--Sooner Or Later--

--Japan Mar 11th 2011--

--Tsunami In Malaysia.- Penang Gurney Drive (26 Dec 2004)--

A tsunami (plural: tsunamis or tsunami; from Japanese: 津波, lit. "harbor wave"; English pronunciation: /suːˈnɑːmiː/ soo-NAH-mee or /tsuːˈnɑːmiː/ tsoo-NAH-mee), also called a tsunami wave train, or less frequently a tidal wave, is a series of water waves caused by the displacement of a large volume of a body of water, usually an ocean, though it can occur in large lakes. Tsunamis are a frequent occurrence in Japan; approximately 195 events have been recorded. Owing to the immense volumes of water and the high energy involved, tsunamis can devastate coastal regions.

Earthquakes, volcanic eruptions and other underwater explosions (including detonations of underwater nuclear devices), landslides and other mass movements, meteorite ocean impacts or similar impact events, and other disturbances above or below water all have the potential to generate a tsunami.

The Greek historian Thucydides was the first to relate tsunami to submarine earthquakes,^[5][6] but the understanding of a tsunami's nature remained slim until the 20th century and is the subject of ongoing research. Many early geological, geographical, and oceanographic texts refer to tsunamis as "seismic sea waves."

Some meteorological conditions, such as deep depressions that cause tropical cyclones, can generate a storm surge, called a meteotsunami, which can raise tides several metres above normal levels. The displacement comes from low atmospheric pressure within the centre of the depression. As these storm surges reach shore, they may resemble (though are not) tsunamis, inundating vast areas of land.

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~http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tsunami

--Zimbabwean dollar--

The Zimbabwean dollar ($, or Z$ to distinguish it from other dollar-denominated currencies) was the official currency of Zimbabwe between 1980 and 12 April 2009. ~ Although the dollar was considered to be among the highest valued currency units when it was first introduced in 1980 to replace the Rhodesian dollar at a ratio of 1:1, political turmoil and hyperinflation rapidly eroded the value of the Zimbabwe dollar to eventually become one of the least valued currency units in the world, undergoing three redenominations, and banknote denominations being issued for as high as $100 trillion.
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Despite attempts to control inflation by legislation and three separate redenominations in 2006, 2008 and 2009, the use of the dollar as an official currency was effectively abandoned on 12 April 2009 as a result of the Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe legalising the use of foreign currencies for transactions in January 2009.
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Foreign currencies such as the South African Rand, Botswana Pula, Pound Sterling and the United States Dollar are now used instead for all transactions in Zimbabwe, and the current policy of the government of Zimbabwe has insisted that any attempts to reintroduce Zimbabwean currency should only be considered if the industrial output improves.
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~http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zimbabwean_dollar
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~http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zimbabwe
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~http://www.cato.org/zimbabwe
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~http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Coat_of_Arms_of_Zimbabwe.svg
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~http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Flag_of_Zimbabwe.svg

--Clash Of The Titans 2010--

SEOUL, South Korea, Nov. 24, 2010
Koreas Clash: Seoul a City on the Edge

(CBS) On Wednesday the Obama administration called the North's artillery attack a "premeditated" violation of the longstanding truce.

CBS News correspondent Celia Hatton reports images of emotional memorials, exhausted evacuees and mangled buildings gripped South Korea Wednesday. The country is on high alert following Tuesday's artillery battle between North and South Korea that killed two South Korean marines and two civilians on the island Yeonpyeong.

"I was really scared," said one evacuee.
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~http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2010/11/24/eveningnews/main7087803.shtml
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~http://www.wired.com/dangerroom/2010/11/howitzers-blast-jets-readied-after-north-korea-shells-south/

--Phnom Penh stampede 2010--

Updated November 23, 2010 22:20:46

Buddhist monks have gathered in Cambodia's capital Phnom Penh to express condolence to the families of at least 378 people who were killed on Monday evening in a stampede. Cambodia's prime minister, Hun Sen, has called the incident the nation's most tragic event since the end of the Khmer Rouge regime. The government has ordered an investigation but already several different explanations have emerged. Some survivors say police made the situation worse by spraying water over people who had collapsed on a bridge, not realising that they had suffered electric shocks.
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~http://www.radioaustralia.net.au/asiapac/stories/201011/s3074591.htm
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~http://www.phnompenhpost.com/index.php/2010112244892/National-news/hundreds-die-in-tragic-end-to-water-festival.html

--Sep. 11th 2001 9years of pain....--

The September 11 attacks (often referred to as September 11th or 9/11) were a series of coordinated suicide attacks by al-Qaeda upon the United States on September 11, 2001. On that morning, 19 al-Qaeda terrorists hijacked four commercial passenger jet airliners. The hijackers intentionally crashed two of the airliners into the Twin Towers of the World Trade Center in New York City, killing everyone on board and many others working in the buildings. Both buildings collapsed within two hours, destroying nearby buildings and damaging others. The hijackers crashed a third airliner into the Pentagon in Arlington, Virginia, just outside Washington, D.C. The fourth plane crashed into a field near Shanksville in rural Pennsylvania after some of its passengers and flight crew attempted to retake control of the plane, which the hijackers had redirected toward Washington, D.C. There were no survivors from any of the flights.

