Monday, April 20, 2009

This weekend´s favorite movies - Apr 17/19

1 (new) 17 Again / YouTube - Zac Efron in '17 Again'
Directed by Burr Steers and starring Zac Efron, Leslie Mann, Matthew Perry, Michelle Trachtenberg, Melora Hardin - What would you do if you got a second shot at life? Class of 1989, Mike O'Donnell is a star on his high school basketball court with a college scout in the stands and a bright future in his grasp. But instead, he decides to throw it all away to share his life with his girlfriend Scarlett and the baby he just learned they are expecting. Almost 20 years later, Mike's glory days are decidedly behind him.... (Warner Bros. Pictures Distribution)

2 (new) State of Play / YouTube State of Play (2009) Official Movie Trailer HD
Directed by Kevin MacDonald and starring Russell Crowe, Ben Affleck, Rachel McAdams, Helen Mirren, Robin Wright Penn - Handsome, unflappable U.S. Congressman Stephen Collins is the future of his political party: an honorable appointee who serves as the chairman of a committee overseeing defense spending. All eyes are upon the rising star to be his party's contender for the upcoming presidential race. Until his research assistant/mistress is brutally murdered and buried secrets come tumbling out.(Universal Pictures)

3 (3) Monsters vs. Aliens / YouTube - Monsters vs. Aliens [HD-TVSpot]
Directed by Rob Letterman. Conrad Vernonand starring Reese Witherspoon, Hugh Laurie, Seth Rogen, Will Arnett, Rainn Wilson, Kiefer Sutherland and Stephen Colbert - A motley crew of reluctant mutant heroes are recruited to save the earth from the evil alien Gallaxhar. (Paramount Pictures)

4 (1) Hannah Montana The Movie / YouTube - Hannah Montana: The Movie Official Trailer (HQ)
Directed by Peter Chelsom and starring Miley Cyrus, Billy Ray Cyrus, Emily Osment, Jason Earles, Mitchel Tate Musso - As Hannah Montana's popularity begins to take over her life, Miley Stewart, on the urging form her father, takes a trip to her hometown of Crowley Corners, Tennessee to get some perspective on what matters in life the most. (Buena Vista Pictures Distribution)

5 (2) Fast & Furious / YouTube - [OFFICIAL] Fast and Furious 4 (2009) Movie Trailer
Directed by Justin Lin and starring Vin Diesel, Paul Walker, Michelle Rodriguez, Jordana Brewster, John Ortiz, Gal Gadot, Liza LaPira, and Laz Alonso - When a crime brings them back to L.A., fugitive ex-con Dom Toretto reignites his feud with agent Brian O'Conner. But as they are forced to confront a shared enemy, Dom and Brian must give in to an uncertain new trust if they hope to outmanuever him. And from convoy heists to precision tunnel crawls across international lines, two men will find the best way to get revenge: push the limits of what's possible behind the wheel. (Universal Pictures)

6 (new) Crank High Voltage / YouTube - CRANK: HIGH VOLTAGE - trailer
Directed by Mark Neveldine, Brian Taylor and starring Jason Statham, Amy Smart, Clifton Collins Jr, Efren Ramirez, Bai Ling - Hitman Chev Chelios is kidnapped by a mysterious Chinese mobster. Three months later, he wakes up to discover his nearly indestructible heart has been surgically removed and replaced with a battery-operated ticker that requires regular jolts of electricity in order to work. After a dangerous escape from his captors, Chev is on the run again, this time from the charismatic Mexican gang boss El Huron... (Lionsgate, Lakeshore International)

7 (4) Observe and Report / YouTube - Observe and Report Trailer
Directed by Jody Hill and starring Seth Rogen, Ray Liotta, Michael Pena, Anna Faris, Dan Bakkedahl - At the Forest Ridge Mall, head of security Ronnie Barnhardt patrols his jurisdiction with an iron fist, combating skateboarders, shoplifters and the occasional unruly customer while dreaming of the day when he can swap his flashlight for a badge and a gun. His delusions of grandeur are put to the test when the mall is struck by a flasher. Driven to protect and serve the mall and its patrons, Ronnie... (Warner Bros. Pictures Distribution)

8 (5) Knowing / YouTube - KNOWING (Official Movie Trailer) 2009 High Quality
Directed by Alex Proyas and starring Lara Robinson, Nicolas Cage, Rose Byrne, Chandler Canterbury, Ben Mendelsohn - In 1958, as part of the dedication ceremony for a new elementary school, a group of students is asked to draw pictures to be stored in a time capsule. But one mysterious girl fills her sheet of paper with rows of apparently random numbers instead. Fifty years later, a new generation of students examines the capsule's contents and the girl's cryptic message ends up in the hands of young Caleb Koestler.... (Summit Entertainment, LLC)

9 (6) I Love You, Man / YouTube - Jason Segel and Paul Rudd on I Love You, Man
Directed by John Hamburg and starring Paul Rudd, Jason Segel, Rashida Jones, Sarah Burns, Jaime Pressly - Peter Klaven is a successful real estate agent who, upon getting engaged to the woman of his dreams, Zooey, discovers, to his dismay and chagrin, that he has no male friend close enough to serve as his Best Man. Peter immediately sets out to rectify the situation, embarking on a series of bizarre and awkward "man-dates," before meeting Sydney Fife, a charming, opinionated man with whom he instantly... (Paramount Pictures)

10 (7) The Haunting in Connecticut / YouTube - The Haunting in Connecticut Trailer
Directed by Peter Cornwell and starring Virginia Madsen, Kyle Gallner, Elias Koteas, Amanda Crew, Martin Donovan - The astounding, well-documented story of a family forced to relocate near a clinic where their son was being treated for cancer. Strained financially and emotionally, the family discovers their recently renovated home was a former mortuary with a dark history. After experiencing violent supernatural events both inside and out of the house, the family seeks the help of ghost hunters and the Catholic... (Lionsgate)

Sunday, April 19, 2009

There is nothing like a garden in this stressful world

Love and Money Balance by S.K. Smith. What do you think?

