While some critics deride the hard-edged bodies of Lempicka’s painting, others see hot-blooded vigor in their bursting musculature and militaristic ensembles.
"The solemnity makes the journey hard-going and Interstellarsporadically sways into the absurd, like a M. Night Shyamalan film shackled with the responsibility of maintaining its intelligence. Not every film need address the possibility of human extinction with the gung-ho silliness of Armageddon, but at least that was a space adventure. This is a science report."
A Small Subwoofer With Case-Busting Bass
By ROY FURCHGOTT
Sunfire has turned the normal formula of high fidelity, which says more bass requires bigger speakers, on its head with the Atmos.
*欽定本聖經的 創世紀很值得一讀
subwoofer翻譯：超低音揚聲器；重低音喇叭。
Self-Regulation for Online Ads Moving Slowly
The online advertising industry's self-regulatory effort is going slowly, according to speakers at the Privacy Identity Innovation conference in Santa Clara, Calif., on Friday. A Small Subwoofer With Case-Busting Bass
By ROY FURCHGOTT
Sunfire has turned the normal formula of high fidelity, which says more bass requires bigger speakers, on its head with the Atmos.
*欽定本聖經的 創世紀很值得一讀
subwoofer翻譯：超低音揚聲器；重低音喇叭。
Let there be light
Origin
This week's phrase is prompted by the celebration of the 400th anniversary of the publication of the King James Version of the Bible *(or
Authorised Version). The KJV is a strong contender for the accolade of
'the book that has had more influence on the development of English
than any other'.
Many
phrases that are now common currency in the language appeared first in
the King James Bible. Likewise, a varied collection of everyday words
also first saw the printer's ink in the work; for example,
'accurately', 'battering-ram', 'expansion', 'gopher', 'ingenuously',
'needleworker', 'phrasing', and so on...
The
text of the KJV has been used in numerous important works; from the
libretto of the best known of all choral oratorios, Handel's Messiah, 1741, which is taken almost verbatim from the Authorised Version, to Martin Luther King'sI have a dream speech,
which he delivered on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial in Washington
in 1963 and in which he quoted directly from the KJV, Isaiah 40:4:
"[I have a dream that one day] every valley shall be exalted, every hill and mountain shall be made low, the rough places will be made plain, and the crooked places will be made straight, and the glory of the Lord shall be revealed, and all flesh shall see it together."
However,
the influential power of the book isn't based on the number of phrases
and words that were coined for it; earlier versions of the Bible and
luminaries like Shakespeare can claim many more. Its impact came
because it brought clearly expressed, accessible and poetically
beautiful English to the populace for the first time. The KJV was
written to be spoken and, as James I's authorisation states, it was
'appointed to be read in Churches'. Church services in England at that
date consisted largely of readings from the Bible. By providing short
verses in the plain colloquial English that the illiterate congregation
could understand and remember, the verses became cemented into the
spoken language. No verse exemplifies this power and simplicity better
than one from the very beginning of the book "And God said, Let there
be light: and there was light". This is one of the best-known phrases
in English. It is a translation of the Latin 'dixitque Deus fiat lux et
facta est lux' (which hardly trips off the tongue) and appears in the
opening lines of the Bible, in Genesis I. The English translation was
first printed in Miles Coverdale's Bible, 1535, but the version of it that was known by every English speaker from the 17th century onward was that of the King James Version, 1611:
In the beginning God created the Heauen, and the Earth.
And the earth was without forme, and voyd, and darkenesse was vpon the face of the deepe: and the Spirit of God mooued vpon the face of the waters.
And God said, Let there be light: and there was light.
The
tendency of US politicians towards over-wordiness was compared
unfavourably to the beauty and clarity of the original text by the
journalist and broadcaster Alistair Cooke. In his acceptance speech for
the 'Best Speaker of English' award in 1998, he gave an imagined US Government representative's version of Genesis 1:3:
"The Supreme Being mandated the illumination of the Universe and this directive was enforced forthwith."
