Get wet and go wild: housewife rakes in extra loot at the neighborhood body wash Just between us girls -- the secret slang splurted in the ejaculation industry Sexaholics anonymous groupies let it all hang out Japan's agony aunts feel the high moral ground slipping from under their feet Pervy private school pedagogue pinched for purloining ex-pupil's panties Picky Japanese princesses pass on putrid peckers STDs spreading to Japan's older ranks Sex coated with honey makes you more money, fuzoku fillies find Might as well face it, you're addicted to sex 'Rubik's Cube sex' peddled as latest cure for Japan's bedroom bashfuls Discarded women sell spring out of crumbling 'chon-no-ma' brothel Girls get good grip on sex technique at booty boot camp Gray generation puts 'pink' economy back in the black Cross-dressing festival lives up to its queer billing Gain comes at cost of pain, teen tarts discover Sex shops sweating ahead of World Athletics Championships A healthy helping hand that won't deplete your wallet Booze and flattery: The dark art of getting her to give it up on a first date Hot action at service areas sends drivers on the road again Ladies loose-lipped on sex, but masturbation gets diddly squat Keeping it clean, Meiji-style: The rise of the condom in Japan More gals turning backs on career jobs to feel 'wanted' turning tricks Catfights common as females fiercely flay one other in the workplace Cuddling up to creepy creatures using the espresso hold is no laughing matter Sexperts tout erotic image training as the secret to a beautiful mind Prurient peeping pics of perky pingpong player are pretenders, porn pundit proclaims How low can they go? Pseudo pedo-porn peddlers loll in lascivious limbo
Do you want to lift your level of happiness? Here are some suggestions based on research findings and other sources. First of all, practice acts of kindness. Being kind to others, whether friends or strangers, has positive effects. It makes you feel happy, gives you a greater sense of connection with others, and brings you smiles. Next, make a good friend who you can talk with about anything. A friend in need is a friend indeed. Friendship cannot be built in a day, but it can make your life happier. The biggest factor for feeling satisfaction with life appears to be strong personal relationships. Thirdly, have realistic goals in your life and work for them. Happiness lies in the very process of their achievement. If you like to help someone who is in trouble, work as a volunteer. Volunteering is becoming more popular these days and people who do so are happier than people who don’t. Helping others makes you feel happy. Lastly, do things that you enjoy and that are good for your body. Getting plenty of sleep, exercising, stretching, smiling and laughing can all improve your mood in a short time. Practiced regularly, they can help make your daily life more satisfying. Although the sense of happiness differs between individuals, why don’t you try to put these examples into practice? Then you will be able to live a happier life from now on.
also emphasized that unless the plaintiff's copyrighted work is at least in part the target of the defendant's satire, then the defendant's work is not a "parody" in the legal sense: It is the rule in this Circuit that though the satire need not be only of the copied work and may . . . also be a parody of modern society, the copied work must be, at least in part, an object of the parody, otherwise there would be no need to conjure up the original work. . . . By requiring that the copied work be an object of the parody, we merely insist that the audience be aware that underlying the parody there is an original and separate expression, attributable to a different artist.
Similarly, the American Heritage Dictionary defines "parody" as a "literary or artistic work that broadly mimics an author's characteristic style and holds it up to ridicule." We now turn our attention to The Cat NOT in the Hat! itself. The first two pages present a view of Los Angeles, with particular emphasis on the connection with Brentwood, given the depiction of the news camera lights. The story begins as follows
The Earth’s species are dying out an alarming rate,up to 1,000 times faster than Their natural rate of extinction. Some scientists estimate that as many as 137 species disappear from the Earth each day, which adds up to 50,000 species disappearing every year. Tropical rainforests contain at least half of the Earth’s species. In Panama, scientists discovered fully 80% of the world’s currently known beetle species on only 19 trees. The unbelievable diversity of the rainforests means that most species have evolved to inhabit very specialized places in their environment, many species cannot survive. Because species depend on each other in a complicated web of relationships, changing just one part of that web harms the entire ecosystem. As people destroy or significantly change the rainforests, certain species die out . And as they go extinct, other species die out, which in turn leads to further breakdown of the ecosystem. This breakdown of rainforest ecosystems will likely lead to the disappearance of up to 10% of the world’s species within the next 25 years unless we act to stop it.
Species extinction is a natural part of evolution. Why, then, should growing extinction rates concern us? The human species depends on the rainforest’s millions of life forms for its own existence. We,too,are a dependent part of the delicate balance. Why are species vanishing at such an alarming rate? Habitat destruction ranks as the leading cause-especially logging,mining,and building dams and highways where rainforests once existed. As the ecosystem shrinks,more and more species lose the resources that they need to survive. Introduced species also wipe out many native species. Nearly 20% of known endangered animals, birds and fish are threatened by introduced species. When humans bring an alien species into an ecosystem, that species may take over places that other species had occupied. They also might change the ecosystem enough to indirectly force out native species or bring with them diseases to which the natives have no immunity. Especially on islands, where species have evolved in isolation and have not dealt with adapting to newcomers, the original inhabitantsmay be unable to adapt and survive. よろしくお願いします!
Under primitive agricultural conditions the farmer had few insect problems. These arose with the intensofocatopm of agriculture − the dovotion of immense acreages to a sinfle crop.Such a system set the stage for explosive increases in specific insect populations.Single-crop farming does not take advantage of the principles by which nature works;it is agriculture as an engineer might conceive it to be.Nature has introduced great variety into the landscape, but man has displayed a passion for simplifying it.Thus he undoes the built-in checks and balances by which nature holds the species within bounds. One important natural check is a limit on the amount of suitable habitat for each species. Obviously then, an insect that lives on wheat can build up its population to much higher levels on a farm devoted to wheat than on one in which wheat is intermingled with other crops to which the insect is not adapted.
The same thing happens in other situations.A generation or more ago, the towns of large areas of the United States lined their streets with the noble elm tree.Now the beauty they hopefully created is threatened with complete destruction as disease sweeps through the elms, carried by a beetle that would have only a limited chance to build up large populations and to spread from tree to tree if the elms were only occasional trees in a richly diversified planting.
I contend, furthermore, that we have allowed these chemicals to be used with little or no advance investigation of their effect on soil, water, wildlife, and man himself. Future generations are unlikely to condone our lack of prudent concern for the integrity of the natural world that supports all life.There is still very limited awareness of the nature of the threat.This is an era of specialists, each of whom sees his own problem and is unaware of or intolerant of the large frame into which it fits.It is also an era dominated by industry, in which the right to make a dollar at whatever cost is seldom challenged.When the public protests, confronted with some obvious evidence of damaging results of pesticide applications, it is fed little tranquillizing pills of half truth.
Part of the relation between genes and weight is also due to each person's "set point" for their body weight. A person's body will naturally try to keep the level of fat at one level, the person's set point. Every time a person loses or gains weight, the body's set point tries to change the person's metabolism to regain or lose the new weight. For example, when a person goes on a diet, her or his weight goes below the set point. Then the person's body shows down the metabolism to try and gain the weight back.
Part of the relation between genes and weight is also due to each person's "set point" for their body weight. A person's body will naturally try to keep the level of fat at one level, the person's set point. Every time a person loses or gains weight, the body's set point tries to change the person's metabolism to regain or lose the new weight. For example, when a person goes on a diet, her or his weight goes below the set point. Then the person's body shows down the metabolism to try and gain the weight back.
DNA was first extrcted from a living organism in 1869, but it was not until the mid-20th century that its importance was recognized. It took until the mid-1980s for scientists to extract DNA from organisms that were long dead, leading to a new area of science-the study of ancient DNA. A DNA molecule has two strands. Along each strand is a sequence of four base molecules: adenine (A), thymine (T), cytosine (C) and guanine (G). The order in which the base molecules are arranged varies from species, and from individual to individual within a species. Scientists compare different samples of DNA by comparing the sequences of the base molecules. They can use this to determine how different species, and individuals within species, are related.
Williams had to turn back half-way down the drive. His mouth was dry and his heart had begun that old nervous pounding he thought he had outgrown. He went out through the gate again and stood by the hedge, out of sught of the house. If anyone happened to be watching through a window, he did not want to be seen behaving in an eccentric way.
長文ですがよろしくお願いします Have you heard the old saying that laughter is the best medicine? Then listen to this. Seriously, research has already shown that mental stress can restrict blood flow to the heart. But now a study has linked laughter to increased blood flow. Laughter appears to cause the tissue inside blood vessels to expand. As a result, laughing may be important to reduce the risk of heart disease. So says Doctor Michael Miller of the University of Maryland Medical Center. He led a study of twenty men and women, all healthy. To get them to laugh, they watched part of the movie "Kingpin," a nineteen ninety-six comedy. To create the opposite emotions, they watched the opening battle in the nineteen ninety-eight war movie "Saving Private Ryan."
>>32 続きです The researchers used ultrasound technology to measure changes in blood flow through an artery in the arm. Blood flow increased in nineteen of the twenty people after they watched "Kingpin." The increase was an average of twenty-two percent. Doctor Miller says that is similar to the effects of aerobic exercise. Blood flow decreased in fourteen of the twenty people after they watched "Saving Private Ryan." The decrease was an average of thirty-five percent. Studies have shown that stress can reduce the body's ability to fight disease. When the body is under stress, it produces hormones such as adrenalin and cortisol. Cortisol is related to fear; adrenalin prepares the body to react. But too much of these hormones can be harmful. Doctor Miller noted that the study could not explain how laughter is responsible for the effects observed. Do the effects come from the movement of muscles, or from a chemical release? The researchers say laughter may cause the body to release pleasure chemicals, just as when a person exercises. Doctor Miller says these endorphins may block the effect of stress hormones and cause the blood vessels to expand. Laughter may also influence the release of nitric oxide, which too expands blood passages. The results were presented at a meeting of the American College of Cardiology. Doctor Miller does not advise people to replace exercise with laughter. But, based on the results, he does suggest fifteen minutes of laughter each day.
As for your student’s question, I’m sure he/she knows what a “nanny” is―a person, usually a full-time, live-in babysitter, who looks after a family’s children, cooking for them, cleaning up after them, entertaining them: in other words, someone who takes care of their every want and need. Well, the so called “nanny laws” are laws that aim to “take care” of the public in a similarly comprehensive manner, and in America these days, there are an increasingly large number of them, with more being proposed all the time. In the 1920s, the 18th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution (since repealed) prohibited the manufacture and sale of intoxicating liquors of any kind. In the 1980s, it was seat belt and motorcycle helmet laws that were passed; in the 90s, anti-smoking legislation. Today, most such laws aim to promote healthy behavior and to minimize a perceived new danger. For example, many states now have laws banning the use of trans fats in restaurants. These cooking oils can lead to heart disease. Other recent “nanny laws” make it against the law to text message while driving, while others try to restrict minors from getting tattoos and body piercings. A new Texas law requires all 11- and 12-year-old girls to be vaccinated against a sexually transmitted virus that causes cervical cancer. Obviously, these laws come with the best of intentions. But to civil libertarians, they go too far in infringing on individual rights. As for me, I sometimes wish there weren’t so many such laws, but then again, at other times, like when I see someone gabbing on his cell phone in the car and not paying attention to the road, I’m glad they’re on the books. Anyway, I hope the above answers your student’s question. If there are any more, just let me know.
どなたかよろしくお願いします。 What can be done to stimulate this interest and give the public the scientific background it needs in order to make informed decisions on subjects like acid rain , the greenhouse effect , nuclear weapons , and genetic engineering?
As recently as ten years ago few people would have predicted that the Internet would play a major role in business. Today, however,the Internet has become an essential tool ― especially in the international business world. Some of the most important features of the Internet for business include providing vast amounts of data and information, speed for communication and business transactions, the reduced need for business travel, and the ability to link people throughout the world in “virtual meetings.” An old expression states,”time is money”. The Internet allows businesspeople to save both time and money by providing quick access to vital information and by making it possible to send information and to conduct actual business transactions almost instantly,”on line.” Saving time helps keep businesses ahead of competitors. Furthermore, sometimes the prices offered to customers on line ― for airline tickets, to give a common example ― may be lower than those offered to the general public. Another important feature offered by the Internet is the ability to do business in almost any place in the world without even having to go to an office. People can now choose to work at home without having to commute to an office, except for occasional meetings.
>>41の続きです The Internet has also made it possible for people in poor and developing countries to work for big international companies ― enjoying salaries that would otherwise be unimaginable in their home countries. For example, today mamy of the best computer programmers and software engineers live in India. They can work for top companies such as Microsoft and Intel without leaving home. Many people believe that it the future “Internet employment” will offer increasing opportunities to people in developing countries and that it may help to decrease the gap between rich and poor nations. Other essential uses of the Internet in international business include online banking and trading ― which greatly reduce the time and expense that used to be required in doing international transactions. Internet trading has also reduced the need for traveling to conduct business. “Virtual meetings,” which include sound and visual contact, can now bring together people in different parts of the world. Such possibilities can now bring together people in different parts of the world. Such possibilities can enable both lower operating times and reduced expenses. Of course there will always be a need for some face-to-face contacts in business. But the Internet, like the computer it “lives” in, has become an essential partner in modern business. どうかよろしくお願いします
@According to an old English saying, "The grass is always greener on the other side of the fence." This means that people tend to be jealous of their neighborsーto want what they don't have. It's relevant to several of the issues in this book but perhaps to none as much as to Education. Policy-makers from the U. S. (and other Western countries) often come to Japan to study the wonderful educational system here while at the same time Japanese policy-makers are visiting America to try to discover why its schools are so effective!
AThey all want what they don't have. American educators look with envy at the test scores of Japanese students. Particularly in math and science, Japanese learn more in high school than some Americans learn even in university. Meanwhile, Japanese educators covet the imagination, creative thinking, and problem-solving skills that schools in the U. S. seem to do so well at teaching. If we compare this situation to the construction industry, we might be able to say that U. S. schools teach how to build wonderful structures but don't provide the materials for the job, whereas Japanese school give students all the latest, best construction equipment but don't tell them how to use it.
BJapanese generally agree that their school are too rigid. Especially at the junior high and high school level, students still spend most of their time listening to teachers lecture, copying down exactly what they hear, and memorizing facts in preparation for the next fill-in-the-blank test. Their school days are governed by a long list of regulations. This strict management style extends all the way to the top, where the Ministry of Education carefully monitors every single aspect of the nation's schools and makes rules on everything from what textbooks can be used to how big desks must be. Meanwhile, Americans feel that their schools are too lax. Junior high school and high school students are allowed to choose many of their subjects, giving them the chance to opt for easier classes instead of harder ones. It's common for students to have one or two free periods per day, during which they're supposed to be studying but often aren't. Rules are pretty loose: high school students are generally allowed to drive their own cars to school, to smoke in designated smoking areas, and sometimes to leave school early for part-time jobs. Notice that in talking about American schools, we have to qualify statements with words such as "often" and "usually" because there's so much variation between them. Yes, there is a Department of Education, it plays little role in the day-to-day management of school; most decisions are made lower down in the 50 different state governments or lower still in the nation's 15,000 school districts.
宜しくお願い致します。 " For the next eighteen pages, Katz writes about Simpson's trip to Chicago, the noise outside Kato Kaelin's room, the bloody glove found by Mark Fuhrman, the Bronco chase, the booking, the hiring of lawyers, the assignment of Judge Ito, the talk show interest, the comment on DNA, and the selection of a jury. On the hiring of lawyers for Simpson, Katz writes:
These stanzas and the illustrations simply retell the Simpson tale. Although The Cat NOT in the Hat! does broadly mimic Dr. Seuss' characteristic style, it does not hold his style up to ridicule. The stanzas have "no critical bearing on the substance or style of" The Cat in the Hat. Katz and Wrinn merely use the Cat's stove-pipe hat, the narrator ("Dr. Juice), and the title (The Cat NOT in the Hat! ) "to get attention" or maybe even "to avoid the drudgery in working up something fresh." Acuff-Rose, 114 S. Ct. at 1172. While Simpson is depicted 13 times in the Cat's distinctively scrunched and somewhat shabby red and white stove-pipe hat, the substance and content of The Cat in the Hat is not conjured up by the focus on the Brown-Goldman murders or the O.J. Simpson trial. Because there is no effort to create a transformative work with "new expression, meaning, or message," the infringing work's commercial use further cuts against the fair use defense. 9 Id. at 1171.
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What goes on within the human brain is more complicated and wonderful than anyone imagines. Now science is researching deeper into what we know ofthe mind. Strong new techniques for visualizing the sources of thought, emotion, and behavior are changing the way we understand the nature of the brain and the mind it creates. The eye is one of the most amazing parts of the body. When we perceive what the world looks like, our perception of it involves a certain amount of "misreading." The process of seeing begins with the presence of light, an image being formed on the retina, and an impulse being sent to the brain, but there are many other factors that play a part in how we perceive visually. Our perceptions are influenced, for example, by our past experiences, imagination and associations.
Part2 This grid, known as Hermann's Grid, is an example of how contrast affects color perception. Imagine the Hermann Grid as a map of city streets; most crossings appear to be gray, but when you look closely at any individual crossing, you will see that it is white. The streets, on the other hand, appear white no matter where you look. This illusion depends on high contrast black and white areas to fool the eyes into perceiving gray areas. The perception of gray crossings is a result of local brightness control in the retina. Cells in your retina set the brightness of an image by the intensity of the light signal. But your brain can set the brightness of an image in many small parts. Setting brightness in small parts lets you see a wide range of both bright and dark parts in the same image. In Zollner's illusion of direction, parallel lines appear to be bent when other lines cross them at an angle. The illusion disappears when the image is held far enough away from the eye to distinguish the short crossing lines. Some scientists say that face recognition is performed by a particular section of the brain. To the brain, this image of Lincoln's face looks normal when viewed upside down, but when turned around it becomes distorted. This is because our brains recognize a face only when it is right side up. When it is presented upside down, the brain no longer recognizes it as a face but rather as an object, and this is why we do not respond to its distortions.
Part3 Let us think about the various functions of the brain. Once, photographs of Americans expressing various emotions were shown to the Fore people in New Guinea. They readily recognized most of the expressions of anger, happiness, sadness, disgust, fear and surprise. These six emotions are themselves universal. Some emotional triggers are universal as well. For example, when something unexpectedly comes into your field of vision, you will be frightened. But most emotional triggers are learned. The smell of newly mowed hay will generate different emotions in someone who spent peaceful childhood summers in the country and someone who was forced to work long hours on a farm. Once such an emotional association is made, it is difficult to unmake it. But we can learn to manage our emotions better. Another interesting thing is the relationship between the brain and fear. For example, many people fear big snakes and run away because they feel danger. But a baby usually doesn't feel afraid of a big snake, even if he or she is placed right next to it. This may have something to do with the primary brain and its fear response to such dangers. It seems likely that there is a tendency in the primary brain to fear natural phenomena that can hurt us, but no tendency to learn to fear something that will not. But this tendency is influenced by social experience. Therefore, there is a good chance the baby will begin to fear snakes after watching other humans react to them.
part4 The fascinating processes of brain development across a lifetime are being revealed by science. The mystery of a baby's brain begins only four weeks after conception. The first brain cells and neurons are already forming at a surprising rate (250,000 every minute),and three months before it is born there will already be trillions and trillions of connections between the cells. One way newborns are introduced to the world is through vision. Their eyes and the visual cortex continue to develop after birth according to how much stimulation they receive. When we are babies, our brains are more open to the shaping hand of experience than at any other time in our lives. A child's brain is a wonderful machine for learning. A child learns to crawl, then walk, run and explore. A child also learns to reason, to pay attention, and to remember, but nowhere is learning more dramatic than in the way a child learns language. Until babies become about a year old, they respond to language with their whole brains, but then, little by little, the function of language learning begins to shift to the left side of the brain.
When examining the adolescent brain we find complexity, frustration, and inspiration. At its beginning, the brain is full of hormones, and the prefrontal cortex, the center of reasoning and impulse control, is still developing. Now, for the first time,scientists can offer an explanation for what parents already know adolescence is a time of emotional difficulties and poor judgment. Even into our seventies,our brains continue producing new neurons. Scientists no longer believe that we lose large numbers of brain cells as we grow older. The normal aging process leaves most mental functions completely undamaged, and may even provide the brain with unique advantages that form the basis for wisdom. Our brain is full of mysteries whose secrets scientists are just beginning to figure out. More and more interesting results will be revealed and may provide us with a lot of suggestions. Let's enjoy this great journey of understanding the brain.
