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The Father of Web
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Posted Date:11/18/2024
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Tim Berners-Lee (born June 8, 1955, London, England) is a British computer scientist, generally credited as the inventor of the World Wide Web. In 2004, he was awarded a knighthood by Queen Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom and the inaugural Millennium Technology Prize (€1 million) by the Finnish Technology Award Foundation. Computing came naturally to Berners-Lee, as both of his parents worked on the Ferranti Mark I, the first commercial computer. (See computer: The first stored-program machines.) After graduating in 1976 from the University of Oxford, Berners-Lee designed computer software for two years at Plessey Telecommunications Ltd., located in Poole, Dorset, England. Following this, he had several positions in the computer industry, including a stint from June to December 1980 as a software engineering consultant at CERN, the European particle physics laboratory in Geneva. In 2001 Berners-Lee became a Fellow of the Royal Society. He has been the recipient of several international awards. In 2004 he was knighted by H.M. Queen Elizabeth, and in 2007 he was awarded the Order of Merit.


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"On As Much Money as You Want Write it!" Bill Gate said
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Posted Date:11/18/2024
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One day a journalist interviews the World's Richest Man, Bill Gate. The journalist asked, "What is the secret of your success?" She asks him. The rich man gives the journalist a blank check and tells her, "Write as much money as you want. She pushes the check away like a reluctant person and says, "No, I didn't mean that, I wanted to ask you what the secret of your success is. Bill Gate hands him the check again and tells him, "Write as much money as you want. But she refused. The richest man in the world showed him the check and said, "The secret of my success is that I took advantage of this opportunity without burning it. The secret of my success is that I took advantage of every opportunity I have. If you had taken advantage of this opportunity, you could have become the world's leading journalist right now. I gave you two chances. This world doesn't give you two opportunities; taking advantage of the only opportunity is the secret of success Bill Gate gave the journalist two chances but she didn’t take advantage of them. If she had used it, she would have become the richest woman in the world, as he said. Positive mind find opportunity in everything. While negative mind find fault in everything


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What to know about the Matt Gaetz allegations
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Posted Date:11/18/2024
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A woman who attended a 2017 party with Matt Gaetz - Donald Trump's nominee to be the next US Attorney General - has testified that she saw the then-congressman having sex with a minor. The Friday revelation by her attorney comes amid newfound interest in the findings of a congressional ethics panel's long-running probe of the Florida lawmaker. Gaetz's selection as America's next top law enforcement officer and his sudden resignation from Congress - putting him out of reach of the probe - have roiled Washington with bipartisan concern that risks derailing his nomination. He has denied any wrongdoing and called the investigation into him a "smear campaign". The Justice Department - which Gaetz would lead in the post - investigated the claim but ultimately did not file any criminal charges against him.What are the allegations? Gaetz, 42, represented Florida's first congressional district in the US House of Representatives from 2017 until his resignation on Thursday. A fierce Trump defender, he has long upset Democrats but also many Republicans with his bombastic public conduct and alleged hard-partying lifestyle. On and off since 2021, the secretive House Ethics Committee has investigated Gaetz over various allegations, including a claim that he had sex with an underage girl, used illicit drugs, accepted bribes, misused campaign funds and shared inappropriate images on the House floor. The Floridian has repeatedly and vehemently denied wrongdoing, casting the probe as an