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Friday, April 26, 2013

WHAT MAKES AMERICAN STATES SO SPECIAL?

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ALABAMA ... Was the first place to have 9-1-1, started in 1968.
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ALASKA ... One out of every 64 people has a pilot's license.
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ARIZONA ... Is the only state in the continental U.S. that doesn't follow Daylight Savings Time.

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ARKANSAS ... Has the only active diamond mine in the U.S.
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CALIFORNIA . Its economy is so large that if it were a country, it would rank seventh in the entire world.
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COLORADO ... In 1976 it became the only state to turn down the Olympics.
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CONNECTICUT ... The Frisbee was invented here at Yale University.
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DELAWARE ... Has more scientists and engineers than any other state.
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FLORIDA .... At 759 square miles, Jacksonville is the U.S.'s largest city.
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GEORGIA ... It was here, in 1886, that pharmacist John Pemberton made the first vat of Coca-Cola.
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HAWAII ... Hawaiians live, on average, five years longer than residents in any other state.

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IDAHO ... TV was invented in Rigby, Idaho, in 1922.
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ILLINOIS ... The Chicago River is dyed green every St. Patrick's Day.
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INDIANA ... Home to Santa Claus, Indiana, which gets a half million letters to Santa every year.
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IOWA ... Winnebagos get their name from Winnebago County. Also, it is the only state that begins with two vowels.
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KANSAS ... Liberal, Kansas, has an exact replica of the house in The Wizard of Oz.

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KENTUCKY ... Has more than $6 billion in gold underneath Fort Knox.
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LOUISIANA ... Has parishes instead of counties because they were originally Spanish church units.
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MAINE ... It's so big, it covers as many square miles as the other five New England states combined.
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MARYLAND ... The Oujia board was created in Baltimore in 1892.
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MASSACHUSETTS ... The Fig Newton is named after Newton, Massachusetts.
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MICHIGAN ... Fremont, home to Gerber, is the baby food capital of the world.

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MINNESOTA ... Bloomington' s Mall of America is so big, if you spent 10 minutes in each store, you'd be there nearly four days.
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MISSISSIPPI ... President Teddy Roosevelt refused to shoot a bear here ... that's how the teddy bear got its name.
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MISSOURI ... Is the birthplace of the ice cream cone.
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MONTANA .. A sapphire from Montana is in the Crown Jewels of England.
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NEBRASKA ... More triplets are born here than in any other state.
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NEVADA .... Has more hotel rooms than any other place in the world.

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NEW HAMPSHIRE ... Birthplace of Tupperware, invented in 1938 by Earl Tupper.
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NEW JERSEY ... Has the most shopping malls in one area in the world.
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NEW MEXICO ... Smokey the Bear was rescued from a 1950 forest fire here.
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NEW YORK ... Is home to the nation's oldest cattle ranch, started in 1747 in Montauk.
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NORTH CAROLINA .. Home of the first Krispy Kreme doughnut.
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NORTH DAKOTA ... Rigby, North Dakota, is the exact geographic center of North America.

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OHIO ... The hot dog was invented here in 1900.
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OKLAHOMA ... The grounds of the state capital are covered by operating oil wells.
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OREGON ... Has the most ghost towns in the country.
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PENNSYLVANIA ... The smiley, :) was first used in 1980 by computer scientists at Carnegie Mellon University.

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RHODE ISLAND . The nation's oldest bar, the White Horse Tavern, opened here in 1673.
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SOUTH CAROLINA ... Sumter County is home to the world's largest gingko farm.
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SOUTH DAKOTA ... Is the only state that's never had an earthquake.
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TENNESSEE ... Nashville's Grand Ole Opry is the longest running live radio show in the world.
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TEXAS ... Dr. Pepper was invented in Waco back in 1885.

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UTAH ... The first Kentucky Fried Chicken restaurant opened here in 1952.
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VERMONT ... Montpelier is the only state capital without a McDonald's.
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VIRGINIA .... Home of the world's largest office building ... The Pentagon.
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WASHINGTON .... Seattle has twice as many college graduates as any other state.
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WASHINGTON D.C. ... Was the first planned capital in the world.
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WEST VIRGINIA ... Had the world's first brick paved street, Summers Street, laid in Charleston in 1870.
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WISCONSIN ... The ice cream sundae was invented here in 1881 to get around Blue Laws prohibiting ice cream from being sold on Sundays.
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WYOMING ... Was the first state to allow women to vote.

Now tell me you knew all of that ..Huh....

