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<![CDATA[miumiu]]> http://1843138.qzone.qq.com Wed, 25 Nov 2009 18:12:29 GMT Qzone zh-cn Copyright (C), 2005-2008, Tencent Tech. Co., Ltd. Wed, 04 Mar 2009 07:41:57 GMT <![CDATA[[转]极少人知道的手机隐藏功能和禁忌]]> http://1843138.qzone.qq.com/blog/1236152517

友情提醒：此文来自于网络，作者不详。手机的型号不同，可能有些不能用，那就不必当真，一笑了之吧。

手机使用小秘诀，让你的手机永远有电！

1、隐形的备用电池
你的手机电量不足了，为了让它能够继续使用，按*3370#键，手机会重新启动，启动完毕后，你就会发现电量增加了50%。这部分隐藏的备用电量用完了你就必须得充电了，再次充电的时候，隐形的备用电池也同时充电，下次电量低的时候又可以用这个方法。知道这个在紧急情况下如果手机电量不足非常管用。

2、紧急情况

全世界的手机都可以拨打的共同紧急救援号码是112，假如你发现自己所在的地区无手机信号覆盖，同时你又遇到了紧急状况，用你的手机拨打112准没错，因为这时候你的手机会自动搜索所有可用的网络并建立起紧急呼叫。特别有趣的是，即使你的手机是在键盘锁定的状态，你同样可以拨打112。试试吧！

3、手机被偷了？

有个办法让小偷也用不了，嘿嘿！查看手机的序列号，只需键入* # 0 6 #， 15位序列号会出现在手机屏幕上，全世界的每一台手机都有一个独一无二的序列号，把这个序列号记录下来并保存好。有一天如果你的手机不幸被偷了，打电话给手机提供商，并提供你的手机序列号，他们会帮你把手机屏蔽，这样即使小偷换了SIM卡，仍然无法使用，你的手机对小偷来说变得一无是处。如果全世界每个手机持有者都这么做，那么偷手机就没有意义了。在澳洲，警方甚至建立了一个被盗手机数据库，如果你的手机被找到了，就可以归还给你了。

日常维护必用：

1、手机电池不要等到没电才充电。

一般我们都会有一种想法就是手机的电池电力要全部放完再充电比较好基本上是没错的，因为我们在以前使用的充电电池大部分是镍氢(NiH)电池，而镍氢电池有所谓的记忆效应若不放完电再充的话会导致电池寿命急速减少。因此我们才会用到最后一滴电才开始充电。但现在的手机及一般IA产品大部分都用锂 (Li)电池，而锂电池的话就没有记忆效应的问题。若大家还是等到全部用完电后再充的话反而会使得锂电池内部的化学物质无法反应而寿命减少。最好的方法就是没事就充电让它随时随地保持最佳满格状态，这样你的电池就可用的又长又久喔。

5、手机费的寄生虫

手机莫名其妙定置了无用短信,强烈建议大家都看一下自己有没有中招，最简单方法退订每月偷你手机费的寄生虫！中国移动在3.15被迫推出一项新业务，如果您是中国移动的手机用户，键入数字"0000"，发送短信至10086，数秒钟内将自动回复一条短信列表，显示您的手机上究竟订制了哪些短信服务，究竟是哪些短信服务商明着、暗着每月扣除您的手机费；键入数字"00000"，发送短信至186201，即可退订所有短信服务。

6、不要赶着凑正好1分钟

我们打电话的时候常常会为了正好赶在1:00前结束而庆幸,但其实并不是这样的,据一位中国移动的工作人员说,其实在你通话到0:55的时候就已经算一分钟了,所以0:55~1:00的通话时间其实是算你2分钟的钱~

7、手机一进水，请切记不要作任何按键动作，尤其是关机(一按任何动作，水马上会跟着电路板流串)，正确的方法为马上打开外盖，直接将电池拿下，直接强迫断电，可保主机板不被水侵袭。

这个常识非常重要，故转告各位，使大家的手机可用久一点。学一学吧！以后以备不时之需啊！

8、如何让手机电池起死回生

当你的行动电话电池使用时间变短(记忆效应或老化)时,你是否会再买一颗电池来更换呢?

下次当你碰到这种情况时请省下你的钱,告诉你一个很有效的方法不妨试试看：

1）把电池用报纸包起来再放进塑料袋裹包好放入冷冻库三天(报纸可吸收多余水份)

2）三天后取出常温下放二天

3）二天后将电池充电,充饱后装进行动电话裹测试(预估可救回80%-90%)

本讯息由知名电池厂商工程师透露,根据测试过的朋友指出效果相当有效.

至于有没有效果,反正电池快没用了,而且冰箱人人有,各位朋友不妨试试看吧!

9、给你的手机做个CPR吧！

手机是否常断电？或是明明充饱了电没多久就又没电了？

一定怀疑过是不是手机的寿命终了？

别担心，它只是一时"心跳停止"，只要一块小小的橡皮擦就能起死回生了！

把电池取出后用橡皮擦把电池上的接点(黄铜片)擦干净，再装回手机上，你会发现真是太神奇了！它竟然活过来了！还像颗新的呢！ ]]> http://1843138.qzone.qq.com/blog/1236152517#comment 134218265 Wed, 04 Mar 2009 07:41:57 GMT http://1843138.qzone.qq.com/blog/1236152517 <![CDATA[[转]键盘钢琴(有空进来弹弹琴,真的可以弹的)]]> http://1843138.qzone.qq.com/blog/1227678229 好玩！！！！给大家玩玩·~要先关掉QQ音乐！！！才可以听到你自己的演奏！！！记得记得！！！

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]]> http://1843138.qzone.qq.com/blog/1227678229#comment 4105 Wed, 26 Nov 2008 05:43:49 GMT http://1843138.qzone.qq.com/blog/1227678229 <![CDATA[年纪轻轻，全副武装]]> http://1843138.qzone.qq.com/blog/1216912621
小孩子要学会走路，先要学会爬。要骑两轮自行车，先要骑三轮车，这谁都知道。但现在的孩子几岁开始用手机和笔记本，几岁开始拥有虚拟身份才合适呢？

这是21世纪的家长们面临的新课题，在这个问题上我们无法向上一代取经。你不可能对年少的孩子说：“我小的时候，一直到高中我才有机会大发短信。”

一些家长迫切地给孩子们提供高科技产品。住在新泽西州蒙特克莱尔的Samantha Morra是两个孩子的母亲，“我6岁的孩子已经有一个ipod了，现在他想要一台手机，虽然我和我丈夫还不知道他究竟要给谁打电话。”

其他家长，如来自新泽西州弗雷明顿，拥有三个孩子的Chrisine Jorgensen对此持谨慎态度。Jorgensen太太说：“我可不喜欢让我的孩子生活在充斥中最新科技产品的环境中，他们可以为了功课需要上上网，但不能在我不在的时候使用，而且作为家长我们要实施严格的监护。”

到底怎样做才是对的？针对儿童成长的一系列研究为我们提供了一些折中的做法。早在第一代微软处理器被发明之前，瑞士心理学家Jean Piaget通过观察自己的孩子，明确了人类认知能力法站的4个阶段。他的理论给围绕怎样利用最新科技帮助孩子成长展开的讨论提供了逻辑基础。

0-2岁的宝宝和刚开始学走路的孩子在2岁半前是不能使用鼠标的，而且平面显示器也无法提供Piaget理论中第一阶段所需的认知刺激——“运动感觉”。孩子这么小的时候，技术产品必须像个一刻不停的小箱子，总是射出灯光发出声响，以此来回应孩子的动作。像“边笑边学二合一学习厨房这样的玩具（www.Fisher-Price.com71美元，它配有门和各式按钮，帮助宝宝探索。还有可以让宝宝爬过的门框，对这个年龄阶段的孩子相当有帮助。

但这些活动可比不上实际生活中的经验。坚持使用孩子捏在手里会发出叫声的材料是合理的。而是应该花钱买一个便携式摄像机记录下孩子学步的样子。

3-5岁阶段乔治镇大学儿童数码媒体中心主管，Sandra Calvert教授说：“现在的学龄前儿童是在数码世界中长大的，他们看着自己的父母使用手机电脑之类的产品。他们喜欢玩具手机，总是装作自己真的在打手机似的。”事实上这种模仿游戏在Piaget的“前运演”阶段起很重要作用，在这个阶段，孩子们开始意识到自己能够控制平面屏幕上出现的东西。

这么大的孩子可以用如V.Tech KidiZoom（www.vtechkids.com60美元）这类张像机拍真实的照片，还可以自己参与研究PBS儿童台最喜欢的互动节目(www.PBSKids.org) 或Nickelodeon’s Noggin(www.noggin.com)。每月花10美元，Noggin就为订购者提供无广告版本，以及适合儿童年龄层次的节目。

