Jokes & Riddles

Papa: Drink the coffee fast.
Mama:Why so!!!
Papa: A hot coffee is 5/- and cold coffee is 10/-.
Son: Father we can become rich now.
Father: But how?
Son: Our teacher taught us today how to convert paise into ruppees...
Jony: Max, do you know the joke of the butter?
Max: Yes, but I wouldn't tell you becaus you will spread it.
What is between America and Australia?
Ans: Letter 'R'
What gives milk but has one horn?
Ans: Milk van
What is the favourite game of ghosts?
Ans: Hide and Shriek
Which Alphabets came late to the tea party?
Ans:U,V,W,X,Y and Z becaus they come after T.
By,
Ganatma

STUNTS at Collectorate

STUNTS successfully completed its third fund-raiser program by accumulating Rs. 4,812/-. The purpose was to participate in CM-relief fund for the flood affected people of Kurnool and other districts. So we had the opportunity to visit Visakhapatnam collectorate.
STUNTS members Ganatma, Siddhanth, Fawaz, Samhitha, Ananya, Akshita, Manognya and Hanisha lead by Teacher Aparna met Collector Sri Shyamala Rao and presented the cheque for CM-relief fund. We all were excited to meet the collector as it was a great opportunity for the students.
STUNTS greeted the collector with a bouquet and Ananya presented a flower pot. Ganatma explained about STUNTS and Little Angels STUNTS blog to the collector.
We students were so impressed with the attention paid to us by the collector. We happily left the collectors office with his blessings and autograph.

Skylab

Skylab was an 100-ton space research laboratory launched by the N.A.S.A on May 14, 1973. It was intented to be a large floating workshop to test man's capability of sustaining prolonged period of weightlessness in the space. Three teams of astronauts were sent up in Appolo spacecraft to work in the laboratory on importent experiments. The skylab dropped out of the orbit and fell like a meteor into the Indian Ocean near Australia on July 11, 1979.

By,

N.T.Ganatma

STUNTS Club Member.

Tsunami

Tsunami is a series of water waves called tsunami wave train that is caused by the dis placement of a large volume of a body of water. The original Japanese term literally translates as "harbour wave".

Tsunamis are frequent occurence in Japan; approximately tsunami has struck Japan in 195 events. Due to the immense volumes of water and energy evolved, tsunamis can destroy coastal regions. Casualties can be high because the waves move faster than humans can run.

Earthquakes, volcanic eruptions, underwater eruptions due to detonations of nuclear devices at seas and oceans, landslides, other mass movements, bolide impacts and other disturbances above or below water have the potential to generate a big tsunami.

The Greek historian Thucydides was the first to relate tsunami to submarine earthquakes, but understanding of tsunami's nature remained calm until the 20th century and is the subject of ongoing research.

The study of how tsunamis work is called tsunamigenesis.

Some metrolofical conditions, such as deep depressions that cause tropical cyclones, can generate a storm surge, called a meteotsumani, which can rise tides several meters above normal levels. The displacement comes from low atmospheric pressure within the centre of the depression. As these strom surges reach shore, they may resemble tsunamis, inundating vast areas of land. Such a storm surge inundated Myanmar in May 2008.

Washington, Sep 26th: a line of massive boulders on the western shore of tonga may be the evidence of the world's largest tsunami debris, which is upto 9 meters [30 feet] high and weighing upto 1.6 million killograms [3.5 million pounds]. The seven house-sized coral boulders were likely flung ashore by a wave revailing in the in the 1883 krakatau tsunami, which is estimated to have towered 35 meters [115 feet] high. Currently they are located 100 to 400 meters [300 to 1,300 feet] from the coast. these could be the largest boulders placed by a tsunami,worldwide, said Matthew Hornbach of the University of Texas Institute of Geophysics. Karakatau tsunami was nat a one-off event, he added.

By,

N.T.Ganatma

Stunts Club Member

Stepping stones to flight history

1783- The Montogliflier brothers rose off the ground in a hot air balloon.
1783- Lenormand was the first person to use a parachute.
1852- The world's first air ship was launched.
1903- The Wright Brothers made the world's first powered flight.
1909- Bleriot crosses the English channel in a single seater aeroplane.
1919- Alcock and brown make the first transatlantic flight.
1927- Lindberg makes the first solo transatlantic flight.
1947- The jet engine is invented.
1954- The first vertical take-off aeroplane takes into the air.
1969- Concorde makes its first flight.
1970- The first jumbo jet flies.
1986- Voyager makes the first round the world non-stop powered flight.
By,
N.T.Ganatma

