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Your Luck and Remedies in the Year of the Wood Horse 2014
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06/12/2013, 10:31
Rat, Ox, Tiger, Rabbit, Dragon, Snake, Horse, Sheep, Monkey, Rooster, Dog, Boar
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Flying Star Feng Shui Update - 11th Month of the Gui Ji Water Snake...
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03/12/2013, 10:48
(7th December 2013 - 5th January 2014)
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How to Dejunk Unwanted Files from your Computer and Work Desk
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03/11/2013, 16:23
Dejunking your mind and your space should also extend to your computer, which stores so much of our rubbish these days.
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Feng Shui World Latest Issue (Nov/Dec 2013) is Out. Get Your Copy Now!
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01/11/2013, 14:09
This end-of-year issue is the beginning of exciting times for all of us at Feng Shui World. From the next issue, which comes out in January 2014, FENG SHUI WORLD will become a monthly!
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Bedrooms: Practicality vs Aesthetics
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27/10/2013, 17:54
When it comes to design, there needs to be a balance between what looks cool and what makes sense. Many designers tend to lose perspective of this and tend to design without any consideration to the requirements of the client, instead, opting for the 'coolest' design.
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The Master Square of 81
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14/10/2013, 14:18
The Master Square of 81 extends the analysis of changing energy patterns in buildings and takes the practice of time dimensional feng shui into deeper, more subtle magical territory.
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The fabulous feng shui of MELBOURNE
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01/10/2013, 11:28
Melbourne has moved up once again in the rankings compiled by the Economist Intelligence Unit. YES Melbourne has been ranked as number one in a survey of 140 cities around the world in August 2011 by the ETU as the world's most livable city.
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A BIG THANK YOU for CELEBRATING WITH US!
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17/09/2013, 15:28
Our Grand Opening of Kingdom of Shambala over the weekend was a sensational success, thanks to all who came from all corners of Malaysia and Singapore!
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Aunt Agga Issue #93
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09/09/2013, 14:45
Aunt Agga answers questions about love luck, siblings, prenancy, and superstition gone wrong!
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Creating Value in Homes
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12/08/2013, 15:04
When we think about our Home Value, we always refer to its location and floor area. But what we don't think about is its Psychic Value, the value of how much we cherish our homes and the value we place on a property when we resell it.
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Create the CHI of WEALTH
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28/07/2013, 14:19
So much of successful feng shui practice comes from cleverly harnessing the powerful chi of SYMBOLS that if you travel the length and breadth of China today, everywhere you will see evidence of this Symbolism.
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Accidents, Mishaps and Danger Doubles with the Double 5 Yellow during...
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16/07/2013, 15:41
Every year the Hungry Ghost Month dawns upon us on the 7th lunar month of the year – a time where the Gates of the underworld open for a 30 days! During this month millions of spirits, demons and ghosts are unleashed..
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Building Energy
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07/07/2013, 16:33
Ever wondered how buildings affect the way we view our world? It is so natural to live in a state on NON AWARENESS and for many of us, this is how we are, walking, living and doing things while quite oblivious to our surroundings.
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How to transform your living space to attract good fortune
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20/06/2013, 08:00
It is important to attune yourself to the clearing process. The act itself is a departure from a normal kind of day. It is a departure from routine, and the mind gets a creative jolt that is not unwelcome. When the mind focuses on the process of dejunking physical space, it automatically goes into cleansing mode.
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Aunt Agga Issue #92
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10/06/2013, 15:35
Aunt Agga answers questions about mother in laws, adopted sons, cat ashes, and astrology readings gone wrong!
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Messages from Birds
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27/05/2013, 08:00
I am charmed by this because I know that birds coming into the home spells excellent feng shui. Indeed, birds have been sharing my house for a long time. This started years ago when a pair of mynahs started living in the eaves of my home at the back.
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FOCUS ON BATHROOMS Designing Areas of the Home That We Never Think...
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22/05/2013, 08:00
When we design our homes we generally concentrate our efforts on the more public areas such as the living and dining halls and we often put less effort into the other areas which we tend to use quite often.
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Why the number 9 is the most supreme of numbers
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01/05/2013, 11:52
FSW is delighted to introduce David Burton, mathematical genius and very successful Astrologer from Australia.
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Maximizing The CEO's Potential
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01/04/2013, 14:50
In business, the luck of the CEO is crucial to the success and profitability of the business. Just as in the home it is essential to take care of the feng shui of the Patriach first, in business, it is the CEO's feng shui you must protect first and foremost.
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Making Offerings... Brings Showers of Blessings
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17/03/2013, 14:24
Offering water, lights and incense to holy objects are easy ways to gain blessings from the universe! These traditions come from lineage texts that tell of the amazing benefits of offering even a single drop of water to the Buddhas! Always do it with the intention to benefit others and its blessings will be multiplied!
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Ancient Angle On Good Fortune
Feng Shui experts try to 'cure" sources of bad energy as homeowner wonders if she did anything right.
It's chilly Wednesday morning when Dee Johl and Dolly Sidhu arrive at my door. Co-owners of World of Feng Shui, a specialty store and consultancy service store and consultancy service based in Vaughan, they are here to analyze my house; to "read" it, so to speak, and impart some feng shui advice.
Feng Shui has been described as the ancient Chinese practice of placement and arrangement of space to achieve harmony with the environment. Formerly dismissed as rampant superstition, its concepts are increasingly embraced by Westerners seeking to enhance their success and happiness – outcomes that feng shui (pronounced fung shway) is said to provide. In the last decade, feng shui lite (its original mysticism largely downplayed) has become a hot buzzword in the fields of décor and architectural design.
The underpinning of feng shui is the concept of qi (pronounced chi) the energy that is thought to exist in all things, animate and inanimate, connecting all of nature, mankind included, in a vast cosmic flow. It can be positive (sheng qi), bringing luck and happiness; or negative (sha qi), causing misfortune and misery.
The goal of feng shui is to regulate the flow of qi within your home, activating the good energies and neutralizing or deflecting the bad. In theory, you can control your wealth, health success and personal relationships though judicious use of feng shui.
Johl and Shidhu – one an interior decorator, the other a real estate agent – have been feng shui devotees for many years. Both hail from Malaysia. Moving to Toronto in the 1980s, they did private consultations but, as Sidhu points out, it wasn't easy finding the merchandise to support the practice of feng shui – in those days, Canadians barely knew the term.
In 2004, on separate vacations home to Malaysia, fate brought them both in contact with the World of Feng Shui, an international franchise created by fellow-Malaysian Lillian Too, who has almost single-handedly brought awareness of feng shui to the western world.
Too, who holds an MBA from Harvard, writes books and publishes a bi-monthly magazine, and her 55 boutiques are franchised in 17 countries, with further expansion planned this year. She also offers feng shui certification training to people like Johl and Shidhu, who may then bid for franchises of her World of Feng Shui brand.
Johl and Shidhu completed their training in 2005, and lauched their enterprise, last May. In my house, they begin by taking compass readings to determine the "facing" of the building, a crucial detail for their analysis. Qi enters through your front door and it's important to know whether, in any give year, your entrance is likely to be assailed by good or bad energies – also known as Flying Stars.
Feng shui experts have calculated that in the lunar year beginning tomorrow, very bad energy will fly in from the northeast, while the southwest will be the luckiest sector. My front door faces due east, which turns out to be propitious.
