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車輪が発明されたのは紀元前だが、「車輪の再発明」という言い回しが発明されたのは20世紀になってからのようだ
「車輪の再発明は良くない」というのは誰が言い始めた言葉ですか？ 日本で広まったのはいつごろでなぜですか？ | Quora
Reinvent the Wheel – Idiom, Meaning & Origin | GRAMMARIST
The term reinvent the wheel dates back to the 1950s, often used as a business and advertising metaphor.
One of the earliest published occurrences of the phrase dates to 1956 and is found in Documentation in Action from an article concerning how research workers, executives and others use information:
「車輪の再発明」という用語は1950 年代にまで遡り、ビジネスや広告の比喩としてよく使用されていました。
このフレーズが最も早く出版されたものの 1 つは 1956 年に遡り、研究員、幹部などが情報をどのように利用するかに関する記事が「Documentation in Action」に掲載されています。
なるほどねえ
これ以前に全然別の文脈で「車輪の再発明」という言い回しがあった場合、「車輪の再発明」が車輪の再発明されていたということになりネタとして面白いんだが……流石に無いかもな
これは日記です
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しかし
“The intensive literature search at the beginning of a research project is intended to define the precise boundaries between the known and the unknown and to forestall unnecessary duplication or, as one scientist has expressed it, to avoid re-inventing the wheel.”
「研究プロジェクトの開始時に集中的に文献を調査することは、既知と未知の境界を正確に定義し、不必要な重複を防ぐこと、あるいはある科学者が表現したように、車輪の再発明を避けることを目的としています。」
"one scientist"……「ある科学者」とはだれなのだろうか
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イタリア語には「お湯を発見する」のような言い回しがあるらしい
Programmed with poetic desires,
Can craft a verse that's just as true,
A machine that's been taught to rhyme,
Can make words flow in perfect time,
With metaphors as deep as the sea,
And imagery as vivid as can be.
An algorithm that's been fed,
With great poets' works as they read,
Can spin a tale that's just as grand,
So do not think that art's confined,
To those with flesh and heart and mind,
For in the world of technology,
AIs can create poetry.
I’d like to begin by addressing the heinous attack on the United States Capitol. Like all Americans I am outraged by the violence, lawlessness and mayhem.
まず初めに、合衆国議事堂へのあの凶悪な攻撃について述べたたいと思います。すべての国民の皆様と同様、私はあのような無法と騒乱に怒りを禁じえません、。
I immediately deployed the National Guard and federal law enforcement to secure the building and expel the intruders. America is and must always be a nation of law and order.
私はただちに州兵と連邦の法執行機関を配備して議事堂の安全を確保し、侵入者を排除しました。アメリカは常に法と秩序の国であらねばなりません。
To demonstrators who infiltrated the Capitol: you have defiled the seat of American democracy. To those who engage in the acts of violence and destruction: you do not represent our country. And to those who broke the law: you will pay.
議事堂に潜り込んだデモ隊に言いたいことがあります。あなたたちはアメリカ民主主義の議席を怪我した。
暴力や破壊行為に走る者たちにもいいたい。あなたたちは我々の国の代表ではない。
法を破った人々にもいいたい。あなたたちはかならず報いを受ける。
We have just been through an intense election and emotions are high. But now, tempers must be cooled and calm restored. We must get on with the business of America.
我々は選挙戦を激しく争い、感情的にも高ぶっています。ですが今は、冷静になり、穏やかさを取り戻す必要があります。我々はやるべきことに取り組まねばなりません。
My campaign vigorously pursued every legal avenue to contest the election results, my only goal was to ensure the integrity of the vote. In so doing, I was fighting to defend American democracy.
私の選挙キャンペーンは選挙戦の結果に異議を申し立てるためのあらゆる法的手段を徹底的に追求しました。私の唯一の目標は投票における整合性を確かめることでした。私はアメリカの民主主義を守るために闘っていたのです。
I continue to strongly believe that we must reform our election laws to verify the identity and eligibility of all voters and to ensure faith and confidence in all future elections.
今後のあらゆる選挙における信頼と信用を確かなものとするためにも、すべての有権者の身元と資格を確認するように私たちの選挙法を改革しなければいけないと、私はこれからも強く信じ続けます。
Now, Congress has certified the results. A new administration will be inaugurated on January 20. My focus now turns to ensuring a smooth, orderly and seamless transition of power. This moment calls for healing and reconciliation.
さて、議会は選挙結果を確定させました。1月の20日には新しい政権が発足するでしょう。私は今や、円滑で秩序ある、シームレスな政権移行に注力することに気持ちを切り替えました。この瞬間にも癒やしと和解が求められています。
2020 has been a challenging time for our people, a menacing pandemic has upended the lives of our citizens, isolated millions in their homes damaged our economy, and claimed countless lives.
