The freehold condominium development in District 10 was sold for $401.9M in early Feb 2018. Each unit's owner was to receive between $2.78M – 11.5M. The project consists of 77 units and sold 13% above reserve price. The rate was $1,847 psf ppr (including a $3.5M development charge). The site has a land area of about 104,531 sq ft (with a plot ratio of 2.1), and can be redeveloped to 24 storeys of 190 new units (average size of 1098 sqft). JAPURA Development, linked to Hong Kong tycoon Li Ka-shing's Cheung Kong empire, is the party that clinched City Towers.
The iconic Pearl Bank Apartments was recently sold to Capitaland at $728M in mid Feb 2018. The price matches the reserve price of the owners, which translates to $1psf. ,515 psf ppr after factoring a $201.4M premium for a lease top-up to a fresh 99-year lease. The site has a land size of 82,376 sqft of existing plot ratio of 7.45. There are plans to redevelop the site into a 800-unit condo project of total GFA of 613,530 sqft. Break even prices are expected to be $2,000-2,250 psf. The project is located near to the Outram Park MRT interchange and Chinatown, and future units are likely priced to be between $2,400 – $2,600 psf.
Brookvale Park, a 160-unit development in Sunset Way, has been sold to Hoi Hup Sunway, a joint venture between Hoi Hup Realty and Sunway Developments, for $530 million. The sprawling 999-year leasehold land is in a central yet lush setting. The sale price reflects a land rate of about $932 per sq ft per plot ratio, after factoring in an estimated development charge of about $26 million. Each owner would expect to receive gross sales proceeds of between $2.5 million and $4.4 million per unit. The site is a short drive away from Holland Village and Bukit Timah Nature Reserve, and near reputable tertiary and international education institutions such as Ngee Ann Polytechnic, Singapore Polytechnic, National University of Singapore, Singapore University of Social Sciences and Canadian International School.
Riviera Point in Kim Yam Road was sold to Macly Group, a Singapore property developer in Mid Feb for $72M. Riviera Point's site area stands at 14,579 sq ft. The use of the land has been zoned as "residential" with a plot ratio of 2.8 and a height control of 36 storeys. The verified existing gross floor area is about 49,265 sq ft, which translates to a plot ratio of 3.379.
The development in Cairnhill Road was sold to Singapore-listed property developer Low Keng Huat for SGD $362M. Cairnhill Mansions, an 18-storey block comprising 61 apartments, sits on a land area of about 43,103 sq ft. The price tag works out to $2,311 per square foot per plot ratio (psf ppr).


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Season Preview: Brown Bears
By Becky Blaeser & Jayson Moy
There probably isn't a team in the league looking forward to its freshman class as much as Brown. After two consecutive disappointing seasons, head coach Roger Grillo is looking for something — anything — to kickstart his program.
"We're not going to finish in 12th."
— Brown head coach Roger Grillo
"Last year was certainly a disappointment for us," said Grillo, whose team finished with a 4-15-2 league record. "It was not a lot of fun and not very enjoyable. We've brought in 10 new young men and hope that they can help us in an area which hurt us last year, and that was scoring up front."
Last year's squad probably realized that it would be a long season after dropping seven of its first eight ECAC contests. During that stretch, Brown's opponents averaged 4.4 goals per game, which included a dismal road trip to Central New York where Cornell and Colgate pounded the Bears for eight and seven goals respectively.
It certainly didn't help that goaltender Scott Stirling suffered an early-season injury that kept him out of the lineup for the first quarter of the year. In hindsight, however, Stirling's early absence did leave the door open for junior Brian Eklund, who gained valuable experience between the pipes.
Eklund finished the season with eight starts under his belt and a team-best .915 save percentage and 2.95 goals against average. His personal highlight came late in the season when he posted 32 saves during his team's shocking 6-0 victory over nationally-ranked St. Lawrence. The two guys who may give Eklund some competition for playing time are junior Graham McNally, who saw action in four games last season, and newcomer Yann Danis out of the Cornwall Colts system.
"Eklund, going into it, is the frontrunner," said Grillo. "He played well down the stretch and played some great games. He's a kid that has a lot of talent and he can certainly help us get the job done. Graham McNally is there should he falter, and the freshman, Yann Danis, can surprise a lot of people. He has a bright future for us."
Grillo is banking on his returning blueliners, however, to keep games a lot closer than they were at times last season. After all, not many teams can flaunt the fact that they have the entire starting unit back in uniform this season. Years of experience will certainly help the likes of seniors Mike Pratt and Christian Warrington as well as the junior tandem of Josh Barker and Chris Dirkes.
"Overall our strength will be out back," said Grillo. "We have six key guys that are back. We were young and the three senior defensemen didn't get a lot of time, so it looks like we lost a lot of people but we really didn't. Paul Esdale [who led the defense in scoring last season with nine points] was one of the better offensive players in the league back there and has the potential to break it open. We have three young guys as well, and two of them will battle right from the get-go."
As the defensive corps brings it up the ice, who will be there to collect the puck? For a team that averaged 2.36 goals per game last year, Grillo is looking for a scoring threat or two to re-energize the attack and lift the team from the 12th place spot in the league that it held last season. The good news is that the team's leading scorer, Matt Kohansky, who finished with 17 points last season, returns to the lineup along with Jon Zielinski and John Petricig. All three players possess the ability to have breakout seasons and will need to unearth that talent pretty soon if the team is to be successful. Returning youngsters Chris Legg and Keith Kirley combined for 19 points during their freshman campaign and will need to step up their games as well.
"It's a situation where we didn't have one guy in the top 50 in the league in scoring. Our top scorer had 17 points and that's just not going to get it done," said Grillo. "It's an area of concern and we have six guys who were in the top two in scoring on their teams that we brought in."
The freshman class will be most critical on the front lines. The six incoming players are wild cards and any could turn out to be the prolific scorer that Brown desperately needs. Pascal Denis, Shane Mudryk, Scott Pratt, Nick Ringstad, Brent Robinson and Adam Saunders are all names that Grillo hopes to see inch their way up the scoring chart as the season goes along. Then again, it's always difficult to bank on players who have yet to really experience D-1 play.
"We hope that we can address the problems up front with scoring," said Grillo. "We focused mostly on up front with our recruiting, and with six new guys we hope they can help us right away.
"We were disappointed with last year and the way we ended it. Hopefully we can change what the [preseason] poll said and get into the upper echelon of the league. We're not going to finish in 12th."
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Engineers, singers, instrumentalists and voice talent looking to remove room-reflection characteristics and externally generated sounds from their recordings often rely upon stand-mounted isolations screens. One common use for this class of products is for when you're tracking scratch vocals, which may or may not be used later, while other musicians are playing in the same room. Although these products can also affect the sound you get from your mic, their isolation benefits often outweigh any minor coloration.
The product that made the industry stand up and take note when it comes to miniature vocal booths is the sE Electronics Reflexion Filter, now available as the Reflexion Filter X ($99) and Reflexion Filter Pro ($219). Both packages combine a curved, multi-layer screen with a hardware mount that allows you to position the microphone's distance between the vocalist and absorber.
