Wednesday, October 31, 2012
John Naisbitt
Although for me the changes were clearly under way, some of the new directions I saw seemed unlikely at the time. I risked displeasing the experts, who could have argued that describing the world in terms of shift ing categories would be too simplistic. But I thought it was worth the risk. I felt that in a world where events and ideas were analyzed to the point of lifelessness, where complexity grew by quantum leaps, where the information din was so high that one had to shriek to be heard above it, people were hungry for structure. With a simple framework, we could begin to make sense of the world. And we could change the framework, as the world itself changed.
森みや子
先日、朝ラッシュの終わりかけた電車に乗っていて、新聞を広げて読んでいる人が急激に少なくなったことに気づきました（遅）。
カシャカシャシャカシャカしながら、新聞をめくりながら、その音が妙に響き、周りを見渡すと、同じように、新聞紙？を広げながら読むのは、前の座席に座るおじさんと私だけ・・・。
他の人は皆、スマートフォンやアイパット・タブレット端末をめくり電子版で読んでいる様子。
時代から遅れていることを痛感しました。
電子版に切り替える前に、そもそも端末を買わないといけないのですが、本当に必要かなあ・・・使うかなあ・・・などと完全に置いて行かれています。
ただ、新聞紙がなくなると、うちの犬のおしっこシートがなくなるんですよねえ。
ダメです、思考の次元が違いますね。
カシャカシャシャカシャカしながら、新聞をめくりながら、その音が妙に響き、周りを見渡すと、同じように、新聞紙？を広げながら読むのは、前の座席に座るおじさんと私だけ・・・。
他の人は皆、スマートフォンやアイパット・タブレット端末をめくり電子版で読んでいる様子。
時代から遅れていることを痛感しました。
電子版に切り替える前に、そもそも端末を買わないといけないのですが、本当に必要かなあ・・・使うかなあ・・・などと完全に置いて行かれています。
ただ、新聞紙がなくなると、うちの犬のおしっこシートがなくなるんですよねえ。
ダメです、思考の次元が違いますね。
Tuesday, October 30, 2012
Monday, October 29, 2012
U.S. Energy Information Administration
There are two country groupings that emerge where shale gas development may appear most attractive.
The first group consists of countries that are currently highly dependent upon natural gas imports, have at least some gas production infrastructure, and their estimated shale gas resources are substantial relative to their current gas consumption. For these countries, shale gas development could significantly alter their future gas balance, which may motivate development. Examples of countries in this group include France, Poland, Turkey, Ukraine, South Africa, Morocco, and Chile. In addition, South Africa's shale gas resource endowment is interesting as it may be attractive for use of that natural gas as a feedstock to their existing gas-to-liquids (GTL) and coal-to-liquids (CTL) plants.
The second group consists of those countries where the shale gas resource estimate is large (e.g., above 200 trillion cubic feet) and there already exists a significant natural gas production infrastructure for internal use or for export. In addition to the United States, notable examples of this group include Canada, Mexico, China, Australia, Libya, Algeria, Argentina, and Brazil. Existing infrastructure would aide in the timely conversion of the resource into production, but could also lead to competition with other natural gas supply sources. For an individual country the situation could be more complex.
The first group consists of countries that are currently highly dependent upon natural gas imports, have at least some gas production infrastructure, and their estimated shale gas resources are substantial relative to their current gas consumption. For these countries, shale gas development could significantly alter their future gas balance, which may motivate development. Examples of countries in this group include France, Poland, Turkey, Ukraine, South Africa, Morocco, and Chile. In addition, South Africa's shale gas resource endowment is interesting as it may be attractive for use of that natural gas as a feedstock to their existing gas-to-liquids (GTL) and coal-to-liquids (CTL) plants.
The second group consists of those countries where the shale gas resource estimate is large (e.g., above 200 trillion cubic feet) and there already exists a significant natural gas production infrastructure for internal use or for export. In addition to the United States, notable examples of this group include Canada, Mexico, China, Australia, Libya, Algeria, Argentina, and Brazil. Existing infrastructure would aide in the timely conversion of the resource into production, but could also lead to competition with other natural gas supply sources. For an individual country the situation could be more complex.
吉村章
「近いうちに」という言葉が連日、新聞紙面で取り上げられている。食事会の席で中国の友人とこの話題になった。といっても彼が聞きたがったのは、衆議院の解散時期ではない。「近いうちに」という言葉を使うときの日本人の感覚について、である。
「近いうち、とは具体的にいつを指す言葉？」と彼は熱心に質問する。曖昧な表現で会話が成立する日本人が、彼には不思議に見えるようだ。
言葉の話し手と受け手の感覚のズレ。これを「基準の感覚差」と言う。異文化研修では必ず取り上げるテーマである。つまり、話し手と受け手のモノサシが一致しているかどうか。
異文化間では双方のモノサシがずれていたりして、認識のズレが生じ、これがコミュニケーションギャップを引き起こす。
日本人は言うべきことをはっきりと言わないことが多い。日本人同士のコミュニケーションでは互いに空気を読み、相手が期待していることを考える。だからコミュニケーションギャップは生じない。しかし、中国人を相手にする場合は言うべきことははっきり言うべきだ。これがコミュニケーションギャップを未然に防ぐポイントである。実は日本人同士でもそう心がけたいのだが。
「近いうち、とは具体的にいつを指す言葉？」と彼は熱心に質問する。曖昧な表現で会話が成立する日本人が、彼には不思議に見えるようだ。
言葉の話し手と受け手の感覚のズレ。これを「基準の感覚差」と言う。異文化研修では必ず取り上げるテーマである。つまり、話し手と受け手のモノサシが一致しているかどうか。
異文化間では双方のモノサシがずれていたりして、認識のズレが生じ、これがコミュニケーションギャップを引き起こす。
日本人は言うべきことをはっきりと言わないことが多い。日本人同士のコミュニケーションでは互いに空気を読み、相手が期待していることを考える。だからコミュニケーションギャップは生じない。しかし、中国人を相手にする場合は言うべきことははっきり言うべきだ。これがコミュニケーションギャップを未然に防ぐポイントである。実は日本人同士でもそう心がけたいのだが。
Sunday, October 28, 2012
Georges Sorel
L'avenir est à ceux qui ne sont pas désabusés.
