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Anbu Pictures' Aadhibhagavan is produced by J. Anbazhagan and directed by Ameer who has also written the story, screenplay and dialogue. Yuvan Shankar Raja has scored the music, Devaraj has handled the camera, and S.P. Ahamed has edited the film. 'Jeyam' Ravi and Neetu Chandra play the lead, while Babu Antony, Mohan Raj, Sudha Chandran, Sakshi Shivanand, Karuna, Bala Singh and Anirudh comprise the supporting cast. More than a dozen foreign artistes have worked in the film. The audio CD of Aadhibhagavan was released at a function in Toronto, Canada, by producer J. Anbazhagan and received by director S.P. Jananathan in the presence of directors Karu Pazhaniappan, Seeman and members of the film unit.
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The album consists of six songs, including one in Hindi. 'Agadam Pagadam' in Hindi has been written by Manoj and sung by Mohit Chauhan. 'Bhagavan Rap' is an interesting rap number by Sathyan. 'Kattriley Nadanthene' has some of the best lines by Arivumathi. Though the cover does not mention lyricist Snehan, we learn that he has written three songs for the film — 'Aeisalaamey Eisalam' sung by Manasi Scott and Rahul Nambiar, 'Yaavum Poithanaa' sung by Madhushree, and 'Oru Thuli' by Sharib and Shreya Ghoshal. The last mentioned number sounds great.
What they say…
Producer J. Anbazhagan: I have over 38 years of experience as a politician. I served as a member of the Legislative Assembly from 2001-2006 and am also serving now. With an interest in films, I took up distribution of movies, such as Endhiran, a couple of years ago. With that experience, I have produced Aadhibhagavan, my first film. When director Ameer and I decided to do a film together I wanted him to make a commercial film that will click at the box office. And he has done a good job.
Director Ameer: After finishing Yogi, I was in the process of doing Kannabiran. But Anbazhagan wanted me to make a commercial film with beautiful songs, thrilling fight sequences and family sentiment, something like an MGR flick. Wanting to do something different, I instantly agreed to it. 'Jeyam' Ravi, the hero, has worked very hard in the film. I am glad the producer is happy with the output.
Hero 'Jeyam' Ravi: I was delighted to work under Ameer's direction. I feel Aadhibhagavan will make me a commercial hero and prove that I can do any type of movie. It will showcase director Ameer in a new light.
Music director Yuvan Shankar Raja: This is the fifth film I've done with director Ameer. It is also the first we've done in the 7.1 digital audio format. There is a Hindi song and a rap number in the album, and composing them was a different experience for me. I have used more of Hindustani and ghazal tunes and gone in for live instruments. The songs have come out beautifully.
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Published on Oct 23, 2012 12:38 PM
HE TOLD police he lost the money at a coffee shop in Bukit Batok but when questioned by the cops, Chong Kok Choon, 43, admitted he had misappropriated the $10,200.
In a district court on Tuesday, he pleaded guilty to committing criminal breach of trust and was fined $20,000.
Deputy Public Prosecutor Victor Lim said that Chong was then employed by restaurant operator Paradise Group Holdings and was the manager of Canton Paradise in Katong Mall.
His duties included supervising the staff and to bank in the daily sales collection of the restaurant that serves Cantonese fare.
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- Altered Glycosylation in Donor Mice Causes Rejection of Strain-Matched Skin and Heart Grafts. American Journal of Transplantation. 14:797-805. 2014
Journal Articles Refereed
- Anti-CD2 producing pig xenografts effect localized depletion of human T cells in a huSCID model. Xenotransplantation. 20:100-109. 2013
- First quantification of alpha-Gal epitope in current glutaraldehyde-fixed heart valve bioprostheses. Xenotransplantation. 20:252-261. 2013
- Liver grafts from CD39-overexpressing rodents are protected from ischemia reperfusion injury due to reduced numbers of resident CD4 T cells. Hepatology. 57:1597-1606. 2013
- The Protective Effects of CD39 Overexpression in Multiple Low-Dose Streptozotocin Induced Diabetes in Mice. Diabetes. 62:2026-2035. 2013
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Journal Articles Refereed
- Ectonucleotide Triphosphate Diphosphohydrolase-1 (CD39) Mediates Resistance to Occlusive Arterial Thrombus Formation after Vascular Injury in Mice. American Journal of Pathology. 181:322-333. 2012
- Protective Effects of Transgenic Human Endothelial Protein C Receptor Expression in Murine Models of Transplantation. American Journal of Transplantation. 12:2363-2372. 2012
- Transgenic swine: expression of human CD39 protects against myocardial injury.. Journal of Molecular and Cellular Cardiology. 52:958-961. 2012
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- Antioxidant network expression abrogates oxidative posttranslational modifications in mice. American Journal of Physiology - Heart and Circulatory Physiology. 300:H1960-H1970. 2011