Guitarists and engineers should check out the sE Electronics guitaRF Reflexion Filter ($169), designed to provide isolation when miking a guitar amp. The hardware will hold a single mic, but the screen includes a hole that is big enough to point an additional front-address mic (such as a Shure SM57) through when you want to double-mic your speaker cabinet.
The Primacoustic VoxGuard VU ($99) is a curved, near-field absorber with ABS plastic backing that has a small window, giving the vocalist a sightline with other musicians or the engineer. For situations where wall installation is not a problem, the Primacoustic Flexi-Booth ($449) provides a larger area of absorption, using two fold-out panels that surround the vocalist.
Instead of a utilizing a curved or square shape, like other portable vocal booths, the walls of the Auralex MudGuard v2 ($149) are convex and shaped toward the vocalist. This is meant to further remove any coloration caused by reflective artifacts from around the mic.
The GIK Acoustics Screen Panel ($299) is a free-standing, portable isolation setup measuring 32"x72"x3" that can be used for vocal recording isolation, as a gobo around drums and amps, or to minimize slap-back echo in a room. When folded, the company notes that the panels can be used as a bass trap when placed in a room corner. The Screen Panel is available in several colors and has a Class A fire rating.
GIK Acoustics also offers the PIB, or Portable Isolation Booth ($325). This attractive folding set of panels combines 2" rigid fiberglass (absorbing down to 150 Hz) with a semi-reflective back that is available with several veneers — blonde wood, mahogany, gray elm, white, and black. Remarkably, the top of the 6.5'x3.6' panels can be folded down, allowing you to use the PIB as a smaller, wedge-shaped gobo. Now that's handy!
If you need 360 degrees of shoulder-level isolation from the outside world (or to keep your vocals from disturbing the neighbors), check out the IsoVox 2 ($999). It has LED lighting and an internal shelf inside for use with a mobile device or lyric sheet, and the back and sides can be positioned out of the way when full isolation is not required.


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The Government's Help to Buy loan scheme has attracted more than 10,000 reservations in its first four months.
Builders have reported strong interim and annual results driven by both reservations and new-build completions founded on the enthusiasm created by both the Funding for Lending and Help to Buy schemes.
Prospective home buyers at new build sites rose by 27% this year thanks to Help to Buy and other government schemes, developer Bellway has reported.
Council of Mortgage Lender figures showed first-time buyer lending hit its highest quarterly total since 2007 yesterday with 68,200 purchasing a first home in Q2 2013.
House building is also at its highest rate since 2008 with 67,422 new homes registered in the UK between January 2013 and the end of June, according to the National House Building Council.
Eric Pickles, secretary of state for Communities and Local Government, said: "This government's package of measures to boost the housing market is working, with house building and housing supply on the up. The tough decisions we've taken to tackle the deficit are now delivering a sustainable increase in housing and providing real help to hard-working people."
Help to Buy, the equity loan scheme for new-build properties offers a 20% equity loan, interest-free for five years to creditworthy buyers with a value of up to £600,000. The next phase, due to start on 1 January 2014 will run for three years and aims to help a further 74,000 homeowners.
With the second Help to Buy scheme, lenders not builders will be offered government-backed guarantees on loans for buyers with a 5% deposit or more for both new and existing properties.
Ben Thompson, MD Legal & General Mortgage Club, said:
"There can be little doubt that Help to Buy has greatly assisted some of the recovery we have been seeing in the mortgage and housing markets.
"It is somewhat ironic that following five years of these markets being flat, we already have noise about house price bubbles and so on. The recovery has been led by London and the South East in particular, but not exclusively so, and a number of regions have barely had a sniff of recovery since the downturn.
"So the fine balance will be providing sufficient stimulus to ensure the housing market has properly and sustainably recovered, whilst ensuring that housing demand isn't overly strong relative to supply."
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At NewFound Families Virginia, we believe every child deserves a loving, nurturing home. Since April is Autism Awareness Month, we felt it prudent to shed some light on how you can make a difference in the life of a child with special needs.
There is always an urgent need for special needs adoption in the U.S. In fact, the number of special needs adoptions nationally nearly doubled between 2007 and 2014—increasing from 32,402 in 2007 to 61,341 in 2014. Here in Virginia, many special needs children are waiting to find their forever home.
Adopting any child - no matter what the circumstances - comes with challenges. All children placed in a new home require commitment, patience, love, and a parent who will be a true advocate for them. When considering a child with special needs, it's important to be honest with yourself and your family about your situation. What needs do you feel equipped to handle? What makes the most sense for your family? Remember - honesty makes you a stronger parent, not less of one.
While adoption can be a challenging undertaking for any parent, it's important to remember that welcoming a new child into your life isn't just adding another family member. You're gaining so much more. The road traveled by adoptive families is full of surprises, many of which can enrich your life. While negotiating the path is not always clear, and frequently seems uncharted, you'll have made a priceless amount of difference in the life of your child.
Above all else, you should never feel rushed in making a decision to adopt. Adoption is a big decision. Like all life-changing decisions, it's better to exercise patience and have as much information as necessary in order to make the best choice for you and your family.
Of course, adoption and fostering special needs children isn't for everyone. However it can be one of life's most rewarding experiences for parents looking to bring light to a child's life. If you're considering adopting one of Virginia's many children in need, reach out to us. We look forward to hearing from you.


The first tournament, a 5-man Proto King of the Hill (KotH) event at Ambush Paintball Southampton in June 2006. The team placed 6th in a mixed division of rookie and more experienced teams. Since then the team have competed in further KotH tournaments and an X-Ball Lite event, before moving on to the NSPL the following season. A new KotH team, GE Cadets, was formed along side the 'Elite' squad, to bring in new players and for those who could not commit to a whole season, This formed the GE Collective, members of which have gone on to play events throughout the UK and Europe.
Moving fthough the NSPL Divisions, GE will be playing Division 2 in 2009.
To achieve continued success on the field, and to bring on new players.
Congratulations on your promotion to Div 3 at the end of last season. Best of luck for NSPL 2009 - we're sure you'll do just as well this year!
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Gumboot Dance, as the name implies, is a dance performed in gumboots. The name gumboot ensues from the environment where it finds its roots. Gumboot Dance developed from the mines of Witwatersrand in South Africa, from the miners who acquired . UMOJA tells the story of South African music from tribal dances to Kwela, and from the mine workers' gumboot dancing to the sound of the big city: Kwaito and Pantsula which are popular today. Culture and music are tied to the history of the country. Gumboot dance is now a popular art form performed worldwide to entertain and pass on elements of South African history to new African Footprint and Umoja. Like many folkloric art forms, it is adapted to the modern contexts in which it is performed and also provides the basis for Stepping (a dance style associated with Hip.
