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M.Ed., Stanford University
Winner of multiple teaching awards
Patrick has been teaching AP Biology for 14 years and is the winner of multiple teaching awards.
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M.Ed., Stanford University
Winner of multiple teaching awards
Patrick has been teaching AP Biology for 14 years and is the winner of multiple teaching awards.
Have you ever cooked? I mean really cooked, not just toss a pop tart into a toaster. If you have, you know it's a pretty messy process, especially if your chef that's doing your cooking is a moron like my friend Galen over here. I've got a pretty expensive cook book here. If I hand that to him, he's such a moron he'll just start cooking anything, not essentially what I want him to cook. He's pretty messy. He's going to sit there and he's going to start spilling stuff all over the book. It could get ruined.
Instead, if I just want one recipe made, what I should do, is I should hand him a photocopy of the recipe I'm interested in. Then he's at least able to read. He can follow instructions. If he makes any damage to this, if he spills oil on it, sets it on fire, I don't care because my cook book is still intact.
Your cells do a similar process when they're trying to make proteins. The process of protein synthesis can actually occasionally create these things called free radicals, and other problematic chemical reactions. You don't want your DNA, which is kind of like your cookbook, which is the one copy of the instructions you have on building and running the cell, you don't want that damaged. So instead, what you do is you make a RNA copy of just the recipe that you're interested. Then, you can send that photocopied transcript of your gene that you're interested in, off to the idiot ribosomes that can't follow the instructions. If that photocopy, that 'messenger RNA' transcript gets damaged, it's not a big loss, because you can always make more.
So today what I'm going to do is, I'm going to go through the process of transcription. I'm going to go over how does it get started, and how does the enzymes involved in transcription know where they should be copying. Then I'm going to go into how does that RNA polymerase, the enzyme that is building the messenger RNA, how does it go ahead and build the RNA.
Last I will describe what happens when the whole process comes to a halt, and how does the RNA get prepared to be sent out of the cell.
So before we get too far into this, I want to stop for a moment and make sure you understand why is this thing called Transcription? I really want to focus on this because, transcription is the first half of what's called protein synthesis. The second half of protein synthesis is called translation. I've heard a lot of students go trans-. They don't pay attention to the end part.
So let's think, what is a transcript? Well, if you've ever paid attention, a transcript is actually a written record of usually something that's spoken. For example, in court cases, you've got somebody called the stenographer who is typing down everything that anybody says in the court room. Now, that written record of what's being spoken, is in this exact same language, just a slightly different version. Because you guys know that spoken English is a little bit different from written English.
For example, comma; very rarely do I use punctuation marks like comma, or period, comma or colon in my spoken English, period. The same thing with transcription. What we're doing is we're using the exact same language. We're using the nucleic acid language, but we're trying to copy one section of DNA. We're going to do it in a slightly different version called RNA. They're both nucleic acid sequences. So we're going to be using RNA to make a photocopy of a section of DNA. We're making a transcript, a copy of one small section.
So how does transcription begin? Let's take a look.
Every gene, remember is the set of instructions on how to build a protein. It has at its beginning a section called the promoter. What is the promoter? The promoter is the section of DNA that has a sequence of As, Ts, Cs, and Gs that an enzyme will come along, and it will recognize this is the beginning of a gene.
So the promoter helps attract that enzyme. Now how does the enzyme and the transcription factors that help it, how does it know that this is a promoter? Well, it has specific sequences in it. A common sequence in many promoters is the sequence TATA or it's called the TATA box. It's actually this sequence here. So that is one of the clues to the RNA polymerase, the molecule or enzyme that's going to be building our transcript of our DNA. It's one of the clues that it uses to recognize that this is a promoter.
Now to help you understand this, imagine I was trying to photocopy one recipe out of my cookbook. How do I know where a particular recipe begins? Well, I just keep flipping until I find the title of the recipe that I'm interested. Now, how did I recognize that this is the title of the recipe that I'm looking for? Well, notice it's got different colors than the rest of it.
Now, you remember that genes are sequences of As, Ts, Cs, and Gs that are used to instruct ribosomes on how to build proteins. Each sequence of letters indicating which amino acid goes first, which amino acid goes second, third, fourth and fifth and so on and so forth. Well, what's a recipe? It's a sequence of instructions written not in A, T, C and G, but written in all these letters A through Z. And that, they tell the chef which ingredient to add first, which ingredient to add second, third, fourth, and so on and so forth.
So again, the RNA polymerase recognizes this sequence as a promoter. I recognize any of the colored sequences of letters as a title to a recipe. Slight differences in the promoter, just like slight differences in this title here, tell me which specific recipe it is that I'm looking at.
So that way, I can read this recipe and say Espresso Beef Tenderloin Fillet. That's very different than if I was reading something that said Angel Food Cake. So the promoter for one protein, will have slight differences that indicate which protein it is, versus a different protein. So if I wanted to build insulin or if I wanted to build something like myosin.
So the enzyme that does this like I said is RNA polymerase. So what happens is that it lands on the DNA. Let's go ahead and take a look at that. Here is our promoter, here is the actual gene. So the promoter is before the gene itself. A lot of times they'll call that up strand. That just means it's before. So here this little purple blurb is our RNA polymerase. Now I've not drawn it in, because it gets pretty complicated, but there's a bunch of little helper molecules. These are factors.
Remember in AP Biology, in Science in general, when scientists didn't originally know what a molecule is, and they just don't even have evidence for how many of them are, they just call them factors. Later on they'll name them. Well, there's a bunch of transcription factors that help identify this is a promoter for a specific gene.
