Friday, August 1, 2014
Got up at seven-thirty in the morning. Ate a piece of bread for breakfast, a Japanese meal for lunch, and a Japanese meal for dinner.
Today's maximum temperature here is 31.9 degrees C (89.4 degrees F).
Saturday, August 2, 2014
Got up at seven-thirty in the morning. Ate a piece of bread for breakfast. Went out shopping at a grocery store this morning, Ate a bowl of Japanese noodle soup for lunch, and a Japanese meal following an aperitif for dinner.
Today's maximum temperature here is 32.4 degrees C (90.3 degrees F).
Sunday, August 3, 2014
Got up at seven-thirty in the morning. Ate a piece of bread for breakfast, a Japanese meal for lunch, and a Japanese meal for dinner.
Today's maximum temperature here is 28.7 degrees C (83.7 degrees F).
Monday, August 4, 2014
Got up at seven-thirty in the morning. Ate a piece of bread for breakfast, a Japanese meal for lunch, and a dish of Italian pasta for dinner.
In light of the deep-rootedness of conflicts originating in religion and ethnic differences, territorial issues, and the increasing toll of victims, there is no outlandish way to resolve them in the Middle East expeditiously. Although a coming drain on limited natural resources will change the situation of territorial issues somewhat, whether it will become better or worse, in the Middle East in some future time, the root causes of conflicts won't change. For a short period of time, only the peace mediation efforts should be realistic and practical. For a middle to long period of time, it's my belief that more active interventions of the United Nations in conflicts there while improving its neutrality continuously to deepen its trust in all the countries in the world and enhance its military forces thoroughly to gain the ability to administer should be the proper path. As written previously, cosmopolitanism is my favorite.
It's cloudy. Today's maximum temperature here is 29.9 degrees C (85.8 degrees F).
Tuesday, August 5, 2014
Got up at seven forty-five in the morning. Ate a piece of bread for breakfast, a Japanese meal for lunch, and a Japanese meal for dinner.
Today's maximum temperature here is 30.6 degrees C (87.1 degrees F). Temperature above 30 degrees C during the wet season caused mild inflammation around only a few wrinkles on both my front elbow skins about two weeks ago. Fortunately, the root cause of this symptom wasn't inflation of the elbow joints due to aging. It's just the heat rash. Indeed, summer in Japan is too humid. It is still not necessary for me to take glucosamine supplements daily for my joint health. Because this rainy season ended about ten days ago and my elbow skins are frequently washed with soap, the heat rash has already been cured completely. Temperatures above 30 degrees C during midsummer are now drier than the rainy season doesn't cause any skin problems. Currently, taking plenty of water for the purpose of preventing dehydration is a point to be paid attention to.
Wednesday, August 6, 2014
Got up at seven-thirty in the morning. Ate a piece of bread for breakfast, a Japanese meal for lunch, and a Japanese meal for dinner.
The US president who authorized the atomic bombings on both Hiroshima and Nagasaki in 1945 passed away about 42 years ago. The last of the crews of the US bomber Enola Gay that dropped the first atomic bomb 69 years ago today passed away recently. However, not a few people who were exposed to radiation near the bombed areas in those days are still living.
Today's maximum temperature here is 31.2 degrees C (88.2 degrees F).
Thursday, August 7, 2014
Got up at seven-thirty in the morning. Ate a piece of bread for breakfast, a Japanese meal for lunch, and a Japanese meal for dinner.
Although all the wars of conquests should be harshly criticized at the present time, defensive wars can't be in a realistic manner. Even in an ideal world state where cosmopolitanism is realized in the future, the necessity for the crackdown on criminal organizations will remain for the purpose of maintenance of public order.
With the intention of maintaining the public order, the weapons are always necessary. The weapons may be considered to be necessary evils. However, nuclear weapons such as the atomic bomb, the thermonuclear bomb, etc. aren't necessary because of their too strong destructiveness and harmfulness. The use of a modern nuclear weapon always claims a large number of casualties among civilians. Although every type of bombing in a city risks the innocent lives of civilians, the utmost efforts to minimize civilian casualties have to be made. Considering the factor in the civilians' subsequent exposure to radiation from the scattered radioactive materials, the use of the so-called tactical nuclear weapons can't be justified even if direct casualties among civilians can be avoided.
For an ordinary country, warfare is to be avoided while being armed appropriately.
Today's maximum temperature here is 32.5 degrees C (90.5 degrees F).
Friday, August 8, 2014
Got up at seven forty-five in the morning. Ate a piece of bread for breakfast, a Japanese meal for lunch, and a Japanese meal for dinner.
It's a rainy day. The season's 11th typhoon is approaching West Japan. Today's maximum temperature here is 25.2 degrees C (77.4 degrees F).
