Sunday, November 25, 2012
あんぜんねっと
AichiSafety
あいち安全安心情報
豊橋警察署 地域安全情報
あいち安全安心情報
パトネットあいち 不審者情報
■発生日時
11月22日(木)午後4時30分頃
■発生場所
豊橋市佐藤2丁目地内
■状況
女が、小学生の方を見ながら「小学生...」等と言っていた
■被疑者等
女1名、帽子、マスク着用
■情報配信
豊橋警察署
0532-54-0110
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Japanese way
tatimi
人類が文明を持ち始めた頃のシャーマンと言われる人たちは実は色覚異常者であった率が人種平均よりも高かったのではないか。例えば青色の色覚が弱い人がいたとします。その人は赤と緑に対して敏感になりますので、他の人が薬草と普通の草の区別がつかなかったのに対して、すばやく薬草を見分けられる。そんなことがあったかも知れません。
生物の色覚数は、その活動場所にそれなりに相関が見られるように思います。主に暗いところにいる深海の魚とかは単色しか見えない。そして明るいところに生きる生物ほど色の数が増え、人間ではRGBの3色、ねずみ類とかではもうちょっと暗いところにいたので2色が多いです。そして日中行動を主とする生物では4色、人間には見えない色覚を持っています。
生物の色覚数は、その活動場所にそれなりに相関が見られるように思います。主に暗いところにいる深海の魚とかは単色しか見えない。そして明るいところに生きる生物ほど色の数が増え、人間ではRGBの3色、ねずみ類とかではもうちょっと暗いところにいたので2色が多いです。そして日中行動を主とする生物では4色、人間には見えない色覚を持っています。
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perception
HTsumakura
イヌイットの言葉には、「雪」を表すのに何十種類もの違う呼び名があるのだそうです。それだけ細かく見分けられるということなのでしょう。日本語にも「雪」を表す言葉はいろいろありますが(例:こな雪、ぼたん雪、細雪、みぞれ・・・)、イヌイットの言葉ほど多くはありません。イヌイット人の赤ちゃんも日本人の子供も人間としての「基本性能」は大差ないはずなのですが、イヌイットの人々の方がより細かく雪を分類し、認識できるのはなぜか・・・。簡単に言うと「そうするように生活の中で自然に学んだからだ」ということになり、ここに「特定の文化内での後天的な学習が、認識にもたらす影響」を見ることができます。
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learning
高橋啓治郎
「インテリジェント・デザイン」 (intelligent design; ID) って言葉を聞いたことはあるかな? アメリカのある学区において進化論に対抗する理論として言及することが義務付けられそうになった――という一件はかなり話題になった。
ID の主題を簡潔に表すならば,こんな感じになる――宇宙や生物に見られる性質の中には,自然選択のような無作為なプロセスによって生み出されたとは考えにくいものが存在する。そこには何らかの「知性」によるはたらきかけがあったととらえるのが自然である。
これは要するに創造主――「神」の存在を示唆している。つまるところ ID っていうのは,創造主のアイデンティティーを特定しないかたちに直した創造論 (creationism) の一種なんだ。進化論をはじめとする唯物的な科学思想に対抗し,宗教における教義と調和しうるかたちの新しい科学思想を提示しようというのが,その提唱者たちの狙いであったとされる。
ただ実際のところは, ID は通常の自然科学の枠組みにおいて実証しうるようなものではなく,ありていに言って疑似科学であるとの認識が,科学コミュニティにおける合意となっている。
法廷においても「ID は科学よりもむしろ宗教的意味合いを持つ」との判定がなされており,これを公立学校の教育課程において義務付けることは,合衆国憲法の「国教樹立禁止条項」 (Establishment Clause) に抵触するという判決が下されている。
ID の主題を簡潔に表すならば,こんな感じになる――宇宙や生物に見られる性質の中には,自然選択のような無作為なプロセスによって生み出されたとは考えにくいものが存在する。そこには何らかの「知性」によるはたらきかけがあったととらえるのが自然である。
これは要するに創造主――「神」の存在を示唆している。つまるところ ID っていうのは,創造主のアイデンティティーを特定しないかたちに直した創造論 (creationism) の一種なんだ。進化論をはじめとする唯物的な科学思想に対抗し,宗教における教義と調和しうるかたちの新しい科学思想を提示しようというのが,その提唱者たちの狙いであったとされる。
ただ実際のところは, ID は通常の自然科学の枠組みにおいて実証しうるようなものではなく,ありていに言って疑似科学であるとの認識が,科学コミュニティにおける合意となっている。
法廷においても「ID は科学よりもむしろ宗教的意味合いを持つ」との判定がなされており,これを公立学校の教育課程において義務付けることは,合衆国憲法の「国教樹立禁止条項」 (Establishment Clause) に抵触するという判決が下されている。
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belief
Ágnes Holba, B. Lukács
And still there is Ms. Y. In her teens she observed various strange vision impressions and gradually discovered that, in spite of the statements of her relatives, “Green is not a boring colour”. Sooner or later she observed that the green leaves of bush can easily be distinguished from the green wire-fencing.
Mere trichromats can see distinctly any plant even on the fence background, but from bigger distance they tend to merge. Not for Ms. Y who tells that she easily sees the borderline “from any distance”; if any merging occurs, then, at great distances, the fence merges with blue objects. Also she lacks Fency and her favoured Turquoises in TV’s and of course cannot mix it in computers. She tells that European colour photography rather use Grassy while Japanese ones rather Fency. On a national holyday she detected difference between the national Red-White-Green flags on neighbouring houses: one was Red-White-Grassy, the other Red-White-Fency. She was rather hilarious when discovering that on the signboard of a bio shop the desirable plants and herbs were painted with Fency. She reports that all the Plant Kingdom, with one sure and one possible exception, uses Grassy.
