Friday, April 16, 2010
நான் கமல் ரசிகன் கிரிக்கெட் வீரர் விஜய்
சென்னை சூப்பர் கிங்ஸ் வீரர் விஜய், செய்தியாளர்களுக்கு பேட்டி அளித்துள்ளார்.
அப்பேட்டியில், ’’மேத்யூ ஹைடன் என்னை அடிக்கடி உற்சாகப்படுத்துவார். இதேபோல மைக் ஹஸ்சியும் ஆலோசனை வழங்குவார்.
எனக்கு பிடித்த பவுலர்கள் மெக்ராத், அம்புரோஸ். இருவரது பந்து வீச்சையும் எதிர்கொள்ள விரும்புகிறேன். ஆனால் துரதிருஷ்டவசமாக இருவரும் ஓய்வு பெற்றுவிட்டனர்.
அப்பேட்டியில், ’’மேத்யூ ஹைடன் என்னை அடிக்கடி உற்சாகப்படுத்துவார். இதேபோல மைக் ஹஸ்சியும் ஆலோசனை வழங்குவார்.
எனக்கு பிடித்த பவுலர்கள் மெக்ராத், அம்புரோஸ். இருவரது பந்து வீச்சையும் எதிர்கொள்ள விரும்புகிறேன். ஆனால் துரதிருஷ்டவசமாக இருவரும் ஓய்வு பெற்றுவிட்டனர்.
நடிகர் கமலஹாசன் எனக்கு பிடித்தமானவர். இளம் வயதில் அவரை சந்தித்து ஆட்டோகிராப் வாங்க வேண்டும் என்பதில் உண்மையிலேயே ஆர்வமாக இருந்தேன்.
நான் அடிக்கடி சினிமா பார்ப்பது கிடையாது. ஆனால் இளம் வயதில் கமலஹாசன் படங்களை பார்க்காமல் இருந்தது கிடையாது’’என்று கூறியுள்ளார்.
American owners to sell Liverpool
American owners to sell Liverpool :
(CNN) -- George Gillett Jr and Tom Hicks, the American billionaire owners of English Premier League side The duo, who bought the club for $338 million in 2007, confirmed that Barclays Capital will advise on the sale process after "numerous expressions of interest from third parties."
Hicks and Gillett's statement read: "Owning Liverpool ... over these past three years has been a rewarding and exciting experience for us and our families.
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"Having grown the club this far we have now decided together to look to sell the club to owners committed to take the club through its next level of growth and development."
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In June 2009, the public accounts of Kop Football (Holdings) Limited -- the company which owns
The financial report also showed that $54 million of interest payments had been required to service this debt during the financial year that ended in July 2008.
Despite this, Gillett and Hicks added there had been a "significant improvement in the financial performance of the club" during their time in charge.
The pair stated that revenues had increased by 55 percent since 2007, while operating profits (before player trading and exceptions) were up by 60 percent.
The statement added the side, who are one of the most successful and widely supported clubs in world football, will continue to progress the "well-advanced plans" for a new, state-of-the-art stadium near to their current home of Anfield.
Former player and soccer commentator Mark Lawrenson, who won the European Cup with
"They have done nothing for [
"[The] news of the sale means it's a great day ... but it's a long, long [path] to get the club back to the position they used to be in."
Lawrenson added there were key priorities for whoever may come in to buy the side: "We want someone who will get the club at the right price and build the new stadium -- they need to bring in new players as well. As long as they come in and deliver on their promises unlike the Americans."
James McKenna, head of
"The news [Gillett and Hicks] are looking to sell the club is something all fans will welcome."
Five Things to Know About New York’s New Housewife
There’s a new Housewife in town! As she joins the cast of The Real Housewives of New York City, Sonja Morgan spoke to PEOPLE about her decision to step into the reality-TV spotlight, early connections with her costars and her beauty secrets (Botox and yucky green juice!). –Charlotte Triggs
1. She doesn’t primp for her shoots: “I never looked at myself on camera when we were shooting,” says Morgan, 46. “I didn’t want to be self conscious. The other women get blowouts and full makeup just to sit around at their apartment while filming. I did my makeup on camera. I wasn’t afraid of that, but I did avoid watching the footage [because] I’d just be paralyzed.”
2. She and Ramona Singer go way back: “Ramona and I knew each other when we were single — working out together on 61st Street
3. She originally turned down the show: “The show had reached out to me, but I was too chicken. I was freshly divorced [from JP Morgan heir John Morgan, with whom she has a 9-year-old daughter.]” Later, when she saw the show and the women on it, she was a tad jealous. “I saw how well the girls were doing and they were blossoming. LuAnn and Ramona were totally renewed. I even saw Alex metamorphosing. They’re having fun, writing books, making appearances. I wanted to do that.”
