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AcMus – Group of Research and Development of Software for Acoustical Calculus, Analysis, and Simulation of Rooms for Musical Practice
(FLOSS Competence Center)
Area: Computer Music
Created in: 2001
Website: http://gsd.ime.usp.br/acmus/english/menue.html
Description: AcMus is a project on musical acoustics devoted to the development of models and computer tools for the study of room acoustics. The project is carried by a multi-disciplinary group of researchers at the University of São Paulo (Brazil) in collaboration with other institutions. The research activity focuses on the investigation of issues related to the design, control and acoustic treatment of environments tailored for musical activities. It will study the most relevant aspects determining the acoustic quality of a physical environment, which influence the production and reception of musical material.
Research Topics:
Measurement of Acoustic Parameters
Acoustic Simulation
Auralization of Acoustic Environments
Acoustic Optimization
Fabio Kon
Fernando Henrique de Oliveira Iazzetta
Flavio Soares Correa da Silva
Jose Augusto Mannis
Marcelo Gomes de Queiroz
Marcio Henrique de Avelar Gomes
Regis Rossi Alves Faria
Marcelo Gomes de Queiroz
Fabio Kon
Area: Parallel and Distributed Computation
Created in: 1992
Website: http://www.integrade.org.br/
Description: the project is a multi-university initiative aimed at building a novel object-oriented Grid middleware that focuses on leveraging the idle computing power of commodity workstations such as PCs in shared laboratories, corporate employee workstations, and household PCs. The goal is to allow organizations to use their existing computing infrastructure to perform useful computation, without requiring the purchase of additional hardware. Moreover, users who share the idle portion of their resources should have their quality of service preserved by the InteGrade middleware. InteGrade provides support for highly-coupled parallel applications, checkpointing, security, and an integrated development environment.
Research Topics:
Identification of User Access Patterns
Inter-Cluster Resource Management
Distributed Execution of Parallel Algorithms
Mobile Agents
Development Environment for Grid Applications
Accessing Computers Behind NATs and Firewalls
Flexible and Easy to Use Middleware
Constraining resource usage at user level
Alexandre César Tavares Vidal
Alfredo Goldman vel Lejbman
Arlindo Flavio da Conceição
Carlos Eduardo Rodrigues Alves
Dilma Menezes da Silva
Fabio Kon
Fernando José Castor de Lima Filho
Francisco Carlos da Rocha Reverbel
Jose de Ribamar Braga Pinheiro Junior
Kunio Okuda
Marcelo Finger
Marco Aurélio Gerosa
Marco Dimas Gubitoso
Raphael Yokoingawa de Camargo
Siang Wun Song
Siang Wun Song
Fabio Kon
Laboratory of Interactivity and Digital Entertainment Technology (LIDET)
Created in: 2005
Website: http://www.ime.usp.br/~lidet/
Description: the group's goal is to foster and to develop high level research on the construction of interactive spaces and on digital entertainment. Interactive spaces are environments endowed with capabilities to sense and respond to the presence and to the activities of their inhabitants which can be human beings, various physical devices, and software agents. Digital entertainment includes - but is not limited to - computer games in their various embodiments. The primary focus of the group is on the development of novel technologies to develop systems and artifacts for digital entertainment, and on the analysis and development of novel applications of these technologies, e.g. in education, ambient intelligence, and the development of user interfaces for human-computer interaction.
Research Topics:
Intelligent Environments
Digital Entertainment
Philosophy of Technology
Knowledge Management
Flávio Soares Corrêa da Silva
Flávio Shigeo Yamamoto (Ph.D. student)
Filipe Correa Lima da Silva (MSc student)
Tiago Motta Jorge (MSc Student)
Sérgio Haruo Nakanishi (Undergraduate student)
Flávio Soares Corrêa da Silva
Laboratory of Logics, Artificial Intelligence and Formal Methods (LIAMF)
Created in: 2000
Website: http://www.ime.usp.br/~liamf/
Description: The group consists currently of five staff members and their graduate and undergraduate students. It's involved in research funded by the Brazilian government and/or institutional funding agencies, international agencies as well as industry. It offers regular courses at graduate and undergraduate levels and also short courses on specific topics, usually related to ongoing projects.
Research Topics:
Artificial Intelligence
Computational Linguistics
Computational Logic
Formal Methods
Ana Cristina Vieira de Melo
Flavio Soares Correa da Silva
Leliane Nunes de Barros
Marcelo Finger
Marilza Antunes de Lemos
Renata Wassermann
Silvio do Lago Pereira
LogProb - Logical and Probability
Created in: 2009
Among the several possible forms of rational reasoning, logical rea-oning and probabilistic inference have received particular attention in practive, having been incorporated both in modelling situations of the world and in computer programs aimed at performing a variety os tasks. However, the possible interactions between these forms of reasoning are not very well understood yet, both in theory and in the practice of constructing computational applications. In the theoretical perspective, it is still to be established the relationship between truth values and probability distributions over formulas. In the practical perspective, it is still to be established the limits of when to apply logical reasoning and when to apply statistic inference. This research project intends to investigate those questions, both in the theoretical and practical perspectives. The project will focus on four interface areas between logic and probabilities, namely, probabilistic satisfiability, probabilistic description logics applied to the semantic web, probabilistic planing and scene analysis. This project intends to produce several pieces of software covering the area under invertigation that will be made available under a FLOSS (Free/Libre/Open Source Software) licence as part of the activities of the Artificial Intelligence division of the Center for Competence in Free Software at the University of Sao Paulo.
Research Topics:
Probabilistic Satisfiability
Probabilistic Description Logics Applied to the Semantic Web
Probabilistic Planing
Cognitive Vision
Anna Helena Reali Costa
Claudia Monteiro Peixoto
Fabio Gagliardi Cozman
Fabio Natanael Kepler
Leliane Nunes de Barros
Marcelo Finger
Paulo Eduardo Santos
Renata Wassermann
Marcelo Finger
In addition to the research groups above, the FLOSS Competence Center (associated to the DCC) holds several projects which involve a lot of research activity:
AAAP project
The AAAP project (Support Environment for Programming Teaching) integrates a set of tools to aid in learning how to program.
AcMus project (already mentioned)
The AcMus project investigates room acoustics with a focus on rooms destined to musical performance and production. Its main activity beyond the scientific research is the development of the AcMus software, an eclipse-based application for acoustic measurements, calculations, and simulations. The software is currently in use by research groups and professionals in several countries to perform acoustic measurements and analysis.
Archimedes - The Open CAD
The project Archimedes is a platform for developing computer aided design (CAD) systems. The project, over 3 years old, aims to create a trustful and simple development base with the basic tools needed to elaborate a technical architectural project. Those tools allow to improve the software adding more complex features.
The Arquigrafia is a social network for collaborative construction of a digital image collection of Brazilian architecture. The Arquigrafia aims to bring together photographs, drawings and videos from all over the country, produced by architects, students, teachers, photographers, and people interested in architecture. The Arquigrafia is available on the Web, following the model of Web 2.0, and by means of mobile devices (Android). The Arquigrafia is built using the GroupwareWorkbench platform.
The Baile project aims to study and resolve problems related to the development and use of web service choreographies in large-scale environments, in particular those related to Cloud Computing. The project investigates means by which choreographies can evolve and adapt when the services they are composed of are in constant change, keeping the quality of service in acceptable levels when these services fail or the cloud resource availability fluctuates.
The goal of the Borboleta Project is to investigate tools and innovative methodologies in IT to support home care programs in public health, using advanced tools of Mobile Computing to promote the improvement of health services offered to people with low income.
Graph Matching project
The graph matching project deals with graph matching problems and aims at the construction of a platform to solve various match-modeled problems, such as interactive image segmentation and the correspondence between detected spots in bidimensional gel electrophoresis images for large scale protein study.
