Tuesday, April 29, 2008
FACTS ABOUT GIRLS WHO ARE ACTIVE
2. T Physical activity decreases as the ages of girls increases.
3. T Girls drop out of sport at a rate that is six (6) times higher greater than boys by the age of 14.
4. T 50% of 9-year old females and 80% of 10-11 year old females are on some type of diet.
5. T By age 18, more than 50% of women perceive themselves as too fat, despite having normal body weight.
6. T If a girl does not participate in sport by the time she is 10, there is only a 10% chance that she will participate when she is 25.
7. T DON’T BECOME A STATISTIC!
8. The Benefits of Physical Activity
9. T Have healthier weights, lower levels of blood sugar, cholesterol and blood pressure than nonexercising women.
10. T Moderate physical activity can significantly reduce the risk of developing or dying from heart disease, diabetes, colon cancer, and high blood pressure.
11. T Have a reduced risk of developing breast cancer. Girls who participate in as little as 4 hours of exercise per week may reduce their lifelong risk of breast cancer (a disease that affects 1 out of every 8 women) by up to 60%.
12. T Have a reduced risk of developing osteoporosis (loss of bone mass). Mental
13. T Have enhanced mental health through physical activity with more positive feelings about body image, improved self-esteem, feelings of competency and success and are at a lower risk for developing depression.
14. T Enjoy higher levels of self-confidence, stronger self-images, and more skill and experience with physical activity that inactive women. 15. T And who participate in sports, are more likely to experience academic success and graduate from high school than those who do not play sports.
16. T Exercise and sport participation can be used as therapeutic and preventative intervention for enhancing the physical and mental health of adolescent females.
17. T Feel greater confidence, self-esteem, and pride in their physical and social selves than those who were sedentary as kids
18. T Have more avenues to meet new friends and do fun things than girls who are not active
19. T Teenage female athletes are more likely to have positive body images and less likely to
use drugs, less likely to be suicidal, less likely to smoke than female non-athletes.
20. T Teenage female athletes are more than half as likely to have an unwanted pregnancy than female non-athletes.
Sunday, April 27, 2008
21 Amazing Facts
2. zebra is white with black stripes.
3. A whip makes a cracking sound because its tip moves faster than the speed of sound.
4. "Almost" is the longest word in the English language with all the letters in alphabetical order.
5. Snails produce a colorless, sticky discharge that forms a protective carpet under them as they travel along. The discharge is so effective that they can crawl along the edge of a razor without cutting themselves.
6. The word "listen" contains the same letters as the word "silent".
7. A hippopotamus can run faster than a man.
8. The only 15 letter word that can be spelled without repeating a letter is uncopyrightable.
9. Electricity doesn't move through a wire but through a field around the wire.
10. Hummingbirds are the only animal that can fly backwards.
11. It is impossible to lick your elbow.
12. All the planets in the solar system rotate anticlockwise, except Venus. It is the only planet that rotates clockwise.
13. Names of the three wise monkeys are: Mizaru (See no evil), Mikazaru (Hear no evil), and Mazaru (Speak no evil).
14. A 'jiffy' is an actual unit of time for 1/100th of a second.
15. India never invaded any country in her last 10000 years of history.
16. Hippopotomonstrosesquippedaliophobia is the fear of long words.
17. Phobatrivaphobia is a fear of trivia about phobias.
18. Sanskrit is the mother of all higher languages. Sanskrit is the most precise and therefore suitable language for the computer software - a report in Forbes magazine.
19. India invented the Number System. Zero was invented by Aryabhatta.
20. Chess (Shataranja or AshtaPada) was invented in India.
21. Twenty-Four-Karat Gold is not pure gold; there is a small amount of copper in it. Absolutely pure gold is so soft that it can be molded with the hands.
10 Facts About Kids
2. Universal access to just four low-cost health care measures could save the lives of half of the 15-18 million children who die each year from preventable causes. Nearly 8,000 children are dying each day because they have not been immunized; nearly 7000 are dying from dehydration caused by diarrhoea, and approximately 6000 are dying every day from pneumonia, Making available today's low cost solutions to all of there child health problems would cost approximately $2.5 billion a year. This is as much as the 10% of the EEC's annual subsidy to farmers, as much as the Soviet Union spends on vodka in a month or U.S. companies spend on cigarette advertising yearly. $2.5 billion is as much as 2% of the developing world's military spending and what the world spends on the military in one day.
