Tuesday, March 27, 2012

17 famous personalities who failed in the beginning

 
Business Gurus
Henry Ford1. Henry Ford
Ford is known for his innovative success but he failed five times before he founded the FORD Company.



Rowland Macy2. R. H. Macy
Before the success of MACY, he failed in seven businesses and finally succeeded with his new store.


Soichiro Honda3. Soichiro Honda
The billion-dollar business, that is Honda, started initially with a series of failures. He started making scooters of his own at home and spurred on by his neighbors, finally started his own business.


Bill Gates

4. Bill Gates
Gates didn't seem like a shoe-in for success after dropping out of Harvard and starting a failed first business with Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen called Traf-O-Data.



Harland David Sanders5. Harland David Sanders
Sanders founded KFC and his famous secret chicken recipe was rejected 1,009 times before a restaurant accepted it.

 
 

Walt Disney6. Walt Disney
Walt Disney had a bit of a rough start and he was fired by a newspaper editor because, 'he lacked imagination and had no good ideas'. He kept plugging along, however, and eventually found a recipe for success that worked.



Scientists
Albert Einstein7. Albert Einstein
Einstein did not speak until he was four and did not read until he was seven, and his teachers and parents thought he was mentally handicapped, slow and anti-social. But he caught on pretty well in the end, winning the Nobel Prize and changing the face of modern physics.
 

Charles Darwin8. Charles Darwin

In his early years, Darwin gave up on having a medical career and considered as a lazy boy. Now, Darwin is well-known for his scientific studies.
 


Isaac Newton9. Isaac Newton
Newton was failed so many times in his school days and was sent off to Cambridge where he finally blossomed into the scholar we know today.
 

Thomas Edison10. Thomas Edison
Edison was fired for being unproductive In his early years. Even as an inventor, Edison made 1,000 unsuccessful attempts at inventing the light bulb.
 


Orville and Wilbur Wright11. Orville and Wilbur Wright

After numerous attempts at creating flying machines, several years of hard work, and tons of failed prototypes, the brothers finally created a plane


Public Figures
Winston Churchill12. Winston Churchill
This Nobel Prize-winning, twice-elected Prime Minster of the United Kingdom struggled in school and failed the sixth grade. After many years of political failures, finally became the Prime Minister at the ripe old age of 62.



Abraham Lincoln13. Abraham Lincoln
After Lincoln was failed many times in business and defeated in numerous runs, he became a greatest leader.


Oprah Winfrey14. Oprah Winfrey
Oprah faced a rough and abusive childhood as well as numerous career setbacks in her life to become one of the most iconic faces on TV.



Writers and Artists
Steven Spielberg15. Steven Spielberg

Spielberg's name was rejected from the University of Southern California School of Theater, Film and Television three times. Thirty-five years after starting his degree, Spielberg returned to school in 2002 to finally complete his work and earn his BA.
 

J. K. Rowling16. J. K. Rowling

Rowling may be rolling in a lot of Harry Potter dough today, but before she published the series of novels she was nearly penniless, severely depressed, divorced, trying to raise a child on her own while attending school and writing a novel.
 

Athletes
Michael Jordan17. Michael Jordan
Most people wouldn't believe that a man often lauded as the best basketball player of all time was actually cut from his high school basketball team. 'I have failed over and over and over again in my life. And that is why I succeed.'
 

There are many more, Please feel free to share. .

Wednesday, March 21, 2012

Say "NO" to division based on Caste

In ancient days, caste system is just a division of labor based on their occupation/skill levels. It is always been a part of Indian Culture. Can we imagine in a country every one being a doctor or an engineer? No we cannot survive that way. We divide among ourselves based on caste feeling one caste is superior to other. Have we ever thought that in this globalization we are going backward?

Yes, if we divide our society based on caste we travel back, since my childhood I am studying India is a developing county and I am sure my children will also read the same. Then when are we going to declare India as a developed country.

Some divide people for their selfish needs, some for just creating a voter bank. And what are we doing about it? Are we not mingling with people based on caste?

After independence, Indians had pledge that we shall create a secular society and it was promised in our Indian constitution. But we violated and amended the constitution to uplift the weaker sections.

Today we stand here, dividing society in to Hindu, Muslim, SC, ST, OC,OBC if possible new reservation types. Are these worth doing? We are just creating a misunderstanding and hatred among ourselves. To my understanding there are two classes in our system i.e Haves and Have-nots.

Adding to this, our census 2011 based on caste. I guess this is the evil act of our politicians to check their voter bank and definitely not to uplift the economically deprived.

If our politicians or Government want to uplift the masses, why don’t they understand that education alone can remove poverty, educated people, provide basic amenities.

Dear All Indians,

Remember “United we stand, Divided we fall”. India is a democratic country, lets enjoy our freedom and let’s not be slaves to these discrimination. we all are humans, fight for human rights. Let us work towards creating a new society and dream of developed India. Castes in a system are like different parts of our body which perform different functions; do we discriminate our organs and neglect them?? No so Why to discriminate people?

