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Tuesday, July 21, 2009A BYTE OF LIFE

FREE CIRCULATION Vol. 3 No. 136

England won their first Test against Australia atLords since 1934 on Monday when they defeatedthe visitors by 115 runs on the final day of thesecond Ashes Test. Andrew Flintoff led the Englishcharge with a five-wicket haul in the final innings.

Freddie leads victory bid

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ERGO Tuesday, July 21, 2009NAMMA CHENNAI02

If you are a heritage enthusiast, foodlover and like to know more about

your city, Madras Week Celebration hasalways had something special for you.And like every year, this year too theweek-long celebration will be held fromAugust 16 to 23, or may be even longer.From 15 events in the first year, theevent has grown to host about 75programmes, including quizzes,exhibitions, and performances, allcentred on the theme Madras.As a run-up to the citys birthdaycelebrations, the coordinators are callingorganisations/individuals/volunteergroups to plan their event. Schools withINTACH Heritage Clubs, citys leadingclubs, hotels and cultural institutionshave chalked out their programmes. Doyou have something to tell, share ororganise?Write to [email protected] orChennai Heritage, 5 Bhattad Tower, 30Westcott Road, Royapettah.

Ergo Correspondent

It was a sporting weekendfor corporate houses. The

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Tuesday, July 21, 2009

Four years of high and low mo-ments, anecdotes during birth-day celebrations, cultural dayperformances, picnics, industrial

visits are no longer just penned downin autograph books or even slambooks. The batch mates who have re-cently passed out from their collegeshave made videos of their college lifein order to relive those nostalgic mo-ments for life long.

Dinesh Chandran from SRM Univer-sity, Bioinformatics, 2004-2008 batch,says, At first it was created just for funand entertainment but later after

completion of studies, the video whichhas songs from the movieBoys, hasbecome like a slam book for everyone.We recall four years in the four minutesingle video.

The videos that reflect the nature ofthe batch and college life are set totunes of various songsKal ho naa ho,gladiator theme and songs from thetamil flickBoys. While SVCEs video iscalled college in nutshell, M.Sc Elec-tronic Media (integrated) 2002-2007batch from Anna university is The 64and SRM Universitys is Friends forev-er. Karthikeyan from M.Sc ElectronicMedia (integrated) 2002-2007 batchsays, All through we were known asthe rebellious group and one of our

professors used to call us The 64 andwe became popular with that identityand hence the name.

Interestingly, the videos of Sri Ven-kateswara College of Engineering-electronics and Communication ECE2003 2007 batch and M.Sc ElectronicMedia (integrated) 2002-2007 batchhave got more than 1,000 views. A lotof coordination and planning was in-volved behind the making of these vid-eos. The creative minds got togetherand gathered photos from variousfriends and made the video withtouchy songs of various movies. These

videos have become an integral part ofthe farewell day celebrations. It was alast-minute preparation and the ideawas kept as a secret. Hence we couldinvolve only few friends. But we ac-complished the challenge of coveringalmost all our batch mates in the vid-eo. Majority of the pictures were fromour industrial visits and symposiums,says Siddharth Chyndalia of Electronicsand Communication ECE 2003 2007batch, from Sri Venkateswara Collegeof Engineering.

Ginesh Gandhi from M.Sc ElectronicMedia (integrated) 2002-2007 batchhad this idea much earlier during thecollege-days itself. We became veryclose to each other in the first fewmonths of college life and I was sure

that we will miss each other a lot.Hence from the initial days itself, Istarted to make a video and over a pe-riod of time, many of our friends joined in.

Autograph books are pass and students have begun to make videos on their college life and uploadthem online on YouTube. Ergo speaks to the young alumni of Sri Venkateswara College of Engineeringof Electronics and Communication ECE 2003 2007 batch and M.Sc Electronic Media (integrated) 2002-07 batch from Anna university and SRM University, 2004-2008 batch, Bioinformatics about their videos.

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Scrap the scrapbook, YouTube farewells are inVOGUE

Vodafone TuesdayVodafone Essar has introduced Vodafone Tuesdays. On every Tuesday, Vodafone subscribers in Chennai can avail a Buy 1, Get 1 Free offer at selectmultiplexes and restaurants. To avail the offer, download a mobile coupon by SMSing TUESDAY to 56789. These coupons can be validated and redeemed atthe Sathyam multiplex, Gallopin Gooseberries, Gangothri, Benjarong, China Town, Copper Chimney, Ente Keralam, Dominoes, Bike & Barrel and Zara.

