Traveler

Story of traveler

A traveler always has he/her own place that he/her need to reach in a certain period of time. But to be there he/her must to pass a desert, river and jungle. He must get he/her needs to continue the journey so he need to take a break at every place. But a good traveler will not spend so many times make other trip around the place because he/her still has along journey to continue. In other hand a bad traveler will spend a lot of time buy all stuff that he want and he feel very happy at that time. But he forgot that he need to complete a mission to reach another important place. So as a result he just feel happy a while at first and then face a terrible life in the rest of he/her live. So in conclusion we must to think a truth goals in doing something.

Man vs traffic light

WHY we must to obey to the rod near the road? Who is more powerful rod or human? Didn't you think you are a crazy person obey to the rod that can't think and can't do nothing to you except show you red, yellow and green. It show how weak we are. We need a rule to guide our life so we will not get a trouble in our life same as the use of the traffic light to control people from accident. In the nut shell we need to obey to the rod on the road.

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I'm sorry to be late.
The Beijing Olympic Games are drawing near, so I want to introduce its articles.

While Takayuki Matsumiya has made his mark in the 5,000 meters, he'll be going
to the Olympics in the 10,000.
Matsumiya clinched a place on Japan's team to
this summer's Beijing Olympics by winning the men's 10,000 title at the Japan
Championships at Todoroki Stadium on Thursday.
"I came here [to qualify] for
the Olympics and I made it, so I'm really happy," said Matsumiya, the two-time
defending champion in both the 5,000 and 10,000.
Matsumiya pulled away from
rivals Ryuji Ono and Yu Mitsuya with three laps to go and won in 27 minutes
51.27 seconds. Ono finished second in 27:55.16 with Mitsuya third in 27:58.63.
"There's a big difference between first and second places, so I was
concerned more with where I finished than the time I ran," said Matsumiya, who
last year set the Japan record in the 5,000.
With the victory, Matsumiya
became the first athlete to fulfill the Japan federation criteria for automatic
selection by anyone who wins the national title and has achieved the Olympic "A"
qualifying standard.
Matsumiya topped the "A" mark of 27.50.00 when he
clocked 27:41.75 at the Cardinal Invitational in Palo Alto, Calif., on May 4.
The Olympic team will be announced Monday following the four-day meet.
One athlete who earlier this year might not have thought he would make that
list is two-time world bronze medalist hurdler Dai Tamesue, who overcame his
first barrier in an attempt to make it to Beijing.
Tamesue, running just the
second race of an injury-delayed season, advanced to the final of the men's
400-meter hurdles by winning his semifinal heat in 50.87.
"It was a relief
to finally run," said Tamesue, who pulled out of several meets earlier this
season due to problems with both calves and his left Achilles tendon and has run
just once.
"My body felt good, although given what I've gone through, I was
wondering if that feeling was wrong," Tamesue said. "After I took my first step,
I thought everything was OK."
Kenji Narisako, who won the 2006 title when
Tamesue skipped the meet, posted the fastest time of the round of 49.99.
Both Tamesue and Narisako have achieved the Olympic qualifying "A" standard,
meaning both will likely go if they finish one-two.
In other events,
two-time defending champion Shingo Suetsugu and Shinji Takahira each won their
qualifying races to make the final of the men's 200 meters.
Suetsugu, the
2003 world bronze medalist, won his heat in 20.67 seconds, while Takahira took
it easy down the stretch to finish first in his race in 20.81.
Four of the
women's field event titles were decided, but no Olympic places.
Yuka
Murofushi won the hammer throw over two-time defending champion Masumi Aya,
winning with a throw of 62.98 meters for her third title and first in three
years.
Disaster struck the women's pole vault, in which Japan record-holder
Ikuko Nishikori and defending champion Takayo Kondo both failed to clear a
height, each missing three times at 4.10 meters.
That opened the door for
Doshisha University's Tomomi Abiko, the lone vaulter to clear 4.10, to win her
first title. Mami Nakano, the 2006 champion, placed second at 4.00.
Other
winners were Yuki Ebihara, who won the javelin with a toss of 56.71 meters, and
Fumiyo Yoshida, who leaped 13.12 meters to capture the triple jump.
(Jun.
27, 2008)

http://www.yomiuri.co.jp/dy/sports/20080627TDY24302.htm

Places I visited

Today I introduce the places I visited to you.