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L'histoire de la démocratie nous offre une combinaison bien remarquable d'utopies et de mythes.
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L'histoire de la démocratie nous offre une combinaison bien remarquable d'utopies et de mythes.
井上靖
人間は常に正しく生きるということを意図しなければならぬ。天が応援してくれるか、妨害するか、そうしたことは一切判らないが、ともかく、人間はこの地上に於て、正しく生きることを意図し、それに向って努力しなければならないのである。そうした人間を、必ずや天は嘉してくれるに違いない。 "嘉す" とは、天が "よし" として下さることである。
天が嘉してくれるというのであれば、人間としては、それでいいではないか。それ以上のこととなると、天にしても、手が廻りかねるというものである。天の下、地の上、そこでは四時行われ、万物生じている。四季の運行は滞りなく行われ、万物はみな、次々に生れ、育っている。
天の受持たなければならぬ仕事はたいへんである。それ以上のこととなると。天にしても手が廻りかねる。人間が天に対して、何を望み、何を期待しても、無理というものである。
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贵国若敢对菲律宾、越南、日本开战，我只讲六条，不费一兵一卒，中国即溃败。
1、公布中国官员海外存款并冻结;;
2、公布有美国护照的官员名单;
3、公布在美国定居的官员家属名单;
4、下令清查洛杉矶二奶村;
5、把在美官员家属送往关塔那摩基地;
6、空投单兵武器给中国下岗工人。
明仁
平和は，常に希求されながら，常に遠い目標にとどまるものなのでしょうか。平和の均衡を乱す憎しみの感情は，どのような状況から生まれ，どのようにして暴力に至るのでしょうか。長い歴史を負って現代を生きる私ども一人一人は，今を平和に生きる努力とともに，過去が残した様々な憎しみの本質を理解し，これを暴力や戦争に至らしめぬ努力を重ねていかなければならないと思います。同時に私どもが，平和への道のりの難さを，絶望や虚無感に至らせることなく，人類がこれまでにもたらした，喜ぶべき進歩を喜び，現代にも決して欠けることのない，各地，各国の良き報せを分かちあって，心を励ましていくことも大切に思われます。
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どの国もが，それぞれの歴史を背負い，現在に至っていることを思いますと，それぞれの国が複雑な過去の重荷に耐え，その中でなお，自分の国を愛し，より望ましい姿で未来に向かって努力することが，どれ程大切であるかを感じさせられます。それぞれの国にあって，自国を思い，他国との間の平和を求めて努力をしている人々と出会い，共に生きる感覚を失うことがないよう心掛けていきたいと思っております。
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国と国との友好関係の増進にはお互いの理解とそれぞれの立場の尊重が重要であり，両国の関係がこのように広く，深いものとなってきたことを誠に喜ばしく思います。
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韓国は日本の最も近い隣国であり，歴史的にも様々な関係があります。したがって，両国の理解と信頼関係，友好関係を深めていくことは非常に大切なことと思います。
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私自身としては、桓武天皇の生母が百済の武寧王の子孫であると、『続日本紀』に記されていることに、韓国とのゆかりを感じてます。
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象徴とはどうあるべきかということは、いつも私の念頭を離れず、その望ましいあり方を求めて今日に至っています。
なお、大日本帝国憲法下の天皇のあり方と、日本国憲法下の天皇のあり方を比べれば、日本国憲法下の天皇のあり方の方が、天皇の長い歴史で見た場合、伝統的な天皇のあり方に沿うものと思います。
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あまたなる命の失せし崖の下 海深くして青く澄みたり
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どの国もが，それぞれの歴史を背負い，現在に至っていることを思いますと，それぞれの国が複雑な過去の重荷に耐え，その中でなお，自分の国を愛し，より望ましい姿で未来に向かって努力することが，どれ程大切であるかを感じさせられます。それぞれの国にあって，自国を思い，他国との間の平和を求めて努力をしている人々と出会い，共に生きる感覚を失うことがないよう心掛けていきたいと思っております。
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国と国との友好関係の増進にはお互いの理解とそれぞれの立場の尊重が重要であり，両国の関係がこのように広く，深いものとなってきたことを誠に喜ばしく思います。
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韓国は日本の最も近い隣国であり，歴史的にも様々な関係があります。したがって，両国の理解と信頼関係，友好関係を深めていくことは非常に大切なことと思います。
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私自身としては、桓武天皇の生母が百済の武寧王の子孫であると、『続日本紀』に記されていることに、韓国とのゆかりを感じてます。
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象徴とはどうあるべきかということは、いつも私の念頭を離れず、その望ましいあり方を求めて今日に至っています。
なお、大日本帝国憲法下の天皇のあり方と、日本国憲法下の天皇のあり方を比べれば、日本国憲法下の天皇のあり方の方が、天皇の長い歴史で見た場合、伝統的な天皇のあり方に沿うものと思います。
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あまたなる命の失せし崖の下 海深くして青く澄みたり
後陽成天皇
後陽成天皇宸翰御消息
後陽成天皇が1593年、朝鮮への出兵を強行しようとしていた豊臣秀吉を諫めるために書いた消息。その渡海を「無勿躰」、朝家のためにも天下のためにも「遠慮可然」として、必死に思いとどまるよう諭している。
大高檀紙二紙いっぱいにわたって書かれた格調高い筆致は、当時22歳だったとは思えないくらい、計算し尽くされたような余白に映えている。
Saturday, October 27, 2012
石原慎太郎
もうちょっと若い人に人間の連帯感というものを感じてほしい。自衛隊に入ってでもいいし、警察ででもいいし、無償の行為をする経験をしてもらった方がいい。実際にやるかやらないかは仲間と相談する。
この発言へのコメント：
この発言へのコメント：
- 自分が決めて自分以外を従わせる。国民を奴隷とでも勘違いしてそう。
- 自分で見本みせろよ。この手のやつは自分に甘く他人に厳しいんだよな。
- 老害どもは無私の奉仕活動をどれくらいやってきたって？
- まずは日本をこんな状況にした老人達をビシビシ鍛え直さないとな。
- 元気な年寄りに死ぬほどの訓練をすれば年金も払わなくていいしね。
- 警察だって自衛隊だって無償じゃないだろ。徴兵だって給料あるよ、クソジジイ。
- 無償？何言ってんだこの老害。刑務所でも働けば金がもらえるというのに。
- でもこのおっさん、親の金で行かせてもらった学校の校風が合わずに休学って ...