Mere trichromats can see distinctly any plant even on the fence background, but from bigger distance they tend to merge. Not for Ms. Y who tells that she easily sees the borderline “from any distance”; if any merging occurs, then, at great distances, the fence merges with blue objects. Also she lacks Fency and her favoured Turquoises in TV’s and of course cannot mix it in computers. She tells that European colour photography rather use Grassy while Japanese ones rather Fency. On a national holyday she detected difference between the national Red-White-Green flags on neighbouring houses: one was Red-White-Grassy, the other Red-White-Fency. She was rather hilarious when discovering that on the signboard of a bio shop the desirable plants and herbs were painted with Fency. She reports that all the Plant Kingdom, with one sure and one possible exception, uses Grassy.
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human being
Plantsurfer
Mimulus flower photographed in visible light (left) and ultraviolet light (right) showing a nectar guide visible to bees but not to humans.
Under ultraviolet, the flowers have a darker center, where the nectaries are located, and often specific patterns upon the petals as well.
Under ultraviolet, the flowers have a darker center, where the nectaries are located, and often specific patterns upon the petals as well.
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nature
Oliver Sacks
Nature’s imagination, as Freeman Dyson likes to say, is richer than ours, and he speaks, marvellingly, of this richness in the physical and biological worlds, the endless diversity of physical forms and forms of life.
For me, as a physician, nature’s richness is to be studied in the phenomena of health and disease, in the endless forms of adaptation by which human organisms, people, adapt and reconstruct themselves, faced with the challenges and vicissitudes of life. Defects, disorders, diseases, in this sense, can play a paradoxical role, by bringing out latent powers, developments, evolutions, forms of life, that might never be seen, or even be imaginable, in their absence.
For me, as a physician, nature’s richness is to be studied in the phenomena of health and disease, in the endless forms of adaptation by which human organisms, people, adapt and reconstruct themselves, faced with the challenges and vicissitudes of life. Defects, disorders, diseases, in this sense, can play a paradoxical role, by bringing out latent powers, developments, evolutions, forms of life, that might never be seen, or even be imaginable, in their absence.
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human being
Oliver Sacks
We shall never know, for the business of adaptation—and, indeed, of life as he knew it—was suddenly cut across by a gratuitous blow of fate: an illness that, at a single stroke, deprived him of job, house, health, and independence, leaving him a gravely sick man, unable to fend for himself. For Amy, who incited the surgery in the first place, and who was so passionately invested in Virgil’s seeing, it was a “miracle” that misfired, a calamity. Virgil, for his part, maintains philosophically, “These things happen.” But he has been shattered by this blow, has given vent to outbursts of rage: rage at his helplessness and sickness; rage at the smashing of a promise and a dream; and, beneath this, most fundamental of all, a rage that had been smoldering in him almost from the beginning—rage at being thrust into a battle he could neither renounce nor win. At the beginning, there was certainly amazement, wonder, and sometimes joy. There was also, of course, great courage. It was an adventure, an excursion into a new world, the like of which is given to few. But then came the problems, the conflicts, of seeing but not seeing, not being able to make a visual world, and at the same time being forced to give up his native competence—a torment from which no escape seemed possible. But then, paradoxically, a release was given, in the form of a second and now final blindness—a blindness he received as a gift. Now, at last, Virgil is allowed to not see, allowed to escape from the glaring, confusing world of sight and space, and to return to his own true being, the touch world that has been his home for almost fifty years.
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story
Saturday, November 24, 2012
Jun Yvonne Kitamura
突然ですが、なにも考えずにFacebookで食べ物の投稿を毎日のようにしている方々に言いたいことがあります。
あなたのFacebook友達の中に、アフリカで内戦後で飢餓に苦しんで、助けを求めるためにFacebookをやっている人もいるかもしれません。少なくとも、わたしのFacebook友達の中にはいます。「そんなに食べてるのか!焼き肉?毎日?」とか思うでしょう。実際本当にそういうコメントをしていたアフリカの人の投稿を見ました。
インターネットを通して、グローバル化しています。人類のための何ができるか考える人たちが増えて!と願います。おいしい食べ物をあなたが食べていることを公表することによって人類幸せになるのでしょうか??
あなたのFacebook友達の中に、アフリカで内戦後で飢餓に苦しんで、助けを求めるためにFacebookをやっている人もいるかもしれません。少なくとも、わたしのFacebook友達の中にはいます。「そんなに食べてるのか!焼き肉?毎日?」とか思うでしょう。実際本当にそういうコメントをしていたアフリカの人の投稿を見ました。
インターネットを通して、グローバル化しています。人類のための何ができるか考える人たちが増えて!と願います。おいしい食べ物をあなたが食べていることを公表することによって人類幸せになるのでしょうか??
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perception
Martin Kessler, Martin Kessler
A country’s rise to economic dominance tends to be accompanied by its currency becoming a reference point, with other currencies tracking it implicitly or explicitly. For a sample comprising emerging market economies, we show that in the last two years, the renminbi has increasingly become a reference currency which we define as one which exhibits a high degree of co-movement (CMC) with other currencies.
In East Asia, there is already a renminbi bloc, because the renminbi has become the dominant reference currency, eclipsing the dollar, which is a historic development. In this region, 7 currencies out of 10 co-move more closely with the renminbi than with the dollar, with the average value of the CMC relative to the renminbi being 40 percent greater than that for the dollar.
