"AKB 0048" next OP NO NAME is the grand theme song "master" of the sound!
National idol group AKB48 as the theme, "Macross" series of Kawamori Masaharu and satellite released a new generation of SF× × idol animation "AKB 0048" next grand OP titled "the sound" the main things clear!
[other photos] "NO NAME" members of the reviews included
Above 200
bear singer, for more than 0048 "AKB48" knockout "seiyuu graduate members", AKB48, SKE48, NMB48 members "AKB 0048" defined "NO NAME" (a dream team of quick Huili (CV:AKB48 Mayu Watanabe / A team), Aida One (CV: Nakatani Aka / AKB48 K group), a friend song (CV: Misaki Sato Amina / AKB48 K group), the East cloud there (CV: Ishida Haruka / AKB48 TeamB), the East cloud Chu (CV: Yako Kumi / SKE48 S team), Kishida Mimori (CV: Katayama Haruka / AKB48 team A), Sakisuzu Ko (CV: my God Sa Kazuko / SKE48 KII), Yokomizo Haruka Motohashi (CV: Mita Mao / NMB48 M), Motomiya Sa (CV: Yantian China flow / AKB48 team A)].The August 24, 2012 meeting of the "AKB48 in TOKYO DOME ~ 1830 m dream", their future activities in the front of the stage of nearly 50000 viewers debut is also noteworthy.
in addition with the music, the playing of ED theme song "tears to you" (song: NO NAME), January 12th (day) began to TV size ver first messenger decided.In addition, the "AKB 0048" first grand Blu-ray and DVD release in all 5 volumes.Care about people is our examination also don't forget!
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- "AKB 0048" next grand theme song is "NO NAME" first grand continue to play!
OP theme song "the leading voice."
ED theme song "tears to you."
< NO > NAME members
quick Huili CV: Mayu Watanabe (AKB48 group A)
Lantian textile sound CV: Nakatani Aka (AKB48 K)
a song CV: Misaki Sato Amina (AKB48 K)
CV: the East cloud Fang Ishida Haruka (AKB48 TeamB)
dawn Chu CV: Yako Kumi (SKE48 S)
Kishida Mimori: Katayama Haruka CV (AKB48 group A)
Kanzaki bell CV: and I'm Sa Kazuko (SKE48 KII)
transverse groove Makoto CV: Mita Mao (NMB48 M)
the palace Zhisha CV: Iwata Karin (AKB48 group A)
TV size ver
OP and ED theme. First messenger decided!
January 12, 2013 (Saturday) 25: 30 ~ recochoku monopoly distribution
January 23rd (water): 00 ~ 00, iTunes Store Animelo, satellite ★, the media Bayrou, mobile tvk, mobile, the tele department should, Noyes jade ON mobile (scheduled) [] Association reported "AKB 0048" next than grand inheritance members of the cast of characters comment to distribution!"At the other romantic meaning" OP single cover is monkey punch depicting down ·!Television animation "THE UNLIMITED," released in Beijing - first report!Nozumi Iori sang "children from the world of difference to the oh?"OP!Tamura Yukari's new single "W: Wonder tale" MUSIC VIDEO discloses a part!
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2013年1月16日星期三
David Zhi jun
Jaguar Yokota, infertility treatment discontinuation must also have "give up the courage......"
female occupation wrestling craftsman Jaguar Cross (51), in third years of infertility treatment, the results appear. The rest of the blog said.
[Photos] over the same period, Mimi Hagiwara and "106 double" gathering in crowds and groups of the Jaguar cross
Jaguar in 2004 Dr. Kinoshita Hiroseung married to mr..Infertility treatment of severe (IVF) continue, once barren discontinued treatment after the natural pregnancy, 06 years in November first children became the eldest son · David Zhi (here), was awarded the.At that time, Jaguar 45 years old growth and attract sb.'s attention.
the infertility treatment, and then challenge, David Zhi jun, in order to be dependent brother "idea.09 years in September to continue.
Jaguar 13, update the blog, blood hormone values does not look for the results you want status report."The courage to give up do not hold...Consider.
11 David your chi is also difficult to "secretly baby maybe!"To convey the place, or indeed, crying, "O Vishi brothers wanted him to do...David will think hard "painful heart biography.This month
infertility treatment to stop?Make a decision that Jaguar, "fight to the last!!To finally quit trying. "He, like shrimp will for flying for excitation.Related articles] [Jaguar Yokota, Mimi Hagiwara and miracle "106 double into women's wrestling" "never heard it before." "...10 count to retire withdraw infertility treatment "mutual" Mr. Mona wishes of grapefruit Ping, "open sexual harassment" the goat KO!Jaguar Yokota, Kinoshita Hiroseung women's occupation wrestler, investigation
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female occupation wrestling craftsman Jaguar Cross (51), in third years of infertility treatment, the results appear. The rest of the blog said.
[Photos] over the same period, Mimi Hagiwara and "106 double" gathering in crowds and groups of the Jaguar cross
Jaguar in 2004 Dr. Kinoshita Hiroseung married to mr..Infertility treatment of severe (IVF) continue, once barren discontinued treatment after the natural pregnancy, 06 years in November first children became the eldest son · David Zhi (here), was awarded the.At that time, Jaguar 45 years old growth and attract sb.'s attention.
the infertility treatment, and then challenge, David Zhi jun, in order to be dependent brother "idea.09 years in September to continue.
Jaguar 13, update the blog, blood hormone values does not look for the results you want status report."The courage to give up do not hold...Consider.
11 David your chi is also difficult to "secretly baby maybe!"To convey the place, or indeed, crying, "O Vishi brothers wanted him to do...David will think hard "painful heart biography.This month
infertility treatment to stop?Make a decision that Jaguar, "fight to the last!!To finally quit trying. "He, like shrimp will for flying for excitation.Related articles] [Jaguar Yokota, Mimi Hagiwara and miracle "106 double into women's wrestling" "never heard it before." "...10 count to retire withdraw infertility treatment "mutual" Mr. Mona wishes of grapefruit Ping, "open sexual harassment" the goat KO!Jaguar Yokota, Kinoshita Hiroseung women's occupation wrestler, investigation
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I'm 64 years old
Lateshi, 18 years on the outgoing chief conductor of the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra
[Berlin] = Matsui healthy the conductor of the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra chief Simon · who Lateshi; 10, now the contract with the summer of 2018 as show.Karajan and once, control RA group, led the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra is the orchestra of the peak a.After the selection of classical music fans attention.
The outgoing
Orchestra personnel meeting with Phil's intention.
LVL is Liverpool born british.Italy's Claudio · and 02 years as division I-mode's successor as chief conductor.Keep open, concert live online, and the children's education projects to thing has been very high appraisal.
LVL, "Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra work together 18 years 16 years.Close to me 64 years old birthday.Who was the great orchestral should bear the.".One fellow Beatles song, "I'm 64 years old, I need you" have to "ask yourself, is described.Asahi Shimbun
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[Berlin] = Matsui healthy the conductor of the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra chief Simon · who Lateshi; 10, now the contract with the summer of 2018 as show.Karajan and once, control RA group, led the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra is the orchestra of the peak a.After the selection of classical music fans attention.
The outgoing
Orchestra personnel meeting with Phil's intention.
LVL is Liverpool born british.Italy's Claudio · and 02 years as division I-mode's successor as chief conductor.Keep open, concert live online, and the children's education projects to thing has been very high appraisal.
LVL, "Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra work together 18 years 16 years.Close to me 64 years old birthday.Who was the great orchestral should bear the.".One fellow Beatles song, "I'm 64 years old, I need you" have to "ask yourself, is described.Asahi Shimbun
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The report] ["EVA" "EVA", based on the, see "history" - shows total above 21000 and proud of the "EVANGELION 100" Exhibition
● " the EVA, "Mr. anno their order, founding period support items
1995 TV animation "Evangelion", in 2012 the latest work "Q" released "you tap tap, rehabilitation, new theatre" series.And, in the future, "and released, you tap tap, laboratory, theater version"."EVA" this film for a long time to get a lot of support, work around the many collaboration was born.
[expand portraits and other paintings]
100 varieties of
from the "RADIO EVA" strict selection of the selected · display, now, Shibuya PARCO Exhibition "EVANGELION 100".Nagoya, Osaka · Umeda and tour the exhibition venue, before the general public in Tokyo held to preview the way.
Ayanami "garage kit
, EVA -" first people also show
to enter the venue will attract sb.'s attention, "the official is drawing reference model universal battle weapon EVA unit-01 (1994).".This is a general model, now the mainstream painting completed · plastic model; model, resin distribution role model "assembly type but a small amount of production of the" garage kit.Ano Hidea's own expense, animation art when the reference can be made to be the.
beside it, the garage kit Takara first making Ayanami wreath of (prototype: decorated with Teraoka Kuniki).This is 1996, January held in the garage kit amateur Exhibition "Magic Festival" was released.The activity is proud of the mobilization of 50000 very large activities now, also lost playing at that time, the garage kit goods less "EVA" produced a lot of things also, one reason that growth.
, cooperative commodity No. first is born unexpectedly enterprises and cooperation
Partner
the first enterprise, animated and at the same time period, in 1996 began to set up individual service started the Internet supplier "DTI".The membership of the mouse pad are made, memorable EVA No. first.
in addition, rare local, national higher school recruitment poster (1996) also show.Shinji and Asuka · Lei School scene fresh paint.Educational institutions, at present only 1 times.
