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What do you do if something is failing to provide the viable result desired and there appears to be no way forward? You invent an alternative and go your own way and find a new path to your goal. This year the Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Khamenei was facing a great insult and embarrassment as the Saudi Royal Family had dealt him a great insult. There were arguments as to whether the Hajj would permit the Shiite practices to be performed within the most definitely Sunni nation of Saudi Arabia at the Hajj they are sponsoring in Mecca. The answer came fast and hard, no way on the blessed earth of Allah would such practices be permitted. The Iranians and the Saudis resorted to bringing up conflicts, especially those where Iranians died or were injured, particularly by Saudi security police at the Hajj and the end result the Saudi Royal Family took the hardest road possible and declared the Supreme Leader to be a false Muslim and an Amgushi, that is, not a Muslim, a heretic, a follower of the pre-Islamic Persian religion disguised as a Muslim. This was the greatest insult and the last straw. The Iranians answered insult with insult declaring that they suspected Saudi Royal Family of being a remnant of the Jews who once resided in the times of Muhammad at the Khyber Oasis and were slaughtered by Muhammad and his fighters. They further their insult with a cartoon of an accursed tree pictured and described below. The Iranian and Shiite response to the Saudi "Amgushi" was expressed by insulting and derogatory drawings that appeared on social media, such as the one below:
This is the description of this Iranian use of the "cursed tree" provided by Dr. Mordechai Kedar in his article "A joyous holiday and a sad world" published in Arutz Sheva.
This drawing is based on a quote from the Koran that talks about a cursed tree and shows the tree with the words "The Family of Saud" on its trunk while towards the bottom of the tree the following words appear: "Let the entire world know that the Family of Saud are the reason for the Arab and Islamic catastrophe ("Naqba"). The root of destruction and ruin in this world."
To the right of the tree are the words: "The Family of Saud – the tails of the Jews," expressing the Shiite rumor that claims that the Saud family are actually descendants of the Jews who lived in the Khyber Oasis until the 7th century and who pretend to be Muslims to this day but are really Jews in secret despite the Hadith that declares that "there are no two religions in the Arab Peninsula."
The leaves on the "cursed tree" are Wahhabism, explosive-filled vehicles, crime, slaughter, destruction, incitement, ethnicity, terror, explosions, "takhfir" (declaring Muslims to be heretics), Jabhat al Nusra, division, ISIS, al Qaeda, Boko Haram. On the left of the tree there is a green Saudi flag with a sword, but instead of the Shahada (the testimony – the Islamic creed that declares that there is no G-d but Allah and that Mohammed is his prophet) that is on the flag, it says "May Allah curse the House of Saud."
Back to the Hajj and the resulting rift and separate but presumably equal Hajj's as the imperfect solution to the perfect problem. The similarities will become evident with the final descriptions. Let it remain for now that the Iranians are holding their own Hajj, a solution used in previous centuries to solve such impasses, in the Iraqi city closest to Mecca, Karbala. There is another reason for this site as it was there that in the year 680 C.E. a military unit of the Sunni Umayyad Caliph Yazid ibn Muawiyah carried out an attack where Hussein Ibn Ali, the leader of the Shiite rebels, was murdered and ritually executed by being beheaded. This is the ultimate Naqba, catastrophe, in the Shiite form of Islam and is the point where the two forms of Islam became forever enemies. This is the response to the insult of referring to Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Khamenei as being an Amgushi.
But first a little explanation of how this may also be a similar situation as may be faced soon with Hillary Rodham Clinton. We have all heard how Hillary Clinton has unbelievably high negatives and the sole reason she is even competitive is due to Donald Trump having even higher negatives before the American peoples. Were the Republics Party to be running virtually any other candidate, they would be leagues ahead of Hillary in the polling data. This is not to insinuate that they would actually have such a lead, but they would poll as having such a lead. History has taught that nothing is done until the last report of vote counts in each state are finalized, until then the Devil is in the details. Equally reported is that were Trump facing virtually any Democrat, including or especially a complete unknown, Trump would be being trounced in the polls and the election would be declared over by the mainstream media. So, what if the October surprise is the Democrats replacing, or at least appearing to replace, Hillary Clinton with a far more electable candidate? The Democrat Party could let it be known in the second or third week in October that Hillary Rodham Clinton had fallen so ill that she has been rushed to a private and undisclosed hospital and is unable to continue the race or even to serve as President. Then in a similar manner as the Democrats once before had pulled off in Minnesota with Senator Paul David Wellstone who died right before the elections in a plane crash. He was replaced immediately on the ballot by former Vice President Walter Mondale who then proceeded to lose the election. So, what if it is decided that Hillary is too ill to continue the campaign or serve as President?