Saturday, August 9, 2014
Got up at seven forty-five in the morning. Ate a piece of bread for breakfast. Went out shopping at a grocery store this morning. Ate a Japanese meal for lunch, and a Japanese meal for dinner.
Sunday, August 10, 2014
Got up at seven-thirty in the morning. Ate a piece of bread for breakfast, a Japanese meal for lunch, and a Japanese meal for dinner.
It's a rainy day. Today's maximum temperature here is 24.5 degrees C (76.1 degrees F).
Monday, August 11, 2014
Got up at seven-thirty in the morning. Ate a piece of bread for breakfast, a Japanese meal for lunch, and a dish of Italian pasta for dinner.
Today's maximum temperature here is 28.1 degrees C (82.6 degrees F).
Tuesday, August 12, 2014
Got up at seven forty-five in the morning. Ate a piece of bread for breakfast, a Japanese meal for lunch, and a Japanese meal for dinner.
American actor Mr. Robin Williams passed away in an apparent or suspected suicide at the age of 63.
It's still rainy. After the season's 11th typhoon that had brought record-breaking heavy rain in West Japan for the last few days had blown over, there was a sudden drop in temperature because of a front passing by here, instead of hot weather with a blue sky accompanying the subsequent extension of a high-pressure system. Today's maximum temperature here is 22.2 degrees C (72.0 degrees F). The humidity here is high but it isn't uncomfortable.
Wednesday, August 13, 2014
Got up at seven-thirty in the morning. Ate a piece of bread for breakfast, a Japanese meal for lunch, and a Japanese meal for dinner.
Today's maximum temperature here is 28.5 degrees C (83.3 degrees F).
Thursday, August 14, 2014
Got up at seven-thirty in the morning. Ate a piece of bread for breakfast, a Japanese meal for lunch, and a Japanese meal for dinner.
Today's maximum temperature here is 23.0 degrees C (73.4 degrees F).
Friday, August 15, 2014
Got up at seven forty-five in the morning. Ate a piece of bread for breakfast, a bowl of Japanese noodle soup for lunch, and a Japanese meal for dinner.
Historically speaking, the leaders and those close to them of a defeated nation were accused of being responsible for a war in general. Nowadays, there is a faint indication that some of the leaders of a victory nation who committed a culpable act during a war may also be accused by fair means, but that's far from good enough. The furtherance of cosmopolitanism should promote this right trend. It seems that the attempts to restore the honor of the former leaders of a defeated nation without showing any forward-facing and constructive attitude are out of step with the current of the times.
Today's maximum temperature here is 28.5 degrees C (83.3 degrees F).
Saturday, August 16, 2014
Got up at seven forty-five in the morning. Ate a piece of bread for breakfast. Went out shopping at a grocery store this morning. Ate a Japanese meal for lunch, and a Japanese meal for dinner.
It's a rainy day. Today's maximum temperature here is 27.2 degrees C (80.1 degrees F).
Sunday, August 17, 2014
Got up at seven forty-five in the morning. Ate a piece of bread for breakfast, a Japanese meal for lunch, and a Japanese meal for dinner.
Today's maximum temperature here is 26.0 degrees C (78.8 degrees F). Surprisingly, a front extending from east to west of Japan has been stationary for a week since the last typhoon left, so it's still raining here. The rain came down in torrents and caused flooding in the Kinki and Hokuriku regions for the last few days. It's cold in winter, it's very hot in early summer and it rains very heavily in mid-summer. At last, the effect of El Nino on Japan's climate might be growing. The recent changes in the Earth's climate due to the buildup of greenhouse gases are making it difficult to predict climate fluctuation accurately.
Monday, August 18, 2014
Got up at seven forty-five in the morning. Ate a piece of bread for breakfast, a Japanese meal for lunch, and a Japanese meal for dinner.
A sultry day of mid-summer has returned. Today's maximum temperature here is 31.6 degrees C (88.8 degrees F).
Tuesday, August 19, 2014
Got up at seven-fifteen in the morning. Ate a piece of bread for breakfast, a Japanese meal for lunch, and a Japanese meal for dinner.
Today's maximum temperature here is 29.4 degrees C (84.9 degrees F).
Wednesday, August 20, 2014
Got up at seven forty-five in the morning. Ate a piece of bread for breakfast, a Japanese meal for lunch, and a dish of Italian pasta for dinner.
The lingering heat is still severe. Today's maximum temperature here is 31.1 degrees C (88.0 degrees F). The very heavy rain caused serious damage from several debris flows triggered by the landslides in Hiroshima.
