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Hahaha!! Joo Goon kawaii!! He's so cute with his love which he doesn't want but wants.lol He should stop being scared of loving again and just let it carry him away. Dive Joo Joong Won...dive! ..."My baby, will you come with oppa?" stroke...puhahaha, I died!! I just love Joong Won!!
ClaudCandy is a manga character name (i think) that Joong Won figure out of Gong Shil. Candy is a weak character that need someone to protect in manga, the story some kind same like them.
Dian123Read manga (japanese comic) or the anime, Candy Candy. Its the story about pure and sweet love. The character Candy is the the orphaned girl who stick on her prince charming. He is not weak at all, instead she is very strong girl and bit rebel. But she is very loyal to her childhood sweet love without knowing who's that prince charming that she love. She doesnt know that prince charming is Albert, her homeless guy friend that she met afte she is grown up. By the time she then fell in love with Albert after faced the hardship together. In the end, its known that prince charming/Albert is the same guy with Uncle William who took her as step daughter like daddy long leg, the leader Audrey clan, a of very rich clan in USA that she never met. Her love to Albert William Audrey is pure since she was kid. Candy is one of my 1st manga that I read when I was in grade 6th elementary school. Now I am 34 :D The story made me cry, and laugh. Its famous all over the world.
Dian123*she is
I am really scared of anything with the genre "horror", but after reading comments, I started watching and in as much as I am scared and skip some parts, I am never letting go of my first horror drama..........I think I am in LOVE again. This drama rocks! It scares me, makes me cry, smile and I cant stop clicking next episode. Best K-Drama of all times, its now official!!!
cloudheadWith that hand gesture? I know! XD
gurlI started saying it and doing the hand movement too haha
saradid u notice it too ? i was sad because for me Israel represents the "Jewish" and with all the horrors that they ar doing to palatine and to Ghaza i felt sad :( i guess he is not aware of what this sign is representing i hope so....; for me who watches every day news what is happening to poor people in GHAZA bcz of jewish , it was not COOL for me to see him wearing this sign :(
lalame too sara , I felt sad
SerenityLove Love Love - Jason Mraz ft. Hope :)
elenai know right especially when everyone thinks he dumped her !!!!
i guess im done with this,, it sucks! i hate her saying sasang-nim all the time, every episode has predictable ending,, COMFORTING EACH other , hugging or holding hands,,, LAME
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Silentyour life must be sad...
yooniwell, shame on you. you've watch this far, and now you just realized that this drama is lame.
aliehsif sucks on you....GET LOST!!!!
hahihahiI think you mean sajang-nim not sasang-nim
LeeJongSukManiaYour life have no meaning anymore, i think you like sad and tragic ending with ur life too.... pity on you..
shvcxvcvxvyeah right!!.. i just watch it because of high rating but i guess i should stop now,, the story is lame, the old couple sucks,, i hate her everytime she says sasang-nim,, i think she said that 1000 times already.
YoonaheartI agree..the story line is getting way boring. and she's annoying the hell out of me. done.
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In 2008, Pawan Kalyan scored a hit with 'Jalsa' and remained number 1 for that year. But after that he came down badly with three big flops in the form of 'Puli' 'Teen Maar' 'Panjaa'. This brought down his range. But the rate at which he fell down he bounced back with super form through the film 'Gabbar Singh'. He gave his career best, this year's biggest hit and became the second best film after 'Magadheera' in Tollywood history. His other film 'Cameraman Ganga Tho Rambabu' didn't meet expectations but openings rocked. Though it became an average flick, Pawan remained the 'Star Of The Year' for 2012.
Mahesh Babu
Mahesh Babu came to super form with 'Dookudu' and proved his star power with 'Businessman'. Though 'Businessman' didn't have material with just one man show he took the film to success. His future films also raise expectations. The lineup looks strong. 2013 will see two films of Mahesh and he is already in contention to become 'Star Of 2013'. Unless the other stars score big they can't compete with Mahesh's Dookudu.
Ram Charan
The title logo of the film 'Racha' was designed in such a way that Ram Charan's name was seen in it. True to that, Charan proved his stamina this year. To all those who doubted that his success came because of directors, Charan silenced them with 'Racha'. Rajamouli stated that 'Racha' showed Charan's star power. By converting an average flick to a hit, Charan joined the league of big heroes. That is why the pre-release business for his future films has hit the sky.
Allu Arjun
Allu Arjun is not rated among the top heroes but with 'Julayi' he proved that his films have strong commercial success range. Though Trivikram factor worked, Bunny's crowd pulling capacity cannot be underestimated. With this film, he also reached stars list.
Jr NTR
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If there is one year in his life that Ravi Teja wants to erase it would be 2012. He came with 4 films – Nippu, Daruvu, Saarocharu, Devudu Chesina Manushulu. None of them clicked. Moreover, they were termed as major duds and Ravi Teja's craze came down. At least next year he should prove his form with 'Balupu' or else…
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Full length comedy flicks are reducing and only two men are running them, Allari Naresh and Sunil. Both proved their mettle. 'Sudigadu' 'Poolarangadu' scored big hits and in this genre, only these two are the kings. We will be seeing tough fight between two in future.
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Vishnu scored a hit after long time with 'Dhenikaina Ready'. Manchu Manoj scored two flops with 'Mr Nookayya' 'Uu Kodathara Ulikki Padathara'. Mohan Babu dreamt that Manoj will become a star with 'Uu Kodathara..' but scene got reversed.
Rana scored..Chaitu didn't
Rana has created doubts on his acting skills and tasted two flops with films 'Naa Ishtam' 'Department'. But he scored as an actor with 'Krishnam Vande Jagadgurum'. But Naga Chaitanya scored zero this year. This year worked for Nani and big directors eyes fell on him. Ram came with only one film and it flopped. Audience is not caring about Srikanth, Jagapathi Babu.
Overall, in this year, some of them rocked while some of them flopped. If the flop actors can prove themselves in 2013, business will be good.


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CAIRO – Supporters of ousted Egyptian president Mohamed Morsi clashed with rival protesters on Friday on a central Cairo bridge near Tahrir Square, continuing a bloody day of protests that left more than a dozen people dead amid uncertainty about the country's political future.
A total of 17 people were reported dead in clashes across the country, according to Egypt's Ministry of Health. Hundreds more were injured.
Thousands of pro-Morsi demonstrators marched on the October 6 Bridge over the Nile after a speech from Muslim Brotherhood leader Mohammed Badie in which he demanded Morsi's reinstatement.
After his arrest was ordered earlier this week, Badie appeared on stage at an Islamist rally in Cairo on Friday, saying that the group would not concede on Morsi's reinstatement, "otherwise it is our lives," Reuters reported.
No army vehicles appeared to block the path of the marchers as they headed in the direction of the square where jubilant anti-Morsi demonstrators celebrated his ouster earlier this week. A military helicopter flew overhead as the Morsi supporters crossed the bridge on Friday before a large group congregated outside a state TV building.
The marchers engaged in clashes with anti-Morsi demonstrators in the area around the October 6 Bridge, with the fighting sometimes coming to hand-to-hand clashes, as gunshots were heard and rocks and fireworks were thrown. The fighting continued for more than an hour as ambulances were blocked from assisting the injured, with no substantial military or police presence seen until a series of military personnel carriers moved across the bridge as the fighting slowed.
Three people were killed and 199 people injured in fighting on the bridge, according to the health ministry.
At least 15 people were injured during earlier clashes on Friday between the country's military forces and supporters of Morsi outside the barracks where the man who was until recently president is believed to be detained.
Some of the wounded being treated near the scene appeared to have been hit by shotgun fire. NBC News journalists saw people with injuries to their face and torso.
The U.S. State Department condemned the violence Friday.
"We condemn the violence that has taken place today in Egypt," spokeswoman Jen Psaki said in a statement. "We call on all Egyptian leaders to condemn the use of force and to prevent further violence among their supporters."
Psaki added: "The voices of all who are protesting peacefully must be heard - including those who welcomed the events of earlier this week and those who supported President Morsy. The Egyptian people must come together to resolve their differences peacefully, without recourse to violence or the use of force."
The violence broke out after about 6,000 people who had been protesting outside Cairo's Rabia al Adawiya Mosque marched toward the Republican Guard headquarters, where Morsi is rumored to have been held since being deposed by the military on Wednesday.
Pro-Morsi protester Ahmed Awad, 47, a construction worker from Alexandria who has been in Cairo for a week, said that he and his fellow demonstrators outside the Republican Guard building were there "as martyrs."
