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Thursday, December 29, 2011
Wednesday, December 28, 2011
China unveils high-speed train despite safety woes
The train, whose sleek design was inspired by an ancient Chinese sword, was built using plastic reinforced with carbon fibre and magnesium alloy to reduce weight and therefore increase speed, the report said.
Initial reports suggested signalling problems were to blame for the crash, which sparked strong public criticism of China's government, but the results of an official investigation have not yet been released.
Separately, a new high-speed railway linking the capital of the southern province of Guangdong, Guangzhou, to Shenzhen city on the border with Hong Kong went into service on Monday, the official Xinhua news agency said on Tuesday.
China plans to extend the route to Hong Kong by 2015 as part of the planned Beijing-Hong Kong high-speed line, it said.
The latest moves come despite China saying last week it will cut spending on its railways next year.
The railways ministry will invest 400 billion yuan (?40 billion) on rail infrastructure in 2012, down from an estimated 469 billion yuan this year and 700 billion yuan in 2010, state media said.
The cash-strapped ministry is burdened by debt after borrowing to finance railway projects and some banks have stopped lending it money.
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Sunday, December 25, 2011
Union Labour & Employment Minister Shri Mallikarjun Kharge to chair the 197th meeting of ?the Central Board of Trustees (EPF)
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Saturday, December 24, 2011
L.A.'s greatest sports moments No. 2: Magic's junior sky hook
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We asked you to send in your picks for the greatest sports moments?in L.A. history, and 1,181 ballots later we are unveiling the top 20 vote-getters. Each weekday?we will unveil a new moment until we finally reach No. 1.
No. 2: Magic's junior sky hook (32 first-place votes, 3,788 points)
Magic Johnson firmly established himself as the Lakers? offensive leader in the 1986-87 season, so it was appropriate that he made the biggest shot of that championship year.
Coach Pat Riley decided that season that Magic would be the Lakers? No. 1 option on offense instead of Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, the NBA?s all-time leading scorer but also 39 years old at the time.
Magic?s scoring average increased five points from the previous season to a career-high 23.9 a game. He also led the NBA in assists, helped the Lakers compile a league-best 65-17 record and won his first most valuable player award.
The Lakers rolled to the NBA Finals, winning 11 of 12 playoff games to set up another matchup with the Boston Celtics. After the Lakers? fast-break offense led to two routs at the Forum, there was considerable talk of a sweep.
But the defending champion Celtics rallied for a Game 3 win in Boston and built a 16-point lead in the third quarter of Game 4. While most of his teammates struggled, Magic kept the Lakers in the game, scoring 27 points through three quarters and helping them enter the final 12 minutes down by only seven.
The fourth quarter was a classic. The Lakers tied the score midway through the period, fell behind by eight with 3 1/2 minutes left, then scored nine in a row to take a one-point lead with 29 seconds left. Larry Bird?s three-point basket with 12 seconds left put the Celtics ahead by two.
With eight seconds left, Abdul-Jabbar was fouled. He made the first free throw but missed the second. Boston?s Kevin McHale, battling the Lakers? Mychal Thompson, dropped the rebound out of bounds, setting the Lakers up for a final play.
Following a timeout, Magic received an inbounds pass from Michael Cooper about 20 feet from the basket. McHale wound up as the primary defender, but Magic?s stutter-step dribble left the big forward slightly off balance. Magic continued into the lane and put up a running hook shot from 12 feet over McHale and Robert Parish. It swished in with two seconds left for a 107-106 Lakers lead.
After Bird missed a shot at the buzzer, the Lakers had a 3-1 series lead. They won the title in Game 6 at the Forum.
Magic has called the ?junior, junior, junior sky hook? the biggest shot of his career.
?I started to take the jumper,? Magic said after the game, ?but I saw [McHale]? coming at me, so I decided to cut toward the middle. I put it up, and saw it as I released it, but then someone jumped in my face. I never saw it go in.?
The shot did go in ? right into Lakers? lore.
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No. 3: 1984 Olympics opening ceremony
No. 4: John Wooden goes out a winner
No. 5: Angels win the World Series
No. 6: The 1967 USC-UCLA game
No. 7: Anthony Davis defeats Notre Dame
No. 8: Lakers finally defeat Celtics
No. 9: Fernandomania
No. 10: Magic scores 42 in Game 6 of 1980 NBA Finals
No. 11: Lakers win first title in L.A.
No. 12: Dodgers first game in L.A.
No. 13: Marcus Allen's Super Bowl run
No. 14: Lakers win 33 in a row
No. 15: Robert Horry's game-winner
No. 16: Honoring Roy Campanella
No. 17: Miracle on Manchester
No. 18: Lakers three-peat
No. 19: Rick Monday saves the flag
No. 20: Kobe to Shaq alley-oop
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Here's Why The Apple TV Might Be Awesome ... - Business Insider
He also offers an explanation of why Google's ongoing TV efforts are probably doomed to failure, or at least doomed to addressing only a small, specific niche of the TV market ? households managed by tech geeks.
Basically, the explanation for Google's ongoing incompetence in the TV market boils down to this:
When Jonathan described his vision for the "perfect TV" to a Googler friend, the Googler friend scoffed at the idea because it didn't include an easy way for viewers to stream content from BitTorrent.
