World's first pregnant man

गर्व पछी को 

Like any new mother, he was keen to lose the babyweight - but few would be quite so worried about getting a six-pack.

Thomas Beatie, the world's first pregnant man - or male mother -  has unveiled his new toned figure, just 12 months after giving birth to his third child in three years. 

Mr Beatie, who now lives in Arizona with his wife Nancy and their three children, garnered international attention around the world when he became the first legally transgender man to become pregnant.

Now he and his wife have completed the family they always dreamed of, and the 37-year-old appears to have started taking testosterone again, helping him develop his muscular physique.

केटा मान्छे को गर्व देखी जन्मिएको पहिलो बच्चा जेन्सी 

He was pictured playing in the water with the couple's youngest child, Jensen, who was born naturally on July 25 last year.

The couple also have a three-year-old daughter called Susan and a son called Austin, who will be two in September.

Despite his three pregnancies, he showed off a flat stomach with the beginnings of a six-pack - although he couldn't quite hide the stretchmarks.

The couple moved to Arizona from their home in Bend, Oregon, after their house was repossessed last year.

He said his successful T-shirt printing business, Define Normal, folded because of his fame. He said: 'We tried to keep up with regular orders, but we lost a lot of customers because of prejudice, and then the economy took a huge downturn.'

In March Mr Beatie revealed he had filed for bankruptcy and was desperately seeking a job to get his family off welfare handouts and pay his $5,000-a-month mortgage.

Mr Beatie was born as a woman, Tracy Lagondino, in Hawaii in 1974, but says he always felt like he wanted to be a man.

When he was in his twenties began having testosterone injections, giving him facial hair, a lower voice and altering his sexual organs.

In 2002 he had a mastectomy and legally became a man - but he chose to keep his vagina, uterus and other female sexual organs so the couple could have children, as his wife had had a hysterectomy. 

He told Oprah: 'I wanted to have a child one day. I didn't know how. It was just a dream.'

After more than eight years, he stopped taking testosterone so he could become pregnant, although some of its effects, including facial hair, are permanent.

The couple bought sperm from an anonymous donor and Mr Beatie underwent artificial insemination. After an ectopic pregnancy which led to emergency surgery, he eventually fell pregnant with Susan in late 2007.

Astonishing photos of Mr Beatie with a baby bump and a beard made headlines all over the world, and he appeared on chat shows explaining how he and Nancy considered themselves like any normal heterosexual family.

He also revealed that the couple can have sexual intercourse, because the male hormones enlarged his clitoris so much. He told Oprah: 'It looks like a penis. I can have intercourse with my wife.'

He had his next two children in quick succession, as he only had a short window of not taking testosterone.

Mr Beatie has just eight menstrual cycles a year instead of 12, and only half of these cycles are useful for conception as he has previously had a fallopian tube removed due to an ectopic pregnancy.

He got 3rd child in 2008

He said: 'I am only able to get pregnant four days out of the year... We had our babies in a short space of time because we don't have the luxury of waiting years between each child.'

The couple still have some of their donated sperm in a cryobank, and in March said they hoped to have another child, but in the photograph released today it appears Mr Beatie has started taking testosterone again and their family is complete. 

They hope to solve their money worries by setting up a new business, this time in personal training.

He said: 'We've already registered the business and are starting to make plans for it. I have a bachelors degree in Health Science and I can take a different certification programme. It will be a great family business.'

The couple say they are starting to make friends in Phoenix but still attract surprised stares when they are spotted pushing a trolley around the supermarket.

He said: 'It was hard moving here as we had to deal with a whole new set of people staring at us. When I'm alone I look like any other man. But I can't go anywhere with Nancy and the kids without people recognising me.'

He added: 'But we like it and the neighbours are nice. Some people recognise us and come up to talk, but we haven't had any negative responses yet.'

The Beaties are determined to turn their money problems around and make a success of their new business, to provide for their family, and help people in the community.

He said: 'It's been the worst year of our lives. We have no idea what the future holds for us but we are trying to focus on each day, making sure the kids are well cared for. As long as we have each other, we're going to be fine.'

