Some of the ridiculously Myths; All about science.

There is nothing better than a bit of mythbusting (which accounts for the popularity of the television program of the same name), so here we are again, presenting you with a new list of terribly common misconceptions and myths – this time about science.

Evolutionary Improvements

The Myth: Evolution causes something to go from “lower” to “higher”

While it is a fact that natural selection weeds out unhealthy genes from the gene pool, there are many cases where an imperfect organism has survived. Some examples of this are fungi, sharks, crayfish, and mosses – these have all remained essentially the same over a great period of time. These organisms are all sufficiently adapted to their environment to survive without improvement.Other taxa have changed a lot, but not necessarily for the better. Some creatures have had their environments changed and their adaptations may not be as well suited to their new situation. Fitness is linked to their environment, not to progress. 



Humans Pop In Space

The Myth: When exposed to the vacuum of space, the human body pops

This myth is the result of science fiction movies which use it to add excitement or drama to the plot. In fact, a human can survive for 15 – 30 seconds in outer space as long as they breathe out before the exposure (this prevents the lungs from bursting and sending air into the bloodstream). After 15 or so seconds, the lack of oxygen causes unconsciousness which eventually leads to death by asphyxiation.

Brightest Star

The Myth: Polaris is the brightest star in the northern hemisphere night sky

Sirius is actually brighter with a magnitude of 1.47 compared to Polaris’ 1.97 (the lower the number the brighter the star). The importance of Polaris is that its position in the sky marks North – and for that reason it is also called the “North Star”. Polaris is the brightest star in the constellation Ursa Minor and, interestingly, is only the current North Star as pole stars change over time because stars exhibit a slow continuous drift with respect to the Earth’s axis.

Five Second Rule

The Myth: Food that drops on the floor is safe to eat if you pick it up within five seconds.

This is utter bunkum which should be obvious to most readers. If there are germs on the floor and the food lands on them, they will immediately stick to the food. Having said that, eating germs and dirt is not always a bad thing as it helps us to develop a robust immune system. I prefer to have a “how-tasty-is-it” rule: if it is something really tasty, it can sit there for ten minutes for all I care – I will still eat it.

Dark side of the Moon

The Myth: There is a dark side of the moon

Actually – every part of the moon is illuminated at sometime by the sun. This misconception has come about because there is a side of the moon which is never visible to the earth. This is due to tidal locking; this is due to the fact that Earth’s gravitational pull on the moon is so immense that it can only show one face to us. Wikipedia puts it rather smartly thus: “Tidal locking occurs when the gravitational gradient makes one side of an astronomical body always face another; for example, one side of the Earth’s Moon always faces the Earth. A tidally locked body takes just as long to rotate around its own axis as it does to revolve around its partner. This synchronous rotation causes one hemisphere constantly to face the partner body.”

Brain Cells

The Myth: Brain cells can’t regenerate – if you kill a brain cell, it is never replaced

The reason for this myth being so common is that it was believed and taught by the science community for a very long time. But in 1998, scientists at the Sweden and the Salk Institute in La Jolla, California discovered that brain cells in mature humans can regenerate. It had previously been long believed that complex brains would be severely disrupted by new cell growth, but the study found that the memory and learning center of the brain can create new cells – giving hope for an eventual cure for illnesses like Alzheimer’s.

Pennies from Heaven

The Myth: A penny dropped from a very high building can kill a pedestrian below

This myth is so common it has even become a bit of a cliche in movies. The idea is that if you drop a penny from the top of a tall building (such as the Empire State Building) – it will pick up enough speed to kill a person if it lands on them on the ground. But the fact is, the aerodynamics of a penny are not sufficient to make it dangerous. What would happen in reality is that the person who gets hit would feel a sting – but they would certainly survive the impact.

Friction Heat

The Myth: Meteors are heated by friction when entering the atmosphere

When a meteoroid enters the atmosphere of the earth (becoming a meteor), it is actually the speed compressing the air in front of the object that causes it to heat up. It is the pressure on the air that generates a heat intense enough to make the rock so hot that is glows brilliantly for our viewing pleasure (if we are lucky enough to be looking in the sky at the right time). We should also dispel the myth about meteors being hot when they hit the earth – becoming meteorites. Meteorites are almost always cold when they hit – and in fact they are often found covered in frost. This is because they are so cold from their journey through space that the entry heat is not sufficient to do more than burn off the outer layers.