Let's suppose we want to make insulin. Well, there's a promoter that is specific to insulin and transcription factors will help guide in the RNA polymerase when insulin is needed, to the promoter of insulin. That also tells it which of these two strands do we wish to copy. Do we want to copy the red one, or the blue one? It's the promoter that tells you. Just like if I had opened up my recipe book, and it upside down, looking at the title oops I had it upside down, now it's right side up. That's how we begin transcription.
So now that the RNA polymerase has been brought to the promoter, by the transcription factors, and it recognized the correct promoter that it wants to begin copying. RNA polymerase does a lot of the jobs that you saw in DNA Replication. It does all those tasks pretty much by itself. It goes ahead and it opens up the helix. So let's take a look at that.
Now we've opened up the helix, but we're only interested in copying one side of the DNA. We're only interested in copying this strand. So what happens is that, now that we've got it open, we can have RNA nucleotides that are floating around inside the nucleus. They start matching up following the same basic Base Pairing rules that we've seen before. If we have an A here, normally, we'd be putting a DNA T. But you've got to remember, one of the differences between RNA and DNA, is DNA uses Thymine. In its place RNA uses a Pyrimidine called Uracil. That's a Nitrogenous base called Uracil that is used in place of Thymine.
How do you remember that? Uracil is used by RNA? Well, how would you abbreviate Uracil? U. How would you abbreviate RNA even more? R. Just think U, R, correc,t and you will be.
So what happens is that we have, wherever there's an A, we'll put an RNA U. Wherever there's a G, we'll put an RNA C. Wherever there's a T, we'll put an RNA A. Wherever there's a C, we'll put an RNA G. So these RNA nucleotides start landing and that's what we'll see next.
RNA polymerase goes along and joins those sugars and phosphates together, building in the 5' to 3'direction. Now we're beginning to run along the DNA and we're building ourselves this green RNA copy of the DNA sequence. Again, it's following the same basic Chargaff's Base Pairing rules. Now, RNA polymerase hits this fork here. What does it do? It just keeps going. As it opens up more of the helix, the portion of RNA that's already being copied a fair amount, starts to fall off. Because again, one of the differences between RNA and DNA, DNA is very stable in a double helical form, RNA is typically single stranded. Because it has additional oxygen in its ribose sugar, it tends to repel itself if we have long stretches of double stranded RNA.
So this messenger RNA that we're making, starts to fall away from the DNA as the RNA polymerase continues. The portions of DNA that had previously been copied now begin to close up. That's how we do it.
So this just keep happening until the RNA polymerase reaches the end of the gene, and then it just stops. So how does it know what the end of the gene is? What happens is that, just like remember there is the promoter, tha was a sequence of As, Ts, Cs, and Gs that indicated this is the beginning. How does it know where there is the end? Well, we have what are called Termination Sequences. These are sequences of As, Ts, Cs, and Gs that indicate to the RNA polymerase you've reached the end.
Now, if this was a prokaryote, as the RNA polymerase falls off, because it's reached the Termination Sequence. And the messenger RNA floats off, because it's done being made, in a prokaryote or bacteria we could have ribosomes already landing on this and making our protein follow the instructions of the messenger RNA. But with eukaryotes, creatures like yourselves or plants or muskrats, there is a lot more complications. So let's take a look at what happens.
Before the RNA is allowed out of the nucleus, a number of things happen. First, remember, viruses use RNA, some of them like HIV, viruses use RNA to take over your cells. So when they inject their RNA into your cytoplasm, you've got enzymes that are on the alert destroying any random RNA that's floating around.
Now you want to protect your RNA from being chopped up. So what you is on the 5' beginning end, you put in a modified Guanine. This is called the 5'-cap. That's what we see here. It's a backward Guanine that's put in here. That protects the enzymes. Normally the enzymes will come along and kind of like Pacman on Steroids. but it goes, and floats away disappointed.
On the other end, we put in a whole bunch of As. When I say a whole bunch of As, I mean several hundred perhaps. Now scientists don't like to say a whole bunch of, so what they do is they call it a Poly A tail, because that sounds cooler.
Now why not just make both ends of the messenger RNA invulnerable to our chopping up enzyme? Because our chopping of enzymes can attack from this end. Well, remember this messenger RNA is going to give instructions on how build a protein. If we go back to our analogy from the beginning, where I talked about how we're copying a recipe for our moron chef, he reaches the end of the recipe. And he'll just sit there and go,"Oh look a recipe," and he'll keep going. And he'll just keep making it. If you hand your chef this recipe, and say I need some cake. And he begins going okay and he starts adding in the things that you've told him to, well, we've got ourselves a problem. Because he'll just keep making cake until he dies.
Say for example if I suddenly did something, I've just startled some of you at least. Right now, adrenaline is being dumped into your body from your adrenal glands. It's going through your circulatory system and flooding through your body. Some of you even felt a little de frisson to use some French, a little shiver. That goes through your body as the adrenaline starts hitting your cells.
Well, in your adrenal glands, genetic signals are being activated right now. We're starting to make messenger RNA to code for the proteins that are going to build the replacement adrenaline for what you just dumped into your body. Do you want that section of RNA, that instructions to build adrenaline in your body for the rest of your life? Do you want to be in the restaurant walking and twitching from adrenaline overload, because I startled you once so many years ago? No. So instead, if we go back to our recipe analogy, let's go ahead and we'll attach a fuse to the recipe. We'll make it long enough so that when I light the fuse, it'll take maybe 10 minutes or so for the fuse to burn until it hits our photocopied paper of the recipe.