Nearly 3000 victims and the 19 hijackers died in the attacks. According to the New York State Health Department, 836 responders have died as of June 2009. Among the 2752 victims who died in the attacks on the World Trade Center were 343 firefighters and 60 police officers from New York City and the Port Authority. 184 people were killed in the attacks on the Pentagon. The overwhelming majority of casualties were civilians, including nationals of over 70 countries. In addition, there was at least one secondary death – one person was ruled by a medical examiner to have died from lung disease due to exposure to dust from the World Trade Center's collapse.

The United States responded to the attacks by launching the War on Terror: it invaded Afghanistan to depose the Taliban, who had harbored al-Qaeda terrorists. The United States also enacted the USA PATRIOT Act. Many other countries also strengthened their anti-terrorism legislation and expanded law enforcement powers. Some American stock exchanges stayed closed for the rest of the week following the attack and posted enormous losses upon reopening, especially in the airline and insurance industries. The destruction of billions of dollars' worth of office space caused serious damage to the economy of Lower Manhattan.

The damage to the Pentagon was cleared and repaired within a year, and the Pentagon Memorial was built adjacent to the building. The rebuilding process has started on the World Trade Center site. In 2006, a new office tower was completed on the site of 7 World Trade Center. The new 1 World Trade Center is currently under construction at the site and, at 1,776 ft (541 m) upon completion in 2013, it will become one of the tallest buildings in North America. Three more towers were originally expected to be built between 2007 and 2012 on the site. Ground was broken for the Flight 93 National Memorial on November 8, 2009, and the first phase of construction is expected to be ready for the 10th anniversary of the attacks on September 11, 2011.

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~http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/September_11_attacks
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~http://airtravel.about.com/od/shoppinggiftgiving/tp/sep11movies.htm
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~http://september11news.com/
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~http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EFiEgwLQVJk

--Hong Kong issues 'black alert' after deadly Manila hostage crisis--

Hong Kong

Eight Chinese tourists were killed Monday after a hostage crisis in the Philippines came to a violent end. The incident is likely to heap pressure on new president Benigno Aquino, who must confront the diplomatic fallout with his giant neighbor while seeking to reassure tourists that his impoverished nation of 92 million is safe to visit.

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Philippine security forces stormed a tourist bus in the capital, Manila, at around 8.30 p.m. local time after an 11-hour standoff with a man armed with a M-16 rifle who had boarded the bus, taking hostage 22 tourists from Hong Kong and three Filipinos.

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The gunman – a police officer protesting his firing in 2008 – became agitated as night fell and specialist SWAT units encircled the bus. He began shooting hostages, and millions of TV viewers worldwide, including many in China and Hong Kong, watched in horror in bars and restaurants as security forces stormed the bus.

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~http://www.csmonitor.com/World/Asia-Pacific/2010/0823/Hong-Kong-issues-black-alert-after-deadly-Manila-hostage-crisis
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~http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=D9HQH5Q80&show_article=1

--Forever........--

--India plane crash kills scores. 8 survive--

msnbc.com staff and news service reports
updated 5:05 a.m. ET May 22, 2010
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NEW DELHI - An Air India Express plane trying to land in the rain at a tricky hilltop airport in southern India overshot the runway, crashed and burst into flames at dawn Saturday, killing nearly 160 people, officials said. At least eight survived.
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Dense black smoke billowed from the Boeing 737-800 aircraft surrounded by flames just outside Mangalore's Bajpe airport in a hilly area with thick grass and trees.
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~http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/37286182/ns/world_news-south_and_central_asia/?gt1=43001

--MIRACLE--

9 Year-old Ruben van Assouw is seen in his hospital bed in Tripoli's El Khadra hospital, Libya Thusday, May 13, 2010. Ruben is the only survivor of a Libyan Afriqiyah Airways plane with 104 people on board that crashed on landing Wednesday, May 12 at the airport in the Libyan capital Tripoli.

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~http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/37145820/displaymode/1176/rstry/37145872/

--May 13th 1969--

The May 13 Incident is a term for the Sino-Malay sectarian violences in Kuala Lumpur (then part of the state of Selangor), Malaysia, which began on May 13, 1969. The riots led to a declaration of a state of national emergency and suspension of Parliament by the Malaysian government, while the National Operations Council (NOC or Majlis Gerakan Negara, MAGERAN) was established to temporarily govern the country between 1969 and 1971.
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Officially, 196 people were killed between May 13 and July 31 as a result of the riots, although journalists and other observers have stated much higher figures. Other reports at the time suggest over 2,000 were killed by rioters, police and Malaysian Army rangers, mainly in Kuala Lumpur. Many of the dead were quickly buried in unmarked graves in the Kuala Lumpur General Hospital grounds by soldiers of Malaysian Engineers.
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The government cited the riots as the main cause of its more aggressive affirmative action policies, such as the New Economic Policy (NEP), after 1969.
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~http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/May_13_incident
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~http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zu6tV2CiZyQ