随着ClickStart之类的游戏越来越多，电视游戏变得具有互动性：“我的第一台电脑” (www.leapfrog.com, $60),或操作如“野兽大救援”($40, www.take2games.com, for Wii and PlayStation)之类的电子游戏。
便携式游戏设备帮助家长更轻松地让一刻都闲不下来的学龄前儿童乖乖地坐在车里，这类游戏包括“跳蛙”(www.Leapfrog.com, $60) 或 Nintendo DS ，以及运行软件“动物小博士”($30, www.animalgeniusds.com)。
这些游戏都有利于这个阶段儿童的成长。
6-11岁，还是可以学自行车的时候就有能力上网了，也可以开始探索整个数码世界。忽然之间，他们开始沉迷于自己喜欢的电子游戏，在YouTube上观看有趣的视频。但Piaget把这个阶段称为“具体运算阶段”，因为孩子们还不能完全掌握抽象概念。Calvert教授提醒家长，电子设备应该被用来“补充现实生活经验，而不是代替现实生活经验”他还鼓励家长在孩子成长各个阶段的活动中要“确保孩子全面发展”。
孩子到了这个年龄，家长有必要留意着电脑屏幕，引导孩子登陆有益的网站，譬如“企鹅俱乐部”(www.clubpenguin.com)，这个网站向孩子们介绍网络聊天和人们称为虚拟任务的网络替身的概念。它还教导孩子天下没有免费的午餐，只要支付会员费（6美元）就可以得到一个比别人漂亮的圆顶小屋。
像Wii和PlayStation这样的电子游戏系统花样就少了，大家都知道孩子们会把大量的童年时光用于躲在黑暗的地下里玩这些游戏的。幸运的是，已经设计出了一些能够弥补这些缺陷的游戏。Nintendo DS新上市的“青之救助队”可以帮助孩子练习阅读能力，而且Wii Fit最近也吸引了一些心理学家及教育专家的好奇心。“狂野非洲”(www.majescoentertainment.com)可以把孩子培养成一名野生动物摄影师，“轰炸方块”（$50, www.ea.com Wii游戏）和“乐高印第安纳琼斯”($50, www.lucasarts.com 适合多种游戏机)中设计了许多机会方便锻炼孩子合作解决问题的能力。
到了10岁，许多孩子开始用M.I.T.’s Scratch这类软件对视频进行编辑及编程，这个软件可免费下载，适用于Macintosh或Windows系统。Scratch把例行程序变成拼图的形式，让孩子们可以自由拖放摆置程序。
12岁及以上儿童。中高中学生除了早上爱赖床，他们还到了具备成年人认知能力的年龄，进入了Piaget称为“正式运算”的阶段，可以随意摆弄电话，Mp3播放器以及笔记本电脑中的信息流。让无线设备供应商开心的是，通过这些设备和朋友交流变得和呼吸一样重要。
对这个年龄的孩子来说，拥有手机可以说是自起码的了。手机除了能方便社交，还可以让家长在拥挤的商场中不再那么有压力，方便孩子们在功课上互相帮助，还可以打电话叫孩子吃饭。孩子犯错误的时候，没收手机就是有效的惩罚。
到了这阶段，家长要懂得读电话账单。居住在新泽西州Mahwah市的Lori McCoughey是两个孩子的母亲，自从她开始采用Verizon的朋友及家庭规划方案，没有省下了200美元话费。像Tracfone(www.tracfone.com)这样的网站还提供“量入为出”的付款方式。只要50美元，你就可以得到一个LG 225照相收集，预充100分钟通话时间。还有显示剩余时间。
孩子快要上大学的时候给他下一个数码礼物吧，一台笔记本。当他们还是高中生，给他们时间在独立之前设置自己的MP3播放器，让他们学会如何找到Wi-Fi无线上网区，如何写论文。他们还可以再Google网页制作器(www.pages.google.com)上创建文件夹，向大学招生办公室和未来的雇主展示自己的成就。
Piaget要是现在活着，他大概会建议家长不要过早给孩子一切，不管这个东西是否用电池，应该让孩子自己去探索。但给孩子适合其年龄阶段的玩具才是最有效果的。

原文：

原文标题： So Young, and So GadgetedEVERYONE knows that babies crawl before they walk, and that tricycles come before two-wheelers. But at what age should children get their first cellphone, laptop or virtual persona?

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[/url]Hadi Farahani

These are new questions being faced by 21st-century parents, and there is no wisdom from the generations for guidance. You can’t exactly say to your teenager, “When I was a boy, I didn’t have an unlimited texting plan until I was in high school.”
Some parents eagerly provide their children with technology. “My 4-year-old has been on the Web since he could sit up,” said Samantha Morra, a mother of two from Montclair, N.J. “My 6-year-old has an iPod and wants a cellphone, although my husband and I aren’t sure who he’d call.”
Others, like Christine Jorgensen, a mother of three from Flemington, N.J., are more cautious. “I’m not a huge fan of flooding my children’s lives with the latest gadget,” Ms. Jorgensen said. “My children go online for schoolwork, but our computer is in my sight, and protected to the teeth.”
What’s the right approach? Studies of child development offer some middle ground. Long before the invention of the first microprocessor, the Swiss psychologist Jean Piaget identified four stages of cognitive development by watching his own children. His theories bring some logic to the debate about how to support your child’s growth with the latest technology.
AGES 0-2 Babies and toddlers cannot use a mouse until at least age 2 ?, and flat monitors do not offer much in the way of stimulation in Piaget’s first stage, “sensorimotor.” To work at this age, technology products must act like a busy-box, with lights or sounds that respond to a child’s actions. Toys like the Laugh and Learn 2-in-1 Learning Kitchen ($71, www.Fisher-Price.com), which has doors and switches for a baby to explore and a crawl-through doorway, fit well with this stage.
But even these activities should take a back seat to real experiences. It makes sense to stick to materials that squish in a child’s hand. Invest instead in a camcorder to catch those first steps.
AGES 3-5 “Preschoolers today are growing up in a digital world, and they see their parents using devices like cellphones and computers,” said Prof. Sandra Calvert, director of the Children’s Digital Media Center at Georgetown University. “They like to play with pretend cellphones as if it were the real thing.” This pretend-play is actually an important part of the Piaget “preoperational” stage, when children first understand that they can control the events on a flat screen.
This is an age when they can take real pictures with cameras like the V.Tech KidiZoom ($60, www.vtechkids.com), and can explore interactive versions of their favorite shows on PBS Kids (www.PBSKids.org) or Nickelodeon’s Noggin (www.noggin.com). For $10 a month, the subscription version of Noggin removes the ads, and the activities adjust to a child’s level.
A TV can be made interactive with the growing number of TV toys like ClickStart: My First Computer (www.leapfrog.com, $60), or video game consoles running games like Go, Diego, Go! Safari Rescue ($40, www.take2games.com, for Wii and PlayStation).
Portable game systems that can make it easier to wedge a wriggling preschooler into a car seat include a Leapster (www.Leapfrog.com, $60) or Nintendo DS, running software like Scholastic’s Animal Genius ($30, www.animalgeniusds.com).
All of these are well suited to this stage of development.
AGES 6-11 At the age a child can ride a bicycle comes the ability to search the Web, and the whole digital world starts to open up. Suddenly they are hooked on favorite video games and watching funny videos on YouTube. But Piaget labeled this stage “concrete operations” because children still have trouble with abstract ideas. Professor Calvert reminds parents that electronic devices should be used to “supplement rather than replace real experiences,” and encourages them to “make sure there’s an overall sense of balance” in activities during this stage of life.
This is a time when parents need to keep an eye on the screen and steer children toward good sites, like Club Penguin (www.clubpenguin.com), which introduces the notion of chatting and the online stand-ins known as avatars. It also teaches them that there is no free lunch online, and that paying members ($6 a month) can have a fancier igloo.
While video game consoles like the Wii and PlayStation have fewer gimmicks, they have been known to eat up large chunks of a childhood if used unmonitored in dark basements. Fortunately the number of games with redeeming qualities is growing. The just-released Pokémon Mystery Dungeon for the Nintendo DS can exercise reading skills, and Wii Fit has recently captured the curiosity of phys ed teachers. Wild Earth: African Safari (www.majescoentertainment.com) can turn a child into a wildlife photographer, and Boom Blox ($50, www.ea.com for Wii) and Lego Indiana Jones ($50, www.lucasarts.com for multiple platforms) are thick with collaborative problem-solving opportunities.
By age 10, many children can start editing videos and programming with software like M.I.T.’s Scratch (www.scratch.mit.edu), a free download for Macintosh or Windows. Scratch lets children drag and drop routines that take the form of jigsaw puzzle pieces.
AGES 12 AND UP Besides being much harder to wake up, middle- and high-schoolers are reaching the cognitive functioning of an adult. They have entered Piaget’s “formal operational” stage, able to juggle synchronous streams of information from phones, MP3 players and laptops. Communicating with friends is on par with breathing, to the delight of your wireless provider.
In fact, cellphones are now more or less mandatory for children at this age. Besides providing a social advantage, phones can reduce parental stress in a crowded mall, get children in touch for homework help, serve as a call to dinner — and be withheld as punishment that really works.
Parenting skills for this age include reading phone bills. Lori McCoughey of Mahwah, N.J., a mother of two, saved $200 a month by switching to Verizon’s friends and family plan. There are also pay-as-you-go plans like those from Tracfone (www.tracfone.com). For $50, you get a working LG 225 camera phone, preloaded with 100 minutes. A meter counts down the remaining time.
Giving collegebound children their next digital prize, a laptop, while they are still in high school gives them time to set up their MP3 players, learn how to find Wi-Fi zones and write papers before they are on their own. They can also create portfolios on Google Page Creator (www.pages.google.com) to show off their accomplishments to college admissions offices or future employers.
If he were alive today, Piaget would probably advise parents that for a young child, everything — whether it has batteries or not — is a discovery waiting to happen. But toys work best when they are matched to a child’s level of development. ]]> http://1843138.qzone.qq.com/blog/1216912621#comment 513 Thu, 24 Jul 2008 15:17:01 GMT http://1843138.qzone.qq.com/blog/1216912621 <![CDATA[Wet Dreams: Domes, Rides and Waterfalls Open in New York]]> http://1843138.qzone.qq.com/blog/1216012880 artreview.com on 3 July 2008 at 2:30pm
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By Rachel K. Ward

