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Image: NASA/Ames Research Center/Daniel Rutter via Gizmodo US

Image: NASA/Ames Research Center/Daniel Rutter via Gizmodo US

いままでで一番地球っぽい太陽系外惑星、発見。

これまでに見つかった系外惑星の中でもっとも地球っぽい星が見つかりました。Astrophysical Journal Lettersに発表された新たな論文。地球から300光年離れたところにある赤色矮星「ケプラー1649」の惑星「ケプラー1649c」サイズは地球の1.06倍ほど、つまりほとんど同じ。しかもこの惑星はハビタブルゾーン内、つまり岩石惑星であれば地表に液体の水が存在しうる領域にあり、地球外生命体発見も遠くないか？

Image: NASA/Ames Research Center/Daniel Rutter via Gizmodo US

「サイズと予想される温度に関しては、ケプラーに関連して発見された中でもっとも地球と似ている惑星」(論文の共著者、Jeff Coughlin氏: SETI Instituteのプレスリリース)

他の主要な系外惑星には、サイズ的に地球に似ているTRAPPIST-1fとか、温度的に近いTRAPPIST – 1dとTOI 700dなどがある。ただし、ケプラー1649cのようにサイズと温度の両方が似ている星は初めてとか。

Source: IOP (1, 2), SETI, NASA (1, 2, 3, 4, 5), Caltech

April 16, 2020

Kepler-1649c: Earth-Size, Habitable Zone Planet Hides in Plain Sight

Scientists discovered this planet, called Kepler-1649c, when looking through old observations from Kepler, which the agency retired in 2018. While previous searches with a computer algorithm misidentified it, researchers reviewing Kepler data took a second look at the signature and recognized it as a planet. Out of all the exoplanets found by Kepler, this distant world – located 300 light-years from Earth – is most similar to Earth in size and estimated temperature.

This artist’s illustration shows what Kepler-1649c could look like from its surface.

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The Washington Post: Japan sets aside $22 million to buff government’s global image amid pandemic struggles

By Simon Denyer April 15, 2020 at 11:30 p.m.

Failed Abeno Strategies such as :Abeno”mix,” Abeno”Mask,” Abeno”Risk” and

TOKYO — As Japan’s novel coronavirus infections surge and its health-care system stands on the brink of collapse, the government of Prime Minister Shinzo Abe has an added concern: its image.

An emergency economic relief package unveiled last week earmarked $22 million for the foreign ministry “to dispel negative perceptions of Japan related to infectious diseases,” and to strengthen communications about the situation in Japan — over the Internet and through its embassies.

Artificial intelligence will also be harnessed to monitor social media and see what is being said about Japan abroad. This will give the Foreign Ministry a chance to respond to “wrong information,” the Mainichi newspaper reported. Many countries set aside money for international image-building, but Japan’s latest move strikes many critics as ill-timed, especially as part of an emergency economic relief package in the midst of a pandemic.

It’s a typically defensive reaction from an administration “obsessed with its international image,” said Nancy Snow, a professor of public diplomacy at Kyoto University of Foreign Studies.

“This is a conservative government that does not take kindly to any dissent internally or externally,” she said. “Their solution is always this simple, ‘let’s put some money aside,’ because that seems less daunting than handling the real situation.”

Criticism initially centered on Japan’s handling of infections on board the Diamond Princess cruise ship in February.

Despite emotional appeals from the leaders of Japan’s medical community, from independent experts and regional leaders, Abe dithered for weeks before finally declaring a partial state of emergency over seven of the country’s 47 prefectures last week.

In newspaper headlines and tweets, Abe was compared to Louis XVI, an uncaring and out-of-touch leader with little understanding of the suffering of ordinary people outside his “palace.”

But the foreign criticism seems to have particularly stung.

Japan’s global public relations budget has risen sharply since Abe took over as prime minister in 2012, in an attempt to bolster Japan’s reputation as a reliable ally of the United States and as a democratic leader in Asia to counter authoritarian China. But money is also spent on attempts to whitewash Japan’s wartime past, critics say.

