Arapaima - Largest Fresh Water Fish

Fast Facts

Type:

Fish

Diet:

Carnivore

Average life span in captivity:

15 to 20 years

Size:

Up to 9 ft (2.75 m)

Weight:

440 lbs (200 kg)

Did you know?

The arapaima has a "bony" tongue fitted with a set of teeth, which some indigenous people use as a scraping tool.

Size relative to a 6-ft (2-m) man:

Also known as the paiche or thepirarucu, the arapaima is an air-breathing fish that plies the rain forest rivers of South America's Amazon Basin and nearby lakes and swamps. One of the world's largest freshwater fish, these giants can reach 9 feet (2.75 meters) long and weigh up to 440 pounds (200 kilograms). They have a wide, scaly, gray body and a tapered head.

Though arapaimas can stay underwater for 10 to 20 minutes, they tend to remain near the water's surface, where they hunt and emerge often to breathe with a distinctive coughing noise. They survive mainly on fish but are known to occasionally grab birds close to the water's surface.

The arapaima's proximity to the water's surface make it vulnerable to human predators, who can easily target them with harpoons. Some indigenous communities consume the arapaima's meat and tongue and collect its large scales, which are fashioned into jewelry and other items.

The Amazon's seasonal floods have become part of the arapaima's reproductive cycle. During low-water months (February to April) arapaimas construct bottom nests and females lay eggs. Young begin to hatch as rising water levels provide them with flood conditions in which to flourish. Adult males play an unusual reproductive role by incubating tens of thousands of eggs in their mouths, guarding them aggressively and moving them when necessary.

While this giant fish's habitat is relatively unmolested, overfishing has become a serious problem, and some South American authorities have attempted to enact protections.

courtesy: www.environment.nationalgeographic.com

Amazon - Quick Facts

• The Amazon is the largest and densest rainforest on earth
• The Amazon covers 2.5 million miles, about the size of the USA west of the Mississippi
• If Amazonas were a country, it would be the 9th largest on earth
• Each minute the Amazon River discharges 3.4 million gallons of water into the Atlantic, 14 times the discharge of the Mississippi
• The Amazon runs 4007 miles from its origin in the Andes to the Atlantic, making it the second longest river on earth
• During its journey it touches and-or travels through 8 countries
• There are 200 major tributaries of which 17 are more than 1000 miles long and 10 of which discharge more water than the Mississippi
• Its vegetation represents about 1/3 of the remaining forest on earth and provides about 15% of the world's new oxygen
• Scientists have catalogued:
• 2500 species of fish
• 1500 species of birds
• 1800 species of butterflys
• 4 types of big cats
• 200 species of mosquitos
• 50,000 species of higher plants
• Courtesy: www.ladatco.com

Easementary Right

2011(2) CURRENT TAMILNADU CASES – Page 181

Law of Easements, 1882 – Section 15 – Aerial Trespass – Owner of property is entitled to have his right exercised up to sky – Defendant cannot be allowed to have Aerial projection on plaintiff’s land – Held, Defendant directed to remove roof projection and to make necessary arrangements to prevent rain water falling into plaintiff’s land.

Sections 15 & 17 – Right to use other man’s land, when available? – A land owner has every right to go into neighbouring land to effect repair to his outside wall and white wash same – Decree of Appellate court restraining exercise of easementary right to ingress and egress into neighbouring land, held not justifiable.

"RUPAY" - The Indian Card

Finally, India card Rupay to replace Visa, MasterCard

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On Monday 21 March 2011, 9:49 PM

Mumbai, Mar 21 (PTI) After almost two years of planning, the National Payments Corporation has at last finalised the proposed unique India Card which once commercially launched would be an domestic alternative to the global real-time payment processing firms like Visa and MasterCard.

"We have finalised name of the proposed card as Rupay at our board meeting here today. We have also finalised the logo for the same," a senior official of the RBI-set up National Payments Corporation of India (NPCI), told PTI this evening. The official sought not to be named.