attempt to smear his name by powerful enemies he has made in politics. He has also raised in his defence the fact that the Justice Department ended a separate three-year federal sex-trafficking investigation last year by deciding not to bring charges against him. "Lies were Weaponized to try to destroy me," Gaetz posted on X on Friday. "These lies resulted in prosecution, conviction, and prison. For the liars, not me." Joel Greenberg, Gaetz's one-time friend, was the lone person charged in the Justice Department sex trafficking's investigation. He cooperated with investigators and reportedly told prosecutors information about multiple others, including Gaetz. Greenberg is currently serving an 11-year prison sentence after agreeing to plead guilty to multiple federal charges, including under-age sex trafficking, wire fraud, stalking, identity theft, producing a fake ID card, and conspiring to defraud the US government.Is there a case against Gaetz? As part of his cooperation with federal prosecutors, Greenberg - a local tax collector in the Orlando, Florida area - admitted he had repeatedly paid young women to attend parties with him and his friends, where they used drugs and had sex. At least one of the girls he paid for sex was 17 years old at the time - and Greenberg alleged that Gaetz had also had sex with her - a claim federal authorities investigated but were unable to verify. No charges were filed against Gaetz, who has fiercely denied these allegations, and the probe was later closed. But now, the explosive claim sits at the core of the House ethics probe and is endangering his nomination. The committee inquiry had been paused to allow the Justice Department to do its work. Gaetz claimed it was only revived because then-House Speaker Kevin McCarthy considered him a nagging thorn in the side of Republican leadership. Last year, Gaetz spearheaded an unprecedented internal revolt to oust McCarthy from the speakership - the top job in the US House of Representatives. The California Republican, who resigned from Congress less than three months later, has claimed Gaetz only wanted him removed because of the ethics investigation. Gaetz's nomination as Attorney General this past Thursday was followed hours later with his resignation from the House. His resignation halted the release - which was reportedly planned just days later - of the ethics probe's findings. His departure from Congress means he is no longer under congressional jurisdiction. An attorney who represents the then-minor has called for the report's release, saying that she had testified to the committee that she had sex with Gaetz while "she was a high school student, and there were witnesses". Will it affect Gaetz's chances of confirmation? Sitting House Speaker Mike Johnson argued against the report's release in a Sunday appearance on Fox News, saying it could "open Pandora's box" if the panel started issuing reports into those who are not members of the body. "We don't issue investigations and ethics reports on people who are not members of Congress," he said. "I think this would be a breach of protocol that could be dangerous for us going forward in the future." He also told reporters that he would "strongly request" the report isn't made public because the rules outline that "a former member is beyond the jurisdiction of the ethics committee". Members of the committee planned to meet behind closed doors on Friday and hold a vote on whether to release the report. But the meeting never happened, with Chairman Michael Guest saying it was postponed and would be re-scheduled. Guest has previously indicated he is inclined to "maintain [the] confidentiality" of the panel's work.Public pressure is, however, mounting and even some Senate Republicans, who will be tasked with vetting his nomination and voting on whether to confirm him to the attorney general post, have indicated they would like to see the report. Also on Friday, Joel Leppard - an attorney who represents two women who have testified in the ethics probe - said one of his clients said she had witnessed Gaetz having sex with the then-17-year-old. "What if sworn testimony detailed conduct that would disqualify anyone from serving as our nation’s chief law enforcement officer?" he said in a statement. "Democracy demands transparency. Release the Gaetz Ethics report.


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A person who does not know his own worth defines his worth by the value others give him.
