2024年5月27日 星期一

lucid, atrocious, shindig, steamfitter/ pipefitter. Each pitch in 1,000 dollars.

Until 1974 in the USA women were unable to open a bank account or acquire a line of credit without a man co-signing.
The financial services industry was led by (usually white) men. So eight women came together to turn everything around by opening their own Women's Bank.
Carol Green, Judi Wagner, LaRae Orullian, Gail Schoettler, Wendy Davis, Joy Burns, Beverly Martinez, and Edna Mosely founded the bank's board by each pitching in $1,000.
On 14 July 1978 The Women's Bank opened for business. People stood in line down the street in downtown Denver to deposit their money.The first day's deposits exceeded $1 million.
 


Delhi is ranked by the World Health Organisation as the world’s most polluted big city. Several other Indian cities are nearly as atrocious
The number of early deaths caused by India's toxic air could exceed 600,000 a year
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Although "The Myth of Sisyphus" poses mortal problems, it sums itself up for me as a lucid invitation to live and to create, in the very midst of the desert.

Albert Camus

The Myth of Sisyphus (Preface)

Image: Camus with his cat Cigarette
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
Hine’s iconic photograph of a mechanic in a Pennsylvania power plant celebrates the worker as a noble contributor to industry.
Featured Artwork of the Day: Lewis Hine (American, 1874–1940) | Steamfitter | 1921 http://met.org/1Vs0lY2


Pregnant Japanese women are furious about how they are treated at the office http://econ.st/1JSiOEN


We’re busy. Get an abortion
“ABENOMICS is womenomics,” Japan’s prime minister declared, marrying two atrocious words in a single phrase, at a glamorous shindig called WAW!, or the...
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atrocious
əˈtrəʊʃəs/
adjective
  1. horrifyingly wicked.
    "atrocious cruelties"
    • of a very poor quality; extremely bad or unpleasant.


Steamfitter – pipefitters lay out, assemble, fabricate, maintain and repair piping systems which carry water, steam, chemicals or fuel used in heating, cooling, lubricating and other processes. To install a typical piping system in a commercial building or industrial plant,steamfitter – pipefitters:

shindig 盛會
A small party, not quite full scale. Generally a shindig consists of 5-20 people hanging out at the host's house, but they may be held at other locations such as a beach. Shindigs almost always involve alcoholic beverages, usually beer. Often, marijuana is smoked as well.

A shindig usually does not escalate into a large full scale party because it is meant to be a low key night, avoiding any complications such as cleaning up vomit, unwanted guests, picking up trash the rude guests leave lying wherever they drop it, putting everything back in its proper place, eliciting attention fom neighbors and local law enforcement, etc.
My mom was out for the day, so I called some of my friends and we had a little shindig.
by Joey Pitchfork July 26, 2006

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