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世界盆栽大会開催を控え外国人の招致を進めている 博物館からの招待でなんと真柏の名品「青龍」 の前で写真撮影！！  |
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天皇退位についての議論も大詰め。”退位をさせたくない、女性天皇、女系天皇を
認めたくない”が基本姿勢の政府は、結論ありきの「有識者会議」を前面に出し、
なんとか今の天皇から発せられた退位の問題を自分たちの都合の良いように片づ
けようとしているが、だんだん形勢が不利になってきているようだ。
「元号は要らない」というのも道理あり！天皇の世ではないのだから。
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Ian さんはいつ日本に来てくれるのだろう。待ち遠しい。 それまではIanさんのインタビューを聞いて待ちましょう。英語の勉強も兼ねて。
Ian Bostridge & Netia Jones
ZENDER’S WINTERREISE
A BARBICAN LONDON PRODUCTION WITH THE WEST AUSTRALIAN SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA
UNITED KINGDOM
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2017/01/16 に公開
Get inside The Dark Mirror: Zender’s Winterreise through the eyes of the world’s most famous tenor, Ian Bostridge, in this exclusive interview.
Perth Concert Hall
Fri 10 and Sat 11 Feb
More info: http://perthfe.st/2fgkVzO
Perth International Arts Festival: Fri 10 February–Sun 5 March 2017
Lotterywest Festival Films: From Mon 28 November 2016
Perth Writers Festival: Thur 23–Sun 26 February 2017
Interview with Ian Bostridge （Script)
‘Elegant and inventive.’
‘Reveals the beauty and the timeless, philosophical qualities of Schubert’s music and Mueller’s poetry.’
Celebrated tenor Ian Bostridge – the world’s leading performer of Franz Schubert’s DieWinterreise –combines forces with the West Australian Symphony Orchestra for this stunning music-theatre event.
Plunged into a stark wintry landscape, a wanderer embarks on an intense dramatic journey – his reflections on life moving between gallows humour and well-worn nostalgia, between love and loss.
Told through Bostridge’s impeccable performance, haunting visuals and Hans Zender’s delicately woven instrumentation, this Winterreise is a sublime interpretation of Schubert’s iconic song cycle.
Devised by leading opera director Netia Jones, this rare fully-staged production brings the shadowy world of Winterreise spectacularly to life.
90mins no interval
No latecomers admitted.
Performed by members of the West Australian Symphony Orchestra conducted by Baldur Brönnimann.
Co-produced by Britten Sinfonia, Cal Performances at the University of California and National Taichung Theater
Post Show Discussion
Sat 11 Feb, 9pm
★☆★☆
2017・1・30朝日新聞夕刊に「冬の旅」日本語訳が発売されるとの情報あり。
★☆★☆
以前のプログ
私の（比較的新しい）フェイスブック友人Gabrielle Malo-Bibeauさん。 鎌倉のあの家に来た、まじめなのにトボケていておかしいDavid Jolyと結婚した人だ。 その人が紹介したのが、このキュートなライオンさん。
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（翻訳）This is Layla our baby white lion with his tongue and a wink just for you! She is nice and warm inside for the winter because too small for the cold. Besides our white lions don’t like snow unlike our other cats who adore pictures to come. Photos Melanie Gendron （男の子だった！でも、sheって？）
この方は、ケベックの「ふれあい動物園 場所: Saint Édouard, Quebec」におられるようだ。
次にモントペリエに行ったときにぜひ会いに行きたい！
以前の予測では1/2と書いたけど、このままだと本当に大統領に就任しそうだ。 ただし、Trumpさんの不適格性は日に日に高まり、強まり、疑いなくなっている。 大統領就任についてのApproval , Disapproval レート比較があった。
企業を「脅して」”雇用を増やした”と騒ぐ彼だが、Paul Crugmanは次のように言っている。
The Opinion Pages | OP-ED COLUMNIST
On Thursday, at a rough estimate, 75,000 Americans were laid off or fired by their employers. Some of those workers will find good new jobs, but many will end up earning less, and some will remain unemployed for months or years.
If that sounds terrible to you, and you’re asking what economic catastrophe just happened, the answer is, none. In fact, I’m just assuming that Thursday was a normal day in the job market.
The U.S. economy is, after all, huge, employing 145 million people. It’s also ever-changing: Industries and companies rise and fall, and there are always losers as well as winners. The result is constant “churn,” with many jobs disappearing even as still more new jobs are created. In an average month, there are 1.5 million “involuntary” job separations (as opposed to voluntary quits), or 75,000 per working day. Hence my number.
But why am I telling you this? To highlight the difference between real economic policy and the fake policy that has lately been taking up far too much attention in the news media.
Real policy, in a nation as big and rich as America, involves large sums of money and affects broad swaths of the economy. Repealing the Affordable Care Act, which would snatch away hundreds of billions in insurance subsidies to low- and middle-income families and cause around 30 million people to lose coverage, would certainly qualify.
