duminică, 29 iulie 2007

you might need this ( just in case... )



How to say " I Love You " :




Afrikaans - Ek het jou lief
Albanian - Te dua
Arabic - Ana behibak (to male)
Arabic - Ana behibek (to female)
Armenian - Yes kez sirumem
Bambara - M'bi fe

to be continued...

worst case scenarios ...



HOW TO ESCAPE FROM A BEAR



1. Lie still and quiet.


[ Documented attacks show that an attack by a mother bear often ends when the person stops fighting. ]

2. Stay where you are and do not climb a tree to escape a bear.

[ Bears can climb trees quickly and easily and will come after you. The odds are that the bear will leave you alone if you stay put. ]

3. If you are lying still and the bear attacks, strike back with anything you can.

[ Go for the bear's eyes or its snout. ]


What to do IF YOU SEE a BEAR

Make your presence known by talking loudly, clapping, singing, or occasionally calling out. (Some people prefer to wear bells.)
Whatever you do, be heard—it does not pay to surprise a bear. Remember, bears can run much faster than humans. Keep children close at hand and within sight. There is no guaranteed minimum safe distance from a bear: the farther, the better.

If you are in a car, remain in your vehicle. Do not get out, even for a quick photo. Keep your windows up. Do not impede the bear from crossing the road

How to AVOID AN ATTACK

• Reduce or eliminate food odors from yourself, your camp, your clothes, and your vehicle.
• Do not sleep in the same clothes you cook in.
• Store food so that bears cannot smell or reach it.
• Do not keep food in your tent—not even a chocolate bar.
• Properly store and bring out all garbage.
• Handle and store pet food with as much care as your own.
• While all bears should be considered dangerous and should be avoided, three types should be regarded as more dangerous than the average bear:

Females defending cubs.
Bears habituated to human food.
Bears defending a fresh kill.

GREUTATEA si MASA - clarificarea unei vechi probleme


Greutatea unui corp este forţa cu care un cîmp gravitaţional acţionează asupra corpului. De exemplu greutatea unui corp aflat la suprafaţa Pămîntului este :

G(vector)= m x g(vector)

Unde, m este masa corpului, iar g este vectorul acceleraţiei gravitaţionale, orientat spre centrul Pămîntului şi cu valoarea standard de 9,80665 m/s² (valoarea reală depinde de poziţia geografică şi de altitudine). Ca orice forţă, greutatea se măsoară în newtoni (N) şi se poate determina cu un dinamometru.

În limbajul obişnuit se face uneori confuzia între greutate şi masă. Din punct de vedere fizic însă cele două noţiuni sunt distincte. Astfel, masa este o proprietate intrinsecă a corpului, un scalar care nu depinde de locul unde se află corpul, şi măsoară inerţia acestuia, adică tendinţa de a se opune schimbării stării de mişcare sau repaus atunci cînd i se aplică o forţă. În schimb greutatea este o forţă care măsoară o interacţiune, în particular aceea dintre corpul a cărui greutate o măsurăm şi corpul care generează cîmpul gravitaţional respectiv. În timp ce masa corpului este constantă, greutatea sa depinde de intensitatea cîmpului gravitaţional; de exemplu greutatea unui obiect pe Pămînt este diferită de greutatea aceluiaşi obiect pe Lună.

[ Acum eu si mihai am inteles corect problema :) ]

quotes are so good :)


" In mathematics you don't understand things. You just get used to them. "

[John Von Neumann]

it happened...


