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Life Lessons All Can Learn From Steve Jobs

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Facts about Steve Jobs
Steve Jobs was a legend, he was a person. We can’t all be Steve Jobs, but we can all learn from his extraordinary life.

Life Lessons to Learn From Steve Jobs

Accentuate the Positive
Steve Jobs started life out on the wrong foot. He was given up for adoption at birth. Young Jobs didn’t think so: he was thankful for his loving adoptive parents — who happened to live in Palo Alto, California (which would eventually become Silicon Valley).

Learn from Others

In high school, Steve Jobs attended lectures at a small computer technology company called Hewlett-Packard. Before turning 21, Steve had worked for both HP and Atari. He saw what these companies were doing and learned what he can do.

Start Early

Because Steve Jobs was still a sponge-brained teenager when he started working with computers, he learned quickly. It also helps that he started Apple in his early 20’s: when he was still full of energy, fresh ideas, and not yet restrained by a family or career.

College is Important… But it’s Not Necessary

Reed University was expensive and Steve Jobs didn’t want to drain his parents’ savings. If Steve Jobs hadn’t dropped out, he would have been a junior in 1975. He co-founded Apple Computer that year instead.

Travel the World

The year before he founded Apple, Steve Jobs journeyed to India. Travel has a way of broadening a person’s perspective and expanding their sense of what’s possible – good traits in an entrepreneur.

Surround Yourself with Good People

Steve Jobs wasn’t a great computer engineer. Apple would have had no chance if Jobs was the only one building the computers. That’s why he recruited Steve Wozniak. Through the years, Jobs’ companies have blossomed thanks to the brilliant people he’s brought on board – like Apple CEO Tim Cook and Pixar CCO (Chief Creative Officer) John Lasseter.

Expect Greatness

People tend to rise to expectations.

Obstacles are meant to be Overcome

Steve Jobs and Wozniak ran out of money while developing the first Apple computer. Instead of giving in, Jobs sold his van and Wozniak sold his graphing calculator. When there’s a will, there’s a way.

Don’t Value Money

As CEO of Apple, Steve Jobs earned $1 a year. Jobs wasn’t incentivized by his salary, but by his own unrelenting pursuit of excellence.

Value People

Steve Jobs hired passionate people and cultivated exceptional company cultures at both Apple and Pixar – and their work speaks for itself.

Take Risks

Jobs was willing to cannibalize his company’s products in the name of progress. Many CEOs would have been hesitant to develop the iPhone, knowing full well that it would help to make the iPod obsolete – but Jobs did it anyway. Don’t be afraid to take risks. Especially smart ones.

Create a Personal Brand

Steve Jobs was one of the first people to recognize the growing importance of personal brands in the Internet age. His black turtle neck is as instantly recognizable as the Apple logo.

Put a Dent in the Universe

Steve Jobs once said, “We’re here to put a dent in the universe. Otherwise, why else even be here?” Having a higher purpose doesn’t just help you find success. It redefines the meaning of the word.

Have a Higher Purpose

Buddha said, “We are what we think. All that we arise with our thoughts. With our thoughts, we make the world.” Jobs has turned his vision into reality since he began practicing Buddhism in the 1970’s.

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Reactions You Would Relate During an Exam

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Reactions You Would Relate During an Exam
EXAMS! The second most terrifying word in a student’s life. The first being RESULTS. Exam time is one of the best times for everything else other than studying. That is the time when even staring at a plain wall seems to be more interesting than watching movies. While the phase of preparing for exams has its own story, that 3 hours in an exam hall is a result of how you utilized your study holidays. In an exam hall you would find the best reactions of students for various situations. Here! A few of the best ones.
  • When you find out that your roll no is on the first bench. Ughh… Damn it!

Obviously, it doesn’t matter to the NERD of the class. But for the majority of the students and the unfortunate people
whose name starts with ‘A’, well, you’re ……!

  • Before getting the question paper. There are times your heart skips a beat.

The only time most of us remember God and strike deals with him/her. And the usual “Bhagwan mujhe bas pass kardo and maa kasam I will break 10 coconuts in the temple”.

  • When you see the question paper and you want to kill the one who set the paper. Burn!

When the paper seems Latin and Greek to you and you double check if you have got the right question paper, your thought immediately goes to the one who set the paper.

  • When you see the question paper and you know all the answers. That’s me, the smart one!

And the feeling you get when you know most of the answers to the questions. You will feel like you have conquered the world!

  • And when you don’t know any of them…

You always have the next semester to clear’ and ‘Marks are just numbers, they don’t matter at all’ wali feeling creeps in.

  • That moment when you start calculating to see if you will pass.

