"To Sunny

...................................AL The AL

I will be back on Monday night

Since I'm gonna get a ticket to ride."





Mar 3:29 But he that shall blaspheme against the Holy Ghost hath never forgiveness, but is in danger of eternal damnation.

"Because of the Bridegroom's Voice"

(Japanese Holy Spring)



"Because of the Bridegroom's Voice"


(In preparation)



When she was young, she was reporting high-school baseball matches here and there in local regions of Japan.

Now, she is a reporter in charge of formally and informally interviewing executive officials of the Japanese Government in Tokyo.

One night, she visited a home of one incumbent high-ranking official of the Japanese Government in Tokyo.

The official told her that his former subordinate now working in a diplomatic facility of the Japanese Government in the U.S. had sent him an interesting letter.

An old Japanese man died by himself in a hotel in America due to a fatal disease after having enjoyed an MLB game.

The old man, despite serious illness, had flown from Japan to America to see a Major League Baseball game, since he had wanted to see once at least Ichiro of the Mariners actually playing in an American ball park.

So, the long candidate for death flew to the U.S., watched Ichiro in a ball park, and went back to the hotel to die alone.

A Japanese bureaucrat stationed in the American city confirmed the identity of the old man and carried out necessary official arrangement to close the case.

Yet, the bureaucrat wrote about the incident to his former boss in Tokyo. And, the boss showed the letter to the female reporter one night at his home.

The most striking part of the letter is that Ichiro having heard of the unfortunate old man, a complete stranger to the baseball star, asked a Japanese diplomatic office in the city to search his bereaved family so as to extend his condolence personally, which was very smoothly carried out, for one of the bereaved families was also a government bureaucrat of Japan known to the bureaucrat who had first taken care of the deceased baseball fan after his death in the hotel.

That is why the Japanese national team won the World Baseball Classic recently held in America to decide what country is the number one in terms of teamwork in baseball.

It is so, since Ichiro of the Mariners drastically put an end to the extended game in the final by delivering a hit and scoring two runs against the Korean national team.

(Source: http://blog.kajika.net/ )

Yesterday, the first female professional baseball player in Japan made her debut taking a strike out against, of course, a male professional baseball player with knuckle balls and fastballs at about 60 miles per hour, though it is a local league in western Japan.



(Go slow, John; go slow! Let it really down at "down!" ...John, get back home out of New York.

Quant à vous, vous êtes bien, ma fille, presque.

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Joh 3:28 Ye yourselves bear me witness, that I said, I am not the Christ, but that I am sent before him.

Joh 3:29 He that hath the bride is the bridegroom: but the friend of the bridegroom, which standeth and heareth him, rejoiceth greatly because of the bridegroom's voice: this my joy therefore is fulfilled.

"No Man Can Enter"

(Early Spring Sky)
(Winter Sky around Tokyo)


"No Man Can Enter"


Q: What is the situation here and there?

A: No special situations to those who eat full and pursue next entertainment as usual.

Q: Isn't it the greatest crisis of the century?

A: No special crisis to those who are living rich life today (and probably until their death) and do not mind whatever will happen after their death with huge money.

Q: Are they truly wise and clever?

A: They can be as much as the Devil is.

Q: Will there be the Last Judgment or the Last Inquest?

A: Apart from the Doomsday, a poor man will be eventually in the arm of Abraham in Heaven; and a rich man will finally be chagrined in front of the bottomless crevasse between Heaven and the hell he has helped get reinforced during his life time on the earth.

Q: Does difference in one's religion count?

A: No. It is because Abraham was there even before the establishment of Judaism, Christianity, or Islam.



APPENDIX.

The Indian sub-continent hit the Asian Continent 40 million years ago, as it had been drifting toward the north over the Indian Ocean at the speed of 10cm (4 inches) per year.

However, this incident was 25 million years after the extinction of dinosaurs on the earth.

Anyway, the collision of the Indian sub-continent with the Asian Continent triggered the mountain-building activities which have resulted in the 8,000-meter high Himalayas of today.

Accordingly, no dinosaurs ever walked on the Himalayas.

Today, the Indian sub-continent is still moving toward the north at the speed of 5cm per year, pushing up the whole Himalayas and causing great earthquakes in India, China, Pakistan, Afghanistan, Iran, and so on.

If it took 40 million years to create 8,848-meter Mt. Everest, the highest mountain on the earth has been continuously raised at the pace of 0.02 cm per year.

So, 2000 years ago, Mt. Everest was 44cm (a foot and a half) lower than it is today.

If mankind wants to accumulate wealth on the earth, it must follow suit of Mt. Everest; then mankind might be able to survive 40 million more years.

(Click to enlarge.)

