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30 Dec 2008

First Little Prince On His Planet

Here's part of "The Little Prince" story video...it's really fun watching it with educational message with it! No wonder why it's a great tool for kids, young and adult to learn what is more than life on a planet.

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What is behind this little book that creates many translations ever. It's translated even into dialects in the world! What did you learn from this "Little Prince" story? Do you like reading it or watching it? Please share your thoughts and hearts from it! What's your perspective of the story?















From its official website you'll find "The Little Prince, written by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, has been translated into more than 180 languages and dialects."

HERE'S THE official link: http://www.lepetitprince.com/en/

HERE'S THE link for all the language translations: http://www.petit-prince.at/collection.htm
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27 Dec 2008

First Filipino Cop in South Australia

Do you think there will be more pinoys like him in Australia? He's doing a great job anyway and that's the most important news!

In the Philippines, the very common profession we often hear are nurses & doctors going to USA....what about this? A Filipino cop in Australia:

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22 Dec 2008

First of the Ford's Model Production Success

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What car do you stick on to?

My hubby sticks on Holden Commodore like Ford lovers especially this Ford Model T with its great success mass production in the world!

The Ford Model T (colloquially known as the Tin Lizzie and also the Flivver) was an automobile produced by Henry Ford's Ford Motor Company from 1908 through 1927.
The first production Model T was built on September 27, 1908, at the Piquette Plant in Detroit, Michigan.It is generally regarded as the first affordable automobile.

The Ford Model T was named the world's most influential car of the twentieth century in an international poll. [3] Henry Ford said of the vehicle:

I will build a car for the great multitude. It will be large enough for the family, but small enough for the individual to run and care for. It will be constructed of the best materials, by the best men to be hired, after the simplest designs that modern engineering can devise. But it will be low in price that no man making a good salary will be unable to own one - and enjoy with his family the blessing of hours of pleasure in God's great open spaces.


Image Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Late_model_Ford_Model_T.jpg
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20 Dec 2008

First iPhone app approved by the Vatican

Are you an iPhone users?

The first iPhone approved by the Vatican:










Pity this iPhone is not for everyone. It is for particular niche users. It’s called iBreviary. It only costs $0.99. Follow the link below and grab for yourself if you're interested!



Source: http://www.intomobile.com/2008/12/15/ibreviary-first-iphone-app-approved-by-the-vatican.html
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18 Dec 2008

World's First Turkish Sportscar

Are you into sportscar? What sportscar that you really like?

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True Story
. In a car exhibition, 4 years ago, a Turkish businessman who wasn't allowed to inspect Lamborghini's latest sportscar decided to create his own. Turkey now has a new automobile manufacturer, and Etox (established 2006) has produced a prototype worth drooling over. The Zafer [Victory], a punchy two-seater which packs 272bhp with a top-of-the-range 3-liter V6 engine, was unveiled on 30th August - Victory Day in Turkey.

Etox is the first Turkish automobile manufacturer dedicated exclusively to building sports cars. Its first model, the Etox Zafer, will become the first ever Turkish sports car. Designing the Zafer took 6 months after testing and surveying among hundreds of other prototypes. The latest prototype was created by 46 Turkish engineers in 2 years. The 100,000 kilometer quality tests of the Etox Zafer are currently under way.

The license for mass production of the Etox Zafer has been granted by the Turkish Government and the company aims to produce 20 cars per annum in its first year of production. Etox is envisioning to produce up to 500 cars per annum in the coming years. Etox is almost 100% manufactured and assembled in Turkey. Only the engines are imported from a French auto manufacturer company. Etox is planning to develop its own engines within 2 years time.

The price tag? A modest $56,900.


Source:http://www.thethinkingblog.com/2007/09/unveiled-worlds-first-turkish-sportscar.html



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17 Dec 2008

History Of Mobile Phones

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iche Article Directory | Discover More About The History Of Mobile Phones.

Discover More About The History Of Mobile Phones

These days, everybody has a mobile phone. Whether they're on a contract or a pay as you go tariff, the mobile telephone has become essential for several people. this article will look at the the mobile phone's history - as well as its future - in order to learn more about the now-essential telecommunications device.

Forget all about alexander graeme bell. On 3 april 1973, dr martin cooper, a motorola employee, placed a call to rival Joel Engel, who was head of research at AT&T's Bell Labs. dr Martin made the call while he was walking the streets of new york city & did so through the first Motorola DynaTAC prototype in front of reporters. motorola has a rich history of making radios for vehicles, particularly two-way radios for cabs & police cars. although, recognisable mobile telephones have existed since the fifties at least.

