>工業化はアフリカ諸国にとって独立以来の夢だったが、欧米に頼んでも実現できなかった。それが中国に頼むと、資金を貸してくれ、インフラ整備も中国企業がやってくれて、工業化を開始できる。この状況を「中国は、アフリカの独裁で腐敗した政府高官に贈賄し、インフラを整備してやると甘言を吐き、利権を悪辣にあさっている」と批判することもできる。しかし現実を見ると、アフリカは経済発展によって、保健衛生や教育水準の分野も改善している。１０年で世界で最も経済成長した１０カ国のうち６カ国がアフリカだ。欧米がこの数十年間やれなかったアフリカの発展を、中国が実現しているのは確かだ。
>Fresh violence has broken out in the Maldives after Mohamed Nasheed, the ousted president, claimed he was forced to give up his office at gunpoint, raising the prospect of a fierce struggle for power in the island nation.
Universal Declaration of Human Rights
Déclaration universelle des droits de l’homme (Français: Universal)
Всеобщая декларация прав человека (Русский: Universal)
世界人权宣言 (中文: World)
世界人権宣言 (日本語: World)
The Universal Declaration of Human Rights adopted by the United Nations in 1948 sets a common standard to ensure that all human beings are treated equally. The United Nations has advanced and supported democracy and democractic goverance through electoral assistance provided to over 50 countries since 2010 alone. The UN has assisted in milestone elections in many countries, including Afghanistan, Burundi, Cambodia, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Iraq, Nepal, Sierra Leone, the Sudan, and Timor-Leste. The United Nations has formulated more than 80 treaties and declarations protecting and promoting human rights, for example, banning the participation of children under 18 in armed conflict and prohibiting the sale of children, child prostitution and child pornography.
>Out of every tax dollar you pay, 34 cents goes to Social Security and Medicare, 22 cents to national security and our amazing military, and a nickel to paying interest on the national debt. Just one-tenth of a single penny goes to pay our UN dues.
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The other alternative to the UN is that we do nothing and that these con icts fester, spill over, and create an environment where criminals can operate and where terrorists can nd a safe haven.
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We see human rights and democracy not only as the expression of universal values, but as the only means of achieving the goals of long-term political stability and sustainable economic development on the African continent.
>米国の格闘技の試合を無断で動画投稿サイト「ニコニコ動画」に公開したとして、警視庁は６日、千葉市稲毛区穴川、無職奥山整容疑者（２６）を著作権法違反の疑いで逮捕したと発表した。逮捕は５日。
発表によると、奥山容疑者は２０１０年９～１２月、米国の総合格闘技「ＵＦＣ」の３８試合を、自宅のパソコンからニコニコ動画に投稿し、不特定多数が閲覧できるようにした疑い。調べに対し、「自分が好きな試合を多くの人に見てほしかった」と供述しているという。ＵＦＣを主催する米国法人が昨年１０月、同庁に相談していた。
>A Russian team has succeeded in drilling through four kilometres (2.5 miles) of ice to the surface of a mythical subglacial Antarctic lake which could hold as yet unknown life forms, reports said Monday.
Lake Vostok is the largest subglacial lake in Antarctica and scientists want to study its eco-system which has been isolated for hundreds of thousands of years under the ice in the hope of finding previously unknown microbiological life forms.
“Our scientists completed drilling at a depth of 3,768 metres and reached the surface of the subglacial lake.” …
“Because the lower layer was formed 400,000 years ago, from the composition of the gas it is possible to judge the gas composition in the atmosphere 400,000 years ago and during the time that has passed since the formation of the lake.”
“From there, it is possible to identify and forecast certain climatic changes in the future. This is very important.”
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EUR/JPY (EURJPY=X)
>After the flames were extinguished Sunday night, firefighters made the discovery: a body, deep in an abandoned crew room, in a subway tunnel on the F line just north of 63rd Street and Lexington Avenue.
The victim was obviously homeless. Less apparent were his circumstances and history, but it did not take long for those to emerge. Of all the homeless people in the subway, the victim, Anthony Horton, 43, had been among the least faceless.
Mr. Horton found solace in the blackness of the tunnels. He made the subway the subject of his canvases, the muse for a graphic novel that he co-wrote, and the place he called home for the better part of his adult life, even when he had other places to stay.
… The book was based on his life underground. He told of a dozen or so rules of thumb, including: Always carry a light. Anything you need can be found in the garbage. Always have more than one spot.
Then there was this: Always have a way out that is different from the way in.
“He was a gentle soul, and I admired him.” … “I wanted him to live a long time.”
>Across the country, activists with ties to the Tea Party are railing against all sorts of local and state efforts to control sprawl and conserve energy. They brand government action for things like expanding public transportation routes and preserving open space as part of a United Nations-led conspiracy to deny property rights and herd citizens toward cities.
In Maine, the Tea Party-backed Republican governor canceled a project to ease congestion along the Route 1 corridor after protesters complained it was part of the United Nations plot.
>The best happen when you and someone who has strengths that complement yours join forces and focus on a single goal. Your strengths cancel out your partner’s weaknesses, and vice versa. You accomplish together what could not be done separately.
Before you can forge a successful alliance, you must understand what you bring to the combination, and equally important, what you don’t.
>The sad truth is that the dominant Western policy toward the Arab people traditionally has been one of containment. Today many applaud as the people of the region take to the streets to claim their rights, but until recently Western governments frequently acted as if the Arab people were to be feared, hemmed in, controlled. In other regions, democracy spread, but in the Middle East and North Africa, the West seemed content to back an array of Arab autocrats, so long as they in turn supported Western interests. Elsewhere, governments were expected, at least in principle, to serve their people, but the West looked to the monarchs and strongmen of the Arab world to guarantee “stability,” to keep the lid on popular demands. The world’s promotion of human rights had an Arab exception.
