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Starring: Amitabh Bachchan, Shashi Kapoor, Jaya Bachchan, Rekha & Sanjeev Kumar
Lyrics By: Javed, Rajendra Krishan, Nida Fazli, Hassan Kamal, Dr. Harivansh Rai Bachchan
Music By: Shiv-Hari
Produced & Directed By: Yash Chopra

Amit (Amitabh Bachchan) a poet decides to bury his past life along with his love for Chandni (Rekha) when he meets Shobha (Jaya Bachchan). Shobhas life has come to a standstill after her fiancnd Amits brother Shekhar (Shashi Kapoor) dies in a plane crash.

Amit had only come to mourn the death of his brother with Shobha but ends up sacrificing his own love and life in an attempt to give shobha a new lease of life. When fate brings Amit and Chandni face to face again, both are married to different people but neither can ignore their feelings for each other.

Silsila is a story, thwarted by societys demands, which reappear as adultery but can it survive in the face of society?

Time trumps money

Time trumps money  |#shyamis With back to school on many parents’ minds, a PTA note written by a mom of three from Texas has gone viral. In the note to school families, she bucks the traditional fundraisers for cash. She asks parents to check off how much money they’ll give for the year instead of time, including: I don’t want to bake, so here is the $15 I would have spent on those cupcakes. I don’t want to walk, swim or run in anything that has the word “thon” in it so here is $50. I don’t want to attend any fancy balls, so here is the $75 I would have spent on a new outfit. I am making this (blank amount) donation to express my appreciation for having nothing to buy, sell or do except fill out this form. One columnist said the note “sums up what every parent everywhere is thinking.” I agree selling wrapping paper or magazines for school is annoying, but what about the opportunities we have to socialize and build community? My kids would clamor to bake cupcakes and wouldn’t care how Pinterest-perfect they look. Our school’s Dolphin Dash/ jog-a-thon is a wonderful event we look forward to every year. Even if some of my kids have skipped years running, they enjoy the bounce houses and watching the races. I enjoy our school’s annual adult dinner and auction All three of those examples are opportunities to interact with others — much better than writing a check and staying home. If anything, it’s the people who organize such things who may want to write such a letter of protest, for they are the true heroes. For those of us who show up, have fun and build memories? What’s so bad about that? I call “bah, humbug!” on that PTA letter and see it as one of the problems with society today. Many want to check the box and be done. As kids get older, they especially fall victim to this by well-meaning parents. They may look like adults on the outside, but older kids need our presence very much. Parents often go back to work when children begin middle school or they increase their hours at work because more expenses loom and childcare is no longer an issue. Older kids may be able to keep the house from burning down, but they often experience something that isn’t as obvious — a void that can come with the loss of a parent’s time. A generation ago we talked about lonely kids turning to gangs for acceptance. Now kids turn to an online world where they are mere consumers, not our cherished sons and daughters. Teenagers may say they want the latest fashion trend or device, but I bet they’d prefer something as simple as a parent in the room cooking dinner or reading a book while they do homework. It doesn’t have to be intense time together; our presence will do. When I started junior high my mom suddenly stopped getting up with me in the morning and I missed that, though I didn’t have the language to express myself then. Also, for many parents with teenage children it’s a common time to divorce, as mine did. It’s as though parents think their kids are grown and don’t need them anymore. It’s no wonder on people’s death beds the most common response to what they would do differently revolves around the people they wish they could spend more time with and not how many things or how much money they wished they’d had. Julie Samrick is an El Dorado Hills mother of four children and a Village Life staff writer. Julie Samrick | September 5, 2015 at 5:29 pm | Tags: A5 | Categories: Commentary | URL:http://wp.me/p1uUsg-dwR Comment    See all comments

