Powerful earthquakes hits Japan!!! find out @smarterhiphop

Powerful earthquakes hit Japan

A series of massive earthquakes have struck north-east Japan, unleashing a 10-metre tsunami that swept buildings, vehicles, crops and debris across swaths of farmland.

The first 8.9 magnitude shock is said to be the biggest to have hit Japan in 140 years, rocking buildings 235 miles (380km) away in Tokyo and sparking fires.

At least five people are known to have died, but amid widespread reports of landslides, floods, collapsed buildings and fires, the death toll is expected to rise.

The quake hit at 2.46pm (5.45am GMT), about 6 miles below sea level and 78 miles off the east coast. It was swiftly followed by five powerful aftershocks of up to 7.1 magnitude. In Tokyo people screamed and grabbed each other's hands as the quake struck. The shock was so powerful it was felt as far away as Beijing.

Television footage showed a 4-metre tsunami sweeping over embankments in Sendai city, bearing cars and houses – some on fire – across farmland, before reversing course and carrying them out to sea. Public broadcaster NHK showed images of a large ship ramming into a breakwater in Kennuma city, Miyagi prefecture.

The quake and tsunami halted air and rail services across large parts of the country. Eight military planes were scrambled to survey the damage as areas along Japan's entire Pacific coast braced for aftershocks and the possibility of more tsunami.

The Pacific tsunami warning centre in Hawaii said a warning was in effect for Japan, Russia, Marcus Island and the Northern Marianas. Tsunami watches have been issued for Guam, Taiwan, the Philippines, Indonesia, Hawaii and the entire western coast of the US and Canada, from the Mexican border to Chignik Bay in Alaska.

The Japanese prime minister, Naoto Kan, promised a quick response as he called an emergency cabinet meeting.

"The earthquake has caused major damage in broad areas in northern Japan," Kan said during an emergency news conference. "Some of the nuclear power plant in the region have automatically shut down, but there is no leakage of radioactive materials to the environment."

The shutdown left 4m homes in and around Tokyo without power.

Kan said he had set up an emergency taskforce to co-ordinate the rescue effort.

"The government will make an all-out effort to ensure the safety of all the people and contain the damage to the minimum," he said.

Junichi Sawada, an official with Japan's fire and disaster management agency, said: "This is a rare, major quake, and damages could quickly rise by the minute."

Fire department officials in Osaki, Miyagi prefecture, said at least 20 people had been injured by falling objects, with some reportedly trapped under debris. At least 10 people were injured when part of a hall roof collapsed in Tokyo, the metropolitan police department said.

All flights were grounded immediately after the quake while officials checked for runway damage. Strong tremors were felt in Tokyo about 30 minutes after the quake. Newsreaders in the capital wore helmets as they gave updates, while office workers rushed out of buildings and on to the streets for safety.

Osamu Akiya, 46, was working at his Tokyo office when the quake hit, sending bookshelves and other items flying and opening up cracks in the wall.

"I've been through many earthquakes, but I've never felt anything like this," he said. "I don't know if we'll be able to get home tonight."

Television footage showed a building on fire in the Odaiba district of Tokyo, although it was not immediately clear if the blaze was connected to the earthquake. Another fire was seen burning out of control at the at Cosmo oil refinery in Ichihara, in Chiba prefecture near Tokyo.

Water levels rose quickly in the coastal town of Miyako in Iwate prefecture, while vehicles, houses and buildings were swept away by the tsunami in Onahama city, Fukushima prefecture.

TV news presenters repeatedly warned people along the Pacific coast to head for higher ground.

The quake is one of several to have struck north-east Japan this week, including one of magnitude 7.3 on Wednesday.

In 1933, a magnitude 8.1 quake in the area killed more than 3,000 people. Last year fishing facilities were damaged by a tsunami caused by a strong quake in Chile.

Japan is one of the most seismically active countries in the world, accounting for about 20% of the world's earthquakes of magnitude 6 or greater.

all donations will go to red cross to help the earthquake victims!

Feel good music! music that makes you feel good inside! find out more@smarterhiphop

                                    

                                        theres a lot of music out there and I heard almost all of it! but here today i wanted to discuss and talk about the kind of music that makes you feel good so good that you don't want the song to end that type of music everyone enjoys listening too its not just hiphop! it not just rock its not just pop it all kinds of musical hits out there from all different types of genres of music that make you feel loved,sexy,excitement,joy and peace here we are going to list some music that makes our staff  here love very much and we wanted to share with our viewers a  from all different kind of  genres! if you think you got a a song that make you feel good that you would like tho share with smarterhiphop then feel free to our email smarterhiphop@gmail.com it to us we will post it!

this album is one of my staffs favorite she plays in the car as she drives to work everyday she said its makes her feel like a star!

this album is from another staff member here he said he love this album because it helps him relax after a hard day at work!

this next album is my uncle favorite he loves this cd because it helps he relax! his favorite song on here it john doe!