Lightning

The Myth: Lightning never strikes the same place twice

Next time you see lightning strike and you consider running to the spot to protect yourself from the next bolt, remember this item! Lightning does strike the same place twice – in fact it is very common. Lightning obviously favors certain areas such as high trees or buildings. In a large field, the tallest object is likely to be struck multiple times until the lightning moves sufficiently far away to find a new target. The Empire State Building gets struck around 25 times a year.1

Gravity in Space

The Myth: There is no gravity in space

In fact, there is gravity in space – a lot of it. The reason that astronauts appear to be weightless because they are orbiting the earth. They are falling towards the earth but moving sufficiently sideways to miss it. So they are basically always falling but never landing. Gravity exists in virtually all areas of space. When a shuttle reaches orbit height (around 250 miles above the earth), gravity is reduced by only 10%.

Advantages and Disadvantages Of Music; some common merits and Demerits.

Music; Impact of music on life:

                       Music, the term, is a scientific term related to the sounds. 

                   "The science or the art of ordering tones or sounds in  succession, in combination, to produce a unity and continuity".

         

Music is very popular these days. Every sector of world has its own music. You may be familiar with The most popular Rock, hip hop, R&B, Chinese music and many others.

                Have your ever considered the Merits that how useful music can be and the demerits that how disastrous music can be? If not then you should consider them and must read this post very carefully as i'm going to discuss the positive as well as negative aspects of music. 

Merits of music:

                                     First the good news. Every ting in this World has positive as well as negative aspects. Some of Advantages of music are:

1. Music is a therapy, if listened to music with balance, a person can get relieve from the stress. Research shows that it can also reduce the chronic physical pain.
   
2. Migraine sufferers have the advantage. Music may relieve a person from intense pain and migraine, reducing its frequency, intensity and duration of headache.
   
3. Music is good for your heart. Research shows that it is musical tempo, rather than style. Italian and British researchers32 recruited young men and women, half of whom were trained musicians. The participants slipped on head phones and listened to six styles of music, including rap and classical pieces, with random two-minute pauses. As the participants kicked back and listened, the researchers monitored their breathing, heart rates and blood pressure. The participants had faster heart and breathing rates when they listened to lively music. When the musical slowed, so did their heart and breathing rates. Some results were surprising. During the musical pauses, heart and breathing rates normalized or reached more optimal levels. Whether or not a person liked the style of music did not matter. The tempo, or pace, of the music had the greatest effect on relaxation.
   
4. Music may reduce the blood pressure, depending upon the genre of music.
   
5. Music may change your mood. Depending upon the genre.

De-Merits of Music:

1. it takes you to fantasy and away from the real world
   
2. it distracts & diverts your attention
   
3. Today’s music and songs promote violence, sex, rape and abusive languages rather than Peace, harmony, love and respect.
   
4. it is non-productive leisure & waste of the time mostly (one do not learn something from Music)
   
5. Listening loud music while driving causes accidents
   
6. Music today, is only being made by Musicians solely to MAKE MONEY and not to bring the positive changes in the society.
   
7. Music & its lyrics are used to promote hidden agendas of different groups, people and schools of thoughts.

These were the two faces of Music. Hope you have the answer for you question. Remember, the decision is always yours. If you want to listen to music, no body can stop you and if you want to leave iy, nobody can force you as we are living in the free world.

Thankyou for paying a visit,

Regards,

Musub Azfar Khan.

An Introduction to c++; Basics

Introduction to C++:

Hey Guys, today i'm going to tell you some of the basics of C++ in very easy language for the beginners. 

"C++ is a computer language which is mostly used in programming. It is pronounced as See-plus-plus."

 

Basics for C++, from ground level:

I've seen on internet, its pretty hard to understand C++ as i've took help from web but couldn't get much as it was a little difficult for me when i was a beginner.