For the next eighteen pages, Katz writes about Simpson's trip to Chicago, the noise outside Kato Kaelin's room, the bloody glove found by Mark Fuhrman, the Bronco chase, the booking, the hiring of lawyers, the assignment of Judge Ito, the talk show interest, the comment on DNA, and the selection of a jury. On the hiring of lawyers for Simpson, Katz writes:
These stanzas and the illustrations simply retell the Simpson tale. Although The Cat NOT in the Hat! does broadly mimic Dr. Seuss' characteristic style, it does not hold his style up to ridicule. The stanzas have "no critical bearing on the substance or style of" The Cat in the Hat. Katz and Wrinn merely use the Cat's stove-pipe hat, the narrator ("Dr. Juice), and the title (The Cat NOT in the Hat! ) "to get attention" or maybe even "to avoid the drudgery in working up something fresh." Acuff-Rose, 114 S. Ct. at 1172. While Simpson is depicted 13 times in the Cat's distinctively scrunched and somewhat shabby red and white stove-pipe hat, the substance and content of The Cat in the Hat is not conjured up by the focus on the Brown-Goldman murders or the O.J. Simpson trial. Because there is no effort to create a transformative work with "new expression, meaning, or message," the infringing work's commercial use further cuts against the fair use defense.
どなたかよろしくお願いします。 It is true that are some very good science programs on TV , but others present scientific wonders simply as magic , without explaining them or showing how they fit into the framework of scientific ideas.
お願いします! With the population of the world set to rise dramatically in this century from 6,000 million in the year 2000 to 10,000 million by 2050 ー and with most of that growth in the Third World ー what should we be thinking of with regard to providing the most basic of resources: food?
I contend, furthermore, that we have allowed these chemicals to be used with little or no advance investigation of their effect on soil, water, wildlife, and man himself. Future generations are unlikely to condone our lack of prudent concern for the integrity of the natural world that supports all life.There is still very limited awareness of the nature of the threat.This is an era of specialists, each of whom sees his own problem and is unaware of or intolerant of the large frame into which it fits.It is also an era dominated by industry, in which the right to make a dollar at whatever cost is seldom challenged.When the public protests, confronted with some obvious evidence of damaging results of pesticide applications, it is fed little tranquillizing pills of half truth.
Helen was eight years old, and one day one of her teeth began hurting. She cried in her class at school, and her teacher said kindly, "Why are you crying, Helen?" "Because one of my teeth hurts," answered Helen. "Speak to your mother about it," said the teacher, "and then go and see the dentist." That afternoon Helen spoke to her mother about her tooth, and her mother took her to the dentist a few hours later. The dentist looked at the tooth and then said to Helen,"It's very bad. I'm going to take it out, and then you'er going to get a nice, new tooth next year." He pulled the tooth out. The next day Helen's teacher asked her about the tooth. She said to her,"Does it still hurt,Helen?" "I don't know," Helen answered. "Why don't you know?" the teacher said. "Because the dentist's got it." Helen answered. よろしくお願いします
よろしくお願いします。There is a sick joke that the reason we have not been contacted by an alien civilization is that civilizations tend to destroy themselves when they get to our level.
よろしくお願いします。But a different idea is beginning to emerge , born of a revised understanding of the past , new information about the present , and different scenarios of what may lie ahead.
宜しくお願い致します。 Being black made the transition from Africa to America extremely difficult because it ibtroduced another complex series of boundaries. The one place where I found acceptance was in the company of other immigrants. Together, we concentrated on our similarities, not our differences, because our difference were our similarities. Still, I secretly envied the other foreign kids because I believed that their immigrant experience was somehow more authentic than mine. Unlike me, they were not caught in the racial battlefield of black and white, their ethnicity was visible. Mine invariably faded to black. They spoke languagrs that were identifiable. Everybody's heard of Spanish, Korean, Chinese, even Arabic. The few people who had heard of Ga and Twi colonially labeled them dialects, not languages.
If we accept the fact that we cannot prevent science and technology from changing our world, we can at least try to make sure that the changes are in the right direction. In a democratic society, this means that the public needs to have a basic understanding of science so that it can make informed decisions and it will not have to leave them in the hands of experts. At the moment, the public has a rather mixed attitude toward science. It has come to expect a steady increase in the standard of living as a result of new developments in science and technology,but it also does not trust science because it does not understand it.This distrust is evident in the cartoon figure of the mad scientist working in his laboratory to produce a Frankenstein. But the public also has a great interest in science, as is shown by the popularity of science fiction.
よろしくお願いします また @~understanding of sicence so that it can make informed ~. のitは何を指しているのでしょうか?
A,it does not understand it. のit 二つはそれぞれ何を示しているのでしょうか?
What can be done stimulate this interest and give the public the scientific background it needs in order to make informed decisions on subjects like acid rain, the greenhouse effect, nuclear weapons,and genetic engineering? Clearly,the basis must lie in what is taught in schools.But in schoolds science is often presented in a dry and uninteresting manner. Children must learn it by memorization to pass examinations, and they do not see its importance in the world around them.In addition, science is often taught in terms of mathematical formulas. Although mathematical formulas are a concise and accurate way of describing mathematical ideas , they frighten most people. Sicentists and engineers tend to express their ideas in the form of mathematical formulas because they need to know the precise value of quantities. But for the rest of us , a general idea of science is sufficient , and this can be conveyed by words and diagrams, without the use of mathematical formulas.
Hey dude, got a new game I want to try out haha. It's some kind of "beat mixer" or something, I don't remember the name. But, it only works in Japan apparently..I think I have a way around that at home, but I want to try it out if not! You up for it before/after the onsen whenever we go?
Near a beach in northern Okinawa,a group of 161 islands that stretch between Japan and Taiwan, is a large stone on which the following proverb is carved : At 70 you are but a child,at 80 you are merelya youth, and at 90 if the ancestors invite you into heaven , ask them to wait until you are 100... and then you might consider it. The archipelago,known as the Galapagos of the East because of its tropical rain forest and abundance of unique fauna and flora,has long been rumored to be home to the longest-living people in the world. Now,after a 25-years scientific study, the rumor has been poroved to be fact. Its population of 1.3 milion includes more than 400 centenarians (85.7% of whom are female)-nearly four times the rate in Western countiries,and the highest percentage of a pupulation in the world. The average age at death is 81.2 years . around five years older than that of Westerners. But perhaps what is more striking is the extraordinarily good health that the elderly islanders enjoy. The study , which was funded by the japanese Ministry of Health, revealed that Okinawans had one of the lowest mortality rates in the world from many chronic disease of aging. As a group, coronary heart disese ,stroke and cancer-the three leading killers in the West-are less likely to afflict people living in OKinawa than anywhere else in the world. As a result , they enjoy not only the worlds longest life expectancy,but the worlds longest [health expectancy].
よろしくお願いします! a string of words is a constituent if it can serve as the antecedent for a word that is interpreted as if it were a copy of that antecedent; such words are called pro-forms. The classic case of a proform is a pronoun ----for example, the he of The boy left, but he came right back, where he is understood to refer to the same person as the boy.
One of the longest and most heated arguments in modern science began with the discovery of the first skeleton of a Neanderthal human being in 1856. Are modern humans direct descendants of Neanderthals, or are we just cousins who descended from another shared ancestor? There are two theories of how modern humans evolved. The "out of Africa" theory, led by English paleontologist Chris Stringer, says that before modern humans evolved, the Earth was populated by a number of different human species, including the Neanderthals, all descended from Homo erectus. A new species of human, Homo sapiens (or modern humans), evolved from Homo erectus in Africa and spread around the Earth, replacing all the other human species. The other theory, led by U.S. anthropologist Milford Wolpoff, says that all the earlier human species could breed with each other and that modern humans are the eventual result of this interbreeding. If Stringer is right, then we are not directly descended from Neanderthals. If Wolpoff is right, then Neanderthals are one of our direct ancestors. Until the 1980s, the argument depended entirely on the interpretation of the fossil record. But techniques enabling scientists to extract and to study ancient DNA changed all that.
DNA is passed on from parent to child over the generations. DNA changes gradually over the generations, but the more closely related two living things are, the more similar their DNA will be. If Neanderthals are our direct ancestors, their DNA should be similar to ours. In 1997 scientists announced that they had taken DNA from the Neanderthal skeleton discovered in 1856. This was found to be very different from the DNA of modern humans. It seemed to prove that Neanderthals are not our direct ancestors. But Wolpoff and his supporters were not convinced, arguing that only one sample of ancient DNA had been used. So other scientists extracted DNA from two other Neanderthal skeletons and got the same result-the Neanderthal DNA was very different. Still not convinced, Wolpoff's supporters said that Neanderthal DNA was being compared with that of humans living now. What if all human DNA had changed since the time of the Neanderthals? So scientists extracted DNA from the 25,000-year-old skeleton of a modern human being that lived around the same time as the Neanderthals. They found this DNA was very similar to that of modern human beings but very different from that of Neanderthals. Case solved! Stringer was right. Neanderthals are our cousins, not our direct ancestors. This is just one example of how ancient DNA has been used to confirm or disprove a theory. Ancient DNA has also been used to investigate the origin and nature of diseases like the plagues that swept Europe hundreds of years ago and the influenza epidemic that killed millions of people in the early 20th century. Who knows what else we will discover using ancient DNA?
>>90 日本と台湾の間に延びている161の島からなる北沖縄のある海岸近くに大きな石があり、そこに 次の諺が刻まれている。:「70歳ではまだ子ども、80歳ではまだ若者、90歳でもし先祖があなたを 天国に招こうとするなら、100歳になるまでは待ってくれと頼みなさい、そしてその時(100歳になったら) 考えてみても(天国へ行くこと)いいかもしれない。」 熱帯雨林とユニークな動植物のおかげで東洋のガラパゴスとして知られる列島(北沖縄列島)は 世界で最も長寿の人々の住むところと長く噂されてきたのである。 Now,after a 25-years scientific study, the rumor has been poroved to be fact. Its population of 1.3 milion includesmore than 400 centenarians (85.7% of whom are female) -nearly four times the rate in Western countiries,and the highestpercentage of a pupulation in the world. 現在25年の科学的研究の後、その噂は事実だと証明されている。千三百万人の人口のうち400人 の100歳以上が含まれ(内、85.7%は女性)___(これは)西洋諸国のほとんど4倍で、世界でも 人口当たり一番高い比率である。 平均寿命は81.2歳で、西洋人よりも5歳近く長い。しかし、多分もっと驚くべきことは、高齢の 人たちが非常に健康であると言うことである。この研究は、日本の厚生(労働)省の助成を 受けていたのだが、沖縄県人は加齢による多くの持病による死亡率が世界で一番低いということを 明らかにしている。集団として、冠状動脈血栓心臓病、脳梗塞、ガン、という西洋の三つの 死を引き起こす病気は、世界の他の何処よりも沖縄の人々はかかりにくいのである。 結果として、沖縄人たちは世界で一番長い平均余命ばかりでなく、一番長い健康な見込みも 享受している。
While swimming,Florence Chadwick saw nothinf but fog. Her bosy was numb. Nearly sixteen hours had passed. She was already the first woman to have swum the English Channel in both directions,but this time her goal was to become the first woman to swim from Catalina Island to the California coast. On that Fourth of july morning in 1952,the sea was like an ice bath and the fog was too dense for her to see her support boats. Her mother and her trainer kept encouraging her from a boat,but with only a half mile to go,she asked them to pull her out. It was not fatigue or even the cold water that made her give up. She said it was the fog. She was unble to see her goal. Two months later,she tried again. This time,despite the same dense fog,she swam with her goal clearly in her mind. She knew that somewhere behind that fog was land and in the end,she made it. She even broke the men's record by two hours.
Education is also a process of drawing out an individual’s inner talents. It opens new horizons, and expands self-expression. I like to compare education to a boat which sails across the sea of knowledge. The voyage takes us far away from the familiar shores of our family and friends. At first, we are afraid as the waves rock our boat. But soon we adjust to the new rhythm of the sea, because we are beginning to understand the new ideas and the new cultures around us. We forget our childish fears, and enjoy the excitement of exploring the unknown. Education is a process of discovery and, at the same time, also one of discovery.
At this point, you will probably wonder why the word education sometimes sends a mixed message. There are several reasons. First of all, not everything that we call education really fits the definition of this word. Second, formal education sometimes confuses quantity and quality. Sending more students to high school or to college does not mean that we are producing more educated people. We must strive for quality education. Finally education is often confused with instruction. You may be surprised by my comment, but, believe me, education and instruction are not the same thing. Many people think that education and instruction are the same. Although closely related, the two words express different philosophies. As we have seen, education is a process of leading out―let us say, a journey out of ignorance into knowledge. Education is therefore a process of expanding one’s personal skills. Instruction is quite different. The word instruction comes from the Latin verb INSTRUERE meaning “to arrange in piles.” Instruction is therefore a process of piling knowledge into a person. In moderation, instruction can be useful, but in excess, it is harmful. The dangers of instruction are similar to those of eating. When we eat with moderation, we enjoy the flavor of our food, and digest what we have eaten. When we eat too much, we suffer from indigestion. Likewise, when information is stuffed into a student’s mind, learning becomes an unpleasant experience. Too much vigorous instruction causes mental indigestion! Students usually rebel against mental forced feeding. They need time to digest the information that they have received.
The third factor asks whether "the amount and substantiality of the portion used in relation to the copyrighted work as a whole," S 107(3), are reasonable in relation to the purpose of the copying. This factor really raises the question of substantial similarity discussed in the preceding section, rather than whether the use is "fair." The district court concluded that "The Cat in the Hat" is the central character, appearing in nearly every image of The Cat in the Hat. Penguin and Dove appropriated the Cat's image, copying the Cat's Hat and using the image on the front and back covers and in the text (13 times). We have no doubt that the Cat's image is the highly expressive core of Dr. Seuss' work.
Under this factor, we also turn our attention "to the persuasiveness of a parodist's justification for the particular copying done, and the enquiry will harken back to the first of the statutory factors, for, as in prior cases, we recognize that the extent of permissible copying varies with the purpose and character of the use." Acuff-Rose, 114 S. Ct. at 1175. Katz and Wrinn insist that they selected The Cat in the Hat as the vehicle for their parody because of the similarities between the two stories: Nicole Brown and Ronald Goldman were surprised by a "Cat" (O.J. Simpson) who committed acts contrary to moral and legal authority. The prosecution of Simpson created a horrible mess, in which the defense team seemed to impose "tricks" on an unwilling public, resulting in a verdict that a substantial segment of the public regarded as astonishing. Just as The Cat in the Hat ends with the moral dilemma of whether the children should tell their mother about their visitor that afternoon, Katz and Wrinn maintain that The Cat NOT in the Hat! ends with a similar moral dilemma:
If we remember the etymological difference of both words, we understand why education is more pleasant, more stimulating, and more challenging than instruction. When children are educated in the true sense of the word, they rarely protest. When they are instructed, they frequently reach a saturation point and rebel. As Americans like to say, they are “turned off.” I think that educators should remember the differences between education and instruction. Let’s turn on the lights of education so that students will discover knowledge. The current crisis in American education goes far beyond the decline of academic standards and ethical values. The real question is who should control America’s children−the school or the parents. Today more and more Americans worry that the educational crisis threatens the American tradition of personal liberty.
Recently American schools have been taking over many traditional responsibilities of parents−care of infants and small children, breakfasts, sex education. Some parents, especially working mothers, are happy because, in this way, they have less parental responsibilities and more personal freedom. When parents give up their responsibilities, they are increasing state interference in individual’s personal life. Such state interference challenges the American tradition of personal liberty. Today many American parents are demanding their rights as parents. They oppose state interference, especially in ethical issues. They want to protect the American tradition of personal liberty. They challenge courses which teach small children the details of heterosexual and homosexual relations. They boycott textbooks which undermine the value of family, morality, and religion.
自分でやったのですがよく分かりません。どなたかよろしくお願いします。When you get a faint idea that someone is about to tell you something that was said about you , it is typical to feel your ears perk up even as your heart sinks.
Progressive Trance actually had a pretty good idea. There's nothing wrong with some tension and release in your song. That's what people listen to music for. To bring the music down to a crawl before exploding out with a crescending climax is one of the best tricks in music. And besides, if the DJ's too stupid and inept to figure out how to provide adequate tension and release during his sets through careful track selection and record management, why not do it for him, essentially removing any skill he thought he might've needed to have in order to be a good DJ. Breakdowns, builds, and memorable melodies are not a new thing in trance. But what Anthem Trance did was completely and totally abuse and pervert them. Where Progressive Trance used them to somewhate accentuate the moment (like say a lull before the main synth kicks back in), Anthem Trance used them for the track's entire purpose. This cookie cutter, by-the-numbers formula dominated the english club scene and trance, once the quirky kind of music with only a niche market, reformed itself into a neverending series of pop jingles and by doing so supplaunted house as the most popular dance music in the world.
The young boy shuffled restlessly while his mother packed his lunch. “Hurry up, Mom,” he pleased, “or else be late.” From past experience, he knew that his teacher never excused latecomers. With fear in his heart, he grabbed his lunch, and ran to school. The class had already started when he reached school. He slipped quietly into his seat, but not quietly enough to avoid the teacher’s angry stare and the usual punishment. This story probably sounds very familiar. It could have happened to you, to your friends, or even to your parents. Throughout the years, students have always been late to class. The story of this particular boy took place more than 4,000 years ago. He lived in ancient Sumer, a region located in the fertile valley between the Tigris and Euphrates rivers. This area, often called Mesopotamia, is one of the cradles of ancient civilization.
The science people learn in school can provide the basic framework. But the rate of scientific progress is now so rapid that there are always new developments that have occurred since we were at school or university. I never learnedabout molecular biology or transistors at school, but genetic engineering and computers are two of the developments most likely to change the way we live in the future.Popular books and magazine articles about science can help to teach new developments, but even the most successful popular book is read by only a small part of the population. It is true that there are some very good science programs on TV,but others present scientific wonders simply as magic, without explaininig them or showing how they fit into the framework of scientific ideas.Producers of television science programs should realize that they have a responsiblity to educate the public, not just entertain it.
What are the science-related issues that the public will have to make decisions on in the future?By far the most urgent is that of nuclear weapons.Other global problems,such as food supply or the greenhouse effect , are relatively slow-acting.On the other hand , a nuclear war cuold mean the end of all human life on earth within days.The relaxation of East-West tensions has meant that the fear of nuclear war has decreased in the mind of the public.But the danger is still there as long as there are enough weapons to kill the entire population of the world more than once. Nuclear weapons are still aimed at all the major cities in the Northern Hemisphere.It would only take a computer error to start a global war. If we manage to avoide a nuclear war, there are still other dangers that could destroy us all. There is a sick joke that the reason we have not been contacted by an alien civilization is that civilizations tend to destroy themselves when they get to our level.But I have sufficient faith in the good sense of the public to believe that we can prove this wrong.
I remember a chain problem from my childhood. Suppose you have four sections of a golden chain. Each consists of three links joined together in a line. You would like to connect all four sections into a necklace. The obvious solution is to cut the last link of each section and use it to connect the first section to the second one, then the second to the third, then the third to the fourth, then the fourth to the first one. If you want to minimize the number of cuts, you can do better. You can cut one of the three link sections into its individual links. Using the three loose links you can join the three remaining sections together. Your task is, given the lengths of the sections, to return the minimum number of cuts to make one big circular necklace out of all of them.
>>136 わかりやすい日本語で教えていただいてありがとうございます! loose linkやjoined together in a line、 You can cut one of the three link sections into its individual links.の訳がとても参考になりました。
The Hobbits of Flores Anthropology is the science that studies human species who lived long ago. It does this by studying their bones and the tools and animal remains found with these bones. These can tell us how advanced the humans were and how they lived. A recent discovery by anthropologists has provided evidence that another modern human species existed on Earth until about 12,000 years ago, when a violent volcanic eruption caused it to become extinct, leaving us, Homo sapiens, as the only living species of modern human beings.
In 2004 on the island of Flores in Indonesia, anthropologists found the remains of a tiny human, the size of a modern three-year-old child. At first they thought it was a child. But the wear on its teeth and the growth marks on its skull indicated it was an adult. The pelvis indicated it was a female, and a leg bone indicated it had walked upright as we do. The scientists decided that the remains were of a woman about one meter tall weighing about 25 kilograms. She was about 30 years old and had died apporoximately 18,000 years ago. Her skull was the same sizu as the skull of a chimpanzee. The scientists were convinced they had found a new human species. They gave it the scientific name Homo floresiensis (Homo meaning it was a human species), but people called them "hobbits" after the small people in J.R.R. Tolkien's famous novel The Lord of the Rings. The remains of eight other hobbits have been found on the island, but no other skulls have been found.