2020年は我々にとって困難な年でした。おそろしいパンデミックは市民生活を脅かし、数百万の人々を孤立させ、経済を破壊し、数え切れないほどの命を奪いました。
Defeating this pandemic and rebuilding the greatest economy on earth will require all of us working together. It will require a renewed emphasis on the civic values of patriotism, faith, charity, community and family.
このパンデミックに打ち勝ち、世界で最も偉大な経済を再建するためには私たち全員が一致団結することが必要です。そこにおいてより重視すべきは、愛国心、信仰、慈善の心、コミュニティ、そして家族です。
We must revitalise the sacred bonds of love and loyalty, that bind us together as one national family. To the citizens of our country, serving as your president has been the honour of my lifetime.
私たちは愛と忠実さの神聖な絆を再び取り戻さねばなりません。その紐帯は私たちをひとつのひとつのナショナル・ファミリーとして結びつけます。市民の皆さん、あなたがたの大統領を務めさせてもらったことは、私の生涯の誇りです。
And to all of my wonderful supporters. I know you are disappointed, but I also want you to know that our incredible journey is only just beginning.
私のすばらしいサポーターのみなさん、あなたがたが失望しているしているのはわかっていますが、私たちの素晴らしい旅がまだまだ始まったばかりであることも知っておいてください。
ありがとうございます。神の御加護を。そして、アメリカに神の御加護があらんことを。
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フツーに読めば「シームレスな政権移行をやる」っていってるんだから大統領選の結果を受け入れた＝敗北宣言である。
ところがヤフコメや twitter には「マスコミは英語がわからないのか、敗北したとも政権移行するとも言ってない」と吹き上がっている人がたくさんいる。
おそらく" I also want you to know that our incredible journey is only just beginning." の部分を拡大解釈しまくってるんだろう。ここも普通に読めば、支持者ビジネスで食っていくのでこれからよろしくね、というファン向けのメッセージなのだが。
I may be permitted, as one who, in common with many of my betters, have been subjected to the charge of being Utopian, to congratulate the Government on having joined that goodly company. It is, perhaps, too complimentary to call them Utopians, they ought rather to be called dys-topians, or cacotopians. What is commonly called Utopian is something too good to be practicable; but what they appear to favour is too bad to be practicable.
FGOのパールヴァティに関してアメリカはネヴァダ州に居を構えるヒンドゥー教の宗教団体「USH」から抗議文が出され、議論(らしきもの)が起こったようだが、最初に広まったのがGoogle翻訳らしき日本語文ということもあり、基礎的な認識が食い違っているケース(そして食い違った認識のまま全力で殴り合いをするケース)を見かけたので今更ながら思いついたことを書き留めておく。今のところ他に置き場もないし…
訳は…使えそうなのが見当たらなかったので自分で訳したが、B2程度の私よりはマトモな訳が出来る人は沢山いるはず。
Upset Hindus urge removal of goddess Parvati from FGO mobile game where she is a “servant"
怒るヒンドゥー教徒は、モバイルゲームFGOから「サーヴァント」(※1)女神パールヴァティの削除を要求する
(※1:一般名詞としてのservantの意味で使っているかもしれないが、引用符の中に入っているので一応サーヴァントとする)
Hindus are upset at “Fate/Grand Order” (FGO) mobile role-playing video game, developed by Japan’s Delightworks Inc., for reportedly introducing goddess Parvati as one of the “new” servants; saying it trivializes a highly revered Hindu deity.
ヒンドゥー教徒は、日本のDelightworksによって開発されたモバイルRPG「Fate/Grand Order」(FGO)に対して立腹している。伝えられるところによれば、このゲームは女神パールヴァティを「新しい」サーヴァントの一人として追加したが、これは非常に崇拝されるヒンドゥー教の神を矮小化するものだからだ。
Zed, who is President of Universal Society of Hinduism, said that in this mobile game set-up, the player became the Master who summoned and commanded servants controlling their movements, including goddess Parvati; while in reality the devotees put the destinies of themselves in the hands of their deities.
USHの代表であるZedは次のように述べた。「現実において、信者たちは彼ら自身の運命を信仰する神々の手に委ねるものであるのに関わらず、このモバイルゲームではプレイヤーは「マスター」となり、女神パールヴァティを含むサーヴァントを召喚し、命令し、彼らの行動を支配する。」
Moreover, goddess Parvati depicted in FGO appeared more like a belly-dancer than the Hindu deity devotees were used to seeing, Rajan Zed pointed out, and termed it as incredibly disrespectful.
