2020年10月25日 星期日

Kashgar(Chinese: 喀什)

 

Kashgar in China’s western Xinjiang region.  Greg Baker/Agence France-Presse — Getty Images

China links a lone infection found by routine testing to an outbreak in Kashgar

The authorities in China have ordered widespread testing and travel restrictions for the city of Kashgar in the country’s far west after a single asymptomatic case of coronavirus was detected on Saturday. By Sunday afternoon, 137 asymptomatic cases had been discovered.
A 17-year-old girl in a rural area outside Kashgar was found to be infected during regular testing, which set off mass testing. All the other cases found are connected to a factory where her parents work.
The Xinjiang region, which includes Kashgar, was under various lockdowns in February and March and again in July and August. Until Saturday, the region had not reported a new case since mid-August. The outbreak of the virus there early this year prompted concerns that it could spread in the vast network of camps and prisons where hundreds of thousands of ethnic Uighurs and other Muslim minorities have been detained.
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2020年10月23日 星期五

Barking Abbey. Fountains Abbey, 英國2座被亨利八世賣掉的教堂

 

Nigel Trevena

Early Photography and Film
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THE LOST GLIDING LADIES. Fountains Abbey, seen here in a photograph taken by Colonel H. W. Verschoyle on 4 July 1858, is one of the largest and best preserved ruined Cistercian monasteries in England. Sited 3 miles south-west of Ripon, Yorkshire, it was founded in 1132 and developed over 407 years into one of the greatest monasteries in history, a trading site, an educational centre, a spiritual focus, and an architectural marvel. Then, in 1539, by order of Henry VIII in his confrontation with Rome, Fountains Abbey was pillaged, sacked, raped.
In 1540, the site was sold to former Lord Mayor of London Sir John Gresham who set about destruction in earnest, stripping some of the fabric of the site (stone, timber, and lead) for sale as building materials to help defray the cost of purchase. In 1597 the site was acquired by Sir Stephen Proctor, who further vandalised the complex for stone to build his country pile, Fountains Hall.
But today, even in its ruined state, Fountains Abbey casts its spell: revered as one of England’s marvels, it is a Grade 1 Listed Building and part of a UNESCO World Heritage Site. The ladies may pass, but the site’s mysticism, nobility and ruined elegance endure.
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2020年10月15日 星期四

超級電腦模擬　鄰座交談感染風險較面對面高　濕度影響病毒霧化量。Supercomputer-developed face shields may offer lifeline for Japan's restaurant industry

 

日本研究團隊周二（13 日）公布，以超級電腦「富岳（Fugaku）」分析武漢肺炎（COVID-19）的傳播方式，發現坐在患者旁邊交談，比面對面坐的風險可能更高，而環境濕度高低亦是關鍵。
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2020年10月12日 星期一

“諧謔瑞士”：“瑞式”幽默指南；Grock1880 –1959





“諧謔瑞士”：“瑞式”幽默指南



瑞士公民往往以極度缺乏幽默感而著稱-儘管許多人駁斥外界的這一刻板印象毫無根據。或許不為“局外人”所理解的“瑞式”喜劇，與本土文化、政治和語言之間的聯繫到底有多緊密？此内容发布于 2020年10月12日 - 09:002020年10月12日 - 09:00朱莉·亨特
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目前正在位於瑞士中部施維茨州的瑞士國家博物館瑞士歷史分館(Schweizerisches Nationalmuseum - Forum Schweizer Geschichte Schwyz)舉辦的“諧謔瑞士”展覽將持續至2021年1月。

該展向大眾呈現了哪些逗哏能戳中瑞士人的笑點，讓這個喜食奶酪的國度捧腹大笑。此次展覽的重頭戲，當屬出自曾為《國際先驅導報》(International Herald Tribune)和《紐約時報》(New York Times)擔任20年專欄漫畫家的帕特里克·柴帕特(Patrick Chappatte)等幽默大師筆下的多幅漫畫作品、電視喜劇短片以及藝術作品。此外，展品中還包括昔日全球收入最高的音樂廳表演者和雜耍明星-瑞士小丑葛瑞克(Grock)等多位舞台巨匠的傑出表演片段。

Grock (born Charles Adrien Wettach[1

]; January 10, 1880 – July 14, 1959) was a Swiss clown, composer and musician. Called "the king of clowns"[2] and "the greatest of Europe's clowns",[3] Grock was once the most highly paid entertainer in the world.[2]
Contents
1Biography
1.1Early life
1.2Career and later life
1.3Media
2Legacy
3Filmography
4Books
5Notes
6Additional references
7External links

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grock

Grock The Clown - Stage Performance ("Bühnen-Sketch", 1931)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PMvL8rV1ssI

此次展出的作品中，既不乏以瑞士社會和中立立場為逗哏的歷史笑料與雙關語，也少不了對“金發碧眼女胸大無腦”的調侃、對妻子或丈夫缺點的戲謔式吐槽-而這些“笑點”在任何文化的笑話中都能見到。策展人皮婭·舒比格(Pia Schubiger)表示，如果有人認為這些笑點令人反感不悅，那麼此次展覽也不失為一次契機，讓各界參與討論幽默的“下限”究竟在哪裡。
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2020年10月11日 星期日

