers,” Liu said.

If Chang Guann bought the suspect lard without knowing what it really was, the company’s owners might only be subject to a fine ranging from NT$60,000 (US$2,000) to NT$50 million, as stipulated in Article 15 of the Act Governing Food Safety and Sanitation (食品安全衛生管理法), Liu said.

“However, if the firm was aware of the lard’s real contents and still used it to manufacture cooking oil, its owners could face a maximum prison term of seven years,” he said.

http://www.taipeitimes.com/News/front/archives/2014/09/05/2003599041/1

Structure of the Lead：

WHO- The Greater Kaohsiung company
WHEN- an expiry date prior to March 1 next year
WHAT- not fiven
WHY- not fiven
WHERE- not fiven
HOW- not given

Keywords：

1.          tainted :污染的

2.          lard :豬油

3.          gutter : 排水溝

4.          allegedly : 據宣傳

5.          drainage :排水.放水

6.          inspection : 檢查

7.          reimbursement : 退款

8.          surname :姓

9.          preliminary : 預備的.初步的

10.      contaminate :污染

11.      stipulate : 規定

week6 - Scottish independence referendum

Scottish referendum poll tracker

On 18 September 2014 millions of Scots will vote on whether they want their country to become independent or remain part of the United Kingdom. But what do opinion polls suggest about which way the decision will go?

Analysis

David Cowling, Editor, BBC Political Research Unit

Over recent weeks the gap between "No" and "Yes" has narrowed in the opinion polls and this has created its own excitement as the two campaign groups redouble their efforts to convince voters to support them.

As each side tries to create momentum, the polls are used to batter their opponents. But where does that warfare leave individual electors as they seek to discover possible outcomes?

Traditionally, we describe polls as temperature readings valid at the time they are taken.

Individual polls are important, but we should also be looking at any trend over time: is the direction of travel benefiting one side or the other?

However, it is also important to look beyond the headline poll figures for "Yes" or "No".

Most polls will ask respondents how certain they are to vote - are the supporters of one side more enthusiastic about voting than those of the other. Pollsters will often adjust their referendum voting figures to take account of any such differences.

The issues of what currency an independent Scotland would use, as well as the economic consequences of any independence have played a significant role in the campaign.

The campaign polls have also revealed significant differences between various groups: older voters are much more likely to oppose independence than younger voters; women are much less supportive of independence than men; and people living in Scotland but born outside it are less favourable towards an independent Scotland than native-born Scots.

Will the final polls show that these divisions remain, or will they become less stark?

The polls certainly suggest that the real battleground in this campaign is among Labour voters. Conservatives and Liberal Democrats are overwhelmingly opposed to independence but there is evidence that a significant minority of Labour voters support it and, I suspect, they will be the focus of the two campaigns right up to 18 September.

And this campaign will be a real test for the polling companies themselves.

You would think, given the choice is simply "Yes" or "No", that the challenge to produce accurate figures would be relatively simple. But predicting the same "Yes" or "No" choice in the 2011 UK referendum on the Alternative Vote system caused some pollsters serious grief.

The September referendum has no precedent for the pollsters to measure their 2014 poll results against. This issue cuts across gender, families, friendships and parties and that makes the work of the pollsters more difficult than simply measuring either "Yes" or "No" would suggest.

http://www.bbc.com/news/events/scotland-decides/poll-tracker

Structure of the Lead：

WHO- Scots
WHEN- 18 September 2014
WHAT- vote on whether they want their country to become independent or remain part of the United Kingdom
WHY- not fiven
WHERE- Scottland
HOW- not given

Keywords：

1.          referendum : 公民投票

2.          poll : 投票選舉

3.          redouble : 使加倍.加強

4.          momentum : 動力

5.          batter : 向上遞傾

6.          favourable : 贊同的

7.          precedent : 先例

week5 - ebola (virus). west Africa

WHO says Ebola outbreak continues to spread in West Africa

7:55 a.m. EDT October 24, 2014

Ebola is racing ahead of efforts to contain its spread, according to the World Health Organization. There are now nearly 10,000 reported cases – a tally that clearly underestimates that true scope.

