Longest bridges in world

The world's longest cross-sea bridge, spanning 36.48 kilometers across the mouth of the Jiaozhou Bay in China's eastern Shandong province, opened to traffic four years after construction started. Here's a peek into some of the world's longest bridges.

Lake Pontchartrain Causeway

Located in Louisiana, United States, the Lake Pontchartrain Causeway, consists of two parallel bridges that run parallel to each other. The bridges are supported by 9,500 concrete pilings and spans over 38.35 kilometres. The southern terminus of the Causeway is in Metairie, Louisiana, a suburb of New Orleans. The northern terminus is at Mandeville, Louisiana.

Donghai Bridge

Completed on December 10, 2005, the Donghai Bridge has a total length of 32.5 kilometres and connects Shanghai to the Yangshan port in China. The 'Donghai Bridge' is popularly known as 'The stone'.

Chesapeake Bay Bridge

The Chesapeake Bay Bridge is a four lane bridge that connects the Delmarva Peninsula's Eastern Shore of Virginia with Virginia Beach and the metropolitan area of Hampton Roads, Virginia. The bridge has a total length of 37 kilometres.

Vasco da Gama Bridge

The Vasco da Gama Bridge is a cable bridge with a total length of 17.2 kilometres. The bridge was opened to traffic on 29 March, 1998. The bridge spans across the Tagus River near Lisbon, Portugal.

Penang Bridge

The Penang Bridge opened to traffic on September 14, 1985 and connects Gelugor in Penang island and Seberang Prai to mainland Malaysia. The total length of the bridge is 13.5 kilometres.

Rio-Niteroi Bridge

The Rio-Niteroi Bridge is a box girder bridge that connects the cities of Rio de Janeiro and Niteroi. The bridge opened on March 4, 1974 and the total length of the bridge is 13 kilometres.

Confederation Bridge

The 12.9 kilometre long bridge opened on 31 May 1997, connecting the Prince Edward Island with New Brunswick, Canada. The Confederation bridge is a two-lane highway toll bridge.

San Mateo-Hayward Bridge

Commonly known as the San Mateo Bridge, the San Mateo-Hayward Bridge connects San Francisco Peninsula with the East Bay. The total length of the bridge is 11.265408 kilometres.

Seven Mile Bridge

The Seven Mile Bridge is is located between the Gulf of Mexico and the Florida Strait. Finished in 1982 at a cost of $45 million, the Seven Mile Bridge connects city of Marathon in the Middle Keys of Florida to Little Duck Key in the Lower Keys of Florida.

NASA Envisions Alien Worlds

　 　 　

NASA/JPL-Caltech/R. Hurt (SSC-Caltech)

Out of the Dust, a Planet is Born
In this artist's conception, a possible newfound planet spins through a clearing, detected around the star CoKu Tau 4 by the Spitzer Space Telescope, in a nearby star's dusty, planet-forming disc. The possible planet is theorized to be at least as massive as Jupiter, and may have a similar appearance to what the giant planets in our own solar system looked like billions of years ago.

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NASA/ESA/G. Bacon (STScI)

Hubble Spots Possible New Moons Around Pluto
The artist's concept above shows the Pluto system from the surface of one of the candidate moons. The other members of the Pluto system are just above the moon's surface. Pluto is the large disk at center, right. Charon, the system's only confirmed moon, is the smaller disk to the right of Pluto. The other candidate moon is the bright dot on Pluto's far left. Click image for full resolution.

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ESA/C.Carreau

Steaming Hot Planet
This artist's impression shows a gas-giant exoplanet transiting across the face of its star. Infrared analysis by NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope of this type of system provided the breakthrough.The planet, HD 189733b, lies 63 light-years away in the constellation Vulpecula. It was discovered in 2005 as it transited its parent star, dimming the star's light by some three percent.

