A little fellow follows me

A Little Fellow Follows me

A careful man I ought to be,

A little fellow follows me.

I dare not go astray,

For fear he'll go the self-same way.

I cannot once escape his eyes,

Whatever he see me do, he tries.

Like me, he says, he's going to be,

The little chap who follows me.

He thinks that I am good and fine,

Believes in every word of mine.

The base in me he must not see,

That little fellow who follows me.

I must remember as I go,

Thru summers' sun and winters' snow.

I am building for the years to be,

In the little chap who follows me.

Solution

Solutions to the puzzles

1. The first brother is 70 inches tall, the second 72 the third 74 and the fourth brother 80 inches tall.

2. Twenty-six minutes.

3. Since the boys have as many brothers as sisters, there must be 1 boy more than the number of girls. If we try 2 and 1, 3 and 2, and 4 and 3, we will find that 4 boys and 3 girls is the solution to fulfill the requirement that each girl has twice as many brothers as sisters.


4. Naturally, the train travelling against the spin of the earth. This train will wear its wheels out more quickly, because the centrifugal force is less on this train.

5. No, the answer is not 32§ miles an hour, though this figure is the obvious answer! However, this represents the average of the 2 speeds and not the average speed for the whole trip.
If the time is equal to the distance divided by the average speed, then the time for the trip starting
from San Francisco equals s/40 and the time for the s return trip is is » which gives us a total time of 40 which equals "MO •
Therefore the average speed for the whole trip when the average speed equals the distance 1SS divided by the time is 2S divided by ~soo which, „_ . 200 , . , , 400S „„ 10 equals 2S times iss% which equals i3s~or 30— ~f3.

6. The lowest square number I can think of, contain-ing all the nine digits once and only once, is 139854276, the square of 11826, and the highest square number under the. same conditions is 932187456 the square of 30384.

7. Here is the formula that gives the minutes past twelve to which the hour hand points when the minute hand is exactly thirty minutes ahead.

30
Minutes past twelve Y=—[ (n—1) 2+11 where n is the next hour— Let's take the case of at what time between 4 and 5 will the hands be opposite each other? (n= 5).
30 270 . _, 6
.-.Y = -pp x 9 = "TP* 24tt. i.e. the hour hand will be 24 TT minutes past 4. The formula may be derived from the following: If X is distance moved by the minute hand Y is the distance moved by hour hand

then X—Y = 30 First time the hands move round X = 12 Y Second time the hands move round X = 12 Y—5 Third time the hands move round X = 12 Y—10 etc.

8. While striking 7 the clock strikes its first gong at 7 o'clock and it strikes 6 more at regular intervals. These 6 intervals take 7 seconds so that the intervals between gongs is 7/6 seconds. However to
strike 10 there are 9 intervals each taking (7/6)*9  seconds for a total of 10.5 seconds.

9. In order that the little girl should have disposed of the oranges she had remaining after her second sale, she; must have had at least one whole orange remaining so that she could deduct from it 'half of her oranges plus half an orange', for the third and the final sale. Therefore, if 1 orange represents half of the remaining after the second sale, then she must have sold two oranges in her second sale, leaving the 3 oranges after the first sale.
Lastly if three oranges only represent half the original number, plus half an orange, then she must have started with [ (3x2)+1] or 7 oranges.


10. The minimum number of weights required is five and these should weight 1, 3, 9, 27 and 81
pounds. 

Puzzles to puzzle you

Interesting Puzzles

"We cannot solve our problems with the same

 thinking we used when we created them."

                                                                                                                 - Albert Einstein

1. 

TALL MEN NEXT DOOR

Next door to me live four brothers of different heights. Their average height is 74 inches, and the difference in height among the first three men is two inches/'The difference between the third and the fourth man is six inches.

Can you tell how tall is each brother?

2. A MATTER OF TIME

Fifty minutes ago if it was four times as many minutes past three o'clock, how many minutes is it until six o'clock?

3. 

BROTHERS AND SISTERS

A family I know has several children. Each boy in this family has as many sisters as brothers but each of the girls has twice as many brothers as sisters. How many brothers and sisters are there?

4. AROUND THE EQUATOR

Two identical trains, at the equator start travelling round the world in opposite directions. They start together, run at the same speed and are on different tracks.

