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| epona | Mar 13 2011, 10:57 PM Post #56 |
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After watching CNN tonite, they mentioned a Youtube channel - Citizenship. Then I just got to looking at youtube channels. Didn't really know they were there :$ Found some with Japanese names under News and just started looking at what they had. All foreign language, but hey, pics are universal. Saw one in a snowy region and they were showing (no tsunami stuff in this one) hill landslides, roads cracked off and traintracks without land under them and snowy hillsides with large cracks seen through the snow and some snowslides of course. People are so calm there, very, very reserved. How different from here, where people are loud and in your face. Wish I had grown up in that culture. So many beautiful traditions. I need see on the news where they say Japan has had to move their GPS markers, that Japan has shifted over 8 feet. Another place said 10 ft. Interestingly saw another vid where this guy was talking in English (lived over there) and was showing a vid of his vid from there where local authorities had posted a pic of the earthquakes, where and how big. It had TWO big ones a couple minutes or so apart, not one. And he said, oh, surely this is an error because they only announced one. Maybe that is why they had so many tsunami waves. As usual, nobody is being told the whole story. On CNN they had "The Science Guy" on there and he was explaining nuclear issues and what it really meant, and you could tell he was being very honest and above board about what stuff meant, and they cut him off with something else not important saying they would get back with him, which they did, but later. And then he was coached in his introduction to not scare the people!!!! He was on again tonite, had a similar introduction, but he just kept on telling the truth and they cut him off again with something else, and got back to him again and he had toned it down a little, got more general, but he still was trying to tell people everything. Not like the other talking heads they bring on their to do PR coverup for the atomic industry. |
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| yass | Mar 13 2011, 11:02 PM Post #57 |
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I lined up a couple of stories about the communications problem they were having, and also some human interest stories. Due to Tulip mentioning she'd ordered some potassium iodide tablets, then epona mentioning kelp (seaweed), then reading over an older post about "fun with potassium iodide for curing diseases; it's not just for post-nuke apokalypse" and noting something I'd posted about then promptly forgotten, where a site selling those tablets made a statement saying "WARNING--KI ( the other guy's product) causes cancer in lab animals-- In good faith you purchased KI to protect yourself and your family. Here is something you can do." then offering $5.00 off for trade in of their "Cancer causing" tablets from "the other guy". I then went to unitednuclear.com and on the page they offer the tablets, read the explanation of how they work and the statistics of those who did or didn't get this treatment after Chernobyl, and noted that United Nuclear is "Sold Out" of their tablets. When I was looking for information on the subject of Potassium Iodide, also known as KI, I ran across a reference to a plant that could detect radiation by changing color, and I began to research it and while doing so I ran across information about another product from nature that has organic iodine in it. I was way too tired to do anything but sleep after all that study. Will get to those subjects directly, I still have yet to get another element added to what I researched last night, meantime I will post the stories I had lined up. |
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| yass | Mar 13 2011, 11:27 PM Post #58 |
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Japan's phone networks remain severely disrupted March 12, 2011 04:56 AM ET IDG News Service - More than a day after a massive earthquake and subsequent tidal wave slammed Japan, the country's telecommunications services remain severely disrupted. Cell phone service across a wide area of eastern Japan is either unavailable or it remains difficult to make connections. Many calls to phones in the affected region are either directed to voicemail or a recorded message: "This is NTT DoCoMo. Due to the earthquake, the area you are dialling is difficult to reach." To help alleviate the problems caused by destroyed or damaged cell phone towers, Japan's three major cellular carriers have sent mobile base stations to the region. The base stations connect to the telecom network via satellite and can provide coverage in the immediate surrounding area. Retail outlets of the cellular carriers are providing recharging services. In Tokyo, cell phone service is significantly more reliable than it was on Friday evening, but sometimes calls don't connect. Internet services appear to have been largely unaffected, although some websites are difficult to reach. Several WiFi hotspot providers have responded to the quake by offering free access through their networks. Softbank opened up its network, and access points that are part of the "Fon" network were also made free. Another provider, Livedoor, said its network would be free all weekend. Further disruption could be ahead. Tokyo Electric Power Co. says it could be forced to start rolling blackouts across eastern Japan in an attempt to maintain the electricity supply system. The halt of several nuclear power stations has hit the company's ability to generate power. Demand for electricity is expected to peak at 38 million kilowatts on Saturday evening, but supply is limited to 37 million kilowatts. Cell phone base stations are typically equipped with back-up batteries that should ensure a continuation of service. At least 600 people are reported to have been killed by the earthquake. http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9214261/Japan_s_phone_networks_remain_severely_disrupted?taxonomyId=16 Edited by yass, Mar 13 2011, 11:31 PM.
