How much do you know about Facebook Photos? [infographic]

How much do you know about Facebook Photos? [infographic]

Read more: http://wallblog.co.uk/2011/03/15/how-much-do-you-know-about-facebook-photos-infographic/#ixzz1GnbBtFom

Nice post from @theWall

"A great infographic giving a a breakdown of the phenomenon that is Facebook photos. A few quick takeouts for you:

• *There will be 100 billion photos on Facebook by Summer 2011
• *6 billion photos are uploaded each month
• *Over 750 million photos were posted on Facebook globally during new years eve weekend
• *40% more photos are uploaded on the weekend than during the week
• *The most photos out of any day in the week are uploaded to Facebook on Sunday
• *Women upload and tag 2X more photos to Facebook than men
• *Older users upload as much as younger users BUT they tag less"

Read more: http://wallblog.co.uk/2011/03/15/how-much-do-you-know-about-facebook-photos-infographic/#ixzz1GnbH4lk1

Earthquake Losses May Be Limited for Japanese Non-Life Insurance Providers - Bloomberg

Earthquake Losses May Be Limited for Japanese Non-Life Insurance Providers - Bloomberg:

seem to have adopted best practice despite not being forced by regulators to do so, thats how it should be done!

"Japanese non-life insurers may face limited losses from the country’s strongest earthquake because of contingency reserves and an exclusion from insuring damaged nuclear plants, analysts said.

MS&AD Insurance Group Holdings (8725) Inc., Tokio Marine Holdings Inc. (8766) and NKSJ Holdings Inc. (8630), the three-biggest non-life insurers, may have 20 billion yen ($250 million) to 80 billion yen each in commercial losses, according to Keefe Bruyette & Woods Inc. The three have set aside about 88 percent of their 593.2 billion yen maximum liability, Fitch Ratings said."

how to prepare for any diaster, quiz your knowlege about earthquake.. get prepared a 'go-bag' & person/family safety procedures now!

Our thoughts are with all the families affected in Japan... this shows how vulnerable we all are from disasters in the world, from natural to man made events..

Question: How prepared are we????

If you are in London, are you living in flooding area(s)?? see it for yourself here.

It is now time to reflect... and see what might need to be done to prepare ourselves and our families (our work has health & safety and disaster procedures.. why do we neglect our own families??) :

from US Homeland security: http://www.fema.gov/areyouready/basic_preparedness.shtm

get Kids involved: http://www.fema.gov/kids/ready.htm

get a Diaster supply kit: http://www.fema.gov/plan/prepare/supplykit.shtm

Great site, suggest you explore: http://72hours.org/index.html

Interactive test of your earth quake knowlege from SanFran: http://quakequizsf.org/

=== non governments, social media info below:

and also in video in terms of what need to be done to prepare yourselve:

document form (although sadly US centric, but good advice none the less.)

How to Prepare for Any Disaster

Must see if you are in Paris.. The Eighteenth Century at the Musée du Louvre / Messerschmidt

The Eighteenth Century at the Musée du Louvre / Messerschmidt

Must see if you are in Paris!

high res photos of Earthquake rocks Japan - CNN.com

Earthquake rocks Japan - CNN.com

Our thoughts & prayers are with those families that are affected.

gosh, look at the destructions ...

Nice one, so, "what do Finns associate with sex" then?? I wonder. FT.com / FT Magazine - Don’t touch me, I’m British

FT.com / FT Magazine - Don’t touch me, I’m British:

Nice one, so, "what do Finns associate with sex" then?? I wonder.

"Applying Carroll’s theories to Britons, you understand why foreigners think we are repressed. Americans won’t touch strangers, the French won’t talk to them, but Brits will neither touch nor talk to them. Passport to the Pub, a semi-official guide for foreign tourists to the UK, warns: “Don’t ever introduce yourself. The ‘Hi, I’m Chuck from Alabama’ approach does not go down well in British pubs.”

Nor are Britons permitted to make eye contact: the former French prime minister Edith Cresson, disconcerted that British men didn’t look at her, estimated that one in four was homosexual. No wonder Britons drink ever-increasing amounts of alcohol. Alcohol was first distilled so that British people could reproduce.

Latins are luckier. They can touch and talk to strangers even when sober. But they, too, follow one ground rule shared by the French, Americans and British: they only get naked with people of the opposite gender in sexual situations."

Japan's latest earthquake is 5th biggest since 1900! Magnitude 8 and Greater Earthquakes Since 1900

Magnitude 8 and Greater Earthquakes Since 1900:

latest Japan quake was 8.9...

our thoughts are with our friends in Japan.