Now we are using "Dev-cpp" or Or Dev C++ program to make a program. We call this program maker software as "Integrated Development Environment" or simply IDE.

Now as we have many IDEs like Turbo c++, dev c++ (also called bloodshedcpp) and Visual Studio.

Starting from basics, first we need to understand some terms.

cout = console out

cin = console in

iostream = input output stream

conio.h = header files (that makes a program executable)

Semi colon (;) = to terminate a line

namespace std = To ignore the spaces which are extra

// = comments, which are ignored by program, for ease of user

endl = end line

so here is our first program.

#include <iostream>

using namespace std;

#include <conio.h>

int main ();
{
int a;
cout<<"Enter the value of a"<<endl;
cin>>a;
cout<<a<<endl;
getch();
return 0;
}

Now if you want to perforn addition then (I'm starting with codes directly) ;

{
int a,b,c;
cout<<"Give value of a"<<endl;
cin>>a;
cout<<"give value of b"<<endl;
cin>>b;
c= a+b;
cout<<"Value of c"<<c<<endl;
getch();
return 0;
}

Now similarly you can perform Subtraction, multiplication and division.

If and Else statements:

            Now we are going to discuss some if and else statements. These are very easy to understand. These are also called "Conditional statements". Now we will see some of its examples:

"Show if the number is positive, negative or zero"

{

int a;

cin>>a;

if (a>0)

cout<<" It is postive"<<endl;

else if (a<0)

cout<<"A is negative"<<endl;

else
cout<<"A is zero"<<endl;

getch ();

return 0;

}

Note that we don't put any condition in else because its only remaining possible condition.

Further we can extend it with the use of "AND" and "OR" conditions.

AND (&&) = if every given condition is true then whole statement is true. e.g 1+1 = 1, 1+0 = 0 (Boolean algebra) 

OR (||) = if any one condition is true then statement is true. e.g 1+0 = 1, 0+0 = 0

Integrating in Program we have;

"Assign three grades to student"

{

int a;

if (a>= 80) && (a<=100)

cout<<"Assigned A* grade"<<endl;

else if (a>=50) && (a<=79)

cout<<"Assigned B grade"<<endl;

else if (a<50) && (a>0)

cout<<"Assigned C grade"<<endl;

else

cout<<"Invalid input"<<endl;

getch();

return 0;

}

 Similarly you can integrate OR operation.

And further are switch statements. These are also conditional statements. give the value of an option. It it matches with any case then it will trigger that one. For example:

switch (i)

{

    case constant-expression //eg. 1  :

       statement;

       break; //it is optional, if you wont put it the term will go infinite.

    case constant-expression  :

       statement;

       break; //optional

  

    // you can have any number of case statements.

    default : //Optional

       statement(s);

}

A flowchart of switch statement

 Example of switch statement:

#include <iostream>

using namespace std;

int main ()

{

   // local variable declaration:

   char grade = 'D';

   switch(grade)

   {

   case 'A' :

      cout << "Excellent!" << endl; 

      break;

   case 'B' :

   case 'C' :

      cout << "Well done" << endl;

      break;

   case 'D' :

      cout << "You passed" << endl;

      break;

   case 'F' :

      cout << "Better try again" << endl;

      break;

   default :

      cout << "Invalid grade" << endl;

   }

   cout << "Your grade is " << grade << endl;

   return 0;

}

It will produce result that "You passed, Your grade is D"

This is enough for the basics. 

Thankyou for paying a visit.

Regards,

Musub Azfar Khan

Bluestacks: A most convenient and powerful Android Emulator for PC.

What is Bluestacks?                                             
                                       

             Bluestacks is an emulator for PC. Do you like to watch movies on your PC, laptop or mac?

- Do you want to install whatsapp on your PC?

- Do you want any other app like showbox, line, facebook, instagram, ask.fm, or any other app on your pc? 

   

               If yes, then Bluestacks is for you. What you need is to just install this appication on your machine. And you will be able to access the most popular and vast app store, Yes i'm talking about Android play store, on your PC. 