3. Nearly 100 million children of primary school age are not taking part in any education programs.
4. Only half the children in the developing world have access to clean drinking water, and fewer have access to sanitary waste facilities.
5. Half a million mothers die annually as a result of pregnancy or childbirth.
6. Breast feeding is on the decline in many developing countries although bottle-fed infants contract far more illnesses and are as much as 25 times more likely to die in childhood than infants who are exclusively breast fed.
7. Each year at least 250,000 young children lose their sight for the lack of a small amount of vitamin A in their diet. Two 2 cent doses of vitamin A could prevent this.
8. Over 100 million children throughout the world are forced to work under hazardous and often fatal conditions; many are employed under slave - like conditions for no pay.
9. More than one billion people - the majority of them children - either have no home or live in inadequate housing.
10. There are more than 10 million child refugees around the world, comprising 60% to 70% of the refugee population. Malnutrition, chronic infectious disease, physical and mental retardation are widespread in refugee camps. Many children, often separated from their parents, have spent their whole lives in closed refugee comps, encircled by gun towers and barbed wire.
* Statistics from UNICEF 's State of the World's Children 1989 & 1990 report PLAN International
Saturday, April 26, 2008
Amazing fact about INDIA
2. INDIA has been called Bharat even in Satya yuga ( Golden Age )
3. The name `India’ is derived from the River Indus, the valleys around which were the home of the early settlers. The Aryan worshippers referred to the river Indus as the Sindhu.
4. The Persian invaders converted it into Hindu. The name `Hindustan’ combines Sindhu and Hindu and thus refers to the land of the Hindus.
5. The number system was invented by India. Aryabhatta was the scientist who invented the digit zero.
6. Sanskrit is considered as the mother of all higher languages. This is because it is the most precise, and therefore suitable language for computer software. ( a report in Forbes magazine, July 1987 ).
7. Chess was invented in India.
8. Algebra, Trigonometry and Calculus are studies which originated in India.
9. The' place value system' and the 'decimal system' were developed in 100 BC in India.
10. The first six Mogul Emperor's of India ruled in an unbroken succession from father to son for two hundred years, from 1526 to 1707.
11. The World's First Granite Temple is the Brihadeswara temple at Tanjavur in Tamil Nadu. The shikhara is made from a single ' 80-tonne ' piece of granite. Also, this magnificient temple was built in just five years, (between 1004 AD and 1009 AD) during the reign of Rajaraja Chola
12. India is.......the Largest democracy in the world, the 6th largest country in the world AND one of the most ancient and living civilizations (at least 10, 000 years old).
13. The game of snakes & ladders was created by the 13th century poet saint Gyandev. It was originally called 'Mokshapat.' The ladders in the game represented virtues and the snakes indicated vices. The game was played with cowrie shells and dices. Later through time, the game underwent several modifications but the meaning is the same i.e good deeds take us to heaven and evil to a cycle of re-births.
14. The world's highest cricket ground is in Chail, Himachal Pradesh.
Built in 1893 after levelling a hilltop, this cricket pitch is 2444 meters above sea level.
15. India has the most post offices in the world !
16. The largest employer in the world is the Indian railway system, employing over a million people !.
17. The World's first university was established in Takshila in 700 BC. More than 10,500 students from all over the world studied more than 60 subjects. The University of Nalanda built in the 4th century was one of the greatest achievements of ancient India in the field of education.
18. Ayurveda is the earliest school of medicine known to mankind. The father of medicine, Charaka, consolidated Ayurveda 2500 years ago.
19. Although modern images & descriptions of India often show poverty, India was one of the richest countries till the time of British in the early 17th Century. Christopher Columbus was attracted by India's wealth and was looking for route to India when he discovered America by mistake.
20. The art of Navigation & Navigating was born in the river Sindh 6000 over years ago. The very word 'Navigation' is derived from the Sanskrit word NAVGATIH. The word navy is also derived from the Sanskrit word 'Nou'.
21. Bhaskaracharya rightly calculated the time taken by the earth to orbit the sun hundreds of years before the astronomer Smart. His calculations was - Time taken by earth to orbit the sun: ( 5th century ) 365.258756484 days.
