Your Brain Waves Are Up for Sale. A New Law Wants to Change That.
In a first, a Colorado law extends privacy rights to the neural data increasingly coveted by technology companies.
Your Brain Waves Are Up for Sale. A New Law Wants to Change That.
In a first, a Colorado law extends privacy rights to the neural data increasingly coveted by technology companies.
Did Three African Runners Let a Chinese Runner Win a Race in Beijing?
Organizers are investigating the results of the Beijing Half Marathon, after three runners from Kenya and Ethiopia appeared to wave a Chinese competitor past them before the finish.
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Harvard and Baylor University researchers recently launched a $43 million global study on human flourishing, the first longitudinal study of its size.
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Even Lenin, who became the first world leader to recognize the country’s autonomy from Russia days after he seized power, didn’t expect it to last long
Allen & Co. Flourishes as a Tech Deal Maker
Diamond Jubilee: Final flourish for Queen's celebrations
The awesome Fanfare For the Common Man by Aaron Copland.
This fanfare was written on request from Eugene Goossens, conductor of the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra, in response to the US entry into the Second World War.
During the First World War, Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra had asked British composers for a fanfare to begin each orchestral concert. It had been so successful that he thought to repeat the procedure in World War II with American composers.
Goossens suggested titles like Fanfare for Soldiers, but Copland gave it the much better title Fanfare for the Common Man.
The piece was premiered 12 March 1943 at income tax time, as a homage to the common man.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4NjssV8UuVA
Israel's Flourishing Russian Culture
By JAMES ESTRIN and DAVID FURST
Israeli Russians have retained a sense of their culture, language and identity — remaining slightly apart.
Obama Signs Health Care Overhaul Bill, With a Flourish
By SHERYL GAY STOLBERG and ROBERT PEAR
The most sweeping social legislation enacted in decades became law after a festive, at times raucous, signing ceremony in the White House on Tuesday.
Yahoo
Inc. has decided to discontinue its Livestand digital news reading
application for mobile devices, which had been unveiled in November to much fanfare after suffering delays.
Google looks to take on Apple iPad
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By David Goldman, staff writerFebruary 4, 2010: 2:32 PM ET NEW YORK (CNNMoney.com) -- As the fanfare over Apple's new iPad reaches a fever pitch, Google is ...
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By David Goldman, staff writerFebruary 4, 2010: 2:32 PM ET NEW YORK (CNNMoney.com) -- As the fanfare over Apple's new iPad reaches a fever pitch, Google is ...
Modern Flourishes as Obamas Host State Dinner
By RACHEL L. SWARNS
At their first state dinner, President Obama and his wife, Michelle, made sure to infuse the glittering gala with distinctive touches.
For the 3rd century pope, see Pope Anterus.
For the automobile company, see Anteros Coachworks Inc..
For the butterfly, see Anteros (butterfly).
Anteros was the son of Ares and Aphrodite in Greek mythology, given to his brother Eros, who was lonely, as a playmate, the rationale being that love must be answered if it is to prosper. Alternatively, he was said to have arisen from the mutual love between Poseidon and Nerites.[1] Physically, he is depicted as similar to Eros in every way, but with long hair and plumed butterfly wings. He has been described also as armed with either a golden club or arrows of lead.
Anteros, with Eros, was one of a host of winged love gods called Erotes, the ever-youthful winged gods of love, usually depicted as winged boys in the company of Aphrodite or her attendant goddesses.
An altar to this god was put up by the metics in Athens in commemoration of the spurned love of the metic Timagoras who was rejected by the Athenian Meles[disambiguation needed
].
Upon hearing Timagoras' declaration of love for him, the young man
mockingly ordered him to throw himself down from the top of a tall rock.
