3/23/2010

spring saijiki

  
  









rainy day -
I finally finished
the Spring Saijiki







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Click on the photo to go there!



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3/20/2010

how black

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how black !
dirt on the last patch
of snow




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. MORE
my SNOW haiku
  



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3/19/2010

first butterfly

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computer crash ...
I wish I were
this butterfly









Just saw my first spring butterfly !



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3/18/2010

Getting older

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getting older -
do I now shrink
to my real size ?


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3/17/2010

plum blossoms

  
  



11 plum spring and mountains




梅が香



fragrant plum blossoms . . .
almost the same show
as every year








05 color of life in spring



plum blossom viewing ...
the little details
that catch my soul




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15 Kume valley







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. START ...
Plum Blossom Walk ... ALBUM
  


37 plum park in Kume END


From the archives

. Plum Blossom Park, 2008


. Plum Blossom Park, 2006



old plum tree

plum pink, 2007




The plum blossom viewing (ume-mi, kan-bai 梅見、観梅) is more of an individualistic endeavor, different from the noisy, crowded cherry blossom parties.

. Plum (ume) the KIGO  


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Translating BUSON

紅梅や入日の襲う松かしは
koobai ya irihi no osou matsu kashiwa

. Red plum blossoms (koobai) and Buson



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3/09/2010

late snow

  
  









late spring snow -
the bamboo cracks
in despair






snowclouds over Japan


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heavy snow ---
the bamboo bends
deeper









next morning - - -
a ray of hope
behind the bamboo



18 rays of hope take two





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40 more bent branches END




39 branches down to earth








This snow is very heavy and damaging for the plants.

I hope to be out for photos later, now it is six in the morning
and I hear the sound of breaking branches outside.

The bamboo in the grove hang their heads soooo low !

And more snow in the forecast until tomorrow !




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3/06/2010

messenger from dragon palace

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earthquake prediction ...
here comes a rare messenger
from the Dragon Palace






ryuuguu no tsukai 竜宮の使い slender oarfish
lit.

Messenger from the palace of the Sea Dragon God



. WASHOKU
Slender oarfish (Ryugu no tsukai)




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3/03/2010

google desktop

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google desktop ...
big brother is watching
while you sleep




quote
Google Desktop is desktop search software made by Google for Mac OS X, Linux, and Microsoft Windows. The program allows text searches of a user's e-mails, computer files, music, photos.

File indexing
After initially installing Google Desktop, the software completes an indexing of all the files in the computer. After the initial indexing is completed, the software continues to index files as needed. Users can start searching for files immediately after installing the program. After performing searches, results can also be returned in an Internet browser on the Google Desktop Home Page much like the results for Google Web searches.

Security
In February 2007, Yair Amit, of Watchfire, found a series of vulnerabilities in Google Desktop that could allow a malicious individual to achieve not only remote, persistent access to sensitive data, but in some cases full system control as well.
The significant impact and the ease of exploitation forced Google to change some of Google Desktop's logic in Google Desktop version 5.
© More in the WIKIPEDIA !






Check your computer !
It seems to have installed it into my own without my knowledge or permission.
If you find this LOGO somewhere on your monitor, click on it and click OPTIONS, then de-select what is not necessary for you.
or
deactivate the whole thing completely !!


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How to Disable Google Desktop?
uninstall Google Desktop



Uninstalling: Uninstall
If you're using Google Desktop version 5 or later, follow these steps to uninstall the product:

Click the Start menu button in your Windows taskbar.
Go to Programs ... Google Desktop ... Uninstall Google Desktop.
Select the 'Remove completely for all users' option.
Click the Yes button.
If you'd like to delete your personal search index as well, deselect the 'Keep index and gadgets' checkbox.
Click the Uninstall button to complete the process.
http://desktop.google.com/support/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=10551





Die Google-Desktop-Suche ist im Prinzip Spyware,
sagte der unabhängige IT-Sicherheitsexperte Richard Smith.


