Future [information] third (3) sound retrieval "advertising model changed."
the news "what's the matter?".High feature phone, intelligent mobile phone screen "sheep deacon king" of the role.Yokohama City mail-order companies, Mr. Bayashi Arisa (31) recently, voice recognition function of NTT DoCoMo according to the Secretary to "speak Kun shell" tried to use."Want to see the movie" and other words and artificial intelligence intention understanding, the most suitable answer."Hands up also does not matter, very convenient.However, tuna hall to accost, tram or shy "in March of this year since the service began, in the application (software) with the letter number is 4000000, the 100000000 7 ten million times.Also in March, the same function "Siri the United States Apple Corp first began in October last year (iPhone Series), can also be used" in Japanese, "electronic space broad sound" retrieval times formal done.Kun shell series, driven by artificial intelligence, based on the probability of the most suitable answer "suddenly" derived solution.Now the search service to the United States of America like Google, what also continued to search results page and traditional advertising display business model, its meaning lost. Even the.(Facebook. COM / johonomirai: Twitter. COM / johonomirai) < the previous page next page > 123;
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2013年1月16日星期三
winning with concern
Andre · Padua "J.S Bach: gold, Danish variations" [] "column 3" beautiful and impact tuning, and the scene has been heard.
"3" beautiful and impact tuning, and the scene has been heard.
79 minutes 38 seconds, fulfilling experience.
Andre · according to the "golden Padua, Danish variations".
The piano teacher
was born in 1962 1995, the "international Bach · competition" winning with concern, however, the game has no interest in me strange, side but this album to this name is unknown.Italy Bach, and play the alias, Donna: the last from composing, works also published.
a variation of the basic end, often do not place about the transfer, has surprised.As a variation of "take a continuous variation of the last to do", there is little master it like flying.Or, variations of the end of the sound like the subtle.Individual variations, independent. Have a look, individual performance is not the only, unique connecting method also has to say it?.
rhythmic shaking.Characteristics of decoration.Or is the last variation after the return to the topic, I may have ended up here, let a person feel long repose.
at the same time, this recording mixer.So far, there are many "gold, Danish" listen up, main side is playing = interpretation is the center.Or instrument,?.Tuning how will not in front of the like that.Here is the "three times" beautiful and impact tuning is done, fast pace then perhaps, slowly, such as the twenty-fifth variation of medium, up to now hear, without a sound attitude, intoxicated.
Design and eyes
jacket.The relationship between the color of the green and red button shape, white ground, queuing.A red.Also, the two color 2, 3 group of the first national that thou guys significance, also cannot untie, but very beautiful.
recording in 2010 July, Gunma County of Xintian Cultural Center Hall Aerith.
and a hand, "gold", danish.
(article / Onuma Junichi intoxicate Yue 101 published) [] [] Association reported twenty-first Century Jinze Art Museum "column, KEK laboratory is fierce, and wisdom: Michiru KEK," column] [Kurt Rosenwinkel ", to, IMF medicine, Harbin medicine" fierce column [Scott] Lafaro "data at for the group,,,,, and rehabilitation for DoCoMo: Scott RA development as the tap tap · raivu 1958" column] [other Bobo Stenson Trio "Indicum" columnist Mark · []; Michiru, field studies -- like in Japan for the first time to disclose the Michiru, u once skiing mass C little tune "" unfinished "
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"3" beautiful and impact tuning, and the scene has been heard.
79 minutes 38 seconds, fulfilling experience.
Andre · according to the "golden Padua, Danish variations".
The piano teacher
was born in 1962 1995, the "international Bach · competition" winning with concern, however, the game has no interest in me strange, side but this album to this name is unknown.Italy Bach, and play the alias, Donna: the last from composing, works also published.
a variation of the basic end, often do not place about the transfer, has surprised.As a variation of "take a continuous variation of the last to do", there is little master it like flying.Or, variations of the end of the sound like the subtle.Individual variations, independent. Have a look, individual performance is not the only, unique connecting method also has to say it?.
rhythmic shaking.Characteristics of decoration.Or is the last variation after the return to the topic, I may have ended up here, let a person feel long repose.
at the same time, this recording mixer.So far, there are many "gold, Danish" listen up, main side is playing = interpretation is the center.Or instrument,?.Tuning how will not in front of the like that.Here is the "three times" beautiful and impact tuning is done, fast pace then perhaps, slowly, such as the twenty-fifth variation of medium, up to now hear, without a sound attitude, intoxicated.
Design and eyes
jacket.The relationship between the color of the green and red button shape, white ground, queuing.A red.Also, the two color 2, 3 group of the first national that thou guys significance, also cannot untie, but very beautiful.
recording in 2010 July, Gunma County of Xintian Cultural Center Hall Aerith.
and a hand, "gold", danish.
(article / Onuma Junichi intoxicate Yue 101 published) [] [] Association reported twenty-first Century Jinze Art Museum "column, KEK laboratory is fierce, and wisdom: Michiru KEK," column] [Kurt Rosenwinkel ", to, IMF medicine, Harbin medicine" fierce column [Scott] Lafaro "data at for the group,,,,, and rehabilitation for DoCoMo: Scott RA development as the tap tap · raivu 1958" column] [other Bobo Stenson Trio "Indicum" columnist Mark · []; Michiru, field studies -- like in Japan for the first time to disclose the Michiru, u once skiing mass C little tune "" unfinished "
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starred in TV drama theme song decided to the royal family
U - KISS Tang hall drama starring "Hawley Park" DVD!
the creation of Mori Takoji's popularity the original manga, Korea cable channel broadcast in April last year, the TV drama "Hawley Park" DVD!"" Hawley Park "Special DVD-BOX" in January 25th to become available (gold).
timid emaciated body of high school students, it happened in the bookstore boxing manuals, while watching the side self-study can master of martial arts, the street at night is "bad Hunter" reincarnation, finally will. "Hawley Park" found that the situation depicted "Hawley Park".In the TV series, "the" film "women's high violent society" Vinh phuc, - human, director of different, unique style image finish.
starred in Budokan, the success of LIVE K-POP in September last year, a member of the U - KISS Tang Hao (another member of the stool also starred).The sale of the special literature DVD-BOX, was included as a bonus of 70 points making image image image in the shooting scene, close down the hall, to the fans, included message etc..
the TV drama "the royal family", "with the film, RA Vinh phuc, Michiru the DoCoMo I-mode, Noyes," ", Danish RA, Michiru group" in, with, be full of go as the actor's challenging work continued, attention cinema also surging down the hall, DVD issued said, "just the role of heroes in the same.Future also will continue to perform it, at the age of 17, I can only role.In Japan the playback end, however, have seen the man, also did not see you, also please watch DVD, I would like to comment please. ".Related articles] [Choi Jiwoo & Yin · Shengheng starred in "don't want to lose!"In TBS the "Korean wave" in the choice of playing TVXQ (Tohoshinki) "Catch Me109 If you wanna" - changing content messenger began to interview: [INTERVIEW] special ♥ "when the band, TV drama theme song words wrong again." -- Sakamoto Shintaro, single "is not know".Tomohisa Yamashita's new song "blame it on · Serra · Serra" Inagaki Goro (SMAP) starred in TV drama theme song decided to the royal family, Hawley Park, the reincarnation of investigation
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the creation of Mori Takoji's popularity the original manga, Korea cable channel broadcast in April last year, the TV drama "Hawley Park" DVD!"" Hawley Park "Special DVD-BOX" in January 25th to become available (gold).
timid emaciated body of high school students, it happened in the bookstore boxing manuals, while watching the side self-study can master of martial arts, the street at night is "bad Hunter" reincarnation, finally will. "Hawley Park" found that the situation depicted "Hawley Park".In the TV series, "the" film "women's high violent society" Vinh phuc, - human, director of different, unique style image finish.
starred in Budokan, the success of LIVE K-POP in September last year, a member of the U - KISS Tang Hao (another member of the stool also starred).The sale of the special literature DVD-BOX, was included as a bonus of 70 points making image image image in the shooting scene, close down the hall, to the fans, included message etc..
the TV drama "the royal family", "with the film, RA Vinh phuc, Michiru the DoCoMo I-mode, Noyes," ", Danish RA, Michiru group" in, with, be full of go as the actor's challenging work continued, attention cinema also surging down the hall, DVD issued said, "just the role of heroes in the same.Future also will continue to perform it, at the age of 17, I can only role.In Japan the playback end, however, have seen the man, also did not see you, also please watch DVD, I would like to comment please. ".Related articles] [Choi Jiwoo & Yin · Shengheng starred in "don't want to lose!"In TBS the "Korean wave" in the choice of playing TVXQ (Tohoshinki) "Catch Me109 If you wanna" - changing content messenger began to interview: [INTERVIEW] special ♥ "when the band, TV drama theme song words wrong again." -- Sakamoto Shintaro, single "is not know".Tomohisa Yamashita's new song "blame it on · Serra · Serra" Inagaki Goro (SMAP) starred in TV drama theme song decided to the royal family, Hawley Park, the reincarnation of investigation
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first counteroffer crucible climbing a crucible
However, the "Remember me" iTunes is defined with letter published decision
NHK comprehensive weekly Monday 22 began to play in the history of "family".The show's theme song was used at the new "Remember me", iTunes distribution.
programs from the side face of heat price, album "crucible (crucible) voltage (climb one)" started making started "Remember me immediately after the end of the tape".Completion is the beautiful ballad, "family history" began after the broadcast, NHK issuing many related consulting continued.