The videos of Sri Venkateswara College of Engneering-electronics anCommunication ECE 200 2007 batch and M.SElectronic Media (integrated) 2002-2007 batchave gotten more tha

1,000 views each.

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ERGO Tuesday, July 21, 2009TECHNORAMA04

Start-up ooVoo is hoping totake on everybody fromSkype, the Internet telepho-ny arm of eBay, to Cisco

Systems with a new video confe-rencing offer for smallbusinesses.

While Skype has the higherprofile, New York-based ooVoohas quietly built up 7.5 millionregistered users in the last few

years with a service that supportsvideo chats between up to sixpeople and up to six phone

participants.Now, the fledgling company isadding a desktop sharing optionthat will let business colleaguesview each others computerscreens and enable remote col-laboration. It will also block ad-vertising for business users whopay a monthly fee.

We took what we had with theconsumer and packaged it with abusiness plan, said ooVoo CEOPhilippe Schwartz.

Ciscos development of a tele-presence video conferencing sys-tem, which uses large screensand shows life-like images, hascreated renewed interest in videocommunications in recent years.But such systems cost thousandsof dollars to install, at a time

small bnesses are l

ing to shave costA few years ago, Cisco

bought firm WebEx, whichpeople share documents andlaborate online.

Youre seeing people use m

video because of the econand the need to travel lSchwartz said.

ooVoos business service c$39.95 a month per personless, depending on the numbusers in a company, ad-free.consumer service starts at noto as high as $17.95 a monthsix-way chats. Voice callsphones are extra.

Skype recently added thetion of screen sharing, whichlows users to share all or patheir screen, and says it doescharge for this service.

But Skype, which provvoice conferencing options foto 25 people, only provides

to-one video and does not the call recording feature thaVoo has.

IDC analyst Rebecca Swensaid that ooVoos ability to cbine video and phone particnts in the same call is a big for attracting business custers. She also noted that thetion of setting up a

web video call with non-oousers could help it attract customers.

But she said Skype would lbe a formidable rival.

They also are starting to fheavily on the business ma

which leads me to believe mfeatures and functionality artheir way, Swensen said.

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Were really pleased both in terms of (YouTubes) revenue growth,which is really material to YouTube, and... in the not long, too-long-

distant future, we actually see a very profitable and good business for usPatrick Pichette, Google CFO

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Services that shorten thelength of long web ad-dresses are tremendous-ly helpful - including for

spammers.Spam watchers have ob-

served an increasing trend ofspam e-mail messages thatuse the short URL services toturn links into an innocent-looking combination of let-ters and numbers, warnsMessageLabs, a provider of ITsecurity solutions in Germa-

ny.

That allows spammers tohide what is behind the link.Clicking on those links canlead to malicious software in-stalling itself instantly on theunsuspecting users comput-er.

One decisive factor in therise in the use of the URLshortening services are plat-forms like Twitter, which re-quire their users to formulatetheir messages briefly, withno room for long links.

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Audiences are voicing snap

judgments on movies fas-ter and to more peoplethan ever before on Twit-

ter, and their ability to create abox office hit or a flop is forcingmajor studios to revamp market-ing campaigns.

The stakes are especially high

this summer season when bigbudget movies like "Harry Potterand the Half-Blood Prince,"

which opened on Wednesday,play to a core audience of young,plugged-in moviegoers.

Has everything speeded up?The answer is yes, said AdamFogelson, Universals president

of marketing and distribution.Depending on how big youropening day audience is, word-of-mouth starts playing a factorimmediately, he said.

Film marketers look at weeklydeclines in ticket sales to judgefan buzz. In recent years thosedrops have widened signifi-cantly as communication hasspeeded up thanks to the In-ternet and more recently socialnetworking services like Twitter

and Facebook.This summer, which is themost lucrative movie season andcan make up as much as 40 per-cent of annual box office, ticketrevenues for new films havedropped 51 percent, on average,from week No. 1 to week No. 2, afigure matched only in 2007, ac-cording to tracking firm Box Of-fice Mojo.

If people dont like the movienow on Friday it can die by Sat-urday, said Paul Dergarabedian,president of tracking firm Holly-

wood.com Box Office.

Bruno gets TwitteredLast Friday, actor Sacha Baron

Cohens gay-themed comedyBruno, which was distributed

by Universal Pictures, made animpressive one-day debut of$14.4 million at US and Cana-dian box offices, but the nextday it suffered a large single-daydrop, falling 39 percent to $8.8million.

