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    OK, tegugurl, I will take that as a challenge. If Yusu sees that the Red Cross is helping there then I will match your donation.

    I have been unsure where to send help because I do mistrust many of the funds that appear, and I'm still bearing a grudge at Red Cross for misusing donations that people made to my area after our earthquake, and poor controls on their Katrina operations. But I know every region is managed differently and if they are helping this desperate situation then I'm on board.

    Anyone else want to represent the spirit of teguland?

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    Not a challenge just trying to help. i feel useless over here, when there are so many that need help.:oops:
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    I am sorry to hear that you mistrust the red cross . I can not understand that terrible thing you guys have had to go through . I wish there was more that i can do. We have friends over in Japan that we can not get a hold of. please be safe godspeed
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    A company I work for is offering to match funds for the Japan earthquake relief. I just checked the organizations they list and, in addition to Red Cross, there is Doctors Without Borders (Médecins Sans Frontières). That is a very good group of dedicated volunteers with lots of experience in disaster and battlefield medicine. They are also very good at assessing the most acute needs at specific locations and bringing public attention to those needs.

    To those of you out there who work, it doesn't hurt to see if your employer has a program for matching donations!

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    Yusu. i'm so sorry to hear that you had so sell some of your pets. I loved that green snake :( . But at least you still have some left. I'm always worried about giving money to the red cross, too. I'm happy to hear that all is well with you and your family. You don't know what a big reliefe it is to hear from you and we know you are OK.
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    Doctors without Borders is a good one. The Red Cross is iffy, but they are actually out there doing the work. Otherwise it comes down to smaller humanitarian groups like churches who are connected in the mission field. That's where the fraud comes in, when scammers set up sites that mimics the real ones.
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    I've been searching online news for radiation measurements and technical information about the plant disaster that weren't from government sources. I've heard interviews with engineers familiar with the plant design and so forth. I'm pretty certain that people in Tokyo are not in danger of lethal radiation levels, that these will be present in the evacuation area, only. All the food and soil there should be unusable. I also understand that this plant will not have a Chernobyl style meltdown.

    No radiation exposure is good, of course, but the most specific report I've come across puts Tokyo at the level of having 2 chest xrays.

    I have a friend in Tokyo who left town with her whole family; they just couldn't take the stress of the aftershocks, hard-to-get supplies, and fear. I can very much relate to people who need to do that and I know that's what I'll do if it happens here with the reactor built in our coastal earthquake zone.

    Yusu, you are probably exhausted and terribly distressed about having to lose so many of your animals. I hope you can think about what a good year you have been having with your art work and know that your talent is something you can take with you and continue to use after all this settles down. I hope you are able to do what you need to do to take care of yourself and your family, and then focus soon again on your beautiful work.

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    Thank you everyone and thank you HernandosMom

    In fact that Japanese Government control the news conference and the infomation, because they don't want make Japan citizen get panic
    According to them, the Hukushima nuclear accident was rated level 5 as same as Three Mile Island accident
    (The Chernobyl nuclear disaster was level 7)
    But most nuclear specialists and experts/foreign media think it's worse than Three Mile Island case, they say Hukushima could be rated level 6!

    In this case, three reactors in Hukushima are thought to be damaged, but no one knows how badly, because the tsunami knocked out most of the instruments
    that would have allowed operators to read, among other things, water levels.
    With the roofs blown off by hydrogen explosions, there is increasing concern over the spent fuel pools inside the secondary containment shells.
    The spent fuel, recently discharged from the reactor cores, is hot and extremely radioactive.

    Actually the topsiders of the Hukushima nuclear Power Plant disappeared into somewhere
    Probably, they got fear for thier physical safety and run away (At least, they knew how bad this accident going on)
    Now, without topsiders, Stuff and the Japan Forces risk their life on the job

    I researched on Nuclear Plant a bit and asked to some nuclear exparts and I knew that workers in nuclear plant are brainwashed into believing like
    "nuclear plant is safe and healthy surroundings", when they join a company
    But actually not safety enough
    It is said that people who work in a nuclear plant get health damage and they tend to have female child, not boys (DNA destruction)
    Even when nuclear plant is normal running, it is bad for all creatures
    Now Tsunami caused the accident at Hukushima nuclear power plant and I guess the radioactive ray will be getting fly onto Tokyo someday as well
    (Tokyo is located range 300~350km from Hukushima)
    We, Tokyo citizen don't know it is far enough and safety or it'll be dangerous zone soon...
    Radiation is sprawling even now with bad rumor...


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    I'm no expert, and I read reports skeptically because I know that these facilities are unsafe even when there is no disaster, that the workers are lied to about the hazards. There is no way to eliminate the waste from these plants even when running as they should be, and the material sitting in cooling ponds, as well as waste shipped from one storage place to another, are vulnerable to accidents and attacks by lunatics.

    My understanding as of now is that most of the released radiation that "left" the area of detection at the plant has remained within the zone surrounding the plant, probably due to the cold air layer. I would never want to enter that area or consume any food produced in there. Material that rose up above this layer in the heat plumes caused by the explosions was dispersed, but not in levels of high concentration.

    On Friday, a radioactive plume from one of the explosions was predicted to blow over my area. It rained very hard all day, so anything in the air got precipitated on everyone. No one would believe the Federal government alone, but many different sources measured the plume at low, barely detectable levels.

    It's sad when governments conceal information instead of educating the public, so that people can be free to make their own informed decisions. The government loses all credibility. But there are other sources of measurement, from universities or international groups, who will not keep silent if the radiation level in Tokyo is becoming very dangerous. I do not believe that the worst case scenario will be as bad as Chernobyl

    When these nuclear disasters happen, as well as in the use and testing of nuclear weapons, it's never a local matter. The material moves throughout the environment all over the planet and remains active for many human lifetimes.

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    You are such good people !!!

    I have been following this from the beginning until present. Donations have been made. I pray for you.
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