                Okay here are the details that how to encounter the installation process of bluestack in your PC.

Step 1:

                First of all, download the app from its official site. Or Click here to redirect to its official site.

Step 2:

       Install from the executable file into the directory of your choice.

Step 3:

          Now all you have to do is have some patience. Bluestack will download some data and then you are ready to go. Have fun and enjoy.

Download from here:

Click here to download

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Musub Azfar Khan :)

New Technology; Avengers "Age of Ultron" Robots

How Real-Life AI Rivals 'Ultron': Computers Learn to Learn:

Avengers: Age of Ultron
The bot called Ultron in the new movie "Avengers: Age of Ultron" has an amazing learning capacity, mastering 3,000 years of human history in a flash.
Credit: Walt Marvel Studios


Artificial Intelligence will rule Hollywood (intelligently) in 2015, with a slew of both iconic and new robots hitting the screen. From the Turing-bashing "Ex Machina" to old friends R2-D2 and C-3PO, and new enemies like the Avengers' Ultron, sentient robots will demonstrate a number of human and superhuman traits on-screen. But real-life robots may be just as thrilling. In this five-part series Live Science looks at these made-for-the-movies advances in machine intelligence.

When Iron Man and friends regroup in May to battle the titular robot in "Avengers: Age of Ultron," they won't square off against the same old Hollywood droid. Ultron will be a different sort of mechanical man, director Joss Whedon told Yahoo! Movies— because this robot is "bonkers." That craziness, in part, results from learning capacity, a rapidly advancing component of real-life AI.

Blessed and burdened with a tremendous learning capacity, Ultron masters 3,000 years of human history in a flash — without the maturity to handle that knowledge. And so he goes a bit crazy. By turning studiousness into one of his robot's defining features, Whedon mirrors a major ambition of current AI: Engineers want their robots to learn — hopefully as well as, if not better than, humans.


So-called "deep learning" AI systems have taken off, with the number of labs working on the tech multiplying, Patrick Ehlen, head of deep learning at Loop AI Labs, told the Observer. Google last year acquired London's DeepMind Technologies, whose secretive Neural Turing Machine project aims to construct a computer that can learn like a person. [Super-Intelligent Machines: 7 Robotic Futures]

Though details on the project are thin, the tech essentially models a self-learning AI mind on the structures of the mammalian brain, Chris Eliasmith, a computational neuroscience researcher at the University of Waterloo in Canada, told Live Science.

"In biology, there's a loop from the basal ganglia to the cortex and back" — the basal ganglia acting as a controller, the cortex as memory, Eliasmith said. "In a Neural Turing Machine, you have the same system of memory and a controller."

Those structures permit "reinforcement learning," Eliasmith said, in which individuals learn new behavior based on the rewards they get for taking different actions. The brain, or neural network, mediates this learning, with the controller assigning weights to various actions based on their rewards, and the memory storing that data.

The core idea is not necessarily new — neuroscientists have been studying this kind of learning since Pavlov first tricked his dogs to associate a ringing bell with feeding time, Eliasmith said. But the attempt to model it in an artificial computer is a new engineering tactic, he said. Today's more powerful processors have made such neuronal modeling more feasible.

Check out the first and second installment in this series: How Real-Life AI Rivals 'Chappie': Robots Get Emotional and HowReal-Life AI Rivals 'Ultron': Computers Learn to Learn. Look out for tomorrow's installment: Real-Life AI Rivals 'Terminator': Robots Take the Shot.

Brad Pitt's biography

William Bradley Pitt or commonly known as "Brad Pitt" was born on 18 December 1963 in Shawnee, Oklahoma, USA.

Biography Of Brad Pitt, The Sexiest man alive:

An actor and producer known as much for his versatility as he is for his handsome face, Golden Globe-winning actor Brad Pitt's most widely recognized role may be Tyler Durden in Fight Club (1999). But his portrayals of Billy Beane in Moneyball (2011), and Rusty Ryan in the remake of Ocean's Eleven (2001) and its sequels, also loom large in his filmography.