The official further said the leading financial consultancy firm Ernst & Young(E&Y) will develop and roll out the entire architecture, including the design and software for the Rupay card rollout.

A senior E&Y official confirmed the development to this agency. He further said, the NPCI will initially launch a domestic ATM/debit cards to begin with and then would hit the credit card market later on.

In 2009, the RBI had asked the Indian Banks Association to launch a not-for-profit company and design a rival card, then tentatively called India Card, that meets the requirements of the domestic banks.

And finally, RBI plan is materialising and Rupay will be like the Union Pay of China, which is the domestic real-time payment processing firm for Chinese banks, and was planned to be launched last year. (More) PTI BEN

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Pendente Lite purchasers - whether can obstruct delivery of Property?

2011(2) CURRENT TAMILNADU CASES – Page 149

Order 21 Rule 97 to 102 – Pendente Lite purchasers cannot obstruct delivery of property, since Rules 98 to 102 do not apply to their resistance or obstruction in execution of decree for possession – Transferee pendent lite does not have locus standi to question execution.

Bollywood actresses without make-up

Bollywood Stars Without Make-Up

Article on Bollywood Stars without make-up. A list contrasting looks of actresses with and without make-up. Includes Sonam Kapoor, Katrina Kaif, Rani Mukherjee, Deepika Padukone, Kareena Kapoor, Priyanka Chopra, Rakhi Sawant.

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Bollywood actresses are known for their beauty and style. They are glorified on screens as demi-goddesses who are blessed with ethereal beauty.

But its now time for some reality check as the actresses don't really look like the perfect dreamgirls once they are stripped off their make-up. Lets take a look at how different actresses look without their usual dose of make-up.

Sonam

Bollywood's number one fashionista isn't very attractive to look at once her make-up comes off. In this pic, Sonam far from the glam diva that she always is.

Katrina Kaif

Katrina Kaif doesn't look much different without make-up. She is one naturally blessed woman in terms of beauty and, hence, can easily survive without make-up. She looks beautiful in her most basic and natural avatar.

Rani Mukherjee

Yes! The person you see in the pic is indeed Rani Mukherjee. And, she sure does look horrendous without her make-up on. Our advise to her would be not to step out of the house without any make-up or she might end up losing the few films that she's got in hand.

Deepika Padukone

Sans make-up, Deepika looks like any other face in the crowd. It is after a good dose of grooming that Deepika manages to look like the stunner that she always appears to be.

Kareena Kapoor

Kareena Kapoor also looks amazingly beautiful even without any trace of make-up. Guess its owing to her genes and a healthy lifestyle that always ensures that she looks radiant and glowing.

Priyanka Chopra

The glamorous Piggy Chops looks like as bad without make-up as as she looks good with it. She seems like a totally different person from the gorgeous star that we all know

Kajol

Kajol has always shocked us with her sense of style in the past and she does the same by coming forth without proper grooming. No matter what the occasion is, there can be no excuse for turning up looking like this in public.

Rakhi Sawant

Not that we consider Rakhi a Bollywood star, but the difference in her look with and without make-up is so startling that we couldn't resist including her in the list. On the transformation in her appearance, we have only one thing to say: Miracles do happen!

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Laws of Pondicherry

Want to know the laws of Pondicherry {Year wise Bare Acts}.
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Top 15 Amazing Human Body facts

In our ongoing quest for wonderful facts about all manner of things, we have put together this list (with thanks to the Reader’s Digest Book of Facts), a great list of amazing human facts. These are the fifteen most wonderful things about our bodies that, hopefully, are news to most of our readers! So, onwards:

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Facts 1 – 5

1. The stomach’s digestive acids are strong enough to dissolve zinc. Fortunately for us, the cells in the stomach lining renew so quickly that the acids don’t have time to dissolve it.