Effects of
the response, in January 16th, iTunes is defined with the letter published finally decided.Rice, definitely want to get 1.
in addition, the music is also expected to be announced in January 17th second, Nippon Budokan concert "concert tour 2012 / 13 special performance to national development, the first ~ > included camera space freed a, arena and 1F station bench front seat, including additional seats to sell quickly decided."In any case all want to go but not get tickets!"Such lovers, this is the last chance.
[intelligence] LIVE
see concert tour 2012 / 13 special performance to national growth first ~
January 17, 2013
: Nippon Budokan Hall
18: 00 / 19: 00.
★ additional seats sales
in January 16th 12: 00 to 23: 00 in the [Rosen] ticket sale reports BARKS 2013 Chinese New Year gift money big planning at < however, one-man live recording travel 2012 / 13 special performance to national growth first ~ > detailed published, however, tonight's NHK - FM electric wave "" but "" Remember me "the world's first broadcast, album" crucible voltage (crucible climb one) "voltage" (first counteroffer crucible climbing a crucible) "also see the end of the capital circle bundle, the first large-scale free concert grand event
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NHK comprehensive weekly Monday 22 began to play in the history of "family".The show's theme song was used at the new "Remember me", iTunes distribution.
programs from the side face of heat price, album "crucible (crucible) voltage (climb one)" started making started "Remember me immediately after the end of the tape".Completion is the beautiful ballad, "family history" began after the broadcast, NHK issuing many related consulting continued.
Effects of
the response, in January 16th, iTunes is defined with the letter published finally decided.Rice, definitely want to get 1.
in addition, the music is also expected to be announced in January 17th second, Nippon Budokan concert "concert tour 2012 / 13 special performance to national development, the first ~ > included camera space freed a, arena and 1F station bench front seat, including additional seats to sell quickly decided."In any case all want to go but not get tickets!"Such lovers, this is the last chance.
[intelligence] LIVE
see concert tour 2012 / 13 special performance to national growth first ~
January 17, 2013
: Nippon Budokan Hall
18: 00 / 19: 00.
★ additional seats sales
in January 16th 12: 00 to 23: 00 in the [Rosen] ticket sale reports BARKS 2013 Chinese New Year gift money big planning at < however, one-man live recording travel 2012 / 13 special performance to national growth first ~ > detailed published, however, tonight's NHK - FM electric wave "" but "" Remember me "the world's first broadcast, album" crucible voltage (crucible climb one) "voltage" (first counteroffer crucible climbing a crucible) "also see the end of the capital circle bundle, the first large-scale free concert grand event
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Comic magazine release delayed AKB Kasai Tomomi is "excuse me"
"members have what not good?"Also has the feeling, a small commotion.AKB48 sent Kasai Tomomi (21) of the photo was published comic magazine "Youth magazine" launch delayed.Publisher Kodansha "common sense is not appropriate photos".
"become informed to report problems to the photo album.The boy in the chest hidden hands "hand Bra" disputes will inevitably be the.The chest hidden juvenile's sake, the worry of child pornography, surfaced."(press stakeholders)
West is not wrong.The responsibility of the staff's hand.However, the fans "and Hexi Ka and" cold voice out.
"West is a member of the AKB and the famous.Fans look forward to shake hands because of physical discomfort and canceled, or late much.Suddenly, last year's TV Asahi "!The Golden Legend "" 1 months 10000 yen life ".Akimoto Yasu's producer "as a professional may not" not out "(and lighter)
album macromastia disclosure, AKB "sexy bear", but, 2 years ago "venereal doubts" about.Handshake walked out after, with their own blog "pelvic peritonitis" suffer because say.
"pelvic peritonitis is the incidence of appendicitis operation situation, fungi and gonococcal infection sex may be infected.The detailed description of ellipsis, taking the only disease name published, so amused the STD doubts hearsay.AKB48 is forbidden love.Venereal disease is 100 percent impossible "(Panasonic performing lighter)
published in December last year, "graduation", formal activity is SOLO.Future also many topics spread.The journal, the Museum
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"members have what not good?"Also has the feeling, a small commotion.AKB48 sent Kasai Tomomi (21) of the photo was published comic magazine "Youth magazine" launch delayed.Publisher Kodansha "common sense is not appropriate photos".
"become informed to report problems to the photo album.The boy in the chest hidden hands "hand Bra" disputes will inevitably be the.The chest hidden juvenile's sake, the worry of child pornography, surfaced."(press stakeholders)
West is not wrong.The responsibility of the staff's hand.However, the fans "and Hexi Ka and" cold voice out.
"West is a member of the AKB and the famous.Fans look forward to shake hands because of physical discomfort and canceled, or late much.Suddenly, last year's TV Asahi "!The Golden Legend "" 1 months 10000 yen life ".Akimoto Yasu's producer "as a professional may not" not out "(and lighter)
album macromastia disclosure, AKB "sexy bear", but, 2 years ago "venereal doubts" about.Handshake walked out after, with their own blog "pelvic peritonitis" suffer because say.
"pelvic peritonitis is the incidence of appendicitis operation situation, fungi and gonococcal infection sex may be infected.The detailed description of ellipsis, taking the only disease name published, so amused the STD doubts hearsay.AKB48 is forbidden love.Venereal disease is 100 percent impossible "(Panasonic performing lighter)
published in December last year, "graduation", formal activity is SOLO.Future also many topics spread.The journal, the Museum
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2013年1月13日星期日
Perry's siblings formed the group
Diagram of rapidly rising country, group of three people, in April the new album release new single "center have, at, have
list of rapidly rising country, group of three people,,, an have Tuesday (January 10th), the title is a second album will be released in April 2nd.
"center have, at, have" is the band's most imposing single, now fourth American row "country song" graph has 10 weeks to obtain.In addition, they are Wisconsin have an test started the United States Midwest tour, further new things and think.
the 2010 issue of the combined name debut album in the United States sales of 1440000 copies (Nelson audio scanning survey) country album charts second "record.Kimberley, Reed, Neal · Perry's siblings formed the group, striking an excellent start.
,, an have "hot · country music" list, No.1's popular song "paddle, spa, life and many aspects of popular" test, test, test, ", including 5 singles TOP10 entered.In addition, "test, test, test to become the United States of America comprehensive chart ranked" Hot 100 "Top 14, becoming the 4400000 download records.The country is the third bit digital music sales.[] the association reported the,, an have sudden success, this review to those my ma Ni & Sonic house inertial published glamor 5 sector elected black have, production of a new album began poncho Feixin single messenger start ma have & the article, electric guitars and synthesis using!?
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list of rapidly rising country, group of three people,,, an have Tuesday (January 10th), the title is a second album will be released in April 2nd.
"center have, at, have" is the band's most imposing single, now fourth American row "country song" graph has 10 weeks to obtain.In addition, they are Wisconsin have an test started the United States Midwest tour, further new things and think.
the 2010 issue of the combined name debut album in the United States sales of 1440000 copies (Nelson audio scanning survey) country album charts second "record.Kimberley, Reed, Neal · Perry's siblings formed the group, striking an excellent start.
,, an have "hot · country music" list, No.1's popular song "paddle, spa, life and many aspects of popular" test, test, test, ", including 5 singles TOP10 entered.In addition, "test, test, test to become the United States of America comprehensive chart ranked" Hot 100 "Top 14, becoming the 4400000 download records.The country is the third bit digital music sales.[] the association reported the,, an have sudden success, this review to those my ma Ni & Sonic house inertial published glamor 5 sector elected black have, production of a new album began poncho Feixin single messenger start ma have & the article, electric guitars and synthesis using!?
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The new band new disclosed for the first time, BRAHMAN· TOSHI - low into the.Low IQ recording one-man 01
low IQ 012012 release singles recordings of "a room with a one-man special night show > View" in Akasaka BLITZ held.The Official Concert report to.
in the
one-man is the first open band (lower IQ 01 & MIGHTY BEAT MAKERS) member, Guitar & Cho Watanabe Shinobu (ASPARAGUS), Drums ally, Fukuda "Zhong chapter TDC" (FRONTIER BACKYARD / SCAFULL KING), Bass (STRAIGHTENER), and the daily show and low IQ 01 stage appear on the word, from the GEOSOUND as solidarity flying.
fashion has recognized low IQ of 01, the body is black the coordination of the first song "SWEAR" to start.The floor immediately anger rise, and dive roll.This time fans waiting thing deeply convey.
and, on stage "ghost is coming!"And a strange atmosphere, BRAHMAN TOSHI - low into the.Every time, low IQ 01 LIVE is contrary to expectation guests into, make me happy.
after the concert has recognized the song, as well as the latest single "a room with a view" recordings starting one-man such a thing has, singles included, first the Japanese lyrics caused the topic of "seven" (the seven three Chinese characters "to read") and "KI - KI - Su - GO - SU" 2 Song Concert first disclosed.
and, in time, the very rare "a room with a view" (wood Watanabe Shinobu ghost) and low IQ 01 two, acoustic guitar played.