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Posted Date:11/19/2024
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A person who does not know his own worth defines his worth by the value others give him. A person who does not know his worth, when people tell him that he is weak, he lives a weak life by accepting that he is right because he does not know his worth and yes I am weak. But a man who knows his worth, if someone comes and says to him, 'You are weak; I reply, now that you can think now that you think of yourself with it, you think of me! ..I reply that my mind thinks, and my mind believes that I have value..These words you just said describe me! Believe first that your value is higher than they think you are now! A man who does not know his worth travels in a stranger's plan, in a man-made path; because he considers himself unable to invent and create a way for planning; he cannot change the situation on his own! Life, on the other hand, shines its face on those who know their own worth. You will not give a seat to those who put their own status in the mist! But to those who fight for life to deserve a better place, she gives her hands full! Know your worth, because no one is closer to knowing you than you are! Don't give people a chance to define your value like a market cap! Be yourself and live your value class; write a strong story with your fingers! Do the work that speaks; shape the work that reads in the year! Think of yourself as something you can think of and do! Ignorance of self-worth makes us think that the door can never be opened! The unrotten seed makes us look like a maseena, and when you look at the unrotten seed with a maseena view, you see your race as maseena....Again...You carry wealth in you, you carry great goals in you, you carry great wisdom in you ...Don't live without a way...Know your worth....That will testify to you that you were born to carry an unbroken seed


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Vision without action is merely a dream
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Posted Date:11/19/2024
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Vision without action is merely a dream. Action without vision just passes the time. Vision with action can change the world. — Joel Arthur Barker ✍️✍️✍️✍️✍️ Each time a man stands up for an ideal, or acts to improve the lot of others, or strikes out against injustice, he sends forth a tiny ripple of hope, and crossing each other from a million different centres of energy and daring those ripples build a current which can sweep down the mightiest walls of oppression and resistance. — Robert Kennedy


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Stop Lying to Yourself: BY : SIMON GILHAM
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Posted Date:11/19/2024
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1.The Power of Honesty: The first step towards personal growth is to be honest with oneself. 2.The Importance of Taking Responsibility: Taking responsibility for your actions and choices is essential for personal growth 3.The Need for Self-Discipline: Self-discipline is the key to achieving your goals. By developing self-control, you can overcome procrastination, resist temptations, and stay focused on your priorities 4.The Role of Mindset: Your mindset plays a crucial role in your success. Cultivate a positive and growth-oriented mindset to overcome obstacles and achieve your goals. 5.The Value of Hard Work: Success requires hard work, dedication, and perseverance. 6.The Importance of Continuous Learning: Never stop learning and growing. 7.The Power of Gratitude: Practicing gratitude can shift your focus from negativity to positivity 8.The Importance of Taking Action


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'I have been deceiving you
Catagory: History
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Posted Date:11/19/2024
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I'm sorry about that': The British politician who was caught faking his own death When John Stonehouse's clothes were found in a pile on Miami Beach on 20 November 1974, many people presumed that the UK Member of Parliament had drowned while swimming – until he turned up alive and well in Australia on Christmas Eve. In History looks at the stranger-than-fiction tale of the man who died twice. When John Stonehouse hatched his plan to disappear completely, he was a troubled man. His political career had stalled, his dodgy business dealings left him facing financial ruin, he was accused of being a communist spy, and he was having an extra-marital affair with his secretary. In a move borrowed from the Frederick Forsyth novel, The Day of the Jackal, Stonehouse stole the identity of two dead men. He travelled on a business trip to Miami where he vanished, in November 1974, then hopped on another plane to Australia. The ruse lasted just over a month. It was British aristocrat Lord Lucan, another infamous fugitive who disappeared around the same time, who would inadvertently lead him to get caught in Australia. And how did Stonehouse explain his actions? The British Member of Parliament insisted to the BBC in January 1975 that he was on "a fact-finding tour, not only in terms of geography but in terms of the inner self of a political animal". To the British public in the late 1960s, he must have seemed like a man who had it