Mark Zuckerberg's Sister Quits Facebook To Start Her Own Social Media Venture.

Randi Zuckerberg, sister of Facebook.com founder Mark Zuckerberg left facebook -after six years working faithfully as Facebook's director of market.Randi is the founder of her new organization RtoZ media which will be working with other media houses to help them build programming helpful for making social media supportive platforms.


The tech bloggers of Silicon Valley are rubbing their hands at the prospect of some sibling rivalry to follow on from the multiple lawsuits that the younger Zuckerberg - he's 27, she's 29 - has endured over the parentage of his wildly popular website.

Most bloggers wonder what randy hopes to achieve that she has'nt in one of the worlds fastest growing companies.Randi is unlikely to be planning anything excessively controversial. She appears to have decided to have fun with her money and her instantly recognisable last name to branch out on her own, without doing anything to damage the Facebook brand she worked for so long to help establish, it said

"I'm proud of what I've done here… but I know I'll be able to do just as much, or more, for Facebook once I'm on the outside," she wrote in her resignation letter. She said her goal was "to launch my own innovative programming and work with media firms," adding: "Facebook will clearly be a central element in all my projects."

Stephen Hawking-Biography

Birth and Early life

Stephen William Hawking was born on january 8th 1942 in oxford,london,which is exactly 300 years after the death of Galileo. From a very early age Hawking showed the qualities of a scientist, he was always inquisitive. He liked to build models to see how things worked.He is a theoretical physicist and cosmologist, whose scientific books have made him an academic celebrity.He is probably one of the most famous cosmologists and theoretical physicists alive.

School

Hawking went to the High School for Girls (yes, the school was supposed to be for girls) at St. Albans at the age of 8. Later, he switched to St. Albans School by passing the eleven-plus examination. Hawking was a keen child, but he was not the brightest in his competitive A stream class. Some of his classmates did not believe he could do well, though they gave him the nickname of Einstein.

College Life

Hawking's father who was a doctor, wanted him to study medicine at Oxford. However, he was more interested in Mathematics. It turned out that he studied Physics, as the University College did not provide degree studies in Mathematics

At the age of 20, Hawking went on to do research in Cosmology at Cambridge. This was also about the time when he was diagnosed with the incurable disease ALS (Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis). He slowly lost control of his muscles and was told would die within a few years. At first, Hawking was shocked and upset. He could not find a reason for living before he met his wife Jane Wilde. Later the progress of his illness slowed down, and he finished his Ph.D.

What made stephen hawking so famous?

Hawking is an example of the "cult of personality".
He was a brilliant young man, but it was his handicap that drew so many people to his side. It just seems amazing (to people who aren't handicapped) that he could accomplish ANYTHING with the constraints of his disease.

Hawking basically set out to prove that energy in the Universe could be created or destroyed, which flies in the face of everything we know. A few years ago, he modified his position, saying that the energy actually comes from or disappears into parallel universes.

His work in astrophysics has resulted in several breakthroughs in our knowledge of the universe, most notably his work on black holes

He grew to fame by writing "A Brief History of Time".

In 2009 stephen hawking was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the highest civilian award in the United States.

Stephen Hawking's thoughts on afterlife

According to Stephen hawking:"There is no heaven,it's a fairy story".A belief that heaven or an afterlife awaits us is a "fairy story" for people afraid of death-stephen hawking said.

He rejected the idea of life beyond death and emphasised, what he described as the need to fulfil our potential on Earth by making good use of our lives.

His works/books:-

A Brief History of Time
 Black Holes and Baby Universes and Other Essays
 The Universe in a Nutshell
 On The Shoulders of Giants. The Great Works of Physics and Astronomy
 A Briefer History of Time,
 The Grand Design

Funny Maths

A man and a woman trys to prove 25 divide by 5 equals 14.Epic :D

A Bikini For Iphone-Incipio Technologies Bikini

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2010 Common Wealth Games Fail

A Scam of Massive Proportions

The CWG-2010 has been tagged with the games of scams and scandals. But the proportion couldn't be guessed even by generous estimates. Rs 36,000 crores or $8 billion scam! Whoa(Now again this is just an estimate,the original scam could be much bigger). And this in a country where 400 million live below the official poverty line or simply put, in sub-human conditions. But this was only expected once Suresh Kalmadi was appointed the head of the commonwealth games Organizing Committee. After all, he has a string of achievements to his credit. Some of which include charges of land grab, becoming the chief of Indian Olympics Committee (IOC) using shady means and using the same to stay in that position ever since, siphoning off public funds and many more.

