Residents outragged by Bull Sign in Utah

Residents outraged by offensive restaurant sign

 

HURRICANE, UT -- Residents in Utah are appalled by a sign standing outside of a local restaurant.
Barista's restaurant in Hurricane, Utah introduced a new logo of a bull. The logo, however, exaggerates the size of the bull's male genitalia.
Some people have been calling the sign “R-rated” and many are offended by it.
The owner of Barista's, Stephen Ward, says that the sign is just merely an art form.
"That 130,000 dollar amazing piece of art is going to draw more travelers and more tourists in here and that spells more money for Stephen Ward and they hate that and they hate me. And that's what it's about,” he said.
According to various reports from the media, residents are circulation petitions asking for the council “to refuse Barista's license renewal.”

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Gandhi Statue to be unveiled in London

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Indian actor Amitabh Bachchan (left), British Prime Minister David Cameron (second left) and Gandhi's grandson Gopalkrishna Gandhi (third right) watch as Indian Finance Minister Shri Arun Jaitley (third left) unveils a bronze statue of Mahatma Gandhi in Parliament Square, Central London, Britain on March 14, 2015. Others are not identified. The 9ft (2.7m) bronze statue which was designed by Briton Philip Jackson is based on a photograph of Gandhi standing outside Downing Street in 1931. -- PHOTO: EPA

LONDON (AFP) - A statue of Indian independence leader Mahatma Gandhi is to be unveiled on Saturday at the heart of the British establishment which once loathed him for his campaign against imperial rule.
Gandhi will join figures including Britain's World War II leader Winston Churchill, who described him as a half-naked "fakir", in London's Parliament Square, opposite Big Ben and the House of Commons.
The giant bronze statue will be unveiled by Indian Finance Minister Arun Jaitley at a ceremony attended by Prime Minister David Cameron, Bollywood superstar Amitabh Bachchan and Gandhi's grandson, Shri Gopalkrishna Gandhi.
Despite such pomp, Gandhi was historically resented by many in Westminster as the leader of the non-violent campaign for Indian independence from Britain, which was granted in 1947.
"This statue is a magnificent tribute to one of the most towering figures in the history of world politics and by putting Mahatma Gandhi in this famous square, we are giving him an eternal home in our country," Cameron said in a statement released before the event.
"This statue celebrates the incredibly special friendship between the world's oldest democracy and its largest, as well as the universal power of Gandhi's message."
The unveiling marks the latest step in Britain's efforts to recast both its past and present in India, once known as the "jewel in the crown" of the British empire.
In 2013, Cameron became the first British premier to visit the site of a notorious massacre in Amritsar in 1919 where troops under British control gunned down hundreds of unarmed protestors.
He described the killings as "shameful" but stopped short of a public apology.
Cameron has also made boosting economic ties between India and Britain - home to some 1.5 million members of the Indian diaspora - a priority.
When he came to power in 2010, he said he wanted to double trade with India by this year.
Jaitley said the two countries now had a "partnership of equals".
"This lasting friendship is just one of many legacies left by Gandhi, which I am keen that we work hard to strengthen further," he added in a statement released ahead of the ceremony.
- 'Should be trampled by elephant' -
The statue marks 100 years since Gandhi returned to India from South Africa, where he was repeatedly jailed for pressing the rights of Indians, and started his non-violent campaign of civil disobedience.
Other statues in Parliament Square include anti-apartheid icon Nelson Mandela and Jan Smuts, a South African prime minister in the first half of the 20th century who favoured racial segregation.
Churchill, whose likeness is a stone's throw from Gandhi's, took an extremely dim view of the Indian barrister's actions.
"It is alarming and nauseating to see Mr Gandhi, a seditious Middle Temple lawyer now posing as a fakir (ascetic) of a type well known in the east, striding half-naked up the steps of the vice-regal palace," he said in 1931.
Churchill even suggested that Gandhi should be "trampled on by an enormous elephant" because of his campaign against British rule, according to biographers.
The Gandhi Statue Memorial Trust has raised one million pounds (S$2.05 million) of donations in six months for the project, including 100,000 pounds from billionaire Indian steel tycoon Lakshmi Mittal.

