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Again police mistreats black men
At the height of the unrest in Baltimore
last year, 18-year-old Allen Bullock climbed on top of a police cruiser, raised
an orange traffic cone over his head and smashed it through the car’s
windshield. He did this action because he had lost a friend of his whose name
is Freddie Gray that had been killed because of the cruel treats given to him
by the police. A year after the Baltimore uprising, he’s one of the only people
serving significant time for the incidents surrounding Gray’s death. He was
given serving six months of a potential 12-year prison sentence. And while
Bullock may have eventually gotten out of jail while he awaited trial, Gordon
says Baltimore police continued to harass his client over the following months.
The interesting part of this story is that
yet Bullock’s actions were dangerous and were done way over, I think it still
had a political speech that not to look down on Blacks. But still they cannot
be treated as normal white men would be treated in the city.
MLB players tested positive for performance-enhancing drugs one after another!
Major League Baseball is under a chaotic state after April because 6 famous players, such as Dee Gordon of Miami Marlins, tested positive for performance-enhancing drugs. As a consequence, the organization announced a suspension of next 80 games for those who violated Major League Baseball's Joint Drug Prevention and Treatment Program. Give that there were just 6 PEDs suspensions throughout the last year, the number of the violation is increasing at an abnormal pace in this year.
I can partly praise that MLB’s drug testing worked and contributed to maintain fair baseball games without PED users. On the other hand, MLB has to tackle with the issue very seriously because it miserably failed to prevent the players from taking advantage of drugs. In my opinion, MLB should think of applying severer penalties to reinforce the deterrence of PED uses. Instead of tolerating the offenders with a 80 games suspension, they deserve to be expelled from MLB forever for the first violation.
"It takes place in the future, unlike the past you envision"
The first gender-neutral bathroom in the Los Angels Unified School District was officially opened in the middle of April. Students at Santee Education Complex had been advocating for a gender-neutral bathroom since January. They succeeded in persuading school authorities with a petition that boasts over 700 signatures. Although some protesters emerged and did a demonstration with a sign that says "Homo Sex Is Sin", students at Santee fought for the change and no protesters turned up on the next day.
Meanwhile in North Carolina, where the government passed the bathroom bill* on March, a team that criticizes the controversial legislation has been developing. The team is called "LawBreakers" and CEO Cliff Bleszinski mentioned North Carolina Gov. Pat McCrory in his tweet, "It takes place in the future, unlike the past you envision."
In my view, the bathroom war is consisted of three parties, eager LGBT activists, radical Christians and people who are afraid of the increase of sexual assaults. However, I agree with Santee school official on the opinion that says "bullying and harassment can occur in any bathrooms." If LGBT activists could persuade those people who are afraid of the negative result, with evidence that proves there is no correlation between gender-segregation and numbers of sexual assaults, gender-neutral bathroom will widely be accepted in the future.
(*bathroom bill: North Carolina House Bill 2, which forces people to use bathrooms and locker rooms based on the gender listed on their birth certificate.)
Citation
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/morning-mix/wp/2016/04/21/fights-break-out-over-first-gender-neutral-bathroom-in-l-a-unified-school-district/
http://www.polygon.com/2016/5/6/11612912/lawbreakers-gender-neutral-bathrooms-boss-key-cliff-bleszinski
Sunday, May 8, 2016
A relation of Nikkei and JPY
Who want to be rich?
There is a way to be rich. An Investment.
I have a friend who made money through an investment. Last year, He predicted Japan market went down, and bet on it. It was right. He got rewards.
Then, he went Philippine to learn English, engineering and he launched his own services and started to sell it.
He has a new language, new skills, new friends, and a flood of money. I don't care about money but there is no doubt that what he's done is fascinating.
An Investment. Some articles show there is something between Nikkei stock price and Yen exchange rate.
It might be true because it seems they have something, but the mechanism is unclear.
I could say, it just an illusion of a market. The market is too complex to understand.
The price of Yen, and The price of Dollar which has an influence on Yen, The price of Nikkei stock and The market demand which has an influence on the stock price, are always changing.
and the relation is not clear.
Then, how would that happen the apparent relevant between Nikkei and Yen? The reason may be simple. Increasing of earnings in abroad.
A strong Yen is good for exporting. In other words, When a yen price going up, the earnings also going up.
The earnings going up, the stock price going up.
If you want to make money, buy stocks of a global company when yes is weak might be a way to be rich.
There is a way to be rich. An Investment.
