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Google Search For Planets Thro Satellite ….Wait Till 2017 !!!!

April 7, 2013NatarajanLeave a comment

INTERNET giant Google its taking its search function to new heights: Finding new planets, no less.

The Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) will be launched in 2017 and will see Google join NASA to send a set of specialist cameras in to space to scan the skies for planets orbiting bright nearby stars.

NASA has said the satellite will focus upon stars likely to have Earth-like planets.

It will use a technique to analyse starlight to find planets as they swing around their stars, similar to that used by the Kepler telescope which has already found some 2700 orbiting bodies.

“TESS will carry out the first space-borne all-sky transit survey, covering 400 times as much sky as any previous mission,” George Ricker, TESS’ principle investigator, said in a statement.

“It will identify thousands of new planets in the solar neighbourhood, with a special focus on planets comparable in size to the Earth.”

Alien Planets

This artist rendering shows the different types of planets in our Milky Way galaxy detected by NASAs Kepler spacecraft.

Google’s role so far extends back to 2008 when it provided initial funding for the development of the telescope’s sensors and optical cameras.

Are there plans to launch a Google Space View to join its terrestrial equivalent?

Google has not said.

The launch is one of two projects slated by NASA to be launched in 2017.

The second involves a neutron star scanner to be fitted to the International Space Station.

Extraterrestrial Planets

This illustration provided by the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics shows artist’s renderings of planets Kepler-20e and Kepler-20f compared with Venus and the Earth. Scientists have found the two Earth-sized planets orbiting a distant star, an encouraging sign for prospects of finding life elsewhere.

SOURCE::::news.com.au

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Resume of Bill Gates When He Was 18 years old !!!!!

April 5, 2013NatarajanLeave a comment

Before Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates became a billionaire, he had to apply for jobs just like the rest of us.

Bill Gates

Seattle’s Living Computer Museum held an event last night at which they displayed Bill Gates’ resume from when he was just 18 years old.

At the time, Gates was a freshman at Harvard University, weighed just 130 pounds, and sought a salary of $15,000 a year.

Check out his resume below.

Bill gates' resume from 1974

source::::business insider.com

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Thought For The Day….Persistence is the Iron Quality of Success !!!

April 5, 2013April 5, 2013Natarajan1 Comment

Your ability to persist in the face of adversities, setbacks and disappointments is the measure of your belief in yourself.

-Brian Tracy: Law of Persistence

Thrilling Facts…. Determination and Persistence

This is a real life story of an engineer who build the Brooklyn Bridge in New York, USA.

In 1883, a creative engineer named John Roebling was inspired by an idea to build a spectacular bridge connecting New York with the Long Island. However bridge building experts throughout the world thought that this was an impossible feat and told Roebling to forget the idea. It just could not be done. It was not practical. It had never been done before.

Roebling could not ignore the vision he had in his mind of this bridge. He thought about it all the time and he knew deep in his heart that it could be done. He just had to share the dream with someone else. After much discussion and persuasion he managed to convince his son Washington, an upcoming engineer, that the bridge in fact could be built.

Working together for the first time, the father and son developed concepts of how it could be accomplished and how the obstacles could be overcome. With great excitement and inspiration, and the headiness of a wild challenge before them, they hired their crew and began to build their dream bridge.

The project started well, but when it was only a few months underway a tragic accident on the site took the life of John Roebling. Washington was also injured and left with a certain amount of brain damage, which resulted in him not being able to talk or walk.

“People thought.” “Crazy men and their crazy dreams.” “It’s foolish to chase wild visions.”

Everyone had a negative comment to make and felt that the project should be scrapped since the Roebling’s were the only ones who knew how the bridge could be built. In spite of his handicap Washington was never discouraged and still had a burning desire to complete the bridge and his mind was still as sharp as ever. He tried to inspire and pass on his enthusiasm to some of his friends, but they were too daunted by the task.

As he lay on his bed in his hospital room, with the sunlight streaming through the windows, a gentle breeze blew the flimsy white curtains apart and he was able to see the sky and the tops of the trees outside for just a moment. It seemed that there was a message for him not to give up. Suddenly an idea hit him. All he could do was move one finger and he decided to make the best use of it. By moving this, he slowly developed a code of communication with his wife. He touched his wife’s arm with that finger, indicating to her that he wanted her to call the engineers again. Then he used the same method of tapping her arm to tell the engineers what to do. It seemed foolish but the project was under way again. For 13 years Washington tapped out his instructions with his finger on his wife’s arm, until the bridge was finally completed. Today the spectacular Brooklyn Bridge stands in all its glory as a tribute to the triumph of one man’s indomitable spirit and his determination not to be defeated by circumstances. It is also a tribute to the engineers and their team work, and to their faith in a man who was considered mad by half the world. It stands too as a tangible monument to the love and devotion of his wife who for 13 long years patiently decoded the messages of her husband and told the engineers what to do. The Brooklyn Bridge shows us that dreams that seem impossible can be realized with determination and persistence, no matter what the odds are. Often when we face obstacles in our day-to-day life, our hurdles seem very small in comparison to what many others have to face.

