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This has become some kind of an annual phenomenon. And this phenomenon repeats itself at least twice each year. Not that the ecosystem ever stops bringing Nehru to any and every context that one can imagine. It is just that the jobless freeloaders usually get that extra kick during the death and birth dates of Nehru or else Nehru is in their pants and Nehru is in their shirts as Rahul Gandhi would have put it. You see, Nehru is an idea and ideas never die, a certain freeloader par excellence like Ramachandra Guha would thunder. The liberal cabal has even got shriller in last four years. This year being the penultimate year before the general elections, the expected shrillness in praising Nehru no end has crossed some bizarre level. This is what I always refer as the 'cluelessness' that the opposition exhibits. They have no agenda left to mount their fight against the present government. They even don't know how they want to fight. They never had any credible past either. So what is left to shout about is the false notion of Nehru that they have kept on selling to the nation for decades. Even that is falling flat of late since the masses have started rejecting this usual 'snake oil' which the ecosystem was busy feeding the populace for so long.
The bastardization of our history for the sake of praising a handful of individuals for everything that they never were and they never were capable of is just part of the problem. One of the biggest beneficiary of this bastardization is a certain Jawaharlal Nehru and his family chain. I am not quite worried with that honestly, except may be for the fact, there is a bigger problem in whole of this. And the bigger problem is the belief that the ecosystem still carries. They still believe, they can fool the masses by the same falsification that they first experimented during early 1950s.
I wouldn't blame anyone from my generation for carrying that love quotient for Nehru. I even had lots of love for Nehru since he was dubbed as our beloved 'Chacha' in our school books. And as gullible as I was like most of the citizenry, I believed it too. When I was a kid, I once even thought if I could exchange my own grandfather for a far more loving character like 'Chacha Nehru'. And trust me, my grandfather was the most loving grandfather one can be ever blessed to have. That was the kind of impact the lies projected in our books had on young minds. It still does even, which needs an immediate course correction. Only when I grew up, do I realize, what kind of monumental lies, not just the 'Chacha' part but most related to Nehru, were. There is no proof of Nehru being a children lover. I had asked many Nehru fan-boys to share at least one evidence of Nehru being an ardent children lover. I am still waiting for that one single evidence. Perhaps his love for children didn't cross the boundaries of our text books and those rare couple of pictures (which these Darbaris keep on flooding every year) where Nehru was seen with some kids, all the while ogling lustfully towards their mothers. I can't even remember (and no documented proof either) a single policy of Nehru as the PM, which he enacted specifically for the welfare of children. So how Nehru did a migration from being the plain 'Vanilla Nehru' to chocolate syrup dripping 'Chacha Nehru' is still a mystery to many including me. Even a bigger mystery – what kind of moron could comprehend and conceive enough reasons (which nobody knows) to name the birth anniversary of Nehru as 'Children's Day'. But much on this later.
This year was no different on Nehru's death anniversary. Beyond the usual rant of him being visionary, compassionate and other such assorted and usual nonsense, there were actually few who even ashamed the much famed curse phrase 'Servile Mentality'.
The first exhibit is right here, a certain Nitin Pai. For all that I know about him, he is heading the 'Takshshila Institution', presumably a literate individual. Even his education couldn't clean his mind of 'Colonial slavery'. As Subramanian Swamy would put it – you only can feel sorry for these semi-literate morons who have such vast disconnect with the ground realities and yet blabber big on every opportunity offered. In other words, they call themselves intellectuals. For this slave, a PM's worth is only countable if he/she can use the word 'palimpsest' effectively in a sentence. Is this the sole achievement of Nehru throughout his political career? May be, and in all probability, it could be. Still then, how does it fit in today when we have a highly inspirational young populace ready to take any challenge head-on? In the present scheme of things where does slaves like Nitin Pai and their over exposed colonial slavery fits in? Honestly I don't know what on earth 'palimpsest' is and what it means. I am least bothered if my PM can effectively use this word in a phrase of the Queen's language, which 80% of my fellow citizens know nothing about. But Nehru fan-boys are made up of such flimsy coherence. Remember when I said – I am still waiting for one single evidence of Nehru's greatness from these fan-boys. For response I always have these Nitin Pais of the world to share such acute sense of slavery as proof to how Nehru was a great leader. As somebody correctly said – "Anybody who judges Prime Ministers by their ability to use the word palimpsest effectively is very likely an Idiot". And I am sure Nitin Pai is one.
But Nitin Pai isn't the only idiot around here, there are many. Their voices are becoming shriller, partly because their existence is in question and other being, they are desperate for their master's survival. Only option left, latch on to yesteryears figures and draw larger than life image (which these figures never were) with a hope, voters would count such stunts while voting. Savarkar's birth anniversary falling within couple of days of Nehru's death anniversary is another arsenal that these selfsame colonial slaves never miss to exploit. Though these fan-boys never manage to share a single credible leadership quality of Nehru, they leave no chance in demining Savarkar in the same breath, of course with another set of falsification. Lies are what these slaves' best manage to offer – be it while praising Nehru or when demining Savarkar and other real heroes of that era. Direct one-on-one comparison, you see? In one of my earlier posts I tried to bust the myth around Nehru as a freedom fighter and his so called jail term. One grudge that these slaves never fail to produce is how Savarkar begged mercy from the British. I am sure, most of these slaves would struggle to tell for how long Savarkar was jailed in a highly inhuman surrounding like the Andaman. In that post I asked – how much time Nehru would have taken for pleading mercy, had he been subjected to even half the atrocities that Savarkar had to go through. My optimistic guess was at most a month. In fact he may not had survived for a month. The real threats to the Queen were bundled to places like cellular jail or hanged while insubstantial freedom fighters like Nehru were put in jails as farce. Had Nehru been a real threat, I don't understand why the British would have spared him with farcical jail terms? Most of those who usurped power after the British left our soil are the least affected by the British atrocities. This can't just be a coincidence. I didn't see a single so called freedom fighter in the bad books of the ecosystem, who didn't have to suffer even a hundredth of what people like Savarkar had to. But this little piece of common-sense evades our jolly good freeloaders at extreme ease. Hate for Savarkar has a pattern and reason, lest we forget it. If we do we would render the greatest disservice on our intellect.
Next inline in praise of Nehru was the street thug. In response to a genuine observation that street thugs like Rajdeep Sardesai can never achieve, he only has the usual gibberish to produce. He was jailed for 10 years, says the street thug. But what this Darbari won't tell you is the vast difference in the condition that Nehru spent his jail term and those of Savarkar. Nehru and Gandhi were offered their independent Bungalows which these cheergirls refer as jails. In fact Nehru had the liberty to choose the colour of the curtains, which were blue. A little search would also let you know that the British also built a new Badminton court for Nehru to display his shuttling prowess while in jail. In contrast Savarkar spent 27 years of his life in a 6X3 Sq feet cell with barely any provision for light or fresh air. While Nehru was busy shipping his favourite Darjeeling tea Savarkar was given worm infested food. Savarkar was caned brutally on daily basis and tied to a crossbars like a bull to grind mustard for oil generation while Nehru was enjoying his game of Badminton. Whom these Darbaris are trying to fool is simply incomprehensible. Shamelessness scales the highest level when his advices were to get off Twitter and do some history reading. Really? A seasoned liar urging others to go over history? Laughable to say the least. Which history was he referring to, if at all one wants to read? The same history that was specifically written with all falsehood so that these self-serving characters like Nehru remain high in the eyes of the society without doing anything? Irony can't be more humiliated than this. And yet people like RS wonder why slaves like him are looked upon as nasty 'Dalals' in public discourse.