Olympic 2012

London 2012 one year to go: Sportsmail's spectacular eye-in-the-sky guide to the Olympic Park site

With apologies to 4,000 newts, 300 common lizards, 100 toads, this is what you gave up your home to create.

This area of east London was an eyesore when the city won the right to host the Games six years ago.

Now, after £9.3billion of government money — gulp! — the major construction work is complete. The stadium is up, awaiting the running track to be laid. The velodrome, perhaps the shining architectural highlight, is resplendent. The Aquatics Centre is ready for Tom Daley to christen it with its first dive.

Not so green, though? The trees and shrubs will be added at the 11th hour, turning the grey landscape lush in time for the arrival of the world’s eyes. A waste of money? This was brownfield land before the Olympics called. There will be 45 hectares created for wildlife, thousands of plants and trees planted.

One in 10 of the workers here was previously jobless. Our thanks go out to them — and the newts (all, we are told, happily relocated).

The scene is set: The Olympic Park is coming together with just one year left until the start of the London Olympics

1 - OLYMPIC STADIUM

• Sports: Athletics, Paralympic athletics.
• Cost: £537m.
• Architect: Populous.
• Capacity: 80,000.
• 25,000 seats sit on the permanent lower tier, while 55,000 seats are on the temporary upper tier.
• A permanent venue that will also host the opening and closing ceremonies on July 27 and August 12.
• The most sustainable Olympic stadium ever, it is
• 75 per cent lighter than others in terms of steel usage.
• Features a low-carbon concrete that contains 40 per cent less embodied carbon than standard concrete.
• The stadium’s top ring was built using recycled gas pipes.
• The stadium sits in a bowl in the ground, which further reduces its use of steel and concrete.
• Spectators reach the site via five bridges.
• Post Games, West Ham United will move into the stadium.
  

  
  

  2 - HANDBALL ARENA

  • Sports: Handball, modern pentathlon fencing.
  • First event: Opening handball matches (July 28).
  • Cost: £44m.
  • Architects: MAKE.
  • Capacity: 6,500.
  • Permanent venue features more than 3,000sq m of mostly recycled external copper cladding.
  • Spectators enter directly on to aconcourse level that encircles the building.
  • Post-Games, it will be adapted to a multi-use sports centre.

  3 - VELODROME AND BMX TRACK

  

  • Sports: Track cycling, Paralympic track cycling.
  • First event: Men’s Team Pursuit qualifying (Aug 2).
  • Cost: £93m.
  • Architect: Hopkins Architects, Grant Associates.
  • Capacity: 6,000.
  • Nicknamed ‘The Pringle’ because of its crisp-like shape, it is the most sustainable venue in the Park.
  • Ventilation is 100 per cent natural, providing a perfect track-level temperature.
  • Sir Chris Hoy and Team GB cyclists were consulted during the design process.
  • The lower tier will have 3,500 seats around the track, with a further 2,500 seats suspended in two tiers within the curves of the roof.
  • A mountain bike course and road circuit will be added post-Games to create a permanent VeloPark.
    

    4 - BASKETBALL ARENA

    
    • Sports: Basketball, handball, Paralympic wheelchair basketball, Paralympic wheelchair rugby.
    • First event: Opening matches (July 28).
    • Cost: £40m.
    • Architects: Sinclair Knight Merz, together with Wilkinson Eyre and KSS.
    • Capacity: 12,000. 
    • Steel frame weighs 1,000 tonnes and is one of the largest temporary venues ever built for an Olympic Games.
    • The structure will be relocated elsewhere in the UK after the Games.

    5 - OLYMPIC VILLAGE

    • The Village will cater for 17,000 athletes and officials.
    • Homes are built around communal squares and courtyards.
    • The Village includes shops, restaurants and medical, media and leisure facilities.
    • The ‘Village Plaza’ is an area where athletes can meet with friends and families.
    • Post-Games, the Village will be transformed into 2,800 new homes, 1,379 of which will be affordable homes.
    • Chobham Academy will be opened as an educational campus with 1,800 student places.
    • The Olympic Delivery Authority are responsible for overseeing the Village.