Wanna know some names of moons of planets!
Earth-1 moon
The moon
Mars- 2 moons
Phobos, Deimos
Jupiter- 17 moons
Metis, Ganymede, Ananke, Adastrea, Leda, Pasiphae,
Thebe, Himalia, Sinope, Lo, Lysithea, Phoebe,Europa, Elara.
Saturn- 18 moons
Pan, Atlas, Prometheus, Pandora, Janus, Epimentheus,
Mimas, Enceladus, Tethys, Tellesto, Calypso, Dione,
Helene, Rhea, Titan, Hyperion, Lapetus, Phoebe.
Uranus-14 moons
Cordelia, Ophelia, Bianca, Cressia, Desdemona,
Juliet, Portia, Rosalind, Puck, Ariel, Umbriel, Titania, Oberon.
Neptune-8 moons
Naiad, Thalassa, Despina, Galatea, Larissa, Proteus, Triton, Neriad.
By- Ananya Singh

An intresting fact..............

The fear of failure is called kakorrhaphiophobia.

By-Ananya Singh

Drawing By Ganatma

Pencil sketch by-Ganatma

Some Intresting Facts

If a million dollars were stacked in US$ 1bills, the stack would be 110m high!

Americans and Europeans spend US$27 billion per year on food for their pets!

The word "set" has more definations than any other word in English language.

The longest one-syllable word in the English language is "screeched".

Ever visited Taumatawhakatangihangakoauauotamateaturipukakapikimaaungahoronukupokaa iwe-nuakit natahu?

That's a hill in New Zealand with the longest place-name!

Facts

DO YOU KNOW???.....

• No word in the english language rhymes with 'Month'.
• The word "queue" is the only word in English language that is still pronounced the same way when the last four letters are removed.
• 'Go', is the smallest complete sentence in the English language.
• Honey is the only food that does not spoil.
• Beetles taste like apples, wasps like pine nuts and worms like fried bacon.
• "Rhythm" is the longest English word without a vowel.
• A cockroach can live several weeks with its head cut off!
• Human thigh bones are stronger than concrete.
• Lik fingerprints, everyone's tounge print is different!
• An ostrich's eye is bigger than its brain.
• Dolphins sleep with one eye closed!
• Coca-cola would be in green color if coloring weren't added to it.
• Starfishs dont have brains.
• Butterflies taste with their feet.
• Everytime you sneeze some of your brain cells die.

M.Ankita

How to overcome hurdles?

There was a boy named Rahul. He along with his friends planned to make a science project model for display in his school. He and his friends planned to make an irrigation dam model and met at his home. They made the model using thermocole blocks, sealed the edges and corners with putty and tested it with water prior to painting. Upsetting them all, they found water leaking through thermocole block pores. Everybody started thinking that all their efforts were wasted as the model was leaking badly. There was panic in them.

Rahul kept his cool and started working on the model. He along with his friends applied putty on all the blocks again and corrected the defects of the model. Once again they tested the model upon drying and still found some leaks from the model, typically from the water storage area. This time the panic was a little less and all of them thought of a better putty to stop those leakages.

They came up with the idea of water cement putty, covered entire water basin with it and successfully stopped water leakages. Finally all the boys felt happy as their model turned out good and operated successfully.

Moral: We should not feel panic or sob when we do something wrong, instead we should keep our mind cool and try to solve it.

-N.T.Ganatma

Fiber Glass and its uses

The Venetians in the 15th century knew how to draw glass into very thin rods that could be bent slightly, but it was not until the 1890’s that glass fibers as we know them today become a possibility.

Various manufacturing methods were developed mainly in Germany- where fiber glass helped to overcome asbestos shortage in the World War I (1914-1918) and in United States. In 1938 a United States company introduced a method of drawing out the glass filaments (threads) by blasting them with steam as they immerge from the holes in the bottom of the melting unit. The same company introduced a method of winding the fibers on to spools which enabled glass fiber textiles to be produced at faster rate. These are the methods on which modern production is largely based and they made possible the rapid growth of the glass fiber industry since the end of World War II in 1945.

A glass fiber is stronger than any other textile fiber of the same weight at present available. They have been used in the form of textile for decorative materials such as curtains and chairs, in protective clothing, in the filtration of gases and liquids, as structural parts of boats, supersonic aircrafts and missiles.

Glass wool is also used widely for many insulating purposes in industry as well as in domestic roofs and attics. Pure glass can be made into fibers to transmit electricity over long distances. These fibers are called optical fibers.

-Ganatma

What is Creativity and How to Improve Creative Skills

Critical and creative thinking are the two most basic thinking skills. Critical thinking is a matter of thinking clearly and rationally. Creativity consists in coming up with new and relevant ideas. To be a good and effective thinker, both kinds of thinking skills are needed.