First, I talk about Sapporo. I lived in Sapporo for two years. It is a big city and has very high buildings. It also has Hokkaido University. I lived near Hokkaido University, so I often went there. I walked, ran, played soccer and took an examination on the campas. I want to visit there again.

Second, I talk about Okinawa. Okinawa is hot place. Though I visited there in December, I could swim in the sea. I also went many places related to war. I could listen to the stories and study history.

the kingdom of Thailand

In this summer, I visit Thailand to study Thai children's life and culture with international medical study culb member. So, I decide to writ about Thailandand to know Thailand well and to be this tour more valuable.

I considered what type of infomation I should know. I thougth that health is the most important thing than any other things.

I examined food and infection diseas .Food; there are many kinds of hot food and we had better not to eat at stand because of bad hygien. Infection diseas; we should watch out mosquito if we are pricked with mosquito it is possible that we infect malaria or dengue fever.

I want to make the most of this knowledge and keep health to spend time more valuable.

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The number of cruel murders is increasing recently. Especially murdering family members is very tragic.
http://www.yomiuri.co.jp/dy/national/20080625TDY02310.htm

4 family members murdered / Man kills wife, son, daughter-in-law,
granddaughter with sledgehammer

CHIBA--A 77-year-old man has been
arrested on suspicion of killing four members of his family at their home in
Kashiwa, Chiba Prefecture, by bashing them with a sledgehammer, police said.

An elderly man called the police at about 7 a.m. Tuesday and claimed he
had murdered his family. Police officers arrived at the house of Yoshio Kiuchi
and found four members of the Kiuchi family bleeding from head injuries. Kiuchi,
who reportedly had health problems, was found lying unconscious.

The victims are Kiuchi's 75-year-old wife, Tokiko; his 49-year-old son,
Shigeru; Shigeru's 44-year-old wife, Miyuki; and Manami, the 4-year-old daughter
of Shigeru and Miyuki.

According to the police, Kiuchi killed his wife with a sledgehammer
while she was preparing breakfast in the kitchen between 6 a.m. and 7 a.m., and
then attacked Shigeru and Miyuki in a tatami-floored room. He then allegedly
bludgeoned Manami to death on the second floor of an adjacent building.

The sledgehammer's handle was about one meter long, and the steel head
was about 20 centimeters long, the police said. Kiuchi kept the sledgehammer in
a shed.

The police found a bloodstained sledgehammer in the kitchen of the main
building.

Kiuchi suffered no injuries, but his pajamas were blood-soaked,
according to the police.

A 59-year-old relative of Kiuchi, who resides in the neighborhood,
said, "I heard that Kiuchi had been in ill health, but I never thought something
like this would happen."

The Kiuchi family's house is an area where houses are scattered amid
paddy fields, about four kilometers southeast of JR Abiko Station. Kiuchi worked
as a farmer until about 2000.

Kiuchi was quoted by the police as saying: "I'd had troubles with my
family mainly due to my health problems. My wife had told me I was a nuisance,
so I thought several times about killing her. When I got up this morning, I
decided to go ahead and do it. I killed all my family members because I thought
it would be a load off my shoulders."

The family's neighbors said they did not know of any problems with the
family.

A 76-year-old woman sometimes talked with Tokiko at an elderly people's
community group, saying: "She was a nice person. I hadn't noticed anything
strange about her."

A 56-year-old female neighbor was stunned by the incident, saying, "We
don't even get minor crimes like theft in our neighborhood, so this kind of
brutal incident is very frightening."

A woman in the neighborhood said: "I heard Kiuchi had been bedridden
due to heart trouble. He wasn't hospitalized, but he had been staying at home to
recuperate and sometimes had to go to hospital."

This news interest me very much. This new is about playstation3 that sony made.

Sony's games division is haemorrhaging cash because the PlayStation 3 console
cost so much to develop and make that the company will find it difficult to
recoup its losses.

