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http://www.romanialibera.ro/actualitate/mapamond/ultima-linie-de-aparare-a-japoniei-cei-50-de-kamikaze-nucleari-219677.html

Bărbaţii descrişi mai sus sunt câţiva dintre cei 50 de tehnicieni care încearcă cu toate forţele să prevină un dezastru nuclear. Numele lor nu au fost făcute publice, feţele lor sunt necunoscute celor 35 de milioane de oameni din regiunea Tokio care ar putea fi afectaţi de o posibilă catastrofă. Însă acesta este probabil ultimul lucru la care acei tehnicieni se gândesc acum; pentru ei, nu siguranţa familiilor lor şi în nici un caz propria siguranţă nu reprezintă o prioritate - ci să îşi facă treaba cât pot de bine, şi până la deznodământul final - indiferent care va fi acesta. Datoria înainte de toate, acesta este motto-ul lor.

Misiunea lor este dificilă, iar condiţiile, grele: să pompeze apă de mare în reactoarele 1,2 şi 3, încercând să răcească combustibilul nuclear şi să prevină o topire totală a acestuia, topire care ar putea arunca mii de tone de praf radioactiv în aer şi ar pune în pericol zeci de milioane de vieţi. O parte dintre tehnicieni au rămas ca voluntari, alţii au fost chemaţi, niciunul însă nu s-a ferit de enorma responsabilitate, deşi de la cutremurul din 11 martie până astăzi, cinci muncitori de la Fukushima au murit în urma exploziilor, alţi 22 au fost spitalizaţi şi doi sunt daţi dispăruţi.

Desigur, tehnicienii cunosc riscurile la care se expun - guvernul japonez tocmai a ridicat limita permisibilă a radiaţiilor la care aceştia au voie să lucreze de la 100 la 250 de milisievert - drept care în unele părţi ale centralei atomice, unde radioactivitatea este acum prea ridicată, lucrătorii stau la coadă pentru a face o anumită muncă pentru numai câteva minute.

Tehnicienii unei centrale nucleare sunt un grup unit, ca pompierii sau membrii unei trupe militare de elită, legaţi de un spirit de camaraderie ieşit din comun; în pauzele de masă, discuţiile purtate revin adeseori la subiectul central al vieţilor lor: ce ar face în cazul unui accident grav? Consensul este că, după ce îşi vor avertiza familiile, toţi vor rămâne la posturi atâta timp cât va fi nevoie. La urma urmei, de eforturile lor depinde dacă Japonia se va confrunta în zilele următoare cu o catastrofă nucleară - sau nu.

"De ce nu sunt jafuri în Japonia?" se întreabă, pe blogul său găzduit de The Telegraph, jurnalistul Ed West. Împărtăşesc aceeaşi întrebare zeci de alţi jurnalişti şi comentatori din toată lumea care încă îşi amintesc imaginile cu devastarea supermarketurilor şi bătăliile armate pentru apă şi mâncare din Haiti, New Orleans sau Chile.

Ed West spune: "Poate că mai impresionantă decât forţa tehnologic a japoniei este forţa societăţii nipone, cu supermarketuri care au redus preţurile şi cu proprietarii de automate ce distribuie bauturi care oferă acum produse gratuit".

"Cel mai remarcabil lucru dintre toate este acela ca nu au existat jafuri", mai scrie West, care crede că "este un lucru destul de neobişnuit printre culturile de pe glob."

Prin comparaţie cu ce se întâmpla acum în Japonia, imaginea jafurilor care au urmat, de fiecare dată, după marile dezastre ale ultimilor ani e şi mai şocantă.

După ce urganul Katrina a devastat New Orleans, în august 2005, apele nici nu se retrăseseră şi hoţii au dat năvală în magazine. Nu doar după apă şi mâncare! Au furat tot ce se putea: bijuterii, haine, scutece pentru bebeluşi, medicamente, chiar şi televizoare - deşi nimeni nu avea curent electric.

