Japan QUAKE [March 11 2011]

[Monseratto]

If you think the Japanese are steel willed and very disciplined...

[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J3TM9GL2iLI]Ultimate Loyalty: Japanese Dog Refuses to Leave Injured Friend Behind [/ame]

Dog in Japan stays by the side of its ailing friend in the rubble
By Brett Michael Dykes
Wed Mar 16, 10:33 am ET

It's a universal truth that dogs are man's best friend, but they're pretty darn loyal to their own as well. Case in point: this tear-inducing video, via the website Jezebel, showing a dog, shivering and disoriented, remaining loyally by the side of a stricken fellow canine amid the devastation of the Japanese tsunami.

The video is a stark reminder that, as was the case when Hurricane Katrina devastated the Gulf Coast in 2005, there will likely be thousands of pets orphaned or involuntarily abandoned due to the catastrophe in Japan. If you'd like to help efforts to help these animals, you can find info on doing so here.

UPDATE: CNN and the UK Telegraph have both reported that the dogs have been rescued since the footage aired, and are both receiving veterinary care; the more seriously wounded dog is at a clinic in the city of Mito, while the protective spaniel-type dog is receiving care at a shelter in the same town.

Here is an English translation of the voiceover exchange between the two reporters in the clip (translation courtesy of Toshiyuki Kitamura):


We are in Arahama area. Looks like there is a dog. There is a dog. He looks tired and dirty. He must have been caught in the tsunami. He looks very dirty.


He has a collar. He must be someone's pet. He has a silver collar. He is shaking. He seems very afraid.


Oh, there is another dog. I wonder if he is dead.


Where?


Right there. There is another dog right next to the one sitting down. He is not moving. I wonder. I wonder if he is alright.


The dog is protecting him.


Yes. He is protecting the dog. That is why he did not want us to approach them. He was trying to keep us at bay.


I can't watch this. This is a very difficult to watch.


Oh. Look. He is moving. He is alive. I am so happy to see that he is alive.


Yes! Yes! He is alive.


He looks to be weakened. We need to them to be rescued soon. We really want them rescued soon.


Oh good. He's getting up.


It is amazing how they survived the tremendous earthquake and tsunami. It's just amazing that they survived through this all.
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[jave]

*miked:
Good luck to you and your family.

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Slightly OT.

Imagine if Meralco were handling the reactor situation.

<Meralco guy> *Arrives at scene, checks reactor for one minute* Ay, kailangan ko ng drill. Babalik na lang kami mamaya, kukunin namin yung drill.
*an hour later, after coming back*
<Meralco guy> Teka, nalimutan ko yung cable. Balik na lang kami ulit.
*an hour later, after coming back*
<Meralco guy> Ok, time to start work!
*after three hours of fixing problem*
<Meralco guy> All done! Never mind what I did was a half-ass job that may result to another problem in...oh, I dunno, 6 months? A year? Andito lang naman kami eh. Tawag na lang kayo ulit!

You just know, based on experiences on how they handle power interruptions due to squatters doing what they do, that the situation would go something like that.

[Monseratto]

Slightly OT.

Imagine if Meralco were handling the reactor situation.

<Meralco guy> *Arrives at scene, checks reactor for one minute* Ay, kailangan ko ng drill. Babalik na lang kami mamaya, kukunin namin yung drill.
*an hour later, after coming back*
<Meralco guy> Teka, nalimutan ko yung cable. Balik na lang kami ulit.
*an hour later, after coming back*
<Meralco guy> Ok, time to start work!
*after three hours of fixing problem*
<Meralco guy> All done! Never mind what I did was a half-ass job that may result to another problem in...oh, I dunno, 6 months? A year? Andito lang naman kami eh. Tawag na lang kayo ulit!

You just know, based on experiences on how they handle power interruptions due to squatters doing what they do, that the situation would go something like that.

More likely there would be a hole in the ground were the reactor plant used to be and everyone is glowing green or Godzilla is already attacking the city before Meralco will admit there is a problem.

