"What I do today is important, because I am exchanging a day of my life for it." Author Unknown, from A New Day
"When you arise in the morning, think of what a precious privilege it is to be alive -to breathe, to think, to enjoy, to love." Marcus Aurelius
"Time is the coin of your life. It is the only coin you have, and you can determine how it will be spent. Be careful lest you let other people spend it for you." Carl Sandburg
"Every morning you are handed 24 golden hours. They are one of the few things in this world that you get free of charge. If you had all the money in the world, you couldn't buy an extra hour. What will you do with this priceless treasure?" Author Unknown
"An inch of time is an inch of gold but you can't buy that inch of time with an inch of gold." Chinese Proverb
"But when you look at your life, the majority of your time is spent doing things you have to do or the majority of your time is spent doing what you want to do?" Catherine Pulsifer
More quotes:
Quotes about Time - http://www.wow4u.com/time/index.html
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Jun 26, 2011
Jun 23, 2011
Google Translate welcomes you to the Indic web
Thanks to google.
If you know Tamil, you can learn nearly 60 languages....
Beginning today, you can explore the linguistic diversity of the Indian sub-continent with Google Translate, which now supports five new experimental alpha languages: Bengali, Gujarati, Kannada, Tamil and Telugu. In India and Bangladesh alone, more than 500 million people speak these five languages. Since 2009, we've launched a total of 11 alpha languages, bringing the current number of languages supported by Google Translate to 63.
Indic languages differ from English in many ways, presenting several exciting challenges when developing their respective translation systems. Indian languages often use the Subject Object Verb (SOV) ordering to form sentences, unlike English, which uses Subject Verb Object (SVO) ordering. This difference in sentence structure makes it harder to produce fluent translations; the more words that need to be reordered, the more chance there is to make mistakes when moving them. Tamil, Telugu and Kannada are also highly agglutinative, meaning a single word often includes affixes that represent additional meaning, like tense or number. Fortunately, our research to improve Japanese (an SOV language) translation helped us with the word order challenge, while our work translating languages like German, Turkish and Russian provided insight into the agglutination problem.
You can expect translations for these new alpha languages to be less fluent and include many more untranslated words than some of our more mature languages—like Spanish or Chinese—which have much more of the web content that powers our statistical machine translation approach. Despite these challenges, we release alpha languages when we believe that they help people better access the multilingual web. If you notice incorrect or missing translations for any of our languages, please correct us; we enjoy learning from our mistakes and your feedback helps us graduate new languages from alpha status. If you're a translator, you'll also be able to take advantage of our machine translated output when using the Google Translator Toolkit.
Since these languages each have their own unique scripts, we've enabled a transliterated input method for those of you without Indian language keyboards. For example, if you type in the word "nandri," it will generate the Tamil word நன்றி (see what it means). To see all these beautiful scripts in action, you'll need to install fonts* for each language.
We hope that the launch of these new alpha languages will help you better understand the Indic web and encourage the publication of new content in Indic languages, taking us five alpha steps closer to a web without language barriers.
*Download the fonts for each language: Tamil, Telugu, Bengali, Gujarati and Kannada.
Posted by Ashish Venugopal, Research Scientist
If you know Tamil, you can learn nearly 60 languages....
Sent to you by AP via Google Reader:
via The Official Google Blog by A Googler on 6/21/11
Indic languages differ from English in many ways, presenting several exciting challenges when developing their respective translation systems. Indian languages often use the Subject Object Verb (SOV) ordering to form sentences, unlike English, which uses Subject Verb Object (SVO) ordering. This difference in sentence structure makes it harder to produce fluent translations; the more words that need to be reordered, the more chance there is to make mistakes when moving them. Tamil, Telugu and Kannada are also highly agglutinative, meaning a single word often includes affixes that represent additional meaning, like tense or number. Fortunately, our research to improve Japanese (an SOV language) translation helped us with the word order challenge, while our work translating languages like German, Turkish and Russian provided insight into the agglutination problem.
You can expect translations for these new alpha languages to be less fluent and include many more untranslated words than some of our more mature languages—like Spanish or Chinese—which have much more of the web content that powers our statistical machine translation approach. Despite these challenges, we release alpha languages when we believe that they help people better access the multilingual web. If you notice incorrect or missing translations for any of our languages, please correct us; we enjoy learning from our mistakes and your feedback helps us graduate new languages from alpha status. If you're a translator, you'll also be able to take advantage of our machine translated output when using the Google Translator Toolkit.