--Volcano erupts more strongly, chaos continues--

LONDON - An Icelandic volcano causing travel chaos throughout the world is erupting more strongly, a geologist warned Saturday, as the European aviation control agency said flight disruption would continue for at least 24 hours.
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Eurocontrol said no landings or takeoffs were possible for civilian aircraft in most of northern and central Europe.
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But flights were taking place in southern Europe, including Spain, the southern Balkans, southern Italy, Bulgaria, Greece and Turkey. Eurocontrol said it expected 6,000 flights in European airspace on Saturday compared to 22,000 normally.
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~http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/36611426/ns/travel

--Polish president among 132 dead in jet crash--

Plane goes down in Russia en route to commemoration of Stalin’s victims
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msnbc.com news services

updated 5:28 a.m. ET April 10, 2010
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SMOLENSK, Russia - Polish President Lech Kaczynski was killed when a plane carrying 132 people crashed in thick fog on its approach to a Russian airport on Saturday, killing everyone on board, officials said.

The governor of the Smolensk region, where the crash took place about 11 a.m. (3 a.m. ET), said no one survived.

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~http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/36352097/ns/world_news-europe?GT1=39002

--Can You Really Predict the Success of a Marriage in 15 Minutes?--

"My goal is to be like the guy who invented Velcro," marriage researcher John Gottman once told an interviewer. "Nobody remembers his name, but everybody uses Velcro." Gottman's own road to Velcro-level fame started with a 1998 article in the Journal of Marriage and the Family. He and his colleagues at the University of Washington had videotaped newlywed couples discussing a contentious topic for 15 minutes to measure precisely how they fought over it: Did they criticize? Were they defensive? Did either spouse curl his or her lip in contempt? Then, three to six years later, Gottman's team checked on the same couples' marital status and announced that based on the coding of the tapes, they could predict with 83 percent accuracy which ones were divorced.
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Soon reporters had dubbed Gottman's research facility the "love lab," and his powers of prognostication had increased: In another published report, he said he could pick out future divorcees 91 percent of the time based on coding a mere five-minutes of tape. Over the next decade, Gottman's narrow, bald head, fringed by a neat, gray beard and topped by a discreet yarmulke, began to appear everywhere—on 20/20 and The Today Show, in the New York Times Magazine and the Atlantic, and in hundreds of newspapers across the country. Malcolm Gladwell devoted most of a chapter to him in his huge best-seller Blink.
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In a 2007 survey asking psychotherapists to elect the 10 most influential members of their profession over the last quarter-century, Gottman was only one of four who made the cut who wasn't deceased. "Many in the field now believe that most of what we know about marriage and divorce comes from his work," states an article accompanying the Top 10 list.
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~http://www.slate.com/id/2246732/?gt1=38001

--The World's Most Polluted Places..--

From lead in the soil to toxins in the water and radioactive fallout in the air, The Blacksmith Institute has created a list of the world's worst ecological disaster areas

1. Linfen, China
2. Tianying, China
3. Sukinda, India
4. Vapi, India
5. La Oroya, Peru
6. Dzerzhinsk, Russia
7. Norilsk, Russia
8. Chernobyl, Ukraine
9. Sumgayit, Azerbaijan
10. Kabwe, Zambia

Read more: http://www.time.com/time/specials/packages/completelist/0,29569,1661031,00.html#ixzz0itbcwKJK

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~http://www.time.com/time/specials/packages/completelist/0,29569,1661031,00.html

--Mild earthquake hits Tasik Kenyir area. Kuala Terengganu. Malaysia--

A mild 2.6-magnitude earthquake shook the Tasik Kenyir, Terengganu area at 11.10pm Wednesday (03.10.2010).

The earthquake was the second in more than 20 years.

The quake had an epicenter at 43km Southwest of Kuala Terengganu and 22km West of Kuala Berang.

According to Bernama, Dr Mohd Rosaidi Che Abas, director of the Malaysian Meterological Department's (MMD) Geophysics and Tsunami division said that "the earthquake last night may have been linked to the one that happened 20 years ago or the release of tectonic gas from the gas bearing basin or the plate tectonic setting in Terengganu."

He added that in the 1980s, Kenyir was hit by a 4.6 magnitude earthquake when the Kenyir Dam was being filled.

Dr Rosaidi mentioned that since it was the first case in 20 years, his department will work closely with the Mineral and Geosciences Department to find the actual cause of the quake.

He said that people shouldn't worry as a 2.6 scale earthquake was a mild one.
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~http://news.malaysia.msn.com/regional/article.aspx?cp-documentid=3940401

--The worst Day of my LIFE @ Chow Kit .Kuala Lumpur--

Pickpockets are thieves who steal items — often wallets or passports, sometimes other valuables — from people's clothing and bags as they walk in a public place. Pickpocketing is a very old crime that is continually being reinvented. Pickpockets are a hazard in nearly any tourist destination. After all, tourists - by definition - have disposable income, and are likely to be carrying some money and/or valuables.

Everything Gone............................... 2nd March 2010.....

~http://wikitravel.org/en/Pickpockets

--Doomsday 2012 The End of Days (7 of 7) History Channel--

--Doomsday 2012 The End of Days (6 of 7) History Channel--