The Sumerians have left us an impressive legacy. Around 3,500 B.C., they invented a system of writing called cuneiform. They wrote on wet clay tablets with a wedge-shaped pen. They created the first schools where young men learned to read and write. Schools in ancient Sumer were not free. Only the wealthy families could afford to pay the tuition for their sons. The girls did not go to school. The Sumerians also introduced advanced study centers called “houses of wisdom.” Here serious students pursued difficult subjects such as linguistics, astronomy, and mathematics. The houses of wisdom were usually connected with an important temple. The list of impressive invention does not stop here. The Sumerians produced the first textbooks. These clay tablets contained word lists which the students were required to memorize. Archaeologist have discovered clay tablets showing the homework assignments of the Sumerians students. One contains the diary of the young boy who was punished for being late school.
Throughout the centuries, teachers have wielded power over their students and thus, indirectly, over society. The relationship between teacher and student reflects the teacher’s superior knowledge and superior social position. Because of this power, teachers have often punished their students with canes, whips, or paddles. Some schools still permit corporal punishment. Not all teachers feel comfortable with this power. Some prefer the methods of Socrates and Plato, and create a dialogue with their students. Others encourage creative learning and experimentation. Many reformers have tried to eliminate the power hierarchy in the classroom. In their opinion, a teacher should expose students to knowledge, not impose knowledge upon them.
Joanne Ussery, 54, from Benoit, Mississippi, is a big favorite with her two grandsons because she lives on a jet plane. Her home is a Boeing 727, so a visit to Grandma is very special. Joanne's front door is at the top of the plane's steps, but you don't need a tikcet or a passport when you visit. There are three bedrooms, a living room, a modern kitchen, and a luxury bathroom. The bathroom is in the cokpit, with the bathtub under the windows. Next to this is Joanne's bedroom-----in the first class section of the plane. Then there's the living room with four emergency exit doors, which she opens on summer evenings. On the wall there's a photo of the plane flying for Continental Airlines from Florida to the Caribbean. There are also four toilets, all with No Smoking signs.
"The plane is 27 years old and it's the best home in the world,"says Joanne. "It has all the things you want in a house: a telephone, air conditioning, an oven, a washing machine, even a dishwasher.It's akways very warm, even in winter, and it's very big, 42 meters long! My grandchildren love running up and down. And my friends love parties here----but there aren't any fright attendants to serve them their drinks!" The plane cost Joanne just $2,000. "Next time," she says, "I want a Boring 747, not a 727, because they have an upstairs and a downstairs, and I want to go upstairs to bed!"
In comparing Oriental medicine, particularly acupuncture, with Western medicine, there are certain distinct advantages in each. For example, Western medicine, with its variety of medications given anti-symptomatically, is often helpless in preventing migraine headache and reducing the symptoms unless one continues to take the medication. However, many intractable migraine patients can obtain long-term or semi permanent relief from severe migraine attacks after a series of acupuncture treatments. If a patient has a frozen shoulder, accompanied by severe pain, Western medicine cannot usually provide any significant lasting improvement. It can provide the relief of the pain and other symptoms that can be obtained by the use of steroid hormones as long as it is continued. But steroid hormones may create side effects of moon face, osteoporosis, stomach ulcer, diabetic tendency, cataract, glaucoma and reduced resistance to infection. In such patients, the conditions often improve dramatically even after one acupuncture treatment. In less than 15 minutes, it can produce relief of pain and immediate significant recovery of the lost functions of the joint without side effects. In uncontrolled diabetic patients with hypertension and very high blood sugar, acupuncture often induces a significant decrease in blood pressure. It also induces normalization of the blood glucose level, without the use of medication. On the other hand improper use of insulin or other antidiabetic drugs may even be harmful for the patients. Acupuncture also improves brain microcirculation, which in turn improves symptoms of irritability, easy forgetfulness of recent events, and insomnia in elderly individuals.
World Trek English CourseU Lesson3-1 @Dick Bruna was born in Utrecht,the Netherlands,in 1927. AFrom a young age he liked reading,drawing and making things by himself. BHis father had always wanted him to take over his publishing company some day. CSo after art galleries. DHe was deeply impressed by the works of Picasso and Matisse. EAbove all,Matisse's works had a great influence on him. FThey ware simple and vivid and appealed to him directly. GBefore long,Dick realized that he was not cut out for business. HFor him,nothing was more important than drawing. IHe told his father he wanted to be an artist rather than a businessman.
I have a quick question for you. Do universities in Japan have a code of conduct that lays down rules for how students should and should not act while on campus? If so, does the code extend to off-campus behavior, too? Can they getin trouble at school for causing trouble outside of school?
The reason I'm asking is that officials at the University of Washington(UW), my old alma mater, are trying to establish a code of conduct for off-campus behavior as well as on. The Washington State legislature, meanwhile, wants to pass a law that would also do just that, and then some.
Thousands of UW students live in dormitories, fraternities and sororities, apartments, and boarding houses around the university campus. As you might expect, with most students living away from home for the first time, the area is notorious for its wild parties. The other people who live in the neighborhood frequently camplain about the noise, lewdness, theft, littering, trespassing, and destruction of property that goes on when these parties are in process, which is pretty much every weekend (I swear I was never guilty of any such behavior myself and was always a perfect gentleman).
According to the proposed new code, students caught engaging in any of these activities would not only be subject to local police laws, but would be punished by the university as well. First-time offenders would receive a warning, but repeat offenders would be expelled.
Oddly enough, most UW students recently voted in favor of the new code, not because they really like the idea, but because they fear state politicians will try to control them much more stringently. Anyway, let me know about universities in Japan, and what you think of the UW's plan.
Japan has long been legendary for its tightfisted consumers, whose stubborn refusal to get out and spend has plagued the economy like a lingering nightmare. Yet this was the year that was supposed to change all that.
Ray Meyer was one of the most famous college basketball coaches in America. Once, his DePaul University team won 29 straight home games. When they finally lost the 30th game, his response was interesting: “Great!” he said, “Now we can concentrate on winning instead of not losing!” Many of the most successful businessmen and politicians in America have a positive attitude (different from/ similar to) Meyer’s. Instead of focusing on a past failure or on the possibility of things not going well, they put their energy into mak-ing things go right. Even if they make a mistake, they learn from it and go on to make better decisions. This same winning attitude can be seen among sports stars too. A great downhill skier has to visualize making a great run-if he worries too much about making a mistake, he will surely fall and lose the race. Tiger Woods, who is perhaps the best golfer of all time, emphasizes how important a posi-tive attitude is to winning. His mental concentration and single-minded focus on being his best are just as important to his success as his physical strength and skill. Students, too, should not be afraid to make mistakes. Sometimes they can become a great opportunity to learn something new. If you do not do well on a particular test, don’t worry so much about it. Let it go, and try to do better next time. This kind of positive attitude can help all of us-not only in school, but throughout our lives.
What are the science-related issues that the public will have to make decisions on in the future?By far the most urgent is that of nuclear weapons.Other global problems,such as food supply or the greenhouse effect , are relatively slow-acting.On the other hand , a nuclear war cuold mean the end of all human life on earth within days.The relaxation of East-West tensions has meant that the fear of nuclear war has decreased in the mind of the public.But the danger is still there as long as there are enough weapons to kill the entire population of the world more than once. Nuclear weapons are still aimed at all the major cities in the Northern Hemisphere.It would only take a computer error to start a global war. If we manage to avoide a nuclear war, there are still other dangers that could destroy us all. There is a sick joke that the reason we have not been contacted by an alien civilization is that civilizations tend to destroy themselves when they get to our level.But I have sufficient faith in the good sense of the public to believe that we can prove this wrong.
Why not look through your fingers what they've done. Your own blood will clean the blood, for now the glory days are gone....
It's time for everyone, to think what we have done. Open your eyes and see, it's not a dream. You aim for a common goal, you are one with your foe. If only we could wake up soon and scream.
Throw money at the problem and it will remain. Your life has no value for them, "violate me and this never ends. My children will then hate you too."
Now, when it seems that we have nothing to believe in. Maybe we should be waiting for the rock to come. For our children soon have nothing they should learn.
We next examine whether serious questions for litigation and a balance of hardships favoring Seuss exist on the federal trademark and unfair competition claims.
The issue in trademark infringement actions is not the alleged appropriation of Seuss' creative expression, but rather, the likelihood of confusion in the market place as to the source of Penguin and Dove's The Cat NOT in the Hat!. "Likelihood of confusion" is the basic test for both common law trademark infringement and federal statutory trademark infringement.
A federal claim under Lanham Act S 43(a) for infringement of an unregistered mark is triggered by a use which "is likely to cause confusion, or to cause mistake, or to deceive as to the affiliation, connection, or association" of The Cat NOT in the Hat! with Seuss' The Cat in the Hat.
Many scientists think that the hobbits evolved from another species called Homo erectus, as did we. Homo erectus arrived on Flores from Jave about a million years ago. It is thought that members of the species became smaller as they evolved into Homo floresiensis because the conditions on the island favor animals with a smaller body. A decrease in the size of mammals on islands is quite common worldwide. This is because islands often provide a limited food supply, so survival depends on minimizing energy needs, which results in small bodies. The hobbit bones were found with stone tools, the remains of small elephants and giant rats, and charcoal, a sign the hobbits used fire. This finding indicated that the hobbits hunted these animals and cooked them. Although small, the elephants would still have weighed about 1,000 kilograms, so they would have been very challenging to a hunter the size of a modern three-year-old child. Hunting these animals must have required effective communication, planning and hunting tools. It is surprising that a species with such a small brain could have developed such effective hunting techniques and tools. Some scientists believe that the hobbits were not actually a new species, but were actually dwarf modern human beings (Homo sapiens) who had a disease that reduced their skull size. New discoveries in anthropology often lead to very vigorous arguments among people with different theories. The debate about whether the hobbit is a different species will probably go on for a long time. If it does prove to be a new species, this will be one of the most significant anthropological discoveries in recent years.
Over there, it had been : more or less in that corner of the lawn ... he began to move towards the spot his eye had selected. And he had taken perhaps three steps before the small, high voice called 'Stop! Or they'll see you!'
Halting, he looked round. 'Where are you?' he said into the windy shadows. 'Here. In the tree. D'you want me to come down? D'you need help?' 'Yes,' Williams said. 'I need help.'
There was a rustling scrape of leather on bark, and the boy stood at his side. Seven? Eight? Gravefaced, in forty years he would probably look like his father, but this evening he was still secure within his own appearance.
>>179 Dr.Seussって人が書いた"The cat in the hat" っていう本があるんだね。 それのパロディ本で、Dr.Juiceって人がペンギン社から出した "The cat Not in the hat"っていうのがあるんだね。 それで、Dr.Seussとペンギン社は争って、ペンギン社は負けたんだ。 なんかそういう背景知識がないとピンと来ねえお あと、Dove audioていう会社も関わってるから、Doveってのがいきなり出て くるわけだ
商標権侵害行為における問題は、スースの創造的な表現の申し立てられた 充当ではなく、むしろPenguinとDoveの"The cat NOT in the Hat"の情報源 に関する市場での混同のおそれです。 「混同のおそれ」は慣習法商標権侵害と連邦の法定の商標権侵害の 両方のための基本的なテストです。 登録されていない商標の侵害のためのランハム法S43(a)の下における 連邦の主張はスースの"The Cat in the Hat"がある"The cat NOT in the hat" の「混乱を引き起こしそうであるか、誤りを引き起こしそうであるか、 または提携、接続、または協会に関してごまかしそうな」 使用で引き起こされます。
one team, using computer models of climate and ice, found that by about 2100, average temperatures could be four degrees higher than today and that over coming centuries, the oceans could rise 13 to 20 feet -conditions last seen 129,000 years ago, between the last two ice ages.
Many people think that exports are a large part of the Japanese economy. However, compared to some other advanced economies in the world, exports are not such a large part of the Japanese economy. The percentage of earnings from exports is only about 10 % of the Japanese GNP. In the case of Germany, export earnings are more than 30 % of that country's GNP. The percentage for France and Britain is more than 20 %. There are two main reasons why people tend to think that exports are so important for the Japanese economy. One reason is that the Japanese government has protected companies that manufacture products for export. The other reason is that Japan's trade surplus is very big. Japan does not have many natural resources. In order to earn foreign money to import natural resources Japan must export manufactured products. After the end of World War II to the beginning of the 1970s, the Japanese government protected companies that could manufacture products for export by restricting imports of the same type of products. After the oil crisis in 1973, Japanese manufacturers began to greatly increase their exports. The oil crisis caused the price of imported oil to rise sharply, so Japanese companies worked even harder to export more products. Japanese companies tend to think it is important to gain a high market share in foreign countries in order to increase exports. Therefore, Japanese manufacturers often sell products in foreign countries at lower prices than they sell the same products in Japan.
So Japan is a country that imports a lot of natural resources and adds value by turning the natural resources into manufactured products, some of which get exported. Even though Japan must import so many resources, the money Japan earns from exporting manufactured products is much more than the money it pays for the import of natural resources. This is one of the main reasons for Japan's trade surplus.
お願いします!! Although the Segway may not be a threat to its four-wheeled cousin in terms of comfort or speed,it was meant by its inventor to ゙be to the car what the car was to the horse and buggy".
The-eight-month old crisis has reverberated through the global economy as securities cobbled together on Wall Street from bits and pieces of mortgage loans turned sour.
どなたか和訳頼みます。 結局、Xは見たくないってことでしょうかね?一番下の文章はどういう意味でしょう? so far there only those three films i've mentioned that i've been able to see to the end, except '](映画名)' who was available here on net earlier, but unfortunately not anymore.
Announced 05/23/08 Kingsley Capital, Inc. Bankruptcy Kingsley Capital Inc. filed a voluntary petition for reorganization under Chapter 11 in the U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the District of Colorado, Denver on May 23, 2008. The company listed assets in the range of $10 million to $50 million and liabilities in the range of $1 million to $10 million. It retained Christian C. Onsager of Onsager Staelin & Guyerson LLC as the legal counsel. The largest unsecured creditors included Bloom, Murr & Accomazzo PC, Accord Associates, ... Key Bank, Raines Law Group, and Lindquist & Vennum, PLLP.
Starbuks is wary of casting the company’s abandoned ideas as evidence that its all-important brand has a weak spot. Instead,Saunders said ventures like Circadia,Café Starbucks and Joe Magazine fell victim to difficult logistics or poor execution. “There isn’t really an instance that I can think of where we’ve extended the brand and consumers have rejected that,” she said.
Our recent studies indicate that, in addition to improving the microcirculation of various parts of the body, which often results in a significant decrease in blood pressure in hypertensive patients, acupuncture also induces a series of blood chemistry changes. Such changes involve significant decrease in serum triglyceride and phospholipid, mild decrease in serum cholesterol level, increase in ACTH and cortisol, In Western medicine clofibrate has been widely used to lower high serum levels of triglyceride and cholesterol. However, recent reports from Germany indicate that it increases the death rate from unexpected cancer of the gall bladder and intestinal system and now the use of such medication is questionable because of its side effects. I could go on and on listing some of the most remarkable effects of acupuncture treatment in contrast to the treatment used in Western medicine. Acupuncture can be used in emergency medicine by both laymen and medical and para-medical workers. Often acute abdominal pain or menstrual pain can be eliminated dramatically by acupuncture given at the Stomach Meridian 36th point, near the knee and/or Spleen 6 at the leg.
Acupuncture also has normalizing effect on constipation or diarrhea or abnormal menstruation. For instance, the author treated many cases of a long history of severe constipation. Often results are so dramatic that sometimes one or two treatments of acupuncture at the stomach 36 points near both knees eliminate the constipation. For asthma attacks or allergy, acupuncture often provides dramatic results. In case of emergency, where not even a single acupuncture needle is available, knowledge of acupuncture treatment can still be used, often with similar effects as with the acupuncture needle. Instead of the needle, if finger pressure(Shiatsu) is effectively given at the acupuncture point, one can often obtain a comparable result to acupuncture treatment of the same acupuncture points. Therefore, knowledge of acupuncture can be very helpful in emergency medicine where no medical help or facility is available. It is surprising that still very few medical schools teach acupuncture and its use in emergency medicine with or without using needles. The basic knowledge of acupuncture meridians is most desirable. It is a great advantage for every individual to know something about acupuncture and its treatment.
Remove, Reduce, Recycle Human socities, especially those in the developed world, produce enormous amounts of waste. This waste includes solid household waste, liquid waste such as sewage and oil, agricultural waste such as pesticides, and mining and industrial waste. If not disposed of properly, this waste can harm people and the environment. For example, toxic waste can build up in a food chain, causing the deaths of animals and even people. One of the modern world's first major environmental disasters occurred at Minamata Bay in Japan in the late 1950s. Industrial waste containing mercury was dumped into the bay, and about 700 people died as a result of eating fish contaminated with this mercury. The disposal of radioactive waste from nuclear power plants is a major problem. Different radioactive elements decay at different rates, and some of this waste will stay radioactive for thousands of years. Most of it is buried hundreds of meters underground or thousands of meters under the sea, but this method has problems. Between 1946 and 1960, the U.S. dumped nuclear waste into the ocean, including 60,000 containers of radioactive waste off the Californial coast. In 1977, it was found that 25 percent of these containers were leaking. Much of the waste in the industrial world is disposed of in large holes in the ground called landfills. A well-managed landfill has alternate layers of waste convered by soil. But chemicals can leak out of even well-managed landfills into nearby streams.
Some developed countries have run out of landfill sites. One solution is to export their waste to poorer countries that need the money. Another solution is to burn it. This reduces its volume to about 25 percent of the original so it will take up less space in a landfill, but unless filters are used, this can cause air pollution and release toxic chemicals such as dioxins. A recent development is burning garbage to produce useful energy in what are known as waste-to-energy plants. About 150 million tonnes of waste is burned worldwide each year in over 600 waste-to-energy plants, producing electricity and steam for local heating. Some plants also recover metals for recycling. At present most waste-to-energy plants are in Europe, but countries such as Japan, the U.S. and China are also building them.
Already , though , scientists know enough to confirm what Norman Vincent Peale intuitively sensed back in 1952 when he first published his now classic book, The Power of Positive Thinking.
In 1870, the Bell family decided to in 1950, Alexander Graham Bell was elected to the Hall of Fame. emigrate to America. The following spring they were living in Boston, Massachusetts. Alexander began teaching at a school for the deaf. He developed a teaching method first invented by his father which proved to be very effective. Other schools in the Boston area heard about Bell’s system and asked him to demonstrate it. This is how he met Gardiner G. Hubbard, the founder of the Clarke Institution for the Deaf. Mr. Hubbard’s daughter Mabel had been born deaf. This was the beginning of the long friendship. In 1872, Bell opened his own school for the training of teachers. The following year he was given a professorship at the Boston University of Oratory. Dr. Bell became very interested in work being done by Thomas Edison with the telegraph. He began experimenting with a machine to help the deaf to hear. While working with this machine, Bell had an idea. Why not use electricity to send the human voice from one place to another? He became convinced that this was possible. He received encouragement and financial backing from his friend Mr. Hubbard. Bell worked several years with his assistant, Thomas Watson. They rented a room in a boarding house and worked day and night. Bell was on one floor and Watson was on another. They tried many times to send their voices over the wire. Finally, on March 10, 1876, Watson heard these famous words clearly: “Mr. Watson, come here. I want you.” Watson rushed up stairs, ran into Bell’s room, and shouted, “I heard you!” This was the first complete sentence transmitted by telephone.
The year 1876 was the centennial, or one hundredth birthday of the United States. There was a large fair in Philadelphia, called the Centennial Exposition. One of the main attractions at the fair was Bell’s “talking machine.” Thousands of visitors, including Don Pedro, the Emperor of Brazil, were surprised when they saw-and heard this invention. They thousand it was an interesting toy. They never dreamed that one day this talking machine would become the telephone and that it would change people’s lives. Bell worked for a year to improve his talking machine. With the help of Mr. G.G. Hubbard, the Bell Telephone Company was formed on July 9, 1877. Two days later Bell married Hubbard’s daughter. In 1878, the first commercial telephone exchange went into operation in New Haven, Connecticut. The company grew very rapidly. By the turn of the century, the Bell Telephone Company was well-established and soon merged with the American Telegraph Co. to form the telecommunications giant American Telephone and Telegraph (AT&T). The first transcontinental telephone conversation took place between New York and San Francisco by Bell and Watson in 1915. The telephone spread rapidly all over the world. Today in the U.S. almost 100% of American homes have telephones (more than 100 million units). The Bell Laboratories are world leaders in the development of all forms of telecommunications from fiber optics to satellites to super computers.
