garymalmgren's past comments

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  garymalmgrenMay. 18, 2013 - 08:05AM JST

  Police officer: Would you like us to come in and check the house?

  **Victim: ** No thanks. My parents are asleep and I don't want to worry them. I'll be fine. Thank you.

  **Police officer; ** Well, good night and call us anytime that you need to.

  Posted in: Woman stabbed by stalker despite asking police for help

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  garymalmgrenMay. 12, 2013 - 03:59PM JST

  Wanderlust I can understand your frustration.

  However there are some sticky problems that need to be overcome before rebuilding on higher ground can commence. Firstly, the land has to be purchaced. Almost all of the owners are dead or missing. All of the land deeds and titles have been destroyed.

  If you have any constructive suggestions for dealing with this first step within the framework of the existing Japanese legal system, I think you should write them down and send then to the Onagawa town office. I am sure they will appreciate you input.

  A visit to the area might also deepen your understanding of the problems.

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  garymalmgrenMay. 05, 2013 - 01:03PM JST

  Off you go Sea Shepard.

  Iceland should be a pushover after all the experience that you have had with Japan. A lot of money to raised in Europe to suport the cause, too.

  Posted in: Iceland to resume disputed fin whale hunt in June

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  garymalmgrenApr. 30, 2013 - 11:40AM JST

  Abbott Diagnostics, which makes an HIV test, Buy shares NOW

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  garymalmgrenApr. 21, 2013 - 10:18AM JST

  Just exaclty how does one re-enact the bombing of a city?

  Posted in: Hiroshima A-bomb re-enactment dropped from U.S. air show

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  garymalmgrenJan. 24, 2013 - 06:16PM JST

  Burn, baby, burn.

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  garymalmgrenDec. 30, 2012 - 10:46AM JST

  Dear spudmarineincaeanted

  spudmanreincarnatedDec. 30, 2012 - 09:27AM JST

  No mention of the higher than normal child cancer (leukemia) rates in the (down wind) neighboring towns of Noheji and Tohoku?

  Could you please supply more information or references concerning the above quote. Yours gary

  Posted in: Nowhere to use Japan's growing plutonium stockpile

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  garymalmgrenDec. 14, 2012 - 06:14PM JST

  Those tires sound great. I think I'll buy one.

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  garymalmgrenDec. 14, 2012 - 06:10PM JST

  I'm not sure about "not making efforts engage" the youth of Japan. Just take a look at the photo. The guy behind Abe has a YELLOW sweater and has almost hidden his bald spot. I call that trying!!

  Posted in: Japan's alienated youth overlooked in elections

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  garymalmgrenDec. 09, 2012 - 08:28PM JST

  I have to admit that it is a bit early to judge at this stage. However, was the poor woman bullied and ridiculed by her colleagues over her mistake? Was she admonished by her superiors? What I mean to say is, are the DJ's solely the cause of this terrible incident or were there other factors that fed into it?

  Posted in: Australian media urge end to blame game in nurse tragedy

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  garymalmgrenOct. 07, 2012 - 08:30PM JST

  Excuse me for asking, basroil, but how do you know it was a black bear?

  And are you honestly suggesting that an 81 year old woman (or man) should punch a bear on the nose?

  But rest at ease. You don't really need be concerned about her climbing a tree to escape.

  Posted in: 2 people attacked by bear in Niigata

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  garymalmgrenOct. 06, 2012 - 04:55PM JST

  1. The population of bears was kept down mainly by hunters and occasionally by starvation, other bears and rare traffic accidents. As the rural population has aged the number of hunters has fallen dramatically. In the past, each village had one hunter or a relative who was a hunter who had the knowledge, dogs and suitable weapons to hunt bears. Bears were hunted for their skins, internal organs (for Chinese medicine) and their meat. Less hunters equals more bears. Bears are not in danger of extinction.