Seeing Timagoras dead, Meles repented and threw himself down from the
same rock.[2]Describing the nature of the emotion, Plato asserts that it is the result of the great love for another person. The lover, inspired by beauty, is filled with divine love and "filling the soul of the loved one with love in return." As a result, the loved one falls in love with the lover, though the love is only spoken of as friendship. They experience pain when the two are apart, and relief when they are together, the mirror image of the lover's feelings, is anteros, or "counter-love."[3]
Anteros is the subject of the Shaftesbury Memorial in Piccadilly Circus, London, where he symbolises the selfless philanthropic love of the Earl of Shaftesbury for the poor. The memorial is sometimes given the name The Angel of Christian Charity and is popularly mistaken for Eros.[4]
brandished the two-finger V sign, flourish
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Modern Flourishes as Obamas Host State Dinner
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At their first state dinner, President Obama and his wife, Michelle, made sure to infuse the glittering gala with distinctive touches.
Investors seem to think UBS has something up its sleeve -- and it may be a sale of some kind.
Shares in the troubled Swiss bank have risen 9.7 percent over the past two days, as analysts began speculating that it had hired an adviser to explore strategic options. On Wednesday, The New York Post reported that UBS has hired Lazard as an adviser to review its businesses.
UBS has already faced pressure from shareholders, including the activist fund Olivant Advisers, to hive off its flourishing wealth-management unit from its considerably more troubled investment banking business.
phrasal verb:
hive off
- To set apart from a group: hived off the department into another division.
brandish
ˈbrandɪʃ/
verb
- wave or flourish (something, especially a weapon) as a threat or in anger or excitement.
"a man leaped out brandishing a knife"
brandish
[動](他)
1 〈剣などを〉（威嚇するように）振り回す；〈やりを〉しごく.
2 …をこれ見よがしに見せる［示す］.
━━[名]（剣などを）振り回すこと, 一振り.
bran・dish・er
[名]flour·ish (flûr'ĭsh, flŭr'-)
v., -ished, -ish·ing, -ish·es. v.intr.
- To grow well or luxuriantly; thrive: The crops flourished in the rich soil.
- To do or fare well; prosper: "No village on the railroad failed to flourish" (John Kenneth Galbraith).
- To be in a period of highest productivity, excellence, or influence: a poet who flourished in the tenth century.
- To make bold, sweeping movements: The banner flourished in the wind.
To wield, wave, or exhibit dramatically.
n.
- A dramatic or stylish movement, as of waving or brandishing: "A few ... musicians embellish their performance with a flourish of the fingers" (Frederick D. Bennett).
- An embellishment or ornamentation: a signature with a distinctive flourish.
- An ostentatious act or gesture: a flourish of generosity.
- Music. A showy or ceremonious passage, such as a fanfare.
[Middle English florishen, from Old French florir, floriss-, from Vulgar Latin *flōrīre, from Latin flōrēre, to bloom, from flōs, flōr-, flower.]
flourisher flour'ish·er n.
SYNONYMS flourish, brandish, wave. These verbs mean to swing back and forth boldly and dramatically: flourished her newly signed contract; brandish a sword; waving a baton.
flour·ish (flûr'ĭsh, flŭr'-)
v., -ished, -ish·ing, -ish·es. v.intr.
- To grow well or luxuriantly; thrive: The crops flourished in the rich soil.
- To do or fare well; prosper: "No village on the railroad failed to flourish" (John Kenneth Galbraith).
- To be in a period of highest productivity, excellence, or influence: a poet who flourished in the tenth century.
- To make bold, sweeping movements: The banner flourished in the wind.
To wield, wave, or exhibit dramatically.
n.
- A dramatic or stylish movement, as of waving or brandishing: "A few ... musicians embellish their performance with a flourish of the fingers" (Frederick D. Bennett).
- An embellishment or ornamentation: a signature with a distinctive flourish.
- An ostentatious act or gesture: a flourish of generosity.
- Music. A showy or ceremonious passage, such as a fanfare.
A bold or extravagant gesture or action, made especially to attract attention:with a flourish, she ushered them inside
[Middle English florishen, from Old French florir, floriss-, from Vulgar Latin *flōrīre, from Latin flōrēre, to bloom, from flōs, flōr-, flower.]
flourisher flour'ish·er n.
