The entrance examination of Caritas junior high school

I glanced at the entrance examination of Caritas junior high school. I was surprised that it is so difficult. Kids who can pass the examination will think about and handle their matter by themselves in the future. Things wrriten in the examination paper is what I want kids to know.

The purpose of the examination is obviously screening of applicants. However, the intension to get good pupils makes good examination papers, good examination papers give kids occasions and incentive to train how to think of matters.

A young man asked me to loan

When I lived in Kokubunji, I was asked to loan by a young man in front of Kokubunji station. He seemed to be an idiot. He said, "I want to go my parent's home. Please loan me some money for train fare."

I answered, "Get a loan from a lender over there. I did so." There are several lenders in front of Kokubunji station. He said "Yes" and left.

The countries with the highest GDP per capita

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_GDP_(PPP)_per_capita

The countries with the highest GDP per capita (GDP/C) profit from natural resources, finance or international trade. Manufacturing countries like Germany or Japan are of midium GDP/C. It suggests that the era of the manufacturing industry will be over.

Emerging countries advance economic growth by means of development of manufacturing industry. They demand natural resouces, finance and international trade. The cluster of high GDP/C results from global economic growth.

A real estate agent seems like a ramen shop.

A ramen shop which was near my apartment closed on early last March, before about a week from the big earthquake. The shop had been vacant.

It has renovated and opened as a real estate agent today. They renovated it, but they use the counter of the ramen shop as the table to talk business with customers. It is about 4 feet high. A table of a real estate agent is usually about 3 feet high. It is a real estate agent, but it seems like a ramen shop. It's funny. Of course, stools of ramen shop are replaced chairs, though which are too high for a real estate agent.

Shinsuke Shimada's retirement

I went for a drink with my friends on Sunday. There are 5 people including me. As a topic of the day, we talked about Shinsuke Shimada's retirement from show business and his sidelines. He is one of the most successful comedians. He have also succeeded in sidelines. He had raised eels when he was seventeen. He launched many businesses that are not only show business. Selling eels, real estate, management restaurants etc.

We were interested in launching business then.

Photo Shop Elements Editor from App Store

I bought Photo Shop Elements Editor from App Store. I can configure Brush Tablet Options with clicking the upside down triangle button to the right of the air spray icon. 

With checking Size and Hue Jitter on Brush Tablet Options, brush works like watercolors. Other options are also useful to enjoy various tastes of brush. I love it!

CEDE of peaches from Fukushima

I've calculated committed effective dose equivalent of peaches from Fukushima, and done about bananas too. The CEDE of the peaches is about three times as high as that of bananas.

CEDE is abbreviation of committed effective dose equivalent.

EDC is abbreviation of effective dose coefficient.

I quote figures of adults from the following page (ICRP Publ. 72).

http://www.remnet.jp/lecture/b05_01/4_1.html

The activity per kilogram of bananas is calculated as follows.

= 30.4[Bq/g] * (360*(10^-3))[g]/0.1[kg]

The activity per kilogram of peachs is quoted from the following page.

http://www.new-fukushima.jp/result.php?kind_detail%5B%5D=%E3%83%A2%E3%83%A2&kind_detail%5B%5D=%E3%83%A2%E3%83%A2%EF%BC%88%E6%96%BD%E8%A8%AD%EF%BC%89&start_year=2011&start_month=4&end_year=2011&end_month=8&search_area=%E4%BC%8A%E9%81%94%E5%B8%82&hyoji=all&x=57&y=27

uSv is micro Sievert.

food	isotope	EDC	activity	CEDE/kg	sum
		(Sv/Bq)	(Bq/kg)	(uSv/kg)	(uSv/kg)
banana	K-40	6.20E-09	109.44	0.679	0.679
peach from Date in Fukushima	Cs-137	1.90E-08	68	1.292
	Cs-134	1.30E-08	58	0.754	2.046