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Sheikh Ahmed bin Zayed al-Nahyan, who directed ADIA’s recent acquisition of 15pc of Gatwick Airport, was found four days after his glider aircraft went missing . He was 40.
31.03.10 / News / Author: timepasss / Comments: (0)
A spiralling sculpture designed by Turner Prize-winning artist Anish Kapoor has been chosen as the monument to mark the London 2012 Olympic Games.
The 115m tall piece, named the ArcelorMittal Orbit, will be placed in the Olympic Park and will be 22m higher than New York’s Statue of Liberty.
The £19.1m design incorporates the five Olympic rings and will offer visitors panoramic views of London.
London Mayor Boris Johnson revealed plans for the tower on Wednesday.
“I am deeply honoured to be invited to undertake this challenging commission,” Kapoor said.
“I am particularly attracted to it because of the opportunity to involve members of the public in a particularly close and personal way. It is the commission of a lifetime.”
The artist will work with leading structural designer, Cecil Balmond of engineering firm Arup.
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 ArcelorMittal Orbit will be built near the Olympic stadium
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Organisers said Balmond had worked on “some of the greatest contemporary buildings in the world”, including the CCTV building in Beijing, as well as numerous Serpentine Gallery pavilion commissions.
”Long after the Games are over, our aim is to have a stunning spectacle in east London that will be recognised around the world,” Mr Johnson said.
“Anish Kapoor’s inspired art work will truly encapsulate the energy and spirit of London during the Games and, as such, will become the perfect iconic cultural legacy.”
Steel company ArcelorMittal – owned by steel magnate Lakshmi Mittal – will fund up to £16m of the project with £3.1m provided by the London Development Agency.
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31.03.10 / Cricket / Author: timepasss / Comments: (0)
31.03.10 / Cricket / Author: timepasss / Comments: (0)
Opting to bat,
Bangalore rode on a 49-ball 52 from South African Jacques Kallis to post a
competitive 161 for four, but the hosts overhauled the target with one over to
spare at the floodlit M Chidambaram Stadium.
Opener Vijay, who
studded his innings with six sixes and four fours, gave Chennai the required
momentum in the beginning, while Raina completed the task with an unbeaten
35-ball 44, which he made with the help of four fours and a
six.
Chasing the 162-run target, Chennai were off to a good start
with the openers Vijay and Matthew Hayden raising 61 runs before a Anil Kumble
googly trapped the Australian in the seventh over.
Hayden could
contribute only 12 before hosts suffered their first loss, but it was Vijay who
attacked the Bangalore bowlers from the very beginning and his aggression had
the Bangalore bowlers clueless.
Englishman Kevin Pietersen claimed
Vijay just after the strategic break in the 11th over but by then the
right-hander had set the tone for his team.
Skipper Mahendra Singh
Dhoni (14) started well but failed to make it big and fell to South African
speedster Dale Steyn in the 16th over. The hosts suffered another loss in the
very next over with all-rounder Kallis uprooting the stumps of Albie Morkel
(1).
But Raina held his nerve to clinch the issue in company of C
Ganapathy with one over to spare.
For Bangalore, Steyn took one
wicket for 20 runs, while Kumble scalped one for 16.
Earlier, Kallis
helped Bangalore post the 162-run target. Kallis, who struck seven fours during
his innings, got good support from Virat Kohli (34 off 24) as the duo added 63
runs for the third wicket before the latter fell to Chennai spinner Shadab
Jakati in the 16th over.
Kohli cracked three fours and a huge six
during his stay in the middle.
Pietersen (32 not out off 14 balls)
and Australian Cameron White (21 not out off 13 balls) — both playing their
first IPL 3 matches — were the other main contributors.
Bangalore
suffered an early loss in the third over when opener Manish Pandey (5) fell prey
to paceman Thilan Thushara.
Despite the early blow, the visitors
maintained a good run rate thanks to a quick 42-run second-wicket partnership
between Kallis and Robin Uthappa, who made 21 off just 13 balls with the help of
two sixes and a four.
Jakati struck in the seventh over for his first
wicket removing a dangerous looking Uthappa, following which Kohli paired up
with Kallis.
Kallis and Kohli played sensible cricket finding the
gaps for one and twos while hitting the loose deliveries for
boundaries.
After the fall of Kallis and Kohli, Englishman Kevin
Pietersen and Cameron White — both playing their first IPL 3 matches — carried
the tempo till the end of the innings. Both hit two fours and a six in their
brief stay at the crease.
For Chennai, Jakati took two wickets giving
away 17 runs while Thushara scalped one for 30.
31.03.10 / Bollywood / Author: timepasss / Comments: (0)
While the fate of the kissing scene between Rahul Bose and Arjun Mathur in Onir’s film Omar hangs in balance, Bengali filmmaker Sudipto
Chattopadhyaya’s gay kiss in Pankh featuring Maradona Rebello and Amit Purohit has
been passed by the censors, untouched.
This would be the first time Hindi audiences will see two men kissing on screen. Madhur Bhandarkar had earlier deleted a male kiss featuring Samir Soni before submitting
his film Fashion to the censors.
Not only that, a sequence where Maradona Rebello goes fully naked before his screen-mother Lilette Dubey has also been passed by the lately-liberalized censor board, albeit with the 19-year old actor’s butt blurred.
The director Sudipto Chattopadhyaya has no quibble with Vinayak Azad Regional Officer of the censor board.
Says Sudipto emphatically, “In fact Vinayak Azad has been very supportive. Its individual members of the jury who raised questions about the language and content. Some words from the dialogues had to be beeped out. One lady in Burqa behaved as though the moral health of the nation would be destroyed by the deeds of my characters. Such hypocrisy has to stop.”
Director Sudipto Chattopadhyaya is extremely miffed at the lurid bent given to Pankh. “The so-called male kissing sequence is actually a molestation scene. The young shocked disgusted hero Maradona is force-kissed by a drunken friend who assumes Maradona is gay. The sequence is not titillating or erotic but filled with Maradona’s revulsion. But because the kiss came to light after Article 377 was repealed it was conveniently misconstrued.”
The nude sequence will qualify as the boldest ever in an Indian film. It comes at a time when the boy-hero must prove to his domineering mother that he is, after all, a man.
Says the director, “I’ve never spoken about this sequence before because the content is bound to be projected out of context. It’s actually the climactic moment when the hero Jerry (Maradona Rebello) can no longer bear with his mother’s taunts about his manhood. Jerry takes off his trousers to show his mother that he has a d…k like any man. It’s shocking moment. We shot Maradona from the back. But he was fully nude in front of Lilette Dubey.”
The censorial boldness notwithstanding one wonders how Indian audiences would react to a film that subverts the traditional mother-child relationship and takes it kicking
and screaming into the zone of sexual politics.
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