続き Alexander Graham Bell died on August 2, 1922 at his home near Baddeck, Nova Scotia. Although he is best known for his invention of the telephone, he made numerous other inventions and contributions to society. He was one of the most well known and honored men of his time. The International Electrotechnical Commission made his name an international unit, the bel most often expressed as the decibel (db), 1/10 of a bel. One decibel is the softest sound that can be detected by the human ear. In 1950, Alexander Graham Bell was elected to the Hall of Fame.
Different radioactive elements decay at different rates, and some of this waste will stay radioactive for thousands of years. Most of it is buried hundreds of meters underground or thousands of meters under the sea, but this method has problems. Between 1946 and 1960, the U.S. dumped nuclear waste into the ocean, including 60,000 containers of radioactive waste off the Californial coast. In 1977, it was found that 25 percent of these containers were leaking. Much of the waste in the industrial world is disposed of in large holes in the ground called landfills. A well-managed landfill has alternate layers of waste convered by soil. But chemicals can leak out of even well-managed landfills into nearby streams.
For instance, in India, the Hindu caste system assigns individuals to specific social positions. On the other hand, societies with social mobility tend to be progressive. They permit freedom in education, and encourage tolerance of new ideas. The typical American success story proves this point. Only in the U.S, could a poor country boy like Abraham Lincoln or a penniless immigrant lad like Andrew Carnegie rise from poverty to fame. The power of education explains why societies sometimes have strict control over formal education. Take the case of higher education in Italy. Before 1968, only a small portion of the Italian population attended the university. In those days, a university degree was a stepping stone to professional success. This elitist system of education reinforced the traditional class barriers.
After 1968, the old system was reformed. Thousands of new students enrolled in the universities, thanks to the new, open-door admission policy. As a result, standards were lowered. Although some students dropped out, many completed their degree. Soon there were too many graduates and not enough jobs. This reform destabilized both the educational system and society. Historically education has always been closely linked to religion. History shows us examples of societies where the religious authorities control education―ancient Egypt, medieval Europe, modern-day Iran. Religion has generally represented the conservative forces of tradition. In the past, religious communities have saved books, documents, and traditions from destruction. In medieval Europe, the Catholic Church preserved the rudiments of education. The monks collected and copied precious manuscripts which might otherwise have been lost forever.
@While Lyell agreed that the world had been designed for man, he disagreed that it showed any signs of progress.
ANevertheless, from hindsight we can see, as Darwin did later, that there were certain factors which he found increasingly hard to reconcile with the notion of the fixity of species designed by benevolent deity.
Although the modern life-styles of people in areas of the United States and Canada are relatively similar, certain customs exist in only one region or another. By and large, these regional customs, which are popular forms of entertainment, have to do with the geography as well as the history of each region. Perhaps they also give the natives, along with sightseers from other areas, a sense of nostalgia for the past. A unique seasonal activity on the southern California coast is the grunion hunt. Grunion come up onto the beach to lay heir eggs on certain summer nights. Newspapers usually predict the time of their arrival, and the adventure of a grunion hunt begins several hours in advance. People sit impatiently around a fire on the beach and tell stories or barbecue hot dogs and roast marshmallows. Then, all of a sudden, the participants who are waiting down near the ocean shout, Grunion. On a good night, the beach is soon so crowded with the grunion (silver /the /that /turns /beach). Enthusiastically, all the people try to catch the grunion with their hands, the only legal method of doing so. Because they are slippery to the touch, however, people soon discover that following this rule is not easy. After a successful grunion hunt, participants cook their harvest in butter and have a wonderful meal.
With the spread of English as a global language, so-called native speakers are often perceived to be in an unfair position of privilege and power.
Simply put, if you have had to make no effort to acquire the world's most commonly used lingua franca, and you can use it effortlessly, you have something of an unfair advantage over those who have had to struggle to learn it and who may continually struggle to use it.
The privileges do not, it seems, stop at learning advantages. According to some, native speakers have the unwritten right to make authoritative statements about what you can and cannot say in English and, therefore, to correct non-native speaker usage. Traditional prescriptive dictionaries and grammar books were mostly written by native speakers, and their more recent and descriptive counterparts have been put together using data exclusively from native speakers. Moves are only now afoot to compile a database of international English.
The question of ownership of English, the automatic acquisition of privileges and authority by those born into native-speaker groups, has been addressed by many writers. At times it has been addressed with rancour by those who rightly feel they have been "othered" into non-native-speaker-hood by the native speaker tribe. It has been addressed apologetically by some liberal-minded members of a native speaker group who clearly feel awkward about the position that fate seems to have prepared for them.
At the extreme end of this liberal wing, a handful of native speakers writing on the subject have declared that ownership of, and therefore authority over, English has passed from them and out into the world of all English users; one has even declared that the native speaker is dead.
From Single Cells We Came We know about the major steps in the evolution of life on Earth thanks to scientific evidence provided by fossils, including those of very simple, early forms of life. However, the question of how life began remaisns a matter for hypothesis. There are three main hypotheses to explain the origin of life on Earth. One is that life was created by a Supreme Being or spiritual force. Most cultures have their own beliefs or religions to explain a creator. However, since these beliefs cannot be proven or disproven, they are outside the boundaries of science and won't be discussed here. Another hypothesis is that life began in another part of the universe and arrived on Earth on something like a meteor or comet. But the hypothesis that most scientists believe is that life began on Earth as a result of chemical reactions. In 1953, Stanley Miller and Harold Urey at the University of Chicago demonstrated that some organic compounds could be created by simulating the conditions of early Earth. In an experiment, they sent electric currents through a mix of gases over a pool of water. The electric currents simulated lightning; the gases were the same as those found in the Earth's early atmosphere; the pool simulated the early oceans. After a week, Miller and Urey found several amino acids in the pool. Amino acids combine to form proteins, and are therefore essential to the formation of living cells. Miller and Urey's experiment, while not actually producing a living organism, gave support to the hypothesis that life began on Earth as a result of chemical reactions.
By 3.5 billion years ago, the first living things, single-celled bacteria, had appeared in the sea. These first bacteria obtained their energy from amino acids and produced methane and carbon dioxide as waste. Fossils of these bacteria have been found in rocks 3.5 billion years old. The bacteria became attached to floating sand grains that built up over long periods and hardened into structures of rock, known as stromatolites. Somo of these structures are still found today in remote parts of Australia. Gradual changes over more than one billion years gave rise to a new type of cell which, unlike bacteria, had a nucleus. These cells got their energy from a different source-the sun-in a process called photosynthesis. This produces oxygen as a waste product. Because these cells could feed themselves using the sun's energy, their food was less limited than the bacteria's food, and they flourished. Over many millions of years of evolution, these cells eventually gave rise to plants. If it weren't for the development of these organisms using photosynthesis, the Earth's atmosphere would contain no oxygen, and oxygen-dependent animals such as humans would never have appeared.
About one billion years ago, when life still existed only in the oceans, organisms made up of many cells started to appear and increase in size. The ancestors of modern plants appeared in the oceans nearly 700 million years ago, and around 440 million years ago, the first land plants appeared. These early land plants differed from the plants we are familiar with today. Many of them lacked true roots, stems and leaves. Animal life too, developed first in the ocean and then moved onto land. About 560 million years ago, the first animals appeared in the oceans, and about 460 million years ago, tiny mites and spider-like creatures left the water to explore the land. There are many gaps in our understanding of how life began and developed on Earth. We will probably never know the full story.
The natural numbers such as 1.2.3.4. ,,,, are familiar from our experience with counting where we repeatedly add 1 starting with1.
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また、 The sum n+m obtaind by adding two natural numbers n and m , is the natural number resulting from adding 1 first n times adn then m times. という文章があるのですが、 「2つの自然数nとmを足すことで得られる和n+mは、1のn倍とm倍を足した結果の自然数である。」 という訳は正しいでしょうか?よろしくお願いします。
Old Bones, Precious and Rare When animals and plants die, their remains are usually destroyed. Dead animals and plants become food for other animals, and what isn't eaten is usually broken down by the weather, or decomposes in the soil. The formation of fossils is fairly rare, and will only take place under certain conditions. Most fossils are formed in or near water. If the remains of an animal are buried by sediments in water, parts of the remains may by preserved. The flesh decomposes, but the skeleton remains. Over the years, water seeping through these sediments washes away the original minerals in the bones, replacing them with new minerals carried in the water. The structure of the skeleton stays the same, but over time the new minerals make the fossil harder than the rock it is buried in. If the land around the fossil is eroded, the fossil can become exposed for us to find. Perhaps the most famous fossil of all is Lucy, discovered in Ethiopia in 1974. She was a member of the species that we think evolved into modern humans. She lived about 3.2 million years ago and was about 25 years old and one meter tall.
An important type of fossil is the transitional fossil. This is the fossil of a species that was evolving from one major groups of species into another (often called a "missing link"). The discovery of a transitional fossil called Archaeopteryx only two years after Darwin published his theory of evolution in 1859 provided great support for his theory. This fossil was of an animal that had scales and teeth like a reptile but feathers and a lightly built body with hollow bones like a bird. It could almost certainly fly short distances. It is thought that Archaeopteryx evolved from a reptile, a small dinosaur that ran on two legs. While biologists are still not sure that Archaeopteryx evolved into birds (and also don't know whether it was a feathered reptile, an ancestral bird, or both), they think it does provide evidence that birds evolved from reptiles. Another transitional fossil was discovered in Canada in 2004. Scientists decided to search for fossils of the first fish to move onto land. They worked out when these animals would have lived, so that they knew the age of the rocks where they should search. They located these 380-million-year-old rocks in Canada. After digging for five years, they found several specimens of the fossil they were seeking. The fossil was from an animal that had the scales and fins of a fish but the wrist bones, ribs, neck and head of a land-dwelling creature.
It was a predator with sharp teeth and a crocodile-shaped head. It was the first fossil found of an animal in the intermediate stage between finned fish and the four-limbed land animals called tetrapods, which include humans. It was called a tiktalik, which in the local Inuit language means "large shallow-water fish." Tiktalik will become as famous in scientific circles as Archaeopteryx. Without fossils, we would know very little about the development of life on Earth. However, given the rarity of fossil formation, the difficulty finding them, and the poor condition of many of those found, scientists think that there are many gaps in the fossil record that will never be filled.
For Robert Newman Jr. , a 32-year-old resident of St.Bernard Parish , about seven miles south of New Orleans , the thing that sticks in his head about the storm is a chorus of screams. People in Mr.Newman's community , one of the most devastated areas in Hurricane Katrina's path, watched for days in growing rage and frustration as helicopter after helicopter raced overhead , bound north for New Orleans with no acknowledgment of the stranded, beleagured people below. He came to understand , he said, how a person could go crazy enough to shoot at a helicopter , if only from the unbearable stress and enxiety of being ignored for days on a roof without water and food.
"Ppeople are just screaming and screaming on every roof," he said , sitting on the couch in his cousin's apartment here in Baton Rouge where he and other family menbers have taken up tomporary residence. "But who do you help ?" Mr.Newman and his brother Paul, 24 , eventually managed to find a boat , and rescued as many people as they could , including an elderly couple who were standing side by side, neck deep in a swamp surrounded by snakes. They almost passed the old couple by, until the woman managed to reach up and wave.
This empirical approach , which has been successful for many problems , fails as soon as high speeds, large force , high temperatures or other abnormal conditions are involved , and the situation becomes still more critical by the fact that various modern materials have unusual physical properties.
Experimental work becomes complicated, time-consuming, and expensive. Here mathematics offers help in planning constructions and experiments , and in evaluating experimental date.
Mathematical methods which were developed for purely theoretical reasons suddenly becamse of great importance in engineering mathematics. Ecamples are the theory of matrices, conformal mappin, and the theory of differential equations haveing periodec solutions.
But there is debate about biofuels in terms of both energy and agricultural policy. Newspaper opinion pages are a good guide to the positions. One side basically argues that ethanol cannot replace the huge amounts of oil that American use. Also,some people say using food crops to make fuel could reduce the food supply. That could mean less to send to other countries in times of hunger. The other side argues that the food supply is secure and that biofuels are good for the economy and good for the environment.
Burningpetroleum and other fossil fuels creates carbon dioxide, a greenhousegas blamed as a cause of climate change. Each day,Americans use more than 1,000 million liters of gasoline. Biofuels are still a small part of the national market. But it is estimated that as much as one-fifth of this year's corn crop could be used for ethanol. Ethanol is the most widely used biofuel. The Renewable Fuels Association says American producers now make about 280,000 barrels of it a day.
James Watt was one of the most important figures of the Industrial RevoLution in Britain. He was a delicate boy,but he was very good with his hands and loved making things. In those days steam engines were used to pump out water from coal mines. Watt stared working to redesign them,and in a couple of years he had succeeded in making very efficient engines that only used 30% as much coal as had previously been needed. He also replaced the old up-down,pumping-action engines with rotary-motion engines that could drive machinery in factories.
If Mick could go back in time,he could probably give Henry some useful tips about wives and girlfriends. Children in Britain read Shakespeare works as part of their studies in school. Romeo and Juliet,has been performed for over 400 years and was recently made into a popular movie starring Leonardo DiCaprio.
Everyone must have had at least one personal experience with a computer error by this time. Bank balances are suddenly reported to have jumped from $379 into the millions, appeals for charitable contributions are mailed over and over to people with crazy-sounding names at your address,department stores send the wrong bills,utility companies write that they are turning everything off,that sort of thing. If you manage to get in touch with someone and complain, you then get istantaneously typed,guilty letters from the same computer, saying,"Our computers was in error,and an adjustment is being made in your account."
These are supposed to be the sheerest,blindest accidents. Mistakes are not believed to be part of the normal behavior of a good machine. If things go wrong, it must be a personal, human error, the result of fingering , tempering, a button getting stuck, someone hitting the wrong key.The computer,at its normal best, cannot go wrong.
I wonder whether this can be true. After all,the whole point of computers is that they represent an extension of the human brain,vastly improved upon but nonetheless human, superhuman maybe. A good computer can think clearly and quickly enough to beat you at chess, and some of them have even been programmed to write obscure verse. They can do anything we can do,and more besides.
あたらしい安全対策が今日日本で実施された。政府は在日外国人含む全ての入国者にテロ予防や犯罪減少のため指紋を取ったりや写真撮影をした。The system is modeled after a similar program in the U.S. The government says anyone who refuses to cooperate will be denied entry and deported.
Adjectives also changed according to case,gender and number. They had to have the same case,gender and number as the nouns they discribed. The endings on the words changed. There were also two different sets of endings for adjectives. One set was used when the word the came before the adjective, another set was used when there was no the before the adjective.
>>309 The system is modeled after a similar program in the U.S. The government says anyone who refuses to cooperate will be denied entry and deported. その制度は米国の同じような計画を真似てモデル化された。 政府は協力しない全てのものの参加を拒否し、追放するという。
Loss of functional ability, lack of transportation,immobility,and limited income may lead to social isolation. Older adults living alone may be deprived of stimulating interaction with others and thus lack the incentive to cook and eat meals. Opportunities for social interaction and a lifestyle of varied social and physical activities have a positive impact on life satisfaction and food intake.
Measures to enhance the self-feeding capacities of the elderly in institutional long-term care environments are essential. These measures include:(1)making the social environment of a meal more homelike through the use of small groups, removal of trays, and the use of tablecloths and centerpieces;(2)providing individualized adaptive equipment to promote self-feeding, such as spoons and cups with holders, built-up utensil handles, and proper set-up of plates;(3)traning staff to emphasize techuniques that promote self-feeding, such as proper positioning, the use of finger food, social exchanges during meals, and avoiding feeding the patient unless absolutely necessary.
It came, literally, out of the blue. I had no warning at all. The water was crystal clear and calm; it was more like swimming in a pool, rather than the deep ocean waters in Kauai, Hawaii, where I go almost every morning to surf with my friends. The waves were small and I was just kind of rolling along with them, relaxing on my board with my right hand on the nose of the board and my left arm in the cool water. I remember thinking , "I hope the surf picks up soon...," when suddenly there was a flash of gray. That is all it took; just a second. The huge jaws of a fifteen-foot tiger shark covered the top of my board and my left arm.
I did not even scream. People say to me, "Were not you terrified?". Maybe I was in shock; maybe I was on autopilot. I am not really sure, but when I look back on it now, I am glad of one thing; I am glad I never saw the shake closing in on me. If I had, I am not sure I would have been so calm. I seemed to be in control, according to Alana, who was surfing with me. I started to paddle away with one arm. The shore was a quarter of a mile away, but one thought kept repeating over and over in my head: "Get to the beach. Get to the beach...". It was a beautiful Halloween morning.
"Two brothers!". That is my answer when people ask me why I am so competitive. After all, when you are the youngest of three kids and the only girl, you have to learn to hold your own. My brothers pushed me to try things that I might not have done on my own. It was my brothers Timmy and Noah who got me to start surfing. They really rooted for me to become a top woman is surfer. My family is like that: when one of us wins a contest or prize, it is like all of us won, because we all supported each other and helped get that person to the place where they could win. A lot of who I am comes from my parents. They are wonderful people who`ve always worked very hard to reach their goals. They not only support me in everything I want to do, but they also really inspire me to be a great surfer and even more important, a great human being. Dad would tell us, "No matter how good you are, sooner or later you are going to lose. There is no sense in getting upset. There is always another opportunity to show you can do it.". So that is what I try to remind myself when I lose. It is over; move on. Tomorrow`s another day.
I remember being cold on the beach. I heard this happens when you lose lots of blood. People brought beach towels to keep my body warm and tried too help me remain calm and comfortable. I remember starting to feel pain in my injury. I said, "I want my mon!" a few times. It is funny, no matter how grown up you think you are, you do want your mother to comfort you. I remember clearly the things that took place after I first arrived at the hospital. For one, I was terribly thirsty. I was real thirsty on the beach but nobody would give me any water because I was headed for the hospital. When I finally saw Timmy just before my surgery, I asked him, "Get me water, get me water.". Timmy looked at me like I was crazy, but he finally ran to get me some. I drank it down like a person who had been in the desert for days!. I was carried to the room that would be my new home for the next days. I was exhausted and spent all day Friday trying to sleep. My mom stayed by my side the whole time. My dad went out to deal with the growing number of reporters who had heard what happened to me.
During the last for hundred years, education in the West has freed itself from religious control. Some religious groups have organized educational projects to offset this loss of power. Catholic parochial schools and Jewish yeshiva teach both academic and religious subjects. There are colleges and universities run by religious orders. There are also religious study groups for children and adults, such as the Protestant Sunday schools or the Catholic catechism classes. Even by today’s standards, the ancient Greeks are remarkable for their far-ranging vision. They recognized the importance of education as a link between the past and the future. They believed that education had a moral purpose. It taught individuals to use reason so that they could live in harmony with the universe. This lesson is just as important today as it was 2,500 years ago.
Can you imagine Italian cooking without tomatoes? Or how about Mexican cooking without beef? We often take if for granted that the foods of each country have been eaten for many centuries. But the truth is that before Columbus reached America in 1492, Europeans did not use tomatoes in their cooking because they did not have any, and Central and South Americans did not use beef. It was meeting of those two worlds that brought about food migration, changing and enriching the world's menu forever.
Columbus was not the first European to set food in the Americas It is a well-known historical fact that the Vinkings, for example, had traveled as far as North America long before him and had even tried to settle some parts of it. Nevertheless, what Columbus did initiate was a massive interchange between Europe and the Americas which brought about drastic changes on both sides. One interesting example of this interchange is food migration.
Before tomatoes, potatoes, corn and other food items were brought back, Europeans had put up with dull menus for years. Typical meals for the lower and merchant classes consisted of dark rye and wheat bread, cabbage soup and cheese. Spices were highly valued for the flavors they added to dishes, but they were difficult to come by and only the rich could afford them. Many traders risked thire lives trying to get precious spices from the East.
With acces to Central and South America, the European menu become rich in variety. Togather with the import of potatoes, corn, peanuts, vanilla, green beans and pineapples, tomatoes transformed traditional cooking.
Meanwhile, new foods were being introduced to native Americans as well. Colonists brought meat, along with a variety of vegetable seeds, into the "new" world. Before 1492, meny native cultures were relatively meatless. A typical Mexican meal consisted of tortillas, a dish of beans, and sauce made from tomatoes or pepper. To provide Spanish colonists with familiar foods, crops and animals were sent from home. Influenced by the eating habits of the colonists, native Americans started to adopt beef, pork, milk and cheese into their diet. Chickens, goats and sheep were also included.