We find that co-movements with a reference currency, especially for the renminbi, are associated with trade integration. We draw some lessons for the prospects for the renminbi bloc to move beyond Asia based on a comparison of the renminbi’s situation today and that of the Japanese yen in the early 1990s. If trade were the sole driver, a more global renminbi bloc could emerge by the mid-2030s but complementary reforms of the financial and external sector could considerably expedite the process.
In East Asia, there is already a renminbi bloc, because the renminbi has become the dominant reference currency, eclipsing the dollar, which is a historic development. In this region, 7 currencies out of 10 co-move more closely with the renminbi than with the dollar, with the average value of the CMC relative to the renminbi being 40 percent greater than that for the dollar.
We find that co-movements with a reference currency, especially for the renminbi, are associated with trade integration. We draw some lessons for the prospects for the renminbi bloc to move beyond Asia based on a comparison of the renminbi’s situation today and that of the Japanese yen in the early 1990s. If trade were the sole driver, a more global renminbi bloc could emerge by the mid-2030s but complementary reforms of the financial and external sector could considerably expedite the process.
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change
Marin Katusa
The majority of international trade is done in US dollars. That means that every country aims to maximize the US-dollar surplus garnered from its export trade.
A strong US dollar allowed Americans to buy imported goods at a massive discount. … Here, finally, the US hit on a downside: the availability of cheap imports hit the US manufacturing industry hard, and the disappearance of manufacturing jobs remains one of the biggest challenges in resurrecting the US economy today.
There is another downside, a potential threat now lurking in the shadows. … If that trade shifts to a different currency, countries around the world won’t need all their US money. The resulting sell-off of US dollars would weaken the currency dramatically.
A strong US dollar allowed Americans to buy imported goods at a massive discount. … Here, finally, the US hit on a downside: the availability of cheap imports hit the US manufacturing industry hard, and the disappearance of manufacturing jobs remains one of the biggest challenges in resurrecting the US economy today.
There is another downside, a potential threat now lurking in the shadows. … If that trade shifts to a different currency, countries around the world won’t need all their US money. The resulting sell-off of US dollars would weaken the currency dramatically.
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change
Charles Babington
The past few presidential elections prove the country is almost evenly split between Democratic and Republican sentiments. But thanks to legislative gerrymandering, Americans’ migration patterns and other factors, many House members represent districts that are overwhelmingly conservative or liberal. These lawmakers may recognize that compromise is the only way to get a law enacted in Congress.
But compromise may be a ticket to defeat in their next primary election by an ideological purist from their party’s fringe.
But compromise may be a ticket to defeat in their next primary election by an ideological purist from their party’s fringe.
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american way
Ben Moshinsky, Jim Brunsden
The shadow banking industry has grown to about $67 trillion, $6 trillion bigger than previously thought, leading global regulators to seek more oversight of financial transactions that fall outside traditional oversight.
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business
Лев Николаевич Толстой
Я думаю, я думаю… если сколько голов, столько умов, то и сколько сердец, столько родов любви.
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story
T. S. Eliot
The Eagle soars in the summit of Heaven,
The Hunter with his dogs pursues his circuit.
O perpetual revolution of configured stars,
O perpetual recurrence of determined seasons,
O world of spring and autumn, birth and dying
The endless cycle of idea and action,
Endless invention, endless experiment,
Brings knowledge of motion, but not of stillness;
Knowledge of speech, but not of silence;
Knowledge of words, and ignorance of the Word.
All our knowledge brings us nearer to our ignorance,
All our ignorance brings us nearer to death,
But nearness to death no nearer to GOD.
Where is the Life we have lost in living?
Where is the wisdom we have lost in knowledge?
Where is the knowledge we have lost in information?
The cycles of Heaven in twenty centuries
Bring us farther from GOD and nearer to the Dust.
The Hunter with his dogs pursues his circuit.
O perpetual revolution of configured stars,
O perpetual recurrence of determined seasons,
O world of spring and autumn, birth and dying
The endless cycle of idea and action,
Endless invention, endless experiment,
Brings knowledge of motion, but not of stillness;
Knowledge of speech, but not of silence;
Knowledge of words, and ignorance of the Word.
All our knowledge brings us nearer to our ignorance,
All our ignorance brings us nearer to death,
But nearness to death no nearer to GOD.
Where is the Life we have lost in living?
Where is the wisdom we have lost in knowledge?
Where is the knowledge we have lost in information?
The cycles of Heaven in twenty centuries
Bring us farther from GOD and nearer to the Dust.
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knowledge
JoyReactor
A recent survey in the United Kingdom asked the following question:
Are there too many foreigners in this country now?
Answer:
18% said: YES
82% said: معهد الأمن العالمي بوا! شنط
Conclusion:
There are too many Brits in the United Kingdom.
Are there too many foreigners in this country now?
Answer:
18% said: YES
82% said: معهد الأمن العالمي بوا! شنط
Conclusion:
There are too many Brits in the United Kingdom.
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art
Tuesday, November 20, 2012
Muhammad Lila
Somewhere out there, Mullah Omar must be shaking his head.
In a Dilbert-esque faux pax, a Taliban spokesperson sent out a routine email last week with one notable difference. He publicly CC’d the names of everyone on his mailing list.
The names were disclosed in an email by Qari Yousuf Ahmedi, an official Taliban spokesperson, on Saturday. The email was a press release he received from the account of Zabihullah Mujahid, another Taliban spokesperson. Ahmedi then forwarded Mujahid’s email to the full Taliban mailing list, but rather than using the BCC function, or blind carbon copy which keeps email addresses private, Ahmedi made the addresses public.
