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Critic's Rating: 5.0

Cast: Sam Worthington, Zoe Saldana, Stephen Lang, Sigourney Weaver

Direction: James Cameron

Genre: Action

Duration: 2 hours 43 minutes

Story: Circa 2154. The US army lands in Pandora, an earth-sized moon in outer space. Their objective: to extract the much needed minerals from Pandora's soil. but before they can do that, they must fight the peace-loving indigenous inhabitants of the alien world, relocate or destroy them with their spies and bombs.

SOURCE:Timesofindia

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10 tricks to bigger orgasms

While majority of couples wish to have extended massive orgasm (EMO), not everybody comes down to experiencing these repeated orgasmic waves.
Lovers experiencing one of these massive orgasms have reported enjoying more of life's joys in general, becoming nicer and more generous in their relationship.
An EMO can last minutes or hours, offering up blissful sensations at increasing intensities, reports Fox News.
And here are the tricks of this tantalizing trade:
1. Truly recognize your pleasure You want to immediately approve of your present sensations. This starts before you even get in the sack by overcoming anxieties you have about sex. This may require identifying limitations you've been taught about sex, like how you're supposed to respond (or not respond). You need to then challenge any social conditioning that impedes upon your response.
Ridding yourself of the uninvited "others" in your bed will enable you to solely focus on the orgasmic sensations, including ones that come from simply anticipating action.
2. Learn to relax Lovers have the tendency to tense up during sexual excitement, which is not conducive to extended orgasm. You need to be able to surrender your nervous system during genital stimulation. It's this letting go of tension that allows you to embrace your pleasure.
3. Get in the know The more we know about our bodies, sex, and sexual response, the better we can recognize sensations, the more we can lose ourselves in them. Become knowledgeable about sexual response, sexual anatomy, and erotic techniques.
4. Give yourselves time for pleasuring Lovers may stimulate each other by fantasizing out loud, taking your time getting to the genitals and hot spots. Teasing allows for greater energy awareness and arousal, and these are what make the experience ultimately so mind-blowing.
5. Touch for pleasure You can show your partner that you are into the moment by informing them about what you are going to do so he or she can surrender more easily. Highlighting a lover's physical responses further enables them to tune into the sensations.
6. Learn to channel your energy You want to get out of your head, directing your energy to your groin. This will make for more explosive results, plus help you to further tune into your sexual response.
7. Become an effective communicator To amplify things up, you may need to request changes that will intensify your pleasure if you're the receiver. As the giver, you may need to ask for feedback or direction. In either case, asking for more will help you to feel more. Giving approval can do wonders for a lover's ego.
8. Develop your pelvic floor muscles Exercising your pubbococcygeus (PC) muscle will put you more in tune with your sexual response. It's also what makes for more powerful orgasms.
9. Have plenty of lubricant handy As you will be loving for the long-haul, make sure you avoid the friction, pain, and discomfort that can result from working each other raw by using lube.
10. Do away with any drive-thru mentality Having an EMO isn't like going for fast food. One can't go into it thinking instant gratification. Instead, approach it as though training for a sport.

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Hotel Hollywood, a must watch the movie

A horror film about an Indian American wedding party that faces a gruesome contagion is generating a huge buzz online, and early positive reviews. Hotel Hollywood made headlines with “Crack the code and WIN $20000”.
The Internet was abuzz with more than half a million hits to the web site and tens of thousands of fans on Facebook. Hundreds of code entries were submitted even before the film was released to the North American market.
HOTEL HOLLYWOOD succeeds with an excellent storyline, gripping impact, and great camera technique. Never before has a film excelled at all three at the same time. Hotel Hollywood is set at an Indian wedding party that mysteriously went missing in a Los Angeles hotel. The film is based on a real story suspiciously hinting at a government cover-up. It builds to an action packed climax that keeps you glued to the edge of your seat. The film is shot from a first person camera perspective (a character in the film is the wedding cameraman who is shooting the events as they happen) – the filmmakers accomplished this without ever lying to the audience.
The movie features excellent camera work by Mathew Boyd and delivered with sensitive direction by Param Gill. The viewer finds it easy to relate to the story characters who are ordinary, everyday individuals thrown into an extraordinary situation that tests them to the limits of their endurance and beyond. Telling you anything more will spoil the suspense; watch it for anunforgettable experience.
“HOTEL HOLLYWOOD is an edge-of-the-seat thriller, not to be missed”, says Kapil Sethi of Net Effect Media, the company that is distributing the film.
“TERRIFYING ACTION AND SUSPENSE! I felt wary and fearful for 2 days after watching HOTEL HOLLYWOOD. And just think, it’s a story that really happened”, says Mac Ferguson, Film Critic.