The Arab Spring showed that many people in the region do not share the West’s comfortable complacency with autocratic rule. No longer willing to be the passive subjects of self-serving rulers, they began to insist on becoming full citizens of their countries, the proper agents of their fate. In one country after another, an act of repression sparked popular outrage at a regime that had taken one brutal step too many. This time the much discussed but long quiescent Arab Street arose and upended the old order. In finding its collective voice and power, the region’s people transformed its politics in a way that will not be easy to turn back.
>… 在这些条例中，都重申各级人民政府保证 宪法所规定的公民言论自由的权利。并且同时规定，公民在行使这些自由和权利时，必须遵守宪法和法律，不得损害国家的、社会的、集体的利益和其他公民的合法的自由和权利。这些条例中所包含的限制性规定大体包括下列一些内容：
A discomfort is sweeping through Europe about the ways in which Internet companies treat personal information. That discomfort has, in turn, prompted proposals for stricter regulation of online data across the continent. And Europe’s moves to protect Internet privacy — something Americans have not, as yet, actively agitated for — have given rise to a thorny question: How do the laws and mores of different nations manage, if at all, the multinational companies that now govern our digital lives?
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コンプ特典の双葉杏
性能だけでなく、ダラけっぷりもSレア級
双葉杏を求めて大金をぶっ込むプロデューサーが続出
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Now, therefore, be it Resolved, That the House of Representatives—(1) supports the designation of a ‘‘Pi Day’’ and its celebration around the world; (2) recognizes the continuing importance of National Science Foundation’s math and science education programs; and (3) encourages schools and educators to observe the day with appropriate activities that teach students about Pi and engage them about the study of mathematics.
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世の人相逢ふ時、暫くも黙止する事なし。必ず言葉あり。その事を聞くに、多くは無益の談なり。世間の浮説、人の是非、自他のために、失多く、得少し。
これを語る時、互ひの心に、無益の事なりといふ事を知らず。
>世界上目前使用人数最多的语言是汉语，据统计，汉语的使用者数量超过16亿，主要分布在亚洲地区，是世界使用者人数最多的语言，使用的广泛度居世界第二位。
汉语又叫中文、汉文、中国话，包含书面语以及口语两部分，古代书面汉语称为文言文，现代书面汉语一般指现代标准汉语，方言众多，某些方言的口语之间差异较大，而书面语相对统一。
汉语主要分布国家和地区为中国大陆、香港特区、澳门特区、台湾地区、新加坡共和国等地，据联合国教科文组织统计，世界上会说汉语的人大约有16亿，是世界人口数量使用最多的语言（占世界人口使用语言五分之一）、使用广泛度居世界第二（英语广泛度第一）。
汉语是联合国承认的官方六大的工作语言之一，它以北京语音为标准音，却又不等同于北京话，是摒弃了北京语音中的一些土音而形成的，汉族的通用语在中国大陆称为普通话，在香港、澳门、台湾称为国语，在新加坡、马来西亚称为华语，但较之普通话有部分差异。
吉尼斯网友情提示：古汉语也曾对其周边国家的语言文字产生过重要影响。例如日语、朝鲜语、越南语中都保留有大量的古汉语借词以及古汉语书写体系文字。
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Approximately 375 million people speak English as their first language. English today is probably the third largest language by number of native speakers, after Mandarin Chinese and Spanish. However, when combining native and non-native speakers it is probably the most commonly spoken language in the world, though possibly second to a combination of the Chinese languages.
Estimates that include second language speakers vary greatly from 470 million to over a billion depending on how literacy or mastery is defined and measured.
人口減少の進行、国際競争の激化など、日本は未曾有の構造変革期にいます。
地方に目を転じると、過疎化の進行や商店街のシャッター通り化など衰退が目立つ地域が、急速に増加しているように思えてなりません。地方経済の再生が日本経済再生の鍵を握ると言っても過言ではないでしょう。
地域再生の柱は、その地域に根ざした逃げない産業を作り育てることにほかなりません。
食の安全や食料自給率の低下が日々問題視されるなか、アグリビジネスはその大きな柱の一つになると確信しております。日本には、世界中に、いや日本でもあまり知られていない農産物をはじめとする貴重な資源が未だに多く眠っています。また、そうした資源を生産し、活用する技術には、世界でも十分通用するものも含まれております。更に、そうした生産物やその生産技術は、他産業の持つノウハウと結びつくことにより、大きな付加価値を生み出す種でもあります。
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ユーロ加盟の問題５カ国、ギリシャ、ポルトガル、アイルランド、イタリア、スペインと、フランス、ドイツの標準国債の利回り推移である。２００２年にユーロ建て国債が普及して以来、各国債利回りはほぼ１本の縄となり安定していたが、０８年９月のリーマン・ショックに直撃されバラけてしまった。
>Now I know why I’m here
Not for a closer look at the moon,
But to look back
At our home
The Earth.
Quietly, like a night bird, floating, soaring, wingless.
We glide from shore to shore, curving and falling
but not quite touching;
Earth: a distant memory seen in an instant of repose,
crescent shaped, ethereal, beautiful,
I wonder which part is home, but I know it doesn’t matter . . .
the bond is there in my mind and memory;
Earth: a small, bubbly balloon hanging delicately
in the nothingness of space.
>The Center for Democracy in Lebanon (CDL) supports, strengthens and enhances the aspiration of the Lebanese People to be governed by a secular and democratic government of their own.
Who were the Phoenicians? We know they dominated sea trade in the Mediterranean for 3,000 years. Now DNA testing and recent archaeological finds are revealing just what the Phoenician legacy meant to the ancient world—and to our own.