Music digital society, low IQ 01 rich and colorful style of LIVE, preparation and performance of each band of land by different music CD music made glamour.It was in the meeting gathered fans together to create a stage there, low IQ 01 axis were woven band (& THE BEAT BREAKER low IQ; low IQ & ANOTHER BEAT, BREAKER, low IQ 01 & THE RHYTHM MAKERS, low IQ low IQ as low as 01 & MASTER, MIGHTY 01 & BEAT MAKERS) "and who make music together?"Such a thing for a wide variety of live space generates a low IQ 01 outstanding musical perspective and connections to.
after a number of years it will not fade the music, he is such a production capacity of the height, has supported.Such feeling, make the highest LIVE.[] Association reported the test channel low IQ 01 official website LIVE < MUSIC > MAGIC, 01, & THE BEAT game low IQ; BREAKER live BRAHMAN suddenly low IQ 01, after about 2 and a half years new"
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low IQ 012012 release singles recordings of "a room with a one-man special night show > View" in Akasaka BLITZ held.The Official Concert report to.
in the
one-man is the first open band (lower IQ 01 & MIGHTY BEAT MAKERS) member, Guitar & Cho Watanabe Shinobu (ASPARAGUS), Drums ally, Fukuda "Zhong chapter TDC" (FRONTIER BACKYARD / SCAFULL KING), Bass (STRAIGHTENER), and the daily show and low IQ 01 stage appear on the word, from the GEOSOUND as solidarity flying.
fashion has recognized low IQ of 01, the body is black the coordination of the first song "SWEAR" to start.The floor immediately anger rise, and dive roll.This time fans waiting thing deeply convey.
and, on stage "ghost is coming!"And a strange atmosphere, BRAHMAN TOSHI - low into the.Every time, low IQ 01 LIVE is contrary to expectation guests into, make me happy.
after the concert has recognized the song, as well as the latest single "a room with a view" recordings starting one-man such a thing has, singles included, first the Japanese lyrics caused the topic of "seven" (the seven three Chinese characters "to read") and "KI - KI - Su - GO - SU" 2 Song Concert first disclosed.
and, in time, the very rare "a room with a view" (wood Watanabe Shinobu ghost) and low IQ 01 two, acoustic guitar played.
Music digital society, low IQ 01 rich and colorful style of LIVE, preparation and performance of each band of land by different music CD music made glamour.It was in the meeting gathered fans together to create a stage there, low IQ 01 axis were woven band (& THE BEAT BREAKER low IQ; low IQ & ANOTHER BEAT, BREAKER, low IQ 01 & THE RHYTHM MAKERS, low IQ low IQ as low as 01 & MASTER, MIGHTY 01 & BEAT MAKERS) "and who make music together?"Such a thing for a wide variety of live space generates a low IQ 01 outstanding musical perspective and connections to.
after a number of years it will not fade the music, he is such a production capacity of the height, has supported.Such feeling, make the highest LIVE.[] Association reported the test channel low IQ 01 official website LIVE < MUSIC > MAGIC, 01, & THE BEAT game low IQ; BREAKER live BRAHMAN suddenly low IQ 01, after about 2 and a half years new"
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2013年1月7日星期一
脱マニュアル。お客様の心は全身全霊で感じとる －「すし匠」親方 中澤圭二
脱マニュアル。お客様の心は全身全霊で感じとる －「すし匠」親方 中澤圭二
いらっしゃいませと、「すし匠」の親方・中澤圭二さんから目と言葉で迎えられた。接客マニュアルに書いてあるのか目を合わさない義務的な挨拶が主流になるなかで、中澤さんはお客の目をしっかり見る。東京・四谷に店を開いて間もない頃、お客の気分を害した失敗から目を見て迎え、目を見て話すことの大切さを改めて教えられたからだ。
「私も子どもたち(従業員)もロボットにならないことを心掛けています。このお客様はもうおなかいっぱいなのかな、といったことは、ロボットには判断できなくても人間なら自然にわかることですよ」
と簡単に言うけれど、「お任せ」で出される握りやつまみは、お客が食べたいと思う頃を見計らって現れる。このさじ加減、「ただの人間」には無理である。
「我々寿司職人は親子のような関係です。5年、6年と寮生活をし先輩や後輩と24時間顔を突き合わせて生活しています。気の合う仲間もいれば嫌な先輩もいる。でも嫌な先輩と一緒に生活することが大切。嫌なことを克服する力が養われるし、嫌われないように気遣うことを覚えるのです」
寿司職人の見習いはまず掃除の仕事を与えられる。1年間続けると洗い場で洗い物を任される。そうした下積み修業を続けてようやく板場でネタケースが洗えるようになり、やがてネタにさわれる日が来る。
「修業を積んできたからこそ『コハダにさわれる』ことの価値がわかる。するとコハダに愛情がわいておいしく作ろうという気持ちになる。おいしく作れたら――」
次はどうしたらお客様においしく食べていただくかを考えるようになるというわけだ。
中澤さんが最も心掛けているのは店内の「空気」を整えること。
「空気は店とお客様とでつくるものですが、たまには空気を乱す人もいますよ。他のお客様に迷惑がかかるときは一瞬“棘”を出します」
棘を出したところを他のお客が目撃すると心地悪いから、話題を振ってお客同士で話が弾んだ瞬間を見計らって「困りますよ」と諭す。
「気配りはお客様に迎合することとは違います。困ったお客様に嫌われることが、本当のお客様に対する心遣いになることもある」
親方は子どもたちに対しても気を配る。昔の寿司職人の世界はガチガチの縦社会だったから、親方は拳固で教えればよかったが、今は時代が違う。
「どの子も同じように叱ることはありえない。きつく叱ったほうがいい子、きつく叱ってはいけない子、すぐに叱ったほうがいい子、しばらく見て見ぬふりをしたほうがいい子というように、子どもたちの性格によって変えています。だからといって、なぜオレだけと思われてもいけない。叱ることはコハダを締めるのと同じくらい難しい」
一方で「子どもたちが感じたことを言える環境をつくっている」とも。毎日仕事が終わってから行う反省会では「あのお客様は本当は光り物が嫌いのようでした」といった中澤さんも気がつかなかった指摘も出る。そうやって話し合うことで店全体の温かい雰囲気が磨かれる。
「お客様を幸せにするために仕事をしているという原点に立ち返って考えれば、難しいことではない」と中澤さん。気配りが苦手な人は、仕事の原点を忘れかけているのかもしれない。
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いらっしゃいませと、「すし匠」の親方・中澤圭二さんから目と言葉で迎えられた。接客マニュアルに書いてあるのか目を合わさない義務的な挨拶が主流になるなかで、中澤さんはお客の目をしっかり見る。東京・四谷に店を開いて間もない頃、お客の気分を害した失敗から目を見て迎え、目を見て話すことの大切さを改めて教えられたからだ。
「私も子どもたち(従業員)もロボットにならないことを心掛けています。このお客様はもうおなかいっぱいなのかな、といったことは、ロボットには判断できなくても人間なら自然にわかることですよ」
と簡単に言うけれど、「お任せ」で出される握りやつまみは、お客が食べたいと思う頃を見計らって現れる。このさじ加減、「ただの人間」には無理である。
「我々寿司職人は親子のような関係です。5年、6年と寮生活をし先輩や後輩と24時間顔を突き合わせて生活しています。気の合う仲間もいれば嫌な先輩もいる。でも嫌な先輩と一緒に生活することが大切。嫌なことを克服する力が養われるし、嫌われないように気遣うことを覚えるのです」
寿司職人の見習いはまず掃除の仕事を与えられる。1年間続けると洗い場で洗い物を任される。そうした下積み修業を続けてようやく板場でネタケースが洗えるようになり、やがてネタにさわれる日が来る。
「修業を積んできたからこそ『コハダにさわれる』ことの価値がわかる。するとコハダに愛情がわいておいしく作ろうという気持ちになる。おいしく作れたら――」
次はどうしたらお客様においしく食べていただくかを考えるようになるというわけだ。
中澤さんが最も心掛けているのは店内の「空気」を整えること。
「空気は店とお客様とでつくるものですが、たまには空気を乱す人もいますよ。他のお客様に迷惑がかかるときは一瞬“棘”を出します」
棘を出したところを他のお客が目撃すると心地悪いから、話題を振ってお客同士で話が弾んだ瞬間を見計らって「困りますよ」と諭す。
「気配りはお客様に迎合することとは違います。困ったお客様に嫌われることが、本当のお客様に対する心遣いになることもある」
親方は子どもたちに対しても気を配る。昔の寿司職人の世界はガチガチの縦社会だったから、親方は拳固で教えればよかったが、今は時代が違う。
「どの子も同じように叱ることはありえない。きつく叱ったほうがいい子、きつく叱ってはいけない子、すぐに叱ったほうがいい子、しばらく見て見ぬふりをしたほうがいい子というように、子どもたちの性格によって変えています。だからといって、なぜオレだけと思われてもいけない。叱ることはコハダを締めるのと同じくらい難しい」
一方で「子どもたちが感じたことを言える環境をつくっている」とも。毎日仕事が終わってから行う反省会では「あのお客様は本当は光り物が嫌いのようでした」といった中澤さんも気がつかなかった指摘も出る。そうやって話し合うことで店全体の温かい雰囲気が磨かれる。