In most states the Democrat Party would appoint her replacement and in other states her name would remain on the ballot but the Party would claim any vote for Hillary is a vote for their chosen candidate. Come Election Day it is found that the Democrat Party had been remiss or unable to replace Hillary on the ballots such was expected due to her still being amongst the living. Again a huge campaign would go forth that by voting Hillary you were actually voting for her replacement. We have to face that almost any Democrat other than Hillary and a select few, any other Democrat would destroy Trump, or at least that has been the polling and the Democrats are well aware of this. So Hillary is declared out for the count and in theory replaced by an electable Bernie Sanders or Joe Biden or Senator Elizabeth Ann Warren. Of the three it is probably Joe Biden who would be the weakest and even he would stir up support and enthusiasm which Hillary has not even been able to buy at her rallies.
And then, with Christmas fast approaching and Hillary Clinton in name only won the election with the understanding that the alternate candidate would be the one to become President there comes a miracle, Hillary has had a full recovery coming from the sole place such would be possible, a recovery deemed in Heaven above. Suddenly the voters find themselves hoodwinked as Hillary Rodham Clinton rises as a Phoenix from the ashes blazing in her full flamed glory taking the oath of office. Election Impossible accomplished in fine bait and switch fashion. President Hillary Rodham Clinton will have been elected and takes her victory lap from the steps of the Capital Building down Pennsylvania Avenue to the White House before the cameras of all networks and her coronation proceeds as if nothing strange was committed. Those hoping for Trump to win or desire anybody but Hillary in the White House; even the dog catcher from Podunk, Idaho, had better pray for Hillary to suddenly become obviously healthy and thus not so infirm that this ploy would be believable.
How many out there living in the real world believe that such a pirouette bait and switch to fool more of the gullible American left public and too many others could happen; especially if the substitute is a woman, first woman President, hard to pass that one up, then reveal the reality of their sick and demented desires to crown Hillary Rodham Clinton with the historical moniker of being the first woman as President. This was promised to her when she lost to President Obama, then a Senator like her, soulless and also offering an even more tempting first; Hillary was promised not just to be the Democrat Party candidate but to be the all-American candidate who would be swept into the White House riding a wave of popularity and support. Well, yes, something went wrong along the way, the person they have to work with is Hillary. Even with such a handicap, the Democrat Party made a promise and they will keep that promise no matter what lies and deceits they will have to commit. Come Hell or high water, Hillary Clinton will be coronated, if not now, then at some time later. Hillary cannot be permitted to die and not have been President of the United States. People opposed to Hillary Clinton should be prepared and expect the most unexpected and seemingly ludicrous steps to be taken and anything legal or not to be committed in order to have Hillary Clinton be the next President as it has already been written and thus must be done. As Yul Brenner said in the 1956 movie "The Ten Commandments," as Pharaoh Ramses II, "Let it be written. Let it be done." That was the royal decree of the ancient Egyptian ruler and is now the code for the Democrat Party, and they have writ large that the next President will be Hillary Rodham Clinton; now they just have to get it done by any and all means necessary, expect no less.
So, just like may come with Hillary, the Hajj is being declared to be made to a different place which will be established by the Shiite leadership in Iran as being just as holy and just as righteous and just as commanded by some reference from the Quran through certain precedents. This Shiite Hajj may become a permanent fixture for as long as the Iranians control their puppet state in the southern half of Iraq and their hatred of the Sunni and especially the Saudi Royal Family who the Iranians consider heretics and pretenders. Should this rift be settled as a matter of contention simply by directing the Shiites to make the Hajj to Karbala the world can heave a sigh of relief and continue on with no more and no fewer problems than before. The real problem is this war of words between the Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Khamenei and the leaders of Saudi Arabia, the Family Saud, has just elevated significantly. The decree to have an independent Hajj for Shiite Islam from Sunni Islam has formalized the rift and the ancient disagreement between the two largest forms of Islam. This is simply the latest of flare-ups between the Sunni and the Shiites since they had different opinions on the correct succession after Muhammad died. This argument dates back to before 680 soon after Muhammad died when Hussein Ibn Ali was murdered.