The tomato was originally a weed growing in Incan and Aztec maize fields. The Aztecs cultivated an amazing variety of tomatoes. As early as the 16th century, tomatoes of all kinds of sizes, shapes and colors were sold in Aztec markets. They were large, small, leaf- or pear-shaped, red, rosy, yellow and pale-colored. Some tomato sellers spld sour tomatoes, hard green tomatoes and tomatoes which would scratch or burn your throat.
The first tomatoes to reach Europe were probably yellow since the Italian world for tomato is pomodoro, which means "golden apple". Tomatoes were eaten in Italy as early as 1554. The warm Italian climate was ideal for growing them, and in time the tomato became the main ingredient in Italian cooking.
In this way, the tomato traveled from Central and South America to Europe. But how did it reach other areas? It is interesting to note that tomatoes were brought to North America via Europe. English colonists brought tomato seeds from Europe toplant inthe gardens of their settlements along the Atlantic coast. But in the USA, tomatoes were not cultivated until the late 1700s and were not widely eaten until about 1900. Today, however, the USA is one of the world's largest producers of tomatoes.
As for Asia, the Spaniards brought tomato seeds to the Philippines, and by the 1650s they were being cultivated in eastern Malaysia. Tomatoes were introduced into Japan in the 1670s. There is a reference in Yamato Honzo, a book on natural history written arround 1709, to tomatoes seen in Nagasaki. During the Meiji period, a new and better kind of seed was brought back from the USA. People used to call it "akanasu", red eggplant. During the Taisho period, tomatoes were cultivated in Hokkaido and Aichi-ken, but they were not consumed widely throughout Japan. It was only after the Second World War that they became popular.
Meeting of the "old" and the "new" worlds, and of the East and the West, have greatly contributed to the enrichment of our diet. The tomato is just one example. Food migration is still going on. Today, people's appetites for exciting new foods are just as strong or maybe stronger than in the past. Global trade is making food miration possible on a lager scale and at a faster pace.
The meeting of different worlds enriches our menus, but it could be said that there are some drawbacks as well. The cultivation of potatoes and corn helped to decrease famine in Europe and contributed to population grouth. In a way, this helped European industrialization come into being, which in turn led the world to many unfortunate invasions and wars under colonialism.
Nevertheless, as history has taught us, the crossing of cultures is inevitable and unavoidable. It is too optimistic to believe that in the long run people become wiser and lives richer by such encounters? Wenned to look at the positive side of international encounters and minimize the negative consequences, otherwise human civilization has very little chance for the future. The next time you splash hamburgers with ketchup, consider the concept of food migration and how the meeting of the "new" and the "old" worlds of the 16th century is relevant to our lives today.
@History shows us that change is not always positive. We have seen how the education reform in Italy has created new problems without solving the old ones. Today other countries face the same dilemma. The inflation of college degrees in the U.S. created apprehension among recent graduates. Many have difficulty finding a job. The inflation of college degrees has also increased concern among employers. Many complain about the poor skills of these recent graduates. Has mass education been a failure? The education crisis in many countries has now reached a boiling point. The most popular solution seems to be more change. Change for the sake of change serves little purpose, and may spark unpleasant or unexpected reactions. Perhaps we should consider how to combine traditional culture with contemporary values.
AThe secularization of education in the West has revolutionized society. Science has taken over many of the areas where religion used to reign. In the opinion of many people, science is the ultimate source of truth and knowledge. They forget, however, that science has also shattered many ideas of the past. The secularization of education has been a mixed blessing. Although it has freed people from the bonds of tradition, it has not created a new set of values. Many people do not know how to manage their new freedom. They feel afraid, perhaps even lonely, without the support of tradition. It technologically advanced societies today, we see a strong shift towards conformity. The individual prefers group identity to personal identity. Maybe we should remember the lessons of ancient Greeks who sought harmony between the individual and the world.
The soldiers stripped the girl, tied her arms and legs, and rolled her over a board covered in nails "until the nails were covered with blood and pieces of her flesh She was then decapitated One Japanese officer told the witnesses that "it's easy to kill you all, easier than killing dogs and suggested that the flesh of the dead girl would be boiled and the survivors forced to eat it
source: Military Sexual Slavery in Wartime, U.N. Commission on Human Rights, 52nd Sess (1996)
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haha dokdo is under korean control...if japenis want to get back dokko there would be war...
パート4 "I want to be the best surf photographer in the world," I told my dad, lying in bed. That was my way of saying,"Listen, I know my surfing days are over...". He just nodded, "I am sure you will be," and tried to smile. I am sure he knew what it meant as well. But before I got out of the hospital, I changed my mind and started thinking about going surfing again. I was feeling better; there were so many people coming to see me and trying to encourage me. Every time I would wake up and look around, there were more presents, and more flowers in the room---at least for the first minute or two. They wanted to see the same Bethany they had known before---and frankly I looked pretty changed. So I quickly set them straight; I was the same person on the inside. The doctor encouraged us by saying, "The list of what Bethany will have to do differently is long, but the list of what she will be unable to do is short.". A lot of my friends privately thought my days as a stand-up surfer were over. Some people even thought I might be afraid to go back in the ocean ever again. But my dad said to me, "Bethany, I am sure you can do whatever you put your mind to." I had a few weeks of healing and recovery before I could give surfing with one arm a try. The doctor ordered me to stay out of the water until everything healed up. I set s deadline for myself; Thanksgiving Day.
パート5 The day before Thanksgiving, some friends from the Hanalei girls`surf team were going to go surfing. I decided I would go down to the beach and just watch ...but of course, I could not stand just to do that. Alana and I walked into the surf together just like we did on that early Halloween morning. It felt so good to step into the warm surf and taste the salty water that came over me. It was like coming back home after a long, trip. I had come so close to losing all these things that I loved so much forever; the ocean, my family, and my friends. I was not afraid of being attacked by a shark. I did not even think about it. My whole mind was just on catching a wave and getting up on my feet. My first couple of tries did not work; I could not get up. I have to admit I was a little discouraged. My dad, who was in the water with me, kept shouting, "Bethany, try it one more time!". So I did. Then it happened. A wave rolled through, I caught it, put my hand on the board to push up and I was standing. Once I was on my feet, everything was easy. It is hard for me to describe the joy I felt after I stood up and rode a wave in for the first time after the attack. I was very thankful and happy inside. The tiny bit of doubt that would sometimes tell me "You will never surf again" was gone in one wave! Even though I was all wet, I felt tears of happiness running down my face.
Did you decide on your own to enter Meiden High School?
I did. By this time I was thinking even more of becoming a pro, so my top priority was being in a place where I could play. It bothered me a bit that I'd have to leave home and live in a dorm, but I figured that might help me get into baseball even more. The bassball field was right in front of the dorm, and we had facilities you wouldn't expect to have in a high school, like an indoor traning facility and a weight traning room. And also there'd been a loy of professional ballplayers who'd graduated from the school. A lot of the players our manager, Mr.Takeshi Nakamura, had trained went on to careers in pro ball. When Mr.Nakamura first saw me, apparently he said,"How can someone this scrawny play ball?" It's true I was really thin then;no matter how much I ate I couldn't put on any weight. Durning my three years in high school I drank milk like crazy, and I did get taller, but I still din't put on any weight.
What do you remenber most about your high school days?
I remember what Mr.Nakamura told me when I entered the school; "For the rest of your life you'll never experience anything as tough as what you're going to go through now." My reaction was "Well, we'll see,"but once I moved into the baseball team dorm, I found out what he meant. I've never had as tough a time as I did then.
There's no comprasion. Compared to my high school days, right now I'm in heaven.
What was it that was so tough about those days?
Well, all kinds of things, really. For instance, one of the major jobs for freshmen and sophomores in the dorm was doing the laundry for dozens of senior students as well as for themselves. The ploblem was there was only a small number of washers and dryers. Naturally the lower students had to do the upperclassmen's laundry. After practice you take a bath, then eat dinner. From then until lights out at eleven we had free time, but everybody spent it washing and drying clothes. But I wanted to use that free time for more practice, and couldn't wait my turn at the washers and dryers - because all my free time would be used up just waiting to use the machines. I hated having to fight with my classmates over who gets to go first. So I started getting up early to do the laundry, but of course there were other people with the same idea and we still had to fight over who goes first. So I started getting up every morning at 3 A.M. I could then take care of all the washing and drying while everyone else was still asleep. Believe me, this wasn't easy. For two years, until I became a third-year student, I never got enough sleep.
You did that so you'd able to practice between dinner and rights out at eleven.
That's right. The upperclassmen used the indoor practice ground, so I'd go over to the tennis ground nearby to practice swinging the bat, or go for run on the track. All sports of things.
You were able to play in Koshien Stadium in the national high school tournament once your third year of high school. In the letter case you were their ace pitdher. For a high school bassball devotee like yourself, that must have really been a special experience.
I definitely wanted to play there once to see what it was like. When I went in the summer of my second year, it was like the upperclassmen carried us along, but in my third year, when we went in the spring, we worked really hard to make it there on our own steam.
Was it a different atmosphere?
It was. I didn't like it all. Maybe because we lost in the first round, but it was just kind of overwhelming to have people looking down on you from those huge grandstands. Koshien is a huge open-air stadium seating 55,000 people. It's the home of the pro league's Hanshin Tigers, and has unique stands down both lines that sweep up in a way that has inspired their nickname;the Alps. Also knowing that it was broadcast live on TV made me tense up. I felt bad because I wasn't able to play up to my potential.
Which brings us to your last summer in high school.
That last summer I was constanyly aware of pro scouts. The prefectual championship was the first thing to concertrate on. More than getting to Koshien, to the national tournament, my goal was to get the scouts to take notice in the summer prefectual tournament. The goal I set for myself was, up to the semifinals, to bat a thousand.
Get a hit every time at bat?
That's right. Not to ground out or fly out even once. Up to the semifinals I hit into an easy out in one game. In seven games I got eighteen hits in twenty-five at bat. In the championship game I went 0 for 3, unfortunately. It was hard losing to Toho High, but I had a batting average of .643. I eas sure that this meant I could go on the pros. Everyone on the team was crying, since we'd done our best but still couldn't win the championship. But I soon got over it.
When you were in your last your of high school, you struck out only three times, didn't you?
I didn't strike out very often, I know that. High school pitchers usually have only a straight pitch and a curve, so I was usually able to make contact. Since the strike zone in high school bassball is pretty wide, the only time I got called out on strikes would be when I was sure it was a ball but the umpire called it a strike. I don't remember ever stiking out swinging.
What was your record like in high school as a pitcher?
There were three others better than me. So I left the pitching up to them and concentrated on batting and getting runs for us.
You didn't have such a great attachment to pitching, then?
What happened was, I was in a traffic accident in my second year. i was hit by a car while riding my bike. i got a contusion on my right calf and had to go to school on crutches for a month and a half. Because of that accident I couldn't pitch anymore. After the injury I was assigned to play first base, so my pitching from was completely gone. If it hadn't been for that accident, I'm sure I would have aimed at being a pitcher. After the accident, though, I wasn't able to throw the ball really fast. Tossing the ball from first to second or third is completely different from the way a pitcher throws. While I was playing first, I got used to throuwing it the way a fielder does, so when I tried again to throw it like a pitcher, the alignment of my arm was out of whack and I hit myself on the head with the ball before it even left my hand. Anyhow, once you've picked up the wrong from, it's really head to change back. It was only after I turnes pro that I was able to regain my throwing completely.
I'm surprised to hear that. But it did work ou, because it led to you deciding on being a better in the pro leagues.
Yes, it did. Itwas impossible to be a pitcher.
How did you feel about your manager, Mr.Nakamura, after being on his team for three years?
He's the greatest teacher I've ever had. He taught me bassball, of course, but but so much more. He taught me haw to act when I went out into the world. He taught me a lot of life lessons durning our team meetings, saying that you'll only be able to play bassball for a short time, but the real issue is what kind of person you'll be after that. What I remember most are two things he said;"Aim at being a regular in life more than a regular at bassball" and "Strive to surpass your master." All the other team members took down what he said in their notebooks, but I just pretended to write it down. Now that I look back on it, I wish I'd written down every word he told us.
Natural communication is when any type of animal communicates with each other. They tell each other when they are ready to mate, where they are (if they are lost), and when it's time to migrate to a warmer climate. They can tell the difference when a male or female is looking for a mate, when there is danger, and when a mother is calling to her baby. Animals do not just call to each other, they also leave scent marks around their territory to tell other animals that it's theirs. The leader of the group usually leaves his/her scent marks to say that they are the leader.
この文章十行目"Their aim too is to deliver relief to patients for whom conventional medicine has not been much benefit, such as those who suffer from chronic-fatigue syndrome and rheumatoid arthritis."がうまく訳せません。
Conflict of success, MacAurthur told Truman that to win in Korea the United States would have to escalate and wage total, not limited, war. MacArthur meant that the United States must be ready to bigin a world war against all Communist nations. Truman did not agree and ordered MacArthur to limit the fight to Korea. However, MacArthur made a terrible political mistake. He exceeded the orders of President Truman and pursed the North Korean Army all the way to the Chinese border.
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There is a large gap between the way I think and the way my parents think about values today. On the subject of money,for instance,my parents feel that money should be saved to buy or spend on things of importance. I feel this way,too,but that is where the similarity ends. The things my parents feel to be important are limited to a college education,insurance,and a house. I admit each one is very important for the future,but I am living right now,too. This is an important part of my life. I want to travel a lot. See things I will not have a chance to see when I am burdened with paying for a house,insurance,etc. Traveling and experiencing new things is something I will never forget,or regret. My parents feel it is useful to a certain extent but not to be done very often.
ことわざなんですが、和訳お願いしますm(__)m 直訳、意訳どちらでもOKです!(両方かなりありがたいです。) Biologic Aging We all labour against our own cure,for death is the cure of all diseases. お願いします★
宜しくお願いします。携帯からですいません。I do not believe fate. Only as for happiness small as for the important thing. Surely from this. I will continue singing in a heart. Thank you for letting you have a dream.
>>374の続き I think the disappointment to be the result that lived too much in a desire. More than this, it is not continued. I will waste each other's lives. 続く。
>>376の続き I believe that a spirituality and exquisisite balance of the art produce new art.Becauce this disease is a monster,I eat with having lived in me.続く
お願いします。 氏名のみ伏せました。 I am referred to your name thru my Hong Kong friend named Ms. ■■■ ■■■. She is interested to some of your company's products to market in Hong Kong. Please inform me your opinion.
Soon tears filled the mother's eyes. Before she knew it, her daughter was standing beside her with a smile.They stood together and looked at the picture for a long time.
It was over in a few seconds. I remember seeing the water around me turn bright red with my blood. Then I saw that my arm was gone almost to the shoulder. My reation, My friend Alana has told me, was quite matter-of-fact and in control. I just said in a kind of loud yet not panicked voice,"I just got attacked by a shark," and started to paddle away with one arm. I knew the shore was far away, but one thought kept repeating itself over and over in my head; "Get to the beach. Get to the beach."
When I was taken to the hospital, Dr. Rovinsky said I was "as cool as a cucumber." I remember that there was a great relief in knowing I was in a hospital,where people could help me. I had made it this far. I was going to survive this. Iwas awake but a little sleepy when I arrived because I had lost almost half of blood.
Dr.Rovinsky said gently,"You've lost your arm,Bethany.Now the focus is on saving yourLife." According to him,shark bites are likely to have a high risk of infection because their mouths are pretty dirty. So he had to clean the wound and leave it open for several days to make sure that there was no infection. After that I would have surgery again to close the wound.
When I came to after the surgery, my dad said, I had an "everything is going to be okay"smile on my face. The first thing I wanted to know was, "When can I surf again?"
Which brings us to your last summer in high school. That last summer I was constanyly aware of pro scouts. The prefectual championship was the first thing to concertrate on. More than getting to Koshien, to the national tournament, my goal was to get the scouts to take notice in the summer prefectual tournament. The goal I set for myself was, up to the semifinals, to bat a thousand. Get a hit every time at bat? That's right. Not to ground out or fly out even once. Up to the semifinals I hit into an easy out in one game. In seven games I got eighteen hits in twenty-five at bat. In the championship game I went 0 for 3, unfortunately. It was hard losing to Toho High, but I had a batting average of .643. I eas sure that this meant I could go on the pros. Everyone on the team was crying, since we'd done our best but still couldn't win the championship. But I soon got over it. When you were in your last your of high school, you struck out only three times, didn't you? I didn't strike out very often, I know that. High school pitchers usually have only a straight pitch and a curve, so I was usually able to make contact. Since the strike zone in high school bassball is pretty wide, the only time I got called out on strikes would be when I was sure it was a ball but the umpire called it a strike. I don't remember ever stiking out swinging.
What was your record like in high school as a pitcher? There were three others better than me. So I left the pitching up to them and concentrated on batting and getting runs for us. You didn't have such a great attachment to pitching, then? What happened was, I was in a traffic accident in my second year. i was hit by a car while riding my bike. i got a contusion on my right calf and had to go to school on crutches for a month and a half. Because of that accident I couldn't pitch anymore. After the injury I was assigned to play first base, so my pitching from was completely gone. If it hadn't been for that accident, I'm sure I would have aimed at being a pitcher. After the accident, though, I wasn't able to throw the ball really fast. Tossing the ball from first to second or third is completely different from the way a pitcher throws. While I was playing first, I got used to throuwing it the way a fielder does, so when I tried again to throw it like a pitcher, the alignment of my arm was out of whack and I hit myself on the head with the ball before it even left my hand. Anyhow, once you've picked up the wrong from, it's really head to change back. It was only after I turnes pro that I was able to regain my throwing completely
I'm surprised to hear that. But it did work ou, because it led to you deciding on being a better in the pro leagues. Yes, it did. Itwas impossible to be a pitcher. How did you feel about your manager, Mr.Nakamura, after being on his team for three years? He's the greatest teacher I've ever had. He taught me bassball, of course, but but so much more. He taught me haw to act when I went out into the world. He taught me a lot of life lessons durning our team meetings, saying that you'll only be able to play bassball for a short time, but the real issue is what kind of person you'll be after that. What I remember most are two things he said;"Aim at being a regular in life more than a regular at bassball" and "Strive to surpass your master." All the other team members took down what he said in their notebooks, but I just pretended to write it down. Now that I look back on it, I wish I'd written down every word he told us.
おねがいします。thisの訳は「これ」でOKです。 If this is to be done, the conditions under which lobsters can be cultivated must be determined. What better way is there to do this than to make scientific observations directly on the lobster and its environment?
My plans to be a professional surfer got hit pretty hard on that Halloween morning. In the days, weeks, and months that followed I had a lot of cleaning up to do. Often, it was scary or trying. And I wont`t lie to you: in some ways it still is. But I believe God loves me and has a plan for my life that no shark can take away. Look, lots of bad stuff happens to people. That`s life. And here`s my advice: don`t put all your hope and faith into something that could suddenly and easily disappear. A terrible thing did happen to me, but I have been very blessed in my life. People often ask me, "How can you say that after this kind of an accident?" It`s because I have to look at the big picture: I have a family that loves me, supports me, and encourages me to go after my dreams. I have many close friends from the community and the surf world that care about me. These people like me for who I am; I am the same Bethany, no matter how changed I look. Most of all, I know God keeps me strong and helps me see how good can come out of a bad situation. I think that if I can help other people find hope in their hard times, then that is worth losing my arm for.
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At 90 feet below surface, the divers find lobsters.Experimental work begins. Through firsthand observations the divers record the way in which lobsters live, how they behave,feed,and move about. Of what importance is such research?One goal is to determine the number of lobsters that can be caught without overfishing.Overfishing would reduce the number that can be caught in future years.Another goal is to determine whether present fishing methods can be improved.Forward-looking biologists are also dealing with the possibility of raising lobsters artificially. If this is to be done,the conditions under which lobsters can be cultivated must be determined.What better way is there to do this than to make scientific observations directly on the lobster and its environment? Three thousand miles away,along the southern California coast,another team of diver-biologists is preparing to enter the compression chamber that will carry them below surface waters to a depth of 450 feet.There the chamber,which has been slowly pressurized to the water pressure at this depth,is opened.The team swims a short distance to enter the already- anchored Sealab3. お願いします。
The divers will live in this underwater dwelling for two weeks with their lungs filled with a mixture of helium and oxygen.Since the pressure in their bodies and living quarters is the same as that of the surrounding water,the divers will be able to leave and enter Sealab3 at will.In this way they will be able to conduct research that will tell more about marine life and how it can be used to the advantage of mankind. Marine scientists have also been working with our space scienists. Astronauts have taken photographs of certain coastal and oceanic areas around the globe.This is called spacecraft oceanography.It tells us where areas of abundance of fish and shellfish might be expected,and where the waters would yield nothing to the fisherman. These are but a few of the many exciting new techniques that are being explored and developed by scientists.They help us to understand the nature of the ocean and the living aquatic resources it contains. 続きです。お願いします。
Imageneyou may never again be able to do the thing you love most. how would you feel?Sad?Angry?Shocked?For me,the answer was all of these. In the hospital,I would look over at where my arm used to be and to think, "Now what?"For a while,I doubted that I would ever surf again. I tired to tell myself,"Hey,I'm okay with this.I mean,surfing isn't everything,right?" I told my dad I wanted to be a surf photographer,since that would be the only way I could still stay close to the sport if I couldn't directly take part in it.