CoGrOO – Grammar Checker for OpenOffice.org
CoGrOO is a system that detects grammar errors in texts written in Portuguese. Natural Language Processing techniques are used to analyze texts in its different layers: sentence, word (morphological analysis), noun phrases, verbal phrases and subject-verb (syntactic analysis). Patterns are applied to the output of the analyses to determine potential grammar errors. Its natural language processing modules could be reused as part of other products that deal with natural language. CoGrOO Comunidade is a collaborative tool for the development of the FLOSS Grammar Checker.
Colmeia project
The colmeia project aims to automate all activities of an university library, offering a high-level integrated software system that responds to the specific needs of all kinds of users (students, professors, employees, and guest users).
DonkeySurvey project
The DonkeySurvey's goal is to a tool to collect and store data on the traffic passing on the client MLDonkey p2p networks for file sharing. The collection of such information allows the subsequent analysis of network behavior for research purposes or research. It is intended primarily to store which network nodes, and under what circumstances, seek or provide certain files (or file types), extracting statistics that are relevant to the search.
Eclipse @ IME/USP
The Eclipse project promotes training, research and development on the Eclipse platform. Some other projects, such as Archimedes and AcMus, are based on the Eclipse environment.
EGene is a configurable pipeline generation system for automated sequence analysis.
GOAT (created by students)
The Group of Open Applied Technologies (GOAT) was created on February of 2009 by a group of students from IME/USP with the purpose of study technologies that would help design good open souce quality systems. Besides individual studies, the group gets togheter every monday at the university to share, learn and evolve
Groupware Workbench project
The project develops a suite of components inspired by the 3C collaboration model. This approach starts at the group collaboration needs, analyzed from the point of view of communication, coordination, cooperation, and uses software components organized around this model to compose each solution. The components available permit the composition, recomposition, and customization of services, so as to reflect modifications in the collaboration profile, forming the basis of collaborative applications for the Web 2.0.
InteGrade project (already mentioned)
The project is focused on grid computing using object-oriented techniques. In addition to scientific research, the project maintains the software InteGrade, an infrastructure for computing in opportunistic grid using the idle processing power of ordinary desktop computers.
Kalibro Metrics
Kalibro Metrics aims to improve the use of source code metrics. It is designed for easy integration with a metric collector tool and show the results in a friendlier way. For that, it allows a metric specialist to create a configuration of thresholds associated with qualitative evaluation, including comments and recommendations. These configurations are used to enhance metric results interpretation.
The OnAIR (Ontology Aided Information Retrieval), system allows users to enter a query in natural language and searches a digital video database for the clip which best answers the query. The system was first developped by Christian Paz-Trillo and Paula Braga and was part of Christian's Master's Thesis, supervised by Renata Wassermann. Now the OnAIR is manteined and developed by Raphael Cóbe as the main theme of his Doctoral Thesis supervised by Dr. Renata Wassermann and Dr. Fabio Kon.
Recent advances in the theory of Probabilistic satisfiability (PSAT) have shown that it displays a "Phase Transition Behavior", which means that there are PSAT problems of considerable size which can be efficiently solved. Two algortithms were proposed that display exactly that kind of behavior: a reduction of PSAT to SAT, and a mix of linear programming and SAT using Column Generation Techniques. This project presents implementations for these two techniques.
scriptLattes is an open-source system to create academic reports of groups based on curricula of the Lattes Database. The scriptLattes system is composed by the following modules: (a) data selection, (b) data preprocessing, (c) redundancy treatment, (d) collaboration graph generation among group members, (e) research map generation based on geographical information, and (f) automatic report creation of bibliographical, technical and artistic production, and academic supervisions.
The Tango Project (Trustable Algorithms for Nonlinear General Optimization) develops a set of routines in Fortran for optimization.
Human-machine integration for vessel segmentation project
The Human-machine integration for vessel segmentation project is geared towards automatic segmentation of blood vessels on retinal images. This is the first stage of the process for automatic detection of progressive diabetic retinopaty.
VoIPFix project
The VoIPFix project arose from the need for a tool to complement similar tools in the analysis of computer networks for IP telephony. It was built to be an efficient and unique management tool for VoIP, with advanced features required to support the computer network and IP telephony professionals to observe and diagnose problems related to VoIP.
VRaptor, currently at version 3, is an MVC web framework targeting agile development. By means of inversion of control and dependency injection, time spent in development is drastically reduced, thanks to the elimination of repetitive code: validations, convertions, assignments, ajax, and lookups.


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You can thank my grown, married son for this blog title. He and his wife went to see a production of Bye, Bye Birdie and he told me afterward that one of the songs, "A Mother Doesn't Matter Anymore", reminded him SO MUCH of me.
I'll admit I wasn't sure how I felt about that. You see, I'm finally coming down off a cortisol high – for which I blame my children. It's the result of many stressful months planning an execution for my daughter's wedding (er, um…I meant PLANNING AND EXECUTING my daughter's wedding) and adjusting to life with a son home for the summer from his first year of college (insert eye-rolling emoji). But after a couple days of thinking it over, or over-thinking it – if you're me, I've come to realize that "I" do relate to the lamenting mother in the show as she says, "You sacrifice your life…then, BANG! You get the knife! No, a mother doesn't matter anymore!"
Sound overly dramatic? Let me tell you, it's not. Regardless of whether or not our children mean to hurt us, that is exactly how this difficult child/parent transition is for mothers (I'm sure there are thousands of them out there who would back me up!). The angst we feel is great and very real, but deep down we know it's not our kids' faults. It's a natural part of life, a rite of passage. We did it to our mothers! Painful? Yes. Necessary? Yes. Survivable? Yes, again.
Even as the knife plunges into our hearts, I think all of us – the mothers, instinctively know that it's time: time to let go, time to adapt to and embrace a different way of parenting our children, time for us to move into a different season of our lives.
Despite what my grown kids might think (Ya, I don't really want to know!), I'm there. I'm ready. My mind has not, to my surprise, been burdened long by the loss, or the feeling of guilt that I coulda, shoulda done more/better (there's a topic for another post!), so much as it has been looking forward to new opportunities. Now that the lion's share of my job as a mother is "done" (I got them to adulthood, didn't I?), I can focus on other things, like myself, my husband and our life together. I've been thinking a lot about those new horizons.
I don't know exactly what this future looks like. I might start walking again, as opposed to running marathons, but it's all good! I can finally focus on myself, guilt-free, something I haven't done in twenty plus years! I could, in reality, do any number of things, from accomplishing personal goals like getting in shape, to self-publishing my stories, to taking some classes, to going back to school full time, to starting a new career. In truth, this new phase in my life could be every bit as exciting and fulfilling as that of my grown children.
I think I knew all of this – knew what was going to happen, what had to happen, with my grown children, even as it was happening. In small ways I've been imagining it sometimes as I lay my head on my pillow at night, and thinking about what I will do with this new self. I've been making lots of lists, eyeing my project pile, and itching to blog again, which I wasn't sure would ever happen. I can tell that my husband has been thinking about it, as well. We've started doing more things for ourselves, checking things off our personal lists and our couple list, and it's been a lot of fun!
I will always cherish being a mother to my four kids, but the job description will surely change, as everything is bound to do in life; and, you know, that's alright! My role in their lives, and their role in mine, will be different now, but like the lyrics in that Spinner's song, whenever they call me, whenever they want me, whenever they need me, I'll be there, I'll be around!


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[Scene: Central Perk. Chandler and Joey are there. Joey is looking at a National Geographic and giggling.]