Johl and Sidhu whose consultations start at $500, alos ask about the scope and timing of any renovations, in order to determine the "period" into which the building falls. There is some debate as to whether my house is a Period 7 or 8; I hope they get it right, since the rest of their analysis will hinge on the answer.
The women jot down the birthdates of me and my sons for our Auspicious Directions charts and for the Natal Flying Star Chart of our home. They tour the house, trying not to shake their heads or purse their lips too noticeably.
I know for sure they'll disapprove of my bedroom-cum-office, since it's not considered good feng shui to mix the two. I'm taken by surprise, however, by their dismay over my kitchen.
It faces west. This, apparently is bad – sure to bring about discord in the marital relationship. And because the "fire" energies in a kitchen are so strong, the area cannot be activated or negated by feng shui "cures".
I have two options: renovate drastically or live elsewhere.
Neither is my current life-plan. Moving right along.
A few days later, Johl and Sidhu are back with their report and a medley of possible cures for my problems.
As expected, my bedroom is a danger zone: mirrors facing the bed, computer and TV screens and "poison arrows" (sharp angles and points) galore. The women are horrified by the belt of machine-gun bullets hanging on the wall (long spent, I hasten to add, and very old, an offbeat souvenir of my youthful travels.) Even the ceiling fans is a no-no. "It's slicing you," Sidhu points out.
They recommend I repaint the bedroom in shades of pale pink (I hate pink) to suppress the violent metal energy from the facing of the room and to arrange rose quartz crystals to enhance my relationships.
My younger son's room is blue (his favourite colour). It should be green, since blue – symbolizing water – is "destructive" to the fire energies of his south facing room is green. It should be white (which) it was, before I painted it green) to enhance its metal energies.
Have I done anything right? Doesn't seem so.
My living room needs to be repainted in pale green to enhance the wood energies. Numerous "cures" – three-toed toads with gold coins in their mouths, a laughing Buddha, a picture of a tranquil mountain – are recommended to encourage a (much needed) inflow of wealth and to curb "quarrelsome energies and legal issues."
The women advise me to hand a wind chime in the centre of the house to counteract a Flying Star combination that may bring misfortune and accidents. I should also leave lights on constantly over my hydrobill) to counteract the evil sha qi that will be seeking to enter this year.
How do Johl and Sidhu reach all these conclusions? The answer is very complicated and illustrates the need for a trained practitioner.
Feng Shui has been so popularized that most people are aware of a few simple concepts involving wind chimes and crystals and rules such as not sitting with your back to a door or sleeping beneath an exposed beam. Some dabblers learn how to superimpose the Bagua – an octagonal diagram that is representative of the most basic level of feng shui – onto a floor plan of their home and shuffle their belongings around to suit.
It's a generic approach, harmless – but akin to skating on the surface of a frozen pond with no awareness of the untold depths below. A true feng shui practitioner studies its mysteries for years, referring to the I-Ching and Tao, and various aspects of Chinese mysticism.
In order to advice a client wisely, precise and complex mathematical calculations must take into account his/her date of birth, and the movement of the different energies in his home and in the cosmos at any given time. A feng shui "master" can plot your luck literally hour by hour, from any direction.
Johl and Sidhu do not practice feng shui at that rarified level. But they've studied the ground work areas of Compass and Flying Star feng shui, Chinese astrology, the Four Pillars Destiny Chart and the Eight Mansions method of analysis. They can (intheory) determine where some one's luck is coming from, which are auspicious and in auspicious directions and what to do to enhance or activate positive forces.
It's not any easy task; my charts took them two days to prepare. Their mentor, Lillian Too – who will bring her annual Feng Shui Extravaganza Roadshow to Toronto for the first time on Feb.25 – readily concedes that feng shui isn't all that is needed for success; hard work is two thirds of the story.
"But if you have one-third (of your luck) tied up, that is a big thing. And it's so easy to do."
Her one-day workshop will give tips on "How to get rich and stay safe in 2007," the Year of the Fire Boar, which she predicts will be a year of great turmoil, but also of great opportunities. Health, she says, will also be a big issue.
As we ended our conversation, I joked about the need to do some housecleaning before Johl and Shidhu arrived for their consultation. Too's response, delivered with a touch of asperity, was perhaps the best advise of all: "A dirty, cluttered house is bad energy. You don't need feng shui to tell you that!" Touche.
Dee Johl and Dolly Sidhu; World of Feng Shui; Tuscay Place at Vaughan Mills, Vauhan; 9056608899 wofs.ca
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One of the most compelling actors of her generation, Toni Collette has enjoyed a career that can only be described as unpredictable. Moon-faced, cat-eyed, and possessing a presence that conveys both dignity and eccentricity, Collette had her breakthrough in P.J. Hogan's hit 1994 comedy Muriel's Wedding. As the film's title character, an overweight, ABBA-loving woman who is obsessed with getting married, the Australian actor earned both critical raves and audience recognition across the globe. She also earned plenty of opportunities to be typecast into similar roles -- particularly as she had gained over 18 kilos to play the part of Muriel -- but managed to skillfully avoid this by appearing in a variety of films that had nothing to do with ABBA, matrimony, or weight issues.
Born in Sydney, Australia, on November 1, 1972, Collette became interested in acting as a child. She made her stage debut at the age of 14 in a school production of Godspell, and went on to attend the National Institute of Dramatic Art. Quitting the prestigious school after less than two years in order to work with a talented stage director, she appeared in a number of plays and in 1991 made her screen debut in Spotswood, acting in the company of Anthony Hopkins and a then unheard-of Russell Crowe.
Three years later, Collette had her big break with Muriel's Wedding, a sleeper hit in both Australia and the U.S. Following the hoopla surrounding the film's success, the actor appeared in a number of small films, including the 1996 comedy Cosi and Clockwatchers (1997), a poignant office comedy that featured Collette, Lisa Kudrow, Parker Posey, and Alanna Ubach as dissatisfied temps.
Recognized by keen-eyed observers as Gwyneth Paltrow's shy friend Harriet in Douglas McGrath's 1996 adaptation of Emma, and as the Angie Bowie-esque wife of a glam rocker in Todd Haynes' much maligned Velvet Goldmined (1998), Collette found her biggest audience to date -- as well as some of her biggest raves -- in M. Night Shalyaman's The Sixth Sense (1999). Cast as the mother of a young boy (Haley Joel Osment) who sees dead people, Collette earned a Best Supporting Actress Oscar nomination for her performance. Unfortunately, she followed the film with Shaft (2000), more or less wasting her talents in the role of a woman who the titular private dick has to save from the bad guys.
Collette's talents were put to greater use in the made-for-TV movie Dinner With Friends (2001), which cast her as a woman who breaks up with her husband (Greg Kinnear) after 12 years of marriage. The movie, which also starred Andie MacDowell and Dennis Quaid, won warm reviews, particularly for the strong ensemble work of its four principle actors. Collette's subsequent workload reflected her growing popularity; in addition to Stephen Daldry's The Hours (2001), which she starred in alongside a cast that included Meryl Streep, Nicole Kidman, Julianne Moore, and Ed Harris, she also appeared opposite Hugh Grant in the 2002 adaptation of author
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's About a Boy. Collette continued to take on small-scale projects like the Hollywood satire The Last Shot. She co-starred with Nia Vardelos in Connie & Carla, a film that came nowhere close to equaling the sleeper success of Vardelos' My Big Fat Greek Wedding, but did showcase Collette's fine singing voice. The next year Collette gave a strong performance opposite Cameron Diaz in the underappreciated In Her Shoes. 2006 found her stretching both her comedic and dramatic muscles by co-starring in the psychological thriller The Night Listener as well as the sleeper hit independent comedy Little Miss Sunshine opposite Steve Carell and Greg Kinnear.