It is not unusual for consumer electronics
manufacturers to pour money into research and development, sell at a loss when a
new product is released and make up the deficit with high-volume sales in
subsequent years.

However, the magnitude of Sony's PS3 losses, and the
length of time it will take to recoup them, have startled games sector analysts.

Sony's admission that clawing back the cash will have a negative impact
on the group's financial results for some time came to light in its most recent
filing to the US Securities and Exchange Commission.

The Form 20-F
filing, which is mandatory for non-US companies with US-based shareholders,
revealed losses in the year ending 31 March 2007 (the first financial year in
which the PS3 figured) of ¥232.3bn (£1.09bn).

Although this figure is
high, a substantial loss is to be expected. R&D costs for the relatively
simple PS1 launched in 1996 were estimated at close to $500m (approximately
£350m then).

But the PS3 was a far more ambitious product. Sources close
to the company estimate that each PS3 console cost $800 to manufacture when it
was launched in 2006, let alone multi-billion dollar R&D costs.

That
production bill will have reduced as Sony refined the manufacturing process. But
losses for the year ending 31 March 2008, by which point over nine million PS3s
had been sold, were still running at ¥124.5bn (£585m).

The PS1 and PS2
will have paid back their R&D and early manufacturing costs because they
sold in such high volumes over a long period of time.

While this
business model has been standard among consumer electronics firms, the problem
for the PS3 is that product cycles are becoming shorter as competitors leapfrog
and customers become more demanding.

This leaves fewer years to recoup
R&D losses with high-volume sales.

Howard Stringer, chief executive
at Sony, stated last week that returning the games division to profit is a top
priority for Sony.

Sony will look to recoup losses on sales of consoles
and software. Currently PS3s are on sale for between £310 and £350, depending on
which games the retailer has bundled with the console.

Popular PS3 games
sell at between £30 and £40, and less popular titles as low as £15. After
retailers and distributors have taken their cut, Sony is likely to make anything
from 40 to 75 per cent margin on these sales.

At this rate, the PS3 may
never be anywhere near as profitable as earlier PlayStation models.

However, with every console sold Sony is also seeding homes with Blu-ray
players for which it can sell Blu-ray DVD movie titles at much higher margins.

Thus, while the games division loses money on PS3s, the benefits to
other parts of the Sony empire may outweigh the losses.

http://www.vnunet.com/reviews/

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I'm sorry.The former is failure.
Space development is noticeable lately.
This news is very interesting and exciting.
link:http://www.yomiuri.co.jp/dy/features/science/20080608TDY01302.htm

JOHNSON SPACE CENTER, Texas--Astronauts on the International Space Station
on Friday attached a storage facility for Japan's manned space laboratory Kibo
to the top of an experiment module.Kibo's main section is now almost complete
with the mounting of the Experiment Logistics Module Pressurized Section
(ELM-PS) on the already operational Pressurized Module shortly after 6 a.m.
Saturday.Astronauts Karen Nyberg and Gregory Chamitoff operated the robot arm
and maneuvered the ELM-PS onto the Pressurized Module in about two hours--the
first time two sections of Kibo have been joined in space.Mission specialist
Akihiko Hoshide was responsible for operating the bolts to join the sections at
the early and latter stages of the process.A range of scientific experiments
will be conducted in the Pressurized Module. Equipment and materials in the
storage facility to be used in the module were moved there through a different
process before the ELM-PS was moved.Astronauts are scheduled early Tuesday to
enter the ELM-PS through a hatch from the module to confirm the parts have been
securely attached.This was the second of three space shuttle missions to take
Kibo to the ISS. Kibo will be completed next spring when its Exposed Facility is
attached.(Jun. 8, 2008)

Space development will make progress.

