Calm acceptance vs self-help

["Rob, grandpa of Ryan, Trevor, Devon & Hannah" <rmslade () shaw ca>]

As an emergency services volunteer, I've been looking for stories about how the 
Japanese have been handling displacements, evacuations, and those left homeless 
following the quake and tsunami.  Oddly, despite having all kinds of video and 
pictures coming from various areas of Japan, these stories seem to be missing 
(possibly pushed out of the news-stream by boats running over cars, and a 
steaming reactor).

Yesterday I started to see a few, some noting that the Japanese culture of calm 
acceptance was contributing to orderly lines and a lack of panic.  (And then saw 
some reports that a lack of action by the government was starting to wear on the 
calm acceptance.  Six days after the quake, food and water aren't getting through 
to areas which are only as far apart as Ottawa is from Toronto, or Boston from 
Baltimore.)

So I was intrigued to find, this morning, this report of someone running counter to 
his own culture:

http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/world/la-fg-japan-quake-scuba-
20110317,0,7192950.story

(And, once again, I'll take the opportunity to promote the idea that all security 
professionals should consider getting training as emergency services volunteers.  
You'll know what to do in or for an emergency, you'll be a help intead of a drain, 
and, in the meantime, you can probably apply it to BCP, and get CPE credits for 
your training.)

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rslade () vcn bc ca     slade () victoria tc ca     rslade () computercrime org
[Alice] has courage which can only be described as awesome.
Against all odds, over a noisy telephone line, tapped by the tax
authorities and the secret police, Alice will happily attempt,
with someone [Bob] she doesn't trust, whom she cannot hear
clearly, and who is probably someone else, to fiddle her tax
returns and to organize a coup d'etat, while at the same time
minimizing the cost of the phone call.
   A coding theorist is someone who doesn't think Alice is crazy.
                     - John Gordon at the Zurich Seminar, April 1984
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