Pitt was born William Bradley Pitt on December 18th, 1963, in Shawnee, Oklahoma, and was raised in Springfield, Missouri. He is the son of Jane Etta (Hillhouse), a school counselor, and William Alvin Pitt, a truck company manager. He has a younger brother, Douglas (Doug) Pitt, and a younger sister, Julie Neal Pitt. At Kickapoo High School, Pitt was involved in sports, debating, student government and school musicals. Pitt attended the University of Missouri, where he majored in journalism with a focus on advertising. He occasionally acted in fraternity shows. He left college two credits short of graduating to move to California. Before he became successful at acting, Pitt supported himself by driving strippers in limos, moving refrigerators and dressing as a giant chicken while working for "el Pollo Loco".

Pitt's earliest credited roles were in television, starting on the daytime soap opera Another World (1964) before appearing in the recurring role of Randy on the legendary prime time soap opera Dallas (1978). Following a string of guest appearances on various television series through the 1980s, Pitt gained widespread attention with a small part in Thelma & Louise (1991), in which he played a sexy criminal who romanced and conned Geena Davis. This lead to starring roles in badly received films such as Johnny Suede (1991) and Cool World (1992).

But Pitt's career hit an upswing with his casting in A River Runs Through It (1992), which cemented his status as an multi-layered actor as opposed to just a pretty face. Pitt's subsequent projects were as quirky and varied in tone as his performances, ranging from his unforgettably comic cameo as stoner roommate Floyd in True Romance (1993) to romantic roles in such visually lavish films as Interview with the Vampire: The Vampire Chronicles (1994) and Legends of the Fall (1994), to an emotionally tortured detective in the horror-thriller Se7en (1995). His portrayal of frenetic oddball Jeffrey Goines in Twelve Monkeys (1995) won him a Globe for Best Performance by an Actor in a Supporting Role.

Pitt's portrayal of Achilles in the big-budget period drama Troy (2004) helped establish his appeal as action star and was closely followed by a co-starring role in the stylish spy-versus-spy flick Mr. & Mrs. Smith (2005). It was on the set of Mr. & Mrs. Smith that Pitt, who married Jennifer Aniston in a highly publicized ceremony in 2000, met his current partner Angelina Jolie. Pitt left Aniston for Jolie in 2005, a break-up that continues to fuel tabloid stories years after its occurrence.

He continues to wildly vary his film choices, appearing in everything from high-concept popcorn flicks such as Megamind (2010) to adventurous critic-bait like Inglourious Basterds (2009) and The Tree of Life (2011). He has received two Best Actor Oscar nominations, for The Curious Case of Benjamin Button (2008) and Moneyball (2011). In 2014, he starred in the war film Fury (2014), opposite Shia LaBeouf, Logan Lerman, Jon Bernthal, and Michael Peña.

Pitt and Jolie have six children, including two sons and a daughter who were adopted.

Films Of William Bradley Pitt:

1987	Hunk	Guy at Beach with Drink
1987	No Way Out	Airport Cop
1987	No Man's Land	Waiter
1987	Less Than Zero	Partygoer/Preppie Guy at Fight
1988	The Dark Side of the Sun	Rick
1989	Happy Together	Brian
1989	Cutting Class	Dwight Ingalls
1990	Too Young to Die?	Billy Canton
1991	Across the Tracks	Joe Maloney
1991	Thelma & Louise	J.D.
1991	Johnny Suede	Johnny Suede
1992	Contact	Cox
1992	Cool World	Detective Frank Harris
1992	A River Runs Through It	Paul Maclean
1993	Kalifornia	Early Grayce
1993	True Romance	Floyd
1994	The Favor	Elliott Fowler
1994	Interview with the Vampire	Louis de Pointe du Lac
1994	Legends of the Fall	Tristan Ludlow
1995	Seven	David Mills
1995	12 Monkeys	Jeffrey Goines
1996	Sleepers	Michael Sullivan
1997	The Devil's Own	Francis Austin McQuire/Rory Devaney
1997	Seven Years in Tibet	Heinrich Harrer
1998	Meet Joe Black	Joe Black/Man in the Coffee Shop
1999	Fight Club	Tyler Durden
1999	Being John Malkovich	Cameo	Uncredited
2000	Snatch	Mickey O'Neil
2001	The Mexican	Jerry Welbach
2001	Spy Game	Tom Bishop
2001	Ocean's Eleven	Rusty Ryan
2002	Confessions of a Dangerous Mind	Brad, Bachelor No.1
2003	Sinbad: Legend of the Seven Seas	Sinbad	Voice
2004	Troy	Achilles
2004	Ocean's Twelve	Rusty Ryan
2005	Mr. & Mrs. Smith	John Smith
2006	Babel	Richard
2007	Ocean's Thirteen	Rusty Ryan
2007	The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford	Jesse James
2008	Burn After Reading	Chad Feldheimer
2008	The Curious Case of Benjamin Button	Benjamin Button
2009	Inglourious Basterds	Lt. Aldo Raine
2010	Megamind	Metro Man	Voice
2011	The Tree of Life	Mr. O'Brien
2011	Moneyball	Billy Beane
2011	Happy Feet Two	Will the Krill	Voice
2012	Killing Them Softly	Jackie Cogan
2013	World War Z	Gerry Lane
2013	12 Years a Slave	Samuel Bass
2013	The Counselor	Westray
2014	Fury	US Army Staff Sergeant Don "Wardaddy" Collier
2015	By the Sea	Roland	Filming
2016	Voyage of Time	Narrator	Voice Documentary

Cristiano Ronaldo

Cristiano Ronaldo Profile and Biography in English

Full Name: Cristiano Ronaldo dos Santos Aveiro
Birth date: February 5th, 1985
Age: 30 years old
Birthplace: Funchal, Madeira - Portugal
Height: 186 cm (1m 86cm)
Weight: 84 kg
Field position: Left/right winger, striker/forward
First professional club: Sporting Clube de Portugal
Career debut: October 7th 2002, against Moreirense
Current club: Real Madrid (since 2009)
International team: Portugal
International debut: August 20th 2003, against Kazakhstan
Nicknames: CR7, CR9, Ronny

Cristiano Ronaldo biography 1985-2015

Cristiano Ronaldo is the son of Maria Dolores dos Santos Aveiro (a cooker) andJosé Dinis Aveiro (a Municipal gardener). Many say that Ronaldo's humble family origins are the reason why CR7 manages to deal so well with the fame and spotlights he has nowadays. Cristiano Ronaldo has two older sisters, Liliana Cátiaand Elma, and one older brother, Hugo.

Cristiano Ronaldo first steps in football/soccer were made in his amateur hometown club called Andorinha, when he was still 8 years old. A couple years later, CR7 moved to CD Nacional, one of the most known teams in Madeira, around his 10th birthday. But he didn't stay there for too long and the year after (1996),Ronaldo was persuaded to join Sporting Lisbon, one of the biggest clubs inPortugal.

It's now clear that 1996 was a turnaround year in Cristiano Ronaldo life. By joining Sporting CP, Ronaldo had to leave his family back in Madeira and start learning how to live on his own. CR7 trained with the youth team in the first years and in 2002, by the age of 16, he made his senior debut against Moreirense, in thePortuguese First Division. In that match, Ronaldo scored a brace and immediatly caught everyone's attention upon him. The European debut took place later on, in the UEFA Champions League qualifier match against Inter Milan.

By the age of 17, Cristiano Ronaldo really started to attract many attentions throughout the World, and his tremendous performances when playing forPortugal's Youth Team in UEFA's Under 17 Championship, made him one of the most promising stars of the moment. Among many other top clubs, Liverpool andArsenal had some scouts on that tournament. Managers Gérard Houllier and Arsene Wenger were allegadly interested in signing Cristiano Ronaldo. However, it was revealed later that both clubs got a bit hesitant on betting in such a young player and Manchester United ended up to rush things and sign Ronaldo in the 2003 pre-season.