The difference between the two groups is exemplified in the story behind the "Twelvers," a sect of Shiites who are awaiting the return from his hiding place of the Mahdi, the Twelfth Imam, Muhammad al-Mahdi. Muhammad al-Mahdi was appointed as the next replacement of Muhammad, the founder of Islam, but went into hiding as the majority form of Islam, the Sunni, was annihilating the rebellious Shiites at every opportunity and particularly executing their leaders. This Twelfth Imam presumably has been hiding for quite some time without having lost any of his strength and mental acuity and will arise from his hiding place and lead the Shiites to a glorious victory over the Sunni and then conquer the world. For the Twelfth Imam to return, the entire known world would be in chaos with devastation of the highest order. The Twelfth Imam would appear from his place of hiding, many believe that hiding place is a well in Qom where they have established a Mosque so he can pray upon coming out from hiding. They have also built a beautiful roadway for the Twelfth Imam to utilize to take him to the Capital City, Tehran, where he is to meet the Supreme Leader and together plan the conquest of the Sunni Muslims, unbelievers of Shia Islam amongst Muslims as they are heretics. This would include almost all of the cities of Saudi Arabia and the Gulf States as these are predominately Sunni nations. Then they would proceed to those they considered idolatrous such as Buddhists, then the Jews, finally Christians and then would come the purging and purification of the Shiite Islamic family. The process would continue until the world had been perfected and every person was a full believer supporting the Five Pillars of Islam, Shahada or Faith, Salat or Prayer, Zakāt or Charity, Sawm or Fasting (during Ramadan), and Hajj or Pilgrimage to Mecca, which for Shiites has become Pilgrimage to Karbala.
What is more worrisome is that Iran has made known their displeasure with the Saudi Arabian Ruling Family considering them to be apostates who blaspheme Islam, especially Shia Islam, and are deserving of death or something worse, life as a disgraced Muslim walking the Earth in continuous shame. The Iranians have also stated their desire to liberate the northeastern provinces of Saudi Arabia where the vast majority of their Shiite minority reside. The fact that this area also contains ninety plus percent of the oil wells has nothing to do with this conquest but they must keep this property and not just liberate the Shiites but instead of having them come home the Iranians plan to incorporate these lands as a part of their Shiite home making them and the oil wealth all Iranian. When one adds that Iran very likely is a nuclear armed nation despite, or some say because, of the great efforts of President Obama and his Secretary of State John (Scary) Kerry as well as a large effort by former Secretary of State and potentially next President Hillary Clinton before Kerry, that makes any confrontation between these two Muslim power states in the Middle East even more of a danger. One need remember that the Saudi Royal Family invested in the Pakistani nuclear research and bomb development. They did not do that from the goodness of their heart but instead made an agreement that the Saudis would pay for the Pakistani efforts and actual production of a nuclear weapons stores providing these stores be made available to the Saudi Royal Family should the need arise.
One overtly aggressive move too far by Iran and you can bet some cargo aircraft will leave Saudi Arabia, fly to Pakistan, stay a few hours, and return to Saudi Arabia some few tons heavier. These planes will either be taking actual routes established as passenger or even freight lanes which are active or will fly with their transponders deactivated, by accident, of course. These flights if they have not already found some nuclear devices coming in the hold of normal flights between the two nations, will even the playing field and make the chance of a nuclear exchange in the Middle East a definitive probability. Should open war be started between Saudi Arabia and Iran, one can bet that it will spread bringing Yemen, Iraq, Hezballah and any other Shiite forces which can be brought to bear facing the nations of the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) which includes the Gulf oil states and Saudi Arabia plus Egypt and Jordan and one might expect to see some Turkish forces making this a more general Middle East War and one such without Israel, imagine that. These declarations of intent to join the fight as necessary will be the actual initial declaration of war even if fighting has been engaged for months. The pooling of available resources will initiate a war on a different level.
Such a development will signal that both sides feel they are not in an advantageous position so they will announce a list of allies in the region and prepare special weapons squads for deployment. One side, probably Iran, will introduce the use of chemical weapons and biological agents as well. This will spark a similar if not stronger response from the Saudi Royal Family. This might be the point where the initial use of nuclear weapons will be used, but not as expected. They will be used to cleanse their own lands where any biologic weapons have become ultimately effective and the sick are infecting the healthcare workers and all they meet before they turn too sick to even stand. This transmission will necessitate drastic action to contain the spread as such an agent cannot be permitted to reach any heavily inhabited regions. Nuclear cleansing of an infected region is a likely means of destroying the pathogen and in its own way curing those on the ground. This use of a nuclear weapon to cleanse the area can also give that nation the reason to use nuclear weapons then on the enemy claiming that the nuclear weapons dropped to destroy the pathogen was actually a nuclear attack by the other side. It matters little which country introduced nuclear weapons to the conflict nor how they were deployed nor the reasons; all that matters is the first one using them will not be the last one using these ultimate weapons. Once the nuclear weapons atop missiles and tucked within fighter-bombers fly, the game changes forever as this will prove one can use nuclear weapons as long as they are limited to a range of tactical nuclear weapons. Needless to point out that even these in and of themselves may not be the final weapons used and there may come a point where a nation with thermo-nuclear weapons uses these weapons of last resort, the modern city-killers with selectable power settings. Then it may be worse and the first thermo-nuclear weapons without the selectable yield technology, and it has but one setting, destroy all within your range or likely area.
