Everything You Wanted To Know About Beer

Everything You Wanted To Know About Beer

Beer: love it or hate it, it's a universal passtime. We like to think of it as fully American, but it originated far in the past and was carried through the ages. Next time you want to wow your friends and colleagues, just jump back to this list of fun and useful beer trivia and facts:

• The first consumer protection law ever written was enacted over beer by Duke Wilhelm IV of Bavaria in 1516. It was a purity law limiting the ingredients of beer to barley, hops and water.

• Tegestology is what collecting beer mats is called.

• Beer is the second most popular beverage in the world, coming in behind tea.

• Pabst Beer is now called Pabst Blue Ribbon beer because it was the first beer to win a blue ribbon at the Chicago World’s Fair in 1893.
• To get rid of the foam at the top of beer (the head), stick your fingers in it.

• Monks brewing beer in the Middle Ages were allowed to drink five quarts of beer a day.

• Bavaria still defines beer as a staple food.

• To keep your beer glass or mug from sticking to your bar napkin, sprinkle a little salt on the napkin before you set your glass down.

• The oldest known written recipe is for beer.

• The Pilgrims landed at Plymouth Rock because of beer. They had planned to sail further south to a warm climate, but had run out of beer on the journey.

• Anheuser-Busch is the largest brewery in the US.
• The longest bar in the world is the 684 foot long New Bulldog in Rock Island, IL.

• The powers that be at Guinness say that a pint of beer is lifted about ten times, and each time about 0.56 ml is lost in a beer drinker’s facial hair. That’s a lot of wasted beer!

• As of 2001, 62% of Americans reported using a designated driver at least once.
• Molson, Inc. is the oldest brewery in North America.

• Franklin Delano Roosevelt (FDR) was elected in 1932 because of his promise to end Prohibition.

• The first United States Marine Recruiting Station was in a bar.

• The first brewery in America was built in Hoboken, NJ in 1642.
• In 1935 the canned beer industry was revolutionized by a vinyl plastic liner developed for cans made out of tin.
• The movie The Shawshank Redemption got their period beer containers wrong. The prisoners on the roof drank beer out of bottles in the 1930s, when beer was canned until many years later.
• Tossing salted peanuts in a glass of beer makes the peanuts dance.

• Samuel Adams Triple Bock is the strongest beer in the world with 17% alcohol by volume. The strength is achieved by using champagne yeast.

• In Japan, beer is sold in vending machines, by street vendors and in the train stations.

• Bourbon is the official alcohol of the United States, by an act of Congress. Many people have attempted to have that overturned in favor of beer instead throughout the years.

• Many actors started out as bartenders: Sandra Bullock, Bruce Willis, Tom Arnold, Chevy Chase, Kris Kristofferson and Bill Cosby are a few of these.

• American beer is made mostly by rice, unlike the beers of other countries. This was invented to give American beer a lighter taste and tap into the market of women buyers.

• Michelob was invented during a brewer’s strike in the 1930s from a recipe tossed together by the untrained workers left behind to run the brewery. It was so bad local taverns tossed their delivered barrels in the gutter until the streets ran with beer. When the strike was over, the brewery didn’t want to lose all that beer, no matter how bad, so they repackaged it and sold it as Michelob.
• Beer is a source of B- complex vitamins.
• If you collect beer bottles your are a labeorphilist.

• The portable beer cooler was invented in Australia in the 1950s.

Facts for Beer lovers

Awesome Facts Only For Beer Lovers

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Anger..the emotion to be avoided!

The Law Of The Garbage Truck

One day I hopped in a taxi and we took off for the airport. We were driving in the right lane when suddenly a black car jumped out of a parking space right in front of us.

My taxi driver slammed on his breaks, skidded, and missed the other car by just inches! The driver of the other car whipped his head around and started yelling at us. My taxi driver just smiled and waved at the guy. And I mean, he was really friendly.

So I asked, 'Why did you just do that? This guy almost ruined your car and sent us to the hospital!' This is when my taxi driver taught me what I now call, 'The Law of the Garbage Truck.'

He explained that many people are like garbage trucks. They run around full of garbage, full of frustration, full of anger, and full of disappointment. As their garbage piles up, they need a place to dump it and sometimes they'll dump it on you.

