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Lawyers force FSA to defend short-selling 'quick fix'
Amazing! Less than a year into the investment banking and hedge fund caused economic meltdown that is the credit crunch we get a small move to regulate excess and the law firm defenders are out en masse to defend the players that have caused this.
Greed is NOT GOOD.
The lending policies of these investment banks and hedge funds needs to change and it is quite clear that they won't do this via self-regulation. Where have all the principles gone? It is time to stop this self serving elite destroying the economy for the rest of us.
Unprecedented for the FSA to bring out new rules?
Without consultation.. Not so Mr Buckingham, you need to look at the extra 6 months given to complainants on 1st June 2005, it contravenes Article 6 but do they care?
Right on Ricky Bobby!!!
"The goal of the Bavarian Illuminati started by Weishaupt was to secure power and wealth without industry through the manipulation of lending/usury. This organisation now run by the banker elite is said to have controlled history from the American Revolution to the present day" so said a leading conspiracy theorist in his seminal work on the Illuminati. The magic circle are so far up the backsides of the banks as to be tainted utterly in their purported indignation. Democracy? Where is the conscience of the banks in lending at rates far above what the market says they should be. Why would we support a rule that would suffocate that market still further. This is not capitalism it is institutional socialism of the very worst sort.
What are all these City lawyers complaining about? This seems standard government practice nowadays.
The Public Law Outline was scheduled for publication in October 2007 for implementation on 1 April 2008. In the event it was published on 25 January 2008, but the Ministry of Justice refused to consider any delay in implementation.
The Public Law Outline in itself appears to be a sensible reform, but it does impose significant changes to social work practice and to the conduct of care proceedings. The only coverage I've seen relates to the abrupt reduction in the numbers of care proceedings being issued around the country causing problems to solicitors in private practice. This should come as no surprise to anyone old enough to remember the implementation of the Children Act 1989 in October 1991. I suggest that late publication will only have exacerbated such reductions.
Local authorities now have to comply with the new requirements imposed by the Public Law Outline before issuing care proceedings. Having only found out what those new requirements are 9 weeks before implementation, it will take local authorities time to comply. An example of the new requirements imposed is for local authorities to have procured any necessary expert assessments before proceedings are issued, when previously they would have been obtained on joint instructions during the proceedings. I suggest that the six months originally promised by the Ministry of Justice would have been a difficult target to hit.
To rush implementation in this way at a time when dramatic reductions in public funding for legal advice to parents and children and dramatic increases in court fees are being imposed really does make one think that the Ministry of Justice aren't really all that bothered about how the Public Law Outline actually works in practice.
Getting back to the point...
Moving on from institutional socialism and the Childrens Act (Que???)...Can't the FSA communicate anything adequately?
"The greatest trick the Devil ever played was to convince the world that he does not exist" Seeing political events as isolated unrelated items is not getting back to the point it is missing the point. The way these things happen without opposition is by allowing them to be dealt with piecemeal (such that they creep up on society unawares or without challenge)... so I think the Public Law point is well made. The underlying agenda goes on at a creeping pace while idiots sleep justice weeps!


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I still love Ghostcrawler and may STILL wish to be the bearer of his progeny but... I wish I understood what he was saying there about BM and ICC 25 man gear.
I THINK I heard that the BM gap won't be filled unless we are getting the kind of drops we get from the 25 end game? Am I wrong there?
At the very least that gives me even more hope for cataclysm as a BM hunter. :)
/happy panda dance of hope... Crush if you wish. ;-p
MusedMoose said...
That's what it seemed like GC was saying, and honestly, I'm a bit put off. My hunter is BM-specced, 'cause I couldn't see her as anything else, and I didn't know that BM was pretty much the worst endgame spec until she was already in her 70s. I really don't like the idea of BM only being competitive with the other two specs if my hunter's in absolutely top-of-the-line gear, which is something that won't happen - I'm not a raider, and I'd have to quit my job and dedicate myself to WoW full-time to even think of seeing ICC-25 before Cataclysm comes out.
Grr. Arg.
For BM to compete in bleeding-edge content (ICC hardmodes), you'd need really kickass gear to make up for the fact that gear here tends to have a lot of armor pen on it, which is a particularly good stat for marks but not so much for BM; but at lower levels of progression BM is still competitive - at least, that's what I got from the statement (I would hope someone will correct me if I'm wrong on that).
Personally, I'm in emblem-purchased T9 gear and ICC-5 stuff, and I'm able to consistently match equally geared SV hunters in nonheroic normal-mode 10-mans. We're usually battling for #1 and #2 on the meters. (A marks hunter might kick both our butts, but I can't say since we don't have one in our group.) So in non-heroic normal modes, at least, you should be able to do fine, although admittedly it will be a bit more difficult than it was in BC. :)
(I like parentheses.)
@Dreyja: Sorry to crush, but this is what has happened in every previous expansion;
1. In the first raid instance everyone complains that hunters are doing too much damage.
2. Hunters get nerfed. To the ground, baby.
3. Over the course of the rest of the expansion they slowly get buffed back up, until by the end they're top of the dps tree again.
4. A new expansion is annnounced.
5. Go to 1.
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@MutedMoose: If you're not the kind of person who's likely to be in top tier gear, then don't sweat it. I'm a BM hunter and I'm frequently at the top or second in the DPS list when I'm doing heroics. This who number-crunching which spec is best game is a game for those who are going to be getting that top tier gear. For most of us, it really doesn't make that much difference. All three specs are more than viable for anything but the very bleeding edge of raiding.


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Let me get this straight, Zimmerman built Men's Wharehouse from the ground up based on his knowlege and hardwork, yet these indoctrinated college idiots who never built a business know better than Mr. Zimmerman, how pathetic…
Zimmerman is an egotistical control freak – time for him to retire…
Mr. Zimmerman, your letter displays your professionalism and grace under fire. These straits are characteristics which The Men's Wearhouse was established. Best wishes in your next endeavor.
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I feel bad for Mr. Zimmer. But the Men's Warehouse is WAY over priced, so maybe this is the beginning of the end for them? Really nice sales people working there (from personal experience) but crazy over priced. Why pay those prices when you can get better deals at Macy's, Kohl's or Penny's?
"I encourage you to stay focused on serving your customers and maintaining your jobs. Please do not concern yourselves with my well-being at the risk of your own."
Brilliant!! This is leadership.
Honesty I am gong to miss " you are going to like the way you look," with that smokey brandy sounding voice.
He is the Earl Scheib of men's suits:
George was the real deal. There are only two products in my life I've purchased because a spokesperson told me to. Edie Adams sold me Muriel cigars and George Zimmer sold me nice clothes. So long, Men's Wearhouse.
I'm willing to bet there's an accounting scandal in this and Zimmer likely orchestrated it. This letter is just a pr gimmick to get out ahead of the story.
Watch, you'll see.
Accounting error bull TP, I worked for George and he is the real deal with dealing with customers and employees. You can google his profile how he created the company, lot of hard work and sweat equity.
You'll see.
In an era where so many corporations are facing executive change, it's amazing that many are still forgetting an essential principle when replacing senior leaders: guiding the exit. Mr. Zimmer's well-crafted letter is a sensible, well-positioned approach to presenting his views. Men's Wearhouse, unfortunately, dropped the ball early and often in managing this news, likely eroding support from its customer base, associates, and the broader retail community. How it responds to this latest salvo will be interesting.
The one-sidedness of the letter and the unexplained radical reversal of the board makes it seem likely that there is more to the story. Probably much more. Whoever gets the first shot out to the public frames the story and that's what this one smells like. As Dino says, we'll see.
The one-sidedness of the letter and the unexplained radical reversal of the board makes it seem likely that there is more to the story. Probably much more. Whoever gets the first shot out to the public frames the story and that's what this one smells like. As Dino says, we'll see.
You didn't build that…so who cares. It's cute that you think you actually had something to do with your own success.
Its nice to see that there's a businessman out there who can write an informative letter and keep it short. Nicely done George.
you didn't build that. come on. we all know that bridges and sidewalks and mailmen and garbage collectors built that for you.
No one in business is irreplacable. The moment one forgets this, they usually get replaced.