Since these languages each have their own unique scripts, we've enabled a transliterated input method for those of you without Indian language keyboards. For example, if you type in the word "nandri," it will generate the Tamil word நன்றி (see what it means). To see all these beautiful scripts in action, you'll need to install fonts* for each language.
We hope that the launch of these new alpha languages will help you better understand the Indic web and encourage the publication of new content in Indic languages, taking us five alpha steps closer to a web without language barriers.
*Download the fonts for each language: Tamil, Telugu, Bengali, Gujarati and Kannada.
Posted by Ashish Venugopal, Research Scientist
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Jun 21, 2011
Please do right now.-2 mints for Srilanka Tamils
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From: VASUTHEVAN sINNAPPU vasuthev324@yahoo.com
From: VASUTHEVAN sINNAPPU vasuthev324@yahoo.com
| Dear Friends and Rochester Tamils, We need justice and peace Anpudan, Sarva. V |
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Jun 20, 2011
QUOTES for Your WEEK
QUOTES for Your WEEK
"The sun's energy warms the world. But when you focus it through a magnifying glass it can start a fire. Focus is so powerful!"
Alan Pariser
"If you stay focused and right on track, you will get to where you want to be."
Michelle C. Ustaszeski
"Tennis players focus intensely and specifically on what they're doing at the moment. Their mind isn't drifting off to other things. They know that being focused is essential to success and you can't take your eye off the ball."
Wendy Hearn
"Being able to see the end result, rather than just the task, eliminates obstacles, focuses your energy, and provides motivation to excel."
Catherine Pulsifer
"An average person with average talents and ambition and average education, can outstrip the most brilliant genius in our society, if that person has clear, focused goals."
Mary Kay Ash
More quotes:
Focus Quotes - http://www.wow4u.com/focus-quotes/index.html
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"The sun's energy warms the world. But when you focus it through a magnifying glass it can start a fire. Focus is so powerful!"
Alan Pariser
"If you stay focused and right on track, you will get to where you want to be."
Michelle C. Ustaszeski
"Tennis players focus intensely and specifically on what they're doing at the moment. Their mind isn't drifting off to other things. They know that being focused is essential to success and you can't take your eye off the ball."
Wendy Hearn
"Being able to see the end result, rather than just the task, eliminates obstacles, focuses your energy, and provides motivation to excel."
Catherine Pulsifer
"An average person with average talents and ambition and average education, can outstrip the most brilliant genius in our society, if that person has clear, focused goals."
Mary Kay Ash
More quotes:
Focus Quotes - http://www.wow4u.com/focus-quotes/index.html
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Jun 19, 2011
Srilanka Killings... - Channel 4
http://www.channel4.com/programmes/sri-lankas-killing-fields/4od#3200170
Jun 14, 2011
QUOTES for Your WEEK
"I think one's feelings waste themselves in words; they ought all to be distilled into actions which bring results."
Florence Nightingale
"Personal action is your pathway to success, even if it is a little bit at a time!"
Catherine Pulsifer
"Dare to dream, but even more importantly, dare to put action behinds your dreams."
Josh Hinds
"You will never plough a field if you only turn it over in your mind."
Irish Proverb
"Thought is the blossom; language the bud; action the fruit behind it."
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Acting on a good idea is better than just having a good idea."
Robert Half
"Start by doing what's necessary; then do what's possible; and suddenly you are doing the impossible."
St. Francis of Assisi
More quotes
http://www.wow4u.com/action/index.html - Action Quotes and Sayings
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Florence Nightingale
"Personal action is your pathway to success, even if it is a little bit at a time!"
Catherine Pulsifer
"Dare to dream, but even more importantly, dare to put action behinds your dreams."
Josh Hinds
"You will never plough a field if you only turn it over in your mind."
Irish Proverb
"Thought is the blossom; language the bud; action the fruit behind it."
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Acting on a good idea is better than just having a good idea."
Robert Half
"Start by doing what's necessary; then do what's possible; and suddenly you are doing the impossible."
St. Francis of Assisi
More quotes
http://www.wow4u.com/action/index.html - Action Quotes and Sayings
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Jun 7, 2011
Google Bookmarks update: AP has shared the list "share" with you
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