Media reports speculated thatBruno suffered from the Twit-ter effect, meaning audiences re-acted quickly online to raunchyscenes of sex and nudity, scaringpeople away.

Soon after the movies open-

ing, Twitter was awash comments such as this from Cathy Zhang: Some scenes fBruno Ill never erase frommind. On the flip side, mTwitter commentators rabout Bruno.

Universals Fogelson said Twitter comments that scritical can be good publicitycause they show people are sionate about the movie andspark discussion that incre

attendance. He attributed nos lopsided opening dayto negative fan buzz, but tounusually large crowd of hens fans rushing to see the on its first day.

Using Twitter, actor AsKutcher has raised his prand that of his production cpany among the most tech-vy, and he is not alFilmmakers and actors otweet from the set with blessing of publicists lookincreate interest in a film.

As much as it seems chaits not. Its just extremely qand real-time, said online mketing consultant Gordon Pason.

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Movie studios try to harnessTwitter effect

Enhance your digital picsBefore you edit your digital photos, create copies of them. That way, you can always revert to the original version ifsomething goes awry in the editing process. This is especially important if you work with photographs in the JPEG format,as opposed to RAW. With JPEG, each time you save the image, a slight degradation occurs. Keeping the original is akin tokeeping a negative in the old film days.

Box office watchers

say Twitter is thelatest weapon in anarsenal of cell

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ERGO Tuesday, July 21, 2009VILLAGE06

US author McCourt deadUS author Frank McCourt, whose 1996 book Angelas Ashes brought himworld fame, died at the age of 78, the New York Times reported.McCourts brother Malachy McCourt, also a writer, said his brothersuffered from metastasized melanoma and had become gravely ill withmeningitis.McCourt had been treated in hospital for melanoma, the mostdangerous form of skin cancer that can spread through the body, andhis condition had deteriorated rapidly over the last two weeks.The Brooklyn-born Irish-American author had taught English for decadesin New York City. His hard-luck family had gone back to Ireland after hisbirth, and he scraped together savings to return at age 19, in 1949.

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Now, a love story book on pandaA book about a panda that went missing during last yearsSichuan earthquake in China and the Hong Kong womanwho adopted the animal is to help finance a panda naturereserve, according to a media report.The book, In Love with Pandas - The Story of Qing Qing &I, tells of the bond between Judy Chen Qing and the giantpanda, Qing Qing, she adopted at Sichuans Wolong naturereserve in 2007, the Standardnewspaper said.Chen, who is chairwoman of the Ocean Park ConservationFoundation Hong Kong, said: I will never forget themoment I first saw her - a little creature sitting on a baby

chair, looking at us curiously,and weighing just 5.44kilograms 100 days afterbirth. We simply knew thatwe belonged to each other,it was like love at firstsight.

The book records Chensconcerns after the pandadisappeared after theSichuan earthquake in south-west China on May 12, 2008.The animal was later foundinjured and frightened. Ilove her as I would my ownchild, Chen said.

DPA

Endeavourcrew preparesfor 2ndspacewalkThe space shuttleEndeavours seven-member crew spent abusy day on theInternational SpaceStation (ISS), preparingfor the second of fivescheduled space walks,NASA said.

The crew were awakened at 5:13 am Central Time (1013GMT) to the sounds of Learning to Flyby Tom Petty andthe Heartbreakers, a song chosen by one of the crewmembers.The bulk of the days schedule was taken up with movingequipment from the Endeavour onto the ISS, and withpreparations for todays space walk.Astronauts Dave Wolf and Tom Marshburn will preparetheir space suits and tools for the walk, while four othermembers of the crew install the Integrated Cargo Carrier,which is loaded with replacement batteries for the ISS.

AFP

The names of film actors

Aishwarya Rai and HrithikRoshan are being used toteach alphabets in several

schools using private publishersbooks, said a BJP member in theRajya Sabha.

Through his Special Mention,Kalraj Mishra wanted the go-vernment to enforce strict reg-ulation to control confusingpublications brought out by

private publishers for childHe said according to the

vate publications, the pupiltaught to remember the albets like A stands for A

warya Rai. Roshans namalso used in the alphabets.

Mishra said schools use vate publishers books onpretext of shortage of NCbooks.

MP fumes overA for Aishwarya...

