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Friday, October 9, 2009

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Thursday, October 8, 2009

the "lamp" picture test

that do you see bellow... a lamp or something else???

Wednesday, October 7, 2009

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Tuesday, October 6, 2009

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Monday, October 5, 2009

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Sunday, October 4, 2009

The Sayano-Shushenskaya dam accident

On August 17th, near Sayanogorsk in south central Russia, a catastrophic accident took place in the turbine and transformer rooms of the hydroelectric plant of the Sayano-Shushenskaya dam. The exact cause is still under investigation, but what is known so far is that a tremendous amount of water from the Yenisei River flooded the turbine room, causing at least one transformer explosion and extensive damage to all ten turbines, destroying at least three of them. 74 workers are known to have lost their lives in the accident, while one remains missing. Additionally, 40 tons of transformer oil were spilled into the river, killing an estimated 400 tons of trout in two fisheries. Investigators plan to release findings in two months, as Prime Minister Vladimir Putin called for a nationwide infrastructure inspection

Rescuers work in the debris of the damaged dam of Sayano-Shushenskaya hydroelectric power station near the Siberian village of Cheryomushki, about 520 km (323 miles) south of Krasnoyarsk, Russia on August 20, 2009. (REUTERS/Ilya Naymushin)

2The Sayano-Shushenskaya hydroelectric power dam is seen from above Cheryomushky, Russia on August 20, 2009. (ALEXANDER NEMENOV/AFP/Getty Images) #

3The Sayano-Shushenskaya hydroelectric power dam is seen from a helicopter in Cheryomushky on August 20, 2009. (ALEXANDER NEMENOV/AFP/Getty Images) #

4The Generator Hall of Sayano-Shushenskaya hydroelectric power station, seen intact on June 25th, 2009, weeks before the accident. Original here. (Andrey Korzun / CC BY-SA [licensed here]) #

5The same hall as photo #4 above, seen after the accident. Rescuers work in the debris of the Sayano-Shushenskaya hydroelectric power station near Siberian village of Cheryomushki, August 20, 2009. (REUTERS/Ilya Naymushin) #

6Damage to the Sayano-Shushinskaya power station in southern Siberia is seen Monday, Aug. 17, 2009 in this photo released by the Emergency Ministry, Siberian Branch on Tuesday, Aug. 18, 2009. (AP Photo/Emergency Ministry, Siberian Branch) #

7Rescuers cut steel on the site of the damaged Sayano-Shushenskaya dam on August 17, 2009. (REUTERS/Ilya Naymushin) #

8Rescuers carry a stretcher with the body of a victim at the damaged Sayano-Shushenskaya dam near the Siberian village of Cheryomushki, on August 17, 2009. (REUTERS/Ilya Naymushin) #

9Russian emergency rescuers work at the scene of an accident at the Sayano-Shushenskaya hydroelectric power station in Cheryomushky on August 19, 2009. (ALEXANDER NEMENOV/AFP/Getty Images) #

10A rescuer and dog look for victims in the debris of the damaged Sayano-Shushenskaya hydroelectric power station, August 20, 2009. (REUTERS/Ilya Naymushin) #

11In this photo taken Monday, Aug. 17, 2009, damage is seen in the generator hall at the Sayano-Shushenskaya hydroelectric plant in southern Siberia. (AP Photo/ Rossiiskaya Gazeta Newspaper) #

12Relatives of victims in the accident at Sayano-Shushenskaya hydroelectric power station read information at the Siberian village of Cheryomushki, August 19, 2009. (REUTERS/Ilya Naymushin) #

13Russian Emergency Situations Minister Sergei Shoigu explains the nature of the accident at the Sayano-Shushenskaya hydroelectric power station in Cheryomushky on August 19, 2009. (ALEXANDER NEMENOV/AFP/Getty Images) #

14Medical personnel comfort a relative of a victim of the accident at Sayano-Shushenskaya dam on August 19, 2009. (REUTERS/Ilya Naymushin) #

15People grieve as they attend funeral for victims of an accident at the Sayano-Shushenskaya power station, in a settlement of Cheryomushki, August 20, 2009. (REUTERS/Ilya Naymushin) #

16Pallbearers carry the coffin of a man who died in the Sayano-Shushenskaya hydroelectric power dam accident at a funeral in Cheryomushky on August 20, 2009. (ALEXANDER NEMENOV/AFP/Getty Images) #

17Damaged equipment is seen at the Sayano-Shushenskaya hydroelectric plant in southern Siberia on Monday, Aug. 17, 2009. (AP Photo/ Rossiiskaya Gazeta Newspaper) #