The moment Cristiano Ronaldo definately convinced a top club to sign him, was after a 2003 pre-season friendly match, between Sporting and Manchester United, in the inauguration of the "Estádio José de Alvalade" in Lisbon. The Portuguese side defeated the Red Devils by 3-1 and United players were said to be stunned byCristiano Ronaldo's technique skills as well as his natural talent and kept talking about it on their way home. Rumors say that Sir Alex Ferguson had a chat with his team players and then decided to sign Cristiano Ronaldo, in a transfer fee around15 million euros (£12.24 million pounds).

Cristiano Ronaldo's adventure in England, started with a memorable debut forManchester United, coming in as a substitute against Bolton Wanderers and playing for around half an hour. Those 30 minutes are probably still in the memory of many Manchester United fans, since CR7 stunned everyone in the stadium and impressed the traditional harsh English media, with his dazzling dribbles and runs over the wing. Ronaldo scored his first goal for Manchester United, by taking a curled free kick, in a 3-0 win against Portsmouth, in November 2003. However, and despite several promising starts, Cristiano Ronaldo's first two seasons inManchester United received mixed reviews. He got praised for his technique and skills, but he often got criticised for lacking consistency and poor decision making on the field, which seems to be a natural thing at the age of 17 and 18.

In the year of 2005, Cristiano Ronaldo's father, José Dinis Aveiro, died of an alcoholism liver disease. Ronaldo was 20 years old and that was one of his most difficult moments of his life. CR7 is said to not drink any alcohol as a consequence of what happened with his father.

In 2006 it was widely reported Cristiano Ronaldo and manager at the time Sir Alex Ferguson, had placed a £400 bet in which required the Portugueseinternational to score at least 15 goals that season. Ronaldo won the bet by scoring 17 goals...

The following season, Cristiano Ronaldo and even some bookmakers upped the ante on their sports bet, with Ronaldo putting his hair on the line by promising to completely shave his head should he fail to score 20 goals. However, the bet was eventually declined by Ronaldo himself, after Sir Alex Ferguson requesting for thePortuguese to score 35 goals during that season.

Regarding the Portuguese National Team, Cristiano Ronaldo made his senior debut against Kazakhstan a few weeks later, just after being signed by Manchester United, in a match played in August 2003. CR7's first biggest tournament was theEuro 2004, organized by Portugal and Ronaldo managed to help his team reaching the finals, but ended up by being defeated by Greece. Cristiano Ronaldophotos in tears after the match were the Portuguese soul mirror that afternoon and those images got spread all around the World. A couple years later, in the World Cup 2006 played in Germany, Ronaldo was caught up in a very big controversy, after allegedly pressuring and influencing the referee to send off his Manchester United team mate and England's striker/forward Wayne Rooney, in the quarter finals clash between England and Portugal. Cristiano Ronaldo ended up being used as the scapegoat for England's defeat in the World Cup and the hatred towards him the following season, could be seen on every stadium the Red Devilshad to play. English fans showed CR7 how much they got upset with the World Cupelimination and started insulting and "booing" Cristiano Ronaldo on every match outside Old Trafford. That situation made CR7 think about leaving England andManchester United. However, Sir Alex Ferguson managed to convince him to stay and, against all odds, Cristiano Ronaldo surprised everyone with a great season in the English Premiership League. Ronaldo was quoted saying: "All the boos and insults just motivate me training harder and playing better".

In 2007, Cristiano Ronaldo won the PFA Player and Young Player of the Year Award and was also voted Footballer of the Year, by the Football Writers Association. That same year and for the first time, Ronaldo also made up to the top 3 finalists for both the FIFA World Player of the Year trophy and the European Player of the Year award. Cristiano Ronaldo kept on his outstanding form in the 2007-2008 season and scored 42 goals in all competitions (31 in the English Premier League), allowing him to be voted again for the PFA Player of The Year and the Football Writers Footballer of the Year. CR7 rising performances allowedManchester United to win two titles that season, those being the English Premier League and also the UEFA Champions League trophy, in which Ronaldo scored a goal in the final, after a superb header.

