Japan Faces Potential Nuclear Catastrophe

TOKYO - The international nuclear agency, said a fire at a Japanese plant was affected by the tsunami in a pool of spent nuclear fuel storage.

The International Atomic Energy Agency, says that the Japanese authorities reported that the fire was the storage pond - swimming pool, where spent nuclear fuel is kept cool -. "Radioactivity is released directly into the atmosphere" and that

The Japanese authorities later said the fire at Unit 4 of Fukushima Dai-ichi plant had been extinguished.

This update NEWS. Check back soon for more information. AP story earlier is below.

SOMA, Japan (AP) - The dangerous levels of radiation escaping from a crippled nuclear plant forced Japan to 140,000 people joined in on Tuesday after an explosion and fire dramatically escalating crisis triggered update 4-1 by a deadly tsunami.

In a statement on national television, Prime Minister Naoto Kan, said radiation has been extended from four reactors at the Fukushima Dai-ichi Fukushima nuclear state, one of the most affected by Friday's 9.0 earthquake magnitude and tsunami that killed more than 10,000 people, has plunged millions into poverty and beaten the third largest economy in the world.

Even Will and other officials on Tuesday urged calm trends fueled a growing panic in Japan and worldwide uncertainty spread middle of what would happen.

In the worst cases, the reactor core would melt completely, a disaster that shed large amounts of radioactity in the atmosphere.

Tokyo reported low levels of radiation, but officials said the increase was too small to threaten the 39 million people in and around the capital, about 170 miles (270 km). Closer to Building Nuclear devastated in the streets of the coastal town of Soma was empty, the few people who resided there listened government warnings to stay indoors.

Officials just south of Fukushima reported up to 100 times the normal levels of radiation Tuesday morning, Kyodo news agency. Although these figures are worrying if there is prolonged exposure, they are far from dead.

Khan and other officials have warned of the risk of major bleeding and told the residents of 19 miles (30 km) and the complex Fukushima Dai-ichi to stay indoors to avoid exposure, which can make people sick.

"Do not go out. Good to stay at home. Close the windows and make your home airtight," Chief Cabinet Secretary said Yukio Edan residents in the danger zone.

"These are numbers that could affect health. No doubt about it," he said.

Fukushima has the forecast for snow and wind from the north, on the evening of Tuesday, blowing from the southwest to Tokyo, then transfer and blowing west toward the sea. This is important because it shows the direction in which the potential of nuclear power can blow a cloud.

The nuclear crisis is the worst thing Japan has faced since the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki during the Second World War. It is also the first time such a serious nuclear threat arises in the world from a nuclear plant in Chernobyl, Ukraine exploded in 1986.

Some 70,000 people were evacuated from a 12 miles (20 kilometers) from Dai-ichi complex. About 140,000 remain in the area of the new warning.

The workers were trying desperately to stabilize the three reactors at the power plant that exploded in the wake of Friday's earthquake and tsunami, having lost their ability to cool and get some radiation. Since the earthquake, engineers have been injecting sea water into the reactor coolant as the last chance.

A fourth reactor had been stopped before the earthquake caught fire on Tuesday and more radiation was released, said Edan.

The fire was extinguished. Although the fourth reactor was closed, the fire was believed to be the source of high radiation.

"It is likely that the radiation level has greatly increased due to a fire in the unit 4" Edano said. "Now we're talking about levels that can harm human health. These readings taken near the area where we believe that the release occurs. In the distance, the levels should be lower. "

He said the second reactor with a containment building exploded Monday had not contributed significantly to increased radiation.

2010 FIFA World Cup Searches Pour on Google

Google is the world’s widely used search engine, has recently released details about popular World Cup-related searches on the internet.

The final 16 qualifying matches, contentious and controversial calls, and results were very popular search topics.

Google revealed that Switzerland’s success over Spain and New Zealand’s performance against Italy drew plenty of traffic and irregularities.