But even before I got out of the hospital-in fact,by the second day of my one-week stay-I was talking differently about the possibility of sufing again. My whole family stood behind me and tried to encourage me as much as pssible. I had some stitches,and the doctor ordered me to stay out of the water until everything got well.I set a deadline for miself:THanksgiving Day.
The day before Thanksgiving,I decided I would go down to the beach and just watch... but of course,I couldn't stand to do just that.The water,the wind,...it was all too beautiful.
続きです。 first couple of tries didn't work. I couldn't get up. My dad,who was in the water with me,kept shouting,"Bethany,try it one more time. This one will be it!"So I tried again and again. Then it happened.A wave rolled through, I caught it,put my hand on the board to push up,and I was standing.
It's hard for me to describe the joy I felt after I stood up and rode a wave for the first time after the attack. What I don't want is for people to pity me.My mom is always saying, "If life hands you lemons,make lemonade." This is a great outlook on life.
I often wish the whole shark business had just been a bed dream. But it wasn't.It's my reality now,and I've learned to accept it. I've moved on!
One is the expansion threshold "eg" that satisfies 1/4 < "eg" < 1/2. When the local load estimate of g indicates that the system has utilized a fraction of maximum capacity that is in excess of "eg", it performs localized expansion.
1.If a machine is already setup to run “Job X” and a job X is available, then it is scheduled. 2.If a machine is setup to run “Job X” and X is unavailable then an “idle time” is introduced waits for X.
are you were previousty(in TGS)? can i ask you about your age and neme? thanks(otsukaresama?)(in spanish"gracias") yours sincerely(keigu?)("atentamente") sorry for this personal questions お願いします
Sugihara petitioned his government to allow him to issue the visas, but they rejected his request twice, and ignored it once. Taking matters into his own hands, Sugihara decided to issue visas to the Jews, enabling them to follow a plan to travel to the Dutch-cantrolled island of Curacao in the Caribbean, where no entry permit was necessary, by way of the USSR and Japan.The Soviets had made their approval of the plan conditional on the refugees obtaining transit visas from Japan.
PURPOSE Persistent symptomatic inferor oblique(IO)muscle overaction(IOOA)after IO muscle weakening surgery is a common problem. We describe the result of re exploration and myectomy of the IO muscle using a standard inferotemporal approach to treat this clinical entity.
METHODS A retrospective noncomparative consecutive saries of patients referred foe treatment of persistent IOOA. The following preoperative and postoperative measurements were recorded in each case: (1)the duction and versions of the overacting IO muscle and its antagonist superioe oblique(SO) muscle; and (2)alternate prism coner test,using loose prism at 6 m,in primary position and right-and leftgaze. The preoperative and longer term postoperative findings were compared.
RESULTS Eight patients were identified. Three had previously undergone a standard IO myectomy,and five had undergone a standard IO muscle recession. The median period of postoperative follow-up was 12months(range,7months to 2years). The IOOA was eliminated in three patients and a reduction of IOOA of at least 1 unit was achieved inall patients. Sevsn patients showed improvement of their SO muscle underaction on versions,postoperatively. All patients achieved a marked improvement in their alignmet across the thre standerd horizontal position of gaze. The mean vertical deviations pre- and postoperatively was 23△versus 7△in contralateral gaze, 17△versus 4△ in primary baze,and 7△ versus 1△ inipsilateral gaze.
CONCLUSIONS Re exploration and myectomy of the IO muscle near to the temporal border of the inferior rectus muscle is a reliable and effective way of treating persistent IOOA.
Thats the Japanese dude who helped the hopeless Jews from Nazi in WW2 isnt he? I watched a doco on him in Australia a while ago. Been wondering if he was famous here.
Are yo talking about Sugihara? Yeah, that's right. Do you mean a documentary by a "doco?" He is rather famous here but I didn't know his story was on air in Australia...
Yeah Im sure I watched it on Tv. Like normal TV not pay-Tv. Not that I can remember it in details but yeah pretty sure it was him. Im glad he is famous here yeah he deserves it.
I wonder how you started looking at this thread, assuming you are Australian. Are you interested in Japanese culture or something? As for me, I sometimes come here, trying to see if I can help high school students who are not good at shcool English.
Did you know that there are only a few differences between humans and animals? Whether you watch the family dog, an elephant in the zoo, or a mountain goat in the Andes,you'll see that they do essentially the same thing. They eat, sleep,seek shelter,and breed. Those are all instincts. Their sole purpose is to survive. They react to chance happenings and are conditioned by their environment. How are we different? We have the same body parts and functions. And we have the same basic needs, along with the instincts for survival. Like animals, we react to what happens around us, and we aHow ourselves to become conditioned by our environment. The only difference is that we have the ability to choose. That's whats eparates human beings from the animal world. And if we don't exercise that ability,then we're no better off than animals. All(is/doing/are/surviving / that / we). Instead of living, we're simply existing. The starting point for better life is discovering that we have choices. Sadly,many people never make that discovery. They live in a country that offers a lot of freedom of choice, yet they live like prisoners,trapped by circumstances. I'm always amazed at some of the excuses people come up with for not taking advantage of life's opportunities to make new choices: not enough money, no time, wrong conditions, poor luck,and so on. But the truth is that they just don't see their choices. It's like being locked up somewhere and having a key in your pocket that'Il set you free, but never usingit simply because you don't know it's there. You have more choices than you ever dreamed. The key is knowing that they're there ―― every day of your life. We live by choice, not by chance. It isn't what happens that's most important. It's how we deal with what happens. It's what we choose to think and what we choose to do that are most important.
>>430 人間と動物の間にはほんの少しの違いしかないことを知っていましたか?家庭犬や 動物園のゾウやアンデス山脈のヤギを見ても、それらが根本的には同じものなのだという ことが分かるでしょう。それらは食べ、雨露をしのぐ場所を見つけようとし、繁殖しようと します。それらは皆、本能なのです。それらの唯一の目的は生き残ることなのです。 それらは全くの偶然の出来事に対して反応し、環境に順応してゆくのです。 我々は(動物たちとは)どのように違うのでしょう?私たちも同じように体の部分を持ち、体の機能を持って います。そして、私たちも同じように生存本能以外にも基本的な欲求というものがあります。 動物のように、我々も周りで起こっていることに反応し、環境に自分自身を順応させようとします。 唯一の違いは我々には選択するという能力があるということです。それが、我々人間と 動物社会を分けるものだのです。もし、私たちが選択するという能力を行使しないとしたら、 私たちは動物並だということになってしまいます。 All that we are doing is surviving. 私たちがしているのは生存するだけということに なってしまいます。生きているのではなく、ただ、存在しているということになってしま います。より良い生き方への出発点は我々は選択することができるということを発見する ことなのです。
For centuries, people have said that the dog is man’s best friend. The following story, (in other words/ for example/ as a result), is more than a thousand years old. A king had a strong, beautiful dog he loved greatly. When the king went to war, the dog went with him. When the weather was warm and sunny, the dog joined the king on nice pleasant walks in the countryside. Whenever the king went to the public hall, where anyone could talk to him, the dog lay at his feet. If the king felt sad or troubled, he talked to the dog. The dog always listened. After the king had his first son, he often let the dog watch the baby. He trusted the dog to take care of and protect this special, precious child. One day, after being away for an hour or so, the king returned to the baby’s room. He saw something terrible. The baby was nowhere in sight. His bed was turned over, and there was blood all over the dog’s mouth. Accusing the dog, the king shouted, “You killed my son!” He grabbed his knife and stabbed the dog in the heart several times. Then he heard a soft cry. Looking under the baby’s bed, he found his baby son safe and sound. Looking further, he saw the body of a large wolf. Its body was bloody and covered with deep bites. At this moment, the king understood that he had killed the dog that had saved his son’s life.
World Treck English Course U Lesson3-2 @In 1951,Dick started to design book covers posters for his father's company/ AHis designs soon became very popular. BDick believed that the design should be simple so that people could understand the contest of the book at a glance. CHe first drew an object in detail. DThen he took out unnecessary details little by little to show just the object's essence. EThe final pictures were drawn with simple lines and painted in vivid colors. FIn those days,the illustrations in most children's books were too complicated for young children. GDick used his simple and vivid style of design to create a new kind of picture book,and in 1955 the first"Miffy" books appered. HHis picture books have been published in more than 40 languages and are loved throughout the world.
Supermarket managers and shopkeepers have tried all kinds of tricks to encourage people to spend more money. It is known that the looks of a store may influence the behavior of customers. For example, the color orange is often used in fast-food shops because it is believed to make people hungry. A new article published in the science journal, Nature, suggests another influence. It seems that music has a powerful effect on our choice of goods. scientists at a university in Britain proposed that music brings out images that influence our choice in buying goods. In their study, they put this theory to the test. They took over the wine shelves in a local supermarket and displayed four French and four German wines, all of which had the same price and quality. They showed the origin of each with a French or German flag. For two weeks, they took turns playing either French accordion or Ger-man beer-hall music. The results showed that, in general, more people bought French than German wines. However, German wine sold better when German music was played, and French wine sold better when French music was being played. So it seems that music does affect people’s choices. What may be more sig-nificant is that only six of the 44 customers who were surveyed admitted that they had been influenced by the music. This suggests that the influence of music on shoppers is subliminal, which means they are (independent/ un-aware/ incapable) or it. This will probably help shopkeepers and marketing managers develop new tactics to sell their goods.
If you fly over the Nazca plain, you can see various drawings on the ground. there are drawings of birds,spiders,fish,even a momkey,and a few unidentifiable creatures. there are also rectangular shapes and a large number of straight lines that run apparently from nowhere to nowhere. they are called the Nazca Lines. Who made the drawings and why?
The lines may be as narrow as six inches across or as wide as several hundred yards. Sume run for many miles. The Nazca people created some of them by removing dark surface stones and placing them in patterns. For others,they removed the desert's thin brown surface layer of soil by walking or sweeping across it,exposing the light pink soil underneath. Because of the area's dry stable climate, these light-colored Nazca Lines have remained nearly unchanged for many centuries.
How werw the Nazca Lines drawn? Staight lines can be made easily for great distances with simple tools. Two wooden stakes placed at the start of a straight line can be used to guide the placement of a third stake along line. One person can sight along the first two stakes and tell a second person where to place the third one. this can be repeated as many times as needed to make an almost perfectly straight line miles in length.
then how about the enormous symbols that could not be seen from the ground? Aircraft discovered them in the 1930s. Some people even suggested that aliens with spaceships directed their construction from the air, but it's more likely that the Nazca people used an easier way to make them.
The symbols were plobably made by drawing the desired figure at some reasonable size on the ground, then using a magnifying system to copy it. It's possible that,first,several points were marked in the figure. Then the distances from the origin to each point were equally multiplied. The points in the small figure at full acale. The symbolscould then be made by drawing lines between those points.
Every two years a group of the world's greatest cellists and others devoted to that instrument take part in this festival. The opening-night perfomance of the festival was supposed to begin whth works for unaccompanied cello, which is music in its purest, most intense form. The atmosphere in the concert hall was filled with anticipation. The worldfamous cellist Yo-Yo Ma was one of the performers that april night in 1994, andthere was a moving story behind the music he would play.
The purpose of the drawing remains a mystery. Why would anyone want to make figures that could only be seen from the air at a time when there were no airplanes? These drawing are said to be at least fifteen hundred years old. There are many possible explanations. One is that the figures were mado so that space machines could land safely on the ground. A second is that the Nazca people built balloons that allowed them to see the figures when they frew over the area. This suggestion, while not impossible, lacks supporting evidence.
One of the first modern researchers to become interested in the Nazca figures was an American professor,Paul Kosok. He thought that the lines were "the largest astronomy book in the world." He believed that the lines pointed to certain astronomical alignments. kosok died before he could complate his theory, but the work was taken up by Dr.Maria Reiche, a German-born astronomer and mathematician who worked on the the theory with great energy. She worked out a huge number of astronomical calculations. However, Dr.Reiche's conclisions have not benn accepted by other scientists. The main ploblem is that there are a lot of lines and an almost infinite number of possible astronomical correlations.
パート1 Thomas Malthus is one of the best-known economists in history. Malthus, an Englishman who died in l834, developed the idea that the world's population was increasing too fast for the supply of food and water. Unless war, disease, or natural disasters reduced the population, Malthus 5believed that millions of people would die of hunger and the land would be used up. His idea became known as Malthusianism. But Malthus did not forecast the role of technology in increasing food and water supplies. New ways of farming using machines greatly increased farm production in the past 150 years-especially in the “New World” of North5 America, South America, and Oceania. Then, in the 1960s, came the "Green Revolution." Since the Green Revolution, the world's population has gone on growing. Green Revolution techniques are already in use-they cannot add much more to food production. Instead,10 scientists are starting to look to a new technology to make another jump forward in food production. This is biotech-nology. お願いします
パート2 Biotechnology is a fast-developing science that is based on making changes to plant and animal cells. It works by 15 changing the DNA, or genes, of a living thing. Each cell of every living thing has a store of DNA. This DNA is like a map for the cells: it tells them how to work. Human DNA, for example, has genes that decide the color of hair and eyes, or the working of body parts. Similarly, the DNA of an apple has information about the size, shape, color, and taste of this fruit. Scientists have only known about DNA since the 1940s. They have done a lot of work since then. Since the late 1970s, scientists have been working on ways to improve DNA. They have found that DNA can be moved between different living things. It is possible to put animal genes into plants, for example, or to put the genes of one animal into another. Changing genes around in this way has come to be known as ''genetic engineering.”
パート3 For centuries, scientists and farmers have found ways to improve their animals and plants. They mate one type of animal with another, or combine types of seed to produce a better plant. Genetic engineering, says Nobel-Prize winner Dr. Norman Borlaug, is simply a new way of improving our food supply. Borlaug claims that the world will need this technology in the 21st century. "Projected population growth requires that world food production increase by nearly 60 percent in 2030, as compared to 1990," he says. If people in the developing world want to eat better than now, then food production will need to increase even more, Borlaug believes. The International Rice Research Institute, based near the Philippines’ capital city, Manila, is using 9enetic engineering to create a new rice plant. Researchers hope to create a plant that could give six tonnes of rice from one acre of land. Present rice varieties give two tonnes per acre. The deputy director for international services at the institute says, "This is a race against time." A further benefit of biotechnology could be to cut the use of chemicals on the land. Biotechnology companies are trying to develop Plants that can resist insects or diseases. With such plants, the companies claim farmers may do less chemical spraying. お願いします
パート4 Genetic engineering doesn't stop there, however. In Europe, newspapers often refer to the new types of genetically modified (GM) food as "Frankenstein Foods." While American consumers seem to have few worries about a tomato that has been engineered to last longer in the shop, many Europeans feel that such tomatoes aren't natural. Scientists, too, are worried that the big biotech companies are introducing new life forms to the environment without considering the dangers. Governments in developed countries, especially in Europe and Australasia, are moving to put special labeling on GM products. But in the 21st century, these countries may have to use GM crops to keep the prices of their farm exports down. The biggest effect of biotechnology will be in the developing world. Most seriously in Africa, farm production needs to increase without using more water or land. So the arguments over biotechnology continue. Whether we like it or not, though, the age of genetic engineering is here. And in the 21st century, hungry people in poor countries may have to eat GM foods to avoid seeing Thomas Malthus's view come true. 長文ですみません よろしくお願いします
Cooks have been combining colors creatively for a long time,and they have discovered some rules. When you prepare meals,you can make them look more appealing if you arrange three colors―red,yellow,and green―on the table. By using red against green or green against yellow,each color is made more attractive.
Some colors stimulate appetite,and others do not. The colors which stimulate appetite most range from red to orange. This is why the red color of meat or of pepper is appealing. This is also why fast-food restaurants often put up signs in red or use red in the logos. On the other hand,vivid blue plates do not increase our appetite. This is because the complementary color orange stays as an afterimage when you look at the blue plate. The orange and blue mix,and make the color of food uninviting. Also,vivid blue is rarely found in food.
On every visit to the rookeries, Fraser sees evidence of the Adelies' inability to adjust to surprises. The birds live a dozen years or longer and mate for life. Once a pair establishes a nesting site commonly on the same island where they were born and often in the same colony the couple usually returns to it year after year. But warmer air holds more moisture, and in this still-cold place, that means more snow. Prevailing winds here pile snow deepest on the southwest-facing sides of the small islands where the penguins nest. The birds there seem incapable of recognizing, as the snow gets deeper, that it is time to move somewhere else. When spring arrives in September and October, the Adelies often and stubbornly pile pebbles atop snow 2 feet thick or more to build their nests. Later, ice-cold meltwater kills many eggs and young chicks. Chinstraps, on the other hand, seem a bit more flexible in where they nest, choosing sites based more on how useful they are at the time. Every failed penguin colony could be just one more local chapter in the pitiless pageant of nature. Certainly, there are no endangered species here. Adelies are flourishing at the southern end of their range in the Ross Sea. And that fits the climate-change model, too. The Ross Sea historically has been so cold that a little warming there makes it better, not worse for the Adelie penguins. "Their whole range " Fraser observes, "seems to be moving south." But in most of the world, the natural ranges of species cannot move as easily as they can in this vast, pure continent. If warmer weather drives a species to the edge of a city, or to the top of a mountain, that may be the end of it. And that's why the lessons from the Adelies here should be studied in other parts of the world.
After a few decades of watching the same population of birds he is now studying great-grandchicks of some of his first ones Fraser says he is beginning to feel, in his bones, what he calls ecological time:the decades to centuries over which populations rise, fall, and sometimes vanish. During one of the station's evening science seminars, physicist Dan Lubin of the Scripps Institution of Oceanography, at Palmer to study how ice and open sea reflect sunlight, notes that climate change does not appear or disappear quickly. Even if humans could stop emissions right now, carbon dioxide and other gases that trap solar energy wouldn't return to pre-industrial levels for 200 years or more. "Two hundred years!" Fraser says. "Even m ecological time that is enough to really screw things up."
International Poll: No Consensus On Who Was Behind 9/11 September 10, 2008
A new WorldPublicOpinion.org poll of 17 nations finds that majorities in only nine of them believe that al Qaeda was behind the 9/11 terrorist attacks on the United States.
(Photo: Tamara Beckwith)
In no country does a majority agree on another possible perpetrator, but in most countries significant minorities cite the US government itself and, in a few countries, Israel. These responses were given spontaneously to an open-ended question that did not offer response options.
When I return from Sweden every summer, I am surprised at the wealth of Japan. This feeling grows stronger every year. Nearly all tourists from abroad get the impression that Japan is a rich country when they see the airport, the expressway and the streets of Tokyo, but I get this impression from the young people of Japan. In the first place their clothes are different. They wear jeans without holes in the knees, T-shirts which have not become shabby from too much washing, sneakers which are not worn-out. Instead, both boys and girls look neat and clean. Not (only) that, they wear accessories of great value. Their handbags and watches appear to be no less expensive than those of adults. In Japan there is certainly a market for young people. It is not limited to clothing only. It applies also to leisure activities. One might go so (far) as to say that even the universities are markets for young people. What country in the West is able to do business having only young people as customers? In these countries young people have less money than anyone. Those who have gone to university and those who are working can barely make (ends) meet. At the age of 18, they live apart from their parents, even though it may be in the same town, and stand on their own (feet) financially. To them such things as skiing in the Alps and fashionable clothes are entirely foreign. Those that have side jobs are lucky ones, for most young people are (out) of work. In Britain, France, Italy, Sweden and many other countries, I saw young people full of discontent. There are no smiles on their faces. I wonder what would happen if parents were to stop giving money to the young people of Japan.