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The tests could confirm that men of Tyre – Christians and Muslims alike – are related to the ancient traders. Wells and Zalloua also took samples in other parts of the Phoenician world, where results may reveal the same lineage in areas of former colonies like Sardinia and Malta.
ser•en•dip•i•ty (n) the art of making happy discoveries, or finding the unexpectedly pleasant by chance or sagacity
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>Punctuality is defined as the act of arriving at or completing a task, event, or engagement at or before a previously designated time. Perhaps most easily thought of as being “on time” or “on task,” punctuality, or the lack of, is in most cases an individual trait or tied to an individual event or task. It is, however, a more widespread problem across some cultures.
By far, punctuality is a much higher priority in countries that are largely industrialized, such as the United States, China, Germany, and the United Kingdom. For countries such as Spain, India, and those in Latin America and the Middle East, however, punctuality is a much lesser priority. When a culture relies heavily on clocks, time dictate the start of events, meetings, and the like. It is in these cultures that watches, clocks, and time pieces are generally kept in unison. In event time, the focus is less on time and more on the event itself, meaning that people living by event time will see an event through before carrying on to the next.
… To that end, Japan, a country that is hypersensitive to the clock and the need to be punctual, has developed such a reliance on the adherence to schedules that its transportation workers fear reprimand for delays. Commuter trains connect with only minutes to spare before their riders must make their next connection. Such a focus on punctuality has been blamed for accidents, such as the one that occurred in 2005 when nearly 100 people were killed because the commuter train’s engineer was trying desperately to make up 90 seconds.
Punctuality is to an extent a relatively modern concept. Clocks and standardized time have only been in use for little more than a century. Prior to that, there were wide variations in the keeping of time, thereby making punctuality nearly impossible. Clocks were set relative to the sun’s position, making them inaccurate. It was not until a global standardized time plan went into effect that there was a gauge of timeliness.
The medicine wheel consists of the four cardinal directions and four sacred colors representing certain properties:
The symbolism may vary from tribe to tribe.
>During 2011, the United Nations Headquarters (UNHQ) in New York consumed 10,077 cartons of paper, each approximately10 inches tall.. If we were to stack all that paper up, it would build a structure 8,397 feet tall, or over 15 times the height of the Secretariat Building (544 feet).
Printing is not just about paper either, but also about the ink, which not only has environmental but also financial consequences. In 2011, UNHQ in New York spent approximately $1.2 million on toners/cartridges. 60% of that spend was on colour cartridges. Do we really need it? Go easy on the colour.
Less is more, both for the environment and for our budget!
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>We tell the stories of 97 Orchard Street. Built on Manhattan’s Lower East Side in 1863, this tenement apartment building was home to nearly 7000 working class immigrants.
They faced challenges we understand today: making a new life, working for a better future, starting a family with limited means.
In recognizing the importance of this seemingly ordinary building, the Tenement Museum has re-imagined the role that museums can play in our lives.
The Tenement Museum preserves and interprets the history of immigration through the personal experiences of the generations of newcomers who settled in and built lives on Manhattan’s Lower East Side, America’s iconic immigrant neighborhood; forges emotional connections between visitors and immigrants past and present; and enhances appreciation for the profound role immigration has played and continues to play in shaping America’s evolving national identity.
>The New York Transit Museum, one of the city’s leading cultural institutions is the largest museum in the United States devoted to urban public transportation history, and one of the premier institutions of its kind in the world. The Museum explores the development of the greater New York Metropolitan region through the presentations of exhibitions, tours, educational programs, and workshops dealing with the cultural, social, and technological history of public transportation. Since it’s inception over a quarter century ago, the Museum, housed in a historic 1936 IND subway station in Brooklyn Heights, has grown in scope and popularity. As custodian and interpreter of the region’s extensive public transportation networks, the Museum strives to share, through its public programs, this rich and vibrant history with local, regional, and international audiences.
>The Museum of Tolerance New York, modeled ater the highly successful Museum of Tolerance Los Angeles, is part of the educational arm of the Simon Wiesenthal Center is a global Jewish human rights organization that confronts anti-Semitism, hate and terrorism, promotes human rights and dignity, stands with Israel, defends the safety of Jews worldwide, and teaches the lessons of the Holocaust for future generations.
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The new H system, so-called utilizes the old subway as its base. On the east side the old subway lines form a connection with the Lexington Avenue subway at the Grand Central diagonal station. The tracks across Forty-Second Street to the Times Square Station are the horizontal bar of the H and are used for shuttle service. At the Times Square Station the new Seventh Avenue subway is joined to the tracks of the old subway, extending up Broadway and forming the west side line of the new system.
>Capt. Kurusu, born in January 1919, died due to an accident at Tama Army Airfield on February 16, 1945. When an air-raid siren sounded at the airfield, all pilots including Capt. Kurusu ran to their aircraft. As he was trying to pass in front of one plane, it moved forward two to three meters, and its propeller cut his neck. His severed head flew up two meters, and his headless body moved forward four or five more steps. This accident was unavoidable even though 1st Lieutenant Umekawa, the pilot of the plane that hit Capt. Kurusu, had fourteen and a half years of flying experience. If someone had given instructions to 1st Lieutenant Umekawa on the taxiway, this unfortunate accident could have been avoided. However, no one was giving directions to the aircraft. Capt. Kurusu was running in 1st Lieutenant Umekawa’s blind spot as everybody hurriedly ran to their planes to make sorties. 1st Lieutenant Umekawa honestly reported the accident to his commander, Maj. Yoshitsugu Aramaki. Maj. Aramaki did not say anything to 1st Lieutenant Umekawa, whose face was pale. Later, the Imperial Army leaders overlooked the accident since it was unavoidable.