    

    6 - AQUATICS CENTRE

    • Sports: Swimming, synchronised swimming, Paralympic swimming, diving, modern pentathlon.
    • First event: Men’s 100m breaststroke heats (July 28).
    • Cost: £269m.
    • Architect: Zaha Hadid.
    • Capacity: 17,500.
    • A permanent venue that will be extended temporarily during the Games.
    • Incorporates a 160m long wave-like roof — a longer single span than the one at Heathrow’s Terminal 5.
    • Contains 50m competition pool, 25m diving pool, 50m warm-up pool.
    • Spectators seated in two temporary wings.
    • Water polo will be held in a temporary arena next door.
    • To be transformed into a a community and elite facility after the Games.

Public Speaking

Even the most experienced speaker can use a primer on public speaking tips from time to time. Please read through the following as you prepare for Affiliate Summit

PREPARATION

1. Become your own best teacher. This list gives you 20 tips to do that, but you must acquire your own. Learn how to analyze a presentation and you will be able to learn and improve every time you speak at a conference.
   If you hear someone speak and didn't even learn one thing, then you have wasted an opportunity. Everyone has something to teach and something to learn.


2. Space and room set up are important to speaking. For example, in the Affiliate Summit Ask the Experts session, it's a casual, roundtable atmosphere, and this environment is ideal sitting when speaking. If you are giving a solo presentation in a classroom, it is better to stand, so that your voice can project better and because you command more presence, which you want to do.


3. There is no substitute for preparation and practice. The best speakers practice each sentence in their head many, many times before they speak it. They try it over and over until the timing is just right, and it begins to feel natural. Often, it looks like they are sitting there thinking, but really they are practice speaking in their head.


4. The cure for stage fright is to get emotional or tough. Allow yourself to feel very happy or very angry and your stage fright will go away. Allow yourself to laugh and it will also go away. Stage fright is like fog. A good breath of emotion or laughter will blow it away.


5. Observe other speakers. Other speakers can be excellent teachers. Pay attention to what you admire and respect about other public speakers. At the same time, notice what distracts or bores you about other speakers. 
6. Use an introduction, body, and conclusion in your presentation. All three of these should tie directly to your main theme. The goal of any speech is to help the audience understand something, and having an introduction, body, and conclusion helps your audience understand your theme, and tie it back into everything you say.


7. The introduction has two purposes: first to secure attention, and second to orient the audience toward your theme. Most audiences will pay attention to any speaker for the first 20 seconds. In that time, you must grab their attention and orient them.


8. Develop the main theme or message you want to communicate. Often, when we try to get through too many themes, it gets confusing and the audience doesn't remember any of them. It doesn't matter if you are making a point in a class or delivering a full scale speech. Develop your main theme and keep developing it to get that message across.


9. Use stories rather than statistics. Statistics appeal to the head, but stories touch the heart. Most people can't relate to statistics. The human brain processes images and emotions, not words. Words and symbols are used to create images and convey feelings. People can understand statistics, but are not moved by them. Everyone, however, can relate to stories. Start with a story if you can.


10. The conclusion has two purposes: To summarize the speech and to motivate the audience, the summary should restate the theme clearly. The motivator should focus on what they want the audience to do. End by asking them to do a specific thing.


11. Improving you public speaking means developing your own style. It does not mean learning to speak like a newscaster or someone else. It means strengthening your ability to say what you want to say.


12. Know your audience. Know what they want to know. Know where they came from. Find out what interests them and makes them laugh. If possible, know them by name and use their names in the speech. One study indicated that the sweetest sound in any language is the sound of your own name. Know your audience as well as you can.


13. Body language is good if it agrees with your message. It is bad if it distracts from your message. Slamming your fist in your hand when you say how angry you were emphasizes the point you are making, so it is good.
    Swaying while you talk distracts the listener from what you are saying, so it is bad.


