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iPhoneユーザーは写真撮影が好き?スマホ写真のプリントは過半数が経験
MMD研究所は、日本フォトイメージング協会と共同で「スマートフォンでの写真撮影、プリントに関するユーザー調査」を実施し、結果を発表しました。週1回以上写真撮影する割合は、iPhoneユーザーは65.9%で、Android他ユーザーの42.5%を上回っています。March 04, 2018 at 08:26AM
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Italians Vote Sunday for New Parliament, With Populism Taking Front Seat Italy's former prime minister, Silvio Berlusconi, made a surprise appearance at a chapel in Naples Saturday, one day before Italians vote in a general election to select a new parliament. Politicians were forbidden to campaign Saturday, but Berlusconi's visit to the Sansevero chapel drew crowds of journalists and fans. The 81-year-old Berlusconi told reporters that he and his 30-year-old girlfriend were visiting the chapel as tourists. He said the chapel was part of the country's heritage, to which "no other country in the world can remotely compete against." Berlusconi, who served four terms as prime minister, cannot run in Sunday's election because of a tax fraud conviction in 2013; but he is the driving force behind the center-right Forza Italia party and has thrown his support behind former European Parliament President Antonio Tajani to serve as prime minister if the party wins enough seats. But forecasters say the election results will probably not end with a clear party as winner, forcing the parties to form a ruling coalition -- something that could mean weeks of uncertainty as the parties compete and compromise in a bid to form a workable team. Populism is a strong force in this election, as it was in recent elections in Britain, France, and Germany. Three populist-driven major parties are fielding candidates and promising to crack down on immigration. Forza Italia could find coalition partners in the far-right Brothers of Italy or the anti-migrant Lega, or League, party. Also populist is the Five-star Movement, but the party takes an anti-establishment stance and has vowed not to form coalitions. On the left, Prime Minister Matteo Renzi's Democratic Party, the leader of the ruling coalition, could see a drop in support due to Italy's sluggish economy, with high unemployment and stagnant economic growth. Italy is also struggling to accommodate a large influx of immigrants, and Renzi is personally unpopular. The Democratic Party is in a coalition with the Democratic Progressive Party and the Italian Left. Of those, the Democratic Party is by far the strongest player -- but this year's wave of Italian populism could deliver victory for the right wing on Sunday. With that outcome, Italians may find themselves with a governing coalition focused on cracking down on immigration, reforming the nation's tax system, and trying to bridge complicated divides -- with no guarantee of positive results.
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In Tasmania Election, Talk of Easing Gun Regulations Australia's smallest state, Tasmania, began voting Saturday in a local assembly election, with the incumbent conservative Liberal Party stirring controversy by promising softer regulations for gun ownership if it is returned to power. The Liberals' move to shore up support among gun owners and rural voters is a sensitive issue in Tasmania, as Australia's worst mass murder took place on the island in 1996, when a gunman killed 35 people at Port Arthur. The state Minister for Police, Fire and Emergency Management Rene Hidding, wrote to firearms owners in early February promising a re-elected Liberal Party would extend gun ownership license periods by up to 10 years, reduce penalties for storage offenses and establish a council to represent gun owners. 1996 shooting Following the 1996 mass shooting, Australia banned all semi-automatic rifles and all semi-automatic and pump-action shotguns, and introduced a restrictive system of licensing and ownership controls. Australia has had no mass shootings since then and has held amnesties to encourage the handing in of unregistered firearms. Anti-firearms advocates in the United States have pointed to Australia's success in reducing gun crimes as an example that the United States could follow in response to a shocking series of school shootings. Controversy on election eve The controversy over plans to relax gun laws in Tasmania erupted on the eve of the election, after the contents of Hidding's letter to firearms owners became widely known. "Only a re-elected majority Hodgman Liberal Government can continue to provide Tasmania's lawful firearm owners with a supportive, responsible framework," the letter said. The Liberals have primarily campaigned on jobs and the economy, and on Friday party leaders sought to reassure voters that their stance on gun laws was nothing to be alarmed about. "We are aware of the sensitivities around these issues and we are seeking to find the balance, one that supports our families that work in the rural sector but which is not inconsistent with national gun laws," Tasmania's premier Will Hodgman said in comments reported by the ABC on Friday. The Liberals hold 15 seats in Tasmania's 25-seat House of Assembly and need to win at least 13 in this election to retain their majority. Tasmania's population of 519,000 people have until 6 p.m. Saturday to cast their vote, with results expected to begin trickling in later Saturday night.