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LONDON (AFP) - A statue of Indian independence leader Mahatma Gandhi is to be unveiled on Saturday at the heart of the British establishment which once loathed him for his campaign against imperial rule.

Gandhi will join figures including Britain's World War II leader Winston Churchill, who described him as a half-naked "fakir", in London's Parliament Square, opposite Big Ben and the House of Commons.

The giant bronze statue will be unveiled by Indian Finance Minister Arun Jaitley at a ceremony attended by Prime Minister David Cameron, Bollywood superstar Amitabh Bachchan and Gandhi's grandson, Shri Gopalkrishna Gandhi.

Despite such pomp, Gandhi was historically resented by many in Westminster as the leader of the non-violent campaign for Indian independence from Britain, which was granted in 1947.

"This statue is a magnificent tribute to one of the most towering figures in the history of world politics and by putting Mahatma Gandhi in this famous square, we are giving him an eternal home in our country," Cameron said in a statement released before the event.

"This statue celebrates the incredibly special friendship between the world's oldest democracy and its largest, as well as the universal power of Gandhi's message."

The unveiling marks the latest step in Britain's efforts to recast both its past and present in India, once known as the "jewel in the crown" of the British empire.
In 2013, Cameron became the first British premier to visit the site of a notorious massacre in Amritsar in 1919 where troops under British control gunned down hundreds of unarmed protestors.
 He described the killings as "shameful" but stopped short of a public apology.

Cameron has also made boosting economic ties between India and Britain - home to some 1.5 million members of the Indian diaspora - a priority.

When he came to power in 2010, he said he wanted to double trade with India by this year.
Jaitley said the two countries now had a "partnership of equals".

"This lasting friendship is just one of many legacies left by Gandhi, which I am keen that we work hard to strengthen further," he added in a statement released ahead of the ceremony.
- 'Should be trampled by elephant' -

The statue marks 100 years since Gandhi returned to India from South Africa, where he was repeatedly jailed for pressing the rights of Indians, and started his non-violent campaign of civil disobedience.

Other statues in Parliament Square include anti-apartheid icon Nelson Mandela and Jan Smuts, a South African prime minister in the first half of the 20th century who favoured racial segregation.
Churchill, whose likeness is a stone's throw from Gandhi's, took an extremely dim view of the Indian barrister's actions.

"It is alarming and nauseating to see Mr Gandhi, a seditious Middle Temple lawyer now posing as a fakir (ascetic) of a type well known in the east, striding half-naked up the steps of the vice-regal palace," he said in 1931.

Churchill even suggested that Gandhi should be "trampled on by an enormous elephant" because of his campaign against British rule, according to biographers.

The Gandhi Statue Memorial Trust has raised one million pounds (S$2.05 million) of donations in six months for the project, including 100,000 pounds from billionaire Indian steel tycoon Lakshmi Mittal.