4. Her friends think she’s crazy for doing reality TV: “My social set is like, ‘Why would you ever do this?’” Morgan laughs. “My answer is very simple: I have a house to support my daughter in and I’m on my own. I was worried about what people would think because I always put my foot in my mouth.”
5. She’s all about getting work done: Botox? Juvederm? “Oh God yes, I do it all!” says Morgan. “But I think it’s all about moderation … I will drink wine and eat great food when I want, but I still drink my green juice every morning even though it doesn’t taste good!” –Charlotte Triggs
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விஜய் இனி சினிமாவில் விபூதி பூசக்கூடாது ரசிகர்கள் ஆத்திரம்
கிருஸ்துவராக இருந்தாலும் எஸ்.ஏ.சந்திரசேகர் வாராவாரம் வடபழனி முருகன் கோயிலுக்கு செல்வதை வழக்கமாக கொண்டிருக்கிறார்.
ஆனால் அவர் மகன் விஜய் இதற்கெல்லாம் நேர்மாறாக இருக்கிறார். அதனால்தான் ரசிகர்கள் கொந்தளித்து போயிருக்கிறார்கள்.
’’தான் நடிக்கும் படங்களில் மட்டும் விபூதி, குங்குமத்தை அள்ளிப்பூசி நடிக்கிறார். விநாயகர், முருகன் என்று இந்து கடவுள்களையெல்லாம் வணங்குகிறார். நிஜத்தில் மட்டும் ஏன் இவற்றை வெறுக்கிறார்.
சினிமாவில் ஒன்று, நிஜத்தில் ஒன்று என்று இனி அவர் இரட்டை வேசம் போடக்கூடாது. இனிமேல் அவர் சினிமாவில் விபூதி பூசி நடிக்கக்கூடாது. இந்து கடவுள்களை வணங்குவது போல் நடிக்கக்கூடாது’’ என்று ரசிகர்கள் ஆத்திரப்படுகிறார்கள்.
விஜய் புதிதாக நடிக்கும் காவல்காரன் படப்பிடிப்பு காரைக்குடியில் நடந்து வருகிறது. படப்பிடிப்பின் முதல் நாள் பூஜை திருவிடை மருதூரில் அமைந்துள்ள கோவில் ஒன்றில் நடந்தது.
ஹீரோ விஜய், டைரக்டர் சித்திக் மற்றும் படக்குழுவினர், விஜய் ரசிகர்கள் என கோயிலுக்கு உள்ளேயேயும் வெளியேயும் எங்கு பார்த்தாலும் கூட்டம்.
பூஜை முடிந்து அய்யர் விபூதியை எல்லாருக்கும் வழங்கினார். ஆனால் விஜய் அந்த விபூதியை வாங்க மறுத்துவிட்டாராம்.
இந்த சம்பவத்தால் ஆவேசமடைந்த இந்து மக்கள் கட்சி பிரமுகர் கண்ணன்,
’’விஜய் அடிப்படையில் கிறிஸ்துவராக இருந்தாலும், இந்துக்களும் படம் பார்ப்பதால்தான் அவரது தொழிலில் உயர்ந்த இடத்தை பிடிக்க முடிந்திருக்கிறது. இதை நினைத்தாவது அந்த விபூதியை வாங்கி அவர் பூசியிருக்கலாம்.
அப்படி இந்து மதத்தின் மேல் நம்பிக்கையில்லாதவர் எதற்காக அந்த கோவிலுக்கு போகணும். வர இயலாது என்று மறுத்திருக்கலாமே? இனிமேலும் இதுபோன்ற புறக்கணிப்புகள் நடந்தால் எங்கள் கட்சி பார்த்துக் கொண்டு சும்மாயிருக்காது’’என்று கண்டனம் தெரிவித்திருந்தார்.
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What kind of job does Jon have? Don't ask Kate :
One more time, for the cheap seats in the back: Kate Gosselin is a single mother, and she does what she’s gotta do to take care of her 8 kids, as she told Jay Leno last night on “The Tonight Show.”
“I feel like I say this a lot, and for whatever reason, I feel like I have to defend myself,” Gosselin told Leno. “The truth is, moms work - single moms work. I travel and work and that's my job, and I’m very grateful and fortunate to have a job. When work comes my way I only do it so I can literally put food on the table and send my kids to school.”
But what about her ex-husband, Jon? What does he do for a living? Gosselin’s response: a confused look followed by “Ummm…I don’t know.”
