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Firefly - live life in moments.

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.

Westlife - Lay my love on you

Naked Dance of Indian Politics.

INDIA, the second most populated country in the world after China and a holy place for the people of different cultures and faiths, is unfortunately running out of a constructive opposition party in Parliament.

It is the irony of Indian politics that the parties sitting in opposition consider it their duty to oppose each and every bill, presented by the ruling party, and prove it an exploiting bill and against the general masses. It is true that Indian Constitution has given the freedom to all the members of Legislative Assembly and Parliament to oppose each and every action of ruling party, which is against the interests of citizens of India. But here the question is—Are our politicians really concerned about the welfare of Indians?

In western countries we have generally witnessed that the members of the house support only those bills, which are in the favour of citizens of that country. If the parties in opposition find the bill useful for the people, they happily accept it. Similarly, if the bill is of no use, even the members of ruling party come forward to support the Opposition and make all efforts to get that bill rejected. But in our country, the scenario is different. Here the parties in opposition seem more honest towards themselves and they oppose just for the sake of opposing.

For this old trend, ruling parties are equally responsible. They always show bossiness while presenting any bill and appointing people (Governors of state, chairperson of Censor Board, Deputy Chairman of Planning Commission and so on) of their choice and they don’t prefer taking the view of Opposition. The Presidential election is the recent example of it. Though Dr APJ Abdul Kalam was being considered the most eligible person for the post of President, UPA was not ready to withdraw its candidate, Pratibha Patil. And finally Patil won the election and has become the first woman President of India.

Now, opposition has created the similar situation. They are not ready to support UPA -Left alliance (ruling party) candidate Mohammad Hahmid Ansari for the post of Vice President. NDA and UNPA are supporting Najma Heptullah and Msood Ahmad respectively. Though everybody knows that Mohamad Hamid Ansari is the most deserving candidate for the post of Vice President as he is a man with multi-dimensional persona, opposition parties are not in his favour.

Ansari has represented India as its ambassador in twelve different countries. He served as Indira Gandhi’s chief of protocol in 1980, and was hounored with Padmashree Award for his services during Non-Aligned Summit and the Common Wealth Head of Government Meeting (CHOGM). He worked as Minority Committee Chairman, Vice Chancellor of Aligarh Muslim University, member of 10th Planning Commission, member of Sachar Committee and so on. Former External Affair Minister K. Natwar Singh recently compared Ansari with Late Dr Zakir Hussain.

Many times it is found that ruling party does the thing as they wish. When Kalyan Singh government passed the most controversial UP Religious Construction Bill, they never took the opinion of opposition party—SP. Thanks to then Indian President K.R Narayan who used pocket veto power and closed it permanently. Otherwise this bill would have led the sovereign, socialist, democratic and republic India towards domestic war.

The most important question is that: Who will come forward to say goodbye to this trend? For how long this draconian orthodox tradition will run the country? I think it is the responsibility of media community to highlight about it. It is also first and foremost accountability of Gen-X to compel the politicians to change their wrong attitude.

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Microsoft Surface: Hands-on First Look

awe.. one day it will be afordable!!! Loook how much computers were.. now almost everyone has it. Thats how technology work man!! i think its pretty cool but WHAT IS THIS WORLD COMING TOO!!! we have better things to worry about then technology!!

Three Wooden Crosses

A farmer and a teacher,
A hooker and a preacher,
Ridin' on a midnight bus bound for Mexico.
One's headed for vacation, one for higher education,
And two of them were searchin' for lost souls.
That driver never ever saw the stop sign.
An' eighteen wheelers can't stop on a dime.
There are three wooden crosses on the right side of the highway,
Why there's not four of them, Heaven only knows.
I guess it's not what you take when you leave this world behind you,
It's what you leave behind you when you go.
That farmer left a harvest, a home and eighty acres,
The faith an' love for growin' things in his young son's heart.
An' that teacher left her wisdom in the minds of lots of children:
Did her best to give 'em all a better start. An' that preacher
whispered: "Can't you see the Promised Land?" ,
As he laid his blood-stained bible in that hooker's hand.
There are three wooden crosses on the right side of the highway,
Why there's not four of them, Heaven only knows.
I guess it's not what you take when you leave this world behind you,
It's what you leave behind you when you go.
That's the story that our preacher told last Sunday.
As he held that blood-stained bible up, For all of us to see.
He said: "Bless the farmer, and the teacher, an' the preacher;
"Who gave this Bible to my mamma, "Who read it to me",
There are three wooden crosses on the right side of the highway,
Why there's not four of them, now I guess we know.
It's not what you take when you leave this world behind you,
It's what you leave behind you when you go.
There are three wooden crosses on the right side of the highway.