22. The value of "pi" was first calculated by the Indian Mathematician Budhayana, and he explained the concept of what is known as the Pythagorean Theorem. He discovered this in the 6th century, which was long before the European mathematicians.
23. Algebra, trigonometry and calculus also orignated from India. Quadratic equations were used by Sridharacharya in the 11th century. The largest numbers the Greeks and the Romans used were 106 whereas Hindus used numbers as big as 10*53 ( i.e 10 to the power of 53 ) with specific names as early as 5000 B.C. during the Vedic period. Even today, the largest used number is Tera: 10*12( 10 to the power of 12 ).
24. Until 1896, India was the only source for diamonds to the world. ( Source . Gemological Institute of America )
25. The Baily Bridge is the highest bridge in the world. It is located in the Ladakh valley between the Dras and Suru rivers in the Himalayan mountains. It was built by the Indian Army in August 1982.
26. Sushruta is regarded as the father of surgery. Over 2600 years ago Sushrata & his team conducted complicated surgeries like cataract, artificial limbs, cesareans, fractures, urinary stones and also plastic surgery and brain surgeries.
27. Usage of anesthesia was well known in ancient India medicine. Detailed knowledge of anatomy, embryology, digestion, metabolism, physiology, etiology, genetics and immunity is also found in many ancient Indian texts.
Sunday, April 13, 2008
SMS SMS SMS
20 Good SMS's -
1. Care for the one who shares with u, share with the one who knows u, know the one who MISSES u, MISS the one who WELL WISHES for u, Wish u all the Best.
2. Difficulties in your life do not come to destroy U,
but to help U realise ur hidden potential and Power,
Let Difficulties know that U too are DIFFICULT((ALWAYZ THINK +IVE))
3. I asked God to make u happy, make u smile, guide u safely thru every mile;Grant u wealth, give u health & most of all give u love & care
4. When we sigh about our problem, they grow D_O_U_B_L_E, but when we laugh about them they become o o o o o o bubbles! Have a bubbly life!w15.easy-share n privamt
5. Trusting God won't make the mountain smaller but it will make climbing easier. Hope you will be able to climb all your mountains always. Good Luck
6. Some people have nice eyes, Some have nice smiles & others have nice faces.. But You have all of them with a nice HEART?
7. Only the open heart receives love, only the open mind receives wisdom, only the open hand receives gifts and only the cute persons receive SMS from me
8. B4 u speak - listen, B4 u write - think, B4 u spend - earn, B4 u criticise - wait, B4 u pray - forgive, B4 u quit - try, B4 u msg others - msg me
9. Three dreams of a man:
To b as handsome as his mother thinks.
To b as rich as his child believes.
To have as many women as his wife suspects...
10. All I wanted was sumone 2 care 4 me.
All I wanted was sumone who"d b there 4 me.
All I ever wanted was sumone who"d b true.
All I ever wanted was sum1 like u.
11. Life is a "Five Star", Kind Star is Mother, Action Star is Father, Ultimate Star is Teacher, Top Star is Lover &THE SUPER STAR is Friend Like me.
12. Heart can Skip beat for a while... Memories can be kept in d file... A desert can be replaced by Nile. But nothing can stop a smile,when ur name comes on my MOBILE.
13. Husband asks: Do you know the meaning of WIFE? It means?
Without Information, Fighting Everytime!
WIFE says: No darling , it means :-
With Idiot For Ever
14. Do u know what bhai stands for
BHAI
B.. Best
H.. Husband
A.. Among
I.. Ideals
So be the bhai of every girl
15. S . M . S Doesn't Mean
"Short Messaging Servie".
It Only Means
"Sweet . Memories . Shared"
Wid A Special, Loving, Caring & Sweet Person Lyk You :->
16. If people says you are crazy, be patiend.
if they say you are monkey, relax. if they say you are stupid,be cool but if they say you are smart, Thapad maar sale ko.
17. Every sunset gives us one day less to live! But every sunrise give us, one day more to hope! So, hope for the best. Good Day & Good Luck!
18. DUAON" ki bheer main 1 DUA hamari hogi... Jismai mangi hamnay her khushi tumhari hogi... Jab bhi koi KHUSHI milee apko... Samjho DUA jo kabul hui hamari HOGI.
