Obama's Cuba visit

Fidel Castro scorns Obama's Cuba visit

Fidel Castro has broken his silence over President Obama's Cuba visit in a damning letter published in state-run newspaper Granma.

Fidel, who handed power to his brother Raul a decade ago, said Cuba did not need any gifts from the "empire".
He described Mr Obama's words of reconciliation as "syrupy" and warned they could give Cubans a heart attack.
Mr Obama had suggested that it was time to bury the last remnant of the Cold War in the Americas.
In his 1,500-word letter, Fidel Castro also reminded readers of the Bay of Pigs invasion of 1961, in which a CIA-sponsored paramilitary force of Cuban exiles attempted to take over the island.However, the 89-year-old ex-leader also said his "modest suggestion" was that Mr Obama "reflects and doesn't try to develop theories about Cuban politics".
During his visit, Mr Obama invoked "a future of hope" for Cuba in an unprecedented live TV address delivered from the Grand Theatre in Havana.
He told President Raul Castro that he did not need to fear a threat from the US nor from "the voice of the Cuban people".
He also called for the lifting of the 54-year old US trade embargo against Cuba, a remark which was met by loud applause.
The embargo remains one of the main sticking points in US-Cuban relations but can only be lifted by the US Congress.
Mr Obama's visit to Cuba was the first by a president since the Communist revolution in 1959.

who:Fidel, who handed power to his brother Raul a decade ago
what:said Cuba did not need any gifts from the "empire".
when:not given
where:not given
why:not given
how:not given

keywords:
1.scorn(v.)鄙視/輕蔑
2.damn(adj.)譴責的
3.applause(n.)喝采
4.reconciliation(n.)和解
5.remnant(n.)殘餘
6.paramilitary(adj.)輔助軍隊的
7.exile(v.)流亡/放逐
8.embargo(n.)禁運
9.unprecedented(adj.)史無前例的
10.modest(adj.)謙虛的

 http://www.bbc.com/news/world-latin-america-35911423

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Machine beats man, wins go series

‘POWERLESS DISPLAY’:South Korea’s Lee Sedol said that he felt extreme pressure heading into the third match, but remained optimistic for the final matches

AP, SEOUL

Google’s go-playing software yesterday defeated a human champion for the third straight time to clinch the best-of-five series and establish its superiority in an ancient Chinese chess-like game long thought to be the realm of humans.

Lee Sedol of South Korea, who is one of the world’s best go players, remained winless against AlphaGo, Google DeepMind’s artificial intelligence machine, after another close match in Seoul. Despite losing the series, Lee is scheduled to play twice more against AlphaGo, today and on Tuesday.

The showdown between human and machine has crushed the pride of go fans, many of them in Asia, who believed go would be too complex for machines to master. Some thought it would take at least another decade for computers to beat human go champions.

Many top go professionals commented that AlphaGo displayed unorthodox, questionable moves that initially befuddled humans, but made sense in hindsight.

Lee looked shaken in the post-match news conference, apologizing to his fans for what he said was a “powerless display” against the game-playing machine.

He said he felt extreme pressure heading into the third match, but that with the series now decided, he might have a better chance in the final two matches, because “the psychological part matters to humans.”

Google cofounder Sergey Brin, who was in Seoul to watch the third match, described go as a “beautiful game” and said he was excited that the company has been able to “instill that kind of beauty in our computers.”

In go, which is considered to be far more complex than chess, two players take turns putting black or white stones on a 19-by-19 square grid. The goal is to put more territory under one’s control by surrounding vacant areas with the stones.

who: google's go-playing  software

when:yesterday

what:defeated a human champion for the third straight time to clinch the best-of-five series and establish its superiority in an ancient Chinese chess-like game long thought to be the realm of humans.

why:not given

how:not given

where:not given 

keywords:

1.clinch(v.)最終贏得

2.realm(n.)領域/領土

3.showdown(n.)最後的決戰

4.unorthodox(adj.)非正統的

5.grid(n.)格子
6.territory(n.)領土
7.vacant(adj.)空的

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