https://ameblo.jp/cgsty439/ ブログの説明を入力します。 ja とても親切で若い先生だった。
４人クラスで、皆ニコニコで親切な方々だた。
ちょっとホッとした。

皆がなぜ着物の着付け教室を通いたい理由を語ってほしいとのことで、

忘れかけてたことを思い出した。
おそらく、小学校の時読んだ漫画、
大和和紀先生のヨコハマ物語、NY小町の着物に憧れてただろう。

漫画ってすごいですね。やはり漫画を通じ、
世の中に日本の文化が伝わった重要なツールの１つ。
これは誰も否定出来ない事実だね。

おばあちゃんが日帝時代のとき、
着物をきて、学校に通ってたとの話を聞いた。
血縁だろうか。

日帝時代のことをもっともっとおばあちゃんに聞きたかったが、
辛い記憶もたくさんあっただろうから聞きたくても聞けなかったの。
戦時中なので、私が想像するような綺麗な着物じゃないだろうね。

柄の綺麗な着物に夢中になった。
今は５着買ってしまった。
桐たんすはこれから届く。
ちょっとお金かけすぎた。
ちょっとずつだが、好きなものを集めていこう。
たくさん着てみよう！
たくさん着物で出掛けよう！
]]> https://ameblo.jp/cgsty439/entry-12001849819.html Sun, 15 Mar 2015 15:58:49 +0900
偶然に通りかかった着物リサイクルショップ。

大正ロマンのようなかわいいをつい着物買ってしまった・・・

着付け教室を探さないと、いろいろ難しそう。

物販の教室もあったりみたい。

いい教室に出会えるように！！

とりあえず資料集めてるところ。

着物図書館：
http://booklog.jp/users/kimonoseikatsu?display=spine&category_id=191838&status=0&rank=0&sort=sort_desc ]]> https://ameblo.jp/cgsty439/entry-11991673406.html Wed, 18 Feb 2015 23:10:57 +0900 http://foreignpolicy.com/2015/02/04/closing-a-vital-window-into-china-press-freedom-hong-kong/

Feb. 1, Hong Kong’s democracy advocates returned to the streets, mobilizing thousands of people for a new round of marches and protests to remind their own government and Beijing that their demands for open elections have not been forgotten. While the crowds were far smaller than those that occupied the island city for 11 weeks last fall, the sense of enthusiasm and momentum that grabbed headlines is not dead. “We want to sustain the momentum,” student leader Joshua Wong said at the recent protest.

But while the activists are busy planning their next political moves, Beijing and its proxy, the government of Hong Kong Chief Executive C.Y. Leung, are hardly sitting still. While Beijing seems to realize that a harsh smackdown could backfire, underneath the surface lurk signs that Hong Kong’s cherished liberty may be subtly eroding.

Hong Kong has long been a bastion of press freedom. Hong Kong’s Basic Law, the island’s constitution, guarantees freedom “of speech, of the press and of publication.” And the 1984 agreement governing Hong Kong’s 1997 handover from the United Kingdom to China likewise guaranteed that press freedom would be protected. Hong Kong offers a vital portal for coverage of its mammoth neighbor to the north, a vantage point that becomes more important as China’s economy and global influence grow. Correspondents based in Hong Kong have long worried about the dangers of reporting in the region and the challenges of covering China, a sometimes maddeningly opaque nation.

But now, Hong Kong’s press corps are becoming increasingly concerned about the treatment of reporters in the city they have always considered a safe harbor from the wider region’s woes. Encroachments on press freedom in Hong Kong center not on foreign journalists, but on the vibrant and diverse local press corps. Beijing seems increasingly focused on controlling messages directed toward the people of Hong Kong and punishing those who get in the way.

Compared to the detentions, arrests, cruel sentences, and pervasive censorship on the mainland, Beijing’s shadowy interferences with press freedom in Hong Kong look almost subtle. Yet the recent interference — ranging from attacks to threats to secret directives to commercial pressure — risks steadily reshaping Hong Kong’s freewheeling media landscape in Beijing’s image.

A May 2014 report by the local organization the Hong Kong Journalists Association (HKJA) reported that Hong Kong’s press corps worries about self-censorship more than any other issue. HKJA recounted incidents of editors delaying stories on the anniversary of the June 4, 1989, Tiananmen Square massacre and banning coverage of government corruption. The report cited 2014 as the darkest year “for press freedom for several decades, with the media coming under relentless assault.”