Chandler: Are you looking at naked tribeswoman?
tribeswoman ['traibz,wumən]: a female member of a tribe 部落妇女
Joey: No. Look. [shows him the magazine]
Chandler: That's a pig.
Joey: I know, I know, but look at the knobs on it!
knob: a round lump on the surface or end of something 瘤,疙瘩 (<异>104.He is trying to get a candy bar out of
the vending machine by pulling the knob.)
[Ross enters and his hair is a mess.]
Chandler and Joey: Hey!
[Joey quickly hides the magazine under the couch.]
Ross: Emily's cousin kicked me out!
Chandler: What?
Joey: Why?
Ross: Well, when you're subletting an apartment from your wife's cousin and then you get a divorce,
sometimes the cousin suddenly wants his apartment back.
Chandler: How can he do that? Didn't you sign a lease?
lease [li:s]: a legal agreement that allows you to use a building, a piece of equipment or some land for a period of
time, usually in return for rent 租约
Ross: Who needs a lease when it's family!
Joey: Hey, you can stay with us! We'll take care of you!
Chandler: Oh, yeah! Absolutely! Anything you need, man! But you have to promise me you will let us know
the second you are feeling better so that we can make fun of your hair!
Joey: Yeah.
Ross: You got it.
Joey: Okay.
Ross: Thanks, you guys. I really appreciate this. All right, I'm gonna get packing again. Man, I've been
moving around so much lately I'm beginning to feel like a nomad.
nomad ['nəumæd]: a member of a community that moves with its animals from place to place 游牧民
[Joey starts giggling.]
Ross: What?
Chandler: He thought you said "gonad".
gonad ['ɡəunæd]: a male sex organ that produces sperm; a female sex organ that produces eggs 生殖腺(尤指睾丸、
[Joey busts out laughing.]
Opening Credits
[Scene: Monica's Restaurant. She is getting inspected by the health department. Phoebe is watching.]
Larry: Wow, Monica, if every restaurant was as clean as yours, I'd have a tough time making a living.
make a living: 谋生,营生
Monica: Oh, Larry.
Phoebe: Um, do health inspectors work on commission?
inspector [ɪn'spɛktɚ]: a person, usually employed by a government agency, whose job is to find out whether people
are obeying official regulations 检查员;督察员
Larry: No, bribes.
[Phoebe laughs.]
Phoebe: It's okay to laugh, right?
Larry: Yeah, I was just kidding.
Phoebe: Okay. [laughs harder]
Larry: I'll check the kitchen floors.
Monica: Okay, knock yourself out, Larry. I don't get violations. You can eat beans off that floor. But don't.
Because that'd be a violation.
knock yourself out: 别客气;随便点
[He goes into the kitchen.]
Phoebe: Yummy!
Monica: Larry?
Phoebe: Oh, yeah! I'd let him check out my kitchen floor.
Larry: A 98. I deducted 2 points because you are not wearing your chef's hat, and that is a Section 5
deduct [di'dʌkt]: to take away money, points, etc. from a total amount (从总量、总额中)扣除,减去
section: (契约、法律条文等的)款,项 (<异>202.Joey: What's he doing in my section?<异>209.Rachel: Oh, these are
cookies smashed in the sports section.)
Monica: Oh, uh, look, Larry, honey, um, I wrote the book on Section 5 and I know that you don't have to wear
your hat unless you're in the kitchen.
Larry: And where is your hat?
Monica: It's in the kitchen. I'll go get it.
[She heads for the kitchen door and just after she goes through the door...]
Larry: Ah, there's the 2 points.
Phoebe: Hey, you should really read that book you wrote. [to Larry] Wow! You saw the hat in the kitchen
and you knew that she'd have to go in there hatless to get it. You could have your own, you know, health
inspector detective show.
hatless ['hætlis]: 不戴帽子的
Larry: Oh, I don't know about that.
Phoebe: Yeah, but then I can be you sidekick, Vunda.
sidekick ['saidkik]: a person who helps another more important or more intelligent person 助手
Larry: Maybe, uh, Vunda could give me her number and I can ask her to dinner sometime.
Phoebe: Okay, she would love that, you know, since you know all the clean places to eat.
Larry: I-I'll call you.
Phoebe: Okay. [Larry goes to leave but heads the wrong way and makes a quick sidestep to go out the
right door.] He's so funny! Oh! Oh! [She imitates what he just did.]
[Scene: Central Perk. Gunther is serving Monica and Rachel.]
Monica: Thanks.
Rachel: Thank you. [to Monica] Mon?
Monica: Hmm?
Rachel: How's Ross doing? You know, since all the Emily stuff.
Monica: He's not great, but, um, he's dealing with it.
Rachel: Mm.
Monica: Oh, wait a minute. You're not gonna try…
Rachel: Oh, honey, please, no. I can't get started with all that Ross stuff again. I mean, he's gonna be
screwed-up for a long time. Besides, you know, I don't, I don't go for guys right after they get divorced.
screwed-up ['skru:dʌp]: upset and anxious, especially because of something bad that has happened to you in the
past 心烦意乱的
Monica: Right, you only go for them 5 minutes before they get married.
[Danny enters.]
Danny: [to Gunther] Two pounds of Mocha Java, please.
Mocha Java: 摩卡爪哇,用产自印尼爪哇岛的爪哇咖啡和产自也门的摩卡咖啡拼配而成
Monica: It's Danny. Are you guys ever gonna go out again?
Rachel: I don't know. He hasn't called me since that one time we went out. I see him in the hallway. We flirt.
I'm all ha-ha-ha-ha, and then nothing.
Danny: Hey!
Rachel: Hi, Danny! [notices his box of liquor he's carrying] Wow! Thirsty, huh?
Danny: Uh, actually, actually, I'm having a party at my place on Saturday. It's sort of a house-warming kind
of thing.
house-warming: a party given by somebody who has just moved into a new house 庆祝乔迁的喜宴
Monica: Oh, fun!
Rachel: Oh, great!
Danny: Yeah, I'm really looking forward to it.
Rachel: Yeah.
Danny: Okay, see you. [heads out]
Monica: Well, I guess we won't be warming his house.
Rachel: [laughs] Okay, all right, I see what he's doing! He's not asking me out because he wants me to
ask him out.
Monica: And you're not gonna do that.
Rachel: That's right! 'Cause that would give him the control! So now he's all, oh, coming up with this whole
"I've got a party" thing, you know, trying to get me to hint around for an invitation. Blew up in his face,
didn't it?
blow up in somebody's face: if a plan, etc. blows up in your face, it goes wrong in a way that causes you damage,
embarrassment, etc 使某人搞砸;令某人难堪
Monica: So-so there is no party?
Rachel: Oh, no. There's a party. There's a party. But the power, that is still up for grabs. You follow me?
up for grabs: available for anyone who is interested 可得的;供争夺的
Monica: I think so. See, he-he's not inviting you to his party because he likes you.
Rachel: Exactly!
Monica: Then why he didn't invite me?
Rachel: [thinks] Oh, to throw me off!
[Scene: Chandler, Joey and Ross's. Chandler and Joey enter to find boxes strewn about the apartment.]
strewn [stru:n]: strew的过去分词
Joey: Ross?
Ross: [entering from the bathroom] Hey, roomies!
Joey: Hey.
Chandler: Love what you've done with the place.
Ross: Oh, yeah, I know, I know. It's a lot of boxes, but again I-I really appreciate you guys letting me stay
Joey: Not a problem. And listen, hey, since you're gonna be here for a while, why don't—I was thinking we,
uh, put your name on the answering machine.
Chandler: Oh, yeah!
