Monday 6 August 2012
Sunday 5 August 2012
English Movie
Surviving Paradise
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| Surviving Paradise , فيلم سينمايي راز بهشت | |
|---|---|
 Surviving Paradise, فيلم سينمايي راز بهشت movie poster |
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| Directed by | Kamshad Kooshan |
| Produced by | Kamshad Kooshan Bahman Maghsoudlou |
| Written by | Kamshad Kooshan |
| Starring | Shohreh Aghdashloo Kian Abedini Lauren Parissa Abedini Joe Alvarez |
| Music by | Richard Herrera Lopez |
| Cinematography | Paul Mayne |
| Editing by | Rick LeCompte |
| Distributed by | New Light Entertainment LLC (USA) |
| Release date(s) | June, 2000 |
| Running time | 86 min. |
| Country | USA |
| Language | English |
The story concerns the struggles of two newly arrived Iranian Brother & Sister in the rough & better neighborhoods of Los Angeles.
Short SYNOPSIS
When the 10 year old boy Sam and his younger sister Sara arrived in Los Angeles with their mother, the only thing on their mind was to go to Disneyland. But things take a wrong turn, when their mother is kidnapped by three armed Mafias. Realizing that the Police can't find their uncle, their only relative in town in time, these two helpless children take on the vast and unforgiving streets of Los Angeles to find him themselves.On their way they encounter a colorful cast of characters and frightening situations where they are tested of their humanity and endurance but more importantly they discover about themselves, that the best quality is to survive with humanity.
Wednesday 1 August 2012
Bangladesh National cricket Team
| Bangladesh | |
|---|---|
Bangladesh cricket team logo | |
| Test status granted | 2000 |
| First Test match | v India at Bangabandhu National Stadium, Dhaka, 10–13 November 2000 |
| Captain | Mushfiqur Rahim |
| Coach | Richard Pybus |
| Official ICC Test, ODI and T20I ranking | 9th (Test), 9th (ODI), 4th (T20I) [1] |
| Test matches – This year | 73 0 |
| Last Test match | v Pakistan at Shere Bangla National Stadium, Bangladesh, 17–21 December 2011 |
| Wins/losses – This year | 3/63 –/– |
| As of 27 April 2012 | |
Bangladesh's first official foray into international cricket came in the 1979 ICC Trophy in England, leaving the tournament with 2 wins and 2 defeats. Seven years later, on 31 March 1986, Bangladesh played in its first ODI match against Pakistan in the 1986 Asia Cup. Cricket has gradually become very popular in urban areas of the country. Although football was the most popular game for a long time, cricket gained momentum and soon surpassed football, especially after Bangladesh won the 1997 ICC Trophy in Malaysia. By winning the tournament, Bangladesh qualified for the 1999 Cricket World Cup for the first time, where they defeated Pakistan, creating one of the biggest upsets in their cricketing history. In 1997, Bangladesh became a regular ICC member with the right to play ODIs. It attained the status of a Test playing country on 26 June 2000.
Bangladesh hold the record for most consecutive losses in Tests (21 between 1999 and 2002) and ODIs (23 between 2001 and 2004). After gaining full member status with the ICC, Bangladesh had to wait until 2004 for its first ODI win since the 1999 World Cup. The team on the losing side on that occasion was Zimbabwe, who also participated in Bangladesh's maiden Test victory in 2005; by securing a draw in the second match, Bangladesh won their first Test series. In 2009 Bangladesh toured the West Indies for two Tests and by winning both secured their first overseas series victory.
As of April 2012, Bangladesh has played 73 Tests, winning only 3. Its first victory was against a young and inexperienced Zimbabwe team, which was hit by a player crisis and the other two were against a West Indian team crippled by a players' strike. Of the 63 matches it has lost, 35 were by an innings.[1] The lack of a first-class tournament in the country before it was granted Test status has been cited as one of the reasons for the side's struggle to adapt to the longest form of the game, and Bangladesh's performance has led to repeated calls for it to lose its Test status. The team has been more successful in ODIs, having won 72 of its 262 matches,[2] and has also played 18 Twenty20 Internationals, winning four.
Shakib, Ryad eager to learn from Saqlain
DHAKA, Aug 15: Bangladeshi spinners pinned high hopes on Saqlain Mushtaq
for his vast knowledge of spin bowling and international exposure which
they thought would bring up variation in the bowling and also in
mindset to cope with the tough situation.
Saqlain, the spin consultant who joined the side for the four months,
discussed with the players about his action plan for the next four
months.
He also patiently heard the spin bowlers’ problems and had done video of few bowling action on which he would work in the coming days. His working style and immense knowledge on mustering the art of spin bowling had an instant impact on the Bangladeshi players.
Shakib Al Hasan, the number one all-rounder in ODI believed Saqlain’s experience would benefit Bangladesh certainly.
