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    Calling her "full of life" and "high-spirited", Bollywood celebrities expressed their grief and shock over the death of young actress Jiah Khan.

    Jiah, 25, whose real name is Nafisa Khan, was found hanging at her residence at around 11 pm last night.

    The actress made her acting debut with Ram Gopal Varma's 'Nishabd' opposite Amitabh Bachchan in March 2007.

    "What!!! Jiah Khan ??? what has happened ? is this correct ? unbelievable !!!," tweeted a shocked Bachchan.

    Filmmaker Varma called Jia a girl with "spunk and spirit".

    "Never ever seen a debutante actress with more spunk and more spirit than Jiah when I was directing her in 'Nishabd'. The whole unit of 'Nishabd' was literally in love with Jiah. "No matter what her problem was I just so wish she applied her on-screen philosophy of 'Nishabd' to her own life. Shocked and choked to hear about Jiah," Varma tweeted.

    The British-Indian actress was later seen opposite Aamir Khan in 'Ghajini' and Akshay Kumar in 'Housefull'. She had been missing from the big screen for a while now.

    Actor Riteish Deshmukh, who worked with Jia in 'Housefull', said, "Nothing worse than waking up to a bad news- shocked n dumb struck- RIP Jiah. She was full of life and had incredible sense of humour. She was a friend n will miss her. Am deeply saddened."

    "Jiah Khan was full of life when I worked with her long time back. So sad that something drove her to take this extreme step. RIP," tweeted Anupam Kher who had also worked with the actress.

    Actor Shahid Kapoor, said, "Shocked and saddened to hear about Jiah Khan... Very disturbing. RIP... May her soul rest in peace."

    "Life has to be experienced and lived!It's a limitless ocean, have to swim through it,and not let it drown you! Rip Jiah Khan!God bless her soul," Bipasha Basu tweeted.

    "Rip Jiah khan. Terrible tragedy.. Very very shocking and disturbing news," added Sonam Kapoor.

    Filmmaker-choreographer Farah Khan tweeted, "Can't register that Jiah is no more... Worked with her in 'Housefull' and she was so beautiful n such a good soul. Too young to go Jiah."

    Filmmaker Kunal Kohli said, "What she must've gone through to take such a step we'll never know. May her soul rest in peace."

    "Shocked to hear about Jiah Khan, she was too young to give up on life. RIP," said Arshad Warsi.

    Actress Dia Mirza posted on her Twitter page, "RIP Nafisa(Jiah) Khan. You were too young and beautiful. This is no way to go! Life is too precious. The worst phases pass. They do. Never give up!."

    New Hampshire senior wins state title when foe walks off court and forfeits because of fan behavior

    It may be the strangest way yet to win a state title. After taking the first set in the best-of-three New Hampshire girls tennis singles final, Bow (N.H.) High senior Sunday Swett was told that she had won the title. Yet it wasn’t an injury that befell her opponent, Nashua (N.H.) Bishop Guertin senior Briana Leonard. Rather, Leonard unilaterally decided to end the match because she was being heckled by the crowd.

    The Bishop Guertin girls tennis team, with Briana Leonard on the front right — BGHS.orgThe Bishop Guertin girls tennis team, with Briana Leonard on the front right — BGHS.org

    Ladies and Gentlemen, we have a crowd-induced state champion. This may be a first.

    “We had an unfortunate experience,” New Hampshire Interscholastic Activities Association Executive Director R. Patrick Corbin told the Nashua Telegrah. “I’ve never seen something like this at a tennis match.”

    The forfeit occurred when Corbin attempted to shift the girls singles final to a different court at the conclusion of the first set, which Swett won 6-4. Yet, instead of heading to the new court, Leonard left the scene entirely, retreating to her car with her parents and driving home.

    The elder Leonards told the Telegraph that their daughter was being persecuted by the crowd because she lives in Massachusetts and attends high school in New Hampshire.

    “They were bullying her,” Karen Leonard told the Telegraph. “This has been going on for two years. They’ve wanted her out for two years because she’s not a New Hampshire girl. Because we live in Massachusetts.”
    Sunday Swett, who won a state title after her foe walked off because of crowd issues — YouTubeSunday Swett, who won a state title after her foe walked off because of crowd issues — YouTube

    Regardless of where the family lives, Leonard’s own coach acknowledged that dealing with hostile crowds is an integral part of sports, even if he did feel that his athlete was facing a number of challenges in the final match of her prep career.