- 軍事警察国家でも目指してるんですか？
- 競争だの金儲けだのを肯定しておいて、徴兵だけ無償の奉仕なんて都合が良すぎる。
- 年金はもらえない、税負担は重くなる、爺婆の面倒見させられ、徴兵までされるかもしれない若い奴は気の毒だな。
- むしろ問題は女だな。持ち上げられ過ぎていまや女はわがままな子供と同じだ。
- 大好きなおとなりの国が徴兵制やってるよって教えてやれよ。徴兵がかなり生産性の足を引っ張ってるらしいよ。
- 少子化の時代にこれは世迷言というか痴呆老人のたわ言だろう。
- 預かる自衛隊や警察はいい迷惑だけどな。警視庁の迷惑かえりみずマラソン大会開いてる爺さんらしい意見だわ。
- このボケ老人はプロ集団である自衛隊を保育園にしようとしている
- この耄碌爺は「今時の若い奴ら」は生きてるだけで犯罪者以下だと思ってる。
田中慎弥
この数カ月ほどの間、公的及び私的な事情のために極めて忙しい日々が続き、私はとうとう、人間としてほとんど壊れてしまった。いや、壊れきったと思った時点でまだほんの少しだけ残っていた人間的な部分でさえも、また破壊することになり、そうやって、今も壊れ続けている。食べることで人間性をわずかばかり取り戻し、それをまた仕事によって壊し、また食べて飲み、また壊し……要するに、自分を壊すため、壊すに足る自分を作るために食べているのだ。生きるために食べるという本来のあり方とは隔たってしまっている。どこかで元に戻さなければと思いながら、転がり落ちてゆく自分を止められない。人間でなくなってゆく過程を、まだ人間である自分が見つめていて、その人間である自分もやがて化物になってゆく。食べるのだとしたら、自分で自分の命を食べている。それがはっきりと分かる。
Wednesday, October 24, 2012
Juan E. Méndez
The death penalty has so far been treated under the exception to the right to life provided for by international law. A “new approach” that puts the death penalty in the context of the prohibition of torture is required.
States need to re-examine their procedures under international law because the ability of States to impose and carry out the death penalty is diminishing as these practices are increasingly viewed to constitute torture.
States need to re-examine their procedures under international law because the ability of States to impose and carry out the death penalty is diminishing as these practices are increasingly viewed to constitute torture.
Tuesday, October 23, 2012
Monday, October 22, 2012
Wikipedia
Eternity (or forever) is endless time. It is often referenced in the context of religion, in the concept of immortality, whereby death is conquered, and people may live for an unlimited amount of time (cf. Heaven). The existence of gods or God is said to endure eternally and sometimes also the natural cosmos, in respect to both past and future.
By contrast, the concept of a mathematically infinite duration, is called sempiternity or everlasting. Whereas the eternal is said to be unchanging and outside time; a potentially sempiternal span of time can never come to pass in actuality. Aristotle argued that the cosmos has no beginning.
By contrast, the concept of a mathematically infinite duration, is called sempiternity or everlasting. Whereas the eternal is said to be unchanging and outside time; a potentially sempiternal span of time can never come to pass in actuality. Aristotle argued that the cosmos has no beginning.
Brian Handwerk
But could humankind really meet its end in 2012—drowned in apocalyptic floods, walloped by a secret planet, seared by an angry sun, or thrown overboard by speeding continents?
And did the ancient Maya—whose empire peaked between A.D. 250 and 900 in what is now Mexico and Central America—really predict the end of the world in 2012?
At least one aspect of the 2012, end-of-the-world hype is, for some people, all too real: the fear.
And did the ancient Maya—whose empire peaked between A.D. 250 and 900 in what is now Mexico and Central America—really predict the end of the world in 2012?
At least one aspect of the 2012, end-of-the-world hype is, for some people, all too real: the fear.
Terence Loose
Don't bother earning these five degrees:
- Unwanted degree #1 - Architecture
Degree to earn instead: Business Administration - Unwanted degree #2 - Philosophy or Religious Studies
Degree to earn instead: Elementary Education - Unwanted degree #3 - Anthropology or Archeology
Degree to earn instead: Criminal Justice - Unwanted degree #4 - Area Ethnic or Civilization Studies
Degree to earn instead: Psychology - Unwanted degree #5 - Information Systems
Degree to earn instead: Computer Science
Kavkaz-Center
Vyacheslav Matuzov chairman of the Russian Friendship Society with Arab Countries: Let me tell you, Russia does not have any interests in the Arab world. Russian products are not sold in the streets and markets in the Arab world...