- Generation of Soluble Human Tumor Necrosis Factor-alpha Receptor 1-Fc Transgenic Pig. Transplantation. 92:139-147. 2011
- Transgenic over expression of ectonucleotide triphosphate diphosphohydrolase-1 protects against murine myocardial ischemic injury. Journal of Molecular and Cellular Cardiology. 51:927-935. 2011
- Versatile co-expression of graft-protective proteins using 2A-linked cassettes. Xenotransplantation. 18:121-130. 2011
- Xenotransplantation of Galactosyl-Transferase Knockout, CD55, CD59, CD39, and Fucosyl-Transferase Transgenic Pig Kidneys Into Baboons. Transplantation Proceedings. 43:3426-3430. 2011
Other Refereed Contribution to Refereed Journals
- Controlling coagulation dysregulation in xenotransplantation. Current Opinion in Organ Transplantation. 16:214-221. 2011
- Genetic modification of pigs for solid organ xenotransplantation. Transplantation Reviews. 25:9-20. 2011
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- Antiinflammatory and Anticoagulant Effects of Transgenic Expression of Human Thrombomodulin in Mice. American Journal of Transplantation. 10:242-250. 2010
- Crystal Structure of a Legionella pneumophila Ecto-Triphosphate Diphosphohydrolase, A Structural and Functional Homolog of the Eukaryotic NTPDases. Structure. 18:228-238. 2010
- Deficiency or Inhibition of CD73 Protects in Mild Kidney Ischemia-Reperfusion Injury. Transplantation Reviews. 90:1260-1264. 2010
- In situ protection against islet allograft rejection by CTLA4lg transduction. Transplantation. 90:951-957. 2010
- Transgenic Overexpression of CD39 Protects Against Renal Ischemia-Reperfusion and Transplant Vascular Injury. American Journal of Transplantation. 10:2586-2595. 2010
Journal Articles Unrefereed Letters or Notes
- On the need for procine embryonic stem cells to produce Gal KO pigs expressing multiple transgenes to advance xenotransplantation research. Xenotransplantation. 17:411-412. 2010
Other Refereed Contribution to Refereed Journals
- Subcutaneous Pig Islet Xenografts: Getting Under Your Skin to Cure Diabetes?. Transplantation. 90:1050-1051. 2010
Journal Articles Refereed
- Complement activation and coagulation in xenotransplantation. Immunology and Cell Biology. 87:203-208. 2009
- The vascular and coagulation issues in xenotransplantation. Current Opinion in Organ Transplantation. 14:161-167. 2009
Journal Articles Refereed
- Aggression in cataract-bearing alpha-1,3-galactosyltransferase knockout mice. Laboratory Animals. 42:34-44. 2008
- Anti-Gal antibody-mediated skin graft rejection requires a threshold level of Gal expression. Xenotransplantation. 15:20-6. 2008
- Enzymatic properties of an ecto-nucleoside triphosphate diphosphohydrolase from Legionella pneumophila : substrate specificity and requirement for virulence. Journal of Biological Chemistry. 283:12909-12918. 2008
- Gene-modified pigs. Xenotransplantation. 15:87-90. 2008
- Glycosylation changes in hFUT1 transgenic mice increase TCR signaling and apoptosis resulting in thymocyte maturation arrest. Molecular Immunology. 45:2401-2410. 2008
- Pig thrombomodulin binds human thrombin but is a poor cofactor for activation of human protein C and TAFI. American Journal of Transplantation. 8:1101-1112. 2008
- The Impact of Purinergic Signaling on Renal Ischemia-Reperfusion Injury. Transplantation. 86:1707-1712. 2008
Journal Articles Unrefereed
- The coagulation barrier in xenotransplantation: incompatibilities and strategies to overcome them. Current Opinion in Organ Transplantation. 13:178-183. 2008
Other Refereed Contribution to Refereed Journals
- Recombinant pig TFPI efficiently regulates human tissue factor pathways. Xenotransplantation. 15:191-197. 2008
Journal Articles Refereed
- A bacterial ecto-triphosphate diphosphohydrolase similar to human CD39 is essential for intracellular multiplication of Legionella pneumophila. Cellular Microbiology. 9:1922-1935. 2007
- Blockade of the passive cell death pathway does not prevent tolerance induction to islet grafts. Transplantation. 83:653-655. 2007
- Production of homozygous α-1,3-galactosyltransferase knockout pigs by breeding and somatic cell nuclear transfer. Xenotransplantation. 14:339-344. 2007
- Response to Valdes-Gonzalez "Clinical trial of islet xenotransplantation in Mexico". Xenotransplantation. 14:90-91. 2007
Journal Articles Unrefereed
- Molecular regulation of xenoreactivity. Current Opinion in Organ Transplantation. 12:30-36. 2007
Journal Articles Unrefereed Letters or Notes
- Reply to 'Critics slam Russian trial to test pig pancreas for diabetes'. Nature Medicine. 13:662-663. 2007
Other Refereed Contribution to Refereed Journals
- Building on the GalKO platform. Transplantation. 84:10-11. 2007
- Salutary roles of CD39 in transplantation. Transplantation Reviews. 21:54-63. 2007
Journal Articles Refereed
- Cardiac and skin Xenograft survival in different recipient mouse strains. Transplantation. 82:1362-1369. 2006
- The transgenic expression of human CD39 on murine islets inhibits clotting of human blood. Transplantation. 82:428-432. 2006
