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With numerous attacks against Iraq's Christians in recent weeks including a Halloween day massacre in a Baghdad church, which left 52 dead the country's religious minority fears for its survival within the boundaries of the Middle Eastern nation. Yet, a long way from their native land, many Iraqi Christians are also living in terror in a far more serene place: Stockholm.
Swedish immigration officials have been deporting Iraqi refugees to Baghdad on flights about every three weeks, declaring that some of them have no legitimate claim to political asylum in Sweden. That includes Iraqi Christians a category that does not automatically imply a risk of persecution, according to Swedish guidelines. Of the 80,000 or so Iraqi refugees in Sweden, about 6,000 of them are Christian, according to estimates by the Syriac Orthodox Church in Stockhold. That Swedish interpretation of the main criterion for refugee status under U.N. treaties has spread widespread panic among refugees. "There are hundreds of Iraqis here who are not legal who have simply disappeared," says an Iraqi engineer in Stockholm, a Catholic, who fled Baghdad in 2004 with his family after Islamic militants ordered them to leave their home, or be killed. "The refugees are hiding in churches or basements, working illegal jobs, trying to survive, transferring from place to place."
Sweden is not alone in deporting Iraqis. Under agreements signed with Iraq's government, Britain, Norway and Denmark have also sent back hundreds of Iraqis who fled during the most violent years of the war. Alarmed at the deportations, U.N. refugee officials warned last September that many of the returned Iraqis could face grave dangers back home, or place huge burdens on Iraq's neighbors, were millions of Iraqi refugees have also fled. "Serious risks, including indiscriminate threats to life, physical integrity or freedom.... are valid reasons for international protection," the U.N. refugee spokesman Adrian Edwards told reporters last September.
The European Court for Human Rights in Strasbourg agrees. Last month it sent E.U. governments a letter urging them to suspend the deportation of Iraqis, because of mounting violence in their native land. The Netherlands immediately halted the deportations, while Britain has said it would not force Iraqis to leave, if they petition the European court.
Sweden, on the other hand, appears to have assumed the toughest attitude. On Nov. 2, a Swedish Foreign Ministry official told the European court that the country carefully considers each Iraqi's case. "An applicant may put forward any information that he or she considers relevant to the case," wrote Charlotte Hellner, Deputy Director of the ministry's Department of International Law. "The final assessment... will always be based on individual circumstances in each single case," she wrote, suggesting that there would be no blanket suspension of deportations. Indeed, Sweden is scheduled to fly another batch of Iraqi deportees to Baghdad on Nov. 17.
On Saturday, Swedish clergymen met to organize support for Iraqis in hiding, including raising funds for their living expenses, and finding them families to stay with. "We have to support them financially too," Sweden's Syriac Orthodox Archbishop Abdulahad Shabo told TIME after the meeting. "The government has supported them for a long time, and now we need to do so."
Sweden's deportations are a stark reversal from a few years ago. The country welcomed more Iraqi refugees during the war than any other European country. At one point, anyone fleeing central or southern Iraq was offered state-funded shelter, monthly stipends and food vouchers in Sweden. During the few days TIME spent in early 2007 in the Swedish Migration Office in Stockholm, there was a steady stream of Iraqi families arriving with suitcases. Many had fled Iraq for Syria or Jordan, and then made their way to Sweden on forged European passports, using a well-organized network of smugglers. "We don't turn anyone back," a Swedish immigration official said at the time. "Look at the circumstances they have left."
But that attitude has changed. Sweden now demands that, in order to be granted permanent residency, each family must prove it faces real risks if sent back to Iraq. Since many fled without documents, finding evidence of personal threats has grown immensely complicated. And many whom Sweden has deported in recent months have felt far too scared to remain back in Iraq. "Most of the Christians who are deported are fleeing again to neighboring countries like Syria and Jordan after they land in Baghdad," says Nuri Kino, a freelance journalist in Stockholm, who has spent months tracking Iraqi refugees. Kino says that after examining the files of many Iraqi refugees, he is convinced that Swedish officials have deported some who face real threats in Iraq. "We have gone through hundreds of asylum rejections with lawyers," he says, "and we have seen fatal mistakes being made."


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You don't even have to follow Hollywood gossip to know that something went down between Iron Man, Iron Man 2 and Terrence Howard. The actor was cast as James "Rhodey" Rhodes for 2008's Iron Man, fresh off an Oscar nomination for Hustle & Flow and seeming like the obvious choice for this high-profile, future superhero role. Then Howard was left behind when it came time to make Iron Man 2, and from the very beginning he hasn't been shy about explaining why; talking to NPR in October of 2008 he had this to say:
"Apparently, the contracts that we write and sign aren't worth the paper that they are printed on. And promises aren't kept. Good faith and negotiations aren't always held up."
Reuniting with the cast of The Best Man for this weekend's comedy The Best Man Holiday, you'd think Howard might be in better spirits, but appearing on Bravo's Watch What Happens Live (via Vulture), he pulled out the knives yet again, and this time aimed them at Iron Man himself, Robert Downey Jr.:
It turns out that the person that I helped become Iron Man, when it was time to re-up for the second one, took the money that was supposed to go to me and pushed me out.
Wowza! Now, we all know that Downey is paid extremely handsomely to play Iron Man, and that Marvel is notorious for playing crazy hardball with pretty much all of its other actors, and it's completely believable that Howard's departure happened the exact way he said it happened on Bravo last night:
They came to me with the second and said 'look, we will pay you one-eighth of what we contractually had for you, because we think the second one will be successful with or without you.' And I called my friend, that I helped get the first job, and he didn't call me back for three months.