Abd Al-Jalil: The Arab streets are full of Russian prostitutes - not Russian products...
Vyacheslav Matuzov: It is the interest of the Arabs to have Russia's support, not the other way around.
Abd Al-Jalil: This criminal regime in Syria, which provided services to the Zionists... Who says, Mr. Matuzov, that we are fixated on the US? The US wants Bashar Al-Assad, and so does Israel, but the US has exchanged roles with you, so that you will have the standing you once had in the world. The US is now asking the Russian Bear to say that it is against the toppling of the Al-Assad regime, but we know that your military base, your interests, your people, and all your experts will become a target for our Free Army in Syria. We will declare this in Syria...
Vyacheslav Matuzov: Is that a threat?
Abd Al-Jalil: It's not an empty threat. It will be implemented, Allah willing. Russians will be targeted in Syria, wherever they are. Bashar Al-Assad wants support from Moscow?! By Allah, we will send him to you, so that you can embalm him at the Kremlin, alongside Stalin and...
Vyacheslav Matuzov: Send who?
Abd Al-Jalil: We will send them Bashar Al-Assad after his execution, Allah willing. Let them him enjoy him, and let's see if they can enter Syria or the Middle East after that.
Abd Al-Jalil: The Arab streets are full of Russian prostitutes - not Russian products...
Vyacheslav Matuzov: It is the interest of the Arabs to have Russia's support, not the other way around.
Abd Al-Jalil: This criminal regime in Syria, which provided services to the Zionists... Who says, Mr. Matuzov, that we are fixated on the US? The US wants Bashar Al-Assad, and so does Israel, but the US has exchanged roles with you, so that you will have the standing you once had in the world. The US is now asking the Russian Bear to say that it is against the toppling of the Al-Assad regime, but we know that your military base, your interests, your people, and all your experts will become a target for our Free Army in Syria. We will declare this in Syria...
Vyacheslav Matuzov: Is that a threat?
Abd Al-Jalil: It's not an empty threat. It will be implemented, Allah willing. Russians will be targeted in Syria, wherever they are. Bashar Al-Assad wants support from Moscow?! By Allah, we will send him to you, so that you can embalm him at the Kremlin, alongside Stalin and...
Vyacheslav Matuzov: Send who?
Abd Al-Jalil: We will send them Bashar Al-Assad after his execution, Allah willing. Let them him enjoy him, and let's see if they can enter Syria or the Middle East after that.
井上靖
河北省南西部の元氏という小さい部落でわれわれは崩れかかった城壁の上にせっせと土嚢を積んだ。やがて何時間か後には行われるであろう敵襲に備えて、おのおの自分の前の砦を補強するために忙しい日没の一刻を過していたのだ。その時の不思議に静かな薄暮の訪れを、初冬の平和な村々の茂りを、遠く地平のあたりを南下して行った烏の大群を、そして遥か西方の山裾にしきりに打揚げられる烽火の煙を、あるいは又その時われわれ三人が交したひどく屈託のない会話を、それら一切をいま思い出すことのできるのは私ひとりである。右の友も左の友も、その翌日からはこの世にいないのだ。あの夜にはいったい何が行われたと言うのか。激戦――そんな濁った騒がしいものは微塵も起りはしなかった。運命の序列、そうだ、われわれが持っていてしかも知らない己が運命の序列を、仮借なくつきつけて見せるひどく冷たいものが、あの夜の闇の中を静かに、だが縦横に走っていたのだ。そして硫酸のような雨が音もなく、併しこやみなくわれわれの精神の上に降り注いでいたのだ。
U.S. Attorney’s Office, Western District of Missouri
Christjan Bee, 36, of Monett, pleaded guilty before U.S. Magistrate Judge James C. England to possessing obscenity.
On Aug. 8, 2011, Bee’s wife contacted the Monett Police Department and reported that she had found files she believed to be child pornography on a computer used by her husband. Police officers executed a search warrant at Bee’s residence and seized his computer.
During the forensic examination of Bee’s computer, a collection of electronic comics, entitled “incest comics,” were discovered on the computer. These comics contained multiple images of minors engaging in graphic sexual intercourse with adults and other minors. The depictions clearly lack any literary, artistic, political or scientific value.
Under the terms of today’s plea agreement, the government will recommend a sentence of three years in federal prison without parole. A sentencing hearing will be scheduled after the completion of a presentence investigation by the United States Probation Office.
On Aug. 8, 2011, Bee’s wife contacted the Monett Police Department and reported that she had found files she believed to be child pornography on a computer used by her husband. Police officers executed a search warrant at Bee’s residence and seized his computer.
During the forensic examination of Bee’s computer, a collection of electronic comics, entitled “incest comics,” were discovered on the computer. These comics contained multiple images of minors engaging in graphic sexual intercourse with adults and other minors. The depictions clearly lack any literary, artistic, political or scientific value.
Under the terms of today’s plea agreement, the government will recommend a sentence of three years in federal prison without parole. A sentencing hearing will be scheduled after the completion of a presentence investigation by the United States Probation Office.
Phillip Chester
In Zen you sit for many months, sometimes years, before you become capable of listening. When you listen so totally that there is no thought arising, passing, coming and going, then the thinker disappears, and the listener disappears. The outside disappears, the inside disappears, and you are without boundary. It is a tremendous emptiness; nothing is, or, only nothing is; freedom is utterly complete; and you are in peace.