- Towards endothelial cell-specific transgene expression in pigs: characterization of the pig ICAM-2 promoter. Xenotransplantation. 13:514-521. 2006
Other Refereed Contribution to Refereed Journals
- Intravascular thrombosis in discordant xenotransplantation. Transplantation. 82:1119-1123. 2006
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- Overexpression of Glutathione Peroxidase With Two Isoforms of Superoxide Dismutase Protects Mouse Islets from Oxidative Injury and Improves Islet Graft Function. Diabetes. 54:2109-2116. 2005
- Prevention of hyperacute rejection ina model of orthoptopic liver xenotransplantation from pig to baboon using polytransgenic pig livers (CD55, CD59, and H-transferase). Transplantation Proceedings. 37:4103-4106. 2005
- The bacterial flora of alpha-Gal knockout mice express the alpha-Gal epitope comparable to wild type mice. Transplant Immunology. 14:9-16. 2005
- Transgenic expression of human complement regulators reduces skeletal muscle ischaemia/reperfusion injury in mice. Clinical Science. 108:47-53. 2005
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- Allogenic sensitization is more effective than xenogenic sensitization in eliciting Gal-mediated skin graft rejection. Transplantation. 77:751-753. 2004
- Altered immune system glycosylation causes colitis in α1,2-fucosyltransferase transgenic mice. Inflammatory Bowel Diseases. 10:546-556. 2004
- Characterization of pig intercellular adhesion molecule-2 and its interaction with human LFA-1. American Journal of Transplantation. 4:515-525. 2004
- Enhanced expression of glutathione peroxidase protects islet β cells from hypoxia-reoxygenation. Xenotransplantation. 11:53-59. 2004
- Fate of αGal +/+ pancreatic islet grafts after transplantation into αGal knockout mice. Xenotransplantation. 11:323-331. 2004
- Thromboregulatory manifestations in human CD39 transgenic mice and the implications for thrombotic disease and transplantation. Journal of Clinical Investigation. 113:1440-1446. 2004
- Use of lentiviral vectors to induce long-term tolerance to Gal+ heart grafts. Transplantation. 77:1748-1754. 2004
Other Refereed Contribution to Refereed Journals
- Position paper of the Ethics Committee of the International Xenotransplantation Association . Xenotransplantation. 78:1101-1107. 2004
Journal Articles Refereed
- Targeting gene expression to endothelium in transgenic animals: a comparison of the human ICAM-2, PECAM-1 and endoglin promoters. Xenotransplantation. 10:223-231. 2003
- The resistance of delayed xenograft rejection to a α(1,3)-galactosyltransferase gene inactivation and CD4 depletion in a mouse-to-rat model . APMIS. 111:1019-1026. 2003
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- Galactose-α1,3-galactose knockout mouse: a surrogate recipient. Current Opinion in Organ Transplantation. 8:70-75. 2003
Other Refereed Contribution to Refereed Journals
- Guidelines to xenotransplantation. New England Journal of Medicine. 349:1294-1295. 2003
Journal Articles Refereed
- Efficient generation of α(1,3) galactosyltransferase knockout porcine fetal fibroblasts for nuclear transfer. Transgenic Research. 11:143-150. 2002
- Gal mismatch alone causes skin graft rejection in mice. Transplantation. 74:637-645. 2002
- Production of cloned pigs from cultured fetal fibroblast cells. Biology of Reproduction. 66:1283-1287. 2002
- Protective effects of recombinant human antithrombin III in pig-to-primate renal xenotransplantation. American Journal of Transplantation. 2:520-525. 2002
- Xenotransplantation: past achievements and future promise . Heart, Lung & Circulation. 11:32-41. 2002
Journal Articles Unrefereed
- Leukocyte recruitment in xenotransplantation. Current Opinion in Organ Transplantation. 7:85-91. 2002
- Transgenic perspectives in xenotransplantation, 2001. Xenotransplantation. 9:305-308. 2002
Journal Articles Unrefereed Letters or Notes
- Alpha-gal and the brick wall. Xenotransplantation. 9:85-86. 2002
- Xenotransplantation trials. The Lancet. 359:2280-2281. 2002
Journal Articles Refereed
- Blockade of the CD28 and CD40 pathways result in the acceptance of pig and rat islet xenografts but not rat cardiac grafts in mice.. Transplant Immunology. 9:51-56. 2001
- Effect of DNA concentration on transgenesis rates in mice and pigs.. Transgenic Research. 10:523-531. 2001
- Vascular gene transfer driven by endoglin and ICAM-2 endothelial-specific promoters.. Gene Therapy. 8:897-904. 2001


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The previous superintendent, Richard Sagar, abruptly resigned in January, and in February the district's governing board decided not to renew contracts of three of its six principals. In addition, assistant superintendent of instructional services Joel Knorr is leaving at the end of June.
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Nine, who retired in 2005 as associate superintendent of the Apache Junction Unified School District, agreed to the interim position through the 2007-08 school year while the board searches for a permanent superintendent.