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#10: Girl, Wash Your Face: Stop Believing the Lies About Who You Are so You Can Become Who You Were Meant to Be
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'Naked Politics' of Punishing Delta Could Haunt Georgia Georgia lawmakers' decision to punish Delta Air Lines for publicly distancing itself from the National Rifle Association was an extraordinary act of political revenge. By killing a proposed tax break on jet fuel, pro-gun Republicans won a political victory that could pay off in the short term, but other companies won't soon forget that Georgia allied itself with the NRA over one of its largest private employers, with 33,000 workers statewide. "When you inject naked politics — and that's what this is — into the economic equation, I think that it does have the chance of spooking the business community," said Tom Stringer, a New York-based consultant for the business-advisory firm BDO. "One thing about the business community is that it has a very long memory." How it began The uproar began last Saturday when Delta stopped offering fare discounts to NRA members in the wake of the school massacre in Florida. On Friday, Delta CEO Ed Bastian insisted in a memo to employees that the company was "not taking sides" on gun control and made the decision in hopes of removing itself from the gun debate. He said the company's "values are not for sale" and "we are proud and honored to locate our headquarters here." Delta recently signed a 20-year lease to keep its hub at Hartsfield-Jackson International Airport in Atlanta, and business consultants said other Atlanta-based firms, such as Coca-Cola and UPS, will likely stay put, too. But GOP lawmakers' willingness to use public money to try to intimidate corporations could damage Georgia's ability to attract new industry, including Amazon, which recently named metro Atlanta a finalist for its coveted second headquarters. "I think it's fair to say that this situation would not be helpful to the state of Georgia in potentially securing the Amazon site," said Jerry Funaro, Chicago-based vice president for global marketing at TRC Global Mobility, a relocation management company. "They could certainly say that this would be a reason to look elsewhere." Amazon didn't immediately respond to an email seeking comment. Stage set with a tweet Republican Lt. Gov. Casey Cagle, who is running in a crowded primary for governor in May, set the stage for the fight with Delta with a tweet Monday saying conservatives would fight back. He defended the move Friday. "We cannot continue to allow large companies to treat conservatives differently than other customers, employees and partners," Cagle wrote in an opinion piece published by The Atlanta Journal-Constitution. "The voters who elected us and believe strongly in our rights and liberties expect and deserve no less." Another GOP candidate for governor, Secretary of State Brian Kemp, even suggested using the estimated $38 million the state would save by killing jet fuel tax break to pay for a tax-free "holiday" on purchases of guns and ammunition. NRA or jobs Other GOP leaders openly cringed at the combative tone Cagle and others took. Republican Gov. Nathan Deal, who is term-limited and serving his final year, bemoaned the controversy as an "unbecoming squabble" fueled by election-year posturing. GOP House Speaker David Ralston called it "not one of our finer days" when the firestorm erupted Monday. Republicans have controlled the governor's mansion in Georgia since 2003, a deep red streak that makes this year's GOP gubernatorial nominee a likely favorite in November. Deal and other governors for decades have made it a priority to ensure Georgia was an attractive location for prospective employers, said Charles Bullock, a political science professor at the University of Georgia. Before the NRA controversy, he said, many GOP lawmakers defended the jet fuel tax break as necessary to protect jobs. "What this really does is it says, in terms of setting priorities, that taking a stand on the NRA is more significant," Bullock said. "The jobs thing now is pushed to the back." After Delta announced it was cutting ties with the NRA, it took pro-gun Republicans just days to make good on their threats by passing a sweeping tax bill, minus the jet fuel tax break. Deal, who said an estimated $5.2 billion in overall tax savings was too important to sacrifice, swiftly signed the measure into law Friday. He vowed to keep pursuing the jet fuel exemption as a separate issue. 13 NRA discounts Delta revealed Friday that the NRA discount that triggered the showdown had barely been used. Offered recently for NRA members flying to the group's 2018 convention in Dallas, only 13 discounted tickets had been sold, Delta spokesman Trebor Banstetter said. Delta isn't the only company to take action since the Feb. 14 slayings of 17 students and educators in Parkland, Florida, by a gunman armed with an AR-15 assault-style rifle. Walmart, Kroger and Dick's Sporting Goods have tightened their gun sales policies. Meanwhile, MetLife, Hertz and others have joined Delta in ending business ties with the NRA. The extent of the backlash Georgia might face from businesses is unclear. But firms from outside the South may think twice about Georgia if they see a clash of corporate values on guns and other social issues, said Jon Gabrielsen, a business-strategy consultant who worked 17 years in Georgia before moving recently to Mexico. "If you're not there yet, why would you want to subject yourself to that potential grief with what the legislature just pulled?" Gabrielsen said.