The actress would go on to contiunue her reputation, consistently appearing in critically acclaimed films like The Night Listener, Jesus Henry Christ, The Black Balloon, and Towelhead, in addition to finding a suitable outlet for her talents on the small screen, playing a mother with multiple personalities in the Diablo Cody penned HBO series United States of Tara. ~ Rebecca Flint Marx, Rovi
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A 10-year-old genius embarks on a search for his real father, and gets more than a few unexpected surprises along the way in the quirky sophomore feature from Fireflies in the Garden writer/director Dennis Lee. Henry James Hermin (Jason Spevack) began speaking in full sentences before he was a year old. And before he's even reached his teens, he's already in college. But the older Henry gets, the more he begins to wonder why he doesn't have a father. The son of a left-wing feminist named Patricia (Toni Collette), Henry is investigating his origins when he's kicked out of school for penning a controversial essay, and his grandfather Stan (Frank Moore) makes a shocking revelation: Henry is a test-tube baby. Upon learning that he has a half-sister named Audrey (Samantha Weinstein), and that she was conceived so that her father Dr. Slavkin O'Hara (Michael Sheen) could pen a best-seller titled "Born Gay or Made That Way?" the precocious boy decides to seek out his long-lost sibling. Later, as Henry and Audrey attempt to map out their family tree, the twisted roots make tracing their origins a formidable challenge, and a new kind of family begins to emerge. ~ Jason Buchanan, Rovi
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A suburban Las Vegas teenager realizes that his new neighbor is a charismatic vampire in this remake of the 1985 horror comedy hit. After years of climbing to reach the top of the social ladder, high school senior Charley Brewster (Anton Yelchin) finally rules the roost. Just as Charley ditches his best pal, "Evil" Ed (Christopher Mintz-Plasse), and starts dating the most popular girl in their class, however, a handsome new face appears in the neighborhood. It belongs to Charley's new neighbor Jerry (Colin Farrell), an outwardly amiable guy with a quick smile and a sharp wit. But when Ed vanishes without a trace andCharley sees a side of Jerry that everyone else seems to miss, the nouveau popular teen becomes convinced that the nice-guy act is a cover for something truly sinister. Unable to convince his mother (Toni Collette) that Jerry is a genuine bloodsucker, Charley turns to Las Vegas magician Peter Vincent (David Tennant) to help exterminate the demon before he drinks the entire neighborhood dry. ~ Jason Buchanan, Rovi
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Suburban wife and mother Tara Gregson (Toni Collette) juggles her family and career while suffering from Dissociative Identity Disorder. It's never a dull moment in the Gregson household as the various identities may appear on any given day -- and range from "T", a flirtatious and spunky teenager to "Buck," a gun-loving male alter -- all while her supportive husband Max (John Corbett) and their two teenaged children, Kate (Brie Larson) and Marshall (Keir Gilchrist), try to lead as much of a "normal" life as possible.
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Academy Award-winning Harvie Krumpet director Adam Elliot returns to the world of clay animation with this simple tale of the innocent correspondence between a portly eight year old girl from the suburbs of Melbourne and a morbidly obese, middle-aged Jewish New Yorker suffering from Asperger's Syndrome. On the surface it would seem that Mary (Toni Collette) and Max (Philip Seymour Hoffman) would have little in common, but over the course of twenty years, the unlikely pen pals exchange letters discussing everything from taxidermy, trust, pets, religion, obesity, autism, agoraphobia, alcoholism, and just about any other topic that comes to mind as they sit down and put pen to paper. Barry Humphries and Eric Bana provide additional voices. ~ Jason Buchanan, Rovi
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An adolescent boy from a most idiosyncratic family attempts to adjust to his new neighborhood as his 16th birthday looms on the horizon in this family drama from director Elissa Down. Thomas is about to turn 16, and as if adjusting to a new neighborhood, a new school, and new friends isn't enough for a teenage boy to contend with, his family is about as unpredictable as they come. His autistic older brother, Charlie, suffers from ADD, and attends a special school on the days that he actually chooses to go. His father, Simon, is an enormous cricket fan who is prone to holding intense discussions with his teddy bear, and his mother, Maggie, is a free spirit who sleeps with pretty much whomever she pleases. Recently, Thomas' mother revealed that she is pregnant. As a result, Thomas finds himself looking after Charlie much more frequently than usual. When Charlie strips half-naked and dashes into the neighbor's house in search of a bathroom, Thomas storms in after him and encounters pretty classmate Jackie -- who is currently attempting to take a shower. Mortified, Thomas begins to realize that he might not be capable of caring for Charlie. Later at school, Thomas realizes that he'll have to learn to swim before he earns his lifesaving badge. Of course, every student in class needs to have a partner, and it just so happens that Thomas' partner is a pretty fellow pupil named Jackie. ~ Jason Buchanan, Rovi
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As Constance (Natasha Richardson) and Nina (Toni Collette) gather at the deathbed of their mother, Ann (Vanessa Redgrave), they learn for the first time that their mother lived an entire other lifetime during one evening 50 years ago, one she kept secret all their lives. In vivid flashbacks, the young Ann (played by Claire Daines) spends one night with a man named Harris (Patrick Wilson), whom she'd remember so many years later as the love of her life. As her daughters try to face the loss of their mother and the struggle to be happy in their own lives, they piece together an idea of love, happiness, and the woman they called their mother. ~ Cammila Collar, Rovi
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Six Feet Under creator and American Beauty screenwriter Alan Ball makes his feature directorial debut with this screen adaptation of author Alicia Erian's controversial novel Towelhead. Jasira (Summer Bishil) is a 13-year-old Arab-American who's contending with the pains of adolescence when her life takes a sudden and unexpected turn. Sent to live with her stern Lebanese father, Rifat (Peter Macdissi), by her self-absorbed mother (Maria Bello), Jasira finds herself struggling to adjust to life in the suburbs while contending with racism and hypocrisy at every turn. Rifat lives in a modest, suburban Houston home next to racist reservist Mr. Vuoso (Aaron Eckhart) and meddling expectant mother Melina (Toni Collette). Adjusting to life in the suburbs isn't easy for young Jasira, though she tries her hardest to adapt to the unfamiliar environment by striking up casual conversations with her curious new neighbors. In the process, Jasira finds herself increasingly attracted to hormone-driven African-American teen Thomas (Eugene Jones). When Rifat finds out that his daughter's new boyfriend is black, he vehemently condemns the relationship. As America launches its initial invasion of Iraq, Jasira finds herself caught up in a potentially explosive situation that is only compounded by her raging hormones and the snooping of her pregnant, busybody neighbor. ~ Jason Buchanan, Rovi
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Karen Moncrieff, the Independent Spirit Award-nominated director of Blue Car, assembles a stellar cast comprised of Toni Collette, James Franco, Giovanni Ribisi, and Mary Beth Hurt to tell the tale of one girl's mysterious death, and how the tragic actions of the people who surround her eventually led to her savage murder. When the brutalized and lifeless body of a once-vital young girl (Brittany Murphy) is discovered, a community is scarred by the unspeakable horror of seeing one of their own so viciously desecrated. But the discovery of the body is just the beginning of the story, and now as a wife uncovers her husband's dark secret, a mother searches frantically for her missing daughter, and a series of other, seemingly unrelated occurrences slowly begin to converge, the heartbreaking truth behind a tragic act of violence will shake the very foundation of a once close-knit community. ~ Jason Buchanan, Rovi
