Islamabad: $40m power project signed
Administration said that about 30% construction work has been completed.
Economic Affairs Division Secretary Abdul Wahid Rana and Chief Executive Project General (r) Zubair signed agreement papers. He said that Kuwait had donated grant worth $ 40 million in 2010 which is being handed over to the Neelum Jhelum Project.
Chairman WAPDA Shakil Durrani said that Neelum Jhelum Project was delayed being on fault lines, adding that cost of project has reached Rs 330 billion due to change in the design of the project.
Project Incharge Lieutenant General (r) Zubair said that 1000 MW project was delayed by 2.5 years.
Lights turned on at London’s Olympic Stadium
The lights have been officially switched on at London 2012′s Olympic Stadium. Prime Minister David Cameron pressed the switch on the 14 light towers, which rise more than 70 metres above the stadium and include a total of 532 individual lights.
Snow blanketed the infield of the stadium – which is due for completion next year – as dozens of local schoolchildren and stadium construction workers watched the switch on, along with London 2012 chairman Seb Coe and Boris Johnson, the Mayor of London.
Cameron praise everyone involved in the design and construction of the 537m stadium in Stratford. He told the specially-invited crowd of 400: It is being delivered on time and on budget thanks to British genius and many of the people here. He added: In 2012 a light will shine on all of our country as billions look on.
12th Digicon6 Awards: China’s ‘See Through’ wins big, India gets regional grand
Tokyo: TBS DigiCon6 announced the winners for 12th TBS DigiCon6 Awards in a grand ceremony held at Marunouchi Building Hall on November 19, 2010. The event
was indeed a historic one for Asian Animation industry where creativity and effort got recognition and appreciation at the centre stage.
Attended by the who’s who of the Asian animation industry, the Golden Digicon6 Award was won by China’s official entry See Through, made by Jokelate.
India’s Wilson Periera made by National Institute of Design’s young turk Dhaneesh Jameson, won Asian Regional Grand Prize.
China’s representative Yang Yu, who was present at the ceremony on behalf of Jokelate, commented, “I am sure this award means a lot to the creative effort
put together by Jokelate and he would be very excited to know about his victory. This award is not going to be an end to his work and efforts but will be a
motivation for him to work further in his life.”
This year TBS DigiCon6 received over 2,000 entries from Japan and other Asian
regions such as China, Hong Kong, India, Korea, Malaysia, Singapore, Philippines,
Taiwan and Thailand. TBS DigiCon6 Asia jury selected the awards winners for six
categories and announced them at the ceremony. TBS DigiCon6 Japan jury selected the awards winners for nine categories and announced them, too.
An elated Dhaneesh added, “I really feel proud and honored to have won this prize and to represent the country. The film was well received at Digicon6 than
any other festivals that I have been till now. I got the biggest compliment for my film from the well known Korean director Kwak Jae-yong and I was
speechless when he said he personally got my film subtitled in Korean and watched it over 5 times!”
TBS DigiCon6 was organized in 2000 by Tokyo Broadcasting System Inc, one of major television stations, to discover and support new talent. It has been
inviting digital contents creators, both professionals and amateurs, to submit their original works in the competition, and it is widely recognized for its
achievement.
Complete list of 12th TBS DigiCon6 Awards winners:
12th TBS DigiCon6 Awards Winners
Golden DigiCon6 Award – See Through – Jokelate CHINA
Silver DigiCon6 Award – Googuri Googuri – Yoshiko Misumi JAPAN
Bronze DigiCon6 Award – Kung Fu Bunny 3 – Counterattack- Li Zhiyong CHINA
Encouragement Awards:
Fumiko’s Confession – Hiroyasu Ishida JAPAN
Temple Rider – Radio Television Hong Kong / Simage Animation & Media Ltd. HONG KONG
CONTAINED – Henry Zhuang & Harry Zhuang SINGAPORE
12th TBS DigiCon6 JAPAN Regional Awards Winners
Grand Prize – Fumiko’s Confession – Hiroyasu Ishida JAPAN
Outstanding Performance Awards:
The Light of Life – Daihei Shibata JAPAN
Googuri Googuri – Yoshiko Misumi JAPAN
Encouragement Awards:
UTOPIAN – TOKUNAGA MARIKO JAPAN
Dreamer – Naohisa Ikuta JAPAN
SUNRISE Award – Rainy Holiday – Kaneko Osamu JAPAN
Adobe Systems Award – ab-rah KOHEI YOSHINO JAPAN
Hewlett-Packard & ATI Award – Amagoi Suzuki Ippei JAPAN
Mitsubishi Estate Award – Travel of Art – YU MASHIMO JAPAN
BS-TBS Award – Sepia Clock – Gaku Kinoshita JAPAN
Hole Makino Atsushi JAPAN
Prize for Effort:
Hole – Makino Atsushi JAPAN
Tokyo Teleport – Takeda Yuta JAPAN
a song like a fish – Taijin Takeuchi JAPAN
A GUM BOY – Masaki Okuda JAPAN
flesh color – masahiko Adachi JAPAN
Asian Regional Awards Grand Prizes
CHINA: Kung Fu Bunny 3 – Counterattack – Li Zhiyong
HONGKONG: Temple Rider – Radio Television Hong Kong / Simage Animation & Media Ltd.