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Get a hold of Africa Umoja tickets right away, to witness the event live. AFRICA UMOJA is a Proudly South African and world-acclaimed theatre production which symbolizes the Spirit of Togetherness in a two hour explosion of song and dance performed for Kings, Presidents and members of the public in over 50 cities worldwide. Umoja Dance Studio is a non profit organization dedicated to the performing arts for people of all ages. Umoja provides quality training in dance and fitness. Respect, discipline and creativity are fostered through dynamic teaching styles designed to reach participants of all levels. Africa Umoja is bringing these traditional love sounds, lullabies and other traditional music back to the South African stage for all to enjoy. Come and experience the energy of Sophiatown, listen to the heartache of the stories of forced removals while your heart beats in time to the rhythmic stomps of the gumboot dancers. 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© REUTERS/Fabrizio Bensch Billionaire philanthropist Bill Gates addresses the audience of the Global Alliance for Vaccines and Immunisation (GAVI) conference in Berlin January 27, 2015.
The world was caught completely unprepared for what's become the largest Ebola outbreak since the virus was discovered in 1976. Since the outbreak began last March, it's killed 8,810 of the 22,092 people who've fallen sick, mostly in West Africa. The outbreak caused widespread panic not only in the regions hardest hit but in almost every corner of the world too, from Europe to Australia to the United States. Hoping to circumvent any future outbreaks, Bill Gates said this week that we must begin using new technology to prepare for future outbreaks.
Pointing to work his organization, the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, has done in the field, Gates says it's important that this preparation include building teams of volunteers that are ready to mobilize the moment there's a public health emergency. "We use satellite photos to find out where people are living, we use a GPS tracker with a cellphone so that we can see if the vaccine team is going to every place they're supposed to go, we do statistical analysis within a few days to see if there's any kids that we missed," he said.
Studies have already shown that when it comes to new technology, social media is a reliable indicator of outbreaks. One 2012 report from the University of Rochester found that using geotagged tweets from 4.4 million Twitter users could reliably predict who would get sick with the flu up to eight days beforehand. Another study from last year used an algorithm on Twitter users to determine who was at a higher risk of HIV and other STDs. When researchers compared risk-associated tweets — regarding drugs and HIV-risk behaviors — to HIV prevalence rates, they found the two tended to come from the same areas.
New technology is everywhere. Africa's population basically skipped using computers altogether and went straight to mobile phones, making it a larger market than North America, with 400 million subscribers. Social media may be a good starting place for preparing for outbreaks, but a lot more must be done. Thankfully, Bill Gates is on it.


It all started with air filters! Years ago, we built a house and after living in it for almost a year, the fabulous new carpet started turning black along the edges and under the doors. Beth looked at John, and asked, "Did you change the air filters?" John looked at Beth and said, "I thought you were changing the air filters." Needless to say, the air filters were clogged and black. The spark for HomeZada was born.
Why isn't there a software system to remind homeowners of everything they need to do to maintain their home? Why is our closet full of owner's manuals and it takes us an hour to find the one we need? What is the warranty expiration date on that piece of equipment? Did we even fill out the warranty card? Our insurance agent tells us we need a home inventory and that sounds challenging. But what if we don't have a home inventory, what then?
Everything important in our lives today is managed online and with mobile apps, including your money, career, family and friends, travel, shopping, and entertainment. Why not your home!!! The combination of the cloud and mobile devices makes managing your home online easy and fun. The vision to manage your home online and in apps is not here. HomeZada is ready to get designed and built. With the vision in place, now HomeZada needs some technology brains to move to the next phase.
Beth and John worked with David before at a previous software company and thought he might be interested in joining the team. David heard the pitch, and said sure, I am in. Along came all these great new technologies like Ruby on Rails, Heroku, Amazon S3, mobile application frameworks, etc. to give us the framework to create HomeZada.
A lot of work has gone into launching HomeZada. We would like a quick shout out of thanks to others who helped us along the way including Intridea, PAIR design, NetPilot Web Solutions, Kicker Inc., One Social Media, Wells Fargo, DLA Piper and our talented and trusty developer, Martin Bayly.
Our vision is to make it easy and fun to manage everything about your home in one online and secure place. To understand what you own, when to take care of it and how to manage the financial aspects of home management. Basically to empower the homeowner to make the best decisions about running the home they love. Check out HomeZada and let us know what you like and what you don't info@homezada.com . Our journey is just beginning. Come with us and enjoy the ride!!!
Congrats guys – best of luck in this venture, I wish you as much success in this (and more) as you did before hand! Great idea – I can only remember whether I've changed the filters by marking them with a permanent marker. . .
This is so exciting, congratulations! Great people, great idea – wishing you great success!


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The Estero EGGStravaganza will feature an egg hunt, crafts, refreshments and the opportunity to meet the Easter Bunny. This special event starts at 8 a.m., Saturday, March 31, at the Estero Community Park, 9200 Corkscrew Palms Blvd.
The egg hunts are designed for children ages 12 and under and will begin at 9:30 a.m. Children will be arranged in three groups: (1) ages 3 and under; (2) ages 4 to 7 and (3) 8 to 12. Each age group has the chance to find a prize egg, which wins them an Easter basket full of goodies. Great photo opportunity!
The cost is $5 per child and pre-registration is required by calling the park at 239-498-0415 or online at www.leeparks.org. Registration will not be accepted the day of the event.


There's no question that many of the freedoms that we enjoyed as Americans 20 or 30 years ago have gradually eroded. Heightened fear over crime, zero-tolerance policies, tough drug laws, and the war on terrorism have all brought about compromises to the freedoms that we once took for granted. We can get into a deep analysis of exactly how, where, and why it's happened, but it's the reality of our time.
I think that it's safe to say that the advance of the Internet has made much of the loss of freedom somehow more tolerable than it would've been without it. Despite attempts by governments to restrict freedoms in different directions such as blocking or censoring directions, the Internet has caused a flood of freedom that has not been seen since United States became an independent nation in 1776.
Consider the ways that the Internet has enabled us to maintain certain basic freedoms.
In the Bill of Rights, the First Amendment grants Americans the freedom to practice any religion, freedom of the press, freedom to speak freely, the right to peaceably assemble and to petition the government. In a world of fear and political correctness, these freedoms are gradually wearing down. People are afraid to discuss or write about certain topics that others might find offensive. In other cases, people are afraid to make public challenges to government policy out of fear of being labeled an enemy of the state – a consideration that did not exist prior to 9/11.
The Internet has become the last bastion of true free speech. It is the one place were people can go to exchange ideas in truly open forums. While there is some excess here, people have so far shown themselves to be "solid Internet citizens" expressing their ideas freely, but not doing so in a way that threatens others.
It has also become a place where people across the nation and around the world can come and freely discuss ideas and beliefs in religion, politics, social issues and world affairs without fear of censorship. If we lose freedom on the Internet, this most basic freedom granted to us by the First Amendment may be lost forever.
In a nation increasingly hogtied by control from one source or another, people often believe activities to be illegal that actually aren't. As a recent example, a story broke this month in which police in Garden City, NY, threatened – on a complaint by a neighbor – to ticket a man for washing his car in his own driveway, in violation of a local ordinance that prohibits washing a car in a public place. Clearly someone is interpreting a private driveway to be a public place and the police are agreeing – whatever the reason.