Comparision Between 2006 Commonwealth Games And 2010 Commonwealth Games

The 2006 commonwealth games were held in Melbourne,Australia.The total cost for hosting the games-1.144 billion dollars(money generated from this event-1.5 billion dollars,Thus making profit from the event)

The 2010 common wealth games were held in Delhi,India.The initial total budget estimated by the Indian Olympic Association in 2003 for hosting the Games was Rs 1,620 crore (US$361.26 million). In 2010, however, the official total budget soon escalated to an estimated RS 11,500 crore (US$2.56 billion), a figure which excluded non-sports-related infrastructure development. Business Today magazine estimated that the Games cost  Rs 60,000 crore (US$13.38 billion). The 2010 Commonwealth Games are reportedly the most expensive Commonwealth Games ever.

Some jaw dropping stats

Dogs having a field day in commonwealth games village

The revelation of the cost of goods which were purchased during the Commonwealth Games are jaw dropping.The cost of more than 150 articles was escalated beyond one’s imagination.

124 trolley beds were bought at a staggering price of Rs 1.5 crores,The Market price for this beds was 1.5 lakhs per bed while the government bought it at 2.75 lakhs per bed.The beds were bought from a company named Surgicoin.A middleman - a company named Lord Krishna which selled those beds to the government at higher prices- therefore benefitting big time.

For ultrasound therapy machines, the government  payed the same Lord Krishna Company 3.5 lakhs per machine,against the actual market price of Rs. 77,000.  Multiply that by the 41 machine the government has bought, and the loss is more than a crore just for this item.

Shortwave Diathermy machines - used to treat these injuries - are priced at 4.9 lakhs against the manufacturer's usual price of Rs. 77,000.  Across the 20 machines that have been bought, that's a loss of 83 lakhs.

Toilet paper rolls valued at $2 were costed at $80,

$2 soap dispensers at $60,

$98 mirrors at $220,

A disposal glass for Rs 37,

garbage bags for Rs 3, 000 each,

Rs 2,000 for water jug,

 Rs 1,800 for brush and

 Rs 10, 000 for plastic chairs.

$11,830 altitude training simulators at $250,190.

Pulse oxymeter (Market price Rs 21,525-Price given Rs 1,51, 200)

A foot operated suction machine (Market price Rs 2887- Price given Rs 13,440),

A scoop stretcher (Market priceRs 13,650-Price given Rs 86,100) 

A B-type oxygen cylinder with flowmeter (Market price Rs 6,405- Price given Rs 1,10,250).

Suresh Kalmadi's Blunder

At the opening ceremony, the chairman of the organising committee Suresh Kalmadi faced embarrassment, when he was booed by spectators at the start of his welcome speech to 60,000 spectators. Kalmadi came under further strain when he "thanked" the late Princess Diana for attending the opening ceremony of the games. The chairman made the blunder at a press conference saying ’Yes, Princess Diana was there,’ after which he immediately corrected himself by saying ‘Prince Charles and (Camilla) the Duchess of Cornwall.

"when one in three Indians lives below the poverty line and 40% of the hungry live in India, when 46% of India's children and 55% of women are malnourished, did spending billions of dollars on a 12-day sports event built national pride or is it a matter of national shame?" .

