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インドネシアから来ましたケルビンと申します。来日してからもう２年目に入りました。僕が日本に留学決めた理由はノビタでした。アニメを見て一目ぼれしました。それ以来日本の文化にすごく興味を持ち、ぜひ日本の文化を学びたいと思っていましたから。日本に留学ことにしました。日本人は僕と同じようにインドネシアに興味を持っているため、この度インドネシアについて話させていただきたいと思います。インドネシア共和国は東南アジア南部の国家です。首都はジャワ島に位置するジャカルタというところです。インドネシアは世界最多の島嶼を抱える国です。大体1万7千5百島が並んでいて、世界最大の島国にとしてもよく言われています。また2億2千万人が住んでいて現在世界第4位の人口を持っています。 私の生まれた所はジャカルタでなく、スラバヤという都市です。スラバヤはインドネシア第2の都市であり、東ジャワ州の州都です。天然の良港タンジュン・ぺラック港を中心にインドネシア最大の港湾で、最大の軍港です。砂糖、煙草、コーヒーなどを輸出します。スラバヤ市民にとって勇者の町です。歴史からみるとスラバヤでは大きい戦争があって、インドネシアがオランダとイギリスからの独立するためにスラバヤ市民が戦いました。その戦争の中でスラバヤ市民の一番有名な武器は竹やり。スラバヤ市民が作った従来の武器です。彼らはその武器を使ってイギリスの勇士と戦っていました。インドネシア人にとって彼らは実の勇者です。 またスラバヤではいろいろなインドネシア料理もあり、サテを始めナシゴレンやサンバルなどその中にあります。インドネシア料理はちょっと辛い味がしますから日本人の口には合わないかもしれませんが、僕は子供の頃からその食べ物を食べて育ってきたのでおいしいと思います。ぜひチャンスがあったら食べてみてください。 現在、スラバヤは高知県の高知市と関係があり、1997年4月17日から姉妹都市として提携しました。姉妹都市は何かというと市民の文化交流や親善を目的とする都市間の結びつき、友好都市や親善都市とも言います。こういう交流があるからこそインドネシアと日本の関係が深まり、文化やら政治やら技術の交換が可能になります。市民にとってもとても良い経験になるだろう。 この作文を通じて日本人のみんなさんとインドネシア人のみんなさんをよりよい関係になるようと願っております。 以上です ケルビン
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Yesterday I had the chance to check out a new laptop from Dell. With its crisp screen, ultra-thin profile, and cutting edge specs like an SSD hard drive, it’s certainly a looker, yet there’s nothing immediately obvious about the machine — part of Dell’s business-class Latitude line — that makes it unique. But there’s a rare first secreted within the Latitude Z: Its battery can be charged wirelessly, without plugging it in.
The system works a lot like your electric toothbrush. A special dock (available as a $200 option) has a coil of wire inside that matches up with a coil on the bottom of the Latitude Z. When the two coils come in contact, power is transferred over that small distance through induction. Dell says it is no slower to charge this way than through plug-in power (a standard plug is also available when you’re on the road and away from the dock). Getting the laptop situated just-so on the dock so that the two coils are in contact didn’t seem as easy as it should be, but overall I found the innovation to be decisively cool.
The Latitude Z has other enhancements in its innards, though none as exciting as the wireless charging feature. Dell has long included smart card slots in its corporate-class machine, but an option with the Z lets users simply swipe the card across the palm rest to log in. Dell also uses a separate processor on its own motherboard to give the Z a non-Windows, instant-on mode to give quick access to a web browser, email, contacts, and calendars. Dell says use of the low-power quick-boot mode could provide battery life of half a day or more.
Then there’s a wireless docking system — separate from the wireless charging option — that lets you connect to USB devices and an external monitor without plugging the computer in. An implementation of long-suffering UWB technology, Dell demonstrated the computer using a secondary monitor connected to the dock, the screen smoothly updating as a company rep walked around the room with the laptop in hand, unconnected to the monitor by wire. It’s probably less useful than some of the machine’s other innovations (the range of the wireless dock is only 12 feet), but still very cool.
The Latitude Z starts at $1,999 (on sale for $1.799 at the moment) and goes on sale today. Expensive to be sure, and possibly only in reach of the most “C” of C-level executives.
source : yahoo
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well,, im trying to post this in english…. (i need to improve my english i guess….TT)
hmm,, its been one an a half years since i came to japan,, lot of things changed and happened….
but what i want to share is my experience when im doing part time job….
i worked at KFC hatsudai-ten (tokyo) from august 2008 untill february 2009
met a lot of friends (either japanese, korean, chinese even india^^)
it was raining when i supposed to take my first part time job interview…
i didn’t bring umbrella,, so i called them and said that i would be late…
they asked where i am,, and picked me up (thank you katou san,, you’re so nice too me^^)
that’s how i got my first time job….
at that little KFC branch i met katou, ishii (his english is so good because he has lived in both USA and UK), terunuma, sameshima, fujii, kasori, mutosami, etc…
it was so fun,, they bought a shoes for me… invited me to their house and cooked dinner for me…. hahaha
they even help me doing my interview-assigment….
now i work at another KFC in osaka…. it’s also fun,, but still i miss them…
i promise to visit them in tokyo again this winter,, hope i could fullfill it…
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Industrial biotechnology has the potential to save the planet up to 2.5 billion tons of CO2 emissions per year and support building a sustainable future, a WWF report found.