(c) color
● canned coffee from art and fashion - spread to cooperateCommercial
a number of enterprise cooperation, breathing long "UCC milk coffee Evangelion tank" human can plan "(1996 ~).".The debut of familiar commodity printed characters tank, but this is the TV animated version of Michiru should room UCC coffee with milk stage to do as an opportunity to start UCC, old theatrical release during production.
in addition, the new movie "order" began Rosen and security cooperation as an opportunity to "Rosen × you tap tap, laboratory now, -, group, (2009)" attract sb.'s attention also remember.UCC collaboration tank Rosen who saw the perhaps more.Rosen original cartoon works joint products, this and buy the folder sent structure in recent years is the collaboration of various works to see, this is the "EVA" successful cooperation began.
○ EVA collaboration Hakone "Third New Tokyo city"
EVA stage of the "Third New Tokyo city", the actual existence in Hakone names on impact, in collaboration with the planning of "Hakone Hakone as Third New Tokyo City (2009)" held.The project began to tourists induced youth layer goal is "Hakone aid map" free school, first middle school "waste as the venue of the activities, try more fans gathered clever.
in addition, this cooperation, to 2011, Toyota car in, "you tap tap, and rehabilitation., Hakone × × TOYOTA power aid project in Third New Tokyo first middle school" in the name of the activities."Prius PHV agency NERV public car was identified" settings, NERV patterns show the prius.
, entertainment industry is also "EVA" active
TV animated version player trading came to about 1996, game machine "on the Sega saturn".This paper making and other staff made the hardware and software, released in 1998 "Evangelion EVA and good partners".Related articles:
● " the EVA, "Mr. anno their order, founding period support items
1995 TV animation "Evangelion", in 2012 the latest work "Q" released "you tap tap, rehabilitation, new theatre" series.And, in the future, "and released, you tap tap, laboratory, theater version"."EVA" this film for a long time to get a lot of support, work around the many collaboration was born.
[expand portraits and other paintings]
100 varieties of
from the "RADIO EVA" strict selection of the selected · display, now, Shibuya PARCO Exhibition "EVANGELION 100".Nagoya, Osaka · Umeda and tour the exhibition venue, before the general public in Tokyo held to preview the way.
Ayanami "garage kit
, EVA -" first people also show
to enter the venue will attract sb.'s attention, "the official is drawing reference model universal battle weapon EVA unit-01 (1994).".This is a general model, now the mainstream painting completed · plastic model; model, resin distribution role model "assembly type but a small amount of production of the" garage kit.Ano Hidea's own expense, animation art when the reference can be made to be the.
beside it, the garage kit Takara first making Ayanami wreath of (prototype: decorated with Teraoka Kuniki).This is 1996, January held in the garage kit amateur Exhibition "Magic Festival" was released.The activity is proud of the mobilization of 50000 very large activities now, also lost playing at that time, the garage kit goods less "EVA" produced a lot of things also, one reason that growth.
, cooperative commodity No. first is born unexpectedly enterprises and cooperation
Partner
the first enterprise, animated and at the same time period, in 1996 began to set up individual service started the Internet supplier "DTI".The membership of the mouse pad are made, memorable EVA No. first.
in addition, rare local, national higher school recruitment poster (1996) also show.Shinji and Asuka · Lei School scene fresh paint.Educational institutions, at present only 1 times.
(c) color
● canned coffee from art and fashion - spread to cooperateCommercial
a number of enterprise cooperation, breathing long "UCC milk coffee Evangelion tank" human can plan "(1996 ~).".The debut of familiar commodity printed characters tank, but this is the TV animated version of Michiru should room UCC coffee with milk stage to do as an opportunity to start UCC, old theatrical release during production.
in addition, the new movie "order" began Rosen and security cooperation as an opportunity to "Rosen × you tap tap, laboratory now, -, group, (2009)" attract sb.'s attention also remember.UCC collaboration tank Rosen who saw the perhaps more.Rosen original cartoon works joint products, this and buy the folder sent structure in recent years is the collaboration of various works to see, this is the "EVA" successful cooperation began.
○ EVA collaboration Hakone "Third New Tokyo city"
EVA stage of the "Third New Tokyo city", the actual existence in Hakone names on impact, in collaboration with the planning of "Hakone Hakone as Third New Tokyo City (2009)" held.The project began to tourists induced youth layer goal is "Hakone aid map" free school, first middle school "waste as the venue of the activities, try more fans gathered clever.
in addition, this cooperation, to 2011, Toyota car in, "you tap tap, and rehabilitation., Hakone × × TOYOTA power aid project in Third New Tokyo first middle school" in the name of the activities."Prius PHV agency NERV public car was identified" settings, NERV patterns show the prius.
, entertainment industry is also "EVA" active
TV animated version player trading came to about 1996, game machine "on the Sega saturn".This paper making and other staff made the hardware and software, released in 1998 "Evangelion EVA and good partners".Related articles:
10460
Shintaro Ishihara's film director challenge again!?
former governor of Tokyo, Japan will reform represented by Mr. Shintaro Ishihara (80) planning, the original film "Aoki original" (Metro Zhuo directed) 12, ushered in the first day of release, Tokyo Yurakucho trap seat starring Katsuno Yo (63), Maeda Aki (27), the stage greeting.
Mr. Ishihara day, a party of reform, and the absence of new director comments, read."The next time I film director once again challenge (58 years young beast" director "), the words" good movie production, the rise of the shouting.
now works, Ishihara is the "actor" is only one scene of the show, new director said: "(Ishihara act) pedicle to.Really want to cut, if so, immediately resigned as director on behalf of "reform!"Talking about because that, residual coding"."Direct joke ally" characteristic, the boiling up.Governor Shintaro Ishihara] [Association reported, "Aoki original" 47 years of film performance reform of Japan · Shintaro Ishihara represents life only one old man "go ballistic genius TV juvenile" popular child star, in the village of adult no desire benevolence beauty, clothes!...The movie "zombie" field name Geass AKB, like a dream of the stage version of "railroad man" in Shintaro Ishihara, Metro Zhuo, Katsuno Yo survey
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former governor of Tokyo, Japan will reform represented by Mr. Shintaro Ishihara (80) planning, the original film "Aoki original" (Metro Zhuo directed) 12, ushered in the first day of release, Tokyo Yurakucho trap seat starring Katsuno Yo (63), Maeda Aki (27), the stage greeting.
Mr. Ishihara day, a party of reform, and the absence of new director comments, read."The next time I film director once again challenge (58 years young beast" director "), the words" good movie production, the rise of the shouting.
now works, Ishihara is the "actor" is only one scene of the show, new director said: "(Ishihara act) pedicle to.Really want to cut, if so, immediately resigned as director on behalf of "reform!"Talking about because that, residual coding"."Direct joke ally" characteristic, the boiling up.Governor Shintaro Ishihara] [Association reported, "Aoki original" 47 years of film performance reform of Japan · Shintaro Ishihara represents life only one old man "go ballistic genius TV juvenile" popular child star, in the village of adult no desire benevolence beauty, clothes!...The movie "zombie" field name Geass AKB, like a dream of the stage version of "railroad man" in Shintaro Ishihara, Metro Zhuo, Katsuno Yo survey
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2013年1月13日星期日
in addition The Mirraz in February 13th is the larger 1st album "
The Mirraz & SHIBUYA-AX next spring beard, and performance
The Mirraz national tour of "our bad mood of this ~ misunderstanding of what the title ah tour 2012 ~" TNX "we had 2013", yesterday, · SHIBUYA-AX held in Tokyo in January 11th.Beard was a guest out moorhen.
[more] large image
the initiative as a beard, at the end of last year "12 / 13" Cherry communications JAPAN continue dancing around the country by Misaki Sato Suke (PhD) has 7 members.Misaki Sato "test" and "test Kang (PhD, Per) microphone hand stood in the center of the stage, the audience began to predict provocative beyond all expectations, impossible stage expansion.In three drum triple guitar Leis into unique complex ensemble, according to the song change the expression Sudo Ju (Vo, G) lead singer floor heat rises.Sudo "today is the highest in the evening." mood tone on disc, "new song please.We "an an boy's British · jokes" this song has, however, the sequel to write.1000000 sales target."Full of funny after saying, "an an boy's British · joke 2" announced the show.The second half of the concert approached, 7 games and more.And then finally, is "The Mirraz, thank you for today.So great to meet you i!"The Sudo's words of thanks, beard stage ended.
the actor The Mirraz, the new year as "spring sea" SE debut.Rule eight and a piano sound overlap "Happy ice cream" prelude to be ringing, melody of the license plate number The Mirraz concert kicked off.The first song finished Zai mountain Pacific (Vo, G) is "thank you!Warmly. "Cried," occurred. "" E - blinking song "offensive repertoire, one after another.Col (DR) base coarse rhythm, Zai hill and Misaki Sato Hiko (G) collection of guitar correct around, Nakajima have (B) Georgia dimension based let the audience dancing.And Zai "beard is the highest mountain.Very handsome.Today is not lost!"At top speed, assertion, that "freeway of star (Provisional)" down.
in the "mother" "wake up in the morning," and moderate tempo music, audience comfortable development act.And "the album out next month.Dialect handsome can so please listen to the "new" super horn "game start.See things in a blur out high speed rock style, the audience very enthusiastic.Dark temperament "injury" is over, the concert to accelerate the climax.Zai hill "bang it out." "declaration, the final decoration" women & gentleman "of this" bad "upper number.Zai mountain is a tune or interludes between several times "thank you" "ikebana!"The audience shouted, LIVE fun to visit.
repeat, Zai mountain stage from below to run import, side handle well disappear antics audience laughter.He: "I haven't run way to forget", while u middle glad that "TOP OF THE FUCK 'N WORLD" sing "we".And this day is also in response to the The Mirraz double.The 2013 offensive swear "Superman" I try to 4 people, "this year is a lot of attention!"And audience told the stage now.
in addition The Mirraz in February 13th is the larger 1st album "was chosen here, choosing instead to the" for sale.From April to tour "was selected to go there, there are not choosing to travel" the 18 venue was.