As if the vast majority of TV users have even heard of "BitTorrent," let alone care what it is or want to stream content from it. The vast majority of TV users don't even know what "streaming" is.
What Googlers and other technorati seem to forever fail to understand is that TV is the dominant broadcast medium because it is drop-dead simple.
For decades, TV users haven't had to do much more than press "on."
TV, in other words, has just worked.
Of course, in recent years, with the addition of cable boxes and VCRs and DVRs and IP TV and Netflix and iTunes and YouTube and remotes, et al, TV has started getting complicated.
Image: Engadget Remember this? Laughable. |
Apple, meanwhile, Bingham reasons, will approach the market with the aim of making TV simple again, by making the "perfect" TV.
What do TV "users" really want? What would make TV simple again? What would make a TV perfect?
TV users just want to press "on" and watch what they want to watch.
That's it.
They don't want to have to figure out where the content is. They don't want to have to "search" for it. They don't want to have to know when it's "on." They don't want to scan "channel" selectors and guides. They don't want to write emails or shop for products or search the web. They don't want to chat with their friends over the TV. They don't want to make phone calls. They just want to press "on" and watch what they want to watch when they want to watch it.
When Steve Jobs said, "I've finally cracked it," Bingham reasons, what he meant was he finally figured out how to give TV users what they want.
Image: ZatsNotFunny.com No one wants this. They just want to watch what they want to watch. |
No wires. No boxes. No remotes. No "cable." No "broadcast." No "channels." No "networks." No "content selection screens." No "navigation." No "Netflix."? No "YouTube." No "Hulu."
Just what you want to watch.
If Apple can eventually make the Apple TV do that, the Apple TV will indeed be a massive home run.
Especially if Google and all the other TV makers are still figuring out how to allow people to "record content" with one box and "play content" with another box and "find channels" with another box and "stream content from the web or BitTorrent" with another box ? or, worst of all, invent a hyper-complex box and remotes that do all of that and that you need a PhD to figure out how to operate.
Because the last thing TV users want is for TV to get more complicated.
Read Jonathan Bingham's post here >
SEE ALSO: Here's Everything We Know About The Forthcoming Apple TV
Source: http://www.businessinsider.com/apple-tv-vs-google-tv-2011-12
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Friday, December 23, 2011
The Hobbit Trailer Released: Watch Now!
From Academy Award winning director Peter Jackson comes The Hobbit, the precursor to The Lord of the Rings trilogy, based on the famous books by J.R.R. Tolkien.
The Hobbit follows title character Bilbo Baggins in his epic journey to reclaim the lost Dwarf Kingdom of Erebor, which was long ago conquered by the dragon Smaug.
Martin Freeman stars as Bilbo, with familiar faces such as Gandalf (Ian McKellen), Frodo (Elijah Wood) and Gollum (Andy Serkis) making appearances along the way.
Can it possibly live up to the incredible LOTR films? Based on this first glimpse, it looks like it just might. Watch The Hobbit trailer below and see what you think:
Source: http://www.thehollywoodgossip.com/2011/12/the-hobbit-trailer-released-watch-now/
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Wednesday, December 7, 2011
PFT: Archie Manning doesn't want Luck on Colts
Getty ImagesRegardless of whatever accomplishments he enjoys in the NFL, Jason Garrett will forever be known as the coach who iced his own kicker.? But the criticism of Garrett conceals a more troubling truth regarding the final moments of regulation in the Cowboys? eventual overtime loss to the Cardinals.
Quarterback Tony Romo found yet another way to blow a game in the clutch.
Yes, Garrett inexplicably called for a time out while his team was in field-goal position.? Kicker Dan Bailey made the one that didn?t count, and he missed the one that did.
Before it ever got to that point, however, Tony Romo failed to realize that the Cowboys had two time outs remaining, after a completion on third and 11 gave Dallas a first down at the Arizona 32, with 26 seconds to play.
Instead of immediately calling for a time out, Romo rushed the offense to the line of scrimmage for a spike play.? A full 19 seconds later, the clock had been stopped by the intentional incompletion.
After the game, Romo clumsily explained that he didn?t call the time out because he didn?t know whether the Cowboys had gotten a first down.? But the tape shows no hesitation on Romo?s part; he immediately urged his teammates to get in position to spike the ball, which means that he simply didn?t realize he had two time outs in his pocket.? (Besides, if the Cowboys hadn?t gotten a first down, spiking the ball would have given possession to the Cardinals.? Thus, if Romo had any doubt at all about whether it was first down or fourth down, his first move should have been to take the time out.)
In fairness to Romo, Garrett could have called for a time out from the sideline while Romo was rushing the offense into position for the spike play.? But Romo, if he truly intends to be a Super Bowl winning quarterback and to overcome a reputation for finding new and exciting ways to screw up with the game on the line, needs to know how many time outs he has left and when to use him.? Otherwise, he?ll again per perceived as finding new and exciting ways to screw up with the game on the line.
The only thing saving Romo from more widespread criticism is that most NFL fans were watching the Packers-Giants game at the time.
The Romo situation was a topic during Tuesday?s episode of PFT Live.? Though I said pretty much the same things that I?ve just typed, you can assess Romo?s explanation for yourselves, while also trying to figure out why he?s wearing a dress shirt with a neck hole roughly eight sizes too big.
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