I have no idea how Hollywood contracts work and if it's at all legal to just backtrack on somebody like that, but Howard clearly has reasons to still be bitter after all these years (and not just because Don Cheadle did a pretty great job of taking his place). Since he walked away from one-eighth of that Iron Man money Howard has kept reasonably busy, popping up in everything from this fall's gritty crime drama Prisoners to Lee Daniels' The Butler, in which he seduces Oprah Winfrey. That's not a bad fate for any working actor, but it's probably hard to go from the peak of an Oscar nomination and a superhero franchise to anything else-- especially if you think your old friend managed to take some of your money in the process.

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Hey all,
So I've been away a while, even though I wasn't on here a lot back in the day, and I've got some newer songs I wanted to share. I've got JJ tubes in my sd1 and the tube gain turned up almost all the way. After producing a song on the emx, I'll record into FL and EQ, compress, what not.
I think these are a few of what I think are my better sounding songs. I thought It would be cool to get some feed back or just share. I love working on the emx.
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Norway's and Belgium's women through to Continental Cup third round
The Scandinavians won their final match with Belgium by scoring two consecutive victories thereby progressing straight to the third round of the competition coming up next year.
The same applies to the runner-ups from Belgium, while Slovenia, Scotland and Northern Ireland – who settled for third, fourth and fifth place – will re-start their campaign via the second stage of the competition scheduled for August and September this year.
Norway v Slovenia 2-0
Norway and Slovenia opened the programme on Sunday with a much anticipated semifinal clash. Norway's top team, Janne Kongshavn and Victoria Faye Kjølberg, easily edged Slovenia's second duo, Ana Skarlovnik and Jelena Pesic, with a double 21-11.
After that, Janne Pedersen and Cindy Treland routed Sara Sakovic/Kaja Turk by 21-14, 21-17, thereby claiming a ticket to the final and avenging the defeat that Norway had suffered back in 2010 at the Sub Zonal phase event held in Zrece, Slovenia.
"We did our best today and even though it was not enough to upset the Norwegian team, we still can be satisfied with our performance," Kaja Turk said. "We will be working very hard this summer and I feel like we can improve our game and make it to the next level. Let's hope that the second round won't mark our last appearance in this edition of the Continental Cup."
Belgium v Scotland 2-0
Belgium claimed the second spot in the final after beating Scotland. Katrien Gielen and Marta Sobolska cashed Belgium's first victory by seeing off Lynne Beattie and Gillian Lyall by 21-13, 21-14. Fien Callens and Maud Catry continued Belgium's winning run claiming the first set (21-16) of their match with 2012 Olympian Shauna Mullin and partner Anneka Hastings, but then suffered a setback in the second which the Scots won by 21-18. Still the Belgians got back control of the game in the third which they dominated cruising to a terrific 15-4.
Norway v Belgium 2-0
Janne Kongshavn and Victoria Faye Kjølberg probably did not think they would find that much resistance in their match with Callens and Catry. The Belgians even had a set ball but did not capitalise on that opportunity, losing the first set by 22-24. They started off very strong also in the second leading the way by 10-7 and 11-8, but good serving by Kongshavn propelled Norway's strong comeback. They slowly but surely cut their deficit and eventually won the set (21-17) and the match.
Gielen and Sobolska tried to force a golden set but in the end they lost in straight sets (19-21, 19-21) to Pedersen and Treland. In this way, Norway finished top of the charts with Belgium following in second place.
"We are very happy with our second place. We did not know what to expect from the other teams but we were sure we would have had to play every match at our best in order to score a victory," Fien Callens said. "Making the third round of the Continental Cup is a great thing for our country."
The Belgians will be making their next appearance in 2015 and Callens hopes she will be a member of the team again: "In Belgium players are nominated according to the results of our national qualifying events and therefore it is still too early to know what happens next. I only know that my partner and I have to train, train, and train."


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Oxygen therapy is a way to get more oxygen into your lungs and bloodstream. It is sometimes used for people who have diseases that make it hard to breathe, such as heart failure. Oxygen therapy can make it easier to breathe. And it can reduce the heart's workload.
Some people need extra oxygen all the time. Others need it from time to time throughout the day or overnight. A doctor will prescribe how much oxygen you need, based on blood tests. He or she will tell you how much oxygen to use per minute (the flow rate) and how often to use it.
To breathe the oxygen, most people use a nasal cannula (say "KAN-yuh-luh"). This is a thin tube with two prongs that fit just inside your nose. Children and people who need a lot of oxygen may need to use a mask that fits over the nose and mouth.
You don't have to stay at home or in a hospital to use oxygen. Oxygen systems are portable. You can use them while you do your daily tasks.
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New Mexico State Agency Databases
This is an annotated list of databases produced by New Mexico State Agencies listed by producing agency. It was last checked for broken links on January 13, 2015. If you are a registered user of this wiki, feel free to add a database to this list or to fix a broken link, or contact Susanne Caro, the documents specialist for this page at susanne.caro AT umontana DOT edu. If you are a registered user of this wiki, feel free to fix broken links or add databases with annotations.
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- 1 Administrative Code - New Mexico
- 2 Board of Licensure for Professional Engineers and Professional Surveyors - New Mexico
- 3 Board of Nursing - New Mexico
- 4 Bureau of Business and Economic Research - Statistical Abstract
- 5 Bureau of Geology and Mineral Resources - New Mexico
- 6 Business Services Division - New Mexico Secretary Of State
- 7 Coal Mines Query - New Mexico
- 8 Child Care Search - New Mexico
- 9 Compilation Commission - New Mexico
- 10 Corporations Bureau of the Public Regulation Commission - New Mexico
- 11 Corrections - Department of
- 12 Courts - New Mexico
- 13 Department of Public Safety - New Mexico
- 14 Environment - Department of
- 15 Film Office - New Mexico
- 16 Game and Fish - New Mexico Department of
- 17 General Services - New Mexico
- 18 Health - New Mexico Department of
- 19 Historic Markers - New Mexico
- 20 Legislature - New Mexico
- 21 Medical Board - New Mexico
- 22 Office of the State Engineer
- 23 Regulation and Licensing Department - New Mexico
- 24 Resource Graphic Information Systems
- 25 Sentencing Commission - New Mexico
- 26 State Archives - New Mexico
- 27 State Bar of - New Mexico
- 28 State Library - New Mexico
- 29 State - New Mexico Secretary of
- 30 State Personnel Office - New Mexico
- 31 Supreme Court Law Library - New Mexico
- 32 Workforce Connection - New Mexico
Administrative Code - New Mexico
- New Mexico Administrative Code Includes all new rules, amendments and appeals with effective dates.
