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It’s time for a change in the cast of Nicole Kidman. The actress is all set to play as transsexual in a film starring fellow best actress Oscar-winner Charlize Theron.

Kidman will star and produce The Danish Girl, a movie based on the true story of Danish artists Einar and Greta Wegener.
Einar Wegener, who will be played by Kidman, was a male artist who underwent groundbreaking surgery to become a woman in 1931 after pretending to be a female model in a series of successful portraits painted by Greta Wegener.

Theron, a best actress Oscar-winner for Monster, will play Greta Wegener. The film is to be adapted from David Ebershoff’s successful 2000 novel of the same name.

Tough economic times call for stiff measures, don’t they?

March will be a risqué party month. It will be a hedonism resort, where anything goes for a month. It doesn’t take rocket science to work out what it means.

Well, an Australian holiday resort (White Cockatoo resort in Mossman, in tropical Queensland state) will hold a month-long, nude “anything goes” party to combat an expected economic downturn

The controversial “clothes optional” resort made headlines three years ago when police were called to end partner-swapping parties after a swathe of public complaints.

But Cairns Catholic Bishop James Foley ain’t happy :

“You’ve got to wonder what sort of people go and why. Where is the moral code of behavior and how do you stop jealousies and fights?”

Local regional Mayor Val Schier was not opposed to the event as long as no laws were broken.

“People in tropical north Queensland are extraordinarily creative”

“It is tough economic times and as long as it is with consenting adults, then there is no problem.”

Australia’s tourism in industry is being hit hard by global economic turmoil with official figures showing a 7.6 percent decline in overseas visitors in September.

Industry leaders expect holiday bookings may drop by up to a third in early 2009 and are planning a new international advertising campaign to coincide with the movie “Australia” starring Oscar-winning actress Nicole Kidman.

And the resort was almost fully booked for the month-long rainforest party.

“National Enquirer’” magazine cover featuring singer Michael Jackson story on his nose.

Michael Jackson at hotel in London, in 2006.

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Yeah that’s her Madonna at 50, super sexy.

She is performing at the Cardiff Millennium Stadium in Wales during the first concert of her world tour “Sticky And Sweet”.

OMG, she kicked off her world tour Saturday night, armed with three racks of clothing, a small mountain of diamonds, and a retinue large enough to fill a passenger jet.

2-Hour Concert Features 8 Costume Changes, $1.8M Worth Of Crystals, Jesus Christ is it for real

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He calls himself “The King of Bling”, Johnny Dang is Hip- Hop’s Crown Jeweler to the stars and no wonder he has come up with these custom designed Diamond Boxing Gloves. The base Price to own a pair just $20,500.00

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Yeah, you seeing it right, “J-Lo” is finally making news after a long hibernation. Jennifer Lopez is training for the upcoming Nautica Malibu Triathlon. She is competing to raise money for Children’s Hospital of LA

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And there he does it finally, he surpassed the Olympic record holders Carl Lewis and Paavo Nurmi, for the ‘most single sportsman golds’. Phelps broke the record Spitz set in Munich in 1972, and which was once thought to be unassailable

Michael Phelps made history today by winning eight gold medals in one Olympics while Australia claimed silver in the men’s medley relay.

The 23-year-old Phelps took a nasty stumble last October that imperiled his pursuit of Mark Spitz’s single Games record of seven gold medals. He slipped on a patch of ice and fell while climbing into a friend’s car in Michigan and broke his right wrist.

Phelps got a standing ovation in Beijing from the packed 17,000 capacity stadium as he acknowledged his historic win.

“The Beijing Olympics has witnessed the greatest Olympian of all time — Michael Phelps of the USA,” the announcer said

Phelps won five individual gold medals and was part of three winning relays. The most nerve-racking relay race was the 400 freestyle relay Monday, when anchor Jason Lezak caught France’s Alain Bernard in the final 10 meters and out-touched him at the wall.

The most gut-churning individual race for Phelps was Saturday’s 100 butterfly victory by one-hundredth of a second.

He has without any doubt proved to be one of the greatest Olympic sportsperson. You are the Supreme Olympian

Here I would like to quote Mark Spitz once again:

“It goes to show you that not only is this guy the greatest swimmer of all time and the greatest Olympian of all time, he’s maybe the greatest athlete of all time. He’s the greatest racer who ever walked the planet.

You did it Mike, now go have fun, enjoy that hip-hop music, texting with your buddies and wearing your cap backward
 

12 hours ago, I put my second blog on Michael Phelps winning his 6th gold and there he is my man winning his 7th Gold. With this 7th gold, Michael Phelps swam into Olympic history with a magnificent finish Saturday, his arms soaring through the water one last time to get a hand on the wall to match Mark Spitz’s performance in the 1972 Munich Games.

Michael Phelps remained on track to break an Olympic swim record — by a fingertip.