"Either Morsi comes back or they will take our bodies from here," he said.
Another demonstrator Rajab Ahmed, 40, said "we want our president back" and called for General Abdel Fattah el-Sisi, Egypt's top general, to be executed for treason.
Ahmed Abdulaziz, a surgeon and Muslim Brotherhood member, said the military had used "live ammunition" as he treated some of the wounded.
Before Friday prayers at the Rabia al Adawiya Mosque, Imama Salah Sultan told worshippers that "social peace is necessary."
But he then added, "if peaceful means do not work, if we are called to war, we will not hesitate … we will not be driven like sheep."
Television footage from the scene showed several bloodied people near the scene and clouds of tear gas. Large numbers of people continued to protest as soldiers stood behind barbed-wire barricades.
However, a ministry of defense spokesman insisted there had been no casualties outside the Republican Guard headquarters and that the military had not used live ammunition. This was also reported by two state-run television channels, Nile TV and ETV 1.
BBC News correspondent Jeremy Bowen said on Twitter that he could see a "bloodied dead body." NBC News could not immediately confirm any fatalities.
Bowen later tweeted that he had been hit by shotgun fire. "Thanks for the messages. I've been hit by a couple of shotgun pellets. Am fine and heading out," he said.
A statement on the Muslim Brotherhood's website said earlier that peaceful protest was "a right guaranteed to all Egyptians," saying it would hold the government responsible for its supporters' security.
The Islamists' protests were given various names, including the "Friday of Rage" and the "Friday of Rejection."
A liberal coalition also called for its supporters to take to the streets, saying that the Islamists' demonstrations could be a "counter-revolution," Reuters reported.
The Egyptian Army was put on a heightened state of alert in the Sinai region that borders Israel Friday. The border crossing between the Gaza Strip and Egypt at Rafah was also closed.
A senior U.S. defense official told NBC News that the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff General Martin Dempsey spoke with the chief of staff of Egypt's military forces on Thursday. The official could not offer any details about the conversation between Dempsey and Lieutenant General Sedki Sobhi.
Sinai is a hotbed of Islamist militant activity and there has been concern in Israel about the potential for increased cross-border attacks if the Egyptian military becomes pre-occupied with dealing with the demonstrations.
At a rally in Northern Sinai after the ouster of Morsi, hundreds of people cheered as a local leader spoke of declaring a "war council" to fight the Egyptian military, the police and the state. However, a spokesman for a loose coalition of tribes rejected that saying they were with the military and would not support any violence against the state.
There were reports that a state of emergency had been imposed in the Sinai area, but this was later denied by the military.
Dozens of people have been killed in clashes between rival factions, police and soldiers since last weekend, with millions of people taking part in anti-Morsi protests.
Morsi was ousted as president by the military on Wednesday and replaced by top judge Adly Mansour on Thursday. Fresh elections have been promised.
The statement on the Brotherhood's website appealed to "the masses of the Egyptian people to mobilize in peaceful mass marches in all liberty squares and streets of Egypt, to be started from all mosques, after Friday prayers, to reject the heinous coup against popular will."
It was attributed to the "National Alliance in Support of Electoral Legitimacy."
"NASEL said that it feels rising public anger and the imminent danger threatening the nation as a result of the unprecedented military coup d'état against legitimacy derived from the will of the people," it said.
Morsi is under house arrest and the statement said NASEL would hold the "coup masterminds" responsible for his safety and "for preventing the elected president from contact with the people."
The Brotherhood denounced the crackdown, including the shutdown Wednesday night of its television channel, Misr25, its newspaper and three pro-Morsi Islamist TV stations. The military, it said, is returning Egypt to the practices of "the dark, repressive, dictatorial and corrupt ages."
On Thursday, a judge said that an investigation was being held into accusations that Morsi and eight other senior Muslim Brotherhood figures had defamed the judiciary. The arrests of Mohammed Badie, the Muslim Brotherhood's supreme guide, and a top deputy, Khairat el-Shater, were also ordered.
Authorities have issued a wanted list for more than 200 Brotherhood members and leaders of other Islamist groups. The nation's public prosecutor ordered the release of the head of the Brotherhood's political wing, Saad El-Katatni, and deputy leader Rashad al-Bayoumi on Friday, Reuters reported, citing state media.
Both were arrested on Thursday and remain under investigation, the news service reported.
Military spokesman Col. Ahmed Mohammed Ali said in a Facebook posting that that the army and security forces will not take "any exceptional or arbitrary measures" against any political group, The Associated Press reported.
The military has a "strong will to ensure national reconciliation, constructive justice and tolerance," he wrote.
The National Salvation Front, the top opposition political group during Morsi's presidency, called for all sides – "particularly political Islamic groups" -- to be included in the new political process, the AP reported.
"Reconciliation is the name of the game, including the Muslim Brotherhood. We need to be inclusive," Munir Fakhry Abdel-Nour, a leading member of the group, told the news service. "The detentions are a mistake."
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- Update on the health effects of outdoor air pollutionSverre Vedal
Division of Environmental and Occupational Health Sciences, National Jewish Medical and Research Center, 1400 Jackson Street, Denver, CO 80206, USA
Clin Chest Med 23:763-75, vi. 2002..Experimental data are validating and providing insight into some surprising observational findings...
- Air pollution and daily mortality in a city with low levels of pollutionSverre Vedal
Department of Medicine, National Jewish Medical and Research Center, Denver, Colorado, USA
Environ Health Perspect 111:45-52. 2003....
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National Jewish Medical and Research Center, Denver, Colorado 80246, USA
Inhal Toxicol 16:353-62. 2004..They may be chance findings. Alternatively, given the very low concentrations of SO(2) that were present in Vancouver, SO(2) may have been serving as a surrogate measure of other environmental or meteorological factors...
- Estimating effects of ambient PM(2.5) exposure on health using PM(2.5) component measurements and regression calibrationMatthew Strand
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J Expo Sci Environ Epidemiol 16:30-8. 2006..5) concentrations from a fixed monitor yielded a much weaker estimate of 1.0% (95% CI: 0.0-2.0% decrease). Relatively small amounts of personal monitor data were needed to calibrate the estimate based on fixed outdoor concentrations...
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J Allergy Clin Immunol 115:337-44. 2005..Ambient pollution might worsen chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD)...
- Effects of wintertime ambient air pollutants on asthma exacerbations in urban minority children with moderate to severe diseaseNathan Rabinovitch
Division of Allergy Immunology, Dept of Pediatrics, National Jewish Medical and Research Center, 1400 Jackson Street, Denver, CO 80206, USA
J Allergy Clin Immunol 114:1131-7. 2004..Few studies have prospectively followed panels of urban children with asthma to determine whether air pollution levels are associated with clinically relevant outcomes such as asthma exacerbations...
- Risk factors for symptom onset in PI*Z alpha-1 antitrypsin deficiencyAnnyce S Mayer
Division of Environmental and Occupational Health Sciences National Jewish Medical and Research Center, Denver, CO 80206, USA
Int J Chron Obstruct Pulmon Dis 1:485-92. 2006..Age of symptom onset has not been well studied in relationship to other environmental exposures...
- The complexities of air pollution regulation: the need for an integrated research and regulatory perspectiveSrikanth S Nadadur
National Center for Environmental Assessment, US EPA, Research Triangle Park, NC 27711, USA
Toxicol Sci 100:318-27. 2007..The regulatory mandate may lag behind the science, but real gains both in public health benefit and the science to dissect complex problems will result...
- Health effects of fine particulate air pollution: lines that connectJudith C Chow
Desert Research Institute, Division of Atmospheric Sciences, Reno, 89512 NV, USA
J Air Waste Manag Assoc 56:1368-80. 2006
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Department of Environmental and Occupational Health Sciences, University of Washington School of Public Health and Community Medicine, Seattle, WA 98105, USA
Environ Res 102:29-35. 2006....
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- A case-crossover analysis of particulate air pollution and cardiac arrhythmia in patients with implantable cardioverter defibrillatorsKira E Rich
School of Occupational and Environmental Hygiene, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
Inhal Toxicol 16:363-72. 2004..In summary, this study provides little evidence that specific components of PM affect risk of cardiac arrhythmias, although power limited the ability of the study to detect small effects...