Thursday, August 21, 2014
Got up at seven-thirty in the morning. Ate a piece of bread for breakfast, a Japanese meal for lunch, and a Japanese meal for dinner.
The lingering heat is still severe. Today's maximum temperature here is 31.2 degrees C (88.2 degrees F).
Friday, August 22, 2014
Got up at seven-fifteen in the morning. Ate a piece of bread for breakfast, a Japanese meal for lunch, and a Japanese meal for dinner.
The lingering heat is still severe. Today's maximum temperature here is 31.8 degrees C (89.2 degrees F).
Saturday, August 23, 2014
Got up at seven forty-five in the morning. Ate a piece of bread for breakfast. Went out shopping at a grocery store this morning. Ate a Japanese meal for lunch, and a Japanese meal for dinner. It's cloudy.
Sunday, August 24, 2014
Got up at seven forty-five in the morning. Ate a piece of bread for breakfast, a Japanese meal for lunch, and a dish of Italian pasta for dinner. The heat has moderated somewhat.
Monday, August 25, 2014
Got up at seven forty-five in the morning. Ate a piece of bread for breakfast, a Japanese meal for lunch, and a Japanese meal for dinner.
A bullet from a gun passes while describing a parabola near the surface of the earth because of the presence of its gravity. However, it's designed to go straight approximately at close range to get a target. A modern gun has spiral grooves in the inner surface of its barrel in order to improve the ability to hold a straight line by means of forcing a bullet to spin on its axis oriented to the direction of shooting so that moments of inertia of it about any other axes increase. A modern bullet has a streamlined shape to reduce air resistance so that the main source to prevent its movement in a straight line is relieved. The gyroscopic device, which applies the same physical law, is usually utilized to maintain the equilibrium of a missile, aircraft, artificial satellite, and so on. Until the development of this sort of technology, the ability to hold a straight line of either a bullet or a rocket had been really unreliable. Long ago a bullet from a gun, the barrel of which wasn't rifled, bent undesirably and irregularly in the air, which is a fluid. The degree of bending of a bullet wasn't small because the speed of it and air drag on it were quite high. Hitting the bull's eye every time was truly a superhuman effort those days.
On the other hand, in a ball game, it seems that the technique of making a ball spin for the purpose of stabilizing its movement is rare. This is because this technique is difficult or isn't useful to win a ball game. This sort of spinning ball may be found in a long passing of a uniquely shaped ball in rugby and American football, intended to be received easily by a teammate. Instead, athletes often pit their skills in a ball game by making a ball spin quickly on its axis perpendicular to the direction of travel and forming the difference in atmospheric pressure between one side and the opposite side of a ball in order to describe a large curve through the air. There are many examples of this sort. A quick topspin causes higher atmospheric pressure around the upper part of a ball and lower pressure around the lower part and subsequently leads a ball to bend down, and a quick sidespin causes higher atmospheric pressure around one side of a ball and lower pressure around the opposite side and subsequently leads a ball to bend to the left or right depending on the spin direction. Indeed, the direction and the degree of its bending can be controllable by adjusting the direction and the speed of spin. So, a top athlete can have fine ball control even when it's bent. There are other types of technical controls of a ball. In contrast to the above-mentioned technique, the spinning of a ball can be suppressed as tightly as possible in order to make its movement unstable intentionally. It's just like a bullet without spin. In this case, a ball tends to travel forward rather slowly constrained by the difficulty of a hard-hitting, while bending to a direction slightly but rapidly and sharply trigged by a faint change in rotation, angle, or other conditions in the air, which can cause an imbalance of the air drag on the front of a ball between a part and the other part, in a rather unpredictable manner. The bending of a non-spinning ball is rather unpredictable because the exact direction and degree of it aren't well controllable. A (non-spinning) knuckleball and a (slightly-topspinning) splitter of baseball, a floater serve of volleyball, and a non-spinning shoot of soccer are examples of this sort. Even for a top athlete, it's difficult to have precise control of a non-spinning ball though the bend may be smaller.
BTW, to be honest, the difficulty in hitting a knuckleball, which travels slowly, isn't recognizable via the TV screen. Indeed, it's a mysterious ball. On the other hand, the difficulty in receiving a floater serve of volleyball and a non-spinning shot of soccer can be understood rather easily via the TV screen because their changes in moving are larger. Because of the largeness of both a volleyball and a soccer ball in size compared to a baseball, the air drag and the imbalance that either of these large balls receives in the air are stronger than what a baseball receives for a given speed. If the speed of a knuckleball can become closer to that of a fastball than what it is, like a splitter which is also called a split-fingered-fastball and drops down rather controllably, it may get out of the experimental stage. However, it seems that a fast knuckleball is very difficult to throw. Even if a pitcher were capable of throwing a fast knuckleball, it would have led to the other problem that it's also difficult for a catcher to receive it reliably. Therefore, unlike volleyball and soccer, such an unpredictably moving ball isn't practical for baseball.