So the moron chef will sit and go, "Okay I add these things," Then oh it's gone. So he builds enough of the proteins or builds enough of the cake that we want, but it's destroyed. So this poly-A tail gets something for our enzymes to chew on, until finally they hit the actual messenger RNA that's being used to build our protein. Then that destroys it. That means we make enough of the protein, but not too much.
Now you'll also notice that between this and there, there are some things missing. That's because while bacterial messenger RNA goes straight in the cytoplasm can be converted, our DNA has a lot of extra intervening regions inside the genes. These intervening regions are called introns. Those portions of the messenger RNA that are actually going to be expressed or expressed regions, those are called exons. So you have enzymes that recognize the introns and cut them out. So we cut out these intron, cut out these intron, and then splice together the remaining exons. The group of enzymes that do this is called a spliceosome which literally means a splicing body or object.
Why have these introns? Well, there's a number of proposed reasons. Scientists used to be completely confused, and they'd just call it 'Junk DNA'. But scientists discovered these introns can actually have some significant importance. Now sometimes, these introns may be left over viruses that added their DNA to ours. Hopefully, mutations have happened and deactivated this pro-viruses they're called. But a lot of times it turns out that the introns may be involved in how to regulate the proteins, such that, sometimes you splice up the introns, sometimes you don't. That gives you from one messenger RNA primary transcript.
If let's suppose I want to keep this intron, but get rid of that. Other times I'll keep this one, get rid of that one. A third time, I'll get rid of both.
That gives me three possible outcomes from one original primary transcript. Another reason to have the introns, if we go back to the DNA, remember these represent sequences of As, Cs, Ts, and Gs. While the exons represent sequences of As, Cs, and Gs that are actually used, the introns are not. If you go back to meiosis, remember during meiosis one, Prophase one, there is the stuff called crossing over where pieces of mummy's DNA are swapped with pieces of daddy's DNA. These introns get places where it can break a gene without actually damaging the portions that are used to code for functional proteins. It allows more variation in the proteins that are being created in offspring.
Now, this splicing let's go back and finish up with our metaphor of the chef. Now, your cookbook, instead of being just very simple basic cookbook like the DNA of a prokaryote or a bacteria, your cookbook is chock full of ads. If you just photocopy straight the recipe with the included ads, and you hand it to your moron chef who's our representation of the ribosome, he'll begin by saying, "Okay step one add flour. Step two, interest in refinancing your house okay." He'll be on the phone, and you'll be massively in debt. That's not making your cake.
So instead you cut out and paste together. Just the sections of the photocopy that actually contain the instructions of the recipe that you want them to follow. Add in your fuse, your poly-A tail, put a 5'-cap on the other end, and now we've finished post transcriptional editing. That's it for transcription.
Let's run through this again, one last time just to make sure you've got it all down. So transcription's all about making a messenger RNA copy of a single gene, so that that messenger RNA copy can go to the ribosome, and it can follow the instructions there to build ourselves a protein.
It begins with promoter sequences helping identify, along with transcription factors, help that RNA polymerase identify where the beginning of the gene is. That RNA polymerase opens up the DNA double helix, and begins adding RNA nucleotides in a long sequence until it hits the Termination Sequence, which identifies the end of the gene. Next that RNA copy leaves. If it's a eukaryote, undergoes some editing to add in the 5'-cap and the poly-A tail also to get rid of all those intervening regions or introns. That then goes off to the ribosome where we can begin translation.
If you can remember that, and just vomit up what I just said, maybe 3 or 4 sentences, you'll get a better score on a transcription essay than most people do nationwide. And you're on your way to getting a good grade on the AP. I highly recommend that if you want to maximize your score however, most essay questions they involve both transcriptions and translations. So I highly recommend you either use your textbook to read about translation, or watch my video on Translation to give yourself a good solid score. But otherwise, I'm pretty sure you'll do just fine.


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However good (or otherwise) the Roland TD-9K proves to be, this is An Important Kit. As the mid-range offering from arguably the strongest name in electronic drum sets, this set-up assumes significance simply because a) if it's any good it'll be the rig to beat, and b) if it isn't, it'll allow others a slice of what's becoming an increasingly large pie.
So the new TD-9K has a lot resting on its shoulders - whether it proves up to taking on the mantle of its popular predecessor or not, you'll find out in a few short paragraphs.
It's all very well getting worked up about flagship products like Roland's TD-20K and Yamaha's awesome DTXtreme III, but in the real world it's kits like the TD-9 that more regularly find employment with everyday players.
Designed to offer a blend of the high-end and the affordable, we've come to expect this middle ground to throw up kits that sound good, with reasonable editability and functions, and a playing feel that's a step-up from the entry-level stuff. The TD-9K aims to deliver on that latter point by sporting a simple but highly effective rack system with newly-designed cymbal arms and a mesh head snare pad to boot. That the rack hangs together very well and is super-simple to set up should come as no surprise - we've come to expect that of Roland. But touches like the new cymbal arms are a welcome addition.
A ball-and-clamp design allows for huge flexibility in positioning terms, and in a situation where the other elements of the kit are rather more 'fixed' than in the case of an acoustic set, anything that adds such options is valued. The mesh snare will also go down well in the marketplace. We're currently of the opinion that big rubber pads (of the ilk used by Yamaha for the DTXtreme III) can feel as good as anything; but when we're dealing with smaller pads - particularly where the snare is concerned - we'll still take a mesh head.