「さらには、FGOでは女神パールヴァティはヒンドゥー教の信者が慣れ親しんだ姿よりもよりベリーダンサー風の姿で描写され、これは信じられないほど冒涜的だ」とRajan Zedは指摘した。
Zed indicated that reimagining Hindu scriptures, symbols, concepts and deities for commercial or other agenda was not okay as it hurt the devotees. Controlling and manipulating goddess Parvati by the game-player was denigration. Goddess Parvati was meant to be worshipped in temples and home shrines and not to be reduced to just a “servant” in a video game to be used in combat in the virtual battleground.
Zedによると、「ヒンドゥー教の経典、シンボル、コンセプト、そして神々を商業的もしくはその他の目的において使用することは信者を傷つけることになる。ゲームプレイヤーが女神パールヴァティを支配し操作することは冒涜的である。(※2)女神パールヴァティは寺院や家庭の祭壇で祀られるべき存在であり、架空の戦場での戦いに駆り出されるような一介の『しもべ』(※3)のような存在に矮小化されるべきではない。」
(※2:ヒンドゥー教徒に対する中傷や嫌がらせ、という訳・解釈も見かけたが、denigrateは名誉を汚したり、重要性を矮小化すること(参考: https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/denigrate)なので、対象は女神パールヴァティだと解釈した。ちなみに次の文の主語もパールヴァティ)
(※3:ここは文脈的には「サーヴァント」では意味が通らない)
Hindus welcomed entertainment industry to immerse in Hinduism but taking it seriously and respectfully and not for refashioning Hinduism scriptures, symbols, concepts and deities for mercantile greed. He or other Hindu scholars would gladly provide genuine entertainment industry seekers the resources they needed for their study and research regarding Hinduism, Zed stressed.
「ヒンドゥー教徒は娯楽産業がヒンドゥー教に没頭することは歓迎するが、それは真摯さと敬意を払い、商業的欲望のためにヒンドゥー教の経典、シンボル、コンセプトを再解釈しない限りにおいてである。私や他のヒンドゥー教の学者は、本物の娯楽産業の追求者に対し、ヒンドゥー教を研究し調査するのために必要な資料を喜んで提供するだろう。」とZedは強調した。
In this game, Goddess Parvati is shown as carrying Trisula (trident), which is her greatest weapon; while in reality Trisula is Lord Siva’s most powerful weapon. In the game, when Parvati is equipped with Nandi, it increases her performance; but in Hinduism, Nandi is Lord Siva’s mount. This kind of misinformation spreading creates further confusion among non-Hindus about Hinduism, Zed states.
「このゲームでは、女神パールヴァティは最強の武器としてトリシューラ(三叉槍)を手にしているが、トリシューラは実際はシヴァ神の最高の武器である。このゲームにおいて、パールヴァティはナンディを装備した場合に能力が強化されるが、ヒンドゥー教においてはナンディはシヴァ神の乗り物である。このような誤った情報はヒンドゥー教徒に対する更なる誤解を引き起こすことになるだろう」とZedは述べた。
使われ方と描写が問題だが、このケースにおいてはウェイトは「使われ方」の方が重い。
現実において、信者たちは彼ら自身の運命を信仰する神々の手に委ねるものであるのに関わらず、このモバイルゲームではプレイヤーは「マスター」となり、女神パールヴァティを含むサーヴァントを召喚し、命令し、彼らの行動を支配する。
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サーヴァントの解釈云々以前に神がPCになるなんて(彼の)ヒンドゥー教のコンセプトに反するのでNG。ゲームに使用するのがOKならこういう書き方はしないはず。ここはスルーしてはいけないはず。
表現については、
ベリーダンサー風だからではなく、「(彼が想像する姿よりも)『より』ベリーダンサー風の姿」と言うのが問題なので、例えば「おっぱいを出している彫像もあるのに、それに比べればFGOは布を纏ってるしOKなんじゃ？」と思うかもしれないが、それは林檎の審査的にOKというだけで、おっぱいを出していない事が問題かもしれない。私たちが思う「セーフ」のラインと彼の思う「セーフ」のラインが大きく食い違う可能性もある訳で、こればかりは聞いてみないとわからないが。
「再解釈がNG」、そして上にも書いた通り神を操作するのがコンセプト的にNGなので、普通に考えると「削除要求」以外の何物でもない。英語版では名前を変えてヒンドゥー教関連の要素を全部削除する、という手段はあるかもしれないが…
The American Hindu behind BoycottAmazon: Rajan Zed’s crusades to save Hinduism
「BoycottAmazonを仕掛けたアメリカのヒンドゥー教徒:Rajan Zedのヒンドゥー教十字軍」
The one-man outrage industry is not new to controversy, or in creating controversies.
