This is the Hyperbar World Record Watch which has succesfully undergone pressue testing to depths of 39,600 feet (12,000m) Using a unique technology this watch is able to withstand pressures no other watch can. The movement is in a self contained unit so there is no need for a screw down crown and the battery can be changed easily by the owner using a quick change thumbscrew panel (similar to the G10BH) in the back of the watch, so retaining it waterproofing
Features:
• Movement : Swiss ETA 955.114
• Glass : 1.8mm High Resistance Mineral
• Case : GRP Reinforced
• Bezel : ABS Unidirectional
• Illumination : SuperLuminova
• Crown : 2 O Ring Swiss Larva
• Size : 40.15mm
"Here some more information and details about the HYPERBAR Deep Diver System:
At first sight it seems to be impossible that a watch (depending on the model) could reach a depth of up to 12'000 m / 39'600 feet.
For sure you recognized already that the inside of your HYPERBAR watch, except a more or less small bubble, is completely filled out with a liquid. More precisely, all the components, including the movement, are plunged in this liquid.
Only the patented filling system (patent no. CH68698985) makes this incredible durability possible, tested and certified by the EGI (Swiss federal inspectorate of Dangerous Materials, test report no. 102'433).
Besides the HYPERBAR Deep Diver System is based on a simple physical principle, which starfish and sea-urchins are making use of for millions of year already: fine incompressibility of the liquid. These aborigines of the sea are consisted of a texture, permeable to the water surrounding them. That means : The pressure from the outside will be equalized by the same pressure from the inside, equivalent a force zero, which for the starfish and the sea-urchins means not more and not less than surviving in a few thousand meters, ten thousand feet.
Adopting this system into a wrist watch seams to be relatively simple; nevertheless it took us years of research and development until the realization. One of our major tasks was to choose, test and harmonize very carefully all the different components and materials. Besides, for the case of the HYPERBAR watch, it was of course impossible to be permanent as a starfish. That means we had to mix a liquid which A was stable under all conditions and B at the same time digestible for all the material and components.
The result you find in your watch ! A mixture bases on oil, replacing almost all the air in the watch case. Just a small bubble (diameter less 5 mm) is remaining, moving visible over the dial most of the time. It is kept as an extension chamber and is getting small or in the heat respectively bigger in the cold. It can happen, that the bubble is invisible, in this case it is moving behind the dial or, due to big heat-influence (warm water, direct sunlight), it is practically dissolved. Moreover the liquid filling does not affect the precision of your watch. The slightly higher resistance of the watch hands will be compensated by the rate adjustment, the movement is equipped with. Also , tests in our laboratory proved that the consumption is within the scale of « empty » quartz watches. The insulating effect of the fluid prevents craw streams and the possibility of a short circuit in the movement, hereby an eventual increased consumption (caused by the higher resistance) will be compensated.
In addition, other very salient advantages are resulting for you and your watch thanks to this HYPERBAR Deep Diver System:
• Excellent readability at all angles because the light does not get broken by the crystal and the disturbing reflections are falling away. At the same time the fluid acts as a magnifier
• Higher corrosion-resistance for all the parts inside the case due to the oily liquid
• Reduced wear out of the movement due to permanent lubrication.
Monday, August 11, 2008
Wednesday, August 6, 2008
boot sector
What it does
A boot sector virus infects or substitutes its own code for either the DOS boot sector or the Master Boot Record (MBR). The MBR is small program that runs every time the computer starts up. It controls the boot sequence and determines which partition the computer boots from. The MBR generally resides on the first sector of the hard disk.
Since the MBR executes every time a computer is started, a boot sector virus is extremely dangerous. Once the boot code on the drive is infected, the virus will be loaded into memory on every startup. From memory the boot virus can spread to every disk that the system reads.
Symptoms
A boot sector virus can cause a variety of boot or data retrieval problems. In some cases, data disappears from entire partitions. In other cases, the computer suddenly becomes unstable. A common problem is failure to start up or to find the hard drive.
