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Within the flickering flame

Of black waxed candle

Something flitters - illumined -

Then lands on silver handle

Blinking out the brightness

Tiny creature of lace wing

Breathing deep the twilight

Softly begins to sing

Calling out to kindred

Serenading all who hear

Calling together brethren

To place devoid of fear

Outside frosted window

Within the spreading night

Glowing pinpoint creatures

Appear while taking flight

Singing out in triumph

Song that calls them home

Home to flickering candle

No longer shall they roam

Seduced beyond discretion

Feelings they can't name

Drive them to destruction

Within the searing flame

Ratatouille trailer 2

The rat Rémy (Patton Oswalt) lives in a colony in the attic of a French country home with his brother Émile (Peter Sohn) and father Django (Brian Dennehy). Inspired by France's recently deceased top chef, Auguste Gusteau (Brad Garrett), Rémy tries to live the life of a gourmet. Not appreciating his talents, his clan puts him to work sniffing for rat poison in their food.

Rémy and the rats flee the house when the resident, an old woman, discovers the colony. Rémy, separated from the others, floats in the storm drains to Paris on a cookbook by Gusteau, following the chef's image to his namesake restaurant, now run by former sous-chef Skinner (Ian Holm). As Rémy watches from a skylight a young man with no culinary talent, Alfredo Linguini (Lou Romano), arrives with a letter of introduction from his recently deceased mother, and is hired on to do janitorial duties. Linguini spills a pot of soup and attempts to cover up his mistake by adding random ingredients. Upset, Rémy falls into the kitchen and attempts to fix the ruined soup rather than trying to escape. Linguini catches Rémy in the act, just as Skinner catches Linguini. In the confusion some of the soup has been served. To everyone's surprise, the soup is a success.


Rémy discovers that he can control Linguini's movements by pulling on his hair.The kitchen's sole female cook, Colette (Janeane Garofalo), convinces Skinner not to fire Linguini, provided he can recreate the soup. Skinner orders him to take Rémy away; Linguini, refusing to kill the rat, begins an alliance by which Rémy secretly directs Linguini in return for his protection. The two perfect a marionette-like arrangement by which Rémy tugs at Linguini's hair to control his movements and stays hidden under Linguini's toque blanche.

Skinner plies Linguini with vintage Château Latour in an unsuccessful attempt to discover the secret of his unexpected talents. The next morning, hung over and disheveled, Linguini nearly confides his secret to Colette. Desperately trying to stop Linguini, Rémy pulls his hair, making him fall on Colette and leading the two to kiss. They begin dating, leaving Rémy feeling abandoned. Meanwhile, Skinner learns after some sleuthing that, unknown to everyone, Linguini is in fact Gusteau's son and stands to inherit the restaurant. This would thwart Skinner's ambition to exploit Gusteau's image to market prepared frozen foods.

One night Rémy and his colony are reunited. While scrounging food Rémy discovers Gusteau's will which, after a chase by Skinner, he presents to Linguini. Linguini now owns the restaurant, fires Skinner, and becomes a rising star in the culinary world. After a falling out, Linguini decides he no longer needs Rémy, and Rémy retaliates by leading a kitchen raid for his rat colony. Linguini attempts to apologize to Rémy, only to discover and expel his colony. Rémy feels guilty about hurting his friend, and refuses to join them in resuming the raid.

Things come to a head the night of a planned review by jaded food critic Anton Ego (Peter O'Toole), the exact same critic who ruined Gusteau's life after he gave him a bad review and reduced his five-star restaurant to four stars. Linguini, unable to cook without the rat's guidance, admits his ruse to the staff when Rémy shows up, leading them all to walk out. Colette returns after thinking through Gusteau's motto, "Anyone can cook!" Django, inspired by his son's courage, returns with the entire rat colony to cook under Rémy's direction, while Linguini, discovering his true talent, waits tables on roller skates. Colette helps Rémy prepare ratatouille; Rémy's new recipe produces a dish so good that, in the climax of the film, a bite of it leads Ego to relive childhood memories of his mother. Ego asks to meet the chef but Colette insists he must wait until the rest of the diners have left. At the end of the service, Rémy and the rats are revealed. A changed man, Ego writes a glowing review, declaring that the chef at Gusteau's is the greatest chef in all of France.

In the denouement Gusteau's is closed by a health inspector, who finds the rats after being tipped off by Skinner. Ego loses his credibility and job when the public discovers he has praised a rat-infested restaurant. Everything is for the best, however; with Ego as investor and regular patron, Linguini, Colette, and Rémy open a successful new bistro called "La Ratatouille," which includes a kitchen and dining facilities for both rats and humans.

Mocha: Selling coffee or addiction?

The story is about a leading coffee outlet, which faces criminal action for mixing alcohol with coffee without the mandatory excise license.

CALL IT COFFEE revolution in India, or coffee addiction, but Mocha, one of India’s biggest coffee chains today faces criminal action. Reason: It has been found mixing alcoholic beverages with coffee and that too without obtaining the mandatory excise license for the same.

While tea is the traditional beverage of Northeast Asia and India, coffee has long been consumed in Southeast Asia. Kopi tubruk remains popular among ordinary Indonesians, but here at Mocha you get the feel of coffee from any part of the world under one roof. Its menu has it all and to say it in a few words a visit to Mocha is more of an experience.

While Mocha, India’s coffee chain for the ‘affluent few’ claims that it’s beyond just sipping coffee with an unforgettable ambience and finest coffees from all over the world, the Chandigarh police feels the other way and have booked the manager and managing directors of the local outlet, which happens to be one of the 13 outlets across the nation including those in the national capital of New Delhi and metropolitan city like Mumbai.

It is one place where you can choose your flavour of freshly roasted and ground American, African or Indian coffee and enjoy fruit-flavoured sheeshas from Egypt, but beyond coffee, what the city administration feels is addiction, that this café was promoting in the name of coffee.
The Chandigarh police during a last week raid on the coffee outlet in sector 26 here arrested its manager for possessing red and white wine without license. More rum and wine bottles have been recovered from the outlet.

The excise department officials said possession of country liquor or foreign liquor in any quantity is prohibited in a restaurant under the provisions. A menu card of the restaurant showing that certain preparations in the restaurant are being prepared and served after mixing alcoholic beverages in these preparations were also recovered and taken into possession during the inspection.

Chandigarh which is emerging as one of the most happening cities of India has recently taken to the popular way to drink coffee in Southeast Asia.

Here youngsters prefer mixtures of coffee, ice, chocolate or vanilla and milk blended together and then topped with whipped cream, and with city being also high on liquor consumption in the country, young generation had been thronging Mocha here, which had only opened early this year. There is also a rise in drunken brawls and drunken driving in the city, which the officials figures clearly reveal, after the city administration liberalised its excise policy, thus facilitating easy and cheap availability of liquor in city.

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