Arjun Rampal Can Give Shah Rukh Khan A Side Effect

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It is not in account of personal revenge  upon Shah Rukh Khan that Arjun Rampal wants to hamper him. But due to recent development of severe back ache during the process of his stunt can make him to quit and eventually it can land up Khan's mega production 'Ra1's into trouble.

 

Reportedly, it is heard that if Arjun's pain still continues then Vivek Oberoi is held as the second option to take over his place. Obviously even if super talented Vivek also undertakes the project but Khan will eventually have to undergo through certain losses.

 

Here Arjun is featured in a negative role who is quite a favorite for Khan's flick, earlier he had proved lucky for 'Om Shanti Om' success.

 

In account of this back injury, Arjun is heard to be undergoing a special treatment and will be soon fit for his action. To proceed the  film shooting that is full of action and stunts.

Why would Arjun escape this golden chance? As he has got the chance to appear in power pact stunt with the application of SFX technology that director Anubhav Sinha  is utilizing for him.

Hope Arjun gets well soon and show his SFX technology applied stunt in 'RA1'

source: http://www.india-server.com/news/arjun-rampal-can-give-shah-rukh-khan-a-22518.html

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My Name Is Khan Sets New UK Record

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I’m a big fan of Shah Rukh: Akon

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Akon seeks Haiti help from Shah Rukh Khan

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Singer plans to take SRK's aid in raising funds for the earthquake affected area

Hip-hop and R&B singer Akon is in town to record a song for Shah Rukh Khan's Ra One. Directed by Anubhav Sinha, the sci-fi flick features Shah Rukh and Kareena in lead roles.

Vishal-Shekhar score the music. Akon, popular for chartbusting tracks like Smack That and Mr Lonely, lends his voice to a track in the film and will also appear in the music video.


Something serious
However, apart from talking music and doing business with SRK, he's also here to talk about something serious. Akon, who's worked with another musician Wycleaf Jean on the Haiti relief work, plans to talk to Shah Rukh about joining hands and raising money for the affected.

Talking about the situation in the earthquake-affected Haiti, Akon says, "There is so much more that can be done and needs to be done. I visited Haiti a while back and it was a moving experience. I think it's not something that's restricted to one particular part of the world, but a global situation that needs to be addressed.

I definitely plan to talk to Shah Rukh and see what we can do to raise aid for those in need. The plan is to get as many people involved as possible."

Weeks after the earthquake, Akon and Wyclef Jean performed in Haiti at the Yele Festival. Besides that, he also appeared in the charity single 'We Are The World' which was recorded along with 87 different artistes to raise money for Haiti relief.

Staying tuned in

Shah Rukh, who has sung only two songs in his career (in Josh and Farhan Akhtar's Don), plans to take active interest in the recording sessions for Ra One. "I am a terrible singer. But I do plan to get more involved with Akon while recording the song. There's a lot to learn from him." Adding that his son Aryan is a huge fan of the Smack That! track he adds, "That's a popular tune in the family. Everyone loves it." When asked if his kids ask him about the adult phrases and lingo in Akon's songs he jokingly says, "Well I am the one who learns from them." While SRK's favourite tune is Smack that!, Kareena picks Beautiful as hers. "I just love the song and think its really romantic." When asked if Saif who's into music and plays a guitar, listens to Akon she adds, "Not really. But we are definitely looking forward to party with him tonight."

Source: http://www.mid-day.com/entertainment/2010/mar/100310-Shahrukh-Khan-Akon-Ra1-Haiti-earthquake-fund.htm

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US survey charts who is missing out on their sleep

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Thirty per cent of Americans are getting fewer than six hours sleep a night, far short of the recommended eight hours that doctors say are optimal for good health.

Now a new survey reveals that sleep times vary among different ethnic groups, with African-Americans getting at least 34 minutes less sleep than Asians, Hispanics or Caucasians.

The National Sleep Foundation's 2010 Sleep in America poll is the first to study sleep patterns among ethnic groups. It raises some important questions about why different sections of society are sleeping less than others.