「お客様を幸せにするために仕事をしているという原点に立ち返って考えれば、難しいことではない」と中澤さん。気配りが苦手な人は、仕事の原点を忘れかけているのかもしれない。
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兵庫県豊岡市が進めるコウノトリ（国の特別天然記念物）の野生復帰事業に、全国の自治体から熱い視線が注がれている。同市では今年初めて、人の手がまったく入らない野生の「放鳥３世」が誕生。農薬に頼らない周辺の水田づくりと合わせて、国内屈指の環境先進地と評価が高い。観光や農業振興の起爆剤として新たなコウノトリの里を狙う各地の視察が相次いでいるという。 コウノトリの生息に欠かせないのが、ドジョウやカエルの餌場。こうした水生生物が育つきれいな水田がなければ、コウノトリも野生化できない。 豊岡市では、県立コウノトリの郷公園で人工繁殖などを行う一方、「コウノトリ育む農法」と名付けた稲作を推進。農薬や化学肥料に頼らない米作りと餌場の確保に取り組んできた。 農地整備と一体となった同市の野生化事業には、特に首都圏周辺の自治体が注目。かつて関東はコウノトリやトキの主要分布地だったこともあり、復活を目指す千葉、埼玉など４県２９市町が自治体フォーラムを組織。豊岡にならった環境づくりを目指している。 中でも熱心に視察に訪れたのが千葉県野田市。ケージのある施設を整備し、近くコウノトリの人工飼育を始める予定といい、関東では“第２の里”にもっとも近い。 １０月に視察団で来訪した同県いすみ市も「環境を良くして、コウノトリの拠点をつくりたい」（太田洋市長）と明言した。同月に訪れた栃木県小山市は豊岡の農業振興に着目、無農薬ブランド米の栽培を開始した。いずれもコウノトリをキーワードに観光や農業で町おこしを図りたい考えだ。 豊岡市の市民団体「コウノトリ湿地ネット」の佐竹節夫代表は「自然再生や地域づくりなど“豊岡流”が全国に広がり、誇らしい」と話している。
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兵庫県豊岡市が進めるコウノトリ（国の特別天然記念物）の野生復帰事業に、全国の自治体から熱い視線が注がれている。同市では今年初めて、人の手がまったく入らない野生の「放鳥３世」が誕生。農薬に頼らない周辺の水田づくりと合わせて、国内屈指の環境先進地と評価が高い。観光や農業振興の起爆剤として新たなコウノトリの里を狙う各地の視察が相次いでいるという。 コウノトリの生息に欠かせないのが、ドジョウやカエルの餌場。こうした水生生物が育つきれいな水田がなければ、コウノトリも野生化できない。 豊岡市では、県立コウノトリの郷公園で人工繁殖などを行う一方、「コウノトリ育む農法」と名付けた稲作を推進。農薬や化学肥料に頼らない米作りと餌場の確保に取り組んできた。 農地整備と一体となった同市の野生化事業には、特に首都圏周辺の自治体が注目。かつて関東はコウノトリやトキの主要分布地だったこともあり、復活を目指す千葉、埼玉など４県２９市町が自治体フォーラムを組織。豊岡にならった環境づくりを目指している。 中でも熱心に視察に訪れたのが千葉県野田市。ケージのある施設を整備し、近くコウノトリの人工飼育を始める予定といい、関東では“第２の里”にもっとも近い。 １０月に視察団で来訪した同県いすみ市も「環境を良くして、コウノトリの拠点をつくりたい」（太田洋市長）と明言した。同月に訪れた栃木県小山市は豊岡の農業振興に着目、無農薬ブランド米の栽培を開始した。いずれもコウノトリをキーワードに観光や農業で町おこしを図りたい考えだ。 豊岡市の市民団体「コウノトリ湿地ネット」の佐竹節夫代表は「自然再生や地域づくりなど“豊岡流”が全国に広がり、誇らしい」と話している。
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フルHD液晶、SSD RAID搭載の“1キロ”Ultrabook――「Aspire S7-191」で極上PCライフを体験する
A4用紙よりも小さくて、厚さは12.2ミリ――そんな超小型Ultrabookが日本エイサーから登場した。「Aspire S7-191」は11.6型ワイドディスプレイを搭載する極薄ノートPCだ。
【フルHD液晶、SSD RAID搭載の“1キロ”Ultrabook「Aspire S7-191」で極上PCライフを体験する】
こちらは、先にレビューした厚さ11.9ミリの13.3型モデル「Aspire S7-391」と同様に、タッチパネルを内蔵しつつ、厚さを12.2ミリに抑えた世界最薄（11.6型液晶ディスプレイを搭載するUltrabookにおいて。2012年11月現在、同社調べ）のUltrabookとなる。
Aspire S7-191は、ただ単にAspire S7-391のサイズを小さくしたマシンではない。基本的なスペックなどはほぼ共通だが、外観のデザインやキーボードが異なるほか、画面が小さくなったことにより、見やすさやタッチパネルの使い心地も変わるかもしれない。今回は、そういったAspire S7-391との違いに主眼を置き、Aspire S7-191の性能や使い勝手をチェックする。
●美しいヘアライン加工を施したアルミ天板
Aspire S7-191の本体サイズは、約283.6（幅）×195.6（奥行き）×12.2（厚さ）ミリだ。重量はカタログ値が1.04キロで、実測値は1042グラムだった。11.6型Ultrabookとして標準的な重量だが、ボディの薄さゆえ、持ち上げやすく、手への収まりもよい。
Aspire S7-391はガラスを使った天板が特徴的だったが、Aspire S7-191はアルミニウム合金の天板を採用している。この金属質な天板は一見、薄型のUltrabookにありがちなデザインに思えるが、珍しいヘアライン加工が目を引く。線が編み目のように交わっており、光が当たると無数の細かい格子柄が浮かび上がる。
天板に加え、パームレストやキーボード面も光沢を抑え、ディスプレイのフレーム部も天板と同じ色を採用しているため、色合いは全体的に統一されており、質感も高い。堅牢性も、剛性を高めたアルミのユニボディを採用することで確保している。
本体搭載のインタフェースは、左側面にUSB 3.0が1基、右側面にUSB 3.0が1基とMicro SDカードスロット、背面に映像出力用のMicro HDMIポートを備える。Aspire S7-391と比べると、カードリーダーがmicroSDカードになり、配置も異なる。
Ultrabookでは珍しく背面に映像出力ポートがあるが、意外と使いやすい。本体サイズが小さいぶん、ボディを動かすのは苦にならないし、もともと、ひんぱんに抜き差しするわけでもない。付属の変換アダプタを使う場合も、ほかのケーブルがあまり干渉しない背面の方が邪魔になりにくいだろう。
端子の少なさを補うため、S7-391と同様に標準でUSB接続の有線LAN（100BASE-TX対応）アダプタと、Micro HDMI接続のアナログRGBアダプタが付属する。S7-191のような軽いモバイルPCは出張も向くので、有線LANアダプタは行き先のホテルなどで重宝するだろう。無線接続はIEEE802.11a/b/g/n準拠の無線LANとBluetooth 4.0に対応する。
●精細な表示が可能な、タッチ対応フルHDディスプレイ
11.6型のディスプレイの解像度は1920×1080ドット（フルHD）だ。IPS方式の液晶パネルを採用しており、視野角は上下／左右ともに178度と広い。13.3型のS7-391より、さらに画素密度が高い約190ppi（pixel per inch：1インチあたりのピクセル数）になり、高解像度の動画や写真なども美しく表示される。
しかし、このように画素密度が高いディスプレイでは、設定によってWindows 8のデスクトップUIに表示されるテキストやアイコンが小さくなる場合がある。初期設定では表示サイズの設定が「小（100％）」になっており、やや小さい印象だ。これを「中（120％）」に変更することで、ちょうどよい表示サイズと感じた。
このディスプレイに、10点マルチタッチに対応する静電容量方式のタッチパネルを搭載する。液晶ディスプレイの画面とフレームがシームレスにつながっているため、チャームの呼び出しやアプリケーションの切り替えといったジェスチャー動作も快適だ。サイズは11.6型ということもあり、10型タブレットのタッチ操作に近い感覚が味わえる。ただ、ガラス面は指紋が残りやすく、タッチ操作を繰り返すことで汚れが目立ってしまう。
タッチ操作時に本体がぐらつかないよう、液晶ディスプレイを開こうとすると100度ぐらいで一度止まるギミックは、S7-391と同様に備わっている。S7-391よりもボディが軽く、ディスプレイが動きやすいためか、ヒンジは固めだ。100度からさらに深く倒すときは、強めに押す必要がある。
●変則配列の5段キーボードを装備
キーボードは72キー配列を採用したアイソレーションタイプだ。主要キーのキーピッチは横が19ミリ、縦が18ミリと、11.6型のノートPCとしては広いものの、キーの数はその分少なくなり、キーの配置も特殊だ。具体的には、最上段のファンクションキーが省かれ、Fnキーと数字キーの同時押しとなっていることや、半角／全角キーをCapsLockキーの右に配置していること、Deleteキーが最下段にあることなどが挙げられる。
主要キーのキーピッチが広い一方で、BackspaceやEnter、Shiftといった右端のキーについては、左隣のキーと隣接している。S7-391と比較すると、右端のキーがさらに小さく（特に横幅）なっており、Enterキーのサイズは15（横）×32（縦）ミリと、主要なアルファベットキーよりも横幅が狭い。カーソルキーも縦のサイズが約9ミリと小さく、カーソルキーをよく利用するユーザーは、使いづらく感じるだろう。
スイッチの押し心地は柔らかく、キーストロークが約1ミリと浅いため、しっかりとした打ち心地を求める人には物足りないかもしれない。ただ、キーボードの固定はしっかりとしており、キーを意図的に強く押し込まない限りはたわむこともないので、軽い力で楽にタイプできる。有機ELのバックライトを搭載しており、暗い場所ではキーが青く光る。
Aspire S7-191は、ホームポジションより少し右にずれた位置にタッチパッドを配置している。左右のクリックボタンが一体となっているタイプで、サイズは90（横）×50（縦）ミリだ。4本の指が余裕を持って置けるサイズであるため、マルチタッチジェスチャーを行うには十分といえる。タッチパッドのドライバはELAN製で、2本指での上下／左右スクロール、2本指の開閉による拡大／縮小、回転機能、3本指スワイプによるページ送りなどが利用可能だ。4本指でスワイプすれば、スタート画面を表示するよう設定することもできる。
●スペックに見合った高パフォーマンス
Aspire S7-191の基本スペックは、Aspire S7-391と同様で、CPUがTDP（熱設計電力）17ワットのCore i7-3517U（1.9GHz／最大3.0GHz）、メモリは4Gバイト、ストレージは64GバイトSSD×2のRAID 0構成（計128Gバイト）、グラフィックス機能はCPU統合のIntel HD Graphics 4000を利用する。OSは64ビット版Windows 8となる。それではベンチマークテストを行っていこう。
まずは、Windowsエクスペリエンスインデックスをチェックする。グラフィックスのサブスコアが5.4と最も低く、プライマリハードディスクの8.3が最も高くなったのはS7-391と同じだ。SSDのRAID 0構成ということもあり、データの読み書きは高速で、CrystalDiskMark 3.0.1で測定したところ、シーケンシャルリードが822Mバイト／秒と非常に速かった。SSDはS7-391と同じくLITE-ON製の「CMT-64L3M」を使用している。
ベンチマークテストは、総合ベンチマークテストのPCMark 7、3D系ベンチマークテストの3DMark06、3DMark Vantage、ストリートファイターIV ベンチマーク、モンスターハンターフロンティア ベンチマーク【絆】を行った。13.3型のS7-391とあまりスコアは変わらず、Windows 8搭載Ultrabook「dynabook R822」や「VAIO Duo 11」（ともに店頭モデル）とも同等のスコアとなった。
●バッテリーはやや不安、外出先でじっくり使うならACアダプタを
S7-191のバッテリー容量は3790ミリアンペア／3.7ボルトだ。最長動作時間は約5時間とUltrabookとしては、かなり短い部類に入る。実動作時間の測定をBBench 1.01（海人氏・作）で行ったところ（60秒間隔でのWeb巡回（10サイト）＋10秒間隔でのキーストローク、PCは無線LANに常時接続で電源プランは「バランス」）バッテリー残量5％で休止状態へ移行するまで、約3時間27分だった。
カタログ値よりも1時間半ほど短く、3時間台ということで、モバイル環境で使うにはバッテリー切れの不安がある。自宅や屋内での持ち運びであれば対応できるが、外出時に仕事などで長時間作業する場合は、ACアダプタを持ち歩く必要がありそうだ。専用の拡張バッテリーが2012年12月中旬以降に発売される予定なので、こちらも検討するといいだろう。装着時のバッテリー動作時間は約9.5時間としている。
動作時の発熱と騒音については、13.3型モデルのS7-391とあまり変わらない。ベンチマークテストなど高負荷な処理が続くと、46デシベル程度（暗静音時33デシベル）まで上がり、キーボード面の奥側がやや熱くなった（約37度、室温は23度）。パームレストまで熱が伝わることはなかったが、YouTubeやニコニコ動画で動画を見るようなときでも、時々ファンが回って大きな音がするところは気になった。