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NASA/JPL-Caltech/Harvard-Smithsonian CfA

Fantastic Four Galaxies with Planet
This artist's concept shows what the night sky might look like from a hypothetical planet around a star tossed out of an ongoing four-way collision between big galaxies (yellow blobs). NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope spotted this "quadruple merger" of galaxies within a larger cluster of galaxies located nearly 5 billion light-years away.Though the galaxies appear intact, gravitational disturbances have caused them to stretch and twist, flinging billions of stars into space, nearly three times as many stars as are in our Milky Way galaxy. The tossed stars are visible in the large plume emanating from the central, largest galaxy. If any of these stars have planets, their night skies would be filled with the monstrous merger, along with other galaxies in the cluster (smaller, bluish blobs).This cosmic smash-up is the largest known merger between galaxies of a similar size. While three of the galaxies are about the size of our Milky Way galaxy, the fourth (center of image) is three times as big. All four of the galaxies, as well as most other galaxies in the huge cluster, are blob-shaped ellipticals instead of spirals like the Milky Way.Ultimately, in about one hundred million years or so, the four galaxies will unite into one. About half of the stars kicked out during the merger will fall back and join the new galaxy, making it one of the biggest galaxies in the universe.

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NASA/ESA/G.Bacon(STScI)

Exoplanet HR 8799b
This is an artistic illustration of the giant planet HR 8799b.The planet was first discovered in 2007 at the Gemini North observatory. It was identified in the NICMOS archival data in a follow-up search of NICMOS archival data to see if Hubble had also serendipitously imaged it.The planet is young and hot, at a temperature of 1500 degrees Fahrenheit. It is slightly larger than Jupiter and may be at least seven times more massive. Analysis of the NICMOS data suggests the planet has water vapor in its atmosphere and is only partially cloud covered. It is not known if the planet has rings or moons, but circumplanetary debris is common among the outer planets of our solar system.

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NASA/JPL

Chemical Soups Around Cool Stars
This artist's conception shows a young, hypothetical planet around a cool star. A soupy mix of potentially life-forming chemicals can be seen pooling around the base of the jagged rocks. Observations from NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope hint that planets around cool stars - the so-called M-dwarfs and brown dwarfs that are widespread throughout our galaxy - might possess a different mix of life-forming, or prebiotic, chemicals than our young Earth.

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ESA

Huygens on Titan
In 2005 the robotic Huygens probe landed on Titan, Saturn's enigmatic moon, and sent back the first ever images from beneath Titan's thick cloud layers. This artist's impression is based on those images. In the foreground, sits the car-sized lander that sent back images for more than 90 minutes before running out of battery power. The parachute that slowed Huygen's re-entry is seen in the background, still attached to the lander. Smooth stones, possibly containing water-ice, are strewn about the landscape. Analyses of Huygen's images and data show that Titan's surface today has intriguing similarities to the surface of the early Earth.

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NASA/ESA/G. Bacon(STScI)

Flaring Red Dwarf Star
This is an artist's concept of a red dwarf star undergoing a powerful eruption, called a stellar flare. A hypothetical planet is in the foreground. Flares are sudden eruptions of heated plasma that occur when the field lines of powerful magnetic fields in a star's atmosphere "reconnect," snapping like a rubber band and releasing vast amounts of energy equivalent to the power of 100 million atomic bombs exploding simultaneously.Studying the light from 215,000 older red dwarfs collected in observations by NASA's Hubble Space Telescope, astronomers found 100 stellar flares popping off over the course of a week.

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NASA/ESA/G. Bacon (STScI)

Super-Hot Planet with Unique Comet-Like Tail
Astronomers using NASA's Hubble Space Telescope have confirmed the existence of a baked object that could be called a "cometary planet." The gas giant planet, named HD 209458b, is orbiting so close to its star that its heated atmosphere is escaping into space.Observations taken with Hubble's Cosmic Origins Spectrograph (COS) suggest powerful stellar winds are sweeping the cast-off atmospheric material behind the scorched planet and shaping it into a comet-like tail.

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NASA/JPL-Caltech

This Planet Smells Funny
Giant planet GJ 436b in the constellation Leo is missing something--and that something is swamp gas. To the surprise of astronomers who have been studying the Neptune-sized planet using NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope, GJ 436b has very little methane--an ingredient common to many planets in our own solar system. This artist's concept shows the unusual, methane-free world partially eclipsed by its star.Models of planetary atmospheres indicate that any world with the common mix of hydrogen, carbon and oxygen, and a temperature up to 1,000 Kelvin (1,340 degrees Fahrenheit) should have a large amount of methane and a small amount of carbon monoxide. But at about 800 Kelvin (or 980 degrees Fahrenheit), GJ 436b it does not. The finding demonstrates the diversity of exoplanets and the need for further study.

