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今日9月1日~2日は
ブルームーンだよ

見た?あしたも見れるかも・・
English Blog

なんてったって
珍しいことが起こるらしいから

3年に1度の月だからね
めったに 見れないし

英語で
Once in a blue moon
って表現がある

「めったにないことや珍しいことが
起こった時に」に使うんだ

僕は見たからね
珍しいことが起こるかも

なんか ウキウキ!

Blue moon って

恋言葉があってね

「完全な恋」とか「叶わぬ恋」とかって

言う意味もあるらしい

え~、それって「完全なものはない」ってこと?

English Blog

見損ねた人

明日見るべし

何か珍しいことが起こったら 教えてね

(*^^*)



だって次回は・・・え~と

2015年 7月15日だって・・・


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Don't miss Friday night's rare blue moon beauty

On Friday night a rare blue moon will rise in the
sky in an astronomical event that occurs only once
every three years or so.

If you're hoping to see the blue moon but the sky
above you is cloudy, don't fret.

If you're more inclined to watch the real thing,
the best viewing is usually available outside of
town, away from the glare of city lights.

Folklore will tell you that strange things go
bump in the night when there's a blue moon--but
what folklore won't tell you is that blue moons
aren't really blue.

The term is a misnomer and actually refers to
the second of two full moons that occur during
the same calendar month.

Because the lunar cycle is 29.5 days, most months
only see one full moon.

But every once in a while a full moon rises twice
in the same month and becomes a blue moon--at least
that is the accepted definition today.

The next time we humans will see a blue moon is
on July 31, 2015.


ジェニファーは
今日も交差点に立って 彼女のための募金を募っていた

彼女は 肝臓疾患のため 肝臓の手術が必要だった
その費用は200万円

English Blog
(ジェニファーさんとワーナーさんからのメモ)

自分ひとりでは なかなか工面できない金額だ

先月のことだった

いつものように交差点で 募金を募っていた
ジェニファーに 車が止まって ウインドーを開け
ある男性が道を訪ねた

「サンタバーバーラに行きたいんだが、どうやら
道に迷ってしまったようだ。 教えてくれないか?」

ジェニファーは いつも交差点に立っているためか
道を聞かれることは いつものことだった

彼女は いつもの通り 道を教えた

でも

その男性は ただの男性ではなかった

億万長者のTy ワーナーさんだったのだ
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(Billionaire founder of Ty Inc., the Beanie Baby company. )

しばらくして

ワーナーさんが 彼女のところに 戻ってきた
「あなたのおかげで無事目的地にたどり着いたよ
助けてくれてありがとう。 お礼に今度はあなたを助けたい」

彼はそう言って 去っていった。

しばらくして
ジェニファーのもとに 小切手が届いた

彼女は、その場に泣き崩れてしまった

それは 手術に必要な200万円の小切手だった
そして1枚のメモが同封されてあった・・・

"Someone up there loves you because I was guided
to meet you Saturday. I never lose my way, but fate
had me lost and ask you for directions. The rest of
the story I hope will be a wonderful new life for you."

 「先日の土曜日に あなたが親切に道を教えてくれ
 あなたがとても気に入ってしまった者より

 私は一度も道に迷ったことなどなかったのに
 運命が私を道に迷わせ、あなたに道を尋ねさせたようだ

 あなたに 素晴らしい人生がありますように!」


手続きが済み、ジェニファーの手術がいよいよ始まる


素晴らしい人生がありますように!

運命って
すごい「力」をもっているよね
(*^^*)



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Billionaire Ty Warner gives woman $20,000
for her cause after asking her for directions

A woman who helped a lost man ended up with a surprise $20,000 gift.

That's what happened last month when Jennifer Vasilakos guided Ty Warner when he stopped and asked for driving directions in Santa Barbara, Calif.

While Warner didn't know exactly how to get to where he was going, Vasilakos didn't realize who she was helping.

Warner is the billionaire founder of Ty Inc., the Beanie Baby company.

Vasilakos was at the intersection trying to raise $20,000 for a stem cell procedure she needs to help save her life because she suffers from kidney failure and does not qualify for a transplant.

She describes their encounter in her blog:


I often get asked by random strangers for directions. Not one to miss an opportunity, I handed him my flyer and he made a fifty dollar donation. As he drove off, I thought that was the end of our encounter... He'd returned after an hour or so. Rolling down his window, he reached out his hand and introduced himself. I immediately recognized his name. He was kind and sincere as he looked directly into my eyes... I listened as he repeated over and over that he was going to help me. That my fundraising was done. That I didn't need to worry any longer. He said he would send a check after he returned to his offices during the week.