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Space development is noticeable lately.
This news is very interesting and exciting.
link:http://www.yomiuri.co.jp/dy/features/science/20080608TDY01302.htm


JOHNSON SPACE CENTER, Texas--Astronauts on the International Space Station on Friday attached a storage facility for Japan's manned space laboratory Kibo to the top of an experiment module.
Kibo's main section is now almost complete with the mounting of the Experiment Logistics Module Pressurized Section (ELM-PS) on the already operational Pressurized Module shortly after 6 a.m. Saturday.
Astronauts Karen Nyberg and Gregory Chamitoff operated the robot arm and maneuvered the ELM-PS onto the Pressurized Module in about two hours--the first time two sections of Kibo have been joined in space.
Mission specialist Akihiko Hoshide was responsible for operating the bolts to join the sections at the early and latter stages of the process.
A range of scientific experiments will be conducted in the Pressurized Module. Equipment and materials in the storage facility to be used in the module were moved there through a different process before the ELM-PS was moved.
Astronauts are scheduled early Tuesday to enter the ELM-PS through a hatch from the module to confirm the parts have been securely attached.
This was the second of three space shuttle missions to take Kibo to the ISS. Kibo will be completed next spring when its Exposed Facility is attached.
(Jun. 8, 2008)

Space development will make progress.

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Hello!
Today,I want to introduce happy news for me.
My hometown is famous for soccer team.
It is Kashima Antlers. My hometown supports the Antlers with all our face.
The other day, Kashima Antlers turned out hiro who could save Japanese soccer team.
His name is Atsuto Uchida. He is the hope of Our team.
So, I quoted below article.

It wasn't pretty, but that's exactly what Takeshi Okada wanted from his players.
Japan will advance to the final round of 2010 World Cup qualifying as the Group 2 winner after Okada's side beat the clock to beat under-strength Bahrain 1-0 on Sunday.
Before a Saitama Stadium crowd of 51,180, Japan exacted revenge for its defeat at Manama in March with a very fortunate goal by Atsuto Uchida--the Kashima Antler's first for the national team--in the final minute.
Substitute Seiichiro Maki distracted Sayed Mohamed Jaafar as Uchida's header bounced high over the Bahrain keeper for the lone goal of the match.
"This was an important game for us, and it's not just because we lost they last time met," Okada said. "I don't think we played badly at all in the first half but we couldn't capitalize. Finishing is something we need to work on, and our goal wasn't beautiful by any stretch of the imagination.
"But personally, it made me happy to see our players, who have a reputation of being stylish and elegant, to play such scrappy football."
Japan finished the third-round qualifiers with 13 points from six games, two points ahead of runnerup Bahrain. The draw for the Asian final qualifiers starting in September will be held on Friday.
Okada made the decision to play Shunsuke Nakamura from the start despite the risk of him reinjuring his right ankle.
Nakamura hurt the ankle in the 1-1 draw with Oman at Muscat on June 7, and the injury was bad enough that it nearly kept him out of last weekend's Thailand game that sent Japan through to the final round.
A day earlier after training, Nakamura said his ankle had improved in the past week, but playing him against the hard-tackling Bahrainis carried the risk of aggravating the injury--but it was, evidently, one Okada was willing to burden.
True to his word, Nakamura did seem to be lighter on his feet on this night than he did in Bangkok, and in the fifth minute, the left-footed one came across a great opportunity to hand his team the lead.
Referee Ravshan Irmatov awarded Japan a penalty that should never have been awarded, as defender Sayed Mohamed Adnan stopped Hisato Sato with a perfectly clean tackle.
But that didn't stop the official from pointing to the spot, and Nakamura stepped up to try to convert.
A 1-0 Japanese lead seemed all but written in on the scoresheet with Nakamura, who very rarely misses from the spot, taking the penalty. But Jaafar read Nakamura like a book, diving to his left to make a superb save of what was a well-struck penalty.
Japan dominated the rest of the first half, creating several chances before halftime. Yasuhito Endo's free kick during injury time came off the bar, and Keisuke Honda had the rebound all to himself from point-blank range facing an open net.
But the thought of scoring in his national-team debut appeared to have crossed Honda's mind as the Netherlands-based midfielder somehow managed to miss the target.
Milan Macala's visitors made a game out of it in the second half, putting Japanese custodian Seigo Narazaki to the test. The hosts went close a number of times before Keiji Tamada's throw-in led to Uchida's goal.
JAPAN: Narazaki, Uchida, Nakazawa, Tulio, Yasuda, S. Nakamura, K. Nakamura, Honda, Tamada, Sato
BAHRAIN: Jaafar, Husain, Ayyad, Isa, Adnan, Alanezi, Alwadaei, A'faish, Abdulrahman, Omar, Ismaeel
(Jun. 23, 2008)