Next exhibit to vouch for 'Chacha' Nehru was some inconsequential novel writer. And the greatest achievement she could find to attribute to Nehru as a great leader were his 4 hours sleeping period. He was only sleeping for four hours – she tweets. Does this even qualify as an achievement of the worth that Nehru is projected to be? When Savarkar was getting his eyelids taped so that he can't sleep, here is a cheergirl who is all over the place citing the minimal 4 hour sleep pattern of Nehru. Irony again. It amuses me even further when I see all these fan-boys struggling great lot to put forward a single credible achievement of Nehru to be called a great leader and even more comical, a great freedom fighter. Just imagine what impact such falsehood had on the populace some six decades back when we still have slaves who not only believe these nonsenses but also peddle such hilarious pointers. Looking at these slaves and their desperation in hailing Nehru as the best thing happening to India, one wonders how rotten our education system has become. There would be many who would be sleeping even less but they aren't projected at par with Nehru. An average pickpocket in Pune railway station may be sleeping less than four hours. I didn't find anyone hailing his sleeping pattern wherein he could easily be imparting far less damage to the nation than what Nehru did. Why not hail that chap if sleeping less makes you one great leader? On the contrary, as I said, how much I wish Nehru had slept more than just four hours. May be 20 hours should have been best. He would have imparted far less damage to the nation than he eventually did.
Can we really keep Category5Moron too far behind when we are discussing about Nehru fan-boys? It is simply impossible. There comes the biggest lie peddler among all. Like most fan-boys, she too didn't have anything credible to offer in defence of Nehru. He wrote 'Discovery Of India' without referring anything. Seriously? Only a fool would believe so, which these cheergirls anyway are. From where C5M learnt that Nehru didn't refer anything while churning out the nonsense which glorifies every invader with the brightest of lights? The colonial servile mind-set in the tweet was so totalling that it almost stinks like hell. Nehru could write the best of English one can, hence he was a great leader. This is almost elitist in saying, if one can't blabber the Queen's language with some authority he/she isn't good enough. I haven't heard a more childish argument in favour of a touted world leader ever. I never heard the South Africans claiming Nelson Mandela to be a great leader because he could write immaculate English. In fact you never would hear any great leader held as one for his English literary skills. You won't because those are/were true leaders unlike Nehru who was a cosmetic freedom fighter and even more cosmetic leader. But C5M didn't just stop at Nehru's English skills. She exposed her servility further. Nehru could ride a horse like no one can could; he could swim like Dolphins without breaking a sweat and he also could put Baba Ramdev and Guru Iyengar to shame with his Yoga skills as well. Fantastic!! Little did I know, in a Prime Minister, I would be required to find a personal fitness trainer for me instead. How does Nehru swimming through the English Channel on daily basis matters to me? What in fact his Equestrian skills matter to the nation? Didn't I say at least thrice over this post that these fan-boys simply can't produce a single credible characteristic or achievement of Nehru? They haven't till date and I am sure they never would be because Nehru didn't have anything significant to his credit to begin with. The biggest quality of Nehru was to usurp power by any means and making sure that only his family is benefitted at any cost. Whenever he was free from carrying out one hara-kiri or the other, he awarded himself Bharat Ratna. Perhaps Nehru remains great only in our text books and the free scotch circuits of the ecosystem. Beyond this, Nehru is as useful for the nation as Hafeez Saeed is for world peace.
But we know what the truth is. Nehru and most down in his family were being sugar coated for far too long for us to miss the plot behind the setup. We can't miss the irony anymore, can we? Systematically everything good with the nation was and still is accredited to just one family, as if the rest had no contribution at all and largely were just for namesake. Not just the Congress party and its slaves, most in the ecosystem are also trained to peddle as much rubbish so that the concocted image of Nehru remains intact before the masses. Doesn't matter if in the process the real heroes were completely side lined, or worse, dubbed as terrorists. A sad reality to this denunciation comes in the form of poor Bhagat Singh. When needed, like during the Punjab election campaign, these selfsame Congress leaders put up a stamp size photograph of the great martyr beside Rahul Gandhi's life size photo to usurp the opportunity while rest of the time Bhagat Singh remains a terrorist for them. Even a sadder reality is the government's official martyr's list that has no mention of Bhagat Singh at all. His family never received the freedom fighter's allowance from the government as most other freedom fighter's family do. The examples of systematic sabotage of real heroes and their works are ample with the Congress party. All is done with one single motto – no one should become larger than Nehru before the masses. Precisely the reason why a certain Savarkar or a Subash Bose appear like a thorn in Congress flesh. Giving Savarkar or Bhagat Singh their due would hamper the well-preserved falsehood of Nehru, which is simply not affordable. A convenient vote churning approach.
All-in-all, I feel sorry for these Nehru Cheergirls. They are worst affected with this colonial slavery mindset. They are so much affected that they have become gullible by choice. They have lost their conscience, not just their voice. And all this quite willingly too. As I always say – slavery is very potent, more so when you are a self-designated slave in the Congress ecosystem.


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Today you'll hear my interview with Deb Stevenson: Oboist, teacher, musician contractor, and founding member of Rendezvous Arts. The organization she created hosts events that offer something for EVERYONE and is a triumph of win win for musicians, visual artists, and audiences alike.
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Daisy Press was raised on the buses, planes, hotels, and stages of a large-scale international rock 'n' roll tour, on which both her parents performed for over 40 years. Since then, she has become a ferocious and ardent interpreter and creator of experimental classical (and non-classical) music in the United States and Europe.
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'Looper' Review (dir. Rian Johnson)
Posted on October 2, 2012 by leonth3duke
'Looper', the mind bending and smart new time-travel film by Rian Johnson is one of the most effective and balanced science fiction films to be released in the last few years. Its mix of realism and sci-fi elements bring a level of emotion and heart to its own unique and complex universe in a way that reminded me of classics such as 'Blade Runner' and 'Twelve Monkeys'.
The film takes place in a futuristic, though familiar, 2044 city where the buildings are bigger, poverty is more prevalent and organized crime seems to hold much of the power. The focus of the story is Joe (Joseph Gordon Levitt) who is a "Looper", a specialized assassin hired and trained to kill individuals from the future.
We are told early on through narration that time travel has not yet been invented in the story's present but it will be in thirty years. In that time it will be outlawed; but criminal organizations who have to deal with increased technological advances in solving murders use "black market" time travel devices to send their living victims back to the present. There they are killed by assassins like Joe, who dispose of the bodies. This leaves no trace of the person's death in the future, and the Looper is killing and disposing of a body that technically should not exist in his present.
Joe, like other Loopers, is paid well and lives a fairly extravagant lifestyle that includes lots of drinking, drugs, women and nice cars. The only down side of being a Looper is that a provision in their contract states that in the future their older selves will be sent back in time, to be disposed of, by their younger self. This is to "close the loop" as the film explains, a way of disposing of those individuals still around who are no longer needed but have knowledge of these criminal acts.
The main narrative of the story kicks off when Joe's older self, played by Bruce Willis, is sent back in time to be killed. Joe hesitates when the time comes and 'Old Joe' escapes, causing Joe to be hunted by his bosses for this mistake. At the same time Joe tries to track down his older self in an attempt to "make things right". The situation is made all the more complicated because Old Joe has plans of his own, turning what most going in expecting to simply be an action thriller into a much more complex and emotional story.