Ross: Oh, I, uh, hope you don't mind, but I kinda already jazzed it up a little. Check this out. [He plays the
greeting and We Will Rock You starts to play and Ross's voice comes over it.] We will, we will, call you
jazz something up: to make something more interesting, exciting or attractive 使更有活力,使热烈
We Will Rock You: 《将你震撼》是皇后乐队(Queen)演唱的歌曲
Joey: Hey, all right!
Ross: Pretty cool, huh?
Chandler: Oh, yes.
[They both laugh as Ross heads back to the bathroom.]
Joey: [to Chandler] You're fake laughing too, right?
Chandler: Oh, the tears are real.
[Scene: A Restaurant. Phoebe and Larry are having dinner.]
Larry: You look beautiful this evening.
Phoebe: Show me the badge again.
badge ['bædʒ]: a piece of metal, cloth or plastic which you wear or carry to show that you work for a particular
organization, or that you have achieved something (表明身份的)徽章
[He looks around and flashes her his badge and she laughs.]
Phoebe: Shiny.
Larry: Oh, will you mind if I wash up? 'Cause I came straight from work and who knows where these babies
[holds up his hands] have been.
Phoebe: [laughing] You are just non-stop!
non-stop ['nɔn'stɔp]: without pausing or stopping 不断的,不停止的
[He goes to the bathroom. Phoebe throws some salt over her left shoulder. Larry comes back.]
Phoebe throws some salt over her left shoulder.: 在左肩膀上撒盐,能够给人带来好运。
Larry: We're outta here!
Phoebe: Why?
Larry: Just walking past the kitchen, I saw 10 violations! I'm shutting this place down!
shut something down: to stop a factory, shop/store, etc. from opening for business 使歇业
Phoebe: You have the power to do that?
Larry: This does. [shows her his badge]
Phoebe: Shut it down.
[Scene: Chandler, Joey and Ross's. Chandler enters. As he closes the door, Joey pokes his head up from
the boxes.]
Joey: Hey.
Chandler: What are you doing?
Joey: Nothing.
Chandler: You built a fort, didn't you?fort [fɔrt]: a strong building or a place with a wall or fence around it where soldiers can stay and be safe from the
enemy 堡垒;碉堡
Joey: [smiles] Kinda.
Chandler: Oh, my God. The air purifier! Ross's air purifier! All I heard for four years through college was…
[makes a humming noise]
purifier ['pjʊrɪfaɪɚ]: a device that removes substances that are dirty, harmful or not wanted 净化器
Joey: Dude, you should've gone out once in a while.
Chandler: I hate this thing!
Joey: Come on, Chandler. Ross is our friend, okay? He needs us right now. So why don't you be a
grown-up and come watch some TV in the fort?
[Scene: Monica and Rachel's. Monica, Rachel and Phoebe are there.]
Monica: I can't believe that Larry closed down Churman's. I love that place.
Phoebe: Yeah, I know. But you should have heard about all their violations. Larry said that they should call
it Vermin's. [laughs] That guy just plain kills me!
vermin ['vɝmɪn]: small animals such as rats and mice which cause problems to humans by carrying disease and
damaging crops or food 有害的小型动物
[There is a knock on the door and Rachel goes to get it.]
Rachel: Oh, hi, Danny.
Danny: Hey, guys. Uh, I just wanted to invite you to the party tomorrow night.
Monica: Oh, thanks! We'll try to stop by.
Rachel: Yeah, actually, I think I'm gonna be busy.
Monica: You are?
Rachel: Yeah! Remember I've got that, uh, gala?
gala ['ɡɑ:lə]: a special public celebration or entertainment 欢庆;盛会
Danny: What's the gala for?
Rachel: Uh, it's a, uh, it's a, it's a regatta gala.
regatta [rɪ'ɡætə]: a sporting event in which races between rowing boats or sailing boats are held 赛舟会
Danny: Really? You-you sail?
Rachel: No-no, but I support it.
Danny: Okay. [to Monica] Well, hope I see you tomorrow night.
Monica: Okay.
Danny: Take care. [leaves]
Rachel: Okay. [closes the door] Walked right into that one, didn't he?
walk into something: to become involved in an unpleasant situation, especially because you were not sensible
enough to avoid it (因不留心)陷入(圈套等)
Monica: What one? You-you wanted him to invite you to the party and he did it!
Rachel: Yeah, but he waited until the last minute! So if I said "yes", he would know that I had nothing better
to do than wait around for an invitation to his stupid party. I said "no", which puts me right back in the
driver's seat.
be in the driver's seat: to be the person in control of a situation 处于控制地位;掌有控制权
Monica: Great. So the ball is in his court?
the ball is in your/somebody's court: it is your/somebody's responsibility to take action next 有待某人采取行动
Rachel: Ball? No, there is no ball.
[Monca and Rachel are about to eat the takeout. Phoebe enters from the bathroom.]
Monica: Hey, Pheebs?
Phoebe: Yeah.
Monica: You wanna join us?
Phoebe: Oh, sure, yeah. Where is this from?
Monica: It's from Sun Ling's.
Phoebe: Oh, Larry just told me something about Sun Ling. Oh, no thank you.
[Phoebe puts the food down and Monica gags.]
[Scene: Chandler, Joey and Ross's. Ross is working on his computer and Joey is making a lot of noise.]
Ross: Joey, please.
Joey: Sorry. [Joey starts playing with a toy alligator and has it attack him.] Ah!
alligator ['ælɪɡetɚ]: a large reptile with short legs, a long tail, and very powerful jaws 短吻鳄
[Ross gives him his "quiet down" maneuver. Chandler enters.]
Chandler: Hello, children!
Joey: Hey! Wanna play some foosball? Please?
Chandler: Okay. [starts to head for where the foosball table usually is]
Joey: No-no, no! We have to move the table into my room. Yeah, 'cause of all the boxes. Come on! [They
go into his bedroom.] All right, I have one question. What is the deal with this? [imitates Ross's "quiet
down" maneuver, but he just flaps his hands as if he's waving goodbye]
Chandler: Bye-bye little puppet Joey hand?
Bye-bye little puppet Joey hand: 参见118.文化详解17.《再见伯迪》(Bye Bye Birdie)
Joey: No, the quiet down thing!
Chandler: You mean this. [does the maneuver perfectly]
Joey: Hm-hmm! Look, I-I-I don't know how much more of this I can take! Did you know he taped over
my Baywatch tape with some show about bugs? My God! What if that had been porn?
Chandler: All right, look, you know, this may be tough but, come on, it's Ross! I survived college with him!
Joey: All right. I guess I can hold out a little longer. Let's have a game.
hold out: to resist or survive in a dangerous or difficult situation 继续生存,支撑;维持
Chandler: Okay. [They start playing.] No-no-no-no!
Joey: Yes!
[Ross enters.]
Ross: Uh, fellas. [does the maneuver and gives them a double thumbs-up, which Chandler returns as he
closes the door]
Chandler: Okay, so he's out of here.
Joey: Mm-hmm.
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Explorer and mountaineer Paul Rose is turning his attention to the Yorkshire Dales for a new television series.
Rose, whose The Lakes airs this evening nationally for the first time, has been filming in Wharfedale, Wensleydale and Swaledale.
Three episodes, made by BBC Yorkshire, will showcase some of the national park's most popular spots, as well as revealing some hidden gems.
Each of the 30-minute programmes will see presenter Paul Rose explore a different location.
The first episode takes the adventurer to Wharfedale where he follows the course of the River Wharfe, meeting the people who live and work in one of the most visited parts of the Dales.
Rose visits Wensleydale in episode two where his journey takes him from one of the highest points in the Dales to the market town of Leyburn. And the destination is Swaledale for the final episode where he meets some of the farmers responsible for looking after rare wild flower habitats before he ends his trek in Richmond.