The Mirraz "we had 2013."
January 11, 2013 (Friday) Tokyo SHIBUYA-AX set list
1 happy ice cream
1 happened
3 E - blinking song
4 WAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
5 for Q10
6 Highway Star (temporary).
7 be about test have
8.
9 wake up in the morning,
10.I don 't said what if
11 super horn
12 it out!To view the it out!To view the it out!To view the it out!
thirteen what is good.
14
.Injury of 15 ms & gentleman
16 CAN jacket monster that appeared to undermine the World Bank
17.
18 last number
19 this mood of evil
< Encore?Message >
20 THE TOP OF FUCK 'N WORLD
21 we
< double available >
22 I am superman Association reported [] The Mirraz "choose to go there" spring records.Hair tour of 150000 5000 people attend!Related articles:
The Mirraz national tour of "our bad mood of this ~ misunderstanding of what the title ah tour 2012 ~" TNX "we had 2013", yesterday, · SHIBUYA-AX held in Tokyo in January 11th.Beard was a guest out moorhen.
[more] large image
the initiative as a beard, at the end of last year "12 / 13" Cherry communications JAPAN continue dancing around the country by Misaki Sato Suke (PhD) has 7 members.Misaki Sato "test" and "test Kang (PhD, Per) microphone hand stood in the center of the stage, the audience began to predict provocative beyond all expectations, impossible stage expansion.In three drum triple guitar Leis into unique complex ensemble, according to the song change the expression Sudo Ju (Vo, G) lead singer floor heat rises.Sudo "today is the highest in the evening." mood tone on disc, "new song please.We "an an boy's British · jokes" this song has, however, the sequel to write.1000000 sales target."Full of funny after saying, "an an boy's British · joke 2" announced the show.The second half of the concert approached, 7 games and more.And then finally, is "The Mirraz, thank you for today.So great to meet you i!"The Sudo's words of thanks, beard stage ended.
the actor The Mirraz, the new year as "spring sea" SE debut.Rule eight and a piano sound overlap "Happy ice cream" prelude to be ringing, melody of the license plate number The Mirraz concert kicked off.The first song finished Zai mountain Pacific (Vo, G) is "thank you!Warmly. "Cried," occurred. "" E - blinking song "offensive repertoire, one after another.Col (DR) base coarse rhythm, Zai hill and Misaki Sato Hiko (G) collection of guitar correct around, Nakajima have (B) Georgia dimension based let the audience dancing.And Zai "beard is the highest mountain.Very handsome.Today is not lost!"At top speed, assertion, that "freeway of star (Provisional)" down.
in the "mother" "wake up in the morning," and moderate tempo music, audience comfortable development act.And "the album out next month.Dialect handsome can so please listen to the "new" super horn "game start.See things in a blur out high speed rock style, the audience very enthusiastic.Dark temperament "injury" is over, the concert to accelerate the climax.Zai hill "bang it out." "declaration, the final decoration" women & gentleman "of this" bad "upper number.Zai mountain is a tune or interludes between several times "thank you" "ikebana!"The audience shouted, LIVE fun to visit.
repeat, Zai mountain stage from below to run import, side handle well disappear antics audience laughter.He: "I haven't run way to forget", while u middle glad that "TOP OF THE FUCK 'N WORLD" sing "we".And this day is also in response to the The Mirraz double.The 2013 offensive swear "Superman" I try to 4 people, "this year is a lot of attention!"And audience told the stage now.
in addition The Mirraz in February 13th is the larger 1st album "was chosen here, choosing instead to the" for sale.From April to tour "was selected to go there, there are not choosing to travel" the 18 venue was.
The Mirraz "we had 2013."
January 11, 2013 (Friday) Tokyo SHIBUYA-AX set list
1 happy ice cream
1 happened
3 E - blinking song
4 WAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
5 for Q10
6 Highway Star (temporary).
7 be about test have
8.
9 wake up in the morning,
10.I don 't said what if
11 super horn
12 it out!To view the it out!To view the it out!To view the it out!
thirteen what is good.
14
.Injury of 15 ms & gentleman
16 CAN jacket monster that appeared to undermine the World Bank
17.
18 last number
19 this mood of evil
< Encore?Message >
20 THE TOP OF FUCK 'N WORLD
21 we
< double available >
22 I am superman Association reported [] The Mirraz "choose to go there" spring records.Hair tour of 150000 5000 people attend!Related articles:
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Taiwan skate Sousse "8" with the ultra-thin computer published
[New York] = Mizewen computer market share in the world the fifth the Taiwan skate Sousse 23 PM (Japan time 24 days morning), the United States of New York, the United States of America's most basic Microsoft software (OS) "Windows 8" with the new products, a total of 6 series of releases.The most senior line, ultra light ASUS notebook computer "TAICHI (skate Sousse center test Internet)" (1299 ～ 1599 dollar = 100000 ～ 130000 yen).Desktop lateral also has the largest window panel, desktop notebook open, gently close your eyes just like using a flat terminal.Two pictures at the same time, also in the business field, meet each other when is convenient.The company's Johnny · marine president will be released, "the Internet Center test you, is really a perfect partner.".In Japan during November, 120000 ～ 130000 yen per sale prospect.The Japanese market share remained at around 5%, the company's new product investment, stage a comeback goal considering.
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[New York] = Mizewen computer market share in the world the fifth the Taiwan skate Sousse 23 PM (Japan time 24 days morning), the United States of New York, the United States of America's most basic Microsoft software (OS) "Windows 8" with the new products, a total of 6 series of releases.The most senior line, ultra light ASUS notebook computer "TAICHI (skate Sousse center test Internet)" (1299 ～ 1599 dollar = 100000 ～ 130000 yen).Desktop lateral also has the largest window panel, desktop notebook open, gently close your eyes just like using a flat terminal.Two pictures at the same time, also in the business field, meet each other when is convenient.The company's Johnny · marine president will be released, "the Internet Center test you, is really a perfect partner.".In Japan during November, 120000 ～ 130000 yen per sale prospect.The Japanese market share remained at around 5%, the company's new product investment, stage a comeback goal considering.