●小型、軽量、高性能な正統派Ultrabook
Aspire S7-191の想定実売価格は13万円前後となる。洗練されたデザイン、タッチ対応のフルHD対応ディスプレイ、第3世代Core i7、RAID 0構成のSSDを備え、14万円前後となるS7-391とともに、同社Ultrabookカテゴリのハイエンドモデルとして、文句のないスペックとなっている。価格もスペック相応だ。
11型クラスの液晶ディスプレイを搭載したUltrabookは少ないが、作業領域やキーピッチの広さよりも、コンパクトで軽量なマシンを好むユーザーは少なくない。変則配列のキーボードや、短めのバッテリーといった一癖ある仕様に納得ができるならば、薄型軽量でハイスペックな本機は、あらゆるシーンでユーザーを十分に満足させる力を持ったマシンと言えるだろう。
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A4用紙よりも小さくて、厚さは12.2ミリ――そんな超小型Ultrabookが日本エイサーから登場した。「Aspire S7-191」は11.6型ワイドディスプレイを搭載する極薄ノートPCだ。
【フルHD液晶、SSD RAID搭載の“1キロ”Ultrabook「Aspire S7-191」で極上PCライフを体験する】
こちらは、先にレビューした厚さ11.9ミリの13.3型モデル「Aspire S7-391」と同様に、タッチパネルを内蔵しつつ、厚さを12.2ミリに抑えた世界最薄（11.6型液晶ディスプレイを搭載するUltrabookにおいて。2012年11月現在、同社調べ）のUltrabookとなる。
Aspire S7-191は、ただ単にAspire S7-391のサイズを小さくしたマシンではない。基本的なスペックなどはほぼ共通だが、外観のデザインやキーボードが異なるほか、画面が小さくなったことにより、見やすさやタッチパネルの使い心地も変わるかもしれない。今回は、そういったAspire S7-391との違いに主眼を置き、Aspire S7-191の性能や使い勝手をチェックする。
●美しいヘアライン加工を施したアルミ天板
Aspire S7-191の本体サイズは、約283.6（幅）×195.6（奥行き）×12.2（厚さ）ミリだ。重量はカタログ値が1.04キロで、実測値は1042グラムだった。11.6型Ultrabookとして標準的な重量だが、ボディの薄さゆえ、持ち上げやすく、手への収まりもよい。
Aspire S7-391はガラスを使った天板が特徴的だったが、Aspire S7-191はアルミニウム合金の天板を採用している。この金属質な天板は一見、薄型のUltrabookにありがちなデザインに思えるが、珍しいヘアライン加工が目を引く。線が編み目のように交わっており、光が当たると無数の細かい格子柄が浮かび上がる。
天板に加え、パームレストやキーボード面も光沢を抑え、ディスプレイのフレーム部も天板と同じ色を採用しているため、色合いは全体的に統一されており、質感も高い。堅牢性も、剛性を高めたアルミのユニボディを採用することで確保している。
本体搭載のインタフェースは、左側面にUSB 3.0が1基、右側面にUSB 3.0が1基とMicro SDカードスロット、背面に映像出力用のMicro HDMIポートを備える。Aspire S7-391と比べると、カードリーダーがmicroSDカードになり、配置も異なる。
Ultrabookでは珍しく背面に映像出力ポートがあるが、意外と使いやすい。本体サイズが小さいぶん、ボディを動かすのは苦にならないし、もともと、ひんぱんに抜き差しするわけでもない。付属の変換アダプタを使う場合も、ほかのケーブルがあまり干渉しない背面の方が邪魔になりにくいだろう。
端子の少なさを補うため、S7-391と同様に標準でUSB接続の有線LAN（100BASE-TX対応）アダプタと、Micro HDMI接続のアナログRGBアダプタが付属する。S7-191のような軽いモバイルPCは出張も向くので、有線LANアダプタは行き先のホテルなどで重宝するだろう。無線接続はIEEE802.11a/b/g/n準拠の無線LANとBluetooth 4.0に対応する。
●精細な表示が可能な、タッチ対応フルHDディスプレイ
11.6型のディスプレイの解像度は1920×1080ドット（フルHD）だ。IPS方式の液晶パネルを採用しており、視野角は上下／左右ともに178度と広い。13.3型のS7-391より、さらに画素密度が高い約190ppi（pixel per inch：1インチあたりのピクセル数）になり、高解像度の動画や写真なども美しく表示される。
しかし、このように画素密度が高いディスプレイでは、設定によってWindows 8のデスクトップUIに表示されるテキストやアイコンが小さくなる場合がある。初期設定では表示サイズの設定が「小（100％）」になっており、やや小さい印象だ。これを「中（120％）」に変更することで、ちょうどよい表示サイズと感じた。
このディスプレイに、10点マルチタッチに対応する静電容量方式のタッチパネルを搭載する。液晶ディスプレイの画面とフレームがシームレスにつながっているため、チャームの呼び出しやアプリケーションの切り替えといったジェスチャー動作も快適だ。サイズは11.6型ということもあり、10型タブレットのタッチ操作に近い感覚が味わえる。ただ、ガラス面は指紋が残りやすく、タッチ操作を繰り返すことで汚れが目立ってしまう。
タッチ操作時に本体がぐらつかないよう、液晶ディスプレイを開こうとすると100度ぐらいで一度止まるギミックは、S7-391と同様に備わっている。S7-391よりもボディが軽く、ディスプレイが動きやすいためか、ヒンジは固めだ。100度からさらに深く倒すときは、強めに押す必要がある。
●変則配列の5段キーボードを装備
キーボードは72キー配列を採用したアイソレーションタイプだ。主要キーのキーピッチは横が19ミリ、縦が18ミリと、11.6型のノートPCとしては広いものの、キーの数はその分少なくなり、キーの配置も特殊だ。具体的には、最上段のファンクションキーが省かれ、Fnキーと数字キーの同時押しとなっていることや、半角／全角キーをCapsLockキーの右に配置していること、Deleteキーが最下段にあることなどが挙げられる。
主要キーのキーピッチが広い一方で、BackspaceやEnter、Shiftといった右端のキーについては、左隣のキーと隣接している。S7-391と比較すると、右端のキーがさらに小さく（特に横幅）なっており、Enterキーのサイズは15（横）×32（縦）ミリと、主要なアルファベットキーよりも横幅が狭い。カーソルキーも縦のサイズが約9ミリと小さく、カーソルキーをよく利用するユーザーは、使いづらく感じるだろう。
スイッチの押し心地は柔らかく、キーストロークが約1ミリと浅いため、しっかりとした打ち心地を求める人には物足りないかもしれない。ただ、キーボードの固定はしっかりとしており、キーを意図的に強く押し込まない限りはたわむこともないので、軽い力で楽にタイプできる。有機ELのバックライトを搭載しており、暗い場所ではキーが青く光る。
Aspire S7-191は、ホームポジションより少し右にずれた位置にタッチパッドを配置している。左右のクリックボタンが一体となっているタイプで、サイズは90（横）×50（縦）ミリだ。4本の指が余裕を持って置けるサイズであるため、マルチタッチジェスチャーを行うには十分といえる。タッチパッドのドライバはELAN製で、2本指での上下／左右スクロール、2本指の開閉による拡大／縮小、回転機能、3本指スワイプによるページ送りなどが利用可能だ。4本指でスワイプすれば、スタート画面を表示するよう設定することもできる。
●スペックに見合った高パフォーマンス
Aspire S7-191の基本スペックは、Aspire S7-391と同様で、CPUがTDP（熱設計電力）17ワットのCore i7-3517U（1.9GHz／最大3.0GHz）、メモリは4Gバイト、ストレージは64GバイトSSD×2のRAID 0構成（計128Gバイト）、グラフィックス機能はCPU統合のIntel HD Graphics 4000を利用する。OSは64ビット版Windows 8となる。それではベンチマークテストを行っていこう。
まずは、Windowsエクスペリエンスインデックスをチェックする。グラフィックスのサブスコアが5.4と最も低く、プライマリハードディスクの8.3が最も高くなったのはS7-391と同じだ。SSDのRAID 0構成ということもあり、データの読み書きは高速で、CrystalDiskMark 3.0.1で測定したところ、シーケンシャルリードが822Mバイト／秒と非常に速かった。SSDはS7-391と同じくLITE-ON製の「CMT-64L3M」を使用している。
ベンチマークテストは、総合ベンチマークテストのPCMark 7、3D系ベンチマークテストの3DMark06、3DMark Vantage、ストリートファイターIV ベンチマーク、モンスターハンターフロンティア ベンチマーク【絆】を行った。13.3型のS7-391とあまりスコアは変わらず、Windows 8搭載Ultrabook「dynabook R822」や「VAIO Duo 11」（ともに店頭モデル）とも同等のスコアとなった。
●バッテリーはやや不安、外出先でじっくり使うならACアダプタを
S7-191のバッテリー容量は3790ミリアンペア／3.7ボルトだ。最長動作時間は約5時間とUltrabookとしては、かなり短い部類に入る。実動作時間の測定をBBench 1.01（海人氏・作）で行ったところ（60秒間隔でのWeb巡回（10サイト）＋10秒間隔でのキーストローク、PCは無線LANに常時接続で電源プランは「バランス」）バッテリー残量5％で休止状態へ移行するまで、約3時間27分だった。
カタログ値よりも1時間半ほど短く、3時間台ということで、モバイル環境で使うにはバッテリー切れの不安がある。自宅や屋内での持ち運びであれば対応できるが、外出時に仕事などで長時間作業する場合は、ACアダプタを持ち歩く必要がありそうだ。専用の拡張バッテリーが2012年12月中旬以降に発売される予定なので、こちらも検討するといいだろう。装着時のバッテリー動作時間は約9.5時間としている。
動作時の発熱と騒音については、13.3型モデルのS7-391とあまり変わらない。ベンチマークテストなど高負荷な処理が続くと、46デシベル程度（暗静音時33デシベル）まで上がり、キーボード面の奥側がやや熱くなった（約37度、室温は23度）。パームレストまで熱が伝わることはなかったが、YouTubeやニコニコ動画で動画を見るようなときでも、時々ファンが回って大きな音がするところは気になった。
●小型、軽量、高性能な正統派Ultrabook
Aspire S7-191の想定実売価格は13万円前後となる。洗練されたデザイン、タッチ対応のフルHD対応ディスプレイ、第3世代Core i7、RAID 0構成のSSDを備え、14万円前後となるS7-391とともに、同社Ultrabookカテゴリのハイエンドモデルとして、文句のないスペックとなっている。価格もスペック相応だ。
11型クラスの液晶ディスプレイを搭載したUltrabookは少ないが、作業領域やキーピッチの広さよりも、コンパクトで軽量なマシンを好むユーザーは少なくない。変則配列のキーボードや、短めのバッテリーといった一癖ある仕様に納得ができるならば、薄型軽量でハイスペックな本機は、あらゆるシーンでユーザーを十分に満足させる力を持ったマシンと言えるだろう。
[池田憲弘（撮影：矢野渉），ITmedia]【関連記事】 2012年PC秋冬モデル特集 13.3型フルHDで11.9ミリ厚の極薄Ultrabook「Aspire S7-391」を試す エイサー、極薄筐体を採用したタッチ操作対応の11.6型Ultrabook「S7-191-F74Q」 日本エイサー、世界最薄のタッチパネル搭載UltrabookなどPC秋冬モデルを発表 Acer、Windows 8対応Ultrabookなど、新モデル公開
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" said Philippe Reines in a statement.
Hillary Clinton discharged from N.Y. hospital: State Department
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Secretary of State Hillary Clinton was discharged from hospital on Wednesday after being treated for a blood clot in a vein behind her right ear, and her doctors expect her to make a full recovery, a State Department spokesman said.
"Her medical team advised her that she is making good progress on all fronts, and they are confident she will make a full recovery," said Philippe Reines in a statement.