Paul Rose said: "There are not many places to rival the stunning landscapes of the Yorkshire Dales. I loved pulling on my boots again and exploring its world-class sights and meeting the hard working people who make their living in this amazing landscape."
The Dales will be produced and directed by Paul Greenan and the executive producer is Nicola Addyman, both from BBC Yorkshire. The series has been commissioned for BBC Two.
Nicola Addyman said: "Everyone in the production team loves the Dales and we're lucky enough to have all that stunning countryside right on our doorstep, living here in Yorkshire.
"It's such a special place and this series aims to showcase the natural beauty of the region and the resilience and creativity of the people who live and work there. Presenter Paul Rose loves walking in the Dales and hopes viewers will join him."
The Dales will broadcast nationally on BBC Two in spring 2019 and regionally on BBC One in the Yorkshire and Lincolnshire region.
Rose can also be seen presenting a four-part series about the Lake District where he has lived for the past 20 years on BBC Two on Friday 19 October at 8.30pm.


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Last Sunday something terrible happened on a Dutch football pitch. After a match between two amateur, youth teams, three boys (two 15 year-olds and one 16 year-old) beat up the linesman of the other team. The linesman, 41 year-old Richard Nieuwenhuizen, suffered blows on his head and neck, causing severe brain damage. He passed away a day later.
Discussions now focus on 'violence on the football field'. Let me be clear. I totally agree with almost all measures that have been and will be taken to address what happened this time and to (try to) prevent such things from happening again. This weekend, all amateur football matches in the Netherlands have been cancelled. Meetings are organised at many clubs to talk about what happened. This weekend, professional teams will be wearing black mourning bands and will observe a moment of silence before their games. It cannot get enough attention. Continue reading


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8.223171 - KIEL: Piano Quintets Nos. 1 and 2
Friedrich Kiel (1821–1885)
At a time when much of the German-speaking musical world was polarised between the progressive ideas of Liszt's and Wagner's sphere of influence and the opposing aesthetics of Mendelssohn, Schumann and Brahms, Friedrich Kiel remained without any close connection to his contemporaries, aloof from partisan affiliations and the stream of fashion. While enjoying the support of some members of the radical faction, he professed his adulation for Brahms and was himself a classicist who consciously emulated Beethoven and Schubert. His Opus 1, Fifteen Canons in Chamber Style for piano solo, was published in Leipzig in 1850 on the recommendation of Liszt, whom he did not know personally. No less a progressive than Hans von Bülow wrote disparagingly in 1863 in his Geigenkritik of Kiel's Variations and Fugue, Op. 17, but changed his opinion after a public performance. In the Neue Zeitschrift für Musik he refuted his earlier opinion, mentioning Kiel's piano masterpiece in the same breath as Schumann's Symphonic Variations and Brahms's Handel Variations, and he became the composer's ardent supporter and friend. The German musicologist Wilhelm Altmann (1862–1951), who made a specialty of the study of Kiel's music, found it "a never-failing source of delight."
Born on 7 October 1821 in Puderbach on the Lahn (Westphalia), Friedrich was the second of five children of the schoolmaster Jost Kiel. Though he learned the rudiments of music from his father, he was in large part self-taught. Something of a prodigy, he played the piano almost without instruction at the age of six, and by his thirteenth year he had composed much music. When the Kiel family moved to nearby Schwarzenau, a set of the young boy's piano variations came to the attention of Prince Karl von Sayn-Wittgenstein at Berleburg. The prince was a music lover whose court boasted an orchestra of above average abilities, and in 1835 it was arranged that Kiel would study the violin with the court conductor. He soon joined the orchestra, and at the age of fifteen he appeared as soloist in a concerto by Viotti.
At the prince's instigation Kiel received solid theoretical training from the renowned flautist Kaspar Kummer (1795–1870) at Coburg. The studies proved a stimulus for all sorts of compositions, which were played by the court orchestra. Around 1840 Kiel became the court conductor and the music teacher to the prince's children.
Stopping in Kassel in October of 1842, Kiel aroused the interest of the great Louis Spohr. With a stipend from King Wilhelm Friedrich IV, Kiel was on his way to Berlin, where he would perfect his technical knowledge under Siegfried Dehn's tutelage. The theorist and teacher Siegfried Dehn (1799–1858) had been appointed custodian of the royal library in 1842, and he was responsible for the publication of the Brandenburg Concertos in 1849.
In Berlin the industrious Kiel soon earned a fine reputation and became sought after as an instructor. That reputation was firmly established in 1865 by his election to the Prussian Academy of the Fine Arts. The next year saw his appointment to the Stern Conservatory, where he taught composition and was elevated to a professorship three years later. In 1870 he joined the faculty of the newly founded Hochschule für Musik, which under Joseph Joachim's direction from 1869 to 1907 achieved a well deserved reputation as one of the finest German music schools. Kiel's first position there was as professor of counterpoint and fugue and of vocal and instrumental composition, and from 1882 he sat on the board of directors. Among his composition students he could claim Noskowski, Paderewski and Stanford. Kiel died in Berlin on 13 September 1885 as the result of injuries from a traffic accident. In 1906 a short-lived Kiel association was founded. Today, when he is remembered at all, it is as a beloved and important teacher, dedicated to preserving the high-minded principles and good taste of classical-romantic art in the German musical culture of his time.
A retiring and unassuming bachelor, Kiel found his special niche as a pedagogue. Though well respected as a pianist, he rarely played in public, and when he ventured forth from Berlin, it was not on concert tours but on holiday excursions. He was a proficient hiker and mountain climber, and at the age of sixty he scaled Monte Rosa. He was a prolific composer, whose piano works and chamber music have a legitimate place near the corresponding works of Brahms. But it was for eight large-scale sacred works, associated with Catholicism and written in the spirit of the then ongoing Bach renaissance, that the Protestant Kiel became increasingly known after 1862. His Requiem of that year was deemed remarkable, and the oratorio Christus, composed in 1870, became inextricably linked to his name.
Given that the list of his opus numbers runs from 1 to 83, that two separate publications bear the same designation of Op. 1, that three opus numbers are assigned to pairs of works, and that there are four piano compositions without an opus number, Kiel's published compositions total ninety-one. Besides the eight large choral-orchestral works already cited, there are four other compositions for chorus with or without accompaniment, three orchestral works (a piano concerto and two sets of marches), one composition for organ, six works for piano four hands, and thirty-odd works mostly for piano solo.
The remaining thirty compositions, a full third of Kiel's production, belong to the chamber music genre. There are fourteen works (including four sonatas) for piano and one string instrument, seven piano trios, two string quartets and two sets of waltzes for quartet, three piano quartets, and two piano quintets.
Quintet No. 1 in A major was published in 1874. In five movements, it is genial and relaxed, in keeping with the character of its bright tonic key. The viola and cello in unison immediately announce the broad, flowing first subject and establish a mood of unhurried expansiveness. The second subject follows in the expected key of E major and closes with a fleeting reminiscence of Mendelssohn, but it is Brahms who dominates the development section of this straightforward sonata movement. The second movement is an intermezzo in ternary form. The theme, first played by the strings alone, has a subdued, archaic flavour, and soon the piano adds a galloping accompaniment. Brahms comes to mind again in the lyrical contrasting section, and after the restatement of the initial theme, the movement ends with a brief coda. Occupying the central position in the quintet, the slow movement is also in ternary form. A mood of romantic expressivity arises from the song-like, F major melody, and the middle section provides a rather chromatic A major contrast. On its return the principal theme has a florid piano accompaniment. Kiel's classical predilection is evident in the ensuing minuet with two trios. On its first appearance the minuet is entrusted to the piano alone but is played by the ensemble thereafter. The rhythmically vigorous first trio recalls Brahms once again, and the second trio, based on a gracious melody over an arpeggiated piano accompaniment, accounts for the quintet's loveliest moments. Kiel found the rondo form well suited to the expression of good humour, and the high-spirited finale of the first quintet bears that out. It would not be out of place to call this movement a rondo all'ungarese, though no such title appears on the score. The ebullient refrain overflows with Central European charm, making particularly effective use of pizzicati and alternating with a delightful Schubertian theme in bringing the quintet to an exhilarating conclusion.