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Wednesday, April 17, 2013

Sabeer Bhatia - A success story

Sabeer Bhatia an ordinary guy from Bangalore, India; came to Los Angeles in September 1988. He was 19 at that time and had only $250 in his pocket and knew nobody in America.

Sabeer intended to complete his degrees and go back to India to work with some Large Indian Company as an engineer. Sabeer did his MS in 1993. Sabeer thought that one should be superhuman to start a company and it was an impossible task for him.

But during his graduation in Stanford, he used to spend his lunch hours in the basement of Terman Auditorium. He listened to enterpreneurs like Scott Mc Nealy MBA's 80, Steve Wozniak and Marc Andreesen, they all had a common message - 'You can do it too'. Sabeer knew that famous people always says so to inspire others.

After completing his graduation Sabeer dropped the idea of going home. He took up a job with Apple Computers and so did Jack Smith, his friend and co-worker.

Sabeer and Jack had a dream to start a company and they were really working hard on it. They wanted to email notes to each other, but they were afraid of being accused by their bosses of spending their working hours on personal projects. They had personal American Online account, but they could not access it from office network. Jack was frustrated by all this problem. And this gave birth to an idea of free e-mail accounts that can be accessed anonymously over the web - HOTMAIL.

In mid-1995, Sabeer began his business plan for a netbased personal database called Javasoft. Javasoft became the front for Hotmail for Jack and Sabeer in December.

Sabeer knew Hotmail was an explosive concept. Sabeer convinced Imperial Bank to loan him $100,00. Then he convinced McLean Public Relations to represent Hotmail in exchange of stock.

In June the product was ready to launch, at that time they had 15 employees working for them. They launched it on July 4, 1996 - Independence Day - as Sabeer and Jack thought free email was a great Independent idea and populist tool. Every body who owned a computer had their own email accounts, but with webmail, they could log on from anywhere in the world. The first users found it all by themselves and then it spread like a forest fire. There were 100 in the first hour, 200 in the second hour and 250 in the third hour. The idea was so intuitively powerful that 80% of those who signed up for Hotmail; learned about it from a friend.

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Monday, April 15, 2013

The message in the bottle

A man was strolling along the beach one day when he spotted a bottle washed up on the shore. He went over and picked it up, and noticed a message in the bottle. He popped the cork out and inside was a weathered treasure map indicating that there was buried treasure to be found in the shallow waters below. But the man thought it was a hoax, so he slipped the map back in and threw the bottle back into the ocean...

A little later, another man was walking along the beach and the bottle had washed upon the shore. He too picked up the bottle, popped out the cork, and found the treasure map.
This man, however, was curious enough to wade into the water and hoped it was buried shallow enough to find. But once the cold ocean waters reached up to his thighs, he decided to quit. "This is not worth it!" he thought to himself. So he scrambled back to shore and chucked the bottle back into the ocean....

A third man was walking by the beach and noticed the bottle washed upon the shore. He went over, opened the bottle and found the map. The map looked authentic enough, and promised great treasure... So he got himself a small raft and set out into the ocean to claim the treasure..he rowed out far enough into the ocean where the "X" on the map was and to his surprise, he saw the glint of something shining in the waters below..he dove into the ocean and swam towards the shining object below..
he could see that there was something that looked like a treasure chest, but he couldn't quite reach it and the deeper he went, the greater the cold and pressure on his body and his mind..," I am about to lose my breath, and the longer i take, my raft might be swept away!", he thought. So the man decided to give up the hunt so he would ensure his own life and safety..when he reached the shore once more, he took the bottle from the raft and tossed it back into the ocean...

Finally, one more man was walking along the beach. He noticed the bottle, went over, popped it open, and was excited to find a map promising great treasure. He noticed someone had left a raft by the water's edge, so he took it and paddled out. He too, got far enough to where the "X" marks the spot, and squinted into the waters and saw the shadow and glint of the treasure below.

He took a deep breath and plunged into the waters. Like the man before him, the cold, darkness and pressure upon his senses increased as he got closer. He also realized that if he kept swimming, that he might lose his breath, the raft, and even his own life! But this treasure could be worth all the risk and he persisted. Just as he was about to give up, he grabbed the long chain that was binding the chest and pulled it up along with himself back to the surface.
He broke the surface of the water gasping and exhausted but with the treasure chest safely in his grasp. He paddled back to the shore, opened up the treasure chest and found what the map had promised--gold, and precious diamonds and jewels that would make him secure for the rest of his life.

A relationship with God is a similar treasure hunt. People hear the same message, but the way they receive it will determine the reward they might find. Eternal life is waiting for all those who are willing to take that risk to follow God all the way of life, where we find love, forgiveness and life everlasting. ... for eternity.