Concluding thought: Persistence is the iron quality of success; if you persist long enough you must eventually succeed where no handicap can keep you from achieving your goal.

source::::: input from a friend of mine…

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Perfectly Balanced Stones!!!!

March 31, 2013March 31, 2013NatarajanLeave a comment

He balances them and they balance him right back. That is relationship that has formed between Michael Grabb and his special art pieces. Grabb makes most of his statues in the streams of the Rocky Mountains in Colorado. His is a Sisyphean work of piling and balancing the stones one on top of another.

This activity, he says, balances the material world with the spiritual one.On the one hand is the material nature that rocks symbolize, on the other, the perfect harmony and balance that comes from the spiritual world, as well as the connection to the natural world. The results are fantastic and creative, when we see his implausible creations.

אמנות של איזון אבנים בנהר

source::::babamailnet

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Airline To Fly Woman to Taiwan to Fetch Her Lost Camera !!!!!

March 29, 2013NatarajanLeave a comment

China Airlines says it will pay for a Georgia woman to fly to Taiwan to be reunited with a photo-laden camera she lost on a 2007 vacation.

The camera belongs to Lindsay Scallan, who says she lost the waterproof digital camera during a nighttime scuba-diving trip in 2007.

“It was my first time in Hawaii ever, so I was pretty upset I had lost all my memories,” she tells Atlanta’sWSB-TV.

VIDEO: Camera found in Taiwan belongs to Georgia woman

But Scallan’s camera finally washed ashore this month, nearly six years after she lost it. And in Taiwan, about 6,000 miles from Hawaii.

It was on a Taiwan beach where a manager of Taiwan-based China Airlines found it while vacationing with his family.

The camera was covered in seaweed and barnacles, but its waterproof casing was still intact, according WSB.

“An employee of China Airlines found my camera, found the pictures still on the memory card and got in touch with Hawaiian officials to see if they could help find who the owner was — the mystery blond woman as they called it,” Scallan says to CBS Atlanta 46.

The Taipei Times reports that Scallan’s photos included a shot of a catamaran called Teralani 3, which the China Airlines employee tracked to Maui. That’s how the employee — identified by the Times as Douglas Cheng — got the idea to get in touch with Hawaiian officials.

China Airlines created a Facebook page that showed a picture of “the mystery blond woman” along with a page title saying: “China Airlines Is Looking For You.”

The Times writes Cheng “contacted Hawaiian authorities and the tourism bureau through (the airline’s) Honolulu office … .”

Eventually, the story made it to local Hawaii TV stations, with a report aired via the local Hawaii News Now TV platform.

Hawaii News Now says “the mystery unraveled” after it aired a report on Friday that then “went viral.”

“Facebook fans shared, and shared — thousands of times. A high school friend of Lindsay Scallan’s saw our story, and pointed us to her Facebook page Sunday morning. She calls it unbelievable,” Hawaii News Now says in its report.

Next up for Scallan: An all-expensive paid vacation to Taiwan, where she will meet Cheng and be reunited with her camera.

“China Airlines has offered to pay for me to go out there and my room, board and my food and everything,” Scallan tells CBS Atlanta. “An all expenses paid trip to come out there and get my camera back and meet the guy that found it. It’s been a wild ride.”

“Everyone’s talking about it. It’s pretty neat,” she adds to Hawaii News Now.

source::::USA Today

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A Mom Buys A Multi Million Dollar Apartment in Manhatten For Her Child !!!!

March 28, 2013March 28, 2013NatarajanLeave a comment

An artist’s impression of how the completed One57 apartments will look. Picture: Supplied.

MOST toddlers are given soft toys or parties to celebrate their milestones. Others get multi-million-dollar apartments in Manhattan.

A woman in China has done just that, buying a $6.5 million apartment at the Uber-luxury building One57 in Manhattan for her daughter, the International Business Times reports.

The woman’s daughter will be in wealthy company as the building, which will be finished next year, will also be the future home to several international billionaires.

According to the New York Times, the billionaire buyers include at least two others from China, a Canadian, a Nigerian and a Briton, as well as several wealthy Americans.