Hong Kong has seen a rapid jump in the number of violent attacks on members of the media, including 17 cases of assaults on journalists between June 2012 and June 2014.Hong Kong has seen a rapid jump in the number of violent attacks on members of the media, including 17 cases of assaults on journalists between June 2012 and June 2014. Prior to that, according to the HKJA, “Hong Kong has been off the radar for such incidents for more than 15 years.” Perhaps the most high profile was the February 2014 stabbing of highly regarded Hong Kong journalist and editor Kevin Lau. The stabbing — which put him out of work for months — was probably in retaliation to a series of hard-hitting exposes about Chinese dissidents and government corruption that he oversaw at the respected Hong Kong newspaper Ming Pao.

A second high-profile victim of physical attacks is media entrepreneur Jimmy Lai, an open critic of the Beijing government who owns a media company, Next Media, and a top Hong Kong newspaper, Apple Daily. His publications have long been banned on the mainland, but until recently he enjoyed a mostly free hand in Hong Kong. That ended in 2013, when a man rammed a stolen car through the gate of his home. In November, two men pelted Lai in public with rotten meat. On Jan. 12, 2015, a masked man threw a petrol bomb at Lai’s residence; that same day, masked assailants threw petrol bombs outside of his company’s headquarters.

While Lau and Lai are the highest-profile victims, they aren’t alone. In March 2014, four men carrying metal pipes beat two media executives in a public area outside the Hong Kong Science Museum. Attacks have also targeted photographers, editors, a cameraman, and reporters. The only two known convictions in recent cases of assaults have yielded fines of approximately $125 and no jail time, leading Francis Moriarty, a 25-year veteran of Hong Kong’s foreign press corps, to conclude that “it’s open season on journalists.”

The Occupy Hong Kong movement only seemed to make the environment worse. The Hong Kong Journalists Association documented 24 alleged attacks on journalists during late September and October, the first month of the Occupy protests, including multiple incidents of reporters and camera operators being kicked and punched. In some cases Hong Kong police curtailed reporters’ movements with pepper spray and aggressive physical force.

The attacks were not only violent. Apple Daily experienced a series of sustained cyberattacks as its website provided favorable coverage of Occupy Central. As the protests wore on, throngs of anti-Occupy picketers surrounded Apple Daily’s offices, thwarting delivery of the newspapers. The agitators ignored a court injunction, forcing the company to hire a crane to lift bundles of papers over the protesters’ heads. After police finally cleared the blockade in late October, masked men poured barrels of soy sauce over thousands of papers awaiting distribution.

And infringements on free expression in Hong Kong are occurring not just on the streets, but in boardrooms and newsrooms across the city. The Hong Kong Economics Journal, Ming Pao, and the Commercial Radio station, all media properties known for their independence, have each removed or demoted editors over the past 18 months — moves widely seen as having been nudged by Beijing. The economics journal reportedly received complaint letters from both Hong Kong’s chief executive and Beijing-based officials before appointing a new editor with a reputation for deference to government authority, spiking stories alleging a pro-government bias in the media bias, and warning longtime contributors to stay away from political subjects.

In November 2013, Commercial Radio transferred its outspoken morning show host, Li Wei-ling to a less prominent evening program, reportedly out of concerns that the station’s license might not be renewed. “I feel an unprecedented sense of crisis and pressure engulfing not just Commercial Radio, but the whole media industry in Hong Kong,” Li told the South China Morning Post. In February 2014 she was fired.

Yet another form of pressure on Hong Kong’s media sector is financial. In June 2014 the international banking giants HSBC and Standard Chartered pulled advertising contracts with Lai’s Apple Daily. A spokesman for Lai reported that HSBC told him the bank’s decision followed a directive from the Beijing government’s liaison office in Hong Kong. Smaller dailies and websites are also reportedly coming under pressure from advertisers with close ties to the mainland. Smaller dailies and websites are also reportedly coming under pressure from advertisers with close ties to the mainland.

Contemplating Beijing’s extraordinary feat in controlling the flow of information and ideas to 1.3 billion people on the mainland, it is hard to hold out much hope of Hong Kong being able to withstand the pressure and maintain its traditions now that Beijing seems to be closing in. But the island’s continued importance as a financial center and gateway for international investment in the mainland mean that leverage — political, economic, and popular — may have much greater influence in Hong Kong than in mainland China. NGOs, governments, international corporations, and multilateral bodies should use their leverage to defend media freedom in Hong Kong and expose its erosion. If they do not, a vital window into China will slam shut, in the process cutting off the flow of air and ideas among Hong Kong’s 7.2 million people.