In one of his lectures, the architect-inventor-utopian Buckminster Fuller explained that as children we are encouraged to be generalists, curious and open to anything. As we grow up, we receive the command that we must specialize in one area. Contemporary artists though are maybe the last remaining licensed generalists: while we used to expect artists to paint or sculpt, now they can simply be curious about the world and supervise some type of dreamlike exploration culminating in a grand performance or installation. Last week in New York, three such explorations were unveiled: pioneering work by Buckminster Fuller and Paul McCarthy at the Whitney, and Olafur Eliasson's much anticipated waterfalls in the East River.

As you walk through the Whitney's modest exhibition of Fuller's models, sketches and proposals, you cannot help but feel inspired by his idealism and rampant curiosity. Born in 1895, Fuller was a modern man in step with Jetsons-style space age expectations: he even envisioned a rocket-propelled car, the 'Dymaxion', on display on the ground floor. His interests and influences were renaissance-broad: one section of the exhibition addresses his impact on the artists at Black Mountain College, another his relationship with artist and landscape architect Isamu Noguchi; one could even make a case that Fuller inspired 'heroic' conceptual artists like Robert Smithson or Walter De Maria.

Still, he thought of himself as an ordinary man simply interested in planet earth (though, comically, he was twice expelled from Harvard for exhibiting a 'lack of interest'). The shape of earth itself inspired Fuller's greatest and most utopian work, the geodesic dome. Contrary to popular opinion though, Fuller was not the inventor of the dome but rather branded it 'geodesic' and helped to popularize it. At the Whitney, there are several small-scale incarnations of Fuller's domes, including the proposed living spaces inside them.

One of the most popular 'real world' geodesic domes, inspired in part by Fuller, is the Spaceship Earth sphere at Epcot Center in Orlando, which houses an amusement ride. Epcot Center is one of the best ways to understand Fuller – it's an outmoded fantasy of a future that never happened. Fuller is in many ways right for re-consideration now at the Whitney not because of his concrete achievements as an artist or architect but rather because his values – ingenuity, alternative energy, sustainability and protecting the planet – are currently en force. Fuller's geodesic domes can also be read as great site-unspecific art. Reading Fuller as an unknowing artist then makes his unrealized, and unrealistic, ideas perfectly acceptable. This is how Superstudio succeeded after all.

On another floor at the Whitney is Central Symmetrical Rotation Movement: Three Installations, Two Films, a small exhibition of rare, new and newly discovered works by Paul McCarthy derived from his early ideas in architectural, perception-bending installation and film. Masculine genius, like Fuller and his dome, is often concerned with gadgetry and making tools to modify conditions. While Fuller dreamed of improving life on earth, McCarthy here takes childhood play and perception to adult dimensions. In Spinning Room, conceived in 1971, cameras record viewers, and their distorted images are projected onto screens on all sides of the gallery. Two other works, Bang Bang Room (1992) and Mad House (conceived in 1999 and completed this year) are like carnival rides. Bang Bang Room is a chamber made of wooden doors that constantly open and slam shut. Mad House is a large spinning box that houses a chair that also spins, though not necessarily in the same direction or at the same speed. We could say, earnestly, that these works are elaborate and slightly sadistic perceptual experiments. More resonant though is their affinity with Jackass – gathering materials for some type of challenging feat, for nothing other than the adolescent adrenaline rush of feeling a spin.

Olafur Eliasson, The New York City Waterfalls, 2008, Pier 35 / Brooklyn Bridge. Photos: Jason Fosco

A more (supposedly) sublime adrenaline rush, just opened for the summer, is Olafur Eliasson's New York City Waterfalls, the biggest public art project in the city since Christo and Jeanne-Claude's The Gates in 2005. In four locations in the East River – the most prominent of which is under the Brooklyn Bridge – Eliasson has constructed c.100-foot high waterfalls out of scaffolding. The Danish-Icelandic artist, whose retrospective at MoMA just finished (see an interview with him here), chose to make his waterfalls from scaffolding because he wanted a quotidian feel, evoking the constant construction in New York City.

Governors Island / Brooklyn Piers

Viewing the falls is possible from various locations on land or by boat tour, which takes you to all four points. The pilgrimage process feels a bit like the Niagara Falls or Hoover Dam experience. While New York is known for its towering buildings, most of the movement in the city is horizontal, so it's a rare and refreshing experience to see Eliasson's vertical movement in this context. The wind though creates interference, disturbing the perfectly straight fall seen in the ubiquitous promotional shots. The scaffolding is highly visible and looks like the staging and temporary towers in sports events or concerts. And if we ignore the hopeful title 'Waterfalls', the fact that they're simple fountains, like the ones found in business parks or in corporate plazas, becomes clear. We arrive at the same problem as always with public art: it does not and cannot say anything too challenging, only affirming. The basic message we get from Eliasson is not far from Fuller's driving intent – man can make it. The towers are a paean to human construction and recall J.K. Huysmans' declaration in the nineteenth century: 'Nature has had her day… there is not one of her inventions, deemed so subtle and so wonderful, which the ingenuity of mankind cannot create' – including waterfalls.

Eliasson's waterfalls cost donors $15 million. This is the price of making your big dream into a reality. Fuller, McCarthy and Eliasson all work on making different kinds of dreams come true in the art world, and the real world. The question is however, how necessary and helpful are those dreams? Fuller advocated sustainability but made few lasting real contributions. While Eliasson's waterfalls will stimulate tourism, do we dare ask how the funds could have been used to address the construction issues he parodies? In some ways we must accept that artists must make very personal wet dreams, again and again. ]]> http://1843138.qzone.qq.com/blog/1216012880#comment 513 Mon, 14 Jul 2008 05:21:20 GMT http://1843138.qzone.qq.com/blog/1216012880 <![CDATA[Lustrous Visions, Cut From Stone]]> http://1843138.qzone.qq.com/blog/1215748500 Lustrous Visions, Cut From Stone

