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Jan
28

UFC 81 : Breaking Point

Posted under MMA

UFC 81 will happen this Saturday February 2nd 2008 at Mandalay Bay Events Center in Las Vegas.

The two big fights are Brock Lesnar vs Franck Mir and Tim Sylvia vs Antonio Rodrigo Nogueira.

Here is the list of the MMA Fights on UFC81:

Interim Heavyweight: Tim Sylvia (USA) vs Antonio Rodrigo Nogueira (Brésil)
Heavyweight: Frank Mir (USA) vs Brock Lesnar (USA)
Middleweight: Alan Belcher (USA) vs Ricardo Almeida (brésil)
Middleweight: Nate Marquardt (USA) vs Jeremy Horn (USA)

Lightweight: Tyson Griffin (USA) vs Gleison Tibau (Brésil)
Welterweight: Chris Lytle (USA) vs Kyle Bradley (USA)
Middleweight: Marvin Eastman (USA) vs Terry Martin (USA)
Lightweight: Keita Nakamura (Japon) vs Rob Emerson (USA)
Light heavyweight: David Heath (USA) vs Tim Boetsch (USA)

UFC 81

Here is a Fight between pro wrestler Brock Lesnar aka “The Next Big Thing” and Min Soo Lim in 2007:

Jan
25

Monte Carlo fire in Las Vegas

Posted under News

Monte Carlo Casino in Las Vegas is on fire today.

Guests and staff evacuated the 3,000-room Hotel and Resort.

There are no serious injuries but some people suffered for smoke inhalation.

Monte Carlo Casino is owned by MGM Mirage, one of the largest Casino Operators.

Here is the video of fire in Las Vegas Monte Carlo Casino:

Casino Fire Video:

Jan
25

Tsonga vs Nadal

Posted under Sports

Jo Wilfried Tsonga

Jo-Wilfried Tsonga def. Rafael Nadal yesterday in Australian Open in Melbourne by 6-2 6-3 6-2.

The french Tennis player Tsonga will play against Djokovic Sunday in Final. (Djokovic def. Federer 7-5, 6-3, 7-6 (5)).

Tsonga is 22 years old and 1m88 for 90 kg.

France may be have his new Yannick Noah, the last french who won a major tournament. It was in 1983 in French Open Roland Garros! Wow !

Let’s see Sunday!

Video of Tsonga vs Nadal:

Tsonga def Nadal last game of the match:

Jan
25

How to put an egg in a bottle

Posted under Odd

This is an interesting experience: how to make an egg enter in a bottle without breaking the egg!

Trick explained: the fire burn up the oxygen sucking the egg inside the bottle.

Jan
25

Crazy motorcyclist on death Wall

Posted under Sports

This motorcyclist is really crazy.

Check him riding a vertical wall in desert.

And especially check the at what height he is doing this.

Jan
24

Jerome Kerviel : Societe Generale Rogue Trader

Posted under Finance

Jerome Kerviel

Jerome Kerviel was working at French Bank Société Générale .

Kerviel was today alleged to have carried out a $ 7.4 billion (€4.9 billion) banking fraud.

This Thursday Jérôme Kerviel is the most wanted trader by the police and on the internet. Medias are actively looking for him everywhere, trying to find some information about this man.

This 31-year-old trader made his fraud by investing several billion in Futures.

But strangely Kerviel didn’t have a lot of responsabilities in the Bank. He started in Societe General in 2000, he was working on back and middle-office until 2005, the year when he became in charge of activities covering Futures on European Indices.

Kerviel’s Fraud, who bet on a increase of European Indices, was found a week ago and all the trades were closed this Monday and Tuesday by Société Générale.

Jérôme Kerviel had 11 friends on Facebook this Thursday in the early day, only 4 in the afternoon and now only 1 (at the time I write these lines, Manuel Zabraniecki).

Two Groups were created on Facebook: “Ceux qui recherchent Jerome Kerviel, l’homme qui vaut 4.9 milliards!!!” with generous object “Adherent a ce groupe ceux qui seraient pret a toucher 10% de la somme en donnant des informations sur Jerome Kerviel”.
That means: “Those who are looking for Jerome Kerviel, the €4.9 billion man” with generous object “You can join this group if you are ready to earn 10% of the $7.4 billion by giving some information about Jerome Kerviel”.

Second Group (english): Finding Jerome Kerviel.

But if we think about it, how this trader who earns “only” 100 000 euros per year ($150 000, very low for this type of position) with limited responsibilities, made losing $7.4 billion to Société Générale ?

Several experts think this fraud cannot be achieved by only one person. Did Société Générale made this announcment to mask its €2 billion ($3 billion) loss due to Subprime ?

Experts say that the Bank could had rather done unsuccessful transactions in 2007 and they wanted to give a fall guy ?

How Kerviel could do this fraud without the system or anyone see it ?

A lot of questions, no answers…

A $7.4 billion company, that’s how many jobs ? 50 000, 100 000 ?

Frankly, I cannot believe it.

Video about Jerome Kerviel Rogue Trader:

Jan
23

Briggs-Rauscher Oscillating Reaction

Posted under Science

This is really impressive experience captured on video.

This is the Briggs-Rauscher Oscillating color change Reaction.

“The Briggs-Rauscher reaction, also known as ‘the oscillating clock’, is one of the most common demonstrations of a chemical oscillator reaction. The reaction begins when three colorless solutions are mixed together. The color of the resulting mixture will oscillate between clear, amber, and deep blue for about 3-5 minutes. The solution ends up as a blue-black mixture.”


Chemicals:

hydrogenperoxide 30%

potassium iodate
malonic acid
manganese(II) sulfate monohydrate
conc. H2SO4
starch, soluble

WARNING: Do not do this at Home this is dangerous and can be fatal.

Jan
23

Man driving a broken Bus

Posted under Humor

This bus is broken but it does not disturb the driver.

I think it’s in India.