INDIA: WILSON PERIERA – Dhaneesh Jameson
KOREA: Tom N Jerry – CHOI JIN SUNG
MALAYSIA: Bo Boi Boy – ANIMONSTA STUDIOS SDN. BHD.
PHILIPPINES: Mutya – Nelson “Blog” A. Caliguia, Jr.
SINGAPORE: Calypso Agency – Jose Andres Velasco
TAIWAN: CREATION – Hsuan-Ying Lu
THAILAND: Impassable – NATTAPORN YIAMCHAWEE
Amole Gupte to direct and produce Stanley Ka Dabba
After writing the sensitive Taare Zameen Par, Amole Gupte was next seen as an actor in Vishal Bhardwaj’s Kaminey. His role of the crooked politician ‘Bhope Bhau’ fetched him a lot of acclaim from the critics and the masses. Since then, while Amole has been acting in films such as the soon to be released Phas Gaye Re Obama, what’s keeping him busier is his home production and directorial venture Stanley Ka Dabba.
Speaking exclusively to Bollywood Hungama, Amole reveals, “Stanley Ka Dabba is an emotional drama about children’s tiffin boxes. It’s my next directorial venture which I have also written and is even the first film produced by me under my banner Amole Gupte Cinema Pvt. Ltd.”
Commenting on the cast of the film, Amole says, “Stanley Ka Dabba stars around 250 children most of who have been a part of the workshops conducted by us. Besides the children, the film also stars Divya Dutta, Divya Jagdale, Rajendranath Zutshi, Aditya Lakhia, Rahul Singh, Shiv Subramaniyam, Kadambari and myself.”
The film’s other crew members includes names such as Deepa Bhatia (Co-producer and Editor), Amol Gole (Director of Photography), Dwarak Warrier & Madhu Apsara (Sound Design), Nyla Masood (Costumes) and Coleen Khan (Styling). Besides these names the lyrics have been penned by Amole Gupte himself while the music has been composed by a new and upcoming talent who Amole wishes to introduce at a later stage.
The film is currently in its edit stage and Amole is looking at releasing the film during summer vacations next year.
Russian company announces to launch space hotel
A Russian company has announced plans to launch a comfortable space hotel for tourists who up to now have shared cramped accommodation with astronauts.
The company, Orbital Technologies plans to launch the first module of the hotel in 2015-16, its chief executive Sergei Kostenko told at a presentation. A cosy fit, the first module will measure just 20 cubic metres (706 cubic feet) and have four cabins, designed for up to seven passengers, who would go into orbit using the Soyuz shuttle, Kostenko said.
Up to now space tourists, who have included the Canadian founder of the Cirque du Soleil, Guy Laliberte, have squeezed into the International Space Station (ISS) along with cosmonauts and animal life including fruit flies.
The new hotel will offer more comforts than the ISS, Kostenko said. Our planned module inside will not remind you of the ISS. A hotel should be comfortable inside, and it will be possible to look at the Earth through large portholes, Kostenko said, calling it a cosmic hotel. The space hotel will be aimed at wealthy individuals and people working for private companies who want to do research in space, Kostenko said.
The space tourism program was halted earlier this year as the crew numbers on the ISS increased, leaving no room for extra passengers. Kostenko said that the project has found Russian and American investors, and we are talking about hundreds of millions of dollars, without elaborating. At the moment, the project is already at the design stage, he said.
The space hotel would be built by Russian spacecraft manufacturer Energia, the company’s website said. It would follow the same orbit as the ISS.
Kostenko told that a number of agreements on partnership have already been signed with Energia and the Russian space agency.
The company’s website cites the deputy head of Russian space agency Roskosmos, Vitaly Davydov, as saying that the suggested project is extremely interesting.
Russian company announces to launch space hotel
A Russian company has announced plans to launch a comfortable space hotel for tourists who up to now have shared cramped accommodation with astronauts.
The company, Orbital Technologies plans to launch the first module of the hotel in 2015-16, its chief executive Sergei Kostenko told at a presentation. A cosy fit, the first module will measure just 20 cubic metres (706 cubic feet) and have four cabins, designed for up to seven passengers, who would go into orbit using the Soyuz shuttle, Kostenko said.
Up to now space tourists, who have included the Canadian founder of the Cirque du Soleil, Guy Laliberte, have squeezed into the International Space Station (ISS) along with cosmonauts and animal life including fruit flies.
The new hotel will offer more comforts than the ISS, Kostenko said. Our planned module inside will not remind you of the ISS. A hotel should be comfortable inside, and it will be possible to look at the Earth through large portholes, Kostenko said, calling it a cosmic hotel. The space hotel will be aimed at wealthy individuals and people working for private companies who want to do research in space, Kostenko said.
The space tourism program was halted earlier this year as the crew numbers on the ISS increased, leaving no room for extra passengers. Kostenko said that the project has found Russian and American investors, and we are talking about hundreds of millions of dollars, without elaborating. At the moment, the project is already at the design stage, he said.
