Get well soon, Steve!
Steve Jobs, the innovative CEO of Apple inc. is one my worshipful heroes. I really felt sad to know of his illness which is termed “more complex” than reported earlier.
This what he had to say about it in his email as published in the Industry Standard web site:
Team,
I am sure all of you saw my letter last week sharing something very personal with the Apple community. Unfortunately, the curiosity over my personal health continues to be a distraction not only for me and my family, but everyone else at Apple as well. In addition, during the past week I have learned that my health-related issues are more complex than I originally thought.
In order to take myself out of the limelight and focus on my health, and to allow everyone at Apple to focus on delivering extraordinary products, I have decided to take a medical leave of absence until the end of June.
I have asked Tim Cook to be responsible for Apple’s day to day operations, and I know he and the rest of the executive management team will do a great job. As CEO, I plan to remain involved in major strategic decisions while I am out. Our board of directors fully supports this plan.
I look forward to seeing all of you this summer.
Steve
Read about his successor and possible impact of Steve’s medical leave on Apple’s stock and the technology scene in general in MSNBC.com story.
Steve you one of a kind. We need you. Get well soon and spring back in your regulation Turtleneck T.
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“Would you jump on to the subway track facing a speeding train to rescue another of the species who happened to fall over there due to a siezure?”
Probably, you’d think twice, especially if you have two kids cuddled with you at that time!
But, Wesley Autrey, a 50-year-old construction worker and Navy veteran of Big Apple did it!
Now over to the New York Times story:
Mr. Autrey was waiting for the downtown local at 137th Street and Broadway in Manhattan around 12:45 p.m. He was taking his two daughters, Syshe, 4, and Shuqui, 6, home before work.
Nearby, a 20-year old man collapsed and fell to the tracks, between the two rails.
The headlights of the No. 1 train appeared. “I had to make a split decision,†Mr. Autrey said.
So he made one, and leapt.
Mr. Autrey lay on Mr. Hollopeter, his heart pounding, pressing him down in a space roughly a foot deep. The train’s brakes screeched, but it could not stop in time.
Five cars rolled overhead before the train stopped, the cars passing inches from his head, smudging his blue knit cap with grease. Mr. Autrey heard onlookers’ screams. “We’re O.K. down here,†he yelled, “but I’ve got two daughters up there. Let them know their father’s O.K.†He heard cries of wonder, and applause.
Power was cut, and workers got them out. Mr. Hollopeter, a student at the New York Film Academy, was taken to St. Luke’s-Roosevelt Hospital Center. He had only bumps and bruises, said his grandfather, Jeff Friedman. The police said it appeared that Mr. Hollopeter had suffered a seizure.
Mr. Autrey refused medical help, because, he said, nothing was wrong. He did visit Mr. Hollopeter in the hospital before heading to his night shift. “I don’t feel like I did something spectacular; I just saw someone who needed help,†Mr. Autrey said. “I did what I felt was right.â€
YouTube - Watch - The man who risked his life to save another
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Read more on the real side of the much-adulated icon and a false hero of India in the web site of Hindu Janajagruti Samiti.
For some strange reason, the web site of Hindu Janajagruti Samiti has removed this web page on Nehru. It was a spicy page with lots of interesting (!) stories on Nehru, his doings and family genealogy!
Here is an excerpt from the archived page:
Indira Gandhi? No… ‘Maimuna Begum’!
Indira Gandhi’s real name was ‘Maimuna Begum’. She lived like a Muslim all her life. The Sultan of Saudi Arabia had invited her to Mecca. It is noteworthy that only Muslims are allowed to visit Mecca. She once told Shri. M.O. Mathai, the personal secretary of Nehru, her father, ‘I hate Hindus. I will never marry a Hindu.’ – (Ref.: swordoftruth.com)
Not ‘Indira Feroze Gandhi’, ‘Indira Feroze Khan’ !
Feroze Gandhi is considered a Parsi because his mother was a Parsi before her marriage to his Muslim father Nawab Khan; but since she converted to Islam before her marriage, their son Feroze Khan is a Muslim and not a Parsi by birth. This was the reason why Kamala Nehru opposed Indira’s marriage to him.
Despite a Muslim wedding (nikah) with Feroze in a London Masjid, a fake picture of their marriage in Vedic style was published to fool the Indians !
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