How it spreads
A boot sector virus is usually spread by infected floppy disks. In the past, these were usually bootable disks, but this is no longer the case. A floppy disk does not need to be bootable to transmit the virus. Any disk can cause infection if it is in the drive when the computer boots up. The virus can also be spread across networks from file downloads and from e-mail file attachments. In most cases, all write-enabled floppies used on an infected PC will themselves pick up the boot sector virus.
In the past, setting the computer to boot first from the C:\ drive and then the A:\ drive was a reasonable precaution against boot sector viruses. This is no longer the case. Viruses are now more dangerous and spread much more easily.
Some CMOS setups can be configured to prevent writing to the boot sector of the hard drive. This may be of some use against boot sector viruses. However, if you need to reinstall or upgrade the operating system, you will have to change the setting back to make the MBR writable again.
For more information on boot sector viruses and viruses in general, see:
http://www.faqs.org/faqs/by-newsgroup/comp/comp.virus.html
Precautions and damage control
Prevention is usually a matter of vigilance and avoiding contact with unknown disks. The following suggestions will help keep your systems and data safe:
Install virus detection software on your computer. In general, anti-virus programs do two things:
Scan for and remove viruses in files on disks.
Monitor the operation of your computer for virus-like activity. This can be either known actions of specific viruses or general suspicious activity.
Most anti-virus packages contain routines that can perform both tasks. A good virus protection software package is Norton AntiVirus.
Back up your files, so that you can restore them if a virus damages them.
Note: If you back up a file that is already infected with a virus, you can re-infect your system by restoring files from the backup copies. Check your backup files with virus scanning software before using them.
Keep your original application and system disks locked (write-protected). This will prevent the virus from spreading to your original disks.
If you must insert one of your application floppy disks into an unknown computer, lock it first. Unlock your application disk only after verifying that the computer is free of viruses.
Obtain public-domain software from reputable sources. Don't download software directly to a hard disk. Rather, save it to a floppy disk, lock the floppy disk, and check it thoroughly using reputable virus detection software. Don't copy it to your hard disk until you know it is safe. This can also help protect you from Trojan horse programs.
Quarantine any infected computer. If you discover that a computer is infected with a virus, immediately isolate it from other computers. In other words, disconnect it from any network it is on. Don't allow anyone to copy or move files from it until the entire system has been reliably disinfected
A boot sector virus infects or substitutes its own code for either the DOS boot sector or the Master Boot Record (MBR). The MBR is small program that runs every time the computer starts up. It controls the boot sequence and determines which partition the computer boots from. The MBR generally resides on the first sector of the hard disk.
Since the MBR executes every time a computer is started, a boot sector virus is extremely dangerous. Once the boot code on the drive is infected, the virus will be loaded into memory on every startup. From memory the boot virus can spread to every disk that the system reads.
Symptoms
A boot sector virus can cause a variety of boot or data retrieval problems. In some cases, data disappears from entire partitions. In other cases, the computer suddenly becomes unstable. A common problem is failure to start up or to find the hard drive.
How it spreads
A boot sector virus is usually spread by infected floppy disks. In the past, these were usually bootable disks, but this is no longer the case. A floppy disk does not need to be bootable to transmit the virus. Any disk can cause infection if it is in the drive when the computer boots up. The virus can also be spread across networks from file downloads and from e-mail file attachments. In most cases, all write-enabled floppies used on an infected PC will themselves pick up the boot sector virus.
In the past, setting the computer to boot first from the C:\ drive and then the A:\ drive was a reasonable precaution against boot sector viruses. This is no longer the case. Viruses are now more dangerous and spread much more easily.
Some CMOS setups can be configured to prevent writing to the boot sector of the hard drive. This may be of some use against boot sector viruses. However, if you need to reinstall or upgrade the operating system, you will have to change the setting back to make the MBR writable again.
For more information on boot sector viruses and viruses in general, see:
http://www.faqs.org/faqs/by-newsgroup/comp/comp.virus.html
Precautions and damage control
Prevention is usually a matter of vigilance and avoiding contact with unknown disks. The following suggestions will help keep your systems and data safe:
Install virus detection software on your computer. In general, anti-virus programs do two things:
Scan for and remove viruses in files on disks.