The thing that I loved most about Johnson's "Looper" is how grounded it managed to feel while also still containing some very interesting fictional elements. There is a level of detail in the story to support a whole series of films; but Johnson smartly decided to focus more on the human element. Much of this comes in the second half, and some people will certainly begin to lose interest as the pace slows and the story takes a turn most wouldn't expect. But for me, this is where the film really comes into its own. This is where they take all the exposition and style that came early in the film and use it to support that much more relatable, and honestly much more interesting, human element. Yes, Johnson could have easily copped-out and turned this into nothing more than a straight forward action thriller but instead he slows down enough to contemplate the themes of regret, sacrifice and loss that most time-travel films tend to ignore.
Of course, whenever anyone makes this sort of film there are continuity and logic issues that tend to pop up. With "Looper", although one could try to nit-pick and question the logic of this FICTIONAL time-travel film (a rather pointless endeavor if you ask me), most of what occurs works within the narrative. Films such as this, no matter how absurd their stories may at times be, only need to work within the universe created by the writer and luckily it works brilliantly here. Johnson plays around with the ideas of paradoxes and time lines, but the film doesn't take itself too seriously. Smartly even its own characters acknowledge the "over-complicatedness" of time travel logic.
What it does establish is that things are not fixed. Time, and life in general, is much more 'cloudy' and unclear than we might think. And yet, it also hints at the idea that changes in the present don't have as big of an effect on the future as long as other timelines continue down the path they initially started. In this sense Johnson could make major changes to his character's present and still promise them that their futures could still be the same. For some this prospect drives them to do unspeakable things. For others this loop that we are caught in, always heading towards the same future, might not be worth the effects it has on those they come in contact with. These questions and ideas, and how the characters choose to approach them, lead to what I felt was a very powerful ending.
Besides the intelligence and heart of the script, the other big surprise here is the wonderful acting across the board. Joseph Gordon Levitt, with the help of prosthesis, truly becomes his character and at times I forgot it was even him. Emily Blunt managed to help anchor much of the story's heart and her performance truly sold the more emotional moments of the story, which was key to the film's success.
The true stand out, in my opinion, was Bruce Willis. He brought so many layers to his character, something I haven't seen him do this well in this sort of film in many years. (He did give another great performance this year in the much different 'Moonrise Kingdom'). Willis managed to make it so you can not forgive but could at least empathize with his character's terrible actions. He not only expressed the pains of what he has done, but also sells the 'necessity', at least from his perspective, of what is to come. Credit again must also be given to Johnson for providing just enough develop of these characters to support their emotion, motivations and decisions.
I could not end without mentioning the score by Nathan Johnson. A perfect mood setter and at times quite beautiful. I don't think it gets nearly enough recognition and so I had to mention it. Other than that I'd have to say that 'Looper' not only lived up to my expectations, but surpassed them. It did it in a way that reminded me of 'Drive' last year. I had a lot of anticipation going in for both but really didn't know what to expect. What I got from each was a lot of style, great performances, smart scripts and stories that deviated away from the norm; stories that took the risk of focusing on character more than anything and although the end results were totally different than what I expected going in, I could not be more happy with what I got. Because of that I'd say 'Looper' is one of the best films of its kind, a soon to be classic, and also one of the best films so far this year. I'd highly recommend this great movie going experience to all.
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threesentencecritic says:
Seeing this very soon – All good words here from what I've read (didn't want to read too much in fear of revealing too much before I catch it), with generally everyone agreeing on that it is one of the better films of the year, especially in it's genre.
Lisa Marie Bowman says:
Jeff and I saw this while we were staying over in Ft. Smith, Arkansas earlier this week and we absolutely loved it!
I was feeling pretty proud of myself because I figured out that Abe and Kid Blue were actually the same person but I just did a quick google search and discovered that there's about a million other people out there who apparently have the exact same theory. 🙂
The only unfortunate thing about Looper is that you that eventually, someone other than Rian Johnson is going to make Looper 2: Rise Of The Rainmaker..
leonth3duke says:
I'm also on board the theory that Abe was Kid Blue. Read lots of people saying it isn't possible because of Blue's limp and how Abe didn't have a broken hand…yet they completely forget Abe is from the future, where the limp could have been reversed and the hand would have already been long healed. Honestly, them being each other is the only way, and a good way, to explain Kid Blue's desperate attempts to "live up" to and impress Abe. Even if Rian Johnson came out and said that wasn't his intention, I'd still always view it that way.
Me too! 🙂
Kid Blue did get injured a lot over the course of the film but none of them were permanent injuries. He may have gotten his hand broken but it's not like he lost his fingers.
Kid Blue's somewhat desperate plea of, "I wanted you to be proud of me," was my first clue but there's plenty of others as well. Consider just how disgusted Abe sounds when he says, "He calls himself Kid Blue…" To me, that was Abe saying, "Can you believe I used to be this stupid?" Plus, you have to consider that — no matter how much Kid Blue screwed up — Abe never did anything worse than break his hand. Abe certainly wasn't going to kill Kid Blue (which would have made sense, considering just how much Blue had screwed us) because it meant that Abe would then cease to exist. Finally, there was the way that the camera (representing Kid Blue's gaze) lingered on Abe's dead body after Old Joe's rampage towards the end of the film. With Abe dead, Blue would really have had no reason to go all the way to the farm to try to get revenge unless he was specifically trying to avenge his own murder at the hands of Old Joe.
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I'm not so sure I would refer to Looper as either smart or mind bending, it came across as watchable but kind of average in a few departments well. I may need to take another look at it. The depth of character was nice, but I think cinematically it misses the mark by just enough so that it is a good, solid movie, that could have been great.
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Self-Driving Electric Buses Set To Launch In Finland This Year
By Maria Cook
May. 23 2019, Updated 4:52 p.m. ET
This fall, Finland will integrate a pair of self-driving electric buses into regular public transportation in Helsinki. The buses are part of Finland's Sohjoa project, (part of the larger, EU-financed mySMARTLife program) involving the six largest cities in Finland. It's focused on bringing energy efficient mobility to European cities.
The buses themselves are EasyMile EZ10 models from innovative automotive company EasyMile, which specializes in electric, self-driving vehicles. According to the company's website, the Ez10 is an "electric shuttle dedicated to smart mobility designed to cover short distances and predefined routes in multi-use environments."
The bus has no steering wheel, no specific front or rear, and requires no infrastructure to operate, as a train or trolley would. Instead, the Ez10s run back and forth along a reprogrammed line, shuttling up to 12 people at a top speed of about 15 miles per hour. Those in Helsinki are planned to run at just 7 miles per hour.
But as the EasyMile website points out, these buses serve a different purpose than traditional public transportation vehicles: "EZ10 is not about speed it is about covering short distances (last mile concept) where conventional means of transportation are not relevant but at the same time distances are too long to walk all the more when facing adverse weather conditions!"
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Those hesitant to get on board, literally and figuratively, with the concept of self-driving vehicles may well be comforted by the Ez10's low speed, and the fact that every bus will have an operator on board, in case of an emergency.
In Finland, the buses have already been tested in various traffic conditions and will continue to be monitored until August. According to Oscar Nissin of Helsinki Metropolia University of Applied Sciences, the buses are tested in a variety of ways during their trial periods, as he explains, "We focus on a number of aspects including sensor technology, user experience, and how to complement overall public transit services with self-driving buses."
From July to August, the buses will run between Helsinki's Mustikkamaa recreational island and the Helsinki Zoo. In the fall, they will be launched along an undisclosed route in Helsinki, where they have the potential to become a permanent part of the city's public transportation system.
Around the world, electric vehicles continue to make headlines and seem to be catching on with the public, slowly but surely. But because self-driving technology is outlawed in many places, including most parts of the United States, testing is difficult and public awareness remains fairly low.