Sunday, October 21, 2012
Wilson Mizner
A good listener is not only popular everywhere, but after a while he gets to know something.
__________
I respect faith, but doubt is what gets you an education.
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I respect faith, but doubt is what gets you an education.
佐伯啓思
資源と市場をめぐる国家間競争という２０世紀初頭の状況が、将来の資源確保という事情を軸にして、現在へ回帰している。過度なグローバル競争が、世界をふたたび２０世紀初頭の帝国主義へと回帰させている。尖閣をめぐる中国、竹島をめぐる韓国、そして北方領土をめぐるロシアとの間の潜在的な国境紛争は、このような帝国主義への回帰という現状のなかで理解しなければならない。そして、それが２０世紀初頭の情景へとわれわれをいざない、歴史問題が持ち出されてくるのである。
もはや世界から戦争はなくなり平和な時代になった、という前提で書かれた戦後憲法の前文はもはや意味をなさないことになるであろう。平和憲法に象徴される日本の「戦後」というものが、いかに特異な時代であったかをわれわれは改めて理解しなければならないのだ。
もはや世界から戦争はなくなり平和な時代になった、という前提で書かれた戦後憲法の前文はもはや意味をなさないことになるであろう。平和憲法に象徴される日本の「戦後」というものが、いかに特異な時代であったかをわれわれは改めて理解しなければならないのだ。
Erick Schonfeld
People are a lot more interested these days in “augmented reality,” or at least they are on Google where it surpassed “virtual reality” as a search term. Maybe people are searching for it more just because they are not sure what it means, but it definitely is entering the collective consciousness. If virtual reality is a complete immersion in a digital world, augmented reality is more a digital overlay onto the real world. It enhances the real world with digital data, and therefore it is much more interesting than a completely fabricated environment. There is an element of magic to augmented reality apps because they juxtapose data and graphics where they have no business showing up.
Missy Franklin
Jacques Derrida
One can always dream or speculate around this secret account. Speculation begins there – and belief. But of the secret itself, there can be no archive, by definition. The secret is the very ash of the archive, the place where it no longer even makes sense to say “the very ash [la cendre même]“or “right on the ash [à même la cendre].” There is no sense in searching for the secret of what anyone may have known.
_________
As if one could not, precisely, recall and archive the very thing on represses, archive it while repressing it (because repression is an archivization), that is to say, to archive otherwise, to repress the archive while archiving the repression; otherwise, of course, and that is the whole problem, …
_________
As if one could not, precisely, recall and archive the very thing on represses, archive it while repressing it (because repression is an archivization), that is to say, to archive otherwise, to repress the archive while archiving the repression; otherwise, of course, and that is the whole problem, …
Akira Mizuta Lippit
What was intimated in the radioactive culture of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries erupted at full force in Hiroshima and Nagasaki: if the atomic blasts and blackened skies can be thought of as massive cameras, then the victims of this dark atomic room can be seen as photographic effects. Seared organic and nonorganic matter left dark stains, opaque artefacts of once vital bodies, on the pavements and other surfaces of this grotesque theater. The “shadows”, as they were called, are actually photograms, images formed by the direct exposure of objects on photographic surfaces. Photographic sculptures. True photographs, more photographic than photographic images.
_______
But a secret archive is not the same as an archive of secrets.
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But a secret archive is not the same as an archive of secrets.
Jason Farago
… a subculture that hasn’t gone away: the “Hillary Haters,” a loose-knit collection of virulently anti-Clinton activists who can’t wait to swiftboat her presidential bid. What unifies those who can’t bear the thought of a Madam President and are raising millions to stop her? Little to nothing, it seems.
The Clinton haters range from evangelicals who accuse her of lesbianism to Spago-dining Hollywoodites who call her “Nixon in drag.” The Stop Her Now website proclaims its mission as “Rescuing America from the radical ideas of Hillary Clinton”; a book illustrates her “superiority and arrogance” with photos of her changing hairstyles. Political unity is absent; the only constant is personal revulsion.
The Clinton haters range from evangelicals who accuse her of lesbianism to Spago-dining Hollywoodites who call her “Nixon in drag.” The Stop Her Now website proclaims its mission as “Rescuing America from the radical ideas of Hillary Clinton”; a book illustrates her “superiority and arrogance” with photos of her changing hairstyles. Political unity is absent; the only constant is personal revulsion.
大柴ひさみ
オバマキャンペーンは、もの凄い勢いで変化する現在の「マーケティング＆コミュニケーションのパラダイムシフト」に戦略的に対応して、成功した稀有な事例です。私も含めてオバマ候補者にインスパイアされた何百万というブロガーやソーシャルネットワーカーは、「彼らが気にかけているコト」を仲間と共有すべくUGCを創出し、ソーシャルメディアを通じて増幅し続けていきました。「I」ではなく「We & You」という「Peer（仲間）」の視点で、有権者1人1人に直接語りかけたオバマキャンペーン。リアルタイムで進行する大統領選の醍醐味とマーケティングの観点から見たキャンペーン分析は、他では読めないユニークなものです。
Bill Clinton
It is wrong that Senator Obama got to go through 15 debates trumpeting his superior judgment … and never got asked one time, not once, well, how could you say that when you said in 2004 you didn’t know how you would have voted on the resolution, you said in 2004 there was no difference between you and George Bush on the war … and there’s no difference in your voting record and Hillary’s ever since? Give me a break. This whole thing is the biggest fairy tale I’ve ever seen.