Even human economic activities, such as official money making, resemble the nature's mountain making movement, though in a 40 million-year span!

In addition, this resemblance is here first indicated in the history of economics by EEE Reporter with a little help from my holy friend Angel.



(Je crains que vous ne pourriez pas me respecter.

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Mar 3:25 And if a house be divided against itself, that house cannot stand.

Mar 3:26 And if Satan rise up against himself, and be divided, he cannot stand, but hath an end.

Mar 3:27 No man can enter into a strong man's house, and spoil his goods, except he will first bind the strong man; and then he will spoil his house.

"Justified by Faith"

(Sakura - cherry blossom trees - around Tokyo)


"Justified by Faith"

(All Subprime Loan-Embedded Instruments Could be Tracked)



There is a big question in their explanation about why they could not stop the total tsunami effect of subprime-loan default in payment.

They said that any single subprime loan contract was divided, securitized, and distributed into various financial instruments to be sold in the global money market. Accordingly, they claimed that they could not track where any single fraction of a subprime loan contract is buried or left forgotten in this path of distribution and transaction from Wall Street.

However, Wall Street businesses could use tens of thousands of powerful computers equipped with hundreds of efficient application programs with financial capability to contract any first-rate IT companies for tracking any fraction of a subprime loan contract in this path of distribution and transaction.

Pick up any subprime-loan applied house on any town, then a Wall Street company must be able to track every paper work and confirm how and where its pieces of loan contract were securitized and distributed all over the world. It is because such paper work on financial instruments is done electronically through computers and networks.

It is all because tracking data is a basic function of a computer.

*** *** *** ***


The basic skill to manipulate data in a computer is related to how to connect pieces of data to combine all of them to build one meaningful information, such as a document file, a picture file, or an audio file.

It is so, since one whole file cannot be stored in a computer memory space in a contiguous manner; it has to be divided into many pieces and placed in discrete locations numbered with sometimes random addresses.

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The Linked List

Now that you understand basic pointer concepts, you may be asking yourself, "What is this linked list thing?" Well, a linked list is a dynamic data structure consisting of records (called nodes) that hold data and are "'linked" to each other by a method determined by the programmer. The most common linking method is through pointers (addresses), such that each record contains the address of the next node in the list in addition to the record's regular data. The first node in the list, called the head, is used as the list's key identifier. You must always keep track of the head of the list. Why? Because it is the starting point that will be used later to retrieve the information that you have stored in the list. Lose the head, and you have lost the entry point to the entire list, particularly in our implementation here of the singly linked list. A list expands and shrinks (hence dynamic data structure) as data is added and deleted, allowing the list to accommodate an arbitrary number of elements. Compare this concept to the allocation of an array, which remains the same size during its lifetime. Figure 1.1 shows a visual example of a singly linked list, which we will be discussing throughout this article.


http://www.gamedev.net/reference/articles/article1072.asp
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Each piece of data must be linked to form a whole file. For this purpose in a bit field of a piece of data, link information is written.

So, a piece of data has two types of location information: its own address in a memory space and an address of another piece of data to be connected to.

Naturally, a file itself must have two types of location information: its own address in a storage system or a disk space and an address of another file to be connected to.

So, a storage system or a disk must have two types of location information: its own address in a computer system and an address of another device system to be connected to.

Finally, a computer system must have two types of location information: its own address in a network system and an address of another computer system to be connected to.

Additionally, a network system must have two types of location information: its own address in a global IT network, including the Internet, and an address of another network system to be connected to.

Yes, it is a kind of fractal structure.

Accordingly, I recommend computer students in the world to first study the idea of a fractal that is generally "a rough or fragmented geometric shape that can be split into parts, each of which is (at least approximately) a reduced-size copy of the whole."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fractal

*** *** *** ***

Now, it is reported that three million houses were evacuated in the U.S. in 2008 due to a trouble of paying back a loan.

However, if the U.S. Government had provided $1000 per month to each house owner on any contractual base, all of them might have been able to retain their houses.

Then, the total tsunami catastrophe must have been prevented with the federal costs of only $36 billion per year being invested into three million subprime-loan applied houses.

What I mean is that there must have been some experts on Wall Street who could clearly foresee that three million houses would be evacuated in 2008 due to a trouble of paying back a loan while they could identify each house at stake before 2008.

It is so since there were so many computers and application programs in addition to high-speed or broadband Internet connections on Wall Street.



(Vous ne devez pas me laisser descendre.

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Rom 3:26 To declare, I say, at this time his righteousness: that he might be just, and the justifier of him which believeth in Jesus.

Rom 3:27 Where is boasting then? It is excluded. By what law? of works? Nay: but by the law of faith.

Rom 3:28 Therefore we conclude that a man is justified by faith without the deeds of the law.

