Be Physically Fit like Batman :)

Posted by: Deep Paul

Dept: Fitness

Batman is a comic-hero who lives in Gotham City and who protects the city from any threats. His real name is 'Bruce Wayne'. He has been known to fight the Joker or Bane who are notorious for been criminals.

This article may inspire you to get your ass moving to fitness...

Steps:

Be flexible. In all of the 'Batman' Series of films, you can see that he is very flexible. He jumps a lot and does cart wheels in one of the films. He is also very good at running and dodging movements such as punches. To improve this you may:

1. Practice your gymnastics or any other skill which would make you more 'flexible' or 'bendable'.
2. You might try jumping, squatting or running which would also improve on your flexibility.


Try to be fit. You can try to be fit by doing:
1. Running, jogging, skipping, or any kind of physical activity.
2. You also might need to eat a lot of vegetables and/or eat less food and drink more water (remember that protein is necessary in gaining muscles so eat some meat as well).
3. A reminder that Batman is muscular and hence, you have to train or go to the gym a lot and lift up weights and/or do sit-ups really depending on your determination of being Batman.

Make your back straight. In the film, you never see Batman's back not straight and he doesn't have a hump back. You can:
Practice making your back straight everyday. Tell your family, relatives or friends that you have to walk in front of them so they can see whether your back is straight or not. Tell them to adjust it. Also making your back straight is very good for you so though this maybe hard, it has its own benefits.


In the end I'd like to quote a line: "Energy and persistence conquer all things."

Source: Google.

Poster's comment: Live healthy. Stay fit. All the best...... :)

 

Hendrix and Hippie community

Posted by - Abhisek Roy

Dept.- Music

                                     The man who revolutionized the guitar (and fashion sense) during the 1960s had a huge role to play to play in the communion of the Hippies. Yes, ladies and gentlemen, I am talking about the very-talented Jimi Hendrix, the man who is worshipped like a god by his followers 4 decades after his death. 

                                    

                                     Jimi Hendrix, in more than one ways, was the most exemplar of all the Acid-stoned Hippies. He dressed unconventionally, behaved unconventionally and yes, played his weapon of choice (the white Fender Stratocaster) very unconventionally. He, as I believe, really conglomerated all that was part of the Summer of Love phenomenon. This is why among all of his co-performers, his performance is the most iconic one in the Woodstock Festival of 1969, a haloed gathering among the Hippie community.

                                      Even artists like Jefferson Airplane, Grateful Dead, Jim Morrison and even, Bob Dylan have pledged their admiration for this man. Jimi Hendrix stands as the most towering figure of the Psychedelic area, and will continue to do so for generations to come.

New fibre optic technology can boost Internet bandwidth

Posted by: Avirup Basu

dept: Technology

In a breakthrough, scientists, including one of Indian-origin, have devised a new fibre optic technology that promises to increase bandwidth dramatically, easing Internet congestion and video streaming.  The technology centers on donut-shaped laser light beams called optical vortices, in which the light twists like a tornado as it moves along the beam path, rather than in a straight line.

Widely studied in molecular biology, atomic physics and quantum optics, optical vortices (also known as orbital angular momentum, or OAM, beams) were thought to be unstable in fibre, until Boston University Engineering Professor Siddharth Ramachandran recently designed an optical fibre that can propagate them.  In the paper in journal Science, he and Alan Willner of University of Southern California, demonstrated the stability of the beams in optical fibre and also their potential to boost Internet bandwidth.  "For several decades since optical fibres were deployed, the conventional assumption has been that OAM-carrying beams are inherently unstable in fibres," said Ramachandran.  "Our discovery, of design classes in which they are stable, has profound implications for a variety of scientific and technological fields that have exploited the unique  properties of OAM-carrying light, including the use of such beams for enhancing data capacity in fibres," he said.  Ramachandran and Willner collaborated with OFS-Fitel, a fibre optics company in Denmark, and Tel Aviv University.  Traditionally, bandwidth has been enhanced by increasing the number of colours, or wavelengths of data-carrying laser signals - essentially streams of 1s and 0s - sent down an optical fibre, where the signals are processed according to colour.  An emerging strategy to boost bandwidth is to send the light through a fibre along distinctive paths, or modes, each carrying a cache of data from one end of the fibre to the other.  Unlike the colours, however, data streams of 1s and 0s from different modes mix together; determining which data stream came from which source requires computationally intensive and energy-hungry digital signal processing algorithms.

