YouTube

YouTube has launched a new video channel called ‘YouTube 5 Year Channel’ to mark its fifth birthday.

1,000,000
In September 2005, Brazilian footballer Ronaldinho’s ‘Touch of Gold’ Nike advert became the first YouTube video to receive a million views.

2007
In December 2007 the Queen launched The Royal Channel, which features her annual Christmas Day message and shows recent and historical footage of the Royal family. In early 2009 Barack Obama and the Pope launched their own channels.

1,700
The number of years that it would take to watch every video on YouTube.

100
The number of years of video that is scanned by YouTube’s Content ID technology every day. Content ID is YouTube’s copyright fingerprinting system which allows rights holders to block or make money from unauthorised use of their material. It is free of charge and being used by 1,000 content partners globally.

70
The percentage of YouTube traffic that comes from outside the US.

24
The number of hours of video that are uploaded to YouTube every minute of the day. This is up 20 per cent from May 2009, when it was getting 20 hours of video uploaded per minute.

23
The number of countries for which YouTube has a localised service. YouTube has been translated into 24 languages.

15
The average number of minutes a YouTube users spends on the site every day. Chad Hurley, YouTube’s chief executive and co-founder, told The Telegraph last month that he wants the site to be watched in the same way as television, up from 15 minutes per day to an average of five hours.

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LeBron James’ playing days in Cleveland ended after seven years in a great deal of controversy (and hate from the Cleveland fans.) He could have been the biggest free-agent prize in the history of sports.

James said he was drawn to the Miami Heat by a pair of friends and his confidence the All-Star trio can win NBA championships, even though he could have made more money by staying with the Cleveland Cavaliers.

James, Wade and Bosh won gold medals for the U.S. team at the 2008 Beijing Olympics, and the three talked frequently before and during the free-agency period that began July 1.

“I think the major factor, the major reason, in my decision was to give me the best opportunity to win and to win now,” said James, who never won an NBA title during his seven seasons in Cleveland. “Winning is a huge thing for me.”

Teams including the New York Knicks and Chicago Bulls vied for the six-time All-Star, who could have signed a six-year contract worth about $128 million in Cleveland. He can get a maximum of about $99 million for five years in Miami.

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Both Bosh and Wade reportedly signed contracts with the Heat that put them around $110 million each for the length of their contracts.

James - Wade - Bosh“There aren’t too many opportunities in a guy’s career where he has the ability to determine where he wants to play, particularly when a guy is in the prime of his career,” said Henry Thomas, the agent for both Wade and Bosh. “The contracts I did for Dwyane and Chris was designed to give them that flexibility at a time in their careers where I knew they’d be in their prime.

Before LeBron, Alex Rodriguez was probably the most coveted free agent ever. He later expressed regret over signing a 10-year, $252 million deal with the Rangers after the 2000 season.


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John on May 17th, 2010

A real man is a woman’s best friend.  He will never stand her up and never let her down.  He will reassure her when she feels insecure and comfort her after a bad day.

He will inspire her to do things she never thought she could do; to live without fear and forget regret.  He will enable her to express her deepest emotions and give in to her most intimate desires.  He will make sure she always feels as though she’s the most beautiful woman in the room and will enable her to be the most confident, sexy, seductive, and invincible.

No wait… sorry I’m thinking of wine!

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  • Ancient Egypt was inhabited by mummies, and they all wrote in hydraulics. They lived in the Sarah Dessert, where the climate was so hot that the inhabitants had to live elsewhere. Certain areas of the dessert are cultivated by irritation.

  • The Pyramids are a range of mountains between France and Spain. The Eqyptians built the pyramids in the shape of huge rectangular cubes.

  • The Bible is full of interesting caricatures. In the first book of the Bible — Guinesses — Adam and Eve were created from an apple tree. One of their children, Cain, asked, “Am I my brother’s son?”

  • Moses led the Hebrew slaves to the Red Sea, where they made unleavened bread, which is bread made without any ingredients.

  • Socrates was a famous Greek teacher who went around giving people advice. They killed him. After his death his career suffered a dramatic decline.

  • In the Olympic Games, Greeks ran the races, hurled the biscuits, and threw the java.