For many people, creativity is something reserved for scientists or artists. But this is to ignore the fact that we are faced with countless problems in our daily life, and it is precisely creative thinking that helps us come up with solutions to these problems. We need to make use of our creativity whether we are thinking about how to get more marks or how to make our freinds happier.

Many students also seem to think that creativity is a matter of waiting for inspirations. How inspiring ideas come about is however regarded as a rather mysterious process, and it is just a fact that some students are more creative than others. But it would be a mistake to think that creativity is a passive state of mind. While it is true that there is no special algorithm for creativity, there are thinking skills that can be taught and things one can do to enhance one's creativity.

To come up with something new is to produce something that is distinct and special. In order to be creative we must be ready to deviate from the ordinary and the traditional. This implies a certain courageous exploratory attitude and curiosity in one's character.

But where do new ideas come from? The simple answer is that new ideas are actually old ones rearranged in a new way. This applies to everything under the sun whether making a small toy car or making a big space shuttle. How do we generate new ideas from old ones? Simply speaking, ideas are usually composed of different elements, and we look for new combination of ideas by joining different ideas together, deleting some elements, or replacing some elements by other ones.
As a concrete example, consider the so-called "FASTSKIN" swimsuit that was introduced by the company Speedo around 1996. Main goal in designing a swimsuit for athletes is to reduce the total amount of drag over the surface of the swimsuit. The company's researchers noticed that sharks are able to move very fast in water in part because of V-shaped ridges. Researchers designed swimwear fabric emulating sharkskin that produced less drag and turbulence. At the Sydney Olympics in 2000, 28 of 33 Olympic Gold Medal winners wore this type of swimsuit, testifying to its success.

So the ingredients for creativity depend on the store of ideas that are available for recombination. If you have a limited domain of knowledge, you will have fewer resources to draw from in forming new ideas. This is why curiosity and a knowledge base can significantly enhance one's creativity. This is also why it can be useful to try to solve a problem by consulting other people with different expertise.

WISH YOU ALL MORE CREATIVE SKILLS!!!

-ErNS

Drama Pictures

These are the pictures taken during skit "MERCHANT OF VENICE" performed by VI-S2 students.

Good books

Ruskin Bond divided books into two classes- books for the hour and books for all time. A book for the hour is simply the useful pleasant talk of some person. There is no harm in reading such books, but it is a great mistake to allow such light reading takes the place of the study of true books- books for all time, the classic of literature. These books for all for all time are to be chewed and digested that is read wholly and with diligence and attention.

At the age of 11, we pity ourselves for being ignorant about the presence of these great books in our exotic library.

Undoubtedly, the sight of thick books would strain our eyes and dishearten our reading interest, but our English teacher beheld our enthusiasm with abridged versions of great writers.

Gradually the interest of reading metamorphosed into presenting the stories as skits. When discussed with the teacher, she conducted a skit competition, where in the girls performed “The Merchant of Venice & Twelfth Night” stood first and second in the competition.

Eventually, we developed dialogue writing, dialogue delivery, overcome the stage fear, confidence and above all the zeal to read many such books. Hope one day we carry the original writings; we chew it and digest it to our heart fullest.

Temper Control - A Moral Story

There was once a little boy who had a bad temper. His father gave him a teddy bear toy and a black marker pen as a birthday present. Boy was very happy with the teddy bear and asked his father what he should do with marker pen. His father told him that every time he loses temper, he must make a mark with the marker on the teddy bear.

The first day, boy had made 13 marks on the teddy bear. Over the next few weeks, as he didn’t like to put marks on the teddy, he learned to control his anger. Then the number of marks he made every day came down. Finally the day came when he didn’t lose his temper at all. He happily told his father that he could control his temper, but felt bad since teddy bear became dirty.

Father appreciated son for his temper control and told him to wash the teddy bear and clear all the marks. Son washed the teddy bear repeatedly so that the teddy bear looks nice again and took it to his father.

Father, looking at the son, said “You have done well, my son, but look at the dirty marks still on teddy. Teddy could never be the same. Same way when you say things in anger, they leave a scar on peoples heart just like the marker. It won’t matter how many times you say I AM SORRY, the wound is still there.”

BOY THEN UNDERSTOOD THAT BETTER NOT TO LOSE TEMPER AND REGRET LATER.

