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Ever been to a rock festival? If so you probably recognize the slight emotional drain you might experience on your second or third day of camping out together with thousands of people, trying to get your first half hour of sleep during the Red Hot Chili Peppers' sound check – which could, for all you know, be your tent neighbour's boom box stuck on repeat while she's left for a morning rave. At the biggest music/art festival in the Netherlands, The Lowlands festival, they have thought about this and reserved a special place where you can heal your battered ears. Tentipi PR-manager Torsten Gabrielsson called up area manager Caro Kuiper-Menger at her office in Zwolle, Netherlands.
"It's called the Llowzone. It's my "baby" and absolutely my pride and joy!", Caro Kuiper says.
The Llowzone has been a must-visit on the super popular Lowlands festival for ten years, and it is in every sense the very opposite of the fast spinning festival that surrounds it: a small island refuge where lost souls swept ashore can recover their inner peace with hop-on yoga and cleansing sauna baths in an unexpected Nordic tipi/Oriental Bali mash-up environment. For many of the festival's 55,000 visitors this oasis has become a central point for the weekend, as important as the music or even the diverse and high quality food offered at Lowlands.
|Caro with the Llowzone sign
The story of Llowzone is very much the story of Caro and the Tentipi rental business Zweedse Tenten (Dutch for "Swedish Tents") she runs together with her husband, Onno. Back in early 90's Onno, being an avid alpine climber and outdoorsman, started a climbing centre together with Caro, which soon grew into organising other outdoor activities as well.
"We both love Scandinavia, and one time, back in the summer of 2006 we were in Norway driving through the forest when Onno suddenly slammed on the brakes. There, in the clearing stood a giant tipi. We had no idea what we could do with it, we just knew we had to have one!" says Caro.
When they came back home the tent was still on their mind. As a happy surprise for these lovers of the north, the tents were (and still are) hand made in Swedish Lapland by Tentipi.
"So we thought 'we can try with one tent, organise some great outdoor activities in it, and see what we also can do with it as a rental' and we placed the order. Pretty soon it turned out we needed two tents. Three tents. Four tents…. "
Getting a free hand
By that time, the Lowlands festival wanted to create a soothing chill-out zone at an area divided from the rest of the event by a body of water. There was a Finnish entrepreneur providing sauna tents and a yoga instructor giving classes. Caro and Onno had already been involved with the Lowlands festival for many years, providing mobile climbing walls as an activity for the visitors of the festival. They were asked to provide the Llowzone area with two tents and another tent on the festival area, and they got on the boat. After a couple of years the Finn dropped off and Caro got the question if she could take over the Llowzone.
"'Make it great' they said and we got a free hand to do whatever we wanted. To get that kind of responsibility from such a great company as Mojo (who run the festival) is something many entrepreneurs can only dream of!"
On site they built 2 connected Tentipi Stratus 72 as a yoga hall for Samana Yogacenter Amsterdam and two Nimbus 16 – one as a DJ booth and one as a shower room. In addition they had three custom-made Finnish sauna tents that matched the colour of the Tentipi products, as well as 2 hot tubs. All decorated with oriental flags, flowers and carpets.
|Fresh start hottub
|View from the shower tent
"Of course you could build white plastic tent halls, "refrigerators" as we call them, but it's not nice. With the Tentipi Nordic tipis you get atmosphere. You wouldn't even have to decorate!"
However, decorations in this case brings in an extra dimension. And for Caro, this means letting her imagination flow!
"It's very creative! For example, we have to have storage for the fire wood for the saunas. But instead of storing it in the boring pallet boxes they come in, we disassemble the pallet, use the pallet collars as frames and pile the wood inside of them. We then use them as walls or dividers to make separate areas in the Llowzone. They look gorgeous and perfectly match the natural, authentic feeling of the Tentipi tents!"
Sweaty business
One of the biggest challenges taking over the Llowzone was to fill the shoes of the Finn. According to Caro he was a bit of a character and had his own fan base of sauna-lovers.
"We had a hard time topping him because, although his sauna didn't look that great, he was an expert in running a hot sauna tent. The tent he had was made for a bigger group of people. Our saunas can only hold max. 6 people at a time. We also had to work real hard to match his quality of heat. But we managed to succeed and on the last day of our first Llowzone (back in 2013) we received a big compliment from his biggest 'die-hard' fan!"
Running a sauna tent is quite a sweaty business, it turns out. Caro has 10 people in her crew working shifts during the three days of the festival, while Caro herself never leaves site during the 12 hour long days.
"Inside the sauna tents we do a steam blow ritual with essential oils, so that means we run in and out of the hot tents all days. Also we need to stay very alert since having people – occasionally under influence of alcohol or even drugs – in high temperatures can be potentially dangerous. So it's a busy, busy time. But it is so much fun!"
Great for the resume
The work starts on Monday with the building crew setting up the tents. This year they will build two linked Stratus 72, two Nimbus 16, three sauna tents and a Cirrus 40 as dressing room at the Llowzone. In addition they will also build two linked Stratus 72 for an organic tea garden on the main festival area. This means two full days of work. Then they have Wednesday as overflow, in case there have been any delays. Thursday, Caro and two colleagues arrive for decorations. Friday, it's doors open and full speed until Sunday night.
"Not only is it a fantastic, exhausting, energizing, great time, but also having the largest festival in Netherlands on your resume is good marketing. It has opened many doors for us as a Tentipi rental. We don't do much advertising, it's all word-to-mouth. We've even had visitors booking their tipi wedding from us after hanging out at the Llowzone!"
And the pleasure seems to be mutual.
"Lowlands Festival is very happy to work with Zweedse Tenten over the years. Caro and Onno are very pleasant and dedicated people. Not only as a supplier of accommodations for Horeca outlets at the festival but also as a partner in making the Llowzone and sauna concept to the success it is. We are looking forward to present the sauna in the new setting this year!" Katinka Zoethout, project manager at Mojo says when we reach her by e-mail.
|Yoga class in a Stratus 72
|Sauna guests
25th anniversary special
2017 is going to be a special year since the festival celebrate it's been around for a quarter of a century. There is a lot of changes going on, one of them being that the body of water dividing the Llowzone from the rest of the festival will be built over.
"The fact that the Llowzone will now be approachable by foot, visitors can come to us much easier and also the Llowzone will be much opener. This is great for the Yoga hall but as you can imagine the saunas will need some privacy and seclusion due to the fact that our visitors will only be dressed in white towels… ," Caro says.
Because of this the sauna area will this year be built close to the water and surrounded by green (which will need some time to grow) and decorative barriers. The rest of the Llowzone will expand with some shops and a massage area and possibly even some more wellness activities.
"A big challenge for all of us to make the Llowzone even more energizing! After this year's edition we can show you a new and improved Llowzone. Just you wait and see!!!"
By coincidence, only a few days after we spoke to Caro, Mojo presented the new ideas for the 2017 25th anniversary festival with this video: http://lowlands.nl/nieuws/2017/05/02/terreinveranderingen/
|Cold shower after a hot and soothing sauna
|Llowzone across the water
|Sunday morning queue outside the festival
|Nimbus 16 DJ Booth with stacked fire wood as walls
Wednesday 20th May 2020
As the world emerges from lockdown, the immediate challenge for the hospitality, event and sporting industries is the need for extra space.
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Monday 4th May 2020
Tag us in your photos and be in with a chance to win a Zirkon 7 Tentipi Adventure Tent.
We are also giving away a Tentipi Hammock every week for 12 weeks.
The closing date for the Zirkon tent prize is 31st July 2020.
The overall winner will receive a Zirkon 7 Tentipi Adventure Tent (worth £1350).
Thursday 23rd April 2020
With so many events being postponed until later this year, it got me thinking about the dozens of tipis I built for winter events during my 11 years running a tent rental business.
Monday 2nd December 2019
Jocke Sundberg is one of three owners of Uthuset, a Swedish tent company with several different parts. Together with Janne Johansson and Kajsa Albrechtsson, Jocke runs a business in a big old barn, Ladan, where you can buy outdoor equipment, primary tents of different shapes, sleeping bags, sleeping mats and rucksacks. Sales are also done through the web shop. Another part of the business is tent rental and a wholesale business is a third. Ladan, the Barn, was renovated and started to be used as a shop and showroom for tents (summer time) in the spring of 2017. Tentipi is one of the exhibition brands.
Tuesday 19th November 2019
Imagine the Danish country side in May. Small roads allowing cars, but perhaps mainly bicyclists, to gently roll over the green fields, passing red brick houses, farmlands, tree groves that have seen centuries passing by. Above all of these, blue skies with small white clouds blowing in with the salty winds from the North Sea. And in this Scandinavian idyll fourteen giant beige brown Nordic tipis rises, hosting 1,000 people, as a local Danish banking company wanted to celebrate its 100th anniversary together with customers on a big day out.


