「老大,IMAX 大銀幕裂開了,而且完全沒辦法使用了。」「唔嗯嗯…我們需要某個可以播放電影的東西。有沒有什麼想法?」金卡達夏終於找到有建設性的工作了(譯註:本漫畫影射以臀部大著稱的美國電視實境節目女明星 Kim Kardashian 金卡達夏。)
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- Mar 06 Thu 2014 08:41
Comics 129
- Mar 06 Thu 2014 08:36
Comics 128
成群結隊繞過石頭 支持八十八號提案,和我一起開始使用潔淨的能源! 投給七十號提案,讓我們的孩子在學校裡蠕動 鰻魚普選(譯註:本漫畫影射 electric eel 電鰻,因為 electorate 的讀音和 electric 近似。而 lamprey 八目鰻則是影射美國學校決定要求學生在校內禱告所引發的爭議。)
- Mar 04 Tue 2014 08:52
產期延後 東縣咖啡評鑑延至四月 下
他另表示,多數農友只會種、不會烘焙與行銷,縣府舉辦評鑑前,還會要求參賽者參加三小時的教學課程、並現場親自挑選生豆,以進一步了解咖啡製程、提升品質,發展出「台東咖啡品牌」,成為全台灣最有名的咖啡。
原本縣府規劃期程在三月中繳豆、評鑑,每位農友必須繳交廿公斤帶殼豆,台東縣咖啡產業發展協會理事長廖添成及農友鍾長華表示,因為今年天氣太冷,產期延後近一個月,中高海拔豆子還未採收,建議延後舉辦。長濱鄉咖啡產銷班班長吳秀蘭也反映,長濱鄉前年才開始種咖啡,產量不多,建議開放以產銷班為名義組聯合參賽。
- Mar 04 Tue 2014 08:50
Delayed harvest nudges Taitung County’s official coffee review to April II
Wu also says that most of the county’s coffee farmers only know how to grow coffee, not how to roast it or market it. Prior to holding the review, in order to help participants better understand how coffee is made and to improve overall quality, the county government requires everyone to take a three-hour class and select unroasted coffee berries during the event. The government hopes to develop a “Taitung coffee brand” that can eventually become Taiwan’s most famous coffee.
The local government had originally planned to collect coffee beans from the farmers and judge them in the middle of March. Each farmer has to hand over 20kg of beans with hulls intact. Taitung Coffee Industry Development Association president Liao Tien-cheng and local coffee farmer Chung Chang-hua say that this year’s cold weather has postponed the harvest by nearly a month. Coffee berries growing at middle to high altitudes have not been harvested yet, so they suggested deferring the event to a later date. Wu Hsiu-lan, the class president of a coffee production and marketing class in Changbin Township, says that Changbin only started growing coffee two years ago, and so she suggested allowing students to compete in the competition as groups representing their respective classes since the crop yield is so small.
- Mar 04 Tue 2014 08:49
產期延後 東縣咖啡評鑑延至四月 上
台東縣政原本預計三月中舉辦全縣咖啡分級評鑑,不料因寒流一波波,產期延後約一個月,確定評鑑將延至四月十九、廿日,報名則延至三月十四日。
台東縣目前約有十六個咖啡相關產銷班、班員約兩百人,種植面積達兩百五十公頃,分布在台東市、達仁鄉、太麻里鄉、卑南鄉、池上鄉、成功鎮、長濱鄉等鄉鎮市。縣府農業處二月十二日召集農友、產銷班長討論年度咖啡評鑑期程。
- Mar 04 Tue 2014 08:46
Delayed harvest nudges Taitung County’s official coffee review to April I
The Taitung County Government was originally scheduled to hold its countywide coffee review in the middle of March. Due to unexpected and recurrent cold waves, however, the harvest has been pushed back around a month, and the event has been moved to April 19 and 20. Registration has been extended to March 14.
There are around 16 coffee production and marketing classes offered in Taitung County, with approximately 200 students. Farmland in the county devoted to coffee production covers around 250 hectares, including Taitung City and Daren, Taimali, Beinan, Chishang, Chenggong and Changbin townships. The Taitung County Agriculture Department convened a meeting with farmers and production and marketing class representatives on Feb. 12 to discuss the schedule for the annual coffee review.
