Movie Title :: Slumdog Millionaire Release Date :: 12 February 2009 Language :: English/Hindi Classification :: PG13 Running Time :: 2 Hours 1 Minute Director :: Danny Boyle Cast :: Dev Patel, Anil Kapoor, Irrfan Khan, Madhur Mittal, Freida Pinto. Awards :: Winner of Golden Globe Award for - Best Motion Picture - Best Director - Danny Boyle - Best Original Score - Best Screen Play
SYNOPSIS::
The jumble and hustle of modern-day India provides the steamy, energetic backdrop to Danny Boyle's electrifying new feature, Slumdog Millionaire. The film is an eloquent and moving account of a boy who attempts to become a millionaire on a television game show, rediscovering the love of his life in the process. Boyle uses this extraordinary premise to paint a kaleidoscopic portrait of a society built around survival of the fittest, where betrayal is commonplace and greed and corruption lie just around every corner.
In a picaresque tale worthy of a Henry Fielding novel, this Tom Jones is Jamal, a poor, bright-eyed youth mischievously getting in and out of scrapes with his even more rambunctious older brother, Salim. In a horrifying turn of events, the two youngsters' lives change in front of their eyes when their mother is viciously killed during a riot. Alone, they turn to the streets, becoming slumdogs. A ray of sunshine comes into their lives when they befriend another orphan, the feisty young girl Latika, and soon the three are inseparable. Adventure follows as the trio learns to survive the cutthroat life of contemporary India but at least they have each other. Or do they?
Years later, Jamal appears on India's version of the game show Who Wants to Be a Millionaire. Amazingly, he finds himself in the position of winning more and more prize money as the answers to the questions keep tumbling his way. But how can a slumdog with no formal education know the answers to these questions? Suspicions are raised, and Jamal quickly learns that the game show will be his biggest life test.
Boyle's film is a cinematic rollercoaster ride. Above all a romance, it is played out in a world where social, economic and political issues are never far away. The young cast is superb, but it is Boyle's dramatic smarts and feel for the heat, sweat and street life of Mumbai that transforms Slumdog Millionaire into a compelling and gripping cinematic experience.
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Dev Patel and Freida Pinto in SLUMDOG MILLIONAIRE
Dev Patel and Anil Kapoor on India's version of "Who Wants to be A Millionaire?"
Dev Patel and Irrfan Khan in a tense scene from SLUMDOG MILLIONAIRE
Director Danny Boyle with Freida Pinto on the set
Dev Patel and Anil Kapoor on India's version of "Who Wants to be A Millionaire?"
Dev Patel and Freida Pinto in SLUMDOG MILLIONAIRE
SLUMDOG MILLIONAIRE Director Danny Boyle in front of the Taj Mahal
Dev Patel and Freida Pinto in SLUMDOG MILLIONAIRE; Composer A.R. Rahman
The truth about egg yolks Many people throw away the egg yolk because they think that's where all the nasty fat and cholesterol is". This is a perfect example of how confused most people are about nutrition. In a world full of misinformation, somehow most people now mistakenly think that the egg yolk is the worst part of the egg, when in fact, the YOLK IS THE HEALTHIEST PART OF THE EGG! By throwing out the yolk and only eating egg whites, you're essentially throwing out the most nutrient dense, antioxidant-rich, vitamin and mineral loaded portion of the egg. The yolks contain so many B-vitamins, trace minerals, vitamin A, folate, choline, lutein, and other powerful nutrients... it's not even worth trying to list them all. In fact, the egg whites are almost devoid of nutrition compared to the yolk. Even the protein in egg whites isn't as powerful without the yolks to balance out the amino acid profile and make the protein more bio-available. Not to even mention that the egg yolks from free range chickens are loaded with omega-3 fatty acids. Yolks contain more than 90% of the calcium, iron, phosphorus, zinc, thiamin, B6, folate, and B12, and panthothenic acid of the egg. In addition, the yolks contain all of the fat soluble vitamins A, D, E, and K in the egg, as well as all of the essential fatty acids. And now the common objection I get all the time when I say that the yolks are the most nutritious part of the egg..."But I heard that whole eggs will skyrocket my cholesterol through the roof ." No, this is FALSE! First of all, when you eat a food that contains a high amount of dietary cholesterol such as eggs, your body down-regulates it's internal production of cholesterol to balance things out. On the other hand, if you don't eat enough cholesterol, your body simply produces more since cholesterol has tons of important functions in the body. And here's where it gets even more interesting...There are indications that eating whole eggs actually raises your good HDL cholesterol to a higher degree than LDL cholesterol, thereby improving your overall cholesterol ratio and blood chemistry.
And 3rd... high cholesterol is NOT a disease! Heart disease is a disease...but high cholesterol is NOT. You can read the following article about why trying to attack cholesterol is a mistake, and what the REAL deadly risk factors actually are... http://www.truthaboutabs.com/cholesterol-myths.html So I hope we've established that whole eggs are not some evil food that will wreck your body... instead whole eggs are FAR superior to egg whites. Also, your normal supermarket eggs coming from mass factory farming just don't compare nutritionally with organic free range eggs from healthy chickens that are allowed to roam freely and eat a more natural diet. I recently compared eggs I bought at the grocery store with a batch of eggs I got at a farm stand where the chickens were free roaming and healthy. Most people don't realize that there's a major difference because they've never bought real eggs from healthy chickens... The eggs from the grocery store had pale yellow yolks. On the other hand, the healthier free range eggs had deep orange colored yolks indicating much higher nutrition levels and carotenoids. So next time a health or fitness professional tells you that egg whites are superior, you can quietly ignore their advice knowing that you understand the REAL deal about egg yolks. One more thing about eggs... I read a study recently that compared groups of people that ate egg breakfasts vs groups of people that ate cereal or bagel based breakfasts. The results of the study showed that the egg eaters lost or maintained a healthier bodyweight, while the cereal/bagel eaters gained weight.