"She's eager to get back to the office, and we will keep you updated on her schedule as it becomes clearer in the coming days," he said.
(Reporting by Arshad Mohammed; editing by Philip Barbara)
County and Municipal Employees
Adopt a Cop campaign launched by yoga studio for Sandy Hook’s traumatized first responders
Police block the road to Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Conn., on Dec. 25, 2012. (Craig Ruttle/AP)
Police officers who were traumatized by the horrific scene at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Conn., last month and are now running out of paid sick and vacation time may soon get some financial help from an unlikely source: a yoga studio.
Linda Antignani, founder of Mother's Embrace Yoga in nearby Shelton, Conn., contacted the Newtown Police Department to ask what she could do to help after hearing about officers who have been unable to work in the wake of the Dec. 14 massacre, when a gunman opened fire, killing 20 children and six adults. The result: She has just launched an Adopt a Cop fund benefiting the traumatized officers.
According to the union representing the police, those suffering from post-traumatic stress are not entitled to workers' compensation benefits under the current town statute and have been forced to use sick and vacation time.
"The insurer for the town has taken a position that these officers are entitled to only what the statute allows," Eric Brown, an attorney for Council 15 of the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees, said last week. "Unfortunately for these officers, the statute doesn't allow any benefits." According to Brown, about 15 police officers have been unable to work due to trauma.
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Brown is hoping state lawmakers will push to change the statute for those who responded to the Newtown shootings when the 2013 legislative session begins on Jan. 9.
Until then, a liaison for the Newtown Police Department told Antignani that money raised through her yoga studio's Adopt a Cop fund could be converted into Walmart gift cards, so that the officers and their families can purchase food and other items while they remain out of work.
"Walmart was suggested by the liaison as the place where most Newtown officers would shop," Antignani explained. She's raised more than $180 so far.
"I don't know how much is needed," Antignani added. "Anything I can get together with the generous help of my students, friends and family is a good start."
Local police departments have been pitching in, too. On Christmas Day, officers from neighboring towns, including Shelton, offered to work in Newtown so officers there could spend the holiday with their families.
who shared time in Earth orbit with Tereshkova in 1963
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"Spaceship" Earth has completed another revolution around the sun, and has set off on another 365-day, 583-million-mile (940 million kilometers) journey across time and space.
Over the past year, humankind's efforts to push farther out into the solar system have resulted in launching the first commercial spacecraft to resupply the International Space Station, landing a car-size rover on Mars, docking the first Chinese manned spacecraft and sending 18 people to live and work off the planet.
In 2012, two probes completed the most detailed map of the moon's gravity and North Korea (controversially) joined the nations that have lofted a satellite into space.
Over the next 12 months, more commercial spacecraft will visit the station, new probes will be launched to the moon and Mars, and if all goes as planned, the first spacecraft created to fly paying tourists on suborbital spaceflights will leave the Earth's atmosphere for the first time.
As these and other firsts enter history, they will join a half century of international space milestones. Looking ahead into the coming year, 2013 will mark several key anniversaries for the events of the previous five decades of human activity outside the Earth. [13 Space Missions to Watch In 2013]
First women
Celebrations over the previous few years have marked the 50th anniversary of the first man in space, the first man from the United States in space, and the first American man in orbit. The 40th anniversaries of the manned lunar landings was also commemorated.
The new year brings with it the 50-year anniversary of the first woman in space. Launched by the Soviet Union on June 16, 1963, cosmonaut Valentina Tereshkova became the first female space explorer as she circled the Earth 48 times. [Women in Space: A Space History Gallery]
Flying under the callsign "Chayka" (Seagull), Tereshkova, aboard the Vostok 6 spacecraft, flew in orbit at the same time as Vostok 5 with pilot Valery Bykovsky on board.
Twenty years later on June 24, 1983, NASA's Sally Ride became the first American woman in space. A member of the seventh space shuttle mission's crew, Ride circled the Earth aboard the orbiter Challenger for six days.
On July 23, 2012, Ride succumbed to pancreatic cancer at age 61, less than a year before the 30th anniversary of her historic first spaceflight.
Last single men
Bykovsky, who shared time in Earth orbit with Tereshkova in 1963, set the record on that mission for the most time spent flying in space alone 50 years ago this June. His Vostok 5 mission landed after almost five days.
The last NASA astronaut to circle the planet solo, Gordon Cooper, did so from May 15-16, 1963, for one day and 10 hours. His 22-orbit mission aboard "Faith 7" was the final flight of the United States' Mercury one-seater spacecraft program.
In the 50 years since Cooper flew, the only Americans to soar through space alone were the six Apollo pilots who orbited the moon solo and the two private pilots who won the suborbital X Prize in 2004.