Left, Kunsthistorisches Musuem, Vienna; Right, Palazzo Pitti
Details from pietre dure works in "Arts of the Royal Court": from left, a depiction of Abraham and Isaac; a tabletop. More Photos >
By ROBERTA SMITH
Published: July 11, 2008
Despite signs to the contrary, conspicuous consumption is not what it used to be. Most exhibitions of decorative arts from the past, especially Europe’s monarchical age, drive that fact home in thrilling, and sometimes off-putting, fashion. But few shows do so with quite the dazzling vehemence of “Art of the Royal Court: Treasures in Pietre Dure From the Palaces of Europe,” a stealth blockbuster at the Metropolitan Museum of Art.
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A sumptuous sprawl of 170 objects borrowed from palaces and former palaces (that is, museums) all over Europe, it is the first in-depth survey of the arts and crafts of pietre dure. That Italian term, which translates as hard rock or hardstone, refers foremost to an intricate inlay of finely cut, highly polished slices of semiprecious stones: agate, lapis lazuli, jasper, carnelian, alabaster, rock crystal, amethyst.
Pietre dure could be flat. Fashioned into radiantly colored geometric patterns, floral designs, landscapes or mythological scenes, it was incorporated into tabletops, cabinets of all sizes, wall panels, portable altars, jewelry boxes and other furnishings. Such works could also be in the round: carved hardstone sculptural busts, statuettes, vases, snuff boxes, cameos, jewelry and miraculously thin-walled bowls.
Flat pietre dure was sometimes garnished with the sculptural kind: for example, garlands of perfect marzipanlike fruit. All these objects were, to say the least, nexuses of extraordinary allure, prestige and let-them-eat-cake presumption — just the thing for diplomatic overtures, royal dowries, peace offerings and plunder.
And yet pietre dure, which began its ascent in Renaissance Italy, had an almost self-effacing quality. Like Chinese scholars’ rocks or topiary, it is self-evidently a collaboration of human and natural ingenuity; it should appeal as much to rock hounds as to the art-fixated. Pietre dure was a quintessential art of the Renaissance, with its expansive attitude toward science and knowledge in general, and its optimistic view of human possibility. This art faced outward, exploring natural history while pushing manual craft to rarefied extremes.
The show traces pietre dure’s emergence in Italy in the late 16th century and then follows its spread, often with Italian master craftsmen lured northward, throughout Europe and Russia and into the early years of the 19th century. It was organized by a guest curator, Annamaria Giusti, director of the Galleria d’Arte Moderna in Florence, and, from the Met, Wolfram Koeppe, a curator in the department of European sculpture and decorative arts, and Ian Wardropper, the department’s chairman, aided by Florian Knothe, a research associate.
Ms. Giusti’s expertise comes from her years as director of the Opificio delle Pietre Dure, first established in Florence as the Galleria dei Lavori in 1588. It was set up by Grand Duke Ferdinand I de’ Medici in the Uffizi Palace primarily to produce pietre dure and other luxury objects that would broadcast the Medici glory. In the mid-19th century it changed its name, and its mission shifted from production to conservation.
The history of Lavori pietre dure is one of the subtexts of the exhibition, and you will find examples of it in nearly every gallery. Since great pietra dure in general and the Lavori variety in particular never lost value or went out of fashion among aristocrats or their cabinetmakers, the French and English recycled it into the designs of later periods. This is most evident in the final gallery, where there are four splendid neo-Classical pieces from the 18th century: three French commodes and an English cabinet designed by Robert Adam.
But stone had been treasured and constantly reused for millenniums, as suggested by the show’s small opening gallery devoted to “origins.” The displays reach back to ancient Egypt, in the form of a lion-size sphinx, and ancient Rome, in a tiny perfume bottle in swirling agate, and to 12th-century Italy, as a hefty jug in rock crystal from a Norman workshop attests. Closer to home is a small, house-shaped reliquary casket tiled and shingled in fiery shades of pietre dura. It comes from the workshop of the Florentine sculptor Andrea del Verrocchio, dating from around 1490.
The 16th-century Romans used stone tiles from the Baths of Caracalla for their monumental tables, whose scrolling, geometric designs sometimes evoke the ceilings of Baroque churches. A large vase and pedestal from Versailles, both in a brown-flecked stone with gilded bronze mounts, were cut from a single column of Egyptian porphyry that probably came from a building in ancient Rome. The Met owns a gobletlike cup that began life as a sardonyx bowl in medieval Byzantium (900-1100), but acquired a stem and gold-and-enamel trim in Paris in the 1650s.

With such borrowings and transformations, the show cuts a broad and flamboyant, if sometimes bewildering, swath through the history of art, objects and taste; the courses of empires; and the extremes of princely whims. It includes relatively simple objects, like a snuff box once in the collection of Frederick the Great. The box is carved from chrysoprase, a pure light-green stone, and wreathed in diamonds that sparkle outrageously because they are backed in pink gold foil. There is a Humvee-size cabinet commissioned from the Galleria Lavori by Cosimo III de’ Medici for his son-in-law in Düsseldorf, Johann Wilhelm II, the Elector Palatine. A symphony of pietre dure flowers, it centers on a statue of Wilhelm, wigged and wearing footless tights carved in amethyst.
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At the show’s heart is the constantly shifting use of stone, especially the flat pietre dure. Sometimes stone is exploited for its own fabulous color and texture, as in the bold geometric tabletops of papal Rome or a Venetian cabinet that is really more a rock-solid architectural model than it is furniture.
Sometimes delicacy prevailed, especially in pictorially inclined Florence. There, the stones’ textures, colors, shadings and inherent light were extensively micromanaged into descriptive schemes that often challenge painting. Examples include the fabulously accurate undergrowth of grape vines, butterflies and birds on a table with Eucharistic symbols, and a tiny austere landscape in which single pieces of lapis and agate form sky and hills. Inlaid details like a white church and green poplars sharpen the implicit spatial recession.
Sometimes the two approaches — stone as stone, and stone as paint — are pitted against each other. In a panel depicting Abraham and Isaac, description and spatial logic are disrupted by the wonderful textures of the stone, which turn the image into a kind of puzzle. The Castruccis, an Italian family that worked in the court of Rudolph II in Prague in the early 17th century, fine-tune this effect with striking contrasts of colors and textures that imbue small, Breughel-like scenes with an explosive energy bordering on animation.
The dialogue between pietra dure and painting intensifies, as trompe l’oeil comes into fashion. On several occasions in the exhibition, pietra dure “paintings” hang beside the actual paintings on which they were based. Their stay-fast colors and paint-by-numbers crispness tend to carry the day, especially in a view of the Pantheon from the 1790s. As an antidote to the general refinement, one parting shot is a game table from the early 19th century: its chessboard, made from ancient marble, is set in a slab of petrified wood whose textures resemble the splatterings of contemporary spin painting.
“Pietra Dure” has something for every taste, meaning that almost all of us will find something in it that seems disconcerting or ugly in its excess. But over all, this extraordinary show suggests why the quest for beauty may be hardwired into humans. Nature habituated us to beauty, and we feel driven to equal its high, inspiring standards. ]]> http://1843138.qzone.qq.com/blog/1215748500#comment 513 Fri, 11 Jul 2008 03:55:00 GMT http://1843138.qzone.qq.com/blog/1215748500 <![CDATA[译文: 微软伊坎联手收购雅虎]]> http://1843138.qzone.qq.com/blog/1215748215 原文: Microsoft Is Icahn’s Ally in Pursuit of Yahoo

In yet another twist in its five-month-old pursuit of Yahoo, Microsoft said Monday that it would be interested in negotiating a purchase of Yahoo’s search business or of the entire company, as long as Yahoo replaces its board.

Mr. Icahn is mounting a proxy fight against Yahoo’s board, one built on the gamble that he can bring Microsoft back to the negotiating table.

But without a commitment from Microsoft to complete a deal, let alone any discussion of price, it is unclear whether Microsoft’s announcement will be sufficient to persuade Yahoo shareholders to back Mr. Icahn at the company’s annual meeting on Aug. 1.

Microsoft’s renewed interest in possibly buying all of Yahoo represents another acknowledgment that it badly needs Yahoo to compete with Google in Web advertising. But analysts said that for Microsoft, which this year had considered waging a proxy fight for control of Yahoo, backing Mr. Icahn also represents a shrewd strategy with little downside risk.

“It is beautiful,” said Youssef Squali, an analyst with Jefferies & Company. “Icahn is doing the dirty work, and they don’t need to commit to anything until they feel that the board is ready to deal. They are letting the prey come to them instead of chasing it.”

The new informal alliance between Mr. Icahn and Microsoft came together after a series of conversations between Mr. Icahn and Steven A. Ballmer, the Microsoft chief executive, during the last week, Mr. Icahn said in a letter to Yahoo shareholders.

“Steve made it abundantly clear that, due to his experiences with Yahoo during the past several months, he cannot negotiate any transaction with the current board,” Mr. Icahn wrote.

He later added: “However, Steve made it clear to me that if a new board were elected, he would be interested in discussing a major transaction with Yahoo,” like the purchase of the search unit or the whole company.

In an apparently coordinated statement, Microsoft confirmed its interest in negotiating with a new board, but said it was not ready to disclose publicly the specific terms of any transaction. In an interview, Mr. Icahn said he understood Microsoft’s interest in replacing the board.

“If you’re going to put up $45 billion, you certainly can’t be blamed for wanting to have faith in the stewardship of the company, especially if you have to wait a year to buy it,” he said, referring to the time it would take to get regulatory approval for the deal. “I believe Ballmer wants to buy it one way or the other.”

For its part, Yahoo sought to cast doubt on Microsoft’s commitment to acquire the company and suggested it would be risky for shareholders to endorse Mr. Icahn’s slate of directors without such a commitment.

“If Microsoft and Mr. Ballmer really want to purchase Yahoo, we again invite them to make a proposal immediately,” Yahoo said in a statement. “And if Mr. Icahn has an actual plan for Yahoo beyond hoping that Microsoft might actually consummate a deal which they have repeatedly walked away from, we would be very interested in hearing it.”