The 2008 year was definately Cristiano Ronaldo glory year at Manchester Unitedand after having won the UEFA Champions League, Ronaldo won the FIFA World Player of the Year (2008) and the European Player of the Year (2008). In the 2008-2009 season, Cristiano Ronaldo scored another 26 goals, which helpedManchester United to win another English Premier League title and reaching again the final of the UEFA Champions League, in which they ended by losing againstBarcelona this time, by 0-2.

In 2009, Cristiano Ronaldo broke another record by becoming the World's most expensive football player, after transfering from Manchester United to Real Madridin July 2009, in a £80 million pounds transfer (around 94 million euros and 132 million US dollars). That was an historic moment, and more than 80 000 fans received and welcomed Cristiano Ronaldo in the Santiago Bernabéu stadium, during his official presentation. Ronaldo's career in Real Madrid started well, scoring plenty of goals on his first matches and only getting stopped by his first injury, in October 2009. However, CR7 recovered his form a few months later and still managed to score 33 goals on his first season playing for Real Madrid, which unfortunately, didn't prove to be enough for the club to win any trophies in the 2009-2010 season.

As for the Portuguese National Team, Cristiano Ronaldo captained Portugal at the 2010 FIFA World Cup played in South Africa, but the "Lusitanos" got eliminated in the last 16, against the future World Champions, Spain, getting defeated by 1-0.

In the 3rd of July, 2010, Cristiano Ronaldo announced on his facebook page that he had become a father. The information shocked many fans since there's still a big mistery nowadays, on who is the mother of the Cristiano Ronaldo's son. CR7requested privacy and named his son with his own name, Cristiano Ronaldo Junior. The child is currently in Ronaldo's full custody, while being helped by his mother and sisters.

In the 2010-2011 season, Cristiano Ronaldo had an outstanding personal performance, breaking several all-time records, not only in Real Madrid, but also in the Spanish League. Ronaldo scored 41 goals in La Liga, breaking the previous38 goal record set by Hugo Sanchez and Telmo Zarra. CR7 scored a total of 54 goals and once again, won the Golden Boot award, beating Lionel Messi in the way, who finished the season with 53 goals. However, not everything was perfect, since Real Madrid only won the Copa del Rey and failed to conquer the Spanish League and the UEFA Champions League.

The 2011-2012 season will always be a memorable one in Real Madrid's history. With Cristiano Ronaldo leading the charge game after game, the Merenguesended with Barcelona's hegemony in Spain and won the Spanish League in a record-breaking fashion. The club reached 100 points that season, the highest ever registered until then, but also broke the record for goals scored, with 121 in 38 games. The Champions League journey ended once more in the semi-finals round, in a penalty shoot-out decision against Bayern Munich. As for the Copa del Rey,Barça knocked out Real Madrid with a 4-3 result on aggregate. Ronaldo had his highest goalscoring season ever, with 60 goals out of 55 games (46 of those goals were scored in La Liga).

Following that monumental season, Ronaldo went straight ahead with Portugalinto the EURO 2012 that was going to be held in Poland and Ukraine. Unfortunately for the "Lusitanos", the team ended up falling short to the expectations and got knocked out at the semi-finals against Spain, during the penalties shoot-out. Nevertheless, Cristiano Ronaldo has undoubtedly been one of the best players of the tournament, with three goals scored and several great performances that allowed him to earn a well deserved pick for the "UEFA EURO 2012 Team of the Tournament".

On his fourth season wearing a Real Madrid jersey (2012-2013), Ronaldo had nothing left to win in Spain except the Spanish Super Cup. That's precisely the title he started by winning for the Merengues, in August of 2012. The Spanish Leagueadventure didn't go the way everyone expected and Barcelona had a safe and regular campaign, which allowed them to earn a big distance over Real Madrid still very early in the season. The Merengues finished 15 points below Barcelona and would also end up losing the Copa del Rey final to Atletico Madrid. The Champions League brought more of the same for José Mourinho's men, with a third consecutive elimination in the semi-finals, this time at the hands of Borussia Dortmund. But not all was bad that year, since Cristiano Ronaldo ended the season with a perfect record of 55 games and 55 goals, top-goalscorer of theChampions League with 12 goals. As usual, the season ended with a lot of speculation going around about his future...