"Wars will turn unto a peaceful comic sport": Burgundy (King Henry VI)

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KING EDWARD IV:

... but that we spend the time

With mirthful comic scripts,

Such as befits the pleasure of the court ...

For here, I hope, begins our lasting joy.

- Adapted from KING HENRY VI, SHAKESPEARE

.... :D


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// As You Like It: British firm scores hit with manga Shakespeare
LONDON (AFP) — A British publisher has scored a hit with manga comic book versions of Shakespeare's classic plays -- and this week unveiled plans for more.

Publishing house SelfMadeHero presented seven titles from its unusual "Manga Shakespeare" collection, which have already been hits in both Britain and Asia, to the London Book Fair which wound up Wednesday.
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国連(UN)はオーストラリアの大陸棚を確認した

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国連(UN)はオーストラリアの大陸棚(continental shelf)を確認した。

リソース開発のための可能な領域250万平方キロメートルの伸びを示す。


// Australian territory expands with continental shelf ruling
Posted 4 hours 45 minutes ago (April 21, 2008)

A United Nations commission has ruled that Australia can expand its continental shelf by 2.5 million square kilometres.
Federal Resources and Energy Minister Martin Ferguson says the extra area could be full of resources.

"It means for a resource-rich nation such as Australia, added resource entitlements going to issues of oil and gas," he said.
http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2008/04/21/2223353.htm

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「学者で記者で芸者」のオーストラリア女性から学んだこと

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「学者で記者で芸者」のオーストラリア女性から学んだこと
こんな話をしてくれたのは、オーストラリア人の学者兼ジャーナリストで、現在浅草で芸者として活躍する「紗幸」さん。
http://www.j-cast.com/tv/2008/04/19019202.html

Australian woman becomes first Western geisha
Melbourne native Fiona Graham was an exchange student in Japan at 15, graduated from a Japanese high school and attended Japan's Keio University and Oxford before completing her doctorate in social anthropology, ... Sayuki - her professional name ...
http://www.news.com.au/adelaidenow/story/0,22606,23021465-912,00.html


Photos of Sayuki
http://keyshots.smugmug.com/gallery/4014935#251818008_eWCf5


SAYUKI 花柳界歴史上初の外国人芸者
http://www.sayuki.net/



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都市から逃避する。 スローライフを楽しむ。

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City slickers chase sea change: study
A new study of the nation's rural and regional communities has shown more Australian families are moving out of the city, and most of them are moving to Queensland.

Victorians swap city grind for country good life
VICTORIANS are flocking to the bush in increasing numbers. More and more people are leaving the cities, more are seeking post-secondary education and more rural people are hooking up to the net for business purposes and social networking." The figures show there are more working mums outside the major urban areas.

Australians 'abandoning cities'
A new study of the nation's rural and regional communities has shown more Australian families are moving away from cities and into regional and coastal centres. The report also shows rural Australians are just as likely to have the internet at home, more likely to be employed and are older than their metropolitan counterparts.


===== YOUTUBE VIDEOS =====


Home among the gum trees
http://jp.youtube.com/watch?v=h85hqvskiCw

Victoria
http://jp.youtube.com/watch?v=WaZbnWpm5aU

Queensland "Where Else"
http://jp.youtube.com/watch?v=TR1CxnHfFzo

'South Australia - It's My Home' song.
http://jp.youtube.com/watch?v=Je4iHVfNjAc

It's Our Territory
http://jp.youtube.com/watch?v=9Suiwy_VEvI


I Still Call Australia Home
http://jp.youtube.com/watch?v=QX5UR2leYHA

QANTAS Commercial - The Spirit of Australia
http://jp.youtube.com/watch?v=z06yT33x2xU

Qantas TVC-Australia Home II
http://jp.youtube.com/watch?v=hbGuqmaDgLA



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変貌の天使・ヤン・ファーブル

テーマ企画展
2008-04-11 から 2008-07-07 まで
ヤン・ファーブル、ルーヴル美術館へ
変貌の天使 (L'ange de la metamorphose)


Blood, bones and beetles - ABC Articulate


Blood, bones and beetles burgeon at the Louvre museum
a giant worm with Fabre's talking head. "If you take the worm out, the earth goes bad, if you take the artists out, society goes bad," he explained.

そういえば ... Metamorphosis, Maggots:

Metamorphosis, by Franz Kafka


Dir en Grey
Agitated Screams of Maggots




`Poetic Terrorism': Fabre's Scarabs, Gravestones Invade Louvre

ルーヴル美術館について

ルーヴル美術館

ルーヴルの歴史は古く、中世にまで遡ります。...
ルーヴル美術館の所蔵品は、世界最大級35万点。...
展覧会 2008.4.11-7.7
Jan Fabre au Louvre. L'ange de la metamorphose
「ヤン・ファーブル、ルーヴル美術館へ―変貌の天使」

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6か月の産休、マタニティ リーブ

産休、マタニティ リーブ
オーストラリア労組は6か月の産休を求めます。


// Union seeks six months' paid leave for mothers
Deborah Gough
March 30, 2008
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// Calls for six months' maternity leave
By Nadine McGrath, Denis Peters and Winston Tan
March 29, 2008 05:22pm
Article from: AAP
THE union representing public servants has called for six months' paid maternity leave to keep pace with international standards and provide support for working mothers.
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// Maternity leave in focus
Patricia Karvelas, Political correspondent | April 08, 2008
THE value of breast-feeding, bonding with a newborn and the role of the father will be taken into consideration in determining what kind of paid maternity leave scheme Australia adopts.//


// Call for baby leave for grandparents
Samantha Maiden, Online political editor | April 07, 2008
GRANDPARENTS should be considered for eligibility for parental leave when children are born according a national inquiry into paid maternity leave.
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// Inquiry to examine breastfeeding, maternity leave
April 07, 2008 01:31pm
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// Paid maternity leave is not about being nice to working women, it is about addressing the inequality experienced by women workers relative to men as
a result of childbirth. ... We also know that for male workers paid maternity leave will ensure that they do not face becoming the sole breadwinner while dealing with the challenges that new fatherhood brings.

But, most importantly, we know that paid maternity leave will mean better care for our children. The health and welfare of mothers and their babies is absolutely paramount ...//

 

祗園精舎の鐘の声

「祗園精舎の鐘の声、諸行無常の響きあり」
  -【平家物語】


  “tolling of the bell of Gion Shouja ;
   rippling echoes of ephemera”
   - Tales of the Heike.

英訳: 三千絵
Eng Trans: Michie