Source:timesofindia

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Google seeks partners to create Facebook rival

NEW YORK: Google Inc has held talks with gaming companies as it looks to develop a new service to compete with social networking website Facebook, the Wall Street Journal has reported, citing people familiar with the matter.
The Internet giant has had talks with makers of online games for the service including Playdom Inc, Electronic Arts Inc's Playfish and Zynga Game Network Inc, the report said.
The report said is unclear when the new offering will be launched.
Google already owns and operates social networking site Orkut. The company could not be immediately reached for comment.
Walt Disney Co earlier said that it is planning to acquire Playdom for $563.2 million, as the young but fast-growing market for Internet games on Facebook and other websites has exploded, increasing the links between social gaming developers and social networking.
Source ::TimesofIndia

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Pak plane crashes with 150 on board, 100 bodies found

ISLAMABAD: A Pakistani airliner carrying 150 people crashed in a ball of flames Wednesday into densely wooded hills above Islamabad during heavy rain and poor visibility, leaving little hope of survivors.
Rescue officials said pieces of charred flesh and body parts were littered around the smouldering wreckage, partially buried on a remote hillside following Pakistan's first major aviation accident in four years.
Rescue workers have recovered the bodies of more than 100 people after a Pakistani jet crashed in Islamabad on Wednesday and there are still no signs of survivors, the city's police chief said.
"More than 100 bodies have been found. We have not yet found any survivor or injured," Bani Amin told AFP.
Air Blue flight ABQ-202

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The best time to work out

Is it better to exercise in the morning, or later in the day?
Let your circadian rhythms be your guide. In the afternoon or early evening, your core temperature is warmer. A warm core makes your muscles and joints more supple, which helps you avoid strains and sprains. That makes afternoon or early evening ideal for exercises that tap your muscles, like strength training, stretching, and interval workouts.
Mornings are good too!On the other hand, if endurance activities are more your type —long brisk walks or bike rides — morning may be better. Your body’s core is cooler early in the day, which can make endurance activities seem less tiring. And there is less risk of overheating. But a good warm-up will be key, since your muscles are likely to be stiffer in the mornings.
No-Sweat SchedulingTune up your muscles, lungs, and heart with these well-timed workouts:Mornings: Get energised. Walk your way to a slimmer you — in your own home!
After-noons: Muscle up your midday. It can be quick and easy. Then, get flexible with a chi-gong exercise.Evenings: Stretch yourself to sleep. It really helps.Stuck in an exercise rut? Get tips on diversifying your fitness portfolio — and make long-term health gains.
SOURCE ::Times of India

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Health benefits of corn

With bhuttawalas putting up makeshift stalls at almost every corner in the neighbourhood during the rains, most people love to have this healthy snack.
Corn is high in nutrients, which are extremely beneficial for you. Rich in Vitamin B1, which is used in the metabolism of carbohydrates, Vitamin B5, which helps with physiological functions, folate, that helps generating new cells and Vitamin C, which helps fight diseases, corn should be a must in your diet.
Corn is also high in fibre, which helps you fight digestive problems like constipation. Fibre also helps lower cholesterol levels, reduces the risk of colon cancer and is also useful in helping to lower blood sugar levels in diabetics. Folic acid present in corn is known to prevent neural-tube birth defects. Experts also recommend corn for people who suffer from Anaemia. Make a delicious and easy side dish — corn sauteed with green chillies and onions not only tastes good but is healthy, too!
SOURCE::TIMES OF INDIA