CDT day 120

CDT day 120  |#shyamis In the morning I walk back to safeway to resupply, marveling at the warm empty streets of Salida, the closed-up shops with their windows reflecting the early light. There are no breakfast places nearby so I buy gluten-free toaster waffles in addition to all the usual- salami, mayo, chips, bars- and eat my leftover spaghetti on the waffles back at the hostel. It's awesome. Then I sit in one of the overstuffed chairs in the comfy hostel living room and work on my blog while a couple on a bike tour pack and repack their panniers. The couple is young, cute hipsters with tattoos. They're biking from West Virginia to Oregon- although they don't know where they want to live or what they want to do when they get there. Just before noon the small Cambodian restaurant tucked into a side street finally opens, yay! (it was closed yesterday), and I order a big bowl of chicken coconut soup. It's begun to rain a little and I eat my soup at a table facing the window, watching the rain. The rain lets up right when I'm ready to hike out. "Hey hikertrash!" I'm walking towards the highway where I'll hitch back to Monarch Pass when I hear the familiar call. I turn to see a man with wild blond hair beckoning me over to his vehicle. His name is D-Bone, and he's a long-distance hiker who lives here in town. He offers me a ride back to the pass. I can't believe my luck! It would've been a hard hitch otherwise. I put my pack in the back seat, next to a sleeping toddler in a carseat. "Cute kid," I say. "He's conked," says D-Bone. D-Bone is originally from Alabama, but he's lived in Colorado for eleven years. As we drive to the pass D-Bone talks to me about Salida- "All these yuppies with ten thousand dollar mountain bikes, but I'm only mad because I want one too" Ski towns- "Flat-brims smoking dubs, call em skittles because everything they wear is neon" Accidental thru-hiking- "The second time I hiked the AT I only had five hundred dollars, ate out of hiker boxes and drank a lot of olive oil, my sister didn't recognize me when I was done." He hands me a handful of photos from the center console- tiny climbers clinging to a nearly smooth wall of rock. "That's me climbing El Cap. Took us a day and a half." By the time we reach Monarch Pass I feel as though I've made a friend. "I don't want to stop talking," says D-Bone, as we say goodbye. Me either, I think. "It's my day off," he says, as he gets back into the car. The kid is awake now, gazing out the window. "I think I'll go fishing." I wave as the car pulls away. It's 2:30, and I only plan on hiking 11 miles today, which will get me to the last water before a long dry stretch. The trail for the next two days is gentle, relatively- it meanders along the ridge at around eleven thousand feet, no massive climbs. Today it's cloudy and cool and the tread is still wonderful, on account of the Colorado Trail, and I listen to podcasts as I walk and look out at all the layers of mountains in the distance, watch a storm do its thing on the horizon. I think about life after the trail, things I want to write about that aren't hiking, people I wish I could be talking to/hanging out with right now, and where in the world I would go/what adventures I would try and have if money were no object. There's a small undeveloped campground and a dirt road at the stream where I'd planned to camp, so I have the luxury of a pit toilet and a perfectly flat spot in which to pitch my tarp. I heat up water for instant lentils and eat dinner in my sleeping bag while looking at my maps, thinking of how little I have left of this trail. I can't even begin to process this summer, much less imagine that the trail is actually going to end. Oh well. One day at a time. Photos on instagram carrot quinn | September 5, 2015 at 6:43 AM | Categories: Uncategorized | URL:http://wp.me/pmqLt-1l3 Like

Coconut soup, a new friend and some gentle trail

Coconut soup, a new friend and some gentle trail  |#shyamis September 1 Mileage: 11 2,313 miles hiked In the morning I walk back to safeway to resupply, marveling at the warm empty streets of Salida, the closed-up shops with their windows reflecting the early light. There are no breakfast places nearby so I buy gluten-free toaster waffles in addition to all the usual- salami, mayo, chips, bars- and eat my leftover spaghetti on the waffles back at the hostel. It's awesome. Then I sit in one of the overstuffed chairs in the comfy hostel living room and work on my blog while a couple on a bike tour pack and repack their panniers. The couple is young, cute hipsters with tattoos. They're biking from West Virginia to Oregon- although they don't know where they want to live or what they want to do when they get there. Just before noon the small Cambodian restaurant tucked into a side street finally opens, yay! (it was closed yesterday), and I order a big bowl of chicken coconut soup. It's begun to rain a little and I eat my soup at a table facing the window, watching the rain. The rain lets up right when I'm ready to hike out. "Hey hikertrash!" I'm walking towards the highway where I'll hitch back to Monarch Pass when I hear the familiar call. I turn to see a man with wild blond hair beckoning me over to his vehicle. His name is D-Bone, and he's a long-distance hiker who lives here in town. He offers me a ride back to the pass. I can't believe my luck! It would've been a hard hitch otherwise. I put my pack in the back seat, next to a sleeping toddler in a carseat. "Cute kid," I say. "He's conked," says D-Bone. D-Bone is originally from Alabama, but he's lived in Colorado for eleven years. As we drive to the pass D-Bone talks to me about Salida- "All these yuppies with ten thousand dollar mountain bikes, but I'm only mad because I want one too" Ski towns- "Flat-brims smoking dubs, call em skittles because everything they wear is neon" Accidental thru-hiking- "The second time I hiked the AT I only had five hundred dollars, ate out of hiker boxes and drank a lot of olive oil, my sister didn't recognize me when I was done." He hands me a handful of photos from the center console- tiny climbers clinging to a nearly smooth wall of rock. "That's me climbing El Cap. Took us a day and a half." By the time we reach Monarch Pass I feel as though I've made a friend. "I don't want to stop talking," says D-Bone, as we say goodbye. Me either, I think. "It's my day off," he says, as he gets back into the car. The kid is awake now, gazing out the window. "I think I'll go fishing." I wave as the car pulls away. It's 2:30, and I only plan on hiking 11 miles today, which will get me to the last water before a long dry stretch. The trail for the next two days is gentle, relatively- it meanders along the ridge at around eleven thousand feet, no massive climbs. Today it's cloudy and cool and the tread is still wonderful, on account of the Colorado Trail, and I listen to podcasts as I walk and look out at all the layers of mountains in the distance, watch a storm do its thing on the horizon. I think about life after the trail, things I want to write about that aren't hiking, people I wish I could be talking to/hanging out with right now, and where in the world I would go/what adventures I would try and have if money were no object. There's a small undeveloped campground and a dirt road at the stream where I'd planned to camp, so I have the luxury of a pit toilet and a perfectly flat spot in which to pitch my tarp. I heat up water for instant lentils and eat dinner in my sleeping bag while looking at my maps, thinking of how little I have left of this trail. I can't even begin to process this summer, much less imagine that the trail is actually going to end. Oh well. One day at a time. Photos on instagram carrot quinn | September 5, 2015 at 6:43 AM | Categories: Uncategorized | URL:http://wp.me/pmqLt-1l5