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LONDON (AFP) - A statue of Indian independence leader Mahatma Gandhi is to be unveiled on Saturday at the heart of the British establishment which once loathed him for his campaign against imperial rule.
Gandhi will join figures including Britain's World War II leader Winston Churchill, who described him as a half-naked "fakir", in London's Parliament Square, opposite Big Ben and the House of Commons.
The giant bronze statue will be unveiled by Indian Finance Minister Arun Jaitley at a ceremony attended by Prime Minister David Cameron, Bollywood superstar Amitabh Bachchan and Gandhi's grandson, Shri Gopalkrishna Gandhi.
Despite such pomp, Gandhi was historically resented by many in Westminster as the leader of the non-violent campaign for Indian independence from Britain, which was granted in 1947.
"This statue is a magnificent tribute to one of the most towering figures in the history of world politics and by putting Mahatma Gandhi in this famous square, we are giving him an eternal home in our country," Cameron said in a statement released before the event.
"This statue celebrates the incredibly special friendship between the world's oldest democracy and its largest, as well as the universal power of Gandhi's message."
The unveiling marks the latest step in Britain's efforts to recast both its past and present in India, once known as the "jewel in the crown" of the British empire.
In 2013, Cameron became the first British premier to visit the site of a notorious massacre in Amritsar in 1919 where troops under British control gunned down hundreds of unarmed protestors.
He described the killings as "shameful" but stopped short of a public apology.
Cameron has also made boosting economic ties between India and Britain - home to some 1.5 million members of the Indian diaspora - a priority.
When he came to power in 2010, he said he wanted to double trade with India by this year.
Jaitley said the two countries now had a "partnership of equals".
"This lasting friendship is just one of many legacies left by Gandhi, which I am keen that we work hard to strengthen further," he added in a statement released ahead of the ceremony.
- 'Should be trampled by elephant' -
The statue marks 100 years since Gandhi returned to India from South Africa, where he was repeatedly jailed for pressing the rights of Indians, and started his non-violent campaign of civil disobedience.
Other statues in Parliament Square include anti-apartheid icon Nelson Mandela and Jan Smuts, a South African prime minister in the first half of the 20th century who favoured racial segregation.
Churchill, whose likeness is a stone's throw from Gandhi's, took an extremely dim view of the Indian barrister's actions.
"It is alarming and nauseating to see Mr Gandhi, a seditious Middle Temple lawyer now posing as a fakir (ascetic) of a type well known in the east, striding half-naked up the steps of the vice-regal palace," he said in 1931.
Churchill even suggested that Gandhi should be "trampled on by an enormous elephant" because of his campaign against British rule, according to biographers.
The Gandhi Statue Memorial Trust has raised one million pounds (S$2.05 million) of donations in six months for the project, including 100,000 pounds from billionaire Indian steel tycoon Lakshmi Mittal.
- See more at: http://www.straitstimes.com/news/world/europe/story/gandhi-statue-be-unveiled-london-20150314#sthash.hIHCBabT.dpuf

Indian actor Amitabh Bachchan (left), British Prime Minister David Cameron (second left) and Gandhi's grandson Gopalkrishna Gandhi (third right) watch as Indian Finance Minister Shri Arun Jaitley (third left) unveils a bronze statue of Mahatma Gandhi in Parliament Square, Central London, Britain on March 14, 2015. Others are not identified. The 9ft (2.7m) bronze statue which was designed by Briton Philip Jackson is based on a photograph of Gandhi standing outside Downing Street in 1931. -- PHOTO: EPA