  • Julius Caesar extinguished himself on the battlefields of Gaul. The Ides of March killed him because they thought he was about to be made king. Dying, he gasped out: “Tee, hee, Brutus.”

  • Then came the Middle Ages, when everyone was middle aged. King Alfred conquered the Dames. King Arthur lived in the age of Shivery, and Joan of Arc was burnt to a steak. She was cannonized by Bernard Shaw.

  • Finally, the Magna Carta provided that no free man should be hanged twice for the same offense.

  • In midevil times most people were alliterate. The greatest writer of the futile ages was Chaucer, who wrote many poems and verses, but also literature. During this time people put on morality plays about ghosts, goblins, virgins, and other mythical creatures.

  • The Renaissance was an age when more and more people felt the value of their human being. Martin Luther was nailed to a church door for selling papal indulgences. He died a horrible death, being excommunicated by a bull.

  • Queen Elizabeth was the “Virgin Queen.” As a queen, she was a success. When Elizabeth exposed herself before her troops, they all shouted “Hurrah!” Afterward her navy went out and defeated the Spanish Armadillo.

  • It was an age of great inventions and discoveries. Gutenberg invented removeable type and the Bible. Another important invention was the circulation of blood. Sir Walter Raleigh is an historic figure because he invented cigarettes and started smoking.

  • Francis Drake circumcised the world with a 100-foot clipper.

  • The greatest writer of the Renaissance was William Shakespeare. Shakespeare was born in the year 1564 on his birthday. He never made much money, and is today remembered only for his plays. He wrote comedies, tragedies, and hysterectomies. In one of Shakespeare’s most famous plays, Hamlet figures out his situation by relieving himself in a long soliloquy.

  • Later on, the Pilgrims crossed the ocean, and it was called Pilgrim’s Progress. The winter of 1620 was a hard one for the settlers — many people died and many babies were born. Captain John Smith was responsible for all of this.

  • The big reason for the Revolutionary War was that the English put tacks in their tea. Also, colonists were sending their parcels through the post without stamps.

  • Benjamin Franklin was a singer of the Declaration of Independence. He invented electricity by rubbing two cats backward, and declared, “A horse divided against itself will not stand.”

  • Soon the Constitution of the United States was adopted to secure domestic hostility. Under the Constitution, the people enjoyed the right to keep bare arms.

  • Abraham Lincoln was America’s greatest precedent. Lincoln’s mother died in infancy, and he was born in a log cabin which he built with his own hands. Lincoln wrote the Gettysburg Address while travelling from Washington to Gettysburg on the back of an envelope.

  • On the night of April 14, 1865, Lincoln went to the movies and got shot in his seat. The believed assassinator was John Wilkes Booth, a supposedly insane actor. This ruined Booth’s career.

  • Meanwhile in Europe, the Enlightenment was a reasonable time. Voltair invented electricity and also wrote a book called “Candy.” Gravity was invented by Isaac Walton.

  • Johann Bach wrote a great many musical compositions and had a large number of children. In between he practiced on an old spinster he kept in the attic. Bach died from 1750 to the present. Bach was the most famous composer in the world, but so was Handel. Handel was half German, half Italian, and half English. Beethoven wrote very loud music because he was deaf. He took long walks in the forest, even when everyone was calling for him.

  • The sun never set on the British Empire because Britain is in the East and the sun sets in the West. Queen Victoria was the longest queen. Her death was the final event which ended her reign.

  • The 19th Century was a time of a great many thoughts and inventions: People stopped reproducing by hand and started reproducing by machines. The invention of steamboats caused a network of rivers to spring up. Cyrus McCormick invented the McCormick raper, which did the work of a hundred men. Charles Darwin wrote, “Organ of the Species”; Madman Curie discovered radio; and Karl Marx became one of the Marx Brothers.
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    John on May 17th, 2010

    Portugal has been placed in the FIFA 2010 World Cup’s Group of Death, alongside Brazil, Ivory Coast and North Korea.