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NASA/Kepler Mission/Dana Berry

An Imagined Canyon on Planet Kepler 10-B
The daytime temperature is expected to be more than 2,500 degrees Fahrenheit, hotter than lava flows here on Earth, hot enough to melt iron! Many years ago, before Kepler launched, members of what became the Kepler team built a robotic telescope at Lick Observatory to learn to do transit photometry-- detecting drops in brightness of stars when planets pass in front of them. We called it the Vulcan Telescope, named after the hypothetical planet that scientists in the 1800's thought might exist between the Sun and Mercury. A planet that might explain the small deviations in Mercury's orbit that were later explained with Einsteins theory of general relativity.Vulcan is the god of fire in Roman mythology, a name befitting of a world so close to the Sun. The artists rendering of Kepler-10b is reminiscent of that hypothetical planet Vulcan. The Kepler team came full circle in its quest. We know that we've only begun to imagine the possibilities.

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NASA/Kepler Mission/Dana Berry

Imagined View from Planet Kepler 10-B
Kepler-10b orbits one of the 150,000 stars that the Kepler spacecraft is monitoring, a star that is very similar to our own Sun in temperature, mass and size, but older with an age of over 8 billion years, compared to the 4-and-1/2 billion years of our own Sun. It is one of the brighter stars that Kepler is monitoring and about 560 light years from our solar system, which means when the light from this star began its journey toward Earth, European navigators were crossing the Atlantic Ocean for the first time in search of new horizons. Today, we are still exploring and our crow's nest is a space telescope called Kepler. One day, the oceans we cross will be the galaxy itself, but for now, we imagine the worlds we discover by putting all that we have learned from our observations and analyses into the fingers of artists.Kepler-10b must be a scorched world, orbiting at a distance that is more than 20 times closer to its star than Mercury is to our own Sun, with a daytime temperature expected to be more than 2,500 degrees Fahrenheit.The Kepler team has determined that Kepler-10b is a rocky planet, with a surface you could stand on, a mass 4.6 times that of Earth, anda diameter 1.4 times that of Earth.

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IMPORTANT THINGS IN LIFE

A philosophy professor stood before his class with some items on the table in front of him. When the class began, wordlessly he picked up a very large and empty mayonnaise jar and proceeded to fill it with rocks, about 2 inches in diameter.

He then asked the students if the jar was full. They agreed that it was.

So the professor then picked up a box of pebbles and poured them into the jar. He shook the jar lightly. The pebbles, of course, rolled into the open areas between the rocks.

He then asked the students again if the jar was full. They agreed it was.

The professor picked up a box of sand and poured it into the jar. Of course, the sand filled up everything else.
He then asked once more if the jar was full. The students responded with a unanimous “Yes.”

“Now,” said the professor, “I want you to recognize that this jar represents your life. The rocks are the important things – your family, your partner, your health, your children – things that if everything else was lost and only they remained, your life would still be full.

The pebbles are the other things that matter – like your job, your house, your car.

The sand is everything else. The small stuff.”

“If you put the sand into the jar first,” he continued “there is no room for the pebbles or the rocks. The same goes for your life.

If you spend all your time and energy on the small stuff, you will never have room for the things that are important to you. Pay attention to the things that are critical to your happiness. Play with your children. Take your partner out dancing. There will always be time to go to work, clean the house, give a dinner party and fix the disposal.

Take care of the rocks first – the things that really matter. Set your priorities. The rest is just sand.”

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THE EXPENDABLES

STEEL AUTHORITY OF INDIA LIMITED

COME GROW WITH US, LIKE US
An Opportunity to join in SAIL as Management Trainees (Technical)- 450 seats or
Management Trainee (Administration ) -75 seats
SAIL, a Maharatna Company, is the leading steel-making company in India with a
turnover of Rs. 43,935 crore (FY 09-10). The company is one of the highest profits
earning corporate of the country. SAIL, is in the process of modernizing and expanding
its production units, raw material resources and other facilities to maintain its dominant
position in the Indian steel market. To man front-line executive positions in its
Plant/Units, SAIL invites applications for the posts of Management Trainees (Technical)
and Management Trainees (Administration) in E-1 grade from young, energetic, result
oriented and promising talent in the country.