> 民主主義の下においては、個人の尊厳は絶対であり、人権の平等は不動の鉄則である。新憲法やその下に行われる幾多の立法は、もちろん民主主義の礎石であるには相違ないが、たとえ新憲法がなくなっても諸般の立法がなくなっても、人格の尊厳がなくなってしまうわけがない。すなわち真の民主主義の基盤には憲法法律を超越した、それ自身普遍普段に厳存する基本人権の観念が存在しなければならない。
しかし人権の平等ということは、人間がいずれも一つ一つの煉瓦のように、機械的に画一せられた存在であるということでもなければ、またそうさせねばならぬということでもないはずである。
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われわれは西洋の歴史を読んで、宗教と政治との分離がつとに行われたのを知っており、またこれがために幾多の闘争が行われたのを知っている。
しかしその反面において、われわれは西洋の民主主義とキリスト教の人道主義とが、切っても切れぬ連繋をもっていることをとうてい否定することは出来ないのである。
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敗戦以来多数の日本人がキリスト教信者になりつつあることを聞いている。この傾向が将来どこまで発展して行くかということは、われわれの精神生活の進化の上から観てもすこぶる注目すべき問題である。しかしそれと同時にこの問題は、われわれが築きあげんとする民主主義が、その基盤をどこに置くかという問題とも至大な関連を持っているのである。
民主主義は結局人道主義の上に立たなければならない。西洋諸国においては、民主主義はキリスト教という既存の地盤の上に繁栄して行ったのであるが、宗教を異にし伝統を異にするわれわれは、将来この人道主義の基盤をどこに求めて行くべきであろうか。われわれの精神生活の根源をなす儒教仏教に、新しい人道主義の息吹を求めることが、果して出来るであろうか。高踏的な「礼節仁義」、階級的な香のする「慈悲」に、積極性、能動性、平等性を与えることが畢竟可能であろうか。これらはわれわれ東洋人に残された、今後の大きな宿題であるといわなけらばならない。
> 長い封建政治の後に、突然欽定憲法によってほとんど闘うことなしに参政権を与えられた日本の民衆には、長期にわたる苦闘を経てマグナカルタを戦いとり、幾多の政治的試練を凌いで議会政治を守り続けてきた英国大衆のごとく、参政権の貴重さに対する深刻な自覚がなかったのである。仏教によって諦めを教えられ、儒教によって政治上の幸福を治者の「徳」に期待することを教えられてきたわれられ日本人は、被治者としての権利を主張することを知らなかったのである。
われられは泣く子と地頭には勝てないと訓えられ、長いものに巻かれろと訓えられてきた国民である。少数ながら強い結束と力をもってすれば、いかようにも引きずり得る国民であることを、満州事変と二・二六事件とによって如実に示してしまったのである。今後われわれがこの悲しむべき過去の因習から脱却して、民主主義国家を建設し得るや否やは、今われわれの嘗めつつある苦い敗戦の経験が、わが国民一般にどこまで過去の過誤を認識せしめ得るかということに、かかっているのである。
すでにマックアーサー元帥は、「。。。」という懸念を表明している。けだし従来わが国においては、一群の新聞雑誌記者が筆を揃えて書けば、それがただちに世論として受け取られる傾向があり、数万の群集が帝都の一角に集合して、あらかじめ用意された決議文に拍手を送れば、それがただちに全国民の意思を代表するものであるかに主張せられる有様であるから、軍隊が廃止せられ、警察が改善せられ、暴力団体が解散せられても、マックアーサー元帥の懸念を正当づける要因は、国民の生活態度の中にいまなお多分に存在しているのである。
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しかし「諦」の因習によって極端な自己否定に陥った個人の間からは、政治上の向上も経済上の進歩も生まれてくるわけはなし、治者の「徳」にのみ依存する政治組織の下においては、大衆はややもすれば政治を他人事と考えて無責任なるエゴイズムに走るのみで、その間に真の民主主義が生まれてくるはずがない。われわれ日本人は今新たに民主主義の発程を切るに当って、まず「諦」の魔睡から覚醒し、他力本願政治の冬眠から脱却しなければならないのである。しかして後に改めて個人の尊厳に目覚め、己を尊び人を尊び、自己を愛し、他人を愛するいわゆるエンライトンド・セルフ・インテレストの何物なるかを体得する必要がある。
>Don’t be sad, …
All I have, it’s yours if you think it helps you …
There is only one who means more than all to me …
I see that there’s no need in trying to run …
>NECは、2012年1月26日、3月期の連結業績見通しが1000億円の当期赤字になり、グループで外注含め1万人の人員削減を行うと発表。27日には、NEC子会社で電子部品事業を行っているNECトーキン（仙台市）が、全従業員の約16％にあたる250人の希望退職を3月に募集すると明らかにした。
さらに経営効率化のため、東京・神保町にある本社機能を、5月をめどに宮城県白石市の白石事業所に移す。東京本社の従業員240人の半数程度や、仙台本店の従業員の一部を白石事業所へ異動させるという。
「NECトーキンの裏事情」という3年前からあるスレッドには、発表前の26日に人員削減に関する通達が書き込まれた。その後、「うわあああああああ いやだいやだいやだ」「組合のお力で白石移転を止めさられませんでしょうか？？ 白石に引っ越しとか出来ない…」といった叫びが寄せられた。
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Porch of Maidens, Acropolis, Athens
The ancient temple fits almost precisely into a golden rectangle.
Mathematicians had the contribution of the Greeks in mind when they christened the ratio “phi” in tribute to the great Phidias, who used the proportion frequently in his sculpture.
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The Venus de Milo sculpture was carved by the Greek sculptor Alexandros. The statue adheres, intentionally or not, strictly to the Phi, Golden Ratio or Golden Proportion of 1.6180339887…
>Exactly what is the criminal offenses rate in the area where your home is? Low or excessive? The automobile car insurance quotes online may also be partially influenced out of this factor. Living in a dangerous area, risking potential vandalism and theft will be higher, as well as the rate increases accordingly.
>The tip of a girl’s 40,000-year-old pinky finger found in a cold Siberian cave, paired with faster and cheaper genetic sequencing technology, is helping scientists draw a surprisingly complex new picture of human origins.