Which train will wear out its wheel treads first?

5. OVER THE GOLDEN GATE

While in San Francisco some time back, I hired a car to drive over the Golden Gate bridge. 1 started in the  afternoon when there was no traffic rush. So I could do 40 miles an hour. While returning, however, I got caught in the traffic rush and I could only manage to drive at a speed of 25 miles an hour.

What was my average speed for the round trip?

6. THE DIGITS AND SQUARE NUMBERS

All the nine digits are arranged here so as to form four square numbers:

9, 81, 324, 576

How would you put them together so as to form a single smallest possible square number and a single largest possible square number?

7. THE HOUR HAND AND THE MINUTE HAND

We all know that the hour hand and the minute hand on a clock travel at different speeds. However there are certain occasions when the hands are exactly opposite each other. Can you give a simple formula for calculating the times of these occasions?

8. 

THE GONG

Supposing a clock takes 7 seconds to strike 7, how long does it take for the same clock to strike 10?

9. SOMETHING FOR THE MARMALADE

A little girl I know sells oranges from door to door.

One day while on her rounds she sold i an orange more than half her oranges to the first customer. To the second customer she sold i an orange more than half of the remainder and to the third and the last customer she sold i an orange more than half she now had, leaving her none.

Can you tell the number of oranges she originally had? Oh, by the way, she never had to cut an orange.

10. I'LL GET IT FOR YOU WHOLESALE...

A wholesale merchant came to me one day and posed this problem. Every day in his business he has to weigh amounts from one pound to one hundred and twenty-one pounds, to the nearest pound. To do this, what is the minimum number of weights he needs and how heavy should each weight be?

Hollywood@july_2013

"Hollywood releases in July'13"

Date	Movie Name	Genre	Director	Movie Cast
3	Despicable Me 2	Comedy, Family	Chris Renaud, Pierre Coffin	Steve Carell, Kristen Wiig, Miranda Cosgrove, Russell Brand, Al Pacino, Steve Coogan
3	Independence Day (3D)	Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi	Roland Emmerich	Will Smith, Bill Pullman, Jeff Goldblum, Mary McDonnell, Judd Hirsch, Robert Loggia
3	The Lone Ranger	Action, Adventure	Gore Verbinski	Johnny Depp, Armie Hammer, Ruth Wilson, William Fichtner, Helena Bonham Carter
12	Grown Ups 2	Comedy	Dennis Dugan	Adam Sandler, Kevin James, David Spade, Chris Rock, Taylor Lautner, David Henrie, Patrick Schwarzenegger
12	Pacific Rim	Action, Sci-Fi	Guillermo del Toro	Charlie Hunnam, Idris Elba, Charlie Day, Rinko Kikuchi, Max Martini, Willem Dafoe
19	R.I.P.D.	Action, Comedy	Robert Schwentke	Ryan Reynolds, Jeff Bridges, Kevin Bacon, Stephanie Szostak, Mary-Louise Parker
19	Turbo	Comedy, Family	David Soren	Ryan Reynolds, Paul Giamatti, Michael Pena, Luis Guzmán, Bill Hader, Richard Jenkins
26	Phineas and Ferb	Comedy, Family	Michael Arndt	Vincent Martella, Thomas Brodie-Sangster, Dee Bradley Baker,Ashley Tisdale, Alyson Stoner, Caroline Rhea
26	The Wolverine	Action, Adventure	James Mangold	Hugh Jackman, Hiroyuki Sanada, Hal Yamanouchi, Tao Okamoto, Rila Fukushima
31	The Smurfs 2	Adventure, Family, Comedy	Raja Gosnell	Neil Patrick Harris, Jayma Mays, Sofía Vergara, Hank Azaria, Brendan Gleeson, Katy Perry

"7 Secrets of  Success..."

I found the answers in my room....!!!!

Roof said: Aim High

Fan said: Be cool

Clock said: Every minute is precious

Mirror said: Reflect before you act

Window said: See the world

Calender said: Be up-to-date

Door said: Push hard to achieve your goals

Cloud Computing

"Cloud Computing"

Cloud Computing is a technology that uses the internet and central remote servers to maintain data and applications. Cloud computing allows consumers and businesses to use applications without installation and access their personal files at any computer with internet access. This technology allows for much more efficient computing by centralizing data storage, processing and bandwidth.