Monitor the operation of your computer for virus-like activity. This can be either known actions of specific viruses or general suspicious activity.
Most anti-virus packages contain routines that can perform both tasks. A good virus protection software package is Norton AntiVirus.
Back up your files, so that you can restore them if a virus damages them.
Note: If you back up a file that is already infected with a virus, you can re-infect your system by restoring files from the backup copies. Check your backup files with virus scanning software before using them.
Keep your original application and system disks locked (write-protected). This will prevent the virus from spreading to your original disks.
If you must insert one of your application floppy disks into an unknown computer, lock it first. Unlock your application disk only after verifying that the computer is free of viruses.
Obtain public-domain software from reputable sources. Don't download software directly to a hard disk. Rather, save it to a floppy disk, lock the floppy disk, and check it thoroughly using reputable virus detection software. Don't copy it to your hard disk until you know it is safe. This can also help protect you from Trojan horse programs.
Quarantine any infected computer. If you discover that a computer is infected with a virus, immediately isolate it from other computers. In other words, disconnect it from any network it is on. Don't allow anyone to copy or move files from it until the entire system has been reliably disinfected
Saturday, August 2, 2008
Wednesday, July 23, 2008
Literature During the American Period
The introduction of the English language in the second decade of the 20th century turned literature trilingual, thus literature was written in Tagalog, Spanish, & English,
The Educational system instituted English as the medium of instruction.
-Washing ton Irving, Edgar Allan Poe, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Ralph Waldo Emerson, William Shakespeare, Walt Whitman, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, and William Wadsworth, among others.
-Early Filipino Scholarly writers in English:
Vicente Hilario, Godofredo Rivera, Francisco Africa, Manuel Gallego, L.B. Lichangco, Nicolas Zafra.
(There contributions were published in the U.P Folio, the 1st official publication of the University of the Philippines).
-Literary figure flourished and wrote free verse, play, critical essays, and the modern short stories.
Some of them: Lope K. Santos, Aurelio Tolentino, Benigno Ramos, Deogracias Rosario, Jose Corazon de Jesus.
-1920s Phil. Literature became commercialized when the weekly liwayway & Bisaya published stories, novels, and poems of the varied subject matter.
Philippine Novels
-1930s Novel were made into movies,
Child of Sorrow by Zoilo Galang
Novel his Nature Soil by Juan C. laya
Other Novelist: Maximo Kalaw, Ernesto Lopez, Felicidad Ocampo, Felipe Calderon Cortez, Victoria Lopez Araneta
- A number of vernacular novels also appeared during the American rule, especially with the emergence of much news papers and magazines
Phil. Short story showed American influence with 1st real modern story
Deogracias Rosario- acclaimed Father of the Tagalog short story
The wound & the Scar by Arturo Rotor
Tagalog Poetry
Pedro Gaitaman & Benigno Ramos- experimented on the use of rhyme and meter with their “Malaprosang tula” (prose poem).
Jose Corazon de Jesus “Ang Sawa” 1920 has the making of free verse although it has the traditional rhythm and meter when read.
Philippine Play
Zarzuela (1930) began to be replaced by the vaudeville and movies with the University or College campus providing the venue.
The one-act play,
Wilfredo Ma. Guerrero- turned out to be the most prolific & the most durable playwright in English. (Wanted: A Chaperon, the Forsaken house and Frustrations)
The member of Kapisanan Panitikan(1935), the tagalog writers organization broke away from the editorial restrictions of commercial magazines which were their publishing outlets and deliberately used American models.
Philippine Essays
Zoilo Galang- also wrote the 1st book of essay in English, Life and Success (1921)
Thinking of ourselves (1924)
Literature & Society by Salvador P. Lopez
-Many of which were written by the leaders of the time and edited by: Vincent M. Hilario, Eliseo M. Quirino, Carlos P Romulo, and Jorge Bagodo were other essayist before WWII
The Educational system instituted English as the medium of instruction.
-Washing ton Irving, Edgar Allan Poe, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Ralph Waldo Emerson, William Shakespeare, Walt Whitman, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, and William Wadsworth, among others.