The very first mobile telephones were called first generation telephones, often referred to as 1-g. The 1-g era lasted from the late 1970s through to the 1980s. these items were the first real mobile telephones, although they were then known as cellular mobile radio telephones, & were based on analogue signalling. the use of an analogue signal was the difference between these first generation mobile telephones & their second generation cousins, which came out a few years later.

Second generation, also called 2g, mobile telephones were introduced in the nineties. 2g mobile phone systems were characterised by their use of digital circuit transmission and the introduction of advanced and fast mobile phone to network signals.

The birth of 2g systems saw telephones move from friendly 1g telephones to teeny hand held devices, which were much more moveable. this change was possible through technological improvements including more advanced batteries and energy saving electronics.


The second generation mobile telephones had a number of advantages over 1g devices. These included text messaging, which became possible on gsm networks initially and eventually on most digital networks. the earliest machine-sent sms text message was sent in the uk in 1991. the earliest person-to-person sms message was sent in finland in 1993. sms soon became the communication method of choice and the general public prefer sending text messages to making voice calls.

3g is the term given to the third generation of mobile mobile phone standards & technology. 3g follows 2-g mobile mobile phone technology.

The invention of 3g technologies allow network operators such as Vodafone give their users a bigger range of more advanced services. These include video calls& broadband internet.


Even though 3g was introduced successfully all over the world, complaints have been made by both 3g providers & users, comprising of costly phones. in addition to this, there's numerous differences in the terms of licencing.

Following 3g, we can look forward to the debut of 4g technology, which promises to be the best and most advanced mobile telephone technology to date.


Thanks for perusing our article about the invention of mobile phones. as you probably know, the mobile telephone has come a long way since it was first launched and chances are, it'll be developed further still.


Author Resource: by Maria Literral has worked in telecoms for over 20 years having spent time developing mobile communications and wireless telecommuncation devices

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16 Dec 2008

World's first working $100 Laptop

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Hmmm...what happens if all the children of the world using the $100 laptop? Would you advise your kids if you are parents or what?

Source: http://money.cnn.com/2005/11/16/technology/laptop_fortune/

Nick Negroponte would like to sell you a $100 laptop, especially if you're head of state in a large developing country. NEW YORK (FORTUNE)

Negroponte's message has a seductive simplicity. As he puts it in an interview: "One laptop per child: Children are your most precious resource, and they can do a lot of self-learning and peer-to-peer teaching. Bingo. End of story."
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World's First Money

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Do you think people still barter items today in some way especially on the Internet?

Source: http://www.collectsource.com/worlds.htm

Coins weren't invented until about the 7th century B.C. Before there were coins, barter was the means of trade throughout the ancient world. But it can get to be quite tiresome if you have to barter for everything.

Perhaps as a means to facilitate small transactions, the Ancient Sumerians---the same folks who invented the wheel and writing---invented money. About 3500 B.C. they began cutting sections from cone shaped shells, and, after the sections were polished, folks carried them around their necks on strings, using the shells to pay for small items.

It was such a useful invention that Sumerian Shell Money caught on quickly---archaeological evidence suggests it circulated throughout the fertile crescent of the Mid East about 5000 years ago---when Sumerian culture was at it's zenith.

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World's Oldest Inhabitants

Who do you think the oldest inhabitants or one of the oldest inhabitants in the world? What does the word "aboriginal" mean? Do you have aboriginals in your own country? In the Philippines, we call the indigenous "Aetas". I believe whatever colour we have on our skin, we all have first forefathers who breed us in different wonderful skin colours.

From this source:
http://www.apex.net.au/~mhumphry/aborigin.html

The word "aboriginal" means "the first" or "earliest known". The word was first used in Italy and Greece to describe people who lived there, natives or old inhabitants, not newcomers, or invaders.

Australia may well be the home of the worlds first people. Stone tools discovered in a quarry near Penrith, New South Wales, in 1971 show that humans lived in Australia at least twelve thousand years before they appeared in Europe.

So far three early sites have been discovered in Australia, the Penrith one being dated about forty-seven thousand years old, a Western Australian site forty thousand years old and another in Lake Mungo, New South Wales, thirty-five thousand years old.

To put this in perspective, so that we can appreciate the time scales, since the first fleet arrived in 1788 there have only been 8 generations of settlers. On the other hand, there have been in excess of 18,500 generations of aboriginals!

