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World University Rankings

Mon, 26 Mar 2012 14:46:12 +0900

World University Rankings

Asian universities challenge US-UK domination of rankings

Mon, 26 Mar 2012 14:46:00 +0900

Asian universities challenge US-UK domination of rankings

当世風アリとキリギリスの物語イソップ寓話より複雑な現代の世界経済

Thu, 27 May 2010 16:03:00 +0900

当世風アリとキリギリスの物語イソップ寓話より複雑な現代の世界経済:

しかし、数十年後、中国人はついに米国人に向かって言う。「さあ、あなた方の債務と引き換えに、我々にモノを提供してもらいたい」と。すると米国のキリギリスは笑い、すぐさま債務の価値を引き下げた。アリは自分たちの蓄えの価値を失い、一部のアリは飢え死にするに至る。

この物語の教訓は何か？　永続的な富を蓄えたいのであれば、キリギリスにカネを貸すな、ということだ。

By Martin Wolf　Financial Times,

Mass rally in Japan against US base on Okinawa

Tue, 27 Apr 2010 02:15:07 +0900

Mass rally in Japan against US base on Okinawa

Advisers to Pope Benedict XVI 'regret' plan for state visit to UK -Times Online

Sun, 25 Apr 2010 21:06:55 +0900

Advisers to Pope Benedict XVI 'regret' plan for state visit to UK -Times Online

ST Rich List'09

Sun, 25 Apr 2010 21:05:34 +0900

ST Rich List'09:

2010年４月発売。ヨーロッパ、ザラ、イケア、LV、

BBC News - Foreign Office apologises for Pope 'condom' memo

Sun, 25 Apr 2010 12:58:37 +0900

BBC News - Foreign Office apologises for Pope 'condom' memo:

これを書いた下級官吏は異動になった。

Belgian Catholic bishop admits molesting boy | World news | The Guardian

Sun, 25 Apr 2010 00:46:30 +0900

Belgian Catholic bishop admits molesting boy | World news | The Guardian

Catholic bishops express sorrow over abuse scandals

Thu, 22 Apr 2010 22:14:29 +0900

Catholic bishops express sorrow over abuse scandals

Real life Mr. Big

Wed, 21 Apr 2010 22:45:51 +0900

Real life Mr. Big:

Ron Galotti’s publishing legacy -

J mackinary!

ラジオ一回£45.

Tue, 20 Apr 2010 00:19:50 +0900

ラジオ一回£45.:

Who makes money out of Spotify?

Oh dearie me. Royalties aren’t that difficult to understand. Right, Spotify is classed as being analagous to radio (that’s the way the industry sees it. That’s why the royalty rates are agreed with the Performing Rights Society etc). So, there is not mechanical copyright paid on either radio or Spotify. That is, the band and the musicians get nothing for their particular version of a song being played. The record company doesn’t get anything from radio either. It’s the songwriter(s) who do. They may be sharing that with the song publishing arm of the record comapny, true, but that’s to aid in collecting the money from all of the different PRS peeps around the world. So, how much does Radio 1 say pay for a playing of a song? My numbers are a few years out of date but £45 is what it used to be (£35 for local and regional stations). Lady Gaga get played on the RI Breakfast Show….well, they only give weekly figures, not daily, and weekly seems to be about 7 million. So, at minimum, we’ll say one play equals 1 million listeners (7million divided by 7 days….no, I know this isn’t correct). So 1 million listeners gets £45. To be split between all of the people who wrote the song. That particular song mentioned has two writers, Gaga herself and one other. £22.50 each. $167 is, around and about, £100. So Spotify’s payments to Gaga are some four to five times what radio’s would be. That doesn’t seem like a bad deal to me at all.