[safeorigin]

update:

A fire broke on the 4th floor of the Unit-4 Reactor Building around 6AM, Mar. 15, and the radiation monitor readings increased outside of the building:
30mSv between Unit-2 and Unit-3, 400mSv beside Unit-3, 100mSv beside Unit-4 at 10:22, Mar. 15.
It is estimated that spent fuels stored in the spent fuel pit heated and hydrogen was generated from these fuels, resulting in explosion.
TEPCO later announced the fire was been burned out. Another fire was observed at 5:45, Mar. 16, and then disappeared later.
Other staff and workers than fifty TEPCO employees who are engaged in water injection operation have been evacuated.
White smoke was seen rising from the vicinity of Unit-3 at around 8:30, Mar. 16. TEPCO estimates that failing to cool the SFP has resulted in evaporation of pool water,
generating steam.

rest of details:
http://www.jaif.or.jp/english/news_i...300322727P.pdf

[jave]

everyone is glowing green

Tapos gagawa pa ng price hike after this.

[Monseratto]

They are now using helicopters to dump water unto bldg. no. 3 and 4.


http://edition.cnn.com/2011/WORLD/as...ex.html?hpt=T1

Helicopters dump water on nuclear plant in Japan

Tokyo (CNN) -- Helicopters dumped water Thursday on and near the Nos. 3 and 4 units at Japan's Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant in the latest attempt to halt the nuclear accident that appeared to be spinning out of control. The helicopters belong to the nation's self-defense forces, public broadcaster NHK reported.

Initially, just a few drops were carried out before the operation was suspended. An NHK commentator said about 100 would be needed for the operation to succeed.

The move came a few hours after the head of the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission testified that spent fuel rods in Unit 4 of Japan's stricken Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant had been exposed, resulting in the emission of "extremely high" levels of radiation.

[shadow]

natatawa ako sa iba dito, why keep on comparing Phils to Japan? what's the point? meron pa Meralco spiel eh, eh siyempre pag nuclear na, iba na system and protocol.

[jave]

The point is that we're also venting out our frustrations on the negative aspects of the people in this country. You know, the lack of discipline, shamelessness, the crying and whining with no action and many others.

The reason why Meralco was brought up is an attack on the fact that they're completely inefficient at doing anything and yet, had the gall to raise power rates despite raking in millions in profit. But that is another topic altogether so I won't go further.

Does it affect you that much? Then I'll just try to do it more discreetly then. :bleh:

[uls]

kahit ganyan nangyari sa japan, dito ako bilib sa kanila


http://caffertyfile.blogs.cnn.com/20...ting-in-japan/


But one heart-wrenching byproduct of disasters like this one has been missing in Japan, and that’s looting and lawlessness.
Looting is something we see after almost every tragedy; for example: last year's earthquakes in Haiti and Chile, the floods in England in 2007, and of course Hurricane Katrina back in 2005. It happens when some people who've seen life as they know it get tossed out the window feel that all morality has been tossed out too. It's survival of the fittest and whatever you can get your hands on is yours, no matter who it belongs to.
But that's not happening in Japan.

know why?

coz at a young age, the Japanese are taught to put group interest ahead of individual interest

[chua_riwap]

hindi ata allowed ang mga foreign journalists sa calamity area. even CNN's news footages are all coming from NHK.

tsaka yung mga fatalities, considering na thousands perished in the quake, pinakikita lang sa tv yung mga na-recover na, yung nasa stretchers, covered na w/ blankets. unlike sa iba (or sa atin), pinakikita pa yung mga nakalutang na patay, yung mga patay sa gilid ng daan, etc. etc.

