Tsunami Harpoons Japanese Whaling Town

This is an update about the effect of Japan's Earthquake and Tsunami Disaster March 11th, 2011 that occured in the Ayukawa area. This affected Japan's scientific research of whales as well.

Below is the article written by Shingo Ito 

AYUKAWA, Japan — The Japanese whaling town of Ayukawa has survived the wrath of environmental groups for decades, but had no defence against a giant tsunami that wiped out the industry here, possibly for ever.

The Effect of Japan's Earthquake and Tsunami Disaster ( 11 March 2011 )

Below is a video about the tsunami..

(credit : franktze)

Sadly, the impact of this disaster doesn't stop there. Aside from debris and casualties, the disaster also brought a scary aftermath: radiation. Read article below:

Tokyo water warning on radiation

Effects of Social Networks

Social networks are becoming more popular nowadays. Then, for many people it's going to be their need. In fact, the users of  social networks such as Twitter and facebook is increasing, especially in my beloved country ( Indonesia ).... believe it or not... According to many sites and webs, indonesia is one of the countries which has the greatest amount of social networks users in the world...sounds great.. but still, there's a bad news..yah of course, we've heard about the crime that started from using this kind of social networks..
So, actually what is the effect of using social networks? of course there are so many effects, both positive or negative.. so, I'm going to tell you a little bit about that...

The purchase of DVD culture

 Actually i want to explain about the purchase of DVD culture. For example as found in this site:
Cami's LJ


    The site above shows that there is a Japanese group of boyband named "ARASHI" that last year has sold over 4 million copies of music DVDs. Those amount of copies been bought by their fan(boys/girls) all over the world. So from my point of view, the purchase of DVD culture hadn't influenced only Japanese but plentiful person in world wide.
    Even if the purchase of DVD culture didn't start over from the Japanese, but those who remain that culture is Japanese. For example in America is more well-known to purchase by downloading (mp3,mp4, etc) from i-tunes, so they can just copy it to their i-pod (because i-pod is a common music player which firmly owned by American), rather than purchasing the original CD or DVD.
    If we compare both culture to the one in Indonesia, they are actually resembles each other. In Indonesia people do like to buy CDs but not the original one, or do like downloading (mp3,mp4, etc) but get it for free. Here, i'm not going to judge any of these culture but, which one do you think is more proper to do?

भारत की वृद्धि दर 8. 7 प्रतिशत रहेगी

पीटीआई-भाषा संवाददाता 12:19 HRS IST

दावोस, 28 जनवरी :भाषा: दक्षता के साथ साथ आधारभूत ढांचा में निवेश के कारण भारतीय अर्थव्यवस्था के 8. 7 प्रतिशत सालाना की दर से बढ़ने की संभावना है और वर्ष 2020 तक यहां 3. 75 करोड़ रोजगारों का भी सृजन होगा।

परामर्शक फर्म एक्सेंचर ने विश्व आर्थिक मंच में जारी अपनी रिपोर्ट में कहा कि भारत, जर्मनी, अमेरिका और ब्रिटेन जैसी चार प्रमुख अर्थव्यवस्थायें : भारत, जर्मनी, अमेरिका और ब्रिटेन : कुल मिलाकर विश्व अर्थव्यवस्था के करीब 40 प्रतिशत के बराबर है।

इसमें कहा गया है कि भारत की अर्थव्यवस्था मौजूदा समय में आठ प्रतिशत की विकास दर की उम्मीद के मुकाबले 8. 7 प्रतिशत वाषिर्क दर से बढ़ेगी तथा वर्ष 2020 तक मौजूदा उम्मीद के मुकाबले 3. 75 करोड़ अधिक रोजगार सृजित होने की उम्मीद है।