Rural reporter and photojournalist, P. Sainath, talks about the impact of globalization on the rural populations of India. This is a special edition of this program, including the entire unedited lecture and question and answer session. This program includes nearly an hour of additional material not seen in the original broadcast program!
The Must-Read Steve Jobs Speech That Will Change Your Life
This is the "Stay Hungry. Stay Foolish" address delivered by Steve Jobs in 2005 at Stanford University:
I am honored to be with you today at your commencement from one of the finest universities in the world. I never graduated from college. Truth be told, this is the closest I've ever gotten to a college graduation. Today I want to tell you three stories from my life. That's it. No big deal. Just three stories.
The first story is about connecting the dots.
I dropped out of Reed College after the first 6 months, but then stayed around as a drop-in for another 18 months or so before I really quit. So why did I drop out?
It started before I was born. My biological mother was a young, unwed college graduate student, and she decided to put me up for adoption. She felt very strongly that I should be adopted by college graduates, so everything was all set for me to be adopted at birth by a lawyer and his wife. Except that when I popped out they decided at the last minute that they really wanted a girl. So my parents, who were on a waiting list, got a call in the middle of the night asking: "We have an unexpected baby boy; do you want him?" They said: "Of course." My biological mother later found out that my mother had never graduated from college and that my father had never graduated from high school. She refused to sign the final adoption papers. She only relented a few months later when my parents promised that I would someday go to college.
Junko Furuta: The Girl Who Went through 44 days of Torture
DAY 1: November 22, 1988: Kidnapped
Kept captive in house, and posed as one of boy’s girlfriend
Raped (over 400 times in total)
Forced to call her parents and tell them she had run away
Starved and malnutritioned
Fed cockroaches to eat and urine to drink
Forced to masturbate
Forced to strip in front of others
Burned with cigarette lighters
Foreign objects inserted into her vagina/anus
About A Farmer (A Short Story)
There was a farmer who grew superior quality and award-winning corn. Each year he entered his corn in the state fair where it won honor and prizes.
One year a newspaper reporter interviewed him and learnt something interesting about how he grew it. The reporter discovered that the farmer shared his seed corn with his neighbours'.
"How can you afford to share your best seed corn with your neighbours when they are entering corn in competition with yours each year?" the reporter asked.
"Why sir, "said the farmer, "didn't you know? The wind picks up pollen from the ripening corn and swirls it from field to field. If my neighbours grow inferior, sub-standard and poor quality corn, cross-pollination will steadily degrade the quality of my corn, If I am to grow good corn, I must help my neighbours grow good corn".
The farmer gave a superb insight into the connectedness of life. His corn cannot improve unless his neighbour's corn also improves. So it is in the other dimensions!
Those who choose to be at harmony must help their neighbours and colleagues to be at peace. Those who choose to live well must help others to live well. The value of a life is measured by the lives it touches.
Success does not happen in isolation. It is very often a participative and collective process. So share the good practices, ideas, new learning with your family, team members, neighbours.
Please Read this and Help UNICEF..Thanks
SHARE your message, you do not charge any service, but UNICEF is 5 euros.
Before you throw away the left over food in your bowl, please think about the people starving.
In Africa and elsewhere in the world, there are children starving, after the agreement was signed between UNICEF and MSN, for lost children and other children, a program to help beginners.
How many times do you SHARE this picture to a friend, is that many times the Unicef fund received 5 euros. let's make these kids are dying to live. Let us not forget that every second, they have a child die of hunger.
This is only worth nearly 2 minutes of your life, but for African children, this accounts for our whole life......PLEASE SHARE.
A Tribute to iConic Man 'Steve Jobs'
"You can’t connect the dots looking forward; you can only connect them looking backwards. So you have to trust that the dots will somehow connect in your future. You have to trust in something — your gut, destiny, life, karma, whatever." - Steve Jobs (1955 - 2011)
“Being the richest man in the cemetery doesn’t matter to me … Going to bed at night saying we’ve done something wonderful… that’s what matters to me.” - Steve Jobs (1955-2011)
Apple - Apple has lost a visionary and creative genius, and the world has lost an amazing human being. Those of us who have been fortunate enough to know and work with Steve have lost a dear friend and an inspiring mentor. Steve leave behind a company that only he could have built, and his spirit will forever be the foundation of Apple.
Steve Wozniak - while everyone else was fumbling around trying to find the formula, he had the better instincts………People sometimes have goals in life. Steve Jobs exceeded every goal he ever set for himself.
Mark Zuckerberg - Steve, thank you for being a mentor and a friend. Thanks for showing that what you build can change the world. I will miss you
Bill Gates - Steve and I first met nearly 30 years ago and have been colleagues, competitors and friends over the course of more than half our lives.... For those of us lucky enough to get to work with him, it's been an insanely great honor.
Barack Obama - Steve was among the greatest of American innovators — brave enough to think differently, bold enough to believe he could change the world, and talented enough to do it.… And there may be no greater tribute to Steve's success than the fact that much of the world learned of his passing on a device he invented.
Jerry Yang - Steve was my hero growing up.
One Day before his Death, The whole world was watching the launch of much awaited iphone 5. But just after the event Apple stock dropped. people were missing the "Boom" presenter Steve jobs. Tim Cook had to be a follower of jobs rather than a leader of Apple and that's what was not at par, so far achieved by jobs.
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