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3/01/2010

MY BLOGGER HELP

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... www.google.co.jp/... March 1, 2010


Dear Friends,

GOOGLE and therefore BLOGGER
is posing me problems with the ABC indexes of the WKD...


quote : auto pagination with BLOGGER

Possibly the hottest issue this week, in Blogger Help Forum: Something Is Broken, is the Auto Pagination feature, which was introduced last week.
Auto Pagination automatically helps people to limit the sizes of their archive / label / main pages, as downloaded from Blogger servers.

http://blogging.nitecruzr.net/2010/02/auto-pagination-and-read-more-solutions.html


the "Jump Break" (aka "Read More ...") feature

Inserting <!-- more -->
READ MORE
I tried, but it does not work as described !!






HERE is more from BLOGGER

BLOGGER is attempting to explore the issues here
http://www.google.com/support/forum/p/blogger/thread?tid=7cccb649594ae0aa&hl=en



While there has still been no official word from Blogger/Google about any of this, the BlogStars are telling us that AP will not be rolled back and will not be optional.
If you need to control what appears on your main page, you may need to consider other blogging services ...
posted by Legacy2000, March 06


Google Help Groups
nitecruzr is the contact person from BLOGGEr


Auto Pagination for blogs with Classic templates
http://www.google.com/support/forum/p/blogger/thread?tid=211d87eb120a771a&hl=en


This is the one I used for the first WKD BLOGS,
and now have to re-format them all !!!


blogger advise for me

Gabi,

I would not consider that the primary objective, no. Consider this question:

http://www.google.com/support/forum/p/blogger/thread?hl=en&tid=56a6aa8b706d1213

"monstermoviemusic.blogspot.com"
and similar blogs is the primary objective, IMHO. That being said,
though, when FTP support ends next month, it's going to be harder to
make a business case for supporting classic templates.

Remember,
Layouts Blogger is almost 4 years old. It's not unreasonable to
suspect that the next major revision of Blogger is being planned. In
order to do that, the last version has to be sunsetted. IOW, classic
templates have to be disposed of.

And BTW, the problem of the broken archives / label searches / main pages in classic templates, because there is no "Older Posts" / "Newer Posts", is a long known deficiency of classic templates. That in itself would convince me to upgrade.



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blogger advise
Instead of putting the posts themselves into the main page, why not use a feed gadget, maybe one from FeedBurner?

FTP publishing will not be supported any longer
(but I do not even know what this is ... agggrrrrrr !)


FTP Publishing
FTP path tells Blogger where to place your blog files on your server.
http://www.google.com/support/blogger/bin/topic.py?hl=en&topic=12460



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Auto Pagination for blogs with Layouts templates
http://www.google.com/support/forum/p/blogger/thread?fid=33d7b281c3f27ad0000480b229e49e1b&hl=en

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External LINKS about this problem
(as I find them)


The explanation is that Google (owner of Blogger) has introduced a new feature [sic] called auto-pagination, which limits the amount of material displayed on your main and archive pages, possibly causing the number of posts on the main page to be smaller than you have specified. As if that weren't rude enough, there are two further traps:
snip
If, like me, you have set up your template to use the main page as a table of contents, showing only the date and title of each post, you get no credit. Auto-pagination assumes that everything above the    tag is on the main page — or, if there is no    tag, that the entire post is on the main page! Worse, if you edit your template in an attempt to insert a    tag after the title in each post, it won't work; you have to edit every affected post!
MORE:
http://tribune.grputland.com/2010/02/wondering-where-all-your-blog-posts.html


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New Post Editor

I do not find that helpfull either !
Working with photos is a drag ! (pun intended.)


quote:
Photos didn't move easily. Text didn't flow around them. They weren't where they appeared to be when looking at the blog later. Huge spaces appeared between photos, and photos placed side by side were stacked.

http://www.google.com/support/forum/p/blogger/thread?tid=6d490292aaa18d10&hl=en



http://blogging.nitecruzr.net/2007/10/separate-your-paragraphs.html


My guess is folks will be having problems with it, for months.
Blogger made the new editor a menu selected option, for a reason.

http://blogging.nitecruzr.net/2008/06/new-blogger-june-2008-post-editor.html


http://blogging.nitecruzr.net/2009/09/new-post-editor-is-here.html


and static pages
what is this?
http://blogging.nitecruzr.net/2010/02/new-post-editor-with-static-pages.html


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Backup of BLOGGER


get Blogger to restore your blog

One solution for this need is HTTrack, which is a free and very easy product to use. Note this caution when using HTTrack. And note this additional advice - backup your template, separately.

