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CANCER INSTALLATION !!!!

FAREWELL PARTY

''...and at last the farewell party....many of us couldn't turn up due to personal reasons.....but it was a great time together.....songs, games.....it was fun....for d first time i heard many singing.....it was happy to c our vidya miss once again...thanks to alex sir nd miss for their treat....glad to c our teachers...sabi sir, vishnu sir, jishnu sir, anu sir, james sir, jayan sir, bindhu miss, saritha miss, anjana miss.....thanks for sharing their valuable time...nd thanks for d songs......v will mis u all....''
MIA'S DIARY 

Fielding Positions

While playing Cricket, 97% of the time is spent not actually playing Cricket. Thus, officials have developed a series of "fielding positions" in order to trick players into spending their weekend standing in the middle of a large grassy area; these positions are set out in the Wisden Almanack. Most fielders tend to run forward several feet every time the ball is bowled, and clapping is also common. Although seemingly pointless, these actions are believed to prevent deep vein thrombosis, which is a common complaint among cricketers, particularly those fielding at fine leg.
The batsman The person with bat who is standing facing the umpire is usually known as the batsman. Even women who bat are called batsmen rather than batswomen. The batsman uses the bat for digging the pitch, pasting chewing gums, scattering jellybeans, fixing the stumps, hitting people, as a measuring ruler, for scratching his back, as a support for standing, and occasionally to hit the ball. The batsman is frequently disliked, yet his arrival and departure from the field is always celebrated.
The runner This is the batsman to whom the bowler doesn't bowl. He should be close to the umpire, usually a first cousin or nephew.
Wicket Keeper This is a very important position, especially during Test Matches which may last 5 days, occasionally with a result. At the end of each day, "Stumps" is declared by the umpires. The wicket is then given to the wicket keeper to guard. At dawn the next day the wicket keeper must approach the pavilion from where the umpires will shout, "Halt, Who goes There?" to which the wicket keeper replies, "The Keeper of the Wicket!" The response by the umpires is then, "Whose Wicket?" The keeper replies, "The Queen's Wicket, Gentlemen!" At this point the umpires allow the wicket keeper to place three stumps topped by two "bails" on to each end of the pitch, and play retires for lunch.
Umpire There are numerous umpires. The two on-field umpires are officially hired fat old men, one of whom stands behind the bowler's wicket (the wicked umpire) and one who hides in the field: this is the umpire of the square-leg which may be wooden, the umpire usually being a pirate. A new "third umpire" or "television camera" has recently been introduced to the game: this provides an opportunity for the other 2 billion "at-home" umpires to adjudicate. The on-field umpires must carry Murray Mints, handkerchiefs, caps, pull-overs, etc for the bowler and sometimes for the batsman. In cases where the bowlers are too demanding or if the batsman doesn't trust an umpire's honesty, the pirate umpire is called in to settle the dispute with his cutlass. The T.V. umpire may also asked to stop showing 'Coronation Street' and give a decision.
Slips Fielding players may be dressed in negligees and asked to stand close behind the batsman, their objective being to distract the batsman so that he gets out.
Fine leg This is any fielding position where the fielder wears shorts instead of pajamas to show off his freshly-waxed legs.
Gully Streets in Indian slums are called "gullies", and many children learn to play cricket there. The "gully" thus reminds the fielder of his boyhood and how much richer and corrupt he has become since then. In Australia, a gully is a ravine leading to a "creek" and is usually the place where children retire to learn to smoke cigarettes and play with their balls. Thus the "gully" in this case is "up the creek" (invariably without a paddle). No-one likes being in the gully.
Leg slip A fielding position name reserved for the area of the outfield with the most amount of dew, giving rise to the old adage, "There's many a slip twixt leg and ball." Recent research shows Leg slips may be a direct consequence of a Fine Leg in the crowd.
Short leg This is not the disadvantage one would think. David Boon from Tasmania and Sachin Tendulkar from India had two of them and still performed remarkably well. Pirates also qualify for short-leg positions on field.
Silly point A fielder at "silly point" is generally no more than 3 yards from the batsman and will attempt to get the batsman in fits of laughter, so much so that he is unable to breathe. This behaviour is traditionally avenged by the batsman driving a ball down the fielder's throat, with a cry of "Howzzat?"
Square leg "Square legs" are often also required to wear an eye patch and declare "Shiver me timbers!" whenever a ball goes for four. The burial of gold and other precious treasures is against the rules and can result in a mutiny.

Modes of Dismissal

Run out: A batsman may be in for such an abominably tedious length of time that he runs out of breath and therefore collapses. He is then required to walk after being resuscitated, or the batsman becomes so bored of batting he just runs out of the stadium.
Bowled: This occurs when a sadistic delivery from an ultra-fast bowler takes the hair off the batsman. The batsman needs to duck in this situation to avoid being out, so that he becomes out anyway.