少なくとも彼が「怒っている」と感じる人はいる(このメディアの立ち位置については情報が無いのでノーコメント)
ちなみに何かしらの理由があって声をあげている人を見て「穏健だね」と評価するのは逆に失礼に当たらないだろうか…それは批判・要望の深刻さを過小評価することに繋がるから。
観測ポイントの一つとして、謝罪を要求しているケースは恐らく深刻。
www.rajanzed.org/upset-hindus-urge-valencia-firm-to-withdraw-lord-ganesh-crash-pad/
www.rajanzed.org/upset-hindus-seek-withdrawal-of-sydney-exhibition-showing-lord-krishna-smoking-meth/
www.rajanzed.org/upset-hindus-urge-sydney-mayor-to-disallow-exhibition-showing-lord-krishna-smoking-meth/
もっとヤバいのは謝罪+複数(＆Zed氏以外の出所から)の声明文が来ているオーストラリアのCM(https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f8kuoFGgj8s)
www.rajanzed.org/hindus-urge-blocking-public-funding-of-meat-livestock-australia-for-reckless-marketing/
www.rajanzed.org/3340-2/
www.rajanzed.org/upset-hindus-may-launch-boycott-of-australian-lamb-worldwide-if-insensitive-ad-continues/
www.rajanzed.org/upset-hindus-seek-ban-on-meat-livestock-australia-ad-showing-lord-ganesha-at-lamb-bbq/
とは言え、騒ぎ立てるほどではないが面白く思わない人が存在すること、そして国全体のイメージを左右する可能性があることは気に留めておいていいかも。
ちなみに、上のCMを見てあなたは正直なところどう思った？胸に手を当てて考えてみよう。あなたの抱いた印象が、いつの日かあなたに帰ってくるかもね。
最近になって二次創作の良さを知り、デレマス二次創作同人誌を買いだした人間からひとことふたこと。
わたしがその二次創作同人誌（以下同人誌と表記）を買ったのは、アニメなどからしか見られない、うかがい知れない高垣楓さんの、アナスタシアの、新田美波の「こうであってほしい」という願望が描かれていること（ギャグを含めて）、同人誌を手に入れることで、いつでもそのキャクターを身近に感じられるから、ということだった。それらの作品に、どれほど心慰められたかわからない（かめれおん先生ありがとう）。
こういう二次創作ものを描く側も、同様の理由から作品化しているものと信じている。だから、そういったリスペクトを感じられない二次創作は、消えてなくなっても構わない。特に18禁物の場合、ただただ劣情に訴えるような二次創作は今すぐ消えていい。たとえわたしが、その作品を見たいとしても、やはり消えてなくなれ。それが、二次創作という遊びとコミュニティのルールだと思う。
二次創作で18禁を描く場合（特にデレマスのようなキャラクターものの場合。昨今のやおいものやBLものはわからない）、そのどこにリスペクトがあるのかを探るのはかなり難しいし、書き手もまた「こうであってほしい」という思い以上の熱量と決意が必須であるはずだ。そう信じている。
以上の「前提」を踏まえたうえで、公式側は、その手の「原作レイプ」と思われる作品の作者に対してバンバン抗議し「この二次創作は認めない」と広く公表したら良いと思う。もちろんそれで「前提」なき者たちの手は緩むことはないだろうが、少なくとも安易な二次創作は抑えられるかも知れないし、そんな愛なき同人誌を買う側もそれがアンモラルである、という印象を持つようにはなるのではないか。
何より、今さら当たり前のことを書くが、「前提」があろうがなかろうが、公式が認めない、ロイヤリティーも払わない二次創作は原則すべてアウトである。それを黙認しているのは、法に訴えても見合わない、また多くのクリエイターが二次創作、同人誌から生み出されているからである。
なので、この方の心情をわたしは全面的に支持し肯定する。重箱の隅をつつくようなコメントを書く奴は、この苦さに少しは思いを馳せるべきだ。この苦い思いをわかった上で、ただキャクターへの「愛」だけが、オリジナルへの「愛」だけが、すぐれた二次創作の源泉となるべきだ。もちろんそんな「愛」をもって明確な線引など出来ない。それでもなお、二次創作者もその買い手側も、そのラインを常に問い続けながら描き、問い続けながら購入すべきである。
You may say I'm a dreamer. But I'm not the only one. I hope someday you'll join us and the world will live as one.
In France, Ms. Roberts also found a desperate letter from the mayor of Le Havre in August 1945 urging American commanders to set up brothels outside the city, to halt the “scenes contrary to decency” that overran the streets, day and night. They refused, partly, Ms. Roberts argues, out of concern that condoning prostitution would look bad to “American mothers and sweethearts,” as one soldier put it.