George, you got a chance to publicly fire one back at the people that fired you. That's more than 99.99% of us get when it happens. Think real hard whether then last 20 people you fired got an entirely fair deal. No decent manager gets it right 100%. Them's the breaks. The market will show you are right or wrong. Now move on and put your energy to something useful.
It's all Bush's fault!
Everyone knows that it takes a village to build a company. Shame on you George for trying to take credit for the success of Men's Warehouse. (By the way, please, please, please vote for me in 2016. LOL)
Start another company George. I have a feeling a lot of the MW employees will follow you. You can do it because you did it before. I know exactly where you are coming from.
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Who Was Godzilla?
Bryan Preston at PJ's Tatler argues that the fictional Godzilla could well be a symbol for Mt Fuji, the 12,000 foot perfect cone that towers over the Kanto plain. The plain upon which Tokyo is built is itself comprised partly of flows from the volcanoes which surround it, like Mt Hakone and Fuji itself. Fuji, when it erupted, devastated all before it. It has lain quiet. But for how long? Godzilla, in Preston's view, could stand for all the natural disasters which have menaced Japan throughout its glorious and tragic history.
Whether it's from typhoon, tsunami, earthquake or volcano, or some combination of those, the history of Japan is replete with cycles of building, flourishing, destruction and eventual rebirth. This cycle is so ingrained in the culture that I've often wondered whether the Godzilla (Gojira) and other kaiju films owe some of their inspiration to it. Massive monster of mysterious origins menaces Japan, crushes the capital city, and usually meets an end that guarantees that the monster or its offspring will be back at some point.
Tom Miller, on the other hand, believes that Godzilla explicitly represents the terrible mysterious dangers which the outside world, specifically the United States, represents to Japan. That force is at once irresistible and yet unable to conquer the Japanese people. Miller writes:
Godzilla's very name emphasizes the monster's foreign nature. Gojira, as he is called in Japan, has his name spelled in katakana, the written characters used in Japan to represent foreign words. The katakana rendering could easily have been written as the hiragana spelling instead. The course of Gojira follows the war in the Pacific as seen from the eyes of an ordinary Japanese. At first, there are reports of ships sunk, representing Japan's naval defeats and the destruction of its merchant marine fleet by US submarines. The government debates releasing this news, just as the wartime government heavily censored the reports of such defeats as Midway. The ship losses are disturbing, but not immediately threatening. Then Godzilla emerges on Oda Island, which stands for all the islands lost to the US, in particular Okinawa, the closest. Godzilla/US now threatens Japan directly. The monster's attack on Tokyo mirrors the destruction wrought by the US Air Forces. Japan's armed forces are helpless against the power of Godzilla. Japan's fighter planes drive back Godzilla temporarily, but clearly without harming the kaiju. Unlike the real war, this allegorical one ends with a Japanese victory as Dr. Serizawa's kamikaze attack in Tokyo Bay destroys the enemy. Yet the real threat presented by the US was not defeated and continued to be depicted in subsequent films.
But as with anything that lasts for more than two generations, Godzilla itself changed within the Japanese legendarium. Godzilla became a protector of sorts, saving the Japanese homeland from other beasts, like Ghidrah and Rodan, representing China and Russia. But it was indifferent to Japan; it's chief virtue lay in its ability to neutralize the other threats which inevitably arose. Godzilla evolved from being a purely Japanese, postwar symbol into one which expressed the balance of forces in the Cold-War world.
Over time, Godzilla's symbolic role began to change, representing different perspectives of Japan's relationship with the US. Increased acceptance of the US as Japan's friend and ally, coupled with an increasing identification of Godzilla as a Japanese symbol would ultimately lead to a role reversal for the kaiju. In Ghidrah, the Three-Headed Monster (Sandai Kaiju: Chikyu Saidai No Kess 1964) a new threat arises: China, which had recently exploded its first atomic bomb, thus entering the ranks of the superpowers. The view of Japan depicted in Ghidrah is that of a tiny nation surrounded by large, dangerous ones. Again, Mothra represents the resources of the Pacific used in Japan's defense. Mothra will help Japan immediately upon request although such help is no longer sufficient by itself. Japan's infant military status vis a vis the nuclear powers is emphasized by the depiction of Mothra throughout the film in the larval stage. Godzilla continues to represent the US, while Rodan assumes the role of the USSR.
But the Cold War is over. And the monster may now have come to mean something else. If America was Godzilla, has the scaly beast fallen on hard times? Or has it simply been eaten or replaced by an even greater monster: Tyrannosaurus Debt? As a percentage of GDP, Japan's public debt is exceed only by Zimbabwe. Fortune writes that the Japanese government must now struggle to find reconstruction funds without increasing its already monumental borrowings.
Like the oil spike that roiled markets in recent weeks, Friday's quake offers yet another reminder of how vulnerable aging, slow-growing, debt-burdened economies are to a shock even in what is supposed to be a period of global economic expansion.
"Japan's economic recovery has lost momentum and a large part of the reconstruction costs will add to the government's significant debt burden," writes Julian Jessop at Capital Economics. He writes that the disaster could make it even more painful for the latest Japanese government to take long overdue action to produce a plan that would put spending on a more sustainable track.
Economists responding to the news of the quake focused mostly on two issues: how bad the damage stands to be, and how big a burden rebuilding stands to impose on an already stretched nation.
Because it is not as if Tyrannosaurus Debt is ravaging Japan alone. It is rampaging internationally. The Sydney Morning Herald notes that the earthquake disaster comes at a time when governments and economies are struggling all over the world. China is now showing definite signs of slowing down and the blow to one of its major trading partners cannot help but darken its prospects. And what is worse, China's economic slowdown does not seem to be dampening internal inflation.
It was the last and in human terms most serious of a series of developments in Europe, the Middle East and Asia that have undermined confidence this week, and it will be a factor at least until the extent of the damage caused by the quake and the tsunami it triggered is known: markets thrive on certainty. The exact opposite is created by a massive quake in the world's third-largest economy, on the cusp of a weekend shutdown.
Reasons to flee the sharemarkets are ganging up on investors who have been holding on since the downturn began three weeks ago, in the belief that the global economy is still building momentum.
Before the Japan quake, China had posted its biggest trade deficit for seven years in February, even as inflation ran at 4.9 per cent, well above China's target of 4 per cent for 2011.
Those were bad numbers for the markets, because they suggested that China's economy had slowed, yet still failed to ease inflationary pressure. And for the skittish investors, it would now also be bad news if China used the many levers at its disposal to more aggressively bring inflation down.
But it is not Tyrannosaurus Debt we fear. It is something else. Something perhaps caused by the Big Money Eating guy, but altogether different. As in the original Godzilla movie, a mysterious series of sinkings and catastrophes seems to be manifesting itself all over the world. The "series of developments in Europe, the Middle East and Asia" may be harbingers of something else, "some rough beast, its hour come round at last" which we await, with bated breath, to finally show itself, as if some sequence of events is drawing itself together and we are waiting for the curtain to go up. What will this Godzilla finally prove to be, this monster that stalks our nightmares? We liked Godzilla better in the fifties: simple, scaly and only city-sized, when all he wanted to do was flatten the Tokyo Tower; today it may have mutated into something planet sized. But we will take whatever comes.
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1. Blast From the Past
Personally I always wanted to date the little princesses. Godzilla was a bigger guy than Raymond Burr, The Beast That Ate the Scene.March 11, 2011 - 12:31 pm Link to this Comment
2. Michael
When I was in Tokyo I stayed at the Diamond Hotel. From there it is an easy walk to the Tokyo Radio Tower. It really exists.
When I first saw it I turned around half expecting to see Godzilla trundling up the road.
The Japanese people are in my prayers.March 11, 2011 - 12:53 pm Link to this Comment
3. blert
The Economist Magazine had a nice squib on Godzilla.
The creature was created by an uncle for his niece immediately after the Japanese surrender. He created the entire story line to explain to the tykes that the terrible fire breathing monster that all of Japan could not ward off has left and gone home. There will be no more fire. (bombing)
Very quickly the neighbors wanted their children to hear the wonderful tale and so it became more embellished.
Finally he was prevailed to have his tale published and it became an instant classic in Japan.
A better Binger than I can pull up his name.
The long and the short of it is that Godzilla is the USAAF in the year 1945.
