Record of the Year（最優秀レコード賞）はLady AntebellumのNeed You Now Album of the Year（最優秀アルバム賞）はArcade FireのThe Suburbs Song of the Year（最優秀楽曲賞）はLady AntebellumのNeed You Now Best New Artist（最優秀新人アーティスト賞）はEsperanza Spaulding Best Female Pop Vocal Performance（最優秀女性ポップヴォーカル）はLady Gaga Best Male Pop Vocal Performance（最優秀男性ポップヴォーカル）はBruno Mars
しかし私の注目はBest New ArtistのEsperanza Spalding（写真中央）。 1984年生まれの２６歳で、jazz artistでこの新人賞を受賞は大変珍しいことです（あのJustin Bieberを破って受賞。Bieberファンは怒りまくり彼女のwikiサイトに中傷の文章を書くというひどい事になったようです。彼女とJustin Bieberを比べること自体難しいことです。She is totally in a different leagueという感じです。）。2009年のObama大統領のノーベル賞授賞式でも演奏したこの逸材。母親はウエールズ、ヒスパニック、アメリカンインディアンの血が入っており父親は黒人ですが、シングルマザーに育てられます。16歳でGED（高校卒業資格試験）をパスし音楽特待生としてPortland State Universityへ入学。そこのベースの教師の勧めでBostonのBerklee School of Musicのオーディションを受け、見事全額奨学金を受けることができる特待生になります。しかしお金がなく生活に疲れた彼女は音楽をあきらめ政治学へ転向しようとしますが、Pat Methenyが「君にはX Factorがあるから今音楽をやめるべきではない」と励ましました。Berkleeを卒業したその年に学校創立以来最も若い教授のひとりとして、若干20歳で教鞭をとることになります。 先週Grammy受賞直後、東京のBlue Note Tokyoで演奏。If I had known, ...という感じです。一週間ずれていたら絶対に彼女のライブを見に行っていたでしょう（I'm so sad...)。
President Barack Obama met Thursday night with a small, elite group of Silicon Valley business leaders to sound them out on his economic policies. Apple CEO Steve Jobs sat to Obama's left while Facebook co-founder Mark Zuckerberg sat on the President's right.
Critical thinking is a rich concept that has been developing throughout the past 2500 years. The term "critical thinking" has its roots in the mid-late 20th century. We offer here overlapping definitions, together which form a substantive, transdisciplinary conception of critical thinking.
Critical Thinking as Defined by the National Council for Excellence in Critical Thinking, 1987
A statement by Michael Scriven & Richard Paul for the
Critical thinking is the intellectually disciplined process of actively and skillfully conceptualizing, applying, analyzing, synthesizing, and/or evaluating information gathered from, or generated by, observation, experience, reflection, reasoning, or communication, as a guide to belief and action. In its exemplary form, it is based on universal intellectual values that transcend subject matter divisions: clarity, accuracy, precision, consistency, relevance, sound evidence, good reasons, depth, breadth, and fairness.
Critical thinking can be seen as having two components: 1) a set of information and belief generating and processing skills, and 2) the habit, based on intellectual commitment, of using those skills to guide behavior. It is thus to be contrasted with: 1) the mere acquisition and retention of information alone, because it involves a particular way in which information is sought and treated; 2) the mere possession of a set of skills, because it involves the continual use of them; and 3) the mere use of those skills ("as an exercise") without acceptance of their results.
After today’s unveiling of The Daily at a press event at the Guggenheim museum in New York City, we were handed iPads loaded with the news app. I shot the video above with my iPhone to give a quick sense of what it looks like and the navigation.
It looks like a magazine more than a newspaper, with lush photography and the occasional interactive graphic or video in place of a photo. The first thing I noticed is that there are no links in any of the stories, although you can share stories via Facebook, Twitter, or email. But that is about the extent of the social features in the app. As I expected, it is does not (yet) offer any social reading features like Flipboard or the yet-to-launch News.me
To find your way around, there is atable of content, but that only lists the top ten stories. You can flip through chronologically or navigate by section (news, Gossip, Opinion, Arts & Life, Apps & Games, or Sports). When you are in a story, you can tap to expose a timeline with thumbnail images of each page up top. Finally, there is a carousel view that lets you go through the issue like you can with album covers in iTunes. It would be helpful if there were a content page that simply listed all the headlines in that issue with links.
読みたいものを探すのに十分な内容はあるが、トップ１０のストーリーしか載せていない。時系列的にフリップしたり、スクリーンごとに項目を見る事ができる（news, Gossip, Opinion, Arts & Life, Apps & Games, or Sportsなど）。記事を読んでいる時にtapしてトップに時系列的にサムネイルをつけることができる。そしてiTunesのアルバムカバーの閲覧のようページをめくることができる。リンク付きのヘッドラインだけをリストアップした目次ページがあればもっといいのだが。
The ads take up their own pages, just like in a magazine. I noticed that the ads take a lot longer to load than the news pages. That could be a problem if it is not fixed in terms of pleasing advertisers.
You can save stories for later reading, but apparently the app is loaded with new stories every day. So unless you read or save the stories you are interested in, for now you are out of luck. On stage, News corp indicated they are working on this issue.
Lightning dances in Shinmoedake’s volcanic plume, the eruption having already led Japanese authorities to call on those living nearby to evacuate. Seen from Kirishima city, the light shows last only for a few moments, but the ash and rocks fall relentlessly between the prefectures of Miyazaki and Kagoshima.
