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Rumours are floating around that Apple may be building a search engine. As per tech crunch, the rumour may not be true as they have not seen any search companies losing their employess to Apple.
it is very funny how we imagine this apple.inc would have rivality with google. can you imagine the apple search engine logo? would be like this :
or become :
apple search
BAISHAZHEN, China — The elderly rice farmer was leading three outsiders into an illegal quarry to show them the gangster-run mine that has poisoned his village’s fields and streams.
Suddenly, a blue Hyundai sport utility vehicle sped up to them in a cloud of red dust. A Toyota pickup pulled up behind, its windows tinted too dark to see how many people might be inside.
“Shove off!” the Hyundai driver screamed at the old man and his visitors, who included an American reporter. “We’re going to carve all of you up, slaughter all of you and burn your car!”
The stooped farmer, Song Zuokai, 81, grunted and began shuffling out of the quarry with his jittery guests.
Such threats are all too common in this region of southern China, long plagued by gangsters who illegally mine some of the world’s most sought-after industrial metals. The gangs reap profits that can rival drug money, while leaving pollution and violence in their wake.
What is new are efforts by China’s national and provincial governments to crack down on the illegal mines, to which local authorities have long turned a blind eye. The efforts coincide with a decision by Beijing to reduce legal exports as well, including an announcement by China’s commerce ministry on Tuesday that export quotas for all rare earth metals will be 35 percent lower in the early months of next year than in the first half of this year.
A senior Hamas official has asserted that any Israeli act of aggression is destined to fail in the face of the steadfastness displayed by the Palestinian people. “They can’t accomplish anything against the people, who resist the occupation,” the deputy chairman of the Hamas Political Bureau, Mousa Mohammed Abu Marzook, told Press TV. Speaking on the anniversary of the beginning of Israel’s December 2008-January 2009 war on the Gaza Strip, he said Tel Aviv launched the assault for political gain. Israel sought to break the resistance of the Palestinian people and to remove Hamas from Gaza, he noted.
“They want(ed) to accomplish the many aims at that time and the Israeli troops failed to accomplish any of those aims,” he added.
Tel Aviv tried to justify its decision to start the war by claiming it had been targeted by home-made rockets reportedly fired from Gaza. However, the projectiles are seldom known to have caused any casualties or considerable damage to Israeli property.
The Gaza war killed more than 1,400 Palestinians and inflicted over $1.6 billion in damage on the besieged territory’s economy.
Marzook also called for unity among all Palestinians.
daydaily.com – usnews.com nominated as the best online magazine by google pagerank. aunews had a simple good style in news, but stilla acording to us, thenewyorktimes is far better than usnews as the best news online magaazine in the world.
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Monday, 20 December 2010, 5:07 pm Article: Martha Rosenberg Sarah Palin’s Snuff Films by Martha Rosenberg Click for big version On her new TLC live-action show, Sarah Palin’s Alaska, Palin bludgeons a gigantic halibut to death and then displays its still-beating heart triumphantly for the at-home television audience writes New York Times’ David Firestone.
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winning second semifinal against philippines (1-0), Indonesia certainly advance to the final against malaysia at bukit jalil stadium.
go indonesia!!!!
The success of Andrea Hirata’s tetralogy — Laskar Pelangi, Sang Pemimpi, Edensor and Maryamah Karpov (to be released soon) — has turned the best-selling author into a rising star on the Indonesian literary map. Readers can’t get enough of him, critics don’t know what to make of him and filmmakers are knocking at his door. He sits down with Maggie Tiojakin and tells her why, despite all the attention, he remains a small- town boy at heart.
It is 4:30 in the afternoon and Andrea Hirata, wearing a mauve shirt and a black beret, is in the middle of a day full of meetings. This will be his sixth interview of the day, but he seems unfazed by the prospect of sitting through yet another hour of relentless questions.
A quick glance at his standard profile does not do full justice to the author of three best-sellers, and his laid-back attitude often betrays the energy that emanates from within him as he speaks. He begins by telling the story of his beloved teacher, Ms. Muslimah, whose passion for teaching inspired him to write Laskar Pelangi (Rainbow Warriors), his first work about growing up on the island of Belitung. (more…)
The Bali royal families, foreign dignitaries and thousands of residents of Peliatan and Ubud flocked to Peliatan Palace to witness the grand cremation of the late King of Peliatan IX, Ida Dewa Agung Peliatan, on Tuesday.
Prior to the grand palebon agung — a cremation ritual for members of the Bali royal families — Peliatan’s royal family and nobility paid their last respects to the late King, who died from diabetes last August.
Hindu High Priest Ida Pedanda Lingsir Padang Tegal, who presided over the religious ritual, fired a sacred arrow into a 6-meter-tall dragon-shaped bridge called naga banda in a symbol of destroying the earthly desires that tormented the late king, and thus releasing his soul from the temptations of the material world.
read more : http://www.thejakartapost.com/news/2010/11/03/thousands-bid-farewell-late-king-peliatan.html
We often heard how fierce tiger or lion hunt African prey like a horse, cow, bull, buffalo, deer and the like. Or crocodiles that lurk the animals were drinking near the swamp hideout. But there is a rare occurrence that was caught on camera amateur photographer named Johan Opperman (38) when visiting the Kruger National Park in South Africa. This photo dipublikaskan The Sun Daily, 28 October.
In the photo it appears the child is engrossed menghisa elephant with its trunk swamp water. Suddenly, a large crocodile emerged from the swamp of proboscis was immediately clamped with a strong molar teeth. Of attraction between children with crocodile elephant take a few moments. Children elephant also has a strong power so it can pull it up to the mainland crocodile marsh boundary.
Children elephant roaring and called his family shortly elephant troupe came to help. The elephant was trying to save the child with wail and stepped on his foot alligator body. The scene is much like the fight between an elephant against a crocodile. Because the herd of elephants and crocodiles beaten for his life, eventually prey is in sight it was secrete.
Johan said the incident during the day and do not usually crocodile dare mess with this giant animal. Was predictable, crocodile failed lunch. “I think this is very rare and to my knowledge, crocodiles do not usually try to catch the elephants,” said Johan
Malaysia is planning to sign a letter of intent in April for four Indonesian Aerospace CN-235 maritime patrol aircraft.
Air force officials, including chief of staff Rodzali bin Daud, have been negotiating with Indonesia’s state-owned aircraft-maker PT Dirgantara Indonesia for the purchase, say industry sources.
The two sides hope to sign a letter of intent at the Defence Services Asia show in Kuala Lumpur in late April, they add.
Malaysia needs maritime patrol aircraft because its air force has been relying largely on four Beechcraft Super King Airs that it received in 1994. One of these was recently upgraded with a Thales radar and a second is to undergo the same work in the coming months.
The air force wants the CN-235MPAs to widen its operations and improve payload performance, say industry sources. The service already operates CN-235 transports, so Indonesia’s offering provides some fleet commonality.
Malaysia has considered other types, such as a version of the Fokker 50. Fokker Services Asia had pushed the model as a cheaper alternative, and made a proposal to have some commercial Fokker 50s recently phased out by Malaysia Airlines converted for the maritime patrol mission by national maintenance, repair and overhaul firm Airod. Malaysian government investment firm Penerbangan Malaysia Berhad owns the retired aircraft.
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