It sometimes seems as if everything is illegal even if it the illegality defies logic.
But according to the Ninth Amendment, rights not specifically granted to the people by the Bill of Rights are presumed to belong to the people. Put another way, unless there is a specific law against it, it's perfectly legal – what ever it happens to be. This amendment seems to have declining significance, despite the fact it's actually written into the Bill of Rights.
The internet is one of the last venues where we can go and comfortably assume that we aren't breaking any laws. Up to this point at least, just about the only activities that are illegal are the ones we inherently know to be so. Otherwise, we can go about our business.
Though we don't often think of access to limitless information as being a form of freedom, it actually is. It's been said – correctly – that the average person today has access to more information than presidents, kings, and the wealthy did 100 years ago, all because of the Internet.
That access not only enables us to research just about any topic we choose, it also gives us the ability to make intelligent choices as consumers, research health issues, and even to shop freely.
Though we may be shaken down by government agents while going through the airport, the ability to return home and freely access tremendous volumes of information on the web softens the sense of lost freedom in other areas of life.
Traditional full-time employment with benefits has been getting harder to find in the past decade or so. Much of that has to do with economic factors, but it also has to do with economic policies that favor large institutions over small businesses, off-shoring of jobs, and the explosion of technology – all of which are rendering human labor less necessary all the time. Employment freedom is clearly on the wane.
But much of the weakness in employment is being at least partially remedied by greater economic opportunity brought about by the Internet. The web enables us to trade with people all over the nation and all over the world. It also enables a person working out of his own home to run what appears to be a much larger business. And in point of fact, because of the web a single person can do the job of many, as well as subcontract out any work that he can't handle on his own.
It is probably not an exaggeration to say that the majority of small business opportunities in the world today are found on the Internet. If we let that get away, or allow it to be restricted in a serious way, we might feel the full effects of the decline in full-time employment. The web is giving us the measure of economic freedom that was only known during more prosperous times in our history.
At a time of declining freedoms overall, one area where freedom has increased substantially is in our ability to communicate. The Internet gives us a real time, inexpensive way to communicate with other people in our communities, and all around the world.
That ability can make us feel free even as other freedoms are gradually slipping away. We can largely ignore the extensive background checks we need to pass in order to get a job, security checks at airports, and the plethora of forms that we need to fill out for our income tax returns, because our freedom to communicate with people all over the world has only increased in recent years.
The Internet has become an island of freedom in a world that is steadily becoming less free. If internet freedoms are attacked, we will begin to feel what the loss of freedom truly is. Yet there are people in the world – many of them in high places – who would like nothing better. Some of them are looking to restrict Internet freedom for noble reasons, like protecting the nation from terrorist attacks. Others have less benevolent purposes – they're primarily concerned with limiting competition to their own operations.
Perpetual surveillance. We're already getting revelations of this, with the Edward Snowden affair, revealing that the NSA has been routinely gathering information on virtually the entire population of the country. The Cold War was largely a struggle against an evil empire that did exactly that to its own citizens, and aspired to do it to the rest of the world. Are we really okay with this happening in America today? Monitoring is the first step toward restricting.
Once sales taxes are imposed on Internet sales, the barn door will be open for all kinds of other taxes, fees, and other economic regulations.
Taxing Internet transactions would reduce the attractiveness of doing business online, which would not only hurt the economy, but it will also hurt small businesses, and force people to transition from self-employment back to jobs – jobs that don't necessarily exist anymore. In fact, the Internet has been one of the biggest buffers against rampant unemployment.
Outright censorship in certain countries. Many would like to extend political correctness to the Internet. At least part of the reason why people are leaving the print media in favor of the Internet is because of the Internet's "raw nature" – it's a place that we can go to, to hear the unfettered opinions of other people, often people are just like us. There is a general sense that the mainstream media is somehow filtered, and the Internet is a place where you can go to find ot what's really going on. Many other countries in the world are already actively censoring the Internet within their own borders. Recent stories have emerged about China doing this, but they are hardly an exception. We should resist that trend here in the US.
In very real and practical ways, the Internet has really become the last bastion of freedom in the world. We should see that as the blessing that it is, and do all we can to make sure that it stays that way. We can do this by actively opposing politicians and business leaders who would restrict or reduce Internet freedoms. We can certainly vote against politicians, but we can also write letters, send emails, and make phone calls when they start suggesting Internet restrictions.
There are also large Internet participants who organize formal protests or start petitions to fight internet restrictions. We should keep an eye out for those, and be ready to participate in them where available and necessary.
The worst thing we could do is to roll over and die about Internet freedoms, the way we have with so many of the other freedoms that we've lost over the years. It used to be said, If the light of freedom goes out in America, it will go out in the world. Today, we might say that equally about the Internet.
Are you at all concerned about the potential loss of freedoms on the Internet?
The current administration in D.C. absolutely wants to be a dictator. Evidence his state of the union address where he says he'll enact legislation without congress and contrary to the Constitution. Those in charge want to control every aspect of your life. This attitude is filtering down to state and municipal governments as well. There will continue to be attacks on the freedom of the internet because it is the one arena where the press is not in the back pocket of the government. As long as people can use the internet to communicate we have HOPE that we do not get the CHANGE the current administration wants. OK, I'll end political rant now.
Hi Kathy – I understand what you're saying about the current administration. But from where I sit, freedom has been under assualt since before 2009 when they came into office. It isn't a person or a party that threatens us, but rather the desire of politicians everywhere to control, regulate, allocate and tax everything that exists. That's a mindset, not a political pursuasion.
It's tragic that once people – even well meaning people – get into positions of power, they forget what it is to be a citizen. Every politician should be a citizen FIRST and a politician second. The Bible teaches us about servant leadership, but even Christians forget about this once in office. As the saying goes, power corrupts.


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The Scourge That is Much Worse than Radiation
Surely, the accident at Fukushima has uprooted many people and changed their lives forever. It is under debate how many people will have their health affected by this disaster.
This article is about another hazard that is afflicting the youth of today. This hazard, this disaster, is going on right now all over the western world; and it is going on right in front of people - and these children's parent's faces - sometimes with those parent's blessing no less!
This scourge is a slow killer. It destroys minds and imaginations. It is draining the lifeblood out of our youth. Just go to any American city and you will see hordes of obese children who are involved in this past time and, no, I'm not talking about junk food - although that can be said much about.
Previous generation role model
This unstoppable tsunami of brain damage is destroying lives right in front of our faces yet very few are doing anything to stop it. It is a scourge that is destroying the minds of youth today.
Make no mistake about it, even though this horrible infliction is widespread, there are those in the medical community who have been ringing the alarms bells, especially those involved in the area of psychology and physiology, but their voices are rarely heard. They haven't the power to make the dangers well known or to spread the word among the vast public at large.