67 Things About guys/67 Things guys Look For In Girls.

1)Guys don't actually look after good-looking girls. They prefer neat and presentable girls.
2)Guys love flirts.
3)When a guy really likes you, he'll disregard all your bad characteristics.
4)Guys go crazy over a girl's smile.
5)Guys will do anything just to get the girl's attention.
6)Guys hate it when you talk about your ex-boyfriend.
7)When guys want to meet your parents. Let them.
8)Guys want to tell you many things but they can't. And they sure have one habit to gain courage and spirit to tell you many things and it is drinking!
9) Guys cry!!!!!!!!
10)Don't provoke the guy to heat up. Believe me. He will.
11) Guys usually try hard to get the girl who has dumped them, and this makes it harder for them to accept their defeat.
12)Guys go crazy when girls touch their hands.
13) Guys are good flatterers when courting but they usually stammer when they talk to a girl they really like.
14)When a girl says "no", a guy hears it as "try again tomorrow."
15) You have to tell a guy what you really want before he gets the message clearly.
16)Guys hate gays!
17)Guys love their moms.
18) A guy would sacrifice his money for lunch just to get you a couple of roses.

19) A guy often thinks about the girl who likes him. But this doesn't mean that the guy likes her.
20)Like Eve, girls are guys  weaknesses.
21) Guys are very open about themselves.
22)It's good to test a guy first before you believe him. But don't let him wait that long.
23) Guys hate it when their clothes get dirty. Even a small dot.
24)Guys really admire girls that they like even if they're not that much pretty.
25)A usual act that proves that the guy likes you is when he teases you.
26) A guy finds ways to keep you off from linking with someone else.
27) Most Guys love girls with brains more than girls in miniskirts.
28) Guys virtually brag about anything.
29) Guys cannot keep secrets that girls tell them.
30) Guys think too much.
31) Guys' fantasies are unlimited.
32) Girls' height doesn't really matter to a guy but her weight does!
33) Guys tend to get serious with their relationship and become too possessive. So watch out girls!!
34) Guys have strong passion to change but have weak will power.
35) Guys are tigers in their peer groups but become tamed pussycats with their girlfriends.
36) When a guy pretends to be calm, check if he's sweating. You'll probably see that he is nervous.
37) When a guy says he is going crazy about the girl. He really is.
38) When a guy asks you to leave him alone, he's just actually saying, "Please come and listen to me."
39) Guys don't really have final decisions.
40) If a guy starts to talk seriously, listen to him.
41) If a guy has been kept shut or silent, say something.
42) Guys don't like girls who punch harder than they do.
43) A guy may instantly know if the girl likes him but can never be sure unless the girl tells him.
44) A guy would waste his time over video games and basketball, the way a girl would do over her romance novels and make-ups.
45) Guys love girls who can cook or bake.
46) Guys like girls who are like their moms. No kidding!
47) A guy has more problems than you can see with your naked eyes.
48) A guy's friend knows everything about him. Use this to your advantage.
49) Guys are more talkative than girls are especially when the topic is about girls.
50) Guys really think that girls are strange and have unpredictable decisions but still love them more.
51) When a guy gives a crooked or pretentious grin at your jokes, he finds them offending and he just tried to be polite.
52) Guys don't care about how shiny their shoes are unlike girls.
53)Guys tend to generalize about girls but once they get to know them, they'll realize they're wrong.
54) Guys find it so objectionable when a girl swears.
55) When a problem arises, a guy usually keeps himself cool but is already thinking of a way out.
56) When a guy looks at you, either he's amazed of you or he's criticizing you.
57) When you catch him cheating on you and he asks for a second chance, give it to him. But when you catch him again and he asks for another chance, ignore him.
58) If a guy lets you go, he really loves you.
59) Guys learn from experience not from the romance books that girls read and take as their basis of experience.
60) You can tell if a guy is really hurt or in pain when he cries in front of you!
61) If a guy suddenly asks you for a date, ask him first why.
62) You can truly say that a guy has good intentions if you see him praying sometimes.
63) Guys seek for advice not from a guy but from a girl.
64) Girls are allowed to touch boys' things. Not their hair!
65) If a guy says you're beautiful, that guy likes you.
66) Guys hate girls who overreact.
67) Guys love you more than you love them if they are serious in your relationship
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Five year old's 911 call saves dad's life.