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Dr. Vonda Wright and Dr. Mark Sakr provided medical coverage for the elite athletes at the World Rugby Sevens Tournament held in Las Vegas, NV, on March 3-5, 2017.
Christopher Urbanek, DO, a Primary Care Sports Medicine Fellow from UPMC St. Margaret's Family Medicine Fellowship Program, also attended.
The World Rugby Sevens Tournament consists of the top 12 women's and men's teams from around the world. This was the only stop they made in the United States. Prior to their stop in the United States, the Tournament has traveled thru Dubai, Cape Town, Wellington, and Sydney. The remainder of their schedule will take them to Vancouver, Hong Kong, Singapore, Paris and London.

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Robert Pattinson got a well-deserved respite today from the inquiring minds who would have him talk about Kristen Stewart, or at least have him address his possibly ex-girlfriend by asking him questions about his feelings and how he's doing.
So when Pattinson said, "I was very close to killing myself or killing her," sorry, he was only talking about "Cosmopolis" costar Sarah Gadon, who when they first met asked him the always loaded question, "What did you do to prepare for this?"
"You want to get tears, you've got to give me the big bucks," the 26-year-old actor said in a mock-gangster voice when MTV First's Josh Horowitz promised that there would be no Dr. Phil or Oprah talk during their film-centric chat.
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Not that their interview didn't produce plenty of juicy nuggets--the actor admitted to peeing in cars "many times," for goodness' sake!
"Well, not all over the car--in a bottle!" explained Pattinson, clad in what appeared to be the same striped polo shirt, jeans (zipped all the way, thank you!) and backward baseball cap as yesterday.
And, like his "Cosmopolis" character Eric Packer, Rob has also shot a gun (the guy on the poster at the LAPD shooting range apparently resembled his dad) and has had at least two pies thrown in his face.
Rob may be working with Werner Herzog next!
So, he had a little life experience to draw from when he accepted the role of a filthy rich wunderkind banker whose day goes awry while he's headed across Manhattan to get a haircut. But Pattinson also admitted that getting the offer from director David Cronenberg was "one of the first times I actually considered myself an actor."
"It was total luck, like a gift to get the job," he said. "I sort of fell into acting, it's not like I've been striving since I was a kid. I like movies more than acting, I think. I like the idea of being in movies that I like, so at least I've contributed something.
"I don't know about validation," he continued. "As soon as you feel validated, you're a bad actor. You need to constantly feel like there's a 99-percent chance of failure, devastating failure...You should feel with every job, there's a chance you'll never get one again. It's all about actually living in the present."
Pattinson's utter lack of cockiness has always been one of the most charming things about him, don't you think?
Speaking of which, the "Twilight" star may be a sex-scene veteran by now, but the Cronenberg twist in this case involved a naked woman crawling all over Rob in his character's limo during a constant stream of dialogue.
Pattinson said that the sex wasn't even in the original script and that Cronenberg came up with the idea later and informed him what he'd be doing that very morning on set.
"It becomes funnier [as you go along] as well," he recalled of shooting the scene. "The mechanics of a sex scene, 'There's a climax' and stuff. You're trying to figure that out...That was my idea, the climax scene and saying, 'Do you find this interesting?' afterwards. We're doing it in one take, you have to figure out what to do. I'm trying to hide my belly."
Probably unnecessary, but fair enough.
Asked how it feels to be getting the best reviews of his career to date, Pattinson admitted, "It's a relief not to get s--t on. I've had a lot of s--t on my head."


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I love Macs. So much so that I have two: an iMac Desktop and a MacBook Pro. I am a big sucker for their product line, think their marketing is genius, and am impressed with the intuitiveness of its operating systems. Recently, however, I've watched my business partner, as well as my girlfriend buy brand new PC laptops at a fraction of what I paid for my computers. They both were able to get great deals via Dell, both for under $700.
While, I'm not ready to replace my computers with PCs today, I am not alone when I say that the state of the US economy is a bit worrisome, and I do anticipate replacing our business' computers with new ones in the next year or so. Therefore, I'm trying to decide if I need to stick with Mac. I put together a list to neutrally weigh the pros and cons in what is often a very annoying Mac vs. PC debate, to shed some light on the question: Do I really need a Mac?
Mac AppleCare vs PC Support
Like I said, I'm on my second Mac right now and am trying to figure out what to do when it's time to buy a new system. One of the issues that I have always worried about was my Mac going down without warranty, which has happened to many friends of mine. I have experienced first-hand the care they provide under their standard 90 day tech/ 1 year hardware warranty: I had just moved to the UK for graduate school a few years ago and my computer just turned off and would not power up. After getting tech support on the phone, we determined that the ram was defective. The computer wouldn't work at all, When I came home from class the next day a parcel from Amsterdam was waiting on my door step. It wasn't pot, but rather a replacement piece of hardware. They even walked me through the installation. Very nice, Apple. Very nice.
However, I'm a bit of a cheapskate and I didn't have AppleCare beyond the grace period, nor do I have it now. And with the economy being what it is, the complimentary 1 year hardware and 90-day telephone tech support seems a bit short-sighted vis-a-vis most products put out by Dell, which generally offer three year on-site warranties as standard. It's also a known fact that one of Dell's service representatives will come to your house or office to help you set up your computer if you are unsure how to get things going, while AppleCare can cost up to $300 for 3 years of service. If you are a whiz and know how to work on Macs, maybe this point does not apply, but for someone like me or my Grandmother who's 80 next month (and not a big techie), Dell's offer sounds pretty good. Additionally, if you are beyond your warranty, it is probably easier to find a technician that is Microsoft certified than someone who has Apple certification. This may be a deciding factor for newer computer users, but not for everyone.
Mac vs PC: Office Usability
While the Mac lab does look pretty great in our office, Microsoft is still the king of most offices in America. While Entourage is decent and Squirrel Mail is on its way, I earnestly believe that Outlook Web Access/Exchange are still in a league of their own. And while I personally am willing to compromise function for fashion (to some degree), there's no denying that anyone with a need for a computer beyond basic internet surfing and music downloads will need Microsoft Office Suite. One great upside, is that the Office Suite either comes stock on Windows, or can be downloaded for free online.
Microsoft Office has been a staple for years in businesses, universities and in most people's daily lives. Having installed Office for Mac on both my computers, I still believe that they do not compare to the PC version. The validity of this claim is based on my personal opinion and experience, but we could all very well agree on the fact that it has taken Mac a few years and countless updates to improve their versions, which always come out months after updated versions of the Microsoft programs are introduced. It seems as though I get more bugs using Office for Mac compared to when I used to use a PC. I am sure we can expect this improve over time. I do know that all my friends who decided to pursue careers in finance work in offices that still use PCs. Perhaps there is a correlation. What we do know is that there is probably a reason why many people who rely on Office software to do their jobs, and maybe also a reason why they haven't switched systems.
Mac Customization vs PC Customization
If you are looking to customize your computer and tune it specifically to your tastes, the logical step for you is going to be to get a PC. Whether you will customize for gaming, video workstations, media centers, etc., the number of possible configurations are endless. This is perhaps the strongest argument on the side of PC, because "Power Users" (people who require special software/hardware for either their professional or gaming needs), can customize each and every component of their personal computer. Macs are pretty much all the same out-of-the-box, and while they offer a fine array of user-friendly programs, they typically offer something to be desired for the serious computer user.
Additionally, the open architecture of the PC operating system will allow each person to spend money on only the programs they will use without wasting space on their computer's hard-drive, or their money on software they will never use. My brother, for instance, is a sound engineer and doesn't even have MS word on his studio computer. Ever heard of building your own Mac? Not gonna happen for the average Mac user, aside from the minimal selection of upgrades offered upon purchase, unless you are willing to drop big bucks for the Mac Pro.
Compatibility of Software for Macintosh Computers vs Windows
Earlier this year, Japan announced that 10% of all its country's computers in use are now Macs. That's pretty big news for Mac, but it's still only 10%. And, last I checked Japan was still just an archipelago. The fact of the matter is that Windows remains the operating system for the masses. Case in point: Apple Boot Camp. This software is for those who want the look and feel of a Mac, but aren't willing to give up Windows. Perhaps we could all take this as admission on Steve Jobs' part that, although Apple is steadily capturing market share, Windows isn't going anywhere just yet.