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PBS to launch conservative talk show April 13 PBS, the public television network long accused of having a liberal bias, plans to launch a weekly conservative-oriented talk show April 13.
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West Virginia Senate Declines to Vote on Raises for Striking Teachers The fate of a seven-day teachers strike in West Virginia lay in the hands of the Republican-controlled state Senate, which refused Friday to even vote on whether the teachers should get a 5 percent pay raise. Hundreds of teachers and supporters, including students, rallied at the Capitol, pressuring lawmakers to approve the settlement negotiated earlier this week by Governor Jim Justice and union leaders. That deal included the raise for teachers, school service personnel and state troopers. Teachers are protesting pay that's among the lowest in the nation, rising health care costs and a previously approved 2 percent raise for next year after four years without any increase. "We're still not close to resolving this critical issue," said Senator Roman Prezioso, the Democratic minority leader, requesting a vote Friday. "Let's send the teachers and superintendents that I've seen here from all the different counties, send them home this weekend for a cooling-off period. Let's start school Monday and say this Senate does support education in West Virginia." Majority Leader Ryan Ferns moved to table the matter without comment. The Senate's Republicans did that, carrying the 20-13 vote. That left the bill in the Finance Committee, which has begun drafting a budget for the next fiscal year and could work through the weekend on some alternative. Saturday session The Senate later adjourned and planned to meet again Saturday. Justice told school superintendents gathered at the Capitol that he believed the votes for the raise were there. "If they don't do it tomorrow, we spiral off into no man's land," he said. Senate Republicans have repeatedly emphasized spending restraint while saying the teachers and West Virginia's other public workers are all underpaid but funds are limited. Protesting teachers countered that there are other potential funding sources and that education of the children in West Virginia — where more than 700 classrooms lack fully certified full-time teachers — needs to be a higher priority among politicians. Pay starts at about $33,000 a year, lower than in surrounding states. The Republican-controlled House approved the raises, voting 98-1 on Wednesday. The Senate, by voice vote later Friday, rejected an amendment to natural gas legislation that would have added a 2.5 percent fee on producers' gross proceeds. Receipts would offset rising costs for all workers covered by the Public Employees Insurance Agency.
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Three Australians Die, More Sick in Listeria Outbreak Tied to Melons Three people have died and 12 others have fallen ill in a national listeria outbreak linked to contaminated rockmelons, and more cases are expected, Australian health authorities said. The outbreak is linked to the melons, also called cantaloupes, from a grower in the eastern state of New South Wales, the state's food authority confirmed on its website. The produce company, which has not been named, ceased operations and is investigating. NSW Health said late Friday that all 15 victims were elderly and were spread nationally from Victoria to Tasmania. "We can confirm that 13 of the 15 cases consumed rockmelon before the onset of their illness," said Dr Vicky Sheppeard, director of communicable diseases for NSW Health, in a media release. "People vulnerable to listeriosis should discard any rockmelon purchased before 1 March." Health authorities have assured the public that all contaminated rockmelons have been removed from supermarket shelves. Further cases are expected to surface, because symptoms can take up to six weeks to appear after eating contaminated produce, and NSW Health told consumers to see a doctor if they experience symptoms. The disease causes flulike symptoms and can lead to nausea, diarrhea, infection of the bloodstream and brain. Listeria bacteria do not cause illness in most people but can result in sickness and death for those with weaker immunity, such as the elderly, newborns and pregnant women. The bacteria are found in soil, water and vegetation and can contaminate food anywhere during the production process, from harvesting to serving. Foods that can pose a risk of listeriosis include pre-cut melons, cold salads, raw seafood and smoked salmon, unpasteurized milk products, sprouted seeds and raw mushrooms, the New South Wales Food Authority said. Listeria is rare in Australia, but a deadly outbreak in South Africa has killed more than 170 people since January last year, the National Institute of Communicable Diseases said last month.