As the world is debating how to cut dangerous emissions and come together in an international agreement treaty which will help protect the planet from potentially devastating effects of climate change, innovative ideas how to reduce our CO2 are very valuable.
A recent report published by WWF Denmark identifies the potential to be between 1 billion and 2.5 billion tons CO2 per year by 2030, more than Germany’s total reported emissions in 1990.
Industrial biotechnology could help create a true 21st century green economy, the report states.
Industrial biotechnology applications are already widely used in everyday life. They help reduce the amount of time needed to bake fresh bread, increase the yield in wine, cheese and vegetable oil production and save heat in laundry washing.
“Low carbon biotech solutions are a good example of hidden or invisible climate solutions that are all around us already today but are easy to overlook for policymakers, investors and companies.” says John Kornerup Bang, Head of Globalization Program at WWF Denmark and coauthor of the report.
A newer example on how biotechnology solutions could help reduce carbon emissions is the harvesting of biogas from waste digesters and wastewater streams.
The report emphasizes the potential of taking that existing technology even one step further and creating fully closed loop systems.
Biorefineries are able to transform any biobased waste material into a valuable feedstock for the production of other biobased materials. The possible emission reductions for such processes are estimated to be as high as 633 million tons of CO2.
The report indentifies four fundamental dimensions of industrial biotechnology: Improved efficiency, the substitution of fossil fuels, the substitution of oil-based materials and the creation of a closed loop system with the potential to eliminate waste.
But as with most technologies, the potential to achieve sustainability objectives does not automatically translate into such goals being realized.
“Politicians need to set the path toward a green economy. This will not be easy, and we must look for new solutions, which can help us reduce emissions very quickly. It is clear that there is no alternative to explore these innovative pathways,” John Kornerup Bang said.
source : WWF
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mungkin teman2 ada yg penasaran denger pertanyaan diatas….
berapa ya kira2 harga rumah di jepang….
well,, gw sendiri ga begitu ahli dengan hal ini (secara ga mungkin jg gw beli… =.=)
tp td pas maw brangkat baito (part-time job) gw menemukan selembar iklan di kotak pos gw…
cukup mengejutkan iklan yg gw liat (dah pada bisa nebak donk?? hohoho)
yup iklan tentang sebuah rumah di daerah imazato (deket tempat tinggal gw sekarang di osaka)
rumah dengan tanah seluas 37.6坪 = 124.08 meter persegi (1坪 itu kira2= 3.3 meter persegi)
tempat parkir untuk 2 mobil
7 menit baik dr stasiun imazato ataupun stasiun shouji
2 lantai dan 3 kamar tidur 1 LDK (ruang tamu yg digabung sama ruang makan n dapur)….
tapi yg paling mencengangkan adalah ketika gw melihat harganya
(biasanya sih ga ada yg nulis harga,, jd langsung gw buang ke tong sampah….. tapi berhubung yang ini spesial jd gw simpen ampe skarang…. hahaha)
値段は何と２２００万円!! (harganya 22 juta yen = 2,200,000,000 rupiah) 0 nya banyak…. >.<
klo gw ga makan tiap bulan dsini dan penghasilan ataw uang yg gw bisa dapet perbulan rata2 100 ribu yen brarti gw akan mendapatkan rumah itu dalam jangka waktu 18 tahun 4 bulan…. =.=
bagaimana teman2?? ada yang tertarik untuk membeli rumah disini??
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| Philips has developed an LED light bulb that uses one-sixth the energy of a standard 60-watt incandescent bulb. |
The ubiquitous but highly inefficient 60-watt light bulb badly needs a makeover. And it could be worth millions in government prize money — and more in government contracts — to the first company that figures out how to do it.
Right now, that company could be Philips, the Dutch electronics giant. The company announced on Thursday that it had submitted the first entry for the L Prize, an Energy Department contest that will award up to $10 million to the first person or group to create a new energy-sipping version of the most popular type of light bulb used in America.
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As the first entrant, Philips will win the prize if its claims hold up. Testing of the Philips lamp will take close to a year to complete as the department independently evaluates the company’s claims.
