James Cameron and Simpson creator Matt Groening to speak at Lavasa Conference
World’s acclaimed filmmaker James Cameron who has directed path breaking movies like Avatar, Titanic and Terminator 2, and cult cartoon
character Simpson’s creator Matt Groening is all set to address The INK Conference, in association with TED, scheduled for Dec 9-12, 2010 at Lavasa Hill City
near Mumbai.
The INK Conference (INK stands for Innovation and Knowledge) is an annual conference that aims to fuel innovation and foster knowledge by bringing together
the world’s most fascinating thinkers and doers from a range of disciplines such as art, architecture, design, entertainment, entrepreneurship, sports and
technology.
The theme of this year’s INK is ‘Untold Stories’, and along with James and Matt the line-up of INK speakers include innovator Arvind Gupta, ‘New Scientist’
journalist and author of ‘The Edge of Physics’ Anil Ananthaswamy, Super 30 founder Anand Kumar, Lego innovator John Henry Harris, academic and author
Jennifer Aaker of Stanford, internationally-renowned product designer Philippe Starck, to name a few.
Lakshmi Pratury, co-host of TEDIndia, who also hosted TEDIndia 2009 in Mysore with Chris Anderson, Curator of TED Conference, said, “INK is unique because it
is not your regular conference with keynote speakers and an agenda. Our conference transcends different disciplines and topics. In short, there is a method
to the madness. We’re ensuring a cross pollination of ideas, where our highly curated audience and speakers have an opportunity to mingle,”
TEDIndia 2009 was attended by close to 1000 attendees from 46 different countries and celebrated the first-ever TED in Asia. This conference brought together
accomplished artists, architects, technologists, business people, musicians, dancers, scientists, and social entrepreneurs along with 100 young TEDIndia
Fellows.
India Vs Sri Lanka, 2nd Test begins tomorrow at Kanpur
After a high scoring draw at Ahmedabad, India and Sri Lanka have moved onto Green Park in Kanpur for the second Test which begins tomorrow. Batsmen on both sides have ran into form and the onus now lies on the bowlers to take 20 wickets atleast this time. Harbhajan Singh and Muttiah Muralitharan could be feeling most of the heat in this Kanpur Test after a below par results at Ahmedabad.
The Green Park in Kanpur in general has been a batting paradise but every now and then the Curator had to come up with pitches that are tailor made to suit India. A turning track this time could prove to be a problem for India as they are up against Sri Lanka which has three world class spinners in Murali, Herath and Mendis. The pitch is already talked of taking turn from the third day or so. What it would need is better pace and bounce compared to the one at Ahmedabad so that the batsmen have lesser time to adjust when they do not pick the variations off the bowlers’ hands.
Toss will play a crucial factor in this Test and it is important that the team batting first has to make most by piling up the big scores and control the game thereafter. Sri Lanka are going to make one change atleast with fast bowler Dammika Prasad breaking down with a hamstring injury. The replacements for him could be Dilhara Fernando or Nuwan Kulasekara. There is enough pressure on Sangakkara to bring in Ajantha Mendis and there are only two ways to go about it – Sri Lanka play with just one pacer in Chanaka Welegedara and have three spinners or the other way is to drop Rangana Herath and replace him with Mendis.
The homeside could remain unchanged because of the nature of the wicket. Amit Mishra could still be retained despite a rank bad show in the first Test. Ideally India should bank on a pace attack against Sri Lanka and have Sreesanth to add fire along with Zaheer and Ishant. The Sri Lankan batsmen have shown that they are not so good at handling the short pitch stuff and at the same time have proved that they can toy with the spinners even in their sleep.
Live Scores along with Ball by Ball Commentary of this 2nd Test at Kanpur can be followed at www.cricketmove.com.
? 2009, CricketMove.Com. All rights reserved. Partner with APakistanNews.com
India Vs Sri Lanka, 2nd Test begins tomorrow at Kanpur was first posted on November 24, 2009 at 12:02 am.
NSW Win Champions League T20 Crown
There was an air of excitement in the stands when Kieron Pollard approached the media with his team recovered from 68 for five in 10 scales. Clearly, Trinidad needed a special effort dazzling career maker.
And definitely seemed disturbing Pollard Doug Bollinger pulling in the stands and then hit off spinner Nathan Hauritz for two sixes that had the crowd on its feet. But in his attempt for third at 15 again, encouraged him to give Brett Lee skier is judged on the merits and to the delight of his teammates because they knew the value of the window.
The start was disastrous for the Trinity, as Brett Lee was on fire, clean Perkins Williams with the second ball of the innings and then take a blind man out of his bowling return Lendl Simmons, when the batter hit a powerful drive back.
In between, the leg-spinner Steve Smith got the better Adrian BARÁTH dangerous than hitting two of four and six before its cut end in an attempt to capture simple wicketkeeper Daniel Smith.
This led to the heroes Semifinal – Daren Ganga and Dwayne Bravo – together at 21 for three in 2.2 overs. Although Bravo left armer Doug Bollinger hauled by six huge stands in the long term, the player struck again later when Bravo played a boost stumps defense offside tried to stop Trinidad in a desperate situation at 45 for four in 5.3 overs.
Unperturbed, Daren Ganga six major success outside Steve Smith in the top 10 only to die in the next ball trying to cut.
Previously, the bet captain Daren Ganga put off NSW Blues.
The players responded well to his call in style, supported by brilliant fielding in a window, which again demonstrated the consistency of the curator YL Chandrasekhar to ensure a perfect wicket for the match T20 session, in-line.
The players dominated until Brett Lee, who came to the line at 83 for six in 11.2 overs, changed the course of the innings with a 49-run stand for the window session with Steve Smith.
Fast player Ravi Rampaul was the most impressive, with a three-stop tour.
NSW Win Champions League T20 Crown was first posted on October 24, 2009 at 11:55 am.
