現任國立台灣交響樂團長笛首席的陳麗明,自幼就表現出眾,畢業於新英格蘭音樂學院 (New EnglandConservatory of Music)及法國巴黎師範音樂院(EcoleNormale de Musique de Paris),活躍於各種型態的演出,從2000年起獲聘為國台交長笛首席至今屆滿11年。
陳麗明曾參加國際神戶長笛大賽及慕尼黑長笛大賽,並在艾斯本長笛協奏曲中獲得首獎;曾獲邀在法國庫雪韋爾音樂節(Courchevel Music Alp Festival)中演出,並擔任長笛指導教授;也曾在美國長笛年會最重要的星光音樂會 (National Flute Convention GalaConcert)上演出,是首名獲邀在這個長笛界年度焦點音樂會上演出的華人長笛家。
Despite a big legal battle between HTC and Apple, HTC cofounder Cher Wang is still a fan of Apple products. And she's not above shopping in one of Apple's stores to prove it. HTC cofounder and chairwoman Cher Wang was spotted at the Palo Alto
By AP Peter Bourjos drove in the tying run in the eighth inning with an infield single, Erick Aybar followed with a two-run double and the host Los Angeles Angels beat the Cleveland Indians, 6-5, on Sunday to give Mike Scioscia his 1000th victory as a ...
MILAN — Pietro Ferrero, who with his brother ran Ferrero, the family-owned producer of Nutella, Tic Tacs, Ferrero Rocher and other sweets sold worldwide, died on Monday while riding a bicycle in South Africa. He was 47.
The company said Mr. Ferrero, an avid cyclist, was riding a bike on his usual training run on a road in Cape Town when he fell off. The company gave no other details.
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“Italy has lost a great entrepreneur who embodied the best qualities of our industrial history,” Franco Frattini, the Italian foreign minister, said in a statement.
In addition to his brother, Giovanni, Mr. Ferrero’s survivors include his wife and three children.
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LinkedinDiggMixxMySpacePermalink. Lou Gorman, who as general manager of the Boston Red Sox put the finishing touches on the 1986 team that came within one strike of bringing the franchise its first world championship in 68 years, only to have it snatched away by the Mets, a team he had also helped put together, died on Friday in Boston. He was 82 and lived in Weston, Mass.
CHIANG MAI, Thailand (Reuters) - An estimated 5.5 magnitude earthquake hit northern Thailand on Friday, a day after a bigger quake caused panic in several Southeast Asian countries, but local authorities reported little damage.
"We are looking to see if there was any additional damage after another quake this morning at around 7 a.m. (0000 GMT)," Somchai Hatyatanti, governor of Chiang Rai province, told Reuters by phone.
A 6.8 magnitude earthquake struck Myanmar near the border with northern Thailand on Thursday and was felt as far away as the Vietnamese capital of Hanoi. One woman died.
LAKE BUENA VISTA, Fla. -- When the Braves honored him before a standing-room-only crowd on Oct. 2, Bobby Cox was moved and also distracted by the fact that he was in the heat of a tightly contested National League Wild Card race with just two games remaining in the regular season.
Now retired from his legendary managerial career, Cox will have an opportunity to relax and soak in all of the appreciation the Braves and fans will show him on Aug. 12, when he will be inducted into the Braves Hall of Fame and given the grand honor of seeing his No. 6 jersey retired.
"It's wonderful," Cox said on Tuesday morning. "I'm excited and humbled yet again."
If you are a fan of Elizabeth Taylor, and how could you not be, you don't have to be told the source of that dialogue. It's the heart of Taylor's country club love scene with Montgomery Clift in "A Place in the Sun," and the actress' face in huge close-up is so exquisitely, so heartbreakingly beautiful you never doubt that Clift's intoxicated character would do anything to keep her in his life. Up to and including murder.
Both on the screen and off, Elizabeth Taylor and her irresistible violet eyes had that effect on men. She was only 17 when she filmed that scene for director George Stevens in 1949 (the film was released two years later), and her career as a talented adult actress and world class femme fatale was just beginning. Before she was finished, Taylor had collected five Oscar nominations, two victories, seven husbands and innumerable broken hearts.