-Early Filipino Scholarly writers in English:
Vicente Hilario, Godofredo Rivera, Francisco Africa, Manuel Gallego, L.B. Lichangco, Nicolas Zafra.
(There contributions were published in the U.P Folio, the 1st official publication of the University of the Philippines).
-Literary figure flourished and wrote free verse, play, critical essays, and the modern short stories.
Some of them: Lope K. Santos, Aurelio Tolentino, Benigno Ramos, Deogracias Rosario, Jose Corazon de Jesus.
-1920s Phil. Literature became commercialized when the weekly liwayway & Bisaya published stories, novels, and poems of the varied subject matter.
Philippine Novels
-1930s Novel were made into movies,
Child of Sorrow by Zoilo Galang
Novel his Nature Soil by Juan C. laya
Other Novelist: Maximo Kalaw, Ernesto Lopez, Felicidad Ocampo, Felipe Calderon Cortez, Victoria Lopez Araneta
- A number of vernacular novels also appeared during the American rule, especially with the emergence of much news papers and magazines
Phil. Short story showed American influence with 1st real modern story
Deogracias Rosario- acclaimed Father of the Tagalog short story
The wound & the Scar by Arturo Rotor
Tagalog Poetry
Pedro Gaitaman & Benigno Ramos- experimented on the use of rhyme and meter with their “Malaprosang tula” (prose poem).
Jose Corazon de Jesus “Ang Sawa” 1920 has the making of free verse although it has the traditional rhythm and meter when read.
Philippine Play
Zarzuela (1930) began to be replaced by the vaudeville and movies with the University or College campus providing the venue.
The one-act play,
Wilfredo Ma. Guerrero- turned out to be the most prolific & the most durable playwright in English. (Wanted: A Chaperon, the Forsaken house and Frustrations)
The member of Kapisanan Panitikan(1935), the tagalog writers organization broke away from the editorial restrictions of commercial magazines which were their publishing outlets and deliberately used American models.
Philippine Essays
Zoilo Galang- also wrote the 1st book of essay in English, Life and Success (1921)
Thinking of ourselves (1924)
Literature & Society by Salvador P. Lopez
-Many of which were written by the leaders of the time and edited by: Vincent M. Hilario, Eliseo M. Quirino, Carlos P Romulo, and Jorge Bagodo were other essayist before WWII
Monday, July 7, 2008
"WRECK OF THE HESPERUS" By Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
It was the schooner Hesperus,
That sailed the wintery sea;
And the skipper had taken his little daughter,
To bear him company.
Blue were her eyes as the fairy flax,
Her cheeks like the dawn of day,
And her bosom white as the hawthorn buds,
That ope in the month of May.
The Skipper he stood beside the helm,
His pipe was in his mouth,
And he watched how the veering flaw did blow
The smoke now West, now South.
Then up and spake an old Sailor,
Had sailed the Spanish Main,
"I pray thee, put into yonder port,
for I fear a hurricane.
"Last night the moon had a golden ring,
And to-night no moon we see!"
The skipper, he blew whiff from his pipe,
And a scornful laugh laughed he.
Colder and louder blew the wind,
A gale from the Northeast,
The snow fell hissing in the brine,
And the billows frothed like yeast.
Down came the storm, and smote amain
The vessel in its strength;
She shuddered and paused, like a frighted steed,
Then leaped her cable's length.
"Come hither! come hither! my little daughter,
And do not tremble so;
For I can weather the roughest gale
That ever wind did blow."
He wrapped her warm in his seaman's coat
Against the stinging blast;
He cut a rope from a broken spar,
And bound her to the mast.
"O father! I hear the church bells ring,
Oh, say, what may it be?"
"Tis a fog-bell on a rock bound coast!" --
And he steered for the open sea.
"O father! I hear the sound of guns;
Oh, say, what may it be?"
Some ship in distress, that cannot live
In such an angry sea!"
"O father! I see a gleaming light.
Oh say, what may it be?"
But the father answered never a word,
A frozen corpse was he.