Ebola is racing ahead of efforts to contain its spread, according to the World Health Organization.

There are nearly 10,000 reported cases -- a tally that underestimates the true scope of the epidemic as overwhelmed health workers fall behind in their record-keeping, the WHO says. About half of Ebola patients have died.

Ebola has now reached every district in Sierra Leone and all but one district in Liberia, with "intense transmission" in these countries' capital cities, according to the WHO.

West Africa today is nowhere near goals set by the United Nations to get the outbreak under control, according to the WHO.

Even with the modest goal of meeting 70% of the region's needs by Dec. 1, affected countries would need at least 16 more labs to help medical staff quickly diagnose patients, 230 more "dead body management teams" to bury or cremate bodies in ways that don't spread Ebola, ​; 4,388 more hospital beds; and 20,000 contract tracers to find and isolate potential cases.

Today, Liberia has enough beds for only 23% of patients, according to the WHO. That means 77% of Ebola patients are languishing and dying at home or, worse, in the street.

Infectious disease expert Michael Osterholm said he's concerned that Ebola is poised to spill over the borders to other African countries, such as Ivory Coast. Of the eight districts in Guinea and Liberia that border Ivory Coast, all but one have reported Ebola cases, the WHO said.

In August, Ivory Coast closed its borders with Ebola-affected countries and temporarily suspended flights.

Two of the four areas of Guinea with new Ebola cases this week are near the border with Ivory Coast, a country of 20 million people, according to the WHO. With a metro area population of more than 7 million, Ivory Coast's economic capital, Abidjan, is the second largest city in West Africa, behind Lagos, Nigeria.

"There is no magic boundary at the border," said Osterholdm, director of the Center for Infectious Disease Research and Policy at the University of Minnesota. "We shouldn't be surprised if we see cases."

Osterholm notes that farmers often leave home in the fall, as they finish harvesting their crops, and migrate to other countries looking for work. He fears that those seasonal migrations could help spread Ebola across Africa.

Flights between Ivory Coast and the three Ebola-affected countries -- which were suspended this summer over Ebola fears -- resumed this week.

Osterholm said migrant workers often bypass official border checkpoints because they travel on foot through the countryside.

Like Guinea, Sierra Leone and Liberia -- three countries hit hardest by Ebola – Ivory Coast has weathered years of political instability and civil war, said William Moss, a professor at the Johns Hopkins School of Public Health.

The WHO has blamed Ebola's spread through West Africa on poverty, lack of education and crumbling public health systems, which were battered during years of conflict. Although the first Ebola case apparently occurred in Guinea in December, local health officials didn't realize they were dealing with an Ebola outbreak until March, when there were already nearly 50 cases.

At a press conference Thursday, WHO officials addressed rumors that Ebola had been detected in other West African countries.

"At WHO, we hear about many rumors of cases in different countries. Most of these turn out to be negative," Keiji Fukuda, the WHO's assistant director-general for health security and environment, said following a meeting on Ebola.

"Ebola is one of these things that is really hard to cover up," Fukuda said. "There is reasonable confidence that we are not seeing widespread transmission into neighboring countries. ... .We think it would be very difficult to miss."

The WHO is working to prepare Ivory Cost and 14 other countries with borders or strong travel ties to the Ebola-affected nations. The WHO will stage simulation drills, for example, and provide other types of technical assistance.

Beginning with trips to Ivory Coast and Mali, "WHO teams will build on previous work with each country to help identify any gaps in their capacity to identify and respond" to Ebola, according to a WHO report issued Wednesday.

Even Doctors Without Borders, which has been fighting Ebola since March, has had to suspend routine care of women and children at one of its hospitals in Sierra Leone, which once admitted more than 10,000 people per year. The organization's overwhelmed staff can no longer maintain "flawless infection control" in that hospital, putting staff lives at risk.