HTTrack allows you to mirror multiple blogs in one Project
Web Site Mirrors

Get HTTrack (free).

A backup takes maybe 5 - 10 minutes, and can be run while you are busy elsewhere.

MORE
http://blogging.nitecruzr.net/2006/03/backup-your-blog.html


about HTTrack website copier
http://www.httrack.com/html/index.html


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change to wordpress
by Dusty Reagan

Step 1
First! I installed WordPress on my NearlyFreeSpeech.NET hosting account.
(Fact: NearlyFreeSpeech.NET is the best web host on the planet.)

Step 2
In Blogger (under Settings -> Publishing) I switched from “publish via FTP” to “publish on blogspot.com.”

Step 3
Then I used WordPress’s awesome Blogger Import feature! (Found under Manage -> Import) You’ll notice that you can not import blogger posts hosted via FTP. This is why I temporarily switched to blogspot.com.

Step 4
After the successful Import, I installed the “Maintain Blogger Permalinks” plugin. This plugin makes your new Wordpress permalinks match your old Blogger permalinks. You only need to run this plugin once, then you can uninstall it.

all is here
http://dustyreagan.com/convert-from-blogger-to-wordpress/



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March 14
While Blogger/Google still has not bothered to tell us anything about their plans, it is becoming increasingly likely that this is the way it will be.
Their attitude seems to be that
if you don't like it, take your blog elsewhere


March 14

quote from a closed thread
http://www.google.com/support/forum/p/blogger/thread?tid=0bbf91d35d465990&hl=en+fid=0bbf91d35d465990000481db5491998e

Join The *Freedom Fighters*!

If you're displeased with "auto-pagination," please consider this a petition.
if you want A-P discontinued immediately, if you blog has been thoroughly screwed, if you're "mad as hell and you're not going to take this anymore," then please "sign" this petition.

you only need post the name of your blog. there are already a number of good topics for discussion.

if everyone bothered by this posts their blog name, this will be an overwhelming cry to overcome an overwhelming error.

http://www.google.com/support/forum/p/blogger/thread?tid=7cccb649594ae0aa&hl=en&fid=7cccb649594ae0aa000481ddf44fab73



March 15

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That Google would ignore bloggers who complain that AP has reduced their readership cannot possibly be a marketing decision, nor can telling them that if they don't like it they should take their content elsewhere. Bloggers do not benefit from this, and neither does Google. I strongly suspect that this issue has not progressed past the programming level at Blogger, and that Google execs will only become aware of the current discontent when the fallout is reflected in the numbers in a month or two. By that time, the damage will have been done and heads may roll.

Again, it is not an issue of limits, but of managing limits. The label limit is manageable - people know what it is, and can deal with it. The current problem that people have been pointing out, and that apologists for AP have been ignoring, is that this is an unmanageable limit, since nobody seems to know how it works. Why is Blogger so opposed to a fixed limit that bloggers can learn to work with? Why are Blogger techs so set against the many other suggestions to conserve bandwidth?

As far as not complaining because we're not paying, with all due respect, that's just a cop out, and a denial of the nature of blogging and bloggers.
http://www.google.com/support/forum/p/blogger/thread?fid=7cccb649594ae0aa000481e0cdf04692&hl=en



More discussions :
source : Did-you-know-that- ? -on-Blogger


March 19
quote
"I started my blog in 2002, and spent years getting it to where I wanted. I have several other blogs that have been customized considerably. And what you are telling me is that Google is spitting on me and saying my blog isn't worth reading because I didn't move with the times.
In short, those of us with heavily customized classic templates are being punished for not downgrading to layouts when they were first offered."

answer
It seems that to keep your blog where you want it, you may have to move it somewhere else.