SYNONYMS flourish, brandish, wave. These verbs mean to swing back and forth boldly and dramatically: flourished her newly signed contract; brandish a sword; waving a baton.
━━ v. 繁茂する; 繁盛する, 栄える; 活躍する; 〔戯言〕 元気でいる; （剣・腕などを）振回す; 見せびらかす; 飾り書きに書く; はなやかに書く［話す，奏する］.
━━ n. 振回し; （署名などの）飾り書き; 見せびらかし; はなやかな表現; 【楽】装飾楽句; ファンファーレ.
with a flourish 飾り立てて; 大げさな身振りで.
flour・ish・ing・ly ━━ ad. 繁盛して; 盛大に; 元気で.
Definition of flourish
verb
noun
Derivatives
flourisher
noun
noun
Origin:
Middle English: from Old French floriss-, lengthened stem of florir, based on Latin florere, from flos, flor- 'a flower'. The noun senses 'ornamental curve' and 'florid expression' come from an obsolete sense of the verb, 'adorn' (originally with flowers)flourishing
ability to live a good life
fanfare[fan・fare]
- 発音記号[fǽnfεər]
- (făn'fâr')
n. - Music. A loud flourish of brass instruments, especially trumpets.《查拉圖斯特拉如是說》
開頭的段落是信號曲（fanfare），用了天主教的管風琴聲響來撐起古波斯先知的進場 - A spectacular public display.
[French, possibly of imitative origin.]
[名]
1 ファンファーレ.
2 大げさな見せびらかし, 誇示；((略式))宣伝, 広告.
［フランス語. 原義は「ほらふき」. アラビア語farfār（おしゃべりの）と関係］waved; waving
1
: to motion with the hands or with something held in them in signal or salute
2
: to float, play, or shake in an air current : move loosely to and fro : FLUTTER
flags waving in the breeze
4
: to become moved or brandished to and fro
signs waved in the crowd
5
: to move before the wind with a wavelike motion
field of waving grain
6
: to follow a curving line or take a wavy form : UNDULATE
1
: to swing (something) back and forth or up and down
2
: to impart a curving or undulating shape to
waved her hair
3
pluralwaves
1
a
: a moving ridge or swell on the surface of a liquid (as of the sea)
b
chiefly literary : WATER, SEA
… this our island in the wave …—Charles Dickens
The buccaneer on the wave might relinquish his calling and become … a man of probity and piety on land …—Nathaniel Hawthorne
The sea was open to them, and they achieved their victories on the briny wave.—The Book of Commerce by Sea and Land
2
a
: a shape or outline having successive curves
b
: a waviness of the hair
c
: an undulating line or streak or a pattern formed by such lines
3
: something that swells and dies away: such as
a
: a surge of sensation or emotion
a wave of anger swept over her
b
: a movement sweeping large numbers in a common direction
waves of protest
c
: a peak or climax of activity or occurrence
a wave of spending
a second wave of infection
a crime wave
4
: a sweep of hand or arm or of some object held in the hand used as a signal or greeting
5
: a rolling or undulatory movement or one of a series of such movements passing along a surface or through the air
6
: a movement like that of an ocean wave: such as
a
: a surging movement of a group
a big new wave of women politicians
b
: one of a succession of influxes of people migrating into a region
c(1)
: a moving group of animals of one kind
(2)
: a sudden rapid increase in a population
d
: a line of attacking or advancing troops or airplanes
e
: a display of people in a large crowd (as at a sports event) successively rising, lifting their arms overhead, and quickly sitting so as to form a swell moving through the crowd
7
a
: a disturbance or variation that transfers energy progressively from point to point in a medium and that may take the form of an elastic deformation or of a variation of pressure, electric or magnetic intensity, electric potential, or temperature
b
: one complete cycle of such a disturbance
8
: a marked change in temperature : a period of hot or cold weather
9
: an undulating or jagged line constituting a graphic representation of an action
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