Don't Forget you are a Shining Star

Google, which was started in a garage by two students, became a 100 billion pounds giant relied upon by 60 per cent of Internet users due to a secret success recipe -- free beer, barbecues and rum.

One of the men at the heart of the Google empire has revealed the secrets behind the world's most popular search engine, which rose from almost nothing 10 years ago to the fifth-largest company on the New York Stock Exchange and a global brand worth twice as much as Coca-Cola.

Charlie Ayers has disclosed that Google was not just started using a groundbreaking technology, but on a revolutionary approach to food in the staff canteen.

Ayers was hired by Sergey Brin and Larry Page, Google's founders, in the belief that like a Napoleonic army, an Internet giant marches on its stomach.

As Google's first chef, his mission was to seduce an unruly gaggle of brilliant but wayward computer engineers into wanting to stay at the office. His success, he said, meant Google's rise to the top was fuelled by free beer, barbecues and rum.

It began in 1998, when Page and Brin started Google in a friend's garage near Stanford University in California.

A few months later, they recruited Ayers. "They said, 'We are not going to charge for food here, ever'," the Telegraph quoted Ayers, as remembering.

"I said 'That's crazy.' They explained my job was to create this ambience, to build this captivated audience where people wanted to come in super-early and stay super-late. They interviewed me above a bicycle shop.

"They thought they were going to go global. I thought 'Good luck'. The way they were playing with children's toys, riding around on scooters, I had no idea they were doing any work," he added.

He signed up, however, and started easing the computer engineers into the long hours culture with innovations including free beer and fortnightly "big ass" barbecues and breakfast specials. He converted the "googlers" to a diet that ensured they kept working after lunch and weaned them off pizzas.

As explained in his new book, Eat Yourself Smart, his faith in the profit-making power of raw food extended to generous offerings of sushi – “the fat found in fish helps make the cell membranes round the brain more elastic and more able to absorb nutrients easily.”

His empire grew to 150 cooks, serving up to 7,000 meals a day for 5,000 at the thee million square foot "Googleplex", the HQ in Mountain View, California.

- Reference Indiatimes Infotech

* HIV (virus) requires *ONLY* *Blood or Semen* as medium to transmit from one body to another.

* HIV *can not* transmit even through *Saliva*(mucous) i.e . even if HIV-infected patient coughs or smooches and another person is exposed to his sputum (cough) or saliva, the virus still can not transmit because concentration of virus particles in sputum is almost NIL & exposure to air anyway kills virus in fraction of seconds.

* In case an HIV-infected person gets an injury (like the cut in below mentioned story) and he is bleeding, the virus can transmit to another person only if another person has a cut/wound in his body & that too when blood from both person comes in contact with each other* (this is also very very rare unless bleeding is very high) and not otherwise.

* HIV can *never survive in any other liquid * medium also other than blood or semen (& please for God sake ... never in Pani Puri wala pani)

* Even if one drinks an HIV infected blood (or semen) of someone (ingest through Gastro Intestinal track), the virus can not survive in the acidic pH of stomach*. Highest extent of acidity is 0 (practically not possible) so imagine 1 as pH which is in our stomach. (This pH can burn your own finger in less than a second if you dip in that acid).


* Exposure of less than 1 second in AIR KILLS the HIV virus*( hence story of needle pricks in Cinema theatres is a crap). Even if blood from a wound (of infected person) dries up (*blood clot*), *the virus dies*and can not infect anyone else

* HIV transmission is *ONLY* an *INFECTION* i.e.entrance of virus in one's body. It *DOES NOT MEAN AIDS*.

* An HIV-infected person (after entrance of virus) can progress to a condition of AIDS only after *8 to 10 YEARS *(not in 15 days as in the Pani Puri story)

* It is *not HIV (virus) that kills a human* .....the virus attacks immune cells (cells that fight against foreign pathogens/antigens) and hence a person's ability to fight against infections & diseases slowly diminishes and person ultimately dies of a disease which could be as simple as TB

* Most importantly, HIV is no longer a dreadful disease ... it is "*CHRONIC MANAGEABLE DISEASE*" just like Diabetes or Hypertension.

* If there is anything you need to be careful from to prevent HIV is Unsafe sex*, *Blood transfusion* (check before taking) /Blood donation (use sterilized needles only) and any *blood contact during an accident *or so where amount of bleeding is very high.