Saturday, October 20, 2012
Barak Obama
Hope is the bedrock of this nation. The belief that our destiny will not be written for us, but by us, by all those men and women who are not content to settle for the world as it is, who have the courage to remake the world as it should be.
The same message we had when we were up and when we were down; the one that can save this country, brick by brick, block by block, callused hand by callused hand, that together, ordinary people can do extraordinary things.
Because we are not a collection of red states and blue states. We are the United States of America.
The same message we had when we were up and when we were down; the one that can save this country, brick by brick, block by block, callused hand by callused hand, that together, ordinary people can do extraordinary things.
Because we are not a collection of red states and blue states. We are the United States of America.
藤沢久美
政府の重要な役割の一つに、税を通じた富の再分配という機能がある。この再分配の「分配」がきわめて重要で、どこにどれだけ分配するかが国民生活の将来を 左右する。当然のことながら、分配したお金が、再びお金を生む「金融的投資」が期待されているわけではないが、分配したお金が死に金にならず、ソーシャ ル・リターンを生み出してくれる「社会的投資」が求められる。
しかし、今の先進国の財政状況を見ると、どうやらこ の分配に失敗した結果のようにも思われるので、今後の財政再建を目指す過程においては、目指すソーシャル・リターンを明確にした資金使途の開示を行うこと が求められる。
公益財団制度が整備され、地域の産業創造のために、資金循環を生み出す公益財団が、各地に生まれ始めている。財団は、地域金融機関や 地域の企業などを理事やアドバイザーとして協力体制を作りながら、税制面で優遇のある寄付を幅広く募り、地域で資金を求める地場企業やNPOなどに資金を 提供する。しかも、単に資金を提供するだけではなく、協力体制にある金融機関や企業などからの情報支援、人的支援、市場支援なども行っている。
地元に密着した形で、日本の各地で、企業と金融機関を巻き込みながら、幅広いステイクホルダーと一緒に、新たな資金循環と確度の高いソーシャル・リターンの獲得を目指しているのである。
しかし、今の先進国の財政状況を見ると、どうやらこ の分配に失敗した結果のようにも思われるので、今後の財政再建を目指す過程においては、目指すソーシャル・リターンを明確にした資金使途の開示を行うこと が求められる。
公益財団制度が整備され、地域の産業創造のために、資金循環を生み出す公益財団が、各地に生まれ始めている。財団は、地域金融機関や 地域の企業などを理事やアドバイザーとして協力体制を作りながら、税制面で優遇のある寄付を幅広く募り、地域で資金を求める地場企業やNPOなどに資金を 提供する。しかも、単に資金を提供するだけではなく、協力体制にある金融機関や企業などからの情報支援、人的支援、市場支援なども行っている。
地元に密着した形で、日本の各地で、企業と金融機関を巻き込みながら、幅広いステイクホルダーと一緒に、新たな資金循環と確度の高いソーシャル・リターンの獲得を目指しているのである。
Richard Wilkinson, Kate Pickett
… differences in average income or living standards between whole populations or countries don’t matter at all, but income differences within those same populations matter very much indeed … what matters in rich countries may not be your actual income level and living standard, but how you compare with other people in the same society. Perhaps average standards don’t matter and what does is simply whether you are doing better or worse than other people …
… men have an incentive to achieve as high a status as possible because their sexual competitiveness depends on it … men use violence when their status is threatened, and more so when there is little status to defend. … The association between inequality and violence is strong and consistent. The evolutionary importance of shame and humiliation provides a plausible explanation of why more unequal societies suffer more violence.
… men have an incentive to achieve as high a status as possible because their sexual competitiveness depends on it … men use violence when their status is threatened, and more so when there is little status to defend. … The association between inequality and violence is strong and consistent. The evolutionary importance of shame and humiliation provides a plausible explanation of why more unequal societies suffer more violence.
Roman Modrowski
Though, to be fair, that was an excellent year for barbecue sauce: a truly wonderful vintage with some fine vinegars and delightfully complex tomato pastes and tannins.
Right. I have no idea what I'm talking about.
Friday, October 19, 2012
Christa Marshall, ClimateWire
FuelCell Energy is one of a handful of companies investigating how to address one of the biggest barriers in trying to capture carbon dioxide from coal plants for later storage underground, an unproved concept. The problem is called parasitic load. It refers to the phenomenon that a typical carbon capture system requires a great deal of electricity and thus saps power from a power plant and can cause electricity costs to spike by 70 percent or more.
The Danbury company’s potential solution for this problem is fuel cells. The company says that fuel cells have the potential to essentially reverse parasitic load and cause a carbon capture system to generate as much as 40 percent more electricity for a power plant, rather than take away power.
The Danbury company’s potential solution for this problem is fuel cells. The company says that fuel cells have the potential to essentially reverse parasitic load and cause a carbon capture system to generate as much as 40 percent more electricity for a power plant, rather than take away power.
Christine Haughney, David Carr
Ms. Tina Brown announced that Newsweek would cease print publication at the end of the year and move to an all-digital format.
... it is not fair to blame Ms. Brown for all of Newsweek’s problems. She fought a losing battle ...
The decision to end the print edition “was always going to happen,” Ms. Brown said.
“It really has not been a question of if,” she said. “It was a question of when.”
... it is not fair to blame Ms. Brown for all of Newsweek’s problems. She fought a losing battle ...
The decision to end the print edition “was always going to happen,” Ms. Brown said.
“It really has not been a question of if,” she said. “It was a question of when.”
Tina Brown, Baba Shetty
We are announcing this morning an important development at Newsweek and The Daily Beast. Newsweek will transition to an all-digital format in early 2013. As part of this transition, the last print edition in the United States will be our Dec. 31 issue.