    “Bri was heavily not the crowd favorite today,” Bishop Guertin coach Barry Ndynia told the Telegraph.

    “But in sports that’s something you have to deal with. Some people will not cheer for you. They’ll cheer for your opponent. That’s why I was trying to keep her focused.”

    As for Swett, the senior celebrated a title in her final match and told the Concord Monitor that the stunning forfeit would not take away from her contentment with the achievement.

    MiKandi Releases Google Glass Porn App, Then Discovers It Can't Use 'Sexually Explicit Material'

    MiKandi, the "world's first and largest adult app store," released the first ever porn app for Google Glass on Monday morning. A dozen people have signed up for the suggestively named "Tits And Glass" app and thousands have viewed the app's website, according to MiKandi CEO Jesse Adams.

    But apparently MiKandi wasn't aware of changes Google recently made to its terms of service. In an update to its blog, MiKandi writes that it now has make changes to the app so it doesn't interfere with Google's ban on "Glassware content that contains nudity, graphic sex acts or sexually explicit material."

    Google's change in policy underscores its efforts to fiercely control Glass' reputation before its public release. Glass' unobtrusive recording capabilities have sparked many privacy concerns. At least one strip club has already banned Glass, and Preeti Upadhyaya of the Silicon Valley Business Journal has raised concerns about sexual consent in the Glass-wearing world.

    The ban on "sexually explicit" content may limit what MiKandi can show to Glass users, but the company's CEO is still optimistic: "We are going to have to be really creative," Adams told ABC News. "There are tasteful and artful things we can do."

    Abercrombie Protesters' Plight Highlights Brand's 'Exclusionary' Attitude


    Heather Arnet was escorted into the Abercrombie & Fitch headquarters in New Albany, Ohio, flanked by her contingent of 16 teenage girls. It was late 2005, and they were there to voice their discontent about a series of shirts that the company had unleashed on the market with text celebrating skinny blonde teenage girls while deriding brunettes and less-slender figures.

    The shirts in question: “I had a nightmare I was a brunette,” “Blondes are adored, brunettes are ignored,” “Do I make you look fat?” and more.

    Once inside, the group of protesters walked through a sea of cubicles and past towering images of men and women locked in embraces. The girls looked around in awe, wondering how strange it would be to work each day permanently surrounded by such images. Then, they entered a windowless conference room to plead their case that the fashion brand not demean people who do not fit its version of cool.

    Arnet left convinced that their mission was futile.

    “What we witnessed in that room that was so tangible was how deep the culture really is at Abercrombie,” said Arnet, reflecting on the experience nearly eight years later. “The only person who seemed empowered in that building was white and male.”

    In recent weeks, Abercrombie has been thrashed by consumers, activists and the media for refusing to stock larger sizes for female customers and for controversial remarks made by chief executive officer Mike Jeffries in a resurrected interview with Salon in 2006. Jeffries said at the time that his brand targets the “attractive all-American kid,” forcing the company to issue an apology.

    “A lot of people don’t belong [in our clothes], and they can’t belong,” he told Salon. “Are we exclusionary? Absolutely.”

    For Arnet, the chief executive officer of a Pennsylvania-based independent advocacy group called the Women and Girls Foundation, the current controversy feels familiar. In an interview with The Huffington Post this week, she described her own efforts to persuade Abercrombie executives to reexamine their values as a new set of activists are now heading to New Albany to discuss the retailer’s latest brush with protesters.

    Abercrombie does have women in powerful positions at the top of its corporate hierarchy. Three of the four executive vice presidents at Abercrombie are women, along with two of the nine members of the company’s board of directors.

    “Diversity and inclusion are key to our organization’s success,” reads a quote from Jeffries on the Abercrombie website. “We are determined to have a diverse culture, throughout our organization, that benefits from the perspectives of each individual.”