LONDON (AFP) - A statue of Indian independence leader Mahatma Gandhi is to be unveiled on Saturday at the heart of the British establishment which once loathed him for his campaign against imperial rule.
Gandhi will join figures including Britain's World War II leader Winston Churchill, who described him as a half-naked "fakir", in London's Parliament Square, opposite Big Ben and the House of Commons.
The giant bronze statue will be unveiled by Indian Finance Minister Arun Jaitley at a ceremony attended by Prime Minister David Cameron, Bollywood superstar Amitabh Bachchan and Gandhi's grandson, Shri Gopalkrishna Gandhi.
Despite such pomp, Gandhi was historically resented by many in Westminster as the leader of the non-violent campaign for Indian independence from Britain, which was granted in 1947.
"This statue is a magnificent tribute to one of the most towering figures in the history of world politics and by putting Mahatma Gandhi in this famous square, we are giving him an eternal home in our country," Cameron said in a statement released before the event.
"This statue celebrates the incredibly special friendship between the world's oldest democracy and its largest, as well as the universal power of Gandhi's message."
The unveiling marks the latest step in Britain's efforts to recast both its past and present in India, once known as the "jewel in the crown" of the British empire.
In 2013, Cameron became the first British premier to visit the site of a notorious massacre in Amritsar in 1919 where troops under British control gunned down hundreds of unarmed protestors.
He described the killings as "shameful" but stopped short of a public apology.
Cameron has also made boosting economic ties between India and Britain - home to some 1.5 million members of the Indian diaspora - a priority.
When he came to power in 2010, he said he wanted to double trade with India by this year.
Jaitley said the two countries now had a "partnership of equals".
"This lasting friendship is just one of many legacies left by Gandhi, which I am keen that we work hard to strengthen further," he added in a statement released ahead of the ceremony.
- 'Should be trampled by elephant' -
The statue marks 100 years since Gandhi returned to India from South Africa, where he was repeatedly jailed for pressing the rights of Indians, and started his non-violent campaign of civil disobedience.
Other statues in Parliament Square include anti-apartheid icon Nelson Mandela and Jan Smuts, a South African prime minister in the first half of the 20th century who favoured racial segregation.
Churchill, whose likeness is a stone's throw from Gandhi's, took an extremely dim view of the Indian barrister's actions.
"It is alarming and nauseating to see Mr Gandhi, a seditious Middle Temple lawyer now posing as a fakir (ascetic) of a type well known in the east, striding half-naked up the steps of the vice-regal palace," he said in 1931.
Churchill even suggested that Gandhi should be "trampled on by an enormous elephant" because of his campaign against British rule, according to biographers.
The Gandhi Statue Memorial Trust has raised one million pounds (S$2.05 million) of donations in six months for the project, including 100,000 pounds from billionaire Indian steel tycoon Lakshmi Mittal.

- See more at: http://www.straitstimes.com/news/world/europe/story/gandhi-statue-be-unveiled-london-20150314#sthash.hIHCBabT.dpuf

Indian actor Amitabh Bachchan (left), British Prime Minister David Cameron (second left) and Gandhi's grandson Gopalkrishna Gandhi (third right) watch as Indian Finance Minister Shri Arun Jaitley (third left) unveils a bronze statue of Mahatma Gandhi in Parliament Square, Central London, Britain on March 14, 2015. Others are not identified. The 9ft (2.7m) bronze statue which was designed by Briton Philip Jackson is based on a photograph of Gandhi standing outside Downing Street in 1931. -- PHOTO: EPA

LONDON (AFP) - A statue of Indian independence leader Mahatma Gandhi is to be unveiled on Saturday at the heart of the British establishment which once loathed him for his campaign against imperial rule.
Gandhi will join figures including Britain's World War II leader Winston Churchill, who described him as a half-naked "fakir", in London's Parliament Square, opposite Big Ben and the House of Commons.
The giant bronze statue will be unveiled by Indian Finance Minister Arun Jaitley at a ceremony attended by Prime Minister David Cameron, Bollywood superstar Amitabh Bachchan and Gandhi's grandson, Shri Gopalkrishna Gandhi.
Despite such pomp, Gandhi was historically resented by many in Westminster as the leader of the non-violent campaign for Indian independence from Britain, which was granted in 1947.
"This statue is a magnificent tribute to one of the most towering figures in the history of world politics and by putting Mahatma Gandhi in this famous square, we are giving him an eternal home in our country," Cameron said in a statement released before the event.
"This statue celebrates the incredibly special friendship between the world's oldest democracy and its largest, as well as the universal power of Gandhi's message."
The unveiling marks the latest step in Britain's efforts to recast both its past and present in India, once known as the "jewel in the crown" of the British empire.
In 2013, Cameron became the first British premier to visit the site of a notorious massacre in Amritsar in 1919 where troops under British control gunned down hundreds of unarmed protestors.
He described the killings as "shameful" but stopped short of a public apology.
Cameron has also made boosting economic ties between India and Britain - home to some 1.5 million members of the Indian diaspora - a priority.
When he came to power in 2010, he said he wanted to double trade with India by this year.
Jaitley said the two countries now had a "partnership of equals".
"This lasting friendship is just one of many legacies left by Gandhi, which I am keen that we work hard to strengthen further," he added in a statement released ahead of the ceremony.
- 'Should be trampled by elephant' -
The statue marks 100 years since Gandhi returned to India from South Africa, where he was repeatedly jailed for pressing the rights of Indians, and started his non-violent campaign of civil disobedience.
Other statues in Parliament Square include anti-apartheid icon Nelson Mandela and Jan Smuts, a South African prime minister in the first half of the 20th century who favoured racial segregation.
Churchill, whose likeness is a stone's throw from Gandhi's, took an extremely dim view of the Indian barrister's actions.
"It is alarming and nauseating to see Mr Gandhi, a seditious Middle Temple lawyer now posing as a fakir (ascetic) of a type well known in the east, striding half-naked up the steps of the vice-regal palace," he said in 1931.
Churchill even suggested that Gandhi should be "trampled on by an enormous elephant" because of his campaign against British rule, according to biographers.
The Gandhi Statue Memorial Trust has raised one million pounds (S$2.05 million) of donations in six months for the project, including 100,000 pounds from billionaire Indian steel tycoon Lakshmi Mittal.