The building’s developers said that a handful of buyers were “significant Forbes billionaires”.

Kevin Brown, senior vice president for Sotheby’s International Realty, told China’s state-run news channel CCTV News this week that he was touring Manhattan with the mother when he asked her why she wanted to buy.

“She said that it had to do with her daughter, who was either going to go to Columbia or NYU, maybe Harvard, and so she needed to be in the centre of the city, and that was the reason why she was picking this one particular apartment,” he said.

“I said, ‘How old is your daughter?’ And she said, ‘Well, she’s two.’ And I was just shocked.”

The building previously made headlines in New York during Superstorm Sandy when a crane dangled from the roof due to strong winds.

Formerly known as Carnegie 57, One57 is a 90-storey skyscraper at 157 West 57th Street.

source:::: news.com.au

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Steve Jobs On His First Day at Apple !!!!

March 28, 2013NatarajanLeave a comment

Source: news.com.au

STEVE Jobs didn’t always wear his signature black skivvy. In fact, newly found photos showed he wore purple on his first day at work. Well kind of.

A former Apple employee recently discovered a set of photos of Steve Jobs taken on the first day of his return to the company.

Jobs had been fired from Apple in 1985 after allegedly organising a “Coup d’état” of the Apple board. He was invited back to the company more than a decade later in 1996.

Former Mac OS Evangelist Tim Holmes had been working late that night, and was invited by his boss to attend a “Town Hall” meeting which was usually for things like company announcements.

However, “it was clearly not a company meeting,” Holmes wrote on his Flickr account.

STEVE JOBS

Source: news.com.au

Holmes said he called his wife and told her to meet him there. “We had no idea what was about to happen.”

You can guess what happened next. Apple was about to introduce Jobs as the de-facto chief. (Then CEO, Gil Amelio would be ousted within a year).

The photos were taken with one of Apple’s first cameras, the Apple QuickTake. It was a camera Jobs himself would kill within the year, and probably for good reason. The colours were all wrong.

Holmes emphasized that Jobs was wearing a black jacket “in real life”, as opposed to the bright purple it appears to be in the photo.

“The colours are way off due to the poor quality of digital cameras in 1996,” Holmes explained.

STEVE JOBS

source::::news.com.au

Fake “Pilot” in Cockpit !!!

March 25, 2013NatarajanLeave a comment

A Frenchman wearing a uniform and claiming to be an Air France pilot was arrested on board a plane in the US city of Philadelphia after being found sitting in the cockpit, police say.
Identified as Philippe Jeannard of La Rochelle, France, the man was a ticketed passenger for the US Airways flight to West Palm Beach, Florida, according to a police statement that spelt his name two different ways.
Mr Jeannard, in his 60s, was found sitting in the jump-seat behind the captain’s chair on board a US Airways flight and claimed to be a 747 pilot for Air France.
”When [Mr Jeannard] could not produce proper credentials, he was removed from the flight and the police were notified,” the Philadelphia police said.
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”When arrested, [he] was in possession of a counterfeit Air France crew member identification card,” the statement read.
Mr Jeannard has been charged with criminal trespass, tampering with records, impersonating a privately employed person and presenting false identification to law enforcement.

source::::brisbane times…australia
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Indian startup aims for the moon – and $30 million Prize Money!!!!

March 23, 2013March 23, 2013NatarajanLeave a comment

GOOGLE LUNAR X PRIZE | MOON | SPACE | TEAM INDUS

Rahul Narayan, who describes himself as a serial entrepreneur, is the founder of Team Indus. It is the only Indian team in a race to the moon by privately funded groups competing for the largest international incentive prize of all time – the Google Lunar X Prize.

Google is offering $30 million in prizes to the first privately funded teams to safely land a robot on the Moon, including a grand prize and other bonus prizes.

With a purse of $30 million, the competition will reward the first privately funded team to softland on the moon, travel 500 metres and transmit back to earth, at a distance of nearly 4 lakh km.!!!!!!

In a conversation with Reuters, Narayan talks about Team Indus’ prospects, timing, his struggle to be taken seriously by investors and why he would not be too disappointed if someone else wins.

Q: What is the biggest challenge in this mission?

A: Everything is a challenge – money, finding advisers, being taken seriously, reaching out to people.

Almost all of it is uncharted territory. Nobody’s done a (privately funded) mission before, definitely not from India.

Q: How was Team Indus formed?

A: I had gotten in touch with them (organizers) saying, if there was an Indian team, please let me know, I’d like to work with them. They got back to me saying there was no Indian team, and if you want to set up a team, we can give you a bit of expert help. That’s when I got out of whatever startups I was doing.