Cops free man from suitcase lockerGerman police had to rescue a 20-year-old man from atrain station suitcase locker after he shut himself in for

fun and began to suffocate.After a night out drinking with friends, squeezing intothe locker had seemed like an amusing idea to the man,police in the southwestern city of Ludwigshafen said.But the laughter faded when he started to run out ofoxygen and his companions couldnt open the locker.Police broke open the door and dragged the groggy manto safety.

Reuters

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Milan pips

NY as worldsfashion capital

In a tighteningbattle forfashion kudosin Asia,Mumbai

outdistancedDelhi. InAustralia,SydneyoutpacedMelbourne

Milan has ended NewYorks five-year reignas the worlds topfashion city, while

Hong Kong and Sao Paulohave sashayed into the top10, according to an annualsurvey of top fashion cities.

The list was compiled bythe Global Language Moni-tor, a US-based non-profitgroup that tracks the fre-quency of words and phrasesin the media, on the Internetand throughout theblogosphere.

The world of fashion isdominated by five cities -New York, Rome, Paris, Milanand London - but New Yorkhad led the list for five con-secutive years.

This year, however, Milantook the top slot followed byNew York, Paris, Rome andLondon.Other big movers in-cluded Hong Kong and Sao

Paulo, which broke into thetop 10, while Barcelona andMiami surged.

The global economic res-tructuring has affected thefashion industry just as it hastouched everything else,said Millie Lorenzo Payack, adirector at the Global Lan-guage Monitor.

The catwalks were stillcrowded though with thelights dimmer, the hype a bitmore restrained, and reces-sionists, of course, thriving.

Reuters


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he worlds population ofolder people is growing at

the fastest rate ever seenand the old will soon out-

number the young for the firsttime, US researchers reportedon Monday.

An aging population willpush up pension and health-care costs, forcing major in-creases in public spending thatcould slow economic growth inrich and poor countries.

The number of people 65 andolder hit about 506 million as ofmidyear 2008, according to theUS Census Bureau. This willdouble to 1.3 billion by 2040,accounting for 14 percent ofthe total global population.

People aged 65 and over will

soon outnumber children un-der age 5 for the first time inhistory, said the report put to-gether by Kevin Kinsella and

Wan He of the US CensusBureau.

Aging is affecting everycountry in every part of the

world, said Richard Suzman ofthe National Institute of Aging,

which commissioned the re-port. While there are impor-tant differences betweendeveloped and developingcountries, global aging ischanging the social and eco-nomic nature of the planet andpresenting difficultchallenges.

The report found that peopleaged 80 and older are the fas-test growing portion of the totalpopulation in many countries.Globally, this oldest old pop-ulation is projected to increaseby 233 percent between 2008and 2040.

This could strain their chil-dren and grandchildren.

Shrinking ratios of workersto pensioners and peoplespending a larger portion oftheir lives in retirement in-creasingly tax existing healthand pension systems, the re-port said.

Reuters

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Spanish teenager Jaime Al-guersuari becomes the

youngest ever Formula Onedriver after Toro Rosso an-

nounced on Monday he will re-place sacked FrenchmanSebastien Bourdais until the endof the season.

The 19-year-old reigning Brit-ish Formula Three champion willmake his debut for the Italianoutfit at the Hungarian GrandPrix on July 26. I know Im facinga difficult challenge, admitted

Alguersuari. Team principalFranz Tost said he wouldnt beexpecting too much from the

youngster initially.Im not expecting anything

special from him for the firstthree races he competes in,

which will allow him to get toknow his team, said Tost. WhileFormula One will be very new tohim, as a driver who has come upthrough the ranks of the Red BullJunior Team young driver pro-gramme, he knows his new team-

mates well,Toro Rosso added in a s

ment. Alguersuari has compin 118 races from junior kartinFormula 3 and Formula RenHe has had 17 victories anpodium finishes. Bourdais sacked last week following llustre performances in this yFormula One campaign. The

year-old Frenchman scoredsix points from the 27 Grandsin which he competed.

Alguersuari to become youngest F1 driver

ERGO Tuesday, July 21, 2009SPORT08

Somdev climbs

ranking ladderCourtesy his semi-finals appearance at theAptos Challenger, Somdev Dev Varmanjumped eight positions to achieve hiscareer best singles ranking of 127 onMonday. After a long time, Somdevachieved desired result on the circuit andwas rewarded in the latest ATP rankingsfor his brilliant run.Prakash Amritraj, however, continued hisslide as his ranking dipped further to 264,a loss of 10 positions. Leander Paes (6) andMahesh Bhupathi (8) had their doublesrankings unchanged. In the womensrankings, Sania Mirza marginally improvedboth singles and doubles rankings. Sherose two rungs to get to 83 in the singlesand gained three position to be 39 in thedoubles.