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Excessive milk consumption can cause prostrate cancer

London, July 26: Excessive milk consumption can increase the risk of prostate cancer, experts have found.
A Canadian research, published in The Prostate journal, found that men who drank four 200 ml glasses of milk had double the risk of the disease, reports dailymail.co.uk.
Milk contains cow hormones, including insulin-like Growth Factor 1 (IGF-1). These encourage growth and may help to feed prostate cancer and perhaps, to a lesser extent, ovarian cancer.
Researchers from University College London have suggested that a few thousand years ago people avoided milk because it led to gastric pain and upset stomachs. This is because Europeans lacked the gene to produce the enzyme lactase, which breaks down the milk sugar lactose.
However, Professor Walter Willett, chairman of nutrition at the Harvard School of Public Health, says there's little evidence to justify such recommendations, claiming such measures are "likely to cause harm to some people".
Willett says that "many studies have shown a relation between high milk intake and risk of fatal or metastatic prostate cancer, explained by the fact that a high intake increases blood levels of the IGF-1 growth-promoting hormone".
SOURCE::DC

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Stop jogging! It doesn't always help lose weight

London, July 26: Running might not be the ideal form of exercise, especially if you want to lose weight.
Says Greg Brookes, a London-based personal trainer: "Lots of people start running to lose weight and it doesn't always work - and this is why."
"Fat is one of our body's favourite sources of energy," says Brookes. "The more you run, the more your body prepares itself for your next run. You will actually start to hold on to more fat," the Daily Mail quoted him as saying.
Brookes, with a clientele that includes celebrities, high-fliers and housewives, suggests why you won't get leaner is that the body is an amazing machine and will adapt to anything.
"The more time you spend running, the better you become at running and the more efficient you get, the less energy you use and the fewer calories you burn," says Brookes.
According to him, running is also bad for joints. "When you run, two-and-a-half times your bodyweight is transmitted through your joints."
"If that force is repeated over and over, eventually your weakest joint will give out. Usually the ankles or the knees are the first to go," he adds.
Contrary to popular belief that any exercise will speed up your metabolism, running can, says Brookes, do the opposite.
SOURCE ::DC

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Krishna meets Clinton, Karzai

External affairs minister S.M. Krishna interacts with US secretary of state Hillary Clinton after a bilateral meeting in Kabul on Tuesday. India and America discussed about Pakistan and Afghanistan. Hillary said that some people in the Pakistani establishment know where Osama Bin Laden is hiding. - PTI

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Nadal continues to top tennis rankings

Berlin, July 19: Rafael Nadal of Spain continues to lead the latest ATP tennis rankings issued Monday.

In an unchanged top 10, the French Open and Wimbledon champion has 10,745 points, followed by Novak Djokovic of Serbia on 6,905 and former number one Roger Federer of Switzerland with 6,885 points.

ATP top 10 as of July 19 (previous ranking in parenthesis):

1. (1) Rafael Nadal, Spain, 10,745 points

2. (2) Novak Djokovic, Serbia, 6,905

3. (3) Roger Federer, Switzerland, 6,885

4. (4) Andy Murray, Britain, 5,155

5. (5) Robin Soderling, Sweden, 4,835

6. (6) Nikolay Davydenko, Russia, 4,740

7. (7) Juan Martin del Potro, Argentina, 4,270

8. (8) Tomas Berdych, Czech Republic, 3,780

9. (9) Andy Roddick, United States, 3,490

10. (10) Fernando Verdasco, Spain, 3,475

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Rain washes out 2nd day's play in India-SL Test

Rain washes out 2nd day's play in India-SL Test

Galle (Sri Lanka), Jul 19: Unrelenting rain played spoilsport as the second day of the first cricket Test between India and Sri Lanka was called off without a single ball being bowled here today.