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12 Scenes We Love From 'A Christmas Story'
Features By Christopher Campbell on November 17, 2013 | Comments (1)Is it too early for Christmas movies? Not if this weekend's box office is any indication, with The Best Man Holiday giving Thor: The Dark World a run for its money. Also, it was pretty much this weekend 30 years ago that a little classic called A Christmas Story debuted in movie theaters nationwide. Today, Bob Clark's beloved adaptation of Jean Shepherd's autobiographical stories is a staple of the season. Back when it opened on November 18, 1983, however, it bowed in third place behind fellow newbie Amityville 3D and the ongoing hit The Big Chill. But it rose to first place in the following week, only to fall back down and eventually way out of the top ten by the very holiday in its title. More people saw Yentl on Christmas weekend that year than A Christmas Story. As is the case with most holiday movie favorites, this one really gained popularity and became canon through cable television airings. Now, of course, it's run on repeat in marathon form every December 24-25. Last year, the Library of Congress added it to the National Film Registry, where it joined It's a Wonderful Life and Miracle on 34th Street. Like those movies, this is now almost as big a part of the holiday as visiting Santa and decorating the tree. For some people, it's probably even inspired new annual traditions. I bet there are fans out there who have duck for Christmas dinner at a Chinese restaurant in honor of the movie. […]
Movie News After Dark: It's Beginning to Look A Lot Like Christmas
Movie News By Neil Miller on December 24, 2012 | Be the First To CommentWhat is Movie News After Dark? It's cousin Eddie showing up at just the right moment to spoil Clark's well-lit house. It's the Red Ryder Carbine-Action Two-Hundred-Shot Range Model Air Rifle here to shoot your eye out. It's basically the best invasion of your Christmas eve that you could have hoped for. And tonight, it's full of Christmas cheer. Griswold Wisdom – Over on Etsy, it's way too late to buy this Clark Griswold quote plaque thingy. But you can always get one for next year. There's also a place where you can buy the lamp from A Christmas Story. Only $200 and this 40″ beauty could be yours.
'The Matrix,' 'Dirty Harry,' and More Added to National Film Registry
Movie News By Scott Beggs on December 19, 2012 | Be the First To CommentWe've lost something close to 3/4 of black and white films. It's easy to imagine that we have all of them at our fingertips, and that they'll be there forever, but that's simply not the reality, and it's a good reminder of what can happen if we're not careful. That's part of why the work of the National Film Registry is so vital. They ensure that a large number of time-tested films survive to test even more time. This year, as usual, they've selected 25 flicks to preserve including The Matrix, Breakfast at Tiffany's, Dirty Harry, and A Christmas Story (which will also be preserved 24-hours a day as long as TBS still exists). The Library of Congress has also saved Delmer Daves' 3:10 to Yuma (1957); Otto Preminger's Anatomy of a Murder; George Cukor's Born Yesterday; Penny Marshall's A League of Their Own; Richard Linklater's Slacker; the Laurel and Hardy comedy Sons of the Desert; Robert Epstein's documentary The Times of Harvey Milk; Monte Hellman's Two-Lane Blacktop; a 1914 adaptation of "Uncle Tom's Cabin" that's thought to feature the first leading role by a black man; The Augustas (which may be the Scott Nixon compilation of towns in the US named Augusta); The Corbett-Fitzsimmons Fight from 1897; Nathaniel Dorsky's experimental Hours for Jerome Part 1 & 2; the Kidnapper's Foil films; the Kodachrome Color Motion-Picture Tests (which you can see below); Robert Snody's The Middleton Family at the New York World's Fair; Kary Antholis' holocaust documentary One Survivor Remembers; Rolf Forsberg and Tom Rook's Christian film Parable, which imagines Christ as a clown and the world as a circus; Ellen Bruno's Samsara: Death and Rebirth in […]
Enough With 'A Christmas Story,' Let's Start Doing 24-Hour 'Gremlins' Marathons
Features By Nathan Adams on December 18, 2012 | Comments (6)Sometime around fifteen years ago, A Christmas Story was something of a modern cult classic. It was kind of amusing and kind of off-beat, and you could make a connection with someone if you mentioned it and it turned out you both liked it. Or, at least, that's how it was where I grew up, which was the area of Northwest Indiana where the story was set. A funny thing happened in the late '90s, though. TNT started playing the movie on cable for 24 hours straight during Christmas, the concept caught on, and now, thirteen years later, you would be hard-pressed to find someone who doesn't know about Ralphie, his Red Rider BB gun, and Scut Farkus. But another funny thing happened, too. After so many years of repetition, the movie has started to feel a whole lot less quirky and fun. At this point, it's probably the most overrated holiday movie ever, and all it takes is one person dropping quotes from it at a Christmas party to get me to make internal noises of frustration. Joe Dante's Gremlins has had almost the exact opposite lifespan. It came out a year after A Christmas Story, was a pretty gigantic hit right away, and established itself as one of the iconic '80s blockbusters quite quickly. But, over the course of the last couple decades, its influence has faded a bit. Despite the fact that the movie is set during Christmas, and is about the perfect Christmas present just as […]