The new view is fast supplanting the traditional idea that modern humans triumphantly marched out of Africa about 50,000 years ago, replacing all other types that had gone before.
Instead, the genetic analysis shows, modern humans encountered and bred with at least two groups of ancient humans in relatively recent times: the Neanderthals, who lived in Europe and Asia, dying out roughly 30,000 years ago, and a mysterious group known as the Denisovans, who lived in Asia and most likely vanished around the same time.
Their DNA lives on in us even though they are extinct. In a sense, we are a hybrid species. …
The Denisovans (pronounced dun-EE-suh-vinz) were first described a year ago in a groundbreaking paper in the journal Nature made possible by genetic sequencing of the girl’s pinky bone and of an oddly shaped molar from a young adult.
Those findings have unleashed a spate of new analyses.
国立社会保障・人口問題研究所は３０日、２０６０年の人口が８６７４万人まで減るとする「日本の将来推計人口」を公表した。１０年の１億２８０６万人に比べ、５０年間で４１３２万人（３２．３％）の減。６５歳以上の割合は１０年の２３．０％から、６０年には３９．９％に達して「超高齢化」が進む。年金、医療保険など社会保障制度改革の行方に影響を与えるとともに、日本経済の活力をさらに奪う懸念が高まりそうだ。
同研究所によると、１０年に男性が７９．６４歳、女性が８６．３９歳だった平均寿命は１１年に東日本大震災の影響で一時的に下がるが、６０年には男性８４．１９歳、女性９０．９３歳に伸びる。
また、女性１人が生涯に産む子供の推定人数「合計特殊出生率」は６０年に１．３５と予測し、０６年公表の前回推計（５５年に１．２６）から上方修正した。ただ、人口を維持する目安とされる２．０７を下回る状況が続く。
出生率は２００５年に過去最低の１．２６を記録したにもかかわらず、子供を産み育てやすい社会を実現する政策が優先的に実施されたとは言い難い。日本経済の衰退に歯止めをかけるためにも抜本的な対策が求められる。
>People aged 65 and older will make up nearly 40 percent of the population of Japan 50 years from now. Even more troubling, the country’s population is expected to shrink by 30 percent, with birth rates showing little signs of improvement.
Young workers have increasingly become reluctant to start families, because of financial concerns. Women are putting off marriage altogether, worried it could tie down their careers. On average, Japanese women have 1.4 children (that number is 1.9 for U.S. women, according to the CDC).
There is one number that continues to go up: Japan’s life expectancy. Already the highest in the world, researchers estimate life expectancy for Japanese women will increase from 86 to 91 over the next half century. The number is expected to rise from 79 to 84, for men.
>Technology-Driven Trends for 2012
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KneeCAS is a system for TKA preoperative planning, postoperative evaluation and actual operation support. It was developed to achieve an ideal TKA. The shapes and positions of knee joint, femur and tibia are accurately aligned 3-dimensionally.
コンピュータの発展によって、人はその恩恵を享受する一方で、デジタルデバイドなどの多くの問題を引き起こしています。これらの問題を解決するために、人の知的な活動とコンピュータを自然に連携させる技術が求められ、目標指向や感性指向といった新しい方法論が模索されています。電話とテレビとWeb と紙メディアがシームレスに連携する次の世代では、「知的コンテンツ」がユーザ・インタフェースになると予想しています。
The 10 best-designed intranets for 2012:
Headquartered in New York, with further presence in London and Zurich, we specialize in providing leading brand technology.
From digital brand guidelines to eCommerce and social media platforms, our technology solutions turn our clients’ online brand plans into reality.
We’ve pioneered more customized and user friendly digital brand asset management systems for over 12 years, with over 250,000 users, working in over 65 client organizations, in 14 languages across 211 countries.
BrandWizard is a wholly owned subsidiary of Interbrand – a leading brand consultancy owned by Omnicom Inc.
>2011 Ranking of the Top 100 Brands
| Rank | Brand | Region/Country | Sector | Brand Value ($m) |
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| 1 |  |
United States | Beverages | 71,861 |
| 2 | |
United States | Business Services | 69,905 |
| 3 | |
United States | Computer Software | 59,087 |
| 4 | |
United States | Internet Services | 55,317 |
| 5 | |
United States | Diversified | 42,808 |
| 6 | |
United States | Restaurants | 35,593 |
| 7 | |
United States | Electronics | 35,217 |
| 8 | |
United States | Electronics | 33,492 |
| 9 | |
United States | Media | 29,018 |
| 10 | |
United States | Electronics | 28,479 |
>Strategy is the fine art of keeping every factor and element in perfect balance.
Interbrand started in 1974 when the world still thought of brands as just another word for logo.
We have changed the world’s view of branding and brand management by creating and managing brands as valuable business assets.
We now have nearly 40 offices and are the world’s largest brand consultancy.
We bring together a diverse range of insightful thinkers making our business both rigorously analytical and highly creative.
Interbrand has the broadest geographical presence – offering more people, more disciplines, and more knowledge tailored to our clients. Our work goes deeper and further.
We create and manage brand value by making the brand central to the business’s strategic aims. We’re not interested in simply being the world’s biggest brand consultancy. We want to be the most valued.
