HIDE AND SEEK

A long time ago, before the world was created and humans set foot on it, God had put all the human "qualities" in a separate room. Since all the qualities were bored they decided to play hide & seek.
"Madness" was one of the qualities and he shouted: "I want to count, I want to count!" And since nobody was crazy enough to want to seek "Madness", all the other qualities agreed. So "Madness" leaned against a tree and started to count:

One, two, three..." As "Madness" counted, the qualities went hiding. "reason" hid in a pile of garbage.. "Lie " said that it would hide under a stone, but hid at the bottom of the lake. And Madness continued to count "... seventy nine, eighty, eighty one..." By this time, all the qualities were already hidden-except "Love ".

For stupid as "Love " is, he could not decide where to hide.

And this should not surprise us, because we all know how difficult it is to hide "Love".

"Madness": "...ninety five, ninety six, ninety seven..." Just when "Madness" got to one hundred..... ...."Love" jumped into a rose bush where he hid.

And Madness turned around and shouted: "I'm coming, I'm coming!" As Madness turned around, "Laziness" was the first to be found, because "Laziness" was too lazy to hide. "Madness" searched madly and found "Lie" at the bottom of the lake. One by one, Madness found them all - except Love. Madness was getting desperate, unable to find Love.
Envious of Love, "Envy" whispered to "Madness ": "You only need to find Love, and Love is hiding in the rose bush."

"Madness" Jumped on the rose bush and he heard loud cry. The thorns in the bush had pierced "Loves" eyes.

Hearing the commotion God came into the room and saw what had happened. He got very angry and cursed "Madness" and said since "Love" has become blind because of u... ..u shall always be with him"

And so it came about that from that day on, Love is blind and is always accompanied by Madness.!

THANKS SHYAMALA

DO IT ANYWAY

People are often unreasonable, irrational, and self-centered.

Forgive them anyway.

If you are kind, people may accuse you of selfish, ulterior motives.

Be kind anyway.

If you are successful, you will win some unfaithful friends and

some genuine enemies. Succeed anyway.

If you are honest and sincere people may deceive you.

Be honest and sincere anyway.

What you spend years creating, others could destroy overnight.

Create anyway.

If you find serenity and happiness, some may be jealous.

Be happy anyway.

The good you do today, will often be forgotten.

Do good anyway.

Give the best you have, and it will never be enough.

Give your best anyway.

In the final analysis, it is between you and God.

It was never between you and them anyway.

- Mother Teresa

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The Original Version:

The Paradoxical Commandments

by Dr. Kent M. Keith

1. People are illogical, unreasonable, and self-centered.
Love them anyway.
2. If you do good, people will accuse you of selfish ulterior motives.
Do good anyway.
3. If you are successful, you win false friends and true enemies.
Succeed anyway.
4. The good you do today will be forgotten tomorrow.
Do good anyway.
5. Honesty and frankness make you vulnerable.
Be honest and frank anyway.
6. The biggest men and women with the biggest ideas can be shot down by the smallest men and women with the smallest minds.
Think big anyway.
7. People favor underdogs but follow only top dogs.
Fight for a few underdogs anyway.
8. What you spend years building may be destroyed overnight.
Build anyway.
9. People really need help but may attack you if you do help them.
Help people anyway.
10. Give the world the best you have and you'll get kicked in the teeth.
Give the world the best you have anyway.

BE A LION

In a poor zoo of India , a lion was frustrated as he was offered not more than 1 kg meat a day.

The lion thought its prayers were answered when one US Zoo Manager visited the zoo 

and requested the zoo management to shift the lion to the US Zoo.

The lion was so happy and started thinking of a central A/c environment, a goat or two every day 

and a US Green Card also. 

On its first day after arrival,the lion was offered a big bag, sealed very nicely for breakfast.

The lion opened it quickly but was shocked to see that it contained few bananas. 

Then the lion thought that may be they cared too much for him as they were worried about his stomach 

as he had recently shifted from India .

The next day the same thing happened. 

On the third day again the same food bag of bananas was delivered.

The lion was so furious, it stopped the delivery boy and blasted at him, '

Don't you know I am the lion...king of the Jungle..., what's wrong with your management?, 

what nonsense is this?, why are you delivering bananas to me?'

The delivery boy politely said, 'Sir, I know you are the king of the jungle 

but .. Did you know that you have been brought here on a monkey's visa !!!!!'

Moral of Story : Better to be a Lion in India than a Monkey elsewhere !!!  

WHY TYRES ARE BLACK?

riginally rubber tires were white, which is the natural color of rubber. In the early 1900s, Binney & Smith began selling their carbon black chemicals to Goodrich Tire Company, as it was found that the use of carbon black in rubber manufacturing significantly increased certain desirable qualities for rubber meant to be turned into tires. Interestingly, Binney & Smith would later switch to making school products, and, eventually, re-name their company after their most popular product, Crayola Crayons.