He got his hands on the wall a hundredth of a second ahead of Cavic — a finish so close the Serbians filed a protest and swimming’s governing body had to review the tape down to the 10-thousandth of a second.

Phelps’ time was 50.58 seconds, the only time in these Olympics that he won an event without breaking the world record.

Though Serbian coaches have asked for a review of the race and filed a formal, written protest. Swim officials broke down the video frame-by-frame to one ten-thousandths of a second and determined Phelps touched first.

This is what Mark Spitz had to say:

“It goes to show you that not only is this guy the greatest swimmer of all time and the greatest Olympian of all time, he’s maybe the greatest athlete of all time. He’s the greatest racer who ever walked the planet.”

Isn’t this what I said in my earlier bog, exactly same words.

Michael Phelps celebrates after winning the men’s 100m butterfly swimming final during the Beijing 2008 Olympic Games

Phelps said he had to take an extra half-stroke to reach the wall and admitted after that, “I thought I lost the race. But I guess that half-stroke — I mean, I’m really sort of at a loss for words.”

After seeing his name listed first on the scoreboard, Phelps yelled and did a few fist pumps, the most emotion he has shown after a win. He said he felt “relief, excitement — everything. … I had to take my goggles off first to make sure the 1 was next to my name. That’s when I sort of let out my roar.”

Cavic, actually a California native, led most of the race but took the loss gracefully.

“One one-hundreth of a second is the most difficult loss you can have, especially at the Olympics,” he said. “I did see the replays. But if you’re asking if I’m disappointed, it’s a complete miracle to me that I’m here. I retired a year and a half ago and came back to swimming thinking I was good enough to compete at this level. So I’m enjoying this.

“I wish I was the gold medalist. But I’ll take the silver medal and I’m very comfortable with this.”

Go Mike, we are waiting for the 8th one and we know you will do it. There never was and never will be a bigger sportsperson than you

Three decades ago James Bond (then enacted by British star Roger Moore) wowed the world with a car that could ‘fly’ under water in the movie The Spy Who Loved Me. Only, it was animation and not an actual scene.

But Frank M Rinderknecht, the 52-year-old automobile visionary and boss of Swiss automaker Rinspeed, has turned a dream into reality with his ’sQuba.’

Rinspeed sQuba is the most exciting thing at this year’s Geneva Motor Show and is creating many a ripple.

SQuba is the world’s first real submersible car that can ‘move like a fish underwater’.

It can dive up to 32.8 feet (10 MT) below the surface of the water and can move at a sedate 1.8 miles per hour.

The sQuba has an open cockpit for ’safety reasons’ (so that people can get out easily anytime in case of an emergency). The occupants of the car have to breathe compressed air through built-in scuba masks.

SQuba is an electric car that uses rechargeable lithium-ion batteries and 3 electric motors for propulsion. It is a zero-emission car as documented by the rotating license plate in the rear. It produces no exhaust emissions.

The ’sQuba’s’ filling station is the water reservoir.? It is no surprise that the vehicle features powerful yet energy-saving LED lighting technology.

The first car that could drive underwater was Quandt’s Amphibicar, built in 1968. Only 3,878 were produced but many are still being driven on roads.

Then Gibbs Technologies came up with Gibbs Aquada in 2004 which Virgin boss Richard Branson used to break the speed record for crossing the English Channel .
However, the sQuba seems to be the most exciting of them all.

To drive on the roads, the sQuba ‘relies on a stainless coil-over suspension from KW automotive and large Pirelli tires mounted on custom-made forged light-weight wheels from AEZ with 17- and 18-inch diameters.’

Technical Data

Measurements
Length —– 3′785 mm
Width —– 1”940 mm
Height —– 1′117 mm
Wheelbase —– 2?300 mm
Track front —– 1?470 mm
Track rear —– 1?520 mm
Ground clearance —– 130 mm
Empty weight —– approx. 920kg

Performances

Top speed —– > 120 km/h
Acceleration 0-80 km/h —– 7.1 sec
Water speed —– > 6 km/h
Under water speed —– > 3 km/h
Dive depth —– 10 m

Engines

Street —– Electric
Power output —– max. 54 kW at 4′500 /min
Torque —– 160 NM at 1′500 /min
Water - Stern propellers —– Electric
Power output —– 2 x 800 W
Diving - bow jet drives —– Electric
Power output —– 2 x 3.6 kW Rotinor
Batteries —– Lithium-Ionen
Voltage —– 6 x 48 Volt

Propulsion

Power train —– Rear wheel drive
Gearbox —– R - N - F
Suspension
Chassis —– Steel
Body panels —– Carbon Nano Tubes
Seating capacity —– 2
Front suspension —– Double wishbone
Rear suspension —– Double wishbone
Dampers/springs —– KW automotive
Steering —– Rack & pinion

Tyres

Front tyres —– Pirelli P Zero 205/40 R17
Front wheels —– AEZ 7.5 x 17′
Rear tyres —– Pirelli P Zero 225/40 R18
Rear wheels —– AEZ 8 x 18′
Miscellaneous
Air supply —– 1 x 15 liter + 1 x 18 liter ScubaPro
Laser scanner —– Ibeo
Lubricants —– Motorex

One more down and two more to go, for a man who is on a mission this Olympics to bring home a record-setting eight golds, Michael Phelps notched another gold medal Friday, winning the 200-meter individual medley in a world-record time of 1:54.23.