The space hotel would be built by Russian spacecraft manufacturer Energia, the company’s website said. It would follow the same orbit as the ISS.
Kostenko told that a number of agreements on partnership have already been signed with Energia and the Russian space agency.
The company’s website cites the deputy head of Russian space agency Roskosmos, Vitaly Davydov, as saying that the suggested project is extremely interesting.
Lakme Fashion Week
Anam bold and beautiful Sherawat Mallika ongoing Fashion Week with a week on Friday. However, it was Bollywood beauty does not show stopper, but attended the event as special guests from the fashion designer Anita Dongre. While explaining the reason for not choosing Sherawat stopper also found, the designer was quoted “I called her just a friend to attend the exhibition. In fact, showstoppers my two Rajasthan dancers who came all the way from Jaipur and did a wonderful job.
“The artist Faten pinging Dongre` s summer dress collection. “She was dressed in one of my design, and was wearing a dress cotton yellow organic federate in the summer of my 2011 Group “Dongre said after the presentation.
In the collection and promoted culture in Rajasthan popular. Intensive use of embroidery on the cuffs, necklines and yokes in gold and silver witch seen.
“It was a source of inspiration Rajasthan, I enjoyed designing it, and everyone was wearing clothes bandni which was inspired by a new state of Rajasthan,” said Dongre. He said, “I really want to promote folk art.
Rajasthani dancers were my way of saying that India should be a treasure popular with artists, and I think from now on in every show, and I’m going to get popular artists from all over the country. I will put them on the ramp and I think they deserve to be recognized, “he said Dongre. And other celebrities who came to express their joy Dongre included Sunidhi Chauhan, Isha Koppikar, Diana Hayden, Dipannita Sharma, Gurinder Chadha, Tisca Chopra and Vidya Malvade.
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Mani Ratnam to be honoured at the 67th Venice International Film Festival
Veteran filmmaker Mani Ratnam is all set to be bestowed with the Jaeger-LeCoultre ‘Glory to the Filmmaker’ award at the 67th Venice International Film Festival. In recent years, the award has gone to other major world filmmakers such as Takeshi Kitano, Abbas Kiarostami, Agnes Varda, and Sylvester Stallone. This year however, Swiss watch manufacturer Jaeger-LeCoultre celebrates its six years of partnership with the Venice International Film Festival by announcing Jaeger-LeCoultre ‘Glory to the Filmmaker’ award.
Speaking on why they chose Mani Ratnam for this honour, Marco Mueller, Venice Film Festival director says, “Mani Ratnam used to initially make movies only in his native tongue, Tamil, but has now been one of a handful of filmmakers to successfully handle the transition to the All-India market. One of the great innovators in contemporary Indian cinema, he helped introduce the auteur concept to contemporary Bollywood. His movies display precision and poise, and have always been removed from the bombast and bluster of mass-produced regional cinema. The lavish musical numbers in his films, some of the best-tailored in Mumbai and Madras in recent years, have influenced the style of many others (as well as the design of commercials and music videos). Ratnam’s most celebrated films have become part of the cinematic imagination of the sub-continent.”
On the occasion of the award ceremony, the Mostra will present the festival premiere of Mani Ratnam’s much-anticipated forthcoming film Raavan, attended by the director and by its cast and crew including Abhishek Bachchan, Aishwarya Rai Bachchan, Vikram, and music maestro A.R. Rahman. Raavan is produced by Madras Talkies in association with Reliance Big Pictures and distributed internationally by Reliance Big Pictures and IM Global.
“Raavan will enchant audiences with its stirring drama and entrancing musical sequences,” says Marco Mueller. “We are proud to be hosting the festival premiere of this wonderful film, which will be presented at the 2010 Mostra in both the Hindi and the Tamil versions.”
As in previous editions, together with the award the director will be presented with a Reverso Jaeger-LeCoultre watch, a one-of-a-kind model with a commemorative engraving.
The Brandon Graham | Michigan | NFL Draft 2010
Brandon Graham was born in 1976 in Tokyo, Japan is a Japanese-American cartoonist who likes fried mushrooms. He moved to New York City, where he was working with NBM Publishing, and was one of the founders of the comics collective Meathaus. His book escalators was published by Alternative Comics in January 2005 when he came back to Seattle.
The Eagles told him that he will play defensive end and will probably learn more when he goes to Philly today to meet with officials and local media. By Graham-end, was all he could say, “Let’s go” and “I’m ready for you, Coach.”
The search for hybrid defensive purposes, may make a transition to Linebacker in the professional requires some guesswork. But it also adds to the value of players like Brandon Graham of Michigan, one of the top-rated defensive ends. He loves to compete, he runs the football. And the most important thing about the kid, he loves football. “I see myself as the next. He’s 6-1, he is small, many people do not think he could do it, although I thought the Philadelphia Eagles Earl Thomas was stolen away from the Dallas Cowboys after moving up in the draft.
The call from the Eagles the lead, having passed the phone from general manager to scout for his position every coach to congratulate him was enough to clinch agreement. These are the specific phrases Lloyd Carr and Rich Rodriguez heard every day in Michigan, those who gave Graham the relentless power and explosive ability to reach this point.