Bionic suit helps paralyzed man take voluntary steps

Published: Thursday 3 September 2015 at 9am PST

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Scientists from University of California-Los Angeles report how a man paralyzed from the waist down has been able to move his legs voluntarily with the help of a "robotic exoskeleton."

Mark Pollock (pictured) has been able to take voluntary steps thanks to the "robotic exoskeleton."
Image credit: Mark Pollock

Thirty-nine-year-old Mark Pollock had been completely paralyzed for 4 years after falling out of a window.
In a new study, Prof. V. Reggie Edgerton, senior author and a UCLA distinguished professor of integrative biology and physiology, neurobiology, and colleagues reveal how the robotic device enabled the man to control his leg muscles voluntarily and take thousands of steps.
The "step-like" movements are an advance on previous efforts by the same research team that saw five men with a similar condition to Pollock make rhythmic movements with their legs.
In that instance, the team used physical rehabilitation exercises and electrical stimulation therapy, achieved through an invasive epidural stimulator that they implanted into the patient's spinal cord.
This latest research combines a new noninvasive spinal stimulation technique with a battery-powered wearable bionic suit.
The researchers report how - after completing 5 weeks of physical training, followed by five 1-hour sessions using spinal stimulation training - Pollock has become the first person to achieve voluntary control with a robotic device that aims to enhance mobility.
Data capture from the robotic device enables researchers to measure to what degree a patient is moving their limbs themselves, and how much is done by the device.

Robotic device may allow paralyzed patients 'to assist themselves with walking'

In this current research, the team found that Pollock was actively and voluntarily flexing his left knee and raising his leg both during and after electrical stimulation, working with the robotic exoskeleton to produce these movements rather than leaving the device to do all the work.
Having spent his whole life as an athlete, completing extreme adventures such as racing to the South Pole before breaking his back, Pollack was thrilled to get back to doing an aerobic workout.
"Stepping with the stimulation and having my heart rate increase, along with the awareness of my legs under me, was addictive. I wanted more," he says.
Around 5,596,000 people in the US report some kind of paralysis. The leading cause of the condition is stroke, followed by spinal cord injury and multiple sclerosis (MS). Other causes of paralysis include neurofibromatosis, cerebral palsy and post-polio syndrome.
Prof. Edgerton and colleagues hope that the type of intervention described in their research may improve mobility for patients with partial paralysis.
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"It will be difficult to get people with complete paralysis to walk completely independently, but even if they don't accomplish that, the fact they can assist themselves in walking will greatly improve their overall health and quality of life."

"What we are seeing right now in the field of spinal cord research is a surge of momentum with new directions and approaches to remind the spine of its potential even years after an injury," notes Peter Wilderotter, president and CEO of the Christopher and Dana Reeve Foundation, who helped fund the research.
Written by Jonathan Vernon

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University of California-Los Angeles news release, accessed 3 September 2015 via EurkeAlert.
Additional Source: Christopher & Dana Reed Foundation, One degree of separation: Paralysis and spinal cord injury in the United States, accessed 3 September 2015.