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Vero a Hot Instagram Alternative, but Will It Last? Instagram users fed up with the service becoming more and more like Facebook are flocking to a hot new app called Vero. Vero lets you share photos and video just like Instagram, plus it lets you talk about music, movies or books you like or hate. Though Vero has been around since 2015, its popularity surged in recent days, thanks in part to sudden, word-of-mouth interest from the cosplay community — comic book fans who like to dress up as characters. That interest then spread to other online groups. There's also a growing frustration with Instagram, with a flood of ads, dearth of privacy options and a recent end to the chronological ordering of posts. Instagram users have been posting screenshots of Vero, asking their friends to join. But don't ring Instagram's death knells just yet. Hot new apps pop up and fizzle by the dozen, so the odds are stacked against Vero. Remember Ello? Peach? Thought so. "Young people are super fickle and nothing has caught on in the way that Snapchat or Instagram has," said Debra Aho Williamson, an eMarketer analyst who specializes in social media. From 2015 until this past week, Vero was little known, with fewer than 200,000 users, according to CEO Ayman Hariri. Then cosplay members started posting photos of elaborate costumes and makeup. Photographers, tattoo artists and others followed. As of Thursday, Vero was approaching 3 million users, Hariri said. A fee, eventually Vero has gotten so popular in recent days that some users have reported widespread outages and error messages. Vero says it's working to keep up in response "a large wave of new users." Vero works on Apple or Android mobile devices and is free, at least for now. The company eventually wants to charge a subscription fee. There are no ads, and the service promises "no data mining. Ever." That means it won't try to sell you stuff based on your interests and habits, as revealed through your posts. Of course, Facebook started out without ads and "data mining," and it's now one of the top internet advertising companies. Facebook bought Instagram in 2012 and started showing ads there the following year. Instagram's privacy settings are all or nothing: You either make everything available to everyone on Instagram, or make everything visible only to approved friends. Vero lets you set the privacy level of individual posts. If you don't want something available to all users, you can choose just close friends, friends or acquaintances. Another big difference: Vero shows friends' posts in chronological order rather than tailored to your perceived tastes, as determined by software. Instagram got rid of chronological presentations in 2016, a change that hasn't gone well with many users. Founder was already wealthy Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg became a billionaire after starting the service. Vero's founder was already one. Hariri is the son of former Lebanese Prime Minister Rafic Hariri and helped run the family's now-defunct construction company in Saudi Arabia. He got a computer science degree from Georgetown and returned to Saudi Arabia after his father was assassinated in 2005. His half brother, Saad, is Lebanon's current prime minister. Hariri's ties with the family business, Saudi Oger, have come into question. The company has been accused in recent years of failing to pay workers and stranding them with little food and access to medical care. Vero says Hariri hasn't had any operational or financial involvement with the business since late 2013. Hariri said he started the service not to replace Instagram but to give people "a more authentic social network." Because Vero doesn't sell ads, he said, it isn't simply trying to get people to stay on longer. More important, he said, is "how you feel when you use [it] and how you feel it's useful." Newcomers like Ello and Peach can quickly become popular as people fed up with bigger services itch for something new. But reality can set in when people realize that their friends are not on the new services or that these services aren't all they promised to be. Williamson, the eMarketer analyst, said it's difficult for a new service to become something people use for more than a few weeks. A rare exception is Snapchat, which was founded in 2010, the same year as Instagram. Unlike Instagram, it has remained an independent company and is still a popular service among younger people. But even Snapchat is having trouble growing more broadly. EMarketer recently published a report that predicted 2 million people under 25 leaving Facebook for other apps this year. But that means going to Snapchat and the Facebook-owned Instagram, not necessarily emerging services like Vero.
March 03, 2018 at 05:10AM
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