Lashed to the helm, all stiff and stark,
With his face turned to the skies,
The lantern gleamed through the gleaming snow
On his fixed and glassy eyes.
Then the maiden clasped her hands and prayed
That saved she might be;
And she thought of Christ, who stilled the wave,
On the Lake of Galilee.
And fast through the midnight dark and drear,
Through the whistling sleet and snow,
Like a sheeted ghost, the vessel swept
Tow'rds the reef of Norman's Woe.
And ever the fitful gusts between
A sound came from the land;
It was the sound of the trampling surf,
On the rocks and hard sea-sand.
The breakers were right beneath her bows,
She drifted a dreary wreck,
And a whooping billow swept the crew
Like icicles from her deck.
She struck where the white and fleecy waves
Looked soft as carded wool,
But the cruel rocks, they gored her side
Like the horns of an angry bull.
Her rattling shrouds, all sheathed in ice,
With the masts went by the board;
Like a vessel of glass, she stove and sank,
Ho! ho! the breakers roared!
At daybreak, on the bleak sea-beach,
A fisherman stood aghast,
To see the form of a maiden fair,
Lashed close to a drifting mast.
The salt sea was frozen on her breast,
The salt tears in her eyes;
And he saw her hair, like the brown sea-weed,
On the billows fall and rise.
Such was the wreck of the Hesperus,
In the midnight and the snow!
Christ save us all from a death like this,
On the reef of Norman's Woe!
That sailed the wintery sea;
And the skipper had taken his little daughter,
To bear him company.
Blue were her eyes as the fairy flax,
Her cheeks like the dawn of day,
And her bosom white as the hawthorn buds,
That ope in the month of May.
The Skipper he stood beside the helm,
His pipe was in his mouth,
And he watched how the veering flaw did blow
The smoke now West, now South.
Then up and spake an old Sailor,
Had sailed the Spanish Main,
"I pray thee, put into yonder port,
for I fear a hurricane.
"Last night the moon had a golden ring,
And to-night no moon we see!"
The skipper, he blew whiff from his pipe,
And a scornful laugh laughed he.
Colder and louder blew the wind,
A gale from the Northeast,
The snow fell hissing in the brine,
And the billows frothed like yeast.
Down came the storm, and smote amain
The vessel in its strength;
She shuddered and paused, like a frighted steed,
Then leaped her cable's length.
"Come hither! come hither! my little daughter,
And do not tremble so;
For I can weather the roughest gale
That ever wind did blow."
He wrapped her warm in his seaman's coat
Against the stinging blast;
He cut a rope from a broken spar,
And bound her to the mast.
"O father! I hear the church bells ring,
Oh, say, what may it be?"
"Tis a fog-bell on a rock bound coast!" --
And he steered for the open sea.
"O father! I hear the sound of guns;
Oh, say, what may it be?"
Some ship in distress, that cannot live
In such an angry sea!"
"O father! I see a gleaming light.
Oh say, what may it be?"
But the father answered never a word,
A frozen corpse was he.
Lashed to the helm, all stiff and stark,
With his face turned to the skies,
The lantern gleamed through the gleaming snow
On his fixed and glassy eyes.
Then the maiden clasped her hands and prayed
That saved she might be;
And she thought of Christ, who stilled the wave,
On the Lake of Galilee.
And fast through the midnight dark and drear,
Through the whistling sleet and snow,
Like a sheeted ghost, the vessel swept
Tow'rds the reef of Norman's Woe.
And ever the fitful gusts between
A sound came from the land;
It was the sound of the trampling surf,
On the rocks and hard sea-sand.
The breakers were right beneath her bows,
She drifted a dreary wreck,
And a whooping billow swept the crew
Like icicles from her deck.
She struck where the white and fleecy waves
Looked soft as carded wool,
But the cruel rocks, they gored her side
Like the horns of an angry bull.
Her rattling shrouds, all sheathed in ice,
With the masts went by the board;
Like a vessel of glass, she stove and sank,
Ho! ho! the breakers roared!