楢崎正剛 - 2NN 2ちゃんねるニュース速報＋ナビ - 2ch News Navigator

Sat, 17 Apr 2010 23:40:18 +0900

楢崎正剛 - 2NN 2ちゃんねるニュース速報＋ナビ - 2ch News Navigator

選手データ　楢崎正剛 | 名古屋グランパス公式サイト

Fri, 16 Apr 2010 14:18:14 +0900

選手データ　楢崎正剛 | 名古屋グランパス公式サイト:

http://sports.nifty.com/narazaki/

楢崎正剛の対談、インタビュー集

Fri, 16 Apr 2010 14:09:13 +0900

楢崎正剛の対談、インタビュー集 :

Number?

John Gray 無神論者トレンド

Thu, 15 Apr 2010 15:02:01 +0900

John Gray 無神論者トレンド:

John Gray is the author of Black Mass: Apocalyptic Religion and The Death of Utopia, published by Penguin

Proust Questionnaire-Wiki

Thu, 15 Apr 2010 13:01:00 +0900

Proust Questionnaire-Wiki:

What is your favorite word?
What is your least favorite word?
What turns you on?
What turns you off?
What sound or noise do you love?
What sound or noise do you hate?
What is your favorite curse word?
What profession other than your own would you like to attempt?
What profession would you not like to do?
If Heaven exists, what would you like to hear God say when you arrive at the Pearly Gates?

Your favorite qualities in a man.
Your favorite qualities in a woman.
Your chief characteristic
What you appreciate the most in your friends
Your favourite occupation.
Your idea of happiness
Your idea of misery.
If not yourself, who would you be?
Where would you like to live?
Your favorite heroes in fiction.
Your heroes in real life.　Your favorite heroines in real life.
What characters in history do you most dislike.
What I hate the most.
The natural talent I’d like to be gifted with
The reform I admire the most
What is your present state of mind.
For what fault have you most toleration?
Your favorite motto.

What Do You Think?

1. What do you think is the greatest challenge the world faces today?

2. What experience taught you the most important lesson of your life?

3. If you could return to one moment in your life and could do something
differently, what would that be?

4. What one piece of technology that has been created in the last seventy-five years would you not want to do without?

5. If you could “un-invent” one piece of technology that was created in the last seventy-five years, what would it be?

6. What is your definition of success?

7. If you could live in another decade and somewhere else than where you live, when and where would that be?

8. If you could have a conversation with one person, alive or historical, who would that be and what would you want to discuss?

9. What would you like people to say about you after you are gone?

10. What three quotations of humor, inspiration, and wisdom are your favorites?

iApp Hunter: 『Vuze』

Wed, 31 Mar 2010 01:21:42 +0900

iApp Hunter: 『Vuze』

クジラBBC２本まとめ

Tue, 30 Mar 2010 22:16:57 +0900

クジラBBC２本まとめ:

News - Culture clash over Japanese whaling

Whaling words: Into the new：本の紹介

http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/thereporters/richardblack/2010/03/for_as_long_as_i.html

Whaling in Japan: Power, Politics and Diplomacy,

• Whaling is of no real importance to Japan, producing 0.2% of all the meat eaten in the country
• The authorities claim to base their arguments for whaling on science, but in fact invest heavily in emotive messages - for example, that whaling is an integral part of the national culture
• There is no national culture of whaling in Japan; there are local cultures, but there are also local cultures that regard whales as gods, where killing them would be unthinkable
• Successive governments have placed a high priority on ensuring a plentiful supply of fish through diplomacy, often building relationships with developing countries possessing productive coastal waters
• One part of these relationships is backing for Japan’s position in all aspects of international affairs, from supporting its bid for a permanent seat on the UN Security Council to voting with it in the International Whaling Commission
•The industry is perpetuated by the practice of amakudari, where retiring bureaucrats go on to take jobs in businesses that their successors are supposedly regulating
• Japan is a major consumer of all kinds of wildlife, sometimes destructively
• The status quo is helped along by a compliant media, while organisations such as Sea Shepherd also lend a hand by giving the Fisheries Agency ammunition with which to label anti-whaling groups as anti-Japanese

The Power of Words in International Relations: Birth of an Anti-Whaling Discourse.