Break the caste barriers. Unless we unite we cant make difference and revolt back on the evil things in the society like corruption, sick politicians, poor governance.

We educated, can bring change in the society and can empower the weak. Join hands together and lets revolt back…. 

Image courtesy: Mother Google

Tuesday, March 13, 2012

time to ditch ‘ Siri” girl

 

imageLooks like now its time to ditch Siri, the lady in apple devices ( iPhones to be specific ) who responds and entertains you. Microsoft Research has shown off software that translates your spoken words into another language while preserving the accent, timbre, and intonation of your actual voice.

 

On Tuesday Feb 12th 2012, Rick Rashid, Microsoft’s chief research officer, says a long sentence in English, and then has it translated into Spanish, Italian, and Mandarin. You can have a look at the demo here

 

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In order for the translation system to do its work it needs about an hour of training, which allows it to create a model of your voice. Then the created model is being integrated into Microsoft’s Text-To-Speech model for the targets translation language.

 

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Once the training period is out of the way, there’s no reason that translation couldn’t be performed in real time on a smartphone, or near-real-time if you outsourced the work to a cloud computer cluster, like Microsoft Azure. One of the more impressive aspects of the software is how it uses the speaker’s original voice in its translations, which it can pick up after the user spends just an hour with it.

 

Shrikanth Narayanan, a professor at the University of Southern California, explains why that is important:

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Once it comes to use for practical purposes, imagine how easy it becomes to date someone who doesn’t speak your language or get that business deal done with a foreigner

 

Monday, March 12, 2012

Secret Behind Rajinikanth’s Website WITHOUT INTERNET!

 

If you are a pro internet user, you must have heard about this website www.allaboutrajini.com, which works without internet connection. in case you haven’t, let me put it in simple words.. “ the site runs on rajini power, not internet”

Yes you got it right, once you point your browser to the site address, it asks you to disconnect your internet connection to be able to browse the site. that’s the only way to enter into the site.

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Many people find this astonishing, but it actually isn’t. Sure the site design is amazing and full of splashed colors and typical “ rajini style “ quotes and one-liners. Anyone with minimal web design knowledge can say that its done in flash.

What actually happens is that once you load the site, all the files required are stored in your cache folder and a extra line of code has been embedded into the site, which continuously pings a specific IP. If any data packets are received then it displays a specific page which asks you to disconnect your internet to keep browsing the site.

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Technically, offline browsing functionality has been incorporated using HTML5’s offline storage specs.

To have a look at this interesting website, visit http://www.desimartini.com/allaboutrajni.htm

Sunday, March 4, 2012

The Nelapattu Bird Sanctuary:largest pelican habitats in Southeast Asia.


Area occupied- 404square. Kilometers.
Location- Situated around 80kilometers from the city of Chennai in the district of Nellore, Andhra Pradesh.
Chief Attraction- Pelican birds that migrate here each and every year. In Southeast Asia, it is the main habitat of pelican. 

Explore Nelapattu Bird Sanctuary
Nelapattu Bird Sanctuary is a well known bird sanctuary in India and is the favorite spot of migration for pelicans. The sanctuary covers around 40,040 ha of area and is also located near Pulicat Lake, which is also known as the 2nd largest salt lake in India. The time period between October to March is the ideal time to visit the sanctuary

Avifauna- The sanctuary holds a large species of birds that include spotted belied pelican, white ibis, spoon bill, open billed stork, night heron, little cormorant, painted stork, babblers, coot, waders, flamingos and many more.

Fauna- Barring birds, the sanctuary is a home to various mammals like slender loris, jackals, spotted deer

Pelican
The bird sanctuary is the breeding ground for birds which migrate seasonally from far off places like Antarctica, U.S.A, and China to name a few  This bird sanctuary is particularly famous for Pelicans



This bird sanctuary is also habitat for fresh water flooded forest tree species. Freshwater swamp forest / trees are found only at Nelapattu in India. The fresh water flooded forest tree at Nelapattu is Barringtonia acutangula (Hijal). This tree also grows in uplands but the tree species available at Nelapattu is suitable to grow in flooded conditions lasting for 5 to 7 months at a stretch. The saplings can survive total submergence during the long duration of flooding.






    The Nelapattu Bird Sanctuary is one of the largest pelican habitats in Southeast Asia. 








ACCESSIBILITY: 23 Kms. by road from Sullurpet railway station; 80 Kms. by road from Chennai on Chennai-Kolkata road (N.H.5). Nearest Airport – Chennai.
ACCOMMODATION: Inspection bungalow at Sullurpet.



A pleasant evening in Nelapattu 



The fresh water flooded forest tree at Nelapattu

 Birds on Barringtonia acutangula (Hijal ) trees



Wildlife 
The area is a very good palce to see birds like Open Bill Stork, Coot, Night Heron, Pelicans, Flamingos, Babblers and several species of warblers. It is also a good place to see waders.



For the love of God...

Pictures:Nani (www.southexplored.com)
Camera:Canon 550 D
Data:Wikipedia.org,www.naturesafariindia.com

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