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[h=1]Powerful Typhoon Neoguri lashes Japan’s Okinawa islands[/h][h=2]Nearly 600,000 people asked to evacuate homes. Great damage is likely from torrential rains if the typhoon hits land as expected on Thursday or Friday.[/h]
TOKYO—A powerful typhoon pummeled the southern Japanese islands of Okinawa on Tuesday, paralyzing transport and prompting U.S. forces based there to cancel all outdoor activity.
The Okinawan government said 10 people were injured, one seriously. Separately, a man was reported missing from a fishing boat in rough seas off Kyushu island, to the north.
One of the strongest and biggest typhoons to hit during Japan’s summer months, Typhoon Neoguri was packing sustained winds of 194 km/h and gusts up to 240 km/h, the Japan Meteorological Agency said.
“Please refrain from non-essential activities and from approaching hazardous areas,” said Meteorological Agency official Satoshi Ebihara. “Please show extreme caution.”
Local airports were closed and about 593,000 people were advised to evacuate their homes, though most remained put, taking refuge from the destructive winds, waves up to 14 metres high and storm surges that were set to intensify as the storm passed the main island of Okinawa in the evening.
More than half of the 50,000 U.S. troops in Japan are based in Okinawa, the location of several bases, including Kadena, the biggest U.S. air base in Asia. An advisory on its website said the storm was at a level for which all outdoor activity was prohibited.
Television footage showed a building shattered, damaged storefronts and trees toppled as winds picked up in the Okinawan capital of Naha.
Since typhoons track along Japan’s coasts, often veering onshore every summer, the country is relatively well prepared. Much greater damage is likely from torrential rains if the typhoon hits land as expected on Thursday or Friday and moves across the Japanese archipelago.
The storm was moving slowly and diminishing in intensity, but its wide area and slow movement could add to the potential damage, weather forecasters said.
Authorities in China and Taiwan also warned ships to stay clear of the storm.
Forecasts show the storm tracking toward Kyushu and then across Japan’s main island of Honshu. It is forecast to lose more of its power over land, but much of the damage from such storms comes from downpours that cause landslides and flooding. Such risks are elevated by the storm’s timing, on the tail end of Japan’s summer rainy season.
The Philippines, which suffered the strongest typhoon to ever hit land when Haiyan struck in November, was spared the ferocious winds of Neoguri. The storm did not make landfall and was closest to the country Monday when it was about 480 km east of the northernmost province of Batanes before it started to blow away toward southern Japan.
The typhoon did intensify the Philippines’ southwest monsoon, dumping heavy rains on some western provinces without causing any major damage.
Neoguri is a Korean word meaning “raccoon dog,” a knee-high animal that looks like a cross between a dog and a raccoon but is a separate species common in East Asia.
https://www.thestar.com/news/world/...on_neoguri_lashes_japans_okinawa_islands.html
TOKYO—A powerful typhoon pummeled the southern Japanese islands of Okinawa on Tuesday, paralyzing transport and prompting U.S. forces based there to cancel all outdoor activity.
The Okinawan government said 10 people were injured, one seriously. Separately, a man was reported missing from a fishing boat in rough seas off Kyushu island, to the north.
One of the strongest and biggest typhoons to hit during Japan’s summer months, Typhoon Neoguri was packing sustained winds of 194 km/h and gusts up to 240 km/h, the Japan Meteorological Agency said.
“Please refrain from non-essential activities and from approaching hazardous areas,” said Meteorological Agency official Satoshi Ebihara. “Please show extreme caution.”
Local airports were closed and about 593,000 people were advised to evacuate their homes, though most remained put, taking refuge from the destructive winds, waves up to 14 metres high and storm surges that were set to intensify as the storm passed the main island of Okinawa in the evening.
More than half of the 50,000 U.S. troops in Japan are based in Okinawa, the location of several bases, including Kadena, the biggest U.S. air base in Asia. An advisory on its website said the storm was at a level for which all outdoor activity was prohibited.
Television footage showed a building shattered, damaged storefronts and trees toppled as winds picked up in the Okinawan capital of Naha.
Since typhoons track along Japan’s coasts, often veering onshore every summer, the country is relatively well prepared. Much greater damage is likely from torrential rains if the typhoon hits land as expected on Thursday or Friday and moves across the Japanese archipelago.
The storm was moving slowly and diminishing in intensity, but its wide area and slow movement could add to the potential damage, weather forecasters said.
Authorities in China and Taiwan also warned ships to stay clear of the storm.
Forecasts show the storm tracking toward Kyushu and then across Japan’s main island of Honshu. It is forecast to lose more of its power over land, but much of the damage from such storms comes from downpours that cause landslides and flooding. Such risks are elevated by the storm’s timing, on the tail end of Japan’s summer rainy season.