One of America's leading sleep experts, Dr Allan Pack, says that there are genetic variations that determine the amount of sleep people need, which may go some way towards explaining why some groups sleep less than others.

Money worries

But the University of Pennsylvania professor says a more likely explanation involves socio-economic factors.

The study found that African-Americans and Hispanics were much more likely than Asians and Caucasians to lose sleep every night worrying about money and employment.

"It is possible, for example, that somebody has a child sleeping in their bed at night because their culture says that's a good thing to do"

Seventeen per cent of African-Americans also reported doing job-related tasks in the hour before bedtime, more so than Asians (16%), Caucasians (9%) and Hispanics (13%).

"Many of these people are sleeping short, not because they don't understand the importance of sleep, but because of the pressures of their lives, having two jobs and all that type of stuff", says Dr Pack. He thinks it is economic pressure that is forcing them to cut back on their sleep.

"There is no question that the percentage of people who sleep less than six hours a night is increasing. But whether the recession has made an acute blip in that, I don't know," he says.

Overall, at least a third of Hispanics and African-Americans say they are kept awake at least a few nights a week by financial, relationship or health concerns. That is compared with a little over a quarter of Caucasians and Asians.

Dr Meir Kryger, director of research and education at Gaylord Sleep Medicine in Connecticut, thinks the data needs to be considered in a wider social context.

"There can be a lot of other things that impact your life, such as your education, whether you have a job, your socio-economic status and so forth.

"It is possible, for example, that somebody has a child sleeping in their bed at night because their culture says that's a good thing to do. But it could also be that they do that because they're poor and can't afford an extra bedroom for the child," Mr Kryger explains.

Busy bed-time routines

Among those with children, Asians (28%) and Hispanics (22%) were most likely to sleep in the same room as their children, compared with African-Americans (15%) and Caucasians (8%).

However, Caucasians were much more likely (16%) to share their bed with their pets than other ethnic groups.

"Pets don't just lie there for eight hours. They have the ability to disrupt your sleep," says Dr Kryger.

The survey shows that African-Americans have the busiest bedtime routines. Experts say the hour before bed is an important time to relax to help ensure a good night's sleep. But while African-Americans get less sleep than other ethnic groups, they also say they do not need it.

The poll also found that 20-30% of all those questioned said they missed work or family functions because they were too tired.

About 24% of Asians, 22% of African-Americans and Hispanics and 19% of Caucasians missed an event at least once a month because of sleep problems.

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Oscar bosses defend Farrah Fawcett snub

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Actress Farrah Fawcett was not included in the Oscars In Memoriam segment because she was better known as a TV star, the Academy has said.

Fawcett's family said on Tuesday they were "deeply saddened" and "bereft" over her omission from the ceremony.

But the academy said as the star was known for her "remarkable television work", it would be more appropriate to honour her at the Emmy Awards.

Charlie's Angels star Fawcett died of cancer in June last year.

The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences executive director Bruce Davis said he was not surprised some fans and family members were upset at the exclusion.

'We're sorry'

He said the committee debated including Fawcett in the memorial segment, but "an unusual number of extremely distinguished screenwriters" died this year, and the academy tried to honour many of them in the short time allowed.

"In every category, you're going to miss some wonderful people," said Davis, who has helped assemble Oscar's In Memoriam montage since it began in 1993.

When asked why Michael Jackson was included when other actors were left out, Davis said the singer had appeared in a popular theatrical film recently.

But he appreciated that the actress's omission would upset some people.

"There's nothing you can say to people, particularly to family members, within a day or two of the show that helps at all," Davis said.

"They tend to be surprised and hurt, and we understand that and we're sorry for it."

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Chevron oil plant will stay open

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Chevron has said it will continue to operate its Pembrokeshire refinery if a buyer for the site is not found.

The US-based form is seeking bids for some of its European operations as part of global restructuring.