- See more at: http://www.straitstimes.com/news/world/europe/story/gandhi-statue-be-unveiled-london-20150314#sthash.hIHCBabT.dpuf

Indian actor Amitabh Bachchan (left), British Prime Minister David Cameron (second left) and Gandhi's grandson Gopalkrishna Gandhi (third right) watch as Indian Finance Minister Shri Arun Jaitley (third left) unveils a bronze statue of Mahatma Gandhi in Parliament Square, Central London, Britain on March 14, 2015. Others are not identified. The 9ft (2.7m) bronze statue which was designed by Briton Philip Jackson is based on a photograph of Gandhi standing outside Downing Street in 1931. -- PHOTO: EPA

LONDON (AFP) - A statue of Indian independence leader Mahatma Gandhi is to be unveiled on Saturday at the heart of the British establishment which once loathed him for his campaign against imperial rule.
Gandhi will join figures including Britain's World War II leader Winston Churchill, who described him as a half-naked "fakir", in London's Parliament Square, opposite Big Ben and the House of Commons.
The giant bronze statue will be unveiled by Indian Finance Minister Arun Jaitley at a ceremony attended by Prime Minister David Cameron, Bollywood superstar Amitabh Bachchan and Gandhi's grandson, Shri Gopalkrishna Gandhi.
Despite such pomp, Gandhi was historically resented by many in Westminster as the leader of the non-violent campaign for Indian independence from Britain, which was granted in 1947.
"This statue is a magnificent tribute to one of the most towering figures in the history of world politics and by putting Mahatma Gandhi in this famous square, we are giving him an eternal home in our country," Cameron said in a statement released before the event.
"This statue celebrates the incredibly special friendship between the world's oldest democracy and its largest, as well as the universal power of Gandhi's message."
The unveiling marks the latest step in Britain's efforts to recast both its past and present in India, once known as the "jewel in the crown" of the British empire.
In 2013, Cameron became the first British premier to visit the site of a notorious massacre in Amritsar in 1919 where troops under British control gunned down hundreds of unarmed protestors.
He described the killings as "shameful" but stopped short of a public apology.
Cameron has also made boosting economic ties between India and Britain - home to some 1.5 million members of the Indian diaspora - a priority.
When he came to power in 2010, he said he wanted to double trade with India by this year.
Jaitley said the two countries now had a "partnership of equals".
"This lasting friendship is just one of many legacies left by Gandhi, which I am keen that we work hard to strengthen further," he added in a statement released ahead of the ceremony.
- 'Should be trampled by elephant' -
The statue marks 100 years since Gandhi returned to India from South Africa, where he was repeatedly jailed for pressing the rights of Indians, and started his non-violent campaign of civil disobedience.
Other statues in Parliament Square include anti-apartheid icon Nelson Mandela and Jan Smuts, a South African prime minister in the first half of the 20th century who favoured racial segregation.
Churchill, whose likeness is a stone's throw from Gandhi's, took an extremely dim view of the Indian barrister's actions.
"It is alarming and nauseating to see Mr Gandhi, a seditious Middle Temple lawyer now posing as a fakir (ascetic) of a type well known in the east, striding half-naked up the steps of the vice-regal palace," he said in 1931.
Churchill even suggested that Gandhi should be "trampled on by an enormous elephant" because of his campaign against British rule, according to biographers.
The Gandhi Statue Memorial Trust has raised one million pounds (S$2.05 million) of donations in six months for the project, including 100,000 pounds from billionaire Indian steel tycoon Lakshmi Mittal.

