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29 year old, mother of twins & 5 times World Boxing Champ,



+Mary Kom  is a living example of 'Nothing is Impossible'.

Heroin worth 9 million seized from pak train

                                             

The customs department of India seized 105 kg of heroin,worth 9 million $ (rs.525 crore) from a goods train coming from Pakistan on 9th oct,evening.Around 500 cartridges were also seized from the train that were loaded with cement bags.

Landscape of the soul

A very old tale about the painter Wu Raozi, who existed in the eight century.
His last painting was a landscape commissioned by the Tang emperor Xuanzong
To decorate a palace wall. The master had hidden his work behind the screen
So only the emperor would see it. For a long while the emperor admire the
wonderful  scene, discovering forests, high mountains, waterfalls, clouds floating
in the sky, birds taking flight. Look sire"said the painter " in this cave at the foot
of the mountain, dwells a spirit". The painter clapped his hands and entrance
of the cave opened. The inside is splended beyond anything words can convey
Please let me show you Your magesty the way" said the painter . The painter
entered in the cave but the entrance closed behind him and before the astonished
emperor could enter or utter a word , the painting had vanished from the wall
. Not a trace of Wu Daozi brush was left and the artist was never seen again In
The world.

Weird and funny facts

1. The reported percent of women who wash their hands after leaving a restroom is 80%.

2. Men are 6 times more likely to be struck by lightning than women.

3. Women blink nearly twice as much as men.

4. No word in the the English dictionary rhymes with "MONTH".

5. The human brain is 80% water.

6. Every year, kids in North America spend close to half a billion dollars on chewing gum.

7. The parachute was invented by DiVinci in 1515.

8. Your right lung takes in more air than your left one does.

9. There are 86,400 seconds in day.

10. A goldfish has a memory span of about 3 seconds.

Shocking facts about sleep

1. The record for the longest period without sleep is 18 days, 21 hours, 40 minutes during a rocking chair marathon. The record holder reported hallucinations, paranoia, blurred vision, slurred speech and memory and concentration lapses.

2. It’s impossible to tell if someone is really awake without close medical supervision. People can take cat naps with their eyes open without even being aware of it.

3. Anything less than five minutes to fall asleep at night means you’re sleep deprived. The ideal is between 10 and 15 minutes, meaning you’re still tired enough to sleep deeply, but not so exhausted you feel sleepy by day.

4. Dreams, once thought to occur only during REM (Rapid Eye Movement) sleep, also occur (but to a lesser extent) in non-REM sleep phases. It’s possible there may not be a single moment of our sleep when we are actually dreamless.

5. REM dreams are characterised by bizarre plots, but non-REM dreams are repetitive and thought-like, with little imagery – obsessively returning to a suspicion you left your mobile phone somewhere, for example.

6. Certain types of eye movements during REM sleep correspond to specific movements in dreams, suggesting at least part of the dreaming process is analagous to watching a film

7. Elephants sleep standing up during non-REM sleep, but lie down for REM sleep.

8. Some scientists believe we dream to fix experiences in long-term memory, that is, we dream about things worth remembering. Others think we dream about things worth forgetting – to eliminate overlapping memories that would otherwise clog up our brains.

9. Dreams may not serve any purpose at all but be merely a meaningless byproduct of two evolutionary adaptations – sleep and consciousness.

10. Scientists have not been able to explain a 1998 study showing a bright light shone on the backs of human knees can reset the brain’s sleep-wake clock.

e-way firm to pay 10,000 rupees to a man(india)

The company running the delhi-gurgaon expressway toll plaza has been ordered by a consumer forum here to pay 10,000 rupees as compensation to a commuter for damage to his car after the toll gate barrier accidentally fell on it.
                                              The mishap had occurred at delhi-gurgaon super connectivity Ltd-run toll plaza,which has been asked to pay the sum to east delhi residence Abhinav by new delhi district consumer disputes residental forum.
                                      Rejecting the toll plaza contention that the costumer that the commuter hit the barrier,the bench presided by CK chaturvedi said he could not have hit the barrier if it was blocking the path. 

