JAPAN NEWS AND DISCUSSION
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cleo
It was very pretty. With the moon in shadow the stars were also pretty phenomenal.
Posted in: Sky-watchers get rare treat: total lunar eclipse
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cleo
48 is way too young. My Mum was 50, and I didn't get back in time, either. I think I can understand how Mao feels right now. I have no words of consolation, except RIP, Mao's Mum.
Posted in: Mao Asada's mother dies while daughter on her way back from Canada
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cleo
From the BBC - Neighbours quoted in the media said the dogs belonged to the woman's daughter, and were neither fed nor looked after properly. One neighbour said he had ignored the woman's screams, as the family would often shout at the dogs for barking too loudly.
Posted in: 25 Rottweilers maul Czech woman to death
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cleo
Poor dogs.
Posted in: 25 Rottweilers maul Czech woman to death
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cleo
It isn't what Japan is doing. Japan is out to prove their idea, one way only. They start out with a preconceived result and they have no intention of disproving their idea, which is not scientific.
Posted in: Japan whaling authorities sue Sea Shepherd in U.S.
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cleo
That number of PhD theses wouldn't get anyone permission to sacrifice a handful of lab rats, never mind thousands of wild animals.
(Semen Extenders......interspecies somatic cell nuclear transfer.....pig oocytes.....Cloned Embryos.... vitrified whale oocytes??)
Posted in: Japan whaling authorities sue Sea Shepherd in U.S.
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cleo
Would you want to work moving stuff into the no-go zone and burning/burying it there? Me neither. There's a reason it's a no-go zone.
Can you imagine how big a pit would be needed to hold 23 million tons of debris is? Again, me neither.
Posted in: Residents of Tokyo's Ota Ward express concerns over Miyagi debris disposal plans
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cleo
tmarie - I'm not saying that nothing in Miyagi is contaminated (Though most of the contamination is from the tsunami, not radiation). What I'm saying is that if people are (understandably) concerned about contaminated debris from Miyagi, it's illogical for them to go on about contamination in Fukushima. 'Just dump everything in Fukushima' sounds a good idea until you realise exactly how much debris there is that has to be got rid of. Piling it all up in Fukushima simply isn't feasible. I don't think burning is a good idea, either. I wonder if any of the less-contaminated stuff could be dumped in the sea as land-fill, after all a large part of the contamination came from the sea in the first place.
Posted in: Residents of Tokyo's Ota Ward express concerns over Miyagi debris disposal plans
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cleo
There is nothing logical in moaning about Fukushima when the topic is Miyagi.
Posted in: Residents of Tokyo's Ota Ward express concerns over Miyagi debris disposal plans
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cleo
So they decide what the result is going to be first, and then look for the data to prove what they've already decided? That's not scientific, and it's not research. On a par with testing food 'to show that it's safe' as opposed to testing food to check whether it's safe or not.
As for suing SS in Seattle - maybe the whalers are unaware that the SS fleet will be sailing from Australia (not under US jurisdiction) in a few days to stop the hunt. It would have been more sensible to sue in an Australian court, though I doubt they'll garner much sympathy in either country.
Posted in: Japan whaling authorities sue Sea Shepherd in U.S.
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cleo
arrestpaul - hahaha. Pity 'traditional whaling' can't be put on ice.
Posted in: Whaling fleet off to Antarctica with beefed up security measures
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cleo
Granted, many self-professed Christians don't follow the teachings they profess. Where does it say in the Bible 'It's OK for a grown man to kick a small child in the face'?
Posted in: 49-year-old man kicks 9-year-old boy in face, breaking his nose
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cleo
I miss the baby days, wish I were young enough to do it all again. I never strapped a kid on my back, though.
Posted in: Baby carrier
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cleo
Presumably the towers get painted periodically anyway to keep rust at bay, cables get replaced as they get older. Put the aversives on every tower in a central colour-coded area and the crows will learn to avoid the colour. As the colour-coded area is gradually extended, the density of aversives can be thinned out so that not every tower needs to be 'primed', the crows will avoid it anyway. No need to have a catch-and-release programme. (Knowing Japan, that would start and end as a catch-and-destroy programmme anyway.)
There are lots of crows where I live. They're beautiful birds.
Posted in: Crows remember colors for a year: study
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cleo
9 year-old kid.
42-year-old bloke.
What more information do you need?
Posted in: 49-year-old man kicks 9-year-old boy in face, breaking his nose
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cleo
All children born in Japan receive at least 9 years or compulsory education, almost all go on to at least high school. Why do the 'children of families that rely on whaling' need more than the education other children receive? There has been no commercial whaling now for a quarter of a century. It isn't like the industry suddenly disappeared on 3/11. Former whalers have had 25 years in which to find new jobs. If those families have spent the last 25 years ensuring that their children have no skills other than the killing and butchering of marine mammals, maybe you should be asking those parents what could have been accomplished if they had given their children an education that fitted them for life in the modern world. While you're at it, ask families that were traditionally engaged in other industries that have fallen by the wayside - sword-makers, traditional hairstylists, sedan-chair carriers all moved on, you don't hear them them complaining that they should be subsidised because Japanese no longer carry swords, wear their hair greased and piled intricately on top of their heads or ride around in sedan chairs.
Posted in: Whaling fleet off to Antarctica with beefed up security measures
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cleo
How so? If they remember colours, just associate a certain colour with something nasty like a loud noise/bad taste/electric shock/vibration and paint all the towers and power cables that colour. It works in the natural world - bugs etc that are bright colours tend to be poisonous/bad eating, so that a bird that tries to eat one remembers not to eat the same kind of bug again.
Posted in: Crows remember colors for a year: study
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cleo
The problem is that people in a panic think they can get away with it if they run. The truth is that most hit-and-runs (over 90%) do get caught eventually.
Posted in: Man arrested over hit-and-run that left victim's body in drainage ditch
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cleo
Leaving aside the 'no one questions' loss-leader, do the Inuits have up to 6,000 tons of meat in cold storage, and are they allowed to sell it for a profit to people far from and unconnected to their community?
It would be so much better if cows, sheep, pigs and chickens were chased around a field until they were exhausted before having a couple of exploding harpoons stuck in them randomly, made to drag the butcher's truck around the field while pouring blood onto the ground, then hung upside-down in water until they drown? Or cut up as soon as they were incapacitated, never mind whether they're dead or not?
Posted in: Whaling fleet off to Antarctica with beefed up security measures
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cleo
No, Kawabata has admitted 暴行したことは間違いない (It is true that I assaulted the boy), but has not said why. It seems he is not overflowing with the same righteous indignation at the 'lack of respect' kids today show their elders that seems to possess some posters.
All this talk of demanding 'respect' sounds more like the language of the gutter gangs than of responsible adults.
I can say the same about my parents. Thankfully they knew the difference between 'strict' (which they were) and 'violent' (which they were not).
Posted in: 49-year-old man kicks 9-year-old boy in face, breaking his nose