    But the way Arnet recalls her experience, that official message is quickly undermined by the reality inside the company’s headquarters: At her meeting, the men in the room did nearly all the talking, while dismissing the protestors as people who couldn't take a joke. The two women present sat mostly silent, Arnet said. After the meeting, Arnet took away a clear message: Abercrombie was not interested in broadening its consumer base to those deemed uncool.

    “The girls tried to push them to say whether they would move forward with this idea for a girl-empowering line,” said Arnet. “The A&F team declined to say anything specific or committal.”

    Posts Advertisement & Syllabus for Agriculture Supervisor Dated : 29-05-2013

    Post Name : Agriculture Supervisor/Krishi Pryavekshak -Department of Agriculture Rajasthan
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    Last Date : 15-07-2013
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    Notification : Agriculture Supervisor/Krishi Pryavekshak Recruitment May 2013 Department of Agriculture Rajasthan : - Department of Agriculture Rajasthan has issued notification for the recruitment of 2224 Agriculture Supervisor/Krishi Pryavekshakvacancies. Eligible and interested candidates, who are fulfilling the requisite qualifications /specifications as mentioned below, may apply Online through krishi.rajasthan Official Website before the last date. Essential qualifications, pay, general conditions, online application format and other details are available on krishi.rajasthan Official website. The No. of Posts, Essential Qualifications, Age limit, Reservation details, Selection Procedure, Important instructions, Experience, PayScale, General conditions and other details are given below: Candidates are advised to read carefully all the instructions for submission of application.
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    When a bat flies toward them in the stands, this man leaves his woman to fend for herself

    A husband at a Chicago Cubs game a few weeks ago tried to protect his wife from a home run ball hit in their direction. He spilled his beer on her in the process, so afterward she poured her beer over his head. That's one example of what happens when a flying object comes between a man and his counterpart at a baseball game.

    What happened Monday night in Anaheim is another, very different example. Cue up the above video and you'll see Houston Astros batter J.D. Martinez hit a foul ball and lose grip of his bat, which flies toward a couple sitting in the front row. The man, choosing flight over fight, bolts to the aisle for safety. The woman sticks her arms out to avoid the bat hitting her right in the noggin. She was OK, no thanks to her date.

    She laughed afterward and no beers were poured over anyone's head in public, so maybe 'twas all good? We can't say for sure what happened, though, when the two left the game. Maybe the woman chewed him out for not being protective enough. Or maybe she agreed with his "every man (or woman) for him/herself philosophy."

    The Internet of course has its own opinions and — as is usually the case when something like this happens — has declared chivalry dead. I'm probably not alone on this: I'd rather take a beer bath trying to help out a lady than be the guy mocked online for caring only about himself. Of course, a baseball bat wasn't flying at me as I wrote this.

    Kendall Jenner Bikini Kim's Little Sister Looks All Grown Up In New Model Shots

    Kendall Jenner is back in a bikini, but this time it's for her day job.

    Jenner is now officially a bikini model for Agua Bendita, a popular Colombian swimsuit brand that has appeared in the pages of Sports Illustrated and Maxim magazines. The 17-year-old stunner joins the likes of Candice Swanepoel, Marisa Miller, Bar Refaeli and Irina Shayk who have all modeled for the line.

    In the glamorous ad, Jenner dons a ruffled floral bikini on her famously fit figure. The blossoming model liked the shot so much she made it the background of her Twitter profile.

    Just a few weeks ago the brunette beauty said it's her dream to become a Victoria's Secret Angel someday. Her modeling has already impressed some current Victoria's Secret supermodels, like Lilly Aldridge and Adrianna Lima.

    "She's so stunningly beautiful and has so much personality. I think that she definitely could be a future Angel," Aldridge told Celebuzz about the "Keeping Up With the Kardashians" star. "Just keep doin' whatcha doin' girl, 'cause you're doin' it good."

    Lima thinks Kendall is a bit too young right now, but maybe in two years she will be ready. "She's definitely a beautiful, beautiful girl," said Lima, "and she's very talented. So, why not?"

    Heath Ledger's Joker Diary Surfaces In Footage From German Documentary Series

    A fascinating new video that may provide a brush of insight into Heath Ledger prior to his death has surfaced. In it, Ledger's father leafs through a diary his son kept for the Joker while filming the now-iconic role in "The Dark Knight."