I'm surprised that more people don't know about Godzilla. He has made various re-appearances over the years. He's so scary that his masters are afraid to let him off the leash.
Cheers.March 11, 2011 - 1:20 pm Link to this Comment
4. bogie wheel
I have always subscribed to Godzilla as a U.S. allegory (first the fire-breathing destroyer, then defender of Japan from other super-monsters) ever since I saw the Raymond Burr-ized Godzilla film on TV as a kid.
The photos of the tsunami that show masses of fire amidst the incoming wave reminded me of the accounts of the Johnstown Flood, with that horrendous inferno at the Stone Bridge. To burn to death in the middle of a watery grave … well, either there is a sovereign God more wise than we can ever appreciate in whose plan all cruelties, natural and man-made, will be remedied … or else existence is all one big obscene exercise in pointlessness. I don't really see much room for in-between philosophies.
BTW, what happened to that dude's hair at 1:36?March 11, 2011 - 1:58 pm Link to this Comment
5. rickl
4. bogie wheel
That's exactly what I thought, too–the Johnstown Flood. That was sort of a man-made tsunami, actually.March 11, 2011 - 2:12 pm Link to this Comment
6. Subotai Bahadur
Last night I and my family were more concerned with the safety of a nephew and his family who are on southern Honshu, and with watching the devastation unfold near Sendai. Family is safe and unharmed, one grandniece felt the quakes being farther north at a soccer event, but otherwise no problem there. Now there is time to think of the implications of the damage.
1) There is the matter of the loss of lives and property. As of an hour ago, they were saying 88,000 missing and hundreds known dead. After watching the tsunami come ashore, I fear that almost all the missing are lost, and there are probably an equal number that we do not know about.
2) Our Navy is on the way. The REAGAN Battle Group was en-route to Korea and has been re-routed to Japan.
3) The damage is probably going to be ¥ billions. After the rescue, comes the reconstitution. The Japanese economy is the best case we can hope for in the future. Yeah, that bad. And it is going to get worse. A large portion of the loss is going to have to be covered by an insurance and financial industry that does not have it. In the last few months, Japanese banks and insurance industry has been investing heavily in the European sovereign debt equivalent of junk bonds. Last I looked, Greek 2 year bonds were paying a 17% return in the unlikely event that they can be redeemed. Such redemption is dependent on being able to sell more bonds to roll the debt over. The whole Greek thing, in Spain, Portugal, Ireland, and Italy [as a beginning] is underpinned by German guarantees extorted by the EU.
The Japanese companies holding those bonds need to dump them for ready cash, which will destroy the EU bond market. The PIIGS countries stand a good chance of being forced into the defaults have been dodging for years. Which means that the German banks will be left on the hook, as will the EU. The quake off of Honshu may end up leveling the financial districts of Berlin and Brussels; and destroying the Euro.
3) Just in time supply chains are a two edged sword. Around the world, and especially here; how many custom components needed for manufacturing are only available from Japan, and how many of those are not available either because the source has been destroyed, utilities are down, or because the transportation system to move it is not operational for an extended time? What effect will that have on production of items here and elsewhere, along with jobs? What secondary effects?
And while the transportation and utilities are down, how will parts needed in Japan going to be able get to where they are needed for the factories still operating? What ripple effects will it have on their economy?
If we are using the same measures as during the "Great Depression", we are in a Depression. And we are simultaneously in the middle of a worldwide shortfall of food grains.
I believe that the concepts of tipping points and overflowing engagement queues have been mentioned here before.
Subotai BahadurMarch 11, 2011 - 3:02 pm Link to this Comment
7. toadold
The night time thermite bombing of Japan was pretty horrific. One of those thermite bombs could land on the roof of a concrete building and burn through floor by floor until it hit the basement. IIRC it could do that to a ten story building. Firestorms would form that would suck up all the oxygen and bake water out of canals and ditches. They found dried up canals full of dead bodies of people who had jumped into the water that had been there. The bombing planners would evaluate the after raid photos then mark up for the next raid. They were burning strips through the city, not so gradually erasing it. In one conversation the photo interpreters were reporting that the Japanese were tearing down wide swaths of the city in attempts to provide fire brakes. One planner said, "Hey we'll just help them out with that and extend the swaths they have started." Times were hard back then and hatreds deep.
You can still find inhabitants of Tokyo with severe burns from that period.
On a personal note, I've been ticked and now I'm even further pissed about the inflation of the dollar. It means my pittance of charity money is buying even less in South Korea.
With all the major countries seemingly suffering from the results of over borrowing the assets to deal with major catastrophes just isn't there, dang it. We can rig aircraft carriers for humanitarian purposes, to supply, power,water, communication, search and rescue, but that will take them out of combat positions and right now times are dicey.
Did I mention that I don't like the Obama administration?March 11, 2011 - 3:03 pm Link to this Comment
8. shropshirelad
I know he grew out of the cold war, but I can't help feeling Godzilla is the landscape of Japan, both psychological and physical. I remember thinking that after walking through some of the highly cultured gardens of Kyoto. Such a tightly controlled sense of beauty, such a highly mannered language and such ornate social customs must conceal some terrible monsters. Civilizations are shaped by the lands where they originate as much as they shape the lands perhaps.March 11, 2011 - 3:16 pm Link to this Comment
"Godzilla's very name emphasizes the monster's foreign nature. Gojira, as he is called in Japan, has his name spelled in katakana, the written characters used in Japan to represent foreign words. The katakana rendering could easily have been written as the hiragana spelling instead."
Gojira is a combination of "gorira" (gorilla) and "kujira" (whale).
I think the katakana is used not for it's "foreign-ness" but because it's a neologism. Just a guess.
More here:
Most kaiju names use katakana.March 11, 2011 - 3:19 pm Link to this Comment
10. wretchard
A second earthquake of intensity 6.6 has hit the other side of Japan in the area of Nagano.
A series of powerful earthquakes hit an inland area northwest of Tokyo early Saturday, each measuring 6 on the Japanese seismic intensity scale of 7 in Nagano Prefecture, the Japan Meteorological Agency said.March 11, 2011 - 3:21 pm Link to this Comment
11. Cowboy
I was taught in college that Godzilla represented the evils of nuclear weapons. Since the Japanese were the only people against whom such devices were used, they posses "heightened consciousness" on this issue. There clearly was an implication that Americans, who dropped the bombs, were possessed of evil. Godzilla himself was portrayed as a mutation of nature, a creature born from the environmental damage the dastardly US Navy was doing in the Pacific with all of its nuclear experimentation. Godzilla was a direct outcome of human, and American in particular, evil. So the profs ate it up. They never did explain how Godzilla became a good guy in the end, shockingly. Wretchard's breakdown is far more compelling.
The impact of the earthquake on the European bond market certainly seems like something to consider. The Spanish just trotted out some big numbers they'll need to support their banks, Greek austerity has proven to be elusive, Portugal's in an impossible situation in the bond markets, and Ireland just "threw the bums out." On top of this, in two weeks the Germans look set to oust Merkel's band in the elections in favor of those who declare unwillingness to continue generousity to "the periphery".
Pile on $100 barrels of oil, food inflation announced in China yesterday at 11% last month, and add in a potential 3 Mile Island Re-Run, and life's a bowl of monkeys.
No wonder Obama has been fantasizing about having another job.March 11, 2011 - 3:51 pm Link to this Comment
12. Bonzo
I only know about the old fake godzilla.
The new Godzilla is global warming, kkkeynesian economics, greenpeace, trader joe, unicorns, mutant unicorns who drink too much water….
Godzilla is not the gorilla in the room. Godzilla is the projection of all wrong. Is Godzilla reality?March 11, 2011 - 4:07 pm Link to this Comment
13. toadold
I'm thinking about the old joke on "waiting for the other shoe to drop."
The couple is in their apartment in bed waiting to go to sleep. Their upstairs neighbor comes in late and they wait to go to sleep until after he pulls off his shoes drops them. They hear the first one, "thump", then they hear the other one, "thump", then they turn out the light. Then they here a third "thump" and then no further sound. I feel like I'm waiting for "thump" number five.March 11, 2011 - 4:13 pm Link to this Comment
14. Doug
Major Japanese news networks Asahi TV and NHK are streaming their coverage of the Japan earthquake and tsunami online, free of charge.