Tom Kovar, general manager of the Pembrokeshire plant, said the firm would continue to invest in the site while a buyer was being sought.

Deputy First Minister Ieuan Wyn Jones has said the assembly government would do everything it could to secure jobs.

Mr Kovar told BBC Radio Wales: "The refinery will continue to run and depending on what this bidding process unfolds, if it doesn't yield anything we will continue to run it and manage the business.

"I can't speak of other plants but I can say this refinery is efficient and it's flexible and those are keys to surviving in today's world."

He added: "In the meantime we continue to invest in this refinery to secure the reliable and efficient operation of the kit we have."

"That is what our focus is - to run the refinery as safely, as reliably and efficiently as we can every day"

Around 1,400 people are employed at the Pembrokeshire plant, which processes 220,000 barrels of crude oil a day and is estimated to be worth

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Conan O’Brien’s Twitter Stunt Turns Inspirational

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HOLLYWOOD, Calif. — Who would have thought Conan O'Brien's Twitter stunt last week would turn inspirational?

On Friday, the unemployed late-night host announced that his newfound Twitter presence would only have one follower – randomly chosen 19-year-old Sarah Killen from Michigan.

"I've decided to follow someone at random," O'Brien said after choosing the woman affectionately known as LovelyButton. "She likes peanut butter and gummy dinosaurs. Sarah Killen, your life is about to change."

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Taking a chance

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Jon Venables was given a second chance and is now back in prison. But making judgements about rehabilitating offenders - and public support for it - can be problematic, says Jon Silverman.

If anything positive has come out of the frenzy of comment about the recall to custody of Jon Venables, it is a sudden focus on the issue of rehabilitating offenders.

This may bring a pinched smile to the faces of some of those who toiled in the Home Office in the early years of this century to move rehabilitation higher up the criminal justice agenda. But the battle was lost amidst growing concern about violent offenders released from prison to kill and rape again.

Those who argued that public protection should always be paramount and rehabilitation a secondary concern will feel vindicated by the latest development, but should they be

Like every key aspect of the debate about crime, the reoffending statistics for juvenile crime are an unreliable guide. Using figures published by the Ministry of Justice (MoJ) in 2008, the Conservatives asserted that the number of persistent juvenile offenders in England and Wales (that is, those aged 10 to 17, sentenced for a recordable offence three times in three years) has doubled since 1997, further evidence, the party said, of David Cameron's "broken Britain".

But in 2009, the MoJ itself declared that juvenile reoffending fell by 23% between 2000 and 2007. Leaving aside a change in the method of calculating the rates, the plain fact is that generalities are of use only to political partisans. Those looking for light rather than heat need to interrogate the data more closely.

Rehabilitation is rather like slowing a car. Braking time has to be taken into account. In other words, if the frequency of offending slows and the seriousness of the crimes committed reduces, a case can be made that rehabilitation is working.

Strict boundaries

Comparing samples of 10 to 17 year olds from 2000 and 2007, researchers found that the frequency rate of reoffending fell from 151 offences per 100 people to 116. And offences classified as "serious" - murder, grievous bodily harm and some sexual offences - fell from 0.91 to 0.73.

With the Venables case in mind, though, it should be pointed out that in the 2007 sample, the number of those convicted of murder, serious assault and sex attacks was so small - 385 - that any robust interpretation can be ruled out. The likeliest conclusion is that the overall severity rate has remained fairly stable over the last decade.

But re-offending itself is a problematic term. The measurements are based on reconviction figures, which means being caught and prosecuted. Only a fraction of crimes end in a prosecution.

Moreover, to make judgements about rehabilitation, it is necessary to take other factors into account - such as length of sentence. Those serving a term of 12 months or more stand a better chance of being weaned away from further crime than those on short sentences, because they have time to go on offending behaviour and other programmes.

But even more significant are "external" factors which contribute so much to reoffending. Addressing these may be the key to helping individuals - even those convicted of the most serious offences - "grow out of" crime.

