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However, O'Brien's brother Niall and another Ireland player Gary Wilson both failed to attract any bids. |
The tournament will start in Bangladesh on 18 January. |
Stirling expressed his delight at being handed the chance to play in the competition. |
"Hopefully, I'll be able to repay their faith in me," said the Middlesex opening batsman, who is also a useful off-spinner. |
"With the 2014 World Twenty20 being held in Bangladesh, it's a wonderful chance for Kevin and myself to get experience of the conditions." |
O'Brien said the tournament would give him the chance to put his "name back into shop windows around the world". |
The Dubliner made worldwide headlines last year when his fastest century in World Cup history helped Ireland shock England in Bangalore. |
"Hopefully I can add a lot to the squad and play some important innings in the BPL both with bat and ball," added O'Brien. |
With the economy slowing and hopefully improving, even more people this year are expected to travel across the country by car, plane, and train in search of fun and good times. |
Unfortunately, thieves and thugs will use our hard-earned vacation time as an opportunity for their nasty crimes. |
Here are suggestions from security and law enforcement professionals to help make your vacation and travel more secure. |
1. Before you leave for vacation, tell a trusted neighbor of your travel plans, and leave a telephone number where you can be reached in case of an emergency. |
2. Ask the neighbor to pick up your daily mail and newspaper deliveries, as well as any advertising fliers and circulars that land on your doorstep. |
Quick Security Tip: If possible, perhaps the neighbor also can park a vehicle in your driveway. |
3. In general, reveal your vacation plans only to those who really need to know and you trust. Never leave your travel details on your answering machine’s message. |
Quick Security Tip: Always keep your garage door closed and locked. This is one of the most common ways burglars enter homes. |
4. Use automatic timers to turn your lights and radio on and off at varying times while you are gone. A good idea is to tune your radio to a talk show rather than a music station. |
5. Carry traveler’s checks or credit cards — not large amounts of cash. Also, leave all your jewelry, airline tickets, and other valuables in a secure room safe or the hotel’s safety deposit box. Be sure to have a written record of your traveler’s checks and credit card numbers — and keep them in a safe place — in case... |
6. When staying at a hotel or motel, if possible, never leave your luggage unattended. |
Quick Security Tip: It is a common tactic of thieves to use a “distraction” to steal your valuables while you are at the airport or while you are checking in. |
7. When you get to your hotel room, determine the best routes to the stairs and fire escapes in case of an emergency. |
8. Never open your door automatically. Most hotel room doors have peepholes; use them to see who's there. If you have any doubt about the person's identity, contact the front desk for verification. Also, be sure to report to the front desk, hotel security, and police any suspicious people or activities you may observe. |
9. When you leave your room, even briefly, always lock the door. And, as you did with your house before you left for your vacation travel, leave a light and radio/TV on before you leave your hotel room for the evening. |
10. While enjoying you vacation travel, you can never be too aware, too prepared, or too careful. |
My Final Thoughts: Never put your “common sense” on vacation. Sound and prudent judgment is often your best tool in making your vacation and travel as enjoyable and secure as possible. So forget about the high gas prices for a few days, and have a fun — and safe — summer vacation. |
Bruce (www.CrimeZilla.com) is a nationally known security and safety journalist, as well as a recently retired, highly decorated reserve law enforcement officer. His e-mail address is CrimePrevention123@yahoo.com. |
William J. Johnston Middle School named its second quarter honor roll recipients. |
Eighth grade, high honors: Gabrielle Blanchard, Derek Bouchard, Lauren Constant, Lindsay Dowty, Amber Guarino, Michael Hallee, Chase Hathaway, Catherine Hill, Jessica Joseph, Ally Julian, Ryan Krystofik, Patrick Lambert, Brandon Lebiszczak, Jordin Longo, Jocelyn Luizzi, Alicia Marvin, Grace Mascheck, Ryan McAuliffe, Au... |
Seventh grade, high honors: William Anderson, Rachel Bagdasarian, Kendall Barrett, Jamie Besaw, Sarah Blanchette, Rachel Boislard, Edward Burke, Carolyn Burnham, Benjamin Chapman, Tyler Christianson, Ryan Cicero, Hannah Corsa, Emilia Couture, Timothy Davids, Tyler DelGaizo, Julia DeLoreto, Emily Denker, Alexandra DiBia... |