NHK is streaming its broadcast at its website, www3.nhk.or.jp/nhkworld, and Asahi TV is broadcasting over Ustream at http://www.ustream.tv/channel/annnews.
AT&T said Friday that it has lifted the normal monthly subscription fee for the TV Japan channel its U-verse TV customers would otherwise pay for the next week, "so they can keep up with the latest news and recovery efforts," said Karla Enriquez, an AT&T spokeswoman.
The wireless carrier is also removing any text-message fees for AT&T cellphone users who text dontations to the Red Cross efforts in Japan, Enriquez said.March 11, 2011 - 4:34 pm Link to this Comment
After Desert Storm the were some interesting attitudes concerning the USA on display in Japan. One Japanese lady was quoted as saying the USA was frightening, "The United States is a very powerful country. If it decided to destroy us, what could we do?" While on the other hand, some Japanese put up a banner in Tokyo "USA is Number One!"
This brings to mind the curious observation of a US reporter in Japan at the time of the 50th anniversary of the attack on Pearl Harbor. He said that the Japanese seemed to regard the 7 Dec attack as just another bombing raid in a war. However they seemed to draw no linkage between their attack and the US bombing of Hiroshima. The Hiroshima attack was a horribly tragedy, "analogous to an earthquake" not something that followed logically from 7 Dec 1941.
People sometimes seem to be unable to see cause and effect, like those who can't see how the CRA did so much to lead to the financial crash or that stopping drilling for oil leads to both higher fuel prices and food shortages. But I wonder if entire nations can be afflicted by such a delusion. It would seem so.March 11, 2011 - 4:40 pm Link to this Comment
16. maz2
"However, Danny Eudy, a 52-year-old American technician at the plant, told his wife that he and other workers were "waiting to be rescued, and they're in bad shape," she said to The Associated Press by phone.
Eudy called his wife after the ordeal and told her the quake shook the plant violently.
"Everything was falling from the ceiling," she said, and then the tsunami hit the area."
"Emergency declared at two Japanese nuclear plants"
"Date: Fri. Mar. 11 2011 7:20 PM ET"
"Chernobyl, My Primeval, Teeming, Irradiated Eden"
"Twenty-five years after the Soviet-era meltdown drove 60,000 people from their homes in the Ukraine, a rebirth is taking place inside the exclusion zone. With Geiger counter in hand, the author explores Europe's strangest wildlife refuge, an enchanted postapocalyptic forest from which entirely new species may soon emerge."
"THE WILD BOAR IS STANDING 30 OR 40 yards away, at the bottom of a grassy bank, staring right at me. Even from this distance I can see its outrageously long snout, its giant pointed ears, and the spiny bristles along its back. It looks part porcupine, a number of shades of ocher and gray. And it's far bigger than I expected, maybe chest-high to a man. The boar is like some minor forest god straight from the wilderness, gazing wild-eyed at the strange spectacle of a human being. For a moment it seems to consider charging me, then thinks better of it. When it trots away, it moves powerfully, smoothly, on spindly, graceful legs twice as long as a pig's, and vanishes into the trees.
I climb back into our VW van, tingling all over. The sighting bodes well. I've come to what is being dubbed Europe's largest wildlife refuge in early July, when I knew spotting animals wouldn't be so easy. (Winter, with its scarcity of food and lack of foliage, makes them more visible.) And within a couple of hours I've ticked a wild boar off the list. Maybe luck is on our side.
But luck isn't our only obstacle to wildlife spotting here. This is northern Ukraine's Chernobyl Exclusion Zone, a huge area, some 60 miles across in places, that's been off-limits to human habitation since 1986. Even now, 19 years after the collapse of the USSR, nothing happens in this former Soviet republic without sheets of paper typed and stamped in quintuplicate. It took months of e-mails and phone calls to get permission to spend a few days here. Yes, we're only a couple of foreign vagabonds—photographer Rory Carnegie is an old travel buddy of mine from England—but we have cameras and a telephoto lens, and my notepad has lines in it: obviously we're spies. The Soviet Union may have died, but the Soviet mind-set has not."
http://outsideonline.com/adventure/travel-pf-201103-chernobyl-wildlife-refuge-sidwcmdev_154483.htmlMarch 11, 2011 - 4:46 pm Link to this Comment
17. maz2
Left eco-warmistas never say, "without loss of one life at Three Mile Island".
"It could take hours more for the metal surrounding the ceramic uranium fuel pellets in the fuel rods to melt, which is what happened at Three Mile Island. That accident essentially frozen the nuclear industry for three decades."
http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/03/12/us-japan-quake-nuclear-us-analysis-idUSTRE72B04C20110312March 11, 2011 - 5:06 pm Link to this Comment
18. bogie wheel
shropshirelad @ 8:
Civilizations are shaped by the lands where they originate as much as they shape the lands perhaps.
Well, I think this topic has come up before on BC and the Clubbers chimed in with their usual well-thought thoughts re: geography and national character.
In this regard the Japanese have often struck me as being quite opposite from Americans. We like our space (frontier), and we tend to super-size almost everything. The Japanese OTOH go in the opposite direction, close-quartered and miniaturized in art & architecture & toys. Sumo wrestlers, I do not know how they fit in! (literally or figuratively)
That's why Godzilla never struck me as being a "Japanese" monster in the sense of representing some dark side of Japan. If he were the size of a teacup, had exquisite manners and still breathed fire & hurled laser beams with utter ferocity, THEN I would say, ahhh, now *there* is a *Japanese* monster.
I don't know how the Japanese mentality could ever conceive of itself as anything gigantic, what with having China as a next-door neighbor.
Hmmm. Something to think about, at any rate.
Subotai @ 6:
88,000 missing? Do you have any cites on this number?
I have been trying to find stats and the highest account for "missing" I've been able to find was via France24.com, which had a headline of "Hundreds killed, thousands missing" and in the article itself said "earthquake and tsunami that likely killed at least 1,000 people."
I remember distinctly the news reports in the aftermath of the 2004 tsunami. The first day the estimate was around 5,000 dead; the next day, 25,000; the day after that, 75,000; the day after that, more than 100,000. It wasn't until around day six that the true immensity of that event began to be reckoned. Some people were screaming about why international aid had not responded IMMEDIATELY with everything available. The answer was, nobody knew how bad it was for several days. We were talking about some very, very remote (in terms of access & communications) areas on the planet.
This time around, since the location of the event is Japan, a very "connected" country, hopefully we will know sooner what we are dealing with in terms of scale and damage.
19. Firecapt
#7 Toadold, Thermite bombs were used to some extent, but the vast majority of the incendiaries used by LeMay's bomber streams were small napalm bombs, the M-69. (video) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5G9yRRj_Bp4 There were variations on the M-69, some with delayed fuse fragmentary or white phosphorus charges to dissuade firefighters. (As if hundreds of thousands of them raining from the sky would not be enough.)
The scenes from the original movie of Godzilla walking through the flaming ruin of tokyo clearly were designed by someone who knew about firestorms.
20. Agoraphobic Plumber
My crystal ball has been broken since 2008, when I really thought we were going into a death spiral. I figured at that time that sometime in 2009 there would be riots in the streets of the US and a breakdown of transportation at the very least. The Powers That Be have done an absolutely MASTERFUL job of keeping most of the balls in the air since then.
But in 20 years when we look back on this time, does anyone else get the feeling that this quake could very well end up being a huge black swan? Like, meeting or exceeding the scale of 9/11? I was struck earlier today by the same thought that W voiced here…it's definitely not going to be a good thing when a nation with such a huge debt has an event like this. It's really going to roil the markets in the coming weeks, I feel pretty confident of that.
Plus, maybe China will see an opportunity here either to cause trouble with Japan directly or via North Korea. Or maybe they'll take (are taking?) advantage of the confusion of the emergency to get their fingers into some forbidden pies elsewhere. It also, at least temporarily, takes part of the spotlight off of Libya, Egypt and friends. It might be an opportune time for one or more dictators to commit atrocities on a scale not seen yet in these revolutions.