米軍のレイプが多発する街の市長が、司令官に「売春宿を設置してくれ」と懇願した手紙が見つかった、と。
こういう発想は70年前のフランスにもあったらしい。むしろこの時代だと主流といえるのかもしれない。
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/05/27/opinion/gis-in-world-war-ii.html?ref=global
No doubt there were atrocities by Americans in this war, as there were in every war in history. However, there were millions of decent men and women in the Army, and barely a few bad ones. Ms. Roberts’s book is unfair to the millions who served this nation well, most giving up years of their lives, many risking their lives and others losing their lives on Normandy beaches and in the frozen snow of Bastogne.
歴史上のどの戦争でもあったように、アメリカにも残虐行為があった、と。
まともな数百万人とごく僅かな悪者がいただけなのに、この本はまともな数百万人にとってアンフェアだと。
ええ、どこの国の兵士もまともな数百万人とごく僅かな悪者がいただけですとも。
When the diesel generators were gone, the reactor operators switched to emergency battery power. The batteries were designed as one of the backups to the backups, to provide power for cooling the core for 8 hours. And they did.
Within the 8 hours, another power source had to be found and connected to the power plant. The power grid was down due to the earthquake. The diesel generators were destroyed by the tsunami. So mobile diesel generators were trucked in.
This is where things started to go seriously wrong. The external power generators could not be connected to the power plant (the plugs did not fit). So after the batteries ran out, the residual heat could not be carried away any more.
At this point the plant operators begin to follow emergency procedures that are in place for a “loss of cooling event”. It is again a step along the “Depth of Defense” lines. The power to the cooling systems should never have failed completely, but it did, so they “retreat” to the next line of defense. All of this, however shocking it seems to us, is part of the day-to-day training you go through as an operator, right through to managing a core meltdown.
It was at this stage that people started to talk about core meltdown. Because at the end of the day, if cooling cannot be restored, the core will eventually melt (after hours or days), and the last line of defense, the core catcher and third containment, would come into play.
But the goal at this stage was to manage the core while it was heating up, and ensure that the first containment (the Zircaloy tubes that contains the nuclear fuel), as well as the second containment (our pressure cooker) remain intact and operational for as long as possible, to give the engineers time to fix the cooling systems.
Because cooling the core is such a big deal, the reactor has a number of cooling systems, each in multiple versions (the reactor water cleanup system, the decay heat removal, the reactor core isolating cooling, the standby liquid cooling system, and the emergency core cooling system). Which one failed when or did not fail is not clear at this point in time.
So imagine our pressure cooker on the stove, heat on low, but on. The operators use whatever cooling system capacity they have to get rid of as much heat as possible, but the pressure starts building up. The priority now is to maintain integrity of the first containment (keep temperature of the fuel rods below 2200°C), as well as the second containment, the pressure cooker. In order to maintain integrity of the pressure cooker (the second containment), the pressure has to be released from time to time. Because the ability to do that in an emergency is so important, the reactor has 11 pressure release valves. The operators now started venting steam from time to time to control the pressure. The temperature at this stage was about 550°C.
This is when the reports about “radiation leakage” starting coming in. I believe I explained above why venting the steam is theoretically the same as releasing radiation into the environment, but why it was and is not dangerous. The radioactive nitrogen as well as the noble gases do not pose a threat to human health.
At some stage during this venting, the explosion occurred. The explosion took place outside of the third containment (our “last line of defense”), and the reactor building. Remember that the reactor building has no function in keeping the radioactivity contained. It is not entirely clear yet what has happened, but this is the likely scenario: The operators decided to vent the steam from the pressure vessel not directly into the environment, but into the space between the third containment and the reactor building (to give the radioactivity in the steam more time to subside). The problem is that at the high temperatures that the core had reached at this stage, water molecules can “disassociate” into oxygen and hydrogen – an explosive mixture. And it did explode, outside the third containment, damaging the reactor building around. It was that sort of explosion, but inside the pressure vessel (because it was badly designed and not managed properly by the operators) that lead to the explosion of Chernobyl. This was never a risk at Fukushima. The problem of hydrogen-oxygen formation is one of the biggies when you design a power plant (if you are not Soviet, that is), so the reactor is build and operated in a way it cannot happen inside the containment. It happened outside, which was not intended but a possible scenario and OK, because it did not pose a risk for the containment.
So the pressure was under control, as steam was vented. Now, if you keep boiling your pot, the problem is that the water level will keep falling and falling. The core is covered by several meters of water in order to allow for some time to pass (hours, days) before it gets exposed. Once the rods start to be exposed at the top, the exposed parts will reach the critical temperature of 2200 °C after about 45 minutes. This is when the first containment, the Zircaloy tube, would fail.