LBW: Although no cricket analyst has ever worked out what this stands for, the most frequent guess was that it "sounds like a band of some sort." Consequently LBW is the official term given for dismissing a batsmen who uses one of his three legs (two long and one short leg): the left, the right or the middle or all three of them as one to stop the ball instead of using his bat. In this kind of a dismissal he has a 66.7% chance of being castrated by the incoming ball.
Stumped: This rule was first used in 1994 when Shane Warne bowled a Mars Bar to Mike Gatting, short of a length. As Gatting stepped out of his crease to pick up the Mars Bar he was stumped by the Wicket Keeper. Being "stumped" also occurs when no-one can remember what the score is, or indeed why they are standing around in the middle of a field doing nothing and just scratching their asses.
Caught: The batsman is caught performing some socially unacceptable act, which is declared "not cricket". He must then leave the field in embarrassment. In view of this rule, New Zealand has passed a law making the use of the word "blimey" a strict social taboo, punishable by burning in some provinces. The rules in cricket are so strict that Ian Botham, legendary all-rounder, was caught on camera picking a bogey and swallowing it whole. He had to walk.
Timed out: Unreliable wireless Internet access in the centre of the field causes a timeout. The batsman must stomp off to the pavilion to find out who has placed his hat on the antenna.
Handled the ball: The bowler can attempt to influence play by means of strategic rubbing of the surface of one side of the ball against his/her genitals and/or licking or scratching his ball(s). This necessitates a re-structuring of the fielders' positions, as no-one wants to catch the ball. This rule is applicable only in very rare cases in a game of women's cricket and the umpire may ask to inspect the ball (this is called "ball sniffing"). 'Handling the ball' is also not allowed by other members of the team, as it is the job a cricketer's wife.
Obstruction: This occurs when a batsman attempts to interfere with a fielder. This usually involves placing an object such as a tank-trap, barbed-wire fence, brick wall or other obstruction in the way of the fielder. The batter may also attempt to trip a fielder, or hit him with the bat or other implement, or he may attempt to conceal the ball. Sir Francis Drake famously concealed the ball by sitting on it, in a 'friendly' match with the Spanish in 1588, allowing his fellow batsman to run 953 before being Run out with a stump through the heart.
Hit wicket: When a batsman is unceremoniously hit in his middle stump while trying to play a stroke causing him to fall to the ground in extreme pain, he is thus forced to walk (or waddle or crawl). A hit wicket is also declared if part of a batsman, such as his head, or part of his clothing, such as his jockstrap, should fall on the wicket and dislodge a bail or the wicket-keeper.
Hit the ball twice: The bowler successfully catapults the ball at relativistic speeds towards the batsman, causing a temporal anomaly in the vicinity of the batsman in which he appears to hit it twice. Though in these circumstances 'hit' is a generous term.
Retired out: Sometimes during a long test match, especially when batsman is getting a high score and it takes long time, batsman thinks I have enough of this! Damn it!. Then he says to the umpire that he does not want to play any more cricket and he decided to retire. Player will get a nice pension based on his club's salary, so he gets retired out.

Why Indian Movies are not winning Oscars?

It is an every Indian’s question that, “why Indian films are not being selected for Oscars?” Oscar is a dream award for every technician, working for films. However, the glittering 13.5-inch statuette of a knight holding a crusader’s sword on a reel of film is continuing to evade India from many years. Although, the creativity, talent, script, and technology every thing is improving, Indian cinemas are still unable to cross some of the barriers.

The Oscar jury selects American and British language films for all section of awards other than Best Foreign language films. Since all the countries across the world compete only for this particular category, it is hardest for any country to achieve the award. Foreign language film award at Oscars, where only one picture was accepted from each country, do not do justice to such a large industry

Although, Indian movies cannot match the Hollywood standards, the film-makers these days are trying hard for a healthy development in terms of financially and technically. The makers are not getting compromised with the quality and art these days. Bollywood also has great actors like Amitabh Bachchan, Shahrukh khan, Aamir and other directors who are world-wide famous. Indian films follow rich culture and tradition while, the hollywood come up with innovative ideas in scripts. The film industry is able to produce large number of box office hits even across the world.

Although, India is submitting the films since1957, very few of them have managed to get the nomination into final five races. It seems that, the academy tends to favor European films with France leading the foreign language film since, out of 61 years of nominations, 51 Oscars were won by European films while, just 5 won by Asian films.

The most prominent reason behind the academy failing to qualify as the best judge of films from all over the world is that the American academy that consists of only American jury members.

Oscars are monopolized by the westernized world by the standards of their own culture and the scenes pictured by their advanced technology, not giving much importance to the theme and story

Film Federation of India, responsible for selecting the official entry from India is not nominating right movies to the Oscars. Films like PAHELI and EKLAVYA are two such examples that were ruled out in the first stage of the competition. The problem with bollywood is that it is not proud of its best products. It is only proud of its star cast products.