If you are buying a Mac for school, remember that much of the software and technical support provided by colleges is geared towards Windows, so even if you buy a Mac, you might end up having to pay for a copy of Windows to use via Boot Camp. My girlfriend is starting Law School this fall and will be using ExamSoft. This PC-only software was her primary reason for not choosing a Mac, and partly the impetus to my research on this subject. In short, Mac OS X fails to provide a platform with a good amount of compatibility, including a general failure in not being able to run common software such as enterprise applications and basic games.
Mac Performance vs PC Performance
It's often argued that one is better than the other when it comes to performance. Examples include: Adobe Photoshop is better and faster on a Mac, while gaming in general is better on a PC. What about the day-to-day usage for the average Joe? From my experience, Firefox loads and runs really fast on a PC, and shuts down pretty regularly on my Macs. This seems to be the case with Office too, and most types of everyday type programs, especially those that are cross-platform.
I must admit that when you get your first Mac it is quite the experience. You get the wonderfully designed box with its impressive packaging. I personally was amazed when I got my first Mac and was impressed even more so when I got my first iPod at the ingenuity employed in the packaging design alone. When you open that Mac box, all you have to do is simply plug in the mouse, keyboard and power source and hit the 'On' button. There, you are ready to go. The Mac OS is extremely intuitive and is a very attractive operating system. For those that want a great out of box experience, Mac definitely has the upper-hand. However, for those of you who want to run Linux, go ahead and install the newer Linux distribution called andLinux. Operating within the actual window's operating system. This is pretty cool for all those geeks out there that run Linux. Performance issues are, I believe largely a matter of preferences, and which system you prefer to run on your computer.
Mac Gaming vs PC Gaming
Once I turned 21, my gaming career took a turn for the worse. Now you can take this one way or the other. I do however find the bug to play a strategy game like Civilization or Starcraft every once in a while. And to be honest, I've not been able to find a good version of either one of these games, or any of the shareware classics like Wolfenstein 3D, that I used to play when I was a kid, for a Mac. However irrelevant my own gaming tastes are, it is well documented that PCs still have the market cornered when it comes to gaming. This is because most games developed today are made with Window users in mind, and because Microsoft itself spends quite a bit of money developing new games and gaming software.
And typically, games that do make it to the Mac OS are far more limited and are distributed only after proven success in the PC world. The aforementioned types of games that I used to enjoy are still the best sellers for Mac because games that require after-market graphics hardware like Halo 3, typically won't work with a Mac. Usually these are only compatible with the Mac Pro Towers, so if you own a iMac or MacBook you are out of luck. I've also been told that if you have an XBox 360, it will operate seamlessly with the new Windows Vista. Pretty cool.
Creative Suite for Macintosh and PC Computers
Although everyone wants to think of themselves as a 'creative' type, do Macs really provide an interface that will facilitate your becoming a graphic designer, digital music producer or the next indie film mogul? In fact, I have found that PCs can perform nearly any task that Macs can when it comes to: video editing, photo editing, audio editing, etc. I have done photo editing and design on both PCs and Macs over the years, and haven't noticed a significant difference.
The fact of the matter is that most every piece of software that is out their for use in the creative arts has a PC-compatible counterpart. People hail the Mac as being a better computer for design, but in all truthfulness you can get the entire Adobe Creative Suite (Photoshop, Illustrator, et al), as well as every piece of music publishing software worth anything (sorry Garageband) for PC. The only situation where there may be a marked advantage (at least in terms of user-friendliness) is with the pro-sumer Final Cut Pro, which currently is not available for PC. There is, however, the very decent Sony Vegas, which is currently available exclusively for PC.
Mac Multimedia vs PC Multimedia
You have an iPod or an iPhone and want a PC, guess what? There is no problem. They work on Windows too. Even more so, the Windows Media Center is very much comparable to iTunes, I think when we get to a discussion of these two media management software, personal taste will play a large role. Perhaps a digression on the evolution of Apple is in order. It seems like the company is heading in the direction of becoming a hardware/electronics company. While Microsoft has branched out with the Xbox and some other peripherals, Apple is going after different markets such as the iPod (Yeah, Microsoft has Zune…) and the iPhone.
The rate at which these products are evolving and the increasing market share they are taking over in what was once uncharted territory for a computer company begs the question: where will their dedication be to software in the future? Microsoft has, and and currently is a software company primarily, and it will be interesting to see what happens in the future. At the very least we can say that the two types of computers are very much on the same level, at least when it comes to contemporary media management. Tim Danton, editor of PC Pro was recently stating that "Apple recently admitted it is more concerned with fine-tuning its iPhone than working on its latest operating system." This does make me wonder whether or not the Mac will be able to compete with PC on the multi-media front. Perhaps only time will tell.
Mac Marketing vs PC Price
At the end of the day. One of the most important factors in choosing between the Mac and the PC is going to be the price. The annoying and ubiquitous Mac vs PC commercials featuring Justin Long do not address this issue. While it does poke fun at the PC, citing the attractiveness of the Mac brand and its product line's features, no where on this commercial will the PC guy speak up and say, "But a PC is about half the price for the same technical specs!"
Here is a look at the pricing and technical breakdown of two comparable machines, the 20″ Apple iMac and the 19″ Inspiron 518, courtesy of TechBlog:
iMac: $1,199; 2.4GHz Intel Core Duo processor, 20-inch widescreen display (integrated), 1GB DDR memory, 128MB ATI Radeon HD 2400 XT graphics, 250GB hard drive, 8x double-layer DVD burner, Bluetooth 2.1, 802.11 g Wi-Fi, Webcam and Mac OS X 10.5.
Inspiron 518: $739 (after $150 instant savings); 2.4GHz Intel Core 2 Quad processor, 19-inch widescreen monitor, 3GB DDR memory, Intel GMA X3100 graphics, 500GB hard drive, 8x DVD burner and Windows Vista Home Premium Service Pack 1.
There is no doubt that Steve Jobs is a master marketer, and he knows good design. But the question remains: Are the branding, the design and the cool factor worth Apple's price tag? This is where many people are at a crossroads. I am not sure necessarily what I am going to do when it's time to get a new computer, but I do know that price is ever-becoming a more important factor.
All this being said, no conclusion on the subject will be cut-and-dry. Personally, though I am familiar and comfortable with my Macs, I am becoming less willing to pay more for features that are really comparable with what a PC offers. Sacrificing my comfortableness with Mac's OS X and giving up the sleek aesthetic doesn't really appeal to my superficial side, but functionally and financially, it is starting to make more and more sense.


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Movies are the biggest source of entertainment in India. Made up of the ingredients of drama, comedy, and acting, they transport your senses to a different world filled with fantasy and imagination. Bollywood, in general, is known for making movies with the huge budget, elaborate cast, and sets larger than life. Of course, Hum Dil De Chuke Sanam, Devdas, Bajirao Mastani, Padmavat, etc, are a few names to be clicked in your mind. But lately, some low-budget movies with the strong script, impressive characters, and top-notch acting skills have won over people's heart. So here are 5 budget Bollywood movies that made it big on the silver screen in 2018.
Pad Man
Featuring Akshay Kumar, Sonam Kapoor, and Radhika Apte, the story of Pad Man is based on the real-life inspiring story of Arunachalam Muruganantham. He is a social activist from Tamil Nadu who introduced low-cost sanitary pads. The menstrual cycle is still considered taboo in India. Many women in various parts of the country suffer from several diseases. As a result of using unhygienic, dirty rags during their periods. Which is sometimes due to the lack of knowledge about the importance of hygiene during menstruation. And mainly because they cannot afford pads due to financial issues.
This movie puts light on the efforts of Arunachalam Muruganantham, who is commonly known as Pad Man. And spread awareness about menstrual hygiene in a loud and clear voice. Made with a low-budget of Rs. 20 crores, this movie gained great popularity among the audience and garnered the total box office collection of Rs. 120 crores.
Raazi is based on Harinder Sikka's 2008 novel, Calling Sehmat. It stars Alia Bhatt and Vicky Kaushal and directed by Meghna Gulzar. It is the true story of an Indian Raw agent who was married into a Pakistani family of military officials. To spy for her country and provide information to India before the Indo-Pakistani War of 1971. The incredible act of Alia Bhatt won the heart of the audience. The movie emerged as one of the highest-grossing Indian films featuring a female protagonist. Made with an approximate budget of Rs. 35-40 crores, the movie managed to make the total box office collection of 194 crores.