The real fuel for this conflagration may start originally as Iran's desire to impress their own hegemonic rule over the entire Middle East. Many have interpreted that to mean Iran would strike at Israel first and hardest, but this fight is not about the differences between Iran and Israel, this is a fight over who represents Allah. This fight between Sunni and Shiite will be limited initially but has the potential to spread far and wide. Would such start the next World War? That is the sixty-four billion dollar (adjusted for inflation) question. The one reality is as being the fight over who is the real representative of Allah, we can expect there will be no means for ending the war until one side has been completely and utterly destroyed, and therein lays the problem as it is next to impossible. Such a war will be a war to end all wars as it may decide the future for everyone once Islam achieves its real goal, world conquest and the subjugation of all people within. Then they can begin perfecting the world by ridding it of improper thought and possibly of the impure animals starting with hogs and dogs. With Allah presumed to be in support of both sides and Allah being unconquerable, there can be no situation so dire that prayers cannot move mountains, or can they? Split the sea, easy, the Ten Plagues, part of a year's work; lead the Israelites to the Promised Land, well, all in its proper and good time; and As far as Hashem choosing which side should win, that will be left to Allah as Hashem probably has no desire and will allow others to decide this fate. Should the violence start to spread, then Hashem might be forced to choose a nation to assist or at least allow to stand outside the growing hostilities.
The Hajj and Hillary Rodham Clinton are flashpoints signifying evil bodings potentially for our world and the societies within. The splitting of Hajj destinations can only further divide two groups alienating the already alienated. Both sides are waiting for the other to blink such that they can possibly gain some advantage. Hillary Clinton, Donald Trump and the conservative Never Trump'ers are dividing the nation into smaller and more hostile divisions Balkanizing the United States. Should the United States also become so divided that the different political factions all go their own way, there will be no more United States and instead there will be the federated entities that were America. No more super power under the Stars and Stripes, just a loosely held group of arguing children, man-child's all looking like adults but acting like spoiled brats refusing to reside or abide by anybody holding a different opinion. That is what the political correctness of Hillary et al will bring to the United States with micro-aggressions and perceived slights where none exist and children raised never knowing what it means to lose because there are no trophies for losing efforts once you leave your safe zones at your chosen university. What will these young adults, the future leaders, do when they run into people who have different thoughts and can use them to actually think, not just feel good about oneself. Hajj being split and America being split, neither is a good or welcomed sign.
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Longtime readers know of my deep and abiding love for Scarlett Johansson, but what even I didn't know until this morning is that aside from looking lovely and acting her ass off in some amazing movies, Scarjo can actually sing! I mean, I knew she had an album a while back, but, no offense, so did Paris Hilton.
And while I can't vouch for the quality of the entire album Scarjo released this week with indie slatwart Pete Yorn — it's called "Break Up" — I can say for sure that the song and video for their first single "Relator" is freaking awesome!
Christine and I often Tivo cool music videos for each other to find when they wake up and you can imagine my surprise when the little rocking, retro-fueled video (linked below) bleep bleeped onto my screen this morning. Sheer. Pop. Awesomeness. Thank you, sweetie!
Seriously, I loved the song so much that I watched the video at least ten times today…even Greta was tapping her feet! And even though the song comes a little too late to be our official 2009 summer jam — that honor goes to the equally jamming "1, 2, 3, 4" by the Plain White T's — something tells me "Relator" will be getting a lot of play on our iPods this fall.
To see the video for yourself, click here. And in the meantime, rock on Scaryorn, we don't just love your song and music video…we totally wanna be you guys! Um, you know…minus the whole breaking up part…

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After many years of starts and stops, the fandom community has been pretty excited that we are finally getting a Blade Runner sequel. Whether or not it will be the sequel we want remains to be seen (we all remember Jar Jar!). In any case, the first teaser trailer has just come out. As you can see, it shows Ryan Gosling in the lead role, with Harrison Ford reprising his role as Rick Deckard.
As was likely the intent, this trailer establishes that there is a passing of the torch between Ford and Gosling, who has become a Blade Runner himself. And if I had to guess, I would say the whole exchange (which takes place at gunpoint) indicates that the plot will center on what Deckard did at the end of the previous movie – which was to run off with Rachael (a Replicant) to make a life with her.