14. Make eye contact with the audience. Allow yourself to smile. Definitely use emotion when it is real and sincere. Real emotion and feeling allows your audience to relate to you. If you let your guard down and speak from the heart, then the audience will let its guard down and listen from the heart.
15. There is no one right way to speak, but there are some wrong ways. Don't read from a script unless you absolutely have to. Also, don't repeat things. If you want to reinforce a point, say it again, but in a different and creative way.

LANGUAGE

16. Build in strong language to your presentation. Strong language is language that paints pictures in the mind of the listener. "Red" is regular language, but "fire engine red" is strong language. Strong language is more descriptive and helps your listener understand.


17. Cursing is bad, because it stunts the speaker's mental growth. The definition of cursing is when "A feeble mind tries to express itself forcefully." Human beings do not have feeble minds. Every time somebody curses, they are stunting their own mental development. Instead of developing higher reasoning powers and the ability to communicate more complex thoughts, a curse poisons the brain in a tiny way, keeping a person from developing intellectually as fast as they could.


18. Identify and eliminate weak language from your speaking. Weak language is any word or phrase that does not add anything to what you are saying. Any word that does not make your message stronger makes it weaker.
    When you analyze a sentence, cut it down to as little as you need without cutting out the message. The most common example of weak language is the word "um." Other examples of weak language are "basically", "well", "that is to say", "I mean", or "in other words." We use weak language like a crutch. We say words like "basically", not because they mean anything, but because they help us stall until we can think of something to say. It is far better to be silent that to use weak language. Be comfortable with silence.


19. Vary your tone. A person who speaks in one tone is monotone. That's what monotone means. One tone. Get a little loud sometimes and then get soft. Vary the tone. Don't be boring.


20. Vary your speed. Mono-speed is as bad as monotone. It does not matter whether you talk more quickly or more slowly. What is critical is that you vary your speed and practice your timing. You don't actually speak in sentences. Phonetically, we speak in groups of words. Speed up some groups of words. Pause after important points. Practice improves timing.
Anything to add, those of you that have either sat through a great (or boring) presentation? Or how about those of you who have given a presentation at a conference, for better or worse?

शेर्पाको विवाह संस्कार

बिबाह

सबभन्दा पहिले केटा र केटीको उमेर हेर्ने, उनिहरुको जन्म बर्ष (लोर्ता) को आधारमा जोखना हेराई उनिहरुको दाम्पत्य जिवन राम्रो हुन्छ वा हुन्न भन्ने हेरीन्छ। सबैकुरा ठीक भयेमा केही कोसेलि, खता र एक ठेकी छ्याङ वा रक्सी लिएर केटी मागन आउँछौ भनी केटीको माईतमा खबर पठाईन्छ। यस प्रकृया लाई ठिज्यङ भनीन्छ। केटीको माईतबाट सकरात्मक जवाफ आएमा। राम्रो साईत हेरी फेमार, छ्याङ र खता लिएर केटीको माईतमा गएर केटी मागने चलन छ। यसलाई लोङज्यङ अथवा देम्ज्यङ भनीन्छ। केटा र केटीको बिबाह कहिले गर्ने, जन्ति कती आउने भनि केटा को तर्फ बाट सोधन जानेलाई पेज्यङ भनीन्छ। यसमा पनि छ्याङ र खता कोसेली लिएर जानु पर्छ। दुवैपक्षको सहमतीबाट बिबाहको मिती तोकिएपछी बिबाहको तयारी सुरु गरीन्छ। बिबाहको समयमा खुवाउने छ्याङ को लागी केही अन्न वा नगद रुपैया केटीको माइतमा जिम्मा लगाउने चलन छ। यसलाई छ्यावी भनीन्छ।

बिबाहको मिती तोकिएपछी सबभन्दा पहिले बिबाहको कार्यक्रमको जानकारी सहीत आफ्नो नातादार हरु, हितैषीहरु र साथीहरु लाई बिबाहको कार्यक्रममा सरीक हुन निमन्त्रणा ( देन्ज्यङ)पठाउने काम हुन्छ।