This news is here:http://www.yomiuri.co.jp/dy/sports/20080623TDY20303.htm

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Hello. I introduced EURO2008 to you before. Now I think you wonder what is going on.
link:http://news.google.com/news?ned=ca

MADRID (AFP) — Thousands of supporters of the Spanish national team have vowed
to shave their heads if their side wins the Euro 2008 football championship.
Spanish sports daily Marca has been urging fans to sign an online petition
promising to go bald if Spain wins the title and as of Tuesday night just over
10,000 people have made the pledge, the newspaper said on its website.
"I,
an unrepentant lifelong fan, solemnly commit myself before Marca, the fans and
the national team, to shave every last hair on my Spanish head if our team wins
Euro 2008," the online pledge reads.
"The team needs all the support it can
get from its fans," the newspaper wrote on its website over a photo of a group
of bald fans wearing red and yellow Spain jerseys with their arms in the air.
"If you are among those who beleive Spain is going to win, shave yourself
with us," it added.
Participants have the chance of winning one of 20
cameras which will be awarded to those who make the pledge.
Spain is now two
wins from adding to its 1964 European Championship success, its sole
international title, after its 4-2 penalty shootout win over world champions
Italy on Sunday.
The Spanish side will face Russia in the Austrian capital
Vienna on Thursday for a place in the June 29 final.

Spain, Germany, Turkey and Russia survive. I am looking forward to watching the rest games.

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Hello, I tell you about the most interesting news. The news is the impact of industrial action by Qantas engineers in Western Australia.

Qantas engineers in three cities walked off the job yesterday over a
pay
dispute. A total of 35 flights were cancelled yesterday, including one in Perth,
and a further 29 have been cancelled today because of the flow on effect of the
strikes.
Qantas says one flight to Perth from Sydney has been cancelled as a
direct result ofyesterday's action.The Australian Licensed Engineers Association
has told Qantas that workers in Melbourne, Sydney, Brisbane and Perth will
strike again for four hours on Friday.

In this summer, I travel to Thiland. So I think I do not want to happen to the inpact of industrial action.

link:http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2008/06/25/2285646.htm?section=business

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Hello!

It have been said that Japanese people work too hard.This article intoroduce the relation between suicide and overwork. I think Japanese society is needed to be reexamined.

With the number of suicides in the country increasing, observers are pointing
out that suicides due to stress from overwork also have grown.
The number of people who committed suicide increased by 938 to 33,093 from 2006 to 2007, the second-highest number ever recorded, according to a report released by the National Police Agency on Thursday. The report said the number of suicides
committed by people in their 30s and 60s reached record highs, while the number
of suicides by people in their 40s also increased.
(the rest is ormitted)

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http://www.yomiuri.co.jp/dy/features/science/20080620TDY02302.htm

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Hello.
The news I'm the most interested in is about removing North Korea from the list of state sponsors of terrorism. Why has the U.S decided to do that?I think there is no reason we remove the country from the list.If the president of the U.S would only like to leave his "footsteps" on history and urge that he has performed his duty as the president,the decision will make the world sitiation worse.
I quoted a part of the article as follow.

Washington has notified Tokyo of its plan to start the process Thursday of striking North Korea from its list of state sponsors of terrorism if Pyongyang files a declaration of its nuclear activities, Foreign Minister Masahiko Komura said Tuesday.
The planned U.S. move may push the Cabinet of Prime Minister Yasuo Fukuda into a tight corner, possibly forcing the government to face the tough political choice of either dropping its hardline demand for Pyongyang to make progress on the abduction dispute or straining the U.S. alliance by hampering the six-party talks to denuclearize North Korea.
Fukuda said later Tuesday that Japan would welcome the delisting if it helps resolve the North Korean nuclear issue.
"If the nuclear problem will be resolved, isn't that something desirable, also for our country? . . . It's something we should welcome," Fukuda told reporters when asked whether he would urge President George W. Bush not to remove North Korea from the list.
Officials in Tokyo meanwhile stressed there would still be a moratorium of 45 days, and the U.S. decision could be rescinded during that period if the North's declaration is not sufficient to ensure complete denuclearization as agreed to in the six-party talks.

link.....http://search.japantimes.co.jp/cgi-bin/nn20080625a2.html

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Before long, the issue that has not been solved may be settled. This issue is whaling.