Lam Yik Fei/Getty Images ]]> https://ameblo.jp/cgsty439/entry-11986589869.html Fri, 06 Feb 2015 22:07:16 +0900 http://www.marketwatch.com/story/market-for-outsourced-translation-and-interpreting-services-and-technology-to-surpass-us37-billion-in-2014-2014-07-01

Market for Outsourced Translation and Interpreting Services and Technology to Surpass US$37 Billion in 2014

Published: July 1, 2014 8:30 a.m. ET

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Independent market research firm Common Sense Advisory releases 10th annual ranking of largest language services providers based on 2013 revenues.

BOSTON, July 1, 2014 /PRNewswire/ -- The global market for outsourced language services and technology will surpass US$37.19 billion in 2014, according to a study by independent market research firm Common Sense Advisory. In its 10th annual global industry research report, "Language Services Market: 2014," the firm details the findings of its comprehensive study.

Photo - http://photos.prnewswire.com/prnh/20140630/123194

CSA Research found that the demand for language services continues, and is growing at an annual rate of 6.23%. As part of the study, the firm surveyed language service providers from every continent to collect actual reported revenue for 2012, 2013, and expected revenue for 2014. It found that although the market continues to expand—the current growth rate of 6.23% represents an increase over last year's rate of 5.13%—it is less than 12.17% CAGR in 2012.

"Language service providers in most regions of the world reported steady growth during calendar year 2013," explained Don DePalma, Common Sense Advisory's founder and Chief Strategy Officer. "However, we contend that the era of double-digit growth in language services is over, due to several factors, including exchange rates, global competition, and an increase in the use of translation technology. The good news is that the market continues to grow, just not as much as it once did."

Included in the report are the largest language services providers globally, as well as by region. The five highest-ranked companies on the list of the largest 100 language services companies, listed according to 2013 revenues, are: Lionbridge Technologies (US), Hewlett-Packard's Application and Content Globalization group (FR), TransPerfect (US), LanguageLine (US), and SDL (UK). Two of these are publicly traded companies—Lionbridge and SDL. The Hewlett-Packard group is a division of Hewlett-Packard Company.

Additional tables and charts within the report include:

Current market size estimates for the language services industry along with a detailed description of the research methodology
Critical benchmarks for LSP financial performance, including average revenue per employee
Regional rankings of the largest translation and interpreting companies in Africa, Asia, Eastern Europe, Latin America, Oceania, North America, Northern Europe, Southern Europe, and Western Europe
Reporting on the fastest-growing services in the industry, such as translation, website globalization, software localization, and on-site interpreting
Breakdown of the market revealing market size estimates for on-site interpreting, translation technology, machine translation post-editing, video interpreting, mobile and game localization, and other services
Adds Vijayalaxmi Hegde, Director of Research Operations at Common Sense Advisory and report analyst, "The market for outsourced language services and supporting technology is immensely important to the organizations and individuals that produce or consume information. We predict that the industry will continue to grow and that the market will increase to US$47 billion by 2018."

The list of the 100 largest language services providers based on revenue for 2013 is available here. The full report is available as part of the firm's research membership.

About Common Sense Advisory

Common Sense Advisory is an independent market research company helping companies profitably grow their international businesses and gain access to new markets and new customers. Its focus is on assisting its clients to operationalize, benchmark, optimize, and innovate industry best practices in translation, localization, interpreting, globalization, and internationalization. http://www.commonsenseadvisory.com

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Media contact:Melissa C. Gillespie, Email, +1 760-522-4362

SOURCE Common Sense Advisory

Copyright (C) 2014 PR Newswire. All rights reserved ]]> https://ameblo.jp/cgsty439/entry-11984943939.html Mon, 02 Feb 2015 23:59:46 +0900 http://edition.cnn.com/videos/tv/2015/02/01/sotu-dana-bash-mike-huckabee-bubbleville-vs-bubbaville.cnn/video/playlists/most-popular-domestic/

文章はこちらからhttps://www.commonwealmagazine.org/blog/mike-huckabee-bard-bubba-ville


“It is trying on liberals in Dilton,” reads the first line of Flannery O’Connor’s story “The Barber,” which could with tweaking aptly apply to the unfolding 2016 presidential campaign season for those maybe uninclined to vote for one of the score or so of potential Republican candidates. The GOP’s field of declared and undeclared are riding the usual hobby horses--Obamacare, “big government,” Obamacare, public schools, moral collapse, Obamacare—with some already honing their grievances into slogans, sound bites, and hashtags. Does “Bubble-ville vs. Bubba-ville” work for you?