Sri Lanka remained on their overnight score of 256 for two and the washout has now greatly diminished the prospects of a result in Muttiah Muralitharan's swansong Test.

The outfield was already wet due to overnight showers and things only got worse due to more rain this morning.

The brief appearance made by the sun in the afternoon, which prompted the ground staff to take off the covers, turned out to be a false dawn as it started pouring soon after, leaving the match officials with no choice but to call off the day's proceedings at about 1500 hrs (local Time).

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Casillas is World Cup top goalkeeper

Johannesburg, July 12: Spain skipper Iker Casillas has been named the best goalkeeper of the 2010 World Cup.

The FIFA Technical Study Group picked the Real Madrid shot-stopper after some outstanding performances which inspired Spain to win their first-ever World Cup trophy.

Previous winners of this award are Gianluigi Buffon (Italy) in 2006, Oliver Khan (Germany) 2002 and Fabien Barthez (France) in 1998.

The 29-year-old Casillas made several saves against the Netherlands in Sunday's final, which his side won 1-0. One of the saves was a point-blank block which denied Arjen Robben, who was clean on goal.

He also saved a penalty against Paraguay in a quarter-final match as Spain won 2-1 to reach the last four.

Casillas made history when he became the first goalkeeper since Italy's Dino Zoff in 1982 to lead a team to World Cup glory.

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Mueller wins World Cup Golden Boot, best young player

Johannesburg, July 12: Germany midfielder Thomas Mueller has won the Golden Boot award for top scorer at the World Cup and was also named best young player of the tournament.

Mueller was one of four players to finish on five goals, but won by virtue of his three assists, two more than his nearest rivals- Spain's David Villa and Wesley Sneijder of the Netherlands, who each had one assist.

Mueller, 20, has spearheaded a new generation of players that include Mesut Oezil, Sami Khedira, Jerome Boateng and goalkeeper Manuel Neuer in a German team that finished third.

The Bayern Munich ace, who 12 months ago was playing in the German third division, succeeded compatriot Miroslav Klose, who topped the scoring at the last World Cup in Germany four years ago.

Mueller first gave notice of his huge potential during last season's UEFA Champions League as Bayern made it all the way to the final. It was his first full season at the Bavarian giants and he ended up scoring 19 times in 52 appearances.

He is a fast, composed and technically gifted attacking midfielder or second striker who scores and creates goals.

Ahead of the World Cup, Mueller was valued at about 10 million euros ($12.5 million), but there are now suggestions that on the back of his performance in Africa, he has more than tripled this valuation.

Mueller, who made his full international debut against Argentina in a friendly in March, is a product of a systematic and extensive German youth programme which began 10 years ago after Germany crashed out of the 2000 European Championships in Belgium and the Netherlands.

The German football federation DFB then chose to embark on scouting and developing new talent, a programme which was further enhanced when former captain Matthias Sammer was appointed sports director in 2005.

Since then the German Football League wand the DFB have invested some 500 million euros on youth development schemes.

All Bundesliga clubs were mandated to have their own junior training centres, while the DFB developed centres of excellence and talent-spotting programmes across the country.

The results have been outstanding - Germany were under-19 European champions in 2008, and then won the under-17 and under-21 European titles last year. Before that, Germany had gone 16 years without a European title at junior level.

In South Africa, Mueller extended the legend of the Germany number 13 shirt, which his namesake Gerd Mueller made famous during a distinguished career in the 1970s.

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Spain beat Netherlands 1-0 to win the World Cup

Spain beat Netherlands 1-0 to win the World Cup

JOHANNESBURG: Spain rules the soccer world, winning the World Cup at long, long last.

It came after an exhausting 1-0 victory in extra time over the Netherlands on Sunday. Two years after winning the European title, the stylish Spaniards did even better.