- The effect of biomass burning on respiratory symptoms and lung function in rural Mexican womenJustino Regalado
Instituto Nacional de Enfermedades Respiratorias, Mexico City, Mexico
Am J Respir Crit Care Med 174:901-5. 2006..The use of biomass as a cooking fuel is commonplace in developing countries and has been associated with chronic bronchitis and obstructive airway disease...
- Where there's fire, there's smokeSverre Vedal
Am J Respir Crit Care Med 174:1168-9. 2006
- Wildfire smoke and respiratory symptoms in patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary diseaseE Rand Sutherland
J Allergy Clin Immunol 115:420-2. 2005
- Role of exercise and lung function in predicting work status in cystic fibrosisDespina D Frangolias
Department of Medicine, University of British Columbia, Canada
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J Expo Sci Environ Epidemiol 17:S90-6. 2007....


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For the anniversary of September 11th, Showtime is airing the documentary The Love We Make, chronicling Paul McCartney's experiences in New York after 9/11 and his Concert for New York. Sir Paul appeared via satellite before the Television Critics Association and I got to bask in his wisdom. He was profound and hilarious, and I get to report it to you.
Singing Through Tragedies:
Paul McCartney: The whole mood of the world, the country of America, and particularly the city of New York, had changed. There was fear in the air, and I never experienced particularly in New York. So this was where the idea of doing a show came about. My father's generation were in World War II. I was born in World War II in Liverpool, which was subjected to a lot of bombing. So I grew up with all these people who'd just recently survived a war, and I noticed how they dealt with it. It was, like, "Roll out the barrel. We'll have a barrel of fun," boom, boom. While they're getting bombed, they're singing. So I remembered that, and I thought that's maybe what I can bring to this. Maybe I can just get that kind of feeling, that kind of old courage that I'd seen my parents and their generation exhibit. Maybe I would be able to help America, New York, out of this fearfulness, and that really is what happened." The audience had that feeling. It was a kind of post fear. We were emerging from the fearfulness of the immediate impact, and now you were seeing the emotion releasing through music, which I always think is a great thing. It's one of the reasons I love music and I'm in it. You could see particularly the firefighters and the volunteers and their families and victims' families were able to release this emotion that had been sort of so pent up. So it was a great feeling. It was a really great feeling. We actually felt like we were doing a bit of good.
The Real Healing Power Of Music:
Paul McCartney: Shakespeare [says], "There's more in heaven and earth that are dreamed of in your philosophy." There's so much that we don't know about. When you get down to the scientific thing about music, it's vibrations and you can actually measure them. But the fact that it's vibrations working on people, so I think that's part of the answer. It's kind of physically a very interesting subject. I think what happens then with this scientific feature of it is that it hits your emotions. And, it's global. Language doesn't matter. You can play someone Claire de Lune and they can tell it's about the moon. You go, well, how can that happen? Okay, the title's a bit of a giveaway, but I think the emotional factor is very important. I'm very interested in that whole idea. The fact remains that whether we discover how it works, it works. And it can bring you to tears, it can make you smile, it can make you flash back to a memory. People often say to me, "Thank you for the music. It's the soundtrack to my life." So really it's one of the things I'm most proud of, actually, to have lucked out to be in a profession like this where I can actually help, heal, let people get in touch with their emotions, and me, by the way, at the same time. I think the first word I use is what I end up saying. It's a magical thing, and I do mean that. People say, "Do you believe in magic, you know, really?" I say, "Yeah, I really do." I think I have to. It's a great, great thing, and I love the fact that it can reach people and touch their hearts in the way that it can.
Remembering The Beatles' Ed Sullivan Show Debut:
Paul McCartney: We didn't actually know who Ed Sullivan was. We'd say, "Who is that?" "He's very famous in America. Don't worry." So, you know, and then we found ourselves on The Ed Sullivan Show, and the guy who was holding the curtain for me as I was about to go on and sing Yesterday solo with a string quartet, he said, "Are you nervous?" I said, "No," slightly bluffing. I said, "No." He said, "Well, you should be. There's 73 million people watching."
Remembering Shea Stadium:
Paul McCartney: The Shea Stadium thing, we didn't really understand the significance, that it was a big famous baseball park. To us in a way, it was just a huge gig. Shea Stadium was fantastic. What do I remember about that? Screaming, a lot of screaming and the hysteria that that evoked in us because we couldn't believe that we couldn't hear ourselves. We're kind of used to vaguely hearing what key we're in or what was going on. You really couldn't hear anything. It was like a billion seagulls screaming, and we just looked at each other. You can see it if you look at the film. We're just in hysterics. John ends up doing a solo with his elbow. I mean, those are the kind of things you remember. It is a long time ago, and it does seem like a long time ago because I, like you, have looked at the film of it. At the time you think this is a very modern event. But you get this far in the future after it, and you think, well, no. It's now an ancient bit of history. I love it anyway.
Meeting The King:
Paul McCartney: Memory is sort of a funny thing, you know. I think you kind of get the story in your memory and you tell it so many times, you think about it so many times that it's not necessarily the truth anymore. I mean, we met Elvis Presley, for instance, which was a big event in my life and in the other Beatles' lives, but when we came to recount the story, we all had a different version. I said, "He met us at the front door and greeted us." Ringo said, "No, he didn't. He met us on the couch."
How Sir Paul wrote Let It Be:
Paul McCartney: Let It Be happened during a time when there was kind of a lot going on. I think people were overdoing the use of substances. We certainly were. It was kind of common. It was the fashion. And anyone who remembers that time will know that. I think I was getting a little bit over the top with the whole thing, getting pretty tired and pretty wasted. I went to bed one night and had a kind of restless night. But I had a dream where my mother, who had been dead at that point for about 10 years, came to me in the dream and it was as if she could see that I was troubled. And she sort of said to me "Let it be." And I remember quite clearly her saying "Let it be," and "It's going to be okay, don't worry." You know, "Let it be." And I woke up and I remembered the dream, and I thought, well, that's a great idea. I then sat down and wrote the song using the feeling from that dream and of my mum coming to me in the dream. I think, then, when I said mother Mary, meaning my mother, it's become kind of quasi religious with Mother Mary, Virgin Mary, which is fine by me if that's how you want to take it. The actual reason was my mom came to me in a dream and actually said "Let it be," which turned out to be great advice. Thanks, mom.
How Sir Paul Wrote Yesterday:
Paul McCartney: One of my most famous songs is Yesterday and like Let It Be, Yesterday came to me in a dream, but at this time it wasn't just my mom saying a phrase. This was a whole tune that was in my head. I had no idea where it came from. Best I can think is that my [mental] computer through the years loaded all these things and finally printed out this song in a dream kind of thing. But I certainly had this song that was to become very famous in the world and I just dreamed it. So there's no way out of it for me. I have to believe that that's magical. I have no other rational explanation for it.
The Real Story Of The British Invasion:
Paul McCartney: The great thing is I always say to younger bands and stuff, we were very lucky because we had a kind of staircase of fame. Not like now where you're just overnight success and you've got to deal with it. We started in Liverpool and we had to sort of schlep around, trying to get some work, and trying to get a little bit more money, a bigger club. Went to Hamburg, then we played all around England. So by the time we had the offer to come to America, we were now kind of famous in Europe and we had a little handle on how to behave and how to do it. We'd met quite a lot of people who were likely to criticize us, and we felt like we had a way to deal with it. So we were very excited to come to America because this is where all the music that we loved came from. We had said to our manager, "Look, we're not going to America until we have a #1 record," which if you think about it, was really quite a sort of bold move. Because we'd seen other stars from Britain come to America and just fade into the general scene, because they would often be like a male star and you'd have Elvis and you'd have plenty of sort of minor male stars like Frankie Avalon and people like that that were doing quite well. So our stars didn't work, it didn't translate. So we said to our manager we're going to wait till we've got a #1. And we did eventually. We got #1 with I Want to Hold Your Hand and we just hit the roof. We said, "Now we can go to America." So we came in here on a bit of a wave of success. We kind of felt good about ourselves but we were really, amazingly excited to come to the land of our music. Then we heard on the plane coming over, I think the pilots radioed JFK – Idyllwild as it was then – and they said, "Hey, there's millions of people, there's thousands of kids at the airport." We're going, "Oh, yeah? Quick, better have a shave." And so we were very excited. We got off the plane to this amazing hysteria. And then we went into a press conference, and I think this is what I'm talking about. The press would say, you know, "How do you find America?" And we'd say, "You turn left at Greenland." We kind of had it all down. We kind of knew what to expect. By then we were fairly sort of cocky kids, which I think helped a lot. Instead of kind of saying, "Sorry, sir, we shouldn't be in your country." They said, "Well, you know, what are you doing here?" We said, "Well, check it out, we're #1," which is a pretty good thing to be able to say. So we were excited, slightly nervous but not as nervous as we would have been if we hadn't have had this backup to play with."