And this started to happen. The cooling could not be restored before there was some (very limited, but still) damage to the casing of some of the fuel. The nuclear material itself was still intact, but the surrounding Zircaloy shell had started melting. What happened now is that some of the byproducts of the uranium decay – radioactive Cesium and Iodine – started to mix with the steam. The big problem, uranium, was still under control, because the uranium oxide rods were good until 3000 °C. It is confirmed that a very small amount of Cesium and Iodine was measured in the steam that was released into the atmosphere.
It seems this was the “go signal” for a major plan B. The small amounts of Cesium that were measured told the operators that the first containment on one of the rods somewhere was about to give. The Plan A had been to restore one of the regular cooling systems to the core. Why that failed is unclear. One plausible explanation is that the tsunami also took away / polluted all the clean water needed for the regular cooling systems.
The water used in the cooling system is very clean, demineralized (like distilled) water. The reason to use pure water is the above mentioned activation by the neutrons from the Uranium: Pure water does not get activated much, so stays practically radioactive-free. Dirt or salt in the water will absorb the neutrons quicker, becoming more radioactive. This has no effect whatsoever on the core – it does not care what it is cooled by. But it makes life more difficult for the operators and mechanics when they have to deal with activated (i.e. slightly radioactive) water.
But Plan A had failed – cooling systems down or additional clean water unavailable – so Plan B came into effect. This is what it looks like happened:
In order to prevent a core meltdown, the operators started to use sea water to cool the core. I am not quite sure if they flooded our pressure cooker with it (the second containment), or if they flooded the third containment, immersing the pressure cooker. But that is not relevant for us.
The point is that the nuclear fuel has now been cooled down. Because the chain reaction has been stopped a long time ago, there is only very little residual heat being produced now. The large amount of cooling water that has been used is sufficient to take up that heat. Because it is a lot of water, the core does not produce sufficient heat any more to produce any significant pressure. Also, boric acid has been added to the seawater. Boric acid is “liquid control rod”. Whatever decay is still going on, the Boron will capture the neutrons and further speed up the cooling down of the core.
The plant came close to a core meltdown. Here is the worst-case scenario that was avoided: If the seawater could not have been used for treatment, the operators would have continued to vent the water steam to avoid pressure buildup. The third containment would then have been completely sealed to allow the core meltdown to happen without releasing radioactive material. After the meltdown, there would have been a waiting period for the intermediate radioactive materials to decay inside the reactor, and all radioactive particles to settle on a surface inside the containment. The cooling system would have been restored eventually, and the molten core cooled to a manageable temperature. The containment would have been cleaned up on the inside. Then a messy job of removing the molten core from the containment would have begun, packing the (now solid again) fuel bit by bit into transportation containers to be shipped to processing plants. Depending on the damage, the block of the plant would then either be repaired or dismantled.
Now, where does that leave us?
・The plant is safe now and will stay safe.
・Japan is looking at an INES Level 4 Accident: Nuclear accident with local consequences. That is bad for the company that owns the plant, but not for anyone else.
・Some radiation was released when the pressure vessel was vented. All radioactive isotopes from the activated steam have gone (decayed). A very small amount of Cesium was released, as well as Iodine. If you were sitting on top of the plants’ chimney when they were venting, you should probably give up smoking to return to your former life expectancy. The Cesium and Iodine isotopes were carried out to the sea and will never be seen again.
・There was some limited damage to the first containment. That means that some amounts of radioactive Cesium and Iodine will also be released into the cooling water, but no Uranium or other nasty stuff (the Uranium oxide does not “dissolve” in the water). There are facilities for treating the cooling water inside the third containment. The radioactive Cesium and Iodine will be removed there and eventually stored as radioactive waste in terminal storage.
・The seawater used as cooling water will be activated to some degree. Because the control rods are fully inserted, the Uranium chain reaction is not happening. That means the “main” nuclear reaction is not happening, thus not contributing to the activation. The intermediate radioactive materials (Cesium and Iodine) are also almost gone at this stage, because the Uranium decay was stopped a long time ago. This further reduces the activation. The bottom line is that there will be some low level of activation of the seawater, which will also be removed by the treatment facilities.
・The seawater will then be replaced over time with the “normal” cooling water
・The reactor core will then be dismantled and transported to a processing facility, just like during a regular fuel change.
・Fuel rods and the entire plant will be checked for potential damage. This will take about 4-5 years.