For decades, there is distance between pro and anti whaling nations. However, these countries got a chance to be close each other this time. I'd like to keep paying attention to this issue from now on.

This news is quoted from the following site:
http://www.smh.com.au/news/whale-watch/break-from-the-past-in-whaling-dispute/2008/06/25/1214073287563.html

Environment Minister Peter Garrett has described a decision to try to bridge the global divide over whaling taken in Santiago today as a break with the past.
Australia is one of 24 nations to agree to work behind closed doors over the next year on a resolution to the deadlock between pro and anti-whaling nations.
Mr Garrett told the International Whaling Commission that the organisation had to move away from its 1950's function as a regulator of whaling, in favour of conservation.

On the lengthy agenda for the future of the IWC, made public for the first time today, are some of the most bitterly disputed issues facing the organisation, including the global moratorium on commercial whaling.
A possible future bargain between anti-whaling nations and Japan is also flagged, with the inclusion on the list of coastal whaling in a country's own waters.
Some observers believe that this might eventually be exchanged by Tokyo for its right to go scientific whaling in the Antarctic.
The agreement, reached behind closed doors, changes the IWC's rules of procedure to demand greater attempts to reach consensus, rather than go to the votes that so sharply divide the organisation now.

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These days, there are many tragic news. So I introduce positive news!

Music therapy for psychiatric in-patients with schizophrenia can improve some of the symptoms of the disorder, according to a new study by researchers at Imperial College London and therapists at the Central and North West London Mental Health Trust.

The preliminary research, published today in the British Journal of Psychiatry, is the first time music therapy for people with acute schizophrenia has been evaluated.

For this small study, 81 in-patients at four hospitals in central and inner London were randomised to receive music therapy or standard care alone. Those people receiving music therapy had between 8 and 12 sessions, once a week, for up to 45 minutes

During the sessions patients were given access to a range of musical instruments and encouraged to use them to express themselves. Initially the therapist listened carefully to the patient's music and accompanied them closely, seeking to follow their emotional state in musical terms. The therapist then offered opportunities to extend or vary the nature of the musical interaction.

The researchers measured symptoms of schizophrenia and found that improvements were greater among those people receiving music therapy than among those receiving standard care alone. Referral for music therapy was associated with reductions in general symptoms, such as depression and anxiety, and the negative symptoms of schizophrenia, such as emotional withdrawal. However, the authors caution that because this was a small study, it is possible that other factors, such as severity of illness, may have influenced the study's findings.

Now I practice playing the violin. In my future, my deveropping skills will help those patients get better! This news is here:http://medieigo.com/weeklytopic.php?id=1

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Now I worry about my electricity charges. I must pay... Then, I introduce the news. http://search.japantimes.co.jp/cgi-bin/nn20080613f1.html

Takeshi Hishida, representative director of Taiyo Hatsuden of Yokohama, said there has been a sharp increase in requests for information since the start of this year.
His company offers manufacturers' cost estimates to people interested in installing solar power generation equipment at their homes.
"Many of those coming to us for advice say sunlight is clean and they want to contribute to the global environment," the 46-year-old Hishida said.
Company employee Kenichi Kawauchi of Sagamihara, Kanagawa Prefecture, set up equipment capable of producing 3.18 kw of power in his home last November.
The 45-year-old spent ¥3 million on the project.
"Power output increases with the number of hours of sunshine," Kawauchi said. "Our electricity bill decreased to ¥1,500 in March. Above all, my family's awareness of ecology has been enhanced by monitoring the volume of power output."
Hishida said the cost of installing solar power equipment with an output capacity of 3 kw is around ¥2 million, and some households have been able to recover the expense in about 15 years.