"It is our intention to resume our activities ... as soon as possible, but for that we need to first put all of our energy in fighting Ebola," said Brice de le Vingne, director of operations at Doctors Without Borders. "We really hope that in a few months, we'll be able to focus once again on treating mothers and children."

http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2014/10/23/who-ebola-update/17767789/

Structure of the Lead：

WHO- not given
WHEN-not given
WHAT-Ebola
WHY- Ebola is racing ahead of efforts to contain its spread
WHERE- not given
HOW- not given

Keywords：

1.          tally : 計數單位

2.          underestimate : 低估

3.          district : 行政區

4.          cremate : 火葬

5.          languishing : 衰弱

6.          infectious : 傳染的

7.          suspend : 使中止

8.          boundary : 邊界

9.          migrate : 遷移

10.      instability : 不穩定性

11.      transmission : 傳送

week4 - Malaysia Airlines. MH17. shot down. Ukraine

Where are the bodies, MH17 families ask

BY ANTHONY DEUTSCH AND THOMAS ESCRITT

AMSTERDAM Tue Nov 11, 2014 3:50pm EST

Daisy Oehlers and Bryce Fredriksz, a Dutch couple in their early 20s, were sitting near the left wing of Malaysia Airlines Flight MH17 on their way to a holiday in Bali, when “high energy objects” - as officials later called them - struck the plane over eastern Ukraine.

Their bodies were torn apart and scattered across miles of the conflict zone below.

Three months later, Daisy's cousin Robby checked into a cheap hotel in Donetsk to start searching the area for any trace of his relatives. "There was a crater from a rocket impact just next to the nose part of the aeroplane,” he said. “I found a blue suitcase. It wasn't hers.”

Oehlers, a singer, and the relatives of as many as 50 other victims are growing increasingly frustrated by the fact that the authorities have not helped them trace loved ones lost on July 17, when the flight from Amsterdam to Kuala Lumpur was shot out of the sky.

All 298 passengers and crew - two-thirds of them Dutch – were killed. The Dutch government, a leading Russian trading partner, still hesitates to call it an attack.

Attempts to recover parts of the aircraft and human remains have repeatedly been called off due to fighting on the ground. Families also say the Dutch government is not giving them enough information. One law firm has said it is preparing to sue the government for negligence over its handling of the case.

Bryce and Daisy’s relatives have Bryce’s foot and part of a bone for Daisy, but no more. Relatives of nine people on board the Boeing 777 have no remains at all. Some families are waiting for enough body parts to hold funerals.

“How much do you need?” asked Oehlers. “30 percent? 40 percent?"

He spent three days searching the site between Donetsk and Luhansk, the rebel-held eastern Ukrainian towns that have been flashpoints in the conflict, and took a TV crew to draw attention to his family’s mounting anger. He said he saw signs of bombardment on the field, where stray dogs wandered. Winter is approaching. As fighting persists, the families’ hopes diminish.

"You just wonder; what are they doing?” he said of the authorities. “If it was another country, they’d just grab their stuff and head out there. I don’t know what the spirit of Dutch politics is, but I think they are too soft.”

HELD TO ACCOUNT

The Dutch are conducting two parallel investigations: one into the cause of the crash, and a criminal inquiry - the single largest in Dutch history. There are now 100 Dutch law enforcement officials involved in that case, including 10 prosecutors, said spokesman Wim de Bruin.

But no forensic investigators have made it to the crash site. That makes the recovery of evidence nearly impossible.

Washington says it has intelligence that overwhelmingly backs the theory that the plane was shot down by a missile fired by pro-Russian separatists. Russia denies any involvement.

Many Dutch also believe the plane was downed by rebels using missiles provided by Moscow. But their leaders, mindful of the country’s heavy reliance on Russian energy, have never assigned blame. Prime Minister Mark Rutte has called on Russian President Vladimir Putin to assert his influence over the rebels.

Pieter Omtzigt, legislator with the opposition Christian Democratic Appeal party and a member of the foreign affairs committee, says the government is not being open enough.