Q: How did you recruit people for this project?

A: Almost our entire team right now is people who came to our website and said they wanted to work.

Q: When is your planned launch date?

A: We plan to launch sometime in 2015.

Q: How much have you spent so far? What is the projected total cost?

A: We’ve spent about one crore rupees (10 million rupees, or about $185,200), including for registration, a little bit of prototype being done, operational expenses and salaries. It’s a design effort and we are not doing any hardware yet. Total spend, we expect it to be $15 million.

Q: Where do you see yourself among the 23 active teams?

A: We believe we are in the top five. We believe the moment we sign up with ISRO, we will be in the top two. Signing up with ISRO is the one big event that changes a lot of things for us. It has not happened yet, but we’ve started talking to them. (The Indian Space Research Organisation, or ISRO, is the primary space agency of the Indian government. Team Indus plans to use ISRO’s PSLV satellite launch vehicle for its moon mission)

Q: The competition rules state that the project must be 90 percent privately funded. So how are you managing?

A: Right now it is founder-funded. We’ve divided the cost into three different parts. One is cost of design, second is the cost of building it and the third is the cost of launching it. We have separate strategies for each one of them. For designing, we will be looking for investments. Building it is where we are looking at partnerships (aerospace companies, IITs or government agencies). We are looking at these people to partner with us and potentially contribute, if not money, then equipment. The last part, we are going to do crowdfunding.

Q: Why would investors be interested?

A: I started by saying we are an aerospace company. So we see this as a company which is doing a project, and it will continue doing other aerospace projects or derived technologies or IPR, or licensing rights from what we’re going to do here (moon mission).

We are a for-profit company. It’s not just this mission, we will continue building beyond it.

Q: What if somebody else beats you to the prizes?

A: We’re definitely aiming for the first prize. We’ve got one bonus prize built into it. But, if all the prizes go away in 2014 and I’ve booked my launch with ISRO, that doesn’t mean I stop. I have to go because I’ve already done my engineering, I’ve already spent the money and probably just a residual amount is left. So you’d see that differently as then maybe it converts from a Google Lunar X Prize mission to simply a India’s mission. It’s a people mission, people have contributed to it, people have worked in it, and people have a part in it.

Q: What would losing mean for your team?

A: Even if we lose, we’ll still accomplish a fantastic engineering feat. Prize money is just one component of it, so I’m talking about a company which is going to continue after the prize money….

source:::: David Lalmalsawma in Reuters US

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Thursday Apple Rumors:!!!! iPad Shipment Estimates Slashed!!!

March 21, 2013NatarajanLeave a comment

Here are your Apple rumors and AAPL news items for today:

Chopped: Apple (NASDAQ:AAPL) has trimmed its internal shipment estimates for iPads this year, DigiTimes reports. The company had previously anticipated shipping about 60 million standard-sized iPads and 40 million iPad Minis this year. However, it has cut the forecast for the standard-sized iPad to 33 million units, while boosting projected iPad Mini shipments to 55 million units. At these estimates, the company expects to ship a total of 88 million iPads this year. DigiTimes as a mixed record of accuracy on Apple-related reports. However, a number of other recent reports have suggested weaker demand for the company’s iPads and iPhones this year. The iPad Mini is priced well below the standard-sized iPad and may be cannibalizing sales of its larger kin at a higher rate that previously anticipated.

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Cheap: A new music streaming service from Apple may be delayed because of the company’s effort to reduce royalty payments to record labels, AppleInsider notes. In its first proposal to record labels, Apple offered to pay 6 cents per 100 songs streamed. By contrast, the established music streaming service Pandora (NYSE:P) pays twice that rate. However, the record labels were apparently expecting Apple to pay even more — 21 cents per 100 songs streamed. That would be closer to the 36 cents per 100 songs paid by Spotify. While negotiations between Apple and the record labels continue, the rate the company will pay remains a hurdle to the service’s launch.

iSteal: Theft of Apple products has become so common in recent years that police have dubbed the phenomena “apple picking,” the Huffington Post notes. The New York City Police Department (NYPD) has observed that Apple thefts tend to spike shortly after the company unveils a new product. In the Big Apple, such thefts actually contributed to the city’s first rise in crime in two decades last year. Thieves sell stolen iPads, iPhones and iPods in underground markets which send many of the devices overseas to emerging markets in Asia, Eastern Europe and South America. The underground trade in stolen mobile devices is worth a staggering $30 billion annually

source::::investorplace.com
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