Board of Licensure for Professional Engineers and Professional Surveyors - New Mexico
- Licensed Professional Engineers and Professional Surveyors Search for licensed professional engineers and licensed professional surveyors by license number, last name, first name, city, state, zip, license type, branch or status (there is a key available on the search page to assist in the selection of license type, status or branch).
Board of Nursing - New Mexico
- Board of Nursing This license and certificate lookup is the New Mexico State Board of Licensing online verification service provided to licensees, employers and the public, and is updated daily.
Bureau of Business and Economic Research - Statistical Abstract
- University of New Mexico Provides access to census, population, economic and data profiles for the state of New Mexico
Bureau of Geology and Mineral Resources - New Mexico
- New Mexico Bureau of Geology and Mineral Resources The Bureau of Geology and Mineral Resources serves as the geological survey for the state of New Mexico for elementary school students to research and industry scientists. The 'google-like' search allows natural language search and using the advanced search allows the users to limit the search of the site as well as number of items displayed. Reviewing the search expressions under advanced search can improve search results.
Business Services Division - New Mexico Secretary Of State
- Lookup Corporations Enter a New Mexico Entity Name (Corporation, Limited Liability Company (LLC) Name or a valid Entity ID and click on Search. When both Entity ID and the Entity Name are entered the Entity ID takes priority.
Coal Mines Query - New Mexico
- New Mexico Coal Mines Query *** The GIS Map and Mine data continues to be unavailable. An alternative is to access an excel spreadsheet of Active Mines (as of February 2012) (if you are asked for a password, click "cancel" and the spreadsheet will open)
Child Care Search - New Mexico
- Child Care Search This database provides a customized, detailed search based around your needs. Searches can be performed by important criteria such as location, age of child, days/hours of care, and others is maintained by Mexico Kids and lists child care providers that are licensed or registered by recognized regulatory agencies in the state of New Mexico. The online search requires registration to log in.
Compilation Commission - New Mexico
- New Mexico Appellate Opinions Search the New Mexico Appellate Opinions of the Supreme Court of New Mexico and the New Mexico Court of Appeals. These resources became available through the New Mexico Compilation Commission beginning January 1, 2011, and contains opinions of the appellate courts.
Corporations Bureau of the Public Regulation Commission - New Mexico
- Corporation Search Search for a Corporation by name, director or agent or by the corporations New Mexico State Corporation Commission number. If searching by name searches can be focused by selecting search type from the drop down menu.
- Director Search Search for a Director(s) of a corporation by clicking of one of the alphabetical links or by entering a first and/or last name in the search boxes.
- Agent Search Search for an Agent of a corporation by clicking on the alphabetical links or by entering a name in the search box. Searches can be focused by selecting search type.
Corrections - Department of
- Offender Information Search The New Mexico Corrections Department Offender Information is intended to provide law enforcement agencies and the general public with information about offenders who are incarcerated or on probation and/or parole supervision. You must know an offender's first and/or last name or NMCD Number to begin the search process.
Courts - New Mexico
- The Judicial Branch of New Mexico This online case lookup is maintained by The New Mexico Courts. This database gives access to the lower court cases of the New Mexico District Court, Magistrate Court and Municipal Court data. Municipal court data is limited to criminal Domestic Violence and DWI historic convictions from September 1, 1991 onwards. Searches can be conducted by name, case number or DWI.
Department of Public Safety - New Mexico
- Sex Offender Registry This sex offender registry has been designed to provide information to the public concerning the location of sex offenders residing in the State of New Mexico. The Department of Public Safety (DPS) hopes this site will increase and promote public awareness.
- Missing Person Information Page Search by Name, City or the entire state of New Mexico. This web page was created to provide information to the public concerning abducted missing persons in the State of New Mexico.
Environment - Department of
- EGIS Mapper The EGIS Mapper Application allows users to find and display key features of the data map such as drinking water sources and hazardous waste facilities. The navigation menu to the left covers key topics and functional tools of the map. Click on the Help Using this Tool link located in the upper right corner of the application for explanations and instructions regarding navigation, layers and controls in the creation of your query.
- Liquid Waste Permit Database Finds permit information for a specific onsite wastewater treatment system (e.g. septic tank). Data for Bernalillo County, which is outside of the jurisdiction of the New Mexico Environment Department, is incomplete.
Film Office - New Mexico
- New Mexico Film Office The New Mexico Film Office provides information for those in the film and television industry to find crew, meet production needs, identify locations and post-production services as well as support businesses in New Mexico. The New Mexico State Film Office also provides training and resources for New Mexicans interested in pursuing careers in the film and television industries.
Game and Fish - New Mexico Department of
- New Mexico Wildlife Comprehensive Wildlife Conservation Strategy for New Mexico (CWCS/NM). Conserving New Mexico's Biodiversity contains a searchable database allowing users to query the CWCS/NM database by species, habitats, ecological region or watershed, factors that influence habitats, research and survey needs, information gaps, or conservation actions.
General Services - New Mexico
- Official Transparency and Accountability Portal The Sunshine Portal is the official transparency and accountability portal for New Mexico state government. This is your window into government spending, budgets, revenues, employees, contracts and more.
