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路透社:巴西囚犯暴动要求改善环境
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Brazilian prisoners riot for better conditions
巴西囚犯暴动要求改善环境
Two guards have been taken hostage by prisoners in this Brazilian cellblock. Their ransom: better living conditions for the prisoners in the overcrowded jail. Rioting broke out on Sunday as the inmates were being served breakfast. Two prisoners were decapitated, and another two were thrown off the roof. Jairo Ferreira Filho, a lawyer representing the prisoners, says conditions inside the facility are desperate.
巴西这座监狱两名预警被囚犯劫持。他们的要求是：改善这座拥挤的监狱中囚犯的生存环境。暴动发生在周日供应早餐期间。两名囚犯被斩首，另外两人被从屋顶上扔下来。囚犯的代表律师Jairo Ferreira Filho表示，监狱内的条件非常恶劣。
(SOUNDBITE) (Portuguese) LAWYER REPRESENTING THE PRISONERS, JAIRO FERREIRA FILHO, SAYING: "When this rebellion started, there were nine prison officers working and serving breakfast to 1,040 inmates. Initially, there were 960 inmates and 225 prison officers. The precariousness has been surpassed."
囚犯的代表律师Jairo Ferreira Filho：“暴动发生的时候，监狱内共有9名警官为1,040名囚犯分发早餐。最初的时候有960名囚犯，225名狱警。不确定因素非常大。”
Dozens of prisoners, facing threats from riot leaders, have been transported to nearby prisons. Authorities have been called in to protect the surrounding areas as they try to find a way to regain control of the prison.
在暴动头目的威胁下，数十名囚犯被转移到附近的监狱。当局已经介入，保护周边地区，试图寻找方法重新控制监狱。
British Ebola victim flown home as Congo finds new outbreak
英国埃博拉病毒感染者回国
The plane carrying a British man infected with the Ebola virus arrives just outside London Sunday. Earlier, the specially adapted Royal Air Force cargo plane was sent to pick the healthcare worker up in Sierra Leone. British Foreign Secretary Philip Hammond had authorized his repatriation for treatment. The Department of Health said the patient -- whose identity has not been disclosed -- was quote "not currently seriously unwell". The hemorrhagic fever has killed over 1,400 people, mostly in Sierra Leone, Liberia and neighboring Guinea. It's the deadliest outbreak of the disease to date. On Sunday, a new outbreak of Ebola was detected in Democratic Republic of Congo.
周日，搭载着感染埃博拉病毒的英国男子的飞机抵达伦敦城外。早些时候，这架特别改装的皇家空军货运飞机是为了搭载塞拉利昂的医疗工作者。英国外交大臣哈蒙德(Philip Hammond)授权他回国接受治疗。卫生部表示，这位病人（并未透露身份）的情况“并不是特别严重”。这种出血热已经夺走超过1,400人的生命，大部分在塞拉利昂，利比亚和邻国几内亚。这是目前为止最为致命的疾病爆发。周日，刚果民主共和国检测到新的埃博拉病毒病例。
Death toll continues to rise in Gaza war with no end in sight
加沙地带死亡人数继续上涨
Hospitals in Gaza are overwhelmed with injured civilians as a result of Israeli airstrikes. As Israel enters its seventh week of war with Gaza, more than 2,000 Palestinians, mostly civilians, have been killed. Adding to the death toll, 9 Palestinians,killed by Israeli airstrikes Monday. And the fighting continues... Video from the Israeli army says it shows an airstrike on a rocket launcher used by militants in Gaza, while Hamas militants say they've intercepted an Israeli drone. Sixty four Israeli soldiers and four civilians have been killed since Israel launched its Gaza offensive on July 8, aimed at ending rocket fire into its territory.