Tuesday, August 26, 2014
Got up at eight o'clock in the morning. Ate a piece of bread for breakfast, a Japanese meal for lunch, and a Japanese meal for dinner.
In classical physics, spin means just a rotational motion of a matter. On the other hand, in quantum physics, spin is one of the basic physical quantities of subatomic particles or nuclei. Although spin was first introduced as a rotational motion of an orbiting election in an atomic model in 1925, spin in quantum physics doesn't necessarily mean so. It can justifiably be mentioned that subatomic particles don't rotate classic mechanically. Unlike the classical rotational motion, the spin is rather defined as the intrinsic property of a quantum, such as charge, mass, and so on. The subatomic particles with odd half-integral spin are called Fermion, which follows the Fermi-Dirac statistics, and those with integral spin are called Boson, which follows the Bose-Einstein statistics.
The necessity of a deeper understanding of the physical meaning of spin can't be denied. At the present time, however, it's difficult to obtain a deeper understanding of it because of the difficulties in the experimental verifications. In the theories that have been experimentally proven, such as quantum electrodynamics and the standard model combining quantum chromodynamics and the electroweak theory, elementary particles are treated as the points endowed with physical properties approximately, which is probably not true strictly speaking. A rigid sphere, a string, or something else may be able to rotate but a dimensionless point never rotates on its axis. As a temporary measure, the semi-classical idea of the rotation of an elementary particle on its axis, which is a quantum obeying the uncertainty principle, may be left forgotten harmlessly, and a deeper understanding of intrinsic spin may be left open until the future discovery of a breakthrough in either methodology or technology that allows us to reveal its deeper insights. If necessary, it's convenient to state that subatomic particles do rotate quantum mechanically.
Wednesday, August 27, 2014
Got up at seven forty-five in the morning. Ate a piece of bread for breakfast, a Japanese meal for lunch, and a Japanese meal for dinner.
As well known, Maxwell's equations thoroughly summarize the classical views of the properties of the electromagnetic fields. One of four Maxwell's equations rot H = dD/dt + J describes that the changing in electric fields produces magnetic fields and also describes the circulating of electric currents, in other words, the rotary motion of a charged particle such as an electron in an axis, produces the magnetic fields.
The alignment tendency of the magnetic moments in a solid state material that is proportional to the vector sums of the orbital angular moments and spin angular momentums of electrons orbiting the nucleus, those of protons and neutrons moving within the nucleus of its constituent atoms, and those of free electrons traveling through it characterize its magnetism. Whether electrons, protons, and neutrons are really spinning, vibrating, or not, the intrinsic spin of these subatomic particles produces the magnetic field certainly.
Thursday, August 28, 2014
Got up at seven-thirty in the morning. Ate a piece of bread for breakfast, a Japanese meal for lunch, and a Japanese meal for dinner.
My opinion on the rights and wrongs of preparing with the manuals will be described briefly today and tomorrow. In the beginning, coming straight to the point, the preparation of the manuals is beneficial in an organization, especially, in an organization where prompt actions may be desirable in a case that needs it. The advantages of preparing with the manuals are the promptness for actions, the effectiveness and fairness in personnel training, the permeation of systemization, and so on.
Friday, August 29, 2014
Got up at seven forty-five in the morning. Ate a piece of bread for breakfast, a Japanese meal for lunch, and a Japanese meal for dinner.
There is no rose without a thorn. Preparing with the manuals has its accompanying disadvantages but these are surmountable. Its disadvantages may be the inflexibility to multiple situations, the sluggishness of solving a new problem, the fragility against a contingency, and so on. The possible inflexibility to multiple situations is manageable if the manual is wisely designed to include some flexible choices. The people on the executive ladder in an organization should be educated to overcome two other disadvantages. The assignment of management staff to responsibilities for revising the manuals at regular intervals while maintaining clearness and conciseness for the purpose of expecting the various possible problems in advance, bringing some measures taken to fix them in the manual and then strengthening an organization by adjusting to the improved environments should help deal with the sluggishness. A continuous practice of such efforts should also help educate the members of the management to be ready for a foreseen event promptly.
Saturday, August 30, 2014
Got up at seven forty-five in the morning. Ate a piece of bread for breakfast. Went out shopping at a grocery store this morning. Ate a bowl of Japanese noodle soup for lunch, and a Japanese meal for dinner.
Sunday, August 31, 2014
Got up at seven forty-five in the morning. Ate a piece of bread for breakfast, a Japanese meal for lunch, and a Japanese meal for dinner.