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Events
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* 1014 - Byzantine-Bulgarian Wars: Battle of Kleidion: Byzantine emperor Basil II inflicts a decisive defeat on the Bulgarian army, but his subsequent savage treatment of 15,000 prisoners reportedly causes Tsar Samuil of Bulgaria to die of shock.
* 1030 - Ladejarl-Fairhair succession wars: Battle of Stiklestad - King Olaf II fights and dies trying to regain his Norwegian throne from the Danes.
* 1565 - Mary Queen of Scots, widowed, marries Henry Stuart, Lord Darnley, Duke of Albany at Holyrood Palace in Edinburgh, Scotland.
* 1567 - James VI is crowned King of Scotland at Stirling.
* 1588 - Anglo-Spanish War: Battle of Gravelines - English naval forces under command of Lord Charles Howard and Sir Francis Drake defeats the Spanish Armada off the coast of Gravelines, France.
* 1693 - War of the Grand Alliance: Battle of Landen - France wins a Pyrrhic victory over Allied forces in the Netherlands.
* 1830 - Abdication of Charles X of France.
* 1836 - Inauguration of the Arc de Triomphe in Paris.
* 1851 - Annibale de Gasparis discovers asteroid 15 Eunomia.
* 1858 - United States and Japan sign the Harris Treaty.
* 1899 - The First Hague Convention is signed.
* 1900 - In Italy, King Umberto I of Italy is assassinated by Italian-born anarchist Gaetano Bresci.
* 1907 - Sir Robert Baden-Powell sets up the Brownsea Island Scout camp in Poole Harbour on the south coast of England. The camp ran from August 1-9, 1907, and is regarded as the founding of the Scouting movement.
* 1921 - Adolf Hitler becomes leader of the National Socialist German Workers Party.
* 1947 - After being shut off on November 9, 1946 for a memory upgrade, ENIAC, the world's first all-electronic digital computer, is reactivated. It will remain in continuous operation until October 2, 1955.
* 1948 - Olympic Games: The Games of the XIV Olympiad - After a hiatus of 12 years caused by World War II, the first Summer Olympics to be held since the 1936 Summer Olympics in Berlin opened in London.
* 1957 - The International Atomic Energy Agency is established.
* 1958 - The U.S. Congress formally creates the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA).
* 1967 - Vietnam War: Off the coast of North Vietnam the USS Forrestal catches on fire in the worst U.S. naval disaster since World War II, killing 134.
* 1967 - At the fourth day of celebrating its 400th anniversary, the city of Caracas, Venezuela was shaken by an earthquake, leaving approximately 500 dead.
* 1981 - Lady Diana Spencer marries Charles, Prince of Wales.
* 1987 - British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher and President of France François Mitterrand sign the agreement to build the tunnel under the English Channel (Eurotunnel).
* 2005 - Astronomers announce their discovery of Eris.

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Holidays
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* Faroe Islands - Ólavsøka: opening of the Løgting session.
* National Anthem Day in Romania.

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Important Birthdays
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1898 - Isidor Isaac Rabi, American physicist, Nobel Prize Laureate
1900 - Eyvind Johnson, Swedish writer, Nobel Prize Laureate
1905 - Dag Hammarskjöld, Swedish 2nd UN Secretary-General, Nobel Prize Laureate
1937 - Daniel McFadden, American economist, Nobel Prize Laureate

did you know...


=3.14159 26535 89793 23846 26433 83279 50288 41971 69399 37510 58209 74944 59230 78164 06286 20899 86280 34825 34211 70679 82148 08651 32823 ...


Even long before computers have calculated pi, memorizing a record number of digits became an obsession for some people. A Japanese man named Akira Haraguchi claims to have memorized 100,000 decimal places.

This, however, has yet to be verified by Guinness World Records. The Guinness-recognized record for remembered digits of π is 67,890 digits, held by Lu Chao, a 24-year-old graduate student from China. It took him 24 hours and 4 minutes to recite to the 67,890th decimal place of π without an error