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Another week and Arsenal are still sitting on top of the league table; I'm starting to get used to saying that phrase. With each week those who predict the downfall of the Gunners are slowly coming round to the idea that Arsenal are a team to be taken seriously. The performances are being churned out, the results are coming through and the points are adding to the table. The high and good feeling amongst those concerned with the Arsenal is becoming sustainable, the belief is growing and whisper it quietly but this could be the year it all comes together and Arsenal can reap the benefits from years of penny pinching all in the name of a long term goal of silverware to complement the beautiful stadium.
Now the weekend is over I am sure everybody has had the chance to digest 'that' goal, I will just share with you some of my thoughts from Arsenal's victory over Norwich City.
Goal of season contender
Oh yes, the goal, and what a fantastic goal it was. It was a privilege to be lucky enough to witness the goal right in front of me. My personal choice of position within the Emirates is amongst my brethren in the North Bank but on Saturday I was positioned neatly in the Clock End. Luckily for me that is where the amazing goal occurred. The move itself was so neat and tidy, the precision of the flicks were ones of such beauty that the goal was so swiftly executed it left the Arsenal fans (and the poor Norwich folk, Not!) still computing what they had witnessed. It really required a second look at the replay on the giant screens to actual confirm that really did happen. The stadium was united in applauding the 'take a bow son' moment. It really was a technically perfect team goal, the type of opportunity you associate with Arsenal apart from the bit when the ball hits the back of the net. It's nice when it all comes off especially being there to witness it.
Atmosphere/Norwich banter
Despite the wonderful score line and quality goals experienced on Saturday the initial atmosphere in the stadium was quite flat at times. I know Arsenal fans unfairly get the tag of being home to the library but the Emirates does know how to raise the roof when the fans are up for it. I guess the level of excitement is parallel to the quality and/or history of the opponents. Norwich games don't really carry any bad blood but their fans are one of my favourites to visit the Emirates. The banter is always top notch and I have fond memories of their visits last season and the season before. Grant Holt is gone so they can't chant his name; we are over Robin Van Persie so they couldn't rib us about missing him anymore. Instead all they could focus on was the library chants. All be it they were stunned into silence from Wilshere's goal but soon found their voices when they pulled a goal back in the second half. Thankfully Aaron Ramsey had enough of their voices and shut them up for good with his goal and assist late in the half. The Arsenal fans did find their voices more in the second half but I could put the pin drop moments down to my next observation…
Lack of the Walcott/Ox factor
The problem if you can call it a problem is the efficiency in Arsenal's play without the outlet of the pace of Theo Walcott is the reduction of bums of seats moments. The play is neat and tidy, even our goal of the season contender was so efficient I don't think the fans got off their seats until the ball was already in the back of the net. The sight of Walcott tearing down the wing latching onto a through ball has been missed since his absence. Even with Cazorla back in the team only Walcott and to an extend Oxlade-Chamberlain offer the chance to stretch teams down the right hand side. Those moments get the fans jumping up in anticipation of a chance to score a goal; it adds something to the Arsenal performance. Not that the team had suffered without it. In previous seasons the loss of Walcott would be a heavy loss that harmed the team's performances now there is so much quality and options in the Arsenal midfield that Arsene can try different combinations and still produce desired results. Arsenal may have to contend with more patient build up play in games but no one is complaining.
Dortmund are up next on Tuesday and the only hanging point is the potential loss of Mathieu Flamini from that game due to his concussion suffered against Norwich. His absence will be a big loss such is his impact made this season but we have able cover in midfield to cope.
Last point to mention is the fact I was lucky enough to get hold of Szczney's goalie gloves after the game on Saturday when he threw them into the crowd; certainly a nice memento as the game will always be remembered for that goal which was scored in it and I now have a part of that game with me.
Enjoy your day people.
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Photo of the day: NOT YOUR AVERAGE NIGHT AT CARNEGIE HALL
Photo of the day: NOT YOUR AVERAGE NIGHT AT CARNEGIE HALL – So you thought Carnegie Hall is quiet and reserved for it's classical music concerts…well you're wrong. This sell out house was cheering on the Detroit Symphony Orchestra with their red state colors and were there to see one of the most exciting singers around Storm Large. Having front row center seats added to my excitement!