Currently, 39 percent of Americans say they get their news from an online source, according to a Pew Research Center study released last month. In our judgment, we have reached a tipping point at which we can most efficiently and effectively reach our readers in all-digital format. This was not the case just two years ago. It will increasingly be the case in the years ahead.
Newsweek is produced by a gifted and tireless team of professionals who have been offering brilliant work consistently throughout a tough period of ownership transition and media disruption. Regrettably we anticipate staff reductions and the streamlining of our editorial and business operations both here in the U.S. and internationally.
Exiting print is an extremely difficult moment for all of us who love the romance of print and the unique weekly camaraderie of those hectic hours before the close on Friday night. But as we head for the 80th anniversary of Newsweek next year we must sustain the journalism that gives the magazine its purpose—and embrace the all-digital future.
Currently, 39 percent of Americans say they get their news from an online source, according to a Pew Research Center study released last month. In our judgment, we have reached a tipping point at which we can most efficiently and effectively reach our readers in all-digital format. This was not the case just two years ago. It will increasingly be the case in the years ahead.
Newsweek is produced by a gifted and tireless team of professionals who have been offering brilliant work consistently throughout a tough period of ownership transition and media disruption. Regrettably we anticipate staff reductions and the streamlining of our editorial and business operations both here in the U.S. and internationally.
Exiting print is an extremely difficult moment for all of us who love the romance of print and the unique weekly camaraderie of those hectic hours before the close on Friday night. But as we head for the 80th anniversary of Newsweek next year we must sustain the journalism that gives the magazine its purpose—and embrace the all-digital future.
Don Saposnek, Bill Eddy
There’s more bullying, more incivility, more disrespect and even more relationship violence between us at home, at work, in our communities and in the news. And, it seems to be increasing rather than decreasing.
We have noticed a pattern to this behavior that is all too familiar. It generally includes:
• Personal Attacks (calling the other person crazy, stupid, immoral or evil)
• Crisis Emotions (which trigger fear and hatred of each other)
• All-or-Nothing Solutions (which call for the elimination or exclusion of the “other”)
• Narcissistic Behavior (acting superior and not caring about anyone else)
• Negative Advocates (constantly recruiting others to join in this hostility)
We are well-acquainted with this pattern in high-conflict divorces, and it’s not good. This behavior is called “high-conflict” because it increases the conflict, rather than reducing or resolving it. Worst of all, it’s contagious – it spreads when people are exposed to it, like a virus.
This behavior results in a state of mind called “splitting” – the psychological term for truly believing that certain people are absolutely all-bad and others are absolutely all-good, with no gray areas in between.
We have noticed a pattern to this behavior that is all too familiar. It generally includes:
• Personal Attacks (calling the other person crazy, stupid, immoral or evil)
• Crisis Emotions (which trigger fear and hatred of each other)
• All-or-Nothing Solutions (which call for the elimination or exclusion of the “other”)
• Narcissistic Behavior (acting superior and not caring about anyone else)
• Negative Advocates (constantly recruiting others to join in this hostility)
We are well-acquainted with this pattern in high-conflict divorces, and it’s not good. This behavior is called “high-conflict” because it increases the conflict, rather than reducing or resolving it. Worst of all, it’s contagious – it spreads when people are exposed to it, like a virus.
This behavior results in a state of mind called “splitting” – the psychological term for truly believing that certain people are absolutely all-bad and others are absolutely all-good, with no gray areas in between.
Aaron Helton
We never imagined, when we bought the place, that this day would come and we would actually sell our house, but after we left Austin to appease our wanderlust, it became all but inevitable. The sensation is something like reading a compelling book, one so enjoyable that putting it down is not an option, even though you know you are hurtling from the front cover to the back cover, and when you reach it, it will be over. Personally, I find this both exhilarating and saddening because, while the house has been something of a friend to us (we occupied it for four years before renting it out), the end of this particular book is in sight, inevitable and unavoidable.
Thursday, October 18, 2012
Nathan Jurgenson
… This speaks to a fundamental way of conceptualizing and theorizing the Internet specifically, and spaces and places generally: that digital and material realities dialectically co-construct each other. For example, social networking sites (e.g., MySpace, Facebook) are not separate from the physical world, but rather they have everything to do with it, and the physical world has much to do with digital socializing. No longer can we think of a “real” world opposed to being “online”. Instead, we need to think with a paradigm that centers on the implosion of the worlds of bits and atoms into the augmented reality that has seemingly become ascendant.
Kenneth Rapoza
Where to invest to recover from the major losses in our retirement plans since 2008? The emerging markets, if you can sleep at night, that is. The emerging markets aren’t as crazy risky as they used to be, but they are still higher beta assets than any developed market security. That means a 10% decline in the S&P 500 means around a 15% decline or more for emerging market stocks. However, the long term growth story of the big emerging markets in particular remains in tact. Despite the U.S. downgrade and European sovereign debt crisis, Brazil, Russia, India and China are set to be the drivers of global growth.
田中宇
中国政府は、消費や投資の分野における自国の巨大な市場が、国際政治の武器として使えることを知っている。日中間で領土問題の棚上げが（暗黙の）了解事項だった従来の政治均衡を、日本側が尖閣国有化で破ったことに対する中国側からの報復の中心は、軍事分野でなく経済分野で行われている。日本では、尖閣沖に中国の船が何隻きたかという軍事面ばかり喧伝されているが、それよりずっと重要なのが、中国が日本の経済利益を損なうために公然・非公然に発する経済制裁である。
Masaaki Kanno
Even the most optimistic scenario does not foresee a recovery in Japan’s economy until the second quarter of next year.
What we have ahead of us is going to be terrible. It’s like last year’s disaster all over again.