ELIGIBILITY:

Upper Age : 30 years as on 1.9.2010, i.e., not born earlier than 1.9.1980

Minimum Qualification:

Management Trainees (Technical):
Degree in Engg. (full time)/MCA (3 years full time)with 65% marks (average of all semesters), in the disciplines of Mechanical, Electrical, Metallurgy, Civil, E&T, Instrumentation, Ceramics, Chemical, Computer Science, Mining, Fire or Safety Engineering.

Management Trainees (Administration):
For HR, Materials and Marketing : Bachelors’ degree in any discipline with 60% marks with at least two years full time MBA/PG Diploma in management with 60% marks in HR/PM&IR/Pers /MHROD for HR, Production/Operations/Materials Mgmt. for Materials and Marketing for Marketing disciplines.
For MT -Finance : CA/ICWA

SELECTION:

Eligible candidates will be required to appear for a Written Examination, information for
which will be provided in the Admit card. Candidates shortlisted on the basis of their
performance in the Written Test will be intimated to appear for Group
Discussion/Interview.

WRITTEN TEST :

Eligible candidates will be required to appear for objective type written test in at any
one of the centres at Agartala, Allahabad, Bangalore, Baroda, Bhilai, Bhopal,
Bhubaneswar, Bokaro, Chandigarh, Chennai, Dehradun, Delhi, Durgapur, Guwahati,
Hyderabad, Jaipur, Jammu, Kochi, Kolkata, Lucknow, Mumbai, Nagpur, Patna, Ranchi,
Rourkela, Salem, Trichy, Vijaywada and Visakhapatnam.
However, SAIL may add/delete any centre and allocate appropriate centre to the
candidate.
The written test for both the above mentioned posts will be held on the same day as per
the following schedule:
i) For MT(Technical) - In the Forenoon session
ii) For MT(Administration) - In the Afternoon session
Candidates can apply and compete for both or either of the above stated posts, subject
to their fulfilling the eligibility conditions prescribed for each. Those interested in
competing for both the posts will have to apply separately for each of the post with
requisite fee and also will be required to appear in the tests in both the sessions at the
same centre.
In the written test, there will be negative marking for wrong answers, i.e. 1/4th of the
allotted marks for the question will be deducted for every wrong answer.

GROUP DISCUSSION / INTERVIEW:

Candidates shortlisted on the basis of their performance in the written test will be
intimated to appear for Group Discussion/Interview, which may be held at short notice.
Please visit the SAIL website for information on the same. SC/ST/OBC candidates will
be given relaxation in prescribed qualifying level for written test, group discussion and
interview.

HOW TO APPLY:

Eligible and interested candidates would be required to apply online only through SAIL’s
website: www.sail.co.in. No other means/mode of application shall be accepted.
Before registering their applications on the website the candidates should possess the
following:
a) Valid e-mail ID, which should remain valid for atleast one year.
b) Pay in Slip for Rs.500/- as examination fee for General and OBC Candidates.
Rs.100/- as processing fee for SC/ST/ PH/Departmental candidates. The Pay-in-Slip
is to be downloaded from the website after filling in the required details.
c) Candidates should have latest passport size photograph as well as photograph of
signatures in digital format (.jpg or jpeg file only, of less than 500 kb size) for
uploading with the application form.
d) Candidates applying for both MT (Tech.) and MT (Admn.) should register separately
with application /processing fee.
After applying online, candidate is required to download the system generated
Registration Slip with unique registration number and other essential details.

IMPORTANT DATES

1. Starting date for submitting applications through website 28.09.2010
2. Closing date for submitting applications through website 25.10.2010
3. Starting date for downloading of Admit Card from SAIL
website for written examination 15.11.2010

To read the general instructions and register online, go to the following link.

http://www.sail.co.in/aboutus.php?tag=MT

GovJobs - Government Jobs in India

Engineer Trainee/Supervisor Trainee

Bharat Heavy Electricals Limited

BHEL is the largest engineering and manufacturing enterprise in India in the energy-related/infrastructure sector, today. BHEL was established more than 40 years ago, ushering in the indigenous Heavy Electrical Equipment industry in India – a dream that has been more than realized with a well-recognized track record of performance. The company has been earning profits continuously since 1971-72 and paying dividends since 1976-77.

