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nandakandamanda
Saw this on TV. Refreshing. The people seemed genuinely glad to have him there with them.
He must have been happy to be there in a purely spiritual role for once, not surrounded by politically motivated forces tugging him or pushing him this way and that..
Posted in: Dalai Lama visits disaster-hit area
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nandakandamanda
Not only Imagine. I bet John himself was bigger than she expected.
Posted in: Yoko Ono: 'Imagine' tune is bigger than expected
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nandakandamanda
It is the festival celebrating Abraham's near sacrifice of his son in proof of faith/obedience.
How far can a person twist a another's heart in the name of love, in the name of a Supreme Being??? How sick, how cynical is that? To murder a child?
Is there no limit to how far a person can stoop, where by force of will you can convince someone that evil is actually good, or vice versa?
Posted in: Mother of 9-year-old Iraqi suicide bomber arrested
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nandakandamanda
What some people would call a bouncy castle. The kid was trying to get out of it when he caught his finger in a torn section. Horrific and sad, but accidents do happen.
The department store have closed the thing and forbidden use of it, even though this is extemely unlikely to ever happen again.
Friend of mine was in stage lighting and slipped down a ladder, tearing off his little finger.
Posted in: 3-year-old boy loses finger playing on shopping center trampoline
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nandakandamanda
As soon as you hear a bomb blast do you drop to the gound and get ready to defend yourself? Perhaps there should be shallow trenches in town that people can roll into to escape such shooting sprees.
With heavy armaments, expensive RUVs, (paid for by whom?) to casually use in suicide bombings, and a thirst for killing, the armed wing of Boko Harama sounds real nasty.
Posted in: At least 67 dead in north Nigeria attacks
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nandakandamanda
It depends what you compare it to. Some months ago they were playing with a figure of 12%. Compared to that, then 10% seems like a bargain.
In Europe the figure is around 20%, which makes10% here seem cheap, but each time the Europeans increased it the hope behind the increase was betrayed by the reality, and more and more people find ways of not paying.
Did the introduction of a 3% Shohizei solve Japan's problems? No. Did an increase from 3% to 5% solve Japan's problems? No. Will an increase from 5% to 10% solve Japan's problems? Obviously not, but politicians love to change something, anything, while they are in office.
If they keep this system, perhaps they should make people pay gradually more by each age group, say 5% up to 39, 7.5% 40 to 49, 10% 50 to 59 and 12.5% over 60 or something.
But in reality Japan should decrease the Shohizei to 3%, or better still, scrap it altogether.
Posted in: Japan to double consumption tax to 10%, G20 action plan says
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nandakandamanda
John Becker, no, I was rephrasing tmtmsnb's post as unreconstructed could not understand it.
May I say that I think most people are racist. Most manage to keep it under control, some they let it out, and only the very rare ones maintain an innocent heart through adulthood.
These latter few are what give humanity hope, IMHO.
Posted in: Tiger Woods' former caddy in racist outburst
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nandakandamanda
Have we come to a time when if people ask you something you have to look around you before replying?
Posted in: Tiger Woods' former caddy in racist outburst
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nandakandamanda
Jannetto, have you met Margaret Thatcher?
Or the thousands of women throughout history who have felt compelled to lead their people to fight?
No? Well, not having met them does not mean they do/did not exist.
Anyway, Imagine is just fine if you want to imagine. It's just imagining, after all.
Posted in: Yoko Ono: 'Imagine' tune is bigger than expected
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nandakandamanda
Wow, quite a hum, I expect.
You'd need a lot of electricity to charge 1,981 shavers! Still, it sure saves on the old elbow.
Posted in: Most people shaving with electric shaver at one time set Guinness World Record
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nandakandamanda
Hahahahaha!!! ...“Do not wrongly pester and daunt anyone by the barrel of the gun,” the English language statement in Omar’s name said. “The mujahedeen have to take every step to protect the lives and wealth of ordinary people.”
Yeah, right. This hasn't bothered them at all so far, so why is he saying this now? New interpretation of the Qu'ran? An overlooked passage perhaps?
Besides, the Taliban probably don't speak much English.
Posted in: Don't kill civilians, warns Taliban chief
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nandakandamanda
Thank you Fadamor. 880 km sq is the size of New York.
Posted in: Giant crack glimpsed in Antarctic ice sheet
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nandakandamanda
Oh, they also said with such new unpredictability, cold shutdown by year's end now is now being given a yellow light...