- See more at: http://www.straitstimes.com/news/world/europe/story/gandhi-statue-be-unveiled-london-20150314#sthash.hIHCBabT.dpuf

LA Kings Great Luc Robitaille Immortalized in Bronze outside of the Staples Center

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Finally there's a way to see Luc Robitaille when he's not in motion, rare for a man who always seems to be conducting a business meeting, embracing fans or rooting for the team that chose him in the ninth round of the 1984 draft despite warnings his lack of speed might outweigh his undeniable scoring touch.

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On Saturday the Kings and parent company AEG paid tribute to the highest-scoring left wing in NHL history by unveiling a statue of Robitaille in Star Plaza, outside Staples Center. Robitaille, now the Kings' president of business operations, has played a huge role in the club's history: He's their all-time goal leader (557), ranks second to Dave Taylor in games played with 1,077, second to Marcel Dionne in points with 1,154, and their leader in game-winning goals (73) and power-play goals (210). Now, he truly looms large in the form of a bronze statue that measures 19 feet tall and weighs 2,500 pounds, including its inscribed granite base.

"It's very, very humbling," Robitaille said after a speech in which he thanked his family, fans and those whose statues already stood in Star Plaza, including speakers Wayne Gretzky and Jerry West.
Robitaille was the seventh person honored with a statue outside of Staples Center and first in more than two years. He joined former teammate Gretzky (2002), Lakers great Magic Johnson (2004), boxer Oscar De La Hoya (2008), the late Lakers announcer Chick Hearn (2010), West (2011) and Lakers great Kareem Abdul-Jabbar (2012).

"I know what Magic has meant to this city. Jerry West is the logo of the NBA and Kareem, I watched these guys," said Robitaille, who was inducted into the Hockey hall of Fame in 2009. "For me personally, what Wayne Gretzky means to me and meant to the world of hockey, to be amongst these guys is absolutely incredible."

The Kings and parent company AEG paid tribute to the highest-scoring left wing in NHL history by unveiling a statue of Luc Robitaille in Star Plaza, outside Staples Center, on Saturday night. (Genaro Molina / Los Angeles Times)

The statue was commissioned by Staples Center and AEG and was created by artists Julie Rotblatt Amrany, Omri Amrany and Itamar Amrany. Julie Rotblatt Amrany and Omri Amrany created the statues of Abdul-Jabbar, West, Johnson and Hearn. Robitaille said he didn't pose for the sculptors and saw the statue for the first time when it was unveiled in its silver-black-and-white glory, with his stick upraised and smile wide in a post-goal celebration. "I know my wife had a say in it," he said. "She made sure the chin was right. It's pretty awesome. It's pretty special."
Lee Zeidman, the president of Staples Center, said Saturday he had scouted several potential locations and the sculptors came back with mockups suitable for the spot. "We don't want to block ingress or egress or signage," Zeidman said.

There's no definitive process for choosing who's immortalized in bronze, according to Dan Beckerman, president and chief executive officer of AEG. There's also no timetable.

 

There are no set criteria, either, though most of the selections are obvious because of the impact the honorees had on the Kings and Lakers even before Staples Center existed. The debatable choice is De La Hoya, who fought at Staples Center only once, in 2000. His presence can be explained by a former business relationship: AEG in 2008 purchased a minority stake in De La Hoya's company, Golden Boy Promotions, though it sold that stake last year.