>生活是什么？似乎我们早已忘却。每天忙碌的工作之后，只剩下疲惫的周末，经常不停的问自己：难道生活就是一个周末隔着五天又是一个周末？
我们越来越不知道生活是什么。旅行是最奢侈的东西，因为除了花钱它还会浪费我们宝贵的时间，但旅行却被我们如此的热衷着，因为旅行告诉我们“我仍在生活着”。
旅行回来之后呢？我们仍旧没能找回生活，甚至越丢越多。
我们都错了！其实生活就是过我们喜欢的日子。喜欢的日子，有一些喜欢的东西围绕着。喜欢的闹钟，喜欢的牙膏，喜欢的毛巾，喜欢的自行车，喜欢的包包，喜欢的鞋子，喜欢的铅笔，喜欢的手机，喜欢的一切一切… … 做喜欢的工作，挣喜欢的钱，买来喜欢的东西，这些喜欢的东西组成了我们的生活。
但，现实中我们却总没有在用喜欢的东西，所以我们的生活才越来越糟糕，越来越没有生活。
因为我们总是拿不准：喜欢重要，还是便宜重要？抑或是省下那么点购物选择的时间，难道比生活更重要？每当看到铺天盖地的促销信息、打折广告，我们总会因为“省掉”几十块钱而买下些并不喜欢，甚至并不需要的东西，最终这些乱七八糟的东西葬送了我们的生活；每当我们需要一件物品，总是不愿意花上一点时间好好了解它，草草买下，使用之后却又发现它浪费了我们更多的时间。
好吧，让我们扔掉那些不喜欢的东西，发现我们喜欢的，了解她，然后拥有她。就这样，开始改变生活！
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‘alexis’, a bookshop and coffee bar in bratislava, slovakia has been conceived by slovakian practice plural and totalstudio to createa flexible space which sells books as well as holding collateral events.
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Camila Antonia Amaranta Vallejo Dowling (born 28 April 1988 in Santiago) is a Chilean geography undergraduate student and member of the Chilean Communist Youth. As president of the University of Chile Student Federation (Fech) and main spokesperson of the Confederation of Chilean Students (Confech), she led a movement for better access to quality education.
本法人は、海外の無線放送、衛星放送等公開情報のモニタリング並びに海外情報を利用した情報、資料の提供等により、広く我が国民に外国事情を紹介し、各国に関する十分な理解の達成に寄与し、もって民主主義及び国際親善、国際相互理解、平和の精神を助成強化することを目的とする。
本法人は、前条の目的を達成するため、次の事業を行う。
日本では警察（公安警察）や法務省に属する公安調査庁などが、国内のスパイ活動・テロ活動や、極右活動・極左活動などに対して調査活動を行っている。
公安警察では警察庁警備局が立案・企画を担当、警視庁公安部を筆頭に、各道府県警の警備部が実務の調査活動をする。他には海上関係の公安情報については海上保安庁警備救難部警備情報課が情報収集に当たっている。
また、北朝鮮問題など、近隣諸国における安全保障問題については警察・公安調査庁の他にも、防衛省情報本部（旧・統合幕僚会議第二幕僚室ほか）や、内閣官房の内閣情報調査室、外務省の国際情報統括官組織などが情報収集に当たっている。
自衛隊海外派遣に際して、陸上自衛隊の中央情報隊隷下の「現地情報隊」が、先遣隊として、現地に派遣され、ヒューミントで、情報収集にあたる。
2007年6月、陸上自衛隊情報保全隊が、自衛隊を敵視していると看做した個人・団体に対する周辺調査活動を秘密裏に行なっていた事が発覚し、問題になった。
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一般情况下，防火長城主要指中国政府监控和过滤互联网内容的软硬件系统，由服务器和路由器等设备，加上相关的应用程序所构成。它的作用主要是监控网络上的通讯，对认为不符合中国官方要求的传输内容，进行干扰、阻断、屏蔽。由於中國網絡審查廣泛，中國國內含有「不合適」内容的的網站，會受到政府直接的行政干預，被要求自我审查、自我监管，乃至關閉，故防火長城主要作用在於分析和過濾中國境內外網絡的資訊互相訪問。中國工程院院士、北京郵電大學校長方滨兴是防火长城关键部分的首要设计师。
国家的信息安全保障体系可以从五个层面解读。第一就是要维护国家信息安全的长效机制。第二是坚持两个原则，第一个原则是积极预防、综合防范；第二个原则是立足国情，优化配置。第三是把握好人、管理和技术的要素。第四是增强核心技术能力、法律保障能力、基础支撑能力、舆情宣传和驾驭能力、国际信息安全的影响力。第五是加强风险评估与等级保护、监控系统、密码技术与网络信任体系、应急机制、灾备等技术工作。
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左図は、我が国と欧米等各国の大人の科学技術の基礎概念に対する理解度と併せて、子どもの理科・数学の学力を示したものである。これを見ると、一般的には、子どもの学力が高い国は大人の理解度も高く、子どもの学力が低い国は大人の理解度も低いという関係が見られるが、我が国については、国際的に最上位レベルにある子どもの学力と対照的に、大人の理解度は下位に位置しており、極めて特徴的である。
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Activists of the Ukrainian feminist nudity group FEMEN clash with Swiss police during a protest at the 42nd Annual Meeting of the World Economic Forum, WEF, in Davos, Switzerland.
>According to A. Barbour, author of Louder Than Words: Nonverbal Communication, the total impact of a message breaks down like this:
Effective communication is the combined harmony of verbal and nonverbal actions. Nonverbal communication consists of body movement, facial expressions and eye movement.
Body Movement indicates attitude, conveys feelings serves as illustrators and regulators. Illustrators are nonverbal movements that accompany and illustrate verbal communication.
警察官の世代別の懲戒処分者数
目立つ“若い世代”の不祥事
・ １０代と２０代は合算
・ 円グラフの中心点がかなり上
>More than 35 pounds of cocaine was discovered in at least one bag that turned up at the United Nations headquarters in New York.
The narcotics were uncovered on January 16 inside hollowed-out books that had been shipped from Mexico City in a bag made to look like a diplomatic pouch.
The bag was being screened at the United Nations’ postal receiving center when the cocaine was discovered.
It lacked a destination address and was without a return address.
Authorities have not located the intended recipient, he said.
Libraries are essential public goods. Like our public parks and museums, libraries are free, non-commercial gathering places for everyone, regardless of income. Yet our nation’s public libraries appear to be under threat.
… The time has come for libraries to speak up.