He submitted a list of 43 questions about the disaster, of which he said 29 went unanswered, including one about Russian and Ukrainian cooperation and whether crash investigators had access to key U.S. intelligence.

"On all these questions, we haven't had an answer," he told Reuters in an interview. "I want to see full proof - if you kill 298 people you have to be held accountable."

  

“COME GET ME!”

The challenges facing the Dutch investigators are extreme.

The closest comparison is the bombing of Pan Am flight 103, over Lockerbie, Scotland, in 1988, which killed 254 people. The investigation, conducted in peacetime Scotland, took three years, during which 4 million pieces of evidence were recovered from a crash site spanning 2,000 sq km (770 sq miles). It took a decade to go to trial.

"We searched rivers, lochs and reservoirs and recovered many personal effects, pieces of aircraft and debris, as well as other much more difficult 'recoveries' I'd rather not go into here," said one police diver involved in the search.

Even then, the trial of two Libyan intelligence agents, at a specially constituted Scottish court in a disused Dutch military base, secured only one conviction. To this day, many relatives are convinced that the man eventually convicted was innocent.

In the Netherlands, Rutte is under growing pressure: his popularity has dropped since the MH17 crash.

Silene Fredriksz, Bryce’s 51-year-old mother, said she is having difficulty sleeping. "It is simply taking too long," she said. "I hear him call: 'come get me!'"

(Edited by Sara Ledwith)

http://www.reuters.com/article/2014/11/11/us-ukraine-mh17-bodies-idUSKCN0IV1NJ20141111

Structure of the Lead：

WHO- not given

WHEN- not given

WHAT- Malaysia Airlines Flight MH17 was shot

WHERE- Ukraine

HOW- not given

WHY- not given

Keywords:

1.         scatter : 分散

2.         negligence : 疏忽

3.         mount : 登上

4.         bombardment : 砲擊

5.         diminish : 減少

6.         prosecutor : 檢察官

week3 - University of California. Santa Barbara. Elliot Rodger

EXCLUSIVE: Santa Barbara Killer Smiled Before Shooting, Survivor Says

May 30, 2014

By CECILIA VEGA, CASSIDY GARD, JIM VOJTECH, ERIN KEOHANE and TARA BERARDI CECILIA VEGAMore From Cecilia » Correspondent via GOOD MORNING AMERICA

Bianca de Kock remembers his smile.

The University of California, Santa Barbara student was walking with two of her Tri Delta sisters, headed to their sorority house last Friday, May 23.

A black BMW came out of nowhere, the car window down. The man inside – Elliot Rodger – had a “smirky, grimacy smile” across his face, de Kock said.

“He wanted to do this,” she said in an exclusive interview with ABC News. “He looked happy about it.”

After smiling, he opened fire. De Kock was hit five times, the bullets piercing her arm and chest, some grazing her body. She was released from the hospital Monday and is back home in Alameda, California, with her family.

“It didn’t seem real,” de Kock, 20, said.

Initially, she thought they were rubber bullets or fireworks. “And then I realized I’m bleeding, I’m in pain,” she said.

Of the three sorority sisters, de Kock is the only one who survived the attack. Freshman Veronika Weiss, 19, was a sports buff and math whiz. Katie Cooper, 22, was about to graduate with a degree in art history.

Weiss and Cooper represent two of the six people Rodger killed in the rampage, with de Kock and 12 others injured. De Kock misses her friends.

“They were both two very incredible, beautiful people. And that’s how I want them remembered,” she said.

De Kock wasn’t the only victim who saw Rodger smiling while pulling the trigger. Dylan Fontillas, 20, told ABC News on Saturday that the shooter "almost kind of had a smirk like he was excited about it or he was happy about it.”

Fontillas was forced to hit the floor inside the IV Mart where Christopher Michaels-Martinez was killed.

As de Kock lay on the grass, she managed to make a call on her cellphone – to her mother, Sharrese.

