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No Country for Old Men - coin toss scene Saturday, 15 March 2008 - 4:04 AM SL Time
 
Death walks hand in hand with Chigurh wherever he goes, unless he decides otherwise.

If everything you`ve done in your life has led you to him, he may explain to his about-to-be victims, your time might just have come.

`You don`t have to do this,` the innocent invariably insist to a man whose murderous code dictates otherwise.

Occasionally, however, he will allow someone to decide his own fate by coin toss, notably in a tense early scene in an old filling station marbled with nervous humor.

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Rope: a video example for an unbroken scene Thursday, 1 November 2007 - 6:33 AM SL Time
 
Each shot ran continuously for up to ten minutes without interruption. It was shot on a single set, aside from the opening establishing shot street scene.

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Spies from sky: A video segment Friday, 12 October 2007 - 8:30 AM SL Time
 
Radio-controlled aircraft (abbreviated RC aircraft or RC plane) is a model aircraft that is controlled remotely via radio control.

It is typically controlled with a hand-held transmitter and a receiver within the craft.

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Mr. Director Nagesh Sunday, 5 August 2007 - 11:48 PM SL Time
 
Nagesh comedy from movie `Kathalikka Neramillai`

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Mr. Poet Nagesh Sunday, 5 August 2007 - 8:29 AM SL Time
 
The most memorable performance of Nagesh out of the 1000 odd films he has acted in is his role in `Thiruvillayadal` in which he speaks a soliloquy that is one of the most memorable scenes in the film.

He played a poet falling on bad times in the film. When Sivaji who played Siva in the film saw it he asked the director to retain it in full without a cut.

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Don LaFontaine: Voice behind over 5000 movie trailers Wednesday, 11 July 2007 - 5:15 AM SL Time
 
We all have heard his signature voice several times. His voice can be heard in almost all the movie trailers that came out from Hollywood about 35 years.

Don LaFontaine is the voice actor famous for recording over 5,000 movie trailers, television commercials, network promotions, and video game trailers.

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Hurrican: Song by Bob Dylan Sunday, 1 July 2007 - 1:22 PM SL Time
 
Bob Dylan wrote and performed a song, called `Hurricane` (1975), which expressed the view that Carter was innocent.


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Courtship Display: In Michael Jackson Style (Video section for the article below) Saturday, 9 June 2007 - 9:45 AM SL Time
 
This colorful little bird has a neat mating dance.

He does the moonwalk just like Michael Jackson.

Actually the bird does it much better than MJ!

Please read the article titled, Courtship in Birds.

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Rocky Training Session and Rocky Steps Saturday, 12 May 2007 - 7:57 AM SL Time
 
Rocky movie
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Rocky is a 1976 film written by and starring Sylvester Stallone.

It tells the rags-to-riches American Dream story of Rocky Balboa, a seemingly unintelligent guy in Philadelphia.

Rocky theme song
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Rocky`s soundtrack was composed by Bill Conti.

The main theme song `Gonna Fly Now` made it to the American Film Institute placed it 58th on its AFI`s 100 Years and 100 Songs.

Rocky Steps
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The Rocky Steps is the nickname given to the front steps of the Philadelphia Museum of Art.

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The Sound of Silence Sunday, 22 April 2007 - 11:20 AM SL Time
 
`The Sound of Silence` is the song that propelled the 1960s folk music duo Simon and Garfunkel to popularity.

It was written by Paul Simon in the aftermath of the assassination of President John F. Kennedy on November 22, 1963.

Simon conceived of the song as a way of capturing the emotional trauma felt by many Americans left by the sudden death of a vigorous and visionary leader.

The Lyric
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Hello, darkness, my old friend
I`ve come to talk with you again
Because a vision softly creeping

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Crab Fishing: A video segment Saturday, 10 March 2007 - 7:30 AM SL Time
 
This about a three-minute long video segment depicts the retrieval of a crab pot from the ocean.

The video segment had been shot in the day light during the clear weather, but this similar work should be performed by a crab fishing crew during the colder and chilly nights.

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Aurora: A polar wonder Thursday, 8 March 2007 - 6:34 AM SL Time
 
Introduction
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The aurora is a bright glow observed in the night sky, usually in the polar zone.

The ultimate energy source of the aurora is the solar wind flowing past the Earth.

Auroras are now known to be caused by the collision of charged particles, found in the magnetosphere, with atoms in the Earth`s upper atmosphere (at altitudes above 80 km).

Typically the aurora appears either as a diffuse glow or as `curtains` that approximately extend in the east-west direction.

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