Here is my earlier blog on Phelps ( Phelps wins 3rd gold, joins elite club record for the most gold medals over an Olympic career ), for those of you keeping track, that makes it six gold medals – and six world records – in Beijing. (Phelps also scored six golds and two bronzes four years ago, in Athens.).

Like Spitz, Phelps has set a world record in every final he’s raced in Beijing. He lowered his own world record in the 200 IM to 1 minute, 54.23 seconds to finish ahead of silver medalist Laszlo Cseh of Hungary and U.S. teammate Ryan Lochte, who won bronze.

This is what Bob Bowman U.S. swimming coach had to say about his performance

“I think if it were all over today, he’d be the greatest Olympian who ever lived,” Bob Bowman.

About his 200-meter IM swim, Phelps said, “I just wanted to step on it in the first 50 [meters] a little bit and try and get out to an early lead …. I knew in the first half, if I got a big enough lead, I thought I could hang on and that’s all I wanted to do.”

Laszlo Cseh of Hungary placed second to Phelps – for the third time in Beijing. “I tried to do a harder start in the first 100 meters but Michael’s breaststroke is awesome,” Cseh said. “Michael is unbeatable.”

The bronze went to Phelps’s teammate – and friend – Ryan Lochte, who won the gold medal in 200-meter backstroke earlier in the day. (Two races in a single day is a “double” in swimmer parlance.)

He competes Saturday morning (Friday night EST) in the 100 butterfly finals. If he finishes ahead of teammate Ian Crocker in that race, he is expected to swim Sunday with the U.S. men in the 4×100 medley relay finals.

With victories in both, Phelps would eclipse Mark Spitz’s seven gold medals at the 1972 Olympics.

I am very confident in a day from now Phelps will win his ever eluding two more golds to be placed in the hall of fame as the best swimmer who ever walked planet Earth.

Good luck Mike, You will rise and shine, we are with you

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Its swimming season all the way - Summer, Olympics, Phelps having won 3 golds, to join the elite club of Spitz, Carl Lewis, Paavo Nurmi and Larysa Latynina, each with nine and now with an unfinished business of bringing home a record-setting eight golds this Olympics,

Swimming has always been a sport where the vast majority of international athletes live below the poverty line

Amidst all this let’s have a look at Ian Thorpe’s Retirement Speech. Thorpe often called as Thorpedo is one of the most prominent and popular sportsmen in the world. Here is an edited transcript of Ian Thorpe’s retirement speech and selected answers to questions:

“You’ve seen my swimming career very publicly since I was 15. I was catapulted into the international limelight as a kid and my swimming career started a long time before that. You guys didn’t see it, but I saw it. And it’s continued since that, and I’m certain everyone here’s seen it.

“I’ve reached all of the dizzying heights of this sport, and had a tremendous amount of success that I never thought would happen for myself, and for all of that I’m extremely appreciative.
“I’ve also had some setbacks. I’ve been sick, I’ve had injuries, all those things I’ve had to work through.

“Basically the last bout of them sent me to LA, where I could actually focus on what I was doing with fewer distractions than what I have here.

“And it was a great thing. I don’t know if I’ve been as fit as I was when I was in LA. I had physical and athletic prowess that I hadn’t seen before, and that was thanks to Milton Nelms and his techniques and methods while I was in LA, which I’m very, very grateful for.

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People magazine scored the scored the U.S. rights to exclusive photos of Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie’s newborn twins in a joint deal with the London-based Hello! magazine, and the two will split the bill.

The babies Vivienne Marcheline and Knox Leon were born one minute apart in Nice, France. Their arrival began much speculation over which celebrity magazine would enter a bidding war for the first photos of the boy and girl.

It is the second time People magazine has won the North American rights to the couple’s exclusive baby pictures in exchange for a hefty donation to charity. The magazine will feature Vivienne Marcheline and Knox Leon.

Jolie and Pitt sold the rights to the first shots of their daughter Shiloh, now 2 years old, to Getty Images in exchange for a donation to charity in 2005. People reportedly paid $4 million for the U.S. rights to those photos, and London-based Hello! magazine obtained the British rights.

And last year, the couple sold intimate shots of their son Pax, then 3 years old, to Hello! and People. The two magazines are again sharing the rights to the Jolie-Pitt photographs, with each publication contributing to the final price