A Very Junkfood Christmas: Ralphie Gets His Gun For 'A Black Christmas Story'
Features By Brian Salisbury on December 7, 2012 | Comments (1)Welcome back to Junkfood Cinema; giving fruit cake is tantamount to treason. It's that time of year again, when we put on ugly sweaters, drunkenly sing carols off-key, and forget how much we hate Aunt Bagatha. What? Who doesn't have an Aunt Bagatha? For all of me here at Junkfood Cinema, Christmas is a time to suck down as many festively-shaped sugar cookies and assorted pies as humanly possible before slipping into the firm embrace of a ho ho heart attack. And of course, I give myself the gift that keeps on giving: a giant stack of my favorite holiday movies. These movies are often, as you might expect, terrible, but every once in a while a highly-regarded classic slips in. When this oversight occurs, my baser impulses, the ones that account for my DiMaggio-like twenty-eight year streak as a resident of Santa's naughty list, take over. I begin to image ways to corrupt said classic films and stuff them back in your stocking as twice-baked/half-baked/bake-me-something-right-now-I'm-hungry treats. Today's subject, or rather subjects, offer a particularly easy corruption. Director Bob Clark is renowned for making one of the most beloved Christmas movies of all time: A Christmas Story. It is a movie so adored that some TV stations actually showcase it in 24hr rotation on Christmas Eve. Luckily, A Christmas Story is quality enough that we overlook the fact that the one and only movie that should EVER be played on TV in 24hr rotation is Raw Deal. What some people […]
15 Downright Brutal Attacks On Inanimate Movie Objects
Cinematic Listology By David Christopher Bell on December 6, 2012 | Comments (5)Sometimes you just have to punch a wall, or perhaps a car door, or a ceramic cat – really, it's whatever is closest. Whether it is rage, retribution, or legitimate hatred, sometimes an inanimate object just has to go down. In the moving pictures this is especially fun to watch. Much like a movie death is often more dramatic than reality, a little inanimate destruction goes a long way.
How To Survive Christmas with Cinematic Pranks (According to the Movies)
Features By Allison Loring on December 11, 2011 | Be the First To CommentI know that the holidays are a time for cheer, goodwill towards others, and all that good stuff. But with all the stress, crowds, and busy schedules that also come with the season, it's hard not to want to blow off a little steam. If you are willing to risk getting a last minute addition to the "naughty list," here are some pranks inspired by holiday films that should keep you laughing (albeit usually at the expensive of someone else). I mean, who said April 1st is the only acceptable day out of the year to pull pranks?
How to Decorate Your Home for the Holidays (According to the Movies)
Features By Kate Erbland on December 6, 2011 | Comments (2)Welcome to the second entry in FSR's Official Cinematic Holiday Survival Guide – the best series of nostalgic holiday articles on the Internet today that were conceived of by a film writer too sleep-deprived to properly articulate just why that squirrel jumping out of the tree in National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation is the finest moment in Christmas filmology. Which FSR writer? I'll never tell. But it wasn't me. That said, today I will reach back into the far, far annals of movie history to provide you dear readers with some of the finest holiday decorating tips you will ever see committed to celluloid (and, well, the Internet). I will not provide specific crafting tips (because, let's be real here, I could really injure myself with a hot glue gun), but more general tips that will allow you to tap into your personal style to gussy up your home to truly epic proportions. Or, you could just slide down to your neighborhood tree lot and pick up a flocked tree and just be done with it. But, before you get your flock on, let's take a peek at some cinematic dos and don'ts when it comes to decking your halls.
How to Pick Out the Perfect Present (According to the Movies)
Features By Allison Loring on December 2, 2011 | Comments (1)It's that time of year again when we all rush around, trying to find that perfect gift for all the special people in our lives. We at FSR know how stressful this time of year can be and thought what better source to look to when trying to figure out exactly how to find that perfect present than the movies? From tracking down the hottest toy of the season or finally getting the gift you always wanted, I rounded up a few seasonal favorites to create a handy list of tips that will hopefully help when it comes to finding a gift that makes the intended gift-ee smile, laugh and/or remember what it feels like to be a kid on Christmas morning.