I have a friend who made money through an investment. Last year, He predicted Japan market went down, and bet on it. It was right. He got rewards.
Then, he went Philippine to learn English, engineering and he launched his own services and started to sell it.
He has a new language, new skills, new friends, and a flood of money. I don't care about money but there is no doubt that what he's done is fascinating.
An Investment. Some articles show there is something between Nikkei stock price and Yen exchange rate.
It might be true because it seems they have something, but the mechanism is unclear.
I could say, it just an illusion of a market. The market is too complex to understand.
The price of Yen, and The price of Dollar which has an influence on Yen, The price of Nikkei stock and The market demand which has an influence on the stock price, are always changing.
and the relation is not clear.
Then, how would that happen the apparent relevant between Nikkei and Yen? The reason may be simple. Increasing of earnings in abroad.
A strong Yen is good for exporting. In other words, When a yen price going up, the earnings also going up.
The earnings going up, the stock price going up.
If you want to make money, buy stocks of a global company when yes is weak might be a way to be rich.
The Ninth: restaurant review
The writing is a review towards the restaurant called "The Ninth". It's opened by a chef named Jun Tanaka on London's Charlotte Street. The name was determined because it's the ninth restaurant he's been involved.
The writer turns up to think this restaurant is amazing. He admires its foods in very humorous and unique way. Here is the sample of what he says.
"The killer detail is the limpid pool of a perfectly clarified oxtail consomme in which all this sits; it's the very essence of moo"
"Sip some of this, and then realize they are wasting everybody's time and money"
"It barely needs saying, but make a dish like this you need the kind of formal training that only Tanaka's eight restaurant-long career so far could gift him"
At the end, he concluded that he does not think Tanaka needs to move on to his 10th establishment any day soon because the restaurant is surely an awesome one.
http://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2016/may/01/the-ninth-restaurant-review-jay-rayner
The writer turns up to think this restaurant is amazing. He admires its foods in very humorous and unique way. Here is the sample of what he says.
"The killer detail is the limpid pool of a perfectly clarified oxtail consomme in which all this sits; it's the very essence of moo"
"Sip some of this, and then realize they are wasting everybody's time and money"
"It barely needs saying, but make a dish like this you need the kind of formal training that only Tanaka's eight restaurant-long career so far could gift him"
At the end, he concluded that he does not think Tanaka needs to move on to his 10th establishment any day soon because the restaurant is surely an awesome one.
http://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2016/may/01/the-ninth-restaurant-review-jay-rayner
It's time for the US to bring from the UK "paw-ternity"
[https://www.google.co.jp/search?q=paw-ternity&biw=1242&bih=571&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwieuMeM3MrMAhVJJ5QKHZVODAMQ_AUIBigB#imgrc=doGOWhSvX2WyEM%3A]
When your lovely pet faces some problems, can you go company? Or taking care of your pets? And then, if you want to absent company because you choose with your pet, your boss can understand your circumstance?
Well, probably no. You cannot tell the truth to your boss because if you absent company because of your lovely pets, you get mocked by your boss and other co-workers at least recent social circumstance. But, most people can understand doing absent for your family (like baby or parents)have some problems. Although pets are also precious family, why social perspective is negative about absent or receiving leave because of pets?
According to this article, pet owners deserve family leave too such as maternity leave. I am in favor of this opinion. There is only one person can take care of pet, is me. Even, they cannot tell me their pain when they suffer from illness. It can be to blame when I absent company, I think that the life also comes first in any situations. Especially, small pets face emergency easily even if pet owners neglect them just a one day.In recent America, some companies tended to increase offering their co-workers when pet owners lose their pets like having death in the family. These companies’ consideration is not ruled by law, but these companies recognize that the co-worker who lost their pet need to some times to comfort their mind and overcome faced situation. However, the US is also lagging behind the UK in terms of “paw-ternity”. That is, in the US, most co-workers did not offer time off to care for their four-legged kids.
http://nypost.com/2016/05/02/pet-owners-deserve-family-leave-too/
What's Goin' On At Mizzou? Yale?
Universities across the U.S are becoming very delicate over the
problem of equality. This is due to the recent protests done by university
students.
Racial problems are still a big issue in the States, especially
since the country is very multi-cultural. However, some universities have taken
the phenomenon way too seriously, making rules and programs that just seem
afraid of the protests and don't get to the crucial point of the whole problem.
Take Yale for instance. Yale is now "encouraging the campus
community to confront the history of slavery and... to teach the legacy."