PTI

Athletes excelDiscus thrower Krishna Poonia and 400mhurdler Joseph Abraham, who havequalified for next monthsBerlin World AthleticsChampionships, won theirrespective events in theBirmingham Games in theUnited Kingdom.Abraham, who qualified forthe August 16-21 BerlinWorld Championships in thethird Indian GP in Chennai inMay, clocked 51.50secs inthe final ahead ofcompatriot Avin A Thomas(52.02) at Alexander Stadium

in Birmingham on Sunday.Abrahams timing wasthough below his national record of49.51secs. Poonia continued her fine formthis season with a throw of 59.63m, wayahead of compatriot and national recordholder Seema Antil (55.77m). Indias topshot putter Om Prakash also won his eventwith a throw of 17.39m, even though itwas much below his personal best of19.20m. Saurabh Vij was second byclearing a distance of 16.60m.

PTI

Driver dies in F2 raceThe 18-year-old son of former F1 world champion John Surtees died after an accident during aFormula Two race, the hospital treating him said. Henry Surtees was knocked unconscious during therace at the Brands Hatch circuit in Kent, south of London, and was airlifted to hospital with headinjuries on Sunday.

Spanish teenmakes history

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The main barriers to improving the image of Test cricket have been erectedby the ICC (International Cricket Council) itself. It has done the most to

devalue Test cricket. Diminishing crowds at tests in all countries barring England andAustralia is a worry.

Ian Chappell

E

ngland won an Ashes Test at Lordsfor the first time in 75 years as they

beat Australia by 115 runs in the sec-ond Test on Monday to take a 1-0 lead

in the five-match series. Australia, set a record 522 to win, were

bowled out for 406 on the fifth and final daywith all-rounder Andrew Flintoff taking fivewickets for 92 runs and off-spinner GraemeSwann chipping in with four for 87.

England, who clung on for a draw in thefirst Test in Cardiff, made a sound start

with captain Andrew Strauss scoring 161 ina first innings total of 425. Swing bowlerJames Anderson then took Test-best figuresagainst Australia of four wickets for 77 runsas the touring team were bowled out for215 in reply. Strauss decided against en-forcing the follow-on and, thanks to briskfifties from Paul Collingwood and MatthewPrior saw England make 311 for six before

Strauss declared their second innings be-fore start of play on Sunday.Australia were then left needing to set a

world record for the highest fourth inningstotal to win a Test, surpassing the 418 forseven made by the West Indies against Aus-

tralia in Antigua in 2002/03, to win. En-gland, aided by some favourable umpiring

decisions, reduced them to 128 for five be-fore a sixth-wicket stand of 185 betweenMichael Clarke (136) and Brad Haddin (80)revived Ashes-holders Australias hopes.

But Flintoff removed Haddin with hisfourth ball on Monday morning sessionand from then on wickets fell steadily be-fore Swann bowled Mitchell Johnson (63)to wrap up the match shortly before lunch.The third Test of the series starts at Edg-baston on July 30.

To win an Ashes Test match at Lords

feels very special but were not going to getcarried away, England captain Andrew

Strauss insisted. His Australian counterpartRicky Ponting was magnanimous in defeat.We are obviously disappointed to lose inthis type of venue but we were outplayedfrom the first ball to the last ball. Now wehave to bounce back, regroup and hit theground running for the next Test atEdgbaston.

Brief scores

England 425 (A. Strauss 161, A. Cook 95;B. Hilfenhaus 4/103) and 311/6 declared(M. Prior 61, P. Collingwood 54) beat Aus-tralia 215 (M. Hussey 51; J. Anderson 4/55)and 313 for 5 (M. Clarke 136, B. Haddin 80;

A. Flintoff 5/92, G. Swann 4.87) by 115 runs.

Agencies

England players celebrate their first Test victory in75 years at Lords against Australia. PHOTO: AFP

End of long waitFlintoff bowls England to victory after 75 years at Lords

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Grammy-winning singerAmy Winehouses newlydivorced husband BlakeFielder Civil has demanded

6 million pounds as part of thedivorce settlement, which ismore than half of her fortune.

The Rehab hit-maker is infu-riated by former jailbird FielderCivils claim that he is entitled to

the money because he inspiredher superhit album Back ToBlack, reported Sun online.