The feeling of impending doom that I've been struggling with for 3 or 4 years is stronger than ever. Wish I had more money to stock up on some more guns, ammo, beans, rice, and stuff.March 11, 2011 - 5:32 pm Link to this Comment
21. Josh
I dunno, it's all the circle of life, creative destruction.
Many aspects of the US seem to be running down, but I think a large part of it is, because they can. It seems like each of our last N presidents was a little less capable than the one before, either because of himself, or because the system was harder to pedal.
I welcomed in The New Dark Ages while Clintoon was still in office, I have no idea how long it will take for a New Renaissance, or how low it will go in between.March 11, 2011 - 6:25 pm Link to this Comment
22. wretchard
A 6.1 earthquake hit just south of American Samoa at 16.727°S, 173.174°W.
106 km (65 miles) SE of Hihifo, Tonga
229 km (142 miles) NNE of Neiafu, Tonga
355 km (220 miles) SSW of APIA, Samoa
2528 km (1570 miles) W of Auckland, New ZealandMarch 11, 2011 - 6:41 pm Link to this Comment
23. Ashen
Godzilla was, to me, Saturday mornings. "World Beyond" would be on a local channel and show godzilla and various other monster movies. The theme song to the show was "Time" by Pink Floyd. So much fun.
I think we have our Beast, Wretch. It's name is Barack and it's minions of darkness are the communists in full view (democrats).March 11, 2011 - 7:24 pm Link to this Comment
24. Matt
Of all the news articles discussing the Japanese quake today, I came across one of the stupidest and most repugnantly blameworthy headlines I've ever seen.
Quake's economic effects likely short-term
Right. So all those houses, shops, boats, automobiles, docks, roads, and human lives were economically irrelevant? "No, not at all," says USA Today. They were actually standing in the way of growth! A good earthquake is just what we needed to clear out the deadwood.
From the article: "Ultimately, economists say efforts to rebuild homes, businesses and highways in Japan will at least offset any dampening effects and possibly even spark economic growth."
This is the Broken Windows Fallacy on steroids, to say nothing of the fact that human beings are unique and irreplaceable.March 11, 2011 - 7:27 pm Link to this Comment
25. shropshirelad
bogiewheel @ 18
You raise some excellent points, sir. But consider this.
There is one figure that looms very large in Japan, larger even than Godzilla: that is Mt Fuji. It is a volcano. It has has been central to Japanese art for centuries.
Then there are hot springs bubbling up all over the islands. Add these to the elaborate social structures that allow so many people with so few natural resources to live so closely together in a land tortured by geological instability: the Japanese imagination is bound to produce some odd monsters.
Godzilla is Mt. Fuji with legs.March 11, 2011 - 7:28 pm Link to this Comment
26. wretchard
It seems like each of our last N presidents was a little less capable than the one before, either because of himself, or because the system was harder to pedal.
Civilizations in decline exhibit this kind of "leadership shrinkage"; it is as if a race of former giants has suddenly been supplanted with pygmies. The diminution you are sensing is probably real. A degenerate system responds to the wrong stimuli, and in perverse ways. It is no longer trying to cope with reality but satisfy its own internal organizational imperatives.
Therefore the leaders it pushes up aren't "leaders" of the formerly designed system; they are factional leaders of internal bureaucratic constituencies. People like Julia Gillard or Barack Obama are patent mediocrities. You could find many women more capable and many African Americans far better. But why do they not come to the fore?
Why do you get the Ellisons and the Jesse Jacksons and the Barack Obamas? Because the system produces these "leaders" to distribute the spoils in the self-referential system. They are truly midgets.
The cycle probably ends when the either the host or the parasite dies. Sometimes they die together. The only virtue of the current crisis is that it may bring to an end the very things which precipitated it.
Maybe there's a happier ending. But the probability of its occurrence is in direct proportion to the amount of self-awareness people have of the problem. If people wake up soon enough, they get to save the city. If too late, then the city burns and the only consolation is that the Alien Queen and its eggs burn with it.March 11, 2011 - 8:05 pm Link to this Comment
27. toadold
Speaking of a monster from the past: Bill Clinton just stuck it into Obama and then broke it off, calling his energy policy bad for the country. The old monster apparently smelled blood and has taken a bite. It is so sad when parasites have a falling out.
http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0311/51150.htmlMarch 11, 2011 - 9:27 pm Link to this Comment
28. PA Cat
Apparently Chris Matthews thinks the tsunami was a good thing because "it gave Barack Obama an avenue to remind everyone he was born in Hawaii."
Video here: http://newsbusters.org/blogs/ken-shepherd/2011/03/11/chris-matthews-sees-japan-earthquake-opportunity-obama-remind-people-h
Talk about midgets.March 11, 2011 - 10:44 pm Link to this Comment
29. Josh
t @ 27: Bill Clinton just stuck it into Obama and then broke it off, calling his energy policy bad for the country. The old monster apparently smelled blood and has taken a bite. It is so sad when parasites have a falling out.
Obama is that clueless, and sociopath or not, Clinton isn't stupid. Obama's plain stupidity is probably starting to wear on Clinton. I never thought I'd say it, but good on him.
w @ 27: Civilizations in decline exhibit this kind of "leadership shrinkage"; it is as if a race of former giants has suddenly been supplanted with pygmies.
I've been thinking about this for a while, what I see up close and personal, how the IT job market has deteriorated, how the financial industry has nearly taken down the USA and the world. Or maybe there's no nearly about it and we're just in free-fall waiting for the bottom to smear us. Anyway, fall of the Roman Empire thoughts, rules of human organizations that the builders are always replaced by someone one step down, etc etc, until the thing falls apart. Organizational diseases step in, analogs of cancer, of arteriosclerosis, viruses, scar tissue, joints worn out, parasites invading.
It's when the life cycle fails, when creative destruction does not take place, the old and corrupt soaking up the resources that should go to the new generations. After college I started work in big organizations run by the WWII generation, and they knew organization, they knew goal-setting, they created the MBA and churned out a couple of generations of them to good end, but now …
We are making such immense macroeconomic (and microeconomic) mistakes, and nobody sees them. The system is more complicated, few enough politicians in history were smart enough to play leading roles in such complexity, politicians aren't really about functionality but about social structures, when we require both – we don't get it, we get a purblind fool in the white house and a major political party celebrating and why not, in a way he is the best they have to offer. And yet, really, is the opposition party any better? Not if they can't even get anybody elected, that is after all their first and major function as politicians.
Whether 'tis nobler in the mind to suffer
The slings and arrows of outrageous fortune,
Or to take arms against a sea of troubles
And by opposing end them.March 11, 2011 - 11:24 pm Link to this Comment
30. Doug
Unforeseen Effects of Radiation:
The New Atomic Miracle Should have been Mankind's Greatest Boon.
Instead Man is Confronted with his Most Shocking BlunderMarch 11, 2011 - 11:43 pm Link to this Comment
31. buddy larsen
3:45 a.m. CST, fox tv live is reporting Japanese gov't has just confirmed there is radiation leaking. The explosion a few hours ago was apparently not the prayed-for outbuilding, but the containment building itself.
well, this could hardly be much worse, unless i'm mistaken in my crude understanding. Poor Japan!
Here's my local help point, i'm not Methodist but this group has done well in the past:
http://www.kxan.com/dpp/news/international/asia/hillco-church-to-help-tsunami-survivorsMarch 12, 2011 - 1:51 am Link to this Comment
32. jfsanders031
Prez happy pants said Zero's energy policy is bad for America, which gave Zero affirmation that his plan is proceeding correctly. If you put every action taken by our current mental midget in charge through the filter of, bad for America is good, then it is patently clear.March 12, 2011 - 4:51 am Link to this Comment
33. toadold
A friend of my sister-in-law who did some mission work in the Ukraine a few years back had high praise for some MREs my brother gave her for just in case.
It sure looks like a number of Japanese are going to get a taste of them. At least the Japanese don't have a lot of dietary restrictions.
There is a growing interest in disaster preparedness along with an increasing skepticism of the various government groups and agencies that are supposed to keep things working and respond to disasters.