    A group of death in a multi-stage tournament is a preliminary group which is unusually competitive, because the number of strong competitors in the group is greater than the number of qualifying places available for the next phase of the tournament. Thus, in the preliminary round, one or more strong competitors in the “group of death” will necessarily be eliminated, who would otherwise have been expected to progress further in the tournament. The informal term was first used for groups in the FIFA World Cup finals. It is now used by also in other association football tournaments and other sports.

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    Hope Dworaczyk: A 3-D Beauty Center folded by Playboy to improve its ever falling readership and this time Playboy has gone too fictional to center fold Hope Dworaczyk in a 3-D pictorial.

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    Hope Dworaczyk’s 3-D beauty is an attempt by Playboy to increase its circulation that has dropped substantially from 3.5 million in 2006 to just 1.5 million in 2010 (excluding the June 2010 edition that will surely shoot these numbers, hopefully).

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    John on May 16th, 2010

    Lilly recently left fans stunned after revealing she may quit acting once the desert island drama ends this month (May10) because she’s “not passionate” about her career.

    Evangeline Lilly

    Lilly at 60th Annual Emmy Awards, 2008
    Born Nicole Evangeline Lilly
    August 3, 1979 (age 30)
    Fort Saskatchewan, Alberta,Canada
    Occupation Actress
    Years active 2002–present
    Spouse(s) Murray Hone (divorced)

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    EVANGELINE LILLY’S LOST ROLE WAS A ‘PSYCHOLOGICAL EXPERIMENT’ to boost her self-confidence.

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    John on May 16th, 2010

    The Herschel Space Observatory has made a major finding — a hole in space.

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    The hole is close to a triple star system called V38O Ori. NASA scientists said the hole appears to have been created when one of the three stars in the system launched a jet of radiation, creating a gap in the swirl of gas and dust that contains fledgling stars. They also theorize that jets and stellar radiation from other stars contributed to the gap.

    “No one has ever seen a hole like this,” said Tom Megeath of the University of Toledo, Ohio, in a written statement. “It’s as surprising as knowing you have worms tunneling under your lawn, but finding one morning that they have created a huge, yawning pit.” Megeath is the principal investigator of the research and works in conjunction with NASA.

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    A tongue twister is a phrase, sentence or rhyme that presents difficulties when spoken because it contains similar sounds - Whistle for the thistle sifter, for example. To get the full effect of a tongue twister you should try to repeat it several times, as quickly as possible, without stumbling or mispronouncing.

    Here are a few Tongue Twisters  for you. Try to read them aloud as fast as you can 🙂

    1. If you understand, say “understand” . If you don’t understand, say “don’t understand”. But if you understand and say “don’t understand”. How do I understand that you understand? Understand!

    2. I wish to wish the wish you wish to wish, but if you wish the wish the witch wishes, I won’t wish the wish you wish to wish.

    3. Sounding by sound is a sound method of sounding sounds.

    4. A sailor went to sea to see, what he could see. And all he could see was sea, sea, sea.

    5. Purple Paper People, Purple Paper People, Purple Paper People

    6. If two witches were watching two watches, which witch would watch which watch?

    7. I thought a thought.But the thought I thought wasn’t the thought I thought I thought. If the thought I thought I thought had been the thought I thought, I wouldn’t have thought so much.

    8. Once a fellow met a fellow In a field of beans. Said a fellow to a fellow, “If a fellow asks a fellow, Can a fellow tell a fellow What a fellow means?”

    9. Mr Inside went over to see Mr Outside. Mr Inside stood outside and called to Mr Outside inside. Mr Outside answered Mr Inside from inside and Told Mr Inside to come inside. Mr Inside said “NO”, and told Mr Outside to come outside. Mr Outside and Mr Inside argued from inside and outside about going outside or coming inside. Finally, Mr Outside coaxed Mr Inside to come inside, then both Mr Outside and Mr Inside went outside to the riverside.

    10. SHE SELLS SEA SHELLS ON THE SEA SHORE , BUT THE SEA SHELLS THAT SHE SELLS, ON THE SEA SHORE ARE NOT THE REAL ONES

    11. The owner of the inside inn was inside his inside inn with his inside outside his inside inn.

    12. If one doctor doctors another doctor does the doctor who doctors the doctor doctor the doctor the way the doctor he is doctoring doctors? Or does the doctor doctor the way the doctor who doctors doctors?