[Monseratto]

Thinking out loud: [size=3] Do the Americans know something that the Japs aren't telling?"[/size]

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20110317/...us/us_us_japan

US authorizes American evacuations out of Japan
AP – 1 hr 35 mins ago

WASHINGTON – The United States has authorized the first evacuations of Americans out of Japan, taking a tougher stand on the deepening nuclear crisis and warning U.S. citizens to defer all non-essential travel to any part of the country as unpredictable weather and wind conditions risked spreading radioactive contamination.

But a hastily organized teleconference late Wednesday with officials from the State and Energy Departments underscored the administration's concerns. The travel warning extends to U.S. citizens already in the country and urges them to consider leaving. The authorized departure offers voluntary evacuation to family members and dependents of U.S. personnel in Tokyo, Yokohama and Nagoya and affects some 600 people.

Senior State Department official Patrick Kennedy said chartered planes will be brought in to help private American citizens wishing to leave. People face less risk in southern Japan, but changing weather and wind conditions could raise radiation levels elsewhere in the coming days, he said.

Pentagon spokesman Col. Dave Lapan said it will coordinate departures for eligible Defense Department dependents.

White House spokesman Jay Carney sought to minimize any rift between the two allies, saying U.S. officials were making their recommendations based on their independent analysis of the data coming out of the region following Friday's massive earthquake and tsunami.

"I will not from here judge the Japanese evaluation of the data," Carney told reporters. "This is what we would do if this incident were happening in the United States."

[tidus1203]

Possibly. The Japanese are known to NOT BITE THE BULLET SOON. If we remember back in the late 80's parang they continue to deny there is a bubble in the economy and saying things are under control before it was too late...

[jansky]

know why?

coz at a young age, the Japanese are taught to put group interest ahead of individual interest

sadly, hindi tayo pinalaki ng ganito

[chua_riwap]

coz at a young age, the Japanese are taught to put group interest ahead of individual interest

di alam ng mga iskuwater yan.........

[shadow]

The point is that we're also venting out our frustrations on the negative aspects of the people in this country. You know, the lack of discipline, shamelessness, the crying and whining with no action and many others.

i don't see any difference between you and the people you're complaining about. same whiners and all.

The reason why Meralco was brought up is an attack on the fact that they're completely inefficient at doing anything and yet, had the gall to raise power rates despite raking in millions in profit. But that is another topic altogether so I won't go further.

you're on the web and posting in this forum, you're using electricity, ok naman service nila diba? if not sana fluctuate na kuryente at sira na yan PC mo.

as for their profit, well that's business. bakit naman sila papasok sa business na hinde kikita? if you don't want to pay then use less electricity.

Does it affect you that much? Then I'll just try to do it more discreetly then. :bleh:

nope! call Filipinos all the names you want. I don't care. I'm just sick and tired of people like you na always comparing apples to oranges.

[Monseratto]

People do the strangest things...

http://finance.yahoo.com/news/Panic-...&asset=&ccode=

Panic buying triggered by nuke crisis sweeps China
Panic buying of salt sweeps Beijing, parts of China in wake of Japan nuclear crisis

BEIJING (AP) -- Worried shoppers stripped stores of salt in Beijing, Shanghai and other parts of China on Thursday in the false belief it can guard against radiation exposure, even though any fallout from a crippled Japanese nuclear power plant is unlikely to reach the country.

The panic shopping was triggered by rumors that iodized salt can help ward off radiation poisoning -- part of the swirl of misinformation crisscrossing the region in the wake of Japan's nuclear emergency.

The rumors have flown widely. Text messages on mobile phones have circulated about nuclear plumes spreading from Japan throughout Asia. Rumors also spread that salt was adequate protection for radiation sickness.

Supermarkets in the capital of Beijing and many cities across the country have run out of salt in the last several days as a wave of panic buying spread across provinces from eastern Zhejiang to southern Guangdong to western Sichuan.

Prices of salt jumped five or 10-fold in southern Guangdong, the Internet portal sina.com reported.

Rumors also impacted other countries. In Vietnam this week, schools kept students indoors while some companies allowed employees to leave early to avoid rains after word spread that the deluge would burn skin and cause cancer.