"We have a process that we go through with a Staples Center and AEG collaboration, where we look at potential candidates and evaluate them periodically," Beckerman said in a phone interview. "There's not a formal submission process. We talk with the teams and sort of come up with it informally with the management of Staples Center and AEG."
Robitaille was an easy choice.

"It's very, very humbling," Robitaille said of the statue in his likeness that was unveiled at Staples Center on Saturday night. (Genaro Molina / Los Angeles Times)

"I think we've all known that at some point Luc was going to get a statue," Beckerman said. "He clearly blows by any criteria we would ever set up in terms of his on-ice accomplishments, his off-ice accomplishments and how he really transcends the game for what he's done for hockey in Los Angeles. And really for the ambassador he's become and the leadership that he provides today. It wasn't a matter of if, it was a matter of when."

Staples Center and AEG pay for the statues and Staples Center maintains them. Robitaille joked that his mother, Madeleine, who died of cancer last May, "is going to make sure there's no pigeons on this thing."

Beckerman's office overlooks the plaza and based on what he has seen, the statues of Hearn and Johnson seem to be the most popular. He also said the statues have remained free of graffiti or other vandalism. "People are very respectful," Beckerman said. "I love seeing people coming by, getting off tour buses and posing with the statues."

Who's next? Marcel Dionne? Kobe Bryant, after he retires? Shaquille O'Neal? And is there a cap on how many statues will stand there? Neither Beckerman nor Robitaille would be specific, but both said they expect to honor others in the same way.

"There are no limits, just the physical constraints of Star Plaza," Beckerman said. "There's so many worthy candidates, and we continue to get more and more worthy candidates with every passing year."

The Kings' current success could lead to more hockey statues.
"I don't know yet. But I do believe that there's room for a few more people and the Kings have been so relevant," Robitaille said. "Staples Center wouldn't be here if it weren't for the Kings and there's a lot of people in the Kings organization that made a difference and certainly there's more room for Kings people, Kings players."

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Turkey: President fined for statue 'monstrosity' insult

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Turkey's president has been fined for making disparaging remarks about a statue in 2011.

President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, who was prime minister at the time, described the Statue of Humanity as a "monstrosity" and suggested it should be removed. The monument was designed to symbolise friendship between Turkey and Armenia, and featured two 30-metre-high human figures facing each other on a mountain above the eastern city of Kars, close to the border between the two countries. It was never completed, and was demolished a few months after Mr Erdogan made his remarks.
An Istanbul court has now ruled that the president must pay sculptor Mehmet Aksoy 10,000 Turkish liras ($4,000; £2,500) in damages, the Hurriyet Daily News reports. Mr Aksoy had sought 100,000 liras for the "insult" to his work, but Mr Erdogan's lawyer argued the comments were more of a critique. In 2014, the Turkish Language Association told the court that the word Mr Erdogan used - "ucube", which can be translated as monstrosity or freak - is not an insult. It said the exact meaning was "very strange and very ugly". Three places you can buy the most attractive sculpture, school mascots, bronze statues and monuments  at the best prices in USA, http://www.allclassics.com/
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This 1.4 Million Dollar Bronze Sculpture has just been donated to the University of Sydney

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Individuals by Andrew Rogers at the University of Sydney.

Andrew Rogers, a contemporary Australia artist, has just given the University of Sydney a $1.4 million cast bronze sculpture.

The work, Individuals, was first exhibited in New York in 2013. The university says it’s the most significant gift of sculpture by a living artist in Australia.

It’s been placed outside the new Faculty of Law building at the University of Sydney’s Camperdown campus

Individuals was first exhibited at the gateway to the United Nations in New York City in Dag Hammarskjold Plaza.

It was unveiled by Sir James Wolfensohn, the ninth President of the World Bank, and a graduate of the University of Sydney Law School. At the time, it was one of the largest installations of bronze cast forms to be installed in New York.