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| yass | Mar 13 2011, 11:34 PM Post #59 |
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Undersea communication cables broken after quake The China Post/Asia News Network Sun, Mar 13, 2011  Chunghwa Telecom yesterday said that the 8.9-magnitude earthquake off the coast of Japan has caused many submarine communications cables to break, adding that they are addressing the issue and will continue repairs to the cables until service returns to normal. The offshore earthquake caused the Asia-Pacific Cable Network 2 (APCN 2) to malfunction at 9:23 p.m. on Friday. This resulted in disrupted services on Chunghwa Telecom's HiNet 80G, which caused them to divert Internet traffic to 35G. Currently, the 45G - 30 per cent of HiNet services - has also reportedly been affected. The telecommunications service provider said it will continue to repair the cables to ensure quality reception and aims to fix the service by the end of this weekend. The earthquake and ensuing tsunami in Japan also caused international calls from Taiwan to Japan to increase by 40 times, although successfully connected lines were down to the single digits. With the telecommunication company's repairs underway, the successful call rate has been raised to 37 per cent, Chunghwa Telecom said. Service for Chunghwa Telecom clients calling from Taiwan to Japan had returned to normal by 3:58 a.m. yesterday. http://www.asiaone.com/News/Latest%2BNews/Asia/Story/A1Story20110313-267837.html |
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| yass | Mar 13 2011, 11:46 PM Post #60 |
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New Hub resident sobs for friends, family in peril Sunday, March 13, 2011 - Updated 7 hours ago  HEARTACHE FOR HOME: Kiyoe Funamoto holds her daughter Tohka, 2, and watches TV coverage of the Japan earthquake with her husband, Kenichi. Funamoto moved last month to Cambridge from Sendai, Japan, above, where the earthquake struck hard. Overwhelmed by images of ruin devastating her hometown in Japan, Kiyoe Funamoto’s heart is breaking for the family and friends she left a mere month ago for a life in Cambridge with her MIT professor husband, Kenichi, and young daughter, Tohka. “I was born in Sendai, and now it’s really damaged and we can’t go back home,’’ said a sobbing Kiyoe Funamoto, who has been frantically reaching out to loved ones in the city 80 miles from the epicenter of Friday’s earthquake. Sendai, a city of 1 million people, where police reportedly found 200 to 300 bodies on its beaches, was among the hardest hit. “I really miss my parents and friends. I want to help but I can’t do anything,’’ she said. “I am so far away and I have no choice. Everything is closed. We have no way to get to them.’’ The 37-year-old mom, who lived through a debilitating quake as a child, agonized over her inability to help this time. “When I talked to my parents, they said you are so lucky, but I couldn’t say, ‘Yes. I think so.’ I couldn’t say that because I (remember the last) Miyagi Prefecture earthquake when I was 5 years old,’’ she said. “And this time, it’s a more big disaster. Many people help me all the time, and this time, I can’t help them. “So I can’t do anything because now I live in Boston and they don’t have electricity, water, gas, but here, if I feel hungry I can cook, and I can eat, and I can take a nap or I can sleep on the bed, very warm. They need water they said.” Funamoto said the quake struck Japan about 3 p.m. in Sendai. She e-mailed her best friend, who had a house along the beach in Arahama, only a few miles from downtown Sendai. It was an agonizing seven hours before she got a reply. “I wrote ‘Are you OK. I’m very worried about you?’ And she e-mailed me ‘Only body is OK,’ ’’ she said. “Her house is located very near the coast. I just thought her house was destroyed by tsunami. She lost everything. Now I can’t help her and I can’t do anything for her. So if I have a chance to go back to Sendai, I wish help for her.” Kiyoe and Kenichi Funamoto said they are worried about another friend as well, Kaori Takuya, who previously worked with them at Tohoku University. She was at work at the university hospital in Sendai, and her husband was at the City Hall in Onagawa when the quake struck. Her husband has not been heard from since. “She tries to go back to Onagawa city to meet her husband, but she couldn’t go back to that city, because the road was closed and she stays at shelter near Sendai,’’ Kenichi Funamoto said. “We saw the picture of Onagawa city. The City Hall was destroyed by the tsunami. On the top of the building there is some garbage, things which are used for the sea. The building was washed by the tsunami.” Kiyoe Funamoto said pictures of the devastation on the news dredges up memories from her childhood. “I was born in Sendai. I was raised in Sendai. I love Sendai very much,” she said. “I couldn’t believe when I see destroyed Sendai on TV. Still now, maybe I want to think it’s a dream, it’s real. It happened in my hometown.” http://news.bostonherald.com/news/regional/view/2011_0313tragedy_hits_home_new_hub_resident_sobs_for_friends_family_in_peril/ |
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