Don't take it personally. Just smile, wave, wish them well, and move on. Don't take their garbage and spread it to other people at work, at home or on the streets.

The bottom line is that successful people do not let garbage trucks take over their day. Life's too short to wake up in the morning with regrets, so..... 'Love the people who treat you right.. Pray for the ones who don't.'

Life is ten percent what you make it and ninety percent how you take it.

 

Our perception conts...Birbal to Akbar

Akbar said to Birbal, “We Muslim’s have Allah, Christians have Christ, Buddhists have Buddha. But you Hindus worship so many Gods. Why is it so?

Birbal said : ” God is one but His names are many.”

Akbar: “How is it possible? How can God assume so many forms and yet only be one?”

Birbal summoned a servant who was wearing a turban. He pointed to it and said: “What is that?”

Servant said: “A turban”

Birbal: “Untie it, roll it and. tie it to your waist”

When he had done so, Birbal asked, “What is that”

Servant answered: “A kamarbhand”

Birbal, turning to Akbar. “You have seen how the same cloth acquires different names when performing different functions. So also water can be a cloud when in sky; it is rain when it falls to earth; it is river when it flows, ice when it freezes.

Similarly God is one but is called by different names by different people

Moral

We name things according to our own perceptions. It is important to bear in mind that the name is not the thing named. Just as map is not the territory it refers to. Sometime it is useful to think and view a thing in entirely apart from its name or utility.

As far as the God is concerned we give forms to Him according to our perception.

The Words Of Mother Teresa

The Words Of Mother Teresa

The common theme of Mother Teresa words reflect her work with the lonely, the sick, the dying and the destitute. Her unending love came through in her work and in her words.

She was forever compassionate towards the loneliness felt by “wealthy” people, who on the surface had it all. She was also very concerned about the breakdown of families.

Here is a collection of her words which say it all:

• Every time you smile at someone, it is an action of love, a gift to that person, a beautiful thing.
  
  
• I have found the paradox, that if you love until it hurts, there can be no more hurt, only more love.
  
  
• If we want a love message to be heard, it has got to be sent out. To keep a lamp burning, we have to keep putting oil in it.
  
  
• Do not think that love, in order to be genuine, has to be extraordinary. What we need is to love without getting tired.
  
  
• Everybody today seems to be in such a terrible rush, anxious for greater developments and greater riches and so on, so that children have very little time for their parents, parents have very little time for each other, and in the home begins the disruption of peace of the world.
  
  
• It is easy to love the people far away. It is not always easy to love those close to us. It is easier to give a cup of rice to relieve hunger than to relieve the loneliness and pain of someone unloved in our own home. Bring love into your home for this is where our love for each other must start.
  
  
• If you can’t feed a hundred people, then feed just one.
  
  
• Even the rich are hungry for love, for being cared for, for being wanted, for having someone to call their own.
  
• Let us always meet each other with smile, for the smile is the beginning of love.
  
  
• Loneliness and the feeling of being unwanted is the most terrible poverty.
  
  
• Love begins at home, and it is not how much we do... but how much love we put in that action.
  
  
• Peace begins with a smile.
  
  
• Spread love everywhere you go. Let no one ever come to you without leaving happier.
  
• The biggest disease today is not leprosy or tuberculosis, but rather the feeling of being unwanted.
  
  
• The most terrible poverty is loneliness and the feeling of being unloved.
  
  
• The hunger for love is much more difficult to remove than the hunger for bread.
  
  
• The success of love is in the loving - it is not in the result of loving. Of course it is natural in love to want the best for the other person, but whether it turns out that way or not does not determine the value of what we have done.
  
  
• There is more hunger in the world for love and appreciation in this world than for bread. We think sometimes that poverty is only being hungry, naked and homeless. The poverty of being unwanted, unloved and uncared for is the greatest poverty. We must start in our own homes to remedy this kind of poverty.
  
• Being unwanted, unloved, uncared for, forgotten by everybody, I think that is a much greater hunger, a much greater poverty than the person who has nothing to eat.
  
  
• Good works are links that form a chain of love.
  
  
• In this life we cannot do great things. We can only do small things with great love.