Blogger in Draft
The Template Designer is not supported on Internet Explorer 6, nor, for that matter, are the new templates.
http://bloggerindraft.blogspot.com/
http://bloggerindraft.blogspot.com/2010/03/blogger-template-designer.html


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April 12

If you are using Classic Templates and would like to add pagination links to your blog, there are currently two options for setting this up. Both involve adding a snippet of code to your blog's template, which can be done from the Template Edit HTML tab.

http://www.google.com/support/blogger/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=179920


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Adding a statcounter counter, hit counter

Sign up for a free account at StatCounter and follow the 'Install Code' wizard to generate your StatCounter code.
In the Gadgets of the layout
Click the text (that says HTML/JavaScript) to add the gadget to your blog.

http://www.statcounter.com/blogger/

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2/28/2010

tsunami warning

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tsunami warning
along the coast ...
everyone on the run






青森県太平洋沿岸 3m 28日13時30分
岩手県 3m 28日13時30分
宮城県 3m 28日13時30分
北海道太平洋沿岸東部 2m 28日13時0分

東京湾内湾 1m 28日14時30分
Tokyo Bay, about 1 Meter around 14:30

兵庫県瀬戸内海沿岸 0.5m 28日16時0分
Hyogo Prefecture

岡山県 1m 28日18時0分 Okayama prefecture
Okayama is in the yellow alert region.

http://typhoon.yahoo.co.jp/weather/jp/tsunami/


Tsunami prediction in the Inland Sea area




The tsunami seems late and much less violent than predicted.
At 14:15, still not much happened.

At 14:37 Tsunami hight of 40 cm in Choshi,Chiba prefecture.
30 cm in Hokkaido, mostly 10 cm in the other costal areas.

at around 15:00
90 cm in Kuji, Iwate, Northern Japan. 久慈 岩手 , but the port seemed all quiet right now on TV.
at Hanasaki, Nemuro in Hokkaido, the houses along the port are slightly under water.


at 15:40
Kuji has 1.20 m tsunami,
Sendai has 90 cm tsunami


at about 17:00 again
Kuji has 1.20 m tsunami,
Sendai and others in Northern Japan have 90 cm tsunami
No major damage so far.

Peope stay evacuated on high ground in schools and community houses over night, it has been decided; food and bedding will be provided for them.

Roads and railways near the coast are all closed, no ferries are running ... every precaution is taken.
TV gives constant feedback about the situation along the coastline.


at 21:00
no major damage.
The tsunami seems to have reached 1.40 meters in Northern Japan.
Some rafts with oyster farming were floated and damages.
Roads under water, but no human damage, thanks to the vast evacuation procedures.

It all seems like a great training for the "real big one".




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Next Morning ...

HONOLULU – The warning was ominous, its predictions dire: Oceanographers issued a bulletin telling Hawaii and other Pacific islands that a killer wave was heading their way with terrifying force and that "urgent action should be taken to protect lives and property."

But the devastating tidal surge predicted after Chile's magnitude 8.8-earthquake for areas far from the epicenter never materialized and by Sunday, authorities had lifted the warning after waves half the predicted size tickled the shores of Hawaii and tourists once again jammed beaches and restaurants.

Scientists acknowledged they overstated the threat, but defended their actions, saying they took the proper steps and learned the lessons of the 2004 Indonesian tsunami that killed thousands of people who didn't get enough warning.

"It's a key point to remember that we cannot end the warnings. Failure to warn is not an option for us," said Dai Lin Wang, an oceanographer at the Pacific Tsunami Warning Center in Hawaii. "We cannot have a situation that we thought was no problem and then it's devastating. That just cannot happen."

Hundreds of thousands of people fled shorelines for higher ground Saturday in a panic that circled the Pacific Rim after scientists warned 53 nations and territories that a tsunami had been generated by the massive Chilean quake.

It was the largest-scale evacuation in Hawaii in years, if not decades. Emergency sirens blared throughout the day, the Navy moved ships out of Pearl Harbor, and residents hoarded gasoline, food and water in anticipation of a major disaster. Some supermarkets even placed limits on items like Spam because of the panic buying.

And in Japan, where authorities ordered 400,000 people out of coastal communities, the biggest wave was a 4-foot surge that hit the northern island of Hokkaido, flooding some piers.

Still, scientists offered no apologies for the warning and defended their work, all while worrying that the false alarm could lead to complacency among coastal residents — a disastrous possibility in the earthquake-prone Pacific Rim.

A similar quake in Chile in 1960 created a tsunami that killed about 140 people in Japan. The same surge hit Hawaii and devastated downtown Hilo, on the Big Island, killing 61 residents and wiping out more than 500 homes and businesses.