Health - New Mexico Department of
- County Health Status Indicators - The public health datasets on NM-IBIS Department of Health generates tables of birth, death, health, hospital, infectious diseases and population estimates by county for a variety of indicators -- such as births to teen mothers, gender, deaths by a variety of causes.
- Environmental Public Health Tracking Environmental Public Health Tracking (EPHT) is designed to create a better understanding of how the environment affects people's health and to educate the public about ways to protect themselves from possible exposures and their related health effects. On this site you learn about health effects that may be related to environmental exposures and create maps, charts and tables.
Historic Markers - New Mexico
- Historic Markers Search through the geographic regions of New Mexico for historical markers. A brief description of each marker and its approximate location will display by region on a map by scrolling over a marker name. There is also a section of New Mexico Women Historical Markers. Citizens can also report missing historical markers and make recommendations for additional markers.
Legislature - New Mexico
- Find Your Legislator Locate current members of the House of Representatives and the Senate by name, district or zip code. Former legislators can be searched by name. There are also documents available listing current leadership, addresses, phone numbers and seating charts for the New Mexico House of Representatives and the Senate.
Medical Board - New Mexico
- Physician Profile Search - The New Mexico Medical Board provides and maintains physician data as part of this official website, and is the primary source for physician and physician assistant profiles and other related information and data. Information on the website is normally updated weekly, and the date of the most recent update is always provided on the search page.
Office of the State Engineer
- WATERS Database - the Water Administration Technical Engineering Resource System "provides a historical analysis of each individual water right claim in New Mexico, court orders and decrees, hydrographic survey results, water right applications pending before the State Engineer, and electronic images of water right documents."
Regulation and Licensing Department - New Mexico
- Regulation and Licensing The Regulation and Licensing Department oversees five different industries in New Mexico, as well as numerous specialized professions and trades. Search for a license by profession, license type or license status. Searches can also be conducted by facility or by person.
Resource Graphic Information Systems
- RGIS Reference Maps A cooperative program between the University of New Mexico (UNM) and the State of New Mexico Information Technology Commission (ITC). Includes downloadable digital spatial data via FTP and PDFs of state maps
Sentencing Commission - New Mexico
- Sentencing Commission Reports The New Mexico Sentencing Commission (NMSC) serves as a criminal and juvenile justice policy resource to the State of New Mexico. Search the New Mexico Sentencing Commission Reports by report category. These categories include, Drugs, DWI, Juvenile, Miscellaneous, Prison and Jails, Sentencing, Sex Offender and Workload.
State Archives - New Mexico
- New Mexico State Archives The online catalog for the New Mexico State Archives is one of New Mexico's most important historical and cultural resources. It houses records from the executive, legislative, and judicial branches of government, including documents dating from New Mexico's Spanish (1621-1821), Mexican (1821-1846), and territorial (1846-1912) periods of history. Some holding include photograph and motion picture film. Archival holdings are vast, so cataloging is ongoing. If you cannot find what you are looking for you can contact the Archives reference desk at (505) 476-7948 or via e-mail at email@example.com. The catalog is updated regularly.
- [newmexicohistory.org/ Office of the State Historian] Originally intended as an electronic textbook of New Mexico History Search this site links users to images, transcripts of primary source documents, oral histories, films, songs and more. The primary search is by names with places, timelines, multimedia or topics presented as lists.
State Bar of - New Mexico
- Find an Attorney This online directory includes current information of active and inactive State Bar of New Mexico attorneys. Enter information or use the drop down menus for convenience. Inclusion in "Find an Attorney" or "Premium Listings" does not imply endorsement or recommendation by the State Bar of New Mexico of any attorney listed. Entering the least amount of information will yield greater results. Looking for an attorney? Enter "Type of Law" and "NM Counties where cases are accepted" and click Search or consider Referral Programs offered by the NM State Bar Foundation.
State Library - New Mexico
- State Library, New Mexico The New Mexico State Library is committed to providing leadership that promotes effective library services and access to information to all citizens of New Mexico. The State Library provides services that support public libraries as well as delivers direct library services to rural populations, state agencies, the visually impaired and physically disabled, and students and citizens conducting research.
- SALSA - System Access to Libraries in State Agencies State Library online catalog.
- New Mexico State Library Digital Archive The State library has been collecting and preserving state government materials since 2003. The state publications range from the Brand Book and Legislative Orders, to Fish Stocking Reports and traffic pattern maps. The digital archive is a work in progress.
State - New Mexico Secretary of
- Campaign Reports Search - Searchable database of electronically filed campaign finance reports. Search by name of candidate, name of PAC or office sought.
- Uniform Commercial Code Information Search by business name, individual name, or file number.
- UCC Search
- Notary Search Search by name
- Trademark Search Search by name of trademark , name of applicant, description of the mark, registration date, or registration number. Search by candidates, political action committees, contributors, lobbyists and lobbyist employers.
State Personnel Office - New Mexico
- State Personnel Office The New Mexico State Personnel Office recruits for all New Mexico State Agencies. Job openings are updated daily. You can apply for jobs online.
Supreme Court Law Library - New Mexico
- Supreme Court Law Library The online catalog for the New Mexico Supreme Court Law Library! Searches of the New Mexico Supreme Court Law Library can be accomplished using single or multiple keyword or exact phrase.
- Supreme Court Law Library Icon Search The icon search of the online catalog is a 'Kid Friendly' search with easy to use and fun icons in a very simple to use interface.
- Supreme Court Law Library Government Documents Search the New Mexico Supreme Court Law Library's page of government information resources and databases for print, online, electronic, and microfiche items.
Workforce Connection - New Mexico
- Job Search Database Jobs database for New Mexicans seeking work and employers in search of employees. Registration is required to save searches and resumes and is free.


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In a parochial world of male-chauvinism, parched stay the women. Parched for a little place in the world. Parched for teensy droplets of hope in a male dominant society. A rustic village of feeble minds constantly gnaws at them, laughs brazenly at their winds of change. But despite everything that stands against them, a coterie of three friends take on the challenge, defying dams that have them bound.