During the launch of the tournament, “striker” was the most popular position in soccer. On the other hand, “goalkeeper” soon caught up and is now leading after England’s goalkeeper Rob Green let a ball slide past him during their opening match against the United States (US).

Some related topics to the World Cup also experienced interchange surges include lile “vuvuzela” and Shakira’s 2010 World Cup song.

Where Wealth Makes People Happiest

Perhaps all of us are like to think the reasons for seeking wealth are universal. Humans, characteristically, like to be at ease, like to have power and like to have the preferences and freedoms offered by lots of material and money. Yet it turns out there are some regional distinctions in the meaning of wealth around the world.

Freshly releases this morning from Barclay’s Wealth and Ledbury Research, found out that the emerging-market rich view wealth very differently from the older-money Europeans and the slightly less nouveaux Americans.

The study evaluated 2,000 people from 20 countries with invertible assets of $1.5 million or more. Both of them shared some common themes: a gigantic majority of rich people from all regions concord that wealth enables them to buy the best products and that wealth gives them freedom of choice in their life. The majority also agreed that wealth is a prize for hard work. But the differences are more appealing:

Respect – more likely 40% and 47% of Asians and Latin Americans say wealth allows them to get respect from friends and family. While only 28% of Europeans and 38% of Americans said respect was a byproduct of wealth.

Charity - about three-quarters of respondents in the U.S. and Latin America said wealth enabled them to give to charity. That compares with 57% in Europe and 66% in Asia.

Happiness – two thirds of the Europeans and Americans said wealth made them happy. But it had a better happiness affect in emerging markets, with 76% of Asians and Latin Americans saying wealth made them blissful.

Role Model – half or less than half of Americans and Europeans said that wealthy "set an important example to others to be successful." That compares with 71% of Latin Americans and 61% of Asians.

Spending - Wealthy Europeans are far more likely to spend their cash on travel and interior decorating. Latin Americans seem to put the maximum spending priority on education, while the U.S. surges above the rest in philanthropy.

There are several things into the differences. Clearly, the US has a more formalized and tax-favorable system of philanthropy than the rest of the world. In other words Americans are the most generous.

Moreover, the global financial crisis may have blemished the picture of the wealthy - yet amongst the wealthy. And to end with, the longer a country has wealth, the less it craves the attention and respect wealth brings.

US Senate Voice Concerns Over Facebook Privacy

Last Tuesday four US senators conveyed their concerns to Facebook over current changes to the social network that they say compromise the confidentiality of its more than 400 million users.

In a letter to Mark Zuckerberg Facebook’s co-founder and chief executives, US senators stated that they were concerned that personal information of Facebook users is being made available to third party websites.

Furthermore, Facebook should make sharing personal information an "opt-in" procedure in which a user specifically gives permission for data to be shared.

"Even though we are gratified that Facebook let users to opt-out of sharing private data, many users are unconscious of this option and, besides, find it complicated and confusing to navigate," the senators added.

"Beforehand, Facebook lets third-party advertisers to stock up profile data for 24 hours," they said. "We are concerned that current changes allow that data to be stored indefinitely.

"We believe that Facebook should reverse this policy, or at a lowest require users to decide on in to allowing third parties to store data for more than 24 hours."

Facebook's vice president of global communications, marketing and public policy, Elliot Schrage, send a letter to Senator Schumer that stated online privacy is "something Facebook takes very seriously."

"Facebook is planed to give people the tools to manage their information online and our highest priority is to keep and build the confidence of the more than 400 million people who use our service," Schrage said.

The main function of these new products and features are to enhance personalization and uphold social activity across the Internet while continuing to give users unparalleled control over what information they share, when they want to share it, and with whom," Elliot Schrage added.

Holy Man Arrested Over Sex Scandal

Hindu holy man with thousand of followers all over India and abroad have been arrested by the police after video footage come out last month allegedly showing him frolicking with two women.

Late on Wednesday, Nithyananda Swami, whose devotees include politicians and movie stars, was arrested in the resort town of Shimla in northern India.

