by john.pannell | February 10, 2013 at 03:23 pm 14 views | 0 Recommendations | add comment Despite the cold rain, thousands of people turned up to watch the Chinese New Year Parade in London which travelled from Trafalgar Square to China Town. (see photos?http://bit.ly/11zWhNl)
Source: http://www.nowpublic.com/culture/chinese-new-year-celebrations-london
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Obviously, the best way to make sure the perspective in your photos is correct is to take time and line up your shot before taking it, but if you're taking tons of photos or shooting from the hip, it's inevitable you grab have an shot or two that's just a little off. Perspective Image Correction can fix it. When you load an image, the app prompts you to select the correction area by setting four alignment points around the object you want to straighten up. Once you do, the app automatically fixes the area inside those points and shows you the result before saving the finished product. If you don't like what you see, you can do it again, or zoom in and correct smaller areas individually.
Perspective Image Correction is free and available for Windows only, and you'll need .NET 3.5 installed for the program to work. You can grab it at the link below.
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The main draw at this weekend's Wonder Festival was all the plastic on display. The twice a year event showcases recently released and upcoming figurines and statues, as well as rare, customized ones.
Websites Gigazine and Akiba Hobby checked out the figure festivities, as did sister site Kotaku Japan. Have a look at the gallery above, and start making your wish list.
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Date posted - September 26, 2012
The national contest is helping people across the country to discover what Iowa residents have long known: The Hawkeye State has some of the most beautiful towns and neighborhoods to be found anywhere.
Sponsored by the Paint Quality Institute, whose mission is to educate the public about quality paints and coatings, the ?Prettiest Painted Places? competition has drawn seven entries from Iowa. The nominees are Orange City, Adams County, Albia, Decorah, Greater Des Moines, Grinnell, and Pella.
Over the next few weeks, the seven Iowa communities will vie with nearly 200 nominees from other states for regional and national honors, as judges with expertise in color selection, exterior painting, and home improvement review the entries, conduct additional research and make selected site visits. Finalists will be announced soon, and the nation?s 12 ?Prettiest Painted Places? will be revealed in mid-October.
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Planet Earth may be 4.5 billion years old, but that doesn't mean she can't serve up a shattering surprise now and again.
Such was the case on April 11 of this year when two massive earthquakes erupted beneath the Indian Ocean, far from the usual danger zones. Now scientists say the seafloor ruptures are part of a long suspected, yet never before observed, event: the slow-motion splitting of a vast tectonic plate.
The first of the quakes, a magnitude 8.7, was 20 times more powerful than California's long anticipated "big one" and tore a complex network of faults deep in the ocean floor. The violence also triggered unusually large aftershocks thousands of miles away, including four off North America's western coast.
"It was jaw-dropping," said Thorn Lay, a professor of Earth and planetary sciences at UC Santa Cruz. "It was like nothing we'd ever seen."
At first, Lay wondered whether the computer code he used to analyze earthquakes was wrong. Eventually, he and other scientists realized that they had documented the break-up of the Indo-Australian plate into two pieces, an epic process that began roughly 50 million years ago and will continue for tens of millions more. Lay and other scientists reported their findings online Wednesday in the journal Nature.
Most great earthquakes occur along plate borders, where one plate dives beneath the adjoining plate and sinks deep into Earth's mantle, a process called subduction. The April 11 quakes, however, occurred in the middle of the plate and involved a number strike-slip faults, meaning the ground on one side of the fault moves horizontally past ground on the other side.
Scientists say the 8.7 main shock broke four faults. The quake lasted 2 minutes and 40 seconds ? most last just seconds ? and was followed by a second 8.2 main shock two hours later.
Unlike the magnitude 9.1 temblor that struck in the same region on Dec. 26, 2004, and created a deadly tsunami, the April 11 quake did not cause similar destruction. That's because horizontally moving strike-slip faults do not induce the massive, vertical displacement of water that thrust faults do on the borders of plates.
The type of interplate faults involved in the Sumatran quakes are the result of monumental forces, some of which drove the continent of India into Asia millions of years ago and lifted the Himalayan Mountains. As the Indo-Australian plate continues to slide northwest, the western portion of the plate, where India is, has been grinding against and underneath Asia. But the eastern portion of the plate, which contains Australia, keeps on moving without the same obstruction. That difference creates squeezing pressure in the area where the quakes occurred.
The study authors say that over time, as more quakes occur and new ruptures appear, the cracks will eventually coalesce into a single fissure.
"This is part of the messy business of breaking up a plate," said University of Utah seismologist Keith Koper, senior author of one of the studies. "Most likely it will take thousands of similar large quakes for that to happen."
The quake was also notable for triggering powerful aftershocks thousands of miles away. While major quakes have been known to trigger aftershocks at great distance, they are usually less than 5.5 in magnitude. The April earthquake triggered 11 aftershocks that measured 5.5 or greater in the six days that followed the main shock, including one as big as magnitude 7. Remote shocks were felt 6,000 to 12,000 miles from the main quake.
Fred Pollitz, a geophysicist with the U.S. Geological Survey in Menlo Park, Calif., and lead author of one of the studies, said the quake was extremely effective in transmitting seismic wave radiation around the world. Though the magnitude of the Sumatran quake is No. 10 on the list of historic quakes, Pollitz said no other quake has triggered so many strong aftershocks so far away.
"It's the most powerful earthquake ever in terms of capability of putting stress on other fault zones around the world," he said.
