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Five FANTASTIC New Search Tools From Google
But what are they? How do you use them — and why should you? What's the appeal? Here's our guide to five terrific new search features from Google that will change the way you hunt down information, communicate, and interact with your surroundings. From visual search, to instant translation, you won't want to miss out on these. Google Goggles is a form of visual search. Using the new tool on an Android-powered mobile, people can search by taking a photo of something (such as a book, landmark, bottle of wine, logo, or store), instead of typing the word they're trying to look up, and Google will instantly return information on that object: the flavors and notes of that bottle of wine, or reviews for that book you're holding. Google Goggles Visual Search Search Results Customized By Location Giant Waves Crash On Hawaii's Beaches, Could Reach Up To 50 FeetHonolulu, Dec 9 : Thousands of spectators and surfers are flocking to Hawaii's beaches to see the biggest waves in years crash ashore. Heavy traffic backed up for miles Monday along roads leading to Oahu's North Shore. Some of the world's most daring surfers took on the powerful and dangerous waves, which forecasters say could reach heights of 50 feet. The surf grew so large that a few beaches on Oahu and Maui were closed because lifeguards feared inexperienced sightseers could drown, according to state officials. "After the water comes in, it can drag you back out with it," said Eric Basta, a manager at Surf N Sea in Haleiwa. "Be mindful of how powerful the surf really is." As violent as the waves were, they may grow in strength by Tuesday, according to the National Weather Service. The high waves are expected to continue through Wednesday. A legendary big wave surfing contest, the Quiksilver in Memory of Eddie Aikau, may be held Tuesday for the first time since 2004 if waves reach a height of about 40 feet, organizers said. The event is only held in perfect conditions, and the waves weren't quite big or smooth enough yet Monday. "The swell energy is continuing to grow, and the waves may get larger," said Robert Ballard, a forecaster for the National Weather Service. "A large storm over the North Pacific has sent a wave train at us." Hawaii hasn't seen such large waves since 2004 or 1998, he said. Teams of tow-in surfers — who use jet watercraft to race into waves too big to paddle — are flying to Maui from Brazil, South Africa and Australia, The Honolulu Advertiser reported. Holly Sampson: Photos Of Porn Star, Tiger Woods' Alleged Mistress
Who is Holly Sampson? According to her IMDb page, she is a 36-year-old actress whose film appearances include racy titles such as Descent Into Bondage and Diary of a Horny Housewife. Her filmography contains 85 titles, most of which appear to be pornographic or erotic films. She has also used the name Nicolette Foster. Scroll down for pictures of Woods' latest alleged lover. Lindsay Lohan's Muse Photos: Threesomes, Her Butt And A Breast
Photographer Yu Tsai spoke to the NY Post and said:
Six have been released: Sexpo Show Girls In Sexpo Australia 2009 Sydney
All adults above the age of 18 are allowed entry to this show that deals exclusively in all aspects of adult lifestyle, sexuality and sexual health. The exhibition is held by the Club X. It is organized in various cities throughout the world like Toronto, Melbourne, Hong Kong and so on. Originally, the hosting of the exhibition was limited to a few Australian cities only, but as the popularity grew, so did the market and now it is hosted all over the world. This year, the Sexpo Australia 2009 was held in Sydney from Nov. 29 to Dec. 01. The major attraction of the Sexpo, besides the lucrative bargains that are available on various sex toys and other lifestyle items, are the show girls. Various pictures of the Sexpo show girls who were present in the Sexpo Australia 2009 that was held in Sydney, are available in many websites on the internet. Many of these pictures show the show girls, dressed in pink tee shirts with the logo of the Sexpo embossed on them in gold letters, posing in front of the cameras. The Sexpo show girls are the ones who are actually entrusted with the responsibility of luring customers in the exhibition on their slim shoulders. Some of them are Trinity Porter, Taylor Gunz and Jewell Tyler. They are present during the official opening of the exhibition, a kind of symbol for the show. Pictures of the Sexpo show girls posing in the Sexpo Australia 2009 in Sydney are available in the internet. India Wants Bangladesh Investment in NortheastNew Delhi, Dec 9 : Senior leader of India's ruling Congress Manishankar Aiyar has come out strongly in support of opening up of the country's northeastern region for investments from Bangladesh. "While our government