"The new Scope function is aimed at improving your accuracy and timekeeping, or at the very least drive you insane with frustration. Basically a live graphical representation of how close your strokes are to a metronomic click, Scope places dots on an on-screen grid as you play".
Of course the most significant aspect of the new kit is the TD-9 module itself, with its spanking new selection of sounds and friendly interface. The brain is filled with 520-odd sounds, 49 preset kits of various types and 50 songs with which to keep yourself from getting bored listening to the metronome. We'll come to discuss how the sounds impress shortly, but while we're here there are a couple of TD-9 features that also warrant a mention.
The first is the new Scope function, aimed at improving your accuracy and timekeeping, or at the very least drive you insane with frustration. Basically a live graphical representation of how close your strokes are to a metronomic click, Scope places dots on an on-screen grid as you play. It's a harsh illustration of how spot-on, or not, you are, and a useful practice tool. The screen display can be zoomed in as well, which makes Scope very easy to use when playing, no matter how animated you get.
The mid-range nature of the TD-9K means that we have to forego a couple of nice features that you'll find on other, pricier offerings. Chief amongst these is the hi-hat set-up, which comprises the FD-8 trigger pedal twinned with a little CY-5 pad. It actually works well, but the less-substantialthan-the-real-thing feel of the FD-8 obviously can't replicate the response of a proper hi-hat stand.
The good news is, however, that the TD-9 is compatible with Roland's VH-11 hi-hat, as used for the TD-12, so upgrading is easy when you feel the need.
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Any restrictions that the price-point of the TD-9K has placed on the designers are largely forgotten when it comes to playing the kit, though. The module is a sexy piece of gear, and contains a host of typically strong sonic offerings. As ever, some preset kits are more impressive than others, with particular favourites including the warm but poky Jazz Funk set and the 'standard' V-Tour Studio. The electro kits are, as ever with Roland, very convincing too - the 808 and 909 should be, of course, but others, like the minimal house collection, are fun and very funky.
There's a very useful amount of editing available on each kit, too. And although there's a degree of button-pushing involved in getting to the required editing page occasionally, the TD-9 is fairly self-explanatory, so the odd glance at the manual should get you through.
It's a simple affair, for example, to decide you'd like a bigger pair of hats on the Big Rock kit and go for 15"s, or 18"s even, just by dialling the data wheel. The same goes for bigger or smaller drums, and different shell materials - in short there's huge scope for either tweaking existing kits or coming up with your own.
EQ and effects are also a breeze to modify (and there is a fair amount of cavernous reverb on some of the standard kits - to impress 'instore' presumably), and while the TD-9 doesn't boast a dedicated 'kit mixer' on the front of the unit as per posher brains, the on-screen mixer is only a couple of presses away. Not quite as quick to make on-stage changes, but painless enough.
As far as response is concerned, the TD-9K certainly does enough to make it a thoroughly rewarding experience for those after an acoustic emulation to practise with. The combination of some very nice kit sounds, the feel of the mesh snare and tailor-able sensitivity settings get it close enough to feeling 'real' as to be eminently playable. Given its price, it's brilliant.
But it's the 'package' nature of electronic kits that makes them so appealing. An acoustic kit can't help train your left hand to be more accurate, or provide entertaining backing tracks to help practice sessions fly by. On this front, the TD-9 fares well too.
As always, metal-heads will despise the clunky synth guitars of the heavier tunes, but for those keen to work on their funk, soul, disco and pop chops, there's lots of amusement on board. And another ace up the TD-9's sleeve is its option for you to plug in a USB stick and play back MP3 files, so you don't have to hook up an iPod or suchlike (although this is an option too). Just raid your PC for your favourite, legally downloaded tunes, whack them on a stick and you're away.


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In my 21 years coaching youth baseball, I've been called a good coach, a great coach, an overrated coach and a horrible coach. I guess it depends on which game or games people have seen me coach to determine which superlative to use.
I like to think that my best coaching moves come from my gut and not from the "book" of coaching. People have questioned some moves I have made and asked me why I did what I did. Many times I have to respond, "I just had a feeling it would work."
I have also found that the best coaches in all sports deviate from the "book" over the course of their career. Some of these uncanny moves will work and some will not.
My thoughts are you cannot have all coaching moves pre-determined, because situations occur with different personnel at different times.
More: How to Run an Efficient Baseball Practice
Let's look at five situations and why I sometimes stray from conventional coaching decisions:
Tip No.1: Don't Bunt With Two Strikes
This is a tough one when it fails. We have all seen it in youth baseball when the third baseman plays in close anticipating a bunt.
When the strike count gets to two, the coach will yell to the third baseman something like this: "Two strikes on the hitter. Move back so you are even with the base."
When the fielder moves back, depending on the ability of the batter, I love to give him another chance to bunt, given that the defense and opposing coach are sure the batter will not bunt. I have been successful with this and at other times it has failed.
One warning, if you try this. When your batter does fail, you will hear from all the "General Managers" in the bleachers.
More: 4 Biggest Mistakes Baseball Teams Make in Practice
Tip No.2: Catch Everything With Two Hands
I know most coaches and parents will hold me to task on this one. When my players are moving laterally reaching for a fly ball, I just want them to catch the ball any way possible.