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Some facts:
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1) Pi is the number of times a circle's diameter will fit around its circumference.
2) Pi is irrational. An irrational number is a number that cannot be expressed in the form (a / b) where a and b are integers
3) The sequence of digits in Pi so far passed all known tests for randomness.
4) The fraction (22 / 7) is a well used number for Pi. It is accurate to 0.04025%
5) Pi is a transcendental number. (Transcendental means= Not capable of being determined by any combination of a finite number of equations with rational integral coefficients.)
6) In 1949 it took ENIAC (Electronic Numerical Intergrator and Computer) 70 hours to calculate 2,037 decimal places of Pi.
7) There is no zero in the first 31 digits of Pi
8) The Babylonians found the first known value for Pi in around 2000BC -They used (25/8).
9) Pi is the 16th letter of the Greek alphabet.
10) If you take 10 million random digits, statistically on average you would expect 200 cases where you get 5 digits in a row the same. If you take 10 million digits of Pi, you get exactly 200.
11) If one were to find the circumference of a circle the size of the known universe, requiring that the circumference be accurate to within the radius of one proton only 39 decimal places of Pi would be necessary.
12) Half the circumference of a circle with radius 1 is exactly Pi. The area inside that circle is also exactly Pi !
13) It is not known if Pi is normal. No one has proved that Pi isn't normal, so people generally assume that it is.
14) At position 763 there are six nines in a row. This is known as the Feynman Point
15) Other ways to calculate Pi:
  1. / 2 ~= (2*2*4*4*6*6*8*8*...) / (1*3*3*5*5*7*7*9*...)
  2. / 4 ~= 1 -1/3 + 1/5 - 1/7 + 1/9 - 1/11 + ...

love for the game...



Allen Iverson - if this was too fast, then you can be sure, this movie is with him

Egyptian Book of the Dead

[ as my curiosity one day wanted to find out more about this....]


According to R.O. Faulkner, The Book of the Dead was used by the ancient Egyptians as a set of instructions for the afterlife. Not all the spells were used for every burial, but a selection depending on wealth and status. Some spells were gifts to the gods, while other were used so the person could walk, a spell for not dying again in the afterlife, and even a spell 'For preventing a man from going upside down and from eating feces'.

The text can also be seen as initiation literature into the mystery of the afterlife. The afterlife is mostly a mystery to the average Egyptian, but by obtaining a Book of the Dead, he would be able to read it and would be part of the elite group which knew what the afterlife contained.


[the first paragraph]

240 BC
THE PAPYRUS OF ANI
(THE EGYPTIAN BOOK OF THE DEAD)


HYMN TO OSIRIS

"Homage to thee, Osiris, Lord of eternity, King of the Gods, whose names are manifold, whose forms are holy, thou being of hidden form in the temples, whose Ka is holy. Thou art the governor of Tattu (Busiris), and also the mighty one in Sekhem (Letopolis). Thou art the Lord to whom praises are ascribed in the nome of Ati, thou art the Prince of divine food in Anu. Thou art the Lord who is commemorated in Maati, the Hidden Soul, the Lord of Qerrt (Elephantine), the Ruler supreme in White Wall (Memphis). Thou art the Soul of Ra, his own body, and hast thy place of rest in Henensu (Herakleopolis). Thou art the beneficent one, and art praised in Nart. Thou makest thy soul to be raised up. Thou art the Lord of the Great House in Khemenu (Hermopolis). Thou art the mighty one of victories in Shas-hetep, the Lord of eternity, the Governor of Abydos. The path of his throne is in Ta-tcheser (a part of Abydos). Thy name is established in the mouths of men. Thou art the substance of Two Lands (Egypt). Thou art Tem, the feeder of Kau (Doubles), the Governor of the Companies of the gods. Thou art the beneficent Spirit among the spirits. The god of the Celestial Ocean (Nu) draweth from thee his waters. Thou sendest forth the north wind at eventide, and breath from thy nostrils to the satisfaction of thy heart. Thy heart reneweth its youth, thou producest the.... The stars in the celestial heights are obedient unto thee, and the great doors of the sky open themselves before thee. Thou art he to whom praises are ascribed in the southern heaven, and thanks are given for thee in the northern heaven. The imperishable stars are under thy supervision, and the stars which never set are thy thrones. Offerings appear before thee at the decree of Keb. The Companies of the Gods praise thee, and the gods of the Tuat (Other World) smell the earth in paying homage to thee. The uttermost parts of the earth bow before thee, and the limits of the skies entreat thee with supplications when they see thee. The holy ones are overcome before thee, and all Egypt offereth thanksgiving unto thee when it meeteth Thy Majesty. Thou art a shining Spirit-Body, the governor of Spirit-Bodies; permanent is thy rank, established is thy rule. Thou art the well-doing Sekhem (Power) of the Company of the Gods, gracious is thy face, and beloved by him that seeth it. Thy fear is set in all the lands by reason of thy perfect love, and they cry out to thy name making it the first of names, and all people make offerings to thee. Thou art the lord who art commemorated in heaven and upon earth. Many are the cries which are made to thee at the Uak festival, and with one heart and voice Egypt raiseth cries of joy to thee.