The list, made up of more than 400 recipients, consists mostly of journalists, but also includes an address appearing to belong to a provincial governor, an Afghan legislator, several academics and activists, an l Afghan consultative committee, and a representative of Gulbuddein Hekmatar, an Afghan warlord whose outlawed group Hezb-i-Islami is believed to be behind several attacks against coalition troops.
In a Dilbert-esque faux pax, a Taliban spokesperson sent out a routine email last week with one notable difference. He publicly CC’d the names of everyone on his mailing list.
The names were disclosed in an email by Qari Yousuf Ahmedi, an official Taliban spokesperson, on Saturday. The email was a press release he received from the account of Zabihullah Mujahid, another Taliban spokesperson. Ahmedi then forwarded Mujahid’s email to the full Taliban mailing list, but rather than using the BCC function, or blind carbon copy which keeps email addresses private, Ahmedi made the addresses public.
The list, made up of more than 400 recipients, consists mostly of journalists, but also includes an address appearing to belong to a provincial governor, an Afghan legislator, several academics and activists, an l Afghan consultative committee, and a representative of Gulbuddein Hekmatar, an Afghan warlord whose outlawed group Hezb-i-Islami is believed to be behind several attacks against coalition troops.
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information
Tengyo Kura
週末を森の中で過ごした。一緒にいたラトビア人の女の子が、夜、森の中で地面を探り探り、色んなものを見つけて見せてくれた。風と、木々の揺れる音だけが響く中、「森の中には自然界の本当に美しいものがたくさんある。でもそれは待っててもだめ、こうして自分で見つけなくちゃね」と言ってくれた。
(素敵なエピソードですね。ノルウェーの森、ラトビアの森、どこか違いますか?)
ノルウェーでトナカイが食べる苔を探したけど、こっちでは見つからなかった。。でも、もしかしたら生えてる森もあるかもしれません。きっと生きている森はどこも暖かくて厳しくて、冷たくて恐いところかもしれません。
(素敵なエピソードですね。ノルウェーの森、ラトビアの森、どこか違いますか?)
ノルウェーでトナカイが食べる苔を探したけど、こっちでは見つからなかった。。でも、もしかしたら生えてる森もあるかもしれません。きっと生きている森はどこも暖かくて厳しくて、冷たくて恐いところかもしれません。
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nature
Monday, November 19, 2012
Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI)
Military Expenditure by Country
| Year | Japan | China | Korea R | Korea DPR | ||
| Yen b. | US$ m. | US$ m. | US$ m. | Won b. | US$ m. | |
| 1988 1989 1990 1991 1992 1993 1994 1995 1996 1997 1998 1999 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 |
3,700 3,920 4,159 4,386 4,552 4,641 4,684 4,724 4,846 4,948 4,940 4,932 4,936 4,955 4,956 4,953 4,893 4,870 4,812 4,747 4,769 4,815 4,790 4,775 |
46,447 48,022 49,421 50,542 51,768 52,342 52,595 53,120 54,192 54,433 54,288 54,385 54,785 55,376 55,938 56,053 55,541 55,330 54,637 53,885 53,159 54,339 54,641 54,529 |
... 16,600 17,943 18,860 22,919 21,233 20,308 20,875 23,016 23,842 27,070 31,191 33,496 41,176 47,829 51,955 57,542 64,726 76,065 87,730 96,663 116,666 121,064 129,272 |
13,262 13,667 13,881 14,321 15,154 15,850 16,315 17,161 18,087 18,524 17,883 17,397 18,465 18,998 19,521 20,185 21,072 22,791 23,622 24,689 26,297 27,708 27,572 28,280 |
3.9 4.0 4.3 4.5 4.5 4.6 4.7 ... 3.0 ... 2.9 2.9 3.0 3.2 3.3 50.8 54.4 64.5 67.1 68.5 71.3 76.3 82.6 90.0 |
... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... 12 10 11 12 13 |
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asian way
C. Todd Lopez
With ice melting in the Arctic Ocean, which is bordered by countries including Canada, Russia and the United States, more sea-faring traffic will appear there and more nations with economic interest in the region will arrive to exploit the resources there, said a panel of security experts during a forum.
“... area of responsibility is evolving and changing,” said Maj. Gen. Francis G. Mahon, J5, U.S. Northern Command. “The Arctic is receding … the northern coast is about to become a real coast; maybe not today, maybe not this year, but in a short time. We need to start thinking about that.”
Mahon said development in the Arctic “is going to happen.”
“We’re seeing now smugglers are turning to sea routes of entry and the littorals, and we’ve had to shift our efforts to more coast-watching,” Maj. Gen. Davis S. Baldwin said. “... an agile threat.”
“... area of responsibility is evolving and changing,” said Maj. Gen. Francis G. Mahon, J5, U.S. Northern Command. “The Arctic is receding … the northern coast is about to become a real coast; maybe not today, maybe not this year, but in a short time. We need to start thinking about that.”
Mahon said development in the Arctic “is going to happen.”
“We’re seeing now smugglers are turning to sea routes of entry and the littorals, and we’ve had to shift our efforts to more coast-watching,” Maj. Gen. Davis S. Baldwin said. “... an agile threat.”
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change
Sunetra Choudhury, AFP
The unusual moral guidance appeared in a school book for 11-year-olds, purporting to offer education on issues from health and hygiene to sex education and exercise, the NDTV news channel reported.
On a page about non-vegetarians, the book said that they “easily cheat, tell lies, they forget promises, they are dishonest and tell bad words, steal, fight and turn to violence and commit sex crimes“.
It also claimed that “it is the waste products which largely produce the flavour of meat”, and praised the Japanese for their vegetarian diet — failing to mention their love of seafood.