Mai mult: Incredibila solidaritate japoneză. Cum crezi că ar reacţiona românii într-o situaţie similară? - Reportaj | Libertatea.ro

(http://www.femeiastie.ro/dragoste-relatii/barbatii-si-nevoile-lor/dragosterelatii---barbatii-si-nevoile-lor)

Oricat de usor de ghicit poate sa para un barbat, uneori sunt ceva mai complicati. Si desi au o intuitie renumita, se pare ca femeile nu stiu chiar tot… Mai joi iata cateva secrete din viata barbatilor:

Barbatii iau in serios angajamentele, majoritatea dintre cei insurati raspunzand ca daca ar putea alege din nou, s-ar casatori cu aceaiasi femeie.

Barbatii isi intaresc relatiile de cuplu in primul rand prin activitatile facute impreuna, considerand ca aceste activitati sunt utile pentru a se simti mai aproape de partenerele lor.

Barbatii uita si iarta mai repede decat femeile, asa ca daca vrei sa discuti cu el despre cearta de aseara, s-ar putea sa nu mai stie despre ce era vorba.

Barbatii raspund la cuvinte de lauda, asa ca este foarte important sa-ti apreciezi iubitul, asa cum il ai.

Barbatii se gandesc foarte mult la sex, iar fanteziile lor sunt mult mai variate.

Barbatii considera ca sexul este un act foarte important intre doi oameni care formeaza un cuplu si ca acesta influenteaza mult relatia voastra.

Barbatii se indeparteaza atunci cand nevoile lor nu sunt indeplinite, atunci cand nu se simte iubit sau apreciat, de cele mai multe ori cautand asta in alta parte.



Oricat de usor de ghicit poate sa para un barbat, uneori sunt ceva mai complicati. Si desi au o intuitie renumita, se pare ca femeile nu stiu chiar tot…



Fiecare dintre noi avem aceleasi ganduri, atat femeile cat si barbatii doresc sub o anumita forma sau alta acelasi lucru, sa fie iubiti. Doar ca barbatilor le este este greu sa recunoasca sentimentele si de aceea, pentru a stii ceea ce simte pentru tine cu adevarat, ia-l pe ocolite.

(http://www.raptitude.com/2009/07/88-important-truths-ive-learned-about-life/?awesm=fbshare.me_AOn89)


Everyone gets drilled with certain lessons in life. Sometimes it takes repeated demonstrations of a given law of life to really get it into your skull, and other times one powerful experience drives the point home once forever. Here are 88 things I’ve discovered about life, the world, and its inhabitants by this point in my short time on earth.

1. You can’t change other people, and it’s rude to try.

2. It is a hundred times more difficult to burn calories than to refrain from consuming them in the first place.

3. If you’re talking to someone you don’t know well, you may be talking to someone who knows way more about whatever you’re talking about than you do.

4. The cheapest and most expensive models are usually both bad deals.

5. Everyone likes somebody who gets to the point quickly.

6. Bad moods will come and go your whole life, and trying to force them away makes them run deeper and last longer.

7. Children are remarkably honest creatures until we teach them not to be.

8. If everyone in the TV show you’re watching is good-looking, it’s not worth watching.

9. Yelling always makes things worse.

10. Whenever you’re worried about what others will think of you, you’re really just worried about what you’ll think of you.

11. Every problem you have is your responsibility, regardless of who caused it.

12. You never have to deal with more than one moment at a time.

13. If you never doubt your beliefs, then you’re wrong a lot.

14. Managing one’s wants is the most powerful skill a person can learn.

15. Nobody has it all figured out.

16. Cynicism is far too easy to be useful.

17. Every passing face on the street represents a story every bit as compelling and complicated as yours.

18. Whenever you hate something, it hates you back: people, situations and inanimate objects alike.

19. Ralph Waldo Emerson’s works alone can teach you everything you need to know about living with grace and happiness.

20. People embellish everything, as a rule.

21. Anger reveals weakness of character, violence even moreso.

22. Humans cannot destroy the planet, but we can destroy its capacity to keep us alive. And we are.

23. When people are uncomfortable with the present moment, they fidget with their hands or their minds. Watch and see.

24. Those who complain the most, accomplish the least.

25. Putting something off makes it instantly harder and scarier.

26. Credit card debt devours souls.

27. Nobody knows more than a minuscule fraction of what’s going on in the world. It’s just way too big for any one person to know it well.