"The LORD shall be thy confidence"

(Around Tokyo, early spring and unknown, the photos all taken by EEE Reporter)


"The LORD shall be thy confidence"


(8,021 U.S. Bachelor's Degrees in Computer Science in 2007)


Yes, I watched TV until the bottom of the ninth inning of the Japan vs. Korea match in the World Baseball Classic being broadcast from Los Angeles over the Pacific Ocean.

Twenty minutes later or so, when I tried to check the outcome of the big event for almost all of the Japanese people, I found it was the bottom of the 10th inning. And, finally the Japanese national baseball team took on the Korean national team 5-3 owing to Ichiro’s drastic hit in the top of the 10th inning.

And, this morning, I have found that even The Washington Post is favorably-disposed toward Japan, probably because young Japanese baseball players, including MVP pitcher Matsuzaka, were showing happily big smiles unlike samurai-like Nomo, a retired Japanese MLB hero.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/03/24/AR2009032400374.html?wprss=rss_sports/wires

*** *** *** ***

Who were those software engineers that contributed to business expansion on Wall Street until September 2008?

If Wall Street workers and billionaires had simply relied on a pen and paper, a pocket calculator and note books, IBM mainframe computers and DEC mini-computers only manipulated by specialists, or pre-Windows-era personal computers equipped with 8-bit or 16-bit processors, how could they have handled, even before September 2008, billions of dollars being divided and multiplied tens of hundreds times through thousands of combination with other financial items within, say, a few minutes before the Tokyo Market, the London Market, or the New York Stock Exchange was opened for the day.

So, let’s review one article on this issue written in September 2008.

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Wall Street's collapse may be computer science's gain
From IT to hedge funds and back again

By Patrick Thibodeau and Todd R. Weiss

September 26, 2008 (Computerworld) The collapse of Wall Street may help make computer science and IT careers attractive to students who abandoned these fields in droves after the pop of the last big bubble, the dot-com bust of 2001.
…
After the dot-com bust, computer science enrollments began declining. The number of bachelor's degrees in computer science awarded at 170 Ph.D.-granting institutions reached a low of 8,021 in 2007, down from 14,185 in the 2003-2004 academic year, according to the Computing Research Association (CRA) in Washington.
…
The dot-com era was a wonderful time to be young, computer-savvy and in search of stock-option riches. Wall Street poured billions of dollars into hundreds of companies that were making little or no money. For instance, Webvan Group Inc., a grocery delivery firm in Foster City, Calif., that was founded in 1997, had so much money that it bought a rival, HomeGrocer, in 2000 for $1.2 billion in stock. Webvan ended in Chapter 11 bankruptcy in 2001.
…
According to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, IT jobs are among the fastest growing. On the top of the bureau's list of fast-growing career areas is network systems and data communications analysts, which it is forecasting will grow from 262,000 jobs in 2006 to 402,000 jobs by 2008, a 53% increase. Computer software engineers, applications, is expected to increase from 507,000 to 733,000 or 45%; while computer scientists and database administrators will rise from 542,000 to 742,000, a 37% increase.

Randal Bryant, dean of the School of Computer Science at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh, said his school saw student applications drop to a low of 1,700 from a peak of 3,200 in 2001 at the end of the dot-com boom.

But the situation has been turning around in the past few years, with 2,300 applications coming in last year, he said.

Bryant said he expects that the troubles on Wall Street will likely influence some students to switch majors in the coming months from business to other fields, including computer science.
…

http://www.computerworld.com/action/article.do?command=viewArticleBasic&taxonomyName=Careers&articleId=9115616&taxonomyId=10&pageNumber=2
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Put simply, students who have any ability to learn and master any fraction of the computer technology wanted easy money to learn business and work on Wall Street; and thus they avoided learning true computer science and technical fundamentals.

They were at best making application programs for financial market use or usually amending and operating existing software and computer systems.

But, as Wall Street businesses have been firing tens of thousands computer-related and telecommunications-related jobs, students are now thinking about something not directly linked with easy and big money on Wall Street; and thus young people on campus are now starting to read some non-nonsense technical text books.

If you meet any young computer experts, I do really recommend you to ask them:
"What part of Windows OS have you designed and coded?"

Most of them have no ability to code any non-nonsense part of Windows OS while earning big money on Wall Street.

So, I have to say that those computer and Internet experts having worked on Wall Street in this decade are also responsible for this "Internet Age's Great Recession."

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By the way, I know every 2008 Presidential candidate received money from Wall Street during their campaign days.

Yet, nobody has ever pointed to the fact, identifying it as an unlawful act in light of the spirit of the American Constitution.

But, if any law enforcement authority indicted President Mr. Barack Obama, it is an ultimatum for Mr. Obama's glorious career, no matter if Mrs. Clinton and Mr. McCain had taken more from Wall Street.