“I’ve been shot. I don’t know what happened. It’s crazy,” she said. “But I love you. I love you so much … I’m afraid I’m going to die,” she said.

Student Kyle Sullivan was walking home from the frat house where he was pledging when he heard the gunfire, rapid shots in succession.

"I was in the middle of the street. And I didn't actually see the shooting. But, I mean, it was loud as could possibly be," Sullivan said.

Sullivan searched for a police officer and brought the officer to the wounded student. Then he lay down by de Kock’s side, comforting the stranger.

She was going to be OK, he told her.

De Kock credits Sullivan with saving her life.

“I don’t think I would have made it without any support,” she said, fighting through the tears.

Sullivan said he simply did what came naturally.

"I was just trying to be there for her and just ... and make sure that she would make it through it," Sullivan said.

De Kock’s parents are thankful that their daughter survived, but they’re also disturbed by the incident.

“I’m angry that it happened, you know, that it does happen,” Pieter de Kock told ABC News. “I’m angry that it’s … it’s not changing in this country. We need to change this violence.”

Sharrese de Kock is disappointed that Rodger eluded authorities. “How did he slip through the cracks? It shouldn’t happen,” she said.

Police visited Rodger on a welfare check April 30. Relatives had grown concerned by Rodger’s YouTube videos.

That welfare check included four Sheriff’s deputies and a police officer, along with a dispatcher-in-training – a bigger presence than the two deputies who normally respond on a welfare check. The check included deputies who were familiar with Rodger from a previous case.

Rodger was “shy, timid and polite,” authorities said in a news release.

The 22-year-old said he was having trouble fitting in socially – and the videos were a way of expressing himself, he said.

“Sheriff’s deputies concluded that Rodger was not an immediate threat to himself or others, and that they did not have cause to place him on an involuntary mental health hold, or to enter or search his residents,” the news release states. “Therefore, they did not view the videos or conduct a weapons check on Rodger.”

Rodger’s apartment contained a cache of weapons and a document titled “My Twisted World,” outlining his plans for revenge, a plan he would carry out weeks later.

“If they had demanded to search my room … That would have ended everything,” Rodger wrote in his manifesto.

De Kock is out of the hospital now, surrounded by family – as well as Sullivan.

“We’re going to be bonded forever now,” she says.

She isn’t returning to school to finish the semester. The memories are too fresh, too difficult.

But she says she wants her school to know that she stands in unity with the thousands who gathered for a memorial this week, grieving and chanting, searching for healing and closure.

Inevitably the focus has shifted to Rodger, with people trying to understand why he carried out the attack, whether he could have been stopped, what lessons we can learn from the tragedy. For de Kock, the attention should be reserved for Weiss and Cooper and the other victims.

“I want people to know that all of the lives lost were people,” she said. “They were beautiful, incredible individuals. I want the focus to be on honoring them and not giving the person who did it any recognition.

“I want to share my story,” she added, “and show that there can be positivity in times of darkness.”

http://abcnews.go.com/US/santa-barbara-killer-elliot-rodger-smiled-shooting-survivor/story?id=23923970&page=2

Structure of the Lead：

WHO- Elliot Rodger

WHEN-May 23

WHAT-Rodger killed several people

WHERE-Santa Barbara

HOW-use a gun
WHY-not given

Keywords:

1.           sorority : 婦女聯誼會

2.          pierce : 刺穿

3.          chest : 胸

4.          graze : 擦過

5.          initially : 最初

6.          rampage : 橫衝直撞

7.          elude : 逃避

8.          welfare : 福利

9.          presence : 出席

10.      bond :結合

11.       closure : 結束
12.       inevitably :不可避免地

week2 - World Cup.2014.Brazil.German

Brazilians cry and curse at World Cup humiliation

Thu, Jul 10, 2014
AFP, RIO DE JANEIRO

Brazilians cried, cursed their president and covered their faces in shame after their beloved team’s humiliating 7-1 thrashing by Germany in an unprecedented FIFA World Cup semi-final on Tuesday.