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Indians have emerged as the largest ethnic group among the newly registered sperm donors in UK

LONDON: Indians have emerged as the largest ethnic group among the newly registered sperm donors in UK. Data with the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority (HFEA) - the independent regulator of fertility treatment in the UK shows that between 2009 and 2013, 52 Indians registered themselves to donate sperms in order to help childless couples across UK start a family.
The number is higher than all other ethnic groups living in UK.
For example, only 13 donors were of Pakistani origin, 34 were Irish, 17 were Chinese, around 26 were black Africans while the list did not have a single Bangladeshi donor.
A single donor scientifically can help 10 families. In UK, around one in seven couples have difficulty conceiving - numbering to 3.5 million people across the country.
Interestingly, the data also shows that more Indian women have come forward as egg donors than men who volunteered to donate sperms.
Around 57 Indian women registered themselves as egg donors but were actually second only to Black Africans - 74 in the list.
Around 26 Pakistani women have volunteered to be egg donors besides five Bangladeshi women and 29 Chinese women.
Britain recently witnessed its biggest baby boom in the last 40 years recording 48 new births every hour. The population was found to be growing by 1,150 a day. The birth rate has also been fuelled by migration, with growing number of babies being born to foreign-born parents.
HFEA says, "Three quarters of UK donors registered for their sperm to be used in treatment identified themselves as white British. In contrast to sperm donation, the number of women expressing an interest to donate eggs had increased and around half reported an increase in actual donations. In 2013 there were 1,103 new egg donor registrations, an increase on 2012 when there were 1,005 and 2011 when there were 815."
HFEA however says that the number of new donor registrations does not reflect the amount of donated sperm or eggs available for use. This is because each donor may specify the number of families (up to a maximum of 10) he or she is willing to help create.
Clinics now offer donors compensation for their service. For sperm donors the limit is a fixed sum of £35 per clinic visit including expenses, and for egg donors the limit is a fixed sum of £750 per cycle of donation, including expenses. The number of newly registered egg and sperm donors has increased over the last 10 years. The number of sperm donors increased in 2012, but decreased again in 2013. In 2013 there were 586 new sperm donor registrations compared with 631 in 2012, and 541 in 2011.
The latest data comes days after it was revealed that nearly 1 in every 3 children in UK was born to foreign mothers in 2014. The number of births has increased year on year too. There is 581,800 more zero to six year olds in mid-2012 than there were in mid-2001.

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A federal judge greenlights a class-action suit by Uber drivers seeking full employment

A federal judge greenlights a class-action suit by Uber drivers seeking full employment by Tim Fernholz |#employment

A federal judge has ruled that Uber drivers in California can sue the mobile car service provider as a group for denying them the full benefits of employment.

The company considers the drivers who use its platform to be independent contractors. But four drivers who brought this suit say that they are effectively employees of the private firm, which has been reportedly valued at $50 billion by venture capital investors, and are retroactively due additional pay and protections.

Today's ruling (pdf) by judge Edward Chen concludes that the employment situation of Uber drivers is "sufficiently similar" that his court can weigh whether they are truly employees en masse. The group will include, out of a maximum class of 160,000 drivers, those who worked for the company directly between August 2009 and June 2014.

“While we are not surprised by this Court's ruling, we are pleased that it has decided to certify only a tiny fraction of the class that the plaintiffs were seeking," an Uber spokesperson said in a statement, noting that one of the named plaintiffs will be excluded. "That said, we'll most likely appeal the decision as partners use Uber on their own terms, and there really is no typical driver—the key question at issue.”

The company has said in the past that many if not most of their drivers use their platform in ways that aren't akin to full employment, either for less than 15 hours a week or in concert with other driving platforms. But Chen found a contradiction in Uber's positions:

According to Uber, both its right of control over its drivers, as well as the day-today reality of its relationship with them, are not sufficiently uniform across the proposed class to satisfy the requirements...[H]owever, there is inherent tension between this argument and Uber’s position on the merits: on one hand, Uber argues that it has properly classified every single driver as an independent contractor; on the other, Uber argues that individual issues with respect to each driver’s “unique” relationship with Uber so predominate that this Court (unlike, apparently, Uber itself) cannot make a classwide determination of its drivers’ proper job classification. .. It appears that at least one of these arguments cannot be entirely accurate, and for the purposes of resolving this motion the Court concludes that a number of Uber’s class certification arguments are problematic.

If the drivers eventually win the lawsuit, Uber would likely to have to begin paying additional benefits and obeying stricter labor rules across the United States. And the upfront costs could be huge: A similar suit against FedEx led to a $228 million settlementthat is now awaiting judicial approval from none other than Chen, the same judge hearing the Uber case.

A loss in court would put a damper on Uber's massive valuation and force it to either cut its margins or hike prices. But it may not be an existential threat: Financials leaked to Gawker earlier this month suggested the fast-growing company lost $108 million in the second quarter of 2014, but it also reported a $1.6 billion cash pile.

Some argue that Uber drivers don't fit neatly in the old definitions of full-time employee and private contractor. But so far, the regulatory system has not been kind to that stance. A California labor official ruled that one Uber driver was an employee, not a contractor, and thus due back-wages, earlier this year.

Tim Fernholz | September 1, 2015 at 6:04 pm | Tags: california, driver, employee,misclasiffication, Uber | Categories: Uncategorized | URL: http://wp.me/p2G6tR-24f2