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Bandidos: 1967 Spaghetti Western movie about good guy expert gunman teacher's dogged resolve to finish off brilliant gunman-student-turned-bandit, even after having his palms shot through, by training another student gunman

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[Warning: The movie is full of gun violence and killing. Readers who do not like such topics may please skip reading this post.] Bandidos | SPAGHETTI WESTERN | HD | Full Movie | Free Movie on Youtube | Spaghetti Western, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jjIfa_lusas , 1 hr 34 mins. Movie's wiki page: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bandidos_(film) . It is a 1967 Italian and Spanish co-production movie. I liked some of the dialogues in this movie. Of course, the spaghetti movie is NOT realistic. So one has to leave one's critical faculty a little aside and go with the flow and drama of the movie, knowing it is fictional (make-believe).  I have given below related key parts of the movie story: The movie's opening scene is a very gory train robbery and massacre of almost all of its passengers & crew by bandits led by Billy Kane. There are two groups in the bandits - one is Billy Kane's group and another is Vigonza's group but with Vigonza and group accepting Billy Ka
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Informative 1960 video (enhanced) about IBM 1401 which perhaps was first computer model name that registered in my mind during early 1980s student days in Bombay

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Informative 1960 video (enhanced) about IBM 1401 which I think I had heard/read about in early 1980s in my student days in Bombay/Mumbai, even before I got into software field: Computer History: IBM 1401 Mainframe Data Processing System 1960 ENGLISH version (HD), https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UZIIMElB2Wo , 8 min. 17 secs.  [I did B.Sc. Physics followed by half a year or so of M.Sc. Physics (in 1983-84) before I dropped out of M.Sc. Physics and started looking out for a job in software field.] I think IBM 1401 was the first computer model name that registered in my mind. But I have never physically seen an IBM 1401. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_1401 tells us, "During the 1970s, IBM installed many 1401s in India and Pakistan where they were in use well into the 1980s." I think that explains why I had heard/read about IBM 1401 in the early 1980s in my student days. I think the electric (& transport) company in Bombay then - BEST, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brihan
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Referral: Stephen Covey's quote on promises broken or kept and trust destroyed or built; My thoughts on it

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Readers may want to see my recent post on another blog of mine: Stephen Covey's quote on promises broken or kept and trust destroyed or built; My thoughts on it,  https://ravisiyer.blogspot.com/2021/07/stephen-coveys-quote-on-promises-broken.html .
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Very happy to see that Dr. Lalit Kanodia, founder of Datamatics, as well as Ashank Desai, co-founder of Mastek, have been honoured with IMC Lifetime Achievement Awards

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Wonderful to see this! Congratulations to Dr. Lalit Kanodia! Datamatics was the company that trained me in software development and allowed me to grow into a software developer and project leader. I was with Datamatics from March 1984 to May 1990. I am very, very grateful to Datamatics and its founder Dr. Lalit Kanodia for having provided me that opportunity and giving me a solid professional software development career base. So I am really happy to see this lifetime achievement award being bestowed on Dr. Kanodia by IMC (which I think is Indian Merchants Chamber, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indian_Merchants'_Chamber ). IMC Honours Dr. Lalit Kanodia, Founder & Chairman, Datamatics with Lifetime Achievement Award, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qIzeu8hSo1E , 4 min. 36 secs, published by Datamatics on 8th July 2021. FRIDAY, JUNE 18, 2021, Digital Technology Awards By IMC entry in https://www.imcnet.org/press-releases covers this award. A small extract from it: The coveted L
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