Cricket's Indian Premier League has struck a deal with Google to stream its matches live on YouTube in a move that could revolutionise the way sport is broadcast.

The usually staid sport of cricket has been transformed since the advent of the Twenty20 format and the big-money IPL tournament, which is now in its third year. And its latest innovation could have global ramifications for the way people watch sport.

Last year one of England's football World Cup qualifiers was screened exclusively on the internet, with limited success, but the IPL deal goes much further. The tournament will become the first sporting event to be shown live globally on a dedicated YouTube channel.

Viewers will be able to choose their own camera angles, freeze and fast forward footage, log into chat rooms to discuss the action as it unfolds and look at player and match statistics. Replays of games will also be available through an archive feature.

In countries where the IPL has a deal with a broadcaster there will be a slight delay on the internet feed, but in the UK the games will be broadcast in real time. Internet viewers will also have control over how they watch the game as they can choose the feed they watch, some of which are exclusive to the YouTube channel.

IPL commissioner Lalit Modi told the Daily Telegraph: "This changes the world of sports broadcasting. Google have never done this before. This is a first for the whole of sport.

"This will be a true experience for the fan who will be able to control how and when they watch the action... if you fancy watching from the stump cam or from behind the bowlers arm then so be it because 20 different feeds will be available. The viewer will have the choice and not the television companies.

He added that the deal would give fans more freedom. "You will be able to get up in the morning and, if you have an internet connection, watch the action at a time of your choosing and not have to wait for a broadcaster to repeat it."

The two-year deal will see Google and the IPL share sponorship and advertising revenue. The tournament begins in March and runs until April.

The deal with the IPL in India is in contrast to the search engine's troubles in another emerging market, China, where Google has threatened to quit the country because of hacking attempts and curbs on free speech.

NEW DELHI: The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) on Wednesday filed chargesheets against former Congress MP Sajjan Kumar and others in two
separate cases related to the 1984 anti-Sikh riots.

Two chargesheets were filed before Chief Metropolitan Magistrate Kaveri Baweja at the Tis Hazari Court here. This is the first time the CBI has chargesheeted Sajjan Kumar.

The first chargesheet pertains to the killing of five people in the Delhi Cantonment area. The second chargesheet relates to the death of many people in riots in Sultanpuri. The CBI also filed a closure report in a case of riots in Mangolpuri area.

The investigating agency chargesheeted Sajjan Kumar and others under various sections of the Indian Penal Code (IPC), including 302 (murder), 153-A (rioting) and 120-B (criminal conspiracy).

After the chargesheet was filed, the court transferred all the cases to Additional Chief Metropolitan Magistrate Lokesh Kumar, Karkardooma courts, and listed the case for hearing Jan 18.

Hearing of all cases under trial related to the anti-Sikh riots are being held in the Karkadooma courts.

The CBI filed the chargesheets after Delhi Lt. Governor Tejendra Khanna gave it the go-ahead Dec 31 to prosecute Sajjan Kumar in four cases of murder and communal rioting cases related to the 1984 anti-Sikh carnage.

Two cases were registered in the Sultanpuri police station and one each was registered in Mangolpuri and Delhi Cantonment police stations.

Former parliamentarian Sajjan Kumar is accused of instigating mobs that went on the rampage, killing over 3.000 Sikhs across Delhi in 1984 followoing the assassination of then prime minister Indira Gandhi.

The sanction was required as Kumar is a former MP and has been charged under Section 153-A of the IPC (spreading enmity between two communities).

P.S - Simply should be shoot to death, Son of a gun. And took them more then 25 yrs.. Pathetic

(CBS)  Chances are, in the past year, you read a blog about a bank bailout, a balloon boy and a beer summit.

And you may have been inundated with tweets about mini-Madoffs, Climategate and Octomom.

Indeed, 2009, like every other year, spawned a vocabulary torn from the headlines: "inaugurate," "H1N1" and "rogue" all caused gridlock in Web traffic. Depending on which dictionary you trust, either "admonish" (Merriam-Webster) or "unfriend" (New Oxford American) was anointed 2009's word of the year.

But what was the top word of the past decade?

"Google" (the verb) takes the prize, according to the American Dialect Society, which made the declaration Friday evening in Baltimore.

"It's hard to imagine life before we were Googling," American Dialect Society executive councilmember Ben Zimmer tells CBSNews.com.

