30年前第一次接觸它! 當時台灣做OEM外銷旅行箱非常多，這個享譽美國的第一品牌，更是大家常常掛在嘴邊的話題。無論是款式，容量， 品質及維修都是大家模仿的對象。今年是Samsonite成立100周年。喜歡它的廣告詞 "100 Years Strong"。
隨著個人從學生到投入上班，在不同的人生歷程，選擇的行李箱也跟著升級。
夏天是旅行的季節！北海道薰衣草、關島自由行、美國逍遙遊……，不論是全家大小或是朋友出遊，只要下了飛機踏上異國的土地，就可感受到歡樂與放鬆。到了回程打包時，悠哉的旅人們卻常赫然發現：「歡樂的氣氛總讓人不小心買太多」！不但行李箱怎麼關就是關不上，努力關上後，卻還得面臨行李超重的風險。這該怎麼辦？
THE LATEST: Two of Minnesota's top elected officials said Monday that Asian carp are poised to invade state waters and represent a major threat to the state's $2.2 billion fishing industry.
U.S. Sen. Amy Klobuchar and Attorney General Lori Swanson pledged to push to get faster federal help for a variety of projects, including barriers to stop the fish from migrating farther north, and long-term research on methods to kill the fish or slow their reproduction.
WHAT'S THE PROBLEM? Bighead and silver carp are voracious eaters that destroy food and habitat for native fish.
Silver carp can jump up to 10 feet out of the water when disturbed by motors, and bighead carp can weigh as much as 100 pounds.
"Failure to address the spread of carp could result in literally the loss of billions of dollars to the regional economy," Klobuchar said.
WHAT'S HAPPENING?
•Congress is considering bills to close Chicago area locks and canals to keep the carp out of Lake Michigan and to separate the Mississippi River basinfrom Lake Michigan.
•Swanson and attorneys general from four other Great Lakes states filed a federal lawsuit in Illinois last week to press for similar actions.
•Gov. Tim Pawlenty sent a letter to President Obama on July 9 suggesting "an emergency summit."
BUT NOT ALL AGREE: The Illinois barge industry opposes closing the Chicago locks, saying that would disrupt millions of dollars of commerce.
SWANSON'S RESPONSE: "Too bad." Barge cargo may need to be transferred to trucks and railways, she said.
ABOUT ASIAN CARP: Imported to clean southern fish ponds in the 1970s, some carp escaped and began migrating north. They are also moving up the Mississippi River.
MINNESOTA CONNECTION: Commercial fishermen in the Winona area caught several last year, and one was netted as far north as Lake Pepinin 2007.
Editor's Note: For many, the hip thing to do on the weekends is to hit up your local farmers market for fresh organic produce. Now, a surprising number of young and smart people are going a step further. They're ditching the city life to pick up organic farming, and with a lot of hard work, some of them are making a pretty good living. Our Carol Costello introduces us to one such farmer.
July 22, 2010
By Carol Costello, CNN
(CNN) – Every week, at the University Farmers Market in Baltimore, Maryland, 28-year old Roy Skeen sells greens, squash and other vegetables. All of his produce came from his small, urban farm. He planted the vegetables, picked them, and hauled them on his bike to University Market.
It’s not the kind of life he had in mind for himself when he graduated from Yale University in 2004. He majored in History and thought he’d land a job in a minute. He didn’t.
“The story that’s told about Yale,” he says, “is you’re an intelligent person if you go to Yale. But I graduated and I didn’t know how to do anything useful. I could go make green pieces of paper with dead presidents on them, but I couldn’t do anything practical.”
Skeen tried to “do something practical.” He headed to New York to work in investment banking, but he found that life stifling. After a trip to the Caribbean, he found his calling: farming.
“It exposed me to culture that grows food and lives in one place. It was pretty simple, but it was nice and I liked it.”
Skeen moved back to his hometown, Baltimore and is now working the land on an urban farm. He finds the work hard, but satisfying, in an almost spiritual way.
“To me, the magic of seeing a cucumber on the vine, it was like a circle, and my psyche was connected. Here’s something that was in front of me every day of my life and I never knew where it came from.”
Skeen is not the only young person yearning for a simple, more spiritual life. The National Future Farmers of America – an organization kids join in junior high and high school – has seen its membership soar. It now boasts 520,000 members – the most in its long history.
Officials say many young people are rejecting a life in corporate America and choosing to live off the land. They yearn, like Skeen, for a simpler life, a small farm – ten acres or less.
Jack Gurley has lived that kind of life for the past 15 years. He and his wife have a small farm in Sparks, Maryland. They say they make a “nice, middle class living” farming ten acres of land.
“People often say you must work ridiculous hours,” Gurley says. “I don’t even work 40 hours a week. It just so happens that I work 12 hours a day for three or four months a year. But we’re potentially finished at the end of October. So, I have four months off.”
Gurley now mentors young people, like Skeen, on how to make a living from farming. Skeen is grateful. His goal this year is to make $30,000 a year. But, the money is only part of it.
“This was something 80% of the population did 100 years ago. So, it feels like it’s coming home, at least for me.”
研究人員發現，冰淇淋可以追溯到公元前第三世紀，中國的帝王與貴族享受著混和果汁與冰品的甜點，它的製作方法一直是秘方，直到公元前第九世紀才揭露出來。
其它的文獻認為，傳說中所羅門王的王宮普遍飲用冰涼的果汁，希臘名醫希波克拉底（Hippocrates）認為冰淇淋可以強健肌肉，增進健康。亞歷山大則在印度、波斯的征途中都曾吃過冰淇淋。
儘管秘方嚴禁外傳，但冰淇淋的製作方法不久就從凡爾賽宮流傳至法國貴族之手。法國王后奧地利安娜（Anne of Austria）時期，法國發明了各種口味的冰淇淋。迨17世紀中葉，巴黎街頭充斥著冰淇淋與冰品小販，平常百姓也可享用冰淇淋，後來的拿破崙也愛死了冰淇淋。
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