    “When a doctor falls ill another doctor doctor’s the doctor. Does the doctor doctoring the doctor doctorthe doctor in his own way or does the doctor doctoring the doctor doctors the doctor in the doctor’s way”

    13. We surely shall see the sun shine shortly. Whether the weather be fine, Or whether the weather be not, Whether the weather be cold Or whether the weather be hot, We’ll weather the weather Whatever the weather, Whether we like it or not. watch? Whether the weather is hot. Whether the weather is cold. Whether the weather is either or not. It is whether we like it or not.

    14. Nine nice night nurses nursing nicely.

    15. A flea and a fly in a flue Said the fly “Oh what should we do” Said the flea” Let us fly Said the fly”Let us flee” So they flew through a flaw in the flue

    16. If you tell Tom to tell a tongue-twister his tongue will be twisted as tongue-twister twists tongues.

    17. Mr. See owned a saw.And Mr. Soar owned a seesaw. Now See’s saw sawed Soar’s seesaw Before Soar saw See, Which made Soar sore.Had Soar seen See’s saw Before See sawed Soar’s seesaw, See’s saw would not have sawed Soar’s seesaw. So See’s saw sawed Soar’s seesaw.But it was sad to see Soar so sore Just because See’s saw sawed Soar’s seesaw.

    18. Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers.
    A peck of pickled peppers Peter Piper picked.
    If Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers,
    Where’s the peck of pickled peppers Peter Piper picked?

    19. I saw Susie sitting in a shoe shine shop.
    Where she sits she shines, and where she shines she sits.

    20. You cuss, I cuss, we all cuss, for asparagus!

    21. If Stu chews shoes, should Stu choose the shoes he chews?

    22. One-one was a race horse.
    Two-two was one too.
    One-one won one race.
    Two-two won one too.

    23. How many cookies could a good cook cook If a good cook could cook cookies? A good cook could cook as much cookies as a good cook who could cook cookies.

    24. How much wood could Chuck Woods’ woodchuck chuck, if Chuck Woods’ woodchuck could and would chuck wood? If Chuck Woods’ woodchuck could and would chuck wood, how much wood could and would Chuck Woods’ woodchuck chuck? Chuck Woods’ woodchuck would chuck, he would, as much as he could, and chuck as much wood as any woodchuck would, if a woodchuck could and would chuck wood.

    25. Bobby Bippy bought a bat.
    Bobby Bippy bought a ball.
    With his bat Bob banged the ball
    Banged it bump against the wall
    But so boldly Bobby banged it
    That he burst his rubber ball
    “Boo!” cried Bobby
    Bad luck ball
    Bad luck Bobby, bad luck ball
    Now to drown his many troubles
    Bobby Bippy’s blowing bubbles.

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    Someone had to remind me, so I’m reminding you too. Don’t laugh…..it is all true…

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    Perks of reaching 50 or being over 60 and heading towards 70!

    01. Kidnappers are not very interested in you.

    02. In a hostage situation you are likely to be released first.

    03. No one expects you to run–anywhere.

    04. People call at 9 pm and ask, did I wake you?

    05. People no longer view you as a hypochondriac.

    06. There is nothing left to learn the hard way.

    07. Things you buy now won’t wear out

    08. You can eat supper at 4 pm.

    09. You can live without sex but not your glasses.

    10. You get into heated arguments about pension plans.

    11. You no longer think of speed limits as a challenge.

    12. You quit trying to hold your stomach in no matter who walks into the room.

    13. You sing along with elevator music.

    14. Your eyes won’t get much worse.

    15 . Your investment in health insurance is finally beginning to pay off.

    16. Your joints are more accurate meteorologists than the national weather service.

    17. Your secrets are safe with your friends because they can’t remember them either.

    18. Your supply of brain cells is finally down to manageable size.

    19.You can’t remember who sent you this list. 

    And you notice these are all in Big Print for your convenience.

    Forward this to everyone you can remember right now!
    And Never, under any circumstances, take a sleeping pill and a laxative on the same night.

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