由于以色列的空袭，加沙地带的医院受伤平民人满为患。以色列进入与加沙地带战争的第七周，超过2,000名巴勒斯坦人被杀害，大部分是平民。周一，9名巴勒斯坦人在以色列的空袭中遇难，死亡人数进一步上升。战争还在继续。来自以色列军方的视频显示，一起空袭袭击目标是加沙地带激进分子使用的火箭发射器。而哈马斯激进分子表示，他们拦截了以色列的无人机。自7月8日以色列对加沙地带发动袭击企图终止针对其领土的火箭弹袭击以来，已有64名以色列士兵和4名平民牺牲。
路透社娱乐:告别眼镜 展览纠正你的视力
Bye Bye Glasses! Displays that "correct" your vision
告别眼镜 展览纠正你的视力
In this dark laboratory in Berkeley California, Professor Brian Barsky is testing a prototype that could potentially affect the majority of people on Earth. This camera and series of lenses is set up to simulate farsightedness in humans. If everything goes as planned, the screen at the far end of the table will adjust to compensate for the vision problem. Within seconds, everything comes into focus. Barsky, a professor of computer science and optometry, says the breakthrough came by thinking outside of the box...instead of corrective eyewear - why not design screens for handheld or computer devices that are programmed to adjust to a users vision problems. (SOUNDBITE) (English) BRIAN BARSKY, PROFESSOR OF COMPUTER SCIENCE AND OPTOMETRY, SAYING: "That is the concept. We are going to compensate for the particular aberration that are in the viewers eyes by modifying the image that is going to be displayed." To modify that image, the team have designed an algorithm, based on a viewers eye glass prescription, which alters the intensity of light each pixel of a display emits. That light is then filtered through a plastic cover dotted with tiny pinholes that bends the image so that it appears focused and sharp to the viewer. The scientists have already proven that they are able to make the display work for people with low order aberrations such as near and far sightedness, but Barsky says the technology could potentially change the lives of people with more complex high order aberrations, eye disorders that glasses can't correct. (SOUNDBITE) (English) BRIAN BARSKY, PROFESSOR OF COMPUTER SCIENCE AND OPTOMETRY, SAYING: "So if we can solve this for low order we are optimistic that we can solve it for high order. And what is so exciting there is the ability to solve a problem for an underserved population. We would give them a technology, a solution to their problem that they don't have." Barsky says there is still plenty of work to do to perfect the technology, but he says that a world where displays correct vision is slowly coming into focus.
白宫发言:奥巴马强调同工同酬的重要性
Weekly Address: Ensuring Equal Pay for Equal Work
WASHINGTON, DC – In this week’s address, the President underscored the importance of ensuring equal pay for equal work and highlighted the steps his Administration has taken to expand opportunity and narrow the pay gap that exists between men and women. Just this week – on Equal Pay Day – the President took action to increase transparency and make it easier to recognize pay discrimination. Women make up half of America’s workforce, and are increasingly the primary-breadwinners in American families. Ensuring that women are paid fairly is a commonsense step to grow our economy. That is why the President again called on Republicans in Congress to support the Paycheck Fairness Act and stop blocking progress that would benefit women – because when women succeed, America succeeds.
The audio of the address and video of the address will be available online atwww.whitehouse.govat 6:00 a.m. ET, Saturday,April 12, 2014.
Remarks of President Barack Obama
Weekly Address
The White House
April 12, 2014
Hi, everybody. Earlier this week was Equal Pay Day. It marks the extra time the average woman has to work into a new year to earn what a man earned the year before. You see, the average woman who works full-time in America earns less than a man– even when she’s in the same profession and has the same education.
That's wrong. In 2014, it’s an embarrassment. Women deserve equal pay for equal work.
This is an economic issue that affects all of us. Women make up about half our workforce. And more and more, they’re our families’ main breadwinners. So it’s good for everyone when women are paid fairly. That’s why, this week, I took action to prohibit more businesses from punishing workers who discuss their salaries – because more pay transparency makes it easier to spot pay discrimination. And I hope more business leaders will take up this cause.
But equal pay is just one part of an economic agenda for women.
Most lower-wage workers in America are women. So I’ve taken executive action to require federal contractors to pay their federally-funded employees at least ten dollars and ten cents an hour. I ordered a review of our nation’s overtime rules,to give more workers the chance to earn the overtime pay they deserve. Thanks to the Affordable Care Act, tens of millions of women are now guaranteed free preventive care like mammograms and contraceptive care, and the days when you could be charged more just for being a woman are over for good. Across the country, we’re bringing Americans together to help us make sure that a woman can have a baby without sacrificing her job, or take a day off to care for a sick child or parent without hitting hardship. It’s time to do away with workplace policies that belong in a “Mad Men” episode, and give every woman the opportunity she deserves.
Here’s the problem, though. On issues that would benefit millions of women, Republicans in Congress have blocked progress at every turn. Just this week, Senate Republicans blocked the Paycheck Fairness Act, commonsense legislation that would help more women win equal pay for equal work. House Republicans won’t vote to raise the minimum wage or extend unemployment insurance for women out of work through no fault of their own. The budget they passed this week would force deep cuts to investments that overwhelmingly benefit women and children – like Medicaid, food stamps, and college grants. And of course, they’re trying to repeal the Affordable Care Act for the fiftieth or so time, which would take away vital benefits and protections from millions of women.
I’m going to keep fighting to make sure that doesn’t happen. Because we do better when our economy grows for everybody,not just a few. And when women succeed, America succeeds. Thanks, and have a great weekend.
