2019年8月30日 星期五

It's Not Icky—It's Ithyphallic!. sculpted tripod, satyrs for legs.

Lisa Barrow 發文到 Vintage Weird
It's Not Icky (sticky, especially unpleasantly so.)—It's Ithyphallic! (生殖器翹起來的雕塑
1
(especially of a statue of a deity or other carved figure) having an erect penis.



1950s postcard depicting a sculpted tripod in the Museo Nazionale, Naples, with metal satyrs for legs.

2019年8月29日 星期四

filibuster, cloture, closure, unlimited, property, donation

In 2013 in a bid to block a health-care bill, former presidential candidate Ted Cruz read aloud from Dr Seuss's “Green Eggs and Ham”
Which country's politicians hold the world record, with a nine-day speechathon?
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Charities 'fear closure' due to cuts and donation fall
Crumpled £10 note A quarter of charities questioned said they had already been forced to cut frontline services

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One in six UK charities questioned for a survey say they fear they may have to close in 2013 due to public spending cuts and falling donations, the Charities Aid Foundation has said.


AT&T Caps Unlimited Data Plans

AT&T is effectively ending unlimited data plans, saying that it will no longer let customers use more than a set amount of data per month without penalty.


cloture
(KLO-chuhr)

noun
The action of closing a debate by calling for an immediate vote.

verb tr.
To close a debate by cloture. [From French cloture (closure), eventually from Latin claustrum (barrier).

Usage
"A senator can challenge legislation by staging a filibuster, a maneuver to block action on an item by controlling the Senate floor for an unlimited time. A filibuster can be ended through legislative agreement, or by invoking cloture, which requires 60 votes. The Senate is evenly split, with 50 Republicans and 50 Democrats." — Filibuster Vowed if Bush Seeks Arctic Oil, The New York Times, Feb 13, 2001.


cloture,
[名][U][C]《米国議会》討論終結.
━━[動](他)(自)(討論を)打ち切らせて[打ち切って]すぐ採決にはいる(((英))closure).


 Lawmakers Use Earmarks to Aid Own Properties
Post investigation finds congressmen have steered more than $300 million to dozens of public projects near their own properties.


social closure.

closure

n.
  1. The act of closing or the state of being closed: closure of an incision.
  2. Something that closes or shuts.
    1. A bringing to an end; a conclusion: finally brought the project to closure.
    2. A feeling of finality or resolution, especially after a traumatic experience.
  3. See cloture.
  4. The property of being mathematically closed.
tr.v., -sured, -sur·ing, -sures.
To cloture (a debate).

[Middle English, from Old French, from Late Latin clausūra, fortress, lock, from clausus, enclosed. See close. Sense 4, translation of French clôture.]


property
(prŏp'ər-tē) pronunciation
n., pl., -ties.
    1. Something owned; a possession.
    2. A piece of real estate: has a swimming pool on the property.
    3. Something tangible or intangible to which its owner has legal title: properties such as copyrights and trademarks.
    4. Possessions considered as a group.
  1. The right of ownership; title.
  2. An article, except costumes and scenery, that appears on the stage or on screen during a dramatic performance.
    1. A characteristic trait or peculiarity, especially one serving to define or describe its possessor.
    2. A characteristic attribute possessed by all members of a class. See synonyms at quality.
  3. A special capability or power; a virtue: the chemical properties of a metal.
[Middle English, from Old French propriete, from Latin proprietās, ownership (translation of Greek idiotēs), from proprius, one's own.]
propertyless prop'er·ty·less adj.