格蘭.穆卡特為2002年普利茲克建築獎得主,亦為至今唯一獲該獎殊榮的澳洲建築師。他以重視生態、尊重大自然氣候與土地環境、以及人類永續共存之主張,在當代建築師中獨樹一格,他的成名不是來自單獨建築案件,而是他整體的作品呈現。展名「輕觸大地」(Touch the Earth Lightly)原為澳洲原住民諺語,意指對大自然的崇敬。這四字亦充份表達格蘭‧穆卡特(1936-)的建築設計哲學,如「符合經濟效益」、「環保」、「不破壞自然景觀」等。《輕觸大地:格蘭.穆卡特建築展》透過穆卡特極為重視的手繪稿之圖片與12組建案的攝影作品,結合策展團隊為展覽特別製作的建築模型4組、由建築師親自口述所拍攝的紀錄片等,全面呈現其建築特色與理念。本展於2008年在日本東京以建築與設計為主的間畫廊(Gallery Ma)展出之後,由澳洲建築學會承辦在澳洲各地巡展,包括雪梨、坎培拉、布里斯班等地,此次在北美館的展出是繼東京之後,首度於澳洲以外的地區呈現,內容部分並增加穆卡特最新作品「清真寺」與「蛋白石及化石博物館」的彩色手繪稿圖片。本展策展人林賽.強斯頓於展覽開幕當天3月19日(週六)下午3點將進行國際藝術演講會,以「格蘭.穆卡特:輕觸大地」為題,聚焦穆卡特代表性作品,傳達其重視環境與自然共生的建築理念,歡迎各界踴躍參加。詳情洽官網www.tfam.museum。
穆卡特1936年生於倫敦,父母來自澳洲,他的童年在新幾內亞渡過,1941年隨家人移居雪梨,1961年畢業於雪梨技術學院(現為新南威爾斯大學)。芬蘭建築師阿爾瓦.阿爾托(Alvar Aalto)和德裔美籍建築師密斯.凡德羅(Mies van der Rohe)對穆卡特具相當程度的影響啟發;同時在早期遊歷美國欣賞知名建築師作品,感到崇敬之意,卻擔憂這些建築物可能無法適應環境冷熱交替之變化,尤其當他了解這些房屋是依賴室內空調機器才得以供人居住。因此穆卡特自1969年起執業至今,致力於設計具美學的建物,也必須兼具與該地區、景觀和氣候相融的住宅房舍,他所追求的建築根植於澳洲文化及其多元的氣候和地形。多年來他投注許多心力在教學上,於世界各地知名大學擔任客座教授,近年來穆卡特將重點歸回在澳洲國內教學,現任教於新南威爾斯大學雪梨分部,也在澳洲建築學會每年舉辦的「穆卡特國際建築大師講堂」授課。
1996-99年所進行的鮑伊德藝術中心(Arthur and Yvonne Boyd Art Centre),為與其妻子溫蒂.勒文(Wendy Lewin)和建築師瑞吉.拉爾克(Reg Lark)所合作,是穆卡特少見的公共建築作品之一,此案被2002年普立茲克獎主席視為是穆卡特的重量級代表作。此中心做為提供藝術家及學生使用的研習場所,包括附設廚房的多用途會議廳以及住宿空間。該土地座落於尤加利樹林與農場之間,建築師用匡景的手法,強調兩側不同的自然景觀,且入口庭院可眺望美麗的河景。同樣的線形配置將住宿房間沿開放式走道排列,每間住房的大小,精確的依照床的尺寸而設計,每張床鋪有各自不同的窗景,窗戶則設計可選擇向外推開或是調整為紗窗通風之用。群集與重複的住宿房間位在建築物東向立面,使原本的居家設備有了公共空間的規模,賦與每張床(住宿者)象徵性的存在意義。
by Denise Chow, SPACE.com Staff WriterDate: 09 March 2011 Time: 05:42 AM ET
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. – As the space shuttle Discovery glided toward its final landing at NASA's Kennedy Space Center, the astronauts and ground teams were focused on one thing: bringing the storied space plane down safely to end a successful mission.
But after landing, when the Discovery's crew emerged from the ship to be greeted by NASA's flight controllers, a gamut of emotions began to sink in.
"It's a pretty bittersweet moment," shuttle commander Steve Lindsey said as he stood on the runway following Discovery's picture-perfect final landing. "As the minutes pass, I'm actually getting sadder and sadder about this being the last flight."
For mission specialist Nicole Stott, the moment was particularly poignant. Before she joined NASA's astronaut corps to fly in space, she worked to keep the shuttles flying as an engineer at the Kennedy Space Center.
"I feel like I have an emotional tie to Discovery, to the space shuttles, and to KSC especially," Stott said. "Walking around under the vehicle, I saw so many familiar faces. The more time I have to talk to more of those people, the more emotional and more of an impact it's going to have."
Ending on a high note
Discovery's final mission to the International Space Station was nearly flawless, NASA officials said, and no major issues cropped up during the orbiter's 13 days in space. [Photos: STS-133: Discovery's Final Mission]
"The vehicle looks really good," Mike Leinbach, NASA's shuttle launch director, said in a post-landing news briefing today (March 9). "It's a good day. Discovery is home safe, the astronauts are down. I was looking in their eyes as they were looking back at the ship, and they had some special feelings, I'm sure."