I don't want my players thinking they have to catch everything with two hands if some catches are easier one-handed. If the shortstop is sprinting for a pop-up behind the third baseman, and has to reach for it, a one-handed catch works best.
When catching a pop-up hit right to a player, with little or no running, a two-handed catch works best. But too many coaches and parents overemphasize catching everything with two hands. Coaches need to have youth players practice catching balls with one and two hands.
Tip No.3: Don't Make the First or Third Out at Third Base
Tim McCarver won't invite me over to dinner on this one. I send my runner to third most of the time not worrying about how many outs we have.
I have my teams run the bases aggressively. We get thrown out at third and home more than other teams. But we also win more games than we lose.
More: Drill of the Week: Baseball Catching Drill for Kids
In youth baseball, every game has its share of wild pitches and passed balls. From my many years coaching third base I know that we have a great chance getting the runner home on a wild pitch or passed ball.
I hate ending the inning with a player who doesn't score from third base when some aggressive baserunning would have landed him on third and he would have scored.
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Los Angeles architectural photographer Mike Kelley posted this awesome image of almost all the departures and some of the arrivals at LAX during a period of eight hours last Sunday. You can buy the photo here if you want.
This is (almost!) every departure and a few arrivals at LAX's south complex yesterday. I spent almost the whole day there and another eight or so hours in photoshop putting this all together. I took some artistic liberty with the angles of attack to make a more interesting photograph, but for the most part this is all very similar to how it would appear if you were to go and watch yourself. There are two runways and both were being used for takeoffs, so that explains the size differences and depth differences between the planes.
If you look to the right of the tower, I also tried to get some of the heavies arriving. Singapore, Air France, Malaysia, Air New Zealand and Emirates A380s and 772s.
Edit 1 : A lot of people are interested in buying prints. They can be had by going here. but they are fairly expensive as we print them on very high quality fine art papers.
Edit 2: Because it doesn't seem to be clear and people keep asking, I took some artistic liberty with the planes and their angle of attack/pitch angle in order to make a more interesting shot. A few posts down in this thread is an unedited version, too.
Awesome work. He says this image—which is completely synthetic—put the seed in his head:
It kind of put the seed in my head, but I wanted to be more realistic with mine, because like all aviation nerds, it bothers me to see Air New Zealand Link, JetBlue and a Qantas 744 taking off from Hannover :)
His is much, much better. It alsoreminds me of this great video, which is completely different but it's pretty much the same concept.


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Dastan (1950)
Dastan is one of these movies which derives its interest not so much from how it works out (it is pretty obvious from the start that things didn't end well) but from they way the story unfolds; and even that isn't the most exciting thing ever here. ( I ended up owning it purely by chance as I was under the impression that I was purchasing a movie of the same title starring Dilip Kumar. ) The movie begins with a view of a large mansion and a voice over informs us that we are about to hear a story connected with it.
You better have an interesting architectural history:
An elderly gentleman (Raj Kapoor in not entirely convincing old person make-up) knocks on the door and is greeted by a loyal retainer. Apparently, it's 25 years since he last set foot in the house, but now he has come to pay his respects to his deceased sister (Veena). She spent the last 25 years living on her own in the house and avoiding any society. Her brother claims that he doesn't want to remember what happened 25 years ago. As there is still another two hours of movie to go, he then starts to recount precisely what it is that he doesn't want to remember (presumably so as to be better able to forget it).
One of them is more convincingly aged than the other:
We learn that Raj had a happy childhood together with his brother Kundan, the aforementioned loyal retainer and his father. His sister, Rani, was always proud and easily angered as well as given to call everybody Budtameez at the slightest provocation.
Impressions of a happy:
and possibly somewhat less happy childhood:
The family´s equilibrium is disturbed one day when the father brings home an orphaned girl, Indira. While the two boys accept her straightaway, Rani is more than a little suspicious of the stranger. Matters are not improved by the fact that her father asks her to give her room to Indira, as it is closer to his room, and he worries that she might be frightened at night in a strange house. Days pass and the situation doesn´t improve. One day, Rani is annoyed with her brothers for listening to Indira play the piano instead of heeding the dinner gong, and she is so rude to Indira that her father slaps her. However, as a voice over informs us, having to slap his beloved daughter is too much for this father's already fragile heart and he promptly expires.
This new arrival won't improve familial harmony:
Just after the deadly slap:
Immediately after her father's death, Rani decides that it is time for Indira to leave the house, but her brothers disagree and Indira gets to stay. More time passes and everybody is now grown up. However, relations haven't changed much. Rani is as proud and haughty as ever, and still dislikes Indira (now played by Suraiya), whereas Raj and Kundan (now played by Al Nasir) are both fond of her. The brothers and Indira are still in college, and one evening they participate in a college performance which also constitutes our first song. When Rani finds out, she is horrified and proclaims that Indira has turned the family name to mud (somehow, Raj and Kundan performing on stage isn't a problem).
I am pretty and I know it:
I look ridiculous and I know it:
I also look ridiculous but I don't know it:
Okay, I have decided to join all the ridiculous looking people:
I don't care what you all look like, no members of my family are to perform in public, and that's an order:
After Rani has given a piece of her mind to Indira, Raj sneaks into the latter's room, to console here and flirt with her. It is rather obvious that those two are very much in love with each other. After this has been established, Indira turfs out Raj, who returns to the room he shares with is borther only to give his brother a very different version of events with him in a much more heroic part. His rendition of this imaginative but not very truthful account is cut short when Rani appears and forces him to take some sleeping pills. (I have to say that there are many points later in the movie where I would have liked to have had some sleeping pills handy).