has made it incumbent to channel ten percent of our funds to Northeast, the private sector has not routed one percent of its investments there," said Aiyar, a former union minister of India. He was speaking at the Nehru Memorial Museum and Library in New Delhi after launching eminent BBC journalist Subir Bhaumik's book "Troubled Periphery: Crisis of India's Northeast". "So it makes sense to allow Bangladesh's big capital to invest in Northeast and giving them market access for their products," said Aiyar, adding: "That will allow us to fulfill the dreams of 1971, by creating a friendly Bangladesh to secure east and northeast India." Aiyar, himself a former Indian Foreign Service (IFS) officer, said that Indian diplomacy has failed to advance India's 'cause' in the neighbourhood, including Bangladesh. "But now we have great opportunity. There's a very friendly government in Dhaka and they are helping us handle the insurgents. I think we should carry forward our relations to new heights," he added. Aiyar, who has been a close associate of India's late and former Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi, held the Panchayati Raj and Development of Northeastern Region portfolio in the country's central government till the parliamentary elections in April-May this year. Veteran Indian editor B G Verghese, who conducted the discussion during the book launch, advised Indian decision makers "to see borders as bridges rather than as barriers." "Borders are what you make of them," he added. Magdalene @ Hornbill Music FestivalNaga Band Wins National Rock Contest
"OFF" band from Nagaland was awarded Rs five lakh and a Casio WK 3300 synthesizer after the grand finale of the contest which concluded midnight last night. "Hypnosis" from New Delhi and "Kaivaalya" from Kolkata were adjudged second and third respectively. Chief Minister Neiphiu Rio gave away the prizes to the winners of the contest organized by government-run Music Task Force and partly sponsored by Airtel as part of the annual Hornbill festival, which concluded last evening. K K Sema, commissioner and secretary for culture and tourism, the nodal agency for coordinating the Hornbill festival, told newsmen that an estimated 1,000 foreign visitors and 1,500 domestic tourists visited Nagaland during the week-long festival. India Buoyed By Bangladesh's GiftBy Sudha Ramachandran Bangalore: Bangladesh has handed over to India two top leaders of the banned United Liberation Front of Assam (ULFA). The move not only marks an important turning point in India-Bangladesh relations, it opens the opportunity for the Indian government to initiate talks with ULFA leaders, possibly paving the way for a negotiated settlement to the three-decades-long insurgency in India's northeast. Among those who have been handed over to India are the ULFA chairman, Arabinda Rajkhowa, and the "deputy commander-in-chief", Raju Baruah, and their families. Accused in several cases, including murder, extortion and waging war against India, Rajkhowa has an Interpol "Red Corner" notice against him. He has been out of India since 1992 and is said to have lived in Myanmar, Thailand and Bhutan, besides Bangladesh. The ULFA has been fighting for an independent Assam since its founding in 1979. It has carried out scores of violent attacks over the past three decades and is an outlawed organization in India. Bangladesh, which has hitherto denied the existence of anti-India militants taking sanctuary in or operating from its soil, has finally cracked the whip on them. The issue of action against anti-India terrorist outfits based in Bangladesh was caught in that country's domestic politics. The more right-wing Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) was loathe to act against India's northeastern militant groups operating from Bangladesh soil, given its anti-India bias, and against Islamist terror outfits, given its own fundamentalist leanings. The secular and more pro-India Awami League (AL), meanwhile, while expressing willingness to act against these organizations, failed to do so, fearing criticism from the BNP and others that its leaders were "Indian stooges". In the process, neither party while in power heeded India's pleas to act against anti-India militants based in Bangladesh. Delhi provided successive Bangladeshi governments with maps and other details of terrorist training camps in Bangladesh, but to little avail. That has now changed. Bangladesh is acting on Indian security concerns and there are strong signs that counter-terrorism cooperation between the two countries is robust. Two days after the AL's landslide victory in general elections in December last year, party chief and Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina declared that "no one will be allowed to use this land to carry out terrorism in India". She began acting soon after