The book’s marriage advice was also questionable, suggesting women should find a husband between the ages of 18 and 25.
“To get married without a bad name is a dream of every young girl,” it said.
On a page about non-vegetarians, the book said that they “easily cheat, tell lies, they forget promises, they are dishonest and tell bad words, steal, fight and turn to violence and commit sex crimes“.
It also claimed that “it is the waste products which largely produce the flavour of meat”, and praised the Japanese for their vegetarian diet — failing to mention their love of seafood.
The book’s marriage advice was also questionable, suggesting women should find a husband between the ages of 18 and 25.
“To get married without a bad name is a dream of every young girl,” it said.
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asian way
Irena Then, Makoto Hasebe
Irena Then war die schönste Frau im August-Playboy. Die 27-Jährige ist Model, fett im Geschäft, ein Männertraum – und großer Japan-Bewunderer. Auf ihrer Internetseite schwärmt die Düsseldorferin vom asiatischen Staat und dessen Fußball-Nationalmannschaft. „Ich mag die Kultur des Landes. Die Menschen gehen toll miteinander um. Und ich mag Fußball. Bei der WM bin ich immer auch für die Japaner.“
Die WAZ fragte bei dem Model nach, was sie von Single Hasebe hält. „Ich finde ihn gut. Er sieht toll aus. Ich habe schon etwas über ihn gelesen und gehört. Er soll einen tollen, typisch japanischen Charakter haben. Er ist ja auch der Kapitän seiner Mannschaft“, sagt die hübsche Blondine. Und was sagt Hasebe? Der VfL-Profi zu japanischen Journalisten: „Ja, ich habe zur Zeit keine Freundin. Meine Traumfrau sollte zuverlässig und in manchen Situationen zurückhaltend sein.“
Die WAZ fragte bei dem Model nach, was sie von Single Hasebe hält. „Ich finde ihn gut. Er sieht toll aus. Ich habe schon etwas über ihn gelesen und gehört. Er soll einen tollen, typisch japanischen Charakter haben. Er ist ja auch der Kapitän seiner Mannschaft“, sagt die hübsche Blondine. Und was sagt Hasebe? Der VfL-Profi zu japanischen Journalisten: „Ja, ich habe zur Zeit keine Freundin. Meine Traumfrau sollte zuverlässig und in manchen Situationen zurückhaltend sein.“
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business
石原慎太郎
99条違反で結構だ。私はあの憲法を認めない。
憲法前文は醜悪だ。他国の人間が見たら皆笑う。
核を軍事技術に転化できる技術力を持っていることは国家として重要なことだ。
報復は当然だ。撃沈すればいい。堂々と戦争したっていい。
日本は再武装しなければならない。
解決するためには力、軍事力だ。
外交交渉、経済交渉のための絶対に必要なインフラ、これは軍事力なんだ。
日本は堂々と新しい兵器を作ってどんどん売ったらいい。
日本は核を持たなきゃだめですよ。持たない限り一人前には絶対扱われない。
攻撃されたら、堂々と反撃して、せん滅したらいい。日本軍というのは強いんだから。
日本が生きていく道は軍事政権をつくること。そうでなければ、日本はどこかの属国になる。徴兵制もやったら良い。
憲法前文は醜悪だ。他国の人間が見たら皆笑う。
核を軍事技術に転化できる技術力を持っていることは国家として重要なことだ。
報復は当然だ。撃沈すればいい。堂々と戦争したっていい。
日本は再武装しなければならない。
解決するためには力、軍事力だ。
外交交渉、経済交渉のための絶対に必要なインフラ、これは軍事力なんだ。
日本は堂々と新しい兵器を作ってどんどん売ったらいい。
日本は核を持たなきゃだめですよ。持たない限り一人前には絶対扱われない。
攻撃されたら、堂々と反撃して、せん滅したらいい。日本軍というのは強いんだから。
日本が生きていく道は軍事政権をつくること。そうでなければ、日本はどこかの属国になる。徴兵制もやったら良い。
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Sunday, November 18, 2012
池田大作
戦争放棄をうたう日本国憲法に掲げられた
平和の理念と精神を、
全世界に広げることが日本の使命である。
戦争を放棄するためには、不信を信頼に、
憎悪を友情に変え、
戦争など起こさない友好関係を、
すべての国々と築いていく以外にない。
—
戦前の軍国の日本は、
民衆一人一人が意見をもつことが許されず、
戦争の暴走を食い止めることができなかった。
民主主義は、制度の問題だけではない。
民主主義を支える民衆が自らを高めていく努力が不可欠である。
平和の理念と精神を、
全世界に広げることが日本の使命である。
戦争を放棄するためには、不信を信頼に、
憎悪を友情に変え、
戦争など起こさない友好関係を、
すべての国々と築いていく以外にない。
—
戦前の軍国の日本は、
民衆一人一人が意見をもつことが許されず、
戦争の暴走を食い止めることができなかった。
民主主義は、制度の問題だけではない。
民主主義を支える民衆が自らを高めていく努力が不可欠である。
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志位和夫
日本のテレビには、ある異常な特徴があります。それは、大手新聞社とテレビ局が完全に系列化されているということです。これをクロスオーナーシップといいます。放送メディアと新聞メディアという異なるメディアを、単一の営利企業が独占するというやり方です。
実は、このようなクロスオーナーシップは、欧米の先進国では見られないものなのです。なぜかというと、放送メディアと新聞メディアは、互いにチェックしあう必要があると考えられているからです。
世界で一番新聞がたくさん発行され、全国的規模で大手新聞社がクロスオーナーシップで系列のテレビ局に支配権をもつ。こういうがんじがらめの巨大メディアの構造ができあがっている国というのは、欧米の先進国には他に見られない異常なものなのです。
そういう形で、国民世論に圧倒的な影響力をもつ日本の巨大メディアが、権力のチェック役というメディア本来の仕事を果たしているでしょうか。率直にいってそれを放棄してしまっている。チェック役どころか、権力と一体化している。ここにたいへん深刻な問題があります。
実は、このようなクロスオーナーシップは、欧米の先進国では見られないものなのです。なぜかというと、放送メディアと新聞メディアは、互いにチェックしあう必要があると考えられているからです。
世界で一番新聞がたくさん発行され、全国的規模で大手新聞社がクロスオーナーシップで系列のテレビ局に支配権をもつ。こういうがんじがらめの巨大メディアの構造ができあがっている国というのは、欧米の先進国には他に見られない異常なものなのです。
そういう形で、国民世論に圧倒的な影響力をもつ日本の巨大メディアが、権力のチェック役というメディア本来の仕事を果たしているでしょうか。率直にいってそれを放棄してしまっている。チェック役どころか、権力と一体化している。ここにたいへん深刻な問題があります。
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Joseph Stiglitz
How, in a democracy supposedly based on one person one vote, could the 1 percent could have been so victorious in shaping policies in its interests? It is part of a process of disempowerment, disillusionment, and disenfranchisement that produces low voter turnout, a system in which electoral success requires heavy investments, and in which those with money have made political investments that have reaped large rewards — often greater than the returns they have reaped on their other investments.