The Significance of New York to Paul McCartney:
Paul McCartney: I think that my original connection was The Beatles, with Shea Stadium, Ed Sullivan. When you talk to me about New York now, it's the people because I married a New York girl, Linda. And I'm about to marry another one. So I think I would think first of all of Linda and her family and our family and our connections with New York and then my upcoming connections, and then I think after that, Ed Sullivan, Shea Stadium, 9/11 concert, and many great concerts there, you know, most recently Yankees and Citi Field before that, closing Shea with Billy Joel. So I have a lot of connections. I love New York.
The Concert Set List:
Paul McCartney: I always try and surprise with the set list, but in the days of YouTube and Internet, you can't surprise anyone with anything. The minute you do it once, everyone knows. But the proportion of Beatles songs has grown, and we do quite a lot of Beatles song, but I try and mix it with Wings, which is also very popular because there's kind of a younger generation out there that comes to our shows now. And then I mix that with stuff that is my kind of own solo stuff, but the largest proportion these days is Beatles stuff. Because, you know, I try and give audiences what they want, and a lot of that is Beatles stuff. It's not bad music.
The Collaborations on Concert For New York:
Paul McCartney: It's just what we said on the day. We're mainly talking about the concert, talking about what we're going to do. I'm talking to Pete Townsend about a song that I've written, and we're trying to work out whether it's a good idea for us to do this song on the concert, because it's a new song. And traditionally, you don't try and introduce new songs. You just kind of stick to your hits because it's a bit safer. But here's me trying to do this, so I'm talking to Pete about that. I'm talking to him about Mick Jagger. Mick didn't think it was a good idea for me to do something new, because I know that wisdom. But I decided to overrule that and Pete kind of backed me with that. So it's that kind of thing. We're just kind of generally talking about how we're going to work things out, what we're going to do, how we feel about this. And I think it's quite an intimate glimpse of what went on in the background of preparing for that concert.
The Return of Harmonic Music:
Paul McCartney: I've always loved harmonies and yeah, it is making a bit of a comeback. I don't think it really went away. You know, what I love about harmonies and about choirs, I think like barber shop quartets, is they're everywhere. You can go anywhere in the world, and there's always a little group of people harmonizing. So I think it's a very human thing, and I think that's what I love about it. I think it is coming back with certain groups now using it more than it has been used in certain years. I don't really think it went away.
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THE NEW YORK AFRICAN FILM FESTIVAL RETURNS TO THE FILM SOCIETY OF LINCOLN CENTER MAY 7-13 FOR ITS 21st EDITION
In celebration of the centenary of Nigeria's unification, Opening Night will feature the Nollywood dark comedy Confusion Na Wa by Kenneth Gyang
Centerpiece film is the much-anticipated Half of a Yellow Sun, directed and adapted by Biyi Bandele and starring
Thandie Newton, Chiwetel Ejiofor, and Anika Noni Rose
The sweeping epic Sarraounia is the Closing Night selection
NEW YORK (March 31, 2014)—The Film Society of Lincoln Center (FSLC) and African Film Festival, Inc. (AFF) will present the 21th New York African Film Festival (NYAFF) May 7-13. Organized under the banner theme "Revolution and Liberation in the Digital Age," the initial leg of the festival includes eleven features and eight short films from various African nations and the Diaspora. The NYAFF continues throughout May at the Cinema at the Maysles Documentary Center and the Brooklyn Academy of Music's BAMcinématek.
"There are long and proud cinematic traditions in countries all over the African continent, and at the same time there are new voices and new means of expression. We are happy that the festival this year will be able to share the work of these artists, who are exploring both myth and modernity," said FSLC Associate Director of Programming Marian Masone.
"While American cinema started from popular films and progressed to art house, film in Africa went in reverse, garnering international interest through the art house genre before moving to popular cinema. Consequently, most of the films about Africa during its 'art house' phase cornered African cinema into a genre in itself, one that was perhaps not easily accessible," said AFF Executive Director and NYAFF Founder Mahen Bonetti. "Today, the golden era of technology not only allows the African public to see films made about their own realities but also exhorts each generation of filmmakers to raise the bar with the stories they tell about the continent and its diaspora, resulting in a veritable digital revolution."
With a gracious nod to Nollywood, the world's second-largest film industry, and to the 100th centenary of the unification of Nigeria, the festival Opening Night presentation will be Confusion Na Wa, the dark comedy by Kenneth Gyang. Winner of Best Picture at the 2013 African Movie Academy Awards, the film stars OC Ukeje and Gold Ikponmwosa as two grifters whose decision to blackmail a straying husband (played by Ramsey Nouah) sets in motion a chain of events leading to a shocking conclusion. The screening will be preceded by the Opening Reception at 6pm. Regular festival prices apply for the screening, and tickets can be purchased on FilmLinc.com. Tickets for the movie and Opening Reception are $50 and available online at www.africanfilmny.org.
NYAFF audiences will get a sneak peek before the May 16 theatrical release of the critically acclaimed film Half of a Yellow Sun, based on the internationally best-selling novel of the same name by National Book Critics Circle Award–winning Nigerian author Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie. Directed by Biyi Bandele, the Centerpiece selection stars Thandie Newton and Anika Noni Rose as glamorous twins navigating life, love and the turbulence of the Biafra (Nigerian Civil) war in 1960s Nigeria. The Monterey Media release also includes a powerful performance by recent Oscar-nominee Chiwetel Ejiofor. Directly following the New York premiere of the film on Friday, May 9, the Centerpiece Gala will be held at the DiMenna Center for Classical Music's Mary Flagler Cary Hall (450 West 37th Street, between 9th and 10th Avenues). Regular festival prices apply for the movie, and tickets can be purchased on FilmLinc.com. Tickets for the screening and benefit are $200 and available online at www.africanfilmny.org.
A crop of films take up this year's theme of revolution and liberation. In the documentary Mugabe: Villain or Hero?, director Roy Agyemang gets unprecedented access to the Zimbabwean leader and his entourage and lays bare the fight between African leaders and the West for African minerals and land. Ibrahim El Batout's narrative feature Winter of Discontent takes viewers inside the Tahrir Square protests that were so central to the Arab Spring. And Ntare Guma Mbaho Mwine's timely experimental short Kuhani features a conflicted priest, just as Uganda's Anti-Homosexual Act is grabbing headlines.
As a part of this, women's rights and issues are again in the spotlight. In her documentary Bastards, director Deborah Perkin follows a single mother, beaten and raped at 14 and discarded as she fights in Moroccan court to legitimize her sham marriage, thus ensuring a future for the daughter born out of her nightmare. In Cameronian director Victor Viyouh's drama Ninah's Dowry, the title character flees an abusive marriage only to be pursued by her husband to retrieve either his property (her) or the dowry he paid. The short Beleh, by Eka Christa Assam, turns gender roles on their head as a bullying husband gets a taste of his own medicine. The wounded central characters in the narrative films Of Good Report by Jahmil X.T. Qubeka and Grigris by Mahamat-Saleh Haroun are allegorical to the societal shifts and legacy of post-independent Africa.
On the lighter side, the festival will also present comedies, including Confusion Na Wa and It's Us (Ni Si Si), as well as the U.S. premiere of the short Soko Sonko (The Market King). The Tunisian short Wooden Hands, also a U.S. premiere, delights as a willful five year-old's act of rebellion takes on a life of its own. Additionally, writer Marguerite Abouet and illustrator Clément Oubrerie have brought their popular cartoon to life as directors of the animated feature Aya of Yop City, which follows the adventures of a 19-year-old and her girlfriends in Ivory Coast.
The Closing Night film on Tuesday, May 13, will be Sarraounia, Med Hondo's sweeping epic based on historical accounts of Queen Sarraounia. Feared for her bravery and expertise in the occult arts, the fierce warrior leads the Azans of Niger into battle against French colonialists and enslavement at the turn of the century. The historical drama took first prize at the Panafrican Film and Television Festival of Ouagadougou (FESPACO) in 1987. Regular festival pricing applies.
