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nandakandamanda
This article is not about the game or who won, or congratulations.
It's about the booing of an opponent's national anthem, by 50,000 people in unison.
Natural? Spontaneous? Stress relief? Forced? Nationalistic? Religious? Innocently free of international norms and expectations on how to behave in public?
To tell the truth, the Japanese National Anthem is soul-crackingly slow. Needs a bit more zing to it....
Posted in: Japan national anthem booed in N Korea at World Cup qualifier
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nandakandamanda
Agreed with smithinjapan. Right decision, wrong reason. But what zichi says is true too...
BTW the idea of having reactors like this in the SW, i.e. in the best position to carry poison on the prevailing winds all over Japan sticks in my craw.
In an accident we would all be stuffed. No silver lining. In a sense, Fukushima was one of the best places to have an accident, if you are going to have one, since much of the lethal cargo blew NE out to sea.
Posted in: Edano says gov't won't allow Kyushu Electric to restart 2 reactors at Genkai plant
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nandakandamanda
Maybe he couldn't come up with the goods again this year and had his empty truck stolen....
Posted in: U.S. fashion designer Jacobs hit by theft of entire spring-summer collection
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nandakandamanda
RIGHT!!! Who gave me a negative, and WHY??? Grrr....
;8)
Posted in: Last year, Japan exported 1.5 million vehicles to the United States, while U.S. automakers exported just 8,000. Why aren't U.S. makers selling more in Japan?
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nandakandamanda
8,000 Japanese with taste. 1.5 million Americans with no taste.
There, does that explain it?
Posted in: Last year, Japan exported 1.5 million vehicles to the United States, while U.S. automakers exported just 8,000. Why aren't U.S. makers selling more in Japan?
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nandakandamanda
Al Stewart, where are you living in Japan? Taxis everywhere run on natural gas and the infrastructure has been here for at least twenty or thirty years. Fully electric cars are admittedly not so common yet, but you would not probably notice one anyway. Ever seen a Nissan Leaf?
Hybrids are so common now that if you are waiting at the lights three out of ten cars will be some kind of gas/electric hybrid.
Agreed that the US is no longer swamped in gas-guzzlers! LOL
Posted in: Honda natural gas car wins LA green prize
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nandakandamanda
He collects the insurance money and gets free advertising. Win-win.
Posted in: U.S. fashion designer Jacobs hit by theft of entire spring-summer collection
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nandakandamanda
So hard to comment on this either way.
"What makes Syria different?" I am often asked.
What can the world community do to help?
Is "nothing" the right answer?
Posted in: Syria's president still has bulwark against foes
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nandakandamanda
Wow, Boris, are you one of 100 remaining Russian Aynur? Incredible!
I enjoyed the above article, having done some J-E translation recently. On one scholarly article of 20 pages I spent about 100 hours trying to get it just right. Nothing like computer-generated translation, it reads smoothly and easily. They compressed it into tiny format and it was printed within a book as 10 pages of English. The author's name and title featured prominently on it, and my name appeared in small writing with no title. I was offered 50,000 JPY for the work.
Luckily this time around there was little last-minute interference with my English, so for that at least I guess I should be grateful.
Translation is in my experience generally a hard grind with little to enjoy, though, as someone said above.
Posted in: The trouble with translating
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nandakandamanda
As Marcelito mentions above, they have discovered one ton of rice has already been sold on.
Also reported in NHK: http://www3.nhk.or.jp/daily/english/20111117_19.html
Posted in: Gov't eyes Fukushima rice ban after high level of cesium detected
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nandakandamanda
Wow, those PRK players were speedy.
Posted in: N Korea celebrates sweet revenge with 1-0 victory over Japan
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nandakandamanda
Just started reading the report provided by USNinJapan2. No need to finish it. Not my cup of tea. Thanks for the link.
Posted in: More victims in Penn State football pedophilia case come forward
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nandakandamanda
The headline needs the word 'possible' or 'alleged'. We are not yet a lynch mob. The article does not back up what the title proclaims.
Posted in: More victims in Penn State football pedophilia case come forward
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nandakandamanda
Well, if they have found 3,000 people to work night and day for 8 months in a potentially gene-changing environment, then this has to be one firm measure for congratulations. How many other countries could have done this without mass defections?
As the report is says, there is room for improvement. Perhaps the focus has indeed been too conservative, focusing on the round-about clean-up, but with less aggressive intrusion into the still very nasty areas.
Have Tepco learnt their lesson over the sea wall?
Granted the IAEA are there to make sure the whole world goes nuclear as smoothly and cleanly as possible, so they will naturally take a softly softly approach, but as summaries go, this report seems to be fairly objective.
The truth, though, is that the area is still a hugely intricate challenge and still massively polluted.
Posted in: IAEA praises Fukushima clean-up
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nandakandamanda
The ref did a good job trying to be absolutely fair in a potentially threatening atmosphere. It took courage. Respect.
Posted in: N Korea celebrates sweet revenge with 1-0 victory over Japan
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nandakandamanda
570 Gal? Huh? Some stress, not.
Kashiwazaki-Kariwa No 1 reactor was hit by 680 Gal East-West movement when they had that totally unexpected earthquake in... 1997(?)
Interesting read: http://cnic.jp/english/newsletter/nit119/nit119articles/kkearthquake.html
Posted in: Stress test results for nuclear power plant in Ehime released
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nandakandamanda
Some of those figures above I quoted wrongly.
Please read article here, and related articles below that. Interesting reading, regardless of whether true or not.
http://english.chosun.com/site/data/html_dir/2011/11/14/2011111400526.html
Posted in: Wary about Iran, Obama lobbies Russia and China
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nandakandamanda
Series of articles in Chosunilbo (English Edition) on line saying that there is an army of North Korean nuclear experts working at five sites in Iran. They slip in through China and Russia, avoiding the eyes of the international community. Iran has already paid North Korea 2 billion USD for enriched uranium. Nuclear physicists from Iran have visited North Korea every year since 2008, apparently. Sounds like it's a bit late...
Posted in: Wary about Iran, Obama lobbies Russia and China
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nandakandamanda
WilliB, your geography is a LITTLE off. ;8) Iran is way ESE of Europe.
Posted in: IAEA reports unusual radiation in Europe
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nandakandamanda
Hold it a sec.
When they reported fission had been happening in no 1 reactor at Fukushima in October, Xenon was being given off, but they definitely mentioned that the one thing you might expect, ie radioactive Iodine 131, had not been detected.
One reason given was that the low temperature reactions could mean that the Iodine was solidified.
Could Iodine have been given off and gone straight up and away over the Pacific, I wonder, to be picked up in Europe? I know the IAEA say it is not from Fukushima, but they gave no reason. How can they be so sure, unless they know something we don't...?
Posted in: IAEA reports unusual radiation in Europe