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wtf?:U.S. Government Eliminating $1 Bills to save billions! findout @smarterhiphop

Washington has come down with a case of fiscal fever as the Obama administration proposes everything from spending freezes on domestic programs to selling off unused government property to bring the budget back in line. Now, one study argues that the government can save billions of dollars simply by making a change to the currency itself.

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Earlier this month, the U.S. Government Accountability Office issued a formal proposal to the Treasury and Federal Reserve noting that if it eliminated the $1 bill and replaced it with the $1 coin, the country could save roughly $5.5 billion during the next 30 years. The reason, according to the agency's report, is that dollar bills have a shorter lifespan than dollar coins because they wear much faster, which in turn requires the government to spend more to print new bills.

The GAO estimates that phasing out dollar bills in favor of coins would require a four-year transition period, during which the government invests in the new currency, but following that, the government would save an expected $522 million each year from the change.

Unfortunately, as the GAO notes, there is one problem with the plan: When given a choice between dollar coins and dollar bills, Americans always choose bills.

"GAO has noted in past reports that efforts to increase the circulation and public acceptance of the $1 coin have not succeeded, in part, because the $1 note has remained in circulation," the agency wrote in its report. So if we are ever going to make the switch to dollar coins, as other countries like Canada have done, the GAO suggests the only way to do so is to phase dollar bills out of circulation altogether.

Before you start hoarding your dollar bills though, keep in mind that the GAO has made similar proposals four times during the past two decades, and obviously dollar bills are still in circulation. The only difference this time is that the overall climate in Washington is more geared toward budget cutbacks now, but given that it would take several years for the savings to kick in, this seems unlikely as well.

Still, we'd like to pose the question to readers. Would you be willing to eliminate dollar bills and switch to coins if it meant improving the country's balance sheet?

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wtf? facebook is turing out to be bad for you find out why?here @smarterhiphop

summary: always wonder why you dont want to talk to your family and friends on facebook? 





Facebook is harmful to those who are depressed and worried a lot it could lead to harmful hours of scrolling down your news feed timeline! when you login to facebook and your friends or family members talk to you on facebook but you feel as though you are doing something more important than talk or message back!

Don't feel bad about it! most of us all feel the same way and do the same thing if we wanted to talk to that person you simply would called them! now days its the other way around you would meet or like the person on line then get there #number to call them after you met online you


then call instead of meeting the person and getting contacts in full-person because everybody has become selfish and we all wants our time to our selfs when getting online its a since of self worth what is worth your time for you to interact with your device or all form of communicating. Im' going to list 3 things that I should be putting more effort in to also apply to my timeline of things to do daily!!!






1.

God!: Everymorning I should thank God of giving me life and making a such soul like me for without him i would not be here! also I  need to start studying his letter to us the bible everyday even just  little bit! 

2.
Business!: I really need to focus more on my business and worry bout partying later and just take time to meditate and think about what Im going to do to get where I want to stand in a few years ! as well as making sure I gross every week instead of  losing value!

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FAMILY: I care about my family deeply I love every single one of my family members a lot be I also think of my fellow earthlings or humans all are my family and are connected through God! make time for my family more often then planed share my sprite with others and stop hogging it to my self!  

Vinyl records spin back into style - 11Alive.com | WXIA | Atlanta, GA

                                                                  

                    CEDAR CITY, Utah -- As both a music lover and record store owner, Tim Cretsinger is excited about the recent resurgence of vinyl record albums.

"This is my favorite thing to do - hold a batch of records like this," Cretsinger, owner of Groovacious in Cedar City, Utah, said as he hugged a stack of new records close to his chest. "It reminds me of the old days."

The old days are making a comeback.                                                                                                              

According to recent Nielsen SoundScan numbers, vinyl was the fastest-growing musical format in 2010, with 2.8 million units sold, the format's best year since SoundScan began tracking sales in 1991.

Vinyl's increase in popularity is providing a beacon of hope for independent record stores - an industry that has suffered with the increase of digital downloads this past decade.

