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How to use of air-conditioning

Do the end of the rainy season in a region all nationwide, and the coming at the midsummer was faced in full scale yesterday. The quantity consumed of electricity might increase by it having become hot in the summer of this year, too. However, it is necessary to pay attention to power saving recently like eco's being paid attention.

By the way, I am using the air conditioner together with the fan. Cool time in the morning etc. opens the window and uses the fan chiefly. The preset temperature is done with unassuming modesty though the room uses the air conditioner when the temperature is considerably high (30℃ or more). Moreover, when sleeping, the timer is set in the fan (When the timer was set in the air conditioner and it slept, the summer cold had been pulled before).

The usage of my air-conditioning above. How about you?

Sweet potato growth situation(2008/07/19)

The growth situation of the sweet potato as of July 19. The vine begins to grow, and it seems to grow up well.

Diving of Okinawa Motobu

I have gone to the Okinawa diving tour of the third times at the end of last week. I dove in a sea the town named Motobu on the main Okinawa island peripheral this time.

A part of the photograph taken in the sea is published (Other photographs are published in the photo corner later).

Anemone

Big Sea Cucumber

Dangerous living thing, Scorpionfish

It comes near to popular site "Okinawa Churaumi Aquarium", and Rhincodon typus etc. have been seen on a tour final day.

From Saitama Shintoshin of the Star Festival

The eco-event was held in Saitama Shintoshin on the day before yesterday night.

Eco

It accompanies though holding of Toyako summit approaches, and news concerning "Eco" etc. flit recently. Thus, the article on "Eco" is contributed today.
Recently, posture to eco has been strengthened in my home. Basically, "The light of room with nobody in it and the passage is turned off". Especially, because it raised the price of the electric rate this month, this mind strengthens disregarding further more. I also was actually strengthening consideration to eco recently, and it came to consider "Water is not put out" in addition to the above-mentioned.

It is necessary and indispensable for the global environment to start the eco activity from a small thing first of all though might be natural.

"Listen to music while doing other actions" is dangerous

Link: 「ながら音楽」は危険がいっぱい　交通事故、ひったくりにわいせつ事件… - 速報　ニュース：@nifty

「ながら音楽」は危険がいっぱい　交通事故、ひったくりにわいせつ事件…

2008年6月29日(日)13時3分配信　J-CASTニュース

　「iPod」などのMP3プレイヤーが普及し、音楽を聴きながら歩いたり、自転車に乗ったりする若者が増えている。音楽に気を取られて事故に逢うだけでなく、背後から人が近づいてくるのに気がつかず、ひったくりやわいせつ事件の被害者になる危険もある。Continue

It became easy for the earphone that decreased a surrounding noise to appear recently and to listen to music in the noise. On the other hand, danger like the above-mentioned article has risen. It will have to be recognized this time that it is also dangerous to walk while listening to music though it is certainly dangerous to drive the bicycle while listening to music.

Slackness part2

I have fallen into the state, not to move into high gear last month so-called "Slackness" state, and the state is continuing now. The prospect to which work completes the first stage doesn't look up, and there is no composure in the mind.
Facing work with the sense of crisis apparently might rather corner me. Feelings of the nature's loosening and troubling surroundings you again are forward though you might relax a little.

Summer solstice

It is a summer solstice today. Time when daytime becomes the longest.
Actually feeling doesn't boil for a while though daytime of the future shortens on the boundary of this day. It is about middle of August to feel daytime shorten when entering on the day becomes early.

However, it is in the future that it it becoming sultry.

Sweet potato growth situation(2008/06/15)

The growth situation of the sweet potato as of June 15. The leaf and the stalk are steady compared with the week before last. However, it is anxious that the soil is dry.

Urgent earthquake news flash announcement!

When I was watching television, "Urgent earthquake news flash" was announced this morning. Information that the severe earthquake had occurred in the Tohoku region. After the a few minutes, I felt the shake also at home. On the other hand, how about the situation in the Tohoku region near the hypocenter...?

Link: ＜岩手・宮城内陸地震＞震度６強Ｍ７．２　死者２人負傷多数 - 速報　ニュース：@nifty

＜岩手・宮城内陸地震＞震度６強Ｍ７．２　死者２人負傷多数

2008年6月14日(土)14時2分配信　毎日新聞

　１４日午前８時４３分ごろ、東北地方で強い地震があり、岩手県奥州市と宮城県栗原市で震度６強、北海道から愛知県までの広い範囲で震度６弱から１の揺れを観測した。気象庁によると、震源地は岩手県内陸南部で、震源の深さは８キロ、地震の規模を示すマグニチュード（Ｍ）は７．２と推定される。この地震で午後１時現在の毎日新聞のまとめでは、２人が死亡、１人が心肺停止となり、７９人が重軽傷。がけ崩れなどが多発しており、被害はさらに拡大する見通し。

　気象庁はこの地震を「平成２０年（２００８年）岩手・宮城内陸地震」と命名した。Continue

It was not thought that the large earthquake happened in Japan one month after due to Sichuan large earthquake...
The image of a large-scale landslide flows in the television though I am writing this article while watching television now. Damage keeps expanding further. Moreover, giving impetus to the secondary disaster comes to be worried because it enters the time of the rainy season of the future.
It prays that damage not grow any further, and I visit it in the people whom damage met sincerely.