First Sightings

The first recorded sighting of Australia was in 1606 by the Dutch captain of "Duyfken" William Jansz who described the natives as "...savage, cruel, black barbarians who slew some of our sailors". In the same year the Spaniard, Luis Vaez de Torres sailed around the strait that bears his name. He described the natives as "...very corpulent and naked. Their arms were lances, arrows, and clubs of stone ill fashioned". Jan Carstenz in 1623 described several armed encounters with Aboriginals, and judged the country "...the most arid and barren region that could be found anywhere on earth; the inhabitants too, are the most wretched and poorest creatures that I have ever seen in my age or time". As a result of such reports the Dutch government decided the land that was not suitable for colonisation.

Macassans: The First Visitors?

In northern Arnhem Land, and on Melville and Bathurst Islands, the Aboriginals carved special wooden grave posts. These posts were adapted from the masts of the Macassan boats that visited the northern coast each year from Macassar and Celedes to collect trepang.

The Macassan visitors came in what the Aboriginals regard as historic times, and their camps were both large and well organised. The campsites are still marked by tamarind trees, which grew from the seeds of the fruit, dropped by the fishermen.

The Macassan introduced the dugout canoes and taught the Aboriginals the use of steel in making knives, spear blades and tomahawks. The Aboriginals watched or took part in the entertainment and ceremonies; they learned to play cards, and began to adapt their song rhythms to the strange tunes and sounds of foreign musical instruments.

The Aboriginals learned more about the culture of the visitors by travelling to Macassar with the fishermen, returning with the fleet the following season; some of them remained in Macassar. The Aboriginals adopted some Macassan words into their own languages; for example compass directions, names of tools and parts of the boats. The names of Macassans are still remembered, and Aboriginals often adopted Macassan names as well as their own.


Aboriginal Flag

Aboriginal Flag

The Aboriginal flag is divided horizontally into two equal halves of black (top) and red (bottom), with a yellow circle in the centre. The black symbolises Aboriginal people and the yellow represents the sun, the constant renewer of life. Red depicts the earth and also represents ochre, which is used by Aboriginal People in ceremonies.

The flag - designed by Harold Thomas - was first flown at Victoria Square, Adelaide, on National Aborigines' Day on 12 July 1971. It was used later at the Tent Embassy in Canberra in 1972.

Today the flag has been adopted by all Aboriginal groups and is flown or displayed permanently at Aboriginal centres throughout Australia.


Torres Strait Islander Flag

Torres Flag

The Torres Strait Islander flag - designed by the late Bernard Namok - stands for the unity and identity of all Torres Strait Islanders.

It features three horizontal coloured stripes, with green at the top and bottom and blue in between - divided by thin black lines.

A white dhari (headdress) sits in the centre, with a five-pointed white underneath it. The colour green is for the land, and the dhari is a symbol of all Torres Strait Islanders. The black represents the people and the blue is for the sea. The five-pointed start represents the island groups. Used in navigation, the star is also an important symbol for the seafaring Torres Strait Islander people. The colour white of the star represents peace.

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First Valve for Coffee Packing

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Do you have valve on your coffee pack? Check it out, if this may interests you!

This weekend I was storing my hubby's ground coffee to another bottle and I saw this valve that got me curious where's its made from...I finally saw the name labelled on this very small valve and what is it for? Such small engineering but it keeps the coffee taste great...like having a coffee drink from fresh roasted coffee bean!






"It was Fres-co who invented the degassing valve for coffee, which allowed the packaging of the coffee to be done immediately after roasting to insure the freshest possible taste. The valve allows for the CO2 to exit the package, but will not allow oxygen or other gases back in. (CO2) and if the valve is not used, coffee needs up to 24 hours to fully degas before being packaged in a hermetically sealed container. During this degassing process the coffee my be subject to degradation due to oxygen, which quickly makes the coffee go stale."*





INNER VALVE






OUTER VALVE - The original version, designed to be seen on the package surface.







HIGH FLOW VALVE





HIGH PRESSURE VALVE





*Source: http://www.fresco.com/valves.html
*Image Source: http://www.goglio.it/valvole/Packaging_solution.cfm?IdCategoriaProdotti=28&IdSchedaProdotto=2
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11 Dec 2008

FIRST LOVE with lyrics - Avalon

Do you have first love? I do have first love, second's my husband! Listen to the song and enjoy your day!


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