जन्तीजाने दिन बिहानै लामा पुरोहीत द्वारा गृहशान्ती र परिवारको सुखद भविष्य कुलदेवता र जन्तीमा लाने धर्म चक्र (सिपखोलु) को पुजा गरीन्छ । सिपाखोलु लाई केटीको माइतिको दिशातिर मुख फर्काई राखीन्छ र जन्ती जाने समयमा सब भन्दा अगाडी लगाईन्छ। जन्ती दुलहीको माइतमा पुगेपछी सिपाखोलु लाई दुलहाको घरतर्फ मुख फर्काई राखीन्छ। जन्ती जाने समयमा दुलहालाई परम्परागत मंगोलियन पोशाक पहेलो खोचेन को बखु रातो झलरदार टोपी लगाई काँधमा पाँच रङ्गे कपडाको दत्तर र हातमा फुम्बा (पवित्र कलश) बोकि प्रस्थान गर्नु पर्दछ। घर बाट जन्ती प्रस्थान गर्ने समयमा आँगनमा दुध् वा दही, छ्याङ र खप्सेहरु सगुन स्वरुप राखीन्छ। यसलाई सुर्ज्यङ भनीन्छ। यसता सगुनहरु प्रायश दुलहाको बिबाहीत दिदीबहिनीहरुले राखने चलन पनि छ। यसरी सगुन थापे बापतमा दिदी बहिनीहरुलाई दुलहाले उपहार दिने चलन छ। जन्ती प्रस्थान देखी दुलही भित्र्याउने समय सम्मको लागी दुलहाको साथी साथमा रहने चलन छ। यसतै दुलही को पनि केर्मी राखने चलन छ।

जन्ती आउने दिन बिहानै दुलहीको माईतमापनि लामा पुरोहित बोलाइ सुख शान्ती को पुजा गरीनछ र दुलहीका माइत तर्फका नातादारहरु, छरछिमेकीहरु भेलाभै जन्तीको स्वागतको तयारी गरीन्छ। जन्ती आईपुगने समयमा दुध वा दही, छ्याङ र खप्से सगुन राखी जन्तीको स्वागत सतकार गरीन्छ। जन्ती हरु लाई तयारगरिएको स्थानमा राखीन्छ। दुलहाको लागी छुट्टै बस्ने स्थान राखेको हुन्छ। जन्तीहरु बसीसकेपछी दुलहीको आमा र बाबु आई सबै जन्तीलाई छ्याङ र अन्य पेयपदार्थ खुवाउदै परिचय आदान प्रदान गर्ने कार्य हुन्छ । यो कार्यक्रम सकिएपछी दुलहाको पोशाक फेर्ने कार्य हुन्छ यसलाई सील्ज्याङ भनीन्छ। यस पछी दुलहीको माईतीहरुलाई दुलहाको तर्फबाट कोसेली राखने कार्य हुन्छ। कोसेलिमा फेमार, छ्याङ र खता राखीन्छ। यस पछी दुलहीलाई सिंगारेर ल्याई दुलाहको छेउमा बायाँ पट्टी बसालिन्छ। दुलही बसेपछी दुलहाले ल्याएको कलश दुलहीलाई दिइन्छ। यस पछी दुलहा र दुलहीको घर र माइतीको तर्फबाट आफ्नो छोरा र छोरी एक अर्कालाई सुम्पिएको घोषणा गर्दछन यस कृयालाई मोला भनीन्छ। मोला मा दुलाह र दुलही दुवैको बंसावली, तीनपुस्ते नाम र थर समेत खुलाई आजको दिन देखी बिबाहसुत्रमा बाँधिएको घोषणा गरीन्छ । यसपछी लामा पुरोहित बाट दुलहा र दुलही दुवै जनालाई शीरमा नौनिको टिकालगाउदै आशीरबाद दिइन्छ। यसपछि दुलहाले पहिले आफुले ३ पटक निधारमा सिन्धुर लगाई ३ पल्ट दुलहीको निधारमा टिका लगाइन्छ।यस पछी दुलहा र दुलही ले अआफ्नो ससुराली नातादारहरु लाई ढोगदै आशीरबाद लिन्छन। दुलाहा र दुलहीको टिकाटालो हुनासाथ जन्तीहरु गीत गाएर श्यब्रु नाच्नथालिन्छ भने कोहि चौँरीको पुछर हातमा लिई झ्याम्टाको तालमा नाच्न थाल्छन यसलाई सिलु क्षोम्बु भनीन्छ। दुलहीको बिदाईको समयमा दुलहीको माईतीको तर्फबाट सबैलाई खता लगाई बिदा गरीन्छ।

