Historically Brooklyn's waterfront was a major shipping port, especially at the Brooklyn Army Terminal in Sunset Park. Most container ship cargo operations have shifted to the New Jersey side of New York Harbor, while the city has recently built a new cruise ship terminal in Red Hook that is to become a focal point for New York's growing cruise industry. The Queen Mary 2, the world's largest ocean liner, was designed specifically to fit under the Verrazano-Narrows Bridge, the longest suspension bridge in the United States. The Queen Mary 2 makes regular ports of call at the Red Hook terminal on her transatlantic runs from Southampton, England.New York Water Taxi offers commuter services from Brooklyn's west shore to points in Lower Manhattan, Midtown, Long Island Cityand Breezy Point in Rockaway, Queens, as well as tours and charters. A Cross-Harbor Rail Tunnel, originally proposed in 1920s as a core project for the then new Port Authority of New York is again being studied and discussed as a way to ease freight movements across a large swath of the metropolitan area. (중략)
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2009년 6월 30일 화요일
Manhattan-Brooklyn ferry
public school
The term public school has two distinct (and virtually opposite) meanings depending on the location of usage:
- in the United States, Australia and Canada: A school funded from tax revenue and most commonly administered to some degree by government or local government agencies. This usage is synonymous with its British English equivalent, state school. (See also: Public education.)
- in the United Kingdom[1] and a few other Commonwealth countries: A traditional privately operated secondary school which requires the payment of fees for its pupils, and is quite often a boarding school. This usage is common in the United Kingdom (although can be ambiguous in Scotland). These schools, wherever located, often follow a British educational tradition and are committed in principle to public accessibility. Originally, many were single-sex boarding schools, but most independent schools are now co-educational with both boarders and day-pupils. This usage is synonymous with preparatory school in American English, thoughpreparatory school in British English has a different meaning. (See also: Independent school (UK).)
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The Americas
United States
Public-school education is the most common form of education in the United States and is provided mainly by local governments, with control and funding coming from three levels: federal, state, and local. Curricula, funding, teaching, and other policies are set through locally elected school boards by jurisdiction over school districts. The school districts are special-purpose districtsauthorized by provisions of state law. Generally, state governments can and do set minimum standards relating to almost all activities of primary and secondary schools, as well as funding and authorization to enact local school taxes to support the schools—primarily through real property taxes. The federal government funds aid to states and school districts that meet minimum federal standards. School accreditation decisions are made by voluntary regional associations. The first tax-supported public school in America was in Dedham, Massachusetts. The vast majority of adults born in the U.S. have attended a U.S. public school.
Public school is normally split up into three stages: primary (elementary) school (kindergarten to 4th or 5th or 6th grade), junior high (also "intermediate", or "middle") school (5th or 6th or 7th to 8th or 9th) and high school (9th or 10th to 12th, somewhat archaically also called "secondary school"), with some less populated communities incorporating high school as 7th to 12th. Some Junior High Schools (Intermediate Schools) contain 7th to 9th grades or 7th and 8th, in which case the High School is 10th to 12th or 9th to 12th respectively.
The middle school format is increasing in popularity, in which the Elementary School contains kindergarten through 5th grade and the Middle School contains 6th through 8th grade. In addition, some elementary schools are splitting into two levels, sometimes in separate buildings: Primary (usually K-2) and Intermediate (3-4 or 3-5). Some middle schools consist of only 7th and 8th grades.
The K-8th format is also an emerging popular concept, in which students may attend only two schools for all of their K-12 education. Many charter schools feature the K-8 format in which all primary grades are housed in one section of the school while the traditional junior high school aged students are housed in another section of the school.
Some very small school districts, primarily in rural areas, still maintain a K-12 system in which all students are housed in a single school.
In the United States, institutions of higher education that are operated and subsidized by U.S. states are also referred to as "public." However, unlike public secondary schools, public universities charge tuition, though these fees are usually much lower than those charged by private universities, particularly for "in-state" students. Community colleges, state colleges, and state universities are examples of public institutions of higher education. In particular, many state universities are regarded as among the best institutions of higher education in the U.S., though usually they are surpassed in ranking by certain private universities and colleges, such as those of the Ivy League, which are often very expensive and extremely selective in the students they accept. In several states, the administrations of public universities are elected via the general electoral ballot.
2009년 6월 29일 월요일
larger than life
- not that we should expect all good publishers to be larger than life.
- Throughout his career he's always been a larger than life character.
- "This is a person of surpassing integrity; a man of the utmost sincerity; somewhat larger than life" (Joyce Carol Oates).
- Perry seemed larger than life to those who had only read about him.
- To the rest of us, he was a boor. To the children, the star athlete who spoke at the school assembly seemed larger than life.
- He may not live like a rock star, but in the eyes of his fans he's larger than life.
- You have to be bigger than life to make it in Times Square, and this restaurant wasn't.
칠칠하다
- 검고 칠칠한 머리
- 숲은 세월이 흐를수록 칠칠하고 무성해졌다.
- 나는 아직 열여섯이라 마님에게 귀염을 받는 것이 다만 좋았고 칠칠한 나물을 뜯어 드리고자 한사코 이 험한 산속으로 기어올랐다.≪김유정, 산골≫
- 부월이는 아직도 칠칠치 못한 속옷 차림인 채 방 안의 아랫목과 윗목 사이를 연락부절로 서성거리면서….≪윤흥길, 완장≫
- 칠칠하지 못한 사람
- 그는 매사에 칠칠치 않았다.