The quake and tsunami in northeastern Japan last year hobbled the economy for months. Auto production was particularly hard hit because parts suppliers had been located in the disaster area. Flooding in Thailand that followed added to the automakers’ woes. They had only bounced back toward the end of last year, after months of rebuilding.
What we have ahead of us is going to be terrible. It’s like last year’s disaster all over again.
The quake and tsunami in northeastern Japan last year hobbled the economy for months. Auto production was particularly hard hit because parts suppliers had been located in the disaster area. Flooding in Thailand that followed added to the automakers’ woes. They had only bounced back toward the end of last year, after months of rebuilding.
ITmedia ニュース
「IPアドレスが判明すれば、捜査は半分終わったようなものだと思っていた。想定外の事態ですよ」
ウイルス感染したパソコンが遠隔操作され、インターネットで相次いで犯行予告や脅迫が行われていたことが明らかになると、ある警察幹部はこう漏らした。
ウイルス感染したパソコンが遠隔操作され、インターネットで相次いで犯行予告や脅迫が行われていたことが明らかになると、ある警察幹部はこう漏らした。
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Our exceptional and much-loved brands enjoy cross-sector reach nationally, internationally and regionally. Our high-calibre talent is guided by assured and experienced leadership.
In addition to leading newspaper titles such as the Daily Mail, The Mail on Sunday, Metro and our Northcliffe Media regional titles, our portfolio includes over 200 websites covering news, property and recruitment. Among these are a number of well-known brands such as Primelocation.com, Jobsite.co.uk and Wowcher.
Our presence is extended internationally through A&N International Media, which invests in online and print partnerships across emerging markets.
Tuesday, October 16, 2012
朱旭冬
今天1号店在北京正式发布“无限1号店”项目，目的是在线下建造出千家虚拟1号店——“无限1号店”。
“无限1号店”是带有增强现实功能的体验类应用，根据“无限1号店”的信息介绍，用户打开应用后会进行定位，应用会给出附近“无限1号店”的位置，并指引用户前往。但这并非是实体店，而是一个虚拟店铺。
其最大特点是把线上电子商务搬到了线下，并充分结合传统零售与电子商务的优势，让用户能利用电子商务方便、快捷购物的同时，享受“逛超市”的体验。1号店只需在后台设定开店地址的经纬度，就能新开一家虚拟店铺。
据了解，每家“无限1号店”占地1200平米，货架上一次性呈现1000个商品，每天定时自动更新。由于面积较大，因此无限1号店的选址也需要有较大空地，1号店无线事业部总监于丽丽表示，一般无限1号店选址都在写字楼的空地、公园以及大学校园。
但是目前线下的“无限1号店”具体开在哪些地方仍不明确。1号店计划首先在北上广深四个城市开设1000家虚拟店面。
由于沃尔玛已经成为1号店的控股方，因此业内对1号店涉足线下门店多有传闻。而这次1号店走向线下采用的确实虚拟店面的模式，目前并无法判断是否借用了沃尔玛的资源。
值得注意的是，这并非1号店首次涉足线下，此前1号店曾在地铁和公交站投放广告，用户直接用智能手机在广告上扫描商品即可进入1号店购买。在投放一周后，1号店手机客户端的销售额有了3倍的增长。不过此类广告的投放已于今年4月暂停，目前的无限1号店即为其升级版本。
“无限1号店”是带有增强现实功能的体验类应用，根据“无限1号店”的信息介绍，用户打开应用后会进行定位，应用会给出附近“无限1号店”的位置，并指引用户前往。但这并非是实体店，而是一个虚拟店铺。
其最大特点是把线上电子商务搬到了线下，并充分结合传统零售与电子商务的优势，让用户能利用电子商务方便、快捷购物的同时，享受“逛超市”的体验。1号店只需在后台设定开店地址的经纬度，就能新开一家虚拟店铺。
据了解，每家“无限1号店”占地1200平米，货架上一次性呈现1000个商品，每天定时自动更新。由于面积较大，因此无限1号店的选址也需要有较大空地，1号店无线事业部总监于丽丽表示，一般无限1号店选址都在写字楼的空地、公园以及大学校园。
但是目前线下的“无限1号店”具体开在哪些地方仍不明确。1号店计划首先在北上广深四个城市开设1000家虚拟店面。
由于沃尔玛已经成为1号店的控股方，因此业内对1号店涉足线下门店多有传闻。而这次1号店走向线下采用的确实虚拟店面的模式，目前并无法判断是否借用了沃尔玛的资源。
值得注意的是，这并非1号店首次涉足线下，此前1号店曾在地铁和公交站投放广告，用户直接用智能手机在广告上扫描商品即可进入1号店购买。在投放一周后，1号店手机客户端的销售额有了3倍的增长。不过此类广告的投放已于今年4月暂停，目前的无限1号店即为其升级版本。
Federal Bureau of Investigation
We are building our lives around our wired and wireless networks. The question is, are we ready to work together to defend them?
The FBI certainly is. We lead the national effort to investigate high-tech crimes, including cyber-based terrorism, espionage, computer intrusions, and major cyber fraud. To stay in front of current and emerging trends, we gather and share information and intelligence with public and private sector partners worldwide.
The FBI certainly is. We lead the national effort to investigate high-tech crimes, including cyber-based terrorism, espionage, computer intrusions, and major cyber fraud. To stay in front of current and emerging trends, we gather and share information and intelligence with public and private sector partners worldwide.
Ashar Aziz
Cybergeddon is a possibility. Attacks on critical infrastructures such as the power grid or financial institutions could wreak havoc not just on United States economy, but in fact, the world economy.
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