18Buildings sit on the bank of the oil-polluted waters of the Yenisei River, downstream from the Sayano-Shushenskaya hydroelectric power dam in Cheryomushky on August 20, 2009. Oil from the dam's turbines was released into the water as a result of the accident. (ALEXANDER NEMENOV/AFP/Getty Images) #

19A boat motors through oil-slicked water in the Yenisei River, downstream from the Sayano-Shushenskaya dam on August 20, 2009. (ALEXANDER NEMENOV/AFP/Getty Images) #

20Workers collect an oil spill in the Yenisei River, which occurred after the accident at the Sayano-Shushenskaya dam, near the settlement of Mayna, August 19, 2009. (REUTERS/Ilya Naymushin) #

21Workers contain an oil spill in the Yenisei River, near the settlement of Mayna, Russia on August 19, 2009. (REUTERS/Ilya Naymushin) #

22Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin visits the accident site at the Sayano-Shushenskaya hydroelectric power station in Cheryomushky on August 21, 2009. At right is Emergency Situations Minister Sergei Shoigu. (ALEXEY DRUZHININ/AFP/Getty Images) #

23In this photo taken Friday, Aug. 21, 2009 rescuers work at the damaged Sayano-Shushenskaya dam. (AP Photo) #

24The Sayano-Shushenskaya hydroelectric power dam is seen from a helicopter in Cheryomushky on August 20, 2009. The missing roof of the damaged generator hall is visible at top center. (ALEXANDER NEMENOV/AFP/Getty Images) #

25The damaged and flooded generator hall of the Sayano-Shushenskaya hydroelectric power station on August 18, 2009. (REUTERS/Ilya Naymushin) #

26A general view of the damaged generator hall of Sayano-Shushenskaya hydroelectric power station, seen on August 18, 2009. (REUTERS/Ilya Naymushin) #

27Russian emergency workers at the scene of an accident at the Sayano-Shushenskaya hydroelectric power station in Cheryomushky on August 19, 2009. (ALEXANDER NEMENOV/AFP/Getty Images) #

28Russian first responders work the scene of an accident at the Sayano-Shushenskaya hydroelectric power station in Cheryomushky on August 19, 2009. (ALEXANDER NEMENOV/AFP/Getty Images) #

29A general view shows the damaged Sayano-Shushenskaya dam hydroelectric power station and Yenisei River, near Cheryomushki, August 18, 2009. (REUTERS/Ilya Naymushin) #

30Rescuers work in the debris of the damaged Sayano-Shushenskaya dam, August 20, 2009. (REUTERS/Ilya Naymushin) #

31Russian workers at the damaged Sayano-Shushenskaya hydroelectric power plant on Thursday, Sept. 3, 2009. Plans are in place to disassemble and replace the three destroyed turbines, and to repair the remaining seven. (AP Photo/Vitaly Bezrukikh) #

32A general view of the Sayano-Shushenskaya dam and hydroelectric plant in southern Siberia, seen on Friday, Aug. 21, 2009. (AP Photo) #