Who let the hot dogs out(a shocking competition)

              For those who dismiss competitive eating of western stuff, the hot dog competition recently organized in Delhi,India was quite a eye opener. As about 40 participates took part in this shocking rather strange competition, competitors stuffed their faces with hot dogs doused with mustard and ketchup,washing them with water or coca cola,judges and food show hosts rocky and mayur kept cheering and jeering. The world record of eating most number of hot dogs in 10 mins lies with a Japanese man who had 69 hot dogs in 10 mins.shocking?

There were not many rules in this competition,except one important one- no food fighting. Finally winners were announced. Arjun vajpai,Abhijeet and shinjan who all had 8 hotdogs each were given consulation prizes.

Shocking Rules for International Adoptions

CENTRAL AFRICAN REPUBLIC: Adoptive parents must provide a signed
Acceptance Statement about the adoption from the Mayor of their city
or town.

CHINA: China has a number of stipulations in place around adopting
children by foreigners including that couples consist of one man and a
woman and that neither parent is blind in one eye, has a severe facial
deformation, has had a major organ transplant within 10 years,
has AIDS or a body mass index (BMI) of 40 or more.

CONGO: If you are single, widowed or divorced, you can’t adopt a child of the opposite sex unless you have the court’s say so.

INDONESIA: Prospective adopters must believe in God and the child
waiting to be adopted must be of the same religion as the parents.
If it’s not known what religion the parents are, the child will be
deemed Muslim.

IRAN: Potential adoptive parents must be Muslim, be married for at
least five years and have no children already.

RUSSIA: Russia has laid out some medical stipulations for those
wanting to adopt including that adoptive parents must not have any
dysfunction of their limbs or a disability that prevents them from
working.

SRI LANKA: Like South Korea, single people cannot adopt from Sri
Lanka, nor can gay or lesbian people.

The Eyeball Tattoo

The eyeball tattoo tends to attract the attention of a large amount audience. It seems like the people are really liking this trend a lot of people are getting their eyeball tattooed. Here are some pictures of the people getting it done:-

Facts about Steve jobs

                          

1. He tried LSD: He reportedly said it was "One of the two or three most important things I have done in my life."

2. He dated Joan Baez: Jobs dated the folk singer when he was in his 20's.

3. He was a vegetarian: PETA praised Jobs for his vegetarianism and his support of animals.

4. He saved Pixar: Jobs purchased the company from George Lucas' LucasFilm for $5M in 1986. The first film produced by Pixar under Jobs was the critically acclaimed "Toy Story."

5. He was Disney's largest shareholder: He became Disney's largest shareholder when the company bought Pixar in 2006.

6. He was offered an internship with Hewlett-Packard ... in eighth grade: As an eighth-grader, he called William Hewlett, co-founder of Hewlett-Packard, to inquire about a part missing from a frequency counter he was assembling, the New York Times reports. Hewlett reportedly spoke to Jobs for 20 minutes, then offered him a bag of parts and a summer internship.

7. He and Steve Wozniak originally sold "blue boxes": The duo reportedly built so-called "blue boxes" that could trick phones into allowing users to make free calls to anywhere in the world. They reportedly raised a total of $6,000.

8. He was homeless: “I didn’t have a dorm room,” he said in a commencement address given at Stanford in 2005, “so I slept on the floor in friends’ rooms, I returned Coke bottles for the 5-cent deposits to buy food with, and I would walk the seven miles across town every Sunday night to get one good meal a week at the Hare Krishna temple."

9. He patented the glass staircase in the Apple Store: He is listed among the group of inventors for 317 Apple patents.

10. He drove without a license plate for years: Jobs drove his 2007 Mercedes-Benz SL55 for years with no official license plate, just a barcode, according to USA Today.