[ Translated by E.A. Wallis Budge ]

sâmbătă, 28 iulie 2007

lemons anyone ?

or, how to transform your daily lemons into batteries...



[credits to luci :) ]

another one...



" Life is what happens to you while you're busy making other plans. "

[ John Lennon ]

aikido demonstration

astroevents


July 27, 2007 - Delta Aquarid meteors
July 29, 2007 - Full Moon

you might wanna find out....

world's first available dynamic RAM

In 1970, the newly formed Intel company publicly released the 1103, the first DRAM (Dynamic Random Access Memory) chip (1K bit PMOS dynamic RAM ICs), and by 1972 it was the best selling semiconductor memory chip in the world, defeating magnetic core type memory. The first commercially available computer using the 1103 was the HP 9800 series.

Intel 1103 Chip -->

bushcraft - [p4]


[ INTERNAL FRAME BACKPACK ]

Internal frame packs are constructed with a resin or aluminum frame sewn into pockets in the harness of the bag. Often the frame consists of two “stays” running vertically along the backplate. Aluminum stays are meant to be moulded to the shape of your back. The bag is designed to carry all your gear internally with only pockets and accessories attached to the outside. Some smaller packs may offer the option of attaching a sleeping bag stuff sack to the top or bottom. Like the external frame packs, it is important to correctly size your internal frame pack. Some models offer a range of pack sizes and some offer adjustable or replaceable stays.

The opening to the bag is an important feature. A small opening aids in weatherproofing but makes packing and unpacking more difficult. A wide opening is handy but the longer zippers or extra fasteners are often more prone to trouble. Be sure that the zipper or fastener for the opening(s) is not at a place that will receive a lot of stress when the bag is packed and carried. If the zipper breaks you might not be able to close the bag! Most larger bags will offer two or more compartments inside the pack. This will assist you in placing heavier items in the proper place, and keeping all your kit organized.

The benefits of an internal frame pack are:

a. comfortable harness that can be adjusted and moulded to you;
b. a bag that holds its load close to your back and close to your centre of gravity;
c. easy to pack bag; and
d. the lack of projections and protrusions from pack make trekking in forests and through tight spaces easier.

The disadvantages of this design are:

a. hard to move equipment from one person to another;
b. hard to carry large or awkward objects;
c. with the backplate pressed against your back, care must be taken while packing to pad sharp or hard objects; and
d. ventilation is restricted across your back.

These characteristics make internal frame packs a good choice for treks with light to medium weight packs through forest or hilly terrain. Internal frame packs are excellent for climbing and mountaineering where range of motion and a lower centre of gravity are important.

cool maths



don't tell me you never used vedic maths untill now ....

well, it happend on this day...