-N.T.Ganatma

You Are Creative!
Creativity is not about inventing something totally new, it is about making new – synergistic! – connections. You don't have to be a special kind of person to be creative – everyone can do it. It's not about who you are, it's about what you do. You just need to start looking for multiple solutions rather than settling for just one, and give yourself permission to be playful and inquisitive, flexible and versatile.
Psychologists call the activities associated with idea generation "loose associative thinking" processes. Associative thinking is not linear or sequential. It is jumpy. To invent new connections, the maintenance of uncertainty is important for a time. "Closure is a killer; it strangles associative thinking, in favor of arriving at "an answer". Early in the process, leveraging uncertainty, riding it, and valuing it are critical to developing robust ideas

Learn and Develop Creativity

"The good news is that creativity is a skill and a talent that can be learned and developed through practice. With this skill, you can dramatically accelerate your personal and professional growth. By sharpening your thinking skills and exercising your natural creative powers, you can multiply the value of your efforts and rapidly increase the quantity and quality of your rewards."6

ASBESTOS, its uses and hazards

Asbestos is the name given to a group of minerals . It usually contains lime, magnesia and sometimes iron. It is dug up from great open pits. It is soft, silky fibers. It can be woven like wool and cotton because it is fiber in form. Asbestos can stand up to temperatures of 2,500C. It is mainly used as an industrial fiber.

In ancient temples the wicks of torches were made of asbestos so that they would not burn away as cotton wicks do. In 19th century it became cheap. The things made from asbestos are boilers, building roofing sheets, fire-resistant and protective clothing. Nearly half of the asbestos products are made in United States of America.

Asbestos can be harmful to health. The fine fibers if inhaled can produce a lung condition called ‘Asbestosis’ (which leads to shortness of breath) and can increase the risk of lung cancer. Demands began to be made that it be removed from some public places, notably schools and even that it be banned altogether. Usage of Asbestos in crayons and toys had been already banned to safeguard children.

- N.T.Ganatma

Drawing by Shashank

Drawing by Tejaswi

Bojjana Konda Trip

Sir Isaac Newton

Sir Isaac Newton

The British Physicist and Mathematician Isaac Newton is regarded as one of the greatest scientists of all time. He was a farmers son, born at Wools Thorpe in Lincolnshire, England, on December 25th 1642. At the age of 18 he went to Cambridge University to study Mathematics.

He saw an apple dropping from a tree and began to wonder why it should fall straight downwards. This led him to create The Theory of Gravitation. His Theory of Gravitation was a particular importance in working out the motion of planets and the orbits of comets. In 1666 he discovered the nature of white light by passing a beam of sunlight through a prism. Newton’s work on light led him to build the first reflecting telescope in 1668. He also invented the calculus.

In 1705 he was elected as the president of The Royal Society, an office he held until his death. He was knighted {Sir} in 1705. He died on March 20th 1727 and was buried in Westminster Abbey.

- Ganatma

What is attitude

What is Attitude? (By a simple story)

There was a man who made a living by selling balloons at a fair. He had all colors of balloons including red, yellow, blue and green. Whenever his business was slow, he would release helium –filled ballooned into the air and when the children saw it go up, they all wanted to buy one. They would come up to him, buy a balloon and his sales would go up again. He continued this process all day.

One day, he felt someone tugging at his jacket. He turned around and saw a little boy who asked, “If you release a black balloon, would that also fly?” Moved by the boy’s concern, the man replied with empathy, “Son, it is not the color of the balloon; it is what is inside that makes it go up.” The same thing applies to our lives. It is what is inside that count.

The thing inside of us that makes us go up is our Attitude.

- Bhardwaj, VIII Std.

STUNTS GROUP PICS

STUNTS Fundraiser-II

We succesfully completed another fund raiser during parents meeting. With the pumped up hearts, we are looking ahead to extend our helping hand to the needy in the vicinity now.


Your comments and suggestions are welcome as they help us improve.

care@shareaservice.com

Happy New Year !

Hope that all you kids got new cloths this new year and more for the coming Pongal festival. Well parents spent lots of time to buy new cloths for you kids. Now is the time for you to think about your old cloths.

Some old cloths might have become small for you to wear, but still good in condition. So to save your cupboard space, don tthrow them out... there are poor people willing to use them. There is a charity organization collecting all old cloths and distributing them to the poor. So why not STUNTS kids collect them and hand over them "SHAREASERVICE.COM".

SHAREASERVICE.COM is a e-N.G.O. collecting old cloths and distributing them to the needy. Mrs. Swethambari and her friends started this a few years back and now its a big charity society helping poor and needy.

What all needs to be done is keep your old cloths a side and contact them at " care@shareaservice.com "or " info@shareaservice.com " Soon they will personally collect cloths from you. You may even contact them by phone " 040-27807425"

- NSMurthy