August Rush

A charismatic young Irish guitarist and a sheltered young cellist have a chance encounter one magical night above New York's Washington Square, but are soon torn apart, leaving in their wake an infant, orphaned by circumstance. Years later, performing on the streets of New York and cared for by a mysterious stranger who gives him the name August Rush, the child uses his remarkable musical talent to seek the parents from whom he was separated at birth.

I'll stand by you - The Pretenders (with lyrics)

I Want to know what love is - Foreigner

Classic!

Extreme - More Than Words

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80s Love Songs ranking

Like any good musical period, the 80s had its fair share of love songs. Some were hopelessly cheesy and others can still make people cry. Almost every successful artist of the 80s had penned at least one love song or ballard. With some bands it was hard to tell if the song was about love, sex or drugs.


80s Love Songs

• Careless Whisper, George Michael
• Endless Love, Diana Ross & Lionel Richie
• Woman in Love, Barbra Streisand
• Up Where We Belong, Joe Cocker & Jennifer Warnes
• Against All Odds (Take a Look at Me Now), Phil Collins
• Atomic, Blondie
• Do That To Me One More Time, Captain & Tennille
• Lost In Love, Air Supply
• Lady, Kenny Rogers
• Slow Hand, Pointer Sisters
• Waiting For A Girl Like You, Foreigner
• Sexual Healing, Marvin Gaye
• Greatest Love Of All, Whitney Houston 
• Wind Beneath My Wings - Bette Midler 
• Take My Breath Away, Berlin
• Lady In Red - Chris De Burgh
• (I Just) Died In Your Arms - Cutting Crew

Philosophy Quotes

"Life is change... Growth is optional... Choose wisely... "- Karen Kaiser Clark

"If you want to know your past - look into your present conditions. If you want to know your future - look into your present actions." - Buddhist Saying

"No pessimist ever discovered the secret of the stars, or sailed to uncharted land, or opened a new doorway for the human spirit." - Helen Keller

"Man can live his truth, his deepest truth, but cannot speak it. - Archibald MacLeish

Ideas without action are worthless." - Harvey Mackay

"Insanity is doing the same thing over and over again, and expecting different results." - Albert Einstein

"We cannot become what we need to be by remaining what we are." - Max DePree

"Worry less about defining right and wrong, and more about applying what you already know." - Steve

Sean Penn to receive film honour at Dubai Festival

Oscar-winning actor Sean Penn will receive a lifetime achievement prize at this year's Dubai Film Festival.

The star, whose career spans nearly three decades, has starred in more than 45 films including the 2008 movie Milk, for which he won an Academy Award.

Festival Chairman Abdulhamid Juma called Penn "an outstanding and versatile actor, gifted director and accomplished producer".

Sean Penn is a two-time Academy Award winner

Penn will receive the trophy at the opening ceremony on 12 December.

"Sean Penn is without a doubt one of the finest talents of our generation," Mr Juma said.

"His tireless work on behalf of the people of the world from Haiti to the United States to Iraq and Iran, and his use of the celebrity spotlight to assist humanity, is an example to us all.

"We look forward to welcoming this culture-bridging icon to Dubai," he added.

In January, the star founded an organisation which focuses on aid for the people of Haiti.

Penn, who won his first Oscar in 2003 for Mystic River, has also starred in Dead Man Walking, Sweet and Lowdown and I Am Sam.

Into the Wild Music Video by Eddie Vedder

Freshly graduated from college and with a promising future ahead, 22-year-old Christopher McCandless chose instead to walk out of his privileged life and into the wild in search of adventure. What happened to him on the way transformed this young wanderer into an enduring symbol for countless people. Was Christopher McCandless a heroic adventurer or a naïve idealist, a rebellious 1990s Thoreau or another lost American son, a fearless risk-taker or a tragic figure who wrestled with the precarious balance between man and nature?

Wish you were here - Pink Floyd Sub,English

♪ So, so you think you can tell Heaven from Hell,

blue skies from pain.

Can you tell a green field from a cold steel rail?

A smile from a veil?

Do you think you can tell?

And did they get you to trade your heroes for ghosts?

Hot ashes for trees?

Hot air for a cool breeze?

Cold comfort for change?

And did you exchange a walk on part in the war for a lead role in a cage?

How I wish, how I wish you were here.

We're just two lost souls swimming in a fish bowl, year after year,

Running over the same old ground.

What have you found? The same old fears.

Wish you were here. ♪

Ranking-Best Rocks Songs of the 80s

You Shook Me All Night Long 

AC/DC

AC/DC's heritage is Scottish and Australian (yes, I'm only just now realizing almost none of my favorite music when I was a teen came from my own country...) which you immediately pick up on if you visit AC/DC's website and hear Brian Johnson's recorded welcome.