The question was asked, "Who is going to help out California if they have 9 on the scale earthquake." If there had been any crickets around you could have heard them for a while. Eventually someone said,"Nobody, California in the ocean is a win win.March 12, 2011 - 5:16 am Link to this Comment
34. buddy larsen
"9,500 missing in northern Japanese town" just voice-overed on Fox. — not surprised –the quake was 78 miles off the coast and the pulse in the open sea moves at over 500 mph.
what is that in escape time minutes? about ten minutes? –if the alarm rings when the sea floor moves, you got ten minutes to get your family and you off the coast and to either high ground or five miles inland?March 12, 2011 - 5:27 am Link to this Comment
35. bogie wheel
Godzilla is Mt. Fuji with legs.
Your analogy is neatly phrased, but I think the analogy itself lacks legs.:-)
First, Mt. Fuji has been there all along, while Godzilla only came about after WWII. One would think if Godzilla were Fuji then he would go as far back as dragon legends.
Second, it is specifically depicted that Godzilla is a monster that comes out of the sea. He is not a land-born-beast or outer-space-beast in any way. The timing of Godzilla's creation (immediately post-WWII) and the geography of his origins (beast from the sea) much more closely align with a United States analogy than a Mt. Fuji analogy.
Also, Italy has Vesuvius, Indonesia has Krakatau and Tambora, Martinique has Mount Pelee … all of which have caused major death & destruction at some time … and yet none of them have Godzilla-like monsters in their lore, to my knowledge. If the human subconcious typically animated a volcano threat into a fire-breathing mega-monster, one would expect equivalent legends in other volcanic cultures.
Fuji doesn't even make the top 25 volcano disasters. (Though there are other Japanese volcanos that do, just not until #15.)
Fuji is certainly omnipresent in Japanese culture, but I don't think it has had a Godzilla-like menacing resonance to it, and therefore I think something else is going on with Godzilla.March 12, 2011 - 6:14 am Link to this Comment
36. bogie wheel
"9,500 missing in northern Japanese town" just voice-overed on Fox. — not surprised –the quake was 78 miles off the coast and the pulse in the open sea moves at over 500 mph.
There's a link on Drudge — I'm assuming it refers to the same town: Minamisanriku, Miyagi Prefecture. Town population is about 17,000 — half are unaccounted for.
Check out a satellite picture of the town. Their harbor faces south and they are on an "inlet" of sorts … but still a coastal town. The city of Sendai, from where we have seen some of the most dramatic tsunami pictures, sits about 40-50 miles SSW. If you roughly figure that sort of damage in towns and cities all up and down Japan's northern coast, then we could be looking at catastrophic losses in lives and properties. I certainly hope not but there is the possibility.
On the one hand: Poor Japan.
OTOH: Tokyo is intact, and these people know how to "do" earthquake recovery. Smart, resilient, modern.
OTOOH: As W mentioned above, there's that Tyrannosaurus Debt beast.March 12, 2011 - 6:34 am Link to this Comment
Wretchard #26:
"Civilizations in decline exhibit this kind of "leadership shrinkage"; it is as if a race of former giants has suddenly been supplanted with pygmies."
My observation is that we have not a shortage of leaders but an excess of them. One of the consequences of the Civil Rights Movement and the "Me" generation that followed it is that everybody and his brother wants to be a leader. And more groups equal more leaders. So we end up with not only the NAACP but also the National Assocation of Left Handed Lituanian Tennis Players, to use a 1968 quote from David Brinkly.
Obama was attractive because he looked like "The" leader. An amalgum of not only the races but also, people hoped, ideas. Instead, and predictably, he turned out to be, at best, the Chief Pygmy.March 12, 2011 - 7:21 am Link to this Comment
38. bogie wheel
My observation is that we have not a shortage of leaders but an excess of them. One of the consequences of the Civil Rights Movement and the "Me" generation that followed it is that everybody and his brother wants to be a leader. And more groups equal more leaders.
I've mentioned before that I grew up as the youngest in a family of seven. The only way to have any organization whatsoever in a family that big is for the parents to delegate command to the older kids. Problem is, the younger kids don't want to have to obey the older kids, and in the face of rebellion, the older kids can quickly become bullies. Everybody is some kind of boss, even if it's just the rebel kind (the boss of himself). The opposite of orderly discipline.
My parents had a saying for this kind of situation: "Too many chiefs, not enough Indians."March 12, 2011 - 7:29 am Link to this Comment
The nuclear power plant's containment dome has exploded.
The wind is blowing out to sea…for now.
Tokyo better start digging in their fallout shelters.March 12, 2011 - 7:30 am Link to this Comment
40. bogie wheel
Although I will go with W's hypothesis that the system has been jiggered into the type of system that incentivizes all the wrong sort of behavior and motivations. Why did Willie Sutton rob banks? "That's where the money is." When government is on the growth trajectory, why do grifters and rent-seekers seek jobs in government? "That's where the money is." And why do totalitarian-type personalities also seek to control the levers of a big government? "That's where the power is."
A system of limited government, esp. at the federal level, holds a lot fewer rewards for the grifters, rent-seekers and totalitarians. So they seek office on the school board and county management instead. At the very worst they rise to the state legislature. But since they cannot form a conglomerate in a limited federal govt, their ability to do damage is contained.
Sort of like compartments on a ship. Of course we all know what happened to the Titanic.
The thing that burns me is that people who have no taste for politics have to become political actors in order to reform the system & take away the incentives stuffed in very nook & cranny by the grifters et al. This often becomes a lifetime of work. And, while not a "waste" of human potential and effort, it is certainly a regrettable diversion thereof. People who would otherwise have been inventing the next wow-widget or building wow-widget factories or just being Little League coaches in their spare time are forced to become "firefighters" for their civilization, putting all that time & energy into trying to save what others are so hell-bent on destroying.
Thanks a rot, moonbats.March 12, 2011 - 7:44 am Link to this Comment
41. Subotai Bahadur
#18 bogie wheel
Tried to answer yesterday, but the filter apparently ate it
I got the figure from BBC reporting a Kyodo news report that was run across the bottom of the screen on FOX News Friday AM. Yeah, a long chain. The BBC page I went to is now gone, but here is another link I found this morning:
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42. Agoraphobic Plumber
RWE@37: "My observation is that we have not a shortage of leaders but an excess of them."
I'll agree with that. In my 18-year software development career, probably a dozen times I had to sit through "leadership training" at various companies. Most places I worked for had leadership as some element of their "vision statement" or whatever. Why? I'm not a leader, at least not in the corporate sense. I have zero interest in climbing the success ladder in a company. The money they paid for all that "training", plus my time spent sitting there, was money down the rathole. It was for most of us. We were there to create stuff, not facilitate meetings or brown-nose the boss or make financial decisions. If we had wanted that, our degree would have been in management or finance, not computer science or business info systems.
I'm pounding through school to be a teacher, and I'm sure there will be plenty of wasted "leadership training" there, too. They'll want us all to become principals or administrators or some damn thing. I just want to teach. I wish there was a way to opt out of all that crap, but it seems that not going with the flow can be the kiss of death to your career. THAT is messed up.March 12, 2011 - 9:00 am Link to this Comment
43. buddy larsen
bw/40; right you are –the left goes to DC to remake the world, the right goes to DC to try and stop the left.
i have to throw in with the right, because having learnt to read some years ago, i read a bit of history, and learnt that the more the left remakes the world, the more the world needs remaking. So they're not even a proper self-licking ice cream cone –they're a self-vomiting ice cream cone. The only way seen to clean up a mess is to cover it up with a bigger one.March 12, 2011 - 9:18 am Link to this Comment
Bogie and Plumber:
During my 25 years on active duty in the USAF I came to realize that the worst leaders were the ones who enjoyed it.
People who enjoy giving orders not only do it too much but also tend to regard any situation as a challenge to their authority.
The best leaders are those who see what needs to be done, recognize that they alone have the proper vision and naturally move in and take control.
One day at the base I was asked to come help haul some building materials upstairs. I went down and carried some of the stuff up and then had a thought. The materials were light but very long. Getting them up the stairwell, itself newly painted, was difficult and damaged things. Then I started giving orders. I was the ranking officer present by a large margin and people obeyed me without question. I opened a window and we fed the material up through it. No one had to climb the stairs or even move their feet. We got the job done in fraction of the time and with less risk, less effort, and no damage to the material.
