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Really great president! You are amazing!!!
2012/07/24
PRESIDENT MUJICA SPEECH IN RIO +20 WITH TEXT OF PROPER ENGLISH TRANSLATION TEXT - YouTube
2012/05/29
ABAニュース 福島の農家支援の有志組織が発足
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記事：福島第一原発事故で農業ができなくなった福島県の生産者を支援しようと、弘前市民の有志の会が発足しました。「福島からの農業者支援サークル」は、福島県から弘前市に移り住んで農業を続けたいという生産者に農地を無料で貸し出し、農作物を会員が共同購入するなどして、被災した農業者の自立をサポートします。まずはコメの生産者が支援の対象で、将来的にはさまざまな農作物にも広げていきたいとしています。支援サークルの問い合わせ先は、０１７２－５５－８７３７です。
2012/05/18
Disco Legend Donna Summer Dead at 63: A Digital Tribute
Disco Legend Donna Summer died early Thursday due to complications from lung cancer.Donna Summer
The five time Grammy winner’s hits include songs such as “Last Dance,” “Hot Stuff,” “Bad Girls,” and “She Works Hard for the Money” and “This Time I Know It’s for Real.”
After Twitter exploded with the news, first reported by TMZ, Summer’s family released the following statement:
Early this morning, we lost Donna Summer Sudano, a woman of many gifts, the greatest being her faith. While we grieve her passing, we are at peace celebrating her extraordinary life and her continued legacy. Words truly can’t express how much we appreciate your prayers and love for our family at this sensitive time.
Neil Portnow, the President and CEO of The Recording Academy, also expressed his condolences:
Five-time Grammy winner Donna Summer had a dynamic voice and unique musical style that helped define the dance music genre in the ’70s. She also was an artist who crossed many musical genres, as evidenced by her Grammy wins in the R&B, rock, inspirational and dance categories. Her talent was a true gift to the music industry, and our thoughts and sympathies are with her family, friends and fans throughout the world during this difficult time.
In tribute, we’ve compiled a Spotify playlist of her songs, as well as a roundup of some YouTube covers of her hits that made us smile.
View As Slideshow »Jamie Lono & The Feel Good Nation - Hot Stuff (Donna Summer Cover)Ariana Grande - Last Dance [Donna Summer cover] (Live)She Works Hard for the Money (Cover)Hot Stuff - Ukulele
Photo courtesy of Harrywad, via Wikimedia Commons
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OMG !
HOT STUFF!!!!!!!!
いや、自分がこんな風に見送る年齢になっちゃったんだなぁ…。
ドナ・サマーが死ぬなんて、考えてもみなかったよ。
2012/05/14
2012/05/01
Zuckerberg's Dinners with Girlfriend Help Spur Life-Saving Facebook Tool | ABC News Blogs - Yahoo!
Zuckerberg's Dinners with Girlfriend Help Spur Life-Saving Facebook Tool (ABC News)Conversations over the dinner table with his med-student girlfriend helped Mark Zuckerberg formulate his latest big idea - harnessing the power of Facebook to help eliminate the critical shortage of organs for patients desperately in need of life-saving transplants.
And it was his friendship with Apple founder Steve Jobs, whose life was extended by years following a liver transplant, in part, that spurred the 27-year-old Facebook founder and CEO to help put that idea into practice.
"Facebook is really about communicating and telling stories… We think that people can really help spread awareness of organ donation and that they want to participate in this to their friends. And that can be a big part of helping solve the crisis that's out there," Zuckerberg told ABC's Robin Roberts in an exclusive interview at the company's headquarters.
Starting today, users in the United States and U.K. will be able to add that they're organ donors to their Timelines, and if they're not organ donors, they can find links to official organ donation registries and instantly enroll. "We want to make it simple," said Zuckerberg. "You just put in the state or country that you're from, so that we can help link you to the official registries."
In the "health and wellness" section of users' timelines, users can list their status as organ donors and explain the decision to their friends, in an effort to raise awareness about the need for donors.
More than 112,000 Americans are awaiting organs, and 18 people die every day from the lack of available organs, according to Donate Life America, a nonprofit alliance that is partnering with Facebook.
Zuckerberg, 27, has made a fortune on the idea that people want to share everything - from photos, to the intimate details of their romantic lives.
Yet, Zuckerberg himself is famously private, keeping details of his personal life - not to mention a much-anticipated Facebook IPO - under tight wraps.
In conversation with Roberts, Zuckerberg kept the door on the IPO tightly shut - citing the government-mandated quiet period before the IPO - and saying only "we try to keep very focused on the long term… We'll be judged by how good the things are that we build and whether people like them."
But he revealed some small details of his personal life, lighting up when talking about the dinnertime chats he had with girlfriend Priscilla Chan that helped lead to the donation initiative.
"She's in medical school now," Zuckerberg said of Chan. "She's going to be a pediatrician, so our dinner conversations are often about Facebook and the kids that she's meeting."
Chan told him stories about patients she meets "getting sicker as they don't have the organ that they need."
But there were other stories too, of children who ultimately received transplants. Stories, Zuckerberg called, "unbelievable."
From Chan he learned of one boy in need of a heart transplant. His skin had turned blue from lack of oxygen, but within weeks of receiving a transplant he was out again playing sports.
"How can that not make you happy," he asked.
Chan inspired Zuckerberg to try to learn Mandarin Chinese in one year. That venture, he admitted, was unsuccessful, but he picked up enough to natter with Chan's elderly grandmother.
Zuckerberg said he was further prompted make Facebook an important tool to encourage donors to register following the death of Steve Jobs, whom he called a "friend."
Though Zuckerberg never talked with Jobs specifically about a Facebook donation tool, he said many of the people involved in the project were inspired after Jobs' death.
"That definitely, I think, was something that we all had in mind as we were building this out… His story is just one of many, of people who both were able to have an organ transplant that made his life longer and he was extremely thankful for that," Zuckerberg said.
Facebook was initially developed by Zuckerberg while still an undergraduate at Harvard. The site was initially conceived as place for college students to socialize.
Recently, however, Zuckerberg said he's been surprised by the power of the network and the way users use its tools creatively in times of crisis, like finding loved-ones following tornadoes in the Midwest or the tsunami in Japan.
"People are using the same social tools that they're using just to keep in touch with people on a day-to-day basis to solve these important issues," he said.
The technology behind the donation application, Zuckerberg said, is a "pretty simple thing." But the ability to link people across hundreds of miles and save their lives? That, he called, "amazing."
Both the company and organ donation advocates are hopeful the new tool could change the landscape of the organ donation process.
I think it's possible that we will see an impact over the next couple of years, where we would imagine eliminating the transplant waiting list," said Dr. Andrew Cameron, Transplant Surgeon at Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine.
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Great job! He was inspired from Steve Jobs and friends.
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