Stree is a comedy-horror Bollywood movie that makes people laugh out loud. While keeping them scared enough to bite their nails with curiosity. Starring Rajkummar Rao and Shraddha Kapoor, this movie is based on the real story of a woman's spirit. She is popularly called "Stree" who attacks men at night when they are alone at that time. And only leaves their clothes behind. A sentence "O Stree Kal Aana" is written at the entrances of the house to protect men from her wrath. The entire budget of the movie including production and marketing cost was around 24 crores. Which successfully garnered 174.5 crores on the big screen.
Sonu Ke Titu Ki Sweety
Sonu Ke Titu Ki Sweety is a Bollywood comedy movie directed by Luv Ranjan. That stars Kartik Aaryan, Nushrat Bharucha and Sunny Singh. The perfect amalgamation of Romance & Bromance, this movie is filled with several twists and turns with not even a single dull moment. Filled with several gripping scenes and witty moments, the movie will leave you in splits. You must definitely watch with your best friend. Made within the budget of 30 crores, the film managed to score a total of Rs 148.5 crores on the silver screen. It emerged as one of the commercially successful films of 2018.
Sui Dhaaga
Sui Dhaaga is a social drama Bollywood film of Yash Raj Banner. It stars Anushka Sharma and Varun Dhawan as a young couple in rural India who start their small-scale clothing business. Without any financial and emotional support from the family. Despite several hardships and struggle, the couple sees positive results in their self-sufficient business. They receive both money and respect from their family and society. The entire movie was made within the budget of 35 crores. And it managed to make the profit of 119.9 crores on the big screen.
You should definitely watch these low-budget Bollywood movies to experience the world-class act and impressive storyline!


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Sanders's report on Trump's infrastructure package. In the Withdrawal from the Paris Climate Agreement, the Koch Brothers' Campaign Becomes Overt. If there was any lingering doubt that a tiny clique of fossil-fuel barons has captured America's energy and environmental policies, it was dispelled last week, when the Trump Administration withdrew from the Paris climate accord.
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PRESIDENT BUSH: Iraq is a part of the war on terror. How One Organization Unravels Some of the Mystery of Campaign Finance. Following the money in state politics can be overwhelming at best, and impossible at worst.
Fortunately, political reporters, academics and citizens don't have to start from scratch. Instead, they can search and click their way through 54 million campaign finance records meticulously gathered and filed by Edwin Bender and his team at the National Institute on Money in State Politics. NIMSP began nearly 25 years ago as a MacArthur-funded one-year project focused on the Northwest states.
Clueless about income inequality. Truth Behind Tax Day: Where Your Taxes Go. This post first appeared at the Campaign for America's Future blog, OurFuture.org.
If you groan about tax day, you're certainly not alone. But what if tax day was something we could be proud of as members of a democracy? Would you feel differently about paying taxes if you knew they were going to support public services that you, your family and your community rely on — such as public safety, roads and bridges, schools, health care, social services and national parks? Millions of Americans file their federal income tax returns in April each year with no idea what the government actually does with all that money.
This is surprising, considering that individuals are our nation's primary bill payers. Does Giving Money to the Rich Actually Help the Economy? Trickle-down economics has long been considered a joke (and not just because the term is vaguely reminiscent of urine).
Now it seems we can finally put this faulty theory to rest. A report by several economists from the International Monetary Fund found that the idea that giving the rich more money benefits the economy on the whole does not ever play out that way in the real world. The IMF looked at 150 nations as models to study how an increase in the wealth gap benefited each country's overall economy. The findings could not be any clearer: When rich people have a higher percentage of the money, economic growth slows significantly. Conversely, when the poorest 20 percent of a nation receive more money, the economy experiences a sharp increase. Looking at country after country, the economists had to admit that giving more money to people at the top has repeatedly stalled the growth of the GDP. Withholding money from the lowest 20 percent also weighs down the economy in other ways. Republicans' Baseless Abortion Investigation.
With its hidden-camera videos that took aim at Planned Parenthood, the Center for Medical Progress tried to stir up opposition to abortion rights by concocting a controversy over fetal tissue research.
Now Republicans in the House are doing much the same thing. Initially convened in response to the videos, the Select Investigative Panel on Infant Lives, a part of the House Energy and Commerce Committee, pledges to "get the facts about medical practices of abortion service providers and the business practices of the procurement organizations who sell baby body parts." Its first hearing last Wednesday was a showcase for fallacious attacks on fetal tissue research. The best predictor of Trump support isn't income, education, or age. It's authoritarianism. In the five days leading up to the South Carolina Republican primary I fielded a survey of 358 likely voters, hoping to better understand who supports Donald Trump, why, and what it may mean for the Republican presidential nominating contest.
What I found is a trend that has been widely overlooked. A voter's gender, education, age, ideology, party identification, income, and race simply had no statistical bearing on whether someone supported Trump. 2016 campaign finance: How the Koch network rivals the GOP. The political machine that Charles Koch launched a dozen years ago in a Chicago hotel conference room with 16 other rich conservatives has exploded in size and influence in the past few elections and now eclipses the ofcanceficial GOP in key areas. Koch and his brother David Koch have quietly assembled, piece by piece, a privatized political and policy advocacy operation like no other in American history that today includes hundreds of donors and employs 1,200 full-time, year-round staffers in 107 offices nationwide. That's about 3½ times as many employees as the Republican National Committee and its congressional campaign arms had on their main payrolls last month, according to POLITICO's analysis of tax and campaign documents and interviews with sources familiar with the network.
And the staggering sum the network plans to spend in the 2016 election run-up ― $889 million ― is more than double what the RNC spent in the previous presidential cycle. Story Continued Below. Sheldon Adelson Bets It All. It was around 10:30 p.m. when Steve Jacobs rolled down the gravel driveway. Money Men Say, Voters Move Over, It's Not Your Election! - BillMoyers.com. David Koch gives a thumbs-up to Republican presidential candidate and former Godfather's Pizza CEO Herman Cain during the Defending the American Dream Summit at the Washington Convention Center November 4, 2011 in Washington, DC.
(Photo by Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images) David Brooks is a worried man. 'Hidden History' Of Koch Brothers Traces Their Childhood And Political Rise. David Koch speaks at the Defending the American Dream summit in 2015. He and his brother Charles lead a conservative political network that plans to spend hundreds of millions of dollars on the 2016 elections. Koch money at WCU remains under scrutiny. Amid federal gridlock, lobbying rises in the states. Abortion Witch Hunt. Weight of Chains.


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At least I can say I scrapped *something* already this year!
Make that 5 somethings, I made cards for my scrapbook board.
Nothing fancy, various patterned papers from my stash, lots of blue ink and a rather cute Sizzix die I happened to have bought before the holidays. I thought it turned out rather nicely.
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Maria Kliatchko and Indraneel Mukherjee co-wrote this blog post with Arnab Roy. This blog post is the second in a two-part series on how medtech companies can find success with analytics.
Everyone loves the idea of analytics making their lives easier, but in practice medtech companies don't always realize the broader goals of their analytics programs. Even when analytics initiatives are well planned and executed, they often fail to yield their expected returns due to one factor that often slips under the radar: the human element.Read More


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Fort Myers Fishing Report 10-28-14
Wow! Thats all that can be said about the fishing in this month of October. We have been fortunate enough to have multiple fish days (20-30) multiple times so far. We have had a few cool downs that has really turned the bite on. Bait is not necessarily an issue right now for anyone fishing our area. Guides tend to use Pilchards and Pins but with the fishing the way it has been there is plenty of options. Shrimp, to Cut bait has all been producing. Reports from other area captains have even been as good as catching 32 redfish on CUT BAIT! Thats a sign that the fish are pretty much eating anything right now! The higher tides have been slightly better than the lows but fish can be found on either. When fishing a low tide you have a couple options, either fishing a grass flat or staying close to passes is a couple good ways to ensure success. If you decide to fish a flat be sure you have a boat that can get skinny, the water falls quick and you dont want to be stuck high and dry waiting hours for the water to come in. If you're fishing a flat the absolute best advice anyone can give you is to find life on the flat. Mullet, bait fish, any type of life is a good sign and usually a starting point. The passes are usually synonymous with structure. Mangrove edges, docks any type of heavy structure will hold Snook as well as other species like Jack Crevalle. Either tail hook a pinfish or nose hook a pilchard free lined in to the docks and mangroves and you will be in the best place for a hook up. Look for Triple tail fishing to heat up with the recent start of Stone Crab season in our area! Be sure to check out our Facebook page for recent updates and tips.


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Kolkota is a city for those who love the arts. It bosasts many art performances as well as numerous museums.