Recruitment Of Engineer Trainee/Supervisor Trainee, 2010-11

Engineer Trainee:
Qualification:
Full time regular Bachelor’s Degree in Engineering or Technology from a recognized Indian University/ Institute in the disciplines of MECHANICAL/ ELECTRICAL/ ELECTRONICS Minimum 65 % or Equivalent CGPA in aggregate of all years/semesters.

Age as on 1st August 2010: 27 Years (Candidates born before 01/08/1983 are not eligible to apply
No of Vacancies:
Mechanical: 400
Electrical: 125
Electronics: 75

Supervisor Trainee
Qualification: Full time regular Diploma in Engineering from a recognized Indian University/ Institute in the disciplines of MECHANICAL/ ELECTRICAL/ELECTRONICS/ CIVIL Minimum 65 % or Equivalent CGPA in aggregate of all years/semesters
No. of Vacancies:
Mechanical: 550
Electrical: 150
Electronics: 75
Civil: 25

Age as on 1st August 2010: 27 Years (Candidates born before 01/08/1983 are not eligible to apply)

Selection Process: Selection process will consist of Written Test and Personal Interview. Written test will consists of 150 multiple choice objective type questions. Test is designed to assess the candidate’s Professional ( Technical) Knowledge of the chosen Engineering Discipline and Higher Aptitude covering arear like Quantitative Aptitude, Reasoning Ability, Logical thinking, English usage, General Awareness etc

For Engineer Trainee Application Fee: After filling the details in the challan, it has to be deposited with the fee of Rs. 500/- at any of the SBI branches all over the country. For Supervisor Trainee fee of Rs. 300/- at any of the SBI branches all over the country

Apply Details :

Candidates should apply On-Line Only

Diary Dates:

Commencement of on-line submission of applications: 30th August, 2010.

Closing of on-line submission of Applications : 20th September, 2010.

Last date of receipt of Ack. Slips at BHEL, BAP Ranipet: 27th September, 2010.

Please Check All Details Here

Check Details & Apply Online (For Engineer Trainee )

Check Details & Apply Online (For Supervisor Trainee)

A SONG IN 3 IDIOTS MOVIE

"GIVE ME SOME SUN SHINE......"

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LYRICS:

Saari Umr Hum
Mar Mar ke jee liye
Ek pal to ab humein
Jeene Do Jeene do

Saari Umr Hum
Mar Mar ke jee liye
Ek pal to ab humein
Jeene Do Jeene do

Saari Umr Hum
Mar Mar ke jee liye
Ek pal to ab humein
Jeene Do Jeene do

Na Na NA
Na Na NA

Na Na NA
Na Na NA


Give me some Sunshine
give me some rain
Give me another chance
wana grow up once again

Give me some Sunshine
give me some rain
Give me another chance
wana grow up once again


Kandhon ko kitabon
Ke bojh ne jhukaya
Rishvat dena to khud
Papa ne sikhya
99% marks laaoge to
ghadi varna chadi

Likh likh pada
hatheli par

Alpha beta gamma ka chaala
Concentrated H2so4
Ne Poora Poora bachpan jala daala


Bachpan to gaya
Jawani bhi gayi
Ek pal To ab humein
Jeene Do jeene do
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Bachpan to gaya
Jawani bhi gayi
Ek pal To ab humein
Jeene Do jeene do

Saari Umr Hum
Mar Mar ke jee liye
Ek pal to ab humein
Jeene Do Jeene do

Na Na NA
Na Na NA

Na Na NA
Na Na NA


Give me some Sunshine
give me some rain
Give me another chance
wanna grow up once again

Give me some Sunshine
give me some rain
Give me another chance
wanna grow up once again


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ZOO ZOO's videos

No, they aren’t animated characters. They are human beings who were made to wear body suits. To be specific, they are women theater artists from Cape Town. The design of the characters is such that one gets fooled into thinking it is animation.

This was achieved using special material wrinkle free cloth which made the body suites look smooth (like in animation) and the ads were shot at slower than normal frame rate so that the movements look swift but funny. You can also notice that the expressions on the face are static and are changed only between the (shot) cuts.

These Zoozoo characters have been created by O&M for Vodafone to convey different value added services offered by the mobile phone company including phone Backup, cricket alerts, etc. Each Zoozoo character has a unique set of characteristics and traits allotted to it.


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JNTU RESULT ANALYSIS

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