The invention provides a dish-washing apparatus that includes a washing basin in which juxtaposed, upwardly extending, rotating cleaning members are disposed. The carrying device includes a shoulder strap connected to a substantially rigid support, which is connected to at least one carrying strap for releasably and selectively connecting and disconnecting one or more articles to the carrying device. The non-volatile storage unit defines a boot sector, a first sector and a second sector and contains a boot loader in the boot sector, an initialization variable in the boot sector and an embedded operating system in the first sector. When it is judged necessary to update the profile based on the monitored status, a profile including an update request is created by a data update processing unit, and the created profile is sent out to the administrator’s PC. A liquid crystal layer is held between the first substrate and the second substrate. Disc boundary information representing a boundary in a radial direction of an area on which capability of recording at a predetermined recording speed is guaranteed is recorded on the system lead-in area while being related to each tuple speed.