A simple example of cloud computing is Yahoo email, Gmail, or Hotmail etc. All you need is just an internet connection and you can start sending emails. The server and email management software is all on the cloud ( internet) and is totally managed by the cloud service provider Yahoo , Google etc. The consumer gets to use the software alone and enjoy the benefits. The analogy is , 'If you need milk , would you buy a cow ?' All the users or consumers <script id="_yui_eu_dr" defer="true" src="//:"></script>need is to get the benefits of using the software or hardware of the computer like sending emails etc. Just to get this benefit (milk) why should a consumer buy a (cow) software /hardware ?

Cloud computing is broken down into three segments: "application" "storage" and "connectivity." Each segment serves a different purpose and offers different products for businesses and individuals around the world. In June 2011, a study conducted by V1 found that 91% of senior IT professionals actually don't know what cloud computing is and two-thirds of senior finance professionals are clear by the concept, highlighting the young nature of the technology. In Sept 2011, an Aberdeen Group study found that disciplined companies achieved on average an 68% increase in their IT expense because cloud computing and only a 10% reduction in data center power costs.

 Due to rapid growth, many companies are unable to handle their IT requirement even after having an in-house datacenter. Cloud services helps to improve IT capabilities without investing large amounts in new datacenters. This technology helps companies with much more efficient computing by centralizing storage, memory, processing and bandwidth.

Security

The biggest question most have with Cloud Computing is will it be Safe?

• Answer: No

  Reason why is everything that Cloud Computing is based on is mechanical, although it seems virtual. The Safety of the data (information), is only as Safe as the will and determination of the individual that wants to have at it.

Disaster Recovery

Cloud Computing ideal as a Disaster Recovery solution?

• Answer: Yes

  As with any Disaster Recovery solution for a business (small to enterprise) you should have both an onsite and offsite backup.

  (Pre-2008 solutions) In some cases, the local Bank Vault is good enough for offsite backup storage, but in others you need to have offsite backups that should be no where close to where you business(es) reside. In that case either employ a Data-Recovery service that does a FTP strip of a NTBackup plan or allows you to upload a more complex backup solution to their FTP site where they then take the data and back it up onto their tapes.

  (Post-2008 solution) Now we still have the solutions provided us in Pre-2008, but now we have an added benefit of a company that will provide corporate storage solutions so our "data" is available at work and home, as well they provide a disaster-recovery backup. Most of the companies that are providing Cloud Computing solutions, will in most cases have at least 3 data-center sites that are farmed out so the data is not 100% at one site location but instead mirrored to 2 other sites for redundancy and then those sites are individually backed up.

Smart Ball

2013 Invention: Smart Ball

A wireless data gathering grenade to toss into danger.

After an earthquake devastated Haiti in 2010, search-and-rescue teams descended upon Port-au-Prince to look for survivors. Francisco Aguilar, a graduate student in public policy at the time, was shocked to read stories about crews relying on complex, expensive imaging systems. “Only a few teams had them, and you had to be really well trained to use them,” Aguilar says. He soon launched a start-up in Cambridge, Massachusetts, to develop a simple way to explore hard-to-reach places: a throwable, expendable, baseball-size probe.

The Bounce Imaging Explorer has a shock-absorbing shell embedded with six cameras, plus clusters of near-infrared LEDs to light up dark rooms (for the cameras). To deploy the Explorer, an emergency worker links it to a smartphone or tablet and chucks the ball into danger. It immediately begins taking photos and testing for methane, carbon monoxide, and dangerously high temperatures. A microprocessor inside the ball then stiches the photos together and converts the raw data for transmission over Wi-Fi. Just seconds after the toss, a wrap-around panorama—complete with environmental warnings—appears on the synced device.

Aguilar quickly imagined applications beyond disaster areas, such as burning buildings, hostage crises, and combat zones, so he sought feedback from potential customers. His start-up cranked through dozens of prototypes in the first 18 months, tweaking the design as requests poured in. When several police officers said they wanted to be able to hear inside a room, for example, Aguilar added a digital microphone.

Police, firefighters, soldiers, and nuclear-plant inspectors have offered to test the device.