Tuesday, May 31, 2011

3rd Asian Archery Grand Prix & Asian Youth Archery Championship 2011 Dhaka, Bangladesh

Cabaran negara di Kejohanan 3rd Asian Archery Grand Prix & Asian Youth Archery Championship 2011 Dhaka, Bangladesh berkahir hari ini dengan pungutan 1 Perak (recurve wanita) dalam kategori terbuka dan 1 Emas (recurve wanita) 2 Perak (mix recurve, berpasukan wanita) dan 1 Gangsa (berpasukan lelaki) dalam kategori Remaja. Ini merupakan satu kejayaan yang amat membanggakan kerana pasukan negara ini diwakili oleh campuran pemanah muda dari Pelapis Kebangsaan, Serantau dan Negeri.


Kejohanan ini telah di adakan di Stadium Angkatan Tentera Bangladesh melibatkan 14 negara dari rantau Asia yang menampilkan 160 peserta bagi kategori terbuka dan remaja.

Di dalam acara Recurve Wanita Akhir yang berlangsung petang tadi pemanah muda negara iaitu Adibah bt Tajuddin telah tewas di tangan kepada pemanah berpengalaman dari India (Birulyn) dengan kutipan mata 4-6. Adibah yang berlatih di bawah Jurulatih Mon Re Dee di pusat latihan negeri UITM Jengka Pahang telah memberi saingan yang sengit kepada pemanah India sebelum tewas untuk memungut pingat perak.

Kem pasukan negara begitu gembira apabila Farah Amalina berjaya merangkul emas bagi acara Recurve Wanita Junior mengalahkan pemanah India Boro .H dengan mata 6-0 sebentar tadi. Farah Amalina yang berlatih di Akademi Serantau Zon Selatan, Kompleks Dato' Hj. Hasan Yunus di bawah Cik. Lim Geok Poong telah berjaya menewaskan pemanah yang lebih berpengalaman dari India.

Atiq Bazil/Farah Amalina kalah kepada pemanah India bagi acara Recurve Mix Junior Team dengan mata 114/113 berjaya merangkul satu lagi pingat perak kepada Malaysia.

Tahniah kepada semua pemenang...dan selamat pulang pasukan negara



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Sunday, May 29, 2011

Besides humans, which animals are the most intelligent?

According to Edward O. Wilson, a behavioral biologist (scientist who studies the behavior of animals), the ten most intelligent animals are the following:

  1. Chimpanzee (two species)
  2. Gorilla
  3. Orangutan
  4. Baboon (seven species, including drill and mandrill)
  5. Gibbon (seven species)
  6. Monkey (many species, especially the macaques, the patas, and the Celebes black ape)
  7. Smaller-toothed whale (several species, especially killer whale)
  8. Dolphin (many of the approximately eighty species)
  9. Elephant (two species)
  10. Pig

Source: Wallace, Irving. The Book of Lists #2, p. 104.


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Tuesday, May 10, 2011

MAY TAKES CENTRE STAGE AT DEGREE CEREMONY

He is now Dr Brian May......

May studied physics and mathematics at Imperial College London, graduating with a BSc (Hons) degree and ARCS in physics withUpper Second-Class Honours. He then proceeded to study for a PhD degree, also at the Imperial College London departments of Physics and Mathematics, and was part way through this PhD programme, studying reflected light from interplanetary dust and the velocity of dust in the plane of the Solar System. When Queen became successful he abandoned his physics doctorate but did co-author two scientific research papers: MgI Emission in the Night-Sky Spectrum (1972)[30] and An Investigation of the Motion ofZodiacal Dust Particles (Part I) (1973),[31] which were based on his observations at the Teide Observatory in Tenerife. He is the co-author of Bang! – The Complete History of the Universe with Patrick Moore and Chris Lintott, which was published in October 2006.[32] More than 30 years after he started his research, in October 2007 he completed his PhD thesis in astrophysics,[33] entitledA Survey of Radial Velocities in the Zodiacal Dust Cloud,[34] passed his viva voce, and performed the required corrections.[35][36][37][38] He officially graduated at the postgraduate awards ceremony held in the Royal Albert Hall, on the afternoon of Wednesday 14 May 2008.


On 17 November 2007, May was appointed Chancellor of Liverpool John Moores University,[17] taking over from Cherie Blair, and installed in 2008.[18]


Asteroid 52665 Brianmay was named in his honour on 18 June 2008 on the suggestion of Sir Patrick Moore (probably influenced by the asteroid's provisional designation of 1998 BM30).[28][39]


May appeared on the 700th The Sky at Night, hosted by Patrick Moore along with, Dr. Chris LintottJon Culshaw, Prof. Brian Cox, the Astronomer Royal Martin Rees who on leaving the panel said: "I don't know any scientist who looks as much as like Isaac Newton as you do" to Brian May who was joining the panel, who responded to say "that could be my after dinner comment, thank you very much".




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