It is easy to imagine that in Finland (where self-driving vehicles are completely legal) testing of the EZ10 buses may well serve as influential example to the rest of the world. The goal of reducing air pollution and carbon emissions is an admirable one, which cities around the globe may well wish to emulate. As one press release stated, "Automated, remote-controlled bus service could markedly reduce the costs of the last-mile service and improve access to public transit. The ultimate goal is to increase public transit use and so to reduce cars and needs to drive in the city."
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An ambitious harvest of younger democrats seizes the spoils of victory in Parliament.
After years of grumbling over the grip of the minority leader Nancy Pelosi on power, the new majority has opened up managerial functions with real responsibility, and the next generation seizes this moment.
More than a dozen Democrats have launched bids for six leading positions, with almost every candidate a junior legislator who has served less than four terms. Most of these Democrats have never been in the majority, but they have all seen themselves as heirs to the trio who led the caucus for almost 16 years.
With a new majority, they have a chance to claim leadership positions at a lower level that have some real power. The question for Pelosi is whether this new dynamic can also help alleviate pressure on Pelosi and its top lieutenants, Steny H. Hoyer (D-Md.) And James E. Clyburn (D-S.C.) representatives.
All three are trying to get hold of the three best positions – speaker, majority leader, majority – against the resistance of some internal Democratic critics.
Those rebels keep trying to find a way to topple Pelosi, but their biggest problem is the lack of any challenger so far in the Democratic vote, scheduled for November 28th.
After the 10-year-old Rep. Joseph Crowley (D-N.Y.) Lost his headquarters in June, the field of potential Democratic leaders quickly lost gravity.
Instead, the emerging Democrats seek positions that will give them the opportunity to impress colleagues and then run to the top positions as soon as Pelosi, 78, Hoyer, 79 and Clyburn, 78 inevitably retire.
"I am looking for this leadership position because, as someone from a district that voted for Donald Trump, I live and breathe every day of my congressional career," said Rep. Cheri Bustos (D-Ill.) Friday in a statement in which she makes her bid to chair the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee. "The most effective way to improve the lives of hard-working Americans is to help secure our new Democratic majority."
Bustos, 57, has just been elected to serve her fourth term in a somewhat rural district in western Illinois. She is a former reporter and editor for the Quad-City Times and is widely seen as one of the party's most effective communicators, particularly on economic issues related to middle class wage stagnation.
But there is no such thing as a free pass, so Bustos is probably squadering against a few Washington Democrats, representatives Denny Heck, 66, and Suzan DelBene, 56, who have held deputies in the political arm of the caucus in recent years. .
All three contenders were elected for the first time in Congress in 2012.
"These were not wallflowers, these were not people who were happy to be backbenchers," said former congressman Steve Israel (D-N.Y.).
As chair of the DCCC in 2012 and 2014, Israel helped to recruit these three and knows many of the other relative newcomers in leadership competitions.
At least one democrat is fishing to one of the top places, because the 61-year-old Rep. Diana DeGette (Colo.) Challenges Clyburn for majority whip.
Two other important competitions are for assistant Democratic leader and the president of the Democratic Caucus.
Pelosi created the first position after the interim in 2010 and dragged Democrats out of the majority, giving Clyburn a soft landing, as the minority traditionally has a less leading position.
He runs for his old job as a majority whip and creates a contest to replace him as assistant leader who will test the ideological and political geographic boundaries of the caucus: Rep. Ben. Ben. Luján (NM). Rep. David N. Cicilline (RI).
Luján, 46, comes from a four-year run as DCCC chairman, from the disappointing elections in 2016 to Tuesday's hull over the Republicans. Cicilline, 57, is a senior member of the Progressive Caucus, co-chair of the LGBT Equality Caucus and two years ago the election as co-chairman of a policy committee won.
The caucus seat contest is a generation conflict within the Congressional Black Caucus: the 72-year-old Rep. Barbara Lee (California), a 20-year veteran, against the 48-year-old Rep. Hakeem Jeffries (NY), elected for the first time in 2012.
Pelosi does not use the same influence within the caucus as eight years ago, so she is completely focused on her own bid to block the votes to become the first person to return to the speaker's stage since 1955.
That means that these down-ball races are even more wide open, in contrast to earlier post-election seasons of loss and reproach. After these losses, Pelosi would limit the rebellion by creating new leadership positions, some of which had real strength, some of which were only a window dressing.
The biggest wildcard, for the speaker election and other messages, is probably the incoming first year class, which will at least be number 54. That is about 20 percent of the votes in the secret ballot games.
"We keep our word, we keep our promises, and I hope people find that refreshing," said Rep.-Elect Jason Crow (D-Colo.) Against Mike DeBonis of The Washington Post on Thursday and insisted he did not would vote for Pelosi.
Crow and several others promised not to support Pelosi during their campaigns. It is unclear how many will vote against her during the internal vote later this month and then say they should vote for her in the public appeal on January 3 in the entire House, instead of doing something to help Republicans.
A final victory victory is his commissions, which grow considerably for the majority party.
Only 14 Democrats return next year, currently serving on the Ways and Means Committee, the panel that oversees health, trade and tax issues. The next speaker can add about 10 new members to that committee.
There will be about 10 extra spots, combined, on the powerful committees for Credits and Energy and Commerce.
Pelosi will undoubtedly try to win hold-outs with promises of support for getting those legislators into the main committees of their choice.
If they win, even allies believe that they will not continue to speak for long. Israel said that as soon as these junior Democrats step into the somewhat powerful leadership positions, they will soon see the top positions as theirs for the taking.
This group will & # 39; provisionally & # 39; being satisfied at these places at a lower level, he said. "Those positions will be a stepping stone."
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BPD and I were on a plane when it happened. For other pregnant women, I don't know if it happened all at once (like for me), or gradually over the 9 months.
But for me, it was at 7 months. It was when I loved her for the first time.
BPD and I were off to our "babymoon," a few days relaxing at a spa in Laguna Beach, still a few months before I ate so much that I felt a wheelbarrow was in order.
After we reached 10,000 feet (why is that the magic number?), I popped in the buds and turned on the pod.
And on came James Taylor. It was "Something In The Way She Moves," a song which I had always liked and always found romantic.
Something in the way she moves, or looks my way, or calls my name that seems to leave this troubled world behind. And if I'm feeling down and blue or troubled by some foolish game, she always seems to make me change my mind.
And I feel fine anytime she's around me now, she's around me now almost about all the time. And if I'm well you can tell she's been with me now. She's been with me now quite a long, long time and I feel fine.
Every now and then the things I lean on lose their meaning and I find myself careening in places where I should not let me go.
She has the power to go where no one else can find me and to silently remind me of the happiness and the good times that I know, and then I just got to go then.
It isn't what she's got to say but how she thinks and where she's been. To me, the words are nice, the way they sound.
I like to hear them best that way, it doesn't much matter what they mean. She says them mostly just to calm me down.
And I feel fine anytime she's around me now, she's around me now almost about all the time.
And if I'm well you can tell she's been with me now. She's been with me now quite a long, long time and I feel fine.
As I listened to the words that I knew by heart, it struck me that the words didn't necessarily have to refer to a lover...they could refer to a daughter.
BPD was wondering whether my crazy pregnancy hormones made me hate airplane peanuts. The dude in the window seat was undoubtedly wondering whether I was going into labor.
and I was wondering how I didn't feel this before.
You see, I hadn't yet felt that really strong connection to my baby. Sure, I loved her in the abstract, but this was the moment of the heart faltering, breath wheezing, tear streaming, OH MY GOD SHE'S A PART OF ME.
