Peru’s President Tried to Dissolve Congress. By Day’s End, He Was Arrested.
First the naked restaurant, now....
Martin Smith Studio
Thanks Wired Magazine, apparently my Tweet Clock makes waking up a pleasure? Other words used include; rubber, non-abrasive and flutter, honestly it's not that kind of device!
23 Beautiful Products to Make Waking Up Suck a Little Less | WIRED
Bryan Edwards Dealing with poorly-designed stuff is always a drag, but it can be especially irksome when it’s first thing in the morning. It’s a vulnerable...
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Pesky Eurocrats are about to ban vacuum cleaners with motors more powerful than 1,600w. This sucks. Hard.
First the naked restaurant, now....
Martin Smith Studio
Thanks Wired Magazine, apparently my Tweet Clock makes waking up a pleasure? Other words used include; rubber, non-abrasive and flutter, honestly it's not that kind of device!
23 Beautiful Products to Make Waking Up Suck a Little Less | WIRED
Bryan Edwards Dealing with poorly-designed stuff is always a drag, but it can be especially irksome when it’s first thing in the morning. It’s a vulnerable...
WIRED.COM|由 WIRED MAGAZINE 上傳
Pesky Eurocrats are about to ban vacuum cleaners with motors more powerful than 1,600w. This sucks. Hard.
“Google figured out how to solve big problems using cheap computers,” said Mark Shuttleworth, founder of cloud computing company Canonical. “It sucked the importance out of paying for physical hardware or software that failed.”
Japan Electronics Emulates Detroit Autos Before Bankruptcy
Businessweek
Japan's electronics industry is in crisis. Sharp, Sony Corp. (6758) and Panasonic Corp. (6752) had combined losses of more than $20 billion last year and are cutting tens of thousands of jobs. Having the most-advanced technology -- once a key strength ...
Taiwanese President Fined for Facebook Use
While
mainland Chinese leaders often get slammed for failing to engage with
social media, Taiwan's top official faces punishment for being a little
too enthusiastic about it.
Yes, I Suck: Self-Help Through Negative Thinking
By JOHN CLOUD
Contrary to the "love yourself" message propounded by countless self-help books, a new study suggests that for people with low self-esteem, positive thinking hurts more than it helps
Dissolving Confidence in Tate & Lyle
Confidence in Tate & Lyle is dissolving as fast as sugar in a cup of coffee after the food-ingredient maker lost a preliminary U.S. court case against competing Chinese generic manufacturers of its star product, the sweetener Splenda.
Ukraine's governing coalition officially dissolved
The speaker of the Ukrainian parliament says the governing coalition is officially dissolved. The alliance, composed of parties loyal to President Viktor Yushchenko and his 2004 Orange Revolution partner Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko, fell apart after infighting between the two leaders. They have become fierce rivals ahead of the planned 2010 presidential election. The Ukrainian parliament now has 30 days to form a new coalition or a fresh election will be called.
The International Space Station's troublesome toilet is now sucking like a good 'un after Oleg Kononenko yesterday fitted the new pump delivered by Space Shuttle Discovery on mission STS-124.
"Have you a sucking-pig?" Chichikov inquired of the landlady as she stood expectantly before him.
"Yes."
"And some horse-radish and sour cream?"
"Yes."
"Then serve them."
Fellatio - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fellatio -
Fellatio (also known as fellation, and colloquially blow job, BJ, giving head or sucking off) is an act of oral stimulation of a male's penis by a sexual partner.fellatio
NOUN
Derivatives
Origin
Late 19th century: modern Latin, from Latin fellare 'to suck'.
sucking pig
Piglet aged 4-5 weeks, usually stuffed and roasted whole.
horseradish
[名][U][C]《植物》ワサビダイコン, セイヨウワサビ；西洋わさび.
A plant originally from eastern Europe, horseradish is a root from which wavy and jagged leaves grow. Its very firm flesh is cream-white in color. Horseradish contains an essential oil similar to mustard, which gives it its hot and acrid taste. Horseradish, which belongs to the same family as the cabbage, mustard, turnip and radish, contains more vitamin C than an orange.
horseradish root
suck
v., sucked, suck·ing, sucks. v.tr.
- To draw (liquid) into the mouth by movements of the tongue and lips that create suction.
- To draw in by establishing a partial vacuum: a cleaning device that sucks up dirt.
- To draw in by or as if by a current in a fluid.
- To draw or pull as if by suction: teenagers who are sucked into a life of crime.
- To draw nourishment through or from: suck a baby bottle.
- To hold, moisten, or maneuver (a sweet, for example) in the mouth.
- Vulgar Slang. To perform fellatio on.