Consider, by contrast, the story that dominated several news cycles a few weeks ago: Donald Trump’s intervention to stop Carrier from moving jobs to Mexico. Some reports say that 800 U.S. jobs were saved; others suggest that the company will simply replace workers with machines. But even accepting the most positive spin, for every worker whose job was saved in that deal, around a hundred others lost their jobs the same day.
In other words, it may have sounded as if Mr. Trump was doing something substantive by intervening with Carrier, but he wasn’t. This was fake policy — a show intended to impress the rubes, not to achieve real results.
The same goes for the hyping of Ford’s decision to add 700 jobs in Michigan — or for that matter, Mr. Trump’s fact-challenged denunciation of General Motors for manufacturing the Chevy Cruze in Mexico (that factory mainly serves foreign markets, not the U.S.).
Did the incoming administration have anything to do with Ford’s decision? Can political pressure change G.M.’s strategy? It hardly matters: Case-by-case intervention from the top is never going to have a significant impact on a $19 trillion economy.
So why are such stories occupying so much of the media’s attention?
The incoming administration’s incentive to engage in fake policy is obvious: It’s the natural counterpart to fake populism. Mr. Trump won overwhelming support from white working-class voters, who believed that he was on their side. Yet his real policy agenda, aside from the looming trade war, is standard-issue modern Republicanism: huge tax cuts for billionaires and savage cuts to public programs, including those essential to many Trump voters.
So what can Mr. Trump do to keep the scam going? The answer is, showy but trivial interventions that can be spun as saving a few jobs here or there. Substantively, this will never amount to more than a rounding error in a giant nation. But it may well work as a P.R. strategy, at least for a while.
Bear in mind that corporations have every incentive to go along with the spin. Suppose that you’re a C.E.O. who wants to curry favor with the new administration. One thing you can do, of course, is steer business to Trump hotels and other businesses. But another thing you can do is help generate Trump-friendly headlines.
Keeping a few hundred jobs in America for a couple of years is a pretty cheap form of campaign contribution; pretending that the administration persuaded you to add some jobs you actually would have added anyway is even cheaper.
Still, none of this would work without the complicity of the news media. And I’m not talking about “fake news,” as big a problem as that is becoming; I’m talking about respectable, mainstream news coverage.
Sorry, folks, but headlines that repeat Trump claims about jobs saved, without conveying the essential fakeness of those claims, are a betrayal of journalism. This is true even if, as often happens, the articles eventually, quite a few paragraphs in, get around to debunking the hype: many if not most readers will take the headline as validation of the claim.
And it’s even worse if headlines inspired by fake policy crowd out coverage of real policy.
It is, I suppose, possible that fake policy will eventually produce a media backlash — that news organizations will begin treating stunts like the Carrier episode with the ridicule they deserve. But nothing we’ve seen so far inspires optimism.
英国の子供番組はかわいい。英語がきれい。 私はお誕生日をお祝いする番組を毎日見て（聴いて）いた！ Roger先生のかわいい娘フローラちゃんも子ども番組をみてるらしい。 FaceBookにかわいらしい会話が・・・。
The scene at 06:15 this morning.
Me: Flora, there has been a power cut. That means there is no electricity.
There will be no light or internet.
Flora: Don’t worry Daddy. The same thing happened on Peppa Pig.
Daddy Pig used torches. Have you got torches Daddy?
Me: er … no … well, yes … in the shed …
Flora. Sigh. Daddy Pig was better.
＜Peppa Pig – The Powercut＞
以前の記事
暖冬とはいえ、まだ寒い日々・・・。
春を探しに光則寺へ。毎年見るソシンロウバイは二分咲きぐらいでした。でもそのかぐわしさは、私の身にしみてくるうれしさです。
侘助
椿の種類に「侘助（わびすけ）」という種類があります。
ワビスケツバキとも呼ばれていたりしますが、葯（やく※雄しべの先端に花粉を作る器官）が退化し、花粉を作らない椿です。
「侘助」と名打たれるには定義があります。
侘助の定義
１：「ウラクツバキ」から生まれたもの
２：葯が退化して花粉を作らない事 １と２を満たすものが「侘助」と呼ばれます。
しかし、中にはヤブツバキにも葯が退化したものがあります。
「侘芯椿（ワビシンツバキ）」と呼ばれていて、
ウラクツバキから生まれた侘助とは区別されています。
中には侘助でも侘芯椿でもないのに、侘助と呼ばれる「黒侘助・永楽」という種類も存在しています。
水仙
こちらは大巧寺です。
１/８（日） GTTの下見のため、半年ぶりで大宮へ。説明のための英語の勉強中です。
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真柏 「寿雲 |
黒松「青嵐」  |
| 黒松 いわしで(Korean Hornbeam)
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中国の鉢、とっても素敵でした。 |
錦木（ニシキギ、剃刀の木） |
野梅(Yabai, Japanese Apricot) |
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