I heard the song again last night, driving home way too late from work. Same tears, less awkward locale.
So that's why James Taylor was on the iPod when I turned it on this morning.
I love you. And that baby.
That's so sweet! and choked me up.
beatiful song ...I love reading BPD and just checked you out for the first time.
You sound like a loving couple who will raise a great little Erin (or maybe more?).
That's a great story, and I've thought in the past their were many meanings for that song. I am not a birth mother, but I can relate to that song in regards to my daughter. She is all things wonderful to me. I love to watch her sleep. There's such beauty and wisdome there.


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A: You can cast your descriptor to IAggregationContainer and get Aggregations from there:
var request = new SearchRequest();
request.Query = new MatchAllQuery();
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Hope that helps.

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Walter Ray Williams Jr. wins season-ending PBA50 Treasure Island Resort & Casino Open
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Norm Duke earns PBA50 Player of the Year and Rookie of the Year Award
Walter Ray Williams Jr. (pictured with Bob Micek, left, manager of Treasure Island Bowl) won his ninth career PBA50 Tour title and Norm Duke withstood a challenge from Tom Baker in the PBA50 Treasure Island Resort & Casino Open presented by Hammer to earn the 2014 PBA50 Player of the Year crown Wednesday at Island Xtreme Bowl in Welch, Minn.
In another all-Hall of Fame championship match, Williams, who won the USBC Senior Masters for his first title of the season, defeated Baker (right), 268-224. With a win Baker could have earned the 16 points necessary to move ahead of Duke of Clermont, Florida, for the Player of the Year title.
"It's a great way to end a season," said Williams, who is the PBA Tour's all-time titles leader with 47 wins. "I had a good season and when you can win against the talent that's out here now it makes it that much more satisfying.
"I think Norm owes me dinner but you can't take anything away from him – he bowled awesome all year," Williams added.
Duke (l.) left the door open for Baker to make a run at Player of the Year when the two Hall of Famers slugged it out in the Round of 8 with Baker winning the best-of-three match 2 games to 1.
Duke's closest competitor in the Player of the Year race going into the tournament was Hall of Famer Pete Weber who was just eight points behind but had to withdraw from the tournament prior to match play because of illness which required a hospital visit. He was treated and released.
In the semifinal matches, Baker defeated Hall of Famer Randy Pedersen (right) of Orlando, 246-162 and Williams defeated Don Breeden of Urbandale, Iowa, 279-190, to advance to the championship match.
Williams' 268 game in the title match and the 279 in the semifinal match were his highest games of the tournament.
"I saved the best for last and that was the time to have them," Williams said. "Earlier in the day I wasn't really executing as well as I wanted but I was able to fine tune my adjustments at the right time."
Duke joined Baker as the only players to win PBA50 Player of the Year and Rookie of the Year in the same season. Baker, of King, North Carolina, earned both honors in 2005 which was the start of a record four consecutive PBA50 Player of the Year crowns for the 12-time PBA50 Tour winner.
"Player of the Year is what you aspire to and it's the pinnacle of the year," Duke said. "When I got beat in the Round of 8, the ball wasn't in my court and that's never a comfortable situation, but either way, I had a blast all season."
Also determined at the conclusion of the tournament were the top eight players in competition points who earned an entry into World Series of Bowling VI in Las Vegas Oct. 24-Nov. 2 and a berth in the World Series PBA Champions Challenge PBA50 qualifier which will determine the final two players who will compete in the finals to be televised by ESPN.
The eight who qualified were Williams, Weber, Baker, Duke, Parker Bohn III, Amleto Monacelli, Harry Sullins and Ron Mohr.
Norm Duke leads top 24 into Match Play at PBA50 Treasure Island Resort & Casino Open
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Walter Ray Williams Jr., Ocala, Fla. ($7,500) def. Tom Baker, King, N.C. ($4,000), 268-224
Semifinal Round (one-game matches, losers earn $2,300)
Baker def. Randy Pedersen, Orlando, 246-162
Williams def. Don Breeden, Urbandale, Iowa, 279-190
Round of 8 (best-of-three games, losers eliminated, earn $1,600)
Breeden def. Amleto Monacelli, Venezuela, 2-0
Williams def. Jeff Richgels, Madison, Wis., 2-0
Baker def. Norm Duke, Clermont, Fla., 2-1
Pedersen def. Harry Sullins, Chesterfield Twp., Mich., 2-1
Round of 16 (best-of-five games, losers eliminated, earn $1,300)
Duke def. Ted Staikoff, Black Hawk, S.D., 3-2
Baker def. Pete Weber, St. Ann, Mo., 3-0 (Weber withdrew because of illness)
Pedersen def. Mike Dias, Lafayette, Colo., 3-0
Richgels def. Lennie Boresch Jr., Kenosha, Wis., 3-0
Williams def. Ron Mohr, Las Vegas, 3-1
Sullins def. Bill Henson, Westerville, Ohio, 3-1
Breeden def. Mike Edwards, Tulsa, Okla., 3-1
Monacelli def. Wayne Webb, Columbus, Ohio, 3-2
Staikoff def. Bryan Goebel, Shawnee, Kan., 3-2
Baker def John Dudak, Orland Park, Ill., 3-1
Dias def. Dave Axon, Bellevue, Neb., 3-1
Henson def. Kevin Foley, Reno, Nev., 3-1
Richgels def. Steve Stein, Staten Island, N.Y., 3-1
Williams def. Terry Metzner, Kentwood, Mich., 3-0
Webb def. Darron Peters, Murrietta, Calif., 3-2
Breeden def. Chris Keane, Cape Coral, Fla., 3-2


But who are the unknown people in this photograph?
We turn to Rappahannock County native and historian Nan Butler Roberts for information about this amazing old photograph snapped in front of Sperryville's Horseshoe Inn on a warm and sunny day between 1950 ("Dad and Mom opened Horseshoe Inn that year," Nan notes) and July 1955 ("My Uncle Walter in the picture died in a single car crash in Woodville in July 1955").
"The only living person that I know is Ray Jackson, living somewhere in the Northern Virginia area. Could this be a baseball league meeting photo? I wouldn't be surprised," says Nan, who showed us a letter dated about that time inviting her father, Howard Butler, to a meeting in Harrisonburg to discuss an expansion of the Black Baseball League, written about in this newspaper last month.
Nan says the Horseshoe Inn was the "In" place to be for African Americans in the 1950's through the mid-1960's, particularly after a baseball game during the summer months in Sperryville and surrounding locales including Washington and Reva.
"The Sperryville Tigers ball diamond was located on Route 522 West just a short walk away, where the Rappahannock Loan Closet is located now on Black Locust Lane in Sperryville," she continues. "Horseshoe Inn was a restaurant, dance hall, convenience store and our home place until my Dad found employment in Washington, D.C. working for the federal government.
Nan further points out: "Horseshoe Inn was one of four restaurants/convenience stores/entertainment locations for African Americans in Rappahannock and surrounding areas from the early 1950's into the 1990's and beyond, [which were] located on the northeast side of the county in Amissville (Cross Creek, just west of Clevenger's Corner, the partial sign is still there); Washington, Flatwood Inn (just adjacent to the Rappahannock County School Administrative building); also in Washington, Pine Knot Inn (where the Washington Monarchs played baseball); and at the foot of the mountains, Horseshoe Inn.