Merch Hunter #16: A 'Christmas Story' Action Figure, Dumbeldore's Wand and Captain America's Wallet
Features By Simon Gallagher on November 9, 2011 | Be the First To CommentIt's a dangerous time of year for movie merchandise collectors – unsure what your partners, friends or family have decided to buy, and yet torn by the need to invest in the latest additions to the market, many collectors go stir-crazy and can be found roaming the streets of every major city in the snow, tragically calling out for Turbo-Man. So the best thing to do to avoid that entirely fictional eventuality is to make a list, check it twice… that sort of thing. Only instead of writing doing which children are naughty and which are nice (and probably inviting some suspicious inquiries from disgruntled and probably scared parents), populate said list with all of the goodies you require come December 25th. That way, you can spend the rest of November and December buying the cheaper things you want yourself – that's right, leave the £650 Batman busts for Grandma to buy. With that in mind, here we go with this week's triumvirate of movie merch goodness – at "pocket money" prices for pockets that are beginning to feel the festive pinch…
Jason Momoa Wants to Produce Mythic Creatures as Writer of 'Conan' Sequel
Movie News By Nathan Adams on August 8, 2011 | Comments (1)If you knew actor Jason Momoa just from his performance as Khal Drogo on HBO's Game of Thrones, you might wonder if the guy was even able to talk. Clearly he's talented at looking big and strong and menacing, but what kind of a wordsmith could he be if not playing a horse lord from a different land? We'll be getting a lot more of an idea how he handles language once Momoa takes the starring role in the upcoming Conan the Barbarian, and hopefully he impresses enough doing a lot of talking in that, because it's looking like he's going to be writing the story for the sequel. Momoa spilled the news when talking to Crave Online. When talking about the story he's come up with for a possible Conan sequel, Momoa says that he would be looking for more mythic creatures for Conan to clash with the second go around. On why they're waiting for a sequel to jump heavy into the mythology of the Conan universe, Momoa says, "We wanted to go there [in the first one], but having Clash of the Titans, and coming out against that, we wanted to put the budget into some other things. We just couldn't hit… We couldn't get to that level with the visual effects and stuff." Of course, doing big budget effects in the sequel, and even making a sequel at all, will depend on how well Conan the Barbarian does at the box office. It looks like if […]
The Vintage Trailer of the Day'll Shoot Your Eye Out!
Features By Scott Beggs on December 22, 2010 | Be the First To CommentEvery day, come rain or shine or internet tubes breaking, Film School Rejects showcases a trailer from the past. Today's trailer must be Italian, because it's fragilé. Turn on your leg lamp, get some Chinese food, and let Santa kick you down the giant red slide of your failures. Think you know what it is? Check out the trailer after the jump.
The 10 Most Frightening Christmas Movies
Cinematic Listology By Scott Beggs on December 26, 2009 | Comments (22)It's that time of year again. A time to leer out your window suspiciously, a time to hear things that go bump in the night, a time to tremble with fear at the constant, piercing violin strings that follow you everywhere you go. It's Christmas!
Culture Warrior: Towards a More Thanksgiving-Friendly Cinema
Culture Warrior By Landon Palmer on November 26, 2009 | Comments (6)This week's Culture Warrior asks why there aren't more movies about Thanksgiving. Christmas always seems to hog all the good ones.
Relax: 20 Films From the 80s That Aren't Being Remade
Features By Scott Beggs on June 16, 2009 | Comments (37)Rejoice! It's not all doom and gloom when it comes to remakes. There's a ton of 80s movies that aren't being remade, and here's just a handful of the ones we're most thankful for.
Seven Cinematic Familes That Are Worse Than Yours
Cinematic Listology By Scott Beggs on November 27, 2008 | Comments (4)We all know that the most heartfelt holiday of the year will inevitably end with most of you splayed out in a pool of blood and gravy, nursing severe wounds and a hangover that weighs more than the turkey did before it was burnt. But rest assured tonight, because it could be worse.
12 Days of Christmas Movies: A Christmas Story
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I used Safbrew S-33 recently on an amber ale. The closet I had it in read 73 degrees for pretty much the entire fermentation. The beer tasted great, maybe not like a traditional amber but good imho.
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The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe
(2005) Four kids travel through a wardrobe to the land of Narnia and learn of their destiny to free it with the guidance of a mystical lion. Dir: Andrew Adamson With: Tilda Swinton, Georgie Henley, William Moseley Adventure | Family | Fantasy 143 mins. |
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Sin City
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Pride & Prejudice
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Star Wars: Episode III - Revenge of the Sith
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V for Vendetta
(2005) In a future British tyranny, a shadowy freedom fighter, known only by the alias of "V", plots to overthrow it with the help of a young woman. Dir: James McTeigue With: Hugo Weaving, Natalie Portman, Rupert Graves Action | Drama | Thriller 132 mins. |
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King Kong
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Great so far! Anifan from St. Louis, MO I shopped online for cribs for a long time before deciding on this one. My choices were somewhat limited, as I knew I wanted a 4-in-1 convertible crib in espresso. Because this crib had no user reviews, I was hesitant to purchase, but the price was reasonable and from the pictures, it seemed to be what I was looking for, so I went ahead and took a chance. Now have it assembled, and I am pleased so far! Baby is not due until a few months down the road, which will be the REAL test, but for now, I can give the following info about it:The color is an espresso, but it is not the darkest color out there -- just a slight hint of a cherry in there as well -- but it is a nice color nevertheless and will still match with a dresser I've purchased, which IS darker in color. Once assembled, the crib appears VERY sturdy and the wood/construction seems to be of good quality. Also, the paint does not seem to chip off, as with some of the other brands of cribs I did manage to see in stores. The downside, at least for us, was the assembly. Now, the entire process was not a problem and mostly went pretty quick and according to the instruction. The one hold-up was when you have to screw something in diagonal (most are straight, so when you get to this point, it's like the 2nd or 3rd step, you'll know what I'm talking about). The screws go into a "peanut" type thing(forget what they're actually called) , but if the pre-drilled holes are too deep, the screw will end up just hitting the top half of the hole on the "peanut" and strip it. So, first, as for all of the time when you're putting in the screws, be sure that you are holding the peanut in place with a screwdriver so that the hole does not move around (works best w/2 people). Another solution we did when the pre-drilled hole was too deep was to fill it with a few bits of scrap paper to make it sit higher. And don't worry -- if you strip a few of these "peanuts" (maybe they are called bolt-carriers?), you can buy extras at [...]or probably any other hardware store -- as the crib does not come with extra hardware. Other than that assembly difficulty, I have no complaints so far. [...] So at this point (and I have not tried it with an infant or tried to convert to a toddler bed, etc.) I would definitely recommend! |
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How does a blog start off? Mostly with promises, written or unwritten. I might begin with some guiding ideas, but most of the time those are either empty or misleading. I could plunge in at the middle the way epic poets used to do and avoid the problem altogether, but that would leave you wondering why this blog and not another.