You wouldn’t calculate numbers even in a Maths exam, the way you will do to check if you will pass.

  • When the invigilator comes and sits right next you.

OMG! The same feeling of hanging from a cliff and offering your final prayers before dying. And when the invigilator leaves, you will let out a long sigh just to blow your papers away.

  • When your friend is trying to copy from your paper.

No way! I’m not going to let him score more marks than me. That is JUST NOT POSSIBLE!

  • When your friend asks for an additional supplement.

You would be like… Asshole! We both studied together and I haven’t even completed 2 pages. ‘I don’t trust you anymore!’

  • When the checking squad walks in and you have a chit/mobile in your pocket.

They will come in like the CBI and give you a minor attack when you have chits or your mobile phone in your pocket. But you would pretend like you know nothing.

  • And when you don’t have any chits…Like A Boss

And this is the best feeling ever! Seeing your friends get busted. You would get so much internal pleasure but put up that sorry face for your friend.

  • Last 5 minutes of the exam… You’re like…
If this were athletics, you would probably beat Usain Bolt. But you will go through the feeling of
scoring more marks in the last 5minutes than the rest.
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Facts to know about Nuclear Power Plant

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Nuclear power plant use nuclear fission (the process of splitting an atom in two). Nuclear fusion (the process of combining atoms into one) has the potential to be safer energy because it is produced at a much lower temperature. Nuclear energy comes from uranium, a non-renewable resource that must be mined.

Facts about Nuclear Power Plant

  • 13 percent of the world’s electricity comes from nuclear power plant that emit little to no greenhouse gases.
  • Nuclear energy is being used in more than 30 countries around the world, and even powers Mars rovers.
  • Nuclear power plant facilities can produce energy at a 91 percent efficiency rate 24/7 while maintaining the method with the lowest emissions.
  • More than 70 percent of America’s emission-free power comes from nuclear energy sources.
  • American nuclear energy facilities are the highest regulated plants in the world, subject to more scrutinous observations and regulations.
  • The largest producers of nuclear power are the US, France, and Japan.
  • Nuclear power plant accidents have occurred in Three Mile Island (1979), Chernobyl (1986) and more recently in Fukushima (2011). The Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster occurred following the Tohoku earthquake and tsunami in Japan.
  • The Calder Hall nuclear power station in the UK was the first to deliver commercial quantities of electricity (1956).
  • The Sun creates energy through the nuclear fusion of hydrogen nuclei into helium.
  • South Africa developed complete nuclear weapons in the 1980s. However, it became the first country in the world to voluntarily destroy their weapon supply and to stop producing more weapons.
  • Nuclear power plant themselves do not create carbon dioxide, sulfur dioxide, or nitrogen oxides, the mining, enrichment, and transportation of uranium generates harmful fossil fuel by-products.
  • The world’s first nuclear power plant to create electricity for a power grid was USSR’s Obninsk Nuclear Power Plant, which opened on June 27, 1954.
  • A nuclear power plant must shut down every 18-24 months to remove its used uranium fuel or radioactive waste.
  • The largest radioactive waste storage pool in the U.S. is in North Carolina at the Shearon Harris nuclear plant.
  • Just removing a person’s outer clothing can remove 90% of the radioactive material after a disaster.
  • The most powerful nuclear weapon ever detonated was Russia’s Tsar Bomba. It is also the single most physically powerful device ever created by man. The fireball reached nearly as high as the altitude of the release plan and was seen 620 miles from ground zero. The mushroom cloud was over 40 miles high and the base of the cloud was 25 miles wide. It was test-denotated on October 30, 1961, in the Novaya Zemlya archipelago.
  • The most recent nuclear test was done by North Korea on May 25, 2009.
  • The first nuclear weapon in the world was detonated as a test by the United States at the Trinity site on July 16, 1945. Considered the beginning of the Atomic Age, the denotation took place in New Mexico. The fireball was about 600 feet wide and generated power roughly equivalent to 20 kilotons of TNT.
  • A team from the Manhattan Project led by Enrico Fermi created the first self-sustaining or crucial nuclear reactor at the University of Chicago on December 2, 1942.

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Amazing Facts About Pythagoras

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Pythagoras was born in about 570 BC on the Greek island of Samos. His father was a merchant. He was taught mathematics by Thales, who brought mathematics to the Greeks from Ancient Egypt, and by Anaximander, who was an earlier student of Thales.