From May 8-13, the Frieda and Roy Furman Gallery will host the exhibition Digital Africa, featuring the works of Congolese and American photographers. "Congolese Dreams" is a series of works by acclaimed photographer Baudouin Mouanda and a collective of artists, a companion to Philippe Cordey's film of the same name, which will be screened during the festival. It will be paired with Adama Delphine Fawundu's stunning portraits capturing the residents of Tivoli Towers in Crown Heights, Brooklyn—home to more than 350 families, who are mostly of African descent—as well as portraits of young musician-activists from Nigeria and the U.S.
All screenings will take place in the Walter Reade Theater, 165 West 65th Street (between Broadway and Amsterdam) and the Elinor Bunin Munroe Film Center, 144 West 65th Street (between Broadway and Amsterdam). Tickets for the New York African Film Festival screenings go on sale April 17 at the Film Society's box offices and online at www.FilmLinc.com. Pre-sale to Film Society members begins on April 15. Single screening tickets are $13; $9 for students and seniors (62+); and $8 for Film Society members. Discount packages start at $30; $24 for students and seniors (62+); and $21 for Film Society members. Discount prices apply with the purchase of tickets to three films or more. Visit FilmLinc.com for additional information, and to purchase tickets.
NYAFF then heads to the Cinema at the Maysles Documentary Center in Harlem May 15-18. As is the tradition, the NYAFF closes over Memorial Day Weekend May 23-26 at the Brooklyn Academy of Music BAMcinématek as part of the dance and music festival DanceAfrica. For details, visit African Film Festival online at www.africanfilmny.org.
The programs of AFF are made possible by the generous support of the National Endowment for the Arts, The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, Lambent Foundation, New York State Council on the Arts, NYC Department of Cultural Affairs, Open Society Institute for West Africa, Bradley Family Foundation, International Organization of La Francophonie, Domenico Paulon Foundation, WNYC, New York Community Trust, NYC & Company, New York Times Community Affairs Department, French Cultural Services, Manhattan Portage Bags, City Bakery, Metrowine, Flavorpill, South African Consulate General, SN Brussels, Columbia University's Institute of African Studies, Hudson Hotel, Divine Chocolate and Omnipak Import Enterprises, Inc.
Press Screening Schedule
Please join us for advance press screenings at the Elinor Bunin Munroe Film Center, 144 West 65th Street, between Broadway and Amsterdam Avenue.
RSVP to John Wildman, firstname.lastname@example.com or (212) 875-5419.
Wednesday, April 16
10am Mugabe: Villain or Hero? (116m)
12:10pm Winter of Discontent (96m)
2:00pm Aya of Yop City (85m)
Thursday, April 17
10:00am Confusion Na Wa (105m) with Wooden Hands (23m)
12:20pm Of Good Report (109m)
2:30pm Bastards (93m) with Beleh (30m)
Films and Descriptions for New York African Film Festival
Opening Night Film
NY Premiere
Confusion Na Wa
Kenneth Gyang, Nigeria, 2013, 105m
English and Pidgin with English subtitles
Set in a Nigerian city, Confusion Na Wa is a dark comedy about a group of strangers whose fates become intertwined over the course of 24 hours. At the heart of everything is a phone found by opportunists Charles and Chichi, who, having read through its contents, decide to blackmail the owner Emeka, an arrogant lawyer who is cheating on his wife. Little do they realize that their misdemeanors have set in motion a chain of events that will lead to their own downfall. Meanwhile Bello, a civil servant who naïvely thinks hard work is its own reward is pushed to the edge of reason by his wife and his boss. And businessman Babajide lets his piety get the better of him. Eventually mayhem will connect them all. With a script by Tom Rowlands-Rees, director Kenneth Gyang takes a nonlinear approach to storytelling in this Nollywood prizewinner (Confusion Na Wa was named Best Film at the 2013 African Movie Academy Awards). New York Premiere
May 7, 7:30pm (Q&A with Kenneth Gyang)
May 10, 9:15pm (Q&A with Kenneth Gyang)
Centerpiece Film
Half of a Yellow Sun
Biyi Bandele, Nigeria/UK, 2013, 113m
With epic grandeur, Half of a Yellow Sun tell the story of a generation living through the tumult of Nigeria's independence and the ensuing Nigerian-Biafran War through the thorny romantic journeys of two sisters. Olanna (Thandie Newton) is married to Odenigbo (Chiwetel Ejiofor), a revolutionary who fathers a child with another woman. Her twin sister Kainene (Anika Noni Rose) is in love with a British writer (Joseph Mawle) who has come to Nigeria to teach. Playwright Biyi Bandele makes his film directorial debut with this adaptation of Nigerian writer Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie's Orange Prize–winning novel. Half of a Yellow Sun may take place 50 years ago, but Bandale has fashioned it as an emotionally gripping example of contemporary Nigerian cinema, and honors the ongoing strength of that country's women in the process. New York Premiere
May 9, 7:00pm (Q&A with Biyi Bandele and some cast members)
Closing Night Film
NY Premiere
Med Hondo, Burkina Faso/Mauritania/France, 1986, 120m
Dioula, French, and Fula with English subtitles
Based on historical accounts of Queen Sarraounia, who leads the Azans into battle against the French colonialists at the turn of the century, Hondo's sweeping epic rivals any that American cinema has produced. A brilliant strategist and forceful leader, Sarraounia is a young warrior queen, whose mastery of the ancient "magic" skills of martial arts and pharmacology is first put to the test when she defends her people from attack by a neighboring tribe, which earns respect from the men she guides into battle and deep loyalty from her people. But her real trial comes when the French army marches south to widen its colonial grip on the African continent. Hondo contrasts the strong alliances that emerge among African communities with the self-seeking and purposelessness of the Europeans and provides much-needed African historical perspective. Sarraounia is not only an engrossing tale of a remarkable woman's bravery but also a captivating study of revolution against enslavement and the struggle for peace and freedom.
May 13, 9:00pm
Aya of Yop City
Marguerite Abouet & Clément Oubrerie, Ivory Coast/France, 2013, 85m
French with English subtitles
Abouet and Oubrerie bring their popular comic-book series that tracks the adventures of a young woman in a working-class town to cinematic life in a beautifully drawn account of West Africa in the 1970s. Nineteen-year-old aspiring doctor Aya spends most of her time at home in the Abidjan suburb of Yopougon (nicknamed Yop City) studying and dealing with her family so she doesn't have time to take part in the exploits of her gal pals Bintou and Adjoua, both of whom want it all—to marry up as well as start their own business. Things go awry, though, when one of them gets pregnant. Oubrerie's vivid drawings capture the spirit of a community growing past colonialism along with the rest of the country, and a spectacular soundtrack of period funk, rock, disco, and Afrojazz sets it all in motion. A delight for the eyes and the ears.
