APIs Explorer. Looting in Japan: Why so little looting in Japan? The explanation is legal as much as cultural. - By Christopher Beam. If your home was hit by a 9.0-magnitude earthquake, a tsunami, and radiation from a nuclear power plant, you'd be forgiven for not remaining calm. Yet that's what many Japanese quake victims appear to be doing. People are forming lines outside supermarkets. Life is "particularly orderly,"according to PBS. "Japanese discipline rules despite disaster," says a columnist for The Philippine Star. Anyone who has seen Big Bird in Japan knows the shorthand for Japanese culture: They're so honest and disciplined!
There's a circularity to these cultural explanations, says Mark D. Honesty, with incentives. Police presence. Organized crime. That's not to say that a culture of reciprocity and community doesn't play a role in the relatively calm response to the quake. Correction, March 17, 2011: This article originally misattributed data on the clearance rate for murder to Jake Adelstein. ABC News - Japan Earthquake: before and after. Development: Andrew KesperSource: Google Aerial photos taken over Japan have revealed the scale of devastation across dozens of suburbs and tens of thousands of homes and businesses.
Hover over each satellite photo to view the devastation caused by the earthquake and tsunami. Sendai Airport © Google, Digital Globe, GeoEye Hover over the image to toggle before/after Arahama in Sendai Fujitsuka in Sendai Yuriage in Natori Yuriage in Natori (looking west) Fukushima nuclear plant Kashimaku in Minamisoma © Google, Cnes/Spot Image, GeoEye Kashima in Minamisoma Haranomachi in Minamisoma Ishinomaki in Miyagi © Google, Cnes/Spot Image, DigitalGlobe, GeoEye Iigohama in Miyagi (Oshika Peninsula) Yagawahama in Miyagi (Oshika Peninsula) Village wiped out near Fukushima nuclear power plant © Google, Digital Globe Hirono oil-fired power station South of Fukushima nuclear plant © Google, Digital Globe, TerraMetrics, GeoEye Iwaki beach © Google, Cnes/Spot Image, Digital Globe Ueda in Iwaki, Samegawa river outlet Kesennuma Odohama.
In Person: Falling Off the Ladder: How Not to Succeed in Academia. One Friday evening in the winter of 2009, I ended a 20-year affiliation with a college of the University of London, lugging three boxes of personal possessions and a bucket containing 12 tropical fish from my emptied office. In the face of looming redundancy, brought on by my failure to contribute adequately to my department's last Research Assessment Exercise submission, I jumped before I was pushed.
I left with a compromise agreement and a lot of thoughts about how my career, initially as a reasonably successful scientist, had come to such a sticky end. My story has useful lessons in it, some of which are exclusive to scientific research but some of which reflect, I think, the experience of women in academia. I was a ferociously smart child who attended a mediocre state comprehensive school, scraping sufficiently good A-level grades to get myself into the University of Bristol, at the start of the 1980s, to read biochemistry. So, what went wrong? Kathy Weston (Credit: Kathy Weston) Jacob Barnett,12, with higher IQ than Einstein develops his own theory of relativity. By Daily Mail Reporter Created: 16:03 GMT, 24 March 2011 A 12-year-old child prodigy has astounded university professors after grappling with some of the most advanced concepts in mathematics. Jacob Barnett has an IQ of 170 - higher than Albert Einstein - and is now so far advanced in his Indiana university studies that professors are lining him up for a PHD research role.
The boy wonder, who taught himself calculus, algebra, geometry and trigonometry in a week, is now tutoring fellow college classmates after hours. Scroll down for video Gifted: Jacob Barnett is so far ahead of his age group he is now leaving university he is developing his own theory on how the universe came into being And now Jake has embarked on his most ambitious project yet - his own 'expanded version of Einstein's theory of relativity'. His mother, not sure if her child was talking nonsense or genius, sent a video of his theory to the renowned Institute for Advanced Study near Princeton University. Les Chevaliers du Ciel HD Promo. Indian Rock - Shor Bazaar - Savita Bhabhi. Lisa Boyle. Lisa Doreen Boyle is an American model known for her appearances in Playboy magazine and its various Special Editions, often teamed with Patricia Ford.
She is a professional photographer, shooting content for her own website, as well as freelance work for various publications. Early life[edit] Boyle was born in Chicago, Illinois. She graduated from Chicago's Steinmetz High School in 1982 (Hugh Hefner's alma mater). After high school, she headed off to Kailua, Hawaii, with a friend and worked as a waitress. Career[edit] Boyle worked as a booth babe for Eidos Interactive at the 1999 Electronic Entertainment Expo (E3). She was a still photographer in the TV show Chasing Farrah in 2005. Personal life[edit] Boyle operates her own website and has appeared in numerous issues of the Playboy Newsstand Specials.
Filmography[edit] References[edit] External links[edit] One of the best matrix jokes in recent yrs. Bombay Production. Work - Lenna 97: A Complete Story of Lenna. Introduction Engineers, researchers, and students who are familiar with image processing or compression has most likely used the picture of "Lenna" or "Lena" in their experiments or project assignments, as the Lenna picture is one of the most widely used standard test images.
Today, the use of Lenna image has been recognized as one of the most important events in the history of electronic imaging. However, very few people have seen the original picture and know the complete story of Lenna. Here is the materials about Lenna I have recently found on the Internet, which includes the recent picture of Lenna in May 1997. Who is "Lenna" or "Lena"? From the comp.compression FAQ, we can find that "Lenna" or "Lena" is a digitized Playboy centerfold, from November 1972. When and where the Lenna picture creates? Why using the "Lenna" image? Two reason was stated in "A Note on Lena" by David C. Who create the "Lenna" image? --Chuck McManis (USC Class of '83) Want to see the original Lenna? No problem! Digital backlot. A digital backlot (also known as a virtual backlot) is a motion picture set that is neither a genuine location shoot nor physical (i.e. hand-built) sets on the soundstages; the shooting takes place entirely on a stage with a blank background (often a greenscreen) that will have an artificial environment put in during post-production.
It is often used in futuristic films to achieve what would otherwise be too expensive or outright impossible to build as a real set. Notable films[edit] Among the first films to introduce the technique was Mini Moni the Movie by Shinji Higuchi in 2002, predated by Rest In Peace by Stolpskott Film (2000).[1] Others include: Released[edit] Upcoming[edit] Sin City: A Dame to Kill For (United States 2014) – Co-directed by Robert Rodriguez and Frank Miller. Sequel to Sin City.Tribes of October[2] See also[edit] References[edit] Infomals - Behold The World’s Largest Photo Ever Taken Indoors: 40 Gigapixels Of Awesome. We interrupt our live coverage of breaking news about Internet companies from around the world to point you to this phenomenal 360-degrees photo (okay, actually it’s 2,947 pictures stitched together).
It is, to our and the photographer’s knowledge, the largest photo ever taken indoors with 280,000 x 140,000 pixels of awesomesauce. In the screenshot above, in the painting on the ceiling, do you see that angel holding a book, right below the cross? No worries if you can’t, because I zoomed in to give you a close-up: That’s how freaking amazing this picture is. The photo was taken by photographer and 360cities founder Jeffrey Martin, and shows the interior of the magnificent, 18th-century baroque library you can find inside the Strahov Monastery in Prague, Czech Republic. For more background, head on over to Wired. The details, for the fans, courtesy of Martin: Okay, okay – one more: Oh, so you thought that was it? Organ ‘Printing’ Creates Beating Heart Cells | Wired Science. Films that stands out - a list by Jonathen Parker.
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