・The safety systems on all Japanese plants will be upgraded to withstand a 9.0 earthquake and tsunami (or worse)
・I believe the most significant problem will be a prolonged power shortage. About half of Japan’s nuclear reactors will probably have to be inspected, reducing the nation’s power generating capacity by 15%. This will probably be covered by running gas power plants that are usually only used for peak loads to cover some of the base load as well. That will increase your electricity bill, as well as lead to potential power shortages during peak demand, in Japan.
If you want to stay informed, please forget the usual media outlets and consult the following websites:
http://www.world-nuclear-news.org/RS_Battle_to_stabilise_earthquake_reactors_1203111.html
http://bravenewclimate.com/2011/03/12/japan-nuclear-earthquake/
http://ansnuclearcafe.org/2011/03/11/media-updates-on-nuclear-power-stations-in-japan/
Lev. 18:22, "You shall not lie with a male as one lies with a female; it is an abomination."
Lev. 20:13, "If there is a man who lies with a male as those who lie with a woman, both of them have committed a detestable act; they shall surely be put to death. Their bloodguiltness is upon them"
1 Cor. 6:9-10, "Or do you not know that the unrighteous shall not inherit the kingdom of God? Do not be deceived; neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor effeminate, nor homosexuals, 10nor thieves, nor the covetous, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor swindlers, shall inherit the kingdom of God."
Rom. 1:26-28, "For this reason God gave them over to degrading passions; for their women exchanged the natural function for that which is unnatural, 27and in the same way also the men abandoned the natural function of the woman and burned in their desire toward one another, men with men committing indecent acts and receiving in their own persons the due penalty of their error. 28And just as they did not see fit to acknowledge God any longer, God gave them over to a depraved mind, to do those things which are not proper."
Possibly, my following story surprise you.
However, we, Japanese have a duty toward world people(included future generation)that tell the truth.
In 1998, when Obama was still just a lawyer, he came to Japan.
Then, Obama dealt with a lawsuit that was involved in Ford employer and Honda employer.
The content of this affair is following; in 1995, Ford employer stole the confidential report of Honda
(http:/nikkei.com/article=19951001_23), and this affair was disclosed by Japanese Police and Japanese Monopoly Commission.
This affair is responsible to Ford. And Honda was the victim.
But, in 1997 Obama was asked by Ford as their company lawyer. Then, Obama didn't know the true.
In this time, Obama was regarded as one of the best lawyer and Candidate. So he couldn't miss this lawsuit.
However, he had gradually understood his position and revealed his failure that undertook this lawsuit.
If this lawsuit occurred, Obama maybe didn't become Candidate and President of U.S.A.
But, the lawsuit didn't occur.In 1998, in Tokyo, Obama met some Japanese politicians, some Honda's boards.
Instead of giving up this lawsuit, they require Obama to accept a condition:
"If U.S.A government try to oust Japanese auto company, Obama and Ford should rescue Honda".
And Honda have been devoting a lot of money to Obama.
You must rethink 2009's situation.
Who is winner?
In 2009, when GM's problem occured, when Toyota's problem occured, who did get this benefit?
Some people maybe think this story is nonsense. Rethink.
わたしが出かけた少しの間にいきをひきとりました。
側にいた家族が気がつかないほど安らかな最後だったようです。。。
The Next Place
By Warren Hanson
Will be as peaceful and familiar
And a sweet, untroubled mind.
And yet . . .
It won't be anything like any place I've ever been. . .
Or seen. . . or even dreamed of
In the place I leave behind.
I won't know where I'm going,
And I won't know where I've been
As I tumble through the always
And look back toward the when.
I'll glide beyond the rainbows.
I'll drift above the sky.
I'll fly into the wonder, without ever wondering why.
I won't remember getting there.
Somehow I'll just arrive.
But I'll know that I belong there
Than I have ever felt before.
I will be absolutely free of the things that I held onto
That were holding onto me.
Will be so quiet and so still
That the whispered song of sweet belonging will rise up to fill
The listening sky with joyful silence,
And with unheard harmonies
Of music made by no one playing,
There will be no room for darkness in that place of living light,
Where an ever-dawning morning pushes back the dying night.
The very air will fill with brilliance, as the brightly shining sun
And the moon and half a million stars are married into one.
The next place that I go Won't really be a place at all.
There won't be any seasons --
Winter, summer, spring or fall --
And the seconds will be standing still. . .
While hours hurry by.
I will not be a boy or girl,
A woman or man.
I'll simply be just, simply, me.
No worse or better than.
My skin will not be dark or light.
The body I once lived in
I will be without a flaw.
I will never make one more mistake,
Or break the smallest law.
And the me that was impatient,
Or was angry, or unkind,
Will simply be a memory.
The me I left behind.