Kolkota is a vibrant city on the move, volatile and unpredictable. The Gateway to India, till 1912, and the capital of the Raj in India, it still bears the Victorian imprint on its streets and structures. Kolkota is home to more than 10 million people. It boasts major industrial plants, textile mills and corporate units. Regal edifices, grubby alleys, bustling bazaars, elegant hotels, people from all walks of life - Kolkota has it all.
Forming the green heart of the city is agreat stretch of lawns called the Maidan, fringed on one side by the river, and on the other by an elegant boulevard, the Chowringhee. The Maidan is the venue for an assortment of events, ranging from football matches to political rallies. The grounds are also aptly, referred to as the 'lungs of the city.'
Surrounding the lawns are a number of famous landmarks. At the southern end is the Victoria Memorial, an imposing white marble edifice, a museum housing the relics of the British Empire. At the northern end is the Ochterlony Monument, a 48 metre high column, now known as the Shahid Minar. Just adjacent to it, are the Eden Gardens, with a picturesque lake and a quaint Burmese pagoda. The Birla Planetarium, one of the largest in the world, is placed at the southern end of the vast Maidan, along with the Zoological Gardens.
The Indian Museum, one of the largest of its kind in India, is located in Chowringhee. The Academy of Fine Arts, Nehru Childrens Museum, Netaji Museum, Birla Academy of Art and Culture, Birla Industrial and Technological Museum, Rabindra Bharati Museum and the Ashutosh Museum of Indian Art are some of the museums that contain invaluable and rare objects d' art.


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Johann Sebastian Bach's organ in St Thomas Church, Leipzig, Germany.
And here is one inside the church and I'm sorry to go back to ghosts but I can't help but point out two orbs one of which is totally prominent. Don't need arrows for that one but the other is a little harder to spot. It's large but faint about halfway down the picture to the left of the large white pillar. The church was full of orbs as discovered later when looking at the pictures. Amazing.
Before I begin I'd just like to thank very much indeed each and every one out there in bloggy land who takes the time to read and/or like and/or follow my stuff. It is not unappreciated. Honest. Immense apologies if I don't get around to thanking each blogger personally or swiftly but if I may re-direct you to my other blog (under my real name) as that little entry may go towards explaining the reasons behind that. No doubt I could put the direct link in here but that would mean a good working relationship between myself and computers, ha! I'll do it this way and give you instructions.
http://rbachholzer.wordpress.com/ and if you are still with me and haven't been put in a coma my admiration goes out to you. Simply toddle along to last week's effort entitled "So, that's how it is, is it?" and sincere thanks once again.
Hello you lot out there. Hope all is well and groovy. I've been busy. Absolutely! When one is ill one is being busy being ill which is par for the course so we won't talk about it… um, what else. I now have a total of seven websites (one main site and six little static ones re-directing you to my main website which is predominantly their reason for being) and three blogs. What do you mean, do I have to?
Actually, four blogs counting my book blog but it's been so long since I've even popped by I'm not sure it still exists. Have to hack away at the virtual cobwebs when I do venture on to there. It will become more active once I've published and released my autobiography on which I am currently working. Not, actually, but I'm hoping talking about it will expel me into action. Takes time especially when I'm doing other things, being other things, hence the inactivity on the corresponding blog and… phew!
I'm also at the beginning of a new creative venture. Yes, typically, I got this bright idea and in my usual inimitable style have gone into all gung-ho. I'll let you know how that turns out. It should be fun. In the meantime two words with which to tantalise you: Jewellery. Heavenly. Okay make that three: Designer. Jewellery. Heavenly.
And for my visual trip down memory lane, today I have a picture of JS Bach's organ if you'll pardon the expression. Took a trip there to St Thomas Church in Leipzig almost as a pilgrimage. Most emotional. Spiritual and touching. Was very moving.
TTFN. Best, best.
"Blue Deep Ocean". Pretty. Pretty. Personally I'm not a huge wearer of jewellery although I quite like to wear the odd one of my bracelets especially when the charms tinkle (good Karma apparently) but that doesn't stop me from making quality stuff I hope others will enjoy and that which makes them happy.
"Rose Garden". Pretty in pink.


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Dorcas Walker to Barbara Edmison, one lot, $0.
Anita Anthony, Daniel Anthony, Kalpesh Patel, Rushika Patel, Bina Shah, Dipak Shah, Paresh Shah to Dipak Shah, Dipti Shah, one lot, $0.
Brannon Development Inc. to Artemis Capital LLC, seven lots, $0.
Patricia Schiely to Wesley Miller, one lot, $52,000.
Doris Cole to Robert Cron, one lot, $248,300.
Fifth Third Mortgage Company to Federal National Mortgage Association, one lot, $0.
Federal National Mortgage Association, Law Offices of John Clunk Co. LPA, attorney in fact to Melissa Archer, one lot, $0.
Mark Hoover to Billie Hiers Revocable Trust Agreement, one lot, $121,000.
Steven Bowling, Miami County Sheriff Charles Cox to PennymacLoan Services, one lot, $83,334.
Citifinancial Servicing LLC to Matthew Knouff, one lot, $15,000.
Thomas Redick to Barbara Redick, two lots, $0.
Three Oaks Ventures to Jordan Goubeaux, one lot, $61,900.
Joseph Mencsik and Son Inc. to Mary Zemaitis, Thomas Zamaitis, two lots, $46,500.
Thomas Spurgeon to Jimmy Burnham Jr., one lot, $77,000.
Ashley Giesige, Garrett Giesige to Marcus Properties MMX, two lots, $0.
Edelyne Henrice, James Henrice to James Mueller, Laurie Mueller, three lots, $137,500.
Miami County Sheriff's office Charles Cox, Thelma Long to Champion Mortgage of Ohio, Nationstar Mortgage LLC, one lot, $56,000.
Randall Pitts to Wright-Patt Credit Union Inc., one lot, $0.
Credit Suisse First Boston Mortgage Securities, Home Equity Asset Trust, U.S. Bank N.A., trustee, Wells Fargo Bank N.A. to Clifford Polhamus, one lot, $6,000.
Karen Larck, Stephen Larck to Stephen Larck, two lots, $73,500.
Miami County Sheriff Charles Cox, Kathleen Neves to PAJ Enterprises, one lot, $51,100.
Sarah Buxton, Thane Buxton to Brandon Bowman, one lot, $160,000.
Clayton Huber to Kristin Huber, one lot, $0.
Estate of Douglas Randolph to Douglas Randolph Testamentary Trust, Hilary Keller, co-trustee, Douglas Randolph Jr., co-trustee, one lot, $0.
Robert Cron to Corey Haines, Christopher Shilt, Jessica Shilt, four lots, $85,000.
Estate of Garnett Peeples to Allen Peeples, three lots, $0.
Delois Davis, Harold Davis to Nancy Morrison, two lots, $167,000.
Carriage Trails at the Heights, Dec Land Co. I LLC to Inverness Group Inc., two lots, $42,000.
Dave Naff Real Property Limited to GSC Real Property LLC, one lot, $110,000.
Estate of Douglas Randolph to Douglas Randolph Testamentary Trust, Hilary Keller, co-trustee, Douglas Randolph Jr., co-trustee, one lot, $0.
Barbara J0 Bailey, Larry Ewald, Sonia Ewald to Iron Workers Local 290 International Association, 5.132 acres, $1,500,000.
Barbara Swartzbaugh, Dennis Swartzbaugh to Amy Landes, Stephen Landes, $207,500.
Marcus Marchiel Trust, Marciel Marcus, trustee to Marciel Marcus Trust, Marciel Marcus, trustee, 13.080 acres, 9.086 acres, $0.
Susan Black, power of attorney, Mildred Gilliam to Kay Ely, co-trustee, Donald Gilliam, co-trustee, Mildred Gilliam Trust, Kaye Schafer, co-trustee, $0.
Jennifer Champlin, Leslie Champlin III to Jennifer Champlin, Leslie Champlin III, 1.99 acres, $0.
Richard Ulmes, Valerie Ulmes to Jessalyn Younce, one lot, $153,900.
George Harris, Patricia Harris to Patricia Harris, trustee, Trust Agreement of Patricia Harris, 80.927 acres, $0.
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Evelyn Anderson Trust, Fredrick Anderson, successor trustee, to Fredrick Anderson Trust, Fredrik Anderson, trustee, one lot, $0.
Stanley Adkins to Stanley Adkins, two lots, $0.
Talismanic Properties to NVR Inc.,one lot, $47,400.
Talismanic Properties to NVR Inc.,one lot, $47,400.
Jessica Puterbaugh to Benjamin Meade, one lot, $148,000.
Jeanne Wilkson to Aaron Quinn, one acre, $95,000.