“He was a great off spinner of Pakistan and in the horizon. If he shares his experience that itself will be an achievement for the Bangladesh cricket. He had some exceptional deliveries like ‘doosra’. If he can pass those tricks and if we are able to learn those, I am sure our bowling will be much stronger,” Shakib Al Hasan told the reporters after spending a session with Saqlain.
“Moreover he is a man from the sub-continent so he will not have much to adjust here.”
Though four months are not enough to make a wholesale change of bowling, Shakib thought it would depend on how fast they learn from him.
“Sometimes four months is a short period but it is enough if you can derive in proper way. Sometimes four years is not good enough. Much will depend on the training schedule and how much we can take from him.”
Shakib had some plan with bowling and he wants to share it with Saqlain in the coming days.
“I have some thought over my own bowling and hope to discuss it with Saqlain and want to make a plan to implement it in the game.”
“He will certainly be helpful but not everyone can be benefited from him equally,” Shakib thought.
Vice-captain Mahmudullah Ryad, himself an off-spinner also had some precious moment with Saqlain on the first day of the training.
“He showed us by which gripping there will be more turn and through which grip there would be change,” Ryad said.
“We all know how magnificent bowler he is and what his impact was during his playing days. He was one of the best off-spinner the cricket has ever seen and our aim is to get as much as it possible.”
Ryad also was keen to learn to deliver doosra, a delivery which fooled some great batsmen more often than not.
“I would like to know about Doosra certainly. As the day progressed, I am sure we’ll come close and than I would try to learn that. As we know he will be staying here for four months, we would try to bring some good thing from him in this period,” he revealed.
Ryad also informed that Saqlain shared with them on how they negotiate the pressure when they played against India.
“We also would like to share the experience and even today he was discussing what amount of pressure gripped them when they were up against India and how they were used to handle the pressure.”
He also patiently heard the spin bowlers’ problems and had done video of few bowling action on which he would work in the coming days. His working style and immense knowledge on mustering the art of spin bowling had an instant impact on the Bangladeshi players.
Shakib Al Hasan, the number one all-rounder in ODI believed Saqlain’s experience would benefit Bangladesh certainly.
“He was a great off spinner of Pakistan and in the horizon. If he shares his experience that itself will be an achievement for the Bangladesh cricket. He had some exceptional deliveries like ‘doosra’. If he can pass those tricks and if we are able to learn those, I am sure our bowling will be much stronger,” Shakib Al Hasan told the reporters after spending a session with Saqlain.
“Moreover he is a man from the sub-continent so he will not have much to adjust here.”
Though four months are not enough to make a wholesale change of bowling, Shakib thought it would depend on how fast they learn from him.
“Sometimes four months is a short period but it is enough if you can derive in proper way. Sometimes four years is not good enough. Much will depend on the training schedule and how much we can take from him.”
Shakib had some plan with bowling and he wants to share it with Saqlain in the coming days.
“I have some thought over my own bowling and hope to discuss it with Saqlain and want to make a plan to implement it in the game.”
“He will certainly be helpful but not everyone can be benefited from him equally,” Shakib thought.
Vice-captain Mahmudullah Ryad, himself an off-spinner also had some precious moment with Saqlain on the first day of the training.
“He showed us by which gripping there will be more turn and through which grip there would be change,” Ryad said.
“We all know how magnificent bowler he is and what his impact was during his playing days. He was one of the best off-spinner the cricket has ever seen and our aim is to get as much as it possible.”
Ryad also was keen to learn to deliver doosra, a delivery which fooled some great batsmen more often than not.
“I would like to know about Doosra certainly. As the day progressed, I am sure we’ll come close and than I would try to learn that. As we know he will be staying here for four months, we would try to bring some good thing from him in this period,” he revealed.
Ryad also informed that Saqlain shared with them on how they negotiate the pressure when they played against India.
“We also would like to share the experience and even today he was discussing what amount of pressure gripped them when they were up against India and how they were used to handle the pressure.”
profile of Sachin Ramesh Tendulkar
pronunciation (help·info); born 24 April 1973) is an Indian cricketer widely considered to be one of the greatest batsmen of all time. He is the leading run-scorer and century maker in Test and one-day international cricket.[2][3][4] He is the first player to score a double century in ODI cricket.[5][6] In 2002, just 12 years into his career, Wisden ranked him the second greatest Test batsman of all time, behind Donald Bradman, and the second greatest one-day-international (ODI) batsman of all time, behind Viv Richards.[7] Tendulkar was a part of the 2011 Cricket World Cup winning Indian team in the later part of his career, his first such win in six World Cup appearances for India.[8] He has been recommended for the receipt of the Bharat Ratna award, in fact it has been speculated that the criteria for the award of the Bharat Ratna was changed to allow him receive the award.[9][10] He is also a member of Rajya Sabha of Parliament of India
Early years and personal life
Tendulkar was born into a Rajapur Saraswat Brahmin family, in Bombay (now Mumbai). His mother Rajni worked in the insurance industry, and his father Ramesh Tendulkar, a Marathi novelist, named Tendulkar after his favourite music director, Sachin Dev Burman. Tendulkar's elder brother Ajit encouraged him to play cricket. Tendulkar has two other siblings: a brother Nitin, and sister Savita.Tendulkar attended Sharadashram Vidyamandir (High School), where he began his cricketing career under the guidance of his coach and mentor, Ramakant Achrekar at the local ground, Shivaji Park. During his school days he attended the MRF Pace Foundation to train as a fast bowler, but Australian fast bowler Dennis Lillee, who took a world record 355 Test wickets, was unimpressed, suggesting that Tendulkar focus on his batting instead.