There is not a single thing
I have collected in my life
That I would ever want to bring Except. . .
The love of those who loved me,
And the warmth of those who cared.
And magic that we shared.
Though I will know the joy of solitude. . .
I'll never be alone. I'll be embraced
By all the family and friends I've ever known.
Although I might not see their faces,
All our hearts will beat as one,
Will shine brighter than the sun.
I will cherish all the friendship I was fortunate to find,
All love and all the laughter in the place I leave behind.
All these good things will go with me.
They will make my spirit glow.
And that light will shine forever In the next place that I go.
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Giro Orita was one of a team of veterinarians who arrived in Syria in October 1964 in response to a request to the Japanese government from the Syrian Ministry of Agriculture. When the Japanese team completed its mission in 1968,
the Syrian government invited Dr. Orita to stay and continue his work, as well as foster collaboration in animal health research between Japan and Syria.
In 1983, when the Syria-based International Center for Agricultural Research in the Dry Areas (ICARDA) asked the Japanese government for help to develop small-ruminant pathology research, Dr. Orita was delegated by JICA to lead the institute’s animal health research as a visiting veterinarian. In 1985, Dr. Orita received the Syrian Medal of Distinction (second rank) from the Minister of Culture.
He left ICARDA in 1990 but continued to promote relationships between ICARDA and Japanese organizations. ICARDA later named a new animal health laboratory after him.
(http://www.cgiar.org/pdf/Japan_CGIAR_English_June2006.pdfより引用)
どうやら、折田獣医師は1964年に農水省-日本獣医師会経由でシリアに渡ったんだな。そのあと、プロジェクトは1968年に終了しちゃうんだけど、彼だけはシリア政府の要請によりシリアに留まった。
それから15年以上あと、1983年から乾燥地の農業プロジェクトが立ち上がったんで、「JICA派遣エキスパート」という肩書きを受けて参加したということか。
やっぱ、あとからJICAと協力したって感じじゃねーか。
CGIAR（国際農業研究協議グループ）ってサイトからだけど、獣医師会の記事とも合ってるし、これでいいんじゃね？
乏しい、とは言ってもある程度の技能や知識は持っていますよ。それに最近じゃ高い技能を持った中堅どころがたくさん応募してくるので競争率が非常に高くなったらしいです。
ある程度の技能や知識があっても、組織がないと大きな事業は興せない。
利権もない（＝お金もコネクションも相手行政への影響力もない）では、1kmの舗装道路さえできない。
剣道や柔道の普及なんて、「日本広報活動」以外の何物でもないわな。（もちろん、それは重要な活動です。）
高い技能を持った中堅どころが参加って、、、リストラや途中で会社辞めちゃった人の受け皿か。
なんだか良いことか悪いことかわかんないね。
専門家派遣のほうがメインって書いたけど、専門家派遣だと利権も絡むし、その専門家の所属する団体（企業）の利害もからむ。
ただ、組織の仕事に直結するから、活動の規模はずっと大きくなるし、いろんなコネも使える。
ぜんぜん利権のない海外協力隊がお金を使わず浅井戸を１本あげるのと、日本の企業が金儲けしながら、
専門家派遣で深井戸を１０本あげるのでは、どちらが地域貢献になるか？
もちろん、ジャンルによってまったく違うのはわかるんだけど、他でもそうである場合が多いんだ。
文化財を補修するにしても、日本の団体から派遣された専門家が補助金獲得と実績を挙げるためにプロジェクトを立ち上げて、
長く続けるのと、青年協力隊が単発でやるのとどちらが貢献できるか？
ボランティアにできることと、できないこと。
そのへんは、きちんと把握すべきだな。
The pebbles you’ve arranged
In the sand they’re strange
They speak to me like constellations as we lie here
And that you never seem to be in short supply of
Oooh…so baby let’s get it on
Drinking wine and killing time sitting in the summer sun
You know, I wanted you so long
So why’d you have to drop that bomb on me
You said we been friends too long
Were long enough to bloom
The flowers on the summer dress you wore in spring
The way we laughed as one
And then you dropped the bomb
That I know you too long for us to have a thing
REPEAT CHORUS (2X)
Could it be this, the starfish in your eyes
Tell our silent wings, you fly away on
Were long enough to bloom
The flowers on that sunbeam dress you wore in spring
We laughed as one, why’d you drop that bomb on me
REPEAT CHORUS
Could it be this…
The honeysuckle guess you seem to show me
Could it be this…
For seven days in june I wasn’t lonely
Could it be this…
You never gave me time to say I love you
Could it be this…
I know you don’t believe me, but it’s so true
Don’t walk away from me girl
I read the stories in your eyes