    The diary is an extensive portrait of what Ledger thought the Joker's mentality looked like, complete with elaborate entries, drawings and magazine clippings. The actor included imagery that features everything from old Batman comics to "A Clockwork Orange" photos. As Ledger's father discusses the diary, the Oscar his son won posthumously for the role sits nearby on the table.

    The footage turned up on Reddit and appears to be a clip from a year-old episode of the German docuseries "Too Young To Die." The segment was titled "Heath Ledger: Favorite of the Gods."

    The elder Ledger says the actor, who died of an accidental overdose at 28, was famous for poring himself over his characters and that he "locked himself up in a hotel room for weeks" in order to inhabit the Joker.

    Team Obama's entire Middle East policy has failed and the problem is about to get worse

    The Benghazi Report has condemned the State Department for “systemic failures and leadership and management deficiencies.” Four officials have resigned, and a few more lesser heads are likely to roll.  Secretary Clinton may have said she takes full responsibility, but she has successfully managed to avoid taking the blame. With the holidays fast approaching, she and senior White House officials can now wash their hands of the matter.

    But the Benghazi report misses the point.  The events of September 11 are a symptom of a much larger problem -- the Obama administration’s entire Middle East policy has failed. And the problem is about to get much worse as the as yet unpunished but ascendant Al Qaeda and its affiliates contemplate what they might do next to attack Americans.

    Less than two years ago, the entire region was at peace. Granted, it was an uneasy peace, but it’s a region where for thousands of years an uneasy peace was as good as it gets.  Granted, many countries were governed by dictators, but at least they were pro-American dictators.  Granted, some countries continually railed against Israel, but none of them were actually in a fighting war with Israel.

    Fast forward to today. Everything has changed. The entire region is in upheaval.  With our help, Egypt has replaced a pro-American dictator with what promises to be an anti-American Muslim Brotherhood dictator and Islamist constitution. We helped Libyan rebels topple their dictator, yet their new government is has failed to consolidate control. They are cowed by Al Qaeda affiliated militias and couldn’t - or wouldn’t - prevent the Benghazi attack and assassinations of our diplomats.  Syria’s vicious civil war threatens to go from horrific to hellish as Al Qaeda sympathizers and Islamic extremists take over the rebel cause, chemical weapons go missing, and the ethno-sectarian violence spills over to infect Syria’s neighbors and threaten our NATO ally Turkey.  Iran is on the cusp of becoming a nuclear power and the dominant power in the region.  Any hopes that a post-Saddam Iraq would be a pro-American ally have vanished as Iraq falls increasingly into the Iranian orbit.  We will end up fighting our way out of Afghanistan, as it descends into multiparty civil war once the last American soldier takes the last helicopter out.   At best, countries will be governed by the anti-American Muslim Brotherhood.  At worst, chaos will ensue. Political and economic chaos  are waiting in the wings, and radical Islamists, terrorists and Al Qaeda expand their influence throughout the region.

    Fake Lesbians React To Real Lesbian Porn

    Warning: The above video may contain language and images that are not suitable for workplace or other sensitive environments)
    A recent viral video, Davey Wavey's "Real Lesbians React to Lesbian Porn", shows what happens when real lesbians watch lesbian porn that is clearly made for straight men.

    Jincey Lumpkin, founder and Chief Sexy Officer of Juicy Pink Box (Warning: Link is highly NSFW), a company which produces upscale, high-quality porn for lesbians, wanted women to know there is an alternative.

    “While most lesbian adult films are vulgar gay-for-pay porn made to fulfill the fantasies of straight men," says Lumpkin, who also regularly blogs for The Huffington Post. "Our films are seductive and beautifully crafted cinema made for women who crave intense sensuality, soft caresses, and gentle seduction.”

    So, in response to the "Real Lesbians React to Lesbian Porn" video, Lumpkin decided to create her own video, "Fake Lesbians React to Real Lesbian Porn." The video features subjects who are obviously not lesbians -- and even a drag queen -- watching and commenting on the Juicy Pink Box lesbian porn they are viewing.

    Why a drag queen? “I threw in a drag queen because I think anything in life is better with a drag queen in it,” says Lumpkin.

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