  2. Tranquilizing bears and returning them is not an option. You might have seen it on the tube, but that was for the cameras. As I mentioned, bears are territorial. If you drop a bear off somewhere, it will be run off by the owner of the territory (usually a mature female). It will then be forced to move downwards and will eventually turn up in someone's backyard (tagging and tracking have conclusively proved this). Putting bears into a zoo is not an option because mature bears cannot be caged together (especially females). If you have seen sluggish disinterested bears in a cage together in a zoo in Japan his or her food has been doped. Therefore very quickly you would fill up any vacant places available in zoos and have to start building bear prisons. A dead bear takes pressure of remaining bears by not competing for food. Unpleasant, but realistic. Gary

  Posted in: 11 bear sightings reported in Nagano City

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  garymalmgrenOct. 06, 2012 - 04:55PM JST

  I'd like to make a few clarifications concerning bears (pertaining to Japan as well as other places).

    1.   Japanese bears are extremely aggressive and dangerous.
  

  2. Japanese bears are extremely territorial. 3. The population of Japanese bears has exploded over the past 15 years. 4. Japanese kill bears because it is the only way to deal with the problem.

  1-2. Female bears select and protect territory for raising their cubs. Usually two cubs are born each season, so the number is increasing exponentially. The only predator to bears (especially cubs) is other bears. They take the cubs to be a future competitor (for mates, food or territory ) and eliminate them when they have the chance. The reason the bears have incredible olfactory senses is to detect other bears. Female bears especially will attack anything that enters her territory. The father of my daughter's schoolmate went to a local mountain to collect mountain vegetables. He parked his car in the Spring Valley Ski area car park and walked around to the back to open the trunk. A bear stepped out of the grass and swiped at him. The poor fellow lost half of his face and one eye. Even four years later the right side of his face is a weeping scar. Bears are dangerous.

  Posted in: 11 bear sightings reported in Nagano City

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  garymalmgrenAug. 24, 2011 - 05:35PM JST

  I was young many moons ago and my background is Anglo-French. After several months in splendid isolation,

  Why do I get the feeling that this was written by a computer program named Michel Le Bon?

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  garymalmgrenAug. 21, 2011 - 04:45PM JST

  Anyoneout there except me like, NANDEMO KANTEI DAN?

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  garymalmgrenAug. 18, 2011 - 10:37PM JST

  ****just watching the local shortboarders ripping up peeling inches is also a sight to be appreciated.

  First time I have ever heard anyone talk about waves with the term inches. I'm not so sure what to make of that.

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  garymalmgrenAug. 16, 2011 - 02:58PM JST

  I expect at least four more nuclear accidents here.

  Sorry Munya, but could you expand on that?

  Posted in: Radiation from Fukushima plant spiked on U.S. west coast in March

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  garymalmgrenAug. 13, 2011 - 09:46PM JST

  The list of victims (physical, psychological, and economic) of this disaster is potentially endless. It would seem that the government is trying to limit it and TEPCO's liability by the parameters that they have chosen. I personally think it unfair to families with young children who have evacuated out of concern for their chindren's (future) health. They and the forgotten others shoud be compensated.

  Posted in: Families who left radiation zone voluntarily ask TEPCO for compensation

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  garymalmgrenAug. 05, 2011 - 07:51PM JST

  He will NEAR the Fukushima Nuclear zone for how long? My guess is 45 minutes, but I have been wrong before.

  Posted in: U.N. leader to visit Fukushima nuclear zone

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  garymalmgrenJul. 31, 2011 - 07:52PM JST

  I was surprised that oceanic current harvesting wasn't mentioned. This is a proven technology and is used where ocean current flow is restricted and concentrated.i.e. the English Channel, the straits between Demark and Sweden and the straits of Gibraltar. The narrow channels in the Inland Sea, the straits between Japan and Korea and the Tsugaru strait between Honshu and Hokkaido make Japan a perfect place for this type of technonogy. The fishers will complain until they are told that they will get a share of the revenues from generated electricity. Many small generators mean units can be taken out of stream for maintainance. This is the system that has been on the Indus River and supplying 40 % of Pakistan's electricity until the flood last years. but that's another story

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