all. Postmaster General at the age of 43, with a glamorous wife and three children, he was talked about as a future Labour prime minister. He was the man who oversaw the introduction of first- and second-class stamps, but for his political career, that role was as good as it got. The rot began to set in when a defector from communist Czechoslovakia claimed in 1969 that the country had recruited the MP as an informer. Stonehouse protested his innocence to Prime Minister Harold Wilson, who believed him. Such allegations were rife during the Cold War, but Stonehouse's political reputation was damaged. When the Labour Party lost the 1970 general election, there was no seat for Stonehouse on the opposition front bench. Disillusioned, he decided to devote more time to his London business interests – mostly export services he had developed through his international connections. In 1971, Bangladesh's fight for independence from Pakistan fired Stonehouse with fresh enthusiasm. He became emotionally involved in the Bengali cause, becoming such a familiar and sympathetic figure there that when the war ended, he was made a citizen of the new state as a mark of respect. That was only the start. I've heard some extraordinary rumours and they're all so much out of character with my husband's personality that they're just not worth answering – Barbara Stonehouse He was asked to help set up the British Bangladesh Trust, a bank that would provide services for Bengali people in Britain. But the way the bank was being operated later drew critical comment from a Sunday newspaper and attracted investigators from the Fraud Squad and Department of Trade and Industry in London. The bad publicity and these official inquiries frightened away much of the bank's support, leaving Stonehouse deeply depressed and feeling he was also losing the respect of fellow MPs. He concocted a plan to escape from it all. First, he forged a passport application in the name of Joseph Arthur Markham, a foundry worker who had recently died in his constituency of Walsall, in England's West Midlands. He turned this new identity into a globetrotting export consultant with bank accounts in London, Switzerland and Melbourne. He then established another identity in the name of Donald Clive Mildoon, who had also just died in Walsall. To help fund this new life, Stonehouse transferred large amounts of cash from his businesses into a series of bank accounts. 'A divided personality' On 20 November 1974, Stonehouse vanished while, it seemed, he was swimming in the sea in Miami, Florida. There was no trace of the 49-year-old apart from the pile of clothes he left behind on the beach. Was he swept away by the ocean? Was he murdered and put inside a concrete block found near Miami Beach? Had he been kidnapped? His wife Barbara was in no doubt that there had been a tragic accident. She told BBC News: "I've heard some extraordinary rumours and they're all so much out of character with my husband's personality that they're just not worth answering or worth thinking about. I'm convinced in my mind that it was a drowning accident. All the evidence that we've had points to the fact that he was drowned." n London, police had their own suspicions. Sheila Buckley, Stonehouse's 28-year-old secretary and secret girlfriend, kept insisting to friends that he was dead, but she knew the real story: some of her clothes had been packed in a trunk and shipped to Australia a month before, she had transatlantic telephone calls from him, and she had also sent him semi-coded letters through one of his two Australian banks. It was having those two bank accounts in different names, Markham and Mildoon, that eventually put Melbourne police on his trail. At the time, they were on the lookout for the infamous missing peer Lord Lucan, who coincidentally vanished on 8 November after murdering his children's nanny. Initially, the police thought that the debonair Englishman spotted signing dodgy cheques might be him. While Lucan's disappearance has continued to mystify police for 50 years, the Stonehouse mystery lasted just over a month. On Christmas Eve, Stonehouse had to confess his true identity. Later, at Melbourne police headquarters, he asked whether he could phone his wife in the UK. Although he didn't realise it then, the telephone conversation in which he made his bombshell revelation to her was taped. He said: "Hello darling. Well, they picked up the false identity here. You would realise from all this that I have been deceiving you. I'm sorry about that, but in a sense I'm glad it's all over." For a few days Stonehouse was kept in a detention centre before being joined in Australia by his family, and later by his girlfriend. A month after his reappearance, he sat down for an interview with the BBC's Australia correspondent, Bob Friend. He blamed his actions on having developed a "divided personality, with the new personality providing a release to the old personality, which was under stress and strain of considerable proportions". Asked how he could put his wife and family through such anguish, he said: "I was trying – by disappearing – to make their lives easier… by taking away some of the tensions that I gave to them from my old personality." Stonehouse was still an MP, but rejected any suggestion that he should give up his parliamentary salary while 12,000 miles away from his constituency. He said: "Lots of Members of Parliament go