Jay Schulz to Michele Wood, 6.0 acres, $63,800.
Living Trust of Richard Roeth, Patricia Roeth, co-trustee, Richard Roeth, co-trustee to Jeffrey Kunkleman, Lucinda Kunkleman, 10.1892 acres, $125,000.
Estate of Ellen Hodgin to George Hodgin, 79.503 acres, $0.
June Brown, Keith Brown to David Wolfe, Melissa Wolfe, 1.0044 acres, $271,000.
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Mary, Thank You for playing at my mother's funeral. I was so touched when you played her favorite song. It made it seem like we were all in heaven with her and made such a difficult day a little smoother. Most people wouldn't think of a harp at a funeral but it was such a special touch. Thanks again, Janet Yarbrough 12/15/11
Dear Mary; Thank you so much for your beautiful music at my installation as minister at Unity of Greater Waco last Sunday. It was absolutely beautiful! We had a board meeting Monday evening and everyone was talking about how wonderful your harp playing was and that it was the "crowning touch" to the ceremony. We certainly hope you will grace us with your presence again soon. Rev Margo J. Ford, Minister Unity of Greater Waco 10/29/08
Mary, I just want you to know how much you blessed the service at Unity of Waco this past Sunday! You have a strong sense of spirit and joy in your harp playing. It was a very special treat to have you join me in leading the congregation. A true gift. Thank you again! Blessings and Peace, Daniel Aaron Minister of Music Unity of Waco 10/28/08


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With a new track, "Weight On Me," Rome Fortune becomes the second ATLien to drop a festive track down our chimneys today. Preceded by OG Maco's ode to getting faded at holiday parties, "Night Like This," this new Rome track has the bearded rapper singing to a female companion.
Shared with the message, "Happy Holidays from Small VVorld x Flow Fi. Stay encouraged," the Fortune-produced track is languid, sensual and jingly, giving it somewhat of a Christmasy vibe.
In January, Maco and Rome will be teaming up for an EP by the name of Yep. Stay tuned, because you won't want to miss that.
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Amazon is already reshaping health care
All three of the biggest U.S. PBMs will be tied to three of the country's biggest insurers. CVS, Express Scripts, and UnitedHealth process more than 70 percent of all U.S. prescriptions. Post-merger, three companies will insure more than 90 million people in some capacity, process more than 3.5 billion prescription claims, and generate more than $500 billion in revenue.
The merging companies have claimed huge cost savings will flow to consumers from these deals, but I'm skeptical. Research suggests costs can actually end up rising in some cases of health-care consolidation. Less competition means more pricing power for the companies that remain. Markets with more insurers have lower premiums, while prices rise when hospitals buy physician groups. Though these are vertical deals, they will add to the market power of major players in already heavily consolidated industries, which seems like a recipe for monopolistic behavior.
Regulation could protect Facebook, not punish it
If the government instituted new rules for tech platforms collecting persona information going forward, it could effectively lock in Facebook's lead in the data race. If it becomes more cumbersome to gather this kind of data, no competitor might ever amass an index of psychographic profiles and social graphs able to rival Facebook's.
We've already seen that first-time download rates aren't plummeting for Facebook, its App Store ranking has actually increased since the Cambridge Analytica scandal broke, and blue chip advertisers aren't bailing, according to BuzzFeed. But Facebook relies on the perception of its benevolent mission to recruit top talent in Silicon Valley and beyond.
Facebook knows literally everything about you
But my favorite thing is probably peer-to-peer payments. In some countries, you can pay back your friends using Messenger. It's free! You just have to add your card to the app. It turns out that Facebook also buys data about your offline purchases. The next time you pay for a burrito with your credit card, Facebook will learn about this transaction and match this credit card number with the one you added in Messenger. In other words, Messenger is a great Trojan horse designed to learn everything about you.
There's one last hope. And that hope is GDPR. Many of the misleading things that are currently happening at Facebook will have to change. You can't force people to opt in like in Messenger. Data collection should be minimized to essential features. And Facebook will have to explain why it needs all this data to its users. If Facebook doesn't comply, the company will have to pay up to 4 percent of its global annual turnover. But that doesn't stop you from actively reclaiming your online privacy right now.
How Facebook helps shady advertisers pollute the internet
Those who were caught and banned found that this was only a minor setback—they just opened new Facebook accounts under different names. Some affiliates would buy clean profiles from "farmers," spending as much as $1,000 per. Others would rent accounts from strangers or cut deals with underhanded advertising agencies to find other solutions.
Affiliates say Facebook has sent mixed signals over the years. Their accounts would get banned, but company salespeople would also come to their meetups and parties and encourage them to buy more ads. Two former Facebook employees who worked in the Toronto sales office said it was common knowledge there that some of their best clients were affiliates who used deception. Still, the sources said, salespeople were instructed to push them to spend more, and the rep who handled the dirtiest accounts had a quota of tens of millions of dollars per quarter.
How Alibaba and Tencent became Asia's biggest dealmakers
The reach of Tencent and Alibaba in their home market dwarfs that of the big tech groups in the US. While the latter accounts for less than 5 per cent of all venture capital flows in their home market, Alibaba and Tencent account for 40-50 per cent of venture capital flows in mainland China, according to data from McKinsey.
The downside is that their new investors might have different agendas than simply the financial performance of the new companies. The risk is that Alibaba and Tencent might be willing to sacrifice their interests in the companies they back if their own goals shift.
But he worries that entrepreneurs might also be forced to prematurely choose sides in the rivalry between the competing ecosystems of one or the other internet giants in ways that can leave a young company exposed.
SoftBank Vision Fund CEO explains plan to build the biggest network of tech companies in the world
The fund aims to be the largest shareholder in 100 technology companies around the world after it has finished investing all of its money, he said. The goal is to create the biggest ecosystem of tech companies in the world.
Part of the strategy will include investments strategically moving operations beyond their home markets and into other countries, where they can be linked with other holdings in the fund, Misra said. The fund will actively push many of its investments to work with each other, creating a web of companies controlled, or heavily influenced, by SoftBank and its CEO Masayoshi Son, Misra said.
Dropbox and Box were never competitors
Vast majority of Dropbox's combined business and consumer revenue of more than a $1 billion came from consumers. Dropbox has always offered an attractive consumer storage tool. "Dropbox is primarily a consumer company with 500 million users, [with] only about 300,000 teams using their business offering." For now though, even with this business push, Pelz-Sharpe points out that most of Dropbox's business customers are small teams of 3 or more people with a dash of larger implementations. "Nor are people building much on top of Dropbox in the way of business applications – it remains primarily a very efficient file sharing system," he explained.
This in contrast to Box, which has been working primarily with large enterprise companies for years to solve much more complex problems around content. Aaron Levie from Box said he's absolutely rooting for Dropbox, but they have always been going after different markets, since Box decide to go enterprise about two years into its existence. "We are fundamentally building two very different companies. Both are large markets. While there is no limit to the scale they could become, we have built a very different business around how do you serve [large companies] and deal with unstructured company data — and it's a very different product set [from Dropbox]," Levie told TechCrunch.
Micron: You don't know how big this memory stuff is, says Instinet
DRAM and NAND storage have become the choke point in system level performance across multiple applications; cloud vendors, for example, are boosting memory content to speed up performance. These cloud companies are very sophisticated about hardware architecture. Vendors are spending tremendous amounts of capital to reduce wait times in servers. This means maximizing the amount of memory around the processor and greater use of NAND flash.
Robots could replace surgeons in the battle against cancer
Moll says he focused on lung cancer for two reasons. It's the deadliest cancer, killing 1.7 million people a year globally, according to the World Health Organization. (That's double the next-highest total, for liver cancer.) And it's the perfect proving ground, he says, for medical robots.
No medical regulator in the world has approved fully robotic surgery, so for now surgeons who sign up for Auris's pilot program will drive the bot. The doctor guides the scope through the lung, starting in the trachea, with a video screen to help navigate. A camera view is on the screen's left side, and a CT-scan-created map and turn-by-turn directions are on the right. Auris tracks the probe's precise location, in part, by comparing data from the camera view to the 3D map, and by using an electromagnetic sensor that works a bit like a miniature GPS. The idea is to collect data after every surgery and feed it back into the navigation software, improving it over time.
Say goodbye to the information age: it's all about reputation now
We are experiencing a fundamental paradigm shift in our relationship to knowledge. From the 'information age', we are moving towards the 'reputation age', in which information will have value only if it is already filtered, evaluated and commented upon by others. Seen in this light, reputation has become a central pillar of collective intelligence today.