Parched wades beautifully into ballsy waters of change. A lot of times it goes lewd in doing so, but if you really look at it, you can't help but think why is it alright in India to show just men being obscene? Why does it bother Indian men when they see women act like them? Why can't they stand a sordid joke if it emanates from a woman's mouth? If you try to reason with it, suddenly every coarse gesture becomes nothing but a mere hue of naughty.
One of the most appalling moments of Parched lurks right at the beginning. An unfortunate woman tries escaping the indecency levied upon her in her wedded land. She has taken recluse in her mother's bosoms, but even so is brought under the gavel by her ugly community. The judge being one of those old inane fellas who, instead of doing what is right, bluntly orders her to go back.
What is even more nerve-racking is the fact that even when she confesses everything in front of her mother, she stands their motionless, emotionless as if the concept of injustice to women is an accepted way of living. It literally rips your heart apart when you watch her being taken as she looks at her helpless mother in tears of wrath and hatred. As if speaking,
"How could you let them take me?"
For its primal plot, we have a prostitute named Bijli played convincingly well by Surveen Chawla who brushes off her defiance on her insular friends. She tries to show them what a good time is all about. Her freedom is eloquent in a progressive way, and if it were not for her, life would have been really punishing for her childhood friend Rani, a widow played superbly by Tannishtha Chatterjee, and Lajjo played extraordinarily well by Radhika Apte. The latter is a woman caught in the abominable clutches of domestic violence. The presence of Bijli in their lives gives them so much to catch up on that they forget all about the myopic vision of their parched land ephemerally.
Along with several havocking subplots in the tale of Parched, the major one stays concentrated around Rani. We see her rustic world with her stinted eyes, where it is considered a disgrace if women cut their hair short. On her way to marry her son Gulab played exceptionally by Riddhi Sen, who by the way is picking up all the wrong things that their short-sighted world has, she comes across the reticent Janaki (Lehar Khan), who ends up getting instantly mocked at in hushed voices for her short hair.
Irritated by "what people think of her" and the lost honor, Gulab goes harsh on her doing what every brazen man in their little village isn't afraid to do. He beats her, deprives her of the elusive good times, and shows her who the boss is.
Leena Yadav shows the bluntness of child marriage, even in those fleeting moments of geniality. She manifests the brusqueness of Dowry, and the pointlessness of the significance of something as trivial as hair. These contrasting things when placed together makes you hate such ugly traditions even more.
Riddhi Sen remains the element of misconduct. His acting is so brilliant, so convincing that you cannot hate him enough for his role, and yet love him for his acting. Radhika Apte's effortless natural acts will have you convinced that she was built for that role. She acts like nobody's watching her. Like there are no cameras on her; how acting is truly supposed to be like.
Sumeet Vyas's Kishan is the only good the village retains. With the future of the village hating the guts of a man who is trying to do them some good, it goes on to show how no one really cares about winds of change. They look down upon him in disgust as a person progressing. Then they try to beat the crap out of him. Malice is written all over them.
I loved how Yadav tries to depict the concept of love which was nothing but elusive in that wretched village. It is evident when Lajjo, with hopes of making amends with her husband and her body, visits a man in a cave to conceive a child. Her innocence is apparent when Lajjo lies down with her legs wide open oblivious to an imminent emotional uplifting. Adil Hussain the mystic man then bows down to her, a reverence she was alien to. Then makes love to her in a way she has never experienced before. You can't help but feel happy for her.
Some conversations are powerful enough to hit you with a brick. Like the one where Bijli realizes 'how there is no expletive meant to disgrace men'? How come we never thought about it? Even in its derogatory sense of change you realize Leena Yadav talks a lot of sense.
The culminating point of the movie finds every character trying to wring off whatever had them bound. It is quite metaphorical when the Ravana, the evil burns, when Lajjo's husband catches fire. When she stops Rani from putting out the fire, it goes on to tell how pushed Lajjo had felt all her life. That she decided to let nature's poetic justice bring home justice.
Leena Yadav's direction is magnificent when she has issues to address. She finds beauty in the deserted barren shots by taking it down with her subtleties. She is a clean winner when it comes to bringing accuracy out in the open. However, where the drama is supposed to be the decimating kind, she doesn't call out her actors to perform.
The beauty of the movie is that it doesn't make amends right away. This helps it to stay miles away from artificiality. That being said, what its characters encounter is not an overnight change. It goes on to show how their way of living still stays accepted in their minds even as they come out victorious.
What miffs you is that even though the word police was mentioned once, you don't get to see them at all. It could be metaphorical in a sense about how in an unlawful state of disarray, people break rules without caring for its repercussions. Gulab was one typical example of that.
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When you try to squint hard at the drawbacks of the Parched movie, you realize that there aren't that many. Except the fact that there have been plenty of movies on similar topics and Parched offers nothing original. Amongst other, there exists deliberate shots that seem pretty forced just to squeeze out fun. It appears at times like an unwrapped contrivance that you can see through to which you might shake your head to.
Rani wears a weird vexed layer of confusion. One time it feels like her character is trying to change, and is going to do something right hereon, but then she proves you wrong by doing the opposite of right. It is only until we reach the climax that we see her get on the rails again.
You can check out the trailer of the movie Parched here:
- Brilliant plots
- Beautiful Drama
- Effortless acting by the cast
- Radhika Apte is simply outstanding
- Changes men's perspective
- Earthy bits appear deliberately forced
- Rani's duality when she thinks different and acts differently


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Steve McMichael, coach of the Indoor Football League Slaughter, has issued a dare to the Rush of the new Arena Football League.