Left to right (back row): Ray Jackson, unidentified person, Walter Kemper Butler (Nan's uncle on her father's side, and a Korean War veteran), unidentified person, Howard H. Butler (Nan's father), unidentified person, unidentified person. Left to right (front and stooping down): unidentified person, Mildred Wills (Nan's aunt by marriage on her mother's side), Dorothy C. Butler (Nan's mother), Lewis Jones of Luray (associated with the baseball ball team in Luray and close friend of Nan's parents).
If anyone can help name the unidentified persons in the photo, please contact Nan at 540-661-2013 or email nb_roberts@msn.com.
Thanks John Mccaslin for printing the article and photo! Great job!


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We're moving headlong into winter with all the stresses and challenges cold weather brings. It's naturally tempting to find comfort in warm, filling food. So, how am I going to keep my (slightly) lower summer weight and still enjoy those hearty, holiday meals that are just over the horizon?
One thing I need to keep in mind is to move more and eat less. With all the holiday activities ahead, I'm going to be plenty busy, so moving more will be a natural outcome. I want to enjoy all the holiday food, but I know that I'll have to show some restraint (and not eat the entire pie).
Just as importantly and perhaps more so, I want to make sure I keep a good nutritional balance, so my immune system will be strong to ward off those pesky winter colds.
I take various food supplements to make sure I have a good nutritional balance, but I know food supplements can do more than that. They can also boost energy, rev up metabolism, balance hormones, and burn calories more efficiently.
For this coming winter, I've added 4 often overlooked nutrients to my current broad nutritional program. I believe these 4 will make a huge difference to my current weight maintenance/weight loss regime.
1. Probiotics for digestion and weight loss through better elimination. Look for a Probiotic that has at least 20 billion live organisms, can survive in stomach acid, has multiple strains of bacteria, and either requires refrigeration after opening or is especially formulated to maintain live cultures without refrigeration.
2. Vitamin D for immune strength, and muscle support. Choose a D3 Vitamin D for the one that has the best bio-availability.
3. Magnesium to reduce fluid retention, support sound sleep and regulating blood sugar levels. The best form of Magnesium to take are citrate, taurate, malate, or glycinate. Avoid Magnesium oxide, chloride, glutamate and aspartate.
4. Chromium is especially important because it reduces cravings, (that pesky sweet tooth), mood swings, and weight gain linked to fluctuating blood sugar levels. When you shop for Chromium look for one that says GTF Chromium for the best absorption.
So let's get our blood pumping and keep our bodies lean and mean and ready for the cold winter months. These 4 supplements are going to help us get there.


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}

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Tips for climbing through pregnancy, toddlers, and beyond. Having children doesn't have to stop you.
find out how to keep going!
Don't let some of life's milestones stop your climbing. You can continue doing what you love while pregnant, with a baby, toddler, kids, or even with all of them at the same time.
We actually didn't become climbers until we were already parents. Now, we have six children AND we climb regularly! So we have this climbing through life's child-related milestone down!
Rock climbing really can be the perfect pregnancy activity. Pregnancy can be difficult for a lot of women for a lot of reasons, but continuing to exercise while pregnant is great both physically and emotionally. Obviously, not every sport is safe for a pregnant woman, and lead climbing is not advised. However, top-rope climbing is a low-impact and incredibly safe sport. It provides cardio and strength building without additional strain on the bones, joints, or baby. That's why climbing is considered a lifetime sport that can be enjoyed in the later years as well.
But what about falling when climbing? With a responsible belayer, 'falling' on a toprope climb is akin to the movement of sitting down in a chair. A few years ago, Mountain Mama and Mad Rock came together to make a full-body climbing harness for pregnant women to top-rope. Now, Edelrid and Petzl have pregnancy harnesses too. All of these harnesses work on a similar concept where none of the webbing compresses the abdominal area and, because it is full-body, it keeps the body upright during a "fall." I've successfully used the Mountain Mama harness for two of my pregnancies.
Of course, the important things for a pregnant climber to remember are: listen to your body, stay educated, and keep you and your baby safe.
The stress of so many sleepless nights can really wear on you, making it all the more important to take some time for yourself and continue to do what you love! Take advantage of the fact that your little cutie will sleep a lot during the day! Take some trips to the climbing gym with your significant other and take turns watching your baby sleep or holding your baby while the other boulders or climbs with a partner. You will be surprised with how soon your little cragsman will want to climb just like you!
If venturing outside, get a backpack infant carrier and a baby cot/cage/tent. A carrier will be useful for any hikes, for walking to calm your baby, and even belaying a top-roped climber. We bought, what was called, a 'cot', which is essentially a miniature tent, with a padded floor and zippers that only zip from the outside. We refer to it as our baby cage.
Our first child never wanted to use the "cage" because she had to be held constantly. However, my next two used it ALL THE TIME. And now, everyone wants to get in it together. Having a baby cot is helpful for naps at the crag, and playtime with toys and snacks. The kiddos can crawl around, and stay safe while you get some better climbing in or lead/lead belay.
This can be an exciting time because now your toddler can join in on the climbing. By this time, our kids had already been exposed to a lot of climbing and had their own tiny climbing wall at home. We started with just having them swing on the harness and getting used to the feel of being on the rope. An overhanging crag is usually perfect for this.
Once the young-ones want to start climbing, I don't recommend just letting them go straight up the wall. You might end up with a toddler screaming at the top of a climb, not knowing how to get down. Constantly check in with the child, making sure they are sure he or she is not scared. Also, make sure your child knows how to be lowered safely before you ever let her go above your reach. We like to tie an extra rope or webbing to the back of our kids' harnesses so that you can pull them off and away from the wall if you need.
We've also recently learned that having a crash pad with you, even if its not a bouldering destination, can be incredibly useful for young kids. Our kids and their cousins have often napped, played, climbed over, and used it as a couch and chalkboard. It's made some trips a lot easier.
At this age, location also becomes incredibly important! Your approach and landing matter a lot. You will care if it's too far, too dangerous, not shady, etc. Pick your crag carefully. You are also going to want to find some spots with a variety of climbs – harder climbs for you and some really easy routes, 5.3-5.5, so that your toddler can start to do top-roped climbs. Take turns so it's not always all about you.
This is when you start to have a real climber on your hands and it becomes a real family sport. Location might not be as stressful but it is still important. You don't want any little daredevils wandering off a cliff.
Once the kiddos start really climbing, let them mock lead. You can do this by tying an additional piece of rope onto their harness that will hang down a few feet. Give them the quick draws, a lesson on leading and let them practice clipping in with the extra rope while you belay them top-roped.
This can be a lot of fun for them. Remember kids love to be like you and they see you leading all the time so let them give it a try.
Also, consider a 3-person multi-pitch. A multi-pitch can be an incredibly fun experience for your kids but there are a few things to consider. Mainly, depending on the age of your children, they are likely not able belay you because 1) they are too small and will be pulled upwards if you take a fall and 2) they are not competent. When would you trust your life to your kid?
An easy 3-person multi-pitch will allow you to take your mini on a multi-pitch even though s/he cannot belay. These are the dynamics you need to keep in mind: (1) An adult will be tied into each end of the rope using an eight knot. The child will be tied into the middle of the rope using an eight knot on a carabiner. You will never untie, move, or change this order. (2) One adult will belay the other as they s/he leads the first route. (3) The leader is an adult who will belay the middle climber (child) from above. The leader will also belay the last climber, another adult, from above. (4) The adults can switch leading but the child will always remain in the middle. (5) You cannot do a climb over 100 ft. on a 60-meter rope or 115 ft. on a 70-meter rope. Also, keep in mind you are going to need a few feet to work with at the anchors and belay station. Do not make this mistake, its very important or you won't have enough rope. Remember your child is at that middle mark.
