Ans this Q :-

A consumer purchased few toys from a supermarket for RS. 35, he gave 100 Rs. currency to the salesperson but the salesperson had no loose change

…so he collected loose change from the next shop and pay off the balance amount Rs 65 to the consumer.After few hours the owner of next shop comes to the supermarket and says the Rs 100 the sales man gave to him was a duplicate currency and he want to change the currency.

….sales man got no option but to change the duplicate currency

…In this transaction find the loss of supermarket and explain how????????? ?????

Japan Inventions

New Sholay

RGV's new take on Sholay turns the gaon ki gori Basanti, played by Hema Malini, into a Mumbaiya tapori called Ghungroo played by Nisha Kothari.

Jajdeep made Soorma Bhopali a household name in the old Sholay . Now, meet Rajpal Yadav playing Soorma in RGV's adaption of the classic.

Remember Gabbar Singh saying "Arre o Sambha!" Mac Mohan takes on the role of the main villain's side-kick Sambha as Sushant Singh in the new Sholay .

Playing Sanjeev Kumar's role as the hardened Thakur, the cop-turned-man-on-a-mission out to get Gabbar, is southern star Mohanlal.

Sushmita Sen as Durga, slips into the character of the quiet widow Radha that Jaya Bachchan immortalised.

Ajay Devgan takes on the role of Dharmendra, essaying the character of the flirtatous Veeru

In place of Amitach Bachchan is newcomer Prashant Raj who plays the small-time crook, good-at-heart Jai.

While Amjad Khan played big baddie Gabbar Singh in the old version, none other than Amitabh Bachchan plays the new-age villain in the new Sholay

Article on Media Lab Asia

Article on MLA (Media Lab Asia)

Media Lab Asia was promoted by Department of Information technology, MCIT, Govt. of India as a not for profit company in 2001. The objective of the company was set to bring the benefits of ICT to the common man. It started with the functional activity areas such as World Computer (Affordable, ubiquitous computing & access devices), Bits for All (Low Cost, High bandwidth connectivity) and Tomorrow's Tool (Rurally relevant applications). However it was later changed to application areas such as ICT for- Healthcare , Education , livelihood , Empowerment of Disabled , and Wireless Connectivity .

Since then the company has taken up 75 development projects and some of the projects are now being rolled out at the national level. The company has a unique way of growth by working with an expanding network of research laboratories for undertaking development work. It started with creating a hub at some of the IITs and the list of such project partners has grown to more than 40. The partners are a combination of academic and R&D institutions, industry, NGOs and Govt. Agencies. The projects can be sponsored by Corporate Bodies, Govt. (Central/State) and Local Municipal Bodies/Panchayats etc.

After development the technology is taken from lab to land for pilot testing/ large scale deployment through a unique scheme of provider/user membership under PPP model. MLAsia is poised for developing relevant & sustainable technologies and culturally appropriate solutions touching daily lives of common people in years to come.

Photography: Way to Recall

There are some moments in life that we always want to recall or remember. For that, the most convenient and suitable medium is “Photographs”. By having a look on our childhood photographs we often get so happy and touched that once again, we have that innocent feeling in our heart. Photographs remind us of those wonderful moments that we use cherish with our friends, parents or relatives. They remind us of the beauty of the place that we have ever visited and loved that trip.It’s very common to have a love for photography and it can be in any age. I always had a passion for photography. I always try to capture the best moments in my life in my camera. The most beautiful thing I always want to capture in my camera is nature. It has always been the most loving thing to me. Nature helps us to calm down our mind and emotions. And sometimes there are so beautiful landscapes that you just cannot resist taking the photographs and capture that beauty in your camera forever to enjoy it throughout your life. When I was a little girl I took the 1st wedding photos for a close friend of the family and that when this big passion became bigger, I was so young but still able to take such great photos.I currently photograph everything that I can. I can be pretty creative when I want. I have amazing photos of some hilly areas and some sky sceneries that look awesome. I capture them when the sky gives such beautiful colours combinations that a painter cannot even imagine. Really, it is true that no one can copy what god has made. May it be nature or any creativity in the sky.I have been taking photographs for various events like: 1) Birthday parties2) College Events 3) WeddingsBut frankly saying, nature has always been my first love for photography. Also I love taking photographs of beautiful creatures on earth. May it be animals, birds or pets. Learn to capture every moment. If you miss it, than you missed it as it will never be repeated.One day I hope to become a professional. It's all about having that special "eye" for the photo and making sure that it's perfect. Cause we have only, this one medium of recalling our life and some great moments that we always want to remember. So why not make them perfect one and keep them with us forever.Keep taking those photos and keep the memories going !!!

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Can you answer these questions?

If you have the answers to any of these questions, then please post it as a comment along with the Question Number below:-

1. What gets wetter and wetter the more it dries?

2. You throw away the outside and cook the inside. Then you eat the outside and throw away the inside. What did you eat?

3. What goes up and down the stairs without moving?

4. What can you catch but not throw?

5. I can run but not walk. Wherever I go, thought follows close behind. What am I?

6. What's black and white and red all over?

7. What goes around the world but stays in a corner?

8. I have holes in my top and bottom, my left and right, and in the middle. But I still hold water. What am I?

9. Give me food, and I will live; give me water, and I will die. What am I?

10. The man who invented it doesn't want it. The man who bought it doesn't need it. The man who needs it doesn't know it. What is it?

11. I run over fields and woods all day. Under the bed at night I sit not alone. My tongue hangs out, up and to the rear, awaiting to be filled in the morning. What am I?

12. Throw it off the highest building, and I'll not break. But put me in the ocean, and I will. What am I?

13. What can run but never walks, has a mouth but never talks, has a head but never weeps, has a bed but never sleeps?

14. No sooner spoken than broken. What is it?

15. A certain crime is punishable if attempted but not punishable if committed. What is it?

16. You use a knife to slice my head and weep beside me when I am dead. What am I?

17. I'm the part of the bird that's not in the sky. I can swim in the ocean and yet remain dry. What am I?

18. I am mother and father, but never birth or nurse. I'm rarely still, but I never wander. What am I?

19. I went into the woods and got it. I sat down to seek it. I brought it home with me because I couldn't find it. What is it?

20. I am weightless, but you can see me. Put me in a bucket, and I'll make it lighter. What am I?

21. I never was, am always to be, No one ever saw me, nor ever will, And yet I am the confidence of all To live and breathe on this terrestrial ball.What am I?

22. I'm light as a feather, yet the strongest man can't hold me for much more than a minute. What am I?

23. I am the black child of a white father, a wingless bird, flying even to the clouds of heaven. I give birth to tears of mourning in pupils that meet me, even though there is no cause for grief, and at once on my birth I am dissolved into air. What am I?

24. Pronounced as one letter, And written with three, Two letters there are, And two only in me. I'm double, I'm single, I'm black, blue, and gray, I'm read from both ends, And the same either way. What am I?

25. At night they come without being fetched, and by day they are lost without being stolen. What are they?

Business World

1. The person who launched airline in 1932 which has become international carrier now was Jahangir Ratanji Dadabhoy Tata.

2. The corporate bigwig who worked at shop floor level and became chairman and CEO of group companies and whose pet passion is production of a small car, is Ratan Naval Tata.

3. The person who worked with Shell Oil Refinery in the US at teen age and started his own commodity trading and export company in Mumbai which became a flagship company and was awarded Dean’s Medal for his outstanding leadership, was Dhirajlal Hirachand Ambani.

4. The person whose brand name has been almost synonymous with chocolates and the product is John Cadbury.

5. “I have three priorities: God, family and (fill in blank) McDonald’s, and at work these get reversed” said Ray Kroc.

6. Laxmi Narayan Mittal who is the world’s richest Indian is in the business of Steel.

7. The Indian politician who as the chairman of a certain state’s Industrial Development Corporation signed record number of Memorandums of Understandings and is called by his nickname as “M.O.U-DA” is Somnath Chatterjee.

8. The person who once said that he belonged to zero club and sent his two sons abroad to study business management, was Dhirubhai Ambani.

9. The person who gave the world a product called scooter, was Enrico Piaggio.

10. The American industrialist who was praised by Hitler in his autobiography, was Henry Ford.

11. The woman who is named as America’s smartest businesswoman by the Forbes magazine in 1992, is Madonna.

12. The lawyer who started to manufacturing surgical instruments during the British period but had to close his venture and who has become the world largest producer of denim, is Arvind Lalbhai.