In any event, carbon black works as a reinforcing filler in rubber, which increases the durability and strength of the rubber. Specifically, adding about 50% by weight of carbon black increases the road-wear abrasion of the produced tire by as much as 100 fold and improves the tensile strength of the tire by as much as 1008%. The tensile strength, for those who don’t know, is the amount of force needed to pull something to its breaking or bursting point.

Adding carbon black also helps conduct heat away from certain hot spots on the tire; specifically, in the tread and belt areas, which can get particularly hot at times while driving. This reduces thermal damage on the tire, which further extends its lifespan.

From a purely cosmetic standpoint, black tires are also much easier to keep looking clean, which also makes them desirable over natural white rubber tires. Interestingly, in modern times, white wall tires or fully white tires are sometimes thought as more luxurious, particularly on classic cars. However, when fully black tires first came out, they were considered the more desirable tire for their prestige and tended to only be found on high end luxury cars.

Carbon black itself is simply nearly pure elemental carbon in colloidal particle form. It is classically made by simply charring any organic material. Examples of this are Ivory Black, made by charring ivory or bones, and Lamp Black, made from the soot of oil lamps. Carbon black for industrial use today is typically produced as Furnace Black and Thermal Black. Furnace Black is produced using heavy aromatic oils. Thermal Black is produced using natural gas, generally methane, injected into a very hot furnace where, in the absence of much air, carbon black and hydrogen are produced.

Bonus Factoids:

• Rather than using carbon black in shoes, the more common additive to the rubber is fumed silica, which has similar reinforcing properties as carbon black, but leaves the rubber white. The downside of using silica-based additives on automotive tires is that they have much worse abrasion wear properties than tires with carbon black. However, they do offer better handling on wet surfaces and have a lower rolling loss, which increases fuel efficiency. Because of this, there are some tires that are starting to be made with silica-based additives, instead of carbon black, but this is still relatively rare.
• Around 70% of all carbon black pigment used in the word today is used for tires. Another 20% goes into belts, hoses, and other such rubber items. Most of the remaining 10% go into black coatings for items, as well as inks and toner in printing.
• Carbon black is not the same thing as activated carbon or soot. Carbon black has a much higher surface area to volume ratio than soot and also has much less polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbon in it.
• Despite research indicating carbon black may be a carcinogen, it is used in certain food coloring.
• Binney & Smith, which later became Crayola, is not only credited for making tires black, instead of white, but also is the company that originally created the red paint color that is now traditional on barns, which was a red oxide pigment.
• No one knows exactly where the word “tire” derives from. The leading theories are that it either derives from “attire” or from “to tie”. The earliest tires were simply bands of iron or other metal. The application of the metal band on the wooden wheels was accomplished by heating the metal tire, then placing it over the wooden wheel. Next, they would douse it in cold water, which would cause the metal to rapidly contract and secure itself to the wheel, with the outer ring “tying” the wheel together, hence the proposed “tie” origin.
• Binney & Smith’s “carbon gas blacks” earned them a gold medal in chemical and pharmaceutical arts. The company was originally founded in 1864 and produced types of Charcoal and Lamp blacks.
• The first practical pneumatic tire was developed by John Boyd Dunlop, who was originally a veterinarian. He created the tire to help his son who suffered from headaches when riding his bike. The rubber tire made for a much smoother ride for him on rough roads than wooden wheels.
• Around 1 billion tires are made annually.
• The earliest available carbon black product used for commercial purposes was “lamp black”, produced by the Chinese over 3500 years ago. However, these early forms of carbon black were relatively impure compared to modern carbon black.

BE AN OPTIMIST

STORY-OF-THE-WEEK OPTIMISM Many years ago there was an old man who had one son and a horse. One day his horse broke out of the corral and fled to the freedom of the hills. “Your horse got out? What bad luck!” said his neighbours. “Why do you say that?” asked the old man. “How do you know it’s bad luck?” Sure enough, in the next night the horse came back to his familiar corral for his usual feeding and watering, leading twelve wild horses with him. The farmer’s son saw the horses in the corral, slipped out a side door and locked the gate. Suddenly the farmer and his son had thirteen horses instead of one. The neighbours heard the good news and rushed to the farmer, “Thirteen horses! What good luck you have.” The old farmer answered, “How do you know that it’s good luck?” Some days later his strong young son trying to ride one of the wild horses, was thrown off and broke a leg. The neighbour came back that night and passed another hasty judgement: “Your son broke his leg. What bad luck!” The wise father answered again, “How do you know its bad luck?” Sure enough, a few days later a warlord came through the town and conscripted every able-bodied young man, taking them off to war, never to return to their homes again. But the young man was saved because of his broken leg.