"I want to challenge them to a game or a scrimmage," McMichael said Friday during a news conference to announce that former Bears quarterback Jim McMahon is among the team's new owners. "I think it would be great for Chicago. I know (one of) their owners, Mike Ditka, (whose favorite charities are) Misericordia, the Walter and Connie Payton Foundation … the money can go to that."
When was Steve McMichael granted the wisdom of Solomon? I always thought he was recommending cleaving infants in two because he was bughouse crazy. But perhaps he was… crazy as like unto a fox? On the other hand, if the infant AFL wants to keep the IFL as a satellite, AAA league, the Rush had better only accept this game if they think they can win.


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CBS, Turner: March Madness Makeover Will Be A Multi-Media Marketing Success
By Barry Janoff, Executive Editor
November 17, 2010: March Madness is still some three months away, but executives at CBS and Turner Broadcasting are already predicting that the first men's college basketball Division I tournament under their new joint 14-year, $10.8 billion deal with the NCAA will be a marketing and production success.
"Ten [of 11 NCAA] corporate sponsors are back and the other is resolving a financial situation, four or five others are very interested and two new sponsors will soon be announced," said David Levy, president of sales, distribution and sports for Turner. "Sales and corporate response are even better than what we expected." He also stated he expects "eyeballs will increase 25%."
Among the new aspects fans and brands will get are Marv Albert, Charles Barkley, a "National Bracket Day," increased activation at March Madness on Demand and a redesigned production effort that will cross CBS and Turner borders.
Under the new deal signed this past April, Turner Sports and CBS Sports have exclusive rights to license NCAA marks, tickets and taglines in commercial promotions with respect to the NCAA championships and hold certain exclusive media rights in the Division I Men's Basketball Championship.
NCAA corporate partners include AT&T, Capital One, Coca-Cola, Enterprise, The Hartford, Hershey's Chocolate, LG, Lowe's, Planters (Kraft Foods), State Farm Insurance and UPS.
According to Levy and Sean McManus, president for CBS News and Sports, the two broadcast giants will combine on-air talent, production efforts and marketing activation to offer fans a seamless presentation across CBS and Turner's three outlets: TBS, TNT and truTV. That includes Turner's leading NBA announcers and analysts becoming part of the 68-team tournament crew, including Marv Albert, Charles Barkley, Kenny Smith, Reggie Miller and Ernie Johnson; and CBS's top college basketball talent doing coverage on Turner, including Jim Nantz and Gus Johnson.
"The on-air talent is like the 1927 New York Yankees," said McManus, who appeared with Levy on Nov. 16 as part of a Sports Media & Technology conference in New York under the auspices of SportsBusiness Journal/Daily. "These guys live and breathe basketball all year long." McManus also said that "Marv is recognized as the one of the great basketball announcers in history. And the more we can use Charles [Barkley], the better."
According to McManus, everything from music and graphics to production and logistics will coexist across all platforms. "Fans who tune in to CBS or truTV will not see a difference in production quality," said McManus. In fact, Nantz will lead the on-air team for what is now dubbed the "First Four" games, to be shown on truTV.
"The on-air talent is like the 1927 New York Yankees. Marv Albert, Charles Barkley . . . These guys live and breathe basketball all year long."
The 2011 Division I men's basketball tournament will begin with bracket assignments on Selection Sunday, March 13, on CBS. The next day, March 14, is now being billed — and being pitched to potential sponsors — as "National Bracket Day," to include extended programming across CBS and Turner platforms. The First Four will be played on March 15-16, to include four at-large teams and teams seeded No. 65, 66, 67 and 68, played at the University of Dayton Arena.
Second- and third-round games will be played March 17-20 and regional games are scheduled for March 24-27. The Final Four will be April 2-4, 2011 at Reliant Stadium, Houston, and shown on CBS. (Full schedule here.)
Levy said that Turner's digital assets would play a big role in the 2011 tournament. That would include NCAA.com, CBSSports.com, SI.com and other sites handled by Turner "as a complement to the advertising opportunities on TV." Also getting ramped up is the already popular March Madness on Demand, which provides live video-streaming of games. For the coming tournament, MMOD will morph into a video network with tournament-centric programming airing throughout the three-plus weeks of the event. Earlier this year, the NCAA signed Turner to create and develop NCAA Digital, which covers not just men's basketball but digital sites across all NCAA sports.
Looking beyond 2011, Levy said that Turner is considering adding more college basketball as well as college football to its schedule, is determining what financial and logistical elements would be needed to add 3D to the tournament production and is working with CBS to continue to enhance March Madness not just for this year but "through the entire deal," which runs until 2024. The previous deal CBS had with the NCAA was an 11-year, $6 billion pact that would have gone through 2013 but gave the NCAA the option to drop out three years early. CBS has carried March Madness since 1982.
Both McManus and Levy citied strength in unity when developing the deal not only to ensure financial success but also to keep out ESPN, which also was bidding on the contract. "I'm not proud of spending $10.8 billion, but it is the largest sports deal ever," said Levy.
"Both CBS and Turner are working to make the venture better for both sides, even 14 years down the road," said McManus. "This is still in its infancy, but the corporate and financial [response] has been unbelievable." And regarding March Madness 2011: "What we want," said McManus, "are close, competitive games and good storylines."
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A California lawmaker has introduced legislation to regulate the state's free-wheeling medical marijuana industry — the farmers that grow the drug, the hundreds of storefront shops that sell it and the doctors who write recommendations allowing its use.
The bill marks a milestone not only because it would provide significant state oversight of the multi-billion dollar industry for the first time, but because it is likely to get serious consideration in Sacramento after years of inaction.
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The school standards rebellion
Florida students no longer need chemistry, physics or Algebra II to graduate from high school. Texas just scrapped its Algebra II requirement. And the Washington state board of education last month reversed its own resolution calling for a foreign language mandate, over concerns that it appeared too elitist.