- To draw something in by or as if by suction: felt the drain starting to suck.
- To draw nourishment; suckle.
- To make a sound caused by suction.
- Vulgar Slang. To be disgustingly disagreeable or offensive.
n.
- The act or sound of sucking.
- Suction.
- Something drawn in by sucking.
suck in
- To take advantage of; cheat; swindle.
- To behave obsequiously; fawn.
[Middle English suken, from Old English sūcan.]
suck (PULL IN)
verb
1 [I or T] to pull in liquid or air through your mouth without using your teeth, or to move the tongue and muscles of the mouth around something inside your mouth, often in order to dissolve it:
She was sitting on the grass sucking lemonade through a straw.
I sucked my thumb until I was seven.
I tried sucking (on) a mint to stop myself coughing.
They used to give you sweets to suck on (UK ALSO at) in aeroplanes to stop your ears from going pop.
2 [T + adverb or preposition] Something which sucks a liquid or an object in a particular direction pulls it with great force:
The waves came crashing over my head and I could feel myself being sucked under by the currents.
FIGURATIVE Continued rapid growth in consumer spending will suck in (= encourage) more imports.
suck
noun [C usually singular]
when you suck something:
Can I have a suck of your lolly please?
suck
Line breaks: suck
Pronunciation: /sʌk/
VERB
she sucked each segment of the orange carefully
NOUN
EXCLAMATION
(sucks) British INFORMALBack to topOrigin
Old English sūcan (verb), from an Indo-European imitative root; related to soak.
verb
1 [T often passive] to end an official organization or a legal arrangement:
Parliament has been dissolved.
Their marriage was dissolved in 1968.
2 [I] to disappear:
The tension in the office just dissolves when she walks out.
dissolution Show phonetics
noun [U]
the dissolution of parliament
Thousands in Taiwan protest president's policies
Saturday, May 19, 2012
pesky Line breaks: pesky
Pronunciation: /ˈpɛski/
ADJECTIVE (peskier, peskiest) INFORMAL , chiefly North American
Causing trouble; annoying:a pesky younger brother
Origin
late 18th century: perhaps related to pest.
A supporter of the main opposition Democratic
Progressive Party (DPP) displays a placard during a protest against
Taiwanese President Ma Ying-jeou in Taipei on May 19, 2012. At least
20,000 Taiwanese rallied in Taipei on May 19 to voice their anger at
President Ma Ying-jeou over a spate of controversial policies, on the
eve of his inauguration for a second term. AFP PHOTO / Sam YEHSAM
YEH/AFP/GettyImages
Taiwan - Tens of thousands of demonstrators gathered Saturday in Taipei to protest government policies ahead of the inauguration of recently re-elected Taiwanese President Ma Ying-jeou.
Wearing red and green armbands emblazoned with the Chinese character for "anger," the demonstrators snaked their way through the streets of the capital before gathering in front of the ornate presidential office building. The main opposition Democratic Progressive Party said it expected about 100,000 people to attend.
Participants said they were angry about Ma's economic policies, including his decision - announced after his January re-election - to raise utility prices. Ma is to be inaugurated for his second four-year term Sunday.
Trading company employee Jerry Hsu said he voted for Ma in January because of his success in improving relations with China, but was now having second thoughts.
"Stabilizing relations with the mainland is not enough," Hsu said. "Ma failed to consider everyday realities when developing his economic policies."
Added recent college graduate Wang Wen-ling, "Pay for college graduates is so low that we can hardly dream about further studies or marriage."
Analysis of voting patterns in January's election - which Ma won by six percentage points over his DPP rival - suggest that relations with China were uppermost in many voters' minds.
But since Ma's victory in January, popular anger has crystallized around his economic policies, particularly his decision to raise utility prices, which many Taiwanese saw as dishonest, largely because of its postelection timing. His public approval rating now stands at about 20 percent.
As Saturday's protest began, Ma told reporters that he was sorry so many people were unhappy about his policies, but attributed their negative reception to poor government communication.
"The policies are good," he said. "It's just that we didn't explain them to the public enough."
emulate[em・u・late]
- 発音記号[émjulèit]
[動](他)
1 …を模倣してしのごうとする, 見習う；…に匹敵する；（…で）…と張り合う(rival)((at ...))
He emulates his teacher in scholarship.
彼は師を学問の範としている.
彼は師を学問の範としている.
2 《コンピュータ》〈他のプログラムを〉エミュレートする. ⇒EMULATION 2
［ラテン語aemulātus（aemulārī競う＋-AET1）］
ém・u・là・tor
[名]競争者；《コンピュータ》エミュレーター.
ém・u・là・tive
[形]競争的な.
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