There is another way for moneyed interests to get what they want out of government: convince the 99 percent that they have shared interests. This strategy requires an impressive sleight of hand; in many respects the interests of the 1 percent and the 99 percent differ markedly.
The fact that the 1 percent has so successfully shaped public perception testifies to the malleability of beliefs. When others engage in it, we call it “brainwashing” and “propaganda.”
There is another way for moneyed interests to get what they want out of government: convince the 99 percent that they have shared interests. This strategy requires an impressive sleight of hand; in many respects the interests of the 1 percent and the 99 percent differ markedly.
The fact that the 1 percent has so successfully shaped public perception testifies to the malleability of beliefs. When others engage in it, we call it “brainwashing” and “propaganda.”
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マイナビニュース
大人になってから気づいた、子どものころの勘違い
■ 言葉の勘違い
・「かなり大人になるまで、健康骨だと思っていた」
・「はつかが8日でなく20日だとは、結構後になって気づきました」
・「汚職事件をお食事券だと思いこみ、どんな食事なのか気になって仕方なかった」
■ 一般的な習慣だと思っていたら、自分の家だけの習慣だった
・「お雑煮に、砂糖をいれること。自分の家だけの習慣だった」
・「春巻きはケチャップで食べるものだと思っていたら、友達に驚かれた」
・「カレーには絶対レーズンが入っているものだと思っていた」
■ 歌詞に関する勘違い
・「赤い靴はいてる女の子は、いいじいさんに連れられていってしまう」
・「サザンのTSUNAMIの『風に戸惑う』を『風にトマト』とずっと聞き間違えていた」
・「『アルプス一万弱子やぎの上で』とずっと思っていた」
・「『うさぎ追いしかの山』を、『うさぎおいしい』だと思っていた」
・「巨人の星の『~思い込んだら試練の道を~』を『重いコンダラ』と思っていた」
(コンダラって、いったいなに?)
■ 大人になると、必ず結婚するものだと思っていた
・「オトナになっても、みんなが結婚できないと悟った」
・「お嫁さんなんて誰でもできるんだから夢じゃないと思っていた自分が恥ずかしい」
・「半自動的に結婚するものだと思っていた」
・「大人になったら結婚できると思っていたが、大人になっても恋人さえできない」
■ 赤ちゃんが生まれる仕組みについての勘違い
・「結婚すれば自然と赤ちゃんができるものだと思っていた」
・「すごく深く愛し合って実ったときに赤ちゃんが自然に生まれるのだと思っていた」
・「生まれるときは、帝王切開が普通だと思っていた」
■ 番外編
・「観光地の後楽園は読売ジャイアンツの本拠地だと思っていた」
・「モロッコってトルコ周辺の国なんだって思い込んでいた」
・「『近松門左衛門』を『近松門、左衛門』と思っていた」
・「就職したら一生その会社に勤めなければいけないと思っていた」
■ 言葉の勘違い
・「かなり大人になるまで、健康骨だと思っていた」
・「はつかが8日でなく20日だとは、結構後になって気づきました」
・「汚職事件をお食事券だと思いこみ、どんな食事なのか気になって仕方なかった」
■ 一般的な習慣だと思っていたら、自分の家だけの習慣だった
・「お雑煮に、砂糖をいれること。自分の家だけの習慣だった」
・「春巻きはケチャップで食べるものだと思っていたら、友達に驚かれた」
・「カレーには絶対レーズンが入っているものだと思っていた」
■ 歌詞に関する勘違い
・「赤い靴はいてる女の子は、いいじいさんに連れられていってしまう」
・「サザンのTSUNAMIの『風に戸惑う』を『風にトマト』とずっと聞き間違えていた」
・「『アルプス一万弱子やぎの上で』とずっと思っていた」
・「『うさぎ追いしかの山』を、『うさぎおいしい』だと思っていた」
・「巨人の星の『~思い込んだら試練の道を~』を『重いコンダラ』と思っていた」
(コンダラって、いったいなに?)