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A man whose life has been touched by tragic illness is drawn into the life of another victim whose story has an unsettling twist in this drama. Gabriel Noone (Robin Williams) is a radio talk show host who has developed a loyal following for his deeply personal on-air monologues, many of which deal with his relationship with his companion Jess (Bobby Cannavale), who is HIV-positive and struggling with his health. When Jess' condition improves, he surprises Gabriel by announcing he needs his space and has decided to break up with him. Gabriel is shaken and feels creatively blocked until Ashe (Joe Morton), a friend in the publishing business, gives him an advance copy of a memoir by Pete Logand (Rory Culkin), a 14-year-old boy living with AIDS. Pete's book is a harrowing memoir of a childhood fraught with abuse of all sorts meted out at the hands of his parents, and Gabriel is deeply moved by his story. One night, Gabriel gets a phone call from Pete, who claims to be a big fan of his radio show, but the call is cut off by Donna (Toni Collette), Pete's stern and protective stepmother. While Gabriel admires Pete's book, he begins to question its veracity, and with the help of Anna (Sandra Oh) tries to research the facts behind the story. As he uncovers more loose ends, Gabriel begins to suspect that Pete isn't the true author of the work, and that Donna has created his terrible past in the name of literary celebrity. The Night Listener was adapted from the novel by Armistead Maupin. ~ Mark Deming, Rovi
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A murder lifts the lid on some disturbing actions among the pupils at a well-respected school in this drama. Nigel (Tom Sturridge), a student at an exclusive British private school, has been found murdered, and police detective McKenzie (Richard Roxburgh) has been assigned to investigate. Alex Forbes (Eddie Redmayne), one of Nigel's classmates who was known to have little fondness for him, is a prime suspect and has been brought in for questioning; however, he refuses to cooperate, and Sally Rowe (Toni Collette), a forensic psychiatrist working with the police, is brought in to talk to the boy. While Alex is initially no more helpful with Sally, in time she's able to find cracks in his resistance, and he begins to discuss his interest in the Knights Templar, a medieval Christian military order. As Alex shares his belief that the benefits of some actions can outweigh their wrongs, Sally learns more about the boy, and her research turns up some surprising facts – Nigel believed both he and Alex were descended from members of the Knights Templar, they may have been responsible for the death of a schoolmate in the interest of gaining mystical powers, and Alex's father (Patrick Malahide), also the headmaster at the school, has some troubling secrets of his own. Like Minds was the first feature film from writer and director Gregory J. Read. ~ Mark Deming, Rovi
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Little Miss Sunshine
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When a pudgy, bespectacled seven-year-old, Olive (Abigail Breslin), voices her desire to take home the coveted Little Miss Sunshine crown at an upcoming beauty pageant, her wildly dysfunctional family sets out on an interstate road trip to ensure her a clear shot at realizing her dreams in former music video directorial team Jonathan Dayton and Valerie Faris' quirky feature debut, starring Greg Kinnear, Steve Carell, and Toni Collette. Despite early career success as an outspoken motivational speaker, family patriarch Richard (Kinnear) continues to cling to his "Refuse to Lose" philosophy, much to the chagrin of his increasingly annoyed spouse, Sheryl (Collette). Add into the mix a Nietzsche-reading teenage son (Paul Dano) who has taken a vow of silence until he finds his fate as a fighter pilot; a horny, heroin-happy grandfather (Alan Arkin) with a penchant for creative profanity; and a suicidal genius (Carell) and Proust scholar still reeling about losing both his male lover and his MacArthur Foundation genius grant -- and the stage is set for a road trip in which sanity is sure to take the back seat. ~ Jason Buchanan, Rovi
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Tsunami: The Aftermath
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Filmmaker Bharat Nalluri teams with writer Abi Morgan and an all-star cast to explore the aftermath of the 2004 tsunami that devastated the coast of Thailand. Based on extensive research and interviews personally conducted by writer Morgan, this miniseries explores the cultural and personal fault lines that can be destroyed by such a powerful force of nature while simultaneously highlighting how people from different cultures and a wide-range of social spectrums can come together in times of crisis. As a young couple searches desperately for their missing child, a Thai survivor whose loved ones have been swept away with the rushing waters struggles to prevent real estate developers from seizing the land that was once his village. Meanwhile, a high-profile Thai meteorologist struggles with the knowledge that his dire warnings were repeatedly ignored by officials as an Englishwoman sets out to find her missing husband and son, and an emotional British official whose faith in the system is slowly eroding in the face of tragedy. Tim Roth, Toni Collette, Chiwetel Ejiofor, Sophie Okonedo, and Hugh Bonnevill star in a dramatized account of disaster that sent shockwaves rippling across not only Thailand, but the entire planet as well. ~ Jason Buchanan, Rovi
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In Her Shoes
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Curtis Hanson's adaptation of Jennifer Weiner's novel In Her Shoes stars Toni Collette and Cameron Diaz as a pair of very close but very different sisters. Free-wheeling irresponsible Maggie Feller (Diaz) gets through her life thanks to her remarkable looks and her lack of scruples. She constantly goes to her straight-laced, plain-Jane successful lawyer sister Rose (Collette) for financial help. The two sisters have been very close to each other in part because their troubled mother died when they were girls. Right about the same time that Maggie discovers hidden letters that reveal she and Rose have a grandmother, Maggie does something to betray Rose's trust. Maggie sets off for Florida to find the grandmother. A failed workplace romance forces Rose to rethink her career, a career that has been the center of her life. As Rose tentatively begins a new relationship and Maggie gets to know her grandmother (played by Shirley MacLaine), the two learn a dark family secret that helps smooth the path toward reconciliation. ~ Perry Seibert, Rovi
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Connie and Carla
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Actress and writer Nia Vardalos, who became an overnight sensation with My Big Fat Greek Wedding, returns to the big screen with this gender-bending comedy. Connie (Vardalos) and Carla (Toni Collette) are best friends who've shared the same dream ever since they were teenagers -- making a name for themselves in the musical theater. However, after years of treading water on Chicago's dinner theater circuit and playing bottom-of-the-barrel nightclubs, the two are facing middle age with minimal career success. One evening after a performance, Connie and Carla have the misfortune of witnessing the murder of nightclub owner Frank (Michael Roberds) by low-level Mafiosi; the gals are seen by the shooters, and they hit the road in fear for their lives. Connie and Carla end up in Los Angeles, where they struggle to create new identities for themselves. After witnessing a drag review at a nightclub, they realize that even they have more talent than most of the men performing that evening, and they decide to pose as female impersonators in hopes of landing a gig. Connie and Carla's new act is an immediate hit, and soon they're the toast of L.A.'s gay community. But the women discover it's difficult to keep on fooling people into believing they're men, and things become even more complicated when the Mobsters discover that Connie and Carla are in Los Angeles. Meanwhile, Connie finds herself falling for Jeff (David Duchovny), a regular guy looking for his cross-dressing brother who can't understand why he's developing a crush on a drag queen. ~ Mark Deming, Rovi