This is a game ultimately governed by such a rule; if abruptly applied or condemned even after a long unspoken consensus by all the parties to neglect their mutual infringement, it is over for the one so named judicially and constitutionally.

It is so since judicial and constitutional authority is more important than a long unspoken consensus by all the parties to neglect their mutual infringement.




(La foi est plus que d'un sentiment que vous devez savoir sur moi, aussi, mon cher.

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Pro 3:23 Then shalt thou walk in thy way safely, and thy foot shall not stumble.

Pro 3:24 When thou liest down, thou shalt not be afraid: yea, thou shalt lie down, and thy sleep shall be sweet.

Pro 3:25 Be not afraid of sudden fear, neither of the desolation of the wicked, when it cometh.

Pro 3:26 For the LORD shall be thy confidence, and shall keep thy foot from being taken.

"Be Given Him from Heaven"

(This morning around Tokyo)



"Be Given Him from Heaven"


(Radio Recession, TV Recession, and Internet Recession)


First of all the current economic crisis is the first in the history or since the world entered the full Internet age in 1995.

For an example, the 1929 and 1930's Great Depression was the first in the history or since the world had entered the full radio age with the Titanic tragedy in 1912.

For another example, the 1970's oil shock recession was the first in the history or since the world had entered the full TV age with the global success of Sony in preceding years.

(Click to enlarge.)

The "Radio-Age's" Great Depression, between 1929 and 1945, is even symbolized by the fact that the Empire of Japan radioed the encrypted confidential message from Tokyo to its Embassy in Washington D.C. which was expected to be relayed to the U.S. Government very timely for declaring war on the U.S.

The "TV-Age's" Great Recession in 1970's is symbolized by the first Summit Meeting held at Rambouillet, France, in 1975 as joined by Japan, the U.S., France, West Germany, the U.K., and Italy where the main participant was apparently Japan as a rising exporter of electronic products, such as TVs and semiconductors, to the world, including Arab oil producing countries.

Now, this "Internet-Age's" Great Economic Crisis is symbolized by ever increasing Internet users in developing countries, such as China, India, Taiwan, Korea, and other Asian nations, including the Islamic countries.

(Click to enlarge.)



(To be continued...)




(Quelqu'un comme quelqu'un était là sur le coup.

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Joh 3:24 For John was not yet cast into prison.

Joh 3:25 Then there arose a question between some of John's disciples and the Jews about purifying.

Joh 3:26 And they came unto John, and said unto him, Rabbi, he that was with thee beyond Jordan, to whom thou barest witness, behold, the same baptizeth, and all men come to him.

Joh 3:27 John answered and said, A man can receive nothing, except it be given him from heaven.

"Cast out Satan"

(One Very Long Shinaknsen Train around Tokyo)



"Cast out Satan"


As this is a Monday after three consecutive holidays for most of Japanese workers since last Friday, it might be a long night.

*** *** *** ***

The most important argument on the current global economic crisis since 2008 September's Wall Street Debacle is why and how they could not stop the Great Depression in 1929 and 1930's, since advanced knowledge and expertise can be only developed through inheritance of past lessons learnt.

There must have been some critical signs and indications in the U.S. economy in 1920's. There must have been at least a few decisive unusual trends in business and finance or in the consumer market.

I myself discussed these matters in this blog prior to the 2008 September's Wall Street Debacle. Though it is still hard to assess how much I contributed with those writings to suppressing damages actually brought by the Wall Street Debacle, I think it is still necessary for me to focus on the economic side of human activities on the earth to further contain the future economic disaster, if so predicted in any small probability.

One key factor to driving the U.S. economy as well as the global economy is the Internet power supported by computer and telecommunications technologies. So, I like to review these aspects of the world prior to the 2008 September's Wall Street Debacle:


From 2003 to 2008, namely during the recent four years, the broadband use in America grew three times larger than in previous years as the following data provided by Lehman Brothers show.

(Click to enlarge.)
http://www.scribd.com/doc/2977408/Internet-Data-Book-April-2008

From a historical point of view, after the launch of the Iraqi War by President Mr. George W. Bush in 2003, the mood in the U.S. society apparently changed; the shock of the 9/11 Terror became the thing of the past and the business and venture mind captured most of American citizens like in the stock-market boom in late 1990's. And the ever powered up Internet was there.

In summary, they could then manipulate their one-billion-dollar embedded data in various ways of, for example, dividing and multiplying tens of hundreds times through thousand types of combination with other data items in a very short period of time. And the broadband transmission path allowed them to quickly and smoothly exchange their own Tera-byte data with others' in trade.