In the end, "Google" beat out five formidable finalists for Word of the Decade: "9/11," "green," "blog," "text" and "war on terror." (The ADS deemed "tweet" top word for 2009.)

Zimmer notes that way back in 2002 (when "weapons of mass destruction" was crowned Word of the Year), "Google" was voted most useful and "blog" most likely to succeed.

While many of the decade's most popular words were products of the Web, most were spawned by politics and media - and sometimes both.

Take, for example, the recently ingrained terms "red states" and "blue states." The practice of color coding political parties dates back more than a century, but only in the past decade did the color red come to symbolize Republican and blue Democrat, says Zimmer, who's day job is executive producer of Visual Thesaurus.

Beginning with the 1976 presidential election, TV networks assigned the color blue to the incumbent party (at the time, the GOP) and red to the challenger. That model continued until 2008, when the Democrats (at the time, the challenger) were supposed to be switched to red. However, thanks to the likes of Tim Russert and other TV analysts who had color-coded maps in the 2000 and 2004 elections, the blue/red distinction had become so synonymous with Democrat/Republican, that the colors stuck.

"It just became unavoidable," Zimmer says. "That coincidence of how the map was colored had a big linguistic effect on how we divide the country."

The intersection of politics and news gave birth to other notable words. The disputed election of George W. Bush, for instance, made "chad" the American Dialect Society's word of the year in 2000.

Not surprisingly, much of the lingering lexicon from the Bush era revolves around war - "axis of evil," "9/11," "WMD," "ground zero" and "IED" are all ingrained in our vocabulary.

As for Barack Obama's imprint on language, history will tell. For all of Mr. Obama's eloquence, the president has yet to produce any catch phrases, buzz words or memorable expressions.

The one exception?

"Wee'd wee'd up," says Zimmer, who nominated the term, along with 31 others, as 2009's word of the year. ("There is something about August going into September where everybody in Washington gets all wee-weed up," the president said of his agitated detractors last summer.)

Politics also gave a boost to the suffix "-er" in the last decade. For example: "flip-flopper" (coined during the 2004 election), "birther" (someone who doubts Mr. Obama was born in the U.S.), and "deather" (one who subscribes to Sarah Palin's "death panel" claim).

While Democrats clung to sterile terms like "public option," Zimmer says Republicans were far more effective at leveraging the "-er" suffix to their advantage - even if it was in an alarmist or conspiratorial fashion.

While "-er" ruled the ends of words, "un-" was the decade's dominant prefix. Sites like Facebook forced the word into our cyber consciousness as a quick, often cold, way of undoing an action - or an online relationship. "Unfriend," "unfollow" and "unfavorite" are examples.

Zimmer says "un-" has supplanted "de-" as the preeminent reversative prefix. Similar to the Twitter-spawned interjection "fail," the negative prefix serves as a metaphor for the decade.

"It extends into social relations," he says. "It has big social ramifications because the whole concept of friendship is changing."

Of course, for every shiny new word that became a permanent dictionary addition, there was one that faded into obscurity. Called "stunt words" by lexicographers, some words just don't stand the test of time. These fleeting words include "muggle" (a word popularized in 2000 from Harry Potter, meaning a mundane, unimaginative person) and "plutoed" (2006's word meaning to be demoted or devalued, like the erstwhile planet). Maybe the most forgettable word of the year in American Dialect Society history: 1990's "bushlips."

Which brings up a final linguistic quandary: what do we call the first decade of this century? Even now, there is no consensus. The aughts? The naughties? The zeroes? The oh's? The double oh's? As Rebecca Mead of the New Yorker points out, the de facto choice - the aughts - is actually a corruption of the word "naught," meaning nothing or zero.

While the "aughts" is uninspiring, the "naughties" has more sex appeal. In fact, at the dawn of the decade, there was already a grassroots campaign in support of the "naughties." Ten years later, the name seems apt. After all, in a decade marked by "axis of evil," "mini-Madoffs" and "sexting," naughtiness prevailed.


Some Words That Shaped the 00's:

Here is a list of some notable words of the decade, according to the American Dialect Society. The ADS's annual Word of the Year vote includes several sub-categories - most outrageous, most useful, most likely to succeed, least likely to succeed, most euphemistic, etc. The first words listed were crowned Word of the Year.