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The Last Shot
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Directed by Jeff Nathanson, The Last Shot follows what happens when, like so many aspiring entertainers, the FBI gets caught up in the grandeur of showbiz. When Agent Joe Devine (Alec Baldwin) is given a key role in an elaborate scheme to take down the infamous mob boss John Gotti, he gladly accepts the assignment and goes undercover as a Hollywood producer. Before long, he has assembled an unwitting cast, including aspiring director Steven Schatz (Matthew Broderick), who agrees to direct for Devine without realizing the entire production is merely a front for the investigation. As Agent Devine and several of his cohorts from the bureau begin enjoying their lives as self-appointed industry players, however, justice takes a backseat as the would-be law-enforcement operatives put all of the passion into turning what began as a sham movie project into a true Hollywood contender. ~ Tracie Cooper, Rovi
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Japanese Story
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Following their feature debut, Road to Nhill, in 1997, screenwriter Alison Tilson and director Sue Brooks team up again for the Australian drama Japanese Story. Toni Collette stars as Sandy Edwards, an ambitious geologist who is most comfortable when working alone. She also runs a software design company with a business partner, Bill Baird (Matthew Dyktynski), and she doesn't get along very well with her mother (Lynette Curran). While trying to sell their software products, Bill asks for her help in catching a prospective client. Sandy reluctantly meets the quiet and reserved Japanese businessman Hiromitsu (Gotaro Tsunashima) in order to make a sale. After he requests that she take him on a driving tour, the odd couple find themselves stranded in the Pilbara desert for a night -- one of the most remote places in the Australian outback. During this time together, their relationship quickly escalates and both parties are changed by the experience. Japanese Story premiered at the 2003 Cannes Film Festival. ~ Andrea LeVasseur, Rovi
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Changing Lanes
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Director Roger Michell follows up the hit romantic comedy Notting Hill (1999) with this thought-provoking thriller. Ben Affleck and Samuel L. Jackson star, respectively, as Gavin Banek and Doyle Gibson, two New York men whose lives become accidentally intertwined in a Good Friday fender bender on the FDR Drive. Late for a crucial appointment, hotshot lawyer Gavin tosses Doyle a blank check and leaves the scene, while Doyle, whose car is inoperable, is late for a court-appointed custody hearing. A recovering alcoholic, Doyle's tardiness doesn't sit well with the judge, who - sick of waiting for Gipson - grants custody to Doyle's ex-wife in Doyle's absence. The situation worsens when it becomes evident that Doyle has an equally important file belonging to Gavin, which proves that an elderly man gave Banek's firm power-of-attorney over his foundation. So begins an escalating war of words and deeds between the two men. Soon, egged on by an associate (Toni Collette), Gavin hires a "fixer" (Dylan Baker) to destroy Doyle's credit, forcing Doyle to fire back with some cunning moves of his own. Changing Lanes co-stars William Hurt, Sydney Pollack, and Toni Collette. ~ Karl Williams, Rovi
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Dirty Deeds
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Directed by David Caesar, Dirty Deeds is an Australian crime picture inspired by real-life Sydney mobsters, and is set in the Sydney crime underworld of 1969. Bryan Brown stars as Barry Ryan, a prominent gangster whose ruthlessness rivals some of the toughest in the trade. He lives with his downbeat wife, Sharon (Toni Collette), and their son, but spends the majority of his time either with fellow mobsters or his mistress, Margaret (Kestie Morassi). Ryan's business is threatened when a Chicago Mafia boss dispatches two of his goons to scope out the poker machine scene for a potential takeover. Tony (John Goodman) and Sal (Felix Williamson), however, are lost when it comes to Australian culture, and stick out like a sore thumb. Negotiating with the Americans will be difficult enough for Barry, but the real blow comes when he learns that one of his own gang members has been deceitful. ~ Tracie Cooper, Rovi
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London's most frequently eligible bachelor gets some lessons in growing up from a maladroit 12-year-old boy in this third big-screen adaptation of a Nick Hornby novel, directed and co-written by siblings Chris and Paul Weitz of American Pie fame. About a Boy concerns the parallel coming-of-age stories of the thirtysomething Will (Hugh Grant), a layabout "serial nice guy" living a posh, carefree lifestyle off his deceased father's fortune; and the preteen Marcus (Nicholas Hoult), a bright but awkward youth who's tired of his mom Fiona's (Toni Collette) depressed, boyfriend-less state. Their paths collide when Will, deciding that single mothers are the easiest romantic conquests on the dating scene, fabricates a two-year-old son and joins a group called S.P.A.T. (Single Parents Alone Together). Marcus is wise to Will's scheme, however, and through some incessant pestering and blackmail, he contrives for Will to date Fiona. Though Will doesn't hit it off immediately with either Marcus or his mother, he gradually begins to open up to the people around him -- so much so that he attracts the attention of another attractive single mom (Rachel Weisz). A U.S./U.K. co-production of Robert DeNiro's Tribeca Films and Tim Bevan and Eric Fellner's Working Title (the company responsible for the Grant-related Four Weddings and a Funeral and Bridget Jones's Diary), About a Boy was co-written by What's Eating Gilbert Grape creator Peter Hedges. ~ Michael Hastings, Rovi
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Three women, separated by a span of nearly 80 years, find themselves weathering similar crises, all linked by a single work of literature in this film adaptation of the Pulitzer Prize-winning novel by Michael Cunningham. In 1923, Virginia Woolf (Nicole Kidman) is attempting to start work on her novel Mrs. Dalloway, in which she chronicles one day in the life of a troubled woman. But Virginia has demons of her own, and she struggles to overcome the depression and suicidal impulses that have followed her throughout her life, as her husband Leonard (Stephen Dillane) ineffectually tries to help. In 1951, Laura Brown (Julianne Moore) is a housewife living in suburban Los Angeles, where she looks after her son Richie (Jack Rovello) and husband Dan (John C. Reilly). Laura is also an avid reader who is currently making her way through Mrs. Dalloway. The farther she gets into the novel, the more Laura discovers that it reflects a dissatisfaction she feels in her own life, and she finds herself pondering the notion of leaving her life behind. Finally, in 2000, Clarissa Vaughn (Meryl Streep) is a literary editor who is caring for Richard Brown (Ed Harris), a former boyfriend and noted author, who is slowly losing his fight with AIDS. Clarissa is trying to arrange a party to celebrate the fact that Richard has won a prestigious literary award, but is getting little help from Richard's ex-lover, Louis (Jeff Daniels). As she labors to help Richard through another day, he wonders if his life is worth the unending struggle. The Hours also features Toni Collette, Miranda Richardson, Allison Janney, and Claire Danes. ~ Mark Deming, Rovi