13. Lala Juggilal Singhania and Lala Kamlpat Singhania started a group company called J.K. Group.

14. R. Lynn, Larry Hillblorn and A. Dalsey founded DHL company.

15. The inventor friend who employed Henry Ford in his company, was Thomas Alva Edison.

16. Industrialist, Mukesh Agarwal who married Rekha and committed suicide was the owner of consumer durable, Hotline.

17. The founder of Premier Automobiles Ltd. Was Walchand Hirachand.

18. The person who was inspired and founded the world’s most leading and diversified health care company, was Robert Wood Johnson.

19. The person who made his clothes as ready-to-ear collections, is Pierre Cardin.

20. Jack Welch, CEO of General Electric is known lovingly as “Neutron Welch”, because A neutron bomb kills all living beings but leaves all buildings intact. Similarly, Welch turned around GE by downsizing and laying off thousands of employees.

21. The Indian brand which was founded by Dr. S.K. Burman is Dabur.

22. The person who was among the two most powerful leaders in the world and acts in Pizza Hut commercials, is Mikhail Gorbachev.

23. The Indian who is heading the one of the largest and most revered publishing houses in the world, is Sonny Mehta.

24. The who after serving as IAS moved to BHEL as a director and retired as a managing director from a Indo-Japanese joint venture in 1997, is Rabindra Chandra Bhargava.

25. The person who served his company for 53 long years and was a longest serving chairman of any company in India was Rusi Mody and his company’s name is Tisco.

26. The woman whose name is synonymous with herbal beauty care and who was honoured by the US based Success magazine as “The world’s Greatest Woman Entrepreneur”, is Shahnaz Hussain.

27. The non-sportsman client of the management company IMG in India is Harsha Bhogle.

28. The person who became the group chairman after the death of his father, Aditya Vikaram Birla, is Kumarmangalam Birla.

29. The business man who produced jeeps in collaboration with Kesar Jeep Corporation and took the tractor division of his company to a prime position in the country and has collaborations with Ford and Mitsubishi to manufacture cars and mini vans, is Keshub Mahindra.

30. A Harvard Business School graduate who was one of the founders of the Bombay Club and supported the concept of Swadeshi outlined by BJP, is Rahul Bajaj.

31. The person who was the single largest shareholder of Tata Sons Ltd and was a chairman of the cement major ACC, is Pallonji S. Mistry.

32. The business person under whose leadership, Wipro grew from a tiny Rs.7 crore company to a Rs.1830 crores corporation, operating in services, technology, consumer products and information technology, is Azim H. Premji.

33. The Japanese legend who built his motorcycle and car empire from the ruins of World War II which he used to call “Truman’s Gifts”, is Soichiro Honda.

34. The Holywood man who boasted that “He had had more stars than there were in heaven” is Louis B. Mayer.

35. The American legend whose words, “Enthusiasm is at the bottom of all progress. With it, there is accomplishment. Without it, there are only alibis” are featured in the advertisements of his company, is Henry Ford and his company, Ford Motor Co.

36. The person who remarked about General Motors when he was a senior executive that “The first thing people do at GM when they see a snake is hire a consultant on snakes. Then they get a committee on snakes, and then they discuss it for a couple of years”, and also observed that “You get to the top of GM not by doing something, but by not making a mistake and changing GM is like teaching an elephant to tap dance”, is H. Ross Perot.

37. The business legendary who dubbed as “Self Reliance” and who combined shrewdness with American style entrepreneurship and Japanese penchant for technology and was nominated in the Asiaweek Business Hall of Week, was Dhirubhai Ambani.

38. The person who was a grandson of G.D. Birla and his group companies named after his death, was Aditya Vikram Birla.

39. The person who was the chairman and managing director of Procter & Gamble and was a well-known write and play-wright, was Gurcharn Das.

40. The person who is the Chairman of National Dairy Development Board and is behind India’s “Operation Flood”, is V. Kurein.

41. The Secretary of State who was prepared to eat every ounce of steel that Tata could produce when he was approached by Sir Jamseji Tata in London, was Lord Hamilton.

42. During the British Raj, an eminent industrialist and Indian Nobel laureate’s father was Rabindra Nath Tagore.

43. The Hinduja Group was founded by Paramanand Deepchand Hinduja.

44. The IIT-trained man who was first Asian to become CEO of the consulting giant, McKinsey & Co., is Rajat Gupta.

45. The BITS Pilani alumnus who founded Hotmail and sold it to Microsoft company is, Sabeer Bhatia.

46. The audio inventor who founded Bose Corporation in USA for the supply of the most advanced audio equipment to the leading institutions in the world, is Amar Gopal Bose.

47. The person who started a software company along with his six friends with a sum of Rs.10,000 and called their company as India’s first software company “of the professionals, for the professionals, ;and by the professionals”, is N.R. Narayana Murthy and his company, Infosys.

48. The heir-apparent to his family-owned company that makes and sells cars and who is major in film-making, not in management, is Anand Mahindra.

49. Dilip Chabria is involved in the field of Design and restyling of automobiles.

50. The woman who started her industry with a borrowed sum of Rs.35000 and has become an undisputed queen of the herbal beauty concept throughout the world, is Shahnaz Hussain.

51. Simone who married to Naval Tata and was awarded Udyog Ratan Award in 1988 for her contribution to Indian industry, was the head of the Tata Group Company, Lakme Ltd.

52. The Industralist who set up Mecca of Indian management education, the Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad, was Kasturibhai Lalbhai.

53. The industrialist who was not allowed by the then British government to satisfy huge demands for his pr9oducts and declared that “he was ready to go to jail for excess production just as both his parents had for the freedom struggle”, is Rahul Bajaj.

54. The industrialist who set up industries in Egypt, Thailand, Malayasia and Indonesia was Aditya Vikram Birla.

55. The legendary business clan of Birla was founded by Baldev Das Birla.

56. The industrialist who was known as “College King” for the establishment of several colleges and educational and research institutes in Delhi, was Lala Sriram.

57. The entrepreneur who quit the pharma company, IDPL and started his own venture of pharmaceuticals, involved in controversy because of violation of product patent in the US and decided to globalise his venture, is Dr. Anji K. Reddy.

58. Matching of names of the industrialists and institutions they founded:Name Institute1. Jamsetji Tata III. Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore. 2. Lala Sriram IV. Shri Ram College of Commerce, Delhi3. Braj Mohan Birla II. BIT, Meshra (Ranchi)4. ARAM Annamalai I. Annamalai University.

59. The four brothers, Jugal Kishore, Rameswar Das, Ghanshyam Das and Brij Mohan belonged to Birla clan.

60. The first Indian who was elected as the head of International Chambers of Commerce, was Bharat Ram.

61. The industrialist who actively participated in India’s freedom struggle was Jamnalal Bajaj.62. The person who founded Bengal Chemicals during the British Raj and is considered to the pioneer of Indian pharmaceutical industry, is Sir P.C. Ray.

62. The most popular person in IT world is Sumit Kalia who born in 1981 in punjab.

63. The legendary Indian engineer who inspired the Tatas, Birlas and Walchand Hirachand to venture into car production which resulted in setting up of Hindustan Motors and Premier Automobiles, was Sir M. Visveswaraiya.

64. The person who actively participated in Dandi March and Quit India Movement and fathered and nurtured companies like, Bajaj Auto Ltd., Mukand Ltd. And Bajaj Electricals Ltd. Was/is Kamalnayan Bajaj.

65. A Maharashtrian, who was the first in the country to produce modern equipment for farmers and his company is well-known for diesel engines, farm equipment, electric motors, transformers, generators and oil engines, was Laxman Rao Kashirao Kirloskar.

66. The legend who launched Scindia Steamship Navigation Cjo. In 1919 was Walchand Hirachand.

67. The Indian who was chairman of London Metal Exchange and who has been awarded a peerage by the British government was Lord Raj Kumar Bagri.

68. Hamanka who controlled five per cent of the world market for copper and whose manipulations on the London Metal Exchange caused a huge crash, belonged to Sumitomo company.

69. Kim Woo Chong who desired to share his personal experience with younger Koreans as is described in his autography in English version “Every Street is Paved With Gold, was the chairman of Daewoo company.

70. The name of the book, in which it is described in the beginning that “Business is going to change more in the next ten years than it has in the last fifty and ended with I strongly believe that if companies empower their employees to solve problems and give them potent tools to do this with, they will always be amazed at how much creativity and initiative will blossom forth”, is Business @ The Speed of Thought.

