SOME INTERESTING FACTS ABOUT ORKUT

1.  ORKUT BUYUKKOKTEN( the creator of Orkut) gets $12 when a person registers to this website.
2. He also gets $10 when you add somebody as a friend.
3. He gets $8 when your friend’s friend adds you as a friend & gets $6 if anybody adds you as a friend in the resulting chain.
4. He gets $5 when you scrap somebody & $4 when somebody scraps you.
5. He also gets $200 for each photograph you upload on Orkut.
6. He gets $2.5 when you add your friend in the crush-list or in the hot-list.
7. He gets $2 when you become somebody’s fan.
8. He gets $1.5 when somebody else becomes your fan.
9. He even gets $1 every time you logout of Orkut.
10. He gets $0.5 every time you just change your profile-photograph.
11. He also gets $0.5 every time you read your friend’s scrap-book & $0.5 every time you view your friend’s friend-list.
12. Many Global Financial Consultants think this person might become the richest-person in the world by the end of 2009.
13. This is the best fact. This person has 13 assistants to monitor his scrapbook & 8 assistants to monitor his friends-list. He gets around 20,000 friend-requests a day & about 85,000 scraps a day. 
14. Finally Orkut got closed on 30 September 2014.

A Picture of Peace

Peace comes from within. Do not seek it without. 
Buddha 

There once was a King who offered a prize to the artist who would paint the best picture of peace. Many artists tried. The King looked at all the pictures, but there were only two he really liked and he had to choose between them.

One picture was of a calm lake. The lake was a perfect mirror, for peaceful towering mountains were all around it. Overhead was a blue sky with fluffy white clouds. All who saw this picture thought that it was a perfect picture of peace.

The other picture had mountains too. But these were rugged and bare. Above was an angry sky from which rain fell and in which lightening played. Down the side of the mountain tumbled a foaming waterfall. This did not look peaceful at all. But when the King looked, he saw behind the waterfall a tiny bush growing in a crack in the rock. In the bush a mother bird had built her nest. There, in the midst of the rush of angry water, sat the mother bird on her nest... perfect peace.

Which picture do you think won the prize?

The King chose the second picture. Do you know why? "Because," explained the King, "peace does not mean to be in a place where there is no noise, trouble, or hard work. Peace means to be in the midst of all those things and still be calm in your heart. That is the real meaning of peace."

Do it any way.......

•  People are often unreasonable,illogical, and self-centered;
  Forgive them anyway.
   
•  If you are kind, people mayaccuse you of selfish, ulterior motives;
  Be kind anyway.
   
• If you are successful, you will win somefalse friends and some true enemies;
  Succeed anyway.
   

• If you are honest and frank, people may cheat you;Be honest and frank anyway.
   
• What you spend years building,
  someone could destroy overnight;
  Build anyway.
   
• If you find serenity and happiness,
  they may be jealous;
  Be happy anyway.
   
• The good you do today,
  people will often forget tomorrow;
  Do good anyway.
   
• Give the world the best you have,
  and it may never be enough;
  Give the world the best you've got anyway.
   
• You see, in the final analysis,
  it is between you and God;
  It was never between you and them anyway.

Sadi Carnot - father of thermodynamics

       It is emotional for many of us to know that inventor of an important field of thermodynamics was a boyish scientist who died at the young age of a mere 36 years. Sadi Carnot is a shining example for the young generation for it was his hard work and inventions which has lead to the design, developments and manufacture of present day automobiles. Personally, when I remember the contributions of this boy, I get goosebumps. Had he lived little longer, I’m sure he would have been involved in many greater inventions.
        Though lots of research has been carried out in the field of thermodynamics, the works of Sadi Carnot are considered to be the most important and systematic. It’s amazing to know that the boy of 36 is considered to be the "FATHER OF THERMO DYNAMICS" . I have hardly seen any other young person who has been given such a high designation. Sadi Carnot is the inventor of Carnot theorem and Carnot Cycle which lay the foundations for second law of thermodynamics and present day automobiles.

A MOMENT WITH OUT JOY IS AN ETERNITY OF SADNESS

1.      220 million tons of old computers and other technological hardware are trashed in the United States each year.