यसरी बिबाह सम्पन्न भएपछी जन्तीहरु दुलहीलाई लिएर दुलहाको घरमा फरकीन्छ र दुलहीको स्वागतको लागी नाच गान गरीन्छ यसलाई टशिसोलुप भनीन्छ। बिबाहभएको केही दिन पछी दुलहा दुलही लाई लिएर ससुरालिमा जाईन्छ यसलाई कर्म लोउ भनीन्छ।

बिबाहभएको केही समय वा बर्ष पछी दुलहीलाई माइतीहरुको तर्फबाट दाइजो दिने प्रचलन छ। यसलाई लारु तोङ्गु भनीन्छ। यसमा पनि बिबाह गरे जस्तै सम्पुर्ण प्रकृया अपनाइन्छ। सो अवसरमा भनिने मोलामा माइतीबाट यती धनमाल, अरु नाताहरुबाट यती धन दिएकोभनि सुनाईन्छ।

उपरोक्त चलन सोलुतिर गरिने बिबाहको परम्पारीक चलनहो भने खुम्बुतिर भने केटा र केटीको मङ्नी (लोङ्ज्यङ) हुनासाथ दम्पतीको रुपमा संगै बस्छन र यसरी बसेको केही बर्ष पछीमात्र बिबाह गरीन्छ यस बिबाहमा केटीलाई दाइजो पनि संगै दिएर पठाउछन।

माथी उल्लेखीत बिबाहको थितीरितीहरु गाँउघर तिर अपनाईन्छ तर आजकल शहरीक्षेत्रमा रहेका शेर्पा समाजमा भने ठाउँ र समय अनुसार बिबाहको रितीथितीमा केही फरक देखीन्छ। शहरीक्षेत्रमा बिबाह गर्दा नजीकका केही नाताहरु मात्र जन्ति गै दुलही ल्याउने र पछी दुलहा र दुलहीको तर्फ बाट संंयुक्त रुपमा बिबाहको भोज खुवाउने चलन छ। अझ छोटकरीमा बिबाह गर्नलाई केटा र केटी दुवै तर्फका मानीसहरु बोलाई टिकाटालो गरि सोही दिन भोज खुवाई बिबाह सम्पन्न गर्ने चलन पनि चलेको छ।

History of Coca-cola

History of Coca-cola

Coca-Cola® originated as a soda fountain beverage in 1886 selling for five cents a glass. Early growth was impressive, but it was only when a strong bottling system developed that Coca-Cola became the world-famous brand it is today.

1894 … A modest start for a bold idea
In a candy store in Vicksburg, Mississippi, brisk sales of the new fountain beverage called Coca-Cola impressed the store's owner, Joseph A. Biedenharn. He began bottling Coca-Cola to sell, using a common glass bottle called a Hutchinson.

Biedenharn sent a case to Asa Griggs Candler, who owned the Company. Candler thanked him but took no action. One of his nephews already had urged that Coca-Cola be bottled, but Candler focused on fountain sales.

1899 … The first bottling agreement
Two young attorneys from Chattanooga, Tennessee believed they could build a business around bottling Coca-Cola. In a meeting with Candler, Benjamin F. Thomas and Joseph B. Whitehead obtained exclusive rights to bottle Coca-Cola across most of the United States (specifically excluding Vicksburg) -- for the sum of one dollar. A third Chattanooga lawyer, John T. Lupton, soon joined their venture.

1900-1909 … Rapid growth
The three pioneer bottlers divided the country into territories and sold bottling rights to local entrepreneurs. Their efforts were boosted by major progress in bottling technology, which improved efficiency and product quality. By 1909, nearly 400 Coca-Cola bottling plants were operating, most of them family-owned businesses. Some were open only during hot-weather months when demand was high.