Sixth grade, high honors: Mildred Baldinger, Wyatt Barbabosa, Grant Barber, Julia Bates, Jakob Behlke, Kyle Burzycki, Corbin Capone, Matthew Clark, Alexander Cote, Jarod Davies, Brian Dec, Amber Deslaurier, Spencer Dinsmoor, Michael Elrod,Carrie Epstein, Sarah Eslami, Jacob Ewan, Taryn Formanek, Scott Fries, Megan Gabr... |
WJJMS is located at 360 Norwich Ave., Colchester. For more information, call (860) 537-2313 or visit colchesterct.org. |
My friend Sherna in California has sent me a beautiful letter today, three pages of handwritten, scriptlike penmanship that is a pleasure to read. It must have taken her some time to write. It is a communication, an art form, and a true act of friendship. It reminded me that this past week was a historic one for me as ... |
I learned to type in Miss Hemman's summer-school typing class at Beverly Hills High School, so we're talking about a lot of years with what was then my new friend. I was proud of my skill at 13 going on 14, and no class meant as much to me then as typing, which allowed me to start high school with the best grade in my ... |
Being able to type became one of the two or three mechanical skills that arrived uninvited in my young years and stayed with me all the years that followed. I rank it up there in the top 10 secrets to my success, which include chewing with my mouth closed, a sense of wild colors in arranging cut flowers in a vase, and ... |
That last one may seem minor, but if you knew how few mechanical skills I have conquered, you'd stop snickering. I fixed my first vacuum cleaner when I was 16. Family guests were arriving, and my job was to run our old Hoover over the living-room carpets. |
Well, this ancient beast of burden just quit on me. I was alone in the house. So I pulled out the plug and saw that one of those copper things was not wrapped around its screw. I trimmed it down with a kitchen knife and wrapped it back into place. It started right up again. I felt such a sense of power and wisdom. |
This sense of repair power came to my aid years later aboard the USNS Gen. Harry N. Taylor, a converted tank-carrier that was ferrying 2,999 soldiers and me from New York to Bremerhaven, Germany, for our overseas Army assignment. The ship had been luxuriously refurbished to accommodate troops in the mid-1950s, which wa... |
Now let's suppose that you are a soldier aboard that ship as it makes its way across the North Atlantic in January. And imagine that you are experiencing what a weather consultant today would call "some turbulence," but what we called a doozy of a storm. Waves reached over the highest mast on the ship as we dipped and ... |
I held on for dear life to anything I could to avoid being washed overboard as the ship cut through the huge storm-generated waves. So when our commanding officer asked us in formation one morning if anyone could fix typewriters, I remembered both my love of typing and my skill in fixing vacuum cleaners. Both ideas cam... |
I was taken below to a nice, warm office and shown a typewriter that wasn't working. I studied it carefully, looking through its innards like a real repair pro, until I was left alone. Then I sat down. I hadn't a clue as to how to fix it. At that very moment, the ship hit an especially big wave, and I had to grab hold ... |
MY reputation spread throughout the ship. Boy, if you need a typewriter fixed, see the Pfc. down in the repair shop in the hold. |
The next two were surprisingly easy to fix. I didn't know what I was doing, but when I was through fiddling with them, they worked. |
Then the ship's captain sent down his pride and joy, a Smith-Corona older than Charles Lindbergh. It arrived with a warning: I'd better not do anything to harm it. We were docking the next day, so I said (this was Sparky, the typewriter-repair pro speaking) that I'd "take care of it" as soon as possible. |
Naturally, I couldn't fix it to save myself, but I hit upon a unique solution: I took a couple of parts off the machine and placed them in envelopes with clear instructions that, upon docking, replacement parts should be obtained. By then I had tried about everything - including, yes, dropping it - but it was very stub... |
So now it was time for me to go back on deck quietly. So much for North Atlantic warmth at any price. |
But typing stayed with me, getting me through studies, law-school exams, term papers, position papers in business, letters, memos, and all of my personal correspondence for many years. |
Then one day not so long ago a friend saw I was typing on a typewriter and asked why I didn't have a word processor. |
I was insulted, and shot back with clear facts proving that typing on a machine was infinitely superior to using one of those little black boxes he was pushing on me, things the size of a scarf's gift box from Saks Fifth Avenue. My friend looked at me carefully then, and said something to the effect that I was arguing ... |
That stung. He sent me a used word processor as a Christmas gift, and I glared at it for about two weeks. An employee, smug in youth's wisdom, came by and showed me how to use it. I started slowly. At first I found it just - well, hateful. It wasn't as nice as my old friend, the IBM electric sitting on my desk in its p... |