Don't tell my teenage son (he thinks he discovered AC/DC), but AC/DC is also putting on a tour this year and, thank goodness, it includes the US. Getting from Arizona to Michigan would be much easier for me than getting to England and I could get decent tickets for $100-200. My son turns 16 next year. Could you imagine how blown his mind would be if I managed to get him to an AC/DC concert for his birthday? I have to stop doing pages on the 80s rock bands soon or I'm going to go broke.

"...the thunder from Down Under that gives you the second-most-powerful surge that can flow through your body."

Steven Tyler of Aerosmith

Billie Jean 

Michael Jackson

The first American to hit the list is not a band, but a solo recordingartist and known the world over for his trend-setting 80s music. When Michael Jackson hit the scene with his unique talent, teens everywhere began practicing their moonwalking skills in the privacy of their own home so they could show off at high school dances.





If you could moonwalk, your friends wanted you to teach them how. I never could - but I tried, guided by my brother who had it down pat.

Back in Black 

AC/DC

This is also AC/DC's second song on this list of Top 10 rock songs from the 80s. It's certain that their ongoing performances have inspired new fans and continuous video views. My teenage son, for example, who couldn't start high school this year without an AC/DC t-shirt.

Sweet Child O' Mine 

Guns N Roses

Here's a story of when art just happens - when a group of talented people just messing around manage to put together a song that remains a hit over 20 years later. According to Wikipedia's history around this song, they put this together in five minutes. During a working session, guitarist Slash started playing a guitar solo just to be funny, someone else added a few chords to play in and they decided it might work. The song was too short, though, and it was suggested they come up with something to throw in at the end. When Axl began thinking out loud about what to do with the ending by saying "Where do we go from here" over and over, the band agreed that was exactly what they should tack in at the end of the song. Is that incredible? A joke, messing around on a guitar, and bam - a major, chart-topping, long-lasting hit on your debut album. Music magic.

Thriller 

Michael Jackson

This song was a major hit when it came out and we're still in love with it. Doesn't hurt that the video is like a mini-movie and runs more than 13 minutes. The dance from the video has been copied, reused, recycled, and danced the world over. I laughed hysterically when, in the movie 13 Going on 30 with Jennifer Garner, her character decides to lift the mood at a party by getting everyone to dance the Thriller dance. Jennifer's character is really a 13 year old girl who has suddenly woken up as herself in the future and, as a 13 year old, she's been dancing to this MTV video at home for awhile. Come on - if you were a teen then, too, you tried it yourself.

Ram Jam - Black Betty

Whoa, black betty (bam-ba-lam)
whoa, black betty (bam-ba-lam)
Black betty had a child (bam-ba-lam)
the damn thing gone wild (bam-ba-lam)
she said, "i'm worryin' outta mind" (bam-ba-lam)
the damn thing gone blind (bam-ba-lam)
i said oh, black betty (bam-ba-lam)
whoa, black betty (bam-ba-lam)
Oh, black betty (bam-ba-lam)
whoa, black betty (bam-ba-lam)
She really gets me high (bam-ba-lam)
you know that's no lie (bam-ba-lam)
she's so rock steady (bam-ba-lam)
and she's always ready (bam-ba-lam)
whoa, black betty (bam-ba-lam)
whoa, black betty (bam-ba-lam)
Whoa, black betty (bam-ba-lam)
whoa, black betty (bam-ba-lam)
She's from birmingham (bam-ba-lam)
way down in alabam' (bam-ba-lam)
well, she's shakin' that thing (bam-ba-lam)
boy, she makes me sing (bam-ba-lam)
whoa, black betty (bam-ba-lam)
whoa, black betty
bam-ba-lam

'Alien' planet detected circling dying star

Astronomers claim to have discovered the first planet originating from outside our galaxy.

The Jupiter-like planet, they say, is part of a solar system which once belonged to a dwarf 

This dwarf galaxy was in turn devoured by our own galaxy, the Milky Way, according to a team writing in the academic journal Science.

The star, called HIP 13044, is nearing the end of its life and is 2000 light years from Earth.

This artist's impression shows HIP 13044 b, an exoplanet orbiting a star that entered the Milky Way from another galaxy

The discovery was made using a telescope in Chile.

Cosmic cannibalism

Planet hunters have so far netted nearly 500 so-called "exoplanets" outside our Solar System using various astronomical techniques.

But all of those so far discovered, say the researchers, are indigenous to our own galaxy, the Milky Way.

This find is different, they say, because the planet circles a sun which belongs to a group of stars called the "Helmi stream" which are known to have once belonged to a separate dwarf galaxy.