This was a physical test of attrition that sometimes turned dirty — a finals-record 11 yellow cards were handed out and the Dutch finished with 10 men. In the end, it was Andres Iniesta breaking free in the penalty area, taking a pass from Cesc Fabregas and putting a right-footed shot from 8 yards just past the outstretched arms of goalkeeper Maarten Stekelenburg.

For the Dutch and their legions of orange-clad fans wearing everything from jerseys to jumpsuits to clown gear to pajamas, it was yet another crushing disappointment.

Their first World Cup title tantalizingly within reach, they failed in the final for the third time. This one might have been the most bitter because, unlike in 1974 and 1978, the Netherlands was unbeaten not only in this tournament, but in qualifying for the first World Cup staged in South Africa.

Soccer City was soaked in Oranje, from the seats painted in that hue throughout the stadium to pretty much everyone seated in them. Unlike when they lost to hosts West Germany and Argentina in previous finals, the Dutch were something of a home team this time.

The Spaniards, though, were the winners.
They had pockets of supporters, too, to be sure, dressed in red and scattered around the stadium. They might have been the minority, but when the final whistle blew, they were tooting their vuvuzelas loudest in tribute to their champions.

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PSLV launch successful, 5 satellites placed in orbit

Five satellites, including the advanced high resolution cartography satellite Cartosat-2B, were placed in orbit on Monday after India's space agency Isro successfully launched its Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle (PSLV) rocket from here.

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Auditor says RCom has inflated revenue

New Delhi, Oct. 12: A government-appointed auditor is understood to have found inflation of revenues by Rs 2,915 crore by the Anil Ambani group firm Reliance Communications in 2007-08, besides evasion of Rs 315 crore in licence fee — findings termed as “biased” by the company.
When contacted the department of telecom (DoT) sources confirmed receipt of the report by auditors Parekh and Co and said that it is yet to examine the findings. The DoT would ask for RCom’s response later.
“RCom is in full compliance of licence terms and conditions,” a company spokesperson said, adding that “Auditors’ alleged comments are biased and appear instigated by corporate rivals... Premature leakage of confidential report to media reflects the Special Auditors’ prejudice/bias”.
“All revenues for FY’07 and ’08 are correctly reported in RCom’s audited account. Alleged comments of the special auditor do not reflect any under-reporting of revenue... licence fees.”
The spokesperson said revenues were correctly booked from securitisation of bad debts received from RIL in 2005 and from the sale of pre-paid cards in line with industry practice.
The special audit committee report that has been submitted to the DoT found that for the FY’08 actual wireless revenue earned by the company was only Rs 12,298 crore as against Rs 15,213 crore reported to the shareholders, which is an over reporting of Rs 2,915 crore.
It also found that RCom evaded the licence fee and spectrum fee to the tune of Rs 315 crore.
The DoT is awaiting the report of four other companies namely Tata Teleservices, Bharti Airtel, Vodafone and Idea from the respective auditors appointed by it and the government, if warranted, will take necessary action after examining the reports.
Sources, quoting the report, said that the telecom firm may have also violated the Trai and the DoT rules.
Alleging overstatement and fudging of revenues, the auditors have said that the company accounted twice, a revenue of Rs 617 crore in two different accounting years.

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Wife, son bare secrets of Osama