2000:
Chad; Courtesy call; Civil union; Nader traitor

2001:
9/11; Shuicide bomber; Ground zero; Misunderestimate

2002:
WMD; Google (verb); Blog; Amber alert; Regime change

2003:
Metrosexual; Embed; SARS; Pre-emptive self defense

2004:
Red state, blue state, purple state; Flip-flopper; Phish; krunked

2005:
Truthiness; Katrina; Podcast; Sudoku

2006:
Plutoed; Macaca; YouTube; Lactard; waterboarding

2007:
Subprime; Facebook; Green- (prefix); Truther; Toe tapper

2008:
Bailout; Barack Obama; Change; maverick; Shovel ready; TWD (texting while driving); Bromance; Terrorist fist jab

2009:
Tweet; -er (suffix); Fail; Public option; H1N1; Death panel; Sexting

A man who was stabbed to death in a London suburb while confronting two muggers who were running away after snatching a woman's handbag has been described as a hero by police.

Sukhwinder Singh, 31, who has one child, chased the thieves after witnessing the attack on a 28-year-old woman near Barking station in east London. After pursuing the two men along several residential streets, Singh caught up with the pair and a fight broke out, during which he was fatally wounded.

Singh, a builder, was taken to the Royal London hospital, where he later died. Police said the dead man was a hero who had lost his life bravely trying to prevent more crime being committed in his community.

The woman was walking home at about 6.40pm yesterday when the attackers struck from behind and stole her bag. Singh, an Indian national who has lived in London for 10 years and is believed to have been staying with cousins in Barking, intervened despite not knowing the victim.

Tributes were paid to a "brave" and "special" man who would help anybody. Nirmal Singh Gill, who represents the Longbridge ward on Barking and Dagenham council, said he knew Singh by his nickname, "Bittu".

"He was a very nice young man. He used to go the Gurdwara every evening and was always helping. He was a smart guy who didn't drink at all and was a very clean-living person. He would help anybody so it doesn't surprise me that he was trying to help a lady.

"He didn't deserve this – nobody deserves it – but he was a special young man. He was very well known in the Sikh community and everyone is very shocked. It's a very big loss to everyone, both here and in India."

Detective Inspector John Sandlin said: "This is a tragic death of a man who was killed for attempting to stop others committing crime, and our thoughts are with Sukhwinder's family. However, I would also to reassure the wider community that tragic events such as these are very rare.

"What Mr Singh did was obviously very brave but I would not encourage that members of the public do that. What I would encourage the public to do is contact us immediately."

Mohammad Jubran, 22, who lives on the road where the attack happened, said: "I was just coming back from the gym and, when I got home, my mum said she heard someone screaming, calling out: 'Don't let them run'.

"It's terrible. I've been living here for 16 years and it's the first time I have heard someone has been murdered. It makes you more scared about going outside at night. It was a brave thing he did."

A 36-year-old resident, who asked not to be named, said the roads near the station were well lit at night, but added: "There are quite a lot of robberies because it's quite secluded and there is a bridge by the station so people can run to the other side quickly. But I have never heard of anything like this. It's a shock – I hope they catch whoever did it."

The attack comes weeks after Home Office figures indicated that 375,000 people were mugged in England and Wales last year – the equivalent of one every 90 seconds.

Tonight, officers appealed for witnesses as police searched the area for the murder weapon or the handbag, which may have been thrown away by the muggers. Drivers passing through the area were stopped and interviewed as detectives attempted to discover in which direction the muggers fled. They are described as black men aged in their 20s or 30s and 5ft 7in to 6ft tall.

Sandlin added: "My officers are also keen to hear from anybody who witnessed the initial robbery, the actual altercation that led to the stabbing. I am appealing for anyone that knows who committed this crime, or who has any information about those who committed this crime, to do the right thing and come forward.

"It is also possible that the suspects may have abandoned the bag stolen, and I appeal to anyone who may find a brown leather shoulder bag to contact police."

A postmortem examination was due to take place at Queen's hospital, Romford, yesterday afternoon. Police have declined to say which part of the body Singh was stabbed in or how many wounds he received.

The charity Witness Confident reported recently that nine out of 10 muggers escaped justice last year, and warned that the public were so disillusioned with the police and criminal justice system that only 153,750 of the crimes estimated to have taken place – about 40% – were reported.

East London remains a "hotspot" for knife crime, with weapon carrying a problem, particularly among gang members. Days before Christmas an 18-year-old was found lying in a Bow street after being attacked with a knife. Salum Kombo died after suffering multiple stab wounds in an attack just yards from his home.