Leno pushed a little harder - does Jon have a job? “Not that I’m aware of,” she said.
But he is around to take care of the kids when Gosselin is away. Right now, Gosselin spends three days a week in Los Angeles for her "Dancing With The Stars" job while the kids stay home in Pennsylvania
However she may feel about her ex-husband, Gosselin doesn’t reveal it in her book, “I Just Want You to Know: Letters to My Kids on Love, Life and Family.”
“One of the things I like about your book is that you’re reasonably fair and quite kind to your husband because he’s still the dad and the kids will read it,” Leno said.
“I won’t ever write anything nasty because the book to me is like a print interview. I don’t want my kids to be able to get a hold of that and [read] bad things,” Gosselin said. “I came up with the title because I say all the time; I’m a traveling, working mom that brings a certain amount of guilt. I always say, I just want my kids to know that I love them.”
Internet search engine giant Google has reported a 38 per cent growth in net income at $1.96 billion in the three-month period ending March 31, 2010, on the back of rising demand.
In the year-ago period, the company had a net income of $1.42 billion, Google said in a statement.
The company’s revenue rose by 23 per cent to $6.77 billion for January-March quarter of 2010.
“Google performed very well in the first quarter, with 23 per cent year-over-year revenue growth driven by strength across all major verticals and geographies.
“Going forward, we remain committed to heavy investment in innovation — both to spur future growth in our core and emerging businesses as well as to help build the future of the open web,” company’s CFO Patrick Pichette said.
The company also increased its global workforce by nearly 800 employees during the period. This is believed as its biggest increase in staff since the first quarter of 2008.
At the end of March 31, 2010, Google has about 20,621 full-time employees across the globe.
Google-owned sites generated a revenue of $4.44 billion in the quarter under review, a rise of 20 per cent over the year-ago period.
Further, Google’s partner sites revenue, through AdSense programmes rose by 24 per cent to $2.04 billion in the first quarter of 2010.
Google has a good cash reserve of $26.5 billion at the end of March 31, 2010.
In terms of geographical location, Google has registered most of its growth from outside the U.S. U.S.
Moreover, Google’s revenue from the U.K.
Christian music star: I'm a lesbian :
(CNN) -- Rumors were rampant when Christian music artist Jennifer Knapp walked away from a successful career seven years ago.After selling about a million records and winning at Christian music's prestigious Dove Awards in 1999, the Grammy-nominated singer/songwriter simply vanished in 2003 -- leaving fans wondering where she had gone. There were countless theories as to why Knapp checked out, including the possibility of illness.
But the one that raised the most ruckus among her die-hard fans was the one which proved to be true: Jennifer Knapp is gay.
This week Knapp burst back onto the music scene with news of a comeback and a coming out. Her new album will be released in May, and she has revealed that she has been in a same-sex relationship for the past eight years.
The revelation rocked the Christian music scene, where Knapp was a darling of fans and critics before her self-imposed exile. The intensively private singer said she's not at all surprised by the shock waves.
"I'm aware that the evangelical community has problems with divorce and many other facets of their artists, let alone homosexuality," Knapp said. "I really felt a strong obligation to be able to address that because for many people, it was really clear that they wouldn't participate in buying a record because it was against their beliefs."
"For many people who buy Christian music or have been familiar with me and my writings as a person of faith, I felt like it was the honest thing to do," she added. "The last thing I wanted to do was to have someone go out and buy a record and feel like they had been hoodwinked."
Knapp is not the first artist to find fame in the genre before revealing their sexuality.
In 2008, Christian singer/songwriter Ray Boltz came out as a gay man after a 20-year career in the industry. In 2009, gospel star Tonex went public with his homosexuality as a guest on "The Lexi Show," a popular program on the Christian channel The Word Network.
Lexi, who is also a gospel music artist, said that while many in the Christian music industry are aware of who is gay, "we don't talk about it, because that's the unspoken rule."
Lexi said she doubts most fans will ever fully embrace an openly gay artist, but she points to other artists who have been able to straddle the line between secular music and songs of faith.
"I think some Christians will totally avoid [Knapp] and say that she is the devil and all that, but there are some that are more open who will embrace her new material," Lexi said. "Then she will find a new audience."
Mark Moring, senior associate editor for Christianity Today, was one of the first to write about Knapp's revelation and said it has been extremely polarizing among his publication's audience. People have vacillated between anger that Christianity Today would even write the story and praise for Knapp's honesty, he said.