May 8, 4:30pm
May 11, 9:00pm (Intro by actress Aïssa Maïga)
US Premiere
Deborah Perkin, Morocco/UK, 2013, 93m
Arabic with English subtitles
In Morocco, as in all Muslim countries, sex outside marriage is illegal. Single mothers are despised, but what is the fate of their children? They are outcasts, condemned to a life of discrimination. Bastards tells this story from a mother's point of view. At 14, Rabha El Haimer was an illiterate child bride, beaten, raped, and then rejected. Ten years later, she is a single mother, fighting to legalize her forced marriage, to register her daughter, and to make the father accept his child so that she can secure a future for her "illegitimate" daughter. With unprecedented access to the Moroccan justice system, filmmaker Deborah Perkin follows Rabha's fight from the Casablanca slums—confronting her mother and asking why she married her off so young—to the high courts where the child's father makes absurd claims and Rabha suffers verbal abuse from her father-in-law. Perkin may be the first Westerner to film in Moroccan family courts, where she captures real-life drama, played out in the first Muslim country in the world to recognize that single mothers and illegitimate children have rights. U.S. Premiere
Screening with
NY Premiere
Eka Christa Assam, Cameroon, 2013, 30m
Pidgin with English subtitles
Pregnant Joffi has a bullying husband who takes her, and pretty much everything else, for granted. His attitude is challenged when he awakes one morning to find a very different world from the one he fell asleep to the night before. A quirky, poignant, and pertinent look at gender roles. New York Premiere
May 9, 4:00pm
May 12, 6:00pm (Q&A with Deborah Perkin)
NY Premiere
Mahamat-Saleh Haroun, Chad/France, 2013, 101m
French and Arabic with English subtitles
Despite a bum leg, 25-year-old Grigris has hopes of becoming a professional dancer, using his killer moves on the dance floor of his local club to secure some extra cash. His dreams are tested when his stepfather falls critically ill and he's forced to risk his future by smuggling oil to pay the hospital bills. When he falls for Mimi, a beautiful but damaged prostitute, they attempt to start a new life together. But as bad decisions begin to catch up with them, they are forced to run for their lives. Their pasts, however, are never far behind… Professional dancer Souleymane Deme is remarkable as a man who can't get a break, and veteran director Mahamat-Saleh Haroun, whose visually striking films have won awards at the Cannes and Venice film festivals, creates an elegant character study. New York Premiere
May 8, 8:45pm
May 12, 3:45pm
It's Us (Ni Si Si)
US Premiere
Nick Reding, Kenya, 2013, 88m
Swahili with English subtitles
Picture a typical Kenyan community: a harmonious muddle of tribes, intermarriages, and extended families; people living and working together all their days who don't care which tribe their neighbor belongs to. What starts out as comic ribbing and good-natured banter between friends takes a more serious turn when politically motivated rumors arise and a sudden mistrust takes hold. With mistrust comes a sense of threat, and with threats, fear escalates, and in a matter of days, the bonds and alliances—the foundation of the community—are severed, just as they were in Kenya in 2008. Can a once-peaceful community learn from the mistakes of the past and be given another chance? Written and directed by Nick Reding, It's Us was produced by the NGO-sponsored Arts for Education (S.A.F.E.) prior to Kenya's elections to promote identity, peace, and unity by showing people confronting turmoil and violence. Can film change hearts and minds? Nick Reding and S.A.F.E. are making sure that happens. U.S. Premiere
May 8, 6:30pm (Q&A with Nick Reding)
May 12, 1:45pm
Mugabe: Villain or Hero?
Roy Agyemang, UK/Zimbabwe, 2012, 116m
To most in the West, the title question of Roy Agyemang's provocative documentary hardly needs to be asked. Accused of inept leadership and human-rights abuses, Zimbabwean president Robert Mugabe, who has ruled the country since its independence from Great Britain in 1980 and was sworn in for a new five-year term just last summer, is also known for being the first African leader to seize white-controlled farms and redistribute them to the local population. British-born of Ghanaian parents, Agyemang set out to gain a fresh perspective on Mugabe by exploring the reality behind the headlines. And what was supposed to be a three-month project became a three-year all-access journey with Mugabe and his inner circle that reveals a charismatic, complicated man ruling a country at the intersection of international economics and post-colonial fallout. This personal film also raises wider serious issues about the relationship between African leaders and the West in the fight for the continent's minerals and land.
May 7, 2:00pm
May 11, 6:15pm
New African Shorts
TRT: 110m
Baudouin Mouanda: Congolese Dreams
US Premiere
Philippe Cordey, Congo, 2012, 25m
Lingala, French, and German with English subtitles
For his latest project, The Dream, photographer Baudouin Mouanda explores beauty in unlikely places by asking women to pose in the same white wedding dress in different locations, from rubbish dumps to crowded trains.
Aissa's Story
NY Premiere
Iquo B. Essien, Nigeria/USA, 2013, 15m
French and English with English subtitles
An African immigrant housekeeper and single mother must decide whether to move on with her life or fight when the case against her assaulter is dismissed. New York Premiere
Kwaku Ananse
Akosua Adoma Owusu, Ghana/Mexico/USA, 2013, 26m
Outsider Nyan attends her estranged father's funeral. Overwhelmed at the procession, she searches for him in the spirit world. Kwaku Ananse draws upon the rich mythology of Ghana and combines semi-autobiographical elements with the tale of Kwaku Ananse, a trickster in West African stories who appears as both spider and man. Co-presentation with Cinema Tropical.
Soko Sonko (The Market King)
US Premiere
Ekwa Msangi-Omari, Kenya/USA, 2014, 22m
Kiswahili and Sheng with English subtitles
When her mom gets sick, Kibibi's dad takes her to the market to get her hair braided before school. A fish out of water, this well-intentioned dad goes on a roller coaster of a journey where no man has gone before… because only women have been there! U.S. Premiere
Frances Bodomo, Ghana/USA, 2014, 15m
On July 16, 1969, America prepares to launch Apollo 11. Thousands of miles away, the Zambia Space Academy hopes to beat America to the moon. Inspired by true events.
NY Premiere
Ntare Guma Mbaho Mwine, Uganda, 2013, 7m
An experimental short inspired by Ugandan Catholic priest Father Anthony Musaala's open letter titled "The Failure of Celibate Chastity Among Diocesan Priests." Father Musaala is one of many Ugandans who has been persecuted as a result of the country's recently passed Anti-Homosexuality Act. New York Premiere
May 8, 2:00pm
May 11, 3:30pm (Q&A with Iquo B. Essien, Akosua Adoma Owusu, Ekwa Msangi-Omari, Kenya, Frances Bodomo, and Ntare Guma Mbaho Mwine)
Ninah's Dowry
NY Premiere
Victor Viyouh, Cameron, 2012, 95m
English, Pidgin and Babanki with English subtitles
Ninah is a mother of three stuck in an abusive relationship with no hope of change. Her family lives off her meager earnings from farm work while her husband, Memfi, drinks away his equally meager earnings as a shepherd. When she learns that her father is seriously ill and her husband refuses to let her go to him, Ninah realizes that she cannot take the abuse anymore and runs away. Memfi pursues her: he will recover the dowry he paid or take home the woman he owns—by any means necessary. This action sets off an incredible series of events with a whirlwind of suspense, thrills, and adventure that traverses the Cameroon landscape. Writer-director Victor Viyouh has crafted a powerful story with nuanced and complex characters, and Mbufung Seikeh, as Ninah, makes a screen debut that is nothing short of astonishing. Co-presented by Alwan for the Arts. Co-presentation with Alwan for the Arts. New York Premiere
May 9, 2:00pm
May 13, 6:30pm (Q&A with Victor Viyouh)
Of Good Report
NY Premiere
Jahmil X.T. Qubeka, South Africa, 2013, 109m
English and Xhosa with English subtitles
Schoolteacher Parker Sithole (Mothusi Magano) arrives in a rural village with no local connections. Though his unassuming disposition and a glowing recommendation from his previous employer inspires trust and sympathy, he promptly begins a torrid affair with one of his new pupils, 16-year-old Nolitha (Petronella Tshuma). Jahmil X.T. Qubeka's second feature delves into the type of impoverished black community that the government has ignored, making it that despair is part of the working poor's daily life, and a man "of good report" can get away with anything. Shot in stark black and white, the film is a tribute to classic film noir while at the same time takes us out of that genre with bold artistic and political strokes (the film was banned, but quickly unbanned, by South African authorities). New York Premiere
May 10, 6:30pm (Q&A with Jahmil X.T. Qubeka)
May 12, 9:00pm (Q&A with Jahmil X.T. Qubeka)
Winter of Discontent (El sheita elli fat)
US Premiere
Ibrahim El Batout, Egypt, 2012, 96m
Arabic with English subtitles
Set against the momentous backdrop of the whirlwind protests in Cairo's Tahrir Square that began on January 25th, 2011, director Ibrahim El Batout takes us on a raw and starkly moving journey into the lives of revolutionaries and counter-revolutionaries alike. Amr is an opposition activist whose face is etched with pain and sorrow; Farah is a journalist who is feeling the pressure of working for the state's television news channel; and Adel is a security officer who tortures detainees by day and has dinner with his wife in the comfort of their home by night. Their lives will collide in this hard-hitting political thriller that lays bare the police state of Hosni Mubarak's Egypt and offers a glimpse of the systematic torture and harassment that targeted any internal dissidence. One of the most dramatically satisfying cinematic accounts to date dealing with Egypt's turbulent developments. Co-presented by Human Rights Watch Film Festival. Co-presentation with Human Rights Watch Film Festival.
Screening with
US Premiere
Wooden Hands
Kaouther Ben Hania, Tunisia, 2013, 23m
Arabic with English subtitles
As the holidays end, 5-year-old Amira entertains herself before going back to Koran school. Attaching her hand to a chair with superglue looks like fun… U.S. Premiere
May 7, 4:30pm
May 11, 1:00pm
Public Screening Schedule for 2014 New York African Film Festival
Directors and guest speakers will be present during the festival (indicated by an asterisk* before the show time). ALL FILMS IN NON-ENGLISH LANGUAGES WILL BE SUBTITLED IN ENGLISH.