The medical community hasn't the marketing or promotional money or ability to take on this giant that is ravaging the minds of today's youth. The big business behind this scourge can buy all the advertising they could possibly want or need in order to poison the minds of the children today.
But these big companies are not the worst offenders. The worst offenders are, in fact, the parents of these children who are damaged by this now common "disease." It is because the parents actually condone this disease and allow it into their homes.
The changes that this scourge are causing amongst the youth today can be classified as a mutation. Specifically as a Spontaneous Mutation with one small difference.
A Spontaneous Mutation is defined as:
Spontaneous mutations occur without exposure to any obvious mutagenic agent. Sometimes DNA nucleotides shift without warning to a different chemical form (know as an isomer) which in turn will form a different series of hydrogen bonds with it's partner. This leads to mistakes at the time of DNA replication.
I suppose the disease I'm talking about now cannot be classified as Spontaneous Mutation as, the definition of Spontaneous Mutation is that it will lead to mistakes in replication. Well if, "mistakes in replication" means reproduction, then this definition won't work. The youth afflicted with the problems I am talking about couldn't possibly ever reproduce as they could never get a girlfriend. They seem unable to hold even the most primitive conversations, how could they possibly get a girlfriend? And even if they did somehow manage to get a girlfriend, they could never support a family as they will be too dumb and/or brain-dead to ever hold a decent job higher than flipping hamburgers.
Great! So they become drags on society.
See? While radiation poisoning is rare, I'm talking about a common affliction that is sending our already wasted youth off the cliff to oblivion. The worst cases of this group won't ever be able to hold a job and will always be sponging off mom and dad or wind up in a crap job or be homeless.
Because of this affliction, the victims seem to lose the ability to perform satisfactorily in a social environment. What I mean is that they have terrible social skills and cannot converse or interact with other people. This is a problem when you are a monkey in a gregarious group of monkeys, er, excuse me, I meant to say a Homo Sapien..
This disease is actually worse than excessive TV watching for the mind. Everyone knows TV is brain damage. I've written about that before in Plug in Drug Redux and Plug in Drug where I pointed out:
The TV is actually a drug. But its dangers are even worse than anyone suspects. Married couples think, "Without a TV, my husband and I would have nothing to talk about" (I've heard this many times) but these people have it backwards. Because they have a TV, the couples don't talk about important things and make the effort at spiritual growth (no I'm not talking about religion).
Have you figured out the disease yet? It's worse than TV because TV is left at home. This brain damage is portable and carried around all the time. Let me give you some more hints:
In Japan, this summer, I was at a birthday party for my then seven-year-old son. One of the parents told me that his son was just dropped from third grade to second grade. The father was quite puzzled and upset. He later related that he thought it had something to do with having to ride the bus to school. Last year, he said, his son didn't have to ride the bus and he got good grades. Over the summer they moved and now his son has to ride the bus and his son's grades have fallen through the floor.
Hmmm? Could riding the bus be the only culprit here?
Upon further inquiry (and being suspicious of the influence of TV) I asked some more questions. It seems that his son hated riding the bus at first (but loves it now) because the father said that his son had said he had no friends on the bus because "all the other kids had a Nintendo DS."
"Aha!" I thought. Now we're getting somewhere. The father then told me that he bought a Nintendi DS for his son and now his son likes riding the bus.
I suspect that his son likes the DS. Being on the bus gives him a place to play the DS by himself. Whereas before, the son didn't have a DS so the other kids who did didn't talk to his son. Now, the other kids don't talk to his son either, but at least he has a DS to play with.
The dad confessed he regretted buying the DS as his son now will refuse to go anywhere without the DS and the father actually admitted that he has to use the DS as a bribe to get the child to do regular chores like clean up his room, do his homework, eat dinner...
Doh! The law of unintended consequences can be a bitch!
This father is a sorry failure as a parent and this kid is headed into a world of trouble.
If you are a parent, I hope you read the above and slap yourself on the forehead too. I haven't any kind words for what this father has done to his child.
What will this kid turn out like? You know. You've seen these kids everywhere. It is these kids who "have friends" but don't talk to them. These kids sit on the train together like robots and they all play hand held games while speaking only a sparse a word to each other every few minutes.
Talk about excellent communication and social skills these games must be teaching these children! Just like you and I and our friends when we were children (HEAVY SARCASM!)
These kids who are zombified by these hand held games are heading for a bad future. Let me tell you about one I saw last night.
He was about 15 or 16-years-old. We were at a fine restaurant and at the next table, there was a family of eight or so having a birthday dinner for what looked like the grandfather. While some of this family spent time talking with the nice old man, two of this dysfunctional family were fixated on their iPhones (a different sad story there) but at least those two people spoke to the nice old guy a few times.
The kid with the DS? I didn't see him raise his eyes once from the DS for the entire time they were there, which was about 2 hours.
I can just see the situation at home for that family now:
Mom (Divorced): "Junior put down that game and get ready to go to grandpa's birthday dinner." (Repeat 5 or 6 times with no answer)
Junior (Not looking up, finally responds): "I'm not going!"
Argument ensues with Junior not taking his eyes off the game even once (it's safer in that world after all). Finally mom loses her temper.
Mom (Screaming and throwing dishes and breaking them): "Put that down! We've had this conversation a hundred times and I'm not saying it again!"
Junior: "OK. I'll go as long as I can take my DS."
Argument continues. But under time pressures, Mom relinquishes and the family heads out to dinner. Junior never takes his eyes off the DS. They have their typical "wonderful" dinner for their typically wonderful dysfunctional family.
Now, dear reader and parent of elementary school child. Why would you want to do this to your kid? But, if you do, Mr. or Mrs. Parent... If you do give one of these gaming devices to your kid for whatever reason, all I can say is, "Thanks!"
In the new economy jobs will be tough and our kids will need every advantage that they can get to survive, get a good education and job and make a good living. That parents like the ones who buy DS and gaming devices for their kids are stupid enough to do this to their children makes things all that much easier for my child and parents like me.
Thanks. After all, someone has to flip hamburgers and do manual labor. I'd prefer it be your child and not mine.
Make no mistake about it, Fukushima might be bad, but, in the long run, these games will do a hell of a lot more damage to the minds of children than Fukushima will ever do.
You would do anything to protect your child from radiation, right? Why do you voluntarily give them something that will hinder them and hurt their progress?
Don't believe me. Ask any educator or child psychologist or pediatrician.
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Labels: 3DS, brain, child, damage, disease, Fukushima, hand held game, radiation, TV
Politics and Power: Creating Bankruptcy and a Real Nuclear Disaster in Japan
The only thing we learn from history is that we learn nothing from history - Friedrich Hegel (1770 - 1831)
A couple of recent articles on Japan have hit my eye. They both have to do with money and how poorly the Japanese government have handled the economy and how the regular Japanese is paying the price.
The first article is about another doofus who thinks that a Japanese government takeover of TEPCO, the company that owns the crippled Fukushima nuclear power plant, is the answer to our problems. Read this article and wonder no more how this guy never got a job in the real world.
