Kadrie Avdikova, a Bulgarian Muslim bride, has her face decorated with special wedding makeup at the end of a two-day wedding ceremony in the Rhodope Mountains village of Ribnovo, 200 kilometers south of the Bulgarian capital Sofia on Sunday, Feb. 23. The wedding ritual has been resurrected with vigor among the Pomaks — Slavs who converted to Islam under Ottoman rule. The highlight of the ceremony is the painting of the bride's face; in a private rite, her face is covered in thick, chalky white paint and decorated with colorful sequins. (AP)

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A woman shares a tender moment with her pet during international dog sled race "Zavirukha" (Snow Storm) in the Belarus capital Minsk on Saturday, Feb. 22. About 140 athletes from Belarus, Russia, Latvia and Lithuania take part in competitions. (AFP)

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The 65-inch ultra high-definition (UHD) 4K Wide Color Gamut TV by AU Optronics Corp. (友達光電) is displayed during a news conference in Taipei, yesterday. AUO first showcased what it called the world's first UHD 4K Wide Color Gamut TV during Touch Taiwan 2013 (International Touch Panel and Optical Film Exhibition 2013). AUO's spokesman and General Manager Paul S. L. Peng (彭雙浪) said yesterday that the cutting-edge concave design reverses the technological stereotype that a liquid crystal display doesn't bend. (CNA)

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An artificial cow stands on the balcony of a residential building in Hanover, central Germany on Tuesday, Feb. 18. (AFP)

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In this Friday, Feb. 14 photo, from left to right, Judy Deckert, Luisa Solak and Jan Bartee, all members of NorthRidge Church, pack whole grain rice, as volunteers pack food for the malnourished during the 2 Million Meals event in Novi, Michigan. More than 8,000 people helped pack 2 million-plus meals, which will be shipped to El Salvador, Haiti and the Philippines. The mixtures of rice, soy, dehydrated vegetables and 21 vitamins and minerals will provide one meal a day for a year to 5,560 children. (AP)

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A dog sniffs at "Fuleco," the official mascot of the 2014 FIFA World Cup, during the "Blocao" dog carnival in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil on Sunday, Feb. 16. About 100 dogs have had their day at a pre-Carnival bash in Rio de Janeiro. A 10-man brass band and a singer belting out Rio's anthem song "Cidade Maravilhosa" (Marvelous City) kicked off the four-footed fest as dog owners gathered to party down with pooches on Copacabana beach, Sunday. (AP)

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A Sri Lankan elephant walks along a street in Colombo on Sunday, Feb. 16. The Sri Lankan elephant is listed as endangered by the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) as the population has declined by at least 50 percent over the last three generations, with the species threatened by habitat loss, degradation and fragmentation. (AFP)

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A flock of migrating starlings is seen as they perform their traditional flying dance before landing to sleep at sunset near the southern Israeli village of Tidhar, in the northern Israeli Negev desert on Wednesday, Feb. 12. (AFP)

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Couples from around the world participate in a mass wedding ceremony at the CheongShim Peace World Center in Gapyeong, South Korea on Wednesday, Feb. 12. Some 2,500 South Korean and foreign couples exchanged or reaffirmed marriage vows in the Unification Church's mass wedding. (AP)

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台北市長郝龍斌、新竹縣長邱鏡淳十六日共同簽署推廣客家文化暨產業交流合作意向合約,盼促進新竹縣與台北市客家義民系列活動更緊密結合,未來將合作辦理客家文化活動,並善用台北市經濟與資訊流通平台優勢,將竹縣農特產品推向全國。

郝龍斌十六日上午在邱鏡淳等人的陪同下參拜新埔鎮褒忠亭義民廟,立委徐欣瑩、各級民代、竹縣客家大老、縣府一級主管等都到場,頗有為總統之路試水溫的意味,義民廟董事長徐德馨更高喊「義民爺保佑郝市長二○一六進總統府!」邱鏡淳也致贈客家義民祭邀請卡、彩繪神豬。

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Taipei Mayor Hau Lung-bin and Hsinchu County Commissioner Chiu Ching-chun on March 16 signed an agreement of intent for cooperating and making exchanges to promote Hakka culture and industries. The agreement is expected to help Hsinchu County and Taipei work more closely in a series of events dedicated to yimin, or Hakka martyrs. The two governments will also be organizing Hakka cultural events together, and use Taipei’s vast economic and information platforms to promote Hsinchu County’s agricultural products throughout the nation.

On the morning of the 16th, Hau was accompanied by Chiu and others during a visit to the Baojhong Pavillion Martyr Temple in Sinpu Township. Legislator Hsu Hsin-ying, representatives from various organizations, Hsinchu County Hakka leaders and Hsinchu County Government leaders were all in attendance, apparently testing the waters for Hau’s bid for the next presidential election. Temple chairman Hsu Te-hsin even yelled out, “Martyrs please protect Mayor Hau as he enters the Presidential Palace in 2016.” Chiu also gave Hau a written invitation to attend the Hakka Yimin Festival and a multi-colored pig deity.