“Hi, sweetheart. Your supper’s in the oven. I’ve kept it warm,” may wife said. She set a beautiful dinner before me and sat down to keep me company. “I ate an hour ago,” she said. “I hope your dinner is all right.” And that was all the comment there was ― no subtle questioning, no mild complaints, no hidden hostility, nothing but smiles and gentleness. I couldn’t believe it. Surely this was all just an act. I vowed to give it another test. The next night I again met my friend for coffee. Again I was an hour late and again I got the same loving treatment when I came home. As I sat down to supper I decided to discover what was really going on with this new wife of mine. “Aren’t you even a little mad at me for being late for supper?” I asked. “Of course not,” she said. She seemed surprised. “Well, you had supper waiting and I was late and I haven’t even said I was sorry.” “I figured you were busy at the office with important matters. Otherwise, you would have come home.” “Oh,” I said. “Besides,” she said, “you’re a full-grown man. Full-grown men don’t need someone telling them when to come home to supper,” and that’s all there was to it. She won our first argument without argument, and I have never since intentionally been late for supper in all of the years we’ve been married. She understood long before I did that arguments can be won without arguing. Trust leads to more trust, and I became trustworthy. I learned again that night what I had learned so many times before and forgotten as often ― that demonstrations of love, whether in the kitchen, the bedroom, or one’s place of work, are the most powerful of all arguments.
A Japanese businessman is talking to an American businessman who has just come to Japan for the first time. A: What would you like to eat for lunch today? B: Now that I’m in Japan, I would really like to try a bowl of ramen. A: That reminds me of a newspaper article I read recently. A research group asked 2,000 people in Tokyo to name the three Japanese products they thought were the most important “inventions” of the 20th century. B: And how did people answer? A: Instant ramen was the first product most people named, followed by karaoke and then Walkman stereos. B: So the Japanese are the inventors of instant ramen. Bu did the Japanese actually “invent” ramen or did it come from country? A: Historically speaking, the noodle dish we now call ramen was originally from China. Ramen was first called Shinasoba when it arrived during the Meiji period. B: When did the name ramen begin to be used? A: In the early 1920’s, a restaurant in Sapporo was making the Chinese-style lamian. The name changed to ramen and the way it was made also began to change. B: Did instant ramen start about the same time? A: No, the first instant ramen began to appear in stores in 1958. And it became an instant success. B: Why was it so popular? A: As Japan began to recover after the war, people were working longer hours and making better salaries. They had less time to cook, but, more money to spend on convenience food. It was a product invented when the timing and circumstances were just right. B: Speaking of timing, don’t you think it’s time for lunch? Let’s go have some ramen.
In interior design,colors are important,too. Pastel colors make you relax. A Japanese-style room,for example,uses a combination of light colors which increases the sense of relaxation. Walls,[shoji],ceiling,and[tatami]are usually light-beige or white.
Once,when a pink carpet was laid on a classroom floor,some children treated it as play space. It because a study space when the color was changed to blue-gray. This tells us that cold colors assist our concentration.
Now,where can you find a place where shocking pink,bright orange,yellow-green,and blue are used? A video arcade. The combination of bright contrasting color is exciting. Such an unusual combination creates a holiday world for us to enjoy.
Peple in the United States tend to achieve privacy by physically separating themselves from others. The expression "good fences make good neighbors" indicates a need for privacy from neighbors' homes. If a family can afford it, each child has his or her own bedroom. When privacy is needed, family members may lock their bedroom doors. When the American wants to be alone he goes into a room and shuts the door. The English, on the other hand, lacking rooms of their own since childhood, never developed the practice of using space as a refuge from others. Young American children learn the rule "knock before you enter," which teaches them to respect ohters'privacy. Parents, too, often follow this rule before entering their children's rooms. When a bedroom door is closed it may be a sign to others saying, "I'm need privacy," "I'm angry," or "Do not disturb... I'm busy." When people need to achieve preivacy, and when they build homes, and when they design cities, the way they use space is different from culture to culture.
I'd like to tell you about an experiment that I did in my family. We have two children, a girl of eight and a boy of ten. My daughter played the part of mother, and my son the part of father, while my wife and I were children. We, the childlen, forgot to tie our shoe-lacres, and did not come in to dinner when we were told to, and did not eat anything we didn't like. It was a little strange for all of us to play this game, and many times we made each other laugh. But by the end of the day the children understood about themselves and their own behavior. They also understood what their parents try to do for them. We have only done this experiment once, and we may or may not repeat it. But it was very helpful to our family relations. It made each of us a little less selfish than we had been before. So I would recommend it to you to try some time in your family as well. Thank you.
In every society, communication among people takes place, however primitive the society may be. We may think that *primitive peoples speak languages which are limited in vocabulary and grammatical structure; however, to date, no *correlation between cultural development and linguistic complexity has ever been shown to exist. The languages of primitive peoples are as complex and as rich in expressive power as those of developed societies. Their languages can be used to express ideas and thoughts just as complicated as those of advanced nations. Therefore, the claims that primitive people can't express abstract thought, that they have a very small vocabulary, and that their languages are simple and crude are completely false.
We should note, however, that they have different ways of *categorizing certain areas of experience. For example, it is known that although the Eskimos use words for specific varieties of snow, they do not have any *generic term, such as our single word snow; and that *the Navajos use specific verbs for carrying, depending on the materials they carry. By the number and kind of words these two peoples use in these instances, we judge that snow is more important to the Eskimos than to us, and that the Navajos are more sensitive to materials they carry than we are.
This indicates that languagesdiffer in the way in which they break up concept, thought and experience. How they break up conceptual structure is closely lined to the question of the relationship between *thought and language. It is true that word differences have some effect on our thought, since it is obviously easy to think about things for which we have words. This does not guarantee, however, that our thinking is conditioned by such linguistic categorization. The question of the relationship between thought and language is interesting, but difficult, and there has been no theory with which linguists and phycologists would all agree.
Civilization has cast parents in role of "killjoys" who must say no to many or the small child's greatest pleasures: no sucking of the thumb, no touching of the penis, no sucking of the nose, no playing with feces, and no making of noise. To infants, civilization is cold and cruel: instead of a soft breast, it offers a hard cup; instead of instant relife and warm diapers, it offers a cold pot and the demand for selfrestraint. Some restrictions are inevitable if the child is to become a social being. However, parents should not overplay their role of policemen for civilization, lest they invite avoidable resentment and hostility.
Mother should not be the one to wake up her school-age child every morning. the child resents a mother who disturds his sleep and disrupts his dreams. He dreads her coming into his room and pulling off his blanket and her voice that says, "Get up. It's late." It is better for all concerned if the child is awakened by an alarm clock, rather than by what must look to him like an "alarm mother." Yvonne, age eight, had difficulty getting out of bed in the morning. Every day she tried to stay in bed for a few endless minutes more. Mother was sweet, mother was sour, but Yvonne was persistent: slow to rise, unpleasant at breakfast, and late to school. The daily arguments left her mother tired and resentful. The situation improved dramatically when mother gave to her daughter an unexpected gift-an electric alarm clock. In the gift box Yvonne found a note: "To Yvonne, who does not like other people to wake her too early in the morning. Now you can be your own boss. Love Mother." Yvonne was surprised and delighted. She said, "How did you know that I don't like anyone to wake me up?" Mother smiled and said, "I figured it out." When the alarm clock rang the next morning, mother said to Yvonne, "It is early, honey. Why don't you sleep another few minutes?" Yvonne jumped out of bed saying, "No. I'll be late for school."
A child who cannot wake up easily should not be called lazy: and he who does not rise and shine instantly should not be labeled "sour puss." Children who find it hard to be alert and zestful in the morning do not need ridicule. Rather than engage with them in a battle, it is best to let them enjoy another ten golden minutes of sleep or daydreams. This can be accomplished by setting the alarm clock to ring earlier. Our statements should convey empathy rather than anger or scorn or alarm over health: "It is hard to get up this morning." "It is such a pleasure to lie in bed and dream." "Take another five minutes." Such statements make the morning bright; they create a climate of warmth and intimacy. In contrast, the following statements invite cold and stormy weather: "Get up, you lazy thing!" "You get out of that bed this minute." "My God, you are another Rip Van Winkle." Such statements as: "Why are you still in bed? Are you sick? Does anything hurt? Do you have a tummy ache? A headache? Let me see your tongue" suggest to the child that the way to receive tender care is to be sick. He may also think that mother will be disappointed if he denies having any of the maladies she so graciously lists. To please mother, the child may feel obliged to admit that he feels sick.
Recently two researchers, David Johnson and Steve Mabee, have suggested a theory that the drawings may be related to water. The Nazca plain is one of the driest places on Earth, getting less than one inch of rain a year. Johnson ,while looking for sources of water in the region, noticed that ancient warterways seemed to be connected with some of the lines. Johnson thinks that the shapes may be a giant map of the underground warter sources traced on the land. Mabee is working to collect evidence that might support this theory. The Nazca Lines were added to the UNESCO World Heritage List in1994. That means the drawings are treasures to all humankind. They should be preserved forever.
It is an amaziong fact that children become fluent speakers of a languaage without any formal instruction. Every child, unless he is kept in isolation from languages, can acquire one or more languages, and the process is remarkable for its speed and perfection.
Many people have studied the languages, can acquisition of children and accumulated various data on children's linguistic activities. It was first considered that they acquired the language by repeating their parents' speech, but it turned out that this was not accurate. Certainly parents help their children learn the language by ``reinforcing'' their speech activities. But such activities have no direct bearing on their becoming a native speaker of there parents' language. Rather children are considered to have an innate capacity to acquire language, and they pick up a language naturally, as they grow. What is necessary for this mastery is, therefore, their exposure to the language in their environment.
It can be said that every child, regardless of his intellectual capacity or intelligence quotient(IQ), can pick up at least one language in his environment. This accomplishment must be considered quite different from learning mathematics, music, writing or other knowlege and skills. Although it is not unusual to fail to acquire such knowledge and skills, normal human children never fail to acquire language. Therefore, language acquisition should be considered as different from the acquisition of other knowledge and skills. Language acquisition is peculiar to human beings and it is species-uniform, and no other animal has ever shown the remarkable capacity to learn a language/
In the study of children's language acquisition, various questions have been raised. What is happening when a child is exposed to the language? How do children create sentences which they have never heard? An adequate account of language acquisition may still be far from complete, but such questions provide a strong motivation for studying the structure of language.
Voyager Reading Course NEW EDITIONのLESSON5のPart3です。 お願いします。
Part3 Environmental enrichment of zoos is important for three reasons. Firstly, enriched environments satisfy both the physical and psychological needs of animals and allow them to perform more of their natural behaviors. In the wild, animals must find food, defend territories, escape natural enemies and build homes. In zoos, most of these basic needs are taken care of by the keepers, so other methods of physical and mental stimulation must be provided to encourage them to behave more like they would in nature. For example, food should be given to them in a way that requires them to make some effort to find or get it. This enables the animals to have longer and more stimulating mealtimes and happier lives, thus making them more attractive to visitors. Secondly, enriched environments are more interesting and educational for zoo visitors. They are also more likely to generate feelings of respect and interest toward animals that result in environment-friendly attitudes and actions. Lastly, enriched environments may help preserve animal species in several ways. For example, they help endangered zoo and aquarium animals have babies by reducing stress on them and encouraging them to develop natural mating behaviors. Thus, animal enrichment creates a win-win situation for both the animals and their human visitors. Enriched environments have begun to appear in zoos not only in America and Europe but also in Japan. Asahiyama Zoo is one such zoo.
Costa Rica is a small country loacaled in Central America. It is as large as Kyushu and Shikoku combined. It is a country which is special in several ways. What surprises us first about Costa Rica is that its nature is beautiful. Twenty-seven percent of the land is national parks and national nature conservation areas whose environment cannot be destroyed. Wastes and polluted water from industry are well controlled. More than five percent of all animal and plant species in the world live in this small country: the density of the species is by far the highest in the world. We can also see a lot of rare animals and birds in the country. For example, in the rainforests we can see the quetzal, the bird in the story of "Hi-no-tori" written by Tezuka Osamu. On the beaches, we can see sea turtles that come to lay eggs.
{Masui Mitsuko} is a veterinarian and director of Zoorasia,a zoological garden in Kanagawa. She has loved animals since she was a child. She says, "In zoos,there are many wild animals gathered from around the world. The zoo was like a treasure chest for me."
Zoorasia,which opened in 1999,is one of the largest zoos in Japan. It is dividesd into several zones,from tropical rainforests with elephants to icy pools with polar bears and penguins. As visitors look around the zoo,they see that it is designed specifically for the animals. It fact,it is an ideal park where the animals can live in an almost natural state. Because they have enough space to run around,they are healthy and have a high breeding rate.
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I have just read a serious column on the prospects for next year. This article consisted of contributions from experts in the various branches of industry (including one from a meteorological expert who, I need with a general summing up of the year by Old Moore or one of the minor prophets. Old Moore, i am sorry to say, left me cold.
I have just read a serious column on the prospects for next year. This article consisted of contributions from experts in the various branches of industry (including one from a meteorological expert who, I need hardly tell you, forecasted a wet summer) and ended with a general summing up of the year by Old Moore or one of the minor prophets. Old Moore, i am sorry to say, left me cold.
I should like to believe in astrology, but I cannot. I should like to believe that the heavenly bodies sort themselves into certain positions in order that Zadkiel may be kept in touch with the future; the idea of a star whizzing a million miles out of its path by way of indicating a “sensational divorce case in high life” is extraordinarily massive. But, candidly, I do not believe the stars bother. What the stars are for, what they are like when you get there, I do not know; but a starry night would not be so beautiful if it were simply meant as a warning to some unpleasant financier that Kaffirs were going up. The ordinary man looks at the heavens and thinks what an insignificant atom he is beneath them; the believer in astrology looks up and realizes afresh his overwhelming importance. Perhaps, after all, I am glad I do not believe.
大変申し訳ないのですが、Part4もお願いします。 Part4 Asahiyama Zoo’s seal pavilion won a special prize called the “Enrichment Award” in 2004. This contest has been held every year since 2002 by the “Citizens’ Network of Japan’s Zoos,” an NPO which started a zoo enrichment campaign in 2001. Seals are animals which, as they swim around, are very curious about the things around them. When they find something interesting near the surface, they move straight up to take a look at it. SO, it the pavilion, the staff built a vertical water tunnel connected to the outdoor aquarium so that the seals can perform this natural behavior. Visitors can watch each seal close at hand and even face to face as it swims up and down through the tunnel, looking at the visitors with interest. Here, people enjoy watching the seals swim, and the seals in turn seem to enjoy observing the people. These days a lot of people are again visiting Asahiyama Zoo. But surprisingly, most of those who find the zoo exciting are not children, but adults! They really enjoy watching the natural behaviors of the animals living in the zoo’s enriched environment. For example, they might suddenly find themselves watching polar bears from the viewpoint of seals. Or they might be surprised to look up and see penguins swimming at great speeds in the aquarium just like birds flying in the sky! A zoo used to be a place for looking at exotic animals just like framed paintings. But today’s zoo is rather a place for watching their natural behaviors and habits, and even learning about natural ecosystems. What a big change this is from the zoos of ancient Egypt!
Not that there are not proofs more momentous and majestic. The smiling courage of Socrates persuades us of the fineness even of a world in which such a man as Socrates is condemned to die. The faith of the martyrs pushes into the background the foulness of their persecutors. The hero, even more than the goldfinch, convinces us that the world is a place in which it is good to be alive. No man can be in love without believing that it’s a fine world we live in. And we get evidence almost as irresistible from the poets, the painters, and the musicians. A line from hamlet, a song from Figaro, a picture by Fra Angelico― ―in an instant theories of pessimism take wing and the most melancholy man is in a trance of delight. Even the pessimistic writers, if they write well enough, stir us into optimism by the excellence of their writing. Schopenhauer did not believe that it is a particularly fine world, but it is possible for other people to be all the more convinced that it is a fine world because Schopenhauer wrote in it. Thomas Hardy has probably made as many people believe that it is impossible to do anything well without proving that it is a fine world. Abraham Lincoln by his character and statesmanship proved it: the cook who prepares a sole perfectly also proves it.
>>532たすかります^^次よろしければ長文おねがいします>< 長いです;-; Since her parents and her two older brothers were active surfers, Bethany learned to surf before she could walk. She quickly learned how to surf on the beautiful beaches of Kauai. She began her surfing career with her first competition at age 11. By age 13, she was an accomplished surfer and well-respected in the surfing world. Her lifelong dream of becoming a professional surfer was interrupted when she was attacked by a Tiger Shark while she was surfing with her friends. She had her lefe left arm bitten off just below her shoulder. Bethany described her confrontation with the shark as follows: "My left arm was lying in the water and my other arm was just holding on to my board. The shark came up and attack me. It pulled me back and forth. It was about a three-second period. When it was attacking me, all I saw was like a gray blue. " Bethany handled the situation miraculously, warning other surfers about the shark,and remaining calm while her best friend's father,Holt Blanchard,helped her to the beach. Her doctor said her life was saved by Holt's quick action: he controlled the bleeding by wrapping a surfboard leash around the stub of her arm. お願いします><
1、Green tourism has its roots in European "agri-tourism," which used an area's agricultural resources to attract tourists, Green tourism, however, better integrates agricultural, nature-oriented, and relaxation activities in rural areas. It is also different from "eco-tourism," which is a blend of wilderness and adventure. Green tourism is more suited to the cultivated, agricultural land of the Japanese countryside. 2、Much of the credit for Ajimu's success can be given to the efforts of grape-grower Seiichi Miyata. According to Miyata, the idea of exploring the business opportunities in agri-tourism sprang out of the realization that Ajimu could no longer survive simply "by growing stuff and selling it." Miyata has done much research of his own and discovered that, contrary to agri-tourism's objectives, not all visitors were enthusiastic about harvesting and other sweaty farm activities. Most were there to relax. 3、Besides accommodation and meals, activities such as fabric-dyeing and charcoal making are offered at 30 households in Ajimu as part of the green tourism movement.
4、Eiko and Toshihiko Yano receive city visitors almost every week at Ryuusentei, their magnificent 70-year-old home. The Yanos say some guests like to help pick vegetables for dinner; others prefer to relax and sleep in the sun-filled tatami rooms. The smiling couple doesn't mind how their visitors choose to experience green tourism. "We are just happy when our guests leave feeling genuinely refreshed," says Toshihiko. 5、The Yanos were initially a little nervous about opening up their home to strangers. But they got to like their new challenge. "We love having guests, especially families with small children," says Eiko. "And our visitors are people of all backgrounds. We have learned so much from them." Her comments highlight another goal of Ajimu's green tourism ― to improve relations between city and countryside. 6、According to Nobuo Yofu, editor of the green tourism magazine Villages of Kyushu, Japanese city dwellers have long held a dull image of the countryside. But interest in rural life has grown, says Yofu. Dozens of new magazines promote country life to urban readers, and films and TV shows romanticize the rural community spirit. "Country people still don't realize how much city people want to experience this lifestyle," he says.
Masui notes that today's children have little contact with animals other that pets. Children only see popular animals in picture books and character goods. "They don't know what real animals are like,"Masui explains. "So,for example,it seems thet most children are amazed when they see a real elephant foe the first time at the zoo. After their surprise wears off,children begin to realize that we are all living creatures. By sympathizing with these animals,children then start to think about nature conservation." This is one of the zoo's purpose.
Another purpose of zoos,says Masui,is to contribute to education on the environment. For example,there are guided tours in Zoorasia. The zoo staff explain to the visitors the relationship between animals and the places they live. "All zoos should have educational programs. Such programs can teach visitors the importance of protecting animals and their environments"
English is used a lot in Japan, and that's a good thing for people who are leaning the language. Sometimes you can learn new words and phrases. But there are times when the words or phrases are not used correctly. Convenience stores have become part of Japanese society. It's very convenient to be able to go to a store and buy almost anything you need day or night. However,they are not very good places to learn English. For example, there's a sign next to the cash register in a convenience store near my house that says,“WE CANNOT CHANGE." Whenever I see it I say to myself,“Gee,that's too bad, I'm sorry to hear that." After all,everybody changes. It's part of life. When I compare myself as a teenager to me today,I have changed. I have changed a lot. I know that this is not the meaning the store intends but that's what it says. I think the biggest problem with it is that there's no object after the verb “change." The sign would be closer to being corred if it said,“WE CANNOT CHANGE MONEY," but there's still a problem with this. This sounds like what you might do at a bank, changing yen into dollars or euros.I'm sure they don't do this at a convenience store,but I still don't think it's exactly correct. I think the store is refusing to “make change" for people. Change is a verb but it also has a noun form. One of the meanings of the noun is “ small paper money or coins." If you have a thousand-yen bill and want ten one-hundred yen coins, you want the store to make change for you. The sign could read “We cannot make change" and I think it would be almost perfect. The store could do it if they wanted to. I'm sure they have enough small change, but they don't want to. Here's the perfect sign,“WE DO NOT MAKE CHANGE."