China's first astronaut, or taikonaut, also flew alone, ten years ago this Oct. 15. Yang Liwei lifted off on Shenzhou 5 in 2003 for a one-day, 14-orbit mission that established China as only the third nation to send a human into space.
Fallen crew
The first major milestone anniversary of the new year is also perhaps its most solemn: 10 years since the loss of space shuttle Columbia and the STS-107 crew.
Commander Rick Husband, pilot William McCool, mission specialists David Brown, Kalpana Chawla, Laurel Clark and Michael Anderson, and Israeli payload specialist Ilan Ramon were returning to Earth onboard Columbia when the vehicle broke apart during reentry into the atmosphere on Feb. 1, 2003. The 16-day science mission was just 16 minutes from landing.
It was the second time a shuttle was lost in flight after the STS-51L crew was killed aboard space shuttle Challenger on Jan. 28, 1986.
An investigation found that Columbia sustained damage to its left wing after foam from its external fuel tank fell and impacted the orbiter's leading edge during launch. Though NASA worked to prevent foam from separating from future tanks and additional safety measures were implemented, the decision was made to retire the shuttle fleet after the completion of the International Space Station.
In 2012, the remaining three retired shuttle orbiters were delivered to museums for their permanent public display.
First outpost
Skylab, the United States' first space station, lifted off 40 years ago this May 14.
Built into a modified upper stage of a Saturn 5 rocket, the orbital workshop was damaged at launch when its debris shield separated and tore away, depriving Skylab of most of its power, removing protection from solar heating, and threatening to make the station unusable. The first crew, which launched just days later, was able to save Skylab in the first ever in-space repair, by deploying a replacement heat shade and freeing the single remaining, jammed main solar array.
Skylab hosted 300 scientific and technical experiments, including medical studies on the adaptability of humans to zero gravity, solar observations and investigations into Earth resources. The program was deemed successful in all respects, despite its early mechanical difficulties.
Mission milestones
2013 also marks the:
30th anniversary of the first launch of space shuttle Challenger (STS-6) on April 4;50th anniversary of the first winged craft in space, the U.S. Air Force's X-15 rocketplane with pilot Joe Walker, on July 19;30th anniversary of Guion "Guy" Bluford becoming the first African-American in space on Aug. 30;30th anniversary of the first (and only to date) use of a launch escape system on the launch pad, the former Soviet Union's Soyuz T-10-1, on Sept. 26;40th anniversary of Soyuz 12, the return to flight for the Russian spacecraft (after the loss of the Soyuz 11 crew) on Sept. 27;25th anniversary of STS-26, the first return to flight for the U.S. space shuttle program (after the loss of the STS-51L crew) on Sept. 28;30th anniversary of the first European to fly on the space shuttle (Ulf Merbold) and the first launch of the European-built Spacelab on Nov. 28;20th anniversary of the first mission to service the Hubble Space Telescope, STS-61, on Dec. 2.25th anniversary of the first spacewalk (EVA) by a European astronaut (Jean-Loup Chrétien) on Dec. 9.Visit collectSPACE.com daily to learn about what happened "Today in Space History."
Follow collectSPACE on Facebook and Twitter @collectSPACE and editor Robert Pearlman @robertpearlman. Copyright 2012 collectSPACE.com. All rights reserved.
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when I started becoming a woman and stopped being a little girl."
Julianne Hough Reveals She Was Abused When She Was 10
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Julianne Hough says she was abused when she was a young dancer training and working abroad as a 10-year-old.
"While I was in London, I was abused, mentally, physically, everything," she told Cosmopolitan magazine, which features the former "Dancing with the Stars" pro on its February 2013 cover.
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The actress, who stars in the new film, "Safe Haven," which follows the story of a woman who endures abuse and finds a way to move on - with a character played by Josh Duhamel - said she was sexualized before she was even a preteen.
"I was 10 years old looking like I was 28, being a very sensual dancer," she told the mag. "I was a tormented little kid who had to put on this sexy facade because that was my job and my life. But my heart was the same, and I was this innocent little girl. I wanted so much love."
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The dancer-turned-actress said things got worse, "when I started hitting puberty, when I started becoming a woman and stopped being a little girl."
She did not disclose what happened when she was in London, and said she has moved on.
"I'm a very forgiving person, and I don't want to hurt anybody. What's past is past," she said.
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Julianne said she has intentionally avoided discussing what happened in great detail.
"This is the farthest I've ever gotten into my London situation. I was told if I ever went back to the United States, three things were going to happen. One: I was going to amount to nothing. Two: I was going to work at Whataburger. And three: I was going to end up a slut. So, it was like, I can't go back. I have to be this person," she said.
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But she did discuss some of what happened when she improvised on the set of "Safe Haven," alongside Josh.
Cosmopolitan reported she did it after the two undressed, and got into a bed - under the direction of Lasse Hallstrom -- as the cameras were rolling.
"I went from bawling to containing to laughing to crying again. Josh was crying. I think it was the most therapeutic moment of my life," she added.
Copyright 2013 by NBC Universal, Inc. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed.
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Al Jazeera buys Gore's Current TV, terms undisclosed
LOS ANGELES/NEW YORK (Reuters) - Al Jazeera said on Wednesday it will buy Current TV, the struggling cable channel founded by Al Gore and partners, in a move that will boost the Qatar-based broadcaster's footprint in the United States.
Terms were undisclosed, but analysts estimated the deal could be worth as much as $500 million.
Al Jazeera said it would start a new U.S.-based news channel with the acquisition, which will make it available in more than 40 million U.S. households, up from 4.7 million prior to the deal.
The deal brings Al Jazeera, which operates under the patronage of the emir of Qatar and his family, into closer competition with American news channels like CNN, MSNBC and Fox.
But the award-winning channel that is seen in more than 260 million homes in 130 countries faces hurdles with U.S. distributors and viewers, television industry analysts said.
Current, a liberal channel which has battled low viewership, had been distributed in about 60 million of the 100 million homes in the United States with cable or satellite service.
One of its distributors, Time Warner Cable, which accounted for about 12 million of those homes, announced late Wednesday it was terminating its carriage 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," Time Warner Cable said in a statement.
Reuters reported in April Time Warner Cable was considering dropping Current if it did not reach certain ratings thresholds.
A spokesperson would not elaborate. Current is also distributed by Comcast Corp and DirecTV, with 22.4 million and 19.8 million subscribers, respectively.
Comcast or DirecTV were either unavailable or declined comment. Dish Network Corp also declined comment.
Both Comcast and DirecTV also hold equity stakes of more than 5 percent in Current, according to public filings.
Current said Gore, its chairman, and co-founder Joel Hyatt, the chief executive officer, will remain on the advisory board.
PARANOIA ABOUT AL JAZEERA
Analysts said Al Jazeera would have to overcome a significant image problem in the United States, where many viewers remember its stridently anti-war reporting of the conflicts in Iraq and Afghanistan.
"Al Jazeera has deeper pockets. The downside is the politics. People in America associate Al Jazeera with the Muslim world or the Arab world or the Islam world and they have problems with that," said Jimmy Schaeffler, pay TV consultant at The Carmel Group.
"They have psychological, political and emotional concerns and that will work against them."
"There's a fair amount of paranoia when it comes to Al Jazeera," said Robert Thompson, professor of TV and popular culture at Syracuse University.
Al Jazeera has only been shown in a handful of cities. It said its new U.S.-based news channel would be separate from Al Jazeera English, and would provide both domestic and international news for American audiences.
The new channel would air in 2013 and would be headquartered in New York City. In addition to existing bureaus in New York, Washington, D.C., Los Angeles, Miami and Chicago, Al Jazeera would open more bureaus and would double its U.S.-based staff to more than 300 employees.
Current was co-founded in 2005 but never caught on. It shifted to a more liberal format from 2011, but ratings continued to disappoint, said Brad Adgate, senior vice president of research at Horizon Media, who pegged its average daily audience under 50,000 viewers and the value of a deal at $400 million to $500 million.
In late October, Current confirmed it was considering selling itself and had hired JP Morgan and the Raine Group to assess options.
Thompson said the deal came at a challenging time for the cable industry.
"Launching a cable network in the U.S. in the second decade of the 21st century is not an easy thing to do. Even Oprah Winfrey has struggled in significant ways," he said.
Disputes between pay TV distributors and cable networks have risen lately. Time Warner Cable also dropped arts-focused cable channel Ovation over its low ratings and the high costs of carrying the network.
(Reporting By Susan Zeidler; Editing by Gary Hill and Stephen Coates)
Its website said the training exercise would also include anti-terrorism and anti-piracy drills.
Russia poised for largest naval exercise for decades
MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russian warships have embarked on a long voyage to the Black and Mediterranean seas to take part in what the Defence Ministry said would be the largest naval exercise in decades.
It said on Wednesday that ships from its Northern, Baltic, Black Sea and Pacific fleets would stage the exercise at the end of the month to test their ability to act together outside Russian waters.
Its website said the training exercise would also include anti-terrorism and anti-piracy drills.
"A Navy exercise on such a scale is being staged for the first time in recent decades," the ministry said, without giving other details such as how many ships would take part.
Russia regularly stages naval war games involving different fleets, and in August sent ships to the Mediterranean for a combined training exercise.
State-owned RIA Novosti news agency said that that exercise had involved three large amphibious assault ships, two frigates, a destroyer and two support ships.
Moscow has been trying to strengthen its military presence in the Mediterranean region.
President Vladimir Putin, a former operative for the Soviet Union's KGB national security agency, says Russia needs a stronger army to protect it from foreign attempts to stoke conflicts around its borders.