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A Pocket Speaker System Hits a New Low
By ROY FURCHGOTT
Soundmatters has introduced a worthy successor to its pocket size FoxL speaker, the Dash 7 and mini subwoofer the FoxLO.
Self-Regulation for Online Ads Moving Slowly
- 音節
- woof • er
- 発音
- wúfər
- wooferの変化形
- woofers (複数形)
Definition of subwoofer
noun
regulation[règjuléiʃən]
[名]
1 規則, 規定, 条例, 法規, 法令
traffic regulations
交通（取り締まり）法規
交通（取り締まり）法規
rules and regulations
規則規制（▼語順注意）
規則規制（▼語順注意）
by regulations
規則上.
規則上.
2 [U][C]規制, 統制, 調整, 調節；管理
make regulations on ...
…を調整［規正］する
…を調整［規正］する
financial regulation
金融規制
金融規制
prudential regulation
（金融システムの安定性・健全性を維持するための）プルーデンス規制.
（金融システムの安定性・健全性を維持するための）プルーデンス規制.
3 [U]《電気》変動率偏差；《電子工学》電圧変動範囲；《生物》調節, 制御.
━━[形]
1 規定（どおり）の, 正規の；正式の
regulation uniforms
制服
制服
at the regulation speed
規定の速度で.
規定の速度で.
2 通例［ふつう］の；習慣的な, お決まりの；標準的な.
Support for Renho has grown thanks largely to the power of Twitter and Ustream, the global live-streaming site. On Twitter, she has more than 158,000 followers, and regularly tweets about what she eats for lunch and her 13-year-old twins, one a boy and one a girl.
蓮舫獲得的支持不斷增多﹐這主要得益於Twitter和全球流媒體直播網站Ustream的強大。在Twitter上﹐她有逾15.8萬關注者?(follower)﹐她常常發貼說午餐吃了什麼﹐以及自己13歲龍鳳胎的情況。
AS THE movers and shakers head to the Swiss mountain resort
of Davos this week for the annual World Economic Forum, their
credentials as global leaders look anything but resilient. Their
official theme will be “resilient dynamism”, whatever that means, but
what they ought to be talking about is the low level of trust the public
has in their ability to do anything useful. The annual "Trust
Barometer" survey published by Edelman, a public-relations firm, reports
widespread scepticism about the ethics practised by political and
business leaders. The lowest scores were when those surveyed were asked
if they trust leaders to “tell the truth, regardless of how complex or
unpopular it is”: only 18% trusted business leaders, whilst government
leaders scored a yet more miserable 13%.
This lack of trust seems strikingly personal. As Edelman points out, trust in business and government leaders is far lower than trust in the respective institutions of business and government. Globally there is a gap of 32 percentage points between trust in business and trust in business leaders to tell the truth (35% in America and China), and a 28 percentage-point gap between trust in government and trust in its leaders to tell the truth (47% in China, 35% in India).
Whilst trust in leaders remains horribly low, overall trust in institutions has actually edged up in the past years—though hardly to levels at which anyone should feel satisfied. Overall trust across business, government, non-governmental organizations (NGOs) and the media is now 57%, up from 51% in 2012, according to Edelman’s barometer, which as in previous years is based on a poll in 26 countries of what Edelman calls “informed people”, which typically means professional and well-educated. A companion survey found significantly lower levels of trust among the population at large: 48%, nine percentage points less globally, 14 points less in America, Poland and Sweden. Institutions in only 11 of the countries enjoyed trust levels of at least 50% among their general public, whilst 18 did among informed people.
Trust has risen evenly over all four sorts of institution. NGOs remain the most trusted, at 63%, and government least trusted, at 48%. In only eight countries is government trusted more than business, which is not saying much in low trust South Korea (government 44%, business 31%) and hard to believe in seemingly high trust China (81% and 74%). For government, the reasons cited for a lack of trust included corruption or fraud (33%) followed by poor performance (31%). Only 16% cited poor performance as a cause of low trust in business, whose top negatives were corruption or fraud (27%) and wrong incentives driving business decisions (23%). Executive pay retains the power to annoy: the only countries in which NGOs are trusted by less than 50% of those surveyed are Sweden (46%), Russia (40%) and Japan (37%).