71. Andy Grove in his book “Only the Paranoid Survive” calls companies as SIPs or strategic inflection points – times when they ‘have’ to change, reorganize and restructure themselves before they are forced to do so by external forces.

72. The charismatic Detroit legend who rose through the ranks of Ford Motor Company and later joined Chrysler Motor Company because of ego clash with Henry Ford II turned it around, was Lee Iacocca.

73. The greatest business man in American history on whose life a book “Titan” was released was/is, John D. Rockefeller, Sr.

74. The stalwart whose biography “Dare to Dream” is, M.S. Oberoi.

75. The name of the inventor of the process of vulcanization of rubber and gave his name to a tyre company, is Charles Goodyear.

76. The person who changed his name from Paul Julius Reuter and founded the news agency, Reuter, is Israel ben Beers.

77. The Indian legend whose autobiography, “Beyond the Last Blue Mountain”, is J.R.D. Tata.

78. The person who was employed with D.J. Keymers and advertised for Canthardine Hair Oil, was Satyajit Ray.

79. The name of the famous American CEO who wrote while speaking on management, “You’ve got to know how to talk to them, plain and simple” was Lee Iacocca.

80. The name of the Indian millionaire who shattered all records at the University of Michigan by completing his Ph.D in Pharmacy in two years, is Dr. Parvinder Singh..

81. The person who is synonymous with political and other types of polling in the United States, is George Gallup.

82. The great industrialist who won a transcontinental plane race organized by the Aga Khan, appointed as Wing Commander of the Indian Air Force and chairman of IATA, was J.R.D. Tata.

83. The person who flew his microlight aircraft around the world and has been featured as an example of the “Complete Man” in a Raymond’s advertisement, is Vijaypat Singhania.

84. The name of the industrialist, who melted rusty cannons to get the required iron and whose factory is now one of the largest heavy engineering groups, is S.L. Kirloskar.

85. The IIT alumnus who started Patni Computer Systems with his associates which has now become one of the largest IIT companies, is N.R. Narayanamurthy.

86. The achievement of Edwin L. Drake in August 1859 was that he drilled the first oil well.

87. The US ambassador who started his career as the head of an advertising agency in India, is Chester Bowels.

88. The owner of the jewellery import/export firm, Artex based in the US, is Robert Vadhra.

89. The person who heads the Monarch group of companies, has a record for featuring in the largest number of flop movies, is Mithun Chakraborty.

90. The person who is known in India for his collection of vintage cars and the popular liquors his company brews and his feud with Shaw Wallace, is Vijay Mallya.

91. The CEO on whose brave act a bestselling novel, “On Wings of Eagles” was published for rescuing two executives of his company as well as 30,000 other prisoners in the process, was Ross Perot.

92. The Indian industrialist who was a French citizen and served in a French cavalry regiment and later awarded French Legion Honour for his distinguished industrial career, was J.R.D. Tata.

93. The brilliant inventor who had gained wide respect for his work and shot himself leaving a suicide note which read “My work is done. Why wait”, was George Eastman.

94. The name of the inventor whose products are used in GM cars, Zenith and Philips TV divisions, NASA space shuttles, the Queen Elizabeth liner and Broadway theatres, etc. was Dr. Amar Gopal Bose.

95. The chemist who solved his country’s problem and patented his technology of controlled blast of nitroglycerine in 1863, was Alfred Nobel.

96. One of the co-founders of Sony Corporation, beside Akio Morita is Masaru Ibuka.

97. Founder of one of the heavy engineering groups in India and furthered the cause of medicine in a unique way, donated his body for medical research, was S.L. Kirloskar.

98. The CEO under whose leadership Intel also became synonymous with computer microprocessors, is Dr. Andrew S. Grove.

99. The magazine which was born out of the idea of DeWott Wallace that went on to pioneer the direct mail marketing of books, magazines, recorded music collections, home videos, and other products, is named as Reader’s Digest.

100. The Indian woman who holds the distinction of being first woman to graduate from Harvard University, is Naina Lal Kidwai.

101. The person who worked with GE Plastics and rose to become company’s youngest GM and later CEO, is John F Welch, Jr.

102. The company established by Rai Bahadur Janki Das to manufacture saddles and other bicycle parts and was the first one to introduce the fully Indian made bicycle was, Atlas Cycle Industries.

103. Melinda French’s famous rich husband is Bill Gates.

104. Beyond the Boundaries is the autobiography of a leading industrialist, Lord Swaraj Paul.

105. The author of the book, The Klone and I, a story of venture capitalist Thomas J Perkins, and who later married to Perkins, is Danielle Steele.

106. Margaret Thatcher said “I like him; we can do business together” this about Russian President, Mikhail Gorbachev.

107. The term used by Japanese for word, meaning “Great Lord” or “Great Prince” is Tycoon.

108. Areez Khambhatta in Ahmedabad is the man behind Indian brand, Rasna.

109. The Indian tyre company controlled by K.M. Mammen Mappillai and family, is MRF.

110. Bollywood actor with which the Monarch International College of Hotel Management at Ooty is associated, is Mithun Chakraborty.

111. Bimantata Citra and Citra Marga companies are owned by The Suhartos of Indonesia.

112. The person who left India for UK and later became the first High Commissioner and set up a publishing house, Penguin, was V.K. Krishna Menon.

113. Saudi billionaire and sponsor of international terrorism Osama Bin Laden made his money through the source of construction.

114. The company which Anita Roddick founded is Body Shop.

115. The greatest investors in the world who was also a philanthropist and supporter of Human Rights Organisation, is George Soros.

116. At the time of his death, P.R. Kumarmangalam was holding the charge of Ministry of Power.

117. The person who could not get exclusive TV rights to test cricket and made up his own teams with the best players in the world and started World Series Cricket, is Kerry Packer.

118. The woman who rose from shop floor level to a high rank of CMD of Exim Bank, is Tarjani Vakil.

119. An ecology house costing $ 97 million on the shores of Lake Washington was built by Bill Gates.

120. The cosmetic and perfume maker who said this “In my factories I make perfume; in the market, I sell hope” was Charles Revlon..

121. The businessman who contributed Rs.22,000 towards Sir C.V. Raman’s Nobel Prize-winning research, was G.D. Birla.

122. The institution of national importance set up by the visionary industrialist, Jamsetji Nusserwanji Tata, was Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore.

123. The person who is remembered today for his saying “What is good for General Motors is good for the USA, was Charles E. Wilson.

124. The American industrialist who remarked, “A man who dies rich, dies disgraced”, was Andrew Carnegie.

125. The person who was granted patents for inventions ranging from light bulb, typewriter and electric pen to the phonograph, motion-picture camera and alkaline storage battery and left 3500 notebooks containing thousands of new products ideas after his death, was Thomas Alva Edison.

126. Scientist, Surendra Mohan Bose founded Bengal Waterproof Ltd. In 1920.

127. The veteran freedom fighter and industrialist who was considered by Mahatma Gandhi as his fifth son, was Kamalnayan Bajaj.

128. The software giant, Bill Gates was a drop out from Harvard University.

129. The woman whose cosmetic business spread over in 46 countries and said, “I hate the beauty business. It lies. It cheats. It exploits women”, is Anita Roddick.

130. The person who built a huge bungalow on the shores of Lake Washington with almost everything computer controlled, is Bill Gates.

131. The industrialist who was a close associate of Mahatma Gandhi, was G.D. Birla.

132. The former Soviet leader who maintained his eager-to-please style after reading the Dale Carnegie’s American bestseller, “How to Win Friends and Influence People” to make himself most effective leader, was Mikhail Gorbachev.

133. Bharat Ratna, the highest civilian honour of the country was awarded to the industrialist, J.R.D. Tata.

134. The person who gifted $8,500,000 to the UNO for building its permanent headquarters in New York, was John D Rockefeller, Jr.

135. M.M. Kothari’s claim to fame is that he is the original paan masala king who popularized paan masala in sachets under Pan Parag brand.

136. The former cavalry officer, Giovanni Agnelli founded Fiat.

137. V.V.R. Western Ghat Oil Company was launched by Raman Pillai.

138. The German gentleman, a denim supplier, along with Jacob Davis, a Latvian tailor, who got the style of putting metal rivets to strengthen trouser pockets patented, was Levi Strauss.