- 그 댁이 큰댁의 기둥인데 장가를 열 번 들면 그만큼 칠칠하고 일새 빠른 사람을 구경이나 할 줄 아오?≪심훈, 영원의 미소≫
- 사람이 칠칠치 못해 이 모양이군요.≪한무숙, 어둠에 갇힌 불꽃들≫
haywire
- Mentally confused or erratic; crazy: went haywire over the interminable delays.
- Not functioning properly; broken.
2009년 6월 28일 일요일
Floyd B. Odlum
Floyd Bostwick Odlum (March 30, 1892, Union City, Michigan – June 17, 1976, Indio, California) was a wealthy lawyer and industrialist. He has been described as "possibly the only man in the United States who made a great fortune out of the Depression," [1]. After struggling as a corporate attorney in Salt Lake City, Odlum received an offer to a law clerk at a New York firm, and in 1921 became Vice-President of his primary client, Electric Bond and Share Company. In 1923, Odlum, a friend, and their wives pooled a total of $39,600 and formed the United States Company to speculate in purchases of utilities and general securities. Within two years, the company's net assets had increased 17 fold to nearly $700,000 [2]. In 1928, Odlum incorporated Atlas Utilities Company to take over the common stock of his other company.
During the summer of 1929, Odlum was one of the few industrial moguls to believe that the boom on Wall Street could not continue much longer, and he sold one half of Atlas's holdings, as well as nine million dollars in new securities to investors. He had $14,000,000 in cash and short term notes when the stock market crashed.[3] During the next few years, Atlas Utilities bought up stock in less fortunate investment companies at a Depression-reduced price. After Franklin D. Roosevelt was inaugurated President of the United States, Odlum shifted gears, selling off utilities before stronger regulation set in, and switching to large scale financing. By 1933, Odlum was one of the 10 wealthiest men in the United States. Besides Atlas Corporation, he had a major stake in RKO Studios, Convair, Northeast Airlines, and Bonwit Teller, among other businesses, and was associated in aviation business with the well-known financier George Newell Armsby. His association with Armsby provided a link to the Armsby's and Cowdin's enterpriseTranscontinental Air Transport, Inc.
Odlum sold RKO to Howard Hughes.[4] Odlum was later an investor in the 1954 production of the Broadway show The Pajama Game -- during which actress Shirley MacLaine was discovered by Paramount Pictures producer Hal Wallis -- and convinced Goldman Sachs's head Sidney Weinberg to invest as well.[5]
Odlum was first married (in 1915) to Hortense McQuarrie, first woman department store head; his second wife was aviatrix Jackie Cochran. Odlum and Cochran were close friends of Amelia Earhart and her husband George P. Putnam and the Odlums were financial backers of Earhart's flying activities. They developed the Cochran-Odlum (C-O) Ranch in Indio, California where they lived after the 1950s.
Odlum along with a business associate L.Boyd Hatch also purchased and developed Hatch's Camp, also known as St. Ann's Retreat, or Pine Glenn Cove, a mountainous retreat in Logan Canyon, Utah. In 2006, Pine Glenn Cove was placed in the national register of historic places.
Odlum died in 1976 at the age of 84.
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Google 도서검색과 책의 실수요 연결
- [책] The Sublime (By Philip Shaw)
- An excerpt from The Culture of the New Capitalism
- Hesiod's Theogony: an excerpt
- [책] Pragmatism and sociology: some excerpts
- The King Never Dies(The King's Two Bodies...)
- "Man is not the master of his own house" (The Private Self, A.H. Modell, 1993)
- Google books: Chapter 11, Building Portfolios, Charles D. Ellis, Winning the Loser's Game
第二十五事, 貼膺
There is a Correspondence Between All Things of Heaven and All Things of Man (87~102)
butt, butt of jokes, butt of criticism
- Frieda grinned, pinching him on the butt.
- He is still the butt of cruel jokes about his humble origins.
- = target
18장. 기후변화의 불확실성과 확실성: 어떤 행동을 취해야 할 것인가?
2005년 노벨 경제학상 수상자인 토마스 셸링Thomas C. Schelling은 폭넓은 영역에 걸쳐 논문을 발표했다. 군사 전략과 군비 제한, 에너지 및 환경 정책, 기후 변화, 핵 확산, 테러리즘, 조직폭력, 대외 원조와 국제 무역, 갈등 이론과 협상 이론, 인종 차별 및 사회 통합, 질병, 보건 정책, 담배 및 의약품 정책, 공공 정책의 윤리와 기업 윤리와 같은 많은 분야를 다루었다.
2009년 6월 27일 토요일
a world of (difference); worlds apart; a world away from
- There's a world of difference between the US and Europe.
- I realized we were still worlds apart (=very different, especially concerning your ideas, opinions etc ).
- It was a world away from(=completely different from) the grand hotels she was used to.
- It makes a world of difference. (출처: BBI Word Combi) 그것은 엄청난 차이를 낳는다.
- This is a world of contradictions. (출처: 동아 프라임 한영사전) 모순이 많은 세상이다.
- There is a world of difference between enjoying cooking and doing it for a living. (출처: 동아 프라임 한영사전) 요리를 즐기는 것과 벌이를 위해 요리하는 것은 하늘과 땅 차이다