As in 2012, technology is the most trusted industry, with 77% approval, eight percentage points ahead of the car industry. Even banks and financial services now enjoy a 50% trust score worldwide, up from 47% and 45% respectively in 2012. However, there are significant differences between countries on the banks, which are trusted by only 22% in Britain, 19% in Spain and 11% in Ireland (down from, respectively, 47%, 45% and 35% before the financial meltdown of 2008). Small firms are trusted more than big business in the developed world, by 76% to 53%; big is more trustworthy in emerging economies, by 79% to 70%.
Why the big gap between trust in leaders and the institutions they lead? Edelman suggests that leaders have been slow to adapt to the requirements of a world in which top down is no longer the best way to lead, or in many cases even a viable one. Suffice it to say, there is nothing more top down than trying to lead the world from high up a mountain.
hard-edged
Support for Renho has grown thanks largely to the power of Twitter and Ustream, the global live-streaming site. On Twitter, she has more than 158,000 followers, and regularly tweets about what she eats for lunch and her 13-year-old twins, one a boy and one a girl.
The World Economic Forum in Davos
Leaders without followers
This lack of trust seems strikingly personal. As Edelman points out, trust in business and government leaders is far lower than trust in the respective institutions of business and government. Globally there is a gap of 32 percentage points between trust in business and trust in business leaders to tell the truth (35% in America and China), and a 28 percentage-point gap between trust in government and trust in its leaders to tell the truth (47% in China, 35% in India).
Whilst trust in leaders remains horribly low, overall trust in institutions has actually edged up in the past years—though hardly to levels at which anyone should feel satisfied. Overall trust across business, government, non-governmental organizations (NGOs) and the media is now 57%, up from 51% in 2012, according to Edelman’s barometer, which as in previous years is based on a poll in 26 countries of what Edelman calls “informed people”, which typically means professional and well-educated. A companion survey found significantly lower levels of trust among the population at large: 48%, nine percentage points less globally, 14 points less in America, Poland and Sweden. Institutions in only 11 of the countries enjoyed trust levels of at least 50% among their general public, whilst 18 did among informed people.
Trust has risen evenly over all four sorts of institution. NGOs remain the most trusted, at 63%, and government least trusted, at 48%. In only eight countries is government trusted more than business, which is not saying much in low trust South Korea (government 44%, business 31%) and hard to believe in seemingly high trust China (81% and 74%). For government, the reasons cited for a lack of trust included corruption or fraud (33%) followed by poor performance (31%). Only 16% cited poor performance as a cause of low trust in business, whose top negatives were corruption or fraud (27%) and wrong incentives driving business decisions (23%). Executive pay retains the power to annoy: the only countries in which NGOs are trusted by less than 50% of those surveyed are Sweden (46%), Russia (40%) and Japan (37%).
As in 2012, technology is the most trusted industry, with 77% approval, eight percentage points ahead of the car industry. Even banks and financial services now enjoy a 50% trust score worldwide, up from 47% and 45% respectively in 2012. However, there are significant differences between countries on the banks, which are trusted by only 22% in Britain, 19% in Spain and 11% in Ireland (down from, respectively, 47%, 45% and 35% before the financial meltdown of 2008). Small firms are trusted more than big business in the developed world, by 76% to 53%; big is more trustworthy in emerging economies, by 79% to 70%.
Why the big gap between trust in leaders and the institutions they lead? Edelman suggests that leaders have been slow to adapt to the requirements of a world in which top down is no longer the best way to lead, or in many cases even a viable one. Suffice it to say, there is nothing more top down than trying to lead the world from high up a mountain.
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