Source: The Indian Express

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87% increase in phishing attacks in the last 12 months.

Posted by: Avirup Basu

Dept: Technology

PUNE: According to the results of Kaspersky Lab's 'The evolution of phishing attacks 2011-2013' survey, the number of internet users who faced phishing attacks over the last 12 months has grown from 19.9 million to 37.3 million, an increase of 87 %. Facebook, Yahoo, Google and Amazon are among main targets of cybercriminals. The study, which was carried out in June 2013 based on data from the Kaspersky Security Network cloud service, shows that what was once a subset of spam has evolved into a rapidly growing cyberthreat in its own right.  A press release by the lab said that phishing is a form of internet fraud in which criminals create a fake copy of a popular site (an email service, an internet banking website, a social networking site, etc.) and try to lure the users to these rogue web pages.

"The unsuspecting user enters their login information and passwords into these carefully forged websites as they normally would, but these access credentials are instead sent to the cyberiminals. The scammers can then use this stolen personal information, bank credentials, or passwords to steal the users' money, to distribute spam and malware via the compromised email or social networking accounts, or they can simply sell their databases of stolen passwords to other criminals," it said.  It added that for a long time, phishing was regarded as a variation of typical spam emails.  "However, the data from this survey confirms that the scale of phishing attacks has reached such a significant level that they should be regarded as a dangerous threat category of their own, not merely an off-shoot of general spam. In fact, email is no longer the most common delivery mechanism for phishing emails. For example, only 12 % of all registered phishing attacks were launched via spam mailings. The other 88% of cases came from links to phishing pages which people followed while using a web browser, a messaging system or otherwise interacting with the computer," the press release added.

Source: The times of India

Poster's comment: I am not sure what will be the statistics in the coming years.

 

We might be living in a "multiverse"

Posted by: Avirup Basu

dept: Science

WASHINGTON: A groundbreaking theory proposed 15 years ago by physicists that suggests the presence of a 'multiverse' or multiple universes may be correct, according to some US scientists.  If the theory proposed in 1997 by three University of Delaware physicists is true, then it could debunk some of the discoveries scientists were hoping to make at the Large Hadron Collider, the multi-billion-dollar particle accelerator in Geneva, Switzerland, where the famous " Higgs boson" was discovered, researchers said.  It would also suggest that we might be living in a "multiverse" - a universe that is much bigger than was once thought and in which the laws of physics take different forms in different places, according to an article in Scientific American. The article examines the "principle of naturalness", which has been thought to govern the size of the numbers in the laws of physics.

Source: Times of India

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Apple's future iphone may cost less than $99

Posted by: Avirup Basu

Dept:         Technology

Apple has plans to release a lower cost iPhone that will sell for 99 dollars.  The next version of the software for the iPhone will be incredibly different than past versions.

 Apple is reportedly looking at iPhones with bigger screens and will be releasing the low cost phone 

 in a range of colors as soon as this year, the ABC News reports. 

According to the report, Apple declined to comment on the rumors, but CEO Tim Cook addressed the question of larger screens last month at the All Things D conference.  Cook also said the iPhone doesn't have a larger screen right now for a few reasons.  He said that a large screen today comes with a lot of tradeoffs, adding that people do look at the size, but they also look at things like if the photos show the proper color, the white balance, reflectivity, battery life, brightness, the longevity of the display.  The phone is made of a plastic casing and will come in five or six different colors.  Besides releasing a cheaper model of the phone, Apple will release the iPhone 5S later this year.  It will be an update with some small additions and tweaks. Apple released the iPhone 5 in September.

Source: Hindusthan times

Poster's comment: Lets just wait and watch