I recommend a short and easy two-pitch for their first multi-pitch climb.
If your kid is old enough and competent at rappelling then go ahead and do that for the descent. That might even be your child's favorite part. But remember to have your child rappel second so an adult can set up and check the rappel at the top and the other adult (who rappelled first) can fireman belay at the bottom.
If your little one is not old enough to rappel him or herself, like mine, then look for a multi-pitch with a walk off.
Want to learn more about climbing with children and find some great locations to climb with kids? www.cheerioinmychalkbag.com is a comprehensive guide to climbing with kids. It provides tips, product reviews, and information about climbing areas so you can have all the information you need to plan. It categorizes, rates, and details climbing areas so that you can know which places (1) are best for kids to do their own climbs; (2) are safe and fun for the entire family when just you are climbing; and (3) are essentially a 'no go' if you have young children.


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SaaS – Bigger and Better for 2022
Article Updated:	January 7, 2022
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Business today has accelerated their technology investments as a result of the pandemic. Companies have been launching efforts such as digital transformation, new workplace access models, and improving the customer experience, among other things. Accelerated technology spending has become a reality as a result of remote working, the digital economy, automation, and supply chain improvements, and these trends are here to stay for the next decade. We are entering a period in which technology-enabled enterprises and companies will generate more value for all stakeholders.
According to Gartner, the SaaS market is expected to reach $265 billion by 2025.
While India has emerged as a global leader in outsourced IT services, with the industry set to grow to $350 billion in the next five years, the opportunity arising from many of the areas outlined above will be much larger, potentially amounting to a $1 trillion market opportunity for Indian firms in the next decade.
Adoption of new technologies is enabling easier connect with the consumer and will also create demand and opportunities. The following are some of the promising areas anticipated in 2022:
Horizontal SaaS Solutions
This particular solution covers CRM, enterprise collaboration, HR technology, application and developer productivity. Many Indian enterprises have developed solutions that were originally designed for Indian businesses, scaled their operations, and then began addressing the worldwide market. Companies like Zoho, Postman, Freshworks, Browserstack, and others are some examples in this field. . Freshworks was the first Indian SaaS company to be listed on NASDAQ, and it now has a market worth of about $10 billion.
Vertical SaaS Solutions
These are business processes that are vertically related and require specific solutions. With tools for seamless data integration now available, Indian SaaS companies have a wonderful potential to locate the proper niche in vertical segments and build products around such niches. Many Indian SaaS companies have built products for Indian customers, scaled the solution, and then expanded into international markets. Many of these businesses have revenue ARRs (Annual Run Rates) that are equivalent to their global counterparts, allowing them to compete effectively on a global scale.
Technology enablement for global SME's:
This has mostly been an untouched market for the technology industry, and with the changes that are occurring, it now presents big potential. The cost of technology is decreasing, making it more accessible to a wider range of businesses. SMS can also compete more effectively with larger organizations thanks to technological advancements. Indian companies such as Khatabook, Open, and others are aggressively expanding this sector intending to become global players.
These are a few SaaS solutions that will enable business in 2022. For a variety of tasks, goals, and outcomes, today's organizations and consumers demand robust, accessible, and valuable software-centric solutions. As the world's digital transformation accelerates, the SaaS business will only become stronger, fueled by the kind of innovation that makes the future easier and wiser for everyone.
In the last five years, worldwide SaaS companies' median revenues have doubled, but their valuations have increased by 5X. For the foreseeable future, the market for technology products will be strong, creating enormous opportunities for Indian SaaS enterprises. In the next five years, the number of unicorns in India could easily expand 10X from present levels, thanks to the strong ecosystem already in place. The day will come when the Indian SaaS ecosystem would have over 1000 unicorns. These businesses will not only generate considerable value for their stakeholders, but they will also generate a big number of high-quality jobs, which will be extremely beneficial to the Indian economy.
Parvinder Singh
Founder & CEO – Ikokas Digital Technologies
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Nikon Coolpix P330 Manual is aimed to fulfill the needs toward information of both technical or instrumental issue among this digital camera product especially for Nikon Coolpix P330.
The Nikon P330 has a 1/1.7-inch back-illuminated 12-megapixel CMOS sensor, 5x optical zoom with a focal range of 24-120mm, maximum apertures of f/1.8-5.6 and lens-shift Vibration Reduction, RAW (NRW) data processing, built-in Global Positioning System and Wi-Fi compatibility. PB said.
ISO sensitivity has improved a bit, from Coolpix P310, now ranging from ISO 80 to 3,200, plus Hi 1 and Hi 2 modes that are equivalent to IS0 6,400 and 12,800 respectively.
When Nikon Coolpix P330 was firstly released to the market?
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Nikon Coolpix P330 is a good choice for anyone who wants an easy to use camera that delivers good-looking pictures with pleasing color and plenty of resolution. It was announced by Nikon on March, 2013.
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On this Father's Day I wanted to write about how my dad taught me to find pleasure in food when I was a child. Diagnosed with type 1 diabetes at fourteen-years-old, I had two strikes against me when it came to food. Strike one= as women, we are not supposed to love food. Instead, we eat salads, skip breakfast, and say no to desserts. As a young, woman with diabetes, I was the only girl in my dorm (I went to a private boarding school) who woke up early and went to the dining hall for breakfast while my friends skipped breakfast and went on "Grapefruit diets." Strike two=as diabetics, food is a science and we are taught how to count carbs, measure insulin ratios to carbohydrate intake, and use language like "food exchanges," "sugar-free" and "moderation." So, as a young woman with diabetes, I learned to say no when it came to food. But even before I was diagnosed, my father laid a foundation of food appreciation.
I was a child of the seventies and my parents were hippies. We lived on one hundred acres in Vermont where we raised chickens, pulled our vegetables from the garden and composted the remains (the browned bananas, the hardened tips of green beans and the moldy tomatoes) were tossed on top of the pile in the back yard. Dad said that when we were hungry, all we needed to do was go outside. Every spring, he drove me to the bottom of our dirt road to visit Hazen Clay in his sugaring shack. We walked through the crusty snow across the cow field to the small, wooden shack with smoke pouring out of a chimney on the roof. In my moon boots, I could almost walk the whole way without falling through the snow. Even though it was March, it was still cold, and my breath came out in puffs. Dad opened the door, and we entered a thick wall of heat. I unzipped my parka. In the middle of the small space was a giant tub where the syrup was cooking, and I had to stand on a bench to see. Hazen stirred the syrup with a long, metal spoon and the sugar water bubbled, light brown and thick. Finally Dad motioned me outside and Hazen passed us each a small silver bowl from his shelf. We scooped up crusty snow and Hazen poured the thick liquid over the top. The first bite was always a surprise, a strange mixture of textures and sensations-the crunchy, cold snow and the still hot, too sweet syrup. I shivered, and ate another bite.
I used to think of that maple syrup after I was diagnosed and wanted Dad's famous animal pancakes for breakfast. My sister also had type 1 diabetes and so Mom replaced Hazen's maple syrup with the sugar-free kind that tasted like water. I hated the sugar-free kind. So I stopped eating pancakes. But I missed the animal pancakes. I missed the special trips to Dunkin' Doughnuts with Dad when I would order the kind with pink icing. I missed holding marsh-mellows over the campfire until they burned, and I had to blow out the flames and then put the melted, gooey, white fluff onto a graham-cracker with a thick chunk of chocolate. I missed Dad's home-made lasagna with the melting cheese and his crusty garlic bread for dinner. I missed stopping for ice cream on our annual drives to Keoka Lake. I missed saying yes to my dad's outstretched hand when he was offering a bite. I missed saying yes to food. Dad never stopped offering me bites but it wasn't the same when only a bite was allowed. I was angry, and resentful and tired of saying no.