This galaxy was gobbled up by the Milky Way between six and nine billion years ago in an act of intergalactic cannibalism.

The new planet is thought to have a minimum mass 1.25 times that of Jupiter and circles in close proximity to its parent star, with an orbit lasting just 16.2 days.

It sits in the southern constellation of Fornax.

The planet would have been formed in the early era of its solar system, before the world was incorporated into our own galaxy, say the researchers.

"This discovery is very exciting," said Rainer Klement of the Max Planck Institute for Astronomy in Heidelberg, Germany, who targetted the stars in the study.

"For the first time, astronomers have detected a planetary system in a stellar stream of extragalactic origin. This cosmic merger has brought an extragalactic planet within our reach."

Dr Robert Massey of the UK's Royal Astronomical Society said the paper provided the first "hard evidence" of a planet of extragalactic origin.

"There's every reason to believe that planets are really quite widespread throughout the Universe, not just in our own galaxy, the Milky Way, but also in the thousands of millions of others there are," he said, "but this is the first time we've got hard evidence of that."

Parliament of London

London is the capital of England and the United Kingdom, the largest metropolitan area in the United Kingdom and the largest urban zone in the European Union by most measures.London has been a major settlement for two millennia, its history going back to its founding by the Romans, who called it Londinium.London's ancient core, the City of London, largely retains its square-mile mediaevalboundaries. Since at least the 19th century, the name London has also referred to the metropolis developed around this core. The bulk of thisconurbation forms the London region and the Greater London administrative area, governed by the elected Mayor of London and theLondon Assembly.

London is a leading global city, with its strengths in the arts, commerce, education, entertainment, fashion, finance, healthcare, media, professional services, research and development, tourism and transport all contributing to its prominence. It is the world's largest financial centre alongside New York,has the largest city GDP in Europe. and is home to the headquarters of more than 100 of Europe's 500 largest companies.It is the most visited city in the world. London's five international airports make its airspace the busiest of any urban centre worldwide and London Heathrow is the world's busiest airport by number of international passengers.London's 43 universities form the largest concentration of higher education in Europe.In 2012 London will become the first city to host the Summer Olympics three times.

London has a diverse range of peoples, cultures and religions, and more than 300 languages are spoken within its boundaries.In July 2007 it had an official population of 7,556,900 within the boundaries of Greater London, making it the most populous municipality in the European Union.The Greater London Urban Area is the second largest in the EU with a population of 8,278,251, while London's metropolitan area is the largest in the EU with an estimated total population of between 12 million and 14 million.

London contains four World Heritage Sites: the Tower of London; the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew; the site comprising the Palace of Westminster, Westminster Abbey and St. Margaret's Church; and the historic settlement of Greenwich (in which the Royal Observatory marks the Greenwich Meridian (0° longitude) and GMT).Other famous landmarks include Buckingham Palace, the London Eye, Piccadilly Circus,30 St Mary Axe (The Gherkin), St Paul's Cathedral, Tower Bridge and Trafalgar Square. London is home to numerous museums, galleries, libraries, sporting events and other cultural institutions including the British Museum, National Gallery, British Library, Wimbledon and 40 theatres. London's Chinatown is the largest in Europe.The London Underground network is the oldest underground railway network in the world and the most extensive after the Shanghai Metro

"I am Sam"

The compelling story of Sam Dawson, a mentally challenged father raising his daughter Lucy with the help of an extraordinary group of friends. When a social worker suggests that Lucy should be placed in foster care, Sam forms an unlikely alliance with a high-powered attorney. Together they struggle to convince the system that Sam deserves to get his daughter back and, in the process, fuse a bond that results in a unique testament to the power of unconditional love.


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"The Pianist"

Wladyslaw Szpilman, a brilliant Polish pianist, a Jew, escapes deportation. Forced to live in the heart of the Warsaw ghetto, he shares the suffering, the humiliation and the struggles. He manages to escape and hides in the ruins of the capital. A German officer comes to his aid and helps him to survive.

He is Pink Floyd.

Syd Barrett (6 January 1946 – 7 July 2006), born Roger Keith Barrett, was an English singer-songwriter, guitarist and painter. He is most remembered as a founding member of psychedelic/progressive rock band Pink Floyd, providing major musical and stylistic direction in their early work, although he left the group in 1968 amidst speculations of mental illness exacerbated by heavy drug use.

Barrett was active as a rock musician for about seven years, recording two albums with Pink Floyd and two solo albums before going into self-imposed seclusion lasting more than thirty years. His post rock-band life was as an artist and a keen gardener, ending with his death in 2006. A number of biographies have been written about him since the 1980s and Pink Floyd wrote and recorded a song about him after he left, "Shine On You Crazy Diamond" on the 1975 album Wish You Were Here.