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2013年1月7日星期一
『ロード オブ ヴァーミリオンRe:2』公式店舗大会“アリスカップ”の実施が決定！ 参加賞はPRアリスのカ
『ロード オブ ヴァーミリオンRe:2』公式店舗大会“アリスカップ”の実施が決定！ 参加賞はPRアリスのカード
●優勝者には大判の賞状もプレゼント
スクウェア・エニックスは、アーケードゲーム『ロード オブ ヴァーミリオンRe:2』の公式店舗大会“アリスカップ”を、全国300箇所以上の稼動店舗にて実施することを発表した。
■公式店舗大会“アリスカップ”概要
開催期間：2013年1月12日（土）～2013年1月31日（木）
大会概要：32名によるトーナメント形式の店舗大会となります。参加者全員に参加賞としてPR使い魔カード「アリス」をプレゼント！ また、優勝者にはアリスの世界観を意識した大判（B2サイズ）の賞状が授与されます。賞状の裏面にはPRアリスのイラストと、イラストレーターである匡吉氏のサインが印刷されております。
開催店舗：2012年12月28日(金)16時に『ロード オブ ヴァーミリオンRe:2』公式サイトにて全開催店舗・開催日・大会レギュレーション公開。（予定）
※公式店舗大会“アリスカップ”は、各店舗ごとに開催される公式大会です。(それによる上位大会、特別称号授与等はございません)【関連記事】 『ロード オブ ヴァーミリオンRe:2』公式店舗大会“アリスカップ”の実施が決定！ 参加賞はPRアリスのカード 『ペルソナ』シリーズとのコラボも実施！ 新バージョン『ロード オブ ヴァーミリオン Re:2 ～再征～』が秋より稼働 『ロード オブ ヴァーミリオンRe:2』年末年始にかけたお得なキャンペーンが発表 豪華スペシャルカード第26弾の応募受付も開始
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●優勝者には大判の賞状もプレゼント
スクウェア・エニックスは、アーケードゲーム『ロード オブ ヴァーミリオンRe:2』の公式店舗大会“アリスカップ”を、全国300箇所以上の稼動店舗にて実施することを発表した。
■公式店舗大会“アリスカップ”概要
開催期間：2013年1月12日（土）～2013年1月31日（木）
大会概要：32名によるトーナメント形式の店舗大会となります。参加者全員に参加賞としてPR使い魔カード「アリス」をプレゼント！ また、優勝者にはアリスの世界観を意識した大判（B2サイズ）の賞状が授与されます。賞状の裏面にはPRアリスのイラストと、イラストレーターである匡吉氏のサインが印刷されております。
開催店舗：2012年12月28日(金)16時に『ロード オブ ヴァーミリオンRe:2』公式サイトにて全開催店舗・開催日・大会レギュレーション公開。（予定）
※公式店舗大会“アリスカップ”は、各店舗ごとに開催される公式大会です。(それによる上位大会、特別称号授与等はございません)【関連記事】 『ロード オブ ヴァーミリオンRe:2』公式店舗大会“アリスカップ”の実施が決定！ 参加賞はPRアリスのカード 『ペルソナ』シリーズとのコラボも実施！ 新バージョン『ロード オブ ヴァーミリオン Re:2 ～再征～』が秋より稼働 『ロード オブ ヴァーミリオンRe:2』年末年始にかけたお得なキャンペーンが発表 豪華スペシャルカード第26弾の応募受付も開始
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上海問屋、4種類から軸が選べるUSB接続型のメカニカルキーボード
上海問屋、4種類から軸が選べるUSB接続型のメカニカルキーボード
エバーグリーンは、打鍵感が異なるメカニカルキーボード4機種を、同社直営の通販サイト「上海問屋」で28日に発売した。価格は4,999円。
【拡大画像や他の画像】
日本語配列106キーのUSB接続型メカニカルキーボード。打鍵感の異なる黒軸タイプ・赤軸タイプ・茶軸タイプ・青軸タイプの4種類のキースイッチを用意する。黒軸タイプは打鍵感が重く、赤軸タイプは打鍵感が軽め。また、茶軸タイプは打鍵感が軽く反発、青軸タイプはクリック感を持つ、といった特徴がある。軸は、同社が用意したものを採用することで価格を抑えたという。
本体サイズはW150×D420×H35mm、重量は約1.1kg。キーピッチは18mm。ケーブル長は約1.7m。
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エバーグリーンは、打鍵感が異なるメカニカルキーボード4機種を、同社直営の通販サイト「上海問屋」で28日に発売した。価格は4,999円。
【拡大画像や他の画像】
日本語配列106キーのUSB接続型メカニカルキーボード。打鍵感の異なる黒軸タイプ・赤軸タイプ・茶軸タイプ・青軸タイプの4種類のキースイッチを用意する。黒軸タイプは打鍵感が重く、赤軸タイプは打鍵感が軽め。また、茶軸タイプは打鍵感が軽く反発、青軸タイプはクリック感を持つ、といった特徴がある。軸は、同社が用意したものを採用することで価格を抑えたという。
本体サイズはW150×D420×H35mm、重量は約1.1kg。キーピッチは18mm。ケーブル長は約1.7m。
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蓄電池で進む“価格破壊” 扱い容易「持ち運び型」に参入続々
蓄電池で進む“価格破壊” 扱い容易「持ち運び型」に参入続々
家庭向けの簡易蓄電池で“価格破壊”が進みはじめた。節電や防災意識が高まる中、扱いが容易な「持ち運び型」に大手や異業種が相次ぎ参入。海外部材の活用で低価格化を図るなど、競争が激化しつつある。 充電器などの輸入販売を行うワンゲイン（大阪市浪速区）は１１月、持ち運びが容易で住宅のコンセントから充電できる家庭用蓄電池「キャリ電」を発売した。価格は電池容量によって異なるが、照明器具なら１２時間、電気毛布は２～４時間使用できるタイプで約９万３千円と、１０万円を切る水準にした。 同製品は、電流を直流から交流に変換する装置を台湾から、バッテリーは鉛蓄電池を韓国から仕入れ、自社で組み立てることで低価格化を実現した。すでに神戸市内の病院に導入されているほか、大手不動産管理会社もマンションへの設置を検討しているという。 同様の持ち運べる蓄電池では、シャープが９月にリチウムイオン電池を使い、大型冷蔵庫を約３時間半動かせる製品を３１万円で発売。日立マクセルも今春、ポータブル蓄電池（１６万円）を発売している。ワンゲインの梅千得（ばい・ちえる）社長は「非常用電源ならば（リチウムイオン電池など）過剰な機能は不要。まず安価で普及をはかる」と強調した。 家庭用太陽光発電装置などに接続する定置型の蓄電池は１キロワット時あたり３０万円弱からで、導入に１５０万円以上かかるケースがほとんど。容量こそ小さいが非常時などの対策として持ち運び型蓄電池の低価格化が進めば、市場拡大に拍車をかけそうだ。
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Xi 100Mbpsフィールドテストリポート【愛媛県編】
11月16日にNTTドコモがサービスを開始した「docomo LTE Xi下り最大100Mbps」のフィールドテスト特集第3弾は、愛媛県での測定結果リポートです。電波測定の背景や計測方法などについてお伝えした「【はじめに】」と併せてご参照ください。
【拡大画像やフィールドテストの速度一覧】
※スピードテスト結果の表は、標準計測回数を7回とし、未計測の場合は空欄、計測1度の場合は平均値表記なしとしている。 LTE接続できない場合は計測回数が0または1回としている。
高知から前日に移動してきた愛媛県松山市内は、高知より人も交通量も多く、よほど良い条件が重ならないと、100Mbps近い下りスピードはでないであろうことが予想されるなか、市内の測定ポイントまで移動した。
●愛媛県松山市内
松山駅や松山市総合コミュニティセンターという大規模公営施設から約1kmほどの路地に入った地点で計測を行った。
基地局までは約400mの直線距離があり、やや遠く、うまく安定した電波を拾えるかどうかとチェックをしたところ、65～70dBm程度の電波強度でSNR20～25程度の場所で計測を実施した。
Xi 1.5GHz・15MHz幅での計測結果は、高知よりも速い下り最速91.79Mbps・上り最速22.91Mbpsという結果であった。 RBB Todayの平均値下り86.1Mbps・上り18.91という結果も非常に高速だ。
主要駅や県庁などの公共機関、あるいは大規模商業施設に向けての電波ではないが、広いエリアをカバーしている基地局ではないかと思われる。
他社のネットワーク状況については、au 4G LTEが下り最速19.27Mbps・上り最速17.06Mbpsということでやや弱いもののシッカリ、EMOBILE LTEは、モバイルWi-FiルーターGL04P+OptimusGで下り最速11.56Mbps・上り最速12.79と良好な結果に。
そしてSoftBank 4G（AXGP）は、RAZR M 201Mでの計測結果が下り最速48.54Mbps・上り最速8.4Mbpsという結果で路地にしてはかなり速い状態だった。
Xi 2.1GHzは、5MHz幅だったが、下り最速23.93Mbps・上り最速5.95Mbpsと非常に高速なネットワークの状態であったので、2012秋以前のモデルでも快適に利用できるエリアと言える。
●愛媛県伊予郡松前町
愛媛県2箇所目の測定ポイントは、松山市からクルマで20分ほどの伊予郡松前町で、目の前に田んぼのあるような場所だが、基地局からの距離も悪くはないポイントで測定を開始した。
障害物もないのに、なかなか80Mbps以上のスピードが出ない。とはいえ、下り平均72Mbpsはかなりの高速なわけだが、慣れというのは恐ろしいもので、既に3箇所での計測を終えたあとなので、もっとスピードが出るであろうと思いこんでいた。しかし、北側に大規模商業施設があることから、独占状態で利用できることはないということで、このエリアでの計測を終えた。
その他の回線では、EMOBILE LTEが非LTEエリアで、SoftBank4Gも同様にLTEエリア外でかつ異常に遅い状態だった。しかしau 4G LTEは下り最速33.55Mbps・上り最速18.77Mbpsと下り上りともに高速安定性を保っており、想定通りではあるが、四国内はドコモとKDDIの一騎打ち状態だと感じる結果であった。
●まとめ
スピードが出た市街地、スピードが出なかった見通しの良い田んぼの前。基地局の性能は十分であっても、サービスがを利用する人が多いのか、バックボーンの容量が見合っているものなのかという状況にも左右されるはずだ。（バックボーンの容量については外部から掌握できないが）
仮に1.5GHz帯のみの基地局だったとしても、特に大規模商業施設やオフィスビルが立ち並ぶようなエリアでは、今後はなかなかスピードが出なくなることが想定される。また、基地局が複数のバンドに対応していることで収容するユーザ数が多くなってしまうことも、高速ネットワーク対応機種であっても、期待すべきスピードが出ない要因となるだろう。
ルーラルエリアとまではいかなくとも、絶対ユーザ数が少ないエリアでさえも、サービス開始直後に理論値上限に近い数字がでないことが当然のようにあるということが確認できた。
高速ネットワークを体感したいならば、早々に（収容するユーザが増える前に）、実際にスピードが出たポイントで時間帯などを見計らって試してほしい。【関連記事】 Xi 100Mbpsフィールドテストリポート【高知県編】 Xi 100Mbpsフィールドテストリポート【はじめに】 神尾寿のMobile＋Views：大都市部でも100Mbps対応――仙台でXi高速サービス開始 神尾寿のMobile＋Views：条件がよければ固定網より速い!? ドコモのLTE 「Xi」100Mbpsサービスの実力 ドコモ、一部地域で「Xi」の通信速度を下り最大100Mbpsに高速化
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11月16日にNTTドコモがサービスを開始した「docomo LTE Xi下り最大100Mbps」のフィールドテスト特集第3弾は、愛媛県での測定結果リポートです。電波測定の背景や計測方法などについてお伝えした「【はじめに】」と併せてご参照ください。
【拡大画像やフィールドテストの速度一覧】
※スピードテスト結果の表は、標準計測回数を7回とし、未計測の場合は空欄、計測1度の場合は平均値表記なしとしている。 LTE接続できない場合は計測回数が0または1回としている。
高知から前日に移動してきた愛媛県松山市内は、高知より人も交通量も多く、よほど良い条件が重ならないと、100Mbps近い下りスピードはでないであろうことが予想されるなか、市内の測定ポイントまで移動した。
●愛媛県松山市内
松山駅や松山市総合コミュニティセンターという大規模公営施設から約1kmほどの路地に入った地点で計測を行った。
基地局までは約400mの直線距離があり、やや遠く、うまく安定した電波を拾えるかどうかとチェックをしたところ、65～70dBm程度の電波強度でSNR20～25程度の場所で計測を実施した。
Xi 1.5GHz・15MHz幅での計測結果は、高知よりも速い下り最速91.79Mbps・上り最速22.91Mbpsという結果であった。 RBB Todayの平均値下り86.1Mbps・上り18.91という結果も非常に高速だ。