It has been twenty three years since I was diagnosed and only recently that I have begun saying yes to food again. Yes to raw green beans from the farmer's market, yes to bell peppers, plums, cherries, cheese, avocado, turkey bacon, peanuts and dark chocolates are some of my favorites. Now that I am a mother, I want to reach my hand holding a spoon and offer my children a bite. I want to watch Will and Miles' eyes close in pleasure-whether it be over the peanut butter we've ground in the machine at the local health food store, or the strawberries we've picked off the vine or even candy; Air Heads, Candy Corn, Pez and Reese Peanut Butter Cups. I want to teach them a love of food like my dad taught me, whether I take a bite or not.
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TV Girl: Review: "There Will Be Blood"
Review: "There Will Be Blood"
Heartless yet strangely alluring, swollen with a psyche all of its own, this movie, this presence, this biopic of a startling man, kept me from sleeping most of last night. It peeled back my eyelids like some contraption famed by "A Clockwork Orange," and then, if ever they'd close for a moment, "There Will Be Blood" snarled my mind with dreams of liquid hatred--black gold--oil and the oil man. The Oil Man. The chiseled exterior, chiseled as rock, and a new kind of villain whose limp shall never overcome his greed. "There Will Be Blood" is not a message movie about capitalism. It's not a wayward stretch into the days and times of prospectors and the death and sacrifice that comes with oil wealth. It is a chronicle of one man's insatiable greed, his fears and how they fester in various forms of self-hate, hate for others, hate for the world and all of its parts and for everything but success while those around him fail. But why this hate? What is Daniel Plainview so afraid of? Why is he so avert to discussing his past, his present? Why does he sleep on the floor? Who is he?
Well, according to himself, Daniel Plainview is an oil man. He's a family man who runs a family business. The business takes off when soft-spoken Paul Sunday (Paul Dano) materializes from the ether to alert Daniel to the riches that flow beneath the Sunday ranch in Little Boston, CA. Daniel and his adopted son H.W. show up to the ranch disguised as quail hunters, discover a puddle of black, and Daniel is quick to negotiate a price. Abel Sunday (David Willis) is quick to accept a cheap offer; however, Paul's slippery "twin" Eli Sunday (Paul Dano) demands more. Daniel makes the acquisition, however, by paying $5,000 up front and promising an additional $5,000 cash donation to the town's Church of the Third Revelation. Eli, himself, is the preacher of the church. He is a feverish young man, one that yelps and shakes at the Lord, tall and thin as a matchstick clothed in black as he vanquishes the devil with the power of his hands. He wishes to bless Daniel's first well in the area, but is publicly denied, and it is this incident that trips an ongoing furor. Daniel continues, then, to delay his promised donation to the church, and the chilling Sunday/Plainview dynamic gives way to some truly creepy moments, moments that remind me of Stephen King's short story "The Man in the Black Suit," in which the devil manifests himself before a little boy to whisper terrible, horrific things into his ear. Daniel's phrase, "I told you I was going to eat you up," and his climactic milkshake speech have haunted me since the moment I left the theater. These are just two of the myriad deadly musings that Mr. Plainview utters to his surrounding obsolete, most notably, Eli. I am then prompted to wonder, is Daniel, like the man in the black suit, some form of the devil? Is he, indeed, the antithesis to Eli Sunday? Some version of Paul Sunday? Or perhaps Eli is just a nonexistent thing, a reflection of Daniel's fear, of the church, of God's wrath that Daniel holds so dearly in contempt. There are infinite times in the movie when Eli's dialogue parallels the dialogue of others, particularly (and watch for this) the phrase, "Daniel Plainview, your house is on fire." I've heard enough lectures to know that when things feel on purpose, they probably are on purpose, and I don't know exactly what Paul Thomas Anderson has up his sleeve, but I know that it has something to do with Eli, and I'd give my last breath to find out what it is.
And it's probably because I spent so much undergraduate time in the trenches of cryptic literature that I've opted to take a different look at "There Will Be Blood." To me, this film is highly literary. It is filled with nods and winks, elbow pokes, magic words and phrases, motifs, things that repeat themselves throughout the duration of the film, things my English 507 class and I would have had our satisfying way with. For it is simply not in my nature to ignore such subtleties. It feels like a novel, slow-moving, unflinching, and graphic, yet it does things with characters that no novel could ever achieve. During "There Will Be Blood," I often found myself hating Daniel while simultaneously fearing him, loving him and watching over him like some distant matriarch, yet also wishing that he'd die. Similarly, sometimes I truly believed Eli Sunday to be real, and other times, I found him to be nothing more than a sort of indescribable hologram. There were even moments when I wondered if any of this had happened at all. It was surreal yet visceral, in many ways like a night terror, one where you find yourself paralyzed, unable to move a limb, and terrified by the figure that stares back at you from the corner. Who is Daniel Plainview? What is Eli Sunday? And does what happens in the end actually happen at all? I'll stay away from spoilers here, because the film is, as far as show times go, becoming more accessible, and I don't want to ruin it for anyone. But if you see it, which you should, I ask you to watch and listen closely throughout the film's final scene. Does it happen? Watch the butler's face. Is it real? Was any of it real? I ask you only because I cannot stop asking myself. "There Will Be Blood" is a crushing success, albeit a blood-curdling trip, and if it were anything else, I'd be reviewing it rather than tossing premature theories around a long and echo-less room. For whatever reason, I can't just write a review. I can tell you what I think of the parts that I can get a handle on, but there's no real way to lay out a concrete point of view for a film that left me blindsided.
So here are the things that I know: Daniel Day-Lewis, who I have somehow failed to mention thus far, didn't blow my mind, he cracked my skull, and one can throw around John Huston references all one wants, but I, for one, was flabbergasted. I also find myself in awe of Paul Dano, an actor who, a couple years ago was the dorky kid who saves the day in "Girl Next Door," and is now a radiant blade among a yard of twenty-something has-beens. Also, now, I've finally seen all five Best Picture nods, and my vote still stands with "No Country for Old Men," but it's not because "There Will Be Blood" was worse than the titilating McCarthy adaptation; it's because, to me, it is not really a film at all. It is more of a lengthy character sketch, a screen-novel, a surreal venture into the unreliable psyche of a maniac. But, still, at the end of the day, it's a movie. A beautifully executed chunk of movie that I'll continue to ponder and to write about for many years to come. In fact, I'll probably write about it again, here, sometime in the coming weeks. I wholeheartedly urge you to challenge my strange dealings, to hold me in contempt, but I also urge you to watch this movie and, instead of simply seeing it for what it is on the surface (a greed movie about oil men and their hardhearted ways), see it and watch and listen, and be aware the whole time. Sit with your ears and your eyes wide open, and be prepared to hear strange turns of phrase, words that echo throughout the film, especially among different characters, repeated images, and, of course, allusions to movies of yore. Also, remember that Paul Thomas Anderson is the man who brought us "Boogie Nights," "Magnolia," and the symbolism-heavy "Punch Drunk Love." Then, let me know what you gathered from it all. Maybe we can muster something real.
*All five films nominated for Best Picture at the 80th Academy Awards are now playing at the Sundance Cinema in Hilldale Mall. The films are: "Michael Clayton," "No Country for Old Men," "Atonement," "There Will Be Blood," and "Juno." Visit www.sundancecinemas.com for showtimes. Many of them are also wide, but as far as theaters go, Sundance is the shizz.
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