So I'll start with the title, The bigger picture. Not the Big Picture, which would suggest that I'm crazy enough to think I could explain Everything. I'm not that dumb or egotistical.
Besides, I know enough to realize that Everything isn't something that you can see or explain. It's so big that it includes whoever's doing the explaining or picturing and they can't get in the picture themselves. They're always going to be left out, not because they're not good enough at explaining or picturing but because explaining and picturing always depend on an explainer or artist who stands outside her work. They can show us only parts of reality, never reality itself.
All of our ideas, all of our theories, all of our images, everything that we take as a revelation (or reject), everything we can possibly say or imagine will always be nothing more than a chase after a reality that's forever beyond our grasp.
But just because reality escapes our words and images doesn't mean it's somewhere else. There's nothing unreal about our selves and our world. We make them unreal when we try to turn them into words and images--or when we mistake those words and images for the real life we're really living.
What I've come to think is that the strangeness of the modern world's crises start from a habit of substituting ideas for the life that those ideas try to explain. We're tied up in a straightjacket of words and thoughts--thoughts about humanity, about nature, about the universe, about religion, and everything else. As a result, we end up with a very narrow view of who we are and what we could and should be doing.
I am crazy enough to think that we can untie a few of those knots and step out to see a bigger picture, one that leads us beyond words or images. This wouldn't just be useful in a personal sense. One of the most frightening aspects of our frightening age is how few options we seem to have, how narrow our horizons are both personally and politically. We need a bigger picture; how else could we see if there are bigger possibilities?
My promise is to try to see past words, to untie a few of those knots, to look farther, and to try to find out how we might do that together.


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Steve McQueen - Museum of Modern Art, New York, New York
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Steve McQueen's first New York show, and then I found that he has an exhibition history rather fatter than either the thin number of years he has been working or the slender body of art he has made. Since graduating from Goldsmiths' College, London, in 1993, McQueen has exhibited in public institutions in his hometown (twice), Amsterdam, Chicago, Eindhoven, Frankfurt, Johannesburg (the city's biennial), Paris (also twice), and - last but not least - Kassel (Documenta). On the 28th of this month his work goes on view at New York's Museum of Modern Art (where, truth in advertising, this writer works in a noncuratorial position). There is a reaction in such cases of wanting to prove the young emperor's clotheslessness, but this is as unfair as, arguably, is the pressure of being taken extremely seriously on the basis of a small oeuvre. Similarly, while one wonders what in the market, the media, and the public exhibition system would explain which straight-out-of-art-school types will get to take shortcuts to international visibility, the topic here is the artist's work.
In this respect McQueen stands somewhat apart from his London context, at least as it appears from New York. The English art world is famously glamorous of late, and the present generation is distinct enough to have won an argot nickname: the initials YBA, for "Young British Artist." "Very YBA," say my London friends, meaning partly a style and milieu of social life but also an ethos of work, which, speaking generally, might have a splashy, in-your-face visual presence; or might so embrace popular culture as to be virtually another form of it; or might assert the autobiographical details of its own making. McQueen's films are austere by contrast. Silent and black and white, they describe no clear story or life situation, as Georgina Starr's works may; their erotic politics are usually more insinuating than confrontational, unlike those of Sarah Lucas; although McQueen may appear in his films, they are not obviously "about" him, as Starr and Tracey Emin produce art apparently "about" themselves; nor does he rephrase or parody such media as advertising, in the manner, at times, of Damien Hirst. McQueen does, I think, care about popular culture, in the form of movies, but he processes that interest so that its traces become difficult to detect.