139. The entrepreneur whose products bear badges with letters DC on them, is Dilip Chabria.

140. The products which were discovered by Charles Plank and Edward Rosinski together in the shape of synthetic catalyst which helps to produce end product, are Petroleum and petrol.

141. A retired super coup who was hired by the association of the Indian music industry to help check the menace of audio piracy, was Julio Ribeiro.

142. The person who started his business with locks and whose group is now in businesses, like iron safes, typewriters, soaps and detergents, food products and many more, was Ardeshir Godrej.

143. The two men hired by Richard to handle repairs at his watch company were Sears and Roebuck.

144. The woman who set up her business of beauty products at Neiman Marcus was Estee Lauder.

145. The entrepreneur who is known as the “Queen of Green” because of her high-profile campaigns on animal rights, recycling and Third World aid, is Anita Roddick.

146. The person who was awarded by the League of Nations and started the “Experimental Prototype Community of Tomorrow”, is Walt Disney.

147. The sales manager who said at a meeting of advertising heads that “The trouble with every one of us is that we don’t think enough. We don’t get paid for working with our heads. Any man on the selling force could make two dollars where he now makes one if he could think along the right lines. I don’t think has cost the world millions of dollars”, was Thomas Watson.

148. The person who started his business of dry goods, later served as a Sunday School Superintendent and set up a trust to control 80% of a particular industry followed by other industries, was John D. Rockfeller.

149. The person who with inspiration of Thomas Alva Edison got the idea of assembly lines while watching Chicago meat-packers, was Henry Ford.1592. The CEO of one of American corporate giants who was approached by Drucker to conduct a study on his company, is Alfred P Sloan and company, General Motors.

150. The American industrialist who hired a police chief to keep a close watch on his executives so that they do not make decisions of their own, was Henry Ford, Sr.

151. The businessman who donated a million pound sterling to save the London zoo which has been given name of his daughter after her death, is Lord Swaraj Paul.

152. The great American industrialist on whose history the book, Titan is released, was John D. Rockefeller, Sr.

153. The only woman who has become the Director of Bombay Stock Exchange, is Deena Mehta.

154. The lawyer who gave up his profession and took up to lock-making business, is Ardeshir Burjorjee Godrej.

155. The person who founded the oil company Shell which was named it after his father’s death, was Marcus Samuel.

156. The CEO who ran for presidency against two successive US presidents, is Ross Perot.

157. The chairman of the UK based Capro Group of companies, is Swaraj Paul.

158. The Doyen of Indian hospitality industry who created the first International business hotel in India is/was Rai Bahadur Mohan Singh Oberoi.

159. The founder of the eponymous group Cadbury Schweppes was John Cadbury.

160. Colonel Drake’s first achievement in Pennsylvania in the US, was that He drilled the world’s first oil well.

161. The co-founder of an American company which is the world leader in business and who bequeathed the bulk of his billion-dollar to medical research and other charities, was Larry Hillblom.

162. Ross Perot was the CEO of Electronic Data Systems.

163. The American CEO who said to his employees that “The only job security any employee has in this company comes from quality, productivity and satisfied customers”, is Lee Iacocca.

164. The person who landed in India as the agent of East India Company and founded Calcutta comprising three villages: Kolkata, Sutanuti and Govindpur, was Job Charnock.

165. Common to Ashok Ganguly, Jagdish Narayan Sapru, Sushim Mukul Datta, and Keki B. Dadiseth is that All have headed Hindustan Lever Ltd.

166. At the age of 31, the person who became the Managing Director of a public sector company was Harish Bardhan.

167. The CMD whose company is known mainly for cigarettes and hotels, is K.L. Chugh.

168. Common to Dhirubhai Ambani, Aditya Birla, Rahul Bajaj, Ratan Tata, R.P. Goenka, B.M. Khaitan and Bharat and Vijay Shah is that All have been profiled in Gita Piramal’s book, as Business Maharaja.

169. Brothers Harsh Vardhan and Sanjeev Goenka lead the business group, namely RPG Group.

170. Brijmohan Lal Munjal is associated with the business group of Hero.

171. The founder of the Philips manufacturing company was Gerard Philips.

172. The IT Moghul, for whom his fans campaigned to make him the President of India, is N.R. Narayan Murthy.

173. The brand ambassador in India and the rest of the world for the Swiss watch-maker, Longines is Aishwarya Rai.

174. The free e-mail service concept was pioneered by Sabeer Bhatia.

175. The Indian Managing Director who said, “I am not working for remuneration. In any case, I earn half the salary of sweeper in France, was Rusy Mody.

176. The business family which lives at Seawind in Mumbai, is The Ambanis.

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Computerrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr

1. In Japan Abacus is called Soroban.

2. The first company in the world which manufactured computers for commercial use was Remington Rand.

3. The analytical engine was also known as Babbage’s Folly.

4. The IBM was known before 1924 as Computer Tabulating & Recording Company.

5. The first generation of electronic computer was UNIVAC-I

6. The first computer which used the concept of stored programs was EDSAC.

7. The inventor of wooden-box mouse with two small wheels and whose work was funded by NASA, was Doug Engelbrat.

8. The first company which distributed mouse with personal computers was Apple Computer.

9. The first computer was installed in India at Indian Statistical Institute, Calcutta.

10. The Intel microprocessor which started the PC revolution was 8088.

11. The first microprocessor chip was Intel 4004.

12. Intel stands for Integrated Electronics.

13. MIPS by which computer power is measured stands for Million Instructions Per Second.

14. Till date 5 generations of computers have been developed.

15. The classifications of computers into different generations is based on Electronic circuits that make the hardware.

16. PC (personal computer) was a trade name of IBM.

17. Mouse droppings in a computer are Pixels that are not properly restored when the mouse is moved.

18. The computer company which is popularly known as “Big Blue” is IBM.

19. GW in Basic language stands for Gate Way.

20. The first commercial microprocessor, Intel-4004 was developed by Dr. Ted Hoff.

21. The computer which defeated the world class champion, Gary Kasparov was Deep Blue.

22. The first Indian film magazine on the Internet was G Online.

23. Hopper found an insect which she jockingly named it as “Bug” in A moth and Harvard Mark II machine.

24. The programming law, ‘Adding manpower to a late software project makes it later’ is known as Brooke’s Law.

25. The power of a super computer is measured in terms of FLOPS (Floating Point Operations Per Second).

26. MMX (a microprocessor from Intel) stands for Multi Media extension.

27. RISC, a technology on which stations and servers run, stands for Reduced Instruction Set Computing.

28. CISC on which technology microprocessors operate, stands for Compounded Instruction Set Computing.

29. The difference between RISC and CISC technology is that RISC chips are powerful but preparatory chips, whereas CISC chips are more open and easily adopted by the manufacturers.

30. The Silicon Valley company which did not start in garage was Sun Micro Systems.

31. The company which was named after incorporating the surnames of two classmates and is now a prestigious company in the computer industry, is Hewlett-Packard.

32. The default search engine on the Internet run by Lawrence Page and Sergey Brin is Google.

33. SWIFT, a global network stands for Society for Worldwide Interbank Financial Telecommunications.

34. The satellite consortium through which hotline linking White House and Kremlin passes is Intelsat.

35. The first geostationary communication satellite to be launched in orbit was Intelsat.

36. The computer language which was developed by Brian Kernighan and Dennis Ritchi is ‘C’.

37. The computer language which has become standard on Internet and compatible on all the chips and operating systems is Java.

38. The company which developed Java language was Sun Microsystems.

39. The owner of the spreadsheet software brand Lotus 1-2-3 is IBM.

40. The special effects for the block-buster Jurassic Park were developed on a Silicon Graphics Computer.

41. The server which has been installed both by Mumbai and Chennai Stock Exchanges is Tandem’s Himalayan Server.

42 The PowerPC chip has been jointly developed as an alternative to Intel’s chip by IBM, Apple and Motorola.

43. Common to INFORMIX, ORACLE, SYBASE, and INGRESS is that All are relational database management systems.

44. The City which is known as Ingress City among IT circles due to large concentration of Ingress RDBMS, is Coimbatore.

45 CASE stands for Computer Aided Software Engineering.

46. OS/2 is an operating system from IBM.

47. The misuse of on line service, Compuserve on the Internet was suspended because of child pornography.

48. The company which developed Iridium, a world-wide network of small communication satellites, is Motorola.

49. The first truly electronic computer was ENIAC.

50. ENIAC stands for Electronic Numeric Integrator and Calculator.

51. A computer database is protectable under the Copyright Act.

52. The Indian who developed the Pentium microprocessor is Vinod Dham.

53. The telecom acronym WLL stands for Wireless in Local Loop.

54 The two computer languages which do not form acronyms are PASCAL and ADA.

55 The famous computer pioneer who was an opium addict/gambler was Ada Lovelace.1204. Spamming in Internet jargon refers to Sending thousands of junk e-mails at the same time to recipients across a wide geographical area.