人と違うことは当たり前のはずなのに、友達と同じでないと不安を感じることが多い今のこどもたち。人に合わせることが必要なこともありますが、自分らしさを見つけ出し、それを認めることができると、自分と違う人の事も認めることができるようになり、人間関係も楽になります。ムーミンの住む世界が平和なのはムーミンたちがお互いの違いを認めているからなのです。 そして実はそれこそが本当の「国際人」になるためにも必要なことなのです。
日本では知らない人がいないムーミン。フィンランド人の作者が書いたムーミントロールの話は実はフィンランドとロシアが戦争中に作者が自分自身を慰めるために書いた物語でした。
ムーミンに登場する人物はみんな個性の強い、それぞれ違った性格や考え方、体つきをしています。人はお互いに異なって当たり前なのです。
その違いを認めることができると自分自身を認めるようになり、友達や周りの人だけでなく、世界のいろいろな文化や人を認めることができるようになるのです。
The photographer’s objective was a perched Black-crowned Night Heron; the artist later discovered that the image serendipitously included the less seen Pileated Woodpecker.
It is true that my discovery of LSD was a chance discovery, but it was the outcome of planned experiments and these experiments took place in the framework of systematic pharmaceutical, chemical research. It could better be described as serendipity.
Serendipity means a “happy accident” or “pleasant surprise”; specifically, the accident of finding something good or useful without looking for it. The word has been voted one of the ten English words hardest to translate in June 2004 by a British translation company. However, due to its sociological use, the word has been exported into many other languages. Julius H. Comroe once described serendipity as:
to look for a needle in a haystack and get out of it with the farmer’s daughter.
Public libraries have been in existence for thousands of years, but for the purposes of this article, let’s start with the year 1731, when Benjamin Franklin began a subscription library as a means of sharing thousands of books. Members needed to either purchase stock in the library (which was setup as a company) or become a member — for about $5.
By 1833, Peterborough, New Hampshire, began to use tax revenue to purchase books for a publicly owned library, free to all residents. In 1854, the Boston Public Library became what is widely known as the first real public library, and more than 20 years later, the Dewey decimal system was brought into use.
In the early 20th century, philanthropist Andrew Carnegie donated $50 million to build 1,700 libraries in the United States. There are now more than 9,000 public libraries, not including branches. Around 85 percent of library funding comes from federal, state, and local taxes. The majority (90 percent or more) of that comes from local property taxes.
… At a time where the tax burden can often be onerous, doesn’t it make sense to ask library users to pay a nominal fee for a book rental? When municipal budgets are tightened, almost universally the library is left to hang by a thread. Amazingly, when library usage is at an all-time high, I read about library closings every week across this country.
But I never hear any politician or citizen’s group recommending a rental fee to support the library.
The woman at the helm of the Chicago Public Library system for the past 18 years has resigned from her post in the midst of ongoing disputes over staff layoffs and reduced branch library hours.
>… the Scottish government recently passed a law making it illegal for fans to attack one another using religious, ethnic, regional or violent historical slurs in songs, chants, Internet postings or even stray remarks at a stadium or pub.
That means that fans of Rangers, a team with roots in Protestant Northern Ireland, cannot sing “The Billy Boys” — a song that refers to Irish blood and to William of Orange, a Protestant hero from the 17th century — for fear of being sent to prison. It means that fans of their mortal enemies, Celtic, cannot sing “Up the ’Ra,” which celebrates the Irish Republican Army and is a throwback to their Roman Catholic Northern Ireland origins.
And it means that no one is allowed to take part in once-common chants in which fans goad their opponents by gleefully rehashing past tragedies like players’ untimely deaths, or, in the case of Rangers, the infamous 1971 incident in which 66 fans were crushed and asphyxiated to death at Ibrox as they rushed for the exits.
>Regression analyses indicated that negative social well-being was positively associated with levels of uses of media that are centrally about interpersonal interaction (e.g., phone, online communication) as well as uses of media that are not (e.g., video, music, and reading). Video use was particularly strongly associated with negative social well-being indicators. Media multitasking was also associated with negative social indicators. Conversely, face-to-face communication was strongly associated with positive social well-being. Cell phone ownership and having a television or computer in one’s room had little direct association with children’s socioemotional well-being.
>橋下徹大阪市長は２７日、記者会見し、大阪市と大阪府で制定を狙う｢教育基本条例案｣に盛り込むとしている３年連続定員割れの府立高校の統廃合で、経済的に困難な家庭の子どもが遠距離通学になっても、「通学定期代くらいバイトして稼げばよい｣と強弁しました｡
橋下市長は「生徒が集まらない学校をずっと置いておいても仕方がない」とし、「本当にそういう事情があるなら電車代を助成しますよ」と発言。一方で、「本当に家庭の事情で苦しいというなら通学定期代くらいバイトして稼ぎゃあいい。授業料までただにしてるんですから。通学代が出せないから地元に高校を残さないといけないなんて、そんな理屈は通らない」と述べました。
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>大たい四頭筋（太もも前面の筋肉）のストレッチ
大でん筋（お尻の筋肉）のストレッチ
腹直筋（おなかの筋肉）のストレッチ
Liebe Leserinnen und Leser,
sehr geehrte Damen und Herren,
auf Antrag des Bayerischen Staatsministeriums der Finanzen hat ein Münchner Gericht am Nachmittag des 25.Januar entschieden, dass
Zeitungszeugen bis auf weiteres keine Auszüge aus ‘Mein Kampf’ verwenden darf, um sie wissenschaftlich kommentiert und analysiert zu veröffentlichen. Wir bedauern, dass wir deshalb anders als angekündigt allen interessierten Lesern, die uns einen frankierten und adressierten Rückumschlag zugesandt haben, vorerst keine vollständig leserliche Variante unserer Zeitungszeugen-Beilage ‘Das unlesbare Buch’ zusenden können. Gegen die Entscheidung des Münchner Gerichts werden wir Rechtsmittel einlegen. Sollten wir Erfolg haben, werden wir Ihnen die vollständig lesbare Variante zu einem späteren Zeitpunkt schicken.