Microsoft withdrew its offer to buy Yahoo outright on May 3 after Yahoo executives said they would be willing to sell the company for $37 a share. Microsoft had offered $33 a share, or about $47.5 billion.
Two weeks later, Microsoft said it was interested in buying Yahoo’s search business, but the company has said time and again that it was no longer interested in buying all of Yahoo, not even for $33 a share.

Yahoo has said that selling its search business alone would not be in the best interest of shareholders. On June 12, it said talks with Microsoft had ended, and it signed an alternative search advertising partnership with its No. 1 rival, Google. Yahoo could withdraw from the partnership if it pays a breakup fee.

It is too early to handicap the outcome of Mr. Icahn’s proxy fight, as most major Yahoo shareholders have yet to say whether they will support him. Several large shareholders have said recently that they favored a deal with Microsoft, and they have voiced their anger at Yahoo’s management for its inability to consummate a merger.

Yet many have been unwilling publicly to endorse Mr. Icahn, who, they fear, lacks a specific plan, other than hoping to sell the company to Microsoft.

Some analysts said Microsoft’s statement Monday did little to change that calculus. But some Yahoo shareholders said they thought Mr. Icahn would be more effective in leading Yahoo than the current management, whether or not he succeeds in selling the company or its search business to Microsoft.

“If Microsoft comes back with a deal that is completely unattractive, we’d be back to where we are today,” said Mark Nelson, a partner at Mithras Capital, a private fund that owns about 1.7 million shares of Yahoo. “But the difference is that Icahn would be more aggressive in dealing with where Yahoo goes next.”

About 10 percent of the company’s shares were owned by Yahoo directors and executive officers as of May 7, according to a regulatory filing. Most of those were held by its co-founders, David Filo, with a 5.79 percent stake, and Jerry Yang, the chief executive, with a 3.9 percent stake.

Mr. Icahn owned about 59 million shares, or more than 4 percent, according to a June 6 filing. Mr. Icahn paid about $25 a share, on average. After Microsoft’s announcement Monday, shares of Yahoo rose $2.56, or nearly 12 percent, to $23.91.

Yahoo’s largest shareholder is Capital Research and Management Company, the giant investment firm, which owns about 16 percent of the shares. Its ownership of Yahoo is divided between two units, Capital World Investors, with a 9.8 percent stake, and Capital Research Global Investors, with 6.2 percent.

Gordon Crawford, a portfolio manager with Capital Research Global, has been openly critical of Yahoo’s management but his company has not publicly endorsed Mr. Icahn. Managers at Capital World have not spoken publicly about the proxy fight, but privately they have been far more supportive of Yahoo’s management and board, according to two people familiar with their views who spoke on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to discuss them.

A spokesman for Capital Research and Management declined to comment Monday.

Keith Gottfried, a partner in the shareholder activism practice of the law firm Blank Rome, said the downturn in the stock market could influence many fund managers to vote their shares for Mr. Icahn in the hope that he could complete a deal with Microsoft.

“I wouldn’t underestimate the effect that the bear market has,” Mr. Gottfried said. “Any opportunity that fund managers have to lessen the losses that they are likely to show in other parts of their portfolio might make them more willing to support a transaction.”

Miu译文：

收购雅虎的征程历时五个月，可谓一波三折，如今情况再次发生变化。微软周一表示只要雅虎现任董事会下台，便愿意就收购雅虎搜索引擎乃至整个公司一事与其进行洽谈。
伊坎先生正以委托人的身份同雅虎董事会展开一场委托竞争的较量，打赌自己能让微软公司重会谈判桌。
但微软公司至今还没有承诺一定会完成交易，更谈不上上订价格了，所以尚不清楚微软的这项声明是否能够打动雅虎的股东们，让他们在8月1日的公司年会上支持伊坎。
微软对收购整个雅虎重新燃起了兴趣，这再一次昭示了公司迫切需要雅虎来帮助他们对抗Google网页广告。但分析家指出，微软今年已经考虑过为雅虎的控制权展开一场委托竞争，成为伊坎背后靠山的精明战略很有可能招致些负面效果。
Jefferies公司分析师Youssef Squali说：“这招挺漂亮的，让伊坎唱红脸，而微软坐享其成，等着董事会准备接受协议。他们等着鱼儿上钩，而不需要亲手去抓。”
伊坎在一封致雅虎股东的信中表示自己上周已同微软公司执行总裁Steven A. Ballmer展开一系列对话，并且两人之间已经形成了非正式的联盟。
伊坎这样写道：“Steve明确表示，基于过去数周同雅虎打交道的经验，他认为不可能同现任董事会达成任何协议。”
他又指出：“然而，Steve也明确告诉我，一旦选定新任董事会，他愿意同雅虎做一笔大买卖。”比如收购雅虎搜索业务或收购整个公司。
微软的说法伊坎如出一辙，确认愿意同新任董事会协商的说法，但不愿透露协议的任何具体条款。在一次访谈中，伊坎表示自己能够理解微软期待雅虎董事会换血。
他说：“要是有人要在一笔买卖上花450亿美元之多，你可不能怪他有要求，他总得对对方公司的托管制度有信心才行，尤其是在他必须等上一年的情况下。”这一年是指买卖通过监管机构审核所要花去的时间。“我相信无论通过哪种途径Ballmer总是对这笔买卖有兴趣的。”
而雅虎方面对微软要收购整个公司的承诺表示怀疑，暗示股东们在没有明确承诺的情况下支持伊看的领导班子有些铤而走险。
雅虎在声明中表示：“如果微软公司和Ballmer先生想要收购雅虎，我们还是欢迎他们即刻做出提议，而微软公司先前一再退出谈判。如果伊坎先生能够给出收购雅虎的具体方案，而不是一味期盼着微软能够圆满交易，我们还是非常乐意做下来谈谈的。”
5月3日雅虎总裁表示他们愿意以37美元每股的价格出售公司，微软却断然撤销了报价。微软公司原打算以33美元每股或总价475亿美元的价格收购雅虎。
两周后，微软表示有意购买雅虎搜索业务，但一再表示已经不想再收购整个雅虎公司了，就算雅虎同意以33美元每股的价格出售，也不愿意收购。
雅虎方面则表示，仅出售搜索业务已完全能满足股东的利益。6月12日，雅虎称与微软的谈判已经终止，同时把搜索引擎广告合作权转手给了头号对手google。雅虎可以通过支付违约费撤销这项合作制度。
现在花力气阻击伊坎委托竞争成果还为时过早，毕竟大多数雅虎股东还没有表示会支持他。数位大股东表示近来他们比较倾向同微软达成协议，同时他们还显示出了对雅管理层未能完成合并的不满之意。
但还是有许多人不愿支持伊坎先生，因为他们担心伊坎除了想要把公司卖给微软外一点周密的计划都没有。
一些分析人士认为微软周一的声明并不能多大程度上改变这种看法。但部分雅虎股东表示他们认为伊坎先生能比现有的管理层更加有效地领导雅虎，无论他最终是否能够把公司或搜索业务出售给微软。
Mark Nelson是私募基金MithrasCapital的合伙人，他们在雅虎拥有1700万股股份，Mark表示：“如果微软提出的还是那套不具吸引力的方案，我们情愿保持现状。但不同之处在于伊坎对于雅虎的前景会更具开创力。”

管理机构发布的文件表明，截至五月7日，大约10%的公司股份掌握在现有雅虎领导及执行官员的手中。大多股份归创始人所有，Daivid Filo持5.79%公司股份，执行总裁Jerry Yang持3.9%。
根据6月6日的文件，伊坎先生持有590万股股份，大约4%。他每股购买平均花去25美元。微软周一发布声明之后，雅虎股份涨了2.56美元，将近12%，达到每股23.91美元。
投资行业巨头Capital Research and Management Company是雅虎的最大股东，持有公司16%的股份。这些股份分成两份，Capital World Investors持9.8%，Capital Research Global Investors持6.2%。
Capital Research Global投资组合经理Gordon Crawford公开批评雅虎的管理，但他的公司也没有公开支持伊坎先生。Capital World经理还没有对委托竞争公开发表过评论，但根据两位有关人士的说法，私底下他们更多地倾向于雅虎管理层及董事会。这两位知情者不愿透露姓名，因为他们无权参与讨论。
Capital Research and Management发言人周一拒绝表态。
Keith Gottfried是Blank Rome法律事务所的合伙人，参与股东激进主义实践，他表示股价下滑可能影响许多基金经理人把自己的份额投给伊坎先生，期待他能同微软达成协议。
Gootfried说：“我可不会低估熊市的影响力，基金经理人会抓住一切机会减少有可能在其它投资项目中出现的损失，于是他们就更希望买卖能做成。” ]]> http://1843138.qzone.qq.com/blog/1215748215#comment 512 Fri, 11 Jul 2008 03:50:15 GMT http://1843138.qzone.qq.com/blog/1215748215 <![CDATA[欧洲央行加息防通货]]> http://1843138.qzone.qq.com/blog/1215508914 Eyes on Inflation, European Bank Raises Rate

FRANKFURT — The European Central Bank, spooked by soaring prices for food and fuel, raised interest rates on Thursday, joining several other central banks in battling a global eruption of inflation.

