Six Keys To Success

1. Attitude
Bloom where you are planted. You have a choice to get back up after temporary set backs. Attitude is a small thing that makes a big difference!

2. Direction
If you don't know where you are going, any road will get you there. Write your short term goals down on paper. I have discovered and continue to discover that putting your dreams and goals down on paper lock in or focus your belief that they can be achieved -- even if you have to take a course correction in achieving your goals. Success comes in cans, failure comes in can'ts.

3. Values
Explore what is important to you. Maybe it is family, friends, your spirituality or working hard at any given task. I can assure you that your priorities will change as you grow older. Very important that you value yourself and treat yourself like the valuable gift from God that you are.

4. Interests
Birds of a feather flock together. This is to say that if you are hanging around winners or others with a "can do" mind-set, you'll likely adapt to this same kind of thinking. Remember -- "SUCCESS LEAVES CLUES!

5. Commitment
Feelings may change, commitments do not. "Success is getting up one more time than you fall." I have often wanted to give up, and then I must think to myself about what the consequences of giving up will be. Generally, this is more than enough of a motivation to make us stick to the task at hand even if we don't feel like it. When the task is achieved, Whow! -- IT FEELS GREAT!

6. Encouragement:
Be an encourager and comforter to friends that are feeling discouraged. I promise that you will not regret this as you will be encouraged by one, if not many, when you are feeling down. Encouragement and love are contagious qualities that can change the minds of the most stubborn and "hard-to-get-along-with" people you know. I have seen it happen over and over again.

Source: motivateus

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Sam

Live Space Feed | ISS | International Space Station live

Live streaming video is now available every day of the week from the International Space Station. The video will show views of Earth and the exterior structure of the station, as seen from cameras mounted outside the ISS, and other times, activities going on inside the station. If you regularly watch NASA TV online, just go to the same website, and now there's another choice of channels. Just click on the "Live Space Station Video" tab to enjoy. The Earth views will usually be seen during what is the crew off-duty or sleep periods, usually from about 6 pm to 6 am GMT. During times when the crew is awake and working, selected video will be available, accompanied by audio of communications between Mission Control and the astronauts.



During times when the shuttle is docked to the station, the stream will include video and audio of those activities. Whenever video isn't available, a graphical world map will be shown that depicts the station’s location in orbit above the Earth using real-time telemetry sent to Mission Control from the station.

Since the station orbits the Earth once every 90 minutes, it sees a sunrise or a sunset every 45 minutes. When the station is in darkness, external camera video may appear black, but also may provide great views of city lights below.

The streaming video is being webcast as part of NASA's celebration of the 10th anniversary of the space station in orbit.

Source: NASA

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Sam

Google Phone Search

Google Phone Search is now available in India. Search includes [Hyderabad, Delhi, Mumbai, and Bangalore] cities as of now. Now you can dial a Toll Free number 1-800-41-999-999 from any phone in India to voice search for local businesses, movie show times, flight status and get the results free via SMS.

The great thing about this service is that its completely free of charge, and helps you find the information you need, right when you need it the most. Since the local business information used by Google Phone Search is sourced from Local Search, its a good idea to add your local business to Google Local Business Centre.

Google Phone Search is still in its pilot stage. The search initially included Hyderabad and Delhi, and has now been expanded to include Mumbai and Bangalore in India. Its will be soon available for Delhi, Gurgaon, Noida, Faridabad and Ghaziabad. The information is available only in English, Hindi and Telugu languages.

Google is using the speech recognition technology, in case when it fails to recognize you, they transfer your call to a local operator after 2 recognition failures so that they assist you with your query. If you get stuck, press ‘9’ to talk to an operator available from 8 am to 12 midnight everyday.

Next time you need to find a local business in any of these cities, simply dial 1-800-41-999-999 from any landline or mobile phone, and check it works.

Source: http://labs.google.co.in/phonesearch/

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Sam

How Small We Are

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An amazing picture of comparison of the earth size with the known biggest stars & planets in our Milky way Galaxy. The thing that I like the most is that, you can get a feeling of size and scale in the universe, look at how tiny the earth looks and imagine how tiny we are!!!

If you’ve ever had trouble grasping the true sizes involved in astronomy and the size of earth compared to other planets and stars, as you will see here the scales involved are mind blowing.

The VV Cephei is an eclipsing binary star system located in the constellation Cepheus, approximately 3,000 light years from Earth. It is 3rd largest star found in our galaxy.

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VY Canis Majoris (VY CMa) is a red hyper giant star located in the constellation Canis Major. It is 2nd largest known star in our galaxy and also one of the most luminous known. It is located about 4,900 light years away from Earth.

WOH G64 is a red super giant in the Large Magellanic Cloud. With 2000 times the radius of the Sun, it is the largest known star in our galaxy.

Here is the List of Largest Known Stars


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These are the findings within a small part in our Milky way galaxy. Our technology and research has reached only a fraction of % in our galaxy. There is yet to discover more.

The center of our Milky Way galaxy is 26000 light years away from us. Even If you travel at the speed of light it will take thousands of years to reach the center of our galaxy. Like our Milky Way galaxy there are Billions of galaxies!!!

Its unimaginable to think the size of the universe holding billions of galaxies. We can only think on how wonderful and supernatural the God's creation is.

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Related: Milky Way Could Have Billions of Earths

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Sam