Rogers said Individuals is a metaphor for the inseparable relationship between singularity and community.

“We are all individuals possessing the sanctity of a singular life and the ability to express ourselves. At the same time we are part of the society within which we live,” he said.

“With the lack of respect for the sanctity of individual life that we see around the world today, the message of the sculpture is significant and well placed outside the Law Faculty of a leading university.”

Made up of 15 sculptures of varying heights up to 3.5 metres, each bronze cast form is similar yet different. Each one is balanced on a tightly curled base which unfurls as it extends upwards and outward in an undulating spiral movement.

One of Rogers’ monumental projects is his ongoing land art series, Rhythms of Life, which he began in 1998.

Billed as the largest contemporary land art undertaking in history, it is made up of 51 massive stone structures in 16 countries across seven continents and has involved more than 7,500 people.

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CT Scan Reveals Something Incredible in 1,000 Year Old Buddha

It is truly fascinating what you can find inside of many antique sculptures.

Quite the amazing find was discovered in the Netherlands recently after a CT scan was taken of a 1,000-year-old Buddha sculpture. The scan revealed that a mummy was hidden within, still sitting in a meditation pose – but that’s not all.

The sculpture is from the 11th or 12th century and was part of the Mummies exhibition at the World Museum in Rotterdam earlier last year. It was recently analyzed at the Meander Medical Center, where, along with the CT scan, samples were taken from the mummy with an endoscope.

The CT Scan revealed the remains of a mummified monk encased inside, still sitting in what appears to be a position of meditation and said to be in immaculate condition. This Is Colossal further reports that “[a]mong some practicing Buddhists it’s been said that similar mummies ‘aren’t dead’ but are instead in an advanced state of meditation.”

According to the NL Times, the body belonged to Buddhist master Liuquan of the Chinese Meditation School. Along with being the only one of its time, it is the only Chinese Buddhist mummy available to the west for scientific study.

Surprisingly, the corpse wasn’t the only thing contained within the statue. During the endoscopic procedure, scientists made another discovery. As reported by the NL Times, gastrointestinal and liver doctor Reinoud Vermeijden “found paper scraps that are printed with ancient Chinese characters.”


The Liuquan mummy has since been taken to Hungary where it is set to be put on display in the National Museum of Natural History in Budapest until May 2015.

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500-year-old sculptures may be Michelangelos

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(CNN)Two Renaissance sculptures of a nude man riding a panther may have been created by Michelangelo, says a British museum

 The Fitzwilliam Museum in Cambridge says that the bronze sculptures, known as the Rothschild Bronzes and dating from the 1500s, were probably created just after the famed artist's David and just before he painted the ceiling of the Vatican's Sistine Chapel. The museum and researchers at the University of Cambridge say they have "compelling evidence" that the works, attributed to a Dutch sculptor, are actually from Michelangelo.

If so, they are the only surviving Michelangelo bronzes in the world, says the museum.

The key clue that the unsigned bronzes were actually done by Michelangelo came from one of the master's apprentices.

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Last year, Paul Joannides, a Cambridge art history professor, noted that a Michelangelo student had made a study of several Michelangelo sketches for works believed lost. One of the drawings in the study, which dates from 1508, matched one of the bronzes.

Further research indicated they were in Michelangelo's style, and X-rays roughly confirmed the era of their creation. 

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"Even a peroneal tendon is visible, as is the transverse arch of the foot," wrote University of Warwick anatomist Peter Abrahams, according to the UK Guardian.

Victoria Avery, keeper of applied arts at the Fitzwilliam Museum, described the project to the Guardian as "a Renaissance whodunit."

She says that the museum was careful in assembling the evidence and that the works are masterpieces.

"The modeling is superb, they are so powerful and so compelling, so whoever made them had to be superb," she said.

The works -- and some of the evidence -- will be on display at the Fitzwilliam from Tuesday through August 9.

Though the museum is confident of the works' origins, research is continuing, and results will be presented at a conference in early July.