1916 … Birth of the contour bottle
Bottlers worried that the straight-sided bottle for Coca-Cola was easily confused with imitators. A group representing the Company and bottlers asked glass manufacturers to offer ideas for a distinctive bottle. A design from the Root Glass Company of Terre Haute, Indiana won enthusiastic approval in 1915 and was introduced in 1916. The contour bottle became one of the few packages ever granted trademark status by the U.S. Patent Office. Today, it's one of the most recognized icons in the world - even in the dark!

1920s … Bottling overtakes fountain sales
As the 1920s dawned, more than 1,000 Coca-Cola bottlers were operating in the U.S. Their ideas and zeal fueled steady growth. Six-bottle cartons were a huge hit after their 1923 introduction. A few years later, open-top metal coolers became the forerunners of automated vending machines. By the end of the 1920s, bottle sales of Coca-Cola exceeded fountain sales.

1920s and 30s … International expansion
Led by longtime Company leader Robert W. Woodruff, chief executive officer and chairman of the Board, the Company began a major push to establish bottling operations outside the U.S. Plants were opened in France, Guatemala, Honduras, Mexico, Belgium, Italy, Peru, Spain, Australia and South Africa. By the time World War II began, Coca-Cola was being bottled in 44 countries.

1940s … Post-war growth
During the war, 64 bottling plants were set up around the world to supply the troops. This followed an urgent request for bottling equipment and materials from General Eisenhower's base in North Africa. Many of these war-time plants were later converted to civilian use, permanently enlarging the bottling system and accelerating the growth of the Company's worldwide business.

1950s … Packaging innovations
For the first time, consumers had choices of Coca-Cola package size and type -- the traditional 6.5-ounce contour bottle, or larger servings including 10-, 12- and 26-ounce versions. Cans were also introduced, becoming generally available in 1960.

1960s … New brands introduced
Following Fanta® in the 1950s, Sprite®, Minute Maid®, Fresca® and TaB® joined brand Coca-Cola in the 1960s. Mr. Pibb® and Mello Yello® were added in the 1970s. The 1980s brought diet Coke® and Cherry Coke®, followed by POWERADE® and DASANI® in the 1990s. Today hundreds of other brands are offered to meet consumer preferences in local markets around the world.

1970s and 80s … Consolidation to serve customers
As technology led to a global economy, the retailers who sold Coca-Cola merged and evolved into international mega-chains. Such customers required a new approach. In response, many small and medium-size bottlers consolidated to better serve giant international customers. The Company encouraged and invested in a number of bottler consolidations to assure that its largest bottling partners would have capacity to lead the system in working with global retailers.

1990s … New and growing markets
Political and economic changes opened vast markets that were closed or underdeveloped for decades. After the fall of the Berlin Wall, the Company invested heavily to build plants in Eastern Europe. And as the century closed, more than $1.5 billion was committed to new bottling facilities in Africa.

21st Century …
The Coca-Cola bottling system grew up with roots deeply planted in local communities. This heritage serves the Company well today as people seek brands that honor local identity and the distinctiveness of local markets. As was true a century ago, strong locally based relationships between Coca-Cola bottlers, customers and communities are the foundation on which the entire business grows.

Team of Management 

How to Happy a Man

How to Happy a Man

The topic of this article conveys everything I wanted to write. This is the question of most of the men out there, as well as of ladies, but the answers are the hidden in a Pandora box. But in this article my major target is the man’s life that how he can get a happy life. From childhood till he dies, he is the one who works hard and still listens to statements like, “what the hell have you ever done for me?”. Well, here is the little secret now that how to spend your life happily!

spending life happily for men:

1.    Never get married.

2.    Stay away from girls.

3.    Don’t try to get a girl friend.

4.    Wife is very dangerous for body and soul.

5.    Keep 20meters distance away from girls.

6.    Never look back to a girl.

7.    Do tell her that you are poor.

8.    Never love

9.    all the above are just ridiculous things!

10. Love a woman, as much as you can and gain her trust! and have as many children as you want 

11. Think ! No girls No Problem         :)