- Mar 04 Tue 2014 08:44
巴西狗狗玩滑水板衝浪
約十二隻四足立式衝浪板參賽者被牠們的主人帶到里約熱內盧的巴拉海灘外,為了第二屆年度賽事練習,人狗組成的隊伍繞著浮標較勁。
「這個點子源自當我站在浪板上,而我的狗被繫在海灘。我告訴自己:『天哪!牠想來水裡!』因此我把牠放在浪板上,而牠也很愛,」活動發起人馬可.薩內利說。
- Mar 04 Tue 2014 08:43
Brazil dogs take to waves on paddle boards
About a dozen four-legged practitioners of stand-up paddle boarding took to the waves with their human owners off Rio de Janeiro’s Barra Beach, practicing for a second annual competition in which canine-human teams race around buoys.
“The idea started when I was on my board and my dog was tied up on the beach. I said to myself, ’Man he wants to come to the water!’ so I put him on the board and he loved it,” said Marco Sarnelli, the event organizer.
- Mar 04 Tue 2014 08:42
過時的捷克電話亭重生為迷你圖書館
兩名捷克人讓被手機時代所淘汰的電話亭重現生機,他們把電話亭改造為迷你圖書館,首座電話亭圖書館最近在布拉格一所醫院正式設立。
在這座紅色電話亭裡的書架上,IKEM醫院的病人可以找到各種類型的書,包括美國犯罪小說家葛里遜的作品、捷克和俄羅斯書籍,以及英國傳記作家莫頓的作品《黛安娜:她的真實故事》等。
- Mar 04 Tue 2014 08:40
Obsolete Czech phone booths find new life as mini libraries
Two Czechs have breathed new life into telephone booths made obsolete in the cellphone age, converting them into mini libraries with the first installed at a Prague hospital recently.
On the shelves of the red booth, patients of the IKEM hospital will find a plethora of genres, including works by US crime writer John Grisham, Czech and Russian titles and biographer Andrew Morton’s Diana: Her True Story.
- Mar 04 Tue 2014 08:39
要爆炸了 德國九十頭放屁牛造成牛棚爆炸
- Mar 04 Tue 2014 08:37
Fire in the hole
Dairy cows with a serious case of flatulence have simultaneously “broken wind” and blown up a building in a fiery explosion.
No doubt there were all sorts of “whoever smelt it dealt it” accusations flying around amongst the herd afterwards.
- Mar 04 Tue 2014 08:33
'12 Years a Slave,' 'Gravity' biggest winners of the night at 86th Oscars III
Best documentary went to the crowd-pleasing backup singer ode “20 Feet From Stardom” (聚光燈外二十呎). One of its stars, Darlene Love, accepted the award singing the gospel tune “His Eye Is on the Sparrow”: “I sing because I'm happy/ I sing because I'm free.”
Disney's global hit “Frozen” (冰雪奇緣) won best animated film, marking — somewhat remarkably — the studio's first win in the 14 years of the best animated feature category. (Pixar, which Disney owns, has regularly dominated.) The film's hit single, “Let It Go,” won best original song.
- Mar 04 Tue 2014 08:30
'12 Years a Slave,' 'Gravity' biggest winners of the night at 86th Oscars II
Leto passed around his Oscar to members of the press backstage, urging them to “fondle” it. The long-haired actor, who has devoted himself in recent years to his rock band 30 Seconds to Mars, gravely vowed: “I will revel tonight.”
Cate Blanchett took best actress for her fallen socialite in Woody Allen's “Blue Jasmine” (藍色茉莉), her second Oscar. Accepting the award, she challenged Hollywood not to think of films starring women as “niche experiences”: “The world is round, people!” she declared to hearty applause.
- Mar 04 Tue 2014 08:28
'12 Years a Slave,' 'Gravity' biggest winners of the night at 86th Oscars I
LOS ANGELES -- Hollywood named the brutal, unshrinking historical drama “12 Years a Slave” (自由之心) best picture at the 86th annual Academy Awards.