I kept forgetting how to operate that little black box and thought several times about throwing it out a window. (I'd seen Jane Fonda, playing Lillian Hellman, the great American writer, do just that in the movie "Julia.") The idea had great attraction for me, but when I remembered it had been a gift from a kind friend... |
Thus challenged, I mastered it. |
I started turning to it more and more for writing. I had to admit that it was faster - well, and easier, too. One morning when no one could see me, I put my typewriter on a shelf next to the desk and moved the word processor and printer to my typewriter table. No one would notice, I thought. Reduced circumstances for t... |
I started to type a letter on my typewriter and got two lines down before I realized I'd forgotten how to erase a typo. That was it. Why was I using it at all? Moving swiftly to stifle any sobs of regret, I carried the typewriter to a storage closet and shut the door. I finished my letter on my word processor. |
Now I did feel like a rat, an ingrate, deserting my old friend that way. And I promised myself I'd keep the old machine with me forever. |
Maybe - and this is only a thought - I might be able to use it in a flower arrangement. |
Kids need to know that online behavior is not secret. Maybe they can keep it a secret from you, but anything they text or post is subject to being forwarded, preserved by screenshot, posted for public ridicule, shared into online infamy, and/or dug up a decade later by prospective employers. |
The way you can manage all of your concerns — your mother’s errors, daughter’s annoyance, your legitimate fears of bullying and the aforesaid fallacy of privacy — is to tell your daughter that her being online is contingent on your having full access, passwords and all, so she is aware at all times that unwelcome eyes ... |
Explain that in return for this access, she gets the latitude your mother denied you: You will not read everything, and pop in only for random checks. And you won’t react to everything — you’ll discuss with her only what you deem important or dangerous. |
Once she sees you’re respecting her privacy, then you’ll start earning her trust, which comes in handy pretty much for the rest of your lives. |
Also assure her, and mean it, that you’ll monitor less and less as she approaches adulthood — unless you have irrefutable cause for alarm and are still paying the bill. |
Dear Carolyn: I have a relative the same age as me who has been one of my best friends since we were children. In the last decade, she went from a crummy, low-paying job to earning a position at a prestigious company, has traveled, bought a house, etc. I think she’s done some fantastic things. |
I get it about everything — not one instance, or two, but a dozen in the course of an evening together. I’m sad she can’t be supportive of me and that she thinks that my happiness somehow diminishes hers. Since she’s already prickly about this — and prickly in general — how do I bring this up? |
It’s a powerful statement. When she next hands you an opportunity to use it, I hope you do. |
UMAG, Croatia – Serbian qualifier Nikola Cacic spoiled Aljaz Bedene's 27th birthday by beating the British player 5-7, 6-4, 6-4 for his maiden win on the ATP tour on Monday. |
In the only other main-draw match, Leonardo Mayer of Argentina beat local wild card Nikola Mektic 7-5, 6-2. From 5-3 down in the first set, Mayer won 10 of the next 12 games. |
Raghubir Yadav is probably the only Indian actor to feature in three Indian Oscar-nominated films, Salaam! Bombay, Lagaan and Water. Yet, he may not find a place in Hollywood, like some of his actor colleagues like Irrfan Khan. In fact, we hardly ever see the actor in Bollywood films these days. |
He did not even accompany Aamir Khan and wife Kiran Rao to the Sundance Film Festival, where his new film Peepli Live! was being screened. Peepli Live!, which has been produced by Khan, made its rounds at the recent Berlin International Film Festival too. |
The film explores the serious subject of farmer suicides. Raghubir talks to Patcy N about the film, and about being a farmer himself. |
What is Peepli Live! about? |
The film is about farmer suicides. A farmer declares the date of death. That attracts the media to his village, and causes a huge problem. |
Why is it called a dark comedy? |
It shows some uneducated farmers meeting city people, who don't understand their way of life and vice versa. These farmers become a joke for these urbanites. But these jokes are actually underlying the farmers' tragedies. Life has been treated like a joke in this film. |
Did you get this role because of your close association with Aamir during Lagaan? |
No. It was director Anusha Rizvi's idea to cast me. She recommended my name to Aamir and we had a costume trial to see whether I looked like a farmer or not. We shot some scenes also, to see whether I looked authentic. |
