2018年4月2日 星期一

agate, conclave, Bioneer, Fordite, AMBER Alert


Fordite" is often differentiated by the plant it came from and the era in which it was created.
Sloppy automotive painting created some truly psychedelic gemstones.
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China's finance minister resigned in an unusually abrupt change ahead of a major Communist Party conclave in October, but his departure is unlikely to result in any significant policy shift.

Fordite, also known as Detroit agate. It was formed from the build up of layers of enamel paint during automotive production.



agate
瑪瑙石英的一種隱晶質變體,其特徵是質地細膩且色彩鮮艷。儘管瑪瑙在各種岩石中均有出現,它通常被認為和噴出岩共生,且在變質岩中常見[1]





An AMBER Alert or a Child Abduction Emergency (SAME code: CAE) is a child abduction alert system. ... AMBER is officially a contrived acronym for America's Missing: Broadcast Emergency Response, but was named after Amber Hagerman, a 9-year-old abducted and murdered in Arlington, Texas in 1996.

AMBER Alert - Wikipedia

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AMBER_Alert

conclave ━━ n. 【カトリック】教皇選挙会議; ((一般に)) 秘密会議.

n.
  1. A secret or confidential meeting.
  2. Roman Catholic Church.
    1. The private rooms in which the cardinals meet to elect a new pope.
    2. The meeting held to elect a new pope.
  3. A meeting of family members or associates.
[Middle English, private chamber, conclave of cardinals, from Latin conclāve, lockable room : com-, com- + clāvis, key.]
conclave 拜天主教宗若望保祿二世辭世新聞而受矚目,意指「秘密會議」,以這件新聞而論,專指天主教樞機主教選舉教宗的秘密會議。.. chimney pipe that will bellow white smoke to alert the world that a new pope has been elected, as the Vatican made final preparations for next week's conclave ...


IN BRIEF: A secret or confidential meeting.

pronunciation The conclave was necessary so their competitors didn't learn of their secrets.
Tutor's tip: The "conclave" (private meeting or session) met in a large "concave" (curved like the inside of a bowl) room.

Bioneer
"Bioneers" (root: "biological pioneers") is a term coined by filmmaker, author and eco-activist Kenny Ausubel to describe very diverse individuals and groups working in a broad array of fields who (initially often unbeknownst to each other) generate creative solutions to environmental and socio-cultural crises rooted in a few shared values, including holistic (or "whole systems") thinking, a view of all life as interdependent, and mutual aid.

In many cases the technological or social solutions to problems they propose are founded on emulation of natural self-organizing systems.

Ausubel founded an annual conference of the same name, which currently takes place in San Rafael, California, the third weekend in October, to highlight the work of these figures and to help support, nurture and propagate their ideas and models. It has, over the course of the last 15 years become, arguably, the nation's leading (and certainly its most diverse, cross-cultural and cross-disciplinary) independent eco-conclave, bringing together some of the most accomplished doers and thinkers.

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