Swami, the head of Dhyanapeetam, or "knowledge center," was strained to resign last month after the video that was purportedly shot in his center outside the southern city of Bangalore.

The leaked video aired by news channels caused the angered of the hundreds of his devotees and ransacked his center and tore down his posters, forcing him to go into hiding.

The 32-year-old holy man, who denied any links to the women and said the tapes were doctored, is being look into for rape, cheating and criminal conspiracy, police said.

The last few months have been terrible for India's self-styled holy men with police arresting a swami for running a brothel which involves air stewardesses and college students, while charging another with kidnapping a minor.

Self-claimed holy man Nithyananda Swami has spiritual centers in United States and the Europe and he also runs free medical centers and supplies food to the poor.

Christina Hendricks Named Americas Best Looking Woman

Christina Hendricks has been hailed as America's best-looking woman in an Esquire cover article, however, there's more than meets the eye with this one.

To begin with, even if the article appears in a men's magazine, the fiery "Mad Men" star won the best-looking title via a poll of over 10,000 women. Hendricks snitch 30 percent of the votes that were cast, beating out even Megan Fox, who got 14 percent of the votes, and Victoria's Secret model Adriana Lima, who got 17 percent. Megan Fox was last year's title-holder in Esquire's annual issue dedicated to the fairer sex.

Dubiously and more interestingly the photo that appears on the cover of the magazine looks a little unusual from the hot redhead who has garnered almost as much attention for her looks as she has for her performance on the AMC television show.

The accompanying photo that spread out looks a bit more like the Hendricks we know and love. She looks sizzling and hot in a desert shoot, basic-cable's favorite secretary poses next to an abandoned trailer, crawls across the sand, and bites into a juicy slice of watermelon.

Hendricks' stretch comes with a personal letter speak to to all men. As well to discussing her disgust of Facebook and love of Scotch, Hendricks lays out pointers for behaving around women: "There are better words than gorgeous, radiant, for an instance. It's an underused word even a special word. 'You are radiant, charming, smoldering,
invigorating, attractive, and fetching."

The full-bosomed beauty undoubtedly doesn't shy away from discussing her signature figure either: "We also remember everything you say about our bodies, be it good or bad. It doesn't matter if it's just a compliment nor could be just a comment. Those things you say are store away in the steel box, and we remember these things precisely. We bear in mind what you were wearing and the street corner you were standing on when you said it."

One can't help but marvel where Hendricks was standing when the women of America paid her and her body the highest accolade of all.

The Science Of Romance

Head off this idea that being fall in love is as much a biological happening as it is a behavioral happening, can we also explain "falling out of love" as in biological concepts as well? For some falling in love is a biological/chemical process within the brain and involves having just the right sum of receptors for adequate transduction by this biological/chemical process. Do we then use this same representation to talk about people falling out of love?

One professor says that falling out of love is a result of the parties involved becoming fed up with the relationship, that the parties involved found each other and trapped with each other because each one found something unique and novel about the other person and after some time, the novelty goes away, tediousness arises, and falling out of love becomes predictable.

Even though this explanation makes much sense to me, I still wondered what the changeable degrees of brain activity over this course of time would tell us about a biological reasoning for falling out of love.

Also I found out that it is extremely interesting to talk about the different sections of the brain that were both activated and deactivated when one sees his/her loved one. Most fascinatingly to me, both the amygdala and the pre-frontal cortex region are deactivated. The amygdala is the sub-cortical region of the brain that controlling our sense of fear and possibly sadness as well.

This does make sense; when I glimpse someone that I am in love with, I never approach him with fear. On the other hand, the pre-frontal cortex controls a lot of our planning, decision-making, and basic overall rational thinking. Unfortunately this was deactivated!

Speaking with this, have there been many court cases in the past, or current, that have used this biological model as a means for a defendant beseeching not guilty by reason of madness in a murder trial? I wonder.