56. Spoofing in Internet jargon refers to The technique of hiding his/her identity from the recipients by the junk e-mailer.

57. In Internet typing of all letters in capital is considered rude, because it is like shouting.

58. The Courier type of fonts which almost takes up the same amount of horizontal space are called Monospace fonts.

59. With regard to computers common to Nehru Place in Delhi, Lamington Road in Mumbai and M.G. Road in Bangalore is that All are grey markets for computers.

60. APL stands for A Programming Language.

61. An operating system CP/M stands for Control Programming for Micro-computers.

62. The new word coined by Karl Cape for worker, was Robot.

63. The more common name of the IEEF 802.3 standard is Internet.

64. A computer virus is actually A small malicious pr9ogram written in machine language.

65. The multimedia part of Internet is called World Wide Web.

66 The USA state in which famous Silicon Valley is situated is California.

67. The first computer virus was created at Bell Laboratories.

68 The name of the recently developed computer virus which affects programmes written in Java is Strange Brew.

69. In Internet jargon when a file is moved by you from a remote computer to your own, you are Downloading the file.

70. GOPHER a facility available on the Net is different from WWW, because GOPHER contains no graphics whereas WWW does.

71. ‘http’ letters stand for Hyper Text Transfer Protocol.

72. Flaming in Net means A message that contains insults or other derogatory content.

73. The name of the IBM RS/ 6000 SP super computer is Deep Blue.

74. Microsoft launched the products Windows 95.

75. Intel did not name its Pentium microprocessor as 586 because to avoid the confusion created earlier by so many x86 chips.

76. A potent combination of Windows and Intel is being popularly called as Wintel.

77. In his statement “If he was a plumber, he would control all the water in the world and force anyone who wants some of the precious liquid, to cut a deal with him”, Larry Ellison, CEO of Oracle Corporation was referring to Bill Gates of Microsoft.

78. A software which has not been paid for by the customer until he tried it and which is distributed on a bullion board or on free disks, is called Shareware.

79. Windows NT stands for Networking Technology.

80. The computer technology which used The Rolling Stone’s hit number ‘Start Me Up’ as the theme song for its launch was Windows 95.

81. The Microsoft launched Windows 95 in submarine because to show the reports what it was like to live in a windowless world.

82. In the punch-line ‘Flight 4.0 in Chicago Is Delayed’, IMB in an advertisement was referring to Microsoft’s delay in launching Windows 95 (code named Chicago)

83. K6 microprocessor is manufactured and marketed by Advanced Micro Devices.

84. IBM at the Watson Research Centre, New Jersey, developed Deep Blue.

85. The company which IBM chose for providing the operating system for its upcoming PC was Microsoft.

86. The geostationary communication satellite, Telstra was launched by AT&T.

87 The first microcomputer used 4004 microprocessor.

88. Distinction enjoyed by System 360 was that It was the first commercial computer.

89 The only computer ‘star’ or personality in the film based on a novel, “A Space Odyseey” written by Arthur C. Clarke, was HAL 9000.

90. The well-known author who dreamt up a un-patented system on which the Telstra, the first geostationary communication satellite, was Arthur C. Clarke.

91. A software which is in the developing stage is called Beta Software.

92 The Arpanet, a decentralized network designed to survive nuclear attack was funded by NASA.

93. Yahooligans is the kids’ section/webguide of Yahoo portal.

94. The Intel microprocessor which was used by the first IBM PC was 8088.

95. The World Wide Web (WWW) was created by Tim Berner.

96. The IT company founded by Len Bosack and his wife Sandy Lerner was Cisco Systems.

97. The company which was set up under the leadership of F.C. Kohli, who was considered the father of Indian software industry was. Tata Consultancy Services.

98. The best sources from which various parts of computer are bought is known as Body shopping.

99. The IT business common to SAP Ag, Peoplesoft, Baan, QAD and Oracle is Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) package.

100. SAP stands for Systems Applications and Products in data processing.

101. The computer company which was born in garage at Addison Avenue was Hewlett Packard.

102. The line “We are driven by the new technology and take all new and old competition seriously” was written in a book by Andy Grove.

103. The free version of the Unix operation system for network is called Linux.

104. We are talking about Silicon Valley which lies between Santa Cruz Mountains on the west and the Hamilton range to the east and stretches from Santa Clara to Menlo Park.

105. Make of transponder through which the words of Neil Armstrong upon reaching mood, “One small step for man, a giant step for the mankind” came was Motorola

106. The Stanford University engineering students encouraged by their professor started a new venture called The Silicon Valley.

107. In Sillywood, Movies are made by a collaboration between Silicon Valley and Hollywood.

108. The computer company which was founded on April Fool’s Day in 1976 was Apple Computers.

109. The CEO whose company keeps introducing newer versions of software which requires several more megabytes of RAM and hard disk space than the previous versions, is Bill Gates.

110 The term which Lou Gerstner of IBM coined for a product which never gets off the drawing board is, Vaporware.

111. The name of the operating system which was called Quick and Dirty Operating System, is MS-DOS.

112. The name of the corporate which was coined by taking a little word from a play, was IBM.

113 The words on the huge tomb which is in the lobby of Cyrix Corp., a chip maker, inscribed are Intel inside.

114. Hotmail along with Sabeer Bhatia was founded by Jack Smith.

115. In Soho segment, Soho stands for Small office home office.

116. The person who said “I think the total world potential for computers is somewhere around five in number” was Thomas Watson, founder of IBM.

117. The person who borrowed the idea, from the announcement by IBM for a new kind of business software, and turned into a product before IBM did, was Larry Ellison.

118. Ananova is the world’s first virtual newscaster on Internet.

119. Domain names ending with “com” was registered by National Centre for Software Technology.

120. The person and the company began to use electronic mail company-wide in 1989 and has brought a revolution in the personal computing are Andy Grove and Intel.

121. The author of the book, “Only the Paranoid Survive” is Andy Grove.

122. Android means A robot which looks like a human being.

123. The industry which is leading user of robots, is Automobile industry.

124. The author of the book, “The Computer Prophets” containing biography of men who developed computer devices, is Jerry

125. Customer information magnetically encoded on the back strip of a debit card are (a) Credit limit and (b) Account number.

126. Illegal entry to computers or files through remote terminals or PCs is called Hacking.

127. The name of the computer virus which originated from Pakistan in January 1986 and which can infect only 5.25 inch floppies is Brain virus.

128. Dos cannot retrieve any data from a disk if computer virus corrupts its File Allocation table (FAT).

129. A hard disk becomes totally inaccessible when a computer virus corrupts its Partition Table..

130. The idea of self-replicating program which often damages the other computer programs was given by John von Neumann.

131. The name of the professor who coined the name virus for self-replicating program was Fred Cohen.

132. In India, software piracy became legal offence in 1984.

133. The other company which was sued along with Microsoft by Apple Computer Inc. for their copyright infringement was Hewlett-Packard.

134. The dot.com company which claims that the “A” in their name stands for “Anything” is Amazon.com.

135. The Professor who coined the word “artificial intelligence” in 1956 at Stanford University was John McCarthy.

136. The particular generation of computers associated with artificial intelligence is Fifth.

137. Commercial use of artificial intelligence (AI) in products like microwave ovens, washing machines, automobiles etc. is named as Fuzzy logic.

138. The name of the logic that allows computers to assign numerical values that fall somewhere between 0 and 1 is Fuzzy logic.

139. The best chess playing human who beat the chess playing computer Deep Thought in a chess tournament held in 1989, was Garry Kasparov.

140. The animation technique is known as Rotoscoping.

141. The person who designed the Doordarshan News logo in which the news symbol flips in and letters curve around it glow, was Prahlad Kakkar.

142. The super computer’s use denied by USA to the Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore for misuse regarding nuclear applications, was Cray Y-MP.