What is more, the War on Terror boosted the demand for high-tech information technology in various fields, including the national security industry. Accordingly, a huge amount of human resources and funds were invested in the IT sector like before the IT business downturn around 2001.

This enhanced IT capability was naturally applied to the global financial market and Wall Street businesses almost directly, though not for the sound and right risk management but mostly for earning ever increasing profits large enough to easily cover any possible financial risks calculated in computers.

The geared-up use of the Internet through broadband can be easily inferred from the general trend of the diffusion of the broadband Internet as shown in the above figure provided by Lehman Brothers.

But, Lehman Brothers also provides a figure that shows who the most popular search-engine providers are.

(Click to enlarge.)

These shares of the search-engine providers might look irrelevant to the IT boom on Wall Street in these days. However, it tells one specific characteristic of the IT world. It shows the inclination toward the most powerful party as if there were no room for accommodating a variety of methods and strategies in competition.

It is a world where a clearly recognized simple end requires the clearly and simply most advantageous means and tool. And, every player can easily judge relative merits among candidate tools even at his/her desk in office or at home.

It is a world where fortune of war is quickly decided and understood by any party.

This mentality must have prevailed on Wall Street, making workers there all simple minded in terms of their behaviors and strategies in making business or acquiring any type of fortune...


(to be continued...)


(Two pilots died early this morning at Narita Airport due to side-blow crash on landing being mightily attacked by strong gusts.

It was just like a few ribs of my umbrella were broken by a humble tempest wind yesterday...

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/7958367.stm )

That is why I once proposed a rocket booster to be equipped under the fuselage of a jet plane for blasting and heaving up the plane in an emergency such as a sudden descending onto the ground.)



Mar 3:23 And he called them unto him, and said unto them in parables, How can Satan cast out Satan?

* In a Humble Spring Tempest *

(Around this noon around Tokyo)


* In a Humble Spring Tempest *


(They say: a divorce rate is increasing in Iran; many Romanian children have been desperately left behind by mothers who go to work in Western Europe; and so many otherwise-school boys and girls are forced to work all day in cotton fields in India...)


In 1910's, poetry was undergoing renovation in the U.K. and the U.S. under the influence of "haiku," a Japanese style of short poem. Hence a poet depicted a scene in an underground railroad station in Paris:

In a Station of the Metro

Ezra Pound

The apparition of these faces in the crowd;
Petals on a wet, black bough.


Note: This poem is said to aim at catching a moment of the meeting of two inherently different items...at a tube station of Paris in the early 20th century...Oh, Come On!

"I am well pleased"

"I am well pleased"


Joh 3:20 For every one that doeth evil hateth the light, neither cometh to the light, lest his deeds should be reproved.

Joh 3:21 But he that doeth truth cometh to the light, that his deeds may be made manifest, that they are wrought in God.



CHAPTER I: JAPANESE OBAMAS

TETSU KATAYAMA
Katayama served the nation Japan as prime minister from the Socialist Party of Japan between 1947 and 1948.

It is said that he is the first Christian prime minister of Japan.

In the political turmoil after the Second World War and the intensified international environment between the U.S. and the U.S.S.R., the Japanese people overwhelmingly supported the first Christian and socialist prime minister of Japan, though Tetsu Katayama was a graduate from the Imperial University of Tokyo.

He died in 1978, the year that another Christian prime minister Masayoshi Ohira of the LDP assumed the premiership of Japan.


MASAYOSHI OHIRA
Ohiara was appointed 68th prime minister of Japan in December 1978. However, he died of a sudden and fatal disease in June 1980 during a heated campaign of a general election Prime Minister Ohira was bitterly forced to fight to secure his cabinet.

It is said that he is the second Christian prime minister of Japan.

It is also said that the third Christian prime minister of Japan is incumbent Prime Minister Mr. Taro Aso, though he is from a very rich family.


CHAPTER II: An Edgar Allen Poe’s Poem in 1831

To Helen

Edgar Allen Poe

Helen, thy beauty is to me
Like those Nicean barks of yore,
That gently, o’er a perfumed sea,
The weary, way-worn wanderer bore
To his own native shore.

On desperate seas long wont to roam,
Thy hyacinth hair, thy classic face,
Thy Naiad airs have brought me home
To the glory that was Greece,
And the grandeur that was Rome.

…

* * *

Note: Nicea is yet to be identified about its precise location. The hyacinth hair is said to be blackish purple hair. My impression is that something is there Hellenic and Germanic in the poem, but it is apparently Archaic Mediterranean...

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The spring has almost reached around Tokyo.

I actually observed cherry blossoms’ buds this morning.

One of them kindly delivered to me greeting.

It is so since I looked up there mostly as a token.