Amazing Facts about Pythagoras

  • Thales advised Pythagoras to visit Egypt, which he did when he was about 22 years old.
  • Pythagoras must have liked Egypt.He lived there for about the next 22 years of his life, mastering mathematical ideas AND spiritual ideas.
  • Pythagoras didn’t leave Egypt willingly. He was caught up in a Persian invasion and taken as a prisoner to Babylon.
  • The Babylonians were probably the finest mathematicians in the world at that time. In Babylon, where he lived for about 12 years, Pythagoras learned mathematics and Eastern spiritual ideas, possibly from as far away as India.
  • Aged 56 or so, he was finally set free. He returned to Samos, his birthplace. There he began teaching people his philosophy of life, which was based on a mixture of his own ideas, mathematics, and mysticism from Ancient Egypt and the East.
  • After two years, Pythagoras left Samos. Too many people there were hostile to his new ideas. He moved to the
    city of Croton, then part of Ancient Greece, now in Southern Italy.
  • There his ideas fell on more fertile soil and he established the Pythagoreans.
  • The Pythagoreans were a religious sect or cult whose beliefs were based on the power of numbers; honesty; living a simple, unselfish life; and generally trying to show kindness to people and animals.
  • To Pythagoreans 10 was the supreme number.
  • 10 can be made by adding the first four numbers, 1,2,3 and 4. These numbers form a perfect, equilateral triangle, the Tetractys.
  • Ratios of numbers from the Tetractys are important in musical scales, which the Pythagoreans also thought had mystical powers.
  • Pythagoreans prayed to the Tetractys and swore oaths of faith to it.
  • For a right angled triangle the sum of the squares on the other two shorter sides equals the hypotenuse squared. Pythagoras learned this rule from the Egyptians and Babylonians. It bears his name because Pythagoras was probably the person who proved it was true for all right angled triangles.
  • The mathematical proof that √2 is irrational was found by a Pythagorean.
  • Pythagoras was actually a skilled lyre player and probably studied the relationship between musical pitch and string length.

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Suez Crisis

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The Suez Crisis was an event in the Middle East in 1956. It began with Egypt taking control of the Suez Canal which was followed by a military attack from Israel, France, and Great Britain.

The Suez Canal

The Suez Canal is an important man-made waterway in Egypt. It connects the Red Sea to the Mediterranean Sea. This is important for ships traveling from Europe to and from the Middle East and India.

The Suez Canal was built by French developer Ferdinand de Lesseps. It took over 10 years and an estimated one and a half million workers to complete. The canal was first opened on November 17, 1869.

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Nasser Becomes President of Egypt

In 1954 Gamal Abdel Nasser took control of Egypt. One of Nasser’s goals was to modernize Egypt. He wanted to build the Aswan Dam as a major part of the improvement. The United States and the British had agreed to loan Egypt the money for the Dam, but then pulled their funding due to Egypt’s military and political ties to the Soviet Union. Nasser was angry.

Seizing the Canal

In order to pay for the Aswan Dam, Nasser decided to take over the Suez Canal. It had been controlled by the British in order to keep it open and free to all countries. Nasser seized the canal and was going to charge for passage in order to pay for the Aswan Dam.

Israel, France, and Great Britain Collude

The British, the French, and the Israelis all had issues with Nasser’s government at the time. They decided to use the canal as a reason to attack Egypt. They secretly planned that Israel would attack and seize the canal. Then the French and the British would enter as peacekeepers taking control of the canal.

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Israel Attacks

Just like they had planned, the Israeli’s attacked and grabbed the canal. Then the British and French jumped in. They told both sides to stop, but when Egypt wouldn’t they bombed Egypt’s air force.

The Crisis Ends

The Americans were angry with the French and the British. At the same time of the Suez Crisis, the Soviet Union was invading Hungary. The Soviet Union had also threatened to enter the Suez Crisis on the side of the Egyptians. The United States ended up forcing the Israelis, the British, and the French to withdraw in order to prevent conflict with the Soviet Union.

One result of the Suez Crisis was that the esteem of Great Britain was never quite the same again. It was clear that the two world superpowers at the time were the United States and the Soviet Union. This was the Cold War and when something had an impact on the interests of the United States and the Soviet Union, they were going to get involved and assert their power.

The Suez Canal had strategic and economic impact for both the Soviet Union and the United States. It was in both of their interests to keep the canal open.

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Interesting Facts About the Suez Crisis

  • Sir Anthony Eden was the British Prime Minister at the time. He resigned shortly after the crisis ended.
  • The Suez Canal is still open today and is free for all countries. It is owned and ran by the Suez Canal Authority of Egypt.
  • The canal is 120 miles long and 670 feet wide.
  • Nasser ended up gaining popularity both in Egypt and throughout the Arab world for his part in the event.
  • The crisis is known in Egypt as the “tripartite aggression”.

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