主要駅や県庁などの公共機関、あるいは大規模商業施設に向けての電波ではないが、広いエリアをカバーしている基地局ではないかと思われる。
他社のネットワーク状況については、au 4G LTEが下り最速19.27Mbps・上り最速17.06Mbpsということでやや弱いもののシッカリ、EMOBILE LTEは、モバイルWi-FiルーターGL04P+OptimusGで下り最速11.56Mbps・上り最速12.79と良好な結果に。
そしてSoftBank 4G（AXGP）は、RAZR M 201Mでの計測結果が下り最速48.54Mbps・上り最速8.4Mbpsという結果で路地にしてはかなり速い状態だった。
Xi 2.1GHzは、5MHz幅だったが、下り最速23.93Mbps・上り最速5.95Mbpsと非常に高速なネットワークの状態であったので、2012秋以前のモデルでも快適に利用できるエリアと言える。
●愛媛県伊予郡松前町
愛媛県2箇所目の測定ポイントは、松山市からクルマで20分ほどの伊予郡松前町で、目の前に田んぼのあるような場所だが、基地局からの距離も悪くはないポイントで測定を開始した。
障害物もないのに、なかなか80Mbps以上のスピードが出ない。とはいえ、下り平均72Mbpsはかなりの高速なわけだが、慣れというのは恐ろしいもので、既に3箇所での計測を終えたあとなので、もっとスピードが出るであろうと思いこんでいた。しかし、北側に大規模商業施設があることから、独占状態で利用できることはないということで、このエリアでの計測を終えた。
その他の回線では、EMOBILE LTEが非LTEエリアで、SoftBank4Gも同様にLTEエリア外でかつ異常に遅い状態だった。しかしau 4G LTEは下り最速33.55Mbps・上り最速18.77Mbpsと下り上りともに高速安定性を保っており、想定通りではあるが、四国内はドコモとKDDIの一騎打ち状態だと感じる結果であった。
●まとめ
スピードが出た市街地、スピードが出なかった見通しの良い田んぼの前。基地局の性能は十分であっても、サービスがを利用する人が多いのか、バックボーンの容量が見合っているものなのかという状況にも左右されるはずだ。（バックボーンの容量については外部から掌握できないが）
仮に1.5GHz帯のみの基地局だったとしても、特に大規模商業施設やオフィスビルが立ち並ぶようなエリアでは、今後はなかなかスピードが出なくなることが想定される。また、基地局が複数のバンドに対応していることで収容するユーザ数が多くなってしまうことも、高速ネットワーク対応機種であっても、期待すべきスピードが出ない要因となるだろう。
ルーラルエリアとまではいかなくとも、絶対ユーザ数が少ないエリアでさえも、サービス開始直後に理論値上限に近い数字がでないことが当然のようにあるということが確認できた。
高速ネットワークを体感したいならば、早々に（収容するユーザが増える前に）、実際にスピードが出たポイントで時間帯などを見計らって試してほしい。【関連記事】 Xi 100Mbpsフィールドテストリポート【高知県編】 Xi 100Mbpsフィールドテストリポート【はじめに】 神尾寿のMobile＋Views：大都市部でも100Mbps対応――仙台でXi高速サービス開始 神尾寿のMobile＋Views：条件がよければ固定網より速い!? ドコモのLTE 「Xi」100Mbpsサービスの実力 ドコモ、一部地域で「Xi」の通信速度を下り最大100Mbpsに高速化
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【話の肖像画】フィンランド冬便り（上）デザイナー・石本藤雄
【話の肖像画】フィンランド冬便り（上）デザイナー・石本藤雄
■世界一周のはずが…在住４２年 北欧フィンランドの冬は暗くて長い。しかし、同国で４０年以上活躍する日本人デザイナーは、その過酷さゆえの美と豊かさがあるという。モダンなテキスタイルで世界的に知られるブランド、「マリメッコ」のデザイナーを長年務めたのち、陶芸作家として土と格闘する日々を送っている。（文・黒沢綾子） ◇ －－ヘルシンキはこの時期、日が短いんですよね 石本 日の出は午前９時ごろ、日没は午後３時ごろです。雪景色になれば気分も上がりますが、今年はまだ積もるほど降らなくて、どんよりしてますね。でも、クリスマスの電飾で街は華やかですよ。子供たちは喜んでます。 －－すてきですね。４２年前の１９７０年、初めてフィンランドを訪れたのも、冬が始まるころだったとか 石本 飛行機で上空から見下ろすと、一面、真っ白の雪景色。すごくきれいでね、フィンランドに居着いた理由の一つかもしれない。 －－最初からフィンランドに長く暮らす予定ではなかったそうで 石本 芸大でグラフィックデザインを専攻し、卒業後は（アパレルの）「市田」で呉服担当の広告デザイナーをしていた。今思えば自分に問題があるんだけど、仕事で欲求不満がたまっていた僕に、世界一周の旅を経験した友達が『外に出て社会勉強した方がいいんじゃない』と言った。学生運動が盛んな６０年代末、若者の旅も一種のブームだったのかなあ。退職金や（愛車の）ホンダＳ６００を売ったりして資金をつくり、世界一周の航空券を手に入れました。 －－最初はどこへ？ 石本 ニューヨークに４０日ほどいました。でも、東京で海外のデザイン誌をたくさん見ていたせいか、すべて、知っている気がした。そこで、カナダ経由でロンドンに行くと色彩感覚が面白くて。何といっても、ゴミ袋がショッキングピンクだったこと！ －－パンクですね 石本 その後、デンマークのコペンハーゲンに入るころには持ち金も少なくなって…。日本を出てまだ３カ月。すぐに帰るのは恥ずかしい。生活費を稼ぐためレストランの皿洗いの職を得たんですが、やっぱりデザインの仕事がしたいと思い直し、結局その店には行かなかった。もし行っていたら、しばらく滞在してから日本に戻り、今とは全く違う人生だったでしょうね。 －－まさに転機。でも、デザインの仕事を探すのは大変でしょう？ 石本 ええ。でも来日経験のあるデンマーク人や、いろんな出会いがあって、最終的にフィンランドのマリメッコに何とかたどりついた。マリメッコの個性的なデザインには、学生時代から注目してたんです。 《マリメッコ社は５１年創業。布地や服、インテリア雑貨などを展開。５０年代に北欧デザインが世界的に注目されたことや、６０年の米大統領選挙でジャクリーン・ケネディ夫人が鮮やかなマリメッコのドレスを愛用したことなどで、一気に認知度が高まった》 石本 創業者社長のアルミ・ラティアさんの面接を受けました。生まれて一度もプリントデザインをしたことがないくせに「やりたい」と言ったんです。むちゃくちゃです（笑）。でもどうにか、僕と同じ年の息子さんが経営するマリメッコの子会社に入れました。日用雑貨のギフト用商品を企画・販売する会社です。 －－息子さんの回想によれば、アルミさんが「チャーミングな日本人男性がいる。英語もフィンランド語もしゃべらないけれど、すばらしい才能を感じるの」と採用を勧めてくれたそうで。言葉はどうしたんですか？ 石本 辞書をひきながら。あと、マリメッコには当時（デザイナーの）脇阪克二さんがいたので、ずいぶん助けてもらいました。 ◇【プロフィル】石本藤雄 いしもと・ふじお 昭和１６（１９４１）年、愛媛県出身。７１歳。東京芸大美術学部工芸科卒。４５年からフィンランドの首都ヘルシンキに在住。平成２２年、同国の芸術家に贈られる最高位「フィンランド獅子勲章プロ・フィンランディア・メダル」を受章。１２～２９日に東京・南青山の「スパイラル」で布と陶の個展が開かれる。
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■世界一周のはずが…在住４２年 北欧フィンランドの冬は暗くて長い。しかし、同国で４０年以上活躍する日本人デザイナーは、その過酷さゆえの美と豊かさがあるという。モダンなテキスタイルで世界的に知られるブランド、「マリメッコ」のデザイナーを長年務めたのち、陶芸作家として土と格闘する日々を送っている。（文・黒沢綾子） ◇ －－ヘルシンキはこの時期、日が短いんですよね 石本 日の出は午前９時ごろ、日没は午後３時ごろです。雪景色になれば気分も上がりますが、今年はまだ積もるほど降らなくて、どんよりしてますね。でも、クリスマスの電飾で街は華やかですよ。子供たちは喜んでます。 －－すてきですね。４２年前の１９７０年、初めてフィンランドを訪れたのも、冬が始まるころだったとか 石本 飛行機で上空から見下ろすと、一面、真っ白の雪景色。すごくきれいでね、フィンランドに居着いた理由の一つかもしれない。 －－最初からフィンランドに長く暮らす予定ではなかったそうで 石本 芸大でグラフィックデザインを専攻し、卒業後は（アパレルの）「市田」で呉服担当の広告デザイナーをしていた。今思えば自分に問題があるんだけど、仕事で欲求不満がたまっていた僕に、世界一周の旅を経験した友達が『外に出て社会勉強した方がいいんじゃない』と言った。学生運動が盛んな６０年代末、若者の旅も一種のブームだったのかなあ。退職金や（愛車の）ホンダＳ６００を売ったりして資金をつくり、世界一周の航空券を手に入れました。 －－最初はどこへ？ 石本 ニューヨークに４０日ほどいました。でも、東京で海外のデザイン誌をたくさん見ていたせいか、すべて、知っている気がした。そこで、カナダ経由でロンドンに行くと色彩感覚が面白くて。何といっても、ゴミ袋がショッキングピンクだったこと！ －－パンクですね 石本 その後、デンマークのコペンハーゲンに入るころには持ち金も少なくなって…。日本を出てまだ３カ月。すぐに帰るのは恥ずかしい。生活費を稼ぐためレストランの皿洗いの職を得たんですが、やっぱりデザインの仕事がしたいと思い直し、結局その店には行かなかった。もし行っていたら、しばらく滞在してから日本に戻り、今とは全く違う人生だったでしょうね。 －－まさに転機。でも、デザインの仕事を探すのは大変でしょう？ 石本 ええ。でも来日経験のあるデンマーク人や、いろんな出会いがあって、最終的にフィンランドのマリメッコに何とかたどりついた。マリメッコの個性的なデザインには、学生時代から注目してたんです。 《マリメッコ社は５１年創業。布地や服、インテリア雑貨などを展開。５０年代に北欧デザインが世界的に注目されたことや、６０年の米大統領選挙でジャクリーン・ケネディ夫人が鮮やかなマリメッコのドレスを愛用したことなどで、一気に認知度が高まった》 石本 創業者社長のアルミ・ラティアさんの面接を受けました。生まれて一度もプリントデザインをしたことがないくせに「やりたい」と言ったんです。むちゃくちゃです（笑）。でもどうにか、僕と同じ年の息子さんが経営するマリメッコの子会社に入れました。日用雑貨のギフト用商品を企画・販売する会社です。 －－息子さんの回想によれば、アルミさんが「チャーミングな日本人男性がいる。英語もフィンランド語もしゃべらないけれど、すばらしい才能を感じるの」と採用を勧めてくれたそうで。言葉はどうしたんですか？ 石本 辞書をひきながら。あと、マリメッコには当時（デザイナーの）脇阪克二さんがいたので、ずいぶん助けてもらいました。 ◇【プロフィル】石本藤雄 いしもと・ふじお 昭和１６（１９４１）年、愛媛県出身。７１歳。東京芸大美術学部工芸科卒。４５年からフィンランドの首都ヘルシンキに在住。平成２２年、同国の芸術家に贈られる最高位「フィンランド獅子勲章プロ・フィンランディア・メダル」を受章。１２～２９日に東京・南青山の「スパイラル」で布と陶の個展が開かれる。
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2013年1月5日星期六
—Social Security payroll tax cut
Details of legislation averting 'fiscal cliff'
Highlights of a bill Congress passed Tuesday aimed at averting wide tax increases and budget cuts scheduled to take effect with the new year. The measure would raise taxes by about $600 billion over 10 years compared with tax policies that were due to expire at midnight Monday. It would also delay for two months across-the-board cuts to the budgets of the Pentagon and numerous domestic agencies.
The House and Senate passed the bill Tuesday and sent it to President Barack Obama for his signature.
Highlights include:
—Income tax rates: Extends decade-old tax cuts on incomes up to $400,000 for individuals, $450,000 for couples. Earnings above those amounts would be taxed at a rate of 39.6 percent, up from the current 35 percent. Extends Clinton-era caps on itemized deductions and the phase-out of the personal exemption for individuals making more than $250,000 and couples earning more than $300,000.
—Estate tax: Estates would be taxed at a top rate of 40 percent, with the first $5 million in value exempted for individual estates and $10 million for family estates. In 2012, such estates were subject to a top rate of 35 percent.
—Capital gains, dividends: Taxes on capital gains and dividend income exceeding $400,000 for individuals and $450,000 for families would increase from 15 percent to 20 percent.
—Alternative minimum tax: Permanently addresses the alternative minimum tax and indexes it for inflation to prevent nearly 30 million middle- and upper-middle-income taxpayers from being hit with higher tax bills averaging almost $3,000. The tax was originally designed to ensure that the wealthy did not avoid owing taxes by using loopholes.
—Other tax changes: Extends for five years Obama-sought expansions of the child tax credit, the earned income tax credit, and an up-to-$2,500 tax credit for college tuition. Also extends for one year accelerated "bonus" depreciation of business investments in new property and equipment, a tax credit for research and development costs and a tax credit for renewable energy such as wind-generated electricity.
—Unemployment benefits: Extends jobless benefits for the long-term unemployed for one year.
—Cuts in Medicare reimbursements to doctors: Blocks a 27 percent cut in Medicare payments to doctors for one year. The cut is the product of an obsolete 1997 budget formula.
—Social Security payroll tax cut: Allows a 2-percentage-point cut in the payroll tax first enacted two years ago to lapse, which restores the payroll tax to 6.2 percent.
—Across-the-board cuts: Delays for two months $109 billion worth of across-the-board spending cuts set to start striking the Pentagon and domestic agencies this week. Cost of $24 billion is divided between spending cuts and new revenues from rule changes on converting traditional individual retirement accounts into Roth IRAs.
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Middle and lower-income taxpayers are the main beneficiaries of the fiscal-cliff deal, but there are other winners—and losers—of the last-minute scramble to avert scheduled tax increases and spending cuts. The gridlock leading up to the deal dimmed the country’s already dim view of Congress. Lawmakers aren’t going to get the grand deficit-reduction bargain they had hoped for. And although an economic crisis may have been averted, the final deal sets the stage for another debt-ceiling showdown.
Winners:
‘Middle-Class’ Taxpayers. With the Bush tax cuts set to extend for individuals making less than $400,000, middle- and upper-middle class taxpayers can breathe a sigh of relief. The Alternative Minimum Tax will be permanently lifted to reflect inflation, sparing close to 30 million taxpayers from a tax increase. The tax relief isn’t total, however: The payroll tax cut won’t be extended for another year, meaning that working Americans will see their paychecks reduced in 2013. But it could have been worse.  Â
President Obama and Vice President Biden. President Obama made the fiscal cliff negotiations all about taxes, repeating the call for tax increases on the rich and tax cuts for the middle class that helped him win reelection. Although the final deal is less than the president had hoped for, he gets to say he kept his campaign promise to protect middle-class Americans. He also gets to renew key tax cuts passed as part of his 2009 stimulus package and to extend unemployment insurance. Meanwhile, Vice President Joe Biden can revel in the crucial role he played in last-minute discussions with Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell.
Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell. The wily legislator who once pledged to block President Obama at every turn has proved, once again, to be a crucial deal-maker between the White House and Congress. Initially sidelined as negotiations focused on President Obama and Speaker John Boehner, McConnell stepped forward at the last minute to help craft legislation that Republicans could support.
AARP. Seniors—and the lobbyists who represent them—won’t be feeling the pain of entitlement cuts come January, despite initial insistence from Republican lawmakers that significant cuts to Medicare or Social Security be part of a fiscal cliff deal. The battle to prevent a switch to chained CPI, a metric that would reduce the growth of Social Security payments, has been won, at least for now.
Losers:
Deficit Hawks. Going over the fiscal cliff would have significantly reduced the deficit, combining cuts to domestic and military spending with tax hikes on pretty much everyone. The last-minute deal reached by Washington negotiators lifted taxes on the wealthiest Americans and didn’t do anything to cut spending.
Speaker Boehner’s Plan B. Speaker Boehner’s attempt to rally his caucus behind an alternate cliff deal, dubbed "Plan B," failed miserably: a bad sign of the Ohio Republican’s ability to put forward an alternative that his caucus could take seriously. Boehner’s plan included too many tax increases and not enough spending cuts for Republicans to stomach—and it seemed to temporarily stall negotiations.
The U.S. Treasury. The United States hit its borrowing limit on Monday, and lawmakers failed to include raising the limit as part of the cliff deal. The Treasury Department will enact what it calls “extraordinary measures� to avoid a government default, but it can only protect the nation’s credit for so long. Stay tuned in the coming months for another Washington fight over whether, and how, to raise the debt ceiling.