Now, if an Airman Basic had suggested that idea to me I am pretty sure that I would have tried it out. But I know of officers who would have considered it an insult to listen to lower ranking personnel.March 12, 2011 - 12:51 pm Link to this Comment
45. flataffect
The West is not without its own tales of warning. The Tower of Babel, the patterns of Greek Tragedy and its followers warn mankind against become overweening and proud before God, the gods or nature itself. The Japanese have a much more stoic attitude toward events like this, while Americans seem to ignore warnings and than look for someone to blame in the aftermath of natural disasters. Japan is much better prepared for events like this, because they have had so many and they have studied them and engineered for them, but they also know that their best efforts can only do so much.
Our nanny state, on the other hand, seems to have turned us into whiny children, expecting the government to be more responsible than we ourselves are. That just won't happen, until we start supporting officeholders who lead instead of pandering to us.March 12, 2011 - 6:48 pm Link to this Comment
46. Blast From the Past
Japan tamed Godzilla.
America awed the world with John Wayne.
Now our politicians hope to emulate Barney.March 12, 2011 - 8:56 pm Link to this Comment
47. myth buster
Japan has had legends of giant monsters that predate Godzilla by centuries. Legends like the Yamata no Orochi (an eight headed, eight tailed serpent demon) and kitsune (fox spirits with up to nine tails, whose supernatural powers increase with each additional tail), are intimately connected with Shinto mythology. A look a Japanese pop culture indicates that these stories survive even today as part of the Japanese mythos. In fact, while most kitsune are depicted as simple tricksters, there are legends of nine-tailed foxes that are on par with western dragons.March 12, 2011 - 11:23 pm Link to this Comment
48. buddy larsen
Remember this?
Carl Sagan's show on the Samurai crabs. Epochal, to science-bored Ami teens, back when it was broadcast.
f/45; your mention of the Tower of Babel; does it strike you how furtive the tower-builders are? How many of them lose their jobs when they make the mistake of being heard discussing themselves frankly? They must know, all of them, that they are not building the tower for any reason but to build the tower. O'Keefe exposes them and they run for their lives, as if from the fiery aspect of an old testament prophet.March 12, 2011 - 11:47 pm Link to this Comment
49. Ilpalazzo
Yes, let's read more into something we know nothing about. Godzilla represent the Atom Bomb. THAT'S IT. Godzilla was created AS A RESPONSE to King Kong. THAT'S IT. All the sequels come from the Japanese loving the new-found big monster genre, so they made MORE Godzilla movies. You'll notice the ones with heavy handed environmentalism (Smog Monster) failed epically. So stop planting your stupid thesis just because of the recent devastation. Morons.March 13, 2011 - 4:38 pm Link to this Comment
50. wws
Richard, once again you have a knack for crystallizing the things that many of us notice but can't describe, and expressing them in prose that is both familiar and devastating. You're absolutely right; we're all in the early stages of a Godzilla movie. The ships are disappearing, the disturbances are growing, all in so many different areas that a linkage is impossible to see. But just because we can't see it doesn't mean it isn't there, and the sense that we are moving rapidly towards some final denouement grows stronger and stronger daily.
But as you say, we now have no choice but to take whatever comes. We may not know know what it is, but it's already on the way.
Yeats looks more and more prophetic with each passing year:
"And what rough beast, its hour come round at last,
Slouches towards Bethlehem to be born?"March 13, 2011 - 10:27 pm Link to this Comment
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The busy highway has been closed since around 2:30 Thursday afternoon. According to authorities, the chain-reaction crash involved nearly 50 vehicles, including 18 semitrailers and two box trucks.
"It was such a devastating scene you don't know where to start," Mick Pawlik with the Coolspring Volunteer Fire Department said at a press briefing Friday morning. "It will live with us forever."
Indiana State Police say two people were critically injured and at this point three confirmed dead. There were 20 others with less serious injuries.
One of those most seriously hurt was flown to a hospital after being trapped in the wreckage for more than three hours.
"They look at us like we're Moses parting water," Pawlik said. "I try to get their minds off it."
The LaPorte County Coroner identified three victims Friday morning, 65-year-old Jerry Dalrymple of Chicago, 67-year-old Thomas Wolma and his wife, 65-year-old Marilyn Wolma. The Chicago man's dog also died in the crash.
Indiana State Police say snow and whiteout conditions contributed to the crash. Agencies from within a 30 mile radius responded to help with the crash. A warming bus offered shelter for victims and crews in the bitter cold.
I-94 is the main highway heading east from Chicago to Michigan and Indiana, and the main thoroughfare between the nation's third-largest city and Detroit. Traffic was backed up for hours in frigid snowy conditions, though state police said one westbound lane was open late Thursday.
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With the success of Texas Chainsaw 3D, it is inevitable that we will see a sequel brought to the table. The question now is, when?
Texas Chainsaw 3D was released January 4th, 2013 and stars Alexandra Daddario, Dan Yeager, Trey Songz, Scott Eastwood, Tania Raymonde, Shaun Sipos, Keram Malicki-Sánchez, James MacDonald. The film is directed by John Luessenhop.


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A Swag Code Haunt Is Coming…
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Halloween is a time for all of the ghosts and goblins to emerge from hiding to "BOO!" the socks off of you. It's a time for kids to dress up like superheroes and princesses and knock on strangers' doors begging for goodies. It's a time to hide your face with a pillow while you reluctantly watch Fright Night, Night Of The Living Dead, or any other horror film that makes you ask "why did I think it was a good to watch this on Halloween night?" It's a time to make your finest attempt at artistry by carving out a witch, a ghost, a vampire, or some other ghastly creature on a pumpkin that you'll proudly display on your front stoop. But most importantly, it'a a time to experience a Swag Code Haunt!
This Monday, October 29th, we will be running a Swag Code Haunt all day on the Swagbucks site. Throughout the day, you will have the opportunity to earn up to 70 Swag Bucks just from Swag Codes alone! The fun will begin at 4am PDT right here in the blog.
For this Swag Code Haunt, you will be asked to find hidden objects in a Halloween-themed image. To give you a head start, we are providing you with the image now, so start studying! You never know what we're going to ask you to find!
Please keep in mind that ALL CODES THAT PERTAIN TO THE HIDDEN OBJECT IMAGE will be in ALL CAPS. If a code is a number, it is to be spelled out. For example, it we asked you how many sides a square had, the answer and the code would be FOUR.
