Mother's Day Special...

It's interesting to know that Mother's Day is celebrated on different days in different countries. In INDIA it is on second Sunday of May.
I describe mother as...


M=motivator
O=only 1
T=true love
H=heartiest
E= exceptional
R=responsible


Occurrence of Mother's Day in different counties is given below...

MOTHER's DAY
Occurrence	Dates	Country
Second Sunday of February	February 14, 2010 February 13, 2011 February 12, 2012	Norway
March 3		Georgia
March 8		Afghanistan  Albania†  Armenia†	Azerbaijan  Belarus†  Bosnia and Herzegovina†	Bulgaria†  Kazakhstan†  Laos	Macedonia†  Moldova  Montenegro†	Romania†  Serbia†  Ukraine†  Vietnam†*
Fourth Sunday in Lent	March 22, 2009 March 14, 2010 April 3, 2011	Ireland  Nigeria	United Kingdom
March 21 (vernalequinox)		Bahrain  Egypt  Jordan  Kuwait  Libya	Lebanon  Oman  Palestinian territories  Israeli Arabs	Saudi Arabia  Sudan  Syria	United Arab Emirates  Yemen (all Arab countries in general)  Iraq
March 25		Slovenia
April 7		Armenia
First Sunday in May	May 2, 2010 May 1, 2011 May 6, 2012	Hungary  Lithuania	Mozambique  Portugal	Spain
May 8		Albania (Parents' Day)  South Korea (Parents' Day)
May 10		El Salvador  Guatemala	Mexico
Second Sunday of May	May 9, 2010 May 8, 2011 May 13, 2012	Anguilla  Aruba  Australia  Austria  Bahamas  Bangladesh  Barbados  Belgium  Belize  Bermuda  Bonaire  Botswana  Brazil  Brunei  Bulgaria	Canada  Chile  People's Republic of China†  Colombia  Croatia  Cuba  Curaçao  Cyprus  Czech Republic  Denmark	Dominica  Ecuador  Estonia  Ethiopia  Fiji  Finland  Germany  Ghana  Greece  Grenada  Guyana  Honduras  Hong Kong  Iceland  India	Italy  Jamaica  Japan  Latvia  Liechtenstein*  Macao  Malaysia  Malta  Myanmar  Netherlands  New Zealand  Pakistan  Papua New Guinea  Peru	Philippines  Puerto Rico  Saint Kitts and Nevis  Saint Lucia  Saint Vincent and the Grenadines  Samoa  Singapore  Sint Maarten  Slovakia  South Africa  Sri Lanka  Suriname	Switzerland  Taiwan  Tanzania  Tonga  Trinidad and Tobago  Turkey  Uganda  Ukraine  United States  Uruguay  Vietnam  Venezuela  Zambia  Zimbabwe
May 15		Paraguay (same day as Día de la Patria)
May 26		Poland "Dzień Matki"
May 27		Bolivia
Last Sunday of May	May 31, 2009 May 30, 2010 May 29, 2011	Algeria  Dominican Republic	France (First Sunday of June ifPentecost occurs on this day)  French Antilles (First Sunday of June ifPentecost occurs on this day)	Haiti  Mauritius  Morocco	Sweden  Tunisia
May 30		Nicaragua
June 1		Mongolia† (The Mothers and Children's Day.)
Second Sunday of June	June 13, 2010 June 12, 2011 June 10, 2012	Luxembourg
Last Sunday of June	June 28, 2009 June 27, 2010	Kenya
August 12		Thailand (The birthday of Queen Sirikit)
August 15		Costa Rica
Second Monday of October	October 11, 2010 October 10, 2011 October 8, 2012	Malawi
October 14		Belarus
Third Sunday of October	October 18, 2009 October 17, 2010 October 16, 2011	Argentina (Día de la Madre)
Last Sunday of November	November 29, 2009 November 28, 2010 November 27, 2011	Russia
December 8 (Feast of the Immaculate Conception)		Panama
December 22		Indonesia
Other calendars
Occurrence	Gregorian dates	Country
Shevat 30	Between January 30 and March 1	Israel
BaisakhAmavasya(Mata Tirtha Aunsi)	Between 19 April and 29 April	Nepal
20 Jumada al-thani	14 June 2009	Iran

Here you can download Mother's Day Greetings...
Just Click on the images...

I Love You MOM...

GK_BLAST GKB_Q115

GKB_Q115
Q-The reflex angle between the hands of a clock at 10:25 is ?(in degree)
(Note: At 10:25, hour hand is not at sharp 10)

The angle between hands is 180+?

Now the problem is to find ?=x

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We know that hour hand covers 30 degree in one hour and minute hand covers 360 degree in one hour.

     360 degree of minute hand = 30 degree of hour hand

(in 25 minute, minute hand covers 150 degree)

So 150 degree of minute hand = (30*150)/360 degree of hour hand

Hence hour hand cover 12.5 degree.

So

x=30-12.5=17.5 degree

Therefore, total angle between hands is 180+17.5=197.5 degree

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India's first Tidal power plant

The Indian state of Gujarat has cleared plans for the installation of India’s first commercial tidal power plant. The proposal to build a tidal power plant with an initial capacity of 50 MW was made by London-based marine energy developer Atlantis Resources Corporation.

The company has signed a MoU with the government of Gujarat to set up the power plant by 2013. The plant is likely to be scaled up to a capacity of 250 MW at a cost of about $165 million. The project will be developed in partnership with the Gujarat Power Corporation Limited.

Describing the current global scenario with regard to the total installed capacity, Atlantis’ CEO said that the sector is in its nascent stages and compared it with the early stages of wind energy growth ten years ago.

The capital costs involved in tidal power plants is very high largely due to the extensive civil works required. The average break year time for such power plant varies from 8 to 12 years. Therefore, for the project to be commercially viable the tariffs are need to be attractive.

Handshake Problem...

GKB_Q98
Q- At a party,every1 shake hands with everybody else.There r 66 handshakes
How many people r there?



Ans- With two people, there is one handshake.
With three people, there are three handshakes.
With four people, there are six handshakes.
In general, with n+1 people, the number of handshakes is the sum of the first n consecutive numbers: 1+2+3+...+n.
Since this sum is n(n+1)/2,
we need to solve the equation n(n+1)/2 = 66.
This is the quadratic equation n²+n-132 = 0.
Solving for n, we obtain 11 as the answer and deduce that there were 12 people at the party.

How many Squares on a Chessboard?

How many Squares on a Chessboard?

Although this investigation seems quite simple, it requires a methodical approach if the correct answer is to be attained.
As the title suggests, the investigation involves children finding out how squares there are on a chessboard. You might think that there are only 64, but you would be wrong...
The diagram below shows that there are indeed 64 squares, you there are also some more...

Don't forget the one large square (shown in red here)...

And, also the 16 two-by-two squares shown below (although these aren't the only 2x2 squares!)...

There are many more different-sized squares on the chessboard.
The complete list of answers is shown below:

1, 8x8 square

4, 7x7 squares

9, 6x6 squares

16, 5x5 squares

25, 4x4 squares

36, 3x3 squares

49, 2x2 squares

64, 1x1 squares

Therefore, there are actually 64 + 49 + 36 + 25 + 16 + 9 + 4 + 1 squares on a chessboard! (in total 204).