2.      A diamond will not dissolve in acid. The only thing that can destroy it is intense heat.

3.      According to Moore's Law, microchips double in power every 18 to 24 months.

4.      Albert Einstein won the Nobel Prize for physics in 1921.

5.      Although the famous first flight at Kitty Hawk took place on December 17, 1903, the secretive Wright Brothers did not demonstrate the technology to the broader public until August 8, 1908.

6.      As of early 2009, there have been 113 space shuttle flights since the program began in 1981.

7.      Bill Clinton's inauguration in January 1997 was the first to be webcast.

8.      Chuck Yeager blasted through the sound barrier at Edwards Air Force Base in 1947.

9.      Einstein received the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1921 for his explanation of the photoelectric effect, the phenomenon by which electrons are knocked out of matter by electromagnetic radiation such as light.

10.   In 1901, the Spanish engineer Leonar do Torres-Quevedo was responsible for the earliest developments in the remote control with his Telekine that was able to do "mechanical movements at a distance."

11.   In their Miyagi, Japan laboratories, beginning in 1924, Professor Hidetsugu Yagi and his assistant, Shintaro Uda, designed and constructed a sensitive and highly-directional antenna using closely-coupled parasitic elements. The antenna, which is effective in the higher-frequency ranges, has been important for radar, television, and amateur radio.

12.   Marie Curie was the first person to win two Nobel Prizes for Science

13.   No one has received more U.S. patents than Thomas Edison – 1,093 to be exact.

14.   On 11 July 1962, France received the first transatlantic transmission of a TV signal from a twin station in Andover, Maine, USA via the TELSTAR satellite.

15.   On 9 June 1906 the Winnipeg Electric Railway Co. transmitted electric power from the Pinawa generating station on the Winnipeg River to the city of Winnipeg at 60,000 volts. It was the first year-round hydroelectric plant in Manitoba and one of the first to be developed in such a cold climate anywhere in the world.

16.   On December 12, 1901, a radio transmission of the Morse code letter 'S' was broadcast from Poldhu, Cornwall, England, using equipment built by John Ambrose Fleming.

17.   One third of the world population has never made a telephone call.

18.   Samuel Morse, the inventor of the Morse code, was a painter as well. One of his portraits is of the first governor of Arkansas and hangs in the governor’s mansion of that state.

19.   Telecommunications satellites, and other satellites that need to maintain their position above a specific place on the earth, must orbit at 35,786 kilometers and travel in the same direction as the earth's rotation.

20.   The circumference of the earth is about 25,000 miles. Its surface area is about 200,000,000 square miles and it weighs 6,588,000,000,000,000,000,000 tons.

21.   The Ericsson Company first produced cellular phones in 1979.

22.   The first computer mouse was introduced in 1968 by Douglas Engelbart at the Fall Joint Computer Expo in San Francisco.

23.   The first Japanese-language word processor was developed in Tokyo between 1971 and 1978.

24.   The first laser was made in California in 1960.

25.   The first two video games copyrighted in the U.S. were Asteroids and Lunar Lander in 1980.

26.   The Internet is the fastest-growing communications tool ever. It took radio broadcasters 38 years to reach an audience of 50 million, television 13 years, and the Internet just 4 years.

27.   There have been 113 space shuttle flights since the program began in 1981.

28.   Tim Berners-Lee coined the phrase “World Wide Web” in 1990.

29.   U.S. President Bill Clinton's inauguration in January 1997 was the first to be webcast.

30.   Valdemar Poulsen, a Danish engineer, invented an arc converter as a generator of continuous-wave radio signals in 1902.

LIFE QUOTES

I want u to put out that cigarette

====> Asthma is a very common condition that affects an estimated one out of every four people. Asthma can develop at any age, and it can be caused by a variety of factors. Researchers believe that asthma is an inherited allergy related condition, but allergens in the environment can also cause problems to erupt, as can such things as an overload of stress.
   ====> Atopic asthma is common in children and is often triggered by such things as dust mites, carpeting and central heating. Animal dander can also cause a problem as can animal saliva and pollen.