A similar scare in the Philippine capital led a university to cancel classes Monday

[hondaboot]

Thinking out loud: [size=3] Do the Americans know something that the Japs aren't telling?"[/size]

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20110317/...us/us_us_japan

it's in youtube and other forums as well as the major buzz in some looneys like UFO fanatics. another world event will happen in the 22nd or the 23rd or next week

i think this was based from the girl who predicted that something will happen between Mar 11 and 15. and she was the one who forewarned the event but was laughed upon based on a youtube video uploaded earlier this year

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and also it was the French who displayed lack of confidence on Japan's handling of the nuclear crisis. we all know naman that the French have expertise in nuclear. sila nga ang makulit na pinapayuhan ng UN and US a decade ago for detonating nukes sa mga deserted islands sa Pacific.

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maybe the movie Godzilla will happen, di'ba yun French agent pa yun isang character dun

[roninblade]

i don't see any difference between you and the people you're complaining about. same whiners and all.

i guess some people complain more than others. the only difference is he is complaining about people complaining about their supposed right to a better life without actually doing something about it.

tsaka yung mga fatalities, considering na thousands perished in the quake, pinakikita lang sa tv yung mga na-recover na, yung nasa stretchers, covered na w/ blankets. unlike sa iba (or sa atin), pinakikita pa yung mga nakalutang na patay, yung mga patay sa gilid ng daan, etc. etc.

this is how it should be, you don't have to show actual bodies lying in the gutter to report that people died.

[safeorigin]

no spin + no drama + no fear mongering = no income for them

[donbuggy]

http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/...72G2LD20110317

Japan a robot power everywhere except at nuclear plant
By Jon Herskovitz
TOKYO | Thu Mar 17, 2011 7:23am EDT

TOKYO (Reuters) - Japan may build robots to play the violin, run marathons and preside over weddings, but it has not deployed any of the machines to help repair its crippled reactors.

While robots are commonplace in the nuclear power industry, with EU engineers building one that can climb walls through radioactive fields, the electric power company running Japan's Fukushima Dai-ichi plant has not deployed any for the nuclear emergency.

Instead, its skeleton team has been given the unenviable and perhaps deadly task of cooling reactors and spent nuclear fuel on their own, only taking breaks to avoid over-exposure.

A science ministry official said a robot used to detect radiation levels is at the site of the accident in Fukushima, north of Tokyo, but nuclear safety agency official Hidehiko Nishiyama said: "We have no reports of any robots being used."

That robot would have come in handy early on Thursday when workers monitoring radiation had to back away from the plant because it was becoming too hot.

While Japan is renowned for its cutting edge technology, it also maintains an anachronistic element in its society that relies on humans for tasks that have given way to automation in many other parts of the world, such as operating elevators and warning motorists of road construction.

In one of Japan's worst nuclear accidents, two workers were killed in September 1999, when workers at a nuclear facility in Tokaimura, northeast of Tokyo, set off an uncontrolled nuclear chain reaction by using buckets to mix nuclear fuel in a lab.

Japan is a world leader in robots, using them to automate the most complicated manufacturing processes and to sift through rubble to look for victims in earthquakes.

Robots were also used after two infamous nuclear disasters -- Three Mile Island and Chernobyl, and will almost certainly be used at Fukushima for work in highly radioactive areas.

Kim Seungho, a nuclear official who engineered robots for South Korea's atomic power plants, said: "You have to design emergency robots for plants when they are being built so they can navigate corridors, steps and close valves."

The Fukushima plant was built in the 1970s, well before robots were able to work on sophisticated tasks.

Robots are in place in many nuclear plants for structured situations such as monitoring pipes and simple maintenance.

Kim, a deputy director in nuclear technology for the Korea Atomic Energy Research Institute, said budget constraints and denial have kept emergency robots out of many plants in his country and around the world.

"Nuclear plant operators don't liked to think about serious situations that are beyond human control," he said by telephone.