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A happily married couple discover their friends are not as happy as they thought, and they begin to wonder how sound their own relationship can be, in this made-for-cable adaptation of the Pulitzer Prize-winning play by Donald Margulies. Gabe (Dennis Quaid) and Karen (Andie MacDowell) are a pair of wedded food writers who more than a decade ago introduced their close friends Tom (Greg Kinnear) and Beth (Toni Collette). Tom and Beth fell in love and got married, but one night as Gabe and Karen are making dinner, they receive startling news from Beth -- Tom has left her for another woman, and the two are filing for divorce. Gabe and Karen soon feel as if they are being forced to take sides in the heated battle between Tom and Beth, and as the combative couple separates and both parties move on to new relationships, Gabe and Karen find themselves taking a long, hard look at their own marriage -- and they're not sure how happy they are with what they find. Directed by Norman Jewison, Dinner With Friends was produced for the HBO premium cable network, where it premiered on August 11, 2001. ~ Mark Deming, Rovi
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Hotel Splendide
In this bizarre satiric comedy, Kath (Toni Collette) is a chef who decides to leave the family business and strike out on her own. Her former lover Ronald (Daniel Craig) does not take this news well -- he's been trying to run the decaying Hotel Splendide, a resort and health spa, just the way his folks did years before, complete with regularly scheduled enemas and food not marred by flavor. After five years, Kath decides that it's time to bury the hatchet and volunteers to come back and work with Ronald at the Hotel, though the place has hardly improved in her absence. Hotel Splendide also features Stephen Tompkinson, Katrin Cartlidge, and Peter Vaughan. ~ Mark Deming, Rovi
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The Magic Pudding
One of Australia's best-loved children's books is brought to the screen in this animated comedy-adventure from down under. Bunyip Bluegum (voice of Geoffrey Rush) is a koala bear who has lost his parents and can't find them. While many of his friends and relatives fear that Bunyip's folks are dead, Bunyip is certain they're still alive, and sets out on the road to find them. In his travels, Bunyip makes several new friends, including landlocked sailor Bill Barnacle (voice of Hugo Weaving), a penguin named Sam Sawnoff (voice of Sam Neill), and Albert (voice of John Cleese), a magical pudding who can change flavors at will and never runs out, no matter how much people eat him. But the mean-spirited wombat Buncle (voice of Jack Thompson) discovers Albert and decides he wants the magical pudding all for himself, and Sam, Bill, and Bunyip must come to his rescue. The Magic Pudding is based on the illustrated children's story by Norman Lindsay, who outside Australia is best known for his more controversial artwork for grown-ups; his paintings favored sensual depictions of nude women, and his story later formed the basis of the 1994 film Sirens, in which Sam Neill played Lindsay. Toni Collette and Dave Gibson also contribute to The Magic Pudding's voice cast. ~ Mark Deming, Rovi
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Sun, Apr 05, 2009 | 10:16 BST
More characters announced for Ultimate Alliance 2
Activision and Vicarious Visions have released a list of 17 out of the 24 playable characters in Marvel: Ultimate Alliance 2.
Some of you were excited yesterday over Iron Fist being included, while some were a bit "meh".
Maybe a few of these will turn the tide.
- Captain America
- Daredevil
- Electro (Villain)
- Hulk
- Human Torch
- Iron Fist
- Iron Man
- Invisible Woman
- Lucia von Bardas (Villain)
- Luke Cage (Power Man)
- Mr. Fantastic
- Songbird
- Spider-Man
- Storm
- The Thing
- Thor
- Wolverine
Other characters who may/may not be playable are:
- Bishop
- Black Widow
- Cable
- Green Goblin
- Hercules
- Maria Hill
- Multiple Man
- Nick Fury
- She-Hulk
- Venom
- War Machine
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Fri, Feb 08, 2008 | 09:27 GMT
Activision financials: New Ultimate Alliance and Spiderman games confirmed
Activision confirmed new games based on the Marvel franchise last night, in an investor call following the release of record third quarter financials.
Both a new Spiderman title and a sequel to Raven's Ultimate Alliance RPG will hit this financial year, presumably as part of the company's Christmas line up, but no other details were forthcoming.


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Matt Grevers is soaking up his time in the Olympic spotlight.
Winner of the gold medal in the 100-meter backstroke and a member of the winning U.S. 4x100 meter medley relay, Grevers was one of many swimmers on a whirlwind media tour Monday.
He stood at the edge of the "Today" show set signing autographs and posing for pictures for at least half an hour.
"Swimming is not in the spotlight very often, so when it is, I enjoy it for sure," he said.
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Swimming against the tide - review of "Airswimming" by Charlotte Jones at the Irish Rep
Cahir O'Doherty reviews the play
There was a time, not that long ago, when showing a little independence of mind in Ireland or England could land you in very considerable trouble. Especially if you were born female, history shows.
In fact, for most of the 20th century, it was often remarkably dangerous to be different. In both societies the available roles for woman, or more precisely the roles that women were permitted to play, were constrictingly narrow. They included wife and mother and very little else.
So the obvious head-scratchers, the women who stood out or actively defied easy classification, often found themselves being dealt with roughly.
In Airswimming (now playing at the Irish Repertory Theatre in New York) the sad and quietly affecting 1997 play by British playwright Charlotte Jones, she introduces us to Dora and Persephone, a pair of likeable misfits, for whom the road has already run out before the curtain even rises, we discover.
In the past the play has been described as a comedy, but this production, directed by John Keating, wisely keeps an eye on the individual cost to the forgotten pair, who are based on real life women.
I don't know why previous reviewers described this play about two women trapped in a insane asylum for the criminally insane for their entire adult lives as a comedy, and thankfully neither does this production.
As Dora, the no nonsense lifer who alternates between hope of escape and despair that it will never happen, actress Aedin Moloney inhabits the role so completely that her character leaps to life from the opening scene.
Dora is a shrewd observer of other people, and she knows that she's in for the long haul. For that reason her focus is on devising strategies that will help her endure until she's released, or on biding her time until she makes a break for it.
Into this world comes Persephone (played by Rachel Pickup), a tall, willowy blond who hasn't quite grasped that the trap set by a world of men has already closed around her.
Persephone tells herself that there's been a terrific misunderstanding, that her father will rescue her (it turns out of course that he's the one who had her committed).
Ireland has its own long history of condemning challenging women to indentured servitude for their entire adult lives, and that awareness informs this production, which unfolds in illuminating flashbacks.
Dora and Persephone begin as young women, and we watch helplessly as their lives are stolen, lost in domestic drudgery, scrubbing baths and sweeping stairs without acknowledgement or reward.
Along the way Jones makes multiple references to Greek myth in an attempt to give some classical heft to their already inexpressibly tragic circumstances. But the play doesn't need it; frankly, it's already resonant enough.
Jones picks Doris Day as the role model these women have been asked to aspire to, and Persephone's idolization of the virginal Hollywood star does remind us how sexless and insipid the greatest embodiment of the female ideal was at the mid-century point.