Symptoms of Asthma :

      Asthma can make itself known in a variety of ways. It can be characterized by a lack of ability to breath, excessive coughing, or excessive wheezing. A person who is asthmatic is likely to cough up large amounts of clear sticky mucous. Asthma is a health condition that causes the muscles in the airways to overreact to stimuli, thereby bringing about mucous, coughing and wheezing. Symptoms can range from mild to moderate to severe.
 

    =====>  Asthma is the inflammation of the airways, by narrowing them, thus less air is passing from the lungs and to the lungs. Some of its symptoms include difficult breathing, coughing and wheezing.
   =====> In 2006, in Scotland, a smoking ban in enclosed places was implemented. Since then every year the number of asthma hospital admissions for children decreased by 5.2% each year. 

INTERESTING CONFUSIONS

1. Can u cry under water?

2. Do fish ever get thirsty?

3. Why don’t birds fall out of trees when they sleep?

4. What do u call a male lady bird?

5. Why is it called building when it’s already built?

6. When they say dog food is new & improved in taste, who tastes it?

7. If money doesn’t grow on trees then why banks have branches?

8. Why does a round pizza come in sqaure box?

9.Why doesn’t glue, stick to its bottle;-)..!!

friendship

some intresting news...

1. If you are right handed, you will tend to chew your food on your right side. If you are left handed, you will tend to chew your food on your left side.

2. If you stop getting thirsty, you need to drink more water. For when a humanbody is dehydrated, its thirst mechanism shuts off.

3. Chewing gum while peeling onions will keep you from crying.

4. Your tongue is germ free only if it is pink. If it is white there is a thin film of bacteria on it.

5. The Mercedes-Benz motto is “Das Beste oder Nichts” meaning “the best or nothing”.

6. The Titanic was the first ship to use the SOS signal.

7. The pupil of the eye expands as much as 45 percent when a person looks at something pleasing.

8. The average person who stops smoking requires one hour less sleep a night.

9. Laughing lowers levels of stress hormones and strengthens the immune system. Six-year-olds laugh an average of 300 times a day. Adults only laugh 15 to 100 times a day.

10. The roar that we hear when we place a seashell next to our ear is not the ocean, but rather the sound of blood surging through the veins in the ear.

11. Dalmatians are born without spots.

12. Bats always turn left when exiting a cave.

13. The ‘v’ in the name of a court case does not stand for ‘versus’, but for ‘and’ (in civil proceedings) or ‘against’ (in criminal proceedings).

14. Men’s shirts have the buttons on the right, but women’s shirts have the buttons on the left.

15. The owl is the only bird to drop its upper eyelid to wink. All other birds raise their lower eyelids.

16. The reason honey is so easy to digest is that it’s already been digested by a bee.

17. Roosters cannot crow if they cannot extend their necks.

18. The color blue has a calming effect. It causes the brain to release calming hormones.

19. Every time you sneeze some of your brain cells die.

20. Your left lung is smaller than your right lung to make room for your heart.

21. The verb “cleave” is the only English word with two synonyms which are antonyms of each other: adhere and separate.

22. When you blush, the lining of your stomach also turns red.

23. When hippos are upset, their sweat turns red.

24. The first Harley Davidson motorcycle was built in 1903, and used a tomato can for a carburetor.

25. The lion that roars in the MGM logo is named Volney.

26. Google is actually the common name for a number with a million zeros.

27. Switching letters is called spoonerism. For example, saying jag of Flapan, instead of flag of Japan.

28. It cost 7 million dollars to build the Titanic and 200 million to make a film about it.

29. The attachment of the human skin to muscles is what causes dimples.

30. There are 1,792 steps to the top of the Eiffel Tower.

31. The sound you hear when you crack your knuckles is actually the sound of nitrogen gas bubbles bursting.

32. Human hair and fingernails continue to grow after death.

33. It takes about 20 seconds for a red blood cell to circle the whole body.

34. The plastic things on the end of shoelaces are called aglets.

35. Most soccer players run 7 miles in a game.

36. The only part of the body that has no blood supply is the cornea in the eye. It takes in oxygen directly from the air.