Published the same year as his first quintet, Kiel's Quintet No. 2 in G minor, op. 76, has a somewhat different outlook. A mysterious introduction marked by tonal ambiguity strives gradually toward the establishment of the tonic key—one used by Beethoven to express dramatic conflict—and reaches that C minor tonality when a six-note motif announces the beginning of the main subject. As in Schubert's Unfinished Symphony, an expansive and exquisite second subject soon overshadows the principal theme, brightening the mood and reminding us that at heart Kiel was a melodist. The development, followed by a straightforward recapitulation, is a model of concision, and the elaborate coda marks a return to the stormy mood of the beginning. The Second Quintet observes the usual four-movement classical pattern, and it concentrates the structural weight in the outer movements. A lyrical, uncomplicated arioso in tripartite song form follows the first movement without pause; its middle section has hints of Brahms's gypsy music. The third movement, an Intermezzo, resembles a freely conceived, mercurial scherzo in 6/8 time; here Kiel approaches the language of Mendelssohn. Also in three-part form, this movement has a pleasingly melodic trio. As in the first quintet, Kiel casts his finale in Rondo form, here more fully developed to reveal the ternary ABACABA structure that Haydn favoured for his piano trios. The captivating refrain could have been written by Schubert, and it retains its freshness throughout the course of the movement. The first episode is a lively moto perpetuo, and the second is a lyrical melody, surprisingly—but one must assume intentionally—reminiscent of the trio in Schumann's Fourth Symphony. Generously proportioned, this tuneful Rondo ends Kiel's fine quintet in an especially satisfying fashion.
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ITB Group has became part of Rompa Group with the latter having solidified its market share on the international plastics market.
Rompa Group takes over ITB Group
(L-R) Patrick Gerard, Hans van Dooremalen and Jan Bloo
Hans van Dooremalen, director and owner of ITB, recently considered many potential takeover parties, and concluded that Rompa was the most suitable.
"Out of all those parties," van Dooremalen said, "we believe Rompa Group to be the most suitable partner to take over ITB Group's shares and secure its future. I was and still am extremely proud of ITB and I sincerely hope that the company will be around for many years to come under the Rompa banner."
Founded in 1881 by the Rompa family as a leather tannery, the company has developed into an internationally oriented producer of plastic and electronic products.
CEO Patrick Gerard, said: "The takeover of ITB Group fits perfectly within our growth strategy. By combining our strengths, we can offer our customers an even higher quality of service and further expand our market share."
ITB Group is a developer and supplier of high-precision plastic and metal products made for various markets, including automotive, packaging materials, medical and pharmaceutical machines, energy, household appliances and personal care.
Rompa Group is a globally operating plastics processor and a leading organisation in the design, development and production of finished plastic products, including assembly, electronics, decoration and packaging, for a variety of markets.
The company produces plastic products by means of injection moulding and thermoforming. From a strategic perspective, Rompa Group operates in various market segments, including automotive, packaging materials, consumer products and industrial applications.
Long-term partnerships
Rompa Group manufactures a wide range of products for major customers, including Bosch, Philips, Britax Römer, Procter & Gamble, Avery Dennison, Siemens, and Rentokil Initial, amongst others.
Based in the Netherlands, Rompa has internationalised its production activities with facilities in China, the Czech Republic, Slovakia, Germany and the US.


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An important goal of toxicity testing is to assess and identify health risks associated with exposure to existing and newly introduced chemicals. Of particular importance is Developmental and Reproductive Toxicity (DART), because of the long-term and delayed characteristics of the toxicity.
DART testing often involves time and money-intensive animal studies. Significant research activity has been focused on the development of alternative testing strategies in non-animal systems like single cells, or in a single non-mammalian multicellular organism, but these studies showed that the data do not provide a complete picture of DART.
Innovative toxicity test systems that enable the identification of the molecular mechanisms that lead to DART and are relevant to humans have the potential to allow improved hazard identification and characterization.
The team, led by Professor Raymond Pieters from the University of Utrecht propose that combinations of test systems are essential for proper DART assessment. In CRACK IT PreDART they exploit the combinatorial power of three distinct non-mammalian organisms (D. rerio, C. elegans and D. discoideum). Developmental pathways in these test systems are well-defined, but not yet properly related to DART. Effects of a carefully selected set of compounds responsible for developmental and/or reproduction defects in vertebrates will be thoroughly analysed by phenotype-based pathway identification, assessment of internal concentrations to improve dose-response relationships, and transcriptome and kinome analyses in all test organisms. Results will be aligned for identification of a "key set of response genes" core to induction DART toxicity. These genes will be used to enable establishment of a predictive screening assay for DART defects
Full details about this CRACK IT Challenge can be found on the CRACK IT website.
Racz P et al. (2017). Application of Caenorhabditis elegans (nematode) and Danio rerio embryo (zebrafish) as model systems to screen for developmental and reproductive toxicity of Piperazine compounds. Toxicology in Vitro doi.org/10.1016/j.tiv.2017.06.002.
Status:In progress
Contractor(s)Professor Raymond Peters
Institute for Risk Assessment Sciences/ Toxicology
University of Utrecht
Award date:Jul 2013
Contract amount£750,000
Primary 'R'Replacement
Scientific DisciplineToxicology
KeywordsDevelopmental and reproductive toxicity
Mammalian and surrogate species
Molecular biology
Non-mammalian assay


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The opening line of Tillie Olsen's short story, "I Stand Here Ironing," is a metaphor for the ambivalence of the mother about her skills as a parent and about the future of her oldest daughter when asked about Emily's recent behavior. Absolutely central to the plot is this metaphor of ironing, as the mother attempts to straighten out the problems of her often uneasy relationship with her daughter. This effort is performed in much the same manner as she irons: in a stream-of-consciousness the mother moves backward and forward in time repeatedly establishing a pattern of poverty and abandonment.
This self-examination of the mother also involves her attempts to understand. For instance, she speaks of Emily's desire to stay home from school when she had to go to nursery school, the "parking place" for children:
"She always had a reason...never a direct protest, never rebellion. I think of of our others in their three-, four-year-oldness--the explosions, the tempers, the denunciations, the demands--and I feel suddenly ill. I pput the iron down. What in me demanded that goodness in her? And what was the cost, the cost to her of such goodness?"
Coupled with the mother's confessions and self-examination is an admiration of Emily's resilience and strength. So, even though there are wrinkles in their relationship and in Emily's personality, and the mother concludes that she will never "total it all"; nevertheless, her daughter, "a child of her age, of depression, of war, of fear," has much to her. Concluding with the controlling metaphor of ironing, the mother urges the school counselor to
help her to know--help make it so there is cause for her to know--that she is more than this dress on the ironing board, helpless before the iron.
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What is Nitrile Gloves
Nitrile gloves are made out of a synthetic rubber, and are an ideal alternative when latex allergies are of concern. Nitrile gloves are the superior glove when it comes to puncture resistance. Nitrile gloves are often referred to as "medical grade." Before gloves can be marketed to hospitals and medical institutions, they must undergo a series of tests conducted by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to ensure their durability.
Nitrile gloves are known best in the medical industry, where these gloves have quickly become a replacement for latex gloves. Nitrile provides all of the same protection from punctures, cuts, and chemicals as latex gloves, but relieves the worry of allergic reactions.