filibuster is a parliamentary procedure where debate is extended, allowing one or more members to delay or entirely prevent a vote on a given proposal. It is sometimes referred to as talking out a bill or talking a bill to death[1] and characterized as a form of obstruction in a legislature or other decision-making body. The English term "filibuster" is derived from the Spanish filibustero, itself deriving originally from the Dutch vrijbuiter, "privateerpirate, robber" (also the root of English "freebooter"[2]). The Spanish form entered the English language in the 1850s, as applied to military adventurers from the United States then operating in Central America and the Spanish West Indies such as William Walker.[3][4]
拉布,又叫冗長演說冗長辯論,係議員喺議會利用議事程序,延遲或押後一啲佢哋反對嘅議案。呢啲行動包括用拖延動議、特登缺席令到唔夠法定人數開會、陳述一啲超長或冇意義嘅演說。拉布只會出現嚮法治民主社會 。
而議會議長運用權力去中止拉布嘅手法,就稱之為「剪布」。
Filibuster:民主是“拖”出來的嗎?
如何阻止一項議案的通過?美國參議員們的辦法是:連續演講24小時、朗讀《聖經》、莎士比亞,甚至背菜譜。上週,參議員麥康奈爾發表《 拖延戰術(filibuster)在我們的憲法秩序中扮演著重要角色 》一文,為這種看似荒謬卻古老的議事規則辯護。
Filibuster意指“使用某種極端拖延戰術(比如發表冗長演講)來推遲或阻止行動”,常被翻譯成“冗長辯論”、“阻撓議事的拖延戰術”等。由於讀音相近,也被稱為“費力把事拖”。這個詞來源於西班牙語filibustero,意為阻礙航海通行的“海盜、劫掠者”。
在美國政治中,filibuster是一種合法的議事方式:少數黨參議員往往會通過無休止的演說等手段來拖延表決時間、癱瘓議事程序。在冗長演講的外衣下,拖延戰術賦予了少數黨阻止提案通過的重要權力,沒有它,民主的結果常是多數黨自上而下的統治。

2019年8月28日 星期三

prorogation, to suspend Parliament

43 分前 - The Queen will be asked by the government to suspend Parliament just days after MPs return to work in ... The idea of shutting down Parliament - known as prorogation - has caused controversy, with critics saying it would stop ...

"英國政壇震撼彈!
英國多間傳媒報導,英國政府今天會向女皇正式提呈,要求強制國會休會 (prorogation),以阻止國會通過不讓英國10月底無協議脫歐的議案。"
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Prorogation (pronounced 'pro-ro-ga-tion') marks the end of a parliamentary session. It is the formal name given to the period between the end of a session of Parliament and the State Opening of Parliament that begins the next session.

2019年8月25日 星期日

cede, primacy, cassava,have-lots, ultrarich, is taken ill,


America is losing its primacy in the Western Pacific, it says.



Drawing China into a strengthened regional framework would not be to cede primacy to it. Nor would it be to abandon a liberal order that has served Asia—and America—so well. It may, in the end, not work. But given the huge dangers of rivalry, it is essential now to try.




Primacy is to geopolitics what a full card is to a game of bingo. As a prize for scoring in all the other sorts of power, a country may get the chance to set the agenda. Primacy makes a state attractive. Other states want to win its favour and to benefit from its goodwill http://econ.st/17vCzTS


The couple remark on how their children have changed, and they leave for home. During the journey Tomi is taken ill, and they make an unplanned stop at Osaka, where they had planned to meet their youngest son, Keizo (Shiro Osaka), without dismounting from the train.

Gates to Pitch His Charity Work at Davos
Bill Gates said he would bring cassava to Davos to underline a pitch for his foundation's efforts to eradicate hunger in places where food is scarce and crops are often blighted.


At Davos, a Big Issue Is the Have-Lots vs. the Have-Nots
The growing income inequality between the ultrarich and the middle class is now debated in arenas where the primacy of laissez-faire capitalism was once taken for granted.




cede

Line breaks: cede


VERB

[WITH OBJECT]
Give up (power or territory):in 1874, the islands were ceded to Britain

Origin

early 16th century: from French céder or Latin cedere 'to yield'.




primacy

Pronunciation: /ˈprʌɪməsi/

noun

[mass noun]
  • 1the fact of being pre-eminent or most important:London’s primacy as a financial centre
  • 2the office, period of office, or authority of a primate of the Church:the first years of his primacy were tranquil
  • 3 [usually as modifier] Psychology the fact of an item having been presented earlier to the subject (especially as increasing its likelihood of being remembered):the primacy effect is thought to reflect recall from a long-term memory store

Origin:

late Middle English: from Old French primatie, from medieval Latin primatia, from Latin primasprimat- 'of the first rank' (see primate1)

cassava n. - 樹薯

cassava[cas・sa・va]
発音記号[kəsɑ'ːvə]
[名]
1 《植物》キャッサバ, タピオカノキ:熱帯産.
2 [U]1の根茎から採るでんぷん. ▼maniocまたはtapiocaともいい, 熱帯地方の多くの国で主食.