Mother Teresa’s message of love and hope lives on - it is now up to all of us to continue her work and make the world a better place.

543 Nobel Prizes!..1901 to 2010

543 Nobel Prizes!

Between 1901 and 2010, the Nobel Prizes and the Prize in Economic Sciences were awarded 543 times. There have been a few years in which the Nobel Prize was not awarded, particularly during World War I and II. In the statutes of the Nobel Foundation it says: "If none of the works under consideration is found to be of the importance indicated in the first paragraph, the prize money shall be reserved until the following year. If, even then, the prize cannot be awarded, the amount shall be added to the Foundation's restricted funds."

	Awarded to one Laureate	Shared by two Laureates	Shared by three Laureates
Physics	47	29	28
Chemistry	62	22	18
Medicine	38	31	32
Literature	99	4	-
Peace	62	28	1
Economic Sciences	22	15	5
Total number:	330	129	84

Why is that? In the statutes of the Nobel Foundation it says: "A prize amount may be equally divided between two works, each of which is considered to merit a prize. If a work that is being rewarded has been produced by two or three persons, the prize shall be awarded to them jointly. In no case may a prize amount be divided between more than three persons."

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The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1911

Allvar Gullstrand

The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1911 was awarded to Allvar Gullstrand "for his work on the dioptrics of the eye".

Honesty, without courage, is flawed..Blog copie from the net

Honesty, without courage, is flawed

Tuesday, January 25, 2011 0:00 IST

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How far can honesty as a virtue take you if you are also perceived as ineffective and spineless? Does that honesty then have any value? Does it serve any purpose?

This is the tragedy of prime minister Manmohan Singh's clean image post-Radiagate which forced the UPA government to eject tainted telecom minister A Raja. Though upright and honest, Singh's image has eroded considerably because of evidence that he did not act decisively in the 2G telecom scamwhen it was brought to his notice as early as 2008.

Singh was perhaps constrained by the compulsions of coalition politics and the collective wisdom at the highest level in the Congress. But his compromise has come at a price.

Unless you belong to the Gandhi family, the party always stands supreme. That is what prevented then prime minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee from demanding the resignation of Gujarat chief minister Narendra Modiin the aftermath of the 2002 Godhra carnage. As is well documented, Vajpayee wanted Modi to quit but had to remain silent because many seniors in the party, including LK Advani, differed with him on this issue.

The party asserted itself to reprimand Advani and Jaswant Singh for praising the founder of Pakistan, Mohammed Ali Jinnah. To their credit, these two leaders stood their ground courageously and paid the price rather than buckle under pressure.

Honesty in public life works up to a point and not beyond if it is not accompanied with courage. Indira Gandhi is admired for her courage in spite of her excesses such as the Emergency. Her decisive role in the creation of Bangladesh is the most striking example.

Whistleblowers belong to the class of people who may be honest like the silent majority but stand apart by showing extraordinary courage in helping expose a fraud in the public domain. Many newspaper and TV expose' are a result of such people in the system; although, most leaks originate from corporate rivalry, political and bureaucratic jealousies.

To be sure, today's generation is benefiting from the fruits of economic liberalisation. But what's needed is a greater willingness to take risks; to do and dare- not just for personal prosperity but also for the larger good.
Such is the reality that parents are gripped with fear at the time of nursery school admission, during board exams and admission to professional colleges. As an IIT veteran said, many fresh IIT graduates see themselves as failures if their starting salary offer is as "low" as Rs 10 lakhs per annum. "Why are we surrounded by insecurity? Where is the passion," he asks, "to do something in life, to do something for the country?"

Whether it is Manmohan Singh or the man on the street, we need to fix our fears one way or the other. We need to be unreasonable, because, as George Bernard Shaw explained, "all progress depends on the unreasonable man."

This year marks the beginning of the 150^th birth centenary celebrations of Swami Vivekananda, one of the greatest sons of India. Citing his own example of near-death experiences, one of Vivekananda's most powerful messages to his followers was to get rid of their fears and insecurities. As he put it: "Fear is death, fear is sin, fear is hell, fear is unrighteousness, fear is wrong life. All the negative thoughts and ideas that are in the world have proceeded from this evil spirit of fear."

It's time to ponder and revisit Vivekananda.