The traditionally left wing Asahi Newspaper reports about how Tadashi Maeda, an adviser to Prime Minister Naoto Kan, has proposed the nationalization of all nuclear power plants in Japan as a means to secure the long-term viability of atomic energy:
(Tadashi) Maeda, chief of the Corporate Planning Department of the Japan Bank for International Cooperation, said during a recent interview with The Asahi Shimbun that the risk of a disastrous nuclear accident resulting in a tremendous amount of monetary compensation argues for the nationalization of nuclear power generation.
Tadashi Maeda is a
blood sucking tax feeder or just plan stupid?
Question: Why should nuclear power plants be nationalized?
Answer: Atomic energy should be in the hands of a state-run operator of nuclear power plants. It is important for the government to assume full responsibility for (their safe operation). The state-run company would acquire the nuclear power operations from utilities and sell electricity to TEPCO and other electric power suppliers as a wholesaler. The profits from the power sales would be used to pay compensation for the nuclear disaster. This way, the financial burden imposed on the public through higher electricity bills and other forms would be minimized. This system would also contribute to ensuring a stable power supply.
Riiiiight! Get that? What he means to say is that the state run company would be a middle man and sell the electricity to TEPCO who would then sell it back to you and me. Now, how in the world will having the idiots in government as a middleman, and taking a cut off the top, going to keep costs low? Isn't this the very same government that wants to double our Sales Taxes?
This sounds like another sham to try to get more money from the public and private enterprise without it looking like what it actually is: Another tax guised in the mask of protecting the public.
Now, who in their right mind would recommend such a thing? How could anyone think that the government could run anything and not turn it into a boondoggle with massive red ink? How could anyone think that adding a government run middleman will do anything except increase costs and prices?
TEPCO didn't get to be the biggest power company in all of Asia and the 4th largest power company in the entire world by having a bunch of lazy, useless bureaucrats running their organization.
Who could possibly think it would be beneficial to anyone to have the Japanese government running our nuclear industries? Look at how well the Japanese government has done at running the economy and the social welfare programs over these last 20 + years! What a marvelous job they've done there. Why, we're only at debt that is 225% of annual GDP.
Imagine the work of wonders these geniuses can do if they get a hold of the nuclear industry. If having the Japanese government run the nuclear industry is such a good idea, why stop there? Why doesn't the Japanese government just nationalize all industry, from cars, to electronics, to farming, to broadcasting, to the Internet, and even to production of candies for kids in order to protect the public and companies from high costs?
Hell, nationalize everything and we'll have a workers paradise!
Just like North Korea or the old Soviet Union. Paradise!
How could I have been such a fool not to realize it all this time? That's it! The answer to our problems! Nationalize everything!
You see, I'm married and my wife gives me an allowance to live on, like most Japanese wives do for their Japanese husbands. But, darned if this allowance hasn't been going down annually over these last twenty years. This situation is really getting desperate.
Japanese men have seen allowances wither to the least in three decades as their wives pare household spending in an economy mired in deflation. Known in Japan as salarymen, the workers receive 36,500 yen ($452) per month for pocket money, amounting to $15 a day and the smallest amount since 1982, according to a survey by Shinsei Financial Co. released today. Japanese wives typically manage their husbands' earnings. Japan's growth of less than 1 percent per year in the past 10 years has crimped pay, forcing housewives to cut back on pocket money and exacerbating the deflation that has plagued the economy for more than a decade. Wages have been dropping since the March 11 earthquake and household sentiment is near a two- year low, making a consumer-driven economic rebound less likely.
In my case, I used to get about $50 for a night's out at the pub. But recently, over these last ten ~ fifteen years, that has dropped to about $35 a night as well as cut from four night's a week to two.
This has been during the bursting of the so-called Japanese Bubble Economy. Just like the west and the USA has done over the last three years, the Japanese government has blown hundreds of billions of dollars propping up Zombie banks and defacto insolvent institutions. They did this by borrowing and using tax money.
They used our tax money and have now borrowed us and our children into a debt that they can - we can - never repay.
One day soon the piper will need to be paid.
That is the day Japan goes bankrupt....
And idiots like Tadashi Maeda think the Japanese government should take over our industries? See? We never do learn from history.
Labels: debt, Fukushima, Fukushima nuclear power plants, Naoto kan, nationalization, nuclear, nuclear accident, nuclear meltdown, radiation, TEPCO
Stunning Revelation! Tokyo Man Grows Testicles Out of Cranium! Fukushima Radiation?
Shocking Revelation! Man in Tokyo with testicles on his head stuns onlookers!
Train passengers in the greater Tokyo metropolitan area were shocked on their morning commute today by the appearance of what seems to be an elder gentleman who has testicles protruding from his cranium.
"He looks somewhat like a shriveled upside down penis!" shrieked one woman.
A spokesperson, who wished to remain anonymous, tried to calm passengers and the public at large by reassuring those that these recent sightings of the "Testicle Headed Man" were not related in any way to the Fukushima nuclear accident.
Train poster of the Testicle Headed man
Still many of the western press and the anal retentive segments of the foreign community in Japan insist that there is a government cover up and conspiracy. Some were quoted as saying, "They found rabbits without ears, and car air filters that were radioactive, didn't they?"
One commuter, a businessman in his late 40's said, "I've heard of people being called 'dick-head' but this is taking it one step too far. Something must be done."
This reporter, a longtime expert on Japan and drinking stories, has investigated these occurrences and found several examples in Japanese folklore of sightings such as this strange creature.
Call this guy a "dickhead" and he might rip your arms off
As other countries besides Japan have their legendary creatures too. Some examples are the Abominable Snowman, Big Foot, the Loch Ness Monster and Elvis Presley.
Upon further examination, though, this reporter finds that the "Testicle Headed Man" is indeed a Dickhead and a relic of sexist Japanese advertising and marketing for supposed "Health Drinks" are are to help tired Japanese salary men to become energetic while entertaining the mirage that these drinks can also help their flagging libido.
Besides, doing something to help even psychologically with a sagging member, the drinks also help older Japanese men's flagging self-image and tries to convince them that if they drink this stuff, they might get a young girlfriend.
As I said, it's not real. It's all just a legend and a part of some old guy's imagination.
These old guys can still dream, can't they?
Labels: earless rabbit, Fukushima, Fukushima nuclear power plants, nuclear, nuclear accident, nuclear energy, nuclear meltdown, radiation
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Radiation Effects? Baby Born with Three Arms!
Several weeks ago, the western media were all aghast at a rabbit being born without ears in Fukushima. At first, many attributed that event to radiation.
I even had some people write nonsense to me like, "See? Admit you were wrong. Plants and animals mutating are proof of a nuclear disaster!" Again, I will admit that the nuclear problem in Fukushima is a huge problem for the nearby area, but for us in Tokyo, hundreds of miles away, and even further, it is not a big problem.