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Luk 3:21 Now when all the people were baptized, it came to pass, that Jesus also being baptized, and praying, the heaven was opened,

Luk 3:22 And the Holy Ghost descended in a bodily shape like a dove upon him, and a voice came from heaven, which said, Thou art my beloved Son; in thee I am well pleased.

Great is Buddha

Great is Buddha


Mr. Hayao Miyazaki, a Japanese animation producer, created an animation title "Porco Rosso" in 1992.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Porco_Rosso

The story extended around the Adriatic Sea gives pleasuring feeling, but it has an extraordinarily impressive scene where a myriad of fallen pilots on their planes of the WWI era are ascending to Heaven in lines, to one direction high in the blue sky.

However this animation work was released in Japan under the title "Crimson Pig," since the hero pilot Porco looks like a pig to any audience.

So, I recalled one phrase of a song: "He's so hard to see!"

Anyway, the Mediterranean is far enough to look romantic from Japan, though I don't know if the sea could be sensed from Jerusalem even 2000 years ago.



SECTION I: An American Nursery Rhyme


'There was a little girl'

There was a little girl,
And she had a little curl
Right in the middle of her forehead.
When she was good
She was very, very good,
And when she was bad she was horrid.

One day she went upstairs,
When her parents, unawares,
In the kitchen were occupied with meals,
And she stood upon her head
In her little trundle-bed,
And then began hooraying with her heels.

...


* * *

Note: They say that this is a popular poem as having been taken into Mother Goose, since the little, happy girl is going to be spanked by her mother who thought that boys were playing at war at the upstairs.



SECTION II: THE BUDDHA

In my rough idea about (the) Buddha it is that he was a member of the East Asian race group.

Buddha must have looked more like a Japanese than, for an example, an Iranian, which is why Tibet, Mongolia, Sri lanka, Burama, Thailand, and other Eastern Asia regions honestly observe Buddhism.


However, ancient India had three major racial groups: the first one who belongs to Aryan races coming down from the north, the second one originally living in the Indian sub-continent like Dravidians, and the last who belongs to the East Asia racial group.

At least, it must not have been a simple world dominated by a single culture.

What I want to say is that it must not have been a simple situation for any philosopher to excel in his wisdom over others.

Yet, one of the most striking aspects in Buddha's path for truth is that excellence in wisdom and insight can be hated, abused, or attacked by demons and the Devil.

Without a help from Almighty God, Buddha faced those evil challenges to eventually conquer them, which is the greatest performance ever achieved by a man all alone.

Compared with Buddha, other holy saints who have ever appeared in the west of India are just petitioners for holy helpers from Heaven.

Great is the Buddha; the Buddha is the only great independent man; and everybody should confess that Great is Buddha; and Buddha is the only great independent man.


NOTE: The Buddha originally means the only person Gotama Siddhattha, and hence he is called simply "(O-)Shaka (-sama)" or "Budda" in Japanese.

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That is all for today, finally, Mdlles.



(Pourtant, mon chéri, la vie est magnifique, bravo!

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The Changeable Might Become Unchanging

(Out of The Tokyo Bay, The Sagami Bay and The Pacific Ocean)


The Changeable Might Become Unchanging



It is fine this morning as if promised by the good taste of wine in the eve.

Importantly for Buddhists, it is a Japanese public holiday tomorrow, as it is the Spring Equinox Day.



SECTION I: Another American Poem

Pastoral

William Carlos Williams

When I was younger
it was plain to me
I must make something of myself.
Older now
I walk back streets
admiring the houses
of the very poor:

....

No one
will believe this
of vast import to the nation.

* * *

Note: They say it shows sympathy to the poor who have nothing to do with any matter of national importance, though rich men in any country need poor men who serve them for salary.



SECTION II: BUDDHA

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My disciples, my end is approaching, our parting is near, but do not lament. Life is ever changing; none can escape the dissolution of the body. This I am now to show by my own death, my body falling apart like a dilapidated cart.

Do not vainly lament, but realize that nothing is permanent and learn from it the emptiness of human life. Do not cherish the unworthy desire that the changeable might become unchanging.

The demon of worldly desires is always seeking chances to deceiver the mind. If a viper lives in your room and you wish to have a peaceful sleep, you must first chase it out.

You must break the bonds of worldly passions and drive them away as you would a viper. You must positively protect your own mind.

My disciples, my last moment has come, but do not forget that death is only the end of the physical body. The body was born from parents and was nourished by food; just as inevitable are sickness and death.

But the true Buddha is not a human body: -- it is Enlightenment. A human body must die, but the Wisdom of Enlightenment will exist forever in the truth of the Dharma, and in the practice of the Dharma. He who sees merely my body does not truly see me. Only he who accepts my teaching truly sees me.

After my death, the Dharma shall be your teacher. Follow the Dharma and you will be true to me.

