2024年9月25日 星期三

fortuitous, affidavit, Misspeller in Chief.Donald Trump’s defense appeared to dent the credibility of his former fixer Michael Cohen, but experts said the case was still the prosecution’s to lose.

But the NewJeans conundrum makes this a curious and perhaps not totally fortuitous time for Hybe to loudly demonstrate its micromanaging methods. That’s the intent of “Pop Star Academy: Katseye,” a Netflix series about the making of an English-language global girl group that’s part behind-the-scenes documentary, part elimination competition. (The show, and the group, are part of a joint venture between Hybe and the American label Geffen.)

As Trump Trial Nears Its End, the Law May Give Prosecutors an Edge

Donald Trump’s defense appeared to dent the credibility of his former fixer Michael Cohen, but experts said the case was still the prosecution’s to lose.



Justice Dept. Opposes Affidavit Release, Fearing It Will ‘Chill’ Inquiry

  • The Justice Department objected to releasing the affidavit used in the Mar-a-Lago search because it would “compromise future investigative steps.”




Gun Handed to Alec Baldwin Was Not Thoroughly Checked, Affidavit Says

The film’s assistant director told an investigator that he should have inspected each round in each chamber in the gun, according to an affidavit.





"A truly fortuitous series of tweets from the Misspeller in Chief."



An affadavit(sic) from Robert K. Steel, Wachovia's chief executive, suggests that the head of the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation -- which helped arrange the Citi-Wachovia deal -- was initially more favorable to Wells Fargo's offer than the agency officially indicated, DealBook reported.
affiome Toy Makers Shun the China Label
With the U.S. toy industry reeling from recalls of millions of Chinese-made toys, some of Europe’s best-known toy makers find themselves in a fortuitous position.


英文版《武漢》有聲書發表之际,英國《衛報》刊登了《看不見的戰爭》壓縮版,從“監獄”寫作到“武漢”寫作。
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編後語寫道:

本文節選自《看不見的戰爭:一本書如何擊敗一個帝國?》作者廖亦武,由 Polity 出版……這就是我們的對手:來自權貴階層的律師團隊試圖阻止我們發表的不想讓你看到的故事……還有無視新聞自由的專制國家;在網路上散佈謠言以破壞民主的”水軍“……

但我們有強大的力量。
我們有你們。

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Polity編輯約翰致信廖亦武

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親愛的亦武,

您會很高興看到《衛報》用這麽大的篇幅發表《看不見的戰爭》的長篇壓縮版:

https://www.theguardian.com/world/article/2024/may/09/liao-yiwu-chinese-dissident-who-smuggled-his-writing-out-of-prison
這是對您和您的書的非常高調的報道:《衛報》可能是英國最重要和最有影響力的報紙,這個在線版本立即在全世界範圍內被廣泛閱讀。恭喜您:這對您和您的書籍來說是一次極好的宣傳!

我們知道還有更多的事情要做,但這是一個了不起的開始!
一切順利

約翰

Dear Yiwu,

You’ll be pleased to see that The Guardian have now published a lengthy extract from Invisible Warfare for The Long Read:

https://www.theguardian.com/world/article/2024/may/09/liao-yiwu-chinese-dissident-who-smuggled-his-writing-out-of-prison

This is very high-profile coverage of you and your book: The Guardian is probably the most important and influential newspaper in the UK, and this online version is widely read throughout the world.  Many congratulations: this is excellent publicity for you and your books!

We know that there is much more to come but this is a terrific start!
All the best

John
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Translated by Michael Martin Day. This is an edited extract from Invisible Warfare: How Does a Book Defeat an Empire? by Liao Yiwu, published by Polity

This is what we're up against:Teams of lawyers from the rich and powerful trying to stop us publishing stories they don’t want you to see;Lobby groups with opaque funding who are determined to undermine facts about the climate emergency and other established science;Authoritarian states with no regard for the freedom of the press;Bad actors spreading disinformation online to undermine democracy. 

But we have something powerful on our side. 
We’ve got you.


shun 

verb [T] -nn-
1 to avoid something:
She has shunned publicity since she retired from the theatre.

2 to ignore someone and not speak to them because you cannot accept their behaviour, beliefs, etc:
After the trial he was shunned by friends and family alike.


fortuitous
adjective FORMAL
(of something that is to your advantage) not planned, happening by chance:
The timing of the meeting is certainly fortuitous.
The collapse of its rivals brought fortuitous gains to the company.

它例

Separately, top executives of Pixar, the animation studio founded by Steve Jobs and now owned by Walt Disney Co., received stock-option grants priced at the stock's annual lows in four years between 1997 and 2003.
Such a remarkable pattern of fortuitous timing raises questions about whether the options were backdated or otherwise manipulated to grant extra pay to the executives. Apple Computer Inc., where Mr. Jobs is chief executive, has said it discovered "irregularities" in its options grants, including one to Mr. Jobs, and may restate results because of them.



After questions about the grants were raised by The Wall Street Journal in early March, Mr. Alexander and Mr. Kreinberg lied to a company attorney, saying that the grants had been fortuitous, not backdated, the government says. With this information, the company falsely told the Journal that grants had been approved on the day the company said they had, according to the affidavit.



(c) What appears to be a higher percentage of boys in the accompanying table with vision 20/20 or better comes from the fortuitous consolidation and confounding of lop-sided proportions at
the different ages and levels of vision, of the kind just described. (Deming)
(c)之所以會有看來(如附表)男生在視力20/20以上的比女生更多的錯誤說法,實因為表格匯整時偶然會有疏忽並有不同年齡和視力水準的不均衡(lop-sided)比率之交絡,如(b)所述。


Because of the fundamental role of symbolization in almost everything we do, perhaps no aspect of human development is more important than becoming symbol-minded. What could be more fascinating, I concluded, than finding out how young children begin to use and understand symbolic objects and how they come to master some of the symbolic items ubiquitous in modern life. As a result of that fortuitous model-room experiment, I shifted my focus from memory to symbolic thinking.


af・fi・da・vit[ fidivit ]
affidavit



[名]《法》宣誓供述書

swear [((略式))take, make] an affidavit
(証人が)供述書の真実を宣誓する

take an affidavit
供述書を取る.

[ラテン語=he has made an oath]




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