I already showed that the nonsense about the rabbit being born without ears was most probably not caused from Fukushima as earless rabbits are born all the time and I showed that plant mutations were observed and written about as early as the late 18th century. In MSNBC Links to my Blog About Earless Rabbitts and Fukushima Radiation! I wrote:
".... a while back demolishing that hyperventilated sensationalist nonsense that people were touting as proof positive that radiation from Fukushima was causing birth defects.
Now, after initially jumping on the band wagon, many mainstream media have thought about it for a while, did the minimum amount of research, and backtracked.
One earless rabbit does not make for proof of massive nuclear contamination. Earless rabbits are born all the time.
(By the way, so are mutated plants and flowers that were first described in 1790 by Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe in Metamorphosis of Plants.)
That MSNBC has linked to my article is part of the proof that it is a huge stretch of the imagination to think that one earless rabbit constitutes a nuclear fallout catastrophe for our DNA. Far from it.
This one episode (amongst many) has been touted, then demolished, as proof of a nuclear disaster... Amongst the foaming at the mouth panics that we've had that I've done my best to dissect, we've also had radioactive car air filters (chuckle); a 35% increase in infant mortality that was shown to be completely untrue; "anecdotal evidence" of people having metallic tastes in their mouths that PROVES a nuclear disaster (honest, we wouldn't kid you or make this stuff up!); unprecedented wind pattern changes that, after millions of years of being different, suddenly start blowing nuclear fallout over Tokyo, just because some idiot scientist in the USA doesn't know how to read a weather map; as well as all sorts of pronouncement from some clown Sci-Fi writer named Michio Kaku, who was once quoted as saying as recently as January 27, 2011;
"All you can do is run" to people who live near Yellowstone National Park. You might remember a while back when Old Faithful was acting funny. That was when Kaku said in an article that was quoted in the "End Times Are Here" that the volcano under the Yellowstone National Park was a "super volcano" that was going to"wipe out the United States as we know it."
There's a whole litany of this sort of nonsense going on.
I've shown how pollutants from the oil and gas industry kill over 3 million people worldwide annually and yet you hear no one complaining about that.
So far the deaths from Fukushima nuclear accident? Zero.
So every time I rake one of these clown across the coals for scaring people needlessly or I take my former "co-workers" in the mass media to task for sensationalism, I get attacked by some readers who just can't stand dealing with facts.
The weird thing is, though, these attacks from the bizarros who actually do wish for Fukushima to turn into armaggedon so that they can claim that they were "right" and we can all live happily ever after with no nuclear power and live like people did in the early 1930's in an agrarian paradise have stopped.
They can't deal with logic and the truth so they've taken their toys away and gone someplace else.
Here's something that I thought was interesting. In 2006, there was a baby born in China that had three arms.
China has a much bigger problem with radioactive wastes and pollution than Japan does. China has had a problem with this for a long time, even the Chinese government admits it, but you don't hear much about this radioactive pollution story at all in the main stream media or the alternative media either.
Curious, I think.
Even more curious when you realize that, China has many more earthquakes than Japan does, a bigger problem with pollution and radiation, a huge problem with poor building standards, and yet, when the Fukushima disaster struck, many foreigners and their companies fled Japan to China. Go figure.
Do not misunderstand my point here. This is not China bashing. I've been to China many times and simply love that country and her people. I'm just stating facts here.
You know that if this three armed baby were to be born in Japan now, the press would be all over it claiming it as proof that radiation from Fukushima is worse than the authorities are letting on and that we are all doomed.
But, no, this is in China not Japan.
See video of three armed baby here:
http://www.youtube.com/embed/e75BU6oJ1B
From what I understand, this child had a good prognosis to be fine after surgery to remove the extra arm. I hope the surgery was a success and the kid grows up to be happy and healthy and has a long life. That there was nothing reported after the surgery points to a successful result.
You know what they say, "No news is good news."
He is a cute kid he deserves happiness and a long prosperous life. Neither he nor his family deserve to be scared or frightened by pundits from the peanut gallery claiming the end of the world.
By the way, according to the Centers for Disease Control, 1 in 33 babies are born with birth defects .
Labels: catastrophe, earless rabbit, Fukushima, Fukushima nuclear power plants, nuclear, nuclear meltdown, nuclear power, radiation
Anal Retentive Foreigners in Japan
The term in Japanese is "ケツの穴ちいちゃい男" (Ketsu no ana chichai otoko) it literally means "A guy with a tight a*shole."
You'll never learn this term in any Japanese language textbooks or even from most Japanese friends. I learned this term from working with some Japanese comedian (Taro Furukawa) for over 12 years. Taro is one of my best friends. He is a real rock and roller and he and I have been involved with many legal and illegal activities before which shall remain unnamed.
He's the one who taught me this term, "Ketsu no ana chichai otoko".
Taro Furukawa
"Ketsu no ana chichai otoko" means "a guy with a tight a*shole" but, in English, I think it is closer to being "anal retentive."
Trust me that, god damn! there's a sh*t load of anal retentive foreigners in Japan. Really, I'm not kidding. Sh*tloads of them. The fact that I won't write "shitloads" and instead write "sh*tloads" shows that I am and wimp and one of these anal retentive folks.
Famous bumper sticker in USA: "I + love +
c*nt + tree + music"
Anyway, there's lots of these sh*thead foreigners in this country. God, what a bunch of dilweeds.
This last week, I got this crap from a few of these dimwits concerning the origin of "Flyjin" and the boring repercussions. I can't believe that people even care about this anymore. They were complaining and insinuating that I was one of the "types" who thought up "Flyjin" and that I was losing friends.
First off, I' not smart enough to think of such a term and, two, I have no friends to lose.
But, OK, I'm game. I'll play along. That morons who left Japan, at the start of the nuclear problems at Fukushima, split because of the "nuclear holocaust" that was going to happen, but hasn't happened, now defend that leaving Japan, because of said nuclear holocaust, was going to happen because the government was "lying" about that nuclear accident, that was supposed to happen that didn't happen, proves that the people who left Japan were right and those who stayed were "wrong" proves that the "Flyjin" were "right" (in spending hundreds of thousands of yen splitting and then returning though nothing has changed nor gotten better). This proves that the Flyjin were "right" and those that stayed were "fried" as in "Fryjin" even though the Flyjin have returned and the situation hasn't gotten any better or stable since March 15th. And not a single person has "fried".
Whew! Got that? Excellent logical and deduction skills! Bravo!
One clown, who will be unnamed, wrote on his Twitter account about how the term Flyjin started:
"Yes, the term was started by Gaijins. I personally know the sort of bad apples who did. They now have even fewer friends than b4."
Bwa! Ha! Ha! Ha! What a twit. Really? Let's be really anal retentive and pick this crap apart. Don't complain, that I do this only leads more stupid people to try follow this guy as his Twitter account is at least good for comedy.
First he says says:
"Yes, the term was started by Gaijins. I personally know the sort of bad apples who did."
Oh really? Aren't you embarrassed by this? You personally "know the sort of bad apples" who started this? Oh really? Or maybe this is a case of bad apples or jealousy on your part? You personally know the type? Or maybe you personally have penis envy to them?