Apart from Slum dog millionaire, directed by hollywood director Danny Boyle which is a Fox Searchlight pictures (not an Indian produced and directed movie), India scored duck in Oscars for the foreign film category.

Indian cinemas are still in learning stages of technologies in the cinematography field when compared to American and British level of film-making. Technical deficiencies is also one of the reason of not getting an Oscar

Indian films lacks from creativity and innovative ideas. The film-makers are opting for hollywood remakes instead of making new scripts. They were either making sequels to the movies or adopting ideas from hollywood scripts. The Indian film-makers focus on hero’s image rather than the importance of the scripts.

The Indian film-makers should also think in the point of winning awards rather than just concentrating commercially. Movies should also be made for laurels and not just for profits.

Knowing Cricket

This article is uploaded with the intentions of promoting cricket within non cricket playing nations, as a service to the game and the ICC

Rules of Cricket

The "Laws" or "Les Rules de Criquet" are simple, and are summarised by the International Crocheting Club (ICC) as follows:

1. Each game requires 2 teams, who get to hit their balls (when they are called the 'batsmen' and not 'batters' as in Baseball, or 'batty' as in Northern Englishmen) or to bowl (not pitch or throw or chuck) their balls then chase after them ('fielding').
2. One round of hitting the balls is called an innings (from the Latin "an outing, or picnic", plural innit, as in: "This game is a bit of a picnic, innit?").
3. A game comprises 2 innings (innit) or sometimes 4, but more often now there is less and the game can last between 3 hours (called 20-20) or one day (25-25 or 50-50) or 5 days (Torture or Test cricket), depending on how long the teams can be bothered playing or until the spectators go home.
4. Each team has 12 players each although only 11 play and the 12th man is called the "12th man" and he gets the drinks. One team fields and bowls, aiming for the batsman's bails, while the batsmen try to hit their balls as far as possible without the other team grabbing their balls and hitting the wicket (then declared a "sticky wicket").
5. When the batsman who's in is out, then he goes off and the next man comes on until he's out. The object of the game for the batsman therefore is to make sure he doesn't go out. The end of an innings is declared when 10 batsmen are out, even though there are 11 playing not counting the 12th man. So there is a batsman still in although his team is out, but he has to go off. When the batsmen are all out, the side that's out comes in and the side that's been in goes out and tries to get those coming in out.
6. There are two additional fat men called umpires who stay all out all day and give the batsmen who are in out. But a batsman is not out unless the fielders appeal first to the umpires by giving them ritualistic gifts or sly winks and nudges. If the fielders are sleeping or have wandered off somewhere then the batsman is not given out and stays in. But if the umpires don't like something, such as player interfering with another player behind the sight screen, then the umpires can declare that it's simply not cricket which means it's cricket but shouldn't be.
7. An over is when the bowler has 6 or sometimes 8 balls. If he has had no balls then he may have more than the normal number of balls. An innings may be over after 40 overs, or 25, or 20, or sometimes a lot less if there's been a "follow-on", if you follow.
8. When both sides have been in and all the men have been out, including those who are not out, and both sides have been out twice or maybe once or less if someone declared or it rained, then that is the end of the game!
9. An additional tactic involves the majority of players trying not to bat by standing around fielding. The batsmen may also refuse to hit their balls, preferring to "block" continually. This tactic was made famous by "Blocker Lawry", who was sadly disembowelled by an angry and bored crowd. If the game is delayed long enough, such as more than 5 days, a "draw" is declared. If one team has more wins than draws they win, although this method risks rioting by the spectators.
10. If the bowler hits an off-stump leg-bye then a sticky wicket is called and the game breaks for tea; however, should an elbow on-side be called, unless it's caused by a spin-twist shot or a slippy duck, then the innings may be declared over or the over innings. In the case of the deep-wide short-fine leg being run out by the slip's backward point boundary man, the batting team are forced to substitute their 12th man for a golden duck and a cup of Dilmah Tea.
11. The game may end very suddenly if all of the batsmen have a duck or the bowlers bowl 10 wicket maiden overs.
12. The alternative way to win is to play until there is any change in weather, or it gets too dark, or hot, or cold, or it's lunch or dinner, or the umpires get bored and take their balls home, or anything happens that simply isn't cricket.

However, despite the apparent simplicity of these rules, there remain a number of uncivilised nations in Northern Europe and North America and North Africa who are yet to embrace the civilising effects of the game of cricket.

(To be continued..)

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Kamran's New Year Spl sms to Godson on 31st Dec 11:46pm

"May al ur supplies get cleared

  All ur daps come for xamz
 
 All ur blunders come rite

                              May u ride ur luck ths comin year

                             Wishin u a "happy newyear"

- Kamran