Best-selling author Mike Huckabee thinks it will. Well, maybe not for you, but hopefully for the fractious choir he’s preaching to with his newest book, God, Guns, Grits and Gravy. “Bubble-ville” describes the population of Americans associated with the iniquitous and elite “nerve centers” of Los Angeles, New York, and Washington, D.C.; “Bubba-ville,” everywhere else—“the flyover country” that “more often than not votes red instead of blue, roots for the Cowboys in the NFL and the Cardinals in the National League, and has three or more bibles in every house.” (The characterization invites debate, but, to use a construction for which Huckabee shows fondness: I digress.)

GGG&G, in short, makes use of a simple construct to capitalize on resentments by reaffirming the preconceptions and prejudices of its intended audience. Neither polemic nor screed, it’s mainly a book-length unspooling of commentary that’s also needlessly broken into chapters, though if it weren’t, then readers would be deprived of nominally edifying (if not necessarily organizing) headings like “The New American Outcasts: People Who Put Faith and Family First” and “Bend Over and Take It Like a Prisoner!” (this following one bemoaning “The Culture of Crude”). His musings are at times entertainingly wrought. In places he risks naughty ethno-religious offense: “I can see the look of horror on the faces of friends of mine who have spent their lives in New York City when I talk about owning a wide variety of firearms: It’s the look one would get announcing in a synagogue that one owns a bacon factory” (it’s an image he uses more than once). In places he’s more plainly insulting, as when contending that Beyoncé is unwittingly allowing herself to be pimped out by her husband, Jay-Z. Sometimes he’s hilarious:

It’s infuriating to be lectured about how you are destroying the planet when the one accusing you is an environmental pressure group attorney who lives in a Manhattan town house, whose bare feet haven’t touched grass since he dropped his joint in college, and whose idea of getting close to nature is to let the nanny use the Prius to take the kids to Central Park.

(Come on—no one drives to Central Park!).

He’s also a man with a seemingly limitless store of pop cultural references guaranteed to ingratiate himself with certain voters, from TV’s MacGyver and Captain Kirk to TV’s Perry Mason, "The Beverly Hillbillies," and "Leave it to Beaver," and even TV’s Emily Litella (“of the original Saturday Night Live”). He’s proud of the spacious new home he’s built on the Florida Panhandle, of the smartphones and tablets he’s acquired and apps he knows how to use, of all the frequent flyer miles he’s racked up: “I reach Delta’s Diamond Medallion status (highest level of frequent flyer) by April or May of most years.” And in places he’s unintentionally self-revealing, as when writing about the scourge of political correctness:

Being offended is a full-time job … It’s a tedious task, for it requires enormous amounts of imagination and creativity, relentless pursuit of an audience willing to swallow the notion of the offense, and then a never-let-go nursing of the manufactured hurt until the protagonist actually begins to believe his or her own grievance.

Mostly, though, Huckabee is like that rarely seen uncle who at Christmastime writes the family-newsletter-cum-rant, laboring to demonstrate he’s still with it (sometimes too hard, as in a perhaps good-faith but sadly uninformed attempt to name-check seminal New York rap group Public Enemy), while passing along anecdotes and tidbits of suspicious-sounding data picked up from Fox News. Except Huckabee until recently really was a star on Fox News, and like that uncle or star on Fox News, he saves a lot of his fire for New York City, cloaking complaints about its crowds, crime, and “trashy women” in the familiar rhetoric of those who refuse to let ignorance be an impediment to pronouncement: “Now I like New York, but…” or “New York is a lively and exciting city, but….”

Nothing new there, and it goes both ways—otherwise, no book. The dynamic had already been established when H.L. Mencken was writing on the candidacy of Al Smith nearly ninety years ago:

For years New York City has been sliding away from the rest of the country, and today it is almost as much foreign soil as Paris or Warsaw. In ideas as in manners it is the complete antithesis of the Middle West, the West, and the South. What Kansas or Tennessee or Utah venerates, New York laughs at. What New York esteems is diabolical to Kansas, Tennessee, and Utah. This split, it seems to me, has been productive of much good. It has made New York a refuge for civilized Americans, and so saved them to the country. But it has also made the typical New Yorker the narrowest of provincials.

I’d take issue with the last. In my perhaps generous reading of Huckabee I’ll summon the generosity of O’Connor, whose writing, as Leonard Mayhew said in Commonweal in 1964, was “profoundly marked” with sympathy for the "evangelism of the rural South…. [T]he religious mentality of the freewheeling preachers [Huckabee is an ordained Southern Baptist minister] and self-anointed prophets contained for her a kind of truncated sacramentalism…. O’Connor saw the people of this mentality as spiritual émigrés of the Old Testament, furiously digging and searching for real and operative sacraments. The outward signs they have at hand are recalcitrant and must be forced to reveal the salvation they contain.”