Storm sang Kurt Weill's "The Seven Deadly Sins" made famous by Weill's wife Lotte Lenya. Storm was in top form singing and acting the part with her trademark deep gut passion. The concert broadcast live over classical music station WQXR consisted of
- RACHMANINOFF Caprice bohémien, Op. 12
- RACHMANINOFF Isle of the Dead
- WEILL The Seven Deadly Sins with Storm Large
- RAVEL La valse
Carnegie Hall built by Andrew Carnegie for his wife in 1891 because she said she had no decent place to listen to music in New York, is one of the few concert halls in the world that is acoustically perfect. It has had some of the greatest voices of all time and some of the most iconic concerts have been recorded here. Imagine sitting where Benny Goodman, Duke Ellington, Billie Holiday, the Dave Brubeck Quartet, Marlene Dietrich, Judy Garland, Harry Belafonte, Nina Simone, Shirley Bassey, James Gang, Stevie Ray Vaughan, Jessye Norman, Maria Callas, Edith Piaf have appeared! It is one of the musical treasures of the world.


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Title: Sirocco Seduction
Source: Friday Fictioneers sponsored by Rochelle Wisoff-Fields-Addicted to Purple
Word count: 100 words
Aderyn drew mindless patterns in the sand. She sat where wave dampened sand met mounds blown dry by the Sirocco. She searched the spot where the sky kissed the sea. The spot his ship disappeared.
The Sirocco blew hair across her face. Strands she tucked behind her ear. The sun beat on her, teased her memory of a long-forgotten heat. The Sirocco caressed her, whispering long-forgotten words. Her body arched, longing for a long-forgotten feeling.
A lone gull's feather drifted to her. Aderyn clutched it to her breast as she returned home, adding it to her collection of daily reminders.
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In four years, NASA will pick an asteroid to capture and just a year later it expects to launch a robotic spacecraft to direct the asteroid into an orbit around the moon.
That's the latest plan NASA announced today to capture and redirect an asteroid for study.
"Observing these elusive remnants that may date from the formation of our solar system as they come close to Earth is expanding our understanding of our world and the space it resides in," said John Grunsfeld, associate administrator for NASA's Science Mission Directorate. "Closer study of these objects challenges our capabilities for future exploration and will help us test ways to protect our planet from impact."
NASA scientists have been working on a plan to use robotics to get close enough to study an asteroid some time in the 2020s. By capturing an asteroid and examining its makeup, scientists hope to better prepare to send humans to Mars.
The space agency said its scientists are focusing on two different concepts. One entails capturing a "very small asteroid" in open space, the other envisions collecting a boulder-sized sample off a much larger asteroid.
NASA is expected to decide which course to take sometime this year.
Both concepts call for the robotic spacecraft to redirect an asteroid less than 32 feet in size into the moon's orbit.
Once the asteroid is in a steady orbit, a team of astronauts would blast off in an Orion spacecraft atop a heavy lift rocket. Once in space, the crew would set off on an expected nine-day journey to the asteroid. After docking the spacecraft with the robotic capture vehicle, astronauts would conduct spacewalks to explore the asteroid and take samples.
"With these system concept studies, we are taking the next steps to develop capabilities needed to send humans deeper into space than ever before, and ultimately to Mars, while testing new techniques to protect Earth from asteroids," said William Gerstenmaier, associate administrator for NASA's Human Exploration and Operations Mission Directorate.
NASA has been looking to launch a plan to capture a near-Earth asteroid that could weigh as much as 500 tons. Engineers expect it could happen as early as 2021.
Astronomers used NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope to spot a asteroid, dubbed 2011 MD. So far, it appears to be a good candidate for capture. But the space agency continues to look for others.
So far, nine asteroids have been identified as potential candidates for the mission.
"This mission represents an unprecedented technological feat that will lead to new scientific discoveries and technological capabilities and help protect our home planet," NASA Administrator Charles Bolden had said in an earlier statement. "We will use existing capabilities, such as the Orion crew capsule and Space Launch System rocket, and develop new technologies like solar electric propulsion and laser communications -- all critical components of deep space exploration."
NASA's proposed $17.5 billion proposed fiscal 2015 budget, released in March, sets aside money to send humans to Mars by the 2030s and to study near-Earth asteroids.
The space agency, though, is looking to launch another robotic asteroid mission -- and this one is set to launch much sooner.
NASA announced in 2011 that it's working to send a robotic spacecraft to an asteroid in 2016 in an effort to help scientists discover how life began.
The $800 million mission, which will call on a robot to collect pieces of an asteroid -- named 1999 RQ36 -- will be the first U.S. mission to carry asteroid samples back to Earth. The spacecraft is scheduled to reach the asteroid, which is about the size of five football fields, by 2020 and then return to Earth with samples in 2023.
Asteroids are leftovers formed from the cloud of gas and dust that collapsed to form our sun and the planets about 4.5 billion years ago. Scientists calculate that they contain original planet- and star-forming material, which they hope can tell us about the conditions of our solar system's birth.
Since asteroids are thought to have changed little over time, they likely represent a snapshot of our solar system's infancy.
