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Rogue to Victim: What Australia Sees in Julian Assange
Broad support for his release seems to have grown more out of resentment of his treatment by the U.S. justice system than concerns about press protections.
When Japan invaded the Chinese province of Manchuria in September 1931, an ensign in the United States Naval Reserves, looking to support the Chinese military, visited Chung at her practice. She invited the man, who was a pilot, and six of his friends for a home-cooked dinner. It was the first of many that she would host almost every night for months. It was, she wrote in her autobiography, “the most selfish thing I’ve ever done because it was more fun than I had ever known in all my life.”
He “moved quietly from one board to another, reducing their most skillful plans and wiles to nothingness.” #tbt
The
digital world runs faster than the typical IT department's default
speed. Other bits of the business are not always willing to wait.
Marketing, desperate to use digital wiles to woo customers, is
especially impatient. Forrester, a research firm, estimates that
marketing departments' spending on IT is rising two to three times as
fast as that of companies as a whole http://econ.st/1iDMuOl
Ten Thousand Things:
Module and Mass Production in Chinese Art
Lothar Ledderose
Winner of 2002 Joseph Levenson Book Prize for pre-1999 China.
Paper | 2001 | $45.00 / £30.95 | ISBN: 9780691009575
272 pp. | 8 1/2 x 11 | 16 color plates, 275 halftones, 50 line illus.
272 pp. | 8 1/2 x 11 | 16 color plates, 275 halftones, 50 line illus.
The UK considers cracking down on 'rogue cyclists'
The proposed dangerous cycling law is being pushed by a Conservative member of parliament on behalf of a family whose 17 year old daughter was killed by a rogue cyclist riding on the pavement in 2007. The move has fuelled a debate over whether people on bikes can bend the rules of the road for their own safety.
halftone
- hálf • tòne
- halftoneの変化形
- halftones (複数形)
[名]
1 半階調, 中間調［色］(middle tone)：図案・写真などで, 暗部と明部との間にある階調.
2 （写真製版で）網版；網版による印刷物.
━━[形]網版の.
arms
n. pl.[OE. armes, F. arme, pl. armes, fr. L. arma, pl., arms, orig. fittings, akin to armus shoulder, and E. arm. See Arm, n.]
1. Instruments or weapons of offense or defense.
He lays down his arms, but not his wiles.Milton.
Three horses and three goodly suits of arms.Tennyson.
2. The deeds or exploits of war; military service or science. «Arms and the man I sing.» Dryden.
3. (Law) Anything which a man takes in his hand in anger, to strike or assault another with; an aggressive weapon. Cowell. Blackstone.
4. (Her.) The ensigns armorial of a family, consisting of figures and colors borne in shields, banners, etc., as marks of dignity and distinction, and descending from father to son.
5. (Falconry) The legs of a hawk from the thigh to the foot. Halliwell.
Bred to arms, educated to the profession of a soldier. -- In arms, armed for war; in a state of hostility. -- Small arms, portable firearms known as muskets, rifles, carbines, pistols, etc. -- A stand of arms, a complete set for one soldier, as a musket, bayonet, cartridge box and belt; frequently, the musket and bayonet alone. -- To arms! a summons to war or battle. -- Under arms, armed and equipped and in readiness for battle, or for a military parade.
Arm's end, Arm's length, Arm's reach. See under Arm.
ensign
noun
- 1.a flag or standard, especially a military or naval one indicating nationality.
- 2.the lowest rank of commissioned officer in the US and some other navies, above chief warrant officer and below lieutenant."a copy of Ensign Smith's report"
wile
Syllabification: (wile)
Pronunciation: /wīl/
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