Russia plans to spend 23 trillion roubles ($753 billion) over a decade to modernize the former superpower's armed forces, which underwent a decade of spending cuts after the fall of the Soviet Union in 1991.
The Defence Ministry did not say if the coming deployment was connected to the conflict in Syria. Moscow has been a staunch supporter of President Bashar al-Assad and his largest arms supplier.
Last month, a naval source told Interfax news agency that Russia was sending warships to the Mediterranean in case it needed to evacuate citizens trapped by the civil war in Syria.
Also in December, Itar-Tass and Interfax cited military sources as saying two landing craft had left a Black Sea port and would call at Russia's naval supply and maintenance facility in the Syrian port of Tartous.
($1 = 30.55 Russian roubles)
(Reporting by Vladimir Soldatkin, edited by Richard Meares)
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NEW DELHI (Reuters) - Five Indian men were formally charged in court on Thursday with the gang rape and murder of a physiotherapy student in a case that has generated widespread anger about the government's inability to prevent violence against women.
The December 16 attack on the 23-year-old student and a male companion provoked furious protests close to the seat of government in New Delhi and has fuelled a nationwide debate about the prevalence of sexual crime in India, where a rape is reported on average every 20 minutes.
The woman died of her injuries in hospital in Singapore, where she had been taken for treatment, on Saturday.
The five are accused of assaulting the woman on a bus in New Delhi, leaving her with such severe injuries that she died two weeks later. They were not present in court.
A sixth accused is under 18 and is due to be tried separately in a juvenile court.
A public prosecutor read out charges including murder, gang rape and criminal conspiracy. The court will examine the charges on Saturday, duty magistrate Surya Malik Grover said.
Murder carries the death penalty in India.
The father of the woman said earlier he backed the chorus of calls for those responsible to be executed.
"The whole country is demanding that these monsters be hanged. I am with them," the father told reporters in his home village of Mandwara Kalan in Uttar Pradesh state. The woman was born in the village but the family later moved to New Delhi.
She has not been identified and nor have members of her family, in accordance with Indian law.
In a sign of the depth of feeling surrounding the case, the bar association at the court said none of its members was willing to represent the accused. The court is expected to assign a defense lawyer for the men.
Advocates dressed in black robes protesting outside the court called for fast justice. In the northern state of Kashmir, school girls marched with black ribbons over their mouths and demanded harsh punishment for the accused.
The case is due to be processed by a new, fast-track chamber set up in response to the crime.
While the fast-track procedure has broad support, many lawyers worry new that legislation written in haste could be unconstitutional and oppose introducing the death penalty for rape.
"A swift trial should not be at the cost of a fair trial," Chief Justice Altamas Kabir said on Wednesday.
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Police have said the accused have admitted to torturing and raping the student "to teach her a lesson". She fought back and bit three of them, a police source told Reuters, and the bite marks are part of the evidence against them.
After throwing her from the private bus, the driver tried to run the victim over but she was pulled away by her companion, a senior police official told Reuters.
Police have prepared a dossier of evidence and charges against the accused, which is believed to run to 1,000 pages, including testimony from the woman's friend who survived the hour-long attack and a man who said he was robbed by the same gang prior to the rape.
Days of protests in New Delhi and other cities followed the attack. Many of the protesters have been students, infuriated by what they see as the failure of the government to protect women.
In the northeastern state of Assam on Wednesday, village women beat a politician and handed him to police for what they said was the attempted rape of a woman, police said. Anti-rape protests have also broken out in neighboring Nepal.
The government has set up two panels headed by retired judges to recommend measures to ensure women's safety. One of the panels, due to make recommendations this month, has received some 17,000 suggestions from the public, media reported.
India's chief justice inaugurated the first fast-track court for sexual offences on Wednesday - a long standing demand of activists to clear a court backlog.
A review of India's penal code, which dates back to 1860, was presented to parliament last month, before the attack, and widens the definition of rape, another demand of activists.
That bill is now likely to be revised further, with chemical castration and the death penalty in rape cases among proposals under consideration.
"We want the laws to be amended in such a stringent way that before a person even thinks of touching a girl, he should feel chills down his spine," said lawyer Suman Lata Katiyal, protesting at the south Delhi courthouse.
Hanging is only allowed in the "rarest of rare" cases according to a 1983 Supreme Court ruling. It was used for the first time in eight years in November when the lone surviving gunman from a 2008 militant attack on Mumbai, Mohammad Ajmal Kasab from Pakistan, was executed.
(Additional reporting by Diksha Madhok, Annie Banerji and Satarupa Bhatgtacharjya in NEW DELHI; and Gopal Sharma in KATHMANDU; Writing by Frank Jack Daniel; Editing by Robert Birsel)
WASHINGTON
Cliff averted, it's on to the next fiscal crisis
WASHINGTON (AP) — Onward to the next fiscal crisis. Actually, several of them, potentially. The New Year's Day deal averting the "fiscal cliff" lays the groundwork for more combustible struggles in Washington over taxes, spending and debt in the next few months.
President Barack Obama's victory on taxes this week was the second, grudging round of piecemeal successes in as many years in chipping away at the nation's mountainous deficits. Despite the length and intensity of the debate, the deal to raise the top income tax rate on families earning over $450,000 a year — about 1 percent of households — and including only $12 billion in spending cuts turned out to be a relatively easy vote for many. This was particularly so because the alternative was to raise taxes on everyone.
But in banking $620 billion in higher taxes over the coming decade from wealthier earners, Obama and his Republican rivals have barely touched deficits still expected to be in the $650 billion range by the end of his second term. And those back-of-the-envelope calculations assume policymakers can find more than $1 trillion over 10 years to replace automatic across-the-board spending cuts known as a sequester.
"They didn't do any of the tough stuff," said Erskine Bowles, chairman of Obama's 2010 deficit commission. "We've taken two steps now, but those two steps combined aren't enough to put our fiscal house in order."
In 2011, the government adopted tighter caps on day-to-day operating budgets of the Pentagon and other cabinet agencies to save $1.1 trillion over 10 years.
The measure passed Tuesday and signed Wednesday by Obama prevents middle-class taxes from going up while raising rates on higher incomes. It also blocks severe across-the-board spending cuts for two months, extends unemployment benefits for the long-term jobless for a year, stops a 27 percent cut in Medicare fees paid to doctors and prevents a possible doubling of milk prices.
The alternative was going over the cliff, an economy-punching half-trillion-dollar combination of sweeping tax increases and spending cuts. Despite the deal, the government partially went over the brink anyway with the expiration of a two-year cut in Social Security payroll taxes of two percentage points.
Action inside a dysfunctional Washington now only comes with binding deadlines. So, naturally, this week's hard-fought bargain sets up another crisis in two months, when painful across-the-board spending cuts to the Pentagon and domestic programs are set to kick in and the government runs out of the ability to juggle its $16.4 trillion debt without having to borrow more money.
Unless Congress increases or allows Obama to increase that borrowing cap, the government risks a first-ever default on U.S. obligations. Republicans will use this as an opportunity to leverage more spending cuts from Obama, just like they did in the summer of 2011.
House Speaker John Boehner, R-Ohio, vows that any increase in the debt limit — which needs to be enacted by Congress by the end of February or sometime in March — must be accompanied by an equal amount in cuts to federal spending. That puts him on yet another collision course with Obama, who has vowed anew that he won't let haggling over spending cuts complicate the debate over the debt limit.
The cliff compromise represented the first time since 1990 that Republicans condoned a tax increase. That has whipped up a fury among tea party conservatives and increased the pressure on Boehner to adopt a hard line in coming confrontations over the borrowing cap and the spending cuts that won only a two-month reprieve in this weeks' deal.
Put simply, House Republicans are demanding new spending cuts — possibly through changes in Social Security and Medicare benefit formulas — as a scalp, and they're dead set against raising more revenues through anything less than an overhaul of the tax code now that Obama has won higher taxes on the wealthy.
"Now the focus turns to spending," Boehner said after Tuesday's vote, promising that future budget battles will center on "significant spending cuts and reforms to the entitlement programs that are driving our country deeper and deeper into debt."
Obama is just as adamant on the other side, saying higher revenues have to be part of any formula for further diverting the automatic spending cuts.
While conservative activist Grover Norquist gave Republicans a pass on violating his anti-tax pledge with this week's vote, he and other forces on the right won't be so forgiving on any future effort to increase revenues.
The refusal of Republicans to consider additional new taxes is sure to stir up resistance among Democrats when they're asked to consider politically painful cuts to so-called entitlement programs like Medicare. Democratic protests led Obama and Boehner to take a proposal to increase the Medicare eligibility age off the table in the recent round of talks.
The upshot? More scorched-earth politics on the budget will probably dominate the initial few months of Obama's second term, when the president would prefer to focus on legacy accomplishments like fixing the immigration problem and implementing his overhaul of health care.
The relationship between Boehner and Obama has never been especially close and seemed to have suffered a setback last month after the speaker withdrew from negotiations on a broader deficit deal. The two get along personally, but politically, a series of collapsed negotiations has bred mistrust. The White House has the view that Boehner cannot deliver while the speaker is frustrated that matters brought up in his talks with the president are not followed through by White House staff.
And on the debt limit, Boehner and Obama at this point are simply talking past each other.
"While I will negotiate over many things, I will not have another debate with this Congress over whether or not they should pay the bills that they've already racked up through the laws that they passed," Obama said after the deal was approved.
Said Boehner spokesman Michael Steel: "The speaker's position is clear. Any increase in the debt limit must be matched by spending cuts or reforms that exceed the increase."
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