With the quarter-point increase, the central bank followed those in Sweden and Norway that raised rates this week, citing inflation. The Federal Reserve in the United States, where short-term interest rates are only half of those in Europe, has so far declined to join them.
The European Central Bank’s decision deepens a recent divergence in monetary policy on either side of the Atlantic, ending a long period when it tended to follow the course set by the Fed.
But the sharp rise in inflation has put Europe’s bank into a policy bind because it has been accompanied, in recent days, by evidence that the economy here is deteriorating much like that of the United States.
Manufacturing activity in the 15 countries that use the euro shrank in June for the first time in three years, according to a survey of European purchasing managers. In Spain and Ireland, where a collapse in housing prices has magnified the problems, there is a real risk of recession.
Still, the European Central Bank, hewing to its inflation-fighting mandate, pressed on with the expected increase, lifting the benchmark rate to 4.25 percent from 4 percent. Among other thing, it is intended as a warning to unions not to use higher inflation as a lever to demand hefty pay raises.
It was not clear, before an afternoon news conference chaired by the bank’s president, Jean-Claude Trichet, whether the increase would be a one-off gesture or the start of a cycle of tighter monetary policy.
Several economists said they doubted the bank could tighten much further, given the parlous economic situation.
“The E.C.B. is hiking at a time when confidence is plummeting,” said Thomas Mayer, the chief European economist of Deutsche Bank. “The question is, ‘what do you do when asset prices fall at the same time that consumer prices rise?’ The central bankers seem to have reached the end of the line.”
Indeed, the bank has come under intense political pressure in recent days not to tighten credit at such a fragile moment for Europe’s economy.
The French president, Nicolas Sarkozy, said higher rates would do little to stem the rising price of oil. Germany’s finance minister, Peer Steinbrück, warned that an increase could further depress growth.
The central bank, under Mr. Trichet, has steadfastly rebuffed efforts to influence its policy. But even within its 21-member governing council, the unhealthy combination of inflation and stagnation has opened a split — with inflation hawks calling for a rate increase, while the doves resisted it.
The hawks are led by Axel A. Weber, the president of Germany’s Bundesbank, which bequeathed its long tradition of inflation fighting to the European Central Bank. Germany is also an exception among major European countries, in that its economy is still expanding, even if more modestly lately.
“It’s clear that Weber convinced Trichet and the majority of the council to go for it,” Mr. Mayer said. “But the weakening growth numbers will lead the others to resist further rate increases.”
The position of the hawks was reinforced on Monday with new statistics that showed inflation in Europe rose to an annual rate of 4 percent in June, twice the ceiling set by the European Central Bank.
With oil prices continuing to surge — it traded at a new record of$145 a barrel in Asia on Thursday — some economists expect inflation to spike even higher in August, perhaps to 4.25 percent.
“There is a genuine question about what to do about inflation that is entirely driven by oil prices,” said Holger Schmieding, chief European economist at Bank of America in London. “One option is to let it filter through the system; the other option is to attack it now.”
In raising rates, even at a time of such uncertainty, the European Central Bank has opted for the latter.

Miu的译文：

译文: 欧洲央行加息防通货
法兰克福—欧洲中央银行近期受粮食价格及油价飞速上涨的困扰，星期四宣布加息，由此加入众央行行列共同抵御通货膨胀威胁。美国联邦储备短期利率一直都保持在欧洲一半的水平，现在也不得不上调到同样的位置。
欧洲央行的这一举措进一步加深了大西洋两岸货币政策的差异，而不再紧跟联邦储备的步伐。
但近期通货指数飞速上升，使欧洲银行陷入政策困扰，因为近几年来，越来越多的迹象表明，欧洲银行界正在与美国遭受同样的经济衰退。
根据一份欧洲采购经理调查报告，今年6月份，15个欧元国家的制造业首次出现缩水。西班牙，爱尔兰出现房价下跌，使问题进一步严重化，出现经济萧条的可能性相当大。
然而，欧洲中央银行还是一如既往地坚守抵制通货膨胀的立场，尽管通货指数上升如期而至，从4%跃升到4.25%。最重要的是，这等于在警告各工会不要利用通货膨胀为杠杆企图大幅提高薪酬。
在今天下午银行总裁Jean-Claude Trichet出席新闻发布会以前，这种上涨是短暂的还是循环紧缩货币政策的开始还尚不清楚。
多为经济学家表示，就现在危机的经济环境而言，对银行进一步紧缩的说法表示怀疑。
德国银行的首席欧洲经济学家Thomas Mayer说：“信心大幅下降，欧洲央行加息。问题在于当资产价值下跌同物价上涨撞在一起时，你应该怎么办。欧洲央行的银行家似乎已无经别无选择。”
确实如此，银行方面这些年来一直顶着巨大的压力，坚持不在欧洲经济如此脆弱的时候紧缩信贷。
法国总统Nicolas Sarkozy认为高利息对抵制油价上涨并不能起到多大作用。德国经济部长Peer Steinbrück警告说加息反而有可能降低经济增长。
央行在Trichet先生的带领下坚决抵制一切可能影响其政策的努力。但由于通货膨胀与经济之后同时出现带来的不良后果，有21人组成的央行理事会开始出现分歧—强硬派主张通过加息抵制通货膨胀，而主和派在反对。
强硬派以德国Bundesban银行总裁 Axel A. Weber为首。欧洲央行继承了Bundesban银行对抗通货膨胀的悠久传统。而德国在整个欧洲范围内也总是例外，经济还保持增长，即便这种增长最近更加缓慢了些。
Mayer先生表示：“Weber显然是说服了Trichet以及大部分理事会成员同意加息，但持续走软的增长数据会让其他成员抵制进一步加息。”
由于星期一出的新数据表明6月欧洲通货膨行率上升到了年平均率4%，比欧洲央行设定的最高限度多出了两倍，强硬派更坚定了加息的信念。
油价持续上涨—星期四亚洲没同创下了145美元的新记录—一些经济学家认为通货膨胀率8月还将再度攀升，可能达到4.25%。
伦敦美国银行首席欧洲经济学家Holger Schmieding表示：“通货膨胀率完全受制于油价时，真的要好好想想对策，要么任其发展，要么坚决打击。”
尽管不确定因素很多，但欧洲央行加息的举动表明了选择后者的立场。 ]]> http://1843138.qzone.qq.com/blog/1215508914#comment 512 Tue, 08 Jul 2008 09:21:54 GMT http://1843138.qzone.qq.com/blog/1215508914 <![CDATA[美国国内税收服务承包商规定]]> http://1843138.qzone.qq.com/blog/1214238957 原文：Note on IRS and Contractor Ruling

A few people took note when the U.S. Internal Revenue Service ruled earlier this month that a former contractor whom we had worked with as part of our Second Life “greeters” program should be classified as an employee rather than an independent contractor. We were puzzled by the ruling, and promptly began a dual path of preparing the necessary paperwork based on the ruling and also seeking the advice of our counsel on the matter. Our counsel decided that given all the facts, we were correct in our original classification of these contractors.
We have always tried to treat our contractors well, doing our best to pay reasonable market rates, take care of the appropriate 1099 filings, and remain a friendly and professional company to work with. We shall see where this particular issue leads, but since this had become a public matter we thought that we would share our assessment of the situation:
It is the Company’s position that all “greeters” are independent contractors and are not employees of the Company. Greeters are free to (1) accept or reject assignments; (2) utilize substitutes; and (3) work for other companies, including competitors of the Company. Greeters use their own equipment and receive a Form 1099 from the Company.