A turbulent or abusive family background, mental health issues, school exclusion, drugs and alcohol dependency - these are the dragons which have to be slain, or at least tamed. Many of the most successful projects commissioned by the Youth Justice Board focus on one, or more than one, of these problems.

The Resettlement and Aftercare Provision (RAP), which is implemented by Youth Offending Teams, attempts to provide a prop for offenders even before they enter custody, and it continues after release. Family Intervention Programmes, which identify children at risk of offending and offer sustained support, are also a growing part of the crime prevention agenda.

Tools

But for those convicted of the most serious crimes even before they enter their teens, like Jon Venables and Robert Thompson, or the two brothers who tortured two boys at Edlington in South Yorkshire, the tools of rehabilitation are usually intensive psychotherapy, education - often six hours a day - and the establishing of strict boundaries.

They are placed in a secure children's home until the age of 15 - there are 18 of these local authority units in England and Wales - and moved to a secure training centre between the ages of 15 and 17. If Thompson and Venables had not been released in 2001, they would have gone to a young offender institution.

In 2008, the Ministry of Justice launched an online programme in which members of the public can decide what they think is the most suitable sentence for "virtual" offenders. In a survey of 3,000 respondents, 82% said they thought rehabilitation was as important, or more important, than punishment as a criterion for sentencing.

But when a Jon Venables is in the news and memories of his crime are revived as the subject of phone-in debates and pub chatter, coolness and reason fly out of the window. It was ever thus.

Jon Silverman is a professor in Media and Criminal Justice at the University of Bedfordshire.

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‘Problem kids’ risk future pain

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Children with behavioural problems are twice as likely to suffer chronic pain as adults than others, say researchers.

Scientists at Aberdeen University, who followed the lives of more than 19,000 children, think faulty hormone signals in the brain may play a key role.

Bad early life experiences may harm this brain system, causing both behavioural problems in childhood and chronic widespread pain in adulthood.

The findings, spanning 45 years, are published in the journal Rheumatology.

All of the children in the study were born in 1958, and mostly in the UK.

"It is becoming clear that events that happen early in childhood are important"

Throughout the study, up until the age of 16, parents and teachers assessed the children's behaviour looking for any "problem" signs such as poor ability to make friends, disobedience, stealing, thumb sucking and nail biting, lying, bullying and truanting.

When the children had grown up and reached the age of 42 they completed a questionnaire asking about psychological distress. At the age of 45 they completed another one about pain.

From this the researchers found that children with severe behavioural problems had double the risk of chronic widespread pain.

Dr Dong Pang, lead author of the work and a researcher at the University of Aberdeen, said: "We know already that severe adverse events in childhood such as hospitalisation after a road traffic accident and separation from mothers are linked to chronic widespread pain in adulthood."

But, until now, it was unknown whether maladjusted behaviour in children was a long-term marker for this type of pain.

"Our study shows that it is," he said.

Abnormal stress response

The researchers say that it is not just chronic widespread pain that is associated with bad behaviour in childhood.

Other adult problems associated with childhood behavioural problems include long-term psychiatric problems such as depression, anxiety and substance abuse.

They say that all these problems may be outcomes of the chain of events set in motion by the dysfunctioning "hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal" or HPA axis - the system in the brain that controls hormones to help regulate the body's response to stressful situations.

If further research proves this to be the case, then it might be possible to intervene in early life to prevent these problems occurring later.

Professor Gary Macfarlane, who also worked on the study, said changing a person's lifestyle may help alter the pattern, including increasing the amount of exercise someone takes as well as watching out for signs of psychological distress and behavioural problems in childhood.

Dr John McBeth, a pain expert at Manchester University, said: "While the factors associated with developing chronic widespread pain are slowly being revealed, it is becoming clear that events that happen early in childhood are important.

He said the next challenge was to determine if problems with stress response system were operating in children.

"If the answer is yes, these studies offer exciting opportunities to develop early interventions to alleviate symptoms including chronic pain disorders in adulthood."

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