Which is it?
Then this clown actually writes:
"They now have even fewer friends than b4."
Laughable. Why? well, if you look, this clown only has 14 followers on Twitter. Fourteen! One four. 1 - 4. One - four! That's even less friends than your dog next door has on Twitter. Jeez. Think before your write, dude! That's just fricking embarrassing.
Anyway....
There's a ton of self-righteous foreigners in this country. You'd think that they'd have their arguments and act together before they go and shoot off some illogical and poorly written nonsense....
But then again, if they did check their work before handing in to the teacher, then they wouldn't be idiot students... That they fail to do the minimum check only proves that they are poor students and will always be anal retentive foreigners in Japan.... With (quite deserving) low paid jobs with little or no job security.
People who couldn't get jobs washing cars back home come to Japan and can at least get a job and a cute girlfriend. It's not too bad.... Yet they complain and run away at the first tinkling of the alarm.
This is what we call "ケツの穴ちいちゃい男" (Ketsu no ana chichai otoko).
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Labels: Flyjin, Fukushima, Fukushima nuclear power plants, nuclear, nuclear accident, nuclear meltdown, radiation
Attack of the Radioactive Giant Jellyfish
OK, well, I lied on that post about being a suicide blogger. I decided that I am going for the sensationalism! We're doomed! Giant Radioactive Jellyfish are Attacking Japan's Nuclear Power Plants!
Death and destruction! The world holds its breath as Japan waits for the inevitable Armageddon and apocalyptic end!... Read on!
As if Japan doesn't already have enough troubles to deal with concerning nuclear power plants and hyperventilating journalists telling us that it's the end of the world, now we're under attack by jellyfish.... Again!
No, these are not the giant jellyfish that, quite coincidentally, attacked Japan and that I reported on the very morning of the March 11 earthquake and tsunami lead to the nuclear accident at Fukushima nuclear power plant! I faithfully wrote about it in Japan's Attack of the Giant Jellyfish from Space that reported:
Sometimes truth is stranger than fiction. It's true! It has been reported from Hiroshima, of all places, that hordes of millions of giant jellyfish have invaded the seas around Western Japan. These jellyfish are massive with some weighing in at over 210 kilograms!
Don't believe me? Well here's proof! The UPI reports:
HIROSHIMA, Japan, March 9 (UPI) -- Giant jellyfish, thought to be from Chinese waters, have been floating into the Sea of Japan and wreaking havoc on the Japanese fishing industry, officials say.
Millions of the creatures, each weighing almost 450 pounds with a bell reaching almost 7 feet across and trailing a tangle of long, stinging tentacles, have moved into the Sea of Japan every summer since 2002, LiveScience.com reported Wednesday.
Armadas of giant jellyfish, Nemopilemanomurai, probably originate in the coastal waters of China, Shin-ichi Uye of Hiroshima University said. Uye said he has documented the movement of young giant jellyfish from Chinese waters into the Sea of Japan on currents, and the growth of these jellyfish along the way.
Go to here to also see news photos and video footage of these giant monsters wrecking havoc on the Japanese coast.
But now, as the summer heat is upon us, along with the Japanese people and businesses lowering their electrical consumption by 30 ~ 40%, Japanese nuclear power plants are working over time to fill Japan's soaring electricity needs as the air conditioners need to be turned on.
So what timing! Just like out of some Japanese monster movie from the 1960's, some nuclear power plants in Shimane prefecture have come under attack from jellyfish! You cannot make this stuff up!
Reuters reports:
TOKYO, June 24 (Reuters) - Jellyfish sounded the retreat on Friday after blocking an all-important seawater cooling pipe at a western Japanese nuclear power plant, the plant operator said.
Several Japanese utilities are struggling to meet peak summer demand due to safety concerns after a March 11 earthquake and tsunami triggered a nuclear crisis at Tokyo Electric Power Co's plant in Fukushima, north of Tokyo.
The jellyfish managed to block the cooling system at one reactor at the Shimane plant on Thursday, prompting the operator to lower its generation capacity by 6 percent.
The Hiroshima-based operator, Chugoku Electric Power Co , said on Friday the jellyfish, common in Japanese waters during the summer, had backed off and operation was back to normal.
It was the first time jellyfish, about 20-30 cm long (8-12 inches), had interrupted operations at the Shimane plant since 1997, a company spokesman said.
See the video here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HRjEuRHfxyo The news report also added a note that I have written on before. It said:
Not resuming operations at the reactors would lead to power shortages around Japan, while replacing all energy generated by nuclear reactors with thermal power generators would raise costs for industry and consumers.
"Would raise costs for consumers"!? Probably an award, or at least a nomination, for the "Biggest Understatements of 2011 Award."
I'm wondering how the next Keith Harmon Snow, Arnie Gundersen or Michio Kaku clone will twist this attack of jellyfish upon a cooler at a nuclear power plant into the next coming of the Four Horsemen of Apocalypse?
Labels: Fukushima, Hiroshima, jellyfish, nuclear, nuclear accident, nuclear meltdown, radiation
You Need a Laugh
Sunday morning in Japan. It's going to be an excellent day.
Here's a short from the movie "One Crazy Summer" that should give you a chuckle.
If the movie doesn't play, go watch it here. It's pretty funny.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r4wJMvw_ra4
Thanks to Steve "Poots" Candidus.
Steve also always sends along these great quotes to ponder:
"...In order to really enjoy a dog, one doesn't merely try to train him
to be semi-human. The point of it is to open oneself to the possibility
of becoming partly a dog..." - Edward Hoagland
"...Heaven goes by favor. If it went by merit, you would stay out and
your dog would go in..." - Mark Twain
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Udupi MP Karandlaje apprehensive of country's security
Udupi, Aug 17,2016: Member of Parliament Shobha Karandlaje speaking after inaugurating the youth festival and the concluding ceremony of the Tiranga Yatra (vehicle rally) organised to mark 70th Independence Day by the district BJP, said Indians should self-introspect about its achievements in the last 70 years.
MP Shobha said the increasing instability, especially on the Indo-Pak and Indo-China borders, is the failure of the country in embarking upon strong military forces and the self-reliance in arms. She said the country still imports 85% of the weapons required for the armed forces and the police from foreign countries. The increasing insurgence has damaged the country's integrity. The democracy has come in without the real freedom. The farmers are ending their lives due to the debt. Unemployment among the youths is increasing. Women are not safe and are the victims of the brutal violence, she said.
Expressing apprehensions over increasing insecurity at the border, the MP said the soldiers are sacrificing their precious lives to safeguard the country. She urged the political parties to end vote bank politics and sincerely work for security. There should not be any political agenda against the security, protection and the unity of the country, she urged.
The MP added that the BJP-led NDA government has released Rs 1 lakh crore for the weapons required for the armed forces after the party came to power. "China is also creating terror modules in the PoK, apart from Himachal Pradesh, Arunachal Pradesh and Sikkim," she said and urged people should react and fight to take back the land illegally encroached by China and Pakistan.