2. The lungs contain over 300,000 million capillaries (tiny blood vessels). If they were laid end to end, they would stretch 2400km (1500 miles).

3. A mans testicles manufacture 10 million new sperm cells each day – enough that he could repopulate the entire planet in only 6 months!

4. Human bone is as strong as granite in supporting weight. A block of bone the size of a matchbox can support 9 tonnes – that is four times as much as concrete can support.

5. Each finger and toenail takes six months to grow from base to tip.

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Facts 6 – 10

6. The largest organ in the body is the skin. In an adult man it covers about 1.9m2 (20sq ft). The skin constantly flakes away – in a lifetime each person sheds around 18kg (40 lb) of skin.

7. When you sleep, you grow by about 8mm (0.3in). The next day you shrink back to your former height. The reason is that your cartilage discs are squeezed like sponges by the force of gravity when you stand or sit.

 The average person in the West eats 50 tonnes of food and drinks 50,000 liters (11,000 gallons) of liquid during his life.

9. Each kidney contains 1 million individual filters. They filter an average of around 1.3 liters (2.2 pints) of blood per minute, and expel up to 1.4 liters (2.5 pints) a day of urine.

10. The focusing muscles of the eyes move around 100,000 times a day. To give your leg muscles the same workout, you would need to walk 80km (50 miles) every day.

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Facts 11 – 15

11. In 30 minutes, the average body gives off enough heat (combined) to bring a half gallon of water to boil.

12. A single human blood cell takes only 60 seconds to make a complete circuit of the body.

13. A foreskin, the size of a postage stamp, from circumcised babies take only 21 days to grow skin that can cover three (3) basketball courts. Amazing isn’t it. Thanks to science. The laboratory-grown skin is used in treating burn patients.

14. The eyes receive approximately 90 percent of all our information, making us basically visual creatures.

15. The female ovaries contain nearly half-a-million egg cells, yet only 400 or so will ever get the opportunity to create a new life.

Sources: Reader’s Digest Book of Facts

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Awesome Libraries

15 Incredible Libraries Around the World

Moldova National Library - Photograph by Daniel Zollinger

These pillars of higher learning are also home to some of the world’s most incredible architecture. Below is a small collection of stunning libraries around the globe. From the historical to the modern, these centres of knowledge and learning also preserve the history and culture of their respective periods. Personally, I would find it hard to concentrate in some of these places, they are too beautiful for the eye not to wander. More images after the break...

1. University Club Library - New York City, United States

Photograph by Peter Bond

Photograph by Peter Bond

2. Canadian Library of Parliament - Ottawa, Canada

Photograph by James Gillard

Photograph by James Gillard

3. Yale University’s Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library - New Haven, Connecticut

Photograph by Lauren Manning

Photograph by KAALpurush

4. Iowa State Capital Law Library - United States

Photograph by Tani Livengood

5. Suzzalo Library at the University of Washington - Seattle, Washington

Photograph by Sam

Photograph by Sam

6. Admont Abbey Library - Austria

Photograph by Ognipensierovo

7. State Library - Victoria, Australia

Photograph by Waltonics

8. Library at El Real Monasterio de El Escorial - Madrid, Spain

Photograph by Jose Maria Cuellar

9. José Vasconcelos Library - Mexico City, Mexico14

 Photograph by Pedro Vasquez Colmenares

Photograph by Aurelio Asiain

10. Real Gabinete Português de Leitura - Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

 Photograph by Ruy Barbosa Pinto

11. National Library of Finland - Helsinki, Finland

Photograph by Marj-Liisa

12. Mitchell Library - Sydney, Australia

Photograph by Christopher Chan

13. Thomas Fisher Rare Book Library at University of Toronto - Toronto, Canada

Photograph by Fadi J

14. George Peabody Library - Baltimore, Maryland

 Photograph by Danielle King

15. Strahov Theological Hall - Prague, Czech Republic

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