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LA from The Byrds to The Eagles
This is a great BBC documentary that makes a nice companion piece for our Southern California series from last year. Here is what the BBC website has to say about it….
Documentary looking at the music and mythology of a golden era in Californian culture, and telling the story of how Los Angeles changed from a kooky backwater in the early 1960s to become the artistic and industrial hub of the American music industry by the end of the 1970s.
Alongside extensive and never before seen archive footage, the programme features comprehensive first-hand accounts of the key figures including musicians (David Crosby, Graham Nash, J. D. Souther, Bernie Leadon and Bonnie Raitt, music industry bosses (David Geffen, Jac Holzman, Ron Stone and Peter Asher) and legendary LA scenesters including Henry Diltz, Pamela Des Barres and Ned Doheny.
The film explores how the socially-conscious folk rock of young hippies with acoustic guitars was transformed into the coked-out stadium excess of the late 1970s and the biggest selling album of all time.
I think you will like this one! Let me know what you think………


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The big business of farming
Everything's bigger on the American farm scene these days. Everything, that is, except the number of farmers.
In 1870, half of the U.S. population was employed in agriculture, compared with less than 1 percent today.
But today's farmers are working on larger farms than their predecessors. It's not uncommon for corn and soybean producers to have fields spread across several counties.
Factory farms are displacing the local family farm, altering the life of many rural communities, charged the Sierra Club, citing the fact that the number of U.S. hog farms has dropped from 600,000 to just over 150,000 in the past 15 years, while the nation's hog inventory has remained the same.
Along with the farms, agribusiness firms also have grown, taking a dominant position in a number of key areas.
Four firms, Tyson, Cargill, Swift and Co. and the National Beef Packing Co., now control more than 80 percent of the U.S. beef packing industry.
"Today the packer monopoly is far more powerful than it was back in (Teddy) Roosevelt's time. And now, as then, the food security of America is in danger as producers and consumers are both being cheated," said Mike Callicrate, owner of Ranch Foods Direct in Colorado Springs, Colo.
Consolidation also has sprouted in the seed industry.
"Twenty years ago, some 600 independent seed companies served U.S. farmers. Today, there are only 150 in the country," said Kristina Hubbard, program coordinator for the Seed Concentration Project for the Organization for Competitive Markets, a nonprofit group that encourages trade based in Lincoln, Neb.
Nothing is more fundamental to American agriculture than seeds, and the dominant player in today's seed market is St. Louis-based Monsanto Co., said Hubbard from her office in Missoula, Mont.
Monsanto has acquired dozens of independent seed companies in the past decade, said Hubbard, adding that the company gains control of the market through seed licensing. Monsanto research has led to varieties of biotech seed with built-in pesticide or other attributes called traits.
Small independent companies offer their own seed with Monsanto's technology, paying a licensing fee for that privilege, she said. The practice allows Monsanto to further dominate the seed market — even seed sold by other companies, she said. It's not just corn and soybeans but cotton and vegetable seed that Monsanto controls, Hubbard said.
"Monsanto seed has proved popular with farmers. Seventy percent of the corn and almost 99 percent of the soybean crop planted in the United States last year contained seed traits developed by Monsanto," she said.
But Monsanto's popular and effective seed doesn't come cheap. The company bumped up corn seed prices 15 percent this year over 2007, but prices next year on different varieties of corn seed will increase from 35 percent to 40 percent, said Monsanto executive John Jansen.
"Nobody likes a price increase, but seed still represents only 16 to 18 percent of a farmer's input costs. We price products according to performance," he said.
Monsanto, whose sales topped $1 billion earlier this year, defends the cost increases, pointing to bigger yields that their biotech seeds provide for farmers at a time when commodity prices are up. "We spend $2 million a day on research and development. We spend more than any other competitor," said Monsanto spokesman Darren Wallis.
By the numbers
19 percent In 1982, farms of 1,000 or more acres used 19 percent of U.S. farmland.
48 percent By 2002, 1,000-plus acre farms accounted for 48 percent of this country's agricultural ground.
$500K Farms with sales of at least $500,000 now account for nearly half of all farm production.The seed industry and beef packing industry are examples of how just a few companies control supplies for farmers.
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The auction Wednesday of 15 apartments and single-family homes in an estate sale by Queens Public Administrator Lois Rosenblatt will add $6.012 million to the city's coffers.
All of the properties remaining after three apartments were routinely withdrawn before the event, which was held in the State Supreme Court building in Jamaica, found buyers.
Proceeds exceeded by $1.6 million the total of $4.412 minimum prices set by the public administrator, or 36 percent.