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Sheryl Kaller believes in gratitude. After all, how often does a director get to travel with a play from reading to workshop, Off-Broadway to Broadway, earn a Tony Award nomination in the process and then helm its West Coast premiere?
"How lucky am I?" she laughs on a mid-October night in Westwood, as the thermometer hovers around 85. She's seated outdoors at a California Pizza Kitchen mere blocks from the Geffen Playhouse where Geoffrey Nauffts' Next Fall opens November 2. It's the third week of rehearsals and things are going well.
"It was a good day today," Kaller offers. "I got to wake up, speak to my children who are in two different states right now and walk to rehearsal in Los Angeles. Not even drive a car! Walk to rehearsal and work with people that I respect and admire. I aspire to feeling like I feel today every single day."
"Humbled" and "fortunate" are regular parts of the Long Island native's vocabulary, whether speaking about future project opportunities or that morning's scene work triumphs. Appreciating life's moments of grace is something Kaller says she gleaned from her long journey with the play.
"I try to start every single day in gratitude. I'm grateful to be walking to rehearsal today with such talented actors, so let me be the best I can be because of that. I'm grateful to be sitting outside in Los Angeles at 10 at night and not be in the cold. The simplicity and complexity of gratitude is what I've been working on and I learned that from doing Next Fall."
Of course the sunny mood that accompanied that period two weeks ago ended abruptly at the Geffen on Monday afternoon, when the theater's founder and producing director Gil Cates collapsed and died in a nearby UCLA parking lot. Because of the shock and sadness surrounding Cates' death, there will be no opening night pre-show or post-curtain celebrations for Next Fall.
"I'm so grateful for all the loving guidance that Gil gave to me and this production," said Kaller via phone today. "The idea of his not being here is saddening, but it is an honor to celebrate his life with this play."
Next Fall itself is hardly about blissful good times. It charts the five-year evolution of an odd couple pairing — neurotic 40ish atheist Adam with the much younger and hotter devout Christian Luke. Luke not only believes homosexuality is a sin, which can be absolved at the pearly gates, but he thinks hypochondriac Adam will go to hell for not accepting Jesus as his savior. How and why they remain together despite their polar opposite religious viewpoints form the central intellectual crux of the piece.
The comedy/drama opens in a New York City hospital waiting room where Luke lies in a coma, then travels back and forth in time to reveal pivotal relationship moments between the two, as well as other friends and family members. These include Holly, Adam's friend and candle store owner; Luke's pal Brandon, a Christian who doesn't accept their relationship; and Luke's divorced parents — Butch, a born-again fundamentalist and Arlene, a Southern belle with a wild gal past. For Kaller, family is the show's dominant theme.
"Yes, there is religion in this play," she explains. "Yes, it's the love story of two men so we have the same-sex theme going on. But it's about family. It's about what we expect from our family. It's about what we don't get from our family. It's the fear of our families not loving us. It's the fear of our families loving us too much. It's about acceptance and love and all within a family, blood and not blood. More than any other play I've ever worked on and almost more than any other play I've ever seen, this is about family. I feel incredibly fortunate to bring my experiences and my heart to this play from a mama's point of view."
The Geffen production marks a reunion for director Kaller and playwright Nauffts, who is an actor, writer and until just recently, the artistic director of New York's Naked Angels theater company — whose roster includes Jane Alexander, Matthew Broderick, Sarah Jessica Parker, Jon Robin Baitz, Joe Mantello, Theresa Rebeck and Marisa Tomei. Nauffts has significant Broadway, Off-Broadway and national touring credits, as well as stints in numerous television series. He directed Stephen Belber's Tape for Naked Angels in New York, LA and London. Nauffts was also a writer on Brothers & Sisters for two years and is collaborating with Elton John on a score for the screenplay Showstopper.
Kaller has directing credits with a wide variety of leading nonprofit theaters on both coasts. She has developed new plays with writers such as Christopher Durang, Peter Melnick, Regina Taylor, Dick Beebe and Alan Menken. It was her work on Durang and Melnick's new musical Adrift in Macao at Primary Stages in 2007 that in part led Jenny Gersten, the former Naked Angels artistic director who is now heading up Williamstown Theatre Festival, to suggest Kaller for an initial reading of Nauffts' new play later that year.
Nauffts and Kaller have been simpatico traveling companions since that first reading. They've taken the play through a subsequent workshop, the Naked Angels world premiere production at Playwrights Horizons in June 2009 and the March 2010 Broadway transfer to the Helen Hayes Theater — all with the original cast intact. Via those various incarnations, the play garnered the Outer Circle Critics' John Gassner Award" in 2010 for best new American play, then picked up 2010 Tony Award nominations for best play and direction, alongside others including the Drama Desk Award for outstanding play and Outer Critics Circle Award for outstanding new Broadway play.
The Geffen outing is the duo's first time revisiting the piece with a new group of actors and the first time Nauffts is tackling the part of Adam. Patrick Breen, the playwright's friend of 30 years and fellow Naked Angels company member, played the role through both NYC runs without missing a show. Kaller says Breen felt Nauffts needed to do the role and gave him his blessing. The Geffen ensemble also features James Wolk (Lonestar) as Luke, Lesley Ann Warren (Victor/Victoria) as Arlene, Jeff Fahey (Lost) as Butch, Betsy Brandt (Breaking Bad) as Holly and Ken Barnett (Atlanta) as Brandon.
Working with Nauffts on the character he created was one of the biggest reasons Kaller decided to explore the play again after its successful NYC life.
"What's been so great for Geoff and me is we have such a shorthand," she enthuses. "We have this magnificent collaboration and now it's just being flushed out even more deeply. Like I found today. I gave him a note on a certain scene and I said, "˜You always gave me that note. Now I'm giving it back to you.' And he's like, "˜Oh, you're right.' And I said, "˜No, you're right. It's your note. It's just coming back to you.' I think what's been most surprising to him is that the moments the actors felt were difficult, he's finding difficult too, so that's been really fun."
The other reason to do it was the opportunity to work at the Geffen. "I came to see a play at the Geffen with my dear friend and collaborator Suzi Dietz a couple of years ago, and I said, 'All right, if I ever direct Next Fall outside of New York, this is the theater I want to do it in.' Suzie connected Geoffrey and me to Randy Arney and we all had a breakfast meeting at Hugo's. Later we got word that the Geffen wanted to do it. So that was how that came about."
Walking Her Talk
Clad in her signature Dansko clogs, khaki Capri-length cargo pants, t-shirt and vest, with her curly dark brown hair pulled back in a loose ponytail, Kaller looks more like a Berkeley earth mother than one of theater's more sought-after directors. She is respected by peers for her grounded walk-her-talk authenticity and generous collaborative style in a field noted for controlling egos.
The last time LA audiences saw her was when Kaller directed the new musical Dangerous Beauty, which re-opened the Pasadena Playhouse earlier this year. (Full disclosure: LA STAGE Times covered the show as an embedded spectator from its first production meeting to closing night. See Dangerous Beauty Diaries I, II, and III.) Kaller had been part of its 10-year development since a 2005 reading at the Rubicon Theatre.
"I had a wonderful creative team," she says of the experience. "I think the theater community out here is beyond terrific. It was such a pleasure to help rejuvenate the Pasadena Playhouse. I feel like we were really embraced by our audiences. It was our first production of a really, really difficult nut to crack. I think we got what we needed to get from it and learned a lot. Developing a new musical is such a crap shoot and you have to be in it for the long haul. I'm so proud of what we did. As far as the future, that's really up to the writers and how they want to push the play forward."
Returning to LA to do Next Fall feels timely to Kaller, given California's current court battle over gay marriage.
"It feels pretty significant to do the play here because of Prop. 8. When we performed it in New York, gay marriage was not passed. It was subsequently passed after we closed and now we are here in a state that had it and then took it away. Gay marriage is still a moving target in 2011. People who love each other can't enter a hospital room if the state doesn't deem it okay. It's one of the reasons why this play is so relevant and so freaking sad. It just makes me so sad."
Kaller says doing shows such as Dangerous Beauty, which advocates a woman's right to choose her own destiny, or Next Fall, which champions the acceptance of gay relationships despite religious teachings, is not about preaching to the converted. For her it has to do with theater's ability to transform those who come holding a different point of view.
"We all know that women drag their husbands to see plays," she explains. "I cannot count on a hundred hands how many older dudes sat in both of those [NYC] theaters silently thinking, 'Are you kidding me, wife? You are taking me to see a play about religion? About gay boys and about love? No thank you.' They sat there with their arms crossed. Within the first five minutes of the first scene, they were open vessels and by the end of the play, they were on their feet or weeping. It was unreal. Or being stopped in Times Square by young men coming over to hug and kiss me, saying, 'Thank you. I brought my parents to this play so that I can come out.' I mean it still slays me."