Steve McQueen's slavery odyssey, based on Solomon Northup's 1853 memoir, has been hailed as a landmark corrective to the movie industry's virtual blindness to slavery, instead creating whiter tales like 1940 best-picture winner “Gone With the Wind” (飄). “12 Years a Slave” is the first best-picture winner directed by a black filmmaker.
- Feb 25 Tue 2014 08:57
烏克蘭動盪情勢加劇,外交部維持該國全境之旅遊警示燈號為「橙色」,並建議國人避免前往
烏克蘭首都基輔市本(2)月18日晚間再度發生嚴重流血衝突,鎮暴警察以瓦斯催淚彈等武器強制驅離抗議示威群眾,造成至少25人死亡(包含9名員警)。烏克蘭自上(102)年11月下旬起,因是否與歐盟簽署「聯繫國協定」議題,引爆一連串反政府示威抗議,情勢多次失控,爆發流血衝突,迄今已造成數百人傷亡。鑒於烏克蘭警民流血衝突加劇,外交部維持烏國全境之旅遊警示燈號為「橙色」,建議國人倘非必要,避免前往,以維護自身安全。國人在烏克蘭倘遇急難需要協助,請撥打我駐俄羅斯代表處緊急連絡電話:+7-916-837-6058洽助,或請國內親友撥打免付費「旅外國人緊急服務專線」:0800-085-095與「外交部緊急聯絡中心」聯繫。
外交部發布之旅遊警示係提供國人出國旅行之參考資訊,屬參考性質之建議,與國外旅遊定型化契約條款之適用並無必然關係,亦無強制拘束力,國人仍應自行決定其旅行計畫。國人倘遇旅遊消費爭議而無法解決時,可向中華民國旅行業品質保障協會(地址:台北市長安東路2段78號11樓;電話:2506-8185)或交通部觀光局(地址:台北市忠孝東路4段290號9樓;免費申訴電話:0800-211-734)申訴以安排調處。
- Feb 25 Tue 2014 08:53
對古巴的觀感正在轉變
美國總統歐巴馬在二○一一年恢復「人民對人民」的古巴旅遊時,美國的構想是,前往古巴觀光的美國人可以充當文化大使,扭轉美國不斷遭古巴官方媒體妖魔化的形象。過了兩年半之後,一項調查顯示,這些旅程不但改善了古巴人對美國人的看法,也改善了美國遊客對這個加勒比海島國的觀感,但也造成遊客們對美國長期以來向古巴領袖施壓的政策的看法負面化。
六十二歲的紐約市婦產科醫師艾倫蘭德斯伯格最近參加了這種「人民對人民」的古巴之旅前往該島一行,她說:「我想美國和古巴的關係應該開放,兩國人民應該彼此對話,兩國人民應該開始分享。這個蕞爾小島對美國全無威脅,但我們卻在國際上孤立它。這是沒有道理的。」
- Feb 25 Tue 2014 08:52
Changing views on Cuba
- Feb 25 Tue 2014 08:50
載貨腳踏車
一名漁夫用腳踏車運送幾箱鮭魚到當地市場。一名經常載著兩個孩子在市內到處跑的媽媽,有一次試圖將一張床墊拖回家。還有一些公司利用腳踏車收集資源回收物。腳踏車騎士物盡其用,看看他的載貨腳踏車可以運送什麼東西。這種堅固的兩輪腳踏車,作用是運載很多東西,在美國各地喜歡腳踏車的社區,這種腳踏車愈來愈普遍。
有些家庭利用這種腳踏車從事他們駕車做的事─帶孩子上學,載運雜貨或辦點小事情──省去了停車的麻煩。有的志在對環境有點小補或做點運動。也有人說,這是一種比較容易,也較有趣的交通工具。
- Feb 25 Tue 2014 08:48
Cargo bikes
Bikes are the new minivan for cycling families in America
One fisherman uses a bike to deliver boxes of salmon to local markets. A mom who regularly shuttles her two kids around town once tried to haul a twin mattress home. And some companies are using the bikes to pick up recycling. Cyclists are pushing the limits of what they can haul on cargo bikes — sturdy two-wheelers built to haul lots of stuff. These bicycles are increasingly popular in pedal-friendly communities across the U.S. |