The couple, who were marriedin 2007, were granted a decreenisi on Thursday after Wine-house (25) admitted to commit-ting adultery while on holiday inthe Caribbean island of St. Luciaand now Fielder Civil has de-manded that the singer partwith more than half of her 10million pound fortune ascompensation.

While claiming his share of hisex-wifes earnings, the formeron and off drug addict will arguethat he was the inspiration be-hind her chart-topping album

which spoke of heartbreak.The album was written whenFielder-Civil (26) broke up withWinehouse briefly before thecouples marriage.

Amy did write Back To Black

when Blake left her, butwhy on earth should he begetting a dime for makingher feel so bad? Its like say-ing that the man whowrites a book about hismurdered wife should givethe murderer some of theprofits, said a source closeto the singer.

Fielder-Civil has six weeksto negotiate the financialsettlement or walk awayfrom the high- profile mar-riage with nothing.

The source added thatWinehouse does notwant to give away a sin-gle penny of her for-tune to herex-husband.

Blake has made itclear to Amy private-ly he wants millions.She believes shesright and Blakehas no real casefor a stake at hermoney. Amy is

furious anddoesnt want tonegotiate,added thesource.

PTI

Amy Winehouses ex-husband stakes claim to 6 million pounds

Amy did write Back ToBlack when Blake lefther, but why on earthshould he be getting adime for making herfeel so bad? Its likesaying that the manwho writes a book

about his murderedwife should give themurderer some of theprofits

Blake and Back to Black

ERGO Tuesday, July 21, 2009FLICK10

Madonna visitsfamily of deadstage hand

M

adonna won hearts in France

on Sunday as she visitedinjured survivors and the familyof a stage hand who diedduring an accident which sawher concert date in Marseillecancelled.

The black-clad US pop star landed at Marseille-Marignane airport at 1615 GMTand sped off with a bodyguard in a black Mercedes to the house where Criscenzolived, where a security perimeter had been set up to keep media away.

Two men, Criscenzo and 23-year-old Briton Charles Prow, were killed onThursday with eight more workers injured in the accident when part of the stagebeing built at the citys Stade Velodrome collapsed.

The accident happened when a crane toppled over as they were preparing thevenue for Sundays concert, which was immediately cancelled.

The US pop star, who was warming up for a concert in Udine, Italy when sheheard of the accident, paid an emotional tribute to the two men as she performedthere later Thursday night.

Two men lost their lives, which is a great tragedy to me, Madonna told herfans as she choked back tears.

PT

Russell Crowe buys filmcrew worker new car

Actor Rusell Crowe, who plays Robin Hoodin an upcoming film, seems to have beeninfluenced by the famed generosity of his

character as he gave a film crew member5,000 pounds to buy a new car.The Gladiatorstar, who is playing the folk

hero who famously robbed from the richand gave to the poor, gave Denise Yarde5000 pounds so she could buy a new carafter her old one went up in flames,reported Mirroronline.

The 45-year-old actor had initially made ajoke of the accident but later apologised bygiving her the amount in cash so that shecould buy a new car.

But at one point, after she said about him never having to worryabout buying a new car, Russell went quiet and everyone thought thatwas the end of it. Then later in the afternoon he sought Denise out andgave her the five grand, a source on the sets told the newspaper. TheAcademy Award-winning actor who earns between 15 to 20 millionpounds per film is shooting in England for the film which is being directedby Sir Ridley Scott and stars Cate Blanchett as Maid Marian.

PTI

Elizabeth Taylor out of hospitalHollywood legend Dame Elizabeth Taylor has been released from a Los Angeles hospitalafter undergoing surgery. Taylor (77) had been admitted to a medical centre near her hoin Beverly Hills on July 13. She is in for standard tests and a minor, though painful, surgprocedure. Thats it. No drama, no shrieking, no sedation required. Nobody on her staff worried. Period, the Daily Starquoted her representative as saying.

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Tamanna to pair up withJeyam RaviDirector Jeyam Raja, who has bought the remakerights of super hit Telugu film Kick, starringShaam, Ravi Teja and Illeana, is planning to rope inTamannah to play the female lead in the Tamilremake. She will be paired opposite Jeyam Ravi inthe movie. It is said that Shaam will be taking upthe role he did in the original.

Winslet stressed out by OscarEver since she has won the golden Oscar statuette for hperformance in The Reader, British actress Kate Winsletfeels she cant be herself and is forced to look composall the time. Imdb.com reports that the 33-year-old alsoadmits she is now forced to live up to an impossiblestandard, and cant be true to her free spirit.