After seeing those videos, Aamir thought I should be cast in the film. I don't know whether Aamir knows but I am a farmer by birth. I come from Jabalpur, Madhya Pradesh. |
I left my village at the age of 15 to become a singer. I turned to acting to support myself. I joined a Parsi theatre company and lived with them for six years. From there, I enrolled in the National School of Drama and studied there for three years. Later, I started teaching there, for 10 years. I got my first break i... |
What was working with Aamir like? |
Aamir is a very understanding producer. He makes everything easy for you. All the people on the film are tension-free. They know they will not be hassled for small things because Aamir will take care of everything. He is like a huge umbrella that protects you from all problems. |
We stayed in Bhuj, Gujarat, for five months. There were quite a few problems but we never felt them because of Aamir. We were shooting in the months of May and June, when it gets really hot. Then we shot for the film in Bhopal, where it was very cold. We would wake up at 4:30 am and travel to the village, which was 60 ... |
There was no pressure from Aamir to finish the shoot quickly and return. We did it in a relaxed way. Once Aamir believes in the script and the director, he sees to it that the unit faces no problem. Aamir came on the sets just once. And only once he asked for a scene to be reshot. Otherwise, he never interfered. |
You have worked with a lot of tribals in the film. What was the experience like? |
There were local farmers as well as theatre actors in the film. But I thought the local farmers performed better; they were so natural. |
It is usually difficult to work with actors but these farmers were so natural. Anusha would make us rehearse the scenes daily. We also had a workshop for the actors for 15 days in Mumbai and six days in Bhopal. So everyone knew each other and were comfortable with each other. The dialogues have a touch of Bhundelkhandi... |
What do you think about the farmer suicides? |
We forget that there cannot be life without farmers. But they are still so backward and nothing is being done to uplift them. |
My father had a lot of land but the government took it away to build an agricultural college. They gave us a small patch of land in return. My brother is now trying to restore it, and do some farming. But there are too many difficulties. It is difficult to get a hand pump or tube well on your land -- you have to bribe ... |
There are so many villages with no electricity. Even today, they have to rely on rain. Before we had zamindars, who mortgaged land, and now, banks are doing it. So the farmer gets frustrated and commits suicides. |
Why didn't you go for the Sundance Film Festival where the film was screened? |
I was not required to go. The producer and director were needed. |
I have not seen the film yet but people who have seen it have told me that it is very nice and has an earthy feel. |
Do you think this is a role of a lifetime, which is getting a lot of attention, thanks to the film festivals it's doing the rounds in? |
Yes, Peepli Live! will boost my career. If it does, that will be good. The film industry should get a bigger boost than me. I want better films to be made in India. Not many good movies are being made in India, especially sometime back when all the stories were similar. We have such a rich culture and so many stories t... |
But you play a lot of rural roles. Do you think your look is restrictive? |
No, I don't do only a particular kind of roles. I have also played a Nawab in Meenaxi. |
But yes, you are right. I get villager roles a lot because if you play one particular role well, people will typecast you. They think that if they take this actor, they will not have to do a lot of hard work on them. But I have seen to it that I get different kind of roles. It's okay if I don't get any films but I don'... |
We haven't seen you in too many Hindi films off late. Are you bored with the kind of scripts you are getting? |
Yes, that is one of the reasons. I'm not getting the kind of movies I want to do, and I don't like the roles I'm being offered. I don't want to do any film that I will regret later, and one that my audience won't like. |
I will never be satisfied with my career because one life is not enough to do what you want to do. There is so much more to do. |
I like my theatre characters, especially the one in Barry John's The Fool. Among the films I loved doing are Salaam! Bombay, Meenaxi and Massey Sahib. One film that I loved but did not get released was Ashray. It was about a person who locks himself in a house. I also loved doing telefilms like Raman Raghav. |
You featured in some great television shows like Mungeri Lal Ke Haseen Sapne and Chacha Chaudhary. But we haven't seen you on the small screen in a long time. |
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