いろいろご意見はあるでしょうが、私は、環境変化、プレッシャーを乗り越え、合格したことは立派と思います。
彼のように、海外に雄飛しようという若者が増えることを期待したいです。
そして更に、若田光一さんのように、宇宙に雄飛しようという若者が増えることも。
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散歩で時々一緒になり、親しくなった近所の奥様が持ってきてくれました。
これから妻が吊って、干し柿にします。
楽しみです。
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日銀が介入したんでしょうけど、カンフル注射にしかならないですね。
円安の流れは変わらない。情けない！50年前に逆戻り！
日本に外人が出稼ぎに来るのではなく、日本人が外国に出稼ぎに行く時代になりました。
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JT Alp 2022-10-21-06
Essay
Trash for cash
Rubbish sorting — it’s one of the things I’ve missed about Japan since returning to Singapore.
While time-consuming, I liked how it forced me to think about the amount of waste I was producing, and to try my best to reduce and recycle as much as possible.
In Singapore, where most people live in apartments, rubbish disposal is alarmingly convenient. Older flats have a rubbish chute, usually in the kitchen, for residents to toss their bagged rubbish. The rubbish goes straight down to a central collection point. There aren’t any restrictions on the types of bags we can use, unlike in some countries where specific trash bags have to be bought. If it were less convenient, perhaps people would be compelled to look again at what they’re throwing away.
Newer apartments typically have a rubbish chute on each floor. Some complain that this is inconvenient because they can no longer dispose of rubbish right in their home. I guess it’s a matter of what we are used to. Having a chute on each floor still seems pretty convenient to me. Besides, we can dispose of our rubbish anytime, any day, instead of having to wait for a certain day of the week to throw out burnable rubbish, for instance.
Recycling is fairly convenient in Singapore too. Most people live within a few minutes’ walk of a recycling bin, into which we can toss paper, plastics, metals and glass. No sorting is required. Everything gets sent to a central facility where it is sorted by hand. The problem is contamination. This January, the National Environment Agency said that around 40% of what we deposit into the blue recycling bins cannot be recycled due to contamination by nonrecyclable materials and food and liquid waste.
While the agency has tried to improve recycling rates by making it relatively effortless, I feel that both rubbish disposal and recycling should become less convenient. I think that the public should be aware of the amount of effort needed to process our rubbish and recyclables. If rubbish disposal were more expensive and required more effort and time from each person, we might be motivated to rethink the amount of waste we create.
So I was glad to hear about a new scheme proposed by the NEA to be rolled out in mid-2024. It would require consumers to pay 10 to 20 cents more for canned and bottled drinks. We can claim the amount back by returning the containers at stores or special “reverse vending machines.”
Of course, recycling is just one part of waste reduction, which is in turn just one part of what we can do to be more eco-conscious. But we have to start somewhere, and it’s better late than never.(Tan Ying Zhen)
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Exodus 027
Chapter 27
***** The Altar of Burnt Offering *****
1 And thou shalt make an altar of shittim wood, five cubits long, and five cubits broad; the altar shall be foursquare: and the height thereof shall be three cubits.
2 And thou shalt make the horns of it upon the four corners thereof: his horns shall be of the same: and thou shalt overlay it with brass.
3 And thou shalt make his pans to receive his ashes, and his shovels, and his basins, and his fleshhooks, and his firepans: all the vessels thereof thou shalt make of brass. (fleshhook 肉つるしかぎ ; firepan 火皿 ; vessel 器）
4 And thou shalt make for it a grate of network of brass; and upon the net shalt thou make four brazen rings in the four corners thereof.
(grate 格子 : brazen 真鍮、brass)
5 And thou shalt put it under the compass of the altar beneath, that the net may be even to the midst of the altar. (compass 範囲、周囲)
6 And thou shalt make staves for the altar, staves of shittim wood, and overlay them with brass. (stave = stick, pole, staff)
7 And the staves shall be put into the rings, and the staves shall be upon the two sides of the altar, to bear it.
8 Hollow with boards shalt thou make it: as it was showed thee in the mount, so shall they make it.
***** The Courtyard *****
9 And thou shalt make the court of the tabernacle: for the south side southward there shall be hangings for the court of fine twined linen of an hundred cubits long for one side:
10 And the twenty pillars thereof and their twenty sockets shall be of brass; the hooks of the pillars and their fillets shall be of silver.
(fillet 【建】 《2 つの繰形(くりかた)の間の》平縁(ひらぶち), 幕面 (＝listel); 《円柱の溝と溝の間の》あぜ, 円縁, 桁 : 桁でつなぐ)
11 And likewise for the north side in length there shall be hangings of an hundred cubits long, and his twenty pillars and their twenty sockets of brass; the hooks of the pillars and their fillets of silver.
12 And for the breadth of the court on the west side shall be hangings of fifty cubits: their pillars ten, and their sockets ten.
13 And the breadth of the court on the east side eastward shall be fifty cubits.
14 The hangings of one side of the gate shall be fifteen cubits: their pillars three, and their sockets three.
15 And on the other side shall be hangings fifteen cubits: their pillars three, and their sockets three.
16 And for the gate of the court shall be an hanging of twenty cubits, of blue, and purple, and scarlet, and fine twined linen, wrought with needlework: and their pillars shall be four, and their sockets four.
17 All the pillars round about the court shall be filleted with silver; their hooks shall be of silver, and their sockets of brass.
18 The length of the court shall be an hundred cubits, and the breadth fifty every where, and the height five cubits of fine twined linen, and their sockets of brass.
19 All the vessels of the tabernacle in all the service thereof, and all the pins thereof, and all the pins of the court, shall be of brass.
***** Oil for the Lampstand *****
20 And thou shalt command the children of Israel, that they bring thee pure oil olive beaten for the light, to cause the lamp to burn always.
21 In the tabernacle of the congregation without the vail, which is before the testimony, Aaron and his sons shall order it from evening to morning before the LORD: it shall be a statute for ever unto their generations on the behalf of the children of Israel. (statute = written law)