History of Nitrile gloves
Two men, Neil Tillitson and Luc DeBecker, invented nitrile gloves in the 1980s. The final formula and technique for manufacturing was finalized in 1990. The patent for the Nitrile glove formula and production method was given to the Tillitson Corporation in the late 1990s.
Similar to latex gloves, a high percentage of Nitrile glove factories are located in Malaysia. During the AIDS epidemic that took place in Malaysia from the late 1980s to early 2000s, there was a huge increase in demand for Nitrile gloves and factories began manufacturing the gloves in huge quantities.
As latex allergies grew increasingly more prominent in medical practitioners and their patients, Nitrile grew in popularity because they are such an exceptional alternative to latex gloves.
What are Nitrile gloves made of?
Nitrile is a synthetic latex, or rubber, with a composition of physical properties that are resistant to oils and petroleum fuels. As it is well known for, Nitrile contains no latex proteins. This synthetic material produces gloves that are up to three times more puncture resistance than latex. The properties that make up Nitrile deliver an excellent glove that is used widely in many industries, particularly medical and food service applications.
Attributes include:
- Latex-free
- Are most puncture resistant
- Have a high level of sensitivity
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- Are good for wearing an extended amount of time
- Work well for high-risk situations involving infectious material
- Resist many chemicals
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Nitrile itself is made in a chemistry lab, undergoing processes that only those of us who have a degree in chemistry would understand. However, what we can wrap our minds around is that the production of Nitrile is much less complicated and much more cost effective than the production of natural latex rubber.
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Retirement is supposed to be a time when you can finally take it easy and have time to do those things you've always longed to do. There are other, less enjoyable, things to consider with the retirement years though, like preparing in advance for the time when you may not be as active as you now are. One way to eliminate the stress and worry of this is good preparation, for example, how can you make decisions regarding your home now, that will prepare you for the years to come?
Well, a good idea is to begin by having your home inspected by a certified home inspector who will be able to advise you on the condition of areas like your roof and heating system etc. They can let you know how long it will be before big items like this will need to be worked on or even replaced. In this way, you can start to save and prepare in advance.
Perhaps you've been waiting to do some remodeling. If you are thinking of this, why not try to add features that would enable someone with limited mobility to use them with ease. This can be done in a subtle way if the design is well thought out.
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Unit 1Section AComprehension of the TextI.1. He did not get enough oxygen when he was born.2. She described her father as a saint.3. They were inseparable, almost doing everything together.4. He was changed almost completely.5. He blossomed on his own and became essential to the neighborhood.6. She thought that caring for Jimmy has enriched her life more than anything 7. She hoped that their coming would help make the party a merry and festive 8. They were reminded that the constant love and support of friends and family whatever life might present.VocabularyIII.1. beneath 2. disguised 3. whistles 4. restrain 5. grasp6. longing 7. praying 8. faithful 9. pledge 10. drainIV.1. tell (our teacher) on you 2. track down 3. work it out 4. picking 5. reckoned with 6. call on 7. on his own 8. get through9. in disguise 10. revolves aroundV.1. G 2. O 3. D 4. I 5. K 6. L 7. B 8. F 9. A 10. NCollocationVI.1. advice 2. level 3. problems 4. necessity 5. skills6. experience 7. solution 8. value 9. tool 10. mannerWord BuildingVII.1. air-conditioned (装空调的;有冷气) 2. handmade (手工制作的)3. thunderstruck (非常吃惊的) 4. heartfelt (衷心的;诚挚的)5. data-based (基于数据的) 6. self-employed (自主经营的)7. custom-built (定制的;定做的) 8. weather-beaten (饱经风霜)VIII.1. well-informed (对…非常熟悉的) 2. new-found (新获得的)3. hard-earned (辛苦挣得的) 4. soft-spoken (说话温柔)5. newly-married (新婚的) 6. widely-held(普遍认为的)7. will-meant (出于好意的) 8. well-educated(受过良好的教育的)Sentence StructureIX.1. no matter how different it may seem from any other substance2. No matter what a woman tries to do to improve her situation3. No matter what excuse he gives4. No matter what anyone else may think5. No matter how they rewrite historyX.1. Just as we gained fame in victory , we lost nothing in defeat.2. Just as the dead teacher plays a significant role in the school , Jane palys a significant role of leader in theclassroom.3. Whoever was out there obviously couldn't see him just as he couldn't see them.4. She has been searching all life for the perfect chocolate just as I have been searching for the .5. You can make those kinds of comparisons just as you were doing the analyses a minute ago.TranslationXI.1. No matter how experienced a speaker you are , and how well you have prepared your speech, you willhave difficulty making a speech at such a noisy reception.2. Just as all his sister's friends cared about him, Jimmy cared about them.3. Car manufacturers stamp a vehicle identification number at several places on new cars to help track downstolen vehicles,4. If you dare tell on me when the teacher gets back I won't say s word to you any more.5. Some elderly people prefer to live on their own while the great majority choose to live with their children.6. He


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China must tread carefully when it comes to controlling the outflow of capital as it has the potential to make investors think authorities are concerned about the nation's economy, the Reserve Bank of Australia governor Philip Lowe said.
The RBA boss said the internationalisation of the Chinese currency will be one of "biggest forces shaping the global financial system,"
China has instituted stricter capital controls to prevent citizens and corporations taking money out of the country amid concerns that unchecked capital outflows could be destabilising. The controls also were put in place to take the pressure off the yuan, which had the biggest slide in more than two decades.
"Short-term controls arguably can have a positive effect on financial stability in China by reducing the risk of a disorderly currency adjustment and pressures," Lowe said.
"But there is a balance to be struck here. One consideration is the signal that a tightening of controls, after several years of liberalisation, could send to investors about how the government perceives the balance of risks facing the economy."
Lowe also said a persistent tightening may "also exacerbate domestic vulnerabilities, by causing domestic liquidity to be greater than might be desired."
Many countries have liberalised their capital accounts and made their exchange rates more flexible, though only few made that transition without at least some disruption to the domestic financial system, the governor said.
"China has the ambition of having a global currency," Lowe said.
"The effects of this transition – involving the internationalisation of the RMB and the opening up of the capital account – could ultimately be as wide-ranging as were the effects of China's ascension to the World Trade Organisation."
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Oft suggested during SEZ policy crafting days, NITI now formalises the idea of 2 mega Coastal Economic Zones to emulate China's strategy.
CEZs on the cards
The mega Coastal Economic Zones would be set up under the Sagarmala project with international infrastructure. A CEZ may be up to 200 to 250 km wide from the coastline, approximately equal distance in length and encompassing a modern deep dredge port. Minimal red tape, relatively flexible labour and land acquisition laws would be planned for.
All states were to notify Real Estate Reg Act latest by 30th April 2017. Only 13 states hv notified & they r now struggling to implement.
Challenges ahead For RERA
States were asked to notify rules as per the Real Estate Regulation Act (RERA) provisions so that it could be effectively implemented. Many states have either diluted or given insufficient emphasis to crucial aspects of the Act, according to a CRISIL Research report.
Continuing contraction in cement output bit baffling & somewhat worrying: Jan 2017 was -13.3%, Feb -15.8% & March -5.9%. Explanations ?
Sluggish demand for cement
Despite some improvement over the previous month, cement output contraction in March indicates that the construction sector is yet to recover from the disruption caused by the demonetisation drive.
Stepup in railway capex (at `1.12 lac crs in FY17 vis a vis `0.5 lac crs in FY13) happily showing up in order books of relevant pvt cos.
On the right track
Companies engaged in projects related to railway electrification, network decongestion and track building are all reporting increases in their order books.