on overseas visits and do fact-finding tours. I've been doing a fact-finding tour not only in terms of geography, but in terms of the inner self of a political animal. Now that tour could be very interesting and, my golly, I think it fully justifies an MP's salary if I can get the story down of my experience." He added: "I think a Member of Parliament, like anybody else in any other job, is entitled to some consideration during a period when he has some sort of illness." You only die twice For seven months, Stonehouse tried to stay in Australia, but he was eventually deported and escorted back home by Scotland Yard detectives. In August 1976, after a marathon 68-day trial on charges relating to his failed businesses, he was jailed for seven years for theft, fraud and deception offences. He left prison three years later while recovering from open heart surgery, having suffered three cardiac arrests during his time inside. His wife divorced him in 1978, and three years later he married Buckley, his former secretary. He died for a second time in 1988 – and this time it was for real. The 62-year-old had collapsed three weeks earlier, just before he was due to appear on a television show about missing people. But what of those espionage claims that so damaged his political career? In his BBC interview after he reappeared, he dismissed as "ludicrous" the idea that he had been a spy for Czechoslovakia. To this day, his daughter Julia rejects any claims that he passed information to foreign powers, and in 2021 she wrote a book in his defence. Cambridge historian Prof Christopher Andrew is one of the few people who have seen MI5's file on Stonehouse; in his 2009 authorised history of the British intelligence service, he concluded that Stonehouse had indeed spied for the Czechoslovaks. Speaking in 2012, Prof Andrew told the BBC: "The really decisive evidence came in the mid-1990s when the Czechoslovak intelligence service, having become an ally, made public some of Stonehouse's file. They were pretty disappointed with the quality of the intelligence he passed on as a minister, so to the long list of people who John Stonehouse defrauded, it is just possible that we can add the name of Czechoslovak intelligence." SOURCE : https://www.bbc.com/culture/article/20241114-john-stonehouse-the-british-politician-who-was-caught-faking-his-own-death


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On this day in history - Today, November 19
Catagory: History
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Posted Date:11/19/2024
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• 1977 Egyptian president Anwar Sadat visits Israel Sadat was the first Arab head of state to visit Israel and address the Israeli parliament, the Knesset. His visit came under severe criticism both in Israel and in the Arab world. Sadat and Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin were jointly awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 1978 for their attempts to bring a resolution to the Arab-Israeli conflict. **** • 1969 Pelé’s 1000th goal The Brazilian footballer, often considered to be the greatest athlete of the 20th century, made his 1,000th professional goal against Vasco da Gama at the Maracana stadium in Rio de Janeiro. **** • 1946 Gettysburg Address Thought to be one of the most memorable and influential speeches in the history of the United States, the address was delivered by American President Abraham Lincoln while dedicating the Soldiers' National Cemetery in Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, 4 months after the bloody Battle of Gettysburg. The short address which was only 272 words in length, emphasized that the American Civil War wasn’t just a war to save the union, but also a war to ensure equality and freedom. **** • 1943 Janowska camp uprising The concentration camp in occupied Poland was set up in 1941. In November 1943, in anticipation of the advancement of Soviet troops, the Nazis tried to evacuate the camp and used the inmates to remove traces of executions and mass killings in the past. On this day, the inmates staged an uprising and attempted to escape. Most escapees, however, were recaptured and killed. ***** • 1794 Signing of the Jay Treaty The treaty, officially known as, Treaty of Amity Commerce and Navigation, between His Britannic Majesty and The United States of America, was signed between representatives of the United States and Britain. It called for the British to surrender northwestern posts to the U.S. and for them to consider the United States as a most favored nation for trade between the two countries. ****** Births on This Day, November 19 • 1941 Tommy Thompson American politician, 42nd Governor of Wisconsin **** • 1917 India Gandhi Indian politician, 3rd Prime Minister of India ***** • 1888 José Raúl Capablanca Cuban chess player **** • 1831 James A. Garfield American politician, 20th President of the United States ****** • 1600 Charles I of England **** Deaths on This Day, November 19 • 1924 Thomas H. Ince American actor, director, producer ***** • 1918 Joseph F. Smith American religious leader, 6th President of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints ***** • 1850 Richard Mentor Johnson American politician, 9th Vice President of the United States ****** • 1828 Franz Schubert Austrian composer **** • 1798 Wolfe Tone Irish patriot


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