Screening Venue:
The Film Society of Lincoln Center:
Walter Reade Theater (165 West 65th Street, between Broadway and Amsterdam) and Francesca Beale Theater (144 West 65 Street, between Broadway and Amsterdam)
Wednesday, May 7 (Walter Reade Theater)
2:00PM Mugabe: Villain or Hero? (116m)
4:30PM Winter of Discontent (96m) + Wooden Hands (23m)
7:30PM *Confusion Na Wa (105m)
Thursday, May 8 (Walter Reade Theater)
2:00PM New African Shorts Program (110m)
Baudouin Mouanda: Congolese Dreams (25m) + Aissa's Story (15m) + Kwaku Ananse (26m) + Soko Sonko (The Market King) (22m) + Afronauts (15m) + Kuhani (7m)
4:30PM Aya of Yop City (85m)
6:30PM *It's Us (Ni Si Si) (88m)
8:45PM Grigris (101m)
Friday, May 9 (Walter Reade Theater)
2:00PM Ninah's Dowry (95m)
4:00PM Bastards (93m) + Beleh (30m)
7:00PM *Half of a Yellow Sun (113m)
9:45PM Ninah's Dowry (95m)
Saturday, May 10 (Walter Reade Theater)
6:30PM *Of Good Report (109m)
9:15PM *Confusion Na Wa (105m)
Sunday, May 11 (Francesca Beale Theater)
1:00PM Winter of Discontent (96m) + Wooden Hands (23m)
3:30PM *New African Shorts Program (110m)
Baudouin Mouanda: Congolese Dreams (25m) + Aissa's Story (15m) + Kwaku Ananse (26m) + Soko Sonko (The Market King) (22m) + Afronauts (15m) + Kuhani (7m)
6:15PM Mugabe: Villain or Hero? (116m)
9:00PM *Aya of Yop City (85m)
Monday, May 12 (Francesca Beale Theater)
1:45PM It's Us (Ni Si Si)(88m)
3:45PM Grigris (101m)
6:00PM * Bastards (93m) + Beleh (30m)
9:00PM *Of Good Report (109m)
Tuesday, May 13 (Francesca Beale Theater)
6:30PM *Sarraounia (120m)
Founded in 1969 to celebrate American and international cinema, the Film Society of Lincoln Center works to recognize established and emerging filmmakers, support important new work, and to enhance the awareness, accessibility, and understanding of the moving image. The Film Society produces the renowned New York Film Festival, a curated selection of the year's most significant new film work, and presents or collaborates on other annual New York City festivals including Dance on Camera, Film Comment Selects, Human Rights Watch Film Festival, LatinBeat, New Directors/New Films, NewFest, New York African Film Festival, New York Asian Film Festival, New York Jewish Film Festival, Open Roads: New Italian Cinema and Rendez-Vous with French Cinema. In addition to publishing the award-winning Film Comment magazine, The Film Society recognizes an artist's unique achievement in film with the prestigious Chaplin Award. The Film Society's state-of-the-art Walter Reade Theater and the Elinor Bunin Munroe Film Center, located at Lincoln Center, provide a home for year-round programs and the New York City film community.
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Love this unique Valentine craft!
Corey Colwell-Lipson from Celebrate Green and Green Halloween shows us how to felt valentine heart necklaces. This craft is a creative and eco-friendly way to present something special to your child's school class, homeschool group, or to friends and family for Valentine's day. Easy enough for the older kids to do on their own, and with some help at any age.
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10 December 2008
Old Lutheran Quote of the Day
The faults and failures that weigh on me are as many as the days of my life; in fact, they are many more because even a righteous person falls seven times in a day (Proverbs 24:16). If a righteous person falls seven times in a day, I believe that I, hopeless and unrighteous, have fallen seventy times seven times in a day. --Blessed Johann Gerhard, *Meditations on Divine Mercy* p. 34
Posted by William Weedon at 6:59 AM
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- Anastasia Theodoridis said...
No "I believe" necessary here; just a hard-nosed, honest look at my day *shows* me a lot more sins than seventy times seven.
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New Orleans (5-0) joins Kansas City and Denver as the teams that remain undefeated.
"Obviously, Jimmy alone is a great player. I think Jimmy would be the first to tell you that having Marques Colston, obviously having Pierre Thomas, by having Darren Sproles, by having some of these other young wide receivers that it's not like Jimmy Graham is the only guy to worry about," Payton explained. "There are a lot of guys that we feel we can get the ball to and they will make plays."
Alshon Jeffery had 10 catches for a franchise-record 218 yards and a touchdown in the loss.
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Awards and Honors
Diamond Receives Morgan Stanley - AFA Award
Douglas Diamond, Merton H. Miller Distinguished Service Professor of Finance and Richard N. Rosett Faculty Fellow, (pictured) received the 2012 Morgan Stanley - American Finance Association Award for Excellence in Finance at the American Finance Association's annual meeting in January.
Created in 2008, the Morgan Stanley - AFA award is presented every two years to recognize an individual's career achievements and leadership in financial economics research. The two previous winners also have ties to Booth. Eugene Fama, Robert R. McCormick Distinguished Service Professor of Finance, received the award in 2008, and Michael Jensen, MBA '64, PhD '68, who had Fama as his dissertation adviser, was the winner in 2010. Jensen is currently a professor emeritus at Harvard University.
"Doug Diamond has been at the center of the development of the modern theory of banking and financial intermediation," said John Cochrane, AQR Capital Management Distinguished Service Professor of Finance and head of AFA's award selection committee. "He has brought careful bottom-up economic analysis to all the issues that are at the center of our current and historical financial problems. These range from runs, liquidity, incentives, and commitment to capital structure choices. His work literally founded the field."
Diamond, who joined the Booth faculty in 1979, often collaborates on research on financial crises with Raghuram Rajan, Eric J. Gleacher Distinguished Service Professor of Finance and Charles M. Harper Faculty Fellow. They published "Fear of Fire Sales, Illiquidity Seeking, and Credit Freezes" in the Quarterly Journal of Economics in May 2011.
Diamond's research has also appeared in the Journal of Financial Economics, the Journal of Finance, the Review of Economic Studies, the American Economic Review, the Journal of Political Economy, and other academic journals.
Diamond will donate $175,000 of the $200,000 cash prize to Booth's Fama-Miller Center for Research in Finance. He will donate the remaining $25,000 to the Foundation for the Advancement of Research in Financial Economics. - T.P.
Photo by Dan Dry
Hurst, Moskowitz Win 2012 Kauffman Medal
Erik Hurst (pictured, left) and Tobias Moskowitz (pictured, right) received the 2012 Ewing Marion Kauffman Prize Medal for Distinguished Research in Entrepreneurship at the Allied Social Science Associations' annual meeting in January.
The Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation presents the award annually to scholars under age 40 whose research has made a significant contribution to the literature in entrepreneurship. The award includes a $50,000 prize, which the winners will share.
The foundation said Hurst and Moskowitz were selected for their overall contributions to the field of entrepreneurship rather than for one particular research paper.
"They represent the best and brightest up-and-coming leaders in the field of entrepreneurship research who will teach and influence our next generation of academics," said Robert J. Strom, director of research and policy at the foundation.
Hurst, who joined the Booth faculty in 1999, is currently V. Duane Rath Professor of Economics and John E. Jeuck Faculty Fellow. In addition to his interest in entrepreneurship, Hurst also studies macroeconomic policy, consumption, time use, housing markets, and household financial behavior.
Moskowitz, Fama Family Professor of Finance, joined the Booth faculty in 1998. His other areas of study include asset pricing, portfolio choice, risk sharing, market efficiency, real estate markets and finance, and empirical corporate finance. - T.P.
Photo of Hurst (left) by Chris Lake; photo of Moskowitz (right) by Dan Dry
Rajan Receives Infosys Prize
The Infosys Science Foundation named Raghuram Rajan, Eric J. Gleacher Distinguished Service Professor of Finance and Charles M. Harper Faculty Fellow, (pictured) the recipient of the 2011 Infosys Prize for Social Sciences - Economics. Rajan was among six winners across five categories of scientific research. The prizes were handed out in January in Bangalore, India.
The foundation's economics jury, chaired by Nobel laureate Amartya Sen, said it awarded the prize to Rajan for his work in analyzing the contribution of financial development to economic growth, as well as the potentially harmful effects of dysfunctional incentives that lead to excessive risk-taking.