Various religious leaders were invited to the show and had their own revelations. "A Catholic priest came to see Next Fall who had gay members in his church. He never understood how someone could not believe that Jesus is our Lord God. He never understood how people couldn't understand that. He came to see the play but was not planning to sermonize on it. He wound up giving three sermons at high mass the following Sundays and not sermons about Luke, the Christian character who believed in Jesus. He wound up giving sermons about Adam, the atheist, and how seeing Adam in Next Fall opened up his eyes to what the church is responsible for and to whom.
"I could go on and on and on. The only theater I'm interested in doing is this kind of theater, and it might keep me in the poor house," she laughs.
New York to LA
While Kaller admits there were significant re-writes between the Off-Broadway and Broadway production, the minor "shavings" underway in the LA production have less to do with revisions she wishes they'd done in New York and more with specific word enhancements for the new cast. The Geffen production is its own entity and not to be perceived as a chance for a "do-over." In fact, Kaller says she was content to never direct the play again.
"I sat at the closing performance on Broadway and said I wouldn't change a second of this thing," she states. "Anything that any actor is doing, anything that I did, anything those designers did, I wouldn't. I've never felt that about anything I've ever worked on ever, ever, ever, never, ever! What a privilege to be able to take a play on again and discover it with that confidence. Now a whole new group of actors are in the room and it's different. It's different because it's different. It's not different because anything was wrong or I wanted to do anything differently from the last time."
Kaller feels indebted to the New York cast for the year they spent working together on Next Fall. "I get to bring everything that they brought to it, everything they taught me and I taught them, and our shared experience. Now with new actors I get to see number one, how sturdy the play is and two, what new people can offer to it. These LA actors are just extraordinary and they are all theater rats."
New York Times critic Ben Brantley gave the play high marks for both the Off-Broadway and Broadway runs. Kaller doesn't read reviews "because I give the good ones just as much power as I give the bad ones." Nevertheless when told that Brantley said her direction was "if anything, more fluid and organic" and that the play "achieved the tricky and necessary feat of retaining its subtlety while increasing its clarity in making the transfer to Broadway," she acknowledges the praise.
"Thank you, Mr. Brantley," she says with a smile. "That was the goal."
It is hard then not to read her what is certainly one of Brantley's most laudatory ledes: "A flourishing member of a precious and nearly extinct species has been sighted on Broadway, looking remarkably vital and sure of itself for a creature so often given up for dead. Next Fall…is that genuine rara avis, a smart, sensitive and utterly contemporary New York comedy. The question is whether theatergoers will recognize that Next Fall embodies something they've been sorely missing, perhaps without knowing it, for years."
"Wow, that's the first time I'm hearing this. It's the first time I hear this," Kaller declares, sitting back to take it in. "I agree with him!" she laughs and begins to blush. "In revisiting this play, I agree with him wholeheartedly! That's a nice opening paragraph," she admits after a beat, her face displaying some emotion.
Upon pointing that out, Kaller laughs self-consciously. "I know! You can see I never heard that!"
"It's the gift that Geoffrey Nauffts gave us with this play," she continues in earnest. "I think its one of the biggest reasons why it's so fulfilling at every turn. I've questioned myself subsequent to doing this play and now doing it again. I've absolutely questioned how much more theater do I really want to do, because I don't know how much better it's ever going to get, ever. It's this fortunate experience of working on a play that is deserving of all the time and talent it's been given."
Now that the show has migrated to the Geffen, what does she hope will be said about the directing in this latest incarnation?
"That's a great question. I feel like we started getting a lot of that magic in the room here so I'm excited about that. I think as always with this play, it has to take the front seat. In New York, my job was to direct in a way so my hand wasn't shown. I am so fortunate to have gotten the Tony nomination for a play that wasn't fancy directing, which you have to do sometimes on purpose. I've done that before. So I want it to occupy the front seat once again because that means I've done my job right."
As for what she wants people to take away from the evening, Kaller is clear.
"I want people to talk. I don't wanted it to be a sorbet, I want it to be a meal. I want it to linger. I want to pose enough questions and explore enough on the stage that we elicit discussion."
A New Empty Nester
With both daughters now in college, Kaller and her husband are empty nesters for the first time, and the call of the open road beckons.
"I would like to do a lot of traveling," she admits. "I'm interested in working in different cities now. [Since the Tony nomination], I'm definitely getting a lot more offers. For the most part all I have to do is get someone to make a phone call and at least I'll get the opportunity to talk to the artistic directors."
Future in-the-works projects include The Great Game on Broadway, a new Billy Porter play, Nick Blaemire's new musical Finding Robert Hutchens, David Solomon's Margaret and Craig about female impersonator Craig Russell starring Mario Cantone, a straight-to-Broadway play and something of her own creation.
"I'm really exploring the idea of underscoring old plays on stage with a live band. I've never worked on revivals before but I'm a huge Brecht freak. So I'm really interested in doing Caucasian Chalk Circle and setting it in a particular time and place that I am not at liberty to say right now."
While in LA, Kaller is also pursuing television opportunities. "I would also like to add some zeros to my paycheck and direct some television. I'm going to observe on some sets. I'm excited to learn how to do it."
Kaller knows her gender places her in a very rarefied but highly competitive talent pool. "I could get really caught up with male directors having way more opportunity than female directors. But I aspire to not chase after what I don't have. I aspire to chase after what I want and celebrate what I have."
Next Fall, presented by the Geffen Playhouse. Opens tonight. Plays Tues.-Fri. 8 pm; Sat. 3 pm and 8 pm; Sun. 2 pm and 7 pm. Through Dec. 4. Tickets: $47-77. Geffen Playhouse, 10866 Le Conte Avenue, Westwood, Los Angeles. www.geffenplayhouse.com. 310-208-5454.
***All Next Fall production photos by Michael Lamont


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Chapter 25
Charcoal Rubbings 1-2
In the area where you encounter the first group of enemies, clear them out, then turn to face Sully. You can climb up the side of the two columns on the left to get a rubbing from each.
Charcoal Rubbing 3-4
The two columns to the right cannot be scaled without first hopping onto shorter, nearby stone blocks.
Treasure 1: Marcos's Compass
Before giving Sully a boost, drop of this ledge and climb down to find this treasure in the corner.
Carving 1: Emblem of Song
After you boost Sully and follow him up, you'll run into three enemies. Check the wall to the right of this section for a carving.
Charcoal Rubbing 5
Round the next two corners and climb onto the top of this massive tower. You can get a rubbing from the altar in the center. You'll have to get it after the cutscene.
Chapter 26
Charcoal Rubbing 1
Drop down off the platform on which you began the chapter and hug the right side of the area. When you run into a wall, a rubbing prompt should appear. Notice Drake's position in relation to the floodlight.
Charcoal Rubbing 2
From rubbing 1, turn around and walk just a few feet over to this crumbled statue.
Treasure 1: Barrote Style Nails
Climb up the tower which has the floodlight in front of it. Leap from this tower to the west, which is the one Drake is facing in this screenshot.
Carving 1: Emblem of Itzlihautzin
After the cutscene where Drake and Sully jump, turn around and look for some handholds. Climb around and drop down into this alcove to find a carving.
Treasure 2: Friar Marcos's Ring
From carving one, turn around, but don't jump back up to the handhold. Instead, follow the ledge to the left and drop down where you can and descend all the way down. When you finally touch down in some water, walk towards the camera to find this treasure.
Charcoal Rubbings 3-4
After you catch up to Sully, you'll be attacked by a group of baddies. Clear the area, then look for these two snake statues. Each one has something to rub.
Carving 2: Emblem of Yatilicoyapoca
After the cutscene where Sully and Drake hash out their plan, kill all of the enemies, then backtrack up the stairs from which you came. Along the way, to your right, there's a bamboo patch. Cut through it to find a carving.
Charcoal Rubbing 5
Head over to the chopper. It is pointing almost directly at a wall that contains a symbol ripe for rubbing.
Carving 3: Emblem of Itzicaltli
Run in the direction that the chopper's tail is pointing. Off to your left, at the foot of a lone column, is a carving.
Charcoal Rubbings 6-7
Just like earlier in the chapter, these two snake statues can be rubbed.
Carving 4: Emblem of Tecatohuatli
Head into the temple, take out the enemies, then hop over the short wall to your right to find a carving.
Charcoal Rubbings 8-9
As you continue into the temple you'll see this lighted column. To the left of this column are two spots that can be rubbed.


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