It took a five-year-old girl to save her father's life. She talked to 911 dispatchers when she thought her father was having a heart attack.

About 9:30 Monday night, Hancock county dispatcher Jason Bonham got a call. At first, he couldn't understand the person who was on the line.

A man was in distress and unable to speak.

"You could hear the father hear a little bit where he said tell 'em or take it," said Bonham.

That's when Savannah, the man's five-year-old daughter, picked up the phone.

"My dad can't hardly breathe," she told Bonham.

The call to 911 came from a cell phone, so dispatchers didn't automatically have an address.

With her father's help, the little voice clearly repeated their street address, and with time of the essence, gave dispatchers all the information they needed.

"Is your Daddy still awake?"

"Yeah."

"Most people when you talk to them, they're hysterical," said Bonham.

Her calm was not nearly as surprising as her tender age.

"How old are you?"

"I'm five years old."

"Every time I've listened to it it's amazing. She's just a little person," said Bonham.

For nearly ten minutes she stayed on the line, handling a scary situation with courage and grace.

"He looks like he's real shaky," Savannah said.

"You're doing a good job, all right, Savannah? They should be there in a few minutes."

"How many minutes?"

"Okay, you have to stay awake they'll be here in a couple minutes."

"It's okay, Dad."

"We were able to get 'em there versus four to five minutes delay of trying to get an address and another delay of getting them there," said Bonham.

Savannah is now credited for saving her father's life.

The girl's father was back at work Wednesday as doctors try to figure out what happened.

Are we alone in the universe???

HAVE you ever looked up at the night sky and wondered if somebody, or something, is looking back? If perhaps somewhere out there, the mysterious spark we call life has flickered into existence?

Intuitively, it feels as if we can't be alone. For every one of the 2000 stars you can see with your naked eye, there are another 50 million in our galaxy, which is one of 100 billion galaxies. In other words, the star we orbit is just one of 10,000 billion billion in the cosmos. Surely there is another blue dot out there - a home to intelligent life like us? The simple fact is, we don't know.

One way to estimate the number of intelligent civilisations was devised by astronomer Frank Drake. His equation takes into account the rate of star formation, the fraction of those stars with planets and the likelihood that life, intelligent life, and intelligent creatures capable of communicating with us, will arise.

It is now possible to put numbers on some of those factors. We know that about 20 stars are born in the Milky Way every year and we have spotted more than 560 planets around stars other than the sun. About a quarter of stars harbour a planet similar in mass to Earth
But estimating the biological factors is little more than guesswork. We know that life is incredibly adaptable once it emerges, but not how good it is at getting started in the first place.

Unique planet

Some astronomers believe life is almost inevitable on any habitable planet. Others suspect simple life is common, but intelligent life exceedingly rare. A few believe that our planet is unique. "Life may or may not form easily," says physicist Paul Davies of Arizona State University in Tempe. "We're completely in the dark."

So much for equations. What about evidence? Finding life on Mars probably won't help, as it would very likely share its origin with Earthlings. "Impacts have undoubtedly conveyed microorganisms back and forth," says Davies. "Mars and Earth are not independent ecosystems."

Discovering life on Titan would be more revealing. Titan is the only other place in the solar system with liquid on its surface - albeit lakes of ethane. "We are starting to think that if there is life on Titan it would have a separate origin," says Dirk Schulze-Makuch at Washington State University in Pullman. "If we can find a separate origin we can say 'OK, there's a lot of life in the universe'."

Discovering alien microbes in our solar system would be some sort of proof that we are not alone, but what we really want to know is whether there is another intelligence out there. For 50 years astronomers have swept the skies with radio telescopes for any hint of a message. So far, nothing.

But that doesn't mean ET isn't there. It just might not know we're here. The only evidence of our existence that reaches beyond the solar system are radio signals and light from our cities. "We've only been broadcasting powerful radio signals since the second world war," says Seth Shostak of the SETI Institute in Mountain View, California. So our calling card has leaked just 70 light years into space, a drop in the ocean. If the Milky Way was the size of London and Earth was at the base of Nelson's Column, our radio signals would still not have left Trafalgar Square.
"It's probably safe to say that even if the local galaxy is choc-a-bloc with aliens, none of them know that Homo sapiens is here," says Shostak. That also works in reverse. Given the size of the universe and the speed of light, most stars and planets are simply out of range.