At daybreak, on the bleak sea-beach,
A fisherman stood aghast,
To see the form of a maiden fair,
Lashed close to a drifting mast.
The salt sea was frozen on her breast,
The salt tears in her eyes;
And he saw her hair, like the brown sea-weed,
On the billows fall and rise.
Such was the wreck of the Hesperus,
In the midnight and the snow!
Christ save us all from a death like this,
On the reef of Norman's Woe!
The cry of the unborn child by Myrtle Poor (c)
Your unborn cries out to you,
"Mommy, please! Don’t take my life.
I know you don’t know me yet,
For I’m such a tiny mite."
"I’m nestled here beneath your heart
Just waiting to be born,
Yet Mommy you want to kill me
Because you think I’ll bring you scorn."
"My grandparents loved you dearly,
When they gave you life.
Mommy, what have done so awful
That you’re condemning me to die."
I’ll love you with all my heart
And I promise to be good..
If you’ll only let me
I’ll do everything I should."
"If you kill me, I’ll go to heaven
For it was God that gave me life,
But I’m not sure you’ll meet me there
If you take away my life."
"There is no hate in heaven,
No murders will walk streets,
But I’ll be there with Jesus
Worshiping around His feet."
"Mommy, please! Don’t take my life.
I know you don’t know me yet,
For I’m such a tiny mite."
"I’m nestled here beneath your heart
Just waiting to be born,
Yet Mommy you want to kill me
Because you think I’ll bring you scorn."
"My grandparents loved you dearly,
When they gave you life.
Mommy, what have done so awful
That you’re condemning me to die."
I’ll love you with all my heart
And I promise to be good..
If you’ll only let me
I’ll do everything I should."
"If you kill me, I’ll go to heaven
For it was God that gave me life,
But I’m not sure you’ll meet me there
If you take away my life."
"There is no hate in heaven,
No murders will walk streets,
But I’ll be there with Jesus
Worshiping around His feet."
Saturday, July 5, 2008
FIRST ORATION AGAINST CATILINE by Marcus Tullius Cicero
WHEN, O Catiline, do you mean to cease abusing our patience? How long is that madness of yours still to mock us? When is there to be an end of that unbridled audacity of yours, swaggering about as it does now? Do not the mighty guards placed on the Palatine Hill- do not the watches posted throughout the city- does not the alarm of the people, and the union of all good men- does not the precaution taken of assembling the Senate in this most defensible place- do not the looks and countenances of this venerable body here present, have nay effect upon you? Do you not feel that your plans are detected? Do you not see that your conspiracy is already arrested and rendered powerless by the knowledge which everyone possess of it? What is there that you did last night, what the night before- where is it that you were- who was there that you summoned to meet you- what design was there which was adopted by you, with which you think that anyone of us is unacquainted
TIME by Bhartrihari
Time is the roof of all this earth
These creatures, who from time
Had birth
Within his bosom at the end
Shall sleep
Time has neither enemy nor friend
All we in one long caravan
Are journeying since the world
Began
We know not whither, but we know
Time guides at the front, and all
Must go
Like as the wind upon the field
Bows every herb, and all must yield
So we beneath time’s passing breath
Bow each in turn – why tears for birth or death.
These creatures, who from time
Had birth
Within his bosom at the end
Shall sleep
Time has neither enemy nor friend
All we in one long caravan
Are journeying since the world
Began
We know not whither, but we know
Time guides at the front, and all
Must go
Like as the wind upon the field
Bows every herb, and all must yield
So we beneath time’s passing breath
Bow each in turn – why tears for birth or death.
Saturday, June 14, 2008
A MAN CAN CHANGE
From the lowly earth where he has spurng- Thank God a man can rise to lofty heights, and proudly walk among the stars! Eyes fixed on granduer of earth and sky Man alone form, a noble whale Man takes of all God's creatures has been endowed with power to change. He emerges and shape his destiny, and he rises resplendent, spirit free, Mind and Hearth..... Arms upraised to one who reigns above, spirit brighttened by thoughts sublime life inspired by lofty dreams Man's transfigured into the form of God divine.
Sunday, June 8, 2008
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