Miu译文：
很少人注意到月初出台新规定，先前在我们生活中一直以数字人生引领着形象出现的美国国内税务承包商如今应被划入企业雇员的范畴，而不再是一位独立的承包商了。对这项规定，我们感到非常困惑，与此同时立即安排两手准备——准备规定所要求的必要的文件及向这方面的律师寻求帮助。我们的律师表示，就目前的现实状况来看，我们对承包商的分类还是正确的。
我们一向公平对待承包商，尽我们所能地支付合理的市场利率，管理着相应的1099档案，我们公司一向保持友好的态度，具备专业的素质。我们应该注意这项特殊事件会有怎样的发展，但由于事件具有社会影响力，我想我们应该分享一下对当下情况的评估：
公司的立场是，所有的引领者都应当是独立的承包商，而非公司雇员。引领着可自由（1）接受或拒绝指派的任务；（2）借助替代品（3）为其他公司提供服务，包括本公司的竞争者。引领者使用自己的装备，接受公司的1099保税表格。

A few people took note when the U.S. Internal Revenue Service ruled earlier this month that a former contractor whom we had worked with as part of our Second Life “greeters” program should be classified as an employee rather than an independent contractor. We were puzzled by the ruling, and promptly began a dual path of preparing the necessary paperwork based on the ruling and also seeking the advice of our counsel on the matter. Our counsel decided that given all the facts, we were correct in our original classification of these contractors.
We have always tried to treat our contractors well, doing our best to pay reasonable market rates, take care of the appropriate 1099 filings, and remain a friendly and professional company to work with. We shall see where this particular issue leads, but since this had become a public matter we thought that we would share our assessment of the situation:
It is the Company’s position that all “greeters” are independent contractors and are not employees of the Company. Greeters are free to (1) accept or reject assignments; (2) utilize substitutes; and (3) work for other companies, including competitors of the Company. Greeters use their own equipment and receive a Form 1099 from the Company.
]]> http://1843138.qzone.qq.com/blog/1214238957#comment 512 Mon, 23 Jun 2008 16:35:57 GMT http://1843138.qzone.qq.com/blog/1214238957 <![CDATA[专利文件范本]]> http://1843138.qzone.qq.com/blog/1214228984 本发明公开了一种结构简单、工作稳定适应性强的自动翻转输送装置，包括：机架，机架上设置有两个呈阶梯形布置的上、下输送装置，每个输送装置主要由相互配合的主、从动轮和设置在主、从动轮上的输送带构成。本发明主要用于条烟分拣机与包装机之间的输送并翻转条烟。

The invention discloses an auto reverse transmission device with a simple structure, working stability and strong working adaptability. The device comprises a frame which is provided with an upper conveying device and a lower conveying device which are arranged in ladder shape. Each transmission device mainly comprises a driving wheel and a driven wheel which are mutually matched with each other and conveyor belts which are arranged on the driving wheel and the driven wheel. The invention is mainly used for the transportation between a tobacco sorting machine and a packaging machine and reversing the tobacco

本发明公开了一种自动配货系统的分发装置，包括支架、通过链轮设置在支架上的一对回转输送链及设置在回转输送链之间的若干货斗，所述的货斗底部设置开合底板，开合底板上设置有开合机构，开合底板的下方设置有活动托板，活动托板的四角分别铰接在两对循环链上，两对循环链的大小形状分别相互对应配合，活动托板的一侧与开合底板的开合机构相对应，其优点是：能够地将配货完成后的货品从输送机的多个指定位置上以最小的落差卸下并送出，取货和送货安全、迅速、可靠，可降低操作人员的劳动强度。

The invention discloses a distribution device of an automatic allocating cargo system which comprises a frame, a pair of rotary conveying chains which are arranged on the frame through chain wheels and a plurality of wagons which are arranged between rotary conveying chains. The bottoms of the wagons are provided with switching motherboards which are provided with switching mechanisms, movable splints are arranged below the switching motherboards and four corners of the movable splints are respectively articulated on two pairs of endless chains, the size and the shape of which are respectively, mutually and correspondingly matched with each other. One side of the movable splints is corresponding to the switching mechanism of the switching motherboard. The invention has the advantages that the goods which are allocated can be unloaded from a plurality of designation places of a conveyor at the lowest drop fall and sent out, taking goods and delivering goods are safety, rapid, reliable and the labor intensity of the operators can be reduced.

一种自动浸渍流水线设备，主要由液体池、恒温箱、固化箱、加热箱、空气加热箱、高压热风机、冷风机、立柱、电动机、变速机、链轮、导向轮、托轮、双链条、链条挂轴、专用挂篮、振动泵、固定杆、挡风板等构成，通电后，电动机驱动变速机使链条通过导向轮的定位导向，使待浸渍防潮液的物品的浸液、除余液、固化等工序自动连续完成，挡风板控制着热量的循环利用，具备优质高效、环保节能，是物品防潮浸渍的理想自动化流水线设备。

An automatic dipping production line machine equipment mainly comprises a liquid pool, a thermostated container, a curing oven, a heating cabinet, an air heating cabinet, a high pressure air heater., an air cooler, a column, a motor, a gearbox, a sprocket, a guiding wheel a supporting wheel, dual chains, a chain hanging scroll, a dedicated cradle, a vibratory pump, a dead lever, a wind plate and so on. After being electrified, the motor drives the gearbox to cause that the chains facilitate the working procedure such as dipping, removing residue, curing of the goods to be dipped and damp proof to be finished automatically and continuously through the position and guiding of the guiding wheel. The wind plate controls the recycling of the heat. The invention is an ideal automatic dipping production line machine used for protecting the goods from dipping and being damp

本发明公开了一种筛分堆料机，它包括送料的尾车皮带机；移动式单悬臂堆料机；振动机；其中所述的送料的尾车皮带机的落料一端与移动式单悬臂堆料机铰连接；和在送料的尾车皮带机的落料部位安装一个振动机；该振动机上设有两个方向的下级溜筒和上级溜筒分别对应于地面皮带和移动式单悬臂堆料机上。可以实现大流量的煤炭筛分和堆料同时进行，具有筛分效率高，符合环保要求，是目前较为理想的筛分堆料专用设备。