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モーツァルト 《フィガロの結婚》「とうとう嬉しい時が来た～恋人よ、早くここへ」No. 28 – Recitativo ed Aria

『フィガロの結婚』フランスの劇作家ボーマルシェが1778年に書いた風刺的な戯曲（伊: Le nozze di Figaro、仏: Les noces de Figaro、英: The Marriage of Figaro、独: Die Hochzeit des Figaro）

SUSANNA

Giunse alfin il momento
che godrò senz’affanno
in braccio all’idol mio. Timide cure,
uscite dal mio petto,
a turbar non venite il mio diletto!
Oh, come par che all’amoroso foco
l’amenità del loco,
la terra e il ciel risponda,
come la notte i furti miei
seconda!
スザンナ

やっとこの時が来たのね
なんの悩みもなく楽しめる時が
愛する人の腕の中で　臆病な不安よ
出て行ってよ　あたしの胸の中から
邪魔しに来ないでよあたしの喜びを！
ああ　感じるわ　愛の炎が
この場所の活気と
大地と天の活気に応えているのを
夜があたしの秘め事を手伝ってくれるの！
あなたの額をこのバラで飾ってあげるから
Deh, vieni, non tardar, oh gioia bella,
vieni ove amore per goder t’appella,
finché non splende in ciel notturna face,
finché l’aria è ancor bruna e il mondo tace.
Qui mormora il ruscel, qui scherza l’aura,
che col dolce sussurro il cor ristaura,
qui ridono i fioretti e l’erba è fresca,
ai piaceri d’amor qui tutto adesca.
Vieni, ben mio, tra queste piante ascose,
ti vo’ la fronte incoronar di rose. 		さあ来て ぐずぐずしないで おお素敵な喜びよ
来てよ愛が楽しみのために お前を呼んでいるところへ
まだ空に輝かないうちに 夜のともし火が
大気がまだ暗く 世界がまだ静かなうちに
ここでは小川がつぶやき ここではそよ風が戯れ
穏やかなため息で心を よみがえらせるの
ここでは花たちが笑い 草たちがさわやか
愛の喜びをみんなが呼んでいるのよ
来てね 愛しい人 この密やかな木立の中へ

楽譜（ドイツ語、イタリア語）

ネトレプコ

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日本語対訳付き（テンポ遅い）

Deh vieni non tardar – Susanna – Accompaniment – Le nozze di Figaro

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Spring in Vermont

The sun was warm but the wind was chill 　You know how it is with an April day 　When the sun is out and the wind is still 　You are one month on in the middle of  May. 　But if you so much as dare to speak, 　A cloud comes over the sunlit arch, 　A wind comes off a frozen peak, 　And you are two months back in the middle of March. (Robert Frost, cited by John)

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Robert Frost

Out of the mud two strangers came And caught me splitting wood in the yard, And one of them put me off my aim By hailing cheerily “Hit them hard!” I knew pretty well why he dropped behind And let the other go on a way. I knew pretty well what he had in mind: He wanted to take my job for pay.

Good blocks of beech it was I split, As large around as the chopping block; And every piece I squarely hit Fell splinterless as a cloven rock. The blows that a life of self-control Spares to strike for the common good That day, giving a loose to my soul, I spent on the unimportant wood.

A bluebird comes tenderly up to alight And fronts the wind to unruffle a plume His song so pitched as not to excite A single flower as yet to bloom. It is snowing a flake: and he half knew Winter was only playing possum. Except in color he isn’t blue, But he wouldn’t advise a thing to blossom.

The water for which we may have to look In summertime with a witching wand, In every wheel rut’s now a brook, In every print of a hoof a pond. Be glad of water, but don’t forget The lurking frost in the earth beneath That will steal forth after the sun is set And show on the water its crystal teeth.

The time when most I loved my task These two must make me love it more By coming with what they came to ask. You’d think I never had felt before The weight of an axhead poised aloft, The grip on earth of outspread feet. The life of muscles rocking soft And smooth and moist in vernal heat.

Out of the woods two hulking tramps (From sleeping God knows where last night, But not long since in the lumber camps.) They thought all chopping was theirs of right. Men of the woods and lumberjacks, They judged me by their appropriate tool. Except as a fellow handled an ax, They had no way of knowing a fool.

Nothing on either side was said. They knew they had but to stay their stay And all their logic would fill my head: As that I had no right to play With what was another man’s work for gain. My right might be love but theirs was need. And where the two exist in twain Theirs was the better right — agreed.

But yield who will to their separation, My object in living is to unite My avocation and my vocation As my two eyes make one in sight. Only where love and need are one, And the work is play for mortal stakes, Is the deed ever really done For heaven and the future’s sakes.