After the fifth goal hit the Brazil net well before halftime, hundreds of people left their expensive seats at the Estadio Mineirao in the southeastern city of Belo Horizonte, Brazil.

A section of the crowd chanted obscenities against the players and Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff, who during the tournament had mostly enjoyed a reprieve from protests over the record US$11 billion the government spent to host the tournament.

The tears began to flow long before the final whistle, with the third Germany goal in the first half sending children and adults alike in the stadium and in public screenings across the continent-sized nation bawling.

As people streamed out of the venue, police reinforced security inside and around the stadium, but no incidents of violence were reported there.

Other supporters around the country shouted at their TV and abandoned public screenings as the Selecao suffered the biggest defeat of their 100-year history.

“Neymar must be vomiting at home watching this disaster. The horror,” said Marina Genova, 54, watching at a popular bar district in Sao Paulo, referring to Brazil’s injured striker.

Amid the deluge of goals, a downpour only added to the already gloomy mood of thousands of fans in canary-yellow jerseys at the FIFA Fan Fest on Rio de Janeiro’s Copacabana Beach and two dozen supporters scuffled, forcing police to intervene.

In Sao Paulo, several buses were torched in a parking lot, but police could not confirm whether the attack was linked to the defeat.

Brazilians were already concerned about the team’s chances after Neymar broke a vertebra in the quarter-final victory over Colombia, but they never thought it would be this bad.

“This is a terrible match and Brazil without Neymar are terrible. I hate this match. It’s embarrassing to lose like this,” biology student Beth Araujo, 24, said. “The only good thing is I think it will affect President Dilma in the election, but all our politicians are even worse than the team.”

Rousseff said she was “very sad” and “sorry” about the result.

Brazil had hoped to exorcise the ghost of their 1950 defeat to Uruguay in the other World Cup that they hosted, a national trauma dubbed the “Maracanazo” because it was played in Rio de Janeiro’s Maracana.

This time, TV commentators were talking of the “Mineirazo,” with the sports Web site globoesporte.com calling the defeat the “Shame of Shames.”

Yet 23-year-old photography student Jessica Santos took the massacre in stride, saying: “The cup is back in Brazil for the first time in 64 years so of course we’ll cheer until the end. If Brazil wins, we party, if Brazil loses, we still party. It would have been worse to lose to Argentina in the final.”

Others turned to social media jokes to ease the pain, posting photos of Rio’s iconic Christ the Redeemer statue covering its face in shame, or replaced by a figure of German Chancellor Angela Merkel.

The insults against Rousseff, who is seeking re-election in October, showed that tensions remain following massive demonstrations that rocked the country last year when Brazilians demanded better healthcare and education.

Some among the public have voiced concerns that the nation’s failure to win the World Cup could spark more protests and clashes.

“It’s a disaster. It will be chaos. People will break everything. They’re going to be furious,” said Karina Marques, a 17-year-old soccer player who watched the game at a street screening in Rio attended by 30,000 people.

At a squatter camp of homes outside Brasilia, people turned off their televisions in disgust before the end.

In tears, Maria Jose Costa Almeida, 35, asked: “Why spend so much on stadiums, bring the cup to Brazil, to win nothing?”

http://www.taipeitimes.com/News/front/archives/2014/07/10/2003594754/1

Structure of the Lead：

WHO- Brazilian
WHEN-not given
WHAT-world cup
WHY- spending so much to host the game only to end in defeat
WHERE- not given
HOW- not given

Keywords：

1.          humiliating丟臉的

2.          thrashing 痛擊

3.          obscenity 可憎的事

4.          bawling 大喊

5.          venue 發生地點

6.          reinforce 增強

7.          vomit 嘔吐

8.          downpour 傾盆大雨

9.          scuffle 扭打

10.      intervene 介入

11.      vertebra 脊椎骨

12.      exorcise 驅除(惡魔)

13.      trauma 創傷

14.      clash 衝突