“Philips is confident that the product submitted meets or exceeds all of the criteria for the L Prize,” Rudy Provoost, chief of Philips Lighting, said in a statement.
The $10 million is almost beside the point. More important, the contest winner will receive consideration for potentially lucrative federal purchasing agreements, not to mention a head start at cracking a vast consumer marketplace.
The L Prize has garnered significant attention in the lighting industry because 60-watt incandescent lamps represent 50 percent of all the lighting in the United States, with 425 million sold each year. The Energy Department says that if all those lamps were LED equivalents, enough power would be saved to light 17.4 million American households and cut carbon emissions by 5.6 million metric tons annually.
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For decades, incandescent light bulbs continued to bear a strong resemblance to Thomas Edison’s creations, but new energy standards that go into effect in 2012 — and would effectively outlaw today’s incandescent bulb — have brought about a period of fertile innovation in the lighting industry.
One of the first attempts at greater efficiency was the now-maligned compact fluorescent bulb, but there have also been efforts to modify incandescent technology to conform to the new standard. LED bulbs are now available in stores, but those models have limited output and high prices. A faithful reproduction of an incandescent bulb’s light from an inexpensive and efficient source has been the industry’s ultimate goal.
Philips has delivered 2,000 prototypes of its bulb to the Energy Department for testing. The company says the bulbs meet all the criteria of the contest, which specifies a bulb that reproduces the same amount and color of light made by a 60-watt incandescent bulb, but uses only 10 watts of power. The bulb must also last for more than 25,000 hours — about 25 times longer than a standard light bulb. In a nod to economic concerns, at least 75 percent of the bulb must be made or assembled in the United States.
If the new bulb passes the department’s testing regimen, it will be an even more efficient, longer-lasting lighting device than today’s compact fluorescent bulbs. The department considers the introduction of compact fluorescents, today’s alternative to standard bulbs, to have been a debacle.
At first, the department set no standards for compact fluorescent bulbs and inferior products flooded the market. Consumers rebelled against the bulbs’ shortcomings: the light output from compact fluorescent bulbs was cold and unpleasant, their life was much shorter than claimed, many were large and undimmable, they would not work in cold environments and they contained polluting mercury.
By setting rigorous criteria for the L Prize, the department hopes LED bulbs can avoid a similar fate. That also means rejecting current LED bulbs that can claim some technical similarities, but fall far short of the L Prize’s goals.
“We’ve probably eliminated almost 25 products that were horrible,” said James R. Brodrick, manager of the Solid State Lighting Program of the Energy Department. “We test LED bulbs today that claim on the package that they’re equivalent to 40 watts, but are really like 20-watt bulbs.”
“This will be the most publicly tested bulb ever,” Mr. Brodrick said.
The Philips LED lamp represents “a significant energy savings,” said Nadarajah Narendran, the director of research at the Lighting Research Center at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. “This has now leapfrogged what C.F.L.’s can do.”
The Energy Department will also award $5 million to the creator of an LED reflector lamp (no entries have yet been made) and a new, “21st-century lamp,” the specifications of which are yet to be defined.
General Electric — along with Philips and Osram Sylvania, one of the world’s biggest lighting suppliers — said that it would introduce a new LED module next month that would make it easier to replace traditional light sources with LEDs. Osram had no comment about its plans.
The first certified products, due in about a year, will not be cheap. Today’s LED-based bulbs cost up to $100 each, and while there is plenty of optimistic talk about reducing that price, a clear path to affordability remains elusive.
To lower the cost, Mr. Brodrick has enlisted 27 utility companies around the country as L Prize partners, with the hope that utility subsidies, along with mass production, will help cut the cost. One such utility, Southern California Edison, will both test the bulbs and offer rebates to consumers, according to Gregg Ander, the company’s chief architect.
“There’s a potential for LED lamps to be much more acceptable to the consumer than compact fluorescents,” Mr. Ander said. He said he expected that eventually, an LED substitute for a 60-watt bulb would cost the same as its compact fluorescent equivalent, factoring in its longer life.
Kevin Dowling, vice president for innovation at Philips Solid State Lighting Solutions, is confident that the LED light bulb can become an affordable option. “Over the long term, we can absolutely get the cost down to the $20 to $25 range,” he said.
source : yahoo
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SEOUL, South Korea – Lee Dong-un cried and held the hands of his 60-year-old North Korean daughter Saturday during their first meeting in more than half a century. They were one of hundreds of families reuniting as part of a program revived by Pyongyang in an effort to ease tensions with South Korea.
The meeting was bittersweet for Lee, who left behind his pregnant wife and daughter, then 2 years old, in North Korea when he fled to the South during the Korean War. The 84-year-old burst into tears after his daughter told him his pregnant wife was killed when a bomb fell on her North Korean town.