Huckabee will not be president or the GOP nominee. But he'll remain with us, in some form or another, well past the day this book is forgotten.

Topics: ]]> https://ameblo.jp/cgsty439/entry-11984941873.html Mon, 02 Feb 2015 23:53:52 +0900 習い事：

着物教室通いたい、

茶道教室通いたい、

書道教室通いたい、

映画をたくさんみたい、

下高井戸シネマや水曜日の割引デーを利用しよう、




旅行：

白川郷へいきたい

屋久島へいきたい

ローマへ行きたい

トルコへいきたい

エジプトへいきたい



]]> https://ameblo.jp/cgsty439/entry-11984884621.html Mon, 02 Feb 2015 22:06:33 +0900
人間の命はなんて脆いだろうと実感した。

やりたいことを今のうちにやっておかないと、

いつ死んでしまうかわからない・・・



2011年の秋、大阪在住の姉（もちろん、同じく台湾人）と一緒に

フランスへ旅行することに決まった。

二人共英語は旅行程度は問題ないが、

フランスは英語が通じない国とのイメージが強く、

やはり念の為にちょっとでもフランス語を勉強しておこうと決めた。

が、結局姉は家庭や仕事が忙しいとの言い訳で投げ出した・・・

それがフランス語を始めたきっかけ。



昔から政治、経済、歴史には全く興味がなく、

中学校から、英語の成績がよく、

おしゃべりのお陰で語学に向いてるかもと思ってる。


・母国語で、北京語（つまり中国語、普通話）、台湾語、

・中学～大学まで英語を副専攻、

・大学～日本語を専攻。

・33歳の2011年4月からフランス語を。



最初の２年間ちゃんと日仏学院を通いながら、勉強してた。

仕事が忙しかったから、正直真面目な生徒ではなかった。

それでも毎週フランス語漬けの環境に３時間もいれば、

意外とちょっとだけ聞き取れたりできたものですね。

もちろん、英語よりずっと難しいけどね。


2年間で40万円近く使ってしまったと気付き、

上のレベルへいくことに連れ、難しくなっていった。

モチベーションがどんどん下がってしまい、

つい学校へいくのもストレスになり、

最後2013年9月、パリへの旅行を終止符とし、

フランス語学校に通うのをやめることにした。


2015年内、B1の試験を受ける目標に決めた。
http://www.delfdalf.jp/calendrier_jp.htm

まだ秋の予定出てないが、受けたい！

受けたい！合格したい！！！

ここで宣言する！！ ]]> https://ameblo.jp/cgsty439/entry-11984863221.html Mon, 02 Feb 2015 21:24:40 +0900 あっという間に、ヴァイオリンを始めて約半年。

大人になってから始めたので、どうして骨が固く、
指が短い分、余計に苦労してた

指も手首の使い方もまだまだだが、
なんとかA線、D線はできるようになったかな。
これからG線にはいるところ。

音楽と無縁な生活を暮らしてきた私には、
楽譜を読むことが一苦労。
今でもまだ読み間違えたりする。

習い事は決して楽しいことばかりではないが、
自分がやりたいと決めたので、やはり大変でも
頑張って続けていくしかないね

※篠崎ヴァイオリン教本１
]]> https://ameblo.jp/cgsty439/entry-11984095671.html Sun, 01 Feb 2015 00:16:57 +0900 36歳、2014年6月24日ヴァイオリンを始めました。

子供の時、ピアノ習いたかったが、
当時両親は共働きしてたにもかかわらず、
経済状況は許されないとわかってた。

最近人生をもっと楽しもうと思い、
なんとかうまく仕事の合間を利用し、
フランス語、合気道等の習い事をしてきた。

次は音楽だと思って、ピアノかヴァイオリンか悩んでた末、
会長の娘さんがヴァイオリンの先生で、
会社のビルの４階でヴァイオリン教室を設けてある。
彼女は私より1個上で、すでに子持ち、家庭持ちなので、
今ヴァイオリンのレッスンは月１のペースになった。

これくらいゆっくりのペースは仕事の忙しい私には合ってる！
レッスン代も安く済ませるし、月一回だけ仕事の合間を利用し、
１時間のレッスンを受けることになった。

つい、36歳にずっと夢見てきた音楽を習うことを始めた・・・。
]]> https://ameblo.jp/cgsty439/entry-11984068156.html Tue, 24 Jun 2014 23:18:16 +0900