The success of Discovery's STS-133 mission is enough to make its rocky start a distant memory.
The mission was delayed several months due to repeated issues with the shuttle's massive external fuel tank. Yet the eventual success of the mission shows the hard work and dedication of those who work in the space shuttle program, Leinbach said.
"It just played out the way we wanted it to," Leinbach said. "We wanted to go out on a high note, and Discovery has done that. We couldn't ask for more. It was virtually a perfect mission."
And credit for that success belongs to both the astronauts and those who work behind the scenes, NASA officials said.
"It's really a testimony to how focused and how diligent the teams are at processing the vehicle," said Bill Gerstenmaier, NASA's associate administrator for space operations. "We talk about finishing strong, and that's exactly what we wanted to do."
Getting some help from the ground
Astronaut Tim Kopra became an unexpected member of the shuttle's behind-the-scenes team when he was forced to sit out the STS-133 mission after being injured in a January bicycle accident. Steve Bowen, a veteran spacewalker, joined the crew in his place, but Kopra remained involved in the mission by providing support on the spacewalks from Mission Control at NASA's Johnson Space Center in Houston.
"He was with us every day, the whole time that we were there – he was a big part of the mission," Lindsey said. "Everything we did, Tim touched. We really wish he could have been with us."
Discovery will now be rolled to the Orbiter Processing Facility here at KSC, where teams will begin the months-long task of preparing the vehicle and making it safe for its future life on public display in a museum.
And with Discovery's final mission now over, the sadness of the milestone is mixed with pride. Mike Moses, NASA's shuttle launch integration manager, called the mission a triumph for the entire Discovery team.
"It's a fantastic mission, a really fantastic vehicle, and a great way for Discovery to end its career," Moses said.
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A strong quake of magnitude 6.6 struck the island of New Britain in Papua New Guinea, the U.S. Geological Survey reported on Wednesday.
The epicenter of the quake, which was fairly shallow at a depth of 26.8 miles, was only 17 miles north-northeast of the town of Kandrian. It struck at 7:24 a.m. on Thursday (4:24 p.m. ET on Wednesday), the USGS said.
(Reporting by Sandra Maler, Editing by Eric Walsh)
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Consumer Reports found Volt battery range limited to 23 to 28 miles in cold weather, far below the 40 miles advertised
By Julie Wernau, Tribune reporter 9:05 p.m. CST, March 3, 2011
It's a tough week to be the guy who led development of the Chevy Volt's battery. Consumer Reports on Monday said its tests showed the battery's range at a paltry 23 to 28 miles in cold weather, far below the 40 miles originally promised.
"The financial payback is not there," said Jake Fisher, a senior automotive engineer at Consumer Reports Auto Test Center. A hybrid, he said in an interview, would make more sense. (The Volt — which runs as a fully electric plug-in vehicle and switches to gasoline power once that battery is depleted — cost Consumer Reports $48,000 at a dealership before a $7,500 federal tax credit. Toyota's Prius is about half that price.)
Then on Tuesday, Ford Motor Co. seized on the negative press for the Volt by issuing its own press release: "Weather Climates No Problem for Ford Focus Electric's Liquid-Heated Battery System."
But Bill Wallace, director of Global Battery Systems for General Motors Corp., didn't flinch.
The researchers said three types of diet emerged: Processed diets which were high in fat, sugar and convenience foods, traditional diets of meat, potato and vegetables, and health conscious diets of salads, fruit and fish.
The children all took IQ tests when they were eight and half.
Brain development
The researchers found a link between IQ and diet, even after taking into account other factors such as the mother's level of education, social class and duration of breast feeding.
A diet high in processed food at the age of three was linked to a slightly lower IQ at the age of eight and a half, suggesting early eating habits have a long term impact.
Dr Pauline Emmett, who carried out the study at Bristol University, said: "Brain development is much faster in early life, it's when it does most of its growing. It seems that what happens afterwards is less important."
Although the relationship between diet and IQ was very strong, the impact was quite small. Processed foods were linked with IQs only a few points lower.
Experts in the field said the results had confirmed common sense.
Fiona Ford, spokesperson for the British Dietetic Association, said: "It's well worth looking at the long term impact of diets, everyone's familiar with the short term.
"The research confirms the type of advice we already know, but that's not always enough. Sometimes a society has to help a person change, we need to be educating more young parents about healthy eating."
Kristian Bravin, dietician at Leicester Royal Infirmary, said: "Most people know what they should do, some people don't have the inclination to cook good meals.
"I'm all in favour of a little bit of what you fancy, but when you're doing it every week it's a problem.
"People should seek advice from a registered dietician, but simply it's a message of moderating fat intake, five fruit and veg a day and whole grain starchy foods."
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