143. The information network set up to connect various government offices and public sector companies was National Informatics Centre Network (NICNET).

144. The mobile phone of which ‘Human Technology’ is a trademark is Nokia.

145. The telecom acronym WAP stands for Wireless Application Protocol.

146. The role that Network Solutions, Inc. plays in cyber world is that It registers top level dotcom domains.

147. The full form of Geneva-based WIPO Centre is World Intellectual Property Organization (Arbitration and Mediation) Centre.

148 The true statements about websites, web pages and portals are (I) A website comprises of more than one web-pages linked to one another through HTML – hyper text markup language and (II) A portal comprises of more than one website whereas a particular website provides a gateway to another website.

149 In the cyber world, “cybersquatters” are People who grab a well-known trademark and register it as domain name for ulterior purpose, such as selling the domain name back to the rightful owners for a fancy price, or making the Internet users believe that they are associated with the famous trademark.

150. The software on which both IBM and Microsoft companies run their business but is not made by them, is Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) packages.

151. GSM means Global System for Mobile Communications.

152 The hacker who was jailed by FBI for five years and was prohibited from using any computer or a cellular phone, was Kevin Mitnick.

153 The Hollywood animated films, Toy Story, A Bug’s Life and Toy Story 2 were created by John Lasseter.

154 The name of the computer-generated animation software which created dinosaurs in Jurassic Park and The Lost World, and battle-droids in Star Wars: Episode One, was RenderMan.

155. The computer-generated animation software RenderMan has been pioneered by Pixar Animation Studios company.

156. The statements which are true regarding WAP (Wireless Application Protocol) are (I) This protocol specifies the conversion of an HTML (Hyper Text Markup Language) document of a web page into UML (Universal Markup Language) or XML, (extensive Markup Language) because the mobile phone has lesser display area and the LCD display may not support all kind of graphics, and (II) WAP actually is a trade mark owned by certain companies together known as WAP Forum.

157 The supercomputer Cray series is sold by Silicon Graphics.

158 The programmer who pressed “shift” and “2” keys to launch a single character “@” in e-mail address, was Ray Tomilnson.

159. The definition “It is a programmable multifunction manipulator designed to move materials, parts, tools or specialized devices through variable programmed motions for the performance of a variety of tasks” is of a Robot.

160 The term branded as typewriters coined first by IBM and then MTST (Magnetic Tape Selectric Typewriters) because of use of magnetic tapes to store pages of text, we are talking about is Word processing.

161. The woman whose image is carried on the watermark of a software is Ada Byron.

162. Portable Document Format (PDF), Open eBook (OEB), and TK3 are used in e-Book publishing area.

163. Hart’s endevours to create Project Gutenberg which includes more than 2000 classic works online is called First digital book.

164 The company which was given his name by Aldus Manutius, an inventor in printing, publishing and typography is Pagemaker.

165The website which was launched by Tarun Tejpal was Tehelka.com.

166. Search engine in Internet jargon is Programs that hunt for Web pages in response to specific words or phrases.

167. The word “google” means The numerical one followed by a hundred zeros.

168 The telecom acronym CPP stands for Calling Party Pays.

169. The protocol which is designed to fit into mobile phones and pagers is Wireless Application Protocol (WAP).

170. The Internet terminology URL stands for Uniform Resource Locator.

171. The e-mail software Eudora, which got its name from Eudora Welty was named so because Eudora software is based on POP – Post Office Protocol.

172. The benchmark of artificial intelligence in which a human judge cannot distinguish machine responses from human responses, is called Turing test.

173 “Stricky site” in Internet jargon is A site where a user spends a large amount of time.

174. A portion of a domain name in www.economictimes.com, is called Secondary domain name.

175 “.com” is an example of Primary domain name.

176. By Moore’s Law Computing power doubles every 18 months.

177 The word “cyberspace” was coined by William Gibson.

178. The special text files which are stored through a website in a hard disk are called Cookies.

179 Personal Computer which has been named after a popular variety of applies in USA, is Macintosh.

180 The Indian state which installed first ever Computer Crime Cell is Karnataka.

181. The Indian software product which Bill Gates on his visit to India in 1997 endorsed was Ramco’s Marshall Enterprise Management System.

Need some coins to stop them

These pretty cube-shaped alarm clocks are not your average clock. These little suckers, called BanClock, have no snooze button. To shut them up, you gotta feed them coins.

What an effective way to start saving!

Dimensions: 10×10x10cm. Price: 5,985 YEN (~US$50)

Test for Idiocy

Below are four (4) questions and a bonus question. You have to answer them instantly. You can't take your time, answer all of them immediately.

Let's find out just how clever you really are....

First Question: You are participating in a race. You overtake the second person. What position are you in?

Answer: If you answered that you are first then you are absolutely wrong! If you overtake the second person, you take his place, so you are second!

Try not to screw up next time. Now answer the second question, but don't take as much time as you took for the first one, OK?

Second Question: If you overtake the last person, then you are...?

Answer: If you answered that you are second to last, then you are wrong again. Tell me, how can you overtake the LAST Person?

You're not very good at this, are you?

Third Question: Very tricky arithmetic! Note: This must be done in your head only. Do NOT use paper and pencil or a calculator. Try it.

Take 1000 and add 40 to it. Now add another 1000. Now add 30. Add another 1000. Now add 20. Now add another 1000, now add 10. What is the total?

Did you get 5000?

The correct answer is actually 4100.

If you don't believe it, check it with a calculator! Today is definitely not your day, is it? Maybe you'll get the last question right.

Fourth Question: Mary's father has five daughters: 1. Nana, 2. Nene, 3. Nini, 4. Nono. What is the name of the fifth daughter?

Did you Answer Nunu? NO! Of course it isn't. Her name is Mary. Read the question again!
Okay, now the bonus round.

Bonus Question: A mute person goes into a shop and wants to buy a toothbrush. By imitating the action of brushing his teeth he successfully expresses himself to the shopkeeper and the purchase is done. Next, a blind man comes into the shop who wants to buy a pair of sunglasses; how does he indicate what he wants?

Answer: He just has to open his mouth and ask. It's really very simple.... Like you!

It's really strange !!!!!!!!

A teenage girl from Saransk, Russia, claims to have X-ray-like vision, which lets her see inside of human bodies, to make diagnoses that often are more accurate than those of doctors. First widely hailed in Russia as "the girl with X-ray eyes," 19 years old Natasha Demkina has a growing following of patients, doctors, journalists, and others who are convinced her powers are real.

One hundred and twelve years ago, German physicist Wilhelm Roentgen announced his discovery of an invisible form of radiation that could make photographs of bones and organs inside a living human body. At first, many scientists called the discovery of "X-rays" a hoax, but when the skeptics put Roentgen's claims to the test, they quickly were convinced about one of the greatest discoveries in science and medicine. Indeed, just six years after his discovery, Roentgen was awarded the first Nobel Prize in physics.

In March 2004, the producer of a Discovery Channel documentary on Natasha asked the Committee for the Scientific Investigation of Claims of the Paranormal (CSICOP) and the affiliated Commission for Scientific Medicine and Mental Health (CSMMH) to scientifically test the young woman's claims. In response, CSICOP research fellows Ray Hyman, Ph.D. and Richard Wiseman, Ph.D., and I designed a preliminary test for judging whether her abilities warranted further, study. After Natasha, her mother, her agent, and the producer agreed to the test rules, we all flew to New York for filming the test on the City College of New York campus.
Dr. Hyman, professor emeritus of psychology at the University of Oregon, in Eugene, and Dr. Wiseman, professor of psychology at the University of Hertfordshire, in the United Kingdom, have extensive experience in testing people who claim paranormal powers. I served more than nine years as an associate editor and investigative reporter for the Journal of the American Medical Association. Based on our preliminary research, we suspected Natasha may be using a remarkably simple but convincing technique called "cold reading," which is commonly used by psychics, astrologers, and other fortune tellers. It works especially well with people who are eager to believe the reader and therefore inclined to interpret misses as hits. Typically, the psychic offers a smorgasboard of statements while looking for any that are confirmed or get a reaction. In most cases, the client willingly twists what was said to fit his or her experiences -- "a male relative with a name like James or John" is interpreted as meaning "Aunt Jane who passed away last year."