It was hypothesized that the egg eaters actually ate less calories during the remainder of the day because their appetite was more satisfied compared to the cereal/bagel eaters who would have been more prone to wild blood sugar swings and food cravings.
AKADEMI FANTASIA MUSIM KETUJUH JANJI KELAINAN Kombinasi tenaga pengajar baru dan lama bakal cetus transformasi luar biasa
Kuala Lumpur, 10 Februari 2009 – Teka-teki selama ini tentang siapakah yang bakal mengacara dan menerajui barisan tenaga pengajar bagi program realiti nyanyian popular Akademi Fantasia musim ketujuh terjawab pada sidang media pada petang tadi. Akademi Fantasia yang bakal bersiaran di Astro Ria (saluran 104) membawa kembali AC Mizal dan Sarimah Ibrahim untuk mengemudikan program realiti popular; Akademi Fantasia di samping memperkenalkan barisan baru tenaga pengajar untuk musim ketujuh ini.
Akademi Fantasia musim ketujuh dengan bangganya memperkenalkan kombinasi wajah-wajah baru dan lama yang bakal menjadi titik tolak permulaan kejayaan bagi bakal bintang-bintang Akademi Fantasia yang sedang dalam proses dikenalpasti seperti Siti Hajar Ismail, Syafizawati Sharif dan Fatimah Abu Bakar. Di samping itu, Akademi Fantasia juga dengan bangganya membawa masuk wajah-wajah baru seperti A.Aris Kadir, Ida Nerina dan Hasrridz Murshim atau lebih dikenali sebagai Acis ke dalam keluarga Akademi Fantasia musim ketujuh.
Menurut Pengurus Saluran Astro Ria, En Khairul Mizan, ”Selama enam musim Akademi Fantasia bersiaran, kami amat menitikberatkan soal pemilihan barisan tenaga pengajar kerana kami percaya mereka merupakan tulang belakang utama dalam melahirkan bintang Akademi Fantasia pada setiap musim di samping usaha gigih dari para pelajar itu sendiri.” ”Pada musim ini, Akademi Fantasia amat berbesar hati apabila dapat mengumpulkan bekas tenaga pengajar yang pernah mewarnai Akademi Fantasia di samping wajah-wajah baru yang akan berganding tenaga dalam memberikan impak yang paling maksima buat para pelajar pada musim ini,” tambah Khairul lagi.
Syafizawati Sharif atau lebih dikenali sebagai Cikgu Syafi akan berkhidmat sebagai guru vokal teknikal, Siti Hajar akan berkongsi ilmunya dengan para pelajar selaku guru vokal persembahan dan Fatimah Abu Bakar akan berkhidmat sebagai guru motivasi dan Bahasa Inggeris. Keluarga Akademi Fantasia pada musim ketujuh ini juga akan disertai oleh tiga tenaga pengajar baru seperti Ida Nerina yang akan berkhidmat sebagai guru lakonan dan Hashridz Murshim atau lebih dikenali sebagai Acis selaku pengarah muzik. Buat julung-julung kalinya, Akademi Fantasia memperkenalkan A.Aris Kadir yang akan berkhidmat selaku guru tarian dan pereka tari untuk musim ketujuh ini. (sila rujuk lampiran 1 untuk profil lengkap tenaga pengajar)
”Kami amat mengalu-alukan kedatangan pereka tari tersohor, A.Aris Kadir; pelakon berpengalaman yang versatil; Ida Nerina dan pemuzik terkenal; Hashridz Murshim atau lebih dikenali sebagai Acis untuk menyertai keluarga Akademi Fantasia pada musim ketujuh ini. Kami percaya sumbangan besar dan pengalaman luas mereka dalam bidang seni dapat menyumbang kepada kejayaan Akademi Fantasia pada musim ketujuh.
Di samping itu, kami ingin mengucapkan selamat kembali kepada dua pengacara mantap yang telah menaikkan nama program Akademi Fantasia pada musim lepas; AC Mizal dan Sarimah Ibrahim. Komitmen dan prestasi memberangsangkan yang ditunjukkan pada musim lepas membuatkan pihak produksi teruja dan tidak teragak-agak untuk menyambung perkhidmatan mereka pada musim ini. Kami percaya AC dan Sarimah akan terus menaikkan maruah program ini ke peringkat yang lebih tinggi dan akan menggalas tanggungjawab yang telah diberikan dengan sebaik mungkin,” ujar Khairul lagi.
AC Mizal diberi kepercayaan untuk menerajui Konsert Akademi Fantasia, manakala Sarimah Ibrahim akan menjadi pengacara bagi program Diari Akademi Fantasia dan Diari INT AF
Pada musim ketujuh ini, Akademi Fantasia dengan bangganya memperkenalkan dua program baru iaitu Diari EXT AF7 dan Diari INT AF7. Berikut ialah senarai program-program yang bakal menghiasi sepanjang musim Akademi Fantasia:
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PEMENANG-PEMENANG AKADEMI FANTASIA PADA MUSIM 1 HINGGA MUSIM 6