A standards rebellion — or in the eyes of the opponents, the dumbing down of America — is sweeping red states and blue, promoted by both Republicans and Democrats. President Barack Obama has called for a rigorous college-prep curriculum for all students. States, however, are responding with defiance: They're letting teens study welding instead of Spanish, take greenhouse management in place of physics and learn car repair instead of muddling over imaginary numbers.
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The backlash stems, in part, from anger over the Common Core, a set of standards that Obama has promoted as a way to guide students through a demanding college-prep curriculum from kindergarten through high school. But it's more than that. It's pushback against the idea that all students must be ready for college — even if they have no interest in going.
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Manufacturing associations, trade groups and farm lobbies have fueled the resentment at universal college prep, arguing that it's elitist, that it demeans blue-collar workers — and, not incidentally, that it's cutting off their pipeline of new workers.
"We need pipefitters and welders just as much as we need folks who want to pursue a four-year degree," said Rebecca Park, legislative counsel for the Michigan Farm Bureau, which wants more vocational classes to count as science and math.
The counterargument: Those pipefitters and welders will need strong academic skills to turn entry-level jobs into meaningful careers. "We want them to come out qualified for the workforce, not just ram them through school as fast as possible," said Derek Redelman, a vice president at the Indiana Chamber of Commerce, which is fighting a legislative proposal to create a career-track diploma.
The administration is watching the backlash warily.
Both Obama and Education Secretary Arne Duncan have lately talked up the virtues of vocational education — but both have also noted, pointedly, that such classes must not be a substitute for college-prep academics. Not every child need aspire to a four-year degree, they say — but all ought to have college-level skills, so they can succeed at whatever path they take. Otherwise, the fast-moving economy will leave them behind, and they'll be stuck in low-wage, dead-end jobs.
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Especially worrisome: The risk that low-income and minority students, as well as children with disabilities, could be pushed into the vocational tracks.
"We need to make sure we're graduating students who are ready for college and a career," Obama said in a 2011 address that framed his vision for raising the bar. "In the 21st century, it's not enough to leave no child behind. We need to help every child get ahead. We need to get every child on a path to academic excellence."
That message rankles New Mexico state Rep. Mimi Stewart, a Democrat. She's introduced a bill to let students earn a high school diploma without taking Algebra II — and without passing state exams. "We are supposed to be doing college and career readiness, not college and college readiness," Stewart said.
State Rep. Wendy McNamara, a Republican, is making the same argument in Indiana. She's not proposing dropping all traditional high-school academics. "'Romeo and Juliet' does have a place," she said. But she'd like students to be able to earn a diploma by taking a heavy rotation of vocational classes designed with input from local employers. "I see only great things for economic development," McNamara said.
The backlash against college prep for all has grown so strong that even states fully committed to the goal are taking it slow. New York announced this week that it wouldn't expect students to meet new college-ready benchmarks until 2022. Louisiana declared it's aiming for 2025.
The new direction is troubling to those who have endorsed the president's vision, including CEOs of the nation's biggest companies, plus many local Chambers of Commerce.
"The dream that we could get to where all American children were educated to a high, common level is in deep jeopardy," said Sandy Kress, a longtime advocate for tough standards and an architect of the No Child Left Behind law, which required — unrealistically, as it turned out — every student in the U.S. to be proficient in math and reading by this year.
"A lot of really goofy things are happening," said Kress, now a lobbyist for global publishing company Pearson. "It worries me a lot."
The roots of the controversy stretch back decades.


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Hundreds of different characters have appeared in 2000 AD over the past three decades. Twenty-second century cop Judge Dredd is the most famous, but others include mutant bounty hunter Strontium Dog, genetic infantryman Rogue Trooper, alien freedom fighter Nemesis the Warlock, Russian thief and ladies' man Nikolai Dante, Celtic barbarian Sláine, alien trucker Ace Garp, war robots the ABC Warriors, and many, many more.
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The goal is to keep track of the number of times a login attempt is made from the same ip address within a defined number of seconds. In order to do that the first thing the function does is remove all previously stored attempts from the table that are too old to have happened within that number of seconds. This will keep the table from growing to the point where it might slow the server down and keep it from using too much space. The next step is to add this new attempt to the table, and finally, the script counts the number of attempts from this current ip address and returns the value. From there it's a simple matter for the script to decide whether or not to allow another login attempt based on the defined number of maximum attempts.
<?php $dsn = "mysql:host=localhost;dbname=test"; $username = "root"; $password = "root"; // Above is my test database information. You'll need to use your own. See Dormilich's tutorial on PDO for more information. $options = array(PDO::ATTR_ERRMODE => PDO::ERRMODE_EXCEPTION); $pdo = new PDO($dsn, $username, $password, $options); $max_time_in_seconds = 10; $max_attempts = 3; if(login_attempt_count($max_time_in_seconds, $pdo) <= $max_attempts) { echo "Please login
"; // Now show the login form } else { echo "I'm sorry, you've made too many attempts to log in too quickly.
"; // Do not show the login form, since it may be a bot trying to log in. } function login_attempt_count($seconds, $pdo) { try { // First we delete old attempts from the table $del_old = "DELETE FROM attempts WHERE `when` < ?"; $oldest = strtotime(date("Y-m-d H:i:s")." - ".$seconds." seconds"); $oldest = date("Y-m-d H:i:s",$oldest); $del_data = array($oldest); $remove = $pdo->prepare($del_old); $remove->execute($del_data); // Next we insert this attempt into the table $insert = "INSERT INTO attempts (`ip`, `when`) VALUES ( ?, ? )"; $data = array($_SERVER['REMOTE_ADDR'], date("Y-m-d H:i:s")); $input = $pdo->prepare($insert); $input->execute($data); // Finally we count the number of recent attempts from this ip address $count = "SELECT count(*) as number FROM attempts where `ip` = ?"; $num = $pdo->prepare($count); $num->execute(array($_SERVER['REMOTE_ADDR'])); foreach($num as $attempt) { $attempts = $attempt['number']; } return $attempts; } catch (PDOEXCEPTION $e) { echo "Error: ".$e; } }
The table:
CREATE TABLE `attempts` ( `ip` varchar(20) NOT NULL, `when` datetime NOT NULL, KEY `ip` (`ip`) ) ENGINE=InnoDB DEFAULT CHARSET=latin1;
One more thing: I don't use a form in this demonstration, but you can test the script by reloading the page multiple times.