37. Every day 200 million couples make love, 400,000 babies are born, and 140,000 people die.

38. In most watch advertisements the time displayed on the watch is 10:10 because then the arms frame the brand of the watch (and make it look like it is smiling).

39. Colgate faced big obstacle marketing toothpaste in Spanish speaking countries. Colgate translates into the command “go hang yourself.”

40. The only 2 animals that can see behind itself without turning its head are the rabbit and the parrot.

41. Intelligent people have more zinc and copper in their hair.

42. The average person laughs 13 times a day.

43. Do you know the names of the three wise monkeys? They are:Mizaru(See no evil), Mikazaru(Hear no evil), and Mazaru(Speak no evil)

44. Women blink nearly twice as much as men.

45. German Shepherds bite humans more than any other breed of dog.

46. Large kangaroos cover more than 30 feet with each jump.

47. Whip makes a cracking sound because its tip moves faster than the speed of sound.

48. Two animal rights protesters were protesting at the cruelty of sending pigs to a slaughterhouse in Bonn. Suddenly the pigs, all two thousand of them, escaped through a broken fence and stampeded, trampling the two hapless protesters to death.

49. If a statue in the park of a person on a horse has both front legs in the air, the person died in battle; if the horse has one front leg in the air, the person died as a result of wounds received in battle; if the horse has all four legs on the ground, the person died of natural cause.

50. The human heart creates enough pressure while pumping to squirt blood 30 feet!!

  

Let it Shine!

0nce upon a time... 
There was a rich King who had 4 wives.   
He loved the 4th wife the most and adorned her with rich robes and treated her to the finest of delicacies. He gave her nothing but the best. 
He also loved the 3rd wife very much and was always showing her off to neighboring kingdoms. However, he feared that one day 
she would leave him for another. 
He also loved his 2nd wife. She was his confidante and was always kind, considerate and patient with him. Whenever the King faced a problem, he could confide in her to help him get through the difficult times. 
The King's 1st wife was a very loyal partner and had made great contributions in maintaining his wealth and kingdom. However, he did not love the first wife and although she loved him deeply, he hardly took notice of her. 
One day, the King fell ill and he knew his time was short. 
 He thought of his luxurious life and pondered, "I now have 4 wives with me, but when I die, I'll be all alone. 
 Thus, he asked the 4th wife, "I have loved you the most, endowed you with the finest clothing and showered great care over you. Now that I'm dying, will you follow me and keep me company?" 
"No way!" replied the 4th wife and she walked away without another word. 
Her answer cut like a sharp knife right into his heart. 
The sad King then asked the 3rd wife, "I have loved you all my life. Now that I'm dying, will you follow me and keep me company?" 
 "No!" replied the 3rd wife. "Life is too good! 
When you die, I'm going to remarry!" 
His heart sank and turned cold. 
He then asked the 2nd wife, "I have always turned to you for help and you've always been there for me.  When I die, will you follow me 
and keep me company?" 
 "I'm sorry, I can't help you out this time!" replied the 2nd wife. "At the very most, I can only send you to your grave." 
Her answer came like a bolt of thunder and the King was devastated. 
Then a voice called out: 
"I'll leave with you and follow you no matter where you go." The King looked up and there was his first wife. She was so skinny, 
she suffered from malnutrition. 
Greatly grieved, the King said, "I should have taken much better care of you when I had the chance!" 
In Truth, we all have 4 wives in our lives ... 
Our 4th wife is our body. No matter how much time and effort we lavish in making it look good, it'll leave us when we die. 
Our 3rd wife is our possessions, status and wealth. 
When we die, it will all go to others. 
Our 2nd wife is our family and friends. No matter how much they have been there for us, the furthest they can stay by us is up to the grave. 
And our 1st wife is our Soul, 
(Guidance) 
often neglected in pursuit of wealth, power and pleasures of the ego. 
However, our Soul is the only thing that will follow us wherever we go. 
So cultivate, strengthen and cherish it now! 
It is your greatest gift to offer the world.