Cure becomes the illness: Long term PPAs, designed in yesteryears to assure states of continuous supply of affordable power, now a noose.
PPAs: Not so attractive anymore
With spot rates getting increasingly cheaper than longer term PPA (power purchase agreement) rates, discoms are being severely tempted to renege on PPA contracts. However, the power ministry has stated that power procurers cannot terminate PPA agreements except through previously agreed terms and conditions.
Satellite Ports ~ the new thinking on expanding capacity of govt-owned major ports; addresses urban congestion, draft + uses synergies.
New satellite ports on the anvil
With some of the major government run ports choked for capacity, ports in Chennai, Paradip and the Jawaharlal Nehru Port Trust in Mumbai are developing satellite ports as part of their expansion plans. Satellite ports can deal with issues such as limited land availability and draft adequacy.
MahaGovt doing what Central Govt been advised for a long time. Under MAHAINFRA – unused state govt land pooled to securitise & raise funds.
Land Bank Corporations: All State Govts should do what Maharashtra has done. Pool unused sarkari land in SPV & leverage for fund raising.
Maharashtra shows the way
MahaInfra, a special purpose vehicle (SPV) will act as a single window for aggregating land held by various state government departments. The SPV has plans of raising `1 trillion in the next five years to finance capital expenditure of key infrastructure projects.
Infrastructure –power: Cure becomes the illness; long-term PPAs now a noose
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"The hours vary a lot depending on department and workload."First year trainee, London
"My hours have been ok. I work late in the office when I have to but (depending on who you are working for) you will probably be able to work from home in the evenings in practice. There is generally little face/time culture and the main thing is that you just get your work done. The latest I have stayed in the office is 1.00 am but that was a bit of a one-off."First year trainee, London
"Hours can vary depending on how busy the team is. If there's a big project or deal on with tight deadlines, we are very likely to work 12-hour days (or longer) and over weekends. However, if the team is relatively quiet, we would work eight or nine-hour days and not at weekends."First year trainee, London
"The firm is not very flexible when it comes to working hours and outside-of-work commitments."Second year trainee, London
"Hours depend on the practice area you are in so this is hard to assess. In the regulatory practices you consistently work until around 8.00 pm or 9.00 pm, occasionally earlier, but rarely do very late nights. In the litigation practice the hours are generally longer. In corporate you either leave very early or very late depending on the work floating around. You only stay late if necessary."First year trainee, London
"The hours can be long and there is a heavy emphasis on client service and getting the work done. That said, most people are reasonable and holidays and appointments are respected as far as possible. There is generally not much of a prospect of flexible working, which is a downside."First year trainee, London
"Most trainees have good hours and exceptions to this are usually for short periods. There is a really good balance in terms of workload in most departments and fee earners are generally sympathetic to pre-existing plans and important events. Weekend work is not common at all, I personally have never had to come into the office on a weekend. It may be that you have to log on from home for a short time, but this is rare and I usually manage to leave before 7.00 pm on most days."Second year trainee, London
"I sometimes need to stay late. The hours seem similar to most London City firms and probably less than other US firms."First year trainee, London
"The hours are what you expect for a big law firm, but can vary a lot between departments."First year trainee, London
"I've had to work from 9.00 am to 11.00 pm fairly regularly since starting. However, the seat I'm currently in is known to be the heaviest for hours. Most of the other trainees in other seats usually leave between 6.00 pm and 8.00 pm. If there is work to be done then the expectation is that you stay, but no one expects you to hang around past 6.00 pm if you're not busy."First year trainee, London
"The hours are not flexible and maintaining a work/life balance can be hard, though some teams are more accommodating than others. This is the reality of the job and, unfortunately, true across all corporate firms working in a similar field."Second year trainee, London
"The hours have been better than I was expecting, but still not great. Staying until 8.00 pm or later can be quite standard. You need to account for at least eight hours in the office per day and the firm is not very flexible on this. Working from 9.00 am to 6.00 pm is the minimum required."First year trainee, London
"There are often late nights and some senior lawyers are less flexible than others."Second year trainee, London
"The hours here are actually pretty good in comparison with many other City firms. I could count the times I've worked past midnight on one hand and the times I've worked past 9.00 pm on both. The hours are fairly consistent (particularly in the regulatory seats) though transactional and litigation can vary due to the nature of the work."Second year trainee, London
"The hours depend largely on the department you are in and the case/transaction you are working on. On a relatively quiet day, it is possible to leave at 6.30 pm. However, when the team is working on a deal towards a transaction deadline or on a case filing, the hours can be long for continuous periods of time. Trainees and new qualifiers can finish work between 10.00 pm and 2.00 am during busy times. Hours can therefore be unpredictable so making plans during the week can be challenging. The firm is not particularly flexible when it comes to hours and working remotely is not an official firm policy in the London office yet. This means that people (especially on the more junior front) work predominantly from the office. However, working from home is tolerated on occasion if there is a good reason for it and if the person notifies their relationship partner or supervisor."Other - NQ, London
"It depends on the department. I did not expect them to be as long as they are, which probably has to do with the fact that the firm is more busy in general. However, I have personally been lucky and my hours have been more than manageable. Some other trainees have not been so lucky."First year trainee, London
"We have long and unpredictable working hours so a work/life balance can be difficult to maintain at times."First year trainee, London
"The hours vary considerably depending on what you are working on. If there is an upcoming deal then you will be expected to put in long hours. However, if you have finished everything that you need to do then you will not be required to stay late. There is no face-time culture."First year trainee, London
"Hours are comparable to any City law firm. If it's not busy, you are not expected to stay late. Likewise, if it is very busy, people are understanding."Entry level, London
"The workload varies but generally my hours are 9.00 am – 6.00 pm."Graduate, London
"They can be unpredictable but, as a general rule, on a normal day I finish between 6.30 pm and 8.30 pm. Logging in from home after hours is accepted and a lot of people log in after work if needed."Graduate, London
"My hours are generally very good for a US firm, although the work load is unpredictable and you have to be available at short notice and on weekends if required."Entry level, London
"As a trainee, it's not that flexible. The hours are long and you have to be prepared to get involved last minute. It can be very difficult to make (and keep) plans during the week."Entry level, London
"I have found that the hours can be tough at times, although comparable to friends at other City firms, from my knowledge. We have fewer lawyers, so the firm cannot afford to be as flexible (at times). That said, there is no 'face-time' culture and supervisors do their best to ensure that trainees aren't overstretched."First year trainee, London
"Working hours are unpredictable at times. Generally they are fine, but there have been some shockers (which you would expect). Some people seem to want to work all hours of the day, whereas others are good at creating their own boundaries. As a trainee I find that it is incredibly unpredictable from day-to-day."First year trainee, London
"Working hours vary from seat to seat and your enthusiasm to get involved. There is a complete absence of a 'face-time' culture. If you are done, you go home."First year trainee, London
"All-nighters are very rare, thankfully, but my hours have typically been fairly long throughout my training contract. That said, typically working hours come in peaks and troughs."Second year trainee, London
"Firm hours vary by department. Regulatory seems to be more regular, while corporate can be very up and down. You stay as late as you need to get the work done."First year trainee, London
"Working hours do vary, but are generally long. Late evenings, weekends and bank holidays are not uncommon. The firm is not at all flexible when it comes to hours, and work always takes precedence over any other commitments that you may have."First year trainee, London
"Work hours are generally very reasonable. I have had a few runs of late nights on particular projects, but these are not as bad as people lead you to believe and there are often lots of others around too."First year trainee, London
"As a trainee, hours are very inflexible. You are expected to be in between 8:45am-9:15am irrespective of how late you were working the night before. Official office hours are 9:00am-6:00pm but 95% of the time you will work later than this."First year trainee, London
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