Similarly, Natasha scans her patients from head to toe and describes a long list of abnormalities she says she sees. When she gave me a reading, preciously few organs passed the inspection. My neck vertebrae were too tight, too close. The bronchial tubes of my lungs had phlegm. The muscle on the left side of my heart is a bit weak and the valve closes late. The mucosa of my stomach is abnormal. A segment of my liver was enlarged and I was suffering poor bile circulation. The head of my pancreas is increased and abnormally dark (although not seriously).

My duodenum has a little scar. My prostate gland has a nodule and is inflamed. My right kidney has "sand," while my left kidney's urethra is enlarged. In other words, I should forget about ever again signing an organ donor card.

Neither my physician nor I are aware of any of these problems. Nevertheless, Natasha and her supporters claim she sees what doctors and their tests often miss. The only way I could prove her wrong would be to submit to an autopsy -- which I'm not quite ready to do.

So we designed a simple test that would eliminate the possibility of using cold reading to fish for correct information and to prevent Natasha from making diagnoses that could not be disproved without an autopsy. We recruited six volunteers, who each had a different medical condition visible on X-rays, plus a "normal" subject who had none of the six target conditions. Natasha was handed six test cards, each with a description of a target medical condition, in English and Russian. We also provided her with anatomical drawings to make sure she understood exactly what to look for and where to look.

The target conditions were: a removed appendix, a removed lower section of the esophagus, metal staples left in the chest after surgery; an artificial hip joint; a surgically removed upper section of the left lung; and a metal plate covering a removed section of the skull.

Natasha claims she can see abnormalities down to the cellular level and her mother says her readings are 100 percent accurate. So the test which required her to match at least five of the target medical conditions to the correct subjects should have been a breeze. She didn't have to scan their entire bodies for unknown conditions. She was told exactly what to look for and exactly where to look. Yet, it took her more than fours to complete the test and she only matched four of the conditions correctly a score that everyone prior to the test had agreed upon would not justify further testing.Natasha's most dramatic misdiagnosis was her failure to see a large metal plate covering a missing section of skull in a man who had a large brain tumor removed. Instead, she indicated that she "saw" a metal plate and missing skull section in a man who had a removed appendix but normal skull.

The Top 10 Languages Spoken in the World

10. French - Number of speakers: 129 million

Often called the most romantic language in the world, French is spoken in tons of countries, including Belgium, Canada, Rwanda, Cameroon, and Haiti. Oh, and France too. We're actually very lucky that French is so popular, because without it, we might have been stuck with Dutch Toast, Dutch Fries, and Dutch kissing (ew!).

To say "hello" in French, say "Bonjour" (bone-JOOR).

9. Malay – Indonesian Number of speakers: 159 million

Malay-Indonesian is spoken - surprise - in Malaysia and Indonesia. Actually, we kinda fudged the numbers on this one because there are many dialects of Malay, the most popular of which is Indonesian. But they're all pretty much based on the same root language, which makes it the ninth most-spoken in the world. Indonesia is a fascinating place; a nation made up of over 13,000 islands it is the sixth most populated country in the world. Malaysia borders on two of the larger parts of Indonesia (including the island of Borneo), and is mostly known for its capital city of Kuala Lumpur.

To say "hello" in Indonesian, say "Selamat pagi" (se-LA-maht PA-gee).

8. Portuguese - Number of speakers: 191 million

Think of Portuguese as the little language that could. In the 12th Century, Portugal won its independence from Spain and expanded all over the world with the help of its famous explorers like Vasco da Gama and Prince Henry the Navigator. (Good thing Henry became a navigator. Could you imagine if a guy named "Prince Henry the Navigator" became a florist?) Because Portugal got in so early on the exploring game, the language established itself all over the world, especially in Brazil (where it's the national language), Macau, Angola, Venezuela, and Mozambique.

To say "hello" in Portuguese, say "Bom dia" (bohn DEE-ah).

7. Bengali - Number of speakers: 211 million

In Bangladesh, a country of 120+ million people, just about everybody speaks Bengali. And because Bangladesh is virtually surrounded by India (where the population is growing so fast, just breathing the air can get you pregnant), the number of Bengali speakers in the world is much higher than most people would expect.

To say "hello" in Bengali, say "Ei Je" (EYE-jay).

6. Arabic - Number of speakers: 246 million

Arabic, one of the world's oldest languages, is spoken in the Middle East, with speakers found in countries such as Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, Iraq, Syria, Jordan, Lebanon, and Egypt. Furthermore, because Arabic is the language of the Koran, millions of Moslems in other countries speak Arabic as well. So many people have a working knowledge of Arabic, in fact, that in 1974 it was made the sixth official language of the United Nations.

To say "hello" in Arabic, say "Al salaam a'alaykum" (Ahl sah-LAHM ah ah-LAY-koom).

5. Russian - Number of speakers: 277 million

Mikhail Gorbachev, Boris Yeltsin, and Yakov Smirnoff are among the millions of Russian speakers out there. Sure, we used to think of them as our Commie enemies. Now we think of them as our Commie friends. One of the six languages in the UN, Russian is spoken not only in the Mother Country, but also in Belarus, Kazakhstan, and the U.S. (to name just a few places).

To say "hello" in Russian, say "Zdravstvuite" (ZDRAST-vet- yah).

4. Spanish - Number of speakers: 392 million

Aside from all of those kids who take it in high school, Spanish is spoken in just about every South American and Central American country, not to mention Spain, Cuba, and the U.S. There is a particular interest in Spanish in the U.S., as many English words are borrowed from the language, including: tornado, bonanza, patio, quesadilla, enchilada, and taco grande supreme.
To say "hello" in Spanish, say "Hola" (OH-la).

3. Hindustani - Number of speakers: 497 million

Hindustani is the primary language of India's crowded population, and it encompasses a huge number of dialects (of which the most commonly spoken is Hindi). While many predict that the population of India will soon surpass that of China, the prominence of English in India prevents Hindustani from surpassing the most popular language in the world. If you're interested in learning a little Hindi, there's a very easy way: rent an Indian movie. The film industry in India is the most prolific in the world, making thousands of action/romance/musicals every year.

To say "hello" in Hindustani, say "Namaste" (Nah-MAH-stay).

2. English - Number of speakers: 508 million

While English doesn't have the most speakers, it is the official language of more countries than any other language. Its speakers hail from all around the world, including the U.S., Australia, England, Zimbabwe, the Caribbean, Hong Kong, South Africa, and Canada. We'd tell you more about English, but you probably feel pretty comfortable with the language already. Let's just move on to the most popular language in the world.

To say "hello" in English, say "What's up, freak?" (watz-UP-freek).

1. Mandarin - Number of speakers: 1 billion+

Surprise, surprise, the most widely spoken language on the planet is based in the most populated country on the planet, China. Beating second-place English by a 2 to 1 ratio, but don't let that lull you into thinking that Mandarin is easy to learn. Speaking Mandarin can be really tough, because each word can be pronounced in four ways (or "tones"), and a beginner will invariably have trouble distinguishing one tone from another. But if over a billion people could do it, so could you. Try saying hello!

To say "hello" in Mandarin, say "Ni hao" (Nee HaOW). ("Hao" is pronounced as one syllable, but the tone requires that you let your voice drop midway, and then raise it again at the end.)

IQ Test

1. What do you put in a toaster?

Answer: The answer is bread. If you said "toast", then give up now and go do something else. Try not to hurt yourself. If you said, "bread", go to question two.

2. Say "silk" five times. Now spell "silk". What do cows drink?

Answer: Cows drink water. If you said "milk", please do not attempt the next question. . If you said "water" then proceed to question three.

3. If a red house is made from red bricks and a blue house is made from blue bricks and a pink house is made from pink bricks and a black house is made from black bricks, what is a greenhouse made from?

Answer: Greenhouses are made from glass. If you said "glass", then go on to question four.

4. Twenty years ago, a plane is flying at 20,000 feet over Germany. If you will recall, Germany at the time was politically divided into West Germany and East Germany. Anyway, during the flight, TWO of the engines fail. The pilot, realizing that the last remaining engine is also failing, decides on a crash landing procedure. Unfortunately the engine fails before he has time and the plane crashes smack in the middle of "no man's land" between East Germany and West Germany. Where would you bury the survivors - East Germany or West Germany or in "no man's land"?

Answer: You don't, of course, bury survivors. If you said, "Don't bury the survivors" then proceed to the next question.

5. If the hour hand on a clock moves 1/60th of a degree every minute then how many degrees will the hour hand move in one hour?

Answer: One degree. If you said "360 degrees" or anything other than “one degree”, you are to be congratulated on getting this far.