During the last forty-five years of my life, I have withheld nothing from my teachings. There is no secret teaching, no hidden meaning; everything has been taught openly and clearly. My dear disciples, this is the end.

In a moment, I shall be passing into Nirvana. This is my instruction.


http://www.amidabuddha.org/lastteaching.html
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Thus Buddha died 500 years before the age of Christ.

It is unbelievable that one man who lived and acted in ancient India just as a monk only relying on the power of his understanding human minds and the nature still stands as the most intellectual and smart person in the history.

It is so since only Judaists, Christians, and Muslims who never learnt the teaching of Buddha say that it is not a religion at all, since it has nothing to do with death and Heaven...




(Do not say 'kekko' [wonderful] till you have seen Nikko. So do not say 'kekko'[wonderful] till you have heard Kegon chanting. Même un ange peut jouer de la musique.


http://www.hpmix.com/home/kitano/images/sc4_9_1.mid)

Source: http://www.hpmix.com/home/kitano/C4_3.htm#9

Correct Measures for Correctness

(For Tokyo Bay)


Correct Measures for Correctness



For example, when you get into a telephone shop, how can you tell what your correct choice is when buying a new cellular phone?

There are several service providers, each selling tens of models in Japan.

What is correct choice then, a white model, a rectangular model, a functionally advanced expensive model, or the most popular type of mobile phones?

Yet, as this is the third cellular phone since I started to use this type of equipment 13 years ago, I had to choose the very correct one.

And, as Prime Minister Mr. Taro Aso is going to provide a special allowance, 12,000 yen or $130, for each Japanese to boost consumption as a special economic measure, I am now content to have found one being discounted to below 10,000 yen in a certain shop.

The new cellular phone I purchased recently is actually an unsold one (but unused one, of course) since last autumn or so, meaning not a new model for the Spring of 2009, though it has a kind of Window OS-based functions.



SECTION 0: Mr. Heizo Takenaka and Mr. Ben Bernanke

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"I told the banks clearly, 'I am in a position to supervise you,' "Mr. Takenaka said. "I told them I am not open to negotiation."

It took three more years to finally get the majority of bad loans off the banks' books. Resona Bank, which was found to have insufficient capital, was effectively nationalized.

From 1992 to 2005, Japanese banks wrote off about 96 trillion yen, or about 19 percent of the country's annual G.D.P. But Mr. Takenaka's toughness restored faith in the banks.

"That was a turning point in the banking crisis," said Mr. Gomi of the Financial Services Agency, who worked with Mr. Takenaka on the audits.

By then, other factors had fallen into place that aided economic recovery, including a boom in exports to the United States and China...

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/02/13/business/economy/13yen.html?scp=3&sq=Takenaka&st=cse
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Mr. Barnaｎke expressed recently an optimistic view of American economy. It is reasonable to have such an expectation, since the U.S. can command its domestic consumer market without much relying on the Chinese market. Recovery of the financial system with tight control on Wall Street, including AIG, would help U.S. economy back onto a desirable state.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/business/7945385.stm

Japan can wait for the coming upturn of a U.S. economic cycle, but it is more needed to cultivate other markets than the American one and the Chinese one, since the era when a Mr. Takenaka-type hero is needed seems to be passing away...



SECTION I: An American Poem

'There was an old man of Nantucket'


There was an old man of Nantucket
Who kept all his cash in a bucket;
But his daughter, named Nan,
Ran away with a man -
And as for the bucket, Nantucket.

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Note: They say that it is poor and cheap humor, since "Nan took it" is expressed as Nantucket. But, it depends on how Nan looks more than how the old man looks.



SECTION II: BUDDHA

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Now this, monks, is the noble truth
of the way that leads to the cessation of pain:
this is the noble eightfold way, namely,
correct understanding, correct intention,
correct speech, correct action, correct livelihood,
correct attention, correct concentration,
and correct meditation.

http://www.san.beck.org/EC9-Buddha.html
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Only Almighty God can give measures about correctness, however, to monks and civilians.

Indeed, if your desire and pride supersede the respect for Buddha, you will break the noble eightfold way and spoil your community as well as yourself.

And, Buddha also asserted that money cannot be a measure to identify correctness. Yet, it may be a long way to deduce what is correct from teachings of Buddha, which is why you have to abandon your life to learn it in Buddhism...







(If they call it spring, everything around me rejects it under dominance of unfailing order of strong winter, a certain Japanese song says.

Printemps fait filles semblent plus belles, ou vice versa, car vous pouvez faire partie du printemps.

http://www.fukuchan.ac/music/jojoh/soushunfu.html)

Only A Hub Can Stop All Arrows

(North of Tokyo)


Only A Hub Can Stop All Arrows


Yes, the space shuttle was launched as usual from a NASA base, though with one Japanese astronaut.

