Jan 4, 2018 - As democracies respond to China's use of information warfare, they have to be careful not to overreact. Much of the soft power that democracies wield comes from civil society, which means that these countries' openness is a crucial asset.
Jan 24, 2018 - Washington has been wrestling with a new term that describes an old threat. “Sharp power,” as coined by Christopher Walker and Jessica Ludwig of the National Endowment for Democracy (writing for ForeignAffairs.com and in a longer report), refers to the information warfare being waged by today's ...
Drama · Harald Edelstam uses his position as Sweden's ambassador to Chile to save political dissidents from persecution by the military junta after Augusto Pinochet's 1973 coup d'état.
The Black Pimpernel is a Swedish drama film directed by Ulf Hultberg and starring Michael Nyqvist and Lisa Werlinder. The film also features Kate Del Castillo, Luis Gnecco and Claire Ross-Brown in a minor part. The film is about Harald Edelstam, Sweden's ambassador to Chile, who after the military coup of Augusto ...
Some students criticized HCFA for inviting Hill-Perry to campus, calling her homophobic and arguing she condones conversion therapy. http://ow.ly/JYrr30isP7t
Coined by George Weinberg, a psychologist, in the 1960s,[13] the term homophobia is a blend of (1) the word homosexual, itself a mix of neo-classical morphemes, and (2) phobia from the Greek φόβος, Phóbos, meaning "fear" or "morbid fear".[14][15][16] Weinberg is credited as the first person to have used the term in speech.[11] The word homophobia first appeared in print in an article written for the May 23, 1969, edition of the American pornographic magazine Screw, in which the word was used to refer to heterosexual men's fear that others might think they are gay.[11]
Conceptualizing anti-LGBT prejudice as a social problem worthy of scholarly attention was not new. A 1969 article in Time described examples of negative attitudes toward homosexuality as "homophobia", including "a mixture of revulsion and apprehension" which some called homosexual panic.[17]
Snowboarding is a recreational activity and Olympic and Paralympic sport that involves descending a snow-covered slope while standing on a snowboard attached to a rider's feet.
A ramp curving up at both ends or a snow-covered sloping channel with a U-shaped cross section, used by skateboarders, rollerbladers, snowboarders, etc. to perform jumps and other manoeuvres.
‘he went to Victoria Skatepark where he showed off his skills on the halfpipe’
Brony-In-Name-Only. Someone who claims to be a Brony, but engages in activities and behaviour(s) that the show and the fandom do not preach. This is especially ironic since they created a mantra of "Love and Tolerance" and preach that "Friendship is Magic".
I don't hang around EqD - there are a number of Brinos constantly infighting and abandoning all their friends to be bronies.
Brony
NOUN
US informal
A man who is a fan of the My Little Pony television programme and range of toys.
‘he's seen his band of Bronies grow from a few hundred members to thousands’
as modifier‘the Brony community’
Origin
Early 21st century: blend of bro and pony.
BRONIES - ADULT MEN WHO LOVE MY LITTLE PONY - BBC NEWS
How about this! A _1956_ article in the Johns Hopkins University Pressjournal "American Imago" gives historical cred to Olympian Chloe Kim's "hangry" tweet while winning her halfpipe gold!
"This is the podcast, as far as I'm concerned," Matty responds. "I don't give a fuck about the podcast. I'm not here for the podcast anymore. I'm here for beef season. I'm hongry."
A perfect synonym for Starving, or Ravenous. proper use: So at that point I wasn't just hungry anymore. No, I was HONGRY. I was HONGRY enough to eat my ...
halfpipe
NOUN
A ramp curving up at both ends or a snow-covered sloping channel with a U-shaped cross section, used by skateboarders, rollerbladers, snowboarders, etc. to perform jumps and other manoeuvres.
‘he went to Victoria Skatepark where he showed off his skills on the halfpipe’
hangry
Pronunciation: /ˈhaŋɡri/
ADJECTIVE (hangrier, hangriest)
informal
Bad-tempered or irritable as a result of hunger:I get very hangry if I miss a meal
Mansplaining, ransomware and hangry are among more than 1,000 words that have been added to the latest Oxford English Dictionary (OED).
Also included are initialisms used on the online parenting forum Mumsnet such as TTC - meaning trying to conceive.
OED senior editor Fi Mooring said the words chosen will resonate "even with people who are not parents".
The dictionary consults experts to determine what should be added to its 829,000 words.
The OED is updated four times a year with the next update due in April 2018.
What's new?
TTC - trying to conceive
BFN/ BFP - big fat negative/ big fat positive (related to the results of a pregnancy test)
CIO - cry it out
Hangry - bad-tempered or irritable as a result of hunger
Hazzle - to dry in open air
Lactivism - advocating in favour of breast-feeding, rather than bottle-feeding
Tomgirl - a girl or woman who acts or dresses in a manner conventionally more associated with boys
Geg - Liverpudlian slang for intruding or joining in uninvited
Masstige - a combination of the words masses and prestige referring to cheap products marketed as luxurious
Mansplaining is defined as explaining something "needlessly, overbearingly, or condescendingly, especially to a woman, in a manner thought to reveal a patronising or chauvinistic attitude".
Researchers date early usage of that term to an internet exchange between a man and a woman in 2008.
Although hangry has only come into common usage recently the word dates back to 1956 when it appeared in a psychoanalytic journal.
The OED defines the new term snowflake as a description of someone who is "overly sensitive or as feeling entitled to special treatment or consideration".
Ransomware is another new addition - less than a year since the NHS was one of a number of global institutions targeted by the WannaCry cyber attack that was carried out with the use of malicious software.
Chaebol is formed by combining the Korean words chae, meaning wealth, and bol, meaning faction and, in South Korea, means a large business conglomerate.
However, recently the word has been used to describe a luxurious lifestyle associated with families who own such businesses.
Jay-Z in the Oxford English Dictionary
The new list sees American rapper Jay-Z get his sixth OED citation with the word swag being added to the dictionary.
Swag, derived from the word swagger, describes a bold, self-confident manner and appeared in Jay-Z's Black Album: "My self-esteem went through the roof, man. I got my swag."
Here are some of his other citations:
"My hand around her collar, feeding her cheese."
Cheese is American slang for money.
"We stand for hours waiting for bricks of government cheese."
Government cheese is a colloquial term for welfare benefits.
"We grow up knowing people who pay for everything with little plastic cards—Medicare cards for checkups, EBT cards for food."
EBT stands for electronic benefits transfer - a system of paying out benefits with a card used in the US.
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"Thirty minutes straight off the top of his head, never losing the beat, riding the handclaps."
Handclaps is the sound made by the clapping of hands.
"The school of hard knocks - I'm from the school of the hard knocks; we must not Let outsiders violate our blocks."
The school of hard knocks is used to describe the experience of a life of hardship as an education.