■ 大人になると、必ず結婚するものだと思っていた
・「オトナになっても、みんなが結婚できないと悟った」
・「お嫁さんなんて誰でもできるんだから夢じゃないと思っていた自分が恥ずかしい」
・「半自動的に結婚するものだと思っていた」
・「大人になったら結婚できると思っていたが、大人になっても恋人さえできない」
■ 赤ちゃんが生まれる仕組みについての勘違い
・「結婚すれば自然と赤ちゃんができるものだと思っていた」
・「すごく深く愛し合って実ったときに赤ちゃんが自然に生まれるのだと思っていた」
・「生まれるときは、帝王切開が普通だと思っていた」
■ 番外編
・「観光地の後楽園は読売ジャイアンツの本拠地だと思っていた」
・「モロッコってトルコ周辺の国なんだって思い込んでいた」
・「『近松門左衛門』を『近松門、左衛門』と思っていた」
・「就職したら一生その会社に勤めなければいけないと思っていた」
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Неизвестный
Ничего не может быть страшнее, чем безразличие людей.
Ничего не может быть Страшнее, как потерять зрение: Это невыразимая обида, она Отнимает у человека девять Десятых мира.
~ М. Горький
Ничего не может быть Страшнее, как потерять зрение: Это невыразимая обида, она Отнимает у человека девять Десятых мира.
~ М. Горький
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The Economist
The Global Peace Index (GPI) will run into some flak. A country that applied the simple Roman maxim—“if you want peace, prepare for war”—would score badly. By unconditionally endorsing low military budgets and marking down high ones, the index may seem to give heart to freeloaders: countries that enjoy peace precisely because others (often America) care for their defence. Indeed, one of the ideas behind NATO and several other security pacts is that America’s protection limits the need for medium-sized powers to be big military players in their own right.
Still, perhaps the main thing about the index is not where countries are now, but how they change over time: if a country is getting more peaceful, presumably that is good—and if it is becoming less so, that could be a warning. Which way a nation is going may matter more than its ranking. But remember, some Buddhists say change is an illusion, no less than fixity: “By stating that there is neither motion nor rest, we follow the path of the middle.”
Still, perhaps the main thing about the index is not where countries are now, but how they change over time: if a country is getting more peaceful, presumably that is good—and if it is becoming less so, that could be a warning. Which way a nation is going may matter more than its ranking. But remember, some Buddhists say change is an illusion, no less than fixity: “By stating that there is neither motion nor rest, we follow the path of the middle.”
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Saturday, November 17, 2012
Global Peace Index (GPI)
| 1. Iceland
2. Denmark 2. New Zealand 4. Canada 5. Japan 6. Austria 6. Ireland ?. Luxembourg 8. Slovenia 9. Finland 10. Switzerland 11. Belgium 12. Qatar 13. Czech Republic 14. Sweden 15. Germany 16. Portugal 17. Hungary 18. Norway 19. Bhutan 20. Malaysia 21. Mauritius 22. Australia 23. Singapore x. Hong Kong 24. Poland 25. Spain 26. Slovakia 27. Taiwan 28. Netherlands 29. UK 30. Chile 31. Botswana 32. Romania 33. Uruguay 34. Vietnam 35. Croatia 36. Costa Rica 37. Laos 38. Italy |
39. Bulgaria
40. France 41. Estonia 42. South Korea 43. Lithuania 44. Argentina 45. Latvia 46. UAE 47. Kuwait 48. Mozambique 49. Namibia 50. Ghana 51. Zambia 52. Sierra Leone 53. Lesotho 54. Morocco 55. Tanzania 56. Burkina Faso 56. Djibouti 58. Mongolia 59. Oman 60. Malawi 61. Panama 62. Jordan 63. Indonesia 64. Serbia 65. Bosnia & H. 66. Albania 66. Moldova 68. Macedonia 69. Guyana 70. Cuba 71. Ukraine 72. Tunisia 73. Cyprus 74. Gambia 75. Gabon 76. Paraguay 77. Greece 78. Senegal |
79. Peru
80. Nepal 81. Montenegro 81. Nicaragua 83. Brazil 84. Bolivia 85. Ecuador 85. Swaziland 86. ? 87. Eq. Guinea 88. USA 89. China, P.R. 90. Dominican R. 91. Bangladesh 92. Guinea 93. Papua N.G. 94. T. & Tobago 95. Angola 97. Cameroon 98. Uganda 99. Tajikistan 99. Madagascar 101. Liberia 102. Mali 103. Sri Lanka 104. Congo, R. 105. Kazakhstan 106. Saudi Arabia 107. Haiti 108. Cambodia 109. Belarus 110. Uzbekistan 111. Egypt 111. El Salvador 113. Jamaica 114. Benin 115. Armenia 116. Niger 117. Turkmenistan 118. Bahrain |
119. Rwanda
120. Kenya 121. Algeria 122. Eritrea 123. Venezuela 124. Guatemala 125. Mauritania 126. Thailand 127. South Africa 128. Iran 129. Honduras 130. Turkey 131. Kyrgyzstan 132. Azerbaijan 133. Philippines 134. Cote d'Ivoire 135. Mexico 136. Lebanon 137. Ethiopia 138. Burundi 139. Myanmar 140. Zimbabwe 141. Georgia 142. India 143. Yemen 144. Colombia 145. Chad 146. Nigeria 147. Libya 147. Syria 149. Pakistan 150. Israel 151. Central Africa 152. North Korea 153. Russia 154. Congo, D.R. 155. Iraq 156. Sudan 157. Afghanistan 158. Somalia |
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Friday, November 16, 2012
日本工業規格
- 人権は,人であるが故に全ての人に属するという点で,固有なものである。
- 人権は,人々がそれを放棄することには同意できず,政府であっても他の機関であってもそれを人々から剝奪することはできないという点で,絶対的なものである。
- 人権は,地位にかかわらず全ての人に適用されるという点で,普遍的なものである。
- 人権は,選択的に無視することができないという点で,不可分なものである。
- 人権は,一つの人権を実現することが他の人権の実現に貢献するという点で,相互依存的なものである。
- 組織統治
- 人権
- 労働慣行
- 環境
- 公正な事業慣行
- 消費者課題
- コミュニティへの参画及びコミュニティの発展
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human rights and democracy
白石理
国内法令に対する人権の優位性の根拠は、世界人権宣言第1条、「すべての人間は、生れながらにして自由であり、かつ、尊厳と権利とについて平等である」という人権の基本原則に求めることができる。人権は、それぞれの国の憲法や法令によって初めて人に付与されるものではない。むしろ国家は、国内法により、また司法による法適用によって、国際的に認められた人権を守る義務があるとされるのである。これは、国際連合「保護、尊重及び救済」枠組の第一の要素、「国家の人権保護義務」である。
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ISO
ISO 26000 - Social responsibility
Business and organizations do not operate in a vacuum. Their relationship to the society and environment in which they operate is a critical factor in their ability to continue to operate effectively. It is also increasingly being used as a measure of their overall performance.