When he was young, Tendulkar would practice for hours on end in the nets. If he became exhausted, Achrekar would put a one-rupee coin on the top of the stumps, and the bowler who dismissed Tendulkar would get the coin. If Tendulkar passed the whole session without getting dismissed, the coach would give him the coin. Tendulkar now considers the 13 coins he won then as some of his most prized possessions.
While at school, he developed a reputation as a child prodigy. He had become a common conversation point in Mumbai circles, where there were suggestions already that he would become one of the greats. His season in 1988 was extraordinary, with Tendulkar scoring a century in every innings he played. He was involved in an unbroken 664-run partnership in a Lord Harris Shield inter-school game in 1988 with friend and team mate Vinod Kambli, who would also go on to represent India. The destructive pair reduced one bowler to tears and made the rest of the opposition unwilling to continue the game. Tendulkar scored 326* in this innings and scored over a thousand runs in the tournament. This was a record partnership in any form of cricket until 2006, when it was broken by two under-13 batsmen in a match held at Hyderabad in India.
At 14, Tendulkar was a ball boy for the India versus Zimbabwe game at the Wankhede Stadium during the 1987 World Cup. When he was 14, former Indian batsman Sunil Gavaskar gave him a pair of his own ultra light pads. "It was the greatest source of encouragement for me," Tendulkar said nearly 20 years later after surpassing Gavaskar's world record of 34 Test centuries. On 24 May 1995, Sachin Tendulkar married Anjali, a paediatrician and daughter of Gujarati industrialist Anand Mehta and British social worker Annabel Mehta. They have two children, Sara (born 12 October 1997) and Arjun (born 24 September 1999). Anjali is six years his senior.
Arjun, a left handed batsman, has recently been included in under-14 probables list of Mumbai Cricket Association for off-season training camp.
Captaincy
| Tendulkar's record as captain | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Matches | Won | Lost | Drawn | Tied | No result | |
| Test | 25 | 4 | 9 | 12 | 0 | – |
| ODI | 73 | 23 | 43 | – | 2 | 6 |
Tendulkar, succeeding Azharuddin as captain for his second term, then led India on a tour of Australia, where the visitors were comprehensively beaten 3–0 by the newly crowned world champions. Tendulkar, however, won the player of the tournament award as well as player of the match in one of the games. After another Test series defeat, this time by a 0–2 margin at home against South Africa, Tendulkar resigned, and Sourav Ganguly took over as captain in 2000.
Tendulkar remains an integral part of the Indian team's strategic processes. He is often seen in discussion with the captain, at times actively involved in building strategies. Former captain Rahul Dravid publicly acknowledged that Tendulkar had been suggesting moves such as the promotion of Irfan Pathan up the batting order which, although only temporary, had an immediate effect on the team's fortunes. In 2007, Tendulkar was appointed vice-captain to captain Rahul Dravid. During the Indian team's 2007 tour of England, Dravid's desire to resign from the captaincy became known. The BCCI President Sharad Pawar personally offered the captaincy to Tendulkar. However, Tendulkar asked Pawar not to appoint him captain, instead recommending Mahendra Singh Dhoni to take over the reins. Pawar later revealed this conversation, crediting Tendulkar for first forwarding the name of Dhoni, who since achieved much success as captain.
Regarded
as one of the greatest batsmen ever, Sachin Ramesh Tendulkar is the
mainstay of Indian batting line-up for more than two decades. He is the
world's leading run-scorer in both Test (14,692) and ODI (18,111)
cricket.
In 2011, Tendulkar finally achieved his dream of winning the Cricket
World Cup at the Wankhede stadium in Mumbai. It took six World Cup
appearances for the 'Little Master' to win the coveted trophy.
Tendulkar is the leading century maker in both Test and ODI and has so
far scored 99 (51 Test + 48 ODI) international centuries. He also has
played highest number of Test and ODI matches.
Among many laurels he had won - the most prominent ones are: Padma
Vibhushan, India's second highest civilian award, and Rajiv Gandhi Khel
Ratna, India's highest sporting honour.
Surprisingly after playing for more two decades, Tendulkar won his first
ICC cricketer of the year award in 2010. Tendulkar described ‘2010’ as
among the best ever in his cricketing career. In February 2010, he
became the first batsman to break the 200-run barrier in the one-day
cricket.
Tendulkar made his Test debut as a 16-year-old against Pakistan at
Karachi in November 1989. He then played his first one-day match against
the same team in the next month.
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