Pollitz said the quake is likely to teach seismologists about the physics of earthquakes, particularly those along strike-slip faults. That knowledge, he said, would certainly apply to the San Andreas fault, which is also a strike-slip fault.
Lay said that the quake was most surprising in that it was completely unanticipated by seismologists and that he did not expect to event to repeat itself any time soon.
monte.morin@latimes.com
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By NBC News staff
Comedy Central
King Abdullah II of Jordan spoke to "Daily Show" host Jon Stewart Tuesday night.
If you think we?re paying close attention to issues like Iran?s pursuit of a nuclear weapon and the effect that YouTube videos can have in the streets of the Middle East, that?s nothing compared to what?s going on in the mind of the rulers in the regions.
Jon Stewart got to hear about Arab Spring from King Abdullah II of Jordan on Tuesday?s ?Daily Show.? King Abdullah, in New York for the United Nations General Assembly, offered his take on the region in an extended interview.
Though, as Stewart noted at the beginning of the show, neither King Abdullah nor anyone else will be getting a private session with President Obama (in his defense, ?The View? is a much cheerier setting than the U.N. Building), the Jordanian monarch gave him a taste of what he would say about the Iran situation if he were able to tear his way away from Barbara Walters and company.
?The way I put it to those who will listen is that the reason we have a nuclear program is because what Israel is doing to the Palestinians, and the future of Jerusalem,? he said. ?So my argument is that if Israel and Palestinians solve their problems, that allows the Israelis and the Arabs to come together and have a peace treaty, then there?s no longer a raison d??tre for Iran to have a nuclear weapon.?
The king also discussed Arab Spring and its effects, noting that while Jordan is surrounded by volatility (?we?ve seen better days,? he said), it got ahead of the game by making changes to its political system in advance.
?The difference between Jordan and other countries is that we changed the constitution. They ran elections and now have to change the constitution,? he said.
He also noted that some of the results that may not make some in the United States very happy right now are the inevitable results of the transition to Democracy.
?Arab Spring started because of the economy, and then it went from economic frustration to politics. What happened in a lot of countries was, as young men and women aspired to political form, those who were more organized like the Muslim Brotherhood hijacked the movement. ?But in a way, that?s Democracy,? he said.
And President Obama doesn?t need to worry about hurt feelings. As far as King Abdullah is concerned, choosing ?The View? over world leaders isn?t bothering anyone.
?Not that I have heard, no. I think everyone is there preparing for their speeches.?
Questionable call
The decision to meet with ?The View? audience as opposed to world leaders did bother Stewart, who began the show questioning the decision. But, as he noted, it doesn?t seem to be affecting his election chances.
?Whatever his missteps are as a candidate Obama is still surging in the polls because the closer we get to the election the dumber Mitt Romney seems to be getting,? he said.
The audience cheered, but Stewart shook his head.
?Really? Is that how you wanna win this thing? The other guy just tears his ACL -- that?s how you want to win??
Up in the air
Over on the "Colbert Report," host Stephen Colbert took a moment to chat about one of those "injuries" Romney recently suffered -- his airplane window gaffe.
On Saturday, an electrical fire caused the candidate's wife's plane to make an emergency landing. The event left Romney publically musing about airplane windows.
"You can't fine any oxygen from outside the aircraft to get in the aircraft because the windows don't open -- I don't know why they don?t? It's a real problem." he said after the incident.
"It is a real problem," Colbert agreed. "For one thing, it explains why Burger King doesn't have a fly-through window. ? Just as Kennedy challenged us to put a man on the moon, now Mitt Romney is challenging us to add power windows to the Delta shuttle -- not because it is easy, but because it is impossible."
Meanwhile Ann Romney sat down with Jay Leno Wednesday night to talk about a wide range of things on the "Tonight Show" -- from flying in a smoke-filled plane, to the fact that the Romney family (they have five sons) loves Costco, and about her battle with multiple sclerosis -- oh, and also about the Republican candidate?s abilities as a hoofer.
?You know, Jay,? she said to Leno, ?he?s gotten to be a better dancer.?
Cut to a doctored clip of Romney mixing it up ?Gangnam Style.?
She was a game guest, but admitted that campaigning is stressful ? and she didn?t expect to be doing it yet again. ?It?s a hard thing to do this ? especially being a wife and having to listen to (attacks in the media) all the time,? she told Leno, then ?fessed up: Four years ago, she made her husband a very special videotape. ?I looked in the camera, and I said, ?Mitt, this is for you, sweetheart. I?m never doing this again.? And I showed it to him. And he looked at it and then he said, ?You know, Ann, you say that after every pregnancy.? Which is true.?
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The Oregonian reports that Jayme John Leon, 50, reportedly threw a soda in a McDonald's manager's face and smashed a cash register over the dispute.
Leon walked into a local McDonald's on September 23 and ordered a quarter pounder burger without onions. But when he returned home, Leon discovered the burger was in fact topped with onions.
When he called the restaurant to complain, Leon was told he was entitled not only to a refund but also to a free replacement burger.
Leon reportedly ate the offending burger anyway but still showed up at the McDonald's demanding a refund and fresh burger.
"Since he ate the quarter pounder, McDonald's would not refund his money, sending Mr. Leon into a McFury," Sgt. Claudio Grandjean, Gresham Police spokesman, told the paper.
After tossing the drink and breaking the register, Leon then left the restaurant and headed back home.
He was intercepted by police and has been charged with first-degree criminal mischief, second-degree disorderly conduct, and harassment.
Source: http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/sideshow/onions-hamburger-sends-oregon-man-mcfury-192520130.html
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