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The Lucky Ones (2008)
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Director Neil Burger's road movie The Lucky Ones stars Tim Robbins, Rachel McAdams, and Michael Peña as three Iraq War veterans who take a road trip together. The trio meet on their way home from overseas with Fred Cheaver (Robbins) finishing his service once and for all, while the other two --… More Director Neil Burger's road movie The Lucky Ones stars Tim Robbins, Rachel McAdams, and Michael Peña as three Iraq War veterans who take a road trip together. The trio meet on their way home from overseas with Fred Cheaver (Robbins) finishing his service once and for all, while the other two -- Colee Dunn (McAdams) and TK Poole (Peña) -- are about to enjoy 30 days of R and R. A blackout leads to the three renting a car together after their flight is indefinitely delayed, and driving from New York to Cheaver's home in St. Louis. Upon arrival, Cheaver learns that his wife wants a divorce, and his son needs 20,000 dollars in order to attend Stanford. Emotionally shaken, Cheaver tries to drop the other two off at the airport, but they refuse to go until they can help him through his troubles. The two of them, however, are going through their own issues. Poole suffered an injury while on duty that he worries will end his relationship with his girlfriend, and Dunn is trying to deliver a guitar to the parents of her deceased boyfriend, a fellow soldier who died overseas. ~ Perry Seibert, Rovi
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- Neil Burger
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- In Theaters
- Sep 26, 2008 Wide
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Peter Rainer, Christian Science Monitor
The Iraq war has thus far produced no truly memorable dramatic movies, as opposed to documentaries, and the losing streak continues with The Lucky Ones.
Claudia Puig, USA Today
This is not the worst of the Iraq-themed movies of the past few years, and it's possibly the best acted of any of them. But you wish the bonding of these three people wasn't diluted by the trite scenarios and artificial circumstances of their saga.
Linda Barnard, Toronto Star
As they hit the road, the scenes play out like TV sitcom vignettes with little holding the centre together. We find out details about the characters lives, but never feel we know them.
John Hartl, Seattle Times
McAdams and Peña are affectingly vulnerable, while Robbins convinces as a family man with strong paternal instincts.
Peter Hartlaub, San Francisco Chronicle
The Lucky Ones has plenty of heart and courage. If it only had a brain ...
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Posted: Feb 13, 2012 7:20 PM by Nikki Ibarra
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Although Whitney Houston battled prescription drug addiction for years, it is too soon to know if drugs were a cause for her death.
We do know, however, that prescription drug abuse is a very big problem in the United States. According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 100 people die from drug overdoses everyday in the US; and nearly 3 of 4 drug overdoses are caused by prescription painkillers.
KSBY spoke to a Santa Maria drug counselor Monday and she said prescription drug addiction has been happening for years. It just feels like it's on the rise. But accessing it is extremely easy.
"It's almost a quiet epidemic and nobody really talks about it and nobody really sees it," said Donna Flores, program manager of Project P.R.E.M.I.E. in Santa Maria.
At Project P.R.E.M.I.E., 3 out of every 10 women who enter the program have abused prescription drugs. "Whether you're not sleeping well or you have some sort of pain, a backache, a toothache, you get these drugs prescribed by the doctor. They're socially acceptable," said Flores.
Project P.R.E.M.I.E. is in conjunction with the Good Samaritan. The program helps mothers who have been affected by substance abuse.
"Sometimes people think that [prescriptions] are not as harmful as they are because they're prescribed. They're legal but they're very dangerous," said Cyndi Cabacungan, drug and alcohol counselor at Project P.R.E.M.I.E.
But this problem extends far beyond the Central Coast. According to the CDC, drug overdose death rates in the US have more than tripled since 1990. In 2008, more than 36,000 people died from drug overdose, and most of these deaths were caused by prescription drugs.
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Sunny Barrhead enjoys three-day party
Blue Heron Fair Days turn into memorable jamboree
What a wonderful way to spend three days in August!
Sun-blessed Barrhead became the fun place to be last weekend as hundreds of families enjoyed the Blue Heron Fair Days. So many highlights, so many memories.
To some it was the novelty of having a band provide oomph to Saturday�s grand parade. The wail of bagpipes and the thump of massive drums brought a Scottish flavour to the people-lined streets.
For many children it was the rodeo thrills of mutton bustin�, competing to remove a ribbon from a calf or engaging in the mass scramble of a boot race.
And to others it was mounted gunslingers testing their horsemanship and marksmanship, a first ever Jackpot Gymkhana and sprawling on a blanket at dusk and watching the animated movie, The Lorax.
Yes, so many highlights, so many memories.
The fair got under way with a traditional curtain raiser: the beef show. Then the Demolition Derby (see Page 21A) gatecrashed the party with its Frightful Friday performance.
Come Saturday morning people began lining the streets early, trying to ensure a good place to sit and watch or take photographs. There was extra excitement this year because of the much-anticipated appearance of Edmonton�s Ben Nevis Pipe Band.
The band fell in behind RCMP officers Con. Kirk Fisler and Con. Craig Connolly, who led the parade in their distinctive Mountie uniforms.
Among the most decorative floats were those from Neerlandia which had featured in the hamlet�s centennial celebration the week before. The Children of Asaph choir, tractor-pulled cow sheds and the sight of people wearing wooden clogs and authentic Dutch costumes brought music, colour and a touch of theatre to the spectacle.
There were also military vehicles, antique cars, ancient tractors, Edmonton Motor Corps scooters and umbrella-shaded buggies, mixed in with appearances by MLA for Barrhead-Morinville-Westlock, Maureen Kubinec, Barrhead County Council, Barrhead Town Council and Pembina Hills school board members, not to mention at least one Elvis look-alike.
Spectators were impressed: the Ben Nevis band was a hit and, of course, children loved the traditional shower of candy.
�I thought it was one of the better parades,� said Dennis Ranger, while Bonnie Ranger loved the addition of the bagpipes.
�Yes it was very nice to have the music,� she said. �It was an excellent parade.�
Seven-year-old Kyla Gousseau, who was accompanied by grandmother, Cathy, also had a great time, as did the Myrehaug family. Words like �cool� summed up their feelings.
Ten-year-old Rebecca Myrehaug, sister Emily (13) and their friend, Maci Reschke (nine), scooped up plenty of candy from the floats, enough to last several days.
�I loved the suckers (lollipops),� said Rebecca.
The action then swung back to the fair grounds for the Wildrose Rodeo, which featured seven major events: bareback, saddle bronc, bull riding, team roping, steer wrestling, ladies barrel race and calf racing. There were also junior barrels, novice horse, pee wee barrels, junior bulls, junior break-away roping and the wild pony rides.
While cowboys and cowgirls showed off their skills, a host of family attractions was on offer nearby, including extreme bungee jumping, face painting, pony rides and a petting zoo.
Eight-year-old Krista LeFebvre could hardly wait to get harnessed for her first ever extreme bungee jumping.
�I loved it,� she said, firmly rejecting any suggestion that it was scary.
In the petting zoo, three-year-old Alyssa Laun held on to a chicken as if her life depended on it.
According to her mother, Alyssa is fearless when it comes to animals.
Meanwhile, a stone�s throw away from the fair grounds was a slowpitch tournament (see Sports), which provided plenty of excitement through the three days. Several teams from Barrhead were involved.
The fair climaxed on Sunday evening with a performance by the Country Music Legends, starring Jimmy Arthur Ordge.
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CAMBRIDGE, Ohio, Oct. 13, 2010 – The bright lights outside the Cambridge Court House will glow pink for a very special Breast Cancer Awareness Month ceremony from Southeastern Med on Monday, Oct. 18 at 6 p.m. with the lighting ceremony beginning at 6:30. The pink lights will remain lit for the remainder of October.