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Events
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* 1540 - Thomas Cromwell is executed on order from Henry VIII of England on charges of treason. Henry marries his fifth wife, Catherine Howard, on the same day.
* 1609 - Bermuda is first settled, by survivors of the English Sea Venture, en route to Virginia.
* 1794 - Maximilien Robespierre is guillotined in front of a cheering crowd, for sending thousands of others to a similar fate during the French Revolution.
* 1866 - The Metric Act of 1866 becomes law and legalizes the standardization of weights and measures in the United States..
* 1914 - World War I begins: Austria-Hungary declares war on Serbia after it failed to meet the conditions of an ultimatum it set on July 23 following the killing of Archduke Francis Ferdinand by a Serbian assassin. This event leads to the outbreak of war.
* 1943 - World War II: Operation Gomorrah - The British bomb Hamburg causing a firestorm that kills 42,000 German civilians.
* 1945 - A US Army B-25 bomber accidentally crashes into the 79th floor of the Empire State Building killing 14 injuring 26.
* 1955 - The Union Mundial pro Interlingua is founded at the first Interlingua congress in Tours, France.
* 1976 - The Tangshan earthquake measuring between 7.8 and 8.2 magnitude flattens Tangshan, the People's Republic of China, killing 242,769 and injuring 164,851.
* 1996 - Kennewick Man, the remains of a prehistoric man, was discovered near Kennewick, Washington.
* 1997 - Guatemala becomes a member of the Berne Convention copyright treaty.

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Holidays
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* Canada - Commemoration of the deportation of the Acadians
* Faroe Islands - Ólavsøka Eve
* Peru - Independence Day
* San Marino - Fall of the Fascist Government



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Borned this day
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1887 - Marcel Duchamp, French painter
1902 - Karl Popper, Austrian-born philosopher
1904 - Pavel Alekseyevich Cherenkov, Russian physicist, Nobel laureate
1971 - Stephen Lynch, American musician (come on , you gotta know this guy :), cool stand up comedian also)
1977 - Emanuel Ginóbili, Argentine basketball player

some magic on the court?



in the lights: maaagiiiiiiiiiiiiiic joooohnsoooooooon
enjoy!

vineri, 27 iulie 2007

murphy sa-si tina legile pentru el...


cat de fericit sunt!!!! pot sa contrazic si eu ceva in sfarsit (cu fapte concrete bineinteles)...legea lui murphy :)

e prima data cand felia de paine unsa cu unt care-mi cade, nu cade cu partea unsa in jos.
este in sfarsit prima data,era si timpul.
este primul caz, si asta oricum ii rastoarna intregul univers de legi. deci ura!

in fine, legea in original, spune ca probabilitatea ca felia de paine sa cada ...bla-bla-yada-yada, dar putem face abstractie de asta, nu? sau de faptul ca era branza topita la mine pe felie...

in the news

Finger vein authentication technology

On July 24, Hitachi announced the development of a biometric cardless credit payment system, called “finger vein money,” which allows shoppers to pay for purchases using only their fingertips. The company plans to begin field testing the finger vein money in September.

Finger vein money relies on Hitachi’s finger vein authentication technology, which verifies a person’s identity by reading the pattern of blood vessels in his or her fingers. These blood vessel patterns are unique to each individual, much like fingerprints or retinas, only they are hidden securely under the skin, making them all the more difficult to counterfeit. Hitachi’s finger vein authentication technology is already being used to verify user identities for ATMs, door access control systems and computer log-in systems in Japan and elsewhere.

In the finger vein money system, consumers first register their finger vein pattern data with the credit card company. The data is then entered into a database along with the individual’s credit account information. Later, when shoppers want to pay for something, they simply go to the cash register and place their finger in a vein reader, which uses infrared LEDs and a special camera to capture a detailed image of their vein structure. The image is converted into a readable format and sent to the database, where it is checked against the records on file. When the system verifies the identity of the shopper, the purchase is charged to the individual’s credit account.

As a cardless payment system that promises the ultimate in convenience and security, finger vein money could help contribute to the disappearance of credit cards and all the anxieties associated with their loss and theft. When that day comes, we may only need to worry about losing our fingers.

quote of the season :)


" Don't knock the weather. If it didn't change once in a while, nine out of ten people couldn't start a conversation. "

[ Kin Hubbard ]