The University of Missouri is also doing a similar change. They
stated that "... MU's Faculty Council Committee on Race Relations is
releasing a new video series that aims to educate white students and faculty
about white supremacy and racism of campus."
These two universities are implying these programs and rules to
re-educate young students that discrimination is bad, and that it should be
taught first-handed since they no longer live in a world where obvious
discrimination is a daily occurrence. However, what is happening at the
universities don’t seem like they want to re-educate, but rather, it seems as
if the rules are discriminating white people. This surely will not help schools
end the protests; as a matter a fact, it might increase the voltage of the collision.
Is Apple Dead?
Apple is now going dead.
On April 26th, the company posted its declining quarterly revenue; it is dropped by $7.4 billion, compared with that of the same period last year.
Then, what is the cause of Apple's slump?
It is iPhone. Apple depends so much on the device; about two-thirds of their revenue comes from iPhone, but its shipments decreased by 11million from last year.
Furthermore, a tough competitor is growing; Samsung exceeded Apple in market-share in the U.S. by 5%, according to a report from Counterpoint Research. Also in China, Samsung and HTC are replacing iPhone.
However, I think Apple is not yet dead; they still make $10 billion profit. In addition to the earnings, Apple has a great market-share especially in Japan.
Despite their status, Apple will not be able to stop going dead, unless they establish new strategies.
Citation:
・http://gizmodo.com/iphone-sales-slump-leads-to-apples-worst-quarter-in-13-1773185669
・http://seekingalpha.com/article/3970082-apples-10-billion-profit-enough
・http://www.heraldtribune.com/article/20160427/NEWS/160429695/0/search?tc=ar
・https://news.fastcompany.com/the-unwelcome-return-of-brain-dead-apple-gloom-and-doomism-4005238 .
Does Obama have a good comedy sense?
On April 30, Obama made a speech at his final White House
Correspondents’ Dinner. In his speech he took humorous jabs at the Presidential
Election as follows:
“Guest [RNC members] were asked if they
wanted steak or fish, and a whole bunch of you wrote in Paul Ryan [some members
want him to run for the election]”
“...my approval ratings keep going up. The
last time I was this high, I was trying to decide on my major.”
“Hillary
trying to appeal to young voters is a little bit like your relative just
signing up for Facebook; ‘Did you get my poke?’”
I think all his jabs are bitter ironies that tell dilemmas of this election;
Republicans are compelled to choose between the insensitive billionaire or the
eccentric senator; Hillary has tough games against our expectations; People may
miss Obama’s America.
Overall,
it seems that these jokes imply many Americans don’t feel drawn towards the
candidates. I found the incumbent president mocking these dilemmas with jokes
has a good comedy sense.
Nerd Fashion Makes a Comeback
Nerd fashion is coming back.
The nerds mentioned here are not the tech nerds wearing hoodies. They are more of the stereotypical type of nerds we may think of from the 70’s~90’s, wearing plaid skirts, high-water pants, and geeky glasses.
These styles are making a comeback in the fashion industry since Gucci’s last autumn collection, followed by other high fashion brands such as Prada.
In addition celebrities such as Lupita Nyong’o, who played Maz Kanata in Star Wars: The Force Awakens, is also with this trend by appearing in front of the camera with an orchid colored dress and geek-chic glasses.
So why is nerd fashion coming back?
Compared to what the world was before, since the 21st century, many people are becoming to have broader perspectives on the things around us. For example, children who were called quirky and weird are now told that their weirdness is their uniqueness, and are told to be proud of who they are. Gender issues are also being treated from a taboo topic to more of an issue that needs attention. Therefore in the same way, there are maybe notions of favoring the old-school style of the nerds, in which was once “the odd,” as now the contemporary fashion.
Anglina Jolie and Brad Pitt
There were rumors that Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie are going to get divorced. Some said that Brad Pitt was getting fed up with hearing about his wife's alleged sex and drugs "diary confessions". However the rumor turned out to be false. Also some said that Angelina Jolie got jealous with Selena Gomez.
There are other rumors that Brad Pitt is cheating on Angelina Jolie with a French actress, Marion Cotillard.
However, none of the gossips have no source, so whether it is true or false is a mystery.
http://www.ibtimes.com/brad-pitt-angelina-jolie-divorce-rumors-actor-cheating-marion-cotillard-while-filming-2364213
http://www.ibtimes.com/angelina-jolie-brad-pitt-divorce-rumors-couple-verge-breakup-over-jolies-sex-drugs-2319182
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