Kundan would much rather sleep:
One of the few occasions where I sympathise with Rani:
We then see Rani reading a book in the hallway (presumably it is the next morning but it may be later). Her reading is disturbed by something which sounds rather like an oversized, angry bumble-bee but is in fact Raj impersonating a plane. Apparently, he has decided to become a pilot officer. Rani isn't very impressed (very little impresses Rani), Kundan thinks that it requires too much getting up at silly hours of the morning (you have to be dressed before 9 am! the horror!) but Indira is happy for Raj. The two love birds engage in some mild flirting, before Raj goes to have his picture taken in his new uniform and Indira is sent off by Rani to have a necklace fixed. I am sure you will be as surprised as I to learn that the two meet on their respective errands. Indira has been drenched in the rain, and Raj takes her home in the car, with a small detour via a song, during which we learn that Kundan spends is time painting pictures of Indira and then gazing longingly at them (I suspect he may be in love with her, too).
Don't I look smart in my new uniform:
Our two lovebirds:
The artist:
and his painting:
My suspicions are confirmed shortly afterwards, when Indira comes home with the now repaired necklace, and Kundan tells her that the necklace isn't worthy to be worn by her. Alas, Indira is so wrapped up in her love for Raj, that Kundan's attempts at flirting don't register with her. Shortly afterwards, Rani appears and has a go at Indira for taking so long to return with the necklace.
Don't bother, her flirting detector is temporarily out of order:
We are then treated to some stock footage of a landing plane. It turns out that this is nothing to do with Raj's professional aspirations but heralds the return of a close friend of the family, Ramesh (Sureh) (so close that this is the first time he is ever mentioned). He is disappointed that Raj hasn't turned up for his welcome-home party, but Rani tells him that he is at work. When Ramesh phones up Raj to ask him over, after all, Rani and Kundan are already there, Raj puts two and two together and after faking a stomach ache, heads home, where Indira is all alone, spending her time playing the piano and singing about her love for Raj.
Hello, long lost friend we have never seen before:
She is very pretty when she pines:
Indira and Raj spend the afternoon flirting, while back at Ramesh's house his poor guests have to spend rather a long time without tea (the cruelty) as he is still waiting for Raj. When it becomes obvious that he isn't going to turn up, Rani and Kundan go back to the family home, only to find Raj and Indira in a rather disheveled state. They are both sent to their respective rooms to make themselves more presentable. When Ramesh turns up some time later Raj is overjoyed to see him. Ramesh, on the other hand, while also being happy to see Raj (they do perform some sort of impromptu dance with lots of yelling), is rather impressed with Indira. This doesn't escape Rani's attention, who all of a sudden sees a way of freeing her brother from the clutches of this lowly girl (never mind that one brother doesn't want to be freed from these clutches and the other is eager to become imprisoned in them). Before the story moves on, we are also given an answer to the question of why Rani has never married. Her unmarried state worries the loyal retainer but she tells him that she doesn't want to become a man's slave and as long as society regards a married woman as her husband's property she isn't going to get married. Of course we are meant to be horrified by this, but I have to admit that I have some sympathy for Rani, and I also can't see her ever working out well in a household which contains a mother in law.
It's fun making other people wait for their tea:
Though lack of tea may make your hair go all frizzy:
Frizzy hair notwithstanding, Ramesh is impressed:
This is a very interesting development:
Ramesh has invited the whole family, including Indira, over for a party. Raj has to go for work, so he can't come, and Indira tries to stay behind (probably hoping for the sudden occurrence of more stomach trouble) but Rani insists that she come along to. At the party, we first get treated to a dance perfomance (which actually isn't a song, but has some very nice sets). Unsurprisingly, Raj's stomach has taken a turn for the worse, but when he comes home, Indira is gone, so he goes on to Ramesh's house. There the performance is over, but those present are in the mood for more music, and Indira ends up playing the piano and singing. Rani notices with approval that Ramesh looks rather smitten, while Kundan (remember his feelings for Rani) is beginning to look rather worried and Raj is oblivious.
You have to come, I want to know whether Ramesh likes women with non-frizzy hair:
The lack of frizziness doesn't seem to bother him:
Look, my hair is all neatly arranged:
Your plan seems to be working, surely you should look happier:
After the return from the party, every member of the household, apart from Rani, decides to pour forth their feelings in song. This only confirms Rani in her opinion that she needs to get Indira married to Ramesh as soon as possible. In order to make her even more attractive, she decides to buy some new, more elaborate sarees for her on the pretext that it is her birthday. When the two brothers find this out, they are overjoyed and do a happy dance, as they take it as evidence that Rani is warming towards Indira. However, Kundan also notices that Ramesh is warming towards Indira, and decides to tell her about his feelings for her in a letter. Alas, this letter is intercepted by Rani. Will she use this to drive a wedge between Raj and Indira? What will happen when Kundan finds out that Indira's affection is otherwise engaged? What drove Rani to seclude herself from the world?
I have to say, this isn't a great movie. Raj is irritatingly childish for most of it, the conflict towards the end is very contrived, even by Hindi movie standards, and mostly driven by people not talking to each other and jumping to the least favourable conclusion possible. To me, the most memorable character is Rani, torn as she is between her dislike for Indira and her often exasperated but still real affection for her brothers.
7 comments:
- Bollyviewer said...