It is also possible that intelligent life is separated from us by time. After all, human intelligence has only existed for a minuscule fraction of Earth's history and may just be a fleeting phase (see "Existence: Will we die out? "). It may be too much of a stretch to hope that a nearby planet not only harbours intelligent life, but that it does so right now.
But let's say we did make contact with aliens. How would we react? NASA has plans, and most religions claim they would be able to absorb the idea, but the bottom line is we won't know until it happens.

Most likely we'll never find out. Even if Earth is not the only planet with intelligent life, we appear destined to live out our entire existence as if it were - but with a nagging feeling that it can't be. How's that for existential
uncertainty?

Do we really exist or are we just a hologram?

TAKE a look around you. The walls, the chair you're sitting in, your own body - they all seem real and solid. Yet there is a possibility that everything we see in the universe - including you and me - may be nothing more than a hologram.

It sounds preposterous, yet there is already some evidence that it may be true, and we could know for sure within a couple of years. If it does turn out to be the case, it would turn our common-sense conception of reality inside out.
The idea has a long history, stemming from an apparent paradox posed by Stephen Hawking's work in the 1970s. He discovered that black holes slowly radiate their mass away. This Hawking radiation appears to carry no information, however, raising the question of what happens to the information that described the original star once the black hole evaporates. It is a cornerstone of physics that information cannot be destroyed.

In 1972 Jacob Bekenstein at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel, showed that the information content of a black hole is proportional to the two-dimensional surface area of its event horizon - the point-of-no-return for in-falling light or matter. Later, string theorists managed to show how the original star's information could be encoded in tiny lumps and bumps on the event horizon, which would then imprint it on the Hawking radiation departing the black hole.

This solved the paradox, but theoretical physicists Leonard Susskind and Gerard 't Hooft decided to take the idea a step further: if a three-dimensional star could be encoded on a black hole's 2D event horizon, maybe the same could be true of the whole universe. The universe does, after all, have a horizon 42 billion light years away, beyond which point light would not have had time to reach us since the big bang. Susskind and 't Hooft suggested that this 2D "surface" may encode the entire 3D universe that we experience - much like the 3D hologram that is projected from your credit card.
It sounds crazy, but we have already seen a sign that it may be true. Theoretical physicists have long suspected that space-time is pixelated, or grainy. Since a 2D surface cannot store sufficient information to render a 3D object perfectly, these pixels would be bigger in a hologram. "Being in the [holographic] universe is like being in a 3D movie," says Craig Hogan of Fermilab in Batavia, Illinois. "On a large scale, it looks smooth and three-dimensional, but if you get close to the screen, you can tell that it is flat and pixelated."

Quantum fluctuation

Hogan recently looked at readings from an exquisitely sensitive motion-detector in Hanover, Germany, which was built to detect gravitational waves - ripples in the fabric of space-time. The GEO600 experiment has yet to find one, but in 2008 an unexpected jitter left the team scratching their heads, until Hogan suggested that it might arise from "quantum fluctuations" due to the graininess of space-time. By rights, these should be far too small to detect, so the fact that they are big enough to show up on GEO600's readings is tentative supporting evidence that the universe really is a hologram, he says.

Bekenstein is cautious: "The holographic idea is only a hypothesis, supported by some special cases." Better evidence may come from a dedicated instrument being built at Fermilab, which Hogan expects to be up and running within a couple of years.

A positive result would challenge every assumption we have about the world we live in. It would show that everything is a projection of something occurring on a flat surface billions of light years away from where we perceive ourselves to be. As yet we have no idea what that "something" might be, or how it could manifest itself as a world in which we can do the school run or catch a movie at the cinema. Maybe it would make no difference to the way we live our lives, but somehow I doubt it.