The government recently called for tougher sentences for knife crime, while last week a court heard how a man carried out a casual knife-point mugging in the hope he would be deported back to his war-torn African homeland because he hated life in Britain.

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In Short: Girl jumped of the cruise and commit suicide during the Holidays in bahamas. Then the parents in India recieved an email detailing the abuse she is being through. More Info follows...

The police in Gurgaon on Sunday lodged an FIR against a doctor and his family for the death of their daughter-in-law who jumped to her death from a cruise ship in the Bahamas after allegedly being beaten by her husband for dowry.


Gurgaon civil surgeon S S Dalal, his wife Nirmala, his son Ankit, and daughter Anika have been booked for dowry harassment, assault and criminal breach of trust, said Deputy Commissioner of Police (West) Rakesh Arya.


Suresh Chhikara has alleged in his police complaint that his daughter Neha, who married in October 2008, was harassed and beaten by her husband Ankit Dalal for not bringing enough dowry.


Chhikara alleged that Neha jumped off the deck of an American luxury cruise ship in the Bahamas Sea on December 31 after she was severely beaten by Ankit. Neha’s body is yet to be recovered.


The DCP said the police would book Ankit for dowry death when Neha’s death is confirmed.


Neha's brother Anuj alleged that she had sent an e-mail from the ship in which she wrote about her harassment. “Ankit has been beating me every day on the ship. I have lost the strength to live," he said, quoting her e-mail.


Anuj alleged that police took three days to lodge an FIR because S S Dalal was a friend of Haryana Director General of Police Ranjiv Singh Dalal. No arrest has been in the case yet.

(CNN) -- It happens only once in a blue moon -- and scientists say a blue moon is exactly what we'll see in the skies this New Year's Eve.

Don't expect an azure glow over our lunar satellite, however. The term "blue moon" simply refers to the second full moon in a calendar month, something that hasn't happened on a New Year's Eve for nearly 20 years, NASA says.

"December 1990 ended with a blue moon, and many New Year's Eve parties were themed by the event," said Professor Philip Hiscock of the department of folklore at Memorial University of Newfoundland, in Canada. "It was a lot of fun."

Most months have just one full moon, because the 29.5-day cycle of the moon matches up pretty well with the length of calendar months. Occasionally, there will be two full moons in a month, something that happens about every 2½ years, NASA says.

But a blue moon on December 31 is rare.

Elvis Presley crooned about it when he sang the old Rodgers and Hart song "Blue Moon," in which he stood alone without a dream in his heart or a love of his own.

He struck a more hopeful tone in another tune, singing about his love returning to his arms "When My Blue Moon Turns to Gold Again." He also covered Bill Monroe's bluegrass classic, "Blue Moon of Kentucky."

It is possible for the moon to have a cerulean hue, NASA says, but that's sometimes caused by fine dirt circulating in the Earth's atmosphere or the dark blue tone of the sky.

A blue moon hasn't always meant the second full moon in a month. Hundreds of years ago, it simply meant "never" or "absurd," Hiscock said.

"The phrase 'blue moon' has been around a long time, well over 400 years, but during that time its meaning has shifted," he said. "I have counted six different meanings which have been carried by the term, and at least four of them are still current today. That makes discussion of the term a little complicated."

When the Indonesian volcano Krakatoa erupted in 1883, it put so much dust in the atmosphere that the moon actually appeared blue -- an event so unusual that the term "once in a blue moon" was coined, according to NASA's National Space Science Data Center. The effect lasted for almost two years, Hiscock said.

Full moons used to have 12 names, one for each month, such as "harvest moon," NASA said. The term "blue moon" referred to the 13th full moon in a year.

The term acquired its current meaning in the 1940s, after the Farmer's Almanac of Maine offered an astronomical definition of a blue moon "so convoluted that even professional astronomers struggled to understand it," NASA wrote on its Web site.

A writer at Sky and Telescope magazine in the late 1940s tried to explain the almanac's definition by saying it referred to the second full moon in a month.

"That was not correct, but at least it could be understood," NASA wrote. "And thus the modern blue moon was born."

Ok they working on a new theory called a string theory which states that the universe has 11 demenision
Its a very innovating Idea.. Basically this will define what is the most fundamental form for any kind of system (Newtonian motion, Electromegnatic Motion .. ETC )

This is a very intense talk n seems like BS at first, but hold your thought till the second half of the Video ...

Link:
http://www.ted.com/talks/brian_greene_on_string_theory.html

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