It has some lovely songs, but I shy away from films of this vintage that also come equipped with a Raj Kapoor. So I am never likely to watch it! But I am curious to know how it all ends. Do Suraiya and her numerous suitors all self-destruct? ;)
- 29 January 2011 at 01:42
- Shweta Mehrotra Gahlawat said...
I do not like this movie- Raj Kapoor makes me want to pull my hair! Everything that comes to him in the 2nd hald feels deserving to me- i got that vicious by the time it ended :) Suraiya was adorable though, and Veena was good!
- 31 January 2011 at 14:16
- antarra said...
Bollyviewer -- Your time is much better spend just watching the songs. :) There is only a limited amount of self-destruction, though it seems that most people lived unhappily ever after.
Shweta -- I wanted some of the sleeping pills Rani hands out to him. Suraiya is very sweet, and I can see why she would have some many suitors, and I was very impressed with Veena. She managed to portray Rani as not a very pleasant person, but still a human being. Mind you, having to live with Raj would probably drive anybody slightly deranged.
- 31 January 2011 at 23:22
You're alive!!!!! Someone would have to pay me money to watch this one :D
- 7 February 2011 at 08:20
- antarra said...
After checking my pulse, I can confirm that I am indeed alive.
Well, I am not going to re-watch this any time soon.
- 7 February 2011 at 22:29
Even Suraiya and her delightful voice can't compensate for a Raj Kapoor in a movie! Sounds like one of those misunderstandings galore movies.
I love Veena's voice though!
- 16 February 2011 at 05:12
- N P Rajamane PhD said...
I read the comments with lot of interest. I respect the individual feelings. But, when I saw it when I was in engineering college in Hubli and it was seen in one of those Sunday morning shows where we had chance to see old movies which we had missed.
I had gone with close friends, Devapur and Manavade. After the film, my reaction simply awesome. I had liked the movie very much for its emotional content and felt so sorry for Suraiya and disliked Veena so much. Songs were superb and acting was top class. Even now, my friends make a point to remember my deep appreciation of the film and the way I had felt then.
Probably, we have to see the film with the time it was made in mind, not carried by later fantastic developments in narration, picturisation, etc. For me, it still remains a nostalgic movie worth remembering for Suraiya
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At an early age Perrot sailed the seas and served in the army; in 1697 we find him at Placentia (Plaisance), where he was apparently engaged in business; for example, he advanced 37 livres to the brothers Alexis, Nicolas, and Pierre Lefrançois. He then settled at Quebec, where he continued his commercial activities; various lawsuits took him before the Conseil Supérieur including a very lengthy one in 1715–16 with Marie-Renée Chorel de Saint-Romain, the widow of Jacques Le Picard Du Mesnil de Norrey, about a house in Quebec. Several of these legal actions concerned questions of inheritances in which Perrot was involved. In 1726 he became major of the Quebec militia, and remained so until his death. In 1727 he requested the post of captain of the port of Quebec; Maurepas wrote on that occasion to Beauharnois* de La Boische and Claude-Thomas Dupuy to inquire "whether he is a man of good conduct and has the necessary ability"; however, Richard Testu* de La Richardière was appointed.
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He was married twice: first, in 1699, to Anne Jourdain; then, in 1704, to the widow of Charles Arnaud, Marie Willis, who later married Barthélemy Cotton*. He had three children who died in infancy.
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Transmission is one of the biggest uncertainties facing developers. The projects that got the green light in the first round used up all available capacity in the province, leaving the rest to undergo an economic connection test (ECT) to determine whether it is economical to build additional transmission infrastructure to connect them to the grid.
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Getting new transmission permitted and built is never a fast process, says Stephure. "Those queues tend to be sort of a wind developer purgatory where they're not sure, and uncertainty is very difficult for companies to manage. Developers can only wait so long for things to happen. So the ability for Ontario to really boost up its system quickly and to ensure that more of these FIT contracts are awarded will be important to keep the industry interested in Ontario and keep some of the bigger players there prospecting sites and wanting to be active."
International Power Canada won almost 76MW worth of wind contracts in the FIT's first round and has another 423MW awaiting the first ECT. David Timm, vice-president of strategic affairs, agrees quick action on transmission will be key to keeping investors in the market. His company is also looking for long-term market signals from system planners on questions like expected demand growth in the province and how it will be met.
"There are a number of markets where investment can flow," says Timm. "Ourselves and most of the other players are competing for that investment with other business units within our companies, so I think there has got to be a lot of positive signals within the next few months in terms of how the Ontario market is going to move forward."
A potentially negative signal could be how capacity is allocated on the one major transmission project that is under way in Ontario. Government-owned grid operator Hydro One expects to begin construction this year on the 3GW Bruce-to-Milton line, a 180-kilometre, double-circuit 500kV line that cuts through a prime area for wind development. Yet, when it comes into service by the end of 2012, half the available transfer capacity will go to refurbished nuclear generation in the region, and the other half to renewable energy projects, 1.2GW of which will be located in the Bruce region on Lake Huron and 300MW in south-western Ontario.
With just over 1.6GW of projects in Bruce and 2.1GW in south-western Ontario on the ECT list, the new line is sorely needed. But the concern for developers is that a big chunk of its capacity could be taken off the table under the terms of a deal between the provincial government and a consortium led by Korea's Samsung C&T Corporation (Windpower Monthly, March 2010). The consortium plans to build 2GW of wind and 500MW of solar in five phases of 500MW each by 2016. The province has already reserved 500MW of currently available transmission capacity for the first phase and appears to be also looking to set aside space on the Bruce-to-Milton line for Samsung's second phase of development. That would again bump some developers who might have expected to get contracts down the connection queue.