Das große Interesse unserer Leserschaft und die breite Unterstützung für unser Anliegen einer verantwortungsvollen Auseinandersetzung mit diesem zentralen Werk der deutschen Geschichte bestärken uns in dem Wunsch nach einer abschließenden Klärung der Rechtslage.
Mit freundlichen Grüßen
Peter McGee
米国の米議会上下院で、インターネットを介した不正コピーを防止するための著作権擁護の２つの法案が審議されていたが、インターネット界の反対運動により、２法案とも票決が無期限に延期され、事実上葬り去られた。２つの法案は、下院のＳＯＰＡと上院のＰＩＰＡで、両者はかなり似ている。いずれも、著作権者の許可を得ずにコンテンツ（文書、画像、音楽、動画など）をダウンロードできるようになっているウェブサイトに対し、検索エンジン、料金決済、広告代理店などがサービスを提供することを禁じる内容になっている。
２法案は、米国のマスコミとエンターテイメント業界からの強い要請で提起された。ユーチューブなどには、テレビ映像を録画したものなどが無許可でアップロードされている。ファイル交換ツールをうまく使えば、世界中の見知らぬ人々のＰＣから音楽や動画のファイルを無料で得られる。これらの多くは、マスコミやエンタメ業界の著作権を侵害している。
今回の廃案の意味は、古いメディアから新しいメディアへの権力の移行であると見た方が良い。
米国家の隠れた機能としてネット業界がマスコミに取って代わったという動きは、起きていないのか。そう思ってネット業界を眺めてみると、取って代わったのかもしれないと思える事態が起きていることに気づく。
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>One of the world’s greatest export engines is running out of steam.
For decades, Japan used the combination of manufacturing might and an export-oriented trade policy to shower markets around the world with its cars and consumer electronics and semiconductors.
No longer.
The Japanese government is expected to announce Wednesday that the country recorded its first annual trade deficit since 1980. If the yen remains strong and global demand weak, economists warn that Japan could run trade deficits for years to come.
The startling change is partly a result of one-time factors like the disastrous earthquake and tsunami last March, …
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>実際に住んでいない大阪市淀川区内の組事務所に住民票を移したなどとして、大阪府警捜査４課と東淀川署などは２３日、電磁的公正証書原本不実記録・同供用と詐欺容疑で、指定暴力団の直系組長を逮捕した。府警によると、調べに対して容疑者は容疑を認めているという。
逮捕容疑は平成２１年１２月、大阪府豊中市の知人宅に住んでいるにもかかわらず、大阪市淀川区の区役所に組事務所への転入届を提出し、虚偽の住民登録をさせたとしている。
また、この住所で国民健康保険証１通をだまし取った疑いも持たれている。
>广东汕尾乌坎村成立村党总支部，林祖銮被任命为总支书记；乌坎民众继续追责村民代表薛锦波的死因。而在广东汕头市，就近期海门镇群众反对电厂的抗议风波，该市市长称有人受境外媒体影响、“非抓不可”。
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>All insignificant things must disappear
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>Obviously, not all prostitution is enslavement or trafficking, and some is voluntary. China probably has more prostitutes than any country in the world,Cautious Optimism for Sufferers of Joint Pain – NY, and it is largely voluntary with the women themselves keeping the money they earn. But in many countries — including the U.S., for that matter — there is a considerable amount of prostitution that is forced or involves minors. Talk to the survivors, and the stories are chilling. For that matter, read Somaly Mam’s terrific memoir, “The Road of Lost Innocence,” which offers a luminous window into what these girls go through.
There’s a tendency in some quarters to be non-judgmental about trafficking and even to criticize the raids on these brothels as traumatic to the girls involved. Well, it strikes me as pretty traumatic for a 12-year-old girl to be raped 20 times a night, seven days a week — not including the tortures that pimps worldwide use to break a girl’s spirit. This trafficking, in other words, has nothing to do with consenting adults and everything to do with rape and child abuse. Figuring what to do with adult prostitution is a tough challenge (I favor experimenting with the Swedish model), but cracking down on human trafficking should be a no-brainer.
>My Sunday column returns to a regular theme — human trafficking — and recounts a raid on a brothel in northern Cambodia with one of my heroes, Somaly Mam. The youngest girl in the brothel had been trafficked from Vietnam a few months ago when she was in the seventh grade, meaning that she was born in 1999. That makes her about 12 years old.
Her youth made her very popular in the brothel. There were sometimes lines of men waiting to have sex with her, and she could have 20 customers a night. Of course, she didn’t get a penny of that income.
Kim Schmitz legally changed his surname to Dotcom at some point over the last decade, a homage to the technology that made him a millionaire and that has now landed him in a New Zealand jail.
Mr. Dotcom was charged with criminal copyright infringement and conspiracy to commit racketeering. The Federal Bureau of Investigation shut down his Hong Kong-based website, which it claims was used to pirate half a billion dollars worth of entertainment content.
The husky Mr. Dotcom is a kingpin in a little-exposed side of the Internet economy, who profited by tapping changes in technology, roiling the entertainment industry.
His company, Megaupload Ltd., and similar online storage sites known as cyberlockers, have many legitimate uses, such as allowing people to share large presentation files and home movies.
But U.S. authorities and entertainment executives say in court documents and interviews that cyberlockers are at the vanguard of online piracy. On Friday, the U.S. Congress abandoned two controversial antipiracy bills.
Despite the legal controversy brewing around his website—and a previous conviction for insider trading—Mr. Dotcom didn’t lay low or hide anonymously behind his computer.
>… Yes, there are some mammoth-sized unknowns out there that could hurt your returns. But when the biggest “what ifs” are resolved, you could also profit, if you play it right.
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