"He presented convincing evidence of the possibility of a global financial crisis - a subject on which he has been vocal at least from 2005, well before the actual crisis that occurred during 2008 - 09," the jury said. "Rajan has brought a remarkably broad vision to the understanding of the financial and economic crises that currently plague the world."
The 50-lakh prize (about $96,000) for social sciences is split between the winner for economics, Rajan, and the winner for political science, Pratap Banu Mehta, CEO of the Centre for Policy Research in New Delhi.
Besides teaching economics and finance at Booth, Rajan is also an economic adviser to the prime minister of India. He was the economic counselor and director of research at the International Monetary Fund from 2003 to 2007. He also chaired the Indian government's Committee on Financial Sector Reforms, which submitted its report in September 2008. - T.P.
Photo by Dan Dry
IIM - A Honors Go to Chintagunta, Rajan
Booth professors Pradeep Chintagunta (pictured, left) and Raghuram Rajan (pictured, right) were among 40 alumni of the Indian Institute of Management - Ahmedabad to receive distinguished alumni awards at the closing ceremony of the institute's golden jubilee year celebration. The event was held December 11, 2011, exactly 50 years after the school was founded in 1961.
Chintagunta, Joseph T. and Bernice S. Lewis Distinguished Service Professor of Marketing, received a postgraduate diploma in management from IIM - A in 1986. His current research interests include the analysis of household purchase behavior, pharmaceutical markets, and technology products.
Rajan, Eric J. Gleacher Distinguished Service Professor of Finance and Charles M. Harper Faculty Fellow, received his postgraduate diploma in management from the institute in 1987. He studies banking, corporate finance, and economic development, especially the role finance plays in it.
Photo of Chintagunta (left) by Chris Lake; photo of Rajan (right) by Dan Dry


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According to author Jonathan Lyons, the Western view of Islam has prevented the West from responding effectively to its most significant 21st-century challenges: the rise of Islamic power, the emergence of religious violence, and the growing tension between established social values and multicultural rights among Muslim immigrant populations. Lyons addresses the issues of Islam and modernity, Islam and violence, and Islam and women and proposes new ways of thinking about the Western relationship to the Islamic world.
Speaker Biography: Jonathan Lyons spent twenty years as a foreign correspondent and editor for Reuters, much of it in the Islamic world. His research focuses on the shifting boundaries between East and West, and his publications include "The House of Wisdom: How the Arabs Transformed Western Civilization" and (with Geneive Abdo) "Answering Only to God: Faith and Freedom in Twenty-first-Century Iran." He has a doctorate in sociology and lives in Washington, D.C.


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Mon Feb 4, 2013, 07:36 AM
HiPointDem (20,729 posts)
Great compilation of information on social security
Social Security: Just the Facts on Finances, Benefits, and Public Opinion
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Mon Feb 4, 2013, 07:50 AM
Sherman A1 (19,398 posts)
1. Thanks for Posting!
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Mon Feb 4, 2013, 07:51 AM
JHB (23,790 posts)
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Mon Feb 4, 2013, 08:03 AM
djean111 (14,255 posts)
3. Something good and interesting at the link - The retirement costs of the baby boomers are
mostly paid for - Yearly surpluses have been accumulating in the trust fund since 1984. Social Security has collected more in revenue than it has paid out in benefits, creating substantial reserves for the retirement of the baby boomers."
As a Boomer who has paid into SS for my entire working life, I am tired of reading about how I am a parasite and should just die or whatever so the younger generation can have that money.
Just raise the damn cap and make paying BACK the borrowed money from the SS trust fund just as important as killing people in other countries.
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whathehell (19,625 posts)
4. +100 n/t
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Mon Feb 4, 2013, 07:09 PM
Jim Lane (9,549 posts)
5. They don't back that up and I doubt that it's true.
Social Security is primarily a pay-as-you-go program. As long as the number of workers and the number of beneficiaries both remain stable from year to year, or both change in proportion so that the ratio is stable, the system works fine.
It was foreseen, however, that revenues would fall short of expenses when the boomers retired. That's why the Trust Fund was created. It does indeed hold "substantial reserves for the retirement of the baby boomers."
But the Trust Fund is intended merely to supplement the main source of revenue: the FICA taxes paid each year by the people who are working during that year. If, tomorrow, all the post-boomers were removed from Social Security -- deprived of their right to receive benefits but relieved of the obligation to pay taxes -- the system would crash within a few years. The Trust Fund, by itself, isn't large enough to cover all the projected expenses associated with boomers' retirements.


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Artistic expression: Sculptors, painters, potters, glass artists and more will create and sell their works within the garden walls. Expect to see Angela Koenig, oil paintings and watercolor works. Artists Rennie Marquez and Kris de Young — and many others — will present their paintings.
Musical expression: Three bands — Bob Ballentine and Friends, Andy Rau and Willowood — will play their sweet music in various gardens. Look for Bob Ballentine and Friends in the Australian Garden, where they will use handmade instruments from Australia.
Intellectual expression: Tom Woodham, senior editor of Veranda Magazine, will give a presentation on "Decorative Elements in the Garden" and "Entertaining — Veranda style." You will learn about what your garden says about you and how to truly entertain your guests.
Competitive expression: Win a work of art in the opportunity drawing by getting your "passport" stamped by every artist.
Young expression: The California Center for the Arts will provide children's art activities.
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Country Fashion at the Kentucky Derby
The 138th running of the Kentucky Derby is on Saturday (May 5) and as always, the stands and celebrity suites will be packed with country stars. A few have made the Kentucky Derby an annual pilgrimage, while others only show up once in awhile. Like award shows, it's almost more fun to watch the broadcast to see what the stars will wear as it is to see who wins.
Big hats are the norm for the women, and loud, colorful jackets and dress shirts are the uniform for men — especially those attending their first Derby. As you'll see in the pictures assembled in this list of country stars at the Kentucky Derby, the older and more experienced the Derby fan is, the quieter his dress becomes. The same can't be said for female singers, however. Miranda Lambert, Laura Bell Bundy and LeAnn Rimes all impress with famous Churchill Downs headwear and colorful dresses.


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Goldman Sachs shares have been hit hard and are trading with increased volatility due to the SEC's charges of fraud concerning a tiny piece of their overall business. The news "is out", the shares have already reacted, and estimates have been adjusted to reflect likely repercussions from the scandal. Early today I was able to snag some shares at $156.90 – well off their October 2009 high of $193.60.
Zacks now carries 2010 – 2011 estimates of $18.20 and $20.31 while Standard & Poors is at $20.79 and $22.10 respectively. Clearly, the shares are not expensive if you feel GS will maintain its 'best of breed' status in global investment banking. Using the low-end Zacks estimates GS shares were at just 8.6x this year's and about 7.7x 2011's expected earnings.
GS shares peaked at $206.70, $250.70 and $215.00 in 2006-2007-2008 and have hit highs of $193.60 and $181 in 2009 and recently this year. I see today's price as a gift if you have a long-term horizon.
At the time I bought shares today I also wrote (sold) puts to generate immediate income and/or lock in great break-even prices should I be forced to buy more shares later at even lower than current prices. I held off on selling covered calls in order to wait for a rebound before locking in my upside.
Here are the trades I actually put on this morning:
Price /share
Goldman Sachs shares
Premium /share
Margin of safety*
Jan. 2012 $150 Puts
Jan. 2012 $160 Puts
Jan. 2012 $170 Puts
* margin of safety = % break-even is below trade inception price
I feel confident that this whole SEC deal will BE well off investor's radar screen pretty quickly and certainly it won't be much of a factor by the January 2012 expiration date for the LEAP puts.
Maintenance margin requirements on the puts are approximately 20% of the net exercise price (assuming you keep the option premium in your margin-type account after the put sale).
If these puts expire in early 2012 (as I expect), and you leave these puts alone until expiration, you can also defer any capital gains taxes until April of 2013 when you file your Schedule D with your tax-year 2012 return. You get the cash flow staring tomorrow with about three years of tax deferred float should things go as hoped for.
In a 'worst-case' scenario I'll be forced to buy additional shares of high-quality Goldman Sachs shares for 14.2% - 19.9% below this morning's already discounted quote.
Once I see GS shares back up to more normalized levels I plan to sell some covered calls at strikes of at least $180 - $200.
Dr. Paul Price
Disclosure: Author is now long GS shares and short GS LEAP puts for 2012.
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