"I think it is a pretty rational forecast to say that Samsung's Phase 2 is certainly going to be part of Bruce-to-Milton," says the OPA's Chin.
On the other hand, he says, the need to accommodate future phases of the Samsung agreement could push transmission build into areas that might not otherwise have passed the ECT. "For Samsung's competitors it is a mixed blessing," Chin says.


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We wrote a bit yesterday about how Panthers QB/super-rookie Cam Newton has been shortchanged by the national media. We framed it through the prism of Tim Tebow, although Newton deserves plenty of recognition in his own right.
Today, well, ESPN the Magazine has named him "NEXT." Hooray?
With good reason, Killa Cam takes shots at his media doubters in the ESPN piece. They're not racist, he says, just biased against quarterbacks picked toward the top of the first round (who, it occurs to me, also happen to be black).
"I can't sit up here and look at it like, oh man, my critics are racist," Newton says. "I blame JaMarcus Russell and to some degree Vince Young. If you have the opportunity to make that kind of money doing something you love to do, why would you screw it up? I'm trying to be a trailblazer. If Baylor's Robert Griffin decides to come out, I want people to say 'He can be the next Cam Newton' instead of 'He's gonna be the next JaMarcus Russell.'"
Cam also gets in more digs at his critics:
"I had people who can't throw a football telling me my mechanics were wrong," says Newton. "I had people taking shots at my character, classifying me as a thug, as a hoodlum. After Week 3 or 4, all these same people wanted an interview. I said, 'You were giving me all this crap and had so much to say about how I was gonna play, and now you wanna talk? No. Just sit back and watch the show, man.'"
And what a show it is.
Cam Newton is NEXT [ESPN the Magazine]


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A Ghost of a Chance
Debbie Cassidy
(The Nightwatch #1)
Publication date: October 22nd 2019
Genres: Urban Fantasy
They say the dead don't speak. That's a lie. They speak to Kat Justice, but most of the time, she chooses not to hear them.
I'm a Nightwatch agent, a nightblood charged with enforcing the supernatural laws. Humans can't know the shit that goes bump in the night is real. It's sweaty, tough work, with crappy pay, but I love it.
Things would be perfect if not for my secret.
Pureblood Nightbloods can't see or hear the dead. The fact that I can exposes my mixed breeding. I'm not meant to exist, and if the council find out about my secret it's the executioners block for me.
Keeping a lid on my ghost whisperer ability is a must.
So, when my gramps orders me to head to the arse end of nowhere, a nowhere that just happens to be the most haunted place on the bloody map, I'm a little confused.
This transfer doesn't jive with trying to keep the ghost chat to a minimum.
But with my golem partner and gargoyle companion in tow, I'm sure I can figure out why I've been sent to this weird coastal town. I mean, they even have a ghost bar.
You'd think the local souls would be eager to chew my ear off, right? Wrong.
For the first time in forever, the dead aren't talking.
Now I need to know why…
A kick ass Urban Fantasy Adventure filled with fey, demons, vampires, gargoyles and golems.
Author Bio:
Debbie Cassidy lives in England, Bedfordshire, with her three kids and very supportive husband. Coffee and chocolate biscuits are her writing fuels of choice, and she is still working on getting that perfect tower of solitude built in her back garden. Obsessed with building new worlds and reading about them, she spends her spare time daydreaming and conversing with the characters in her head - in a totally non psychotic way of course. She writes Urban Fantasy, Fantasy and Reverse Harem Fantasy. All her books contain plenty of action, romance and twisty plots.
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When I finally arrived at the villa, I was told I needed a dinner jacket. It was searing hot, and a porter handed me a black polyester jacket and led me to a table.
Fortunately we sat outside, with a breeze and a view. The waiter handed me the menu. I handed it back to him and asked him to serve me what he would eat. He left and brought me back a glass of wine, a rosato from Castello di Ama. I sat under a beautiful arch, one that had been designed by Michelangelo, and pondered my life, my past, my future, the universe. That was my introduction to rosé.
We were alone; the other members of the party hadn't yet showed. She was cool to the touch, silky, delicately perfumed, wonderfully refreshing. I was smitten. It was the beginning of our affair, one that would last for years and years.
Since then I have wandered in and out of the life of rosé. We've had an on-and-off relationship, not because we were incompatible. Far from it. If anything rosé has been far too delicate and sensitive for the times of our lives. In many cases rosé had been abused before she met my lips; by then it was often too late.
Over the years, many folks have courted rosé and touted her attributes. I acquiesce all too willingly to her guile. She's just so damn lovely. And delicate.
But the world has strayed from delicate. And so it is a battle.
And here, now, as autumn takes hold and winter is barreling down, soon, upon us, what about rosé?
In the southern hemisphere rosé will be fine, but in the northern one, she is dying.
Every year someone talks about how rosé will make it through the year. But then someone finds her in the corner of a dark depot, stumbling, mumbling to herself, in the throes of an inevitable death grip. And she dies a thousand deaths. Over and over again. I've seen it all too many times. I saw it again this month. She was curled up against a dirty, dusty dank corner of an industrial building. I was too late to save her. And there was nothing I could do about it.
I'd like to free her, get her release from the misery of winter long before the first frost. But somehow there is always a little too much rosé and not enough lips. I cannot satisfy her alone, she is grander than one person. I need help. She needs help. Who will help us?
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