19. The HOPE, The STRUGGLE and The HARD WORK towards a goal/ success is part of the rewards. Achieving goal itself is not the whole reward........ BEST WISHES
20. Love is like a butterfly. The more you chase it, the more it eludes you but if you just let it fly, it would come to you when you least expect it.
Saturday, April 12, 2008
50 Amazing facts -
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 human body 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!!
Amazing facts
1) HEART beats 1,03,689 times.
2) LUNGS respire 23,045 times.
3) BLOOD flows 16,80,000 miles.
4) NAILS grow 0.00007 inches
5) HAIR grows 0.01715 inches
6) Take 2.9 pounds WATER (including all liquids)
7) Take of 3.25 pounds FOOD.
8) Breathe 438 cubic feet AIR.
9) Lose 85.60, BODY TEMPERATURE.
10) Produce 1.43 pints SWEAT.
11) Speak 4,800 WORDS.
12) During SLEEP move 25.4 times.
Friday, April 11, 2008
10 bugs founded by Banta Singh ?
Dear Mr. Bill Gates,
This letter is from Banta Singh from Punjab. We have bought a computer for our home and we found problems, which I want to bring to your notice.
1. After connecting to internet we planned to open e-mail account and whenever we fill the form in Hotmail in the password column, only ****** appears, but in the rest of the fields whatever we typed appears, but we face this problem only in password field. We checked with hardware vendor Santa Singh and he said that there is no problem in keyboard. Because of this we open the e-mail account with password *****. I request you to check this as we ourselves do not know what the password is.
2. We are unable to enter anything after we click the 'shut down ' button.
3. There is a button 'start' but there is no "stop" button. We request you to check this.
4. We find there is 'Run' in the menu. One of my friend clicked 'run ' has ran upto Amritsar! So, we request you to change that to "sit", so that we can click that by sitting.
5. One doubt is that any 're-scooter' available in system? As I find only 're-cycle', but I own a scooter at my home.
6. There is 'Find' button but it is not working properly. My wife lost the door key and we tried a lot for tracing the key with this ' find', but unable to trace. Is it a bug??
7. Every night I am not sleeping as I have to protect my 'mouse' from CAT, So I suggest u to provide one DOG to kill that cat.
8. Please confirm when u are going to give me money for winning 'HEARTS' (playing cards in games) and when are u coming to my home to collect ur money.
9. My child learnt 'Microsoft word' now he wants to learn 'Microsoft sentence', so when u will provide that?
10.What is the use of media movies player without movies, provide some movies also we are thankful to u.
Best regards,
Banta Singh
Thursday, April 10, 2008
Wednesday, April 9, 2008
I Did not Know that ?
1. What is the expansion of YAHOO?
2. What is the expansion of ADIDAS?
3. Expansion of Star as in Star TV Network?
4. What is expansion of "ICICI?"
5. What does "baker's dozen" signify?
6. The 1984-85 season. 2nd ODI between India and Pakistan at Sialkot - India 210/3 with
Vengsarkar 94*. Match abandoned. Why?
7. Who is the only man to have written the National Anthems for two different countries?
8. How was Agnes Gonxha Bojaxhiu better known?
9. Name the only other country to have got independence on Aug 15th?
10. Why was James Bond Associated with the Number 007?
11. Who faced the first ball in the first ever One day match?
12. The faces of which four Presidents are carved at Mt.Rushmore?
13. Which is the only sport which is not allowed to play left handed?
HERE ARE THE ANSWERS :-
1. Yet Another Hierarchy of Officious Oracle
2. ADIDAS- All Day I Dream About Sports
3. Satellite Television Asian Region
4. Industrial credit and Investments Corporation of India
5. A baker's dozen consists of 13 items - 1 more than the items in a normal dozen
6. That match was abandoned after people heard the news of Indira Gandhi being killed.
7. Rabindranath Tagore who wrote national anthem for two different countries one is Indian
's National anthem and another one is for Bangladesh- (Amar Sonar* *Bangla)
8. Agnes Gonxha Bojaxhiu is none other Mother Teresa.
9. South Korea ..
10. Because 007 is the ISD code for Russia (or the USSR , as it was known during the cold war)
11. Geoffrey Boycott
12. George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, Theodore Roosevelt, and Abraham Lincoln
13. Polo.