"If you give too many warnings and none of them materialize, then you lose your credibility," Wang said. "That's something that we have to deal with and we have to improve."

Eugene Okamoto, 33, said he came to Honolulu from Hilo to visit some tourist attractions with his father and was disappointed the two had to cancel their plans because of the evacuation orders.

But Okamoto said his family understands the tsunami threat better than most because some of his relatives lived through the tidal surge in 1960. They remember how the water was sucked down the beach moments before the wave hit.

"My uncle was on the top floor when all the water washed away and all the kids ran out to grab the fish and before they could get back, the wave came. He was way up top, he saw all his friends get washed away and none of them were found, ever," Okamoto said, as he sat with his father in a hotel lobby. "They did the right thing."

Read more :

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Google Information: Chile Earthquake


Earthquake in Chile,
but even here the reverberations are awaitet later in the day



Magnitude 8.8
Saturday, February 27, 2010 at 06:34:14 UTC
OFFSHORE MAULE, CHILE

This earthquake occurred at the boundary between the Nazca and South American tectonic plates. The two plates are converging at a rate of 80 mm per year. The earthquake occurred as thrust-faulting on the interface between the two plates, with the Nazca plate moving down and landward below the South American plate.
http://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/recenteqsww/Quakes/us2010tfan.php

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SANTIAGO, Chile, February 27, 2010 (ENS) -

At least 85 people have been killed in an 8.8 magnitude earthquake that rattled central Chile early Saturday at 3:34 am local time, exposing 12 million people to strong shaking. The epicenter of the quake was offshore of the town of Maule at a depth of approximately 21.7 miles or 35 kilometers.

The quake has generated a tsunami and the Pacific Tsunami Warning Center in Hawaii has issued tsunami warnings covering most of the Pacific Ocean from Japan to New Zealand and from Mexico to Taiwan.

The tsunami "could cause damage along the coastlines of all islands in the state of Hawaii," said the Pacific Tsunami Warning Center. A wave as high as eight feet, or 2.5 meters, is expected to hit the Big Island of Hawaii beginning at 11 am local time.

Chilean President Michele Bachelet said there were more than 85 deaths in southern Maule region alone, and that the nationwide death toll is rising, but officials had no information on the number of people injured.

President Bachelet has declared a "state of catastrophe" in central Chile, where dozens aftershocks are continuing. Most are in the range of magnitude 5.0 to 5.9, but seven aftershocks were measured at more than magnitude 6.0, including one with a magnitude of 6.9 centered south of the original quake off the coast of the Bio-Bio region.
http://www.ens-newswire.com/ens/feb2010/2010-02-27-01.html


By now, 14:00 in Japan, more than 300 people are dead in Chile.

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Chile Earthquake 2010
After Yesterday’s Scare. Japan experienced a 7.0 earthquake off their coast yesterday, prompting tsunami warnings.
The Japan 2010 quake didn’t do any damage or hurt anyone as it was at sea; however, Chile was not so lucky.
Chile earthquake 2010 has shocked the whole world today.
http://showbiz99.com/tag/chile-earthquake-2010-a-bad-earthquake/


沖縄本島近海 Okinawa Main Island
マグニチュード 6.9 Magnitude Earthquake
at 5 this morning 2010年2月27日 5時37分


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2/24/2010

plum

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古梅咲く主が去年 し に ま し た







old plum tree in bossom ...
last year the old owner
died




This is the sad reality of rural Japan.





. PLUM (ume) as KIGO  



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2/20/2010

first crocus

  
  





the sunshine feels
much warmer today . . .
first crocus







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. Crocus, a kigo for early spring  



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2/19/2010

Afganistan

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Afganistan . . .
she sings a lullaby
for her dead baby




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Afgahanistan’s first female rapper

. WKD : Soosan Firooz .



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Olympics

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winter olympics . . .
my TV broke down
just in time




We have a lot of hpye about
young "rebel" Kazuhiro Kokubo Kazuhiro,
the snowboarder.






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Halfpipe competitor Kazuhiro Kokubo was banned from attending a ceremony Wednesday to welcome Japan to the athletes Olympic village for being shabbily dressed at Narita airport in Japan before departing for Vancouver.