According to critic Jon Thompson, for example, Bear, 1993, addresses a "bald cinematic cliche," the "well-worn fight sequence of the popular cinema." Narrative and visual contexts, however, are absent: this nude wrestling match has neither origin nor outcome, and happens in seeming darkness. What remains is the play of the men's feelings - there is smiling and laughter, but also challenge, caution, tension, alarm, and a certain erotic buzz as the sparring goes through its phases. Equally important is the camera's tight dance with the men's bodies, so that we see light on sweat and the texture of skin observed at such proximity that it looks like the surface of the moon. McQueen told me that he tends to be sparked by technical problems, and Bear is in part a demonstration of how to involve both camera and viewer in the action. But it also, he added, has emotional motives, exploring, if at a certain distance, both a friend's suicide and the artist's relationship with his father. The film's protagonists, one of them McQueen, are both black, but issues of race, he has said, are not a priority in his work.
If Bear reflects on and concentrates movie history, recent art is equally present in these films. McQueen admires Bruce Nauman, whom his use of the gallery may recall: he tailors the darkened space so the image fits and fills the wall, shedding the containment of the cinema screen to achieve an involving physicality. Heightening the effect are sometimes vertiginous camera setups. Five Easy Pieces, 1995, accents this strategy: it literally follows a woman across a tightrope. Occasionally interspersed are shots of a group of male hula-hoopers; where they are seen from above, in sunlight, the lone tightrope walker is seen from below, in darkness, as if female and male, although erotically charged, were kept apart - respectively aerial and earthbound, solitary and social, in separate time zones. And both are filmed from angles that abstract their bodies. McQueen's work generally suggests a certain removal - a shift from the worldly attunement of other YBAs toward an absorption in visual dynamics and in technique.
Yet content is there, if suppressed. The genesis of Five Easy Pieces, McQueen says, was the idea that a tightrope walker is "the perfect image of a combination of vulnerability and strength." Just Above My Head, 1996, finds the same fusion in a man just walking. The man - McQueen again - is shot (in a single ten-minute take) so as to crop out his body, but his head appears small at the image's bottom, rising and falling with his step as if bouncing against the gallery floor, and sometimes almost dropping beneath it. Dwarfed by the wide white sky, McQueen seems tenuously placed, yet he advances with purposeful confidence. Despite the artist's denials, it is tempting to see this simultaneous fragility and persistence as a metaphor for black life in England, and elsewhere too.
I suspect, though, another dimension also. All these images - of wrestling, tightrope walking, hula-hooping, almost but not quite falling from sight - seem to be about keeping one's feet, with elegance and struggle; about maintaining a tricky and mysterious balance. Exodus, 1992-97 - atypically, a sixty-five-second color video - offers clues through its title: it records a found event, two black men carrying potted palms, the greenery waving precariously above their heads, whom McQueen followed down a London street. Then they get on a bus and leave. It is a modern image of the Christian state of grace.
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Very nice indeed! Especially impressive for being in zone 1. |
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Marie, the books classify you as 1b or you wouldn't have put it here. You have a beautiful yard. Would you call yourself 1b ? Lynn |
Not sure what you mean Lynn, I got the rating off the new Canadian Zone map. Here's a link to it. http://www.agr.gc.ca/atlas/agpv?webmap=78529700717d4cab81c13e9f9404ef10 |
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Looks great Marie! Your hostas look big & happy. |
When i started gardening, my zone rating was 3b but they changed everything and now i'm technically 2b. Well, none of my zone 3 plants suddenly died off because the rating changed, so i refuse to be 2b! So there! |
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Impressive 1b garden! |
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OMG I will trade your 1b for my wannabe 5!!!! |
WOW!!!!! That is IMPRESSIVE! I love your "messy" style for sure! Listen, that is NOT messy - it is totally ORGANIZED CHAOS and I LOVE IT! I love how lush and green the plants are, how you combine the textures, colours and forms so perfectly together. I LOVE IT! I feel like asking you to give me the list and location of each perennial from that gorgeous border, so I can learn what to mix with what to create that amazing effect!!! WOWOWOWOWOWOW!!!!! LOVE IT!!! If anyone tells you that your garden is too crowded, they do NOT know what they are talking about.... :-) It's GORGEOUS!!! |
- Posted by nutsaboutflowers 2b/3a (My Page) on Wed, Jul 16, 14 at 10:14
Marie, I feel the same way as Marcia. I also refuse to be a 2a. By the time you consider the protection from the trees, house, and fence, we all have nice little micro zones :) I have quite a few things for zone 4 in my yard . You're growing all kinds of things that shouldn't thrive in 1b aren't you ? Lynn |
I will embrace the term, Organized Chaos. Thanks Ostrich. I agree, there is protection from the house & fence etc, for my backyard plants. However the front yard faces north and is wide open. I think having the correct soil for the plants is the most important thing determining survival. And a very big element is reliable snow cover. Though it was a really tough winter, most perennials survived. Trees are another matter. Many ash trees in my area have lost all their limbs but are only coming back from the base of the tree. But thank you all for the positive comments. It is always a work in progress. Some days things look okay. Other times I think I should grow less and take better care of what I do have. But then PAD kicks in, lol. |
WOW ... beautiful! If I could just take all you've done with your perennial border and put it in my back yard, that would be my dream. This is what I hope to work towards one day (I haven't even started with a border around the fence as I'm still working on some raised flower beds). I still have a lot of learning to figure out what goes with what. Looks great! |
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