16 ways to live a better and happy life

1)Accept Your Mistakes
 Mistakes are unavoidable and certainly everyone make mistakes.Accept it rather then denyin it or punishing yourself.It doesn't matter if a mistake is big or small,there is always something to learn from it. Always remember:

"Mistakes are the usual bridge between inexperience and wisdom."

2)Take Risks
Nobody has ever made big without taking risks and nobody ever will.when was the last time u challenged youself to take a risk?Life would be so boring if everything was so easy.right?so prepare yourself for those big risks you are going to take in your life.


3) Build Discipline
Build it before others tell you to.A self-disciplined person  is more likely to be successful,overcome negativities in life.Acts like Waking up early,eating on time can help u buils self-discipline over time.

4)Be Active/Exercise/Stay health
Eat healthy,Exercise daily,go to gym.A healthy person is more likely to be happy and stressfree.Avoid junk and unhealthy food.

5)Make New Friends
Dont be shy or afraid,reach out.What's the worst thing that can happen?get rejected?.A life-long friendship is worth all the rejections.

6)Try To Be Better,Not perfect
Nobody is perfect.Dont strive to be perfect,strive to be better.Accepting and learning from your mistakes makes you better.Being better is rewarding,look back at the yesterday you and say "I m Better".

7)Control Your Anger
Situations can be out of control and destructive sometimes,the best thing to do at that time is to control your anger and be calm.Taking out your anger will only make situation worse.Listen to music or do something you like when things get out of control.

8)Set Goals
A Life without goals is like a ocean without water.Decide what u want to do in life,set a goal and give your 100% to reach that goal.It wont be easy,but with hardwork and strong determination you will make things easy for sure.

9)Manage Your Time As You Manage Money
Why manage time??Because it is our most precious and limited comodity.How we choose to manage our time will have the biggest effect of all on how our lives will be.Money once gone can be earned back with knowledge and skill but time once gone wont come back,so use time wisely and make the most of it.

10)Help Others
When you use your talents and time to help others, you have done your part to make the world a better place. When people work together for the good of others, they feel more connected to both themselves and others.
Helping others will help yus to balance selfishness in our lives with selflessness.

11)Live Everyday on a fresh new start
Dont be held back by what happened yesterday,a day before or a year ago.Whatever is behind us will stay behind us, and whatever is ahead will eventually come. No need to really worry about either.

Each new day brings good and bad. Each new day offers great opportunity. The chance to make new decisions, do new things, make new friends. Each new day also gives you the chance to maintain what you have and enjoy it to the fullest.Live life in present.

12)Know your innerself
To know your inner self is to know your purpose, your values, your visions, your motivations, your goals and your beliefs. Finding your inner self will help you feel good about your self image, which in turn will help improve your overall emotional health.

13)Do things you love
 When you sleep and dream, and wake up the following morning,what are those things that give you the most happiness? Life is too precious to spend it doing on something else.If you dont like or enjoy something then dont do it. Spend your time and energy on things that bring you fulfillment and happiness.

 

14)Listen to your critics/Learn from criticism
 Each of us has an inner critic. There is no way to grow up in our society without having developed this critical voice which comes from parents, teachers, peers, the media, and from our own conclusions.Be open to criticism,it will help you to become a better person.

15)Keep learning
 why bother learning?Because the more we learn,the more we understand life,the more we will appreciate it and the more we will be in awe of it.Without knowledge we would be like a stone,existing but not loving.Learning adds excitement and meaning to life.There is something to learn from what you see,hear,experience and even your mistakes

"Anyone who keeps learning stays young"-Henry ford

"The only real mistake is the one from which we learn nothing". - John Powell

"Live as if your were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever". - Gandhi
"Learning is not a spectator sport". - Chickering and Gamson

I have never in my life learned anything from any man who agreed with me. - Dudley Field Malone 

16)Challenge your fears

All of us has fears.Fear of uncertainty,fear of speaking publicly,fear of risk.Fears keeps us from growing,Instead of avoiding them,recognize them and overcome them.