Anyway, I think we should try and keep such JT articles above and threads like this one alive.
Today's headlines make it look as if the world has gone back to normal and humdrum, and we can all go back to sleep forever again.
Posted in: No uncontrolled chain reaction at Fukushima nuclear plant: TEPCO
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nandakandamanda
Just been reading some Japanese Mainichi news (Nov 3rd) that gives various experts' points of view as to what has been going on inside No. 2 reactor. Whatever it is, they reckon it is probably happening inside 1 and 3 as well, and it will be picked up by the gas measuring instruments to be installed there. The corium is lying under water, and this very water seems to be agitating the neutrons. Xenon is being given off by some fissive sparking, but the radioactive Iodine that should have been also released or picked up may be in a solid state as the temperature is low, they say. One expert says that Tepco is measuring the bottoms of the reactors, but we really do not know where the fuel itself has gone. Another says that Tepco needs to devote all their energy to containing and managing releases of radioactive material into the outside environment.
Since the introduction of the gas measuring system in No.2, the level of hydrogen gas has gone from 1% then to 2.7% by the end of October. At 4% there is danger of explosion, so they will start to reinject Nitrogen.
And lots more. If you read Japanese, have a look at this informative article: http://mainichi.jp/select/jiken/news/20111103k0000m040123000c.html?inb=yt
Posted in: No uncontrolled chain reaction at Fukushima nuclear plant: TEPCO
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nandakandamanda
An iceberg of 880 square kilometers? The size of Brazil? Something doesn't add up...
Posted in: Giant crack glimpsed in Antarctic ice sheet
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nandakandamanda
Hard to picture! ;8)
Posted in: Japanese artist, 100, donates works to U.S. college
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nandakandamanda
Ask who would benefit from knowing in advance what Japanese politicians are thinking...
Posted in: New cyberattack hits computers in Diet
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nandakandamanda
No, ssway, I don't think anyone is suggesting that the reactor fuel is in the open air, (except maybe bits of fuel rods spat out separately from the jiggled fuel pools).
When the rods melted inside the reactor, they dripped down and formed a lump of corium at the bottom of the reactor.
Some of that seems to have leaked out through the control rod slots and down onto the floor of the containment vessel, which surrounds the reactor and serves as a second line of defense.
The question that people are asking is how far the lower lump of corium may have eaten into the containment structure's solid concrete underneath. One third way through? No-one on site is suggesting that this second line has been breached, I believe.
Posted in: New fission suspected at Fukushima nuclear plant
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nandakandamanda
Elbuda, yes, I agree with you. It's an interesting angle and can help people to see things both ways.
BTW they were not drawing the "god of the Muslims", who is the same god of the Christians and the god of the Jews.
They were drawing a representation of Mohammed, who was, like Jesus, a human prophet who spoke about the existence of a single all-encompassing God.
The message on the hacked web page: "There is no god but Allah" means exactly the same thing. There is no God but God. There is only one God.
Unfortunately some people spend more time shouting it and less time understanding the true meaning...
Posted in: French satirical paper firebombed after publishing Mohammad cartoon
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nandakandamanda
Before this thread degenerates, may I just say that we need to keep our heads cool and do our best to keep abreast of what Tepco is discovering.
No one source of information will be the absolute truth, but by reading between the lines, an actual picture begins to emerge upon which we can make informed personal decisions.
infuri8's heart is in the right place, but lack of punctuation, one sentence running into another, and ideas jumping from here to there, runs the danger of starting to sound like conspiracy theorists. It loses the very audience it so desperately appeals to. Reminds me of me when I was younger! LOL
gonemad, quote "'Under 100 degrees' sounds fine, but what does it really mean? Where and how do they measure it? I haven't seen any report that confirms that TEPCO has finally managed to measure the temperatures inside the reactor vessels or at the bottom of the containments in a reliable way (or at all)."
Good question. From what I have read some of their reactor gauges were damaged by internal condensation in the high humidity and needed replacing. Presumably these are working since critical decisions are made on the reactor temperatures.
As to whether they can measure the temperature at the bottom of the containment vessels, the lack of such figures on yesterday's diagram raised a question mark in my mind. Did they foresee a need to have gauges there? If not, can they get underneath it to install such? I wonder what is running through their minds right now, and what is hidden behind the statement quoted by zichi above that they now feel a need to check No 1 and No 3 for the same type of phenomena.
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