a major crackdown was launched on the ULFA. Last month, its foreign secretary, Sashadhar Choudhury, and finance secretary, Chitraban Hazarika, were pushed into Indian territory by Bangladeshi authorities. Last week, Bangladesh also handed over two Lashkar-e-Toiba militants wanted in India for their role in serial blasts in Bangalore last year. Prime Minister Hasina will visit India in January, when she will be honored with the Indira Gandhi Award for Peace, Disarmament and Development. She will be hoping that India, often looked on by its neighbors as a big bully, will be more of a gentle giant. Besides the terrorism issue, differences on transit rights, sharing of river waters, a trade imbalance and demarcation of a maritime boundary have dogged India-Bangladesh ties for decades. Bangladesh's action on the ULFA leaders could see India treating Dhaka with more generosity. Rajkhowa's arrest is the latest in a series of blows suffered by ULFA. But for Paresh Baruah, its "commander-in-chief" who is believed to be somewhere in Myanmar, all other members of the organization's executive council are now in Indian custody. The "general secretary", Anup Chetia, is in jail in Dhaka and is expected to be handed over to India soon. In June last year, the ULFA's 28th Battalion, which is the outfit's most potent strike force, split down the middle, with two of its three companies announcing a unilateral ceasefire with Indian authorities. Indian authorities believe that with Rajkhowa's arrest, a window of opportunity has opened up to engage in talks with ULFA. "The ULFA has been seriously weakened; its bargaining capacity is low," say officials. In earlier talks with the ULFA, officials had to engage with the outfit's second and third rung leaders. That has changed with Rajkhowa in their custody. Rajkhowa has for long been regarded as the ULFA's moderate face and is believed to be pro-talks. Rajkhowa and Paresh Baruah, who is still at large, have said that talks with the Indian government will be possible only if the issue of Assam's sovereignty is on the agenda. In the past, the ULFA put forward three conditions for talks – sovereignty, negotiations in a foreign country and mediation by the United Nations. Over the years it has dropped the latter two conditions. But it continues to insist on sovereignty figuring in any talks. Indian officials have said that while the government is ready to hold talks with the ULFA, "talks on Assam's sovereignty are ruled out". Will the Indian government's inflexibility on the issue stand in the way of negotiations starting? There are instances when India has engaged in talks with insurgent groups and not insisted on them abjuring independence explicitly ahead of talks. This has been the case with the National Socialist Council of Nagaland (Isak-Muivah), a Naga insurgent group. A ceasefire between security forces and the outfit has held for about 13 years, and talks are in progress. And while the group has not renounced independence in any statement, its position has "diluted naturally over time on the issue in negotiations", Indian officials who have engaged in talks with the Nagas say. "If the government can talk to the National Socialist Council of Nagaland (Isak-Muivah) despite its insistence on sovereignty, there's no reason [why] the ULFA issue cannot be handled similarly," says senior advocate, Arup Barbora, a member of the People's Consultative Group that the ULFA set up in 2005 to mediate in talks with the Indian government. "Discussing sovereignty does not mean granting it," he points out. While both the government and the ULFA are talking tough at the moment, it does seem that Delhi is looking for "some way" to get the ULFA to the negotiating table. It cannot say that sovereignty is negotiable, as that undermines its own sovereignty and the authority of the Indian constitution. Still, neither side mentioning the sovereignty issue, whether insisting on its inclusion or exclusion from the talks agenda, could be a way out. To get the Nagas to the negotiating table, for instance, the term "unconditional talks" was used. This allowed both sides to discuss all issues raised by the rebels as well as objections the government had to these issues. While the Indian government is in a position of strength at the moment, given the ULFA's much weakened current state, its bungling could see it fritter away the advantage. The day Rajkhowa was to be brought to court, speculation was rife that the government would accord him political prisoner status, instead of treating him like a terrorist or criminal, since it was keen to engage in talks with him. But it was a handcuffed Rajkhowa that appeared in court. "There cannot be any peace talks with the government under handcuffs, as prisoners cannot negotiate," Rajkhowa said as he was taken to court. "If the government was at all serious