Friday, June 26, 2009

流行音乐之王迈克尔-杰克逊去世 终年50岁

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(2009-06-26)
早报导读
美国流行巨星麦克杰逊去世 享年50岁
美国当地时间6月25日下午,“流行之王”麦克杰逊在洛杉矶病逝,终年50岁。



  
(联合早报网讯)综合媒体报道,美国歌手麦克杰逊星期四怀疑在家中心脏病发,紧急送往医院,医院及警方消息人士均证实,杰逊已经不治,终年50岁。

  相关人员透露,洛杉矶警察部门已经对死亡原因展开调查。但现在还没有找到他是被谋杀的证据。

  私人侦探准备向杰逊的亲属,朋友和医生询问事件发生的整个过程。验尸官会确定死亡原因。一位洛杉矶消防部门人员称救援人员赶到时,杰逊的心跳已经完全停止。

  麦克杰逊的死讯传出后,杰逊的前任经纪人麦克-莱文(Michael Levine)随即发表声明 ,称他对这样的悲剧并不感到意外。声明内容如下:

  “作为第一次猥亵儿童案期间为麦克杰逊服务的经纪人,我必须承认,对于今天这样的悲剧我并不感到意外。

  多年来,麦克的生活十分艰难,他一直在自我毁灭。他的才华无可非议;他给世界规范、准则带来的不安也同样无可非议。

  而一个人完全无法承受这样的长期高压。”

  麦克杰逊是西方流行音乐的重要偶像。他在作词、作曲、场景制作、编曲、演唱、舞蹈、乐器演奏都有着非常卓越的成就,其音乐曲风完美地融合了黑人节奏蓝调与白人摇滚的独特乐风,在全球范围内拥有亿万歌迷。

  2005年他被控猥亵儿童案获判无罪之后,从歌坛隐退,过着深居简出的生活,最近正在积极筹备复出,原订七月十三号在伦敦登台,演唱会预计持续到明年三月,五十场演唱会的门票,已经全部卖光。

  过去两个月来,他都在洛杉矶密集练唱,不过有关他健康不佳的传闻引人关切,当时即有传言称,麦克杰逊患上皮肤癌。但演唱会筹备单位前一阵子才说他接受了彻底的检查,医生证明他健康没有问题。

  美国媒体称,“麦克杰逊的死,标志着一个悲剧的结束”,自二十世纪八十年代攀上流行音乐的巅峰之后,麦克杰逊一直受连串丑闻困扰,人们不断从媒体上看 到他越来越白的皮肤、塌陷的鼻子、以及总是带着口罩的脸,无休止的整容、破产传闻、二00五年的娈童案,让麦克杰逊的形象一落千丈。


Monday, June 22, 2009

生日快乐

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Thursday, June 11, 2009

Abortion Laws

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However there are no any laws were stated the abortion is legal or illegal in the past but from the recording of The Code of Hammurabi ca. 1760 BC required monetary compensation for causing a woman to miscarry. But it is not yet complies with any regular law about the abortion after it until the end of 13 century. The Roman Republic is no listed out any law about the abortion at the early period, but only stated abortion is based on the maintaining women’s physical appearance or the family size or adultery. Until the year 211 AD, the late Roman is noted the abortion of a baby is over come of the human right and will be punish temporary exile. It is because the Roman was concern about the population growth but not issue of morality.

At the 18th century, the common law of UK and US is allowed the abortion if performed before “quickening”. Quickening mean that when the movements of the fetus could first be felt by the woman. And abortion was also punishable "if the foetus is already formed" but not yet quickened, according to Henry Bracton, an English Jurist. 1861, The Parliament of the United Kingdom passes the Offences against the Person Act 1861 which outlaws abortion. In Britain, Dr. Aleck Bourne aborted the pregnancy of a young girl who had been raped by soldiers. Bourne was acquitted after turning himself into authorities. The legal precedent of allowing abortion in order to avoid mental or physical damage was picked up by the Commonwealth of Nations. 1967 – The Abortion Act (effective 1968) legalized abortion in the United Kingdom. 1990 – The Abortion Act in the UK was amended so that abortion is legal only up to 24 weeks, rather than 28, except in unusual cases. From 1820 to 1900, the effort of the American Medical Association and legislators make the abortion outlawed in U.S. In the 1973 case, Roe v. Wade, the United States Supreme Court struck down state laws banning abortion, ruling that such laws violated an implied right to privacy in the United States Constitution. In other country, under Vladimir Lenin, the Soviet Union legalized all abortions in 1920, but this was fully reversed in 1936 by Joseph Stalin in order to increase population growth. In the 1930s, several countries (Poland, Turkey, Denmark, Sweden, Iceland, Mexico) legalized abortion in some special cases (rape, threat to mother's health, fetal malformation). In 1948 abortion was legalized in Japan, 1952 in Yugoslavia (on a limited basis) and 1955 in the Soviet Union (on demand). Some Soviet allies (Poland, Hungary, Bulgaria, Czechoslovakia, Romania) legalized abortion in the late fifties under Soviet pressure. Canada (1969), the United States (1973 in most states, pursuant to the federal Supreme Court decision which legalized abortion nationwide), France (1975), Austria (1975), New Zealand (1977), Italy (1978), the Netherlands (1980) and Belgium (1990)was followed the British law when the Abortion Act was written. In 1979, The People's Republic of China enacted a one-child policy, leaving some women to either undergo an abortion or violate the policy and face economic penalties in some circumstances.

In Malaysia, There was two section of penal code was related with the abortion laws. That section is Section 312, 314 Penal Code. In Section 312 penal code, whoever voluntarily causes a woman with child to miscarry shall be punished with imprisonment up to 3 years or fine a definite amount or both. In additional, if the woman is quick with child, the punishment will be imprison up to 7 years and fine. Besides that, a woman who causes herself to miscarry is within the ambit of S312.However, the code was not apply to a situation about abort the fetus which will cause physically or mentally injury or risk to the mother’s body. In Section 314 Penal Code, Whoever causes death to the pregnant mother by an act done with intent to cause miscarriage, shall be punished with punishment imprison up to 10 years and liable to fine. If the act is done without the woman’s consent, shall be punished with imprisonment up to 20 years. There are no sum is expressed to which the fine may extend, the amount to which the offender is liable is unlimited, but shall not be excessive. The example of case happen in Malaysia was PP v Dr Nadason Kanagalingam [1985] which under the Section 312 and the case Mary Shim v PP [1962] which under Section 314.