Sharbat Gula, the Afghan Girl

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The picture of Sharbat Gula, as it appeared on the June, 1985 National Geographic cover.
Sharbat Gula (Pashto: شربت ګله, literally "Rose Sherbet") (Sharbat is pronounced [ˈʃaɾbat]) (born ca. 1972) is an Afghanwoman of Pashtun ethnicity. She was forced to leave her home in Afghanistan during the Soviet war for a refugee camp in Pakistan where she was photographed by journalist Steve McCurry. The image brought her recognition when it was featured on the cover of the June 1985 issue of National Geographic Magazine, at a time when she was approximately 12 years old. Gula was known throughout the world simply as the Afghan Girl until she was formally identified in early 2002.
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1 Photo's subject
2 1984 photograph
3 Search for the Afghan Girl
4 References
5 External links
[edit]Photo's subject
Gula was orphaned during the Soviet Union's bombing of Afghanistan and sent to the Nasir Bagh refugee camp in Pakistanin 1984. Her village was attacked by Soviet helicopter gunships sometime in the early 1980s. The Soviet strike killed her parents - forcing her, her siblings and grandmother to hike over the mountains to the Nasir Bagh refugee camp in Pakistan.^[1]
She married Rahmat Gul in the late 1980s and returned to Afghanistan in 1992. Gula had three daughters: Robina, Zahida, and Alia. A fourth daughter died in infancy. Gula has expressed the hope that her girls will receive the education she was never able to complete.
[edit]1984 photograph
Steve McCurry's "Afghan Girl" original photo.
At the Nasir Bagh refugee camp in 1984, Gula's photograph was taken by National Geographic photographer Steve McCurryon Kodachrome color slide film. Gula was one of the students in an informal school within the refugee camp; McCurry, rarely given the opportunity to photograph Afghan women, seized the opportunity and captured her image.
Although her name was not known, her picture, titled "Afghan Girl", appeared on the June 1985 cover of National Geographic. The image of her face, with a red scarf draped loosely over her head and with her piercing sea-green eyesstaring directly into the camera, became a symbol both of the 1980s Afghan conflict and of the refugee situation worldwide. The image itself was named "the most recognized photograph" in the history of the magazine.^[2]
[edit]Search for the Afghan Girl
The identity of the Afghan Girl remained unknown for over 17 years; Afghanistan remained largely closed to Western mediauntil after the removal of the Taliban government by foreign troops and local allies in 2001. Although McCurry made several attempts during the 1990s to locate her, he was unsuccessful.
In January 2002, a National Geographic team traveled to Afghanistan to locate the subject of the now-famous photograph. McCurry, upon learning that the Nasir Bagh refugee camp was soon to close, inquired of its remaining residents, one of whom knew Gula's brother and was able to send word to her hometown. However, there were a number of women who came forward and identified themselves erroneously as the famous Afghan Girl. In addition, after being shown the 1985 photo, a handful of young men questioned falsely claimed Gula as their wife.
The team finally located Gula, then around the age of 30, in a remote region of Afghanistan; she had returned to her native country from the refugee camp in 1992. Her identity was confirmed using biometric technology which matched her iris patterns to those of the photograph with almost full certainty. She vividly recalled being photographed—it was the first and only time she had ever had her picture taken. The fame and symbolic character of her portrait were completely unknown to her.
Modern pictures of her were featured as part of a cover story on her life in the April 2002 issue of National Geographic and was the subject of a television documentary, entitled Search for the Afghan Girl, which aired in March 2002. In recognition of her,^[3] National Geographic set up the Afghan Girls Fund, a charitable organization with the goal of educating Afghan girls and young women.^[4] In 2008, the scope of the fund was broadened to include boys and the name was changed to Afghan Children's Fund.^[5]

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Saturday, October 3, 2009

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at last! wireless power!

MONDAY, JUNE 22, 2009
Last Thursday, Intel researchers demonstrated 45 research projects, ranging from ray-tracing algorithms for better animation to organic photovoltaics for flexible solar cells, at the Computer History Museum, in Mountain View, CA. But the project that received the most attention by far was the demo of a wirelessly charged iPod speaker. The speaker was attached to a copper coil with a 30-centimeter diameter, and it was powered by magnetic fields produced from a second coil, with double the diameter, nearly a meter away.
Resonant rings: The speaker in the center of this coil is wirelessly powered by the magnetic field produced by another, larger coil (not pictured) plugged into a power supply about a meter away.
Credit: Kate Greene
Intel's wireless power project, first announced at the company's developer forum last August, bears a strong resemblance to a project announced by researchers at MIT in 2007, which was featured as one of the TR10 top emerging technologies of 2008. Similar to the MIT project led by Marin Soljacic and the prototypes developed by the spinoff startup WiTricity, the Intel project uses magnetic fields to transfer energy; the type of radiation shared between the two coils is nonradiative, which means that it's confined to a short distance of less than two meters.
The idea of wireless power transfer is, of course, not new. Physicist Nikola Tesla proposed it in the late 19th century. However, funding for his projects ran out at about the same time that the modern world decided to take a wired approach. And for more than a century, wires have done the job well enough. But with the advent of portable electronics that seem to need constant charging, wireless electricity is coming back in style, and researchers are exploring ways to make it practical. In addition, plug-in electric vehicles are another motivating factor, as plugging in a car (or forgetting to plug one in) is a burden that consumers may not want to bear.
The modern approach that WiTricity and Intel are taking makes use of the phenomenon called resonant coupling, in which objects can exchange energy with each other only when they are tuned to, or resonate at, the same frequency. Specifically, both groups are using magnetic fields for sharing energy because such fields have little known impact on the environment and on people's health, compared with electrical fields.

Note: Schematics and information about the circuit is now available at 4hv.org:http://4hv.org/e107_plugins... This is a small scale demonstration of wireless power transfer between two coupled ...