Cine City

Kamal out of 19 StepsActor Kamal Hassan has opted out of 19 Steps, inwhich he was supposed to play a martial arts guruto Asins character. Now the news is that actorVikram will replace Ulaganayagan in the movie.The movie directed by Bharatbala will have musicscored by A.R. Rahman. 19 Steps will also haveJapanese superstar Tadanobu Asano in a prominentrole. Walt Disney produces the film, which is being

written by M.T. Vasudevan Nair. Kamal Hassan hasreportedly opted out of the project as he wantedhis role to have a few changes.

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Arun Kumar G. from TCS, Siruseri has nominated his AD TEAM members asPartners in Crime. This pic was clicked during thier team outing toKodaikanal.

Gajendran from Infosys has nominated his friends as Partners in Crime.This pic was clicked at Puri, Konark road during their trip to Puri Temple,Bhubaneswar.

Jothipazhani Nagarajan from HCL Technologies Ltd. has nominated hisNG-EMS team mates as Partners in Crime. This pic was clicked in Yercaud.

Sandeep Kumar Kuzhyil from Wipro Technologies has nominated hisfriends as Partners in Crime. This Photo was taken during their teamouting at Blue Lagoon Resort, ECR.

Arunashri V. from Perot Systems has nominated her team (Magesh,Sharmila, Jayshree, Vishva, Deekshitha, Geetha, Ramesh, Karthick,Karthick, Sairam, Vivek, Josthana, Aruna, Suganthini, Udaykumar) asPartners in Crime. This pic was clicked during their trip to Kodaikanal.

Shahid from Allsec Technologies has nominated his friends from HealthCare Process as Partners in Crime. This photo was clicked at Kishkinta.

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1. A boy wrote his fathers name in a paper and kept it inside the fridge. Guess why?Because appa peru Ketupogama iruka..

2. Vadivelu : Hello enna idhu? Rs.601 kadan vankitu Rs.106 thareenga?Parthiban : Ithu than kadana THIRUPPI tharathu...!

Vadivelu : Aaha..!

3.Manager : Yemma ! Typist velaiku interview vanthirukiye unnaku evlo speed varum ?Girl : Nimisathuku 50 perukku SMS type pannuven sir.Manager : .......!?!

A.R.Shanthi, SBS

Hi Vadivelan N.May this special day be filled with sweetmemories and happy hours. Wishing u all the funand excitement that only birthdays can bring!

With Cheers, Human Resources,Coastal Training Technologies

India (P) Ltd, Chennai

Dear Anna (Dirty Boy)I know ur cho cho lazy and dirty boy I want uto take bath @least on ur birthday So tht I cangive my hand to wish u Happy Returns of theDay :-) Eventhough u dont take bath,I wish u, Good Health & Success in ur way in Life

Tummy Boy, I want laddu 4m Thirupathi Ur nameis Hari and U like Pori, I will make & give it d dayI start cooking :-)

Urs Sweet Sister,

Kavitha.S, Infosys

Hi Anand,Kick off ur shoes, take a break, Crank the tunes,Dance & Shake, light the candles, cut the cake.Make it a day, thats simply Great!!!Happy BDay... We are sure ul give us treat in abig hotel (Rain Forest). So we shall talk to u in person there, coz we dunno to xpress ourfeelings through greetings.(Note : We havent brought lunch today)

Regards Siptech Delphi Team

SIPTECH Solutions Limited

Dear Uthra,

Its you Bday time again; So for you, thebirthday person, Heres what we want to say:We hope this birthdays the best one yet,In every delightful way. So happy birthday toyou. Have lots of birthday fun! May yourbirthday wishes all come true,Even if you have a ton.

Love, Praveen,Rama, (Wipro)

and Siva (CTS)

Dear Siddhartha,A birthday is just the first day of another 365-day

journey around the sun.Enjoy the trip. Wishing you a Happy Birthday.

From Projects Team ChennaiFinancial Software & Systems (P) Ltd

Belated Wishes Dear Sonia,All of US are joining to say Tons and Tons ofBelated Birthday wishes to YOU!!!Hope it added some special pleasure,To the hours of Ur day. To know U are beingthought of, In the very warmest way.And when Ur birthday is over,Hope U will remember too(even though we dintcelebrated it). The same warm thoughts asalways, Will stay in Ur Sweet memoirs.So let the drums roll and horns toot for the upcoming surprise 4 U.May Gods blessings be with u all through theLife. Hope all UR DREAMS willcome true, just the way youU Imagined.We all lov U so much dear!!!!!!