" Date - UTC - Time Latitude Longitude Magnitude Fatalities Region
1. 1960-05-22 19:11 -38.29 -73.05 9.5 1,655 Chile
2. 1964-03-28 03:36 61.02 -147.65 9.2 125 Prince William Sound, Alaska
3. 2004-12-26 00:58 3.295 95.982 9.1 227,898 off the west coast of northern Sumatra
4. 1952-11-04 16:58 52.76 160.06 9.0 Kamchatka, Russia
5. 2010-02-27 06:34:14 -35.846 -72.719 8.8 Offshore Maule, Chile"

Must watch series if UR in UK: Civilization: Is the West History? - 4oD - Channel 4

Civilization: Is the West History? - 4oD - Channel 4

set your sky+/Tivo/freeview+ NOW

• Science

  In 1683 the Ottoman army laid siege to Vienna, the capital of Europe's most powerful empire. Domination of East over West was an alarmingly plausible scenario. But Islam was defeated: not…

  Next Episode: Sun 13 Mar, 8pm on Channel 4

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In this series, I want to show that what distinguished the West from the Rest - the mainsprings of global power - were six identifiably novel complexes of ideas and behaviours. For the sake of simplicity, I summarise them under six headings:

1. Competition

2. Science

3. The Rule of Law

4. Medicine

5. Consumerism

6. The Work Ethic

To use the language of today's computerised, synchronised world, these were the six 'killer applications' - the killer apps - that allowed a minority of mankind originating on the western edge of Eurasia to dominate the world for the better part of 500 years.

Now, before you indignantly write to me objecting that I have missed out some crucial aspect of Western ascendancy, like capitalism or freedom or democracy, or for that matter guns, germs and steel, please read the following brief definitions:

1. Competition - a decentralisation of both political and economic life, which created the launch-pad for capitalism;

2. Science - a way of studying, understanding and ultimately changing the natural world, which gave the West (among other things) a major military advantage over the Rest;

3. The Rule of Law - a cumulative model for peacefully resolving disputes between individuals over property which formed the basis for the most stable form of representative government;

4. Medicine - a branch of science which allowed a major improvement in health and life expectancy, beginning in Western societies, but also in their colonies;

5. The Consumer Society - a mode of material living in which the production and purchase of clothing plays a central economic role, without which the Industrial Revolution would have been unsustainable;

6. The Work Ethic - a moral framework and mode of activity derived from Protestant Christianity that provides the glue for the dynamic and potentially unstable society created by apps 1 to 5, above.

Make no mistake - this is not another self-satisfied version of 'The Triumph of the West'. I want to show that it was not just Western superiority that led to the conquest and colonisation of so much of the rest of the world; it was also the fortuitous weakness of the West's rivals.

In the 1640s, for example, a combination of fiscal and monetary crisis, climate change and epidemic disease unleashed rebellion and the final crisis of the Ming dynasty. This had nothing to do with the West.

Likewise, the political and military decline of the Ottoman Empire was internally driven more than it was externally imposed. North American political institutions flourished as South America's festered, but Simon Bolivar's failure to create a Latin American United States was not the gringo's fault.

The critical point is that the differential between the West and the Rest was institutional. Western Europe overtook China partly because in the West there was more competition in both the political and the economic spheres. Austria, Prussia and latterly even Russia became more effective administratively and militarily because the seventeenth-century Scientific Revolution happened in the Christian but not in the Muslim world. The reason North America's ex-colonies did so much better than South America's was because British settlers established a completely different system of property rights and political representation in the North from those built by Spaniards and Portuguese in the South. European empires were able to penetrate Africa not just because they had the Maxim gun; they also devised vaccines against tropical diseases which African societies were just as powerless against.

In the same way, the earlier industrialisation of the West reflected institutional advantages - the possibility of a mass consumer society existed in the British Isles before the advent of steam power. Even after industrial technology was almost universally available, the differential between the West and the Rest persisted; indeed, it grew wider. With wholly standardised cotton spinning and weaving machinery, the European and North American worker was still able to work more productively, and his capitalist employer to accumulate wealth more rapidly, than their Oriental counterparts. This series is about all these differences. About why they existed and why they mattered so much.

This is an excerpt from the book Civilization: The West and the Rest by Niall Ferguson. Click here to find out more

26yrs old guy forced on operating table to sell kidney in China, 26岁小伙违法卖肾入狼窝 被强行推上手术台_资讯频道_凤凰网

26岁小伙违法卖肾入狼窝 被强行推上手术台_资讯频道_凤凰网

tough world, guy was going to sell one of his kidney for ¥40,000., decided not to do it, but was false imprisoned, and ultimately forced onto operating table, and was left with only ¥27,000.

beneficiary paid ¥300,000.00 for the kidney, mostly were kept by the hospital and the middlemen.. this is the economy and reality of this one guy tried to but chickened out selling his kidney.. scary indeed.

selling one's organ is against the law in China btw.

sad but it is a very big danger when people are desperate for money, in a world without a supportive social system..

"胡杰：电话我也不敢打他们的电话，我心想打电话，他们的人都不见了，开始都说好了，而且患者也说要给我四万，但是他们中介是不同意，就给了我两万七。

曾子墨：患者一共为这个手术支付了多少钱？

胡杰：患者对我说过他说是三十多万。

曾子墨：那余下那二十多万都被各方的中介分掉了？

胡杰：应该是吧，反正他们有三方的中介，有医院的，有患者的，还有我的那个中介嘛。

曾子墨：医院从中获取了多少利润你知道吗？

胡杰：医院反正是最多的，拿钱是最多的，他们患者也是那样透露，聊天我听到过。"

Why beer makes ugly girls look hot - Mastercom viral marketing and viral video campaigns

Why beer makes ugly girls look hot - Mastercom viral marketing and viral video campaigns

Nice one.

must watch!