ISO 26000 provides guidance on how businesses and organizations can operate in a socially responsible way. This means acting in an ethical and transparent way that contributes to the health and welfare of society.
Business and organizations do not operate in a vacuum. Their relationship to the society and environment in which they operate is a critical factor in their ability to continue to operate effectively. It is also increasingly being used as a measure of their overall performance.
ISO 26000 provides guidance on how businesses and organizations can operate in a socially responsible way. This means acting in an ethical and transparent way that contributes to the health and welfare of society.
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human rights and democracy
Nick Bostrom
A technologically mature “posthuman” civilization would have enormous computing power. Based on this empirical fact, the simulation argument shows that at least one of the following propositions is true:
(1) The fraction of human-level civilizations that reach a posthuman stage is very close to zero;
(2) The fraction of posthuman civilizations that are interested in running ancestor-simulations is very close to zero;
(3) The fraction of all people with our kind of experiences that are living in a simulation is very close to one.
If (1) is true, then we will almost certainly go extinct before reaching posthumanity.
If (2) is true, then there must be a strong convergence among the courses of advanced civilizations so that virtually none contains any relatively wealthy individuals who desire to run ancestor-simulations and are free to do so.
If (3) is true, then we almost certainly live in a simulation.
In the dark forest of our current ignorance, it seems sensible to apportion one’s credence roughly evenly between (1), (2), and (3).
Unless we are now living in a simulation, our descendants will almost certainly never run an ancestor-simulation.
(1) The fraction of human-level civilizations that reach a posthuman stage is very close to zero;
(2) The fraction of posthuman civilizations that are interested in running ancestor-simulations is very close to zero;
(3) The fraction of all people with our kind of experiences that are living in a simulation is very close to one.
If (1) is true, then we will almost certainly go extinct before reaching posthumanity.
If (2) is true, then there must be a strong convergence among the courses of advanced civilizations so that virtually none contains any relatively wealthy individuals who desire to run ancestor-simulations and are free to do so.
If (3) is true, then we almost certainly live in a simulation.
In the dark forest of our current ignorance, it seems sensible to apportion one’s credence roughly evenly between (1), (2), and (3).
Unless we are now living in a simulation, our descendants will almost certainly never run an ancestor-simulation.
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Ali Abunimah
There has beeen fulsome praise for General David Petraeus since he resigned as head of the CIA after the FBI discovered he was having an extramarital affair.
President Barack Obama lauded Petraeus’s decades of “extraordinary service,” which includes his time as general in charge of US wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, and as head of the CIA, where Petraeus would have been in charge of Obama’s “secret” drone program which kills children and other civilians in several countries with no oversight or control from anyone.
Some have lamented, via social media, that wars, occupations, assassinations are not reasons to lose one’s job in the United States government. Indeed, such service gets you praised and promoted, while an extramarital affair will kill your career.
But what also struck me was the total absence in the extensive media coverage of another way Petraeus made a little history: by publicly criticizing Israel and enraging the Israel lobby.
President Barack Obama lauded Petraeus’s decades of “extraordinary service,” which includes his time as general in charge of US wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, and as head of the CIA, where Petraeus would have been in charge of Obama’s “secret” drone program which kills children and other civilians in several countries with no oversight or control from anyone.
Some have lamented, via social media, that wars, occupations, assassinations are not reasons to lose one’s job in the United States government. Indeed, such service gets you praised and promoted, while an extramarital affair will kill your career.
But what also struck me was the total absence in the extensive media coverage of another way Petraeus made a little history: by publicly criticizing Israel and enraging the Israel lobby.
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american way
Roi Tov
Emphasizing the wild reaction of the Hebrew media and Israel’s upper echelon of politicians to Obama’s victory, Mossad opened on the same day a recruiting campaign over the internet. Its ads appeared next to pictures illustrating the victory, creating an eerie image. Is Mossad about to gear up sinister old plans for a presidential assassination? Beginning this article in such a fashion is justifiable due to the violent reactions voiced in Israel. One of the softest belonged to Yedioth Aharonot—Israel’s largest newspaper—which read “An Ugly Victory.” The most quoted reaction belonged to Likud Knesset Member Danny Danon, who said “the State of Israel will not surrender to Obama. We have no one to rely on but ourselves.”
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United Nations Population Division
Probabilistic Projections: Total Population (thousands)
Population projections based on probabilistic projections of total fertility
from the 2010 Revision
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