The Philippines, which suffered the strongest typhoon to ever hit land when Haiyan struck in November, was spared the ferocious winds of Neoguri. The storm did not make landfall and was closest to the country Monday when it was about 480 km east of the northernmost province of Batanes before it started to blow away toward southern Japan.
The typhoon did intensify the Philippines’ southwest monsoon, dumping heavy rains on some western provinces without causing any major damage.
Neoguri is a Korean word meaning “raccoon dog,” a knee-high animal that looks like a cross between a dog and a raccoon but is a separate species common in East Asia.
https://www.thestar.com/news/world/...on_neoguri_lashes_japans_okinawa_islands.html
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240 km/hr winds! :don'twantto-see:/
[h=1]Earth's Magnetic Field Is Weakening 10 Times Faster Now[/h]
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3,500 Playboy mags valued at $15K sell for $250 at storage auction
https://ca.news.yahoo.com/locker-3-500-playboy-mags-sells-250-auction-032943172.html
https://ca.news.yahoo.com/locker-3-500-playboy-mags-sells-250-auction-032943172.html
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$2,446,400,000. 22 Nighthawks all in a row
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Fatal airline crash in Taiwan
https://www.torontosun.com/2014/07/23/fatal-airline-crash-in-taiwan
https://www.torontosun.com/2014/07/23/fatal-airline-crash-in-taiwan
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Apple iPhones allow extraction of deep personal data
Personal data including text messages, contact lists and photos can be extracted from iPhones through previously unpublicized techniques by Apple Inc employees, the company acknowledged this week.
The same techniques to circumvent backup encryption could be used by law enforcement or others with access to the "trusted" computers to which the devices have been connected, according to the security expert who prompted Apple's admission.
In a conference presentation this week, researcher Jonathan Zdziarski showed how the services take a surprising amount of data for what Apple now says are diagnostic services meant to help engineers.
Users are not notified that the services are running and cannot disable them, Zdziarski said. There is no way for iPhone users to know what computers have previously been granted trusted status via the backup process or block future connections.
“There’s no way to `unpair' except to wipe your phone,” he said in a video demonstration he posted Friday showing what he could extract from an unlocked phone through a trusted computer.
https://ca.finance.yahoo.com/news/apple-iphones-allow-extraction-deep-010054562.html
Personal data including text messages, contact lists and photos can be extracted from iPhones through previously unpublicized techniques by Apple Inc employees, the company acknowledged this week.
The same techniques to circumvent backup encryption could be used by law enforcement or others with access to the "trusted" computers to which the devices have been connected, according to the security expert who prompted Apple's admission.
In a conference presentation this week, researcher Jonathan Zdziarski showed how the services take a surprising amount of data for what Apple now says are diagnostic services meant to help engineers.
Users are not notified that the services are running and cannot disable them, Zdziarski said. There is no way for iPhone users to know what computers have previously been granted trusted status via the backup process or block future connections.
“There’s no way to `unpair' except to wipe your phone,” he said in a video demonstration he posted Friday showing what he could extract from an unlocked phone through a trusted computer.
https://ca.finance.yahoo.com/news/apple-iphones-allow-extraction-deep-010054562.html
Nothing surprises me anymore.
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The 10 best selling products in the world
- 10 Toyota Corolla: More than 40.7 million sold since 1966. In the 80s.
- 9 Thriller: More than 70 million albums sold since its release in 1982.
- 8 iPad: More than 211 millions sold since its launch in 2010.
- 7 PlayStation: Since its release in 1995, Sony has sold 344 million of the gaming consoles.
- 6 Rubik's Cube: Invented by Hungarian architect and sculpture Ernő Rubik in 1974, his cube went on to sell 350 million units, making it the world's best-selling toy.
- 5 Harry Potter: More than 450 million copies sold since J.K. Rowling introduced the world to Harry, Hermoine and Hogwarts in 1997. Just to put that number in perspective, there were only 495 million books sold, in total, last year.
- 4 iPhone: 516 million phones sold since the first version was launched in 2007.
- 3 Angry Birds: 2 million downloads since the first wingless bird was flung into a barrel in 2009.
- 2 Lays potato chips: Okay, here's where the math changes gears. How many bags of chips has the folks at Lays sold since Herman Lay got into the business in 1938? Who knows? But they sell 633 million bags a year now, and that's good for the 2nd spot overall on this list.
- 1 and no surprise ... Coca Cola: The undisputed king of drink, selling 1.8-billion cans of cane sugar, caffeine, coca extract and phosphoric acid (don't ask) every day around the world.
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The 11 best selling products in the world ... :biggrin2:
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