28. Most of what we see is only what we think about what we see.

29. A person who is unafraid to present a candid version of herself to the world is as rare as diamonds.

30. The most common addiction in the world is the draw of comfort. It wrecks dreams and breaks people.

31. If what you’re doing feels perfectly safe, there is probably a better course of action.

32. The greatest innovation in the history of humankind is language.

33. Blame is the favorite pastime of those who dislike responsibility.

34. Everyone you meet is better than you at something.

35. Proof is nothing but a collection of opinions that match your own.

36. Knowledge is belief, nothing more.

37. Indulging your desires is not self-love.

38. What makes human beings different from animals is that animals can be themselves with ease.

39. Self-examination is the only path out of misery.

40. Whoever you are, you will die. To know and understand that means you are alive.

41. Revenge is for the petty and irresponsible.

42. Getting truly organized can vastly improve anyone’s life.

43. Almost every cliché contains a truth so profound that people have been compelled to repeat it until it makes you roll your eyes. But the wisdom is still in there.

44. People cause suffering when they are suffering themselves. Alleviating their suffering will help them not hurt others.

45. High quality is worth any quantity, in possessions, friends and experiences.

46. The world would be a better place if everyone read National Geographic.

47. If you aren’t happy single, you won’t be happy in a relationship.

48. Even if it costs no money, nothing is free if it takes time.

49. Emotions exist to make us strongly biased towards or against something. This hinders as often as it helps.

50. Addiction is a much greater problem in society than it’s made out to be. It’s present in every person in various forms, but usually we call it something else.

51. “Gut feeling” is not just a euphemism. Tension in the abdomen speaks volumes about how you truly feel about something, beyond all arguments and rationales.

52. Posture and dress change profoundly how you feel about yourself and how others feel about you, like it or not.

53. Everyone thinks they’re an above average driver.

54. The urge to punish others has much more to do with venting frustration than correcting behavior.

55. By default, people think far too much.

56. If anything is worth splurging on, it’s a high-quality mattress. You’ll spend a third of your life using it.

57. There is nothing worse than having no friends.

58. To write a person off as worthless is an act of great violence.

59. Try as we might to be otherwise, we are all hypocrites.

60. Justice is a human invention which is in reality rarely achievable, but many will not hesitate to destroy lives demanding it.

61. Kids will usually understand exactly what you mean if you keep it to one or two short sentences.

62. Stuff that’s on sale usually has an annoying downside.

63. Casual swearing makes people sound dumb.

64. Words are immensely powerful. One cruel remark can wound someone for life.

65. It’s easy to make someone’s day just by being uncommonly pleasant to them.

66. Most of what children learn from their parents isn’t taught on purpose.

67. The secret ingredient is usually butter, in obscene amounts.

68. It is worth re-trying foods that you didn’t like at first.

69. Problems, when they arise, are rarely as painful as the experience of fearing them.

70. Nothing — ever — happens exactly like you pictured it.

71. North Americans are generally terrible at accepting compliments and offers of help.

72. There are not enough women in positions of power. The world has suffered from this deficit for a long time.

73. When you break promises to yourself, you feel terrible. When you make a habit of it, you begin to hate yourself.

74. A good nine out of ten bad things I’ve worried about never happened. A good nine out of ten bad things that did happen never occurred to me to worry about.

75. You can’t hide a bad mood from people who know you well, but you can always be polite.

76. Sometimes you have to remove certain people from your life, even if they’re family.

77. Anyone can be calmed in an instant by looking at the ocean or the stars.

78. There is no point finishing a book you aren’t enjoying. Life is too short for that. Swallow your pride and put it down for good, unfinished.

79. There is no correlation between the price of a brand of batteries and how long they last.

80. Breaking new ground only takes a small amount more effort than you’re used to giving.

81. Life is a solo trip, but you’ll have lots of visitors. Some of them are long-term, most aren’t.

82. One of the best things you can do for your kids is take them on road trips. I’m not a parent, but I was a kid once.

83. The fewer possessions you have, the more they do for you.

84. Einstein was wiser than he was intelligent, and he was a genius.

85. When you’re sick of your own life, that’s a good time to pick up a book.

86. Wishing things were different is a great way to torture yourself.

87. The ability to be happy is nothing other than the ability to come to terms with how things change.

88. Killing time is an atrocity. It’s priceless, and it never grows back.