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The road not taken 「歩む者のない道」
　　　　　　　　　　
Two roads diverged in a yellow wood,
And sorry I could not travel both　
And be one traveler, long I stood　
And looked down one as far as I could
To where it bent in the undergrowth;


Then took the other, as just as fair,
And having perhaps the better claim,
Because it was grassy and wanted wear;
Though as for that the passing there
Had worn them really about the same,

And both that morning equally lay　
In leaves no step had trodden black.　
Oh, I kept the first for another day!
Yet knowing how way leads on to way,　
I doubted if I should ever come back.

I shall be telling this with a sigh
Somewhere ages and ages hence:
Two roads diverged in a wood, and
I took the one less traveled by,
And that has made all the difference.　

　　　　　　　　(Robert Frost, 1916) 		黄色い森の中で道が二つに分か
れていた　残念だが両方の道を
進むわけにはいかない　一人で
旅する私は、長い間そこにたた
ずみ一方の道の先を見透かそう
とした　その先は折れ、草むら
の中に消えている　
それから、もう一方の道を歩み
始めた　一見同じようだがこち
らの方がよさそうだ　なぜなら
こちらは草ぼうぼうで　誰かが
通るのを待っていたから　 本当
は二つとも同じようなものだっ
たけれど
あの朝、二つの道は同じように
見えた　枯葉の上には足跡一つ
見えなかった　あっちの道はま
たの機会にしよう　でも、道が
先へ先へとつながることを知る
私は　再び同じ道に戻ってくる
ことはないだろうと思っていた　

いま深いためいきとともに私は
これを告げる　ずっとずっと昔　
森の中で道が二つに分かれてい
た。そして私は…そして私は人
があまり通っていない道を選ん
だ　そのためにどんなに大きな
違いができたことか　
(ロバート・フロスト,1916)

「黄色に染まった森のなかで、道が二手に分かれていた」 日常の言葉でニューイングランドの農村や自然、人生を語り、20世紀アメリカの「国民詩人」として愛されるロバート・フロスト(1874―1963)。素朴で大らかな描写の下に、不気味な暗さをたたえるその詩から、36篇を精選。多様な「意味の音」を伝える原文とともに味わう。

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　卑弥呼のいた年代の話 2020/6/16

昔の教科書（1966）2020の教科書「日本の歴史」
3世紀、邪馬台国
卑弥呼が治める		古墳時代は３世紀から=
卑弥呼は古墳時代の人？		 300-400
～587
（4～７世紀に古墳・・
古墳時代）
卑弥呼は弥生時代の人		大阪池上曽根遺跡の大型
堀立柱建物は「-52年の伐
採」（遺物付着物、出土
土器の判定で‟弥生時代中
期後半”）
奈良県桜井市箸墓古墳（陵墓）
土器240-260年ごろ…卑弥呼の
墓か？
旧石器縄文弥生　
←170
古墳　飛鳥　奈良　
-30,000～
-12,000		-12,000～
-2,400–2,800		-1,000～
250～300		 卑弥呼女王に
(247年死亡)		300-400
～587		593～
701		708
～794

日本に最初に来た外国人

PEDC資料（日本の謎）2020Nov

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森友問題で自死に追い込まれた財務省近畿財務局職員の夫人が手記を公開し訴訟を起こした。A氏は高卒で国鉄に入り人員整理で大蔵省に移ることになりホッとし恩義を感じ誇りをもって財務局で働いた人らしい。良くいる実直な公務員だった。それなのにその人に文書改竄を命じた上司はそれぞれ東京国税局長や横浜税関長に出世したり外国公使になっている人もいる。 時は、新型コロナウィルスの猛威で東京オリンピックが1年ほど延期になるという大ニューズで揺れる。Abeは追い詰められても追い込まれても何があっても、物凄いバカ力で正論議論対論を暴論で逃げ切ろうとしている。

新型コロナウイルスで自宅待機と広範囲な商業営業禁止で苦しい思いをしている人がいるのに、なんという愚か者、なんという非常識。Akieは友人と花見をしていた。それを責められた夫は「自粛が求められる”公園ではない”」と国会で反論した。反論になるのか！！おバカAkieにはいつも呆れるけどホントに言葉がない。