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By Robert Goldney
To some this heading may seem unexpected. The term 'suicide bomber' has entered our lexicon on the obvious basis that although the prime aim may have been the killing of others, the individual perpetrator dies. Indeed, over the last three decades the media, the general public, and sometimes the scientific community have uncritically used the words 'suicide bomber' to describe the deaths of those who kill others, sometimes a few, usually ten to twenty, or in the case of 9/11, about two thousand, while at the same time killing themselves.
Like many areas of human behaviour, these actions have been subjected to rigorous investigation and it is timely to reflect on the findings. Detailed studies have generally shown that there is little in common with those who die by suicide, using 'suicide' in its historically clinically accepted sense.
For example, in an early review in 2007, Ellen Townsend, a psychologist from the University of Nottingham, concluded that available evidence demonstrated that so called 'suicide bombers' had a range of characteristics which on close examination were not truly suicidal, and that attempting to find commonalities between them and those who died by suicide was likely to be an unhelpful path for any discipline wishing to further understand suicidal behaviour.Furthermore, in 2009 the psychiatrist, Jerrold Post and his colleagues at the George Washington University referred to the 'normality' and absence of individual psychopathology of suicide bombers. Most other researchers have reported similar findings, although it is fair to acknowledge that the psychologist, Ariel Merari of Tel Aviv University, has expressed contrary views which have stimulated spirited and at times acrimonious debate, and there is the recent polemical work of the English Literature graduate and criminal justice Associate Professor of the University of Alabama, Adam Lankford.
From the point of view of experienced clinical psychiatrists, the usual feelings of hopelessness and unbearable psychic pain along with self-absorbtion and restriction of options in those who are suicidal are the antithesis of terrorist acts, and mental disorders do not appear to be a prominent feature. In fact, suicidal intent is usually specifically denied by 'suicide bombers', as it is proscribed by most religions, including Islam and Christianity. Indeed, Islam condemns suicide as a major sin with committers denied entry to heaven, and, as it is implied that the act of a 'suicide bomber' results in a shorter path to heaven, this would not be achieved if suicide intent was present.
Is focusing on the words an academic distraction, or could it be important?
It is pertinent to recall the saying 'the pen is mightier than the sword', attributed to Cardinal Richelieu by Edward Bulwer-Lyton in his 1839 play, which has entered our everyday language. My colleagues, fellow psychiatrist Murad Khan of the Aga Khan University and sociologist Riaz Hassan of Flinders University, who has collated the largest database in the world of such acts, and I are mindful of that saying and believe that the words do matter. We discussed this in more detail in 2010 in the Asian Journal of Social Science.
It has long been recognized that inappropriate publicity promotes further suicide, and the psychiatrist, Seb Littman of the University of Calgary in 1985 noted that the more there is any reporting of suicide, the more there is a tendency for it to be normalized as an understandable and reasonable option. That being so, the repeated use of the term 'suicide bomber' runs the risk of normalizing such behaviour, simply because of the frequent use of the words.
That the term 'homicide bomber' was more appropriate was probably first suggested by the White House press secretary, Ari Fleischer in 2002. However, perhaps because of that provenance it has all but been ignored.
It is time to address this again. Although the word 'homicide' is not entirely accurate because of the political/military context in which these deaths occur, it is more appropriate than the continued use of the word 'suicide'. Furthermore, it has the potential to modify this behaviour. Whereas suicide can be portrayed as altruistic, there is nothing glamorous or idealistic about homicide.
Clearly there is no simple answer to what has occurred increasingly over the last decades. However, by the use of the words 'homicide bomber' a gradual change in the worldwide interpretation and acceptability of these acts may occur. Representatives of the media are urged to consider this change.
Robert Goldney AO, MD is the author of Suicide Prevention, Second Edition (OUP). He is Emeritus Professor in the Discipline of Psychiatry at the University of Adelaide. He has researched and published in the field of suicidal behaviors for 40 years and has been President of both the International Association for Suicide Prevention and the International Academy of Suicide Research.
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The Philadelphia Eagles and esteemed Head Coach Andy Reid use the BYE week effectively to prepare for the powered Atlanta Falcons. Unfortunately the Falcons coaching staff prepared as well, and handed the Eagles a 30-17 loss, embarrassing the Eagles at home. Vick continued to struggle despite not turning the ball over, and appeared after the game as a beaten man. The beginnings of the rain from Hurricane Sandy began to fall around halftime, and the fans gave up shortly thereafter, as it was obvious to everyone that there was no heart left in the Eagles team that used to give all to overcome anything. We also partnered with GM's Driving the Northeast, and they are letting me drive a GMC Terrain Denali for the week. I took that to the tailgate this Sunday, and everything I brought easily fit, and the ride and technology in the dash made it a lot of fun to drive.
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- Eagles lose to the Falcons 30-17 at the Linc, and the fans lost heart quickly
- The Atlanta Falcons are a rhythm Offense, and the Eagles defensive scheme was horrible, with Casey Matthews playing hopelessly
- Michael Vick is just beaten, and seems to be saying it now
- Andy Reid seems clueless in what to do next, but he has a huge decision to make; start Vick or Foles against the Saints on Monday Night Football on the road
- I'm driving the GMC Terrain Denali thanks to the folkds at Driving the Northeast
- Met up with Carmen Harris and George in the lots before the game… we had hope then!
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