the pacific wave dilemma

The tsunami alert was rescinded this morning for New Zealand and Taiwan. BBC News 24 a moment ago had a headline saying that it is going to the entire Pacific region.

How are two diverging statements like this reconciled?

The tsunami is a wave off the Coast of Japan. Like a mirror this can reflect in a given direction as well as the original east heading wave across the Pacific. As such the wave is picked up on weather and GPS sattellites and can be monitored by weather bouys on uninhabited rock islands on route, learned from the Tsunami of 2004.

This has refined predictions that have been developed from Ice core predictions taken from the Arctic, Russia, Canada and teh Antarctic. the decision to invest in such research has historically been taken by nation states upon the advice of their intelligence agencies and co-ordinating and cooperating bodies. Now input comes from observer status for the International Atomic Agency and the relevant professional bodies that have observer status at the UN.

Other research methods that have been used to attempt to predict earthquakes are bouys sent into volcanic magna in the past three decades and thermal imaging satellites.
The UK has not had earthquakes of this magnitude and its nuclear plants are not at risk of explosion.

The question to ask is can nuclear plants be sited in earthquake zones safely and if so can an earthquake cuased radioactive fire be put out as quickly as occurred today.

The Big Society is about voluntary work that can support society and aid the development of communities based on each individuals abilities, as dictated by teh time they have and teh experience they have (if teh world is ruled by education grades).Hence the trouble with it if it isn't implemented with sustained and properly advised business plans is that if the UK goes into a double dip recession or those who take voluntary redundancy from the public sector on state pensions or redundancy payments can no longer do these projects, they could fail. In this borough the input for community groups goes through one community centre (housed in a refurbished former town hall) and voluntary secotr organisation.

It receives advice from national organisations and the government through statutory guidelines (if they exist) and the mandate of the local authorities elected officials and teh policies of the devolved regional government (teh Gretaer London Authority). Elsewhere in England that is presently the city or county government until there is parity with Wales and Scotland and a devolved English Parliament that can raise its own revenue like Scotland but according to the seperate English Legal system.

Every institution in the UK uses state funding, including the Anglican church from its cathedrals down to teh sure start centres in its schools. Hence economically the Big Society is about the fact that we are all in it together. The question is whether that unlike the last last government that will be applied in a non partisan as well as non sectarian way by the coalition and whether that is allowed under Parliamentary procedures as interpreted under democracy as that is teh least worst of all systems. Given the tsunami last night I think that had better be the case (this sounds like a Cabinet Office press release so I think I'll leave it there as I have an employemtn grievance with them under the last government).

Tsunami alert

Praying for the Pacific as theres been an Earthquake near Japan. MSN has given a Tsunami alert and a Uk radio station carried a message that there is a tsunami 10m high. Alert for Australia, Central, South America, New Zealand, and teh Pacific region as of 9am GMT.Will the Big Socoiety mean that populations from Commonwealth states and Pacific Islands be granted refugee status and citizenship in the EU, particulary those from the islands with low height above sea level?

That is why there needs to be an amnesty on illegal immigrants already here and support for their community and faith (particulary Anglican, ok I'm biased and its the culturally appropriate faith of Britain to quote multiculturalism against and in favour of it) associations. Better that than a return to a nineteenth century underfunded state.However Australia and New Zealand are nearer and in some cases the legal owners of some of the outlying Islands based on theor historic better linguistic education for the region to their populations.

The aid effort is directed by charities with the relevant aid experience under the auspices of the DEC as it is non sectarian and has the relevant experience drawn from aid agencies and charities in the UK. Is it time for this to become a UK federal state agency?If you read this blog in that area get to land above the tsunami height or onto boats that can withstand that wave. The former is better than the latter unless the type of boat can withstand the wave or there are buildings over the wave heights length that have foundations built on the rock to withstand the wave (legal term appropriate building regulations).