New York, Oct. 12: After years of hiding and social oztracisation, the wife and son of the Al Qaeda chief Osama bin Laden have come out with a no-holes barred book that reveals quite candidly the harsh life the family led under the gaze and zealous the terror kingpin.
According to the New York Post, Osama bin Laden's first wife, Ms Najwa, and fourth son, Mr Omar, reveal in the forthcoming book titled: Growing Up bin Laden about how on one night in Khartoum, Sudan, bin Laden decided to take his family — four wives and 14 children — on a camping trip. They said he drove into the desert, found an isolated spot, made his oldest sons dig ditches in the sand, long enough to fit each person, and told them to be gallant and not think about foxes or snakes, as he was of the view that there was a war coming between Muslims and the Western infidels, and this was a form of training for greater hardships.
“You must” he says. “Challenging trials are coming to us. Each child, including a few 1- and 2-year-olds, lies in a hollow. There is no water or food. As night falls, a child’s voice whispers in the darkness, ‘I’m cold’.”
He says: “Cover yourself with dirt or grass. You will be warm under what nature provides.”
Ms Najwa, doesn't like that idea, but, “I reminded myself that my husband knew much more about the big world than any of us. We were all pearls to my husband, and he wanted to protect us.”
Ms Najwa, who remains married to him, but now lives apart from him in an undisclosed Middle Eastern location, with the fourth son — of 11 children.
Ms Najwa says that “It’s a world where women are never allowed outside the house, 12-year-old daughters are married off to 30-year-old Al Qaeda fighters, pet dogs are used for target practice and the biggest household fight is over whether Islam allows refrigerators.”
She neither defends nor lashes out at Osama, as she says that terrorism is what he does for a living, and that all she needs to do is worry about keeping his house in order.
Source::DC

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Koirala’s daughter is deputy PM

Kathmandu, Oct. 12: The political complexities in Nepal are set to take a new turn with the new government of the Prime Minister, Mr Madhav Kumar Nepal, on Monday deciding to appoint the daughter of the former Premier, Mr Girija Prasad Koirala, as its second deputy prime minister.
Ms Sujata Koirala, 56, who was appointed foreign minister in June despite opposition from her father’s own party members, is now the second deputy prime minister and number three in the cabinet with the senior deputy prime minister being ethnic party leader, Mr Bijay Kumar Gachhadar, who also heads the physical planning and infrastructure ministry.
Monday’s announcement comes after a cold war between the Prime Minister and Mr Girija Prasad Koirala, who remains one of the most influential politicians in the country despite stepping down as the Premier in 2008.
Mr Koirala had reportedly been pressuring Mr Nepal to appoint his daughter as the deputy prime minister in a bid to keep the Koirala grip on Nepal politics alive.
The octogenarian leader still heads the Nepali Congress, the second largest party in Parliament after the Maoists, and has been resisting demands to relinquish the leadership to younger members.
Ms Sujata Koirala lost the election in 2008 though her father campaigned for her. She becomes the second woman to reach the level of deputy prime minister in Nepal.
The first was Shailaja Acharya, the niece of Mr Koirala, in 1998. Acharya died in June this year.
Ms Sujata Koirala’s rise in Nepal’s politics has given rise to comparisons with other daughters in South Asia who headed their nations, like Indira Gandhi, Benazir Bhutto and Sheikh Hasina.
The mother of two, however, says that her ascension is due to her own efforts and contribution.
Source::DC

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Taliban bomber kills 41 in suicide blast

Islamabad, Oct. 12: A suicide bomber killed 41 people in an attack on a Pakistani military convoy passing through a market on Monday as the Taliban claimed responsibility for a weekend raid on the Army’s headquarters.
Militant attacks have intensified over the past week as the Army prepares to launch a ground offensive on the Al Qaeda-linked fighters’ South Waziristan stronghold.
A suicide bomber on foot leapt at a military vehicle in Shangla district, near the Swat valley, the security officials said.
“The bomber hit one of three military vehicles that were passing through the busiest market in the district,” a top Shangla police official, Mr Khan Bahadur Khan, said by telephone.
The provincial information minister, Mr Mian Iftikhar Hussain, said 41 people had been killed, including 35 civilians and six soldiers, and 45 people were wounded.
The Army has largely driven the militants out of Swat and their leader, Baitullah Mehsud, was killed by a missile fired by a US drone attack in August.
The militants are hitting back.
The Army said the Pakistani Taliban commander Wali-ur-Rehman was behind Saturday’s attack on its headquarters in Rawalpindi.
Commandos stormed an office building near the headquarters and rescued 39 people taken hostage by militants after an attack at a main gate of the headquarters. Nine militants and three hostages were killed in the violence in Rawalpindi.
Source::DC

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