‘‘I know I made a mistake. I won’t let it affect the competition,’’ said Kokubo, who was spotted at the airport with a loosened tie and his shirt hanging out of the back of his trousers.

He also said he is unconcerned by the quality of opposition he will be up against in the men’s halfpipe in Vancouver and insists the Winter Olympics are nothing special.

‘‘I don’t feel any different. For me the Olympics is just another snowboarding event. It’s no big deal,’’ Kokubo said.
source : www.japantoday.com



sunobo スノボ / sunooboodo スノーボード snow board
haafupaipu ハーフパイプ half pipe

Kokubo senshu 国母選手

Kokubo Kazuhiro 国母和宏

orinpikku オリンピック


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KIGO about

. Olympics, Olympic Games  



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2/18/2010

WKD - Laozi and the Tao

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Laozi, Lao-tzu, Rooshi, Roshi【老子】
( pinyin: Lǎozi; Wade–Giles: Lao Tzu; also romanized as Lao Tse, Lao Tu, Lao-Tsu, Laotze, Laosi, Laocius,
and other variations; fl. 6th century BCE) was a philosopher of ancient China, best known as the author of the Tao Te Ching (often simply referred to as Laozi).His association with the Tào Té Chīng has led him to be traditionally considered the founder of philosophical Taoism (pronounced as "Daoism"). He is also revered as a deity in most religious forms of Taoist philosophy, which often refers to Laozi as Taishang Laojun, or "One of the Three Pure Ones".

Laozi is an honorific title. Lao (老) means "venerable" or "old", such as modern Mandarin laoshi (老师), "teacher". Zi (子),



According to Chinese traditions, Laozi lived in the 6th century BCE. Some historians contend that he actually lived in the 5th–4th century BCE, concurrent with the Hundred Schools of Thought and Warring States Period, while some others argue that Laozi is a synthesis of multiple historical figures or that he is a mythical figure.

A central figure in Chinese culture, both nobility and common people claim Laozi in their lineage. He was honored as an ancestor of the Tang imperial family, and was granted the title Táishāng xuānyuán huángdì, meaning "Supreme Mysterious and Primordial Emperor". Throughout history, Laozi's work has been embraced by various anti-authoritarian movements.

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There is a discussion at Haiku Foundation

- Beauty in Haiku -

Haiku need not dwell entirely on the dark or seemly, but just as too much salt spoils a meal, so does too much sugar.
As James W. Hackett has said in his guidelines for writing haiku,

“Lifefulness, not beauty,
is the real quality of haiku.”


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the haiku under discussion has been this one


鮟鱇の骨まで凍ててぶちきらる
ankoo no hone made itete buchi-kiraru

this angler fish
feeing chilled to the bone
is (finally) cut to pieces


Kato Shuson 加藤楸邨 Katoo Shuuson
(Tr. Gabi Greve)


The reasoning for my translation is HERE

. WASHOKU
Anglerfish, angler fish (ankoo)
 


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TAO




Hua Hu Ching : Verse Forty-One


Good and bad, self and others,
life and death:
Why affirm these concepts?
Why deny them?

To do either is to exercise the mind,
and the integral being knows that
the manipulations of the mind are dreams,
delusions, and shadows.

Hold one idea, and another competes with it.
Soon the two will be in conflict with a third,
and in time your life is
all chatter and contradiction.

Seek instead to keep your mind undivided.
Dissolve all ideas into the Tao.


Translated by Brian Walker
http://www.cheraglibrary.org/taoist/hua-hu-ching.htm


Hua Hu Ching
The Unknown Teachings of Lao Tzu
ISBN 9780060692452


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Give me wise men's words
And the Goddess of Mercy
What more could I need


Pulled by Kuan Yin's gentle hand
The voice of Lao Tzu calling


- Shared by Res John Burman -
Joys of Japan, 2012




source : Tao and Zen, facebook


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白梅や老子無心の旅に住む
shira ume ya Rooshi mushin no tabi ni sumu

white plum blossoms —
Lao-Tzu dwells in a journey
of no-mind


. Kaneko Tohta 金子兜太 .

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. Tao, Dao and Haiku .
Chinese origin of Japanese kigo


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