I will think about this in the future (when I have a house built)

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Hello!!I tell you about ambulances today.Below is a quotation from Yomiuri Shinbun(http://www.yomiuri.co.jp/dy/national/20080624TDY02307.htm )

Ambulances 'treated like taxis'
The Yomiuri Shimbun
Many people request ambulances for nonemergency purposes, according to a Yomiuri Shimbun survey of fire departments in 51 major cities.
In many cases, people called ambulances because they thought they would have to wait less when they arrived at the hospital.
In 2007, about 50 percent of ambulance requests were made by people with minor injuries or mild symptoms.
In the survey, The Yomiuri Shimbun asked 51 fire departments in Tokyo, prefectural capitals and major cities what people who called 119 asked for.
According to the survey, 37 fire departments said some callers wanted to use ambulances for nonemergency purposes in a manner similar to a taxi. This was observed in various cities.
A fire department in the Koshinetsu region said a woman carrying a bag filled with items prepared for her hospital stay rode in an ambulance.
A Kansai fire department said many people called 119 and named a time and date for an ambulance pick up. Many fire departments said they often observed this behavior.
People even lie about their maladies, some fire departments said.
A Koshinetsu region man in his 60s told a 119 operator that he was too sick to move and requested an ambulance. However, when he was examined, he did not display symptoms that necessitated emergency treatment. It was later discovered that he had made a reservation at the hospital beforehand.
In the survey, 28 fire departments said some people with minor symptoms, such as a cold, called 119 because they thought they would be treated before other patients if they arrived by ambulance.
In many cases hospital nurses decide the severity of a patient's condition. If a nurse determines that a patient has minor symptoms--even if the patient arrived by ambulance--they are not necessarily treated immediately.
In one case in the Sanyo region, the family member of a patient with a minor cut demanded that the patient receive treatment before others because she arrived in an ambulance. The family member made the demand after being told to wait in line.
Seven fire departments said people waiting to be treated at hospital sometimes leave to call 119 because they think they will be treated faster.
A fire department in the Kanto region said it received a 119 call from a man in his 50s who claimed he had a stomachache.
After an ambulance drove him to the hospital, the fire department found out he had been waiting at the hospital earlier.
"I waited for one hour and I got irritated. I thought I would have to wait less if I arrived by ambulance," the man said.

It is very awful that ambulances can't go directly to the patients in critical condition.I've never taken ambulances.But whether one has taken ambulances or not, everyone must think how to use ambulances.They are not free taxes, of course.Our action may save someone, or endanger someone, I think.

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I think some crimes set off a chain reaction in various parts of the Japan every year. These days, there is a good example. Two weeks ago, I wrote blog about the series of murders in Akihabara. And this week, I found an incident probably triggered by the crimes in Akihabara at http://search.japantimes.co.jp/cgi-bin/nn20080623a4.html

Monday, June 23, 2008
Three cut with knife in Osaka Station
OSAKA (Kyodo) Three women sustained minor injuries Sunday afternoon when they were cut in separate incidents on and near the same train platform at JR Osaka Station, police said.
A 52-year-old woman from Kashiba, Nara Prefecture, was cut by a knife on her left arm at 1:35 p.m., police said. About five minutes later a 20-year-old woman from Taisho Ward, Osaka, was cut on her left arm as she was about to board a train.
Earlier, a 20-year-old woman from Nishinomiya, Hyogo Prefecture, was poked by a knife when she was on a landing between escalators heading up to the platform.
A surveillance camera showed a woman near both of the platform victims. She was described as stocky, about 160 cm tall and appeared to be in her 30s. She was wearing a one-piece dress, a black hat, a necklace and a white shoulder bag. Her hair was chestnut color. The woman from Nishinomiya saw the woman pass by her while the other two victims did not see their attacker.

A pervert who slashes people as he or she passes them on the street has attracted attention of the people in Japan because we may become the victims of incidents accidentally. I wish that this chain reaction will stop as soon as possible.