in utilizing Rajkhowa's services for peace talks, then what was the need for bringing him to the court handcuffed," a human-rights activist, Lachit Borodoloi, has observed. Initially, the government claimed that Rajkhowa surrendered. On his way to the court, the ULFA chairman said he had "not surrendered and would never surrender before the government and sovereignty cannot be compromised". Officials then backtracked, and said he had been arrested. This shoddy treatment of Rajkhowa and the claims and denials by the government on the circumstances of his falling into India's hands have earned the ULFA leader sympathy among sections of the Assamese people and painted the government in a negative light. Experts also point out that the government is wrong if it thinks it can successfully negotiate a peace settlement without including Baruah. The arrest of Rajkhowa no doubt is a blow to the ULFA, but Paresh Baruah is believed to be the one who calls the shots in the organization. And he is still at large. A hardliner, firmly opposed to talks, Baruah retains the support of a large number of ULFA fighters. Will ULFA moderates defy his diktat and engage in talks with the government? Following Rajkhowa's arrest, Baruah has issued statements that there is no rift in the ULFA. Even if the moderates were to defy him and engage in talks, he has the capacity to disrupt the peace process through acts of violence. As a noted Assamese litterateur and former facilitator for peace talks, Indira Goswami, warns, "Peace talks without Baruah will be futile and counter-productive." Sudha Ramachandran is an independent journalist/researcher based in Bangalore. 80 Indian Securitymen Down With Malaria
polls in the state so far, they have fallen prey to mosquitoes with a large number of them being afflicted with Plasmodium Falciparum (MF), also known as malignant malaria. Around 80 Central Reserve Police Force, India Reserve Battalion and Naga Armed Forces (NAF) personnel were undergoing treatment at the Rajendra Institute of Medical Sciences (RIMS) here on Monday with four of them showing severe symptoms of jaundice. One NAF personnel had to be transferred to Apollo Hospital even. J K Mitra, doctor of medicine at RIMS, said 90% of the cases can be linked to mosquito bites. "NAF personnel seem to have not been exposed to PF and their resistance was poor because of which they got afflicted easily," he said, adding that a few of them have been detected with jaundice and that is also related to malarial infection. "Severe malaria often leads to jaundice and immediate bed rest is a must in that case," said Mitra. He pointed that while in uniform, only the face and hands are exposed to mosquito bite and they should use some sort of a repellant. A report on the treatment of security forces, meanwhile, was sought by the Election Commission from RIMS was not obtained on Monday. Joint chief electoral officer A K Sinha said the state health department has been directed to take all possible steps aimed at preventing malaria. "From distribution of preventive drugs among the security personnel, we have also asked them to ensure spraying of mosquito repellent chemicals." CRPF officials said the unit provides its personnel with mosquito repellent ointments and medicines. Besides, every unit has its own doctor to treat minor ailments. "When the situation is beyond that of the unit doctor, patients are referred to hospital," said ASP (operations) CRPF, Khunti, from where two securitymen were shifted to RIMS with high fever and body ache. |
At Google's 2009 Search Event in Mountain View, California, the search giant unveiled a whole new host of terrific new search tools.
Google demoed a nearly-instant language-to-language translator that would allow for on-the-fly translation using your mobile phone. ReadWriteWeb explains: "Gundotrpha [a Googler at the Search Event] spoke a paragraph's worth of words into his phone and within seconds the phone recited a translated version back in Spanish. It was amazing. Google hopes to have support for all the world's major languages completed sometime in 2010." 
The New York Daily News 
Lindsay Lohan is busy not acting and has posed for a spread in Muse Magazine. Inspired by the relationship between Johnny Depp and Kate Moss, the photos reflect debauched times, a threesome, one of Lohan's breasts and her butt.
Sydney, Dec 9 : Sexpo is the world's largest lifestyle and adult sexuality exhibition. Originally held in Australia, the show achieved quick popularity as the bold and slightly risque theme caught on.
Kohima, Dec 9 : A rock band from Nagaland has won the Hornbill national rock contest 2009, in which a total of 20 bands from 20 cities participated.
Ranchi, Dec 9 : Mosquitoes have succeeded where Maoists have failed. Though CRPF personnel have been able to contain Maoist activities to ensure peaceful