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Posted by Team Swagbucks on Thu, October 25th, 2012 at 6:00 amHey Swaggernauts – Ashley here! So apparently, I'm too old to trick-or-treat now. If I could, I would go trick-or-treating every Halloween for the rest of my life, but some people say "it's just for kids." Ugh, whatever! So, I've decided that the best alternative for Halloween night is to curl up on the couch ... Read More »
And The Monster Madness Winner Is…
Posted by Team Swagbucks on Tue, October 23rd, 2012 at 3:00 pmOver the past 8 days, you have been voting on who you think the scariest villain of all time is in our Monster Madness competition. With competitors ranging from children's dolls to animated pirates, it has been a tough race. And now, after a grueling battle, it's time to unveil the truth. Who has officially ... Read More »
BOO – HallowEARN Collector's Bills Are Coming
Posted by TSGal on Tue, October 23rd, 2012 at 12:00 pmThe full moon's starting to rise down your spine you're feeling chills this can only mean one thing HallowEARN Collector's Bills BOO! HalloweEARN Collector's Bills are coming out to scare reward you! Beginning at Midnight PDT tonight, you have the opportunity to collect 5 different, ghoulish bills by searching on Swagbucks. You have until October ... Read More »
Monster Madness – The Final Round
Posted by Team Swagbucks on Mon, October 22nd, 2012 at 12:00 pmFor the past week, you have been voting every day for who you believe is the scariest villain of all time. Today is the final round of Monster Madness. We started with 16 contenders all hoping to be crowned the victor and we have dwindled down to the last two finalists. Yesterday you had to ... Read More »
Monster Madness Finals Round 1
Posted by Team Swagbucks on Sun, October 21st, 2012 at 8:00 amYesterday, in Round 2 of the Semi-Finals of Monster Madness – the head-to-head competition to find the scariest villain, you voted as Harry Potter's Voldemort took on Batman's The Joker and Peter Pan's Captain Hook took on The Wizard of Oz's Wicked Witch of the West. Let's find out which two will be moving on. Today is ... Read More »
Monster Madness Semi-Finals Round 2
Posted by Team Swagbucks on Sat, October 20th, 2012 at 1:50 pmYesterday was Round 1 of the Semi-Finals of Monster Madness – the head-to-head competition to find the scariest villain. You voted as Freddie Krueger took on Dracula and Hannibal Lecter took on Chucky. Let's find out which two will be moving on. So Freddie and Hannibal are still in the running! Today you have to choose between ... Read More »
Halloween Baked Rats
Posted by TSGal on Sat, October 20th, 2012 at 11:00 amWe're less than two weeks away from Halloween, so everything is feeling the spooky Halloween spirit. Why not take it a step further and satisfy your appetite with Halloween Bloody Baked Rats for dinner? I found this recipe on AllRecipes.com, and despite it's rather gruesome name, it sounds pretty delicious. Ingredients Original recipe makes 4 servings ... Read More »
Monster Madness Semi-Finals Begin
Posted by Team Swagbucks on Fri, October 19th, 2012 at 12:00 pmYesterday, in Round 4 of Monster Madness – the head-to-head competition to find the scariest villain – you voted as family-friendly villains went head-to-head. Peter Pan's arch nemesis, Captain Hook, took on Aladdin's biggest enemy, Jafar, while all dogs' biggest nightmare, Cruella de Vil, battled the most evil woman in all of Oz, The Wicked Witch of the ... Read More »
Monster Madness Round 4
Posted by Team Swagbucks on Thu, October 18th, 2012 at 9:00 amYesterday, in Round 3 of Monster Madness – the head-to-head competition to find the scariest villain – you voted in one of the most difficult matchups we've seen so far. Harry Potter's Voldemort went against Star Wars' Darth Vader while Batman villains, The Joker and Catwoman, went head-to-head. Let's find out which two villains will be moving ... Read More »
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i like this hillary clitongue. after breakingthefragiles last diatribe i can surmise that he is indeed very fragile
"Go anywhere other than Sputnik and this got 3's as well, even higher. Same goes for Bieber, not saying that I rated them in that range because every other site did, I'm just saying that I'm not alone."
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Album Rating: 3.0I didn't mean for that to sound like I was reading the riot act alachlahol, just saying what's on my mind.
You have shit taste in music.
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I swear i saw Nikki Minaj on a commercial the other day... where if you donate $5 you can save a wild dog.
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I'm calm
You're 14 (i'm guessing)
I turned 18 on the 4th.
Well congrats, happy belated growth spurt
"You're 14 (i'm guessing)"
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Originally Posted by JEEPKING I had this record as a kid and loved it. Happy Halloween to everyone on the RPT I still have it ;-)
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A shop selling frozen yogurt and fresh baked cup cakes will open by June 1 in Lake Forest filling the last vacant space on Market Square, according, Deborah McDowell, a representative of the property owner, Broadacre Management.
The business is owned by Lake Forest resident Laura Fellows. McDowell told Patch Tueday the lease had been signed but there is no official name yet. McDowell explained the shop must be refitted from the toy store it once was to what it will be.
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For many years, the space in the northeast section of Market Square was a toy store with electric trains circling the windows. It will remain a family friendly place, according to McDowell.
"The frozen yogurt will be high end," McDowell said. "The cup cakes will be made on site. There will be seating. This is a great fit for Market Square."
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Mon 28th of November 2011, filed under Media Centre
Manchester-based specialist search marketing agency, theEword, has enjoyed sustained growth over the course of 2011, with the company announcing that its turnover has increased by more than 50 per cent, year-on-year.
What's more, turnover for the financial year to April 2012 is expected to rise by 58 per cent; the agency's predicted turnover for this period is £2.2 million, compared with £1.4 million in April 2011.
The privately-owned company is also showing a healthy 45 per cent rise in profits. This has been helped by 13 major client wins during the course of 2011, including Atomico, Ralli, Gateley, Pannone and Genting and growth of existing clients, such as Betfred.com.
As a result of this growth, theEword increased its headcount to 21 members of staff, including the hiring of experienced marketing experts and two new apprentices.
To facilitate the predicted growth of business in 2012, the management team has been restructured, with the current managing director, Al Mackin, taking on the role of chief executive officer. Al's new role will involve taking a strategic approach to the company's business development plan, helping to identity and support future growth opportunities.
Current general manager, Daniel Nolan, will become MD, overseeing the day-to-day running of the agency.
Al, commented: "I'm delighted with theEword's 2011 financial results, which have surpassed our expectations in a challenging economic climate. We have a proven track record of delivering tangible results for our clients, and with a dedicated team of industry experts, our clients know that they can rely on us to provide excellent, and reliable, advice. I'd like to say a huge thank you to the outstanding team here, as this success is down to their hard work - it's an amazing achievement, and they should be very proud of themselves.
"Daniel Nolan has been an outstanding general manager, and with his knowledge of the industry and his experience, I'm confident that he'll continue to help us drive the company forwards."For more information on the theEword and the services that the company offers, please visit www.theEword.co.uk
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The Seattle Seahawks made no moves before the NFL trade deadline, but that doesn't mean there isn't any news to report about the team. According to reports, starting wide receiver Sidney Rice will miss the remainder of the season after being diagnosed with a torn ACL.
Pro Football Talk first reported the news.
Losing Rice will hurt the Seahawks receiving corp, but the good news is that Percy Harvin is expected to return in the very near future.
Harvin's injured hip did flare up last week, but he is still close to a return.
As for who the Seahawks could add at wide receiver, they likely knew about Rice's injury before the trade deadline, so they would have gone out and made a trade if they really were worried about the situation.
Instead, they will look in house to replace Rice or perhaps find a way to go out in the free agent pool to pick up a trusty veteran.
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The AP Boot Camp program launched in West Hartford at Conard High School last summer will now be expanded thanks to the receipt of a $5,000 grant from the College Board.
"It's a big deal for us," said Conard Principal Dr. Peter Cummings, who learned of the award this week. He said that the $5,000 will be used to extend the support provided by the boot camp throughout the school year.
Conard was one of two regional winners of the College Board Advocacy & Policy Center's "2013 CollegeKeys Compact Innovation Awards." According to a release from the College Board, just 14 awards will be given out in total across the country.
"This award affirms the dedication, creativity and commitment of Conard faculty to ensure equity and opportunity for every student. I applaud the initiative that went into designing the program and the effort made to seek outside funding and recognition for the AP Boot Camp," said West Hartford Superintendent of Schools Dr. Karen List.
Conard's award was in the category of "Getting Ready," and the College Board selected grant recipients based on several criteria and "their innovation and demonstrated efficacy in increasing the percentage of low-income students who get ready for, get into or get through college successfully." Other categories were "Getting In" and "Getting Through."
"Guided by the College Board's principles of excellence and equity in education, the Advocacy & Policy Center works to ensure that students from all backgrounds have the opportunity to succeed in college and beyond," said Christen Pollock, Vice President, College Board Advocacy & Policy Center in a news release.
Families United in Educational Leadership in Boston was the other program in the region to be awarded a grant, for "Helping Parents Propel Their Children toward Higher Education" in the "Getting In" category.
Cummings said that Conard put together the boot camp to "meet the needs of our students." The five-day program was attended last summer by approximately 80 incoming sophomores, juniors, and seniors who planned to take Advanced Placement classes during the 2012-2013 academic year.
It was open to all Conard students, regardless of background, Cummings said.
"For all students, we've found that it helps reflect upon and strengthen skills, and has led them to be able to go deeper into their classes," he said. The program focused on embedding core skils in the AP class curriculum – study, critical reading, and organizational skills.
The grant will allow the program to continue to operate during the school year, on a bi-weekly or monthly basis, to reinforce the skills and intervene when students may be struggling.
While not the intent of the program, Cummings thinks that some of the skills emphasized in AP Boot Camp, such as critical reading, may cross over into SAT preparation.
"One of the things that is really nice [about receiving the award] is to have our faculty recognized for their commitment to student achievement," said Cummings.
Conard also plans to hold AP Boot Camp again this summer, and students at all grade levels will be eligible.
List said that planning is in place to start a similar program at Hall.