巴黎共和廣場（Place de la République）：巴黎何以變得愈來愈髒亂？

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Place de la République
Monument à la République, Paris, mai 2015 002.jpg
Monument à la République at the centre of the square, topped by a statue of Marianne
Place de la République is located in Paris
Place de la République
Shown within Paris
Length283 m (928 ft)
Width119 m (390 ft)
Arrondissement3rd, 10th, 11th
QuarterArts-et-Métiers
Enfants-Rouges
Porte-Saint-Martin
Folie-Méricourt
Coordinates48°52′02.20″N 2°21′50.60″ECoordinates: 48°52′02.20″N 2°21′50.60″E
FromBoulevard du Temple
ToBoulevard Saint-Martin
Construction
Denomination7 May 1879

The Place de la République (formerly known as the Place du Château d'Eau) is a square in Paris, located on the border between the 3rd, 10th and 11th arrondissements. The square has an area of 3.4 ha (8.4 acres).[1][2] It is named after the French Republic, was called the Place du Château-d'Eau until 1879, and contains a monument which includes a statue of the personification of France, Marianne.

The Métro station of République lies beneath the square, served by Line 3, Line 5, Line 8, Line 9 and Line 11.

History and architecture[edit]

The square was originally called the Place du Château d'Eau, named after a huge fountain designed by Pierre-Simon Girard and built on the site in 1811.[3] Émile de La Bédollière wrote that the water came from la Villette and that the fountain was "superb" in character. In 1867, Gabriel Davioud built a more impressive fountain in the square, which (like the first fountain) was decorated with lions.[4] The square took its current shape as part of Baron Hausmann's vast renovation of Paris.[5] Haussmann also built new barracks on the cities, to garrison troops useful in times of civil unrest.[6]

At the center of the Place de la République is a 31 feet (9.4 m) bronze statue of Marianne, the personification of the French Republic, "holding aloft an olive branch in her right hand and resting her left on a tablet engraved with Droits de l'homme (the Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen)."[7] The statue sits atop a monument which is 75 feet (23 m) high.[8] Marianne is surrounded with three statues personifying liberty, equality, and fraternity, the values of the French Republic.[9] These statues also evoke the three medieval theological virtues.[10] Also at the base is a lion guarding a depiction of a ballot box.[11] The monument has been described as "an ordinary one, acceptable to a committee in the 1880s and inoffensively unarresting today."[12]

The monument was created by the brothers Charles and Léopold Morice. Leopold executed the sculptural segments, while Charles executed the architectural segments.[13] The monument was chosen as part of an art competition announced in early 1879 by the Paris City Council, which sought to create a "Monument to the French Republic" in honor of the 90th anniversary of the French Revolution, to be erected on the Place de la République.[14] The Morice statue was chosen by the jury, but a "vociferous minority opinion among jury members claimed precedence for the second prize", the submission of Jules Dalou, who had just returned from exile in England.[15] Dalou's statue, which was completely different in style, impressed the jury so much that it was decided in early 1880 to erect his monument to the Republic on the adjacent Place de la Nation.[16] Two inauguration ceremonies for the Morice monument took place, the first on 14 July 1880 with a gypsum model, and the second on 14 July 1883 with the final version in bronze.[17] The monument replaced the second fountain.[18]

Paris mayor Bertrand Delanoë made a renovation of the Place de la République one of his campaign promises in the 2008 campaign for re-election.[7] The project involved the transformation of the square from a "glorified roundabout" into a pedestrian zone, with 70% of the square's 3.4 hectares and surroundings roads being reserved for pedestrians.[7] The Paris City Council allocated twelve million euros for renovating the square in 2010, and the project began the same year.[19] The project was completed in 2013.[7][19] The total cost of the project was 20.4 GBP, about 5 million GBP over budget.[7] The renovation was a finalist for the European Prize for Urban Public Space.[19] The pedestrian area now occupies "some two hectares in the sunniest part on the north-eastern side" while the "other third, to be used by vehicular traffic, is the shadier part on the south-western side."[19] The statue of Marianne was cleaned of graffiti and footprints as part of the renovations.[7]

Voting at the square - 2016.05.14

After terrorist attacks against France in January 2015, crowds gathered in the square to mourn and express solidarity against the threat of Islamic extremism.[20] The French Interior Ministry estimated that as many as 1.6 million people participated, making it the largest demonstration in modern French history.[20] Crowds again rallied on the Place de la République following the November 2015 Paris attacks.[21]

In 2016 the Nuit debout movement, which opposed the labour reforms of the El Khomri law, began from an occupation of the Place de la République.[22] In April 2019, Yellow Vest demonstrators clashed with authorities in the square in their 23rd week of protests and dissatisfaction over President Macron's government, the weekend following the Notre-Dame de Paris fire.[23][24][25]

Metro stations


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 據「衛報」駐巴黎記者 Kim Willsher 形容，就算共和廣場（Place de la République）6 年前進行過索價 2,000 萬英鎊的改造，看上去卻仍然破舊不堪。不少安躺於睡袋中的無家者佔據門口或長凳；人行道上盡是亂丟的廢棄電動滑板車及單車，還有狗糞及煙頭；路經的人打開一包新煙，直接就將包裝扔到地上。


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