When Cretsinger moved his business from Keiser, Ore., to Cedar City in 2000, there were two other record stores in the college town of about 28,000. Now, the closest independent record store is in Las Vegas, 175 miles away.

"Vinyl seems to be the light at the end of the tunnel for those of us who have hung in there," he said. "It's kind of a surprising light at the end of the tunnel. It's incredibly exciting."

Not only have vinyl album sales picked up, but the interest in record players has increased as well. Cretsinger said he got tired of directing his customers to other businesses where they could purchase turntables, so he began offering a small selection at his store in January.

Like Groovacious, Plan 9 Music stores in Richmond and Charlottesville, Va., are fairly new to the turntable market, but have offered vinyl records since the first store opened in 1981, said owner Jim Bland. Although he never quit selling vinyl, Bland said sales were slow for many years as CDsdominated the market.

However, as CD sales plummeted in recent years, Plan 9 Music found itself with some open space on the floor. That empty space is now back to the basics.  

"It's filled in with vinyl," Bland said.

As a way to promote their businesses, 700 independent record stores across the nation have joined together since 2008 to celebrate Record Store Day on the third Saturday of April. Record Store Day regularly features limited-edition CDs and vinyl records available only at independent retailers.

"Last year all the cool stuff was vinyl," Bland said. "People were lining up to get it."

Like Record Store Day itself, Cretsinger said, listening to music on a vinyl record is an event. It forces listeners to sit down at a turntable and listen to the music, giving them an opportunity to enjoy the cover art and read the liner notes.

"There's something organic and historical about playing music that way," he said. "It sounds better."

The scratches and pops often associated with the vinyl sound are all part of the "warmth" vinyl offers, said John Kunz of Waterloo Records in Austin.

Kunz said CDs are more convenient than vinyl and easier to manage, so they had their place in the music industry for a time. However, Kunz sees a change in his customers' taste from the digital soundof Internet downloads to what the classic vinyl format offers.

"I think there was a pendulum swing back to the analog sound," he said. "It's sound waves rather than zeroes and ones emulating a sound wave."

Terry Currier, owner of Music Millennium in Portland, Ore., said vinyl aficionados treat their passion as art, as opposed to a product.

"People didn't interact with CDs the way they did with vinyl," Currier said. "I think people lost that interaction they had with the vinyl."

The music lovers buying these records aren't necessarily those who grew up with them in the 1960s and 1970s.

"There are tweens, teens and twentysomethings looking through Mom and Dad's record collection," he said. "All of a sudden Mom and Dad are a lot cooler than the kid might have expected."

Currier said it's almost like vinyl appreciation skipped a generation. Now purchasing vinyl is "cool" for younger customers because it's "retro." For the youngest of the customers, it might even be something their parents never experienced.

Bland agreed, "It's cool; it's hip. My 14-year-old's even getting into it."

Among Cretsinger's customers at Groovacious in Cedar City is Matthew Montgomery, a 25-year-old Web developer, freelance music journalist and student at Southern Utah University. Montgomery said he began to seriously get into vinyl about two years ago, and now it's practically his exclusive musical format.

He said there is an "aesthetic difference" in the sound of vinyl records compared with the digital downloads purchased by many others of his generation.                 

"I think vinyl is incredibly exciting," Montgomery said. "To see a resurgence in it is beautiful."

Montgomery said the act of walking into a record store to purchase his music is part of vinyl's allure as well.

"To me that represents a cultural idea that is incredibly attractive," he said. "It's a place you can explore and learn and talk to people."

While vinyl sales help independent stores stand apart from nationwide retail chains, even Best Buy seems to have noticed the popularity of vinyl records.

About 100 Best Buy stores now carry a small selection of new and classic albums following a test period that began in the fall of 2008, said Best Buy spokeswoman Erin Bix. Best Buy also offers 14,000 vinyl titles online.

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Alex jones calls U.S.A Government Masters of Terror find out why!!!

Alex Jones is a tuff hardcore reporter thats not scared to let the world know  that their are really evil powers that control our world and how things work on local,national and international levels also alex has be making noise long before wiki leaks and other groups! take a look at this old video of him telling about how the usa government plans and uses terror attacks on american citizens! this video you are about to see it very ture and should be taking serious! be aware of what is really going on around you instead of watching a stupid tv show or a video game they don't want you to know about what they are doing or whats going on behind their office doors!  They dont want us to be createtive and think of our own company's logo's instead they want us to use theirs they want total control! when will people wake up from party mode and get to a more serious responsible role!