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日本公司將耳掛式電腦提升到一個全新的水準。

它是個能塞進耳朵裡的小夾子,讓穿戴者存取全球衛星定位系統或指南針之類的應用程式,好比一支智慧型手錶。

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Japanese company is taking it to a whole new level with an ear computer.

It is a small clip that fits in the ear and allows the wearer to access apps such as a GPS or compass just like a smartwatch.

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在美國於二00三年率盟軍入侵伊拉克推翻海珊政權,並在首都巴格達引發連串竊案的十年後,伊拉克國立博物館現正準備展示館中的美索不達米亞文化寶物,即使數千件文物至今仍下落不明。

伊拉克博物館在美軍部隊監督下仍慘遭洗劫一事,常被拿來和蒙古人於一二五八年劫掠巴格達圖書館的歷史事件相比。當時的美國國防部長唐納‧倫斯斐對此卻只以「壞事年年有」一句話輕描淡寫帶過。

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A decade on from the 2003 US-led invasion that toppled Saddam Hussein and whipped up a tsunami of theft in Baghdad, Iraq’s National Museum is preparing to display its treasures of Mesopotamian culture — even if thousands are missing.

The looting of the museum under the eyes of US troops has sometimes been compared to the Mongol sack of the Grand Library of Baghdad in 1258. Then-US Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld shrugged it off with the comment “stuff happens.”

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少子化影響,台南市兩百一十七所國小、六十二所國中今年將各有一百廿三所、十九所規劃為自由入學學校,雙雙創下新高;面對招生競爭,有校長感嘆,以往免費課輔、才藝班等誘因已不如前,還是要拚辦學績效,吸引家長與學子。

台南教育局指出,都市結構改變,加上少子化影響,新生入學人數有逐年遞減趨勢,也對學校經營造成困難,早在縣市合併前,原台南縣市就已經有不少學校申請「自由學區」,只要設籍台南市的新生,都可申請就讀,不受學區限制,縣市合併後,「自由學區學校」改稱為「自由入學學校」,入學資格不變。

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Taiwan’s low fertility rate has a record number of schools in Greater Tainan switching over to the open admissions system, with 123 and 19 of Greater Tainan’s elementary and junior high schools making the change respectively. Dealing with competitive enrollment, many school principals are gasping at how free tutorials and art classes no longer attract new students, and instead are having to rely on academic performance to draw parents and students.

Greater Tainan’s Bureau of Education says that changes in the urban structure, coupled with the effects of the low fertility rate, have gradually brought about a downturn in new student enrollment, making it difficult for schools to continue operating. There were already many “open admissions school districts” prior to the merger of former Tainan county and city, districts which were open to any new student registered for a household in former Tainan city. The students were not restricted to any particular school district either. After the merger, “schools in open admissions school districts” became simply “open admissions schools,” while enrollment qualifications were left unchanged.

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一名五十九歲婦人烹煮孫子釣回來的魚,大口吞食之際,突然覺得卡住,吞了幾口飯,也喝了幾口水,但都沒有改善,且喉嚨愈來愈痛,她伸指入喉竟然拉到一條尼龍線,急忙到醫院急診求助,照X光發現鉤狀異物。

台南奇美醫院耳鼻喉部醫師劉璟鋒以喉部內視鏡檢查,發現婦人上喉部卡住一支銀色約三公分的魚鉤且連帶著好幾公分長的尼龍線,卡住的部位有點深,小心翼翼用「魚刺夾」才夾出,連魚鉤線在內,總長度約十二至十三公分。

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Having cooked some fish that her grandson caught and brought home, a 59-year-old woman suddenly sensed that something was stuck in her throat after taking a big bite of the fish. Swallowing several mouthfuls of rice and drinking several swigs of water did not help and the pain in her throat gradually got worse. She put her fingers down her throat and unexpectedly pulled out a piece of nylon string. After being rushed to the emergency room, an X-ray showed a hook-shaped object in her throat.

Liu Ching-feng, a doctor in otolaryngology department at Greater Tainan’s Chimei Medical Center, says that an endoscopy of the woman’s throat showed a silver fishhook approximately 3cm long lodged in her upper throat with a nylon fishing line several centimeters long attached to it. The spot where the hook was stuck was fairly deep. The doctor carefully removed it using a fishbone remover. The fishhook and fishing line combined were between 12cm and 13cm long.

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環境,對學語言來說很重要;如果把一個人丟在一個不同語言的國家裡,他很快(或者說比在原本語言環境裡容易)可以學會當地的語言!沒辦法,為了生存嘛!

但是,如果是有心學習語言,但又沒有辦法到那個國家的話呢?

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