Along with the pink lights, the ceremony will feature Michael Sarap, M.D., surgeon with Southeastern Ohio Physicians, Inc., and a speech from breast cancersurvivor, Tina Strauff. Information about breast cancer and Southeastern Med's Power Me Pink program will also be available. The community is asked to participate in the event by wearing pink.
Southeastern Med's Power Me Pink program provides women who are uninsured and underinsured with breast health education, clinical breast exams, mammograms and additional testing if necessary. The program reaches women 35 years and older who earn between 250-300 percent of the poverty level. The program also reaches women younger than 35 years of age with a family history of breast cancer.
For more information about the ceremony, please call Becky Wheeler, Cancer Registrar at Southeastern Med, at 740-439-8156. To learn more about Southeastern Med's Screening Mammogram Program or to learn if you qualify for a screening mammogram, call 740-435-2500.


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Mary M. Murry, R.N., C.N.M.
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Mary Murry is a certified nurse-midwife in the Department of Obstetrics & Gynecology at Mayo Clinic, Rochester, Minn.
Murry, a Cincinnati native, has been a nurse-midwife practitioner for more than 20 years and is an instructor at the College of Medicine, Mayo Clinic. She was a contributing reviewer and writer of the "Mayo Clinic Guide to a Healthy Pregnancy" book.
Her research interests include adult female survivors of sexual abuse, women's perception of pain in labor, and obesity in pregnancy.
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I am sorry for the very long period of silence in my blog. I was ill and in the hospital but am beginning to feel better now.
I had promised a follow-up on the previous article about sex in pregnancy. If you are recently delivered, you may be asking why would you ever have sex again? You are sleep deprived, you are tired of having vaginal drainage, and if breastfeeding, you have sympathy for all the cows of the world.
You might also have some fears about pain and discomfort, or be afraid that your husband might look at you in a different way after having watched you deliver a baby. I remember my fear after having my 10 pound baby was that my vagina would be too big, a cavernous, echoing vault. Silly me, everything was as it should be.
You will have sex again and it will be pleasurable again. It just might take some effort. Clear your mind to the best of your ability. If you are making a grocery list, or thinking about the laundry or keeping an ear open for the baby, you will not be enjoying yourself as much. Don't have intercourse in the same room as the baby. If you have a baby monitor, turn it off.
Some women who are nursing will worry about leaking during love making. Often, if you can keep your mind off of the baby you won't have much problem with this. Being well lubricated during intercourse can be a problem. Have a personal lubricant handy and use it; some for you, some for him. Basically you should adopt the rule, the slipperier the better.
In my opinion the most important rule is to take your time. It doesn't have to happen until you are ready. If you try and it is uncomfortable, wait and try in a few days. Keep communication open and loving. Oh yes, do use birth control if you don't want another baby right away.
Please share your experiences and questions with us.
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August 26, 2013 5:25 p.m.
The research about breastfeeding as a means of birth control do show that for breastfeeding exclusively, no bottles, pumping, a women will not get pregnant for the first 3 months. By 6 months, even with exclusive breastfeeding, the odds of getting pregnant are the same as anyone not using birth control.
- Mary@Mayo
August 23, 2013 4:35 p.m.
According to Planned Parenthood breastfeeding or LAM is effective against pregnancy for the first 6 months - http://www.plannedparenthood.org/health-topic
s/birth-control/breastfeeding-4219.htm Thoughts? - Curious Dad
April 14, 2013 9:29 a.m.
Thank you for the article. I'll tell you the content of an article about pregnancy to my wife. Cheers ....
- andreas
March 29, 2013 10:36 a.m.
Nice articles about pregnancy, I will tell my friends who needs the knowledge about pregnancy
- andreas
August 23, 2012 1:24 p.m.
As a recent patron of "The Sex Diet" books, (http://www.thesexdiet.com if you haven't heard of it all over the news lol), it concerned me when I found out I was pregnant, because here I was partaking in a very rigorous sex routine, and became frightened about what my husband might start thinking about my body. It was important for me to keep the weight off while I bore my child. He calmed my mind about this, but I still worry what might happen after I give birth. The book has helped us become closer sexually, and deal with problems like this, but it doesn't have a section on post-birth. Is there post-partum for men? Telling me I will have great sex again gives me hope at least. Thnx Mary. -Yola
- Yolanda
July 10, 2012 5:53 a.m.
The habit of smoking must be avoided as it leads to certain complications like miscarriage. Miscarriage is one of the common results of smoking during pregnancy. It must be stopped in order to avoid birth defects and the risk of miscarriage.
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June 12, 2012 3:31 a.m.
Thanks God for your good health. I ever listen that you can sex til early signs of labour . Is this fine for baby?
- zoii
May 25, 2012 6:12 a.m.
If this desire stops then i think each mother only have single baby. But i think don't stop pregnancy just have some gap between two kids. It is better for mothers as well as for babies health and always should prefer natural ways to induce labour
- Zoii
October 22, 2011 9:37 p.m.
Vitamins for Memory also helps pregnant women to maintain the baby's heath while it is still in his tummy.
- Anna Breault
June 10, 2011 5:35 a.m.
That's really thininkg out of the box. Thanks!
- Tracen
December 6, 2010 3:24 p.m.
Many breastfeeding women experience some vaginal dryness. Some like you experience extreme dryness that is not helped by the usual lpersonal lubricants. This is usually a result of the decrease in estrogen. The cream your doctor gave you is probably an estrogen cream. The dryness comes back when you stop using the cream because your body is still supression your estrogen. You should experience an improvement in your dryness after your baby is about 6 months old. You can continue to use the cream as well as personal lubrucants. If you don't get any relief, I would check back with your doctor for further evaluation.
- Mary @ Mayo
November 30, 2010 10:17 a.m.
I have a 4.5month old and I am breastfeeding. Intercourse is still painful and I have minor discomfort in my vag region. My Doc said it was not a yeast infection but the result of extreme dryness and possible irritation from soap/detergent. He gave me a cream to deal with the discomfort but when I stop using it the daily discomfort returns. The cream does not help with intercourse pain. Is this normal? Any suggestions? We have tried lots of lub, taking it slow, and waiting a few days to try again. I am beginning to worry something is wrong. Thanks
- momwithpain
June 20, 2010 3:07 p.m.
thnk you for sharing travesti
- travesti
December 10, 2008 6:47 a.m.
I am a menopausal mom who adopted a baby boy at 2 days old with my hubby. I had no desire for sex for 1 year, it hurt so bad.I was also nursing our baby too and that was also part of the dryness problem too. But, I now have the problem solved! I am using a natural vag creme that is called estradiol-estriol , and it has worked wonders! I feel like my old self before menopause and before nursing!
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September 12, 2012Edward Albee's legendary drama Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? is returning to Broadway! On September 20, Broadway.com headed to the Booth Theatre to chat with stars Tracy Letts and Amy Morton, director Pam MacKinnon and more.
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Very good place and very near to subway station.very recommended one.
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- Indonesia
- Male, 25-30
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WE Didn't stay here.... We were double booked! Then had to trek around to another hostel which wasn't open. Then they palmed its off on to another hostel. We were not happy and were only offered $10 discount which we had to wait and hour for approval! Readily not happy! Would truthfully like a full refund for all the trouble caused!
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