"Arise"
Last night I was almost hit by a taxi. So, I went back home and took a meal and watched TV to find that I got a little cold....though it is all right now...
SECTION I: Japan's History in Theory
Let’s develop a little more the theory I presented yesterday.
I wrote: If you monitor any non-nonsense incident, you have to check its trend referring to the above three phases: a stable growth, a plateau, and a sharp or drastic change.
For example, the Japanese history truly followed this pattern.
A Stable Growth: Until the early 18th century when the capital of samurai Japan Edo came to have one million residents, the Japanese society had steadily developed with agriculture, handicraft manufacturing, and culture and education cultivated and widely applied to people’s life, including farmers and samurais .
A Plateau: Then until the middle of the 19th century when Western powers started to forcibly request Japan to open its door, the Japanese society had showed almost no significant change while people were peacefully living in a feudalistic status system governed by the samurai class.
A Sharp Change: Since traditional samurai regime was replaced, through a series of civil wars, with a modern government controlled by samurai-converted bureaucrats in 1868, the Empire of Japan modernized itself by fully leveraging Western technologies and systems while its capital Tokyo (formerly Edo) was further expanded.
A Catastrophe: At the end of WWII, Tokyo was largely devastated by large-scale air raids by the U.S. military and the Empire of Japan surrendered to the Allied Forces in 1945.
Then a new era based on a new social and political paradigm began in Japan. This era is characterized by the Japanese Constitution being oriented to a Christian ideal, though so implicitly.
SECTION II: CRUDE OIL PRICES
Let’s confirm the theory in the trend of crude oil prices, since the argument focused on real demands and money games was so heated before September 2008.
(Click to enlarge.)You have to change a range or a magnitude in measurement sometimes and adjust a focused period, since one figure can include two or more eras.
(Click to enlarge.)A figure must be usually filtered through some mathematical operations in order to grasp a trend of a meaningful factor. So, differentiation is applied to data.
But, sometimes it actually shows a result of differentiation, as it is. In that case, integration is rather needed to see a trend of an associated phenomena.
In short, a graph can show a phenomena controlled by a tangible factor or otherwise by an intangible (or imaginary) factor which may become tangible in a "new era," as illustrated in the form of G(x) in the following figure.
(Click to enlarge as the figure shows two eras.)And, stability and growth can be repeated and terminated in any order until it starts to change decisively.
Finally, there are two key points:
(1) Applicable Differential Equations such as Y = dF(x)/dx
(2) A New Domain as symbolized by Y = F(x) + G(x)
I may delve into them later.
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Ah, Ichiro, a Japanese major-league baseball hero, once said that it was like a scene of a movie when he was first welcomed by a big audience in America.
But, now everybody knows that A-Rod took drugs when he played in Texas.
http://voices.washingtonpost.com/baseball-insider/2009/02/alex_rodriguez_confirms_steroi.html?hpid=topnews
Yet, your life can be a scene of a movie, too.
So, watch that Chinese TV building so ghostly burning like a towering inferno, as I checked the volcano just 100 miles away from Tokyo.
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/02/10/world/asia/10beijing.html?ref=world
If Tokyo should be hit by a great earthquake or engulfed by hot ashes from erupting Mt. Fuji, there would be such buildings in and around Tokyo whose number can be large.
That is why I took a trip last Sunday, though tomorrow is a national holiday in Japan, too.
Do not catch a cold and watch a taxi curving like a baseball even on a pedestrians' crossing!
(The concept of music might be very different for some people…, though I cannot understand these French words……if they were French at all……Est-il vraiment français?
http://dvweb.mpf.arcstarmusic.com/mdb_dst2/appendix4/K3/cKFX3_1741407.asx
Source: http://mysound.jp/music/detail/tUW4Y/)
Mar 2:10 But that ye may know that the Son of man hath power on earth to forgive sins, (he saith to the sick of the palsy,)
Mar 2:11 I say unto thee, Arise, and take up thy bed, and go thy way into thine house.