やくみつろのマンガ
斎藤美奈子の冴えわたるエイプリルフールジョーク
本文（115ページ）はこちら（pdf）

2020/4/12　おバカはAkieだけじゃない、なんだこの写真は！！

2020/7/20 Akieが財務省で自死に追い込まれたAさんの奥さんにLINEメッセージを送っていた話！この人は何を考えている人なのだろう？

Obakaは妻だけではない。演説、国会答弁、記者会見、ぶら下がり会見でさえ原稿がないと不安でしゃべれない人が「うっかり」自分でしゃべるとこんなことになる。

8/25　on Twitter
「Akie sheets」for “Cherry Party”
“桜を見る会”は何を語る？
Abe died by an assassination in july 2022
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ロッシーニ《アルジェのイタリア女》「むごい運命よ」

ロッシーニの喜劇の初期の傑作として名高いオペラ https://w.atwiki.jp/oper/pages/2024.html#sorte

＜ISABELLA＞
Cruda sorte! Amor tiranno!
Questo è il premio di mia fe’?
Non v’è orror, terror, nè affanno
Pari a quel ch’io provo in me.
Per te solo, o mio Lindoro,
Io mi trovo in tal periglio.
Da chi spero, o Dio, consiglio?
Chi conforto mi darà? 		残酷な運命！愛の暴君！
これが私の貞節の報いなの？
これ以上の恐怖は不安は苦しみは
ないわ
私が今自分の中で感じているほど
のものは　あなただけのために
おお私のリンドーロ
私はこんな危険に身を晒してきたのよ
誰にお願いしたらいいの　
おお神さま　アドバイスを？
誰が私に慰めをくれるのかしら？
00:00 むごい運命よ
04:25 愛する彼のために
Sung and translated into Japanese by Tomoko Nago.
Piano accompaniment by Naoko Aita

Jennifer Larmore : “Cruda sorte !…” (L’Italiana in Algeri)

https://youtu.be/pnqiap6M6fg

Cruda sorte! Amor tiranno!
Questo æ il premio di mia fé:
Non v’è orror, terror, né affanno
Pari a quel ch’io provo in me.
Per te solo, o mio Lindoro,
Io mi trovo in tal periglio.

Da chi spero, oh Dio, consiglio?
Chi confort mi dara?
Qua ci vuol disinvoltura.
Non più smanie, né paura;
Di coraggio è tempo adesso,
Or chi sono si vedrà.
Già so per pratica

Qual sia l’effetto
D’un sguardo languido,
D’un sospiretto…
So a domar gli uomini
Come si fa.

Sien dolci o ruvidi
Sien flemma o foco,
Son tutti simili
A presso a poco…

Tutti la chiedono,
Tutti la bramano
Da vada femmina
Felicità.		Cruel fate! Tyrannical Cupid!
Is this the reward for
my constancy?
No horror, terror or anguish exists
compared to that
which I now suffer.

For you alone, my Lindoro,
I find myself in such peril.
Who will give me comfort?
Keeping cool is what’s
wanted here,
no more rages or terror:
now is the time for courage;

now they’ll see who I am.
From experience I already
know the effect of a
languishing look,
of a slight sigh…
 
I know what to do to tame men.
Be they gentle or rough,
cool or ardent,
they’re all alike.
 
more or less…
They all seek, they all long for,
from a pretty woman.
happiness










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作曲者の名前さえ知らない！  Music by Domenico Cimarosa.  ドメニコ・チマローザ作曲 「私の讃える美しい神よ」 





 《私が賛える美しい神よ Bel nume che adoro》 かつては、 チマローザ Domenico Cimarosa (1749～ 1801) のオペラ《ピグマリオーネ Pigmalione)) からのアリアとされていたが、ローマのサンタ・チェチーリア音楽院の図書館に所蔵されていた総譜によっ て、ジャンバッティスタ・チマドール Giambattista Cimador (1761～1805）のオペラ《ピンマリオーネ Pimmalione》の中のアリアであることが明らかにされた。










 歌劇「ピグマリオン」 – 
私の賛える美しい神よ		Pigmalione: Bel nume che adoro  
Bel nume che adoro,
tu versi di speme
un dolce ristoro
in questo mio sen.
（repeat）
Quel raggio amoroso
pietoso mi dice: contento,
felice vivrai col tuo ben.
 （repeat） 
contento, felice vivrai col tuo ben.
vivrai col tuo ben. 
Beautiful Idol whom  I adore
You pour of hope  
a sweet comfort

In this my bosom
That ray amorous compassionately
to me says;
Contented, happy you will live with 
the your beloved 








 
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