He was true to his word. Vasilakos, an herbalist and Reiki teacher, received a package on July 16 with a $20,000 check and with a handwritten note from Warner. The note read in part, "Someone up there loves you because I was guided to meet you Saturday. I never lose my way, but fate had me lost and ask you for directions. The rest of the story I hope will be a wonderful new life for you."

Courtesty of Jennifer Vasilakos

"Of course I started crying, because that's what girls do," Vasilakos said. "I'm incredibly thankful to Ty Warner and to everyone who has supported me with love and prayer."

The check cleared a few weeks later and she booked a surgical procedure at an undisclosed foreign hospital to begin hematopoietic stem cell treatment. Hematopietic treatment takes a cell from the blood or bone marrow that can renew itself and develop into a variety of specialized cells.



インド洋に浮かぶ島国
モルディブ

浮島を利用して
つくったのが

このゴルフ場
English Blog

サンゴに囲まれた島そのものが
ゴルフ場になった

まもなく
オープンする

モルディブ政府とオランダのゴルフ場建設会社が
5億2千万ドルかけてつくった

コースからコースへは
海底トンネルで
つながっている
English Blog

わ!

頭上に
大きな魚が見える

水族館だぁ

わぉ~
ゴルフどころじゃないぞ!

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A floating golf course? It could be coming soon
to the Maldives

When you're playing the new course planned for
the Maldives in a few years, beware of the water
on 1 ... and 2 ... and 3 ... and 4 ...

Golf course designers are a borderline crazy
breed to begin with, but even by their standards,
this is off the wall:
plans for an entire floating golf course in the
Maldives.

The creation of the Maldivian government, Troon
Golf and Waterstudio, a Dutch architecture firm,
the $520 million course is designed to combat
a problem that the rest of us don't yet have.

The Maldives, a collection of almost 1,200 islands
in the Indian Ocean, have an average elevation of
just 5 feet above sea level.



イケアと言えば
そう、
スエーデンの家具屋さんだ

が、

このほど、格安ホテルチェーンを
展開するらしい
English Blog

まずは
手始めに ヨーロッパに100ホテルほどから

これから
いろいろな
分野に 広がりそう

もう
ただの家具屋じゃ
なくなるかも

(☆。☆)

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Ikea Branches Out Into 'Budget Design' Hotels

Homeware and furnishings retailer Ikea is planning
to build a budget hotel chain across Europe.

The Swedish company, best known for its flat-pack
furniture, aims to create a range of "budget design"
hotels at affordable prices.

It follows a trend for cheap-but-funky boutique
accommodation such as Base2Stay in London driven
by low air fares and increasingly price-conscious
business travellers.

Others include Germany's Motel One, citizenM in
London, Amsterdam and Glasgow, and the Chic &
Basic chain in Barcelona and Madrid.

Inter Ikea already owns a few hotels and has more
in the works, but the new project will be its first
chain and top its 26-acre home, office and hotel
scheme around the Olympic Park in London.

The chain of 100 hotels, which is set to be launched
across Europe including in Britain, Belgium, Austria,
Germany, Holland and Poland, will not feature Ikea
flat-pack furniture nor its brand name.

Mr Muller said: "It is not an Ikea hotel. It's a
continuation of our normal investment activities
in real estate."

そう言えば
僕が学生だった頃

ラジオでアメリカ・ポップス10なる
番組があって

リクエストが多い曲トップ10が
ラジオで流れるのを楽しみに
聞いたことがあったなぁ・・・

それがこの曲だった
イエスタディ・ワンス・モア


この曲の出だしの歌詞が好きです

歌えるようになるとカッコいいなぁって

何度も口ずさんだのを思い出す

あれ、歌詞がかぶってる?!



先日
MIOさんのライブがあったんだ

彼女が この曲を歌ってくれた

ワオ~ 心にしみたぁ
(*´σー`)


Every Sha-la-la-la
Every Wo-o-wo-o
Still shines

「どのシャララも
 どのワウワウも
 みんな 輝いている・・・」


この部分て
面白いよね

シャララも、ワウワウも
歌のアレや コレやってこと

70年代や80年代の歌って
ホントいいんだから

いい思い出だぁ
でも
歌詞の通り
泣けてくるよ

v(^-^)v

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When I was young
I'd listen to the radio
Waitin' for my favorite songs
When they played I'd sing along
It made me smile.

Those were such happy times
And not so long ago
How I wondered where they'd gone
But they're back again
Just like a long lost friend
All the songs I loved so well.

Every Sha-la-la-la
Every Wo-o-wo-o
Still shines
Every shing-a-ling-a-ling
That they're startin' to sing's
So fine.

When they get to the part
Where he's breakin' her heart
It can really make me cry
Just like before
It's yesterday once more.