Google and China評

Mon, 29 Mar 2010 20:15:00 +0900

Google and China評:

The Economist

http://www.economist.com/business-finance/displaystory.cfm?story_id=15760510&source=most_commented

Jeff Jarvis: Google is defending citizens of the net | Media | The Guardian

http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2010/mar/29/jeff-jarvis-google-china

This year at Davos, Google’s chief executive, Eric Schmidt, told an audience of journalists that his company is not a country, does not set laws, and does not have a police force. Yet in its showdown with China, Google is acting as the ambassador for the internet. Well, somebody has to.

Editorial - Google and China - NYTimes.com

Mon, 29 Mar 2010 20:14:45 +0900

Editorial - Google and China - NYTimes.com:

Google and China Google’s decision to stop censoring its search service in China on Monday was a principled and brave move, a belated acknowledgment that Internet companies cannot enable a government’s censorship without becoming a de facto accomplice to repression. We hope that other American companies with operations in China, notably Microsoft and Yahoo, will consider emulating Google’s decision. Yahoo said it supported Google. But soon after Google announced its plan to stop censoring its searches in China in January, Bill Gates of Microsoft told ABC News: “You’ve got to decide: Do you want to obey the laws of the countries you are in, or not? If not, you may not end up doing business there.” Microsoft’s Bing search engine is still censoring results in China. We have no illusions that the Chinese Communist Party will suddenly decide to allow its citizens unfettered access to the Internet through Google’s Hong Kong service, where it was redirecting China-based searchers. Beijing is already reportedly disabling searches and blocking search results on Google’s site. But that is much better than self-censorship, which put Google in the troubling business of stripping out results from searches about politically touchy subjects like China’s occupation of Tibet and the massacre on Tiananmen Square by the Chinese Army. When Google took its search engine into China four years ago, it came under attack from human rights groups. Google countered that it was better for the Chinese to have a censored Google than no Google at all. It took four years for Google to acknowledge the flaws in that reasoning, and it did so only after it discovered an attack on its servers by hackers in China that stole proprietary computer code as well as data about Gmail accounts of human rights activists. Google can afford allowing google.cn to be taken off-line. Analysts say it accounts for 1 percent to 2 percent of Google’s revenue. Like other foreign Internet companies, Google has had trouble growing in China. Its YouTube service, like Facebook and Twitter, is blocked, and it has about only a third of China’s search market, around half the share of the local rival Baidu. Still, the move to challenge the Chinese Communist Party may not come without a cost. China Mobile, the biggest cellular company in the country, was expected to cancel a deal to use Google’s search engine on its home page. China Unicom was thought to have canceled plans to create a telephone based on Google’s Android system. Other measures are likely to come. Google’s departure may have more resonance outside China than within. We don’t know how many of China’s many millions of Internet users will be able to read about this public indictment of China’s use of censorship. But that is preferable to helping maintain the fiction that the Internet in China is the same sort of vehicle for open communication that it is most everywhere else.

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World University Rankings

Asian universities challenge US-UK domination of rankings

当世風アリとキリギリスの物語 イソップ寓話より複雑な現代の世界経済

Mass rally in Japan against US base on Okinawa

Advisers to Pope Benedict XVI 'regret' plan for state visit to UK -Times Online

ST Rich List'09

BBC News - Foreign Office apologises for Pope 'condom' memo

Belgian Catholic bishop admits molesting boy | World news | The Guardian

Catholic bishops express sorrow over abuse scandals

Real life Mr. Big

ラジオ一回£45.

楢崎正剛 - 2NN 2ちゃんねるニュース速報＋ナビ - 2ch News Navigator

選手データ 楢崎 正剛 | 名古屋グランパス公式サイト

楢崎正剛の対談、インタビュー集

John Gray 無神論者トレンド

Proust Questionnaire-Wiki

iApp Hunter: 『Vuze』

クジラBBC２本まとめ

Whaling words: Into the new：本の紹介

Google and China評

Editorial - Google and China - NYTimes.com

当世風アリとキリギリスの物語イソップ寓話より複雑な現代の世界経済

選手データ　楢崎正剛 | 名古屋グランパス公式サイト