The 1 Percent. Wealthy Americans who make their money from investments, rather than paychecks, were losers in the fiscal-cliff deal. In addition to higher income taxes, those who make above $400,000 will now be subject to a 20 percent tax rate on their capital gains and dividends. The fiscal cliff wasn’t all bad news for the wealthy, however: They can still bequeath up to $5 million tax-free, with any additional money taxed at 40 percent. That’s greater than the current 35 percent estate tax rate, but less than the 55 percent rate on assets over $1 million that would have gone into effect without a deal.
Holiday Cheer.  From senators who had to fly back to Washington two days after Christmas to Hill staffers who canceled New Year's Eve plans in anticipation of a late night hammering out a deal, the fiscal-cliff negotiations cast a pall over the holiday season. And it wasn’t just Washington: Americans spent the holidays wringing their hands over pending tax increases.
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But many in Pakistan's military viewed Nazir and militant chiefs like him as "good Taliban
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PESHAWAR, Pakistan (AP) — Two U.S. drone strikes on northwest Pakistan killed a senior Taliban commander who fought American forces in Afghanistan but had a truce with the Pakistani military, intelligence officials said Thursday.
The commander, Maulvi Nazir, was among nine people killed in a missile strike on a house in the village of Angoor Adda in the South Waziristan tribal region near the border with Afghanistan late Wednesday night, five Pakistani security officials said on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to talk to the media.
At least four people were killed in a separate drone strike on Thursday morning near Mir Ali, the main town of the North Waziristan tribal region.
America's use of drones against militants in Pakistan has increased substantially under President Barack Obama and the program has killed a number of top militant commanders over the past year.
But the drone strikes are extremely contentious in Pakistan, seen as an infringement on the country's sovereignty. And while the U.S. maintains that it targets militants, many Pakistanis complain that innocent civilians have also been killed.
Nazir's killing could cause even more friction in the already tense relations between Washington and Islamabad. Pakistan is believed to have struck a nonaggression pact with Nazir ahead of its 2009 military operation against militants in South Waziristan.
Fighters under Nazir's command focused their attacks on American forces in neighboring Afghanistan, earning him the enmity of the U.S.
But many in Pakistan's military viewed Nazir and militant chiefs like him as "good Taliban," meaning they focus attacks only on foreign forces in Afghanistan, keeping domestic peace by not attacking Pakistani targets.
Nazir outraged many Pakistanis in June when he announced that he would not allow any polio vaccinations in territory under his control until the U.S. stops drone attacks in the region.
Pakistan is one of three countries where polio is still endemic. Nine workers helping in anti-polio vaccination campaigns were killed last month by militant gunmen and the killings this week of five female teachers and two aid workers may also have been linked to their work on the polio campaigns.
Residents in Angoor Adda and Wana, the biggest town in South Waziristan, said mosque loudspeakers announced Nazir's death. One resident, Ajaz Khan, said 5,000 to 10,000 people attended the funeral of Nazir and six other people in Angoor Adda.
Ahmed Yar, a resident who attended the funeral, said Nazir's body was badly burned and his face unrecognizable.
Reports of individual deaths in such cases are often difficult to independently verify. Pakistani and foreign journalists have a hard time traveling to the remote areas where many of these strikes occur, and the U.S. rarely comments on its secretive drone program.
Nazir was active in many parts of Afghanistan and had close ties with Arab members of al-Qaida as well as the Afghan Taliban, said Mansur Mahsud, the head of the Islamabad-based FATA Research Centre, which studies the tribal regions.
"His death is a great blow to the Afghan Taliban," he said.
The Taliban is a widely diverse group. The Afghan Taliban is made up mostly of Afghans who fight against U.S. and NATO troops. In Pakistan the group has been divided with some fighting the Pakistani government because of its support for the U.S. Other Taliban groups in Pakistan, such as Nazir's, focus their energies on fighting American and NATO troops in Afghanistan but have a truce with the Pakistani military.
Nazir, who was believed to be about 40 years old, had property in both Pakistan and Afghanistan. He used to be a member of Hizb-e-Islami, a militant Islamist group run by former Afghan prime minister Gulbuddin Hekmatyar. The group has thousands of fighters and followers across the north and east of Afghanistan.
Nazir had survived several assassination attempts including at least two previous American drone strikes.
In November, a suicide bomber tried to kill him as he was arriving at an office where he used to meet with local residents and hear their complaints. Nazir and more than a dozen other people were wounded in the attack, and seven were killed.
No group claimed responsibility, but suspicion immediately fell on rival militants including the head of the Tehrik-e-Taliban (TTP), Hakimullah Mehsud, who had been jockeying with Nazir for power in South Waziristan. The TTP is an umbrella group of militants formed to oust the Pakistani government and install a hardline Islamist regime. They have been behind much of the violence tearing apart Pakistan in recent years.
Nazir's non-aggression pact with the Pakistani military allowed the army to launch a massive operation in South Waziristan against the TTP which displaced more than 800,000 people and drove Hakimullah Mehsud from the region.
In retaliation for the assassination attempt, Nazir expelled members of the Hakimullah's Mehsud tribe from Wana. Nazir was meeting with supporters to discuss how to deal with the TTP when the missiles struck on Wednesday night, said Mehsud from the FATA center.
Nazir's group quickly appointed his close aide Bawal Khan as a replacement, according to one of Nazir's commanders. He spoke on condition of anonymity because he was not authorized to talk to the media.
But it remains to be seen what the new leader's policies will be and whether the tension with the TTP could lead to a power struggle in the region.
"Trouble will follow," said Mehsud.
The former chief of intelligence in northwest Pakistan, retired brigadier Asad Munir, said Nazir's killing will complicate the fight against militants in the tribal region, and could prompt Nazir's group to carry out retaliatory attacks against the Pakistani army in South Waziristan.
It will also raise questions among military commanders here who would like the U.S. to use its firepower against the Pakistani Taliban, which attacks domestic targets, and not against militants like Nazir who aren't seen as posing as much of a threat to the state, Munir said.
He added that the risk now for Pakistan is that the remnants of Nazir's group could join ranks with the Pakistani Taliban in its war with the government and army.
Drone strikes have been on the rise during Obama's presidency.
According to the Long War Journal, which tracks drone strikes, there were 35 strikes in Pakistan during 2008, the last year President George W. Bush was in office.
That number shot up to 117 in 2010 and then dropped the 46 last year. The strike that killed Nazir was the first of 2013.
The program has killed a number of top militant commanders over the past year, including al-Qaida's then-No. 2, Abu Yahya al-Libi, who died in a drone strike in June on the Pakistani village of Khassu Khel in North Waziristan.
In August, another missile strike in North Waziristan killed Badruddin Haqqani, who has been described as the day-to-day operations commander of the Haqqani network, which has been blamed by the U.S. for carrying out some of the most high-profile attacks against American and NATO troops in Afghanistan.
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Associated Press writers Asif Shahzad and Rebecca Santana in Islamabad contributed to this report.
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2013年1月4日星期五
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Navy Launches Disturbing Anti-Bath Salts PSA
A new, disturbing dramatization of a sailor ingesting "bath salts" and then having violent hallucinations is the latest salvo in the Navy's ongoing fight against synthetic drugs.
The public service announcement, published online in December, puts the viewer in the shoes of a young sailor who snorts bath salts he received in the mail. A short time later the sailor vomits, but it isn't until he meets his girlfriend for bowling that hallucinations strike.
Suddenly the girl appears demonic to the sailor and he assaults her. Later, the sailor's roommate also turns into a demon before the sailor apparently collapses. Woken in restraints as he's being brought to the hospital, the sailor groans in agony as medical professionals attempt to treat him. The video then shows Lt. George Loeffler, a Psychiatry Resident at the Naval Medical Center in San Diego, as he describes the dangers of the drugs.
"When people are using bath salts, they're not their normal selves," he says. "They're angrier. They're erratic. They're violent and they're unpredictable…. People will start seeing things that aren't there, believing things that aren't true."
Loeffler said that the most disturbing thing about bath salts is that the effects of paranoia can last days or even weeks after the drugs have left the user's system.
Bath salts, which were the subject of an ABC News' "20/20? investigation in June 2011, are chemicals meant to mimic the effects of cocaine, LSD or methamphetamine that at the time could be easily and legally sold to anyone - including minors - as long as the warning labels said they were not meant for human consumption. The chemicals have nothing to do with bathing products.
Then in September 2011, the Drug Enforcement Administration announced it was implementing an emergency ban on the narcotics to "protect the public from the imminent hazard" caused by bath salts.
Part of the "20/20? investigation described the experience of BMX rider Dickie Sanders who ingested bath salts called Cloud Nine in 2010.
According to his parents, after taking the drug Sanders was convinced there were dozens of police cars and helicopters just outside the home, even though there were none. Then, suddenly, he grabbed a knife and sliced at his throat from ear to ear. He survived the knife wound and told his mother he had had enough.
"He actually looked at me and said, 'I can't handle what this drug has done to me. I'm never going to touch anything again,'" Julie Sanders said.
But hours later and without warning, Sanders had another psychotic episode and took his own life with a rifle.
The U.S. Navy has been battling the use of bath salts and other synthetic drugs by its sailors and Navy Medicine has set up a webpage specifically to educate sailors and the public about the potentially disastrous health risks involved.