“I always thought about you. I’ve never dreamed that we could meet,” the elder Lee said, according to South Korean media pool reports. No foreign journalists were invited to the reunions.
The reunions are the first between the divided countries in nearly two years. Pyongyang suspended the program in 2007 in retaliation for conservative South Korean President Lee Myung-bak’s get-tough policy toward the North.
The resumption of the program is widely seen as the North’s latest olive branch toward rival South Korea. In recent weeks Pyongyang has reached out to Seoul by freeing five detained South Koreans, agreeing to “energize” a troubled joint industrial project, and restarting suspended tours for South Koreans to the North.
“North Korea appears to be aiming to use the humanitarian project as a way to restore bilateral relations,” said Koh Yu-hwan, a North Korea expert at Seoul’s Dongguk University.
Lee Dong-un was among about 200 families from both sides scheduled to hold six days of reunions with relatives they have not seen since the war ended in an armistice, not a peace treaty, in 1953, leaving the countries divided. The last reunions were held in October 2007.
More than 120 South Koreans, most in their 70s or older, arrived at the Diamond Mountain resort on North Korea’s east coast on Saturday for the reunions, according to the Unification Ministry handling inter-Korean affairs.
Millions of families remain separated following the Korean peninsula’s division in 1945 and the ensuing civil war. There are no mail, telephone or e-mail exchanges between ordinary citizens from the two Koreas, and they can’t travel to the other side of the peninsula without government approval.
The meetings are a highly emotional issue in the Koreas because most of those applying for the chance to see their long lost loved ones are in their 70s or older, and are eager for a reunion before they die.
Of 127,400 South Koreans who have applied since 1988, nearly 40,000 have already died, according to South Korea’s Red Cross.
The reunions, which began in 2000 following a landmark inter-Korean summit, last through Oct. 1 and it remains unclear when they may be held again.
For some, the reunions brought back painful memories.
“You said that you will be back soon after visiting Seoul, why did you come now?” Chung Wan-shik, 68, asked his 95-year-old father Chung Dae-chun, who lost contact with his family as the war struck while he was on a business trip in South Korea.
Saturday’s reunions also included two South Korean abductees and one South Korean prisoner of war in the North.
The two abductees — former South Korean fishermen whose ship was seized by North Korea in waters off the west coast 22 years ago — met their loved ones from the South.
“I never forget to think about my hometown and sister,” Roh Song-ho, one of the fishermen, told his South Korean sister. He married in North Korea, and brought his wife and daughter to the reunion.
South Korea says the North is holding 560 of its soldiers from the war, in addition to 504 South Korean civilians — mostly fishermen whose boats were seized since the war’s end.
North Korea says the civilians voluntarily defected to the North and denies holding any prisoners of war.
The North agreed to resume the reunions last month as part of its moves to reach out to South Korea and the United States after months of tension over its nuclear and missile programs. The reunions also come amid growing pressure on Pyongyang to abandon its nuclear weapons programs and return to stalled disarmament talks.
North Korea boycotted the six-nation nuclear talks in April to protest world criticism of a rocket launch it carried out, but its leader Kim Jong Il has reportedly expressed interest in “bilateral and multilateral talks,” indicating the North could rejoin the nuclear negotiations involving the U.S., China, Japan, South Korea and Russia.
source : yahoo
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The world’s biggest microchip company, known for some of the most dramatic advances in the tech world, this week decided to ask software developers and salespeople for help.
At its annual developers’ conference in San Francisco this week, Intel Corp put up a dozen or so whiteboards across the Moscone Center venue, soliciting answers to the big questions: from how tech might improve business to what you might want technology to do, if it could do anything.
But the answers, scribbled in blue marker, were a mix of practical suggestions like a handheld portable video conferencing device, perennial gripes and whimsy – perfect date machine, anyone?
Here are a selection of the questions and answers:
How do you see the future?
Moon hotels
Real-time virtual Internet glasses
Digital clothing
Big solar power airships
How can technology make business more efficient?
Coffee helmet
Video phone conference
An infinitely large display
Cellphone/MID projector
How can technology improve the world?
Slow down global warming
Bring back dead loved ones
Food allergen detector
Moving sidewalk
What’s the next big thing?
Doodle Twitter
Wireless electricity
Smellovision (like television, but not)
Hands-free driving
Lip reading voice recognition
What will your kids’ kids think is cool?
Whatever it is, we’re sure to hate it!
3D Rock Band
Watching me on YouTube
Videogames embedded in your arm
Technology you can eat after using
Chocolate veggies
What’s your big idea?
Dream recorder
Underwater car
Embedded communications devices in my eyes and ears Hybrid Cadillacs Robochef
If tech could do anything for you, what would it be?
Perfect date machine
Make summer longer
Time travel
5 minute robot jog to work
Hologram friends
Source : Reuters