6. Without using a calculator - You are driving a bus from London to Milford Haven in Wales. In London, 17 people get on the bus. In Reading, six people get off the bus and nine people get on. In Swindon, Two people get off and four get on. In Cardiff, 11 people get off and 16 people get on. In Swansea, three people get off and five people get on. In Carmarthen, six people get off and three get on. You then arrive at Milford Haven. What was the name of the bus driver and what is his age?

Answer: Oh, for heaven sake! It was YOU and your age. Read the first line again.

Four C's of Diamonds

Color

Diamond color is graded on a scale of the alphabet, using letters D through Z. The letters A, B, and C aren't used. This is because when the Gemological Institute of America invented the scale they wanted to disassociate it from jewelry stores that used their own color grade scales. The colors D, E, and F are considered to be completely colorless. D is of course, the best. Some famous diamonds are actually leaning towards the Z end of the scale but aren't quite "Fancy colored", like the faint yellow 55-carat Sancy Diamond. The largest known D-color diamond in the world is the Centenary, which weighs 273.85 carats. The second largest is probably the Millennium Star, which weighs 203.04 carats. Some diamonds do not fit onto the scale, such as fancy colored diamonds. Diamonds occur in every color of the rainbow. The rarest colors are red and purple, and combinations of those two colors. Yellow and brown are the most common color of diamond, but colorless is the most popular as far as jewelry is concerned. (Colored diamonds are very gradually appearing in more and more jewelry stores as they become more well-known.) Blues and greens are very rare, especially naturally colored stones. Some lightly colored diamonds (light light pink, light light blue, ect.) are irradiated to make their color more intense. This means that low fields of radiation are beamed into the cut and polished stone, darkening the outer part of the stone all the way around. The process is permanent and professionally accepted in the diamond industry. Probably the largest irradiated diamond is the Deepdene, a 104.88-carat golden yellow cushion shaped stone.
The Color Scale Terms for Distinct Colors

Faint *
Very Light *
Light *
Fancy LightFancyFancy IntenseFancy Vivid*
May fall into the lower end of the D-Z scale.

The color scale for colorless to near-colorless diamonds.

A natural fancy colored diamond will cost you much much more than an irradiated one. Such well known diamonds as the Hope, the Dresden Green, the Tiffany Yellow, the Conde Pink, and Sultan of Morocco, the Transvaal Blue, the Wittelsbach, the Agra, and the Great

Chrysanthemum are all very very unique because they were not irradiated. One remarkable stone, the Dresden Green, stands out amoung the naturals. It is the largest green diamond in the world at 40.70 carats. The fact it is an historic diamond, quite large and a natural green color with a slight blue overtone makes it virtually priceless. The Hope is also very unusual for the same reasons, but much more famous. The stone was originally a rather flat, blocky 110-carat rough. It was cut into a triangular pear of 68 carats, and then again into the 45.52-carat cushion cut it is today. The Conde Pink is a pear shaped 9.01-carat pink stone once owned by Louis XIII, also a naturally colored diamond.

In 1988, Sotheby's Auction House also sold a round, 0.90-carat, VS2 clarity, vivid green of natural color for $663,000 to an American collector. The per-carat price was over $736,000. This per-carat price is second to the 0.95-carat Hancock Red Diamond that sold also at Sotheby's for $880,000 (or $926,315 per-carat) on April 28, 1987. The stone is rumored to have been bought by a man representing the Sultan of Brunei, who is said to have one of the largest colored diamond collections in the world. All in all, a colored diamond is going to cost more than a colorless one, but colorless diamonds will probably always be more popular in the market.

Clarity

Diamond clarity is measured on a scale of I3 to FL. These are short for Imperfect 3 and Flawless. I3 (imperfect, eye visible inclusions), I2 (imperfect, eye visible inclusions), and I1 (imperfect, eye visible inclusions). I3 is the worst one the scale. It's so included that it looks like there is a cottonball trapped inside the diamond. Then higher up on the scale is SI2 (slight inclusions), and SI1 (slight inclusions). Many SI diamonds that are finely cut may look alot better than their clarity calls for. VS2 and VS1 are the next on the scale, standing for very small inclusions. Both the Hope and the Tiffany Yellow Diamond are of VS1 in clarity. VVS1 and VVS2 stand for very very small inclusions. The 137-carat Light of Peace is a VVS1 in clarity and a D in color.

IF stands for internally flawless, and then FL, which stands for flawless. In your everyday jewelry store, an interally flawless diamond is unusual. D, E, and F-color diamonds are fairly common, especially smaller ones. A combination of D-color and Internally Flawless is rare, and therefore more expensive. The two largest faceted D-Internally Flawless diamonds that I know of are the 273.85-carat Centenary Diamond and the 203.04-carat Millenium Star Diamond. The largest Internally Flawless diamond is the Incomparable, which is a 407-carat Fancy Brownish-Yellow "triolette" shape. Flawless diamonds are quite rare. The highest grade one usually sees is Interally Flawless. You could search the world for a Flawless diamond but there wouldn't be much point -- an Internally Flawless would essentially be just as good. The only difference is an Internally Flawless diamond is allowed to have 'naturals', which are unpolished surfaces of the original diamond crystal still remaining on the finished gem. They are usually small and hidden from view on the pavilion side of the stone, up near the girdle. They tend to have a glassy (but not polished) look, sometimes showing 'trigons', which are triangular depressions characteristic of many diamond crystals. As long as that aren't visible in the face-up diamond, they don't affect the clarity grade. However, they can't be present in a diamond for it to receive a Flawless grading.

Cut

There are many many different types of diamond cuts. The most common is the round brilliant, which has 57 facets. There are several very common variations on the round brilliant - the oval, the marquise, some cushion cuts, and the pear. All of which, in standard form, have 57 facets. Other very common diamond cuts are the heart, the step, and the princess. The sky is the limit as far as diamond cuts go. The last I heard, there are 255 registered diamond cuts.
However, the ones I just mentioned are the most common because some exotic cuts can waste rough stone. Heart cuts have become very popular the past few years, partly because of the booming diamond industry, and the film "Titanic", which featured a large heart cut blue sapphire that was thrown into the ocean. The movie prop was fake. However, after the film's release, a jewelry company faceted a heart cut sapphire identical to the stone in the film, then mounted it in a necklace to match. People often confuse the Hope Diamond and the 'Heart of Ocean' - both were blue, and both were surrounded by smaller white stones. However, one is a heart cut and the other a cushion, and the 'Heart of the Ocean' is considerably larger than the Hope Diamond. I am perpetually irritated by people confusing the Hope with the 'Heart of the Ocean.'

Carat-Weight

Carat weight is the most deciding factor as to the value of a diamond. A well cut diamond of SI1 clarity and a weight of 4.00 carats would be worth alot more than one of the same clarity, but weighing 1.60 carats and VS2 clarity.

The largest faceted diamond in the world is the Golden Jubilee, weighing 545.67 carats. It is a Fancy Brownish-Yellow color and "fire rose cushion cut." It is unusual also because it has a certain type of rare color banding. The second largest faceted diamond in the world is the Star of Africa, also known as the Cullinan I. It weighs 530.20 carats and is a pear shape with 74 facets. The third largest diamond in the world is the Incomparable. It is a golden yellow-orange color, pear shaped, and weighs 407 carats. The fourth largest faceted diamond in the world is the Cullinan II. It was cut from the same stone as the Star of Africa - aka Cullinan I. It weighs 317.40 carats and is a cushion cut.Up until 2001, the most valuable diamond (price-per-carat) was the 0.95-carat fancy red Hancock Red that had been sold at auction at Christies, NYC, for $880,000 ($926,315 per-carat). The stone was apparently purchased by a buyer representing the Sultan of Brunei, who reputedly has one of the largest collections of fancy colored diamonds in the world. I am not exactly sure which diamond holds the world record for the highest price per-carat, but I am almost certain its no longer held by the Hancock Red. Time will tell!

List of International Postal Services

Here is the list of Postal Service websites of each country.

Australian Postal Service - http://www.auspost.com.au

United States of America - http://www.usps.com

Indian Postal Service - http://www.indiapost.gov.in

Japan Postal Service - http://www.japanpost.jp

UK Postal Service - http://www.royalmail.com

China Post - http://www.chinapost.gov.cnHong Kong

Hongkong Post - http://www.hongkongpost.com