CLICK HERE to visit Navy Medicine's webpage "Synthetic Drugs and Your Health"
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Abbott wins FDA approval for heart stent
(Reuters) - Abbott Laboratories' Xience Xpedition heart stent was approved by U.S. health regulators and will be launched in the United States immediately, the company said on Thursday.
Heart stents are tiny tubular devices that prop open diseased blood vessels after angioplasty. Abbott's stent delivers a drug, everolimus, which helps keep the vessel from reclogging.
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The Central American nation of nearly 15 million people registered 5
Guatemala's homicide rate falls for third year in a row
GUATEMALA CITY (Reuters) - Homicides in Guatemala, which has one of the world's highest murder rates, fell in 2012 for a third year as authorities ramped up their battle against Mexican drug cartels and other organized criminals, the security ministry said on Wednesday.
The Central American nation of nearly 15 million people registered 5,174 murders in 2012, an 8.9 percent drop from 2011.
"We have improved coordination between the state prosecutor's office and the police ... and we have a new school with more advanced training for officers," Vice-Minister of Security Arkel Benitez told Reuters.
Guatemala has been battling a wave of violent crime for over a decade, with homicides peaking at 6,498 in 2009, giving the country one of the world's highest per capita murder rates, according to the United Nations.
Powerful Mexican drug cartels battling for territory to ship South American cocaine to the United States have spread their brutal tactics to Guatemala, contributing to high crime rates.
Youth street gangs known as 'Maras' also extort money from residents and businesses, often killing those who don't pay.
President Otto Perez took office in January 2011 promising a crackdown on organized criminals. He sent 300 new elite soldiers known as 'Kaibiles' to Guatemala's porous northern border region with Mexico to fight traffickers and has installed military posts in dangerous areas of the capital city.
(Reporting by Mike McDonald; Editing by Simon Gardner)
adding that 40 percent of viewing traffic on Al-Jazeera English's website is from the U.S.
Al-Jazeera buys Current TV from Al Gore
LOS ANGELES (AP) — Al-Jazeera, the Pan-Arab news channel that struggled to win space on American cable television, has acquired Current TV, boosting its reach in the U.S. nearly ninefold to about 40 million homes. With a focus on U.S. news, it plans to rebrand the left-leaning news network that cofounder Al Gore couldn't make relevant.
The former vice president confirmed the sale Wednesday, saying in a statement that Al-Jazeera shares Current TV's mission "to give voice to those who are not typically heard; to speak truth to power; to provide independent and diverse points of view; and to tell the stories that no one else is telling."
The acquisition lifts Al-Jazeera's reach beyond a few large U.S. metropolitan areas including New York and Washington, where about 4.7 million homes can now watch Al-Jazeera English.
Al-Jazeera, owned by the government of Qatar, plans to gradually transform Current into a network called Al-Jazeera America by adding five to 10 new U.S. bureaus beyond the five it has now and hiring more journalists. More than half of the content will be U.S. news and the network will have its headquarters in New York, spokesman Stan Collender said.
Collender said there are no rules against foreign ownership of a cable channel — unlike the strict rules limiting foreign ownership of free-to-air TV stations. He said the move is based on demand, adding that 40 percent of viewing traffic on Al-Jazeera English's website is from the U.S.
"This is a pure business decision based on recognized demand," Collender said. "When people watch Al-Jazeera, they tend to like it a great deal."
Al-Jazeera has long struggled to get carriage in the U.S., and the deal suffered an immediate casualty as Time Warner Cable Inc., the nation's second-largest cable TV operator, announced it is dropping Current TV due to the deal.
"Our agreement with Current has been terminated and we will no longer be carrying the service. We are removing the service as quickly as possible," the company said in a statement.
Previous to Al-Jazeera's purchase, Current TV was in 60 million homes. It is carried by Comcast Corp., which owned less than a 10 percent stake in Current TV, as well as DirecTV. Neither company announced plans to drop the channel.
In 2010, Al-Jazeera English's managing director, Tony Burman, blamed a "very aggressive hostility" from the Bush administration for reluctance among cable and satellite companies to show the network.
Even so, Al-Jazeera has garnered respect for its ability to build a serious news product in a short time. In a statement announcing the deal, it touted numerous U.S. journalism awards it received in 2012, including the Robert F. Kennedy Journalism Award Grand Prize and the Scripps Howard Award for Television/Cable In-Depth Reporting.
But there may be a culture clash at the network. Dave Marash, a former "Nightline" reporter who worked for Al-Jazeera in Washington, said he left the network in 2008 in part because he sensed an anti-American bias there.
Current, meanwhile, began as a groundbreaking effort to promote user-generated content. But it has settled into a more conventional format of political talk television with a liberal bent. Gore worked on-air as an analyst during its recent election night coverage.
Its leading personalities are former New York Gov. Elliot Spitzer, former Michigan Gov. Jennifer Granholm and Cenk Uygur, a former political commentator on MSNBC who hosts the show called "The Young Turks." Current signed Keith Olbermann to be its top host in 2011 but his tenure lasted less than a year before it ended in bad blood on both sides.
Current has largely been outflanked by MSNBC in its effort be a liberal alternative to the leading cable news network, Fox News Channel.
Current hired former CNN Washington bureau chief David Bohrman in 2011 to be its president. Bohrman pushed the network to innovate technologically, with election night coverage that emphasized a conversation over social media.
Current TV, founded in 2005 by former vice president Gore and Joel Hyatt, is expected to post $114 million in revenue in 2013, according to research firm SNL Kagan. The firm pegged the network's cash flow at nearly $24 million a year.
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AP Television Writer David Bauder in New York contributed to this report.
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Pakistani police on Wednesday searched for the gunmen behind the brazen murder of five teachers and two health workers, amid fears that public health campaigns would suffer and lead to a resurgence of polio and other preventable diseases.
There was no immediate claim of responsibility for the attack, which occurred Tuesday in Swabi, a city in the troubled northwest. The Pakistani Taliban has in the past vowed to target, among others, health workers involved in campaigns to wipe out polio.
Last year, 15 health and aid workers were killed in Pakistan, making the country one of the most dangerous in the world for aid workers, according to the British-based consultancy Humanitarian Outcomes. Most were women. Development sector experts now express concerns that those working on the ground will shy away from assignments.
“In the past, local volunteers, be they teachers, medical workers or social mobilizers, considered themselves safe and worked hand in hand with foreign aid workers and paramilitary personnel in even the most dire of circumstances,” says Hassan Belal Zaidi, a development and communication specialist, based in Islamabad. “But now, it would not be unreasonable for them to think twice and even refuse to travel to remote parts of the country if they know there is a chance they may get shot.”
The six women and one man were traveling in a van when gunmen on motorcycles stopped it Tuesday afternoon after it left a children's community center, according to Abdur Rasheed Khan, chief of the Swabi police force. The four gunmen took a 4-year-old boy belonging to one of the women from the van, and then raked the vehicle with gunfire, he said. The child was unharmed and was later turned over to police by bystanders, he said.
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These murders come a few weeks after nine health workers with national polio campaign were killed in different parts of the country in what police said was a coordinated attack. That prompted the Pakistani government and the United Nations agencies to suspend their vaccination drive for the disease, which has seen a uptick in cases in recent years.
Pakistan is one out of the three countries where polio persists; at least 57 cases were registered in 2012. The World Health Organization last year warned Pakistan that it could face travel and visa restrictions and sanctions imposed by other countries if polio continues to spread.
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Distrust of public health initiatives like the polio campaign is particularly strong in districts of Pakistan where religious extremists have tightened their grip. That sentiment deepened in 2011 after the US raid that killed Osama bin Laden. A CIA-led operation to confirm Mr. bin Laden’s location in the city of Abbottabad used a hepatitis B vaccination campaign to gather DNA evidence on bin Laden.
The recent attacks are likely to further frighten people from working with foreign and Pakistani aid and development organizations, says Bushra Arain, chairwoman for the All Pakistan Lady Health Workers Welfare Association, which counts more than 100,000 registered members.
“We are the backbone of Pakistani health sector. If the attacks continue, with the state showing the inability it currently is demonstrating in stopping us from being targeted, we will stop working,” Ms. Arain says.
The Taliban and affiliated groups are targeting aid workers for several reasons, says Khadim Hussain, who heads one of the largest private charity school networks in the northwestern Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province. First, the militants think aid groups have an anti-Muslim agenda, spying on the local population, a suspicion that was deepened by the raid on bin Laden. Secondly, the groups equate health campaigns with modernizing society, in opposition to some fundamentalist tenets for Islamic radicals. Some groups also believe the vaccine is intended to sterilize Muslim children.
“If the attacks by the Taliban continue, there will be widespread de-motivation amongst aid workers, which I am already witnessing,” Mr. Hussain says.
While some development advocates say there needs to be a coordinated, public response by Pakistani and foreign NGOs to the attacks, others say the government should stop public education campaigns altogether and just allow aid workers to operate quietly.
“The less attention we get, the less vulnerable we will be as targets for the terrorists,” Ms. Arain says.
“We are involved with anti-polio drive, infant health awareness programs, family planning, etc. and if the government does not pull its act together, many deadly diseases can spread rapidly in Pakistan,” she says. “The situation can get out of hand.”
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