Times are tough at the moment - for just about everyone. Even if you're not struggling, odds are you're more aware of your money and more cautious about how you handle it. With the economy in recession and our collective financial future uncertain, it's no wonder you're thinking about it - and no surprise that you're stressed.

However, just because you've got money on the mind doesn't mean it has to ruin your relationship. While it may seem as if the only reason for financial fighting is that there's not enough money, the truth is much more complicated than that. Even the most comfortable of couples can find themselves in heated arguments about the purse strings.

That's because each of us has a different relationship with personal finance - one that started long before any of us even knew it. So try this three-step guide to see why money causes trouble in relationships and how to handle it.

1. Perception is key
That's right, just like so many other areas of life, our parents inadvertently shaped how we deal with money based on their perceptions of it. Whether we've grown up to mirror their attitudes, contradict them altogether or more likely, some combination of the two, each of us has long ingrained emotions that relate to the meaning of money and we bring those feelings to our relationships. Trouble arises naturally because no two people have exactly the same feelings.

Before you can address the financial issues that arise in your partnership, it's important to identify both you and your partner's emotional attachments to the green stuff and where they came from. Ask yourself, what were my early experiences with money? How did they make me feel?

2. Your money motivators…
Now that you know how you both feel about money, it's time to assess how those feelings are affecting you now. For instance, one of you may be an impulse buyer who spends whenever they have it while the other analyzes every purchase for weeks and months on end even when cash is plentiful. Your partner may always know where every single cent is spent while you're the type who finds twenties in your pockets each year when the winter coats come out - even if you were broke all summer!

You may consider yourself a conservative investor with a solid understanding of the market while your mate takes risks you see as equivalent to rolling the dice. According to experts, how you spend, allocate and handle money is motivated by one of the following four objectives: enjoying freedom, enhancing security, showing power and building relationships. It's vital to your relationship that you and your mate know what motivates each other to pull the trigger and pull out your wallet.

By coming to understand both of your individual objectives, you'll be able to approach financial issues - before the struggle starts - with a mutual end game in mind. Which is why the third step is the most important…

3. Face your financial issues
One of the most popular definitions of insanity is trying the same thing over and over again and expecting a different result. If you and your mate continue to dance around financial issues without being as open about your thoughts and feelings as you are about the bottom line you're faced with, the vicious circle will never end. As you weather a crisis (or 20!) the same issues will continue to arise when you have an overall difference of objective or opinion - about how to do what with what you have. That's why it's important not only to lay out mutual goals and set parameters to achieve them, but to work toward them together, mindful of each other's strengths and weaknesses.

Financial harmony doesn't come overnight - it also requires maintenance and regular check-ins. The goal is to stop fighting about finances and start feeling like you're on a joint course together. There may be hard times sure, but with open, honest, non-judgmental communication, you'll be able to support each other through the valleys and emerge successful, with your love intact.

Sound scary? You're not alone. It's hard to be vulnerable - after all, so many of us attach money with self-worth. However, by allowing yourselves to be 100% honest with each other, you're fostering intimacy and giving your relationship - and your bank balance - a chance to flourish for the long-term.

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Formula 1 - who is the king of the wet? Vettel or Hamilton?

I said in the 2007 Japanese GP that if you put Vettel in a McLaren that he would be faster than Hamilton. In the wet 2008 Monza in an Escuderia Toro Rosso (ex Minardi) he won and again in his maiden season with the sister team Red Bull he gave them their maiden WIN. Lewis had a few offs today and had to settle for 6th behind his team mate.

For the full coverage click here

Race (Sunday afternoon 1500 hours) - Provisional
Pos
No
Driver
Team
Laps
Time/Retired
Grid
Pts
1
15
Sebastian Vettel
RBR-Renault
56
1:57:43.485
1
10
2
14
Mark Webber
RBR-Renault
56
+10.9 secs
3
8
3
22
Jenson Button
Brawn-Mercedes
56
+44.9 secs
5
6
4
23
Rubens Barrichello
Brawn-Mercedes
56
+63.7 secs
4
5
5
2
Heikki Kovalainen
McLaren-Mercedes
56
+65.1 secs
12
4
6
1
Lewis Hamilton
McLaren-Mercedes
56
+71.8 secs
9
3
7
10
Timo Glock
Toyota
56
+74.4 secs
19
2
8
12
Sebastien Buemi
STR-Ferrari
56
+76.4 secs
10
1
9
7
Fernando Alonso
Renault
56
+84.3 secs
2

10
4
Kimi Räikkönen
Ferrari
56
+91.7 secs
8

11
11
Sebastien Bourdais
STR-Ferrari
56
+94.1 secs
15

12
6
Nick Heidfeld
BMW Sauber
56
+95.8 secs
11

13
5
Robert Kubica
BMW Sauber
56
+ 106.8 secs
17

14
21
Giancarlo Fisichella
Force India-Mercedes
55
+1 Lap
20

15
16
Nico Rosberg
Williams-Toyota
55
+1 Lap
7

16
8
Nelsinho Piquet
Renault
53
+2 Laps
16

17
20
Adrian Sutil
Force India-Mercedes
50
+6 Laps
18

Ret
17
Kazuki Nakajima
Williams-Toyota
43
+13 Laps
14

Ret
3
Felipe Massa
Ferrari
20
+36 Laps
13

Ret
9
Jarno Trulli
Toyota
18
+38 Laps
6















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