With lov, Indu, Meera, Greeta,

Vineetha, Nima, Sumi & Elizabeth

Velmurugan Natarajan from MPHASIS has been nominated asOffice Angel by CBA Windows Design Team (Kumaran, SenthilKumar, Jegan Fernando and Ram Prabhu).

Velmurugan is a perfect attitude personality, he is down to earth

person and approachable all the time. He is very charming but is a

serious person during working hours. The secret of his success is thetremendous effort he puts in and the commitment he shows from the

time he gets projects. We all proud to nominate him for office angel.

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BORN LOSER

FREE RANGE WORKING IT OUT

PREVIOUS

ISSUES

SOLUTIONS

ARIES MARCH 21 - APRIL 20

TAURUS APRIL 21 - MAY 20

GEMINI MAY 21 - JUNE 20

CANCER JUNE 21 - JULY 20

LEO JULY 21 - AUG 20

VIRGO AUG 21 - SEPT 20

LIBRA SEPT 21 - OCT 20

SCORPIO OCT 21 - NOV 20

SAGITTARIUS NOV 21 - DEC 20

CAPRICORN DEC 21 - JAN 20

AQUARIUS JAN 21 - FEB 20

PISCES FEB 21 - MARCH 20

Predictions by Bhavesh N. Pa

An average day on the professional front, saysGanesha. Mundane tasks may consume a lot oftime and energy, despite that your concern forquality work will remain high. Later in the day, ymay be worried about pending work.

The day will start chaotically. You will have a lowork piled up on your desk and you will have tosweat it out at work, irrespective of the temperaoutside. As the day progresses, you may feelworked out and tired.

You will get a couple of lessons in doing well in

the professional world during the first half of theday. The second half will be about implementingthe lessons learned. The day will demand maximuse of your brains.

Ganesha predicts you will enjoy your time at wotoday. The day at office will be all about youflaunting your skills. Time is good for working onew assignments. You may be able to strike abetter level of understanding with your sweethea

Ceaseless thinking may keep you preoccupied thentire day. Be it home or office, you will becontemplating something or the other. All thisthinking will be mostly about matters related toyour personal life, especially your love life.

In the first half of the day, you will talk more anwork less. But things will dramatically turn aroun

in the latter part of the day. You will be busyexchanging sweet nothings with sweetheart in thevening. A nice romantic dinner is on the cards.

At the beginning of the day, you will focus onyourself but as the day progresses, you may startthinking about money matters, job responsibilitieand job security. Your relation with your loved omay strengthen up because of a positive event.

The day may not begin with any good news. Budont worry. The latter part of the day is entirelyyour favour. You will be duly recognised by yourpeers and superiors for your decision-making skiand ability to read a situation well.

Ganesha predicts that you will be very busy withwide range of activities at the office. Yourcolleagues will constantly seek your guidance an

suggestions. The latter part of the day is slightlyunfavourable for important professional decisions

You may be brimming with energy during the firpart of the day but lack of favourable results wileventually lead to a burnout. You may want to a little more organised and disciplined at work.Your loved one may demand a lot of attention.

You will share your views and plans with your temembers and even your superiors. It might getslightly difficult to convince all of them on everyissue, but will eventually succeed if you perseverhard enough.

Ganesha confers you as the Sultan of mood switoday. In the beginning, you will be bored, lax alethargic. The work will be routine and boring. Bin second half, you will take up the mantle ofmotivating others.

Words worthDeodand (dee-o-dand) an object that has been the direct cause of thedeath of a human being (such as a boat from which a person has fallen anddrowned) and has been given to the King to be used as an offering to God.

7-ft card stack destroyedA man accidentally destroyed a seven foot high modelof Big Ben that had been made out of cards when hewent to congratulate the creator

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Children look at a fish on display in tank in TokyosGinza fashion district. PHOTO: AFP

Victoria Beckham(C), her sonRomeo (L) andactor Tom Cruise(R) attend thefriendly gamebetween LosAngeles Galaxyand AC Milan inCarson, California.PHOTO: AFP

Models display swimsuits from a collection byJapanese apparel giant Sanai, at a Tokyo shoppingmall to celebrate Marine Day, a Japanese nationalholiday. PHOTO: AFP

A Sri Lankanmodel showsoff a bridalcreation duringa fashion showin Colombo.PHOTO: AFP

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