The invention discloses a screening stacker which comprises a rear car belt which is used for feeding, a traveling single cantilever machine, a vibration machine, wherein, the blanking end of the feeding rear car belt is connected with the traveling single cantilever machine, another vibration machine which is arranged on the blanking position of the feeding rear car belt and is provided with a superior chute and a subordinate chute which are respectively corresponding to a ground belt and the traveling single cantilever machine, which causes the screening and stacking of a flow of coal is realized at the same time. The invention has high screening efficiency, meets the requirements of the environment protection and is ideal screening and stacking special equipment at the moment. ]]> http://1843138.qzone.qq.com/blog/1214228984#comment 512 Mon, 23 Jun 2008 13:49:44 GMT http://1843138.qzone.qq.com/blog/1214228984 <![CDATA[Trados&MultiTerm (4)]]> http://1843138.qzone.qq.com/blog/1214228870 TRADOS新手必读(4)
相信各位已经重新安装了231版的IX平台，我们因此可以彻底地解决这个导入问题，这样各位可以把自己的词汇集直接做成Multiter IX术语库。老用户也不用再上5版那里绕弯，新手以后更用不着考虑什么老5版问题。
　　上次说到你的Excel文件名最好是英语的，如果你没有采用英语名，那么现在至少要把XDT文件和XML文件名改为英语（否则无法导入！）。我们假定现在所用文件组的共同名称为“英汉机械术语”，那么请将XDT和XML的名称均改为EC-jx（XDT后缀不变），为什么改名等讲完后再解释。
　　友情提示：为了防止失败之后的烦躁情绪，建议先用含量为100条的小术语库做试验，词条过少缺乏实证性，词条过多会浪费时间。还是那句话，成功后随便多少条都由你。
　　下面就给出分步操作程序，仍然是没有图解。仔细看就成，也还是老办法，对照本文逐步操作，至少Multiterm不会因为你动作慢就发脾气。请各位注意：以下所有操作步骤均假定你的IX平台安装在C:\Program Files\Trados\Corprate Languange\MultiTerm\，这是6.0版的系统默认目录位置，大多数用户应该就是这个目录。
1．首先把这两个文件剪切到Multiterm所在子目录下的Temp子目录，因为术语库建立之后这两个文件就没用了。可以删除。
2．启动Multiterm IX模块。
3．进入界面后打开“Termbase（术语库）”菜单项并选择“Create（建立）”命令。
4．模块的路径窗口打开，让你选择术语库存放的位置，记住一定要选择Multiterm子目录下的Termbase子目录，这也是系统默认的位置，如果你的路径窗口显示的是其它位置，也一定要改回到这里。Trados记性好，以后永远就是这个位置了。点击“确定”。
5．出现了“Termbase Wizard”模块窗口，上面给出了创建数据库的具体步骤。可直接点击“Next”。
6．出现了数据库定义窗口，同时在左上方表明共有5步，现在是5/1步。由于你是用转换模块建立的XML文件，因此在这里你要选择第二行，即“载入现有数据库定义文件”。也就是选中第二行的选项按钮，然后点击该行最右边的路径按钮（正方形）以便载入定义文件。
7．路径窗口再次打开，让你选择XDT文件存放的位置，记住一定要选择Multiterm子目录下的Temp子目录，因为是你自己刚才把文件放在这里的。Trados一样会记住这个位置。
8．在Temp目录下当然能够看到你的EC-jx.xdt文件，选中并打开，双击也可以。路径窗口消失，回到刚才的定义窗口。
9．此时你会看到路径栏里已经填入你缩给出的具体地址，点击“Next”。
10．进入“数据库名称”窗口（2/5步），这里有两项供你填写，在第一行里你可以写入名称，在这里完全可以使用中文，使用上更方便一些。第二行里可以写入一些详细的评论，内容随便，空着不写Trados也没有意见。点击“Next”。
11．立刻进入“索引字段”窗口（3/5步）。注意，在此处什么也不用做，XDT文件已经替你填入合理选项了，不需要再研究什么。点击“Next”。
12．进入“描述字段”窗口（4/5步），仍然没活干，点击“Next”。
13．进入“输入结构”窗口（5/5步），无需动手，接着点击“Next”。
14．进入结束窗口，点击“Finish”。
15．程序带你回到了Multiterm的启动界面，也就是主界面。在这里可以看到你所建立的数据库已经赫然出现在左下方的工程窗口中，就是那个蓝色的小圆柱，蓝色代表默认数据库，它的优先级别最高。至此，你已经有了一个空数据库，该向里面输入词条了。
16．仍然打开“Termbase（术语库）”菜单项并选择“Import Entry（导入词条）”，这回要动真的了！
17．程序打开“Termbase Catalog（数据库选项卡）”窗口，里面有6张卡片供你填写。我知道有有些网友在这些卡片上吃过苦头，实际上对于新手来说，只有第一张和最后一张值得注意，其它都不用理它。
18．注意第一张卡片“General（概述）”，这里面给出了你的源语言选项和目标语言选项，以及本数据库的词条数量，词库大小和建立日期。由于我们假定是英汉术语，因此与系统给出的默认值相同，所以在这个窗口里什么也不用做。但你要注意，如果你建立的是一个汉英术语库，那么在这里一定要手动改为源语言是中文，目标语言是英文。否则机器进入后英语在前面，汉语在后面，虽然说Multiterm IX是个自动的双向库，但是每次都要先改动一下翻译方向才能开始干活，那还不如事先在这里一次完成。（209版注解1见后）
19．然后直接点击最右边的“Import（导入）”卡片，进去后直接点击“Process（处理）”按钮，别的选项都不用理它。
20．进入“General Settings（总体设置）”窗口，在第一行最右边点击路径按钮，这回Multietrm直接进入Temp子目录，你的XML文件正在哪里等着呢，双击打开，第二行（Log File）为自动填入，这又是Trados的记帐本了。注意在选项按钮“Fast Import（快速导入）”要划勾，意思是我的术语表没有毛病，你也不用挑刺，赶紧导入就行了。至于“Apply Filter（应用过滤）”那个选项不要动它，你崭新的词库何需过滤呢。点击“Next”。（209版注解2见后）
21．进入“Import Definition Summary（导入定义摘要）”，Trados再次总结一下，有后悔的还可以回去，如果确认呢，试试看：
22．看到什么了？词条正在导入！！
23．成功导入后界面会通知你有多少词条进入术语库，两次回车后返回主界面。
24．这次你将会在主界面上看到真正的术语库显示出来，随便试试查询，改向，模糊搜索，没有不成功的。而且更让你高兴的是，绝对没有一个乱码！！
25．可以退出了，你的第一个术语库已经建立成功。
26．删除Temp子目录下的XDT，XML和LOG文件，这些文件都不再有用了。你真正需要保存的是Excel文件，那是原始文件，如果什么时候术语库真的需要增删改，再次转换和导入就是了，没有必要留着XML，尺寸太大。与网友交换术语库的时候，更没有必要采用XML文件，纯文本或Excel就足够了。
　　209版注解1：该版在此处反应不正常，虽然你导入的是英汉术语，这里却自动给出源语言是中文，目标语言是英文。而且，如果再仔细一些，可以看出本来是正确的默认值，但在进入卡片界面的瞬间，跳动改变了设定值。说明有人在这里将原有代码强行旁路了。
　　209版注解2：该版在此处反应不正常，选项按钮“Fast Import（快速导入）”被人为摘除，强迫你进入下一个排除（Exclusion）界面，必须存储排除记录文件。接下来各步骤完成后，模块开始逐个导入词条（功能仍在），但是每个词条都不能正确导入，从而造成最终失败，查看记录文件就全明白了。为什么要在这里做手脚，是不是此处代码与第一张卡片有某种关联，请各位编程高手考虑。
　　现在我们也模仿Trados，来个小小的总结，从而结束这个“新手必读”系列。
1．阅读手册十分重要，许多在手册中早已阐述清楚的问题，直到现在还被有些网友当作秘密而重新“发现”，或者当作话题在热烈讨论。不但浪费自己的时间和精力，而且对诸多新手造成误导。
2．术语库平台导入问题就是个典型的例子，本来手册中的相关论述都可以得到一一验证，之所以出现争论仅仅是因为流传着一个问题版本，然而在很多情况下我们的讨论不是排除问题，而是制造了更多的问题，得出了更多的错误结论，以至于不但众多新手陷入彷徨，就是先行实践者也为此付出了不必要的时间和精力。
3．新手只需了解以下几个简单的结论就足够了：
a．你的词汇集当然可以直接形成IX术语库。
b．转换工具支持三种格式：老5版，纯文本和Excel文件，可根据你的已有资源和习惯加以选择和使用。
c．找到正确的IX平台（231版），便可顺利实现导入。209版肯定有问题，其它版本如何请自行验证，IX平台的最新版本是6.2版。
d．我们给出的所有步骤，都是手册里的内容，并没有任何新发现或新发明。
　　下面讨论几个问题，作为和感兴趣网友的交流。
Q：我也导入成功了，可是感觉Multiterm里面那么多选项，经常用不着，是不是这个软件很罗嗦哪？
A：不对，因为面向新手，所以我们假设的都是最简单的情况。实际上那里的所有选项都能用得上，而且很有深度，一句话，Multiterm IX在最大程度上允许你自由掌控术语库，比如上次说到Excel两列表格的问题，其实不但可以多列，还可以随便嵌套，还允许多媒体数据，例如翻译资料的时候不但可以检索到词汇，还可以看到相应的设备图片。各位慢慢深入体会吧。
Q：为什么不再有乱码了呢？
A：我没有很具体的分析，但是直觉上认为应当和两个因素有关。一个是字体和字号，通常我们的文件制作习惯是英文12号字，中文是小四，仔细瞧瞧人家的英德样板库，就是10号字，就算没有开发能力，照葫芦画瓢总不会错。所以我在Excel文件制作的时候，最后一步总是格式化字体和字号，无论中英文一律10号字（不要用五号！谁知道是不是一样），而且中英文都是最常见的字体，再挑剔的也不能说不成吧。另一个因素是文件名称，Trados系列的界面语言中只支持几种西方语言，不支持简体中文，所以中文文件名有可能导致其内部字节产生错位，因此我才要求各位改成英语文件名称。这里面究竟是什么原因，有请高手们出面详细解释。既然这么处理能成功，我就懒得再琢磨它了（实在不喜欢清理试验后产生的垃圾文件，再加上修改主数据库，太烦人）。消除乱码很重要，否则你无法查询术语表，因为你的查询单词本身就是乱码或是其它不相干的单词。
Q：为什么一定要指定子目录呢？别的子目录就不行吗？
A：Trados手册上说允许自选路径。一般理解就是可以在任何硬盘分区和任意深度的子目录建立，导入并存放你的术语库，但在实际操作时必须满足一个条件：子目录和XML相关文件均不得为简体中文名称，而必须是英文和/或数字组成的名称。本文开始时假定读者的路径也就是这个原因，如果不信你改用中文试试，立刻失败！在这里我郑重建议新手采用默认路径而不要另建子目录，虽然那样做可能令你感到方便，但是系统也有可能因此而开销更多的机器指令，你看看系统的主数据库就明白了，本地样版术语库（Local Sample）根本就没有给出任何路径数据，这还不说明问题吗？
　　友情提示：主数据库是Access格式的，允许点击打开，但是新手务请慎重，因为Access是属于那种写入后立刻生效的程序，不适当操作将会导致程序失效。
　　看一看Trados的log文件就更明白了，只要你的文件名或目录名采用简体中文，则无论209还是231,记录中都会给出如下文字：
“Fatal Error at (file , line 0, column 0): An exception occurred! Type:RuntimeException, Message:The primary document entity could not be opened. Id=F:\pack\?ˉí¨.xml (重大错误......，主文件实体无法打开，标识＝......)”
简体中文出现处全是乱码。术语平台当然无法识别，导致功亏一篑。而改用英文名称后，231获得成功。209依然失败，但这次209的记录不同了，没有错误，就是不能导入，这说明209的错误成因更加复杂一些。

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