Indeed, what goes up must come down, but the space station the shuttle is going to arrive at must be rotating to generate artificial gravity like the one depicted in the movie "2001 -- A Space Odyssey."

In addition, I hope those astronauts would greet 3.5 million homeless people now suffering hard time in the United States, since the space mission is a kind of killing financially those poor people on the mother planet...


SECTION 0: Regulation in Mind and Heart

This subject is not concerned with brainwashing or mean-hearted state education.

When 99 out of hundred citizens of ancient Israel abandoned their efforts to avoid an all-out war with the Roman Empire, they were destined to be completely defeated and lose the land for coming 2000 years.

When 99 out of hundred citizens of Ching dynasty of China abandoned their efforts to reform the nation and introduce the principle of equality of all people, they were destined to be completely defeated in wars against Western powers and the Empire of Japan all through the 19th and 20th centuries.

If no sufficient level of respect for laws and regulations, without mentioning teachings of saints, is found among 99 out of hundred citizens in the U.S. of today, Americans will not be able to be free from the War on Terror and the Wall-Street type of money-related enormity in the 21st century.

So far I can see at least 10 people among 100 around Tokyo who would rather unconditionally respect laws and regulations written on their hearts and minds.

Quel est le ratio autour de vous, Filles?



SECTION I: American Indians

Is This Real
- Indian song -

Let us see, is this real,
Let us see, is this real,

This life I am living?
You, Gods, who dwell everywhere,

Let us see, is this real,
This life I am living?



SECTION II: BUDDHA

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I am secure in the cloak of the Dharma and the inspiring words of Buddha....

There are causes for all human suffering, and there is a way by which they may be ended, because everything in the world is the result of a vast concurrence of causes and conditions, and everything disappears as these causes and conditions change and pass away. Rain falls, winds blow, plants bloom, leaves mature and are blown away...

1) Concerning the body: do not ask to be free of all illness, for when the body is free of all illness, greed quickly arises. When greed has arisen, the precepts soon are broken and progress becomes regression.

...

10) Concerning false accusations: do not try to justify yourself or make explanations, for self-justifications only increase the illusion of having a separate self. Once this illusion of a separate self arises, thoughts of anger and revenge soon will follow.


http://gotaro.homestead.com/
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Truly, the "Wheel of Dharma" is a symbol representing dharma...floating over the domain of transmigration and reincarnation...being done in a moment for Almighty God.



(http://www.fukuchan.ac/music/j-folk2/omoidenoakaiyakke.html )

"Emptiness is the True Color"

"Emptiness is the True Color"


(IN PREPARATION)


An ordinary computer can handle 16,777,216 different colors, since each of Red, Green, and Blue components has 256 grades (256 times 256 times 256 = 16,777,216).

Therefore, 16,777,216 words in a dictionary can be mapped to this color domain in a one-to-one manner.
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The software tool for creating a color I used yesterday is interesting.

Even if you input more than 6-digit hexadecimal codes, it returns a kind of corresponding color, though its algorithm is a little mystery.

But, for some practical reason, it is better to input a series of ASCII codes in a reversed order.

Specifically, "LOVE," #4c4f5645, must be input as #5465f4c4


For example, "Jesus" is #4a65737573; so input #37573756a4, and then we get the following.


And, for "Christ" as #473796278644 instead of #446872697374:


For "America" as #1636962756d614 instead of #416d6572696361:


Finally, "Japan" as #e6160716a4 instead of #4a6170616e:


Try using the following site with any ASCII code table:
http://pega.littlestar.jp/tagunooheya/color-3.html



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The Buddha did not deny that there is happiness in life, but he pointed out it does not last forever. Eventually everyone meets with some kind of suffering. He said:
"There is happiness in life,
happiness in friendship,
happiness of a family,
happiness in a healthy body and mind,
...but when one loses them, there is suffering."
Dhammapada

http://online.sfsu.edu/~rone/Buddhism/footsteps.htm

"LOVE" and "love"

"LOVE" and "love"


"love" is expressed as "#6c 6f 76 65" in the ASCII code system.

"LOVE" is expressed as "#4c 4f 56 45" in the ASCII code system.

These hexadecimal codes can be applied to the Web color code system as follows:




(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Web_colors

http://pega.littlestar.jp/tagunooheya/color-3.html)


So, to our astonishment, in the computer and the Internet, we get the following fact:

"Love is a kind of green."



Note: However, as RGB requires only six digits of a hexadecimal number, "#4c4f5645" has two digit redundant. So, it depends on a system how to translate an input code to an effective code. The system I used actually produced that kind of green.

For example, "#4c4f56" is not green at all.