"There are people who will always love Jennifer Knapp, no matter what decisions she may make," Moring said. "I think the word that I've read the most often [among those commenting on the Christianity Today web site] is 'sad' as in 'I'm sad that she has made this choice, but I still love her music.' I think that has been a recurrent theme."
Rev. DL Foster is the founder of the Gay Christian Movement Watch Web site and said he believes as society has become more accepting of homosexuality, Knapp and other artists are finding it easier to go public.
"For a person to try and combine [being gay and being a Christian music artist] is not biblically correct, and I would hope that the church would reject such music because it does not represent us," he said. "To me, it doesn't matter if you are openly gay or closeted gay, sin is still sin."
Knapp is very clear that she is not marketing herself as a Christian artist, a term with which she said she has never been comfortable. She's no longer on a Christian-based record label, and her new album of folksy rock songs is described as being about "inner-conflicts, spirituality and life lessons."
Knapp quit the industry and moved to
She said she began writing music again in earnest two years ago and the music, as well as the decision to go public with her sexuality, all happened "organically." Knapp said she is no longer afraid of her gifts as a musician and now realizes that who she is as a private person can remain intact even as she shares herself with the world through her music.
"I was tired of not writing because I was afraid of what other people were going to think of me," she said. "So for me it was a really healing process."
Knapp said she realizes that some fans will now view her earlier work with lyrics about inner turmoil as evidence of the struggle between her beliefs and her sexuality. But she says she has always struggled as a person of faith to be the person she wants to be, and her sexuality was only a part of that, she said.
God has always known she would walk this path, Knapp said.
"I would rather be judged before God as being an honest human being," she said. "If I am in any way unpleasing in his sight, I can only hope and pray that he gives me the opportunity to find who I am supposed to be."
Perhaps the most telling clue to where Jennifer Knapp finds herself in life after so many years is contained in the title of her new album. It's called "Letting Go."
View from the 'sidekick' seat on a Tea Party bus :
Washington (CNN) -- It was one of those behind-the-scenes moments that a reporter covering the Tea Party rarely gets to witness.About 1:35 a.m. Thursday, a man ran up to a Tea Party Express bus, approaching from the left, waving his arms and shouting something that none of us on the bus could understand.
I was sitting in the "sidekick seat," a leather perch near the driver with a clear view.
The three-bus caravan had just rolled into
We had just arrived after a grueling trip from
The bus was hard to miss, wrapped full-on in a Tea Party advertisement. Apparently, just the sight of it made the man angry. As he rushed us, shouting all the way, the bus driver cautiously slid open his window.
"This country is at war," the man screamed into the slightly opened window. The driver quickly slammed it shut.
No one on the bus, including me, could understand what point the man was trying to make. The activists dismissed him as a drunk. But one thing was very clear: The Tea Party had once again attracted attention from one of its many critics.
In fact, the Tea Party movement has earned plenty of detractors as it has traveled cross-country labeling President Obama a "socialist" and blasting what it says is big government run amok, while invoking the Constitution's sanctity.
Agitators have thrown eggs at the buses. Ray March, one of the drivers, told me that a semi-truck driver tried to run his bus off the road. Now there was a late-night ranting as the conservative activists rolled into the nation's reliably liberal capital.
On the drive to
As for creature comforts, space was a commodity.
Seating was at a premium. Virtually every seat was spoken for. Four bunk beds were loaded with stuff. One guy slept on the floor next to one of them, in the middle of the narrow walkway that attached the front of the bus to the back. Everyone stepped over him to get by.
Work spaces were virtually nonexistent, with laptops and BlackBerrys competing for space with kitsch and curling irons.
Hanging over the toilet in the cramped bathroom was a sign with a stern warning: "Liquids only." Every once in awhile, a refrigerator would fly open -- spilling items out.
Still, despite the long trip, tempers never flared and pleasant conversation was not hard to find. The activists seemed to get along with each other and were accommodating to journalists.
I mostly sat in the front of the bus. But I also spent time in the back, working out of a cramped space with the other journalists embedded for the trip.
Crammed into a U-shaped area with a small desk slab, we all did our work: I wrote stories, an editor and reporter team from Los Angeles-based Pajamas TV did on-camera reports and a Fox News radio reporter did live spots. He scripted a line about Tea Partiers "partying like it was 1773" in one of them, a reference to the year of the original Boston Tea Party. We all laughed at that one.
In the front of the bus, Casey was lounging comfortably.
The pooch sat on one of the leather bench sofas along the window for most of the trip. It was a nice spot, considering that our
At one point, as I was interviewing Williams, he mentioned Casey, put a laptop in front of her, and said she likes to blog from the bus.
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