@Though it's frequently heard, the term "domestic violence" only came into widespread use in Japan in the late 1990s. (Here it's often shortened to "D. V.," but in ENglish that abbreviation is not commonly used; a native English speaker might think "D V." means "digital video.") It generally refers to violence between husbands and wives, but in this chapter we'll use it in a wider, more literal sense to cover all violence within the home.
AAsk nearly anybody about domestic violence and you'll hear that it's a serious problem that's becoming steadily worse. It seems as though every few days there's a story about it in the newspaper or on TV: a child dies after being abused by his mother and father, or a husband is arrested for beating his wife, or a teenager murders his parents.
BWhat might explain this worsening situation? The most obvious possibility is that our modern world subjects us to more pressure than ever before. Of particular concern is Japan's economy, which has been struggling for over a decade. When people lose their jobs -or are worried that they might lose them- an extreme amount of stress builds up, and that can lead to violence. Even those who keep their jobs are likely to feel pressure to work longer hours and accomplish more. In difficult economic times, university students have to cope with bleaker job prospects, and students of any age can experience extra pressure to study harder in order to get into a famous school.
CBut increased stress is far from being the only possible explanation for an increase in domestic violence. Let's consider some of the others. The most intriguing possibility is that domestic violence isn't really increasing; we're just hearing more about it than we used to.
Do you remember the computer laboratory near the end of spring semester? Perhaps you'll recall students with tired eyes staring blankly at the screen, trying to complete a paper as a deadline approaches. Many were probably thinking, “Why did I dedde to start this paper this morning instead of two weeks ago, like I had planned?" Meanwhile,others,those “ nonprocrastinators," sit comfortably in their rooms watching TV. Many students are in danger of suffering from the bad effects of procrastination. But what makes us procrastinate? Moreover, what are the effects of procrastination? Scientists have studied procrastination. Scientifically,procrastination is defined as “putting off a task to the point of feeling uncomfortable about one's delay." What are the positive effects of procrastination? Procrastination has largely been viewed as the cause of negative results, but there are some advantages. Some studies found that at the beginning of the term, procrastinators had a lower level of stress. For procrastinators, the beginning of the term is often a relaxing time. What are the negative effects of procrastination? The short-term benefits have long term costs. Procrastination is related to several health problems. Depression, anxiety and a lack of self-confidence are related to those who procrastinate. Anxiety levels are especially high near the exam period. Researchers found differences in performance levels, even when the same amount of time was spent on a task. In general, procrastinators had considerably lower grades. However, studies found that in no way does intelligence level relate to procrastination. When students believe they can complete their work in a shorter time than is actually needed,less effort is often devoted to the task at hand.
The English have a passion for gardening, and for many people it is very important to have a garden of their own. On summer evenings it is common to see people happily working in their garden. Having returned from a busy day at the office, many people take great pleasure in spending an hour or two outside, weeding or mowing the lawn. A beautiful garden is a source of great pride. Busy people usually arrange to have the grass cut and the flowerbeds tended to by a professional gardener. Gardening can be a surprisingly (sociable/ individual/ group) activity. You often see neighbours chatting over the garden fence as they pause for a moment’s rest. Returning from work, I have on many occasions stopped to talk to acquaintances pottering around in their garden. At weekends, if the weather is fine, much entertaining goes on in the garden. People delight in inviting friends round for a barbecue, or to have ten on the lawn. Perhaps one difference between an English garden and a Japanese one is that in Japan gardens are often more formal and symbolic. In Japan, water, stones and mosses are used to great effect to achieve an atmosphere of tran-quillity and calm. (Filling/ Filled/ Having filled) with a lot of brightly col-oured flowers, English gardens tend to have a more cheerful, lively feel. As a general rule, an English garden seems to be a place to play and talk, whereas a Japanese garden is a place to sit and think.
“the Admiralty, during the whole of this long-drawn-out dispute have at no time acted hastily or ill-advisedly, and it is a matter of mere histrionic hyperbole for the Right Honourable and learned gentleman opposite to characterize the conduct of my department as that of callousness so inhuman as to amount to deliberate malice towards the boy.
Such unfounded accusations I can well choose to ignore.(An Honourable Member: “You can't.”)
Honourable Members opposite may interrupt as much as they please, but I repeat―there is nothing whate
@The English are masters at putting discovery to immediate use so that it leads to new discovery and fresh achievement. Now ask why they are everywhere ahead of us.
AWe know what we know really only for ourselves. If I talk to someone else about what I believe I know, he forthwith imagines he knows it a lot better, and over and over again I have to turn back into myself with my knowledge.
@Dick's love for children can be seen not only in his picture but also in his work for socially-conscious arganizations. AHe has designed posters,cards,and other items for hospitals. BSome of his works tell us about the sorrow of children suffering from hunger,disease,and forced labor. CThey communicate their messages directly to the world because of their simple designs . DIf his designs were complicated,people would not understand the messages so easily. ENow,there are a lot of fans of his works all over the world. FThese people support his social goals. GHe still continues to make new works. HHe says "As long as my creativity lates,I will continue to create designs that are both simple and easy to understand,and that make people happy."
The First Lord continued amid further interruptions:the chief point of criticism against the Admiralty appears to centre in the purely legal question of the Petition of Right brought by Mr.Arthur Winslow and the Admiralty's demurrer thereto.
Sir Robert Morton has made great play with his eloquent reference to the liberty of the individual menaced, as he puts it, by the new despotism of bureaucracy―and I was moved as any Honourable Member opposite by his resonant use of the words: Let Right be done― the time-honoured phrase with which, in his opinion, the Attorney-General should, without question, have endorsed Mr.Winslow's Petition of Right.
Nevertheless the matter is not nearly as simple as he appears to imagine. Cadet Ronald Winslow was a servant of the Crown, and has therefore no more right than any other member of His Majesty's forces―to sue the Crown in open court.
To allow him to do so―would undoubtedly raise the most dangerous precedents.
Environmentalism is a movement that has done much good in the world. It has been one of the most important political and educational---even spiritual---movements of the twentieth century. We owe the movement a great deal. But timees are changing , and now environmentalism , too , is becoming part of the problem.It has begun to harden into an ideology and mystique, and some of its doctrines are increasingly dysfunctional:for example, a romantic tendency to view all human activity(except that of primitive peoples) as destructive to nature and an automatic hatred of technology.
George Stoyonovich was a neighborhood boy who had quit high school on an impulse when he was sixteen.He had run out of patience.He was ashamed every time he went looking for a job, when people asked him if he had finished school and he had to say no.However , he never went back to school. This summer was a hard time for jobs and he didn't have one.Georgge thought of going to summer school , but the kids in his classes would be too young.He also considered registering in a night school, but he didn't like the idea of the theachers always telling him what to do.The result was that he stayed off the streets and in his room most of the time.
THE $50,000 WALLPAPER In June 1912,the Dutch steamship Mandura was sailing to the East Indies. There was a sudden violent storm,and the ship was bluwn onto a reef, near to one of the many islands in the South Seas. The natives on the island, who saw the ship sink,waited until the storm had stopped. Then they rowed out to the place where the ship had sunk. One by one,they dived down and brought up various things from the ship's cabins-- chairs,knives,boxes and so on. One natives,a man called Adepi,arrived a little later,so he couldn't find anything useful, only many pieces of coloured paper. But he was pleased with his find,and he decorated the walls of his little hut with the paper. A few months later,Wi Chin,a Chinese trader came to the island. Whenever he came,he always brought lots of interesting things with him, to exchange for the things made by the natives on the island. The natives gathered round him at once,shouting,“T'll give you a fishing net for that knife.” --“Give me a lighter for this wooden doll. T made it myself.” --“T need some nails and wire.”
world trek english reading のLesson 8 「Become an anthropologist」です。
part.1 Anthropology is a science dealing with humans and their origins. However, I'll just define anthropology as "being interested, without judgment, in the way other people choose to live and behave". Using such an anthropological approach helps you develop your compassion and become more patient. Beyond that, however, being interested in the way other people act is a way of replacing judgment with loving-kindness. When you are genuinely curious about the way people react or the way they feel about something, it's unlikely that you will also be annoyed. In this way, becoming an anthropologist is a way of becoming less frustrated by the actions of others.
part.2です。 When someone acts in a way that seems strange to you, rather than reacting in your usual way, such as, "I can't believe they would do that," instead say something to yourself like "I see, that must be the way she sees things in her world. Very interesting." In order for this approach to help you, you have to be genuine. There's only a small difference between being "interested" and being arrogant, as if secretly you believe that your way is better.
Part.3です。 長くなってしまい申し訳ないです。 Recently I was at a local shopping mall with my six-years-old daughter. A group of punk rockers walked by with orange spiked hair and tattoos covering much of their bodies. My daughter immediately asked me, "Daddy, why are they dressed up like that? Are they in costumes? Years ago I would have felt very judgmental and frustrated about these young people as if their way was wrong and mine was right. I would have given some judgmental views. Pretending to be an anthropologist, however, has changed my view a lot; it's made me soffer. I said to my daughter, "I'm not really sure, but it's interesting how different we all are, isn't it?" She said, "Yeah, but I like my own hair." Rather than thinking too much about the way these young people acted, we both stopped talking about it and continued to enjoy our time together.
Part.4最後です。 When you are interested in other views, it doesn't mean, even a bit, that you're supporting them. I certainly wouldn't choose to be a punk rocker or suggest it to anyone else. One of the most important rules of happy living is that judging others takes a lot of energy and always pulls you away from where you want to be.
CATHERINE:His innocence or guilt aren't important to me. They are to my father. Not to me. I believe he didn't do it, but I may be wrong. To prove that he didn't do it is of hardly more interest to me than the identity of the college servant, or whoever it was who did it. All that I care about is that people should know that a Government department has ignored a fundamental human right and that it should be forced to acknowledge it. That's all that's important to me, John, but it is terribly important.
JOHN:But, darling, after all those long noble words, it does really resolve itself to a question of a fourteen-year-old boy and a five bob postal ordar, doesn't it?
CATHERINE:Yes, it does.
JOHN:Well now, look. There's a European war blowing up, there's a coal strike on, there's a fair chance of civil war in Ireland, and there's a hundred and one other things on the horizon at the moment that I think you genuinely could call important.
JOHN:And yet, with all that on its mind, the House of Commons takes a whole day to discuss him―and his bally postal order. Surely you must see that's a little out of proportion―
CATHERINE:All I know is, John, that if ever the time comes when the House of Commons has so much on its mind that it can't find time to discuss a Ronnie Winslow and his bally postal order, this country will be a far poorer place than it is now. But you needn't go on, John, dear. You've said quite enough. I entirely see your point of view.
Sweage is the waste water from things like baths, toilets and washing machines. It is collected by a system of pipes and drains, and is delivered to a sewage treatment plant. These plants destroy disease-carrying organisms and remove toxic chemicals. The treated sewage is then discharaged onto land or into rivers or the ocean. Many undeveloped countries do not treat sewage at all, and instead just discharage it raw into rivers or the ocean.
Nature produces virtually no waste at all because it is a conscientious recycler. When plants or animals die they become food for other animals or decompose, often fertilizing the soil. The waste products of some organisms are essential for other organisms. For example, oxygen, a waste product given off by plants, is needed by humans and other animals. While humans do recycle some of their waste, much of it is considered too difficult or expensive to recycle. However, we are going to have to learn to become more like nature, or waste will continue to accumulate and be an ever-increasing problem.
Another interesting survey of college students compared national differences in positivity and ranked Puerto Rico, Colombia and Spain as the three most cheerful countries. The high spirits of the Puerto Ricans and Colombians, who live in countries with a relatively low GDP, may come from a "positivity tendency." They believe that the aspects of life in general are good. In other words, Latin Americans are happier because they look on the sunny side of life. This tendency dose not seem to be as common in East Asian countries like Japan. Among the bottom five in the study are Japan, China and South Korea. East Asians tend to rate themselves lower and it is not clear whether they actually feel unhappy or whether they are just controlling their answers. Again, that may be a result of cultural differences. American and Japanese students were recently asked to describe the positive and negative aspects of happiness. The American students could only see happiness as pure good, while the Japanese students repeatedly pointed out that personal happiness could invite envy. Japanese, from early in life, may be trained to focus on the negative aspects of themselves rather than positive ones. Japanese often see little value in personal happiness that disturbs family or group harmony, thougt that might be part of the fun for average American students. Japanese happiness is probably much more social than personal. However, that may be changing year by year.
I was very sorry to hear about your daughter. It must be quite a shock. But―and forgive me if I'm being too blunt―isn't it a bit of a relief also? You and I have talked lots of times about her fiance, and I know how concerned you were that he wasn't "excellent enough for her," as you expressed it, and didn't really "esteem her highly enough." So maybe this is a blessing in disguise. Yumi seems to me a very intelligent and independent-minded person. Just try to be happy and proud that she managed to "see the light" in time― before she pledged herself to a lifetime of unhappiness. Anyway, give her my fondest regards.
By the way, did you happen to catch last week's article in the New York Times (you still subscribe online, don't you?) about how more and more American women are remaining spouse-less, that is, living without a husband? Last year, more than half of woman responded in a survey that they were living without a married partner, the first time in history that this has happened. According to the Times, women are waiting longer or living with unmarried partners for longer periods before actually marrying. As one expert explained: "We can no longer assume that marriage is the main institution that organizes people's lives."
Or, as another put it, "For better or worse, women are less dependent on men or the institution of marriage... Younger women understand this better and are prepared to live longer parts of their lives alone," while older women are finding that marriage did not live up to their expectations, and, once divorced, opt to live on their own.
Of course, most women still eventually marry or remarry. They're just holding off until they find "Mr. Right" and making sure they have no regrets latter on. So I guess what I'm trying to say is that I'm sure that's what Yumi is doing.
But she was not yet certain that she must put off her other project to carry on the battle against the misuse of pesticides. She had taken a strong interest in a court case, in which some people had tried to prevent federal and state official from using DDT to control the gypsy moth. But their action was unsuccessful because they could assemble neither the scientists nor the evidence to support their case in court. This court case made her realize that the struggle to keep the environment clean and healthy must be made more widely known to the public; here and expert and respected writer could be of great help in warning the public of the dangers it faced. The course of Rachel Carson’s remaining years had been decided. This reluctant crusader had had her mind made up for her. No one else seemed to be in sight to take on the job, certainly no one else with her qualifications-----her scientific background, her strong love for the natural world, and her career as a writer.
Today, more Americans are visiting doctors who use old healing methods to find different remedies. This is because many people have become tired of drug treatments. They are looking for something else to help them.
In today's world, more people care about their lives and all the stresses and worries that have an effect on their bodies. They may not be ill, yet they do not feel "quiet right." For some, sleeping is a problem. Others feel down. Many people want to have more energy and to feel and look younger. Some who feel they have a cold coming on want to stop it right away. For all of these reasons, and many others, more people are turning to herbal healing. They believe that plants and herbs can make them well.
Another new trend in thinking is that people want to stay well. They do not want to wait until they get sick and then have to go to a doctor. So now, people are more interested in preventing illness and staying well. Natural herbal remedies mede from flowers, plants and herbs can possibly help. People are becoming more educated and want to take more responsibility for their health.
Plants and healing remedies. Plant and herbal remedies remain the chief forms of medicine for about 80 percent of the world's population. However, in modern medicine of the last 100 years, scientist put a lot of effort into making new drugs. As more drugs were made, natural remedies made from plants and herbs stopped being used. These days, however, people want to go back to natural remedies.
Literacy is a relatively recent development. In the past, most people were illiterate. One of the reasons for widespread illiteracy was the scarcity of books. As long as books were copied by hand, they were rare, precious, though often inaccurate. The invention of printing stimulated literacy. Suddenly books were plentiful, cheap, and more accurate. The power of the printed word grew stronger as more people learned to read. The printing press promoted many changes. This remarkable invention helped spread the Protestant Reformation in sixteenth-century Europe. Because of the greater availability of books, the Protestant reformers reached a wider audience. Many people joined this new religious movement. The problem of literacy was also an important issue during the Industrial Revolution. In the nineteenth century, many social reformers insisted that children should go to school rather than work in factories. In their opinion, schooling helped individuals and society. At school, children would learn the basic skills which would make then productive members of society. They would also develop the moral qualities which would help them improve society.
Modern medicine now sees the growing importance of herbal healing. Doctors who use herbal medicine worry that plants that can possibly cure serious illnesses like cancer may be lost because of the burning and cutting down of the tropical forests. Many plants that live in the forests and parts of the world far away from us are not even known and may have great healing power. Luckily, we do not have to depend on the tropical forests for all of our herbs. Some known plants and herbs that have healing value do grow in the wild or on farms in North Amelican. Also, plant and herb "banks" are being started so that plant seeds may be kept safe for the future.
Here are some of the most popular herbal remedies: echinacea, whith is used to fight off colds and flu; aloe vera, whith helps soothe burns; St.John's wort, which helps make you feel better when you are down; garlic, whith improves your blood flow; and gingko biloba, whith increases blood circulation and helps you remember things better.
It is wise not to take too many herbs, thinking that the more you take the better it is for you. Herbal plants can be powerful, and taking too much may produce side effects, such as an allergic reaction. Some may not be good for woman who are expecting to have badies. Other do not have to be taken every day, but only when you feel you are catching a cold. It is also a good idea to tell your doctor if you are taking any herbal remedies. And do not let herbal medicines encourage you to ignore serious health problems.
The above-mentioned research has shown that people is ways of thinking about happiness and positive emotions tend to be different according to their cultures. But is there anything common to all cultures of the world that makes the human heart sing? Take wealth, for example, and all the delightful things that money can buy. Once your basic needs are met, additional money does little to raise your sense of satisfaction with life. A good education? Neither education nor a high IQ leads to happiness. Youth? No, again. In fact, older people are more satisfied with their lives than the young. A recent survey found that people aged between 20 and 24 are sad for an average of 3.4 days a month, but it is just 2.3 days for people aged 65 to 74. Watching TV? Not at all. People who watch more than three hours a day are unhappier than those who spend less time in front of the box. On the positive side, the most distinct traits of cheerful people were strong ties to friends and family, and time spent together with them. These traits were shared by the 10% of students who believe they are really happy. In other words, it is important to work on social skills, close human relationships and social support in order to be happy. A researcher observes that people between the ages of 30 and 50 are less happy than other groups. This is perhaps because they have less freedom and more responsibilities for kids, jobs and housing. People are happiest when they are given a certain amount of freedom and decision-making power in their jobs. After working in the field for 25 years, the researcher claims that happiness is related to how much you like the life you are living.
Rachel Carson sent to work on her book at once. It was clear in her mind what her book would be. Science must be the foundation of her work, as it always had been in the past. But it must be given another aspect by the understanding and compassion without which even the finest scientists in the world lose their human touch. She knew that her book must persuade as well as inform; it must use scientific facts to influence people effectively. She knew that she must be able to influence the professional scientists who often are afraid to take chances with their careers and personal reputations. Her decision was made stronger by the letters of support she received from scientists who had learned of her work. She was in touch with scientists all over the United States and Europe. Early in 1959 she expressed some of her concerns to one of the scientists. “As you know, the whole thing is so explosive, and the pressures put on me by government officials and chemical companies are so great, I feel it far wiser to keep my own counsel in so far as I can, until I am ready to open an attack as a whole.” By taking up her pen to write honestly about this problem, she knew that she had plunged herself into a kind of war.
What do we mean by "abnormal" behavior? By what criteria do we distinguish it from "normal" behavior? There is no general agreement,but most attempts to describe abnormality are bases on one or more of the following definitions.
The word abnormal means "away from the norm." Many characteristics,such as height,weight,and intelligence,cover a range of values when measured over an entire population. Most people,for example,fall within the middle range of height,while a few are abnormally tall or abnormally short.
お願いします! ・The extent of the problem Currently more than 1 billion adults are overweight-and at least 300 million of them are clinically obese. Current obesity levels range from below 5% in China,Japan and certain African nations, to over 75% in urban Samoa. But even in relatively low prevalence countries like China, rates are almost 20% in some cities.
宜しくお願いします! Childhood obesity is already epidemic in some areas and on the rise in others. An estimated 17.6 million children under five are estimated to be overweight worldwide. According to the U.S. Surgeon General, in the USA the number of overweight children has doubled and the number of overweight adolescents has trebled since 1980. The prevalence of obese children aged 6-11 years has more than doubled since the 1960s. Obesity prevalence in youths aged 12-17 has increased dramatically from 5% to 13% in boys and from 5% to 9% in girls between 1966-70 and 1988-91 in the USA. The problem is global and increasingly extend into the developing world; for example, in Thailand the prevalence of obesity in 5-to-12-year-old children rose from 12.2% to 15.6% in just two years.