Although a Long Island City house that had been withdrawn from previous sales twice received the highest winning bid, $935,000, a Woodside house that went for $315,000 registered the biggest percentage gain over the minimum.
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Ross, I had barely begun to know you. Almost seven months ago you attended the first Poetry Under the Paintings event in Lewisburg and you have faithfully attended ever since, gracing us each month with your wit, rhyme, sarcasm and that winking smile. You will be missed.
The last time you and I talked was three weeks ago when we had to divert from our usual reading spot at Faustina's Gallery to another location last-minute. We ended up hanging out in the window alcove at The Brassiere. Eight of us and a bouncing baby trying to hear each other over the bar patrons. But it was a unique event, and you and I seemed to enjoy it the most. On the way back to our cars we chatted and exchanged emails, and I promised to send you the link to your October videos on YouTube.
You added me on Facebook, but I hadn't gotten around to sending the links to you yet when I heard about the stroke, and that your recovery was not going well. Within days we lost you. We lost you much too soon.
Thank you for choosing to spend those evenings with us. I wish I had gotten the chance to get to Cherry Alley to hear your stories, or join you at Page Grinders as you invited us to do that night in the bar window seat. It was good to know you for however brief a time. I promise you, we will keep the tradition going. Fare thee well.
And here is a short clip of Ross and Brian. Ross had asked for some sort of military marching music, and Brian delightfully got carried away. I will miss moments like this.
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Attractive market conditions The Danish mortgage system has the lowest borrowing cost for the first 60 of property value of all European countries. The transaction costs on property investments in Denmark are lower than in many other European countries. In Denmark transaction costs amount to 0.6-2 of the price, compared to 5-6 in other countries in Europe. The risk-adjusted yields on property investment in Aarhus are attractive compared to investments in comparable cities in Europe. The stable Danish economy The Danish economy is stable. The national debt is low, and throughout the financial crisis and after, the Danish economy performed well. The economy of Denmark has been significantly less volatile than most of Europe. This combination has resulted in a Standard & Poors rating of AAA for the Danish economy. The Danish Krone (DKK) is linked to the Euro, which eliminates currency risks. 33 Aarhus and Copenhagen are the two high-growth areas in Denmark in terms of new inhabitants, job and companies. Aarhus has many attractive development areas where flats and office space can be relatively easily rented out or sold due to the underlying growth. This situation, combined with the general Danish market conditions, makes Aarhus attractive for international property investors.
An introduction to the business conditions in Aarhus, Denmark
Aarhus provides an ideal platform to create and deliver innovative products and services for your customers. Our city is experiencing unprecedented growth, and the business climate in Denmark is according to international rankings among the best in Europe. You are invited to be part of it. Aarhus in
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Forgive me Lord if I seem nervous. I don't even know for sure how to address you sir.
Relax child, it's ok. I have over 200 names, including some you've never heard. Lord will be just fine.
Ok Lord, thank you. I'm not sure where to begin. I really want to know about that week leading up to your death, what we refer to as your Passion. I have so many questions. When you rode into Jerusalem that last week you had to know what was going to happen to you because as God, you know all things. What was going through your mind? How could you so willingly enter the city where you knew you were going to die?
It was a dark moment for sure, having the knowledge that these same people who were hailing me as a king, shouting "Hosanna" would soon turn on me and be crying "Crucify him", calling for my death. Being fully man I felt the tinge of betrayal-it stung. And yet it was for these very people that I needed to complete my mission. These were the sick ones, and the only way they could be healed spiritually was through my sacrifice. There was no other option from the beginning. While they were advocating for my death, I was loving them. I loved them too much to turn back.
So Lord, you must have known that when you called Judas to follow you, he too would turn on you. And yet your word says he was sent out as one of the twelve to heal the sick, raise the dead and cast out demons along with the other eleven. How could he operate with that authority if he wasn't really one of yours and would eventually hand you over to be put to death?
Child, this is where many people confuse sovereign knowledge with predestiny. Just because I knew what Judas would eventually do and how his actions would play into prophecy concerning those last days does not mean he never had control over his thoughts or actions. Judas was sent out with the twelve because there was work to be done in spreading the good news. As an appointee of my spirit he indeed could perform the necessary miracles as my agent. Even today many good things happen in my name through servants whose hearts and ways are not pure. Those who are truly seeking truth should not be deprived just because the messenger is untrue. This was the case with Judas. He alone allowed Satan to enter into his heart, and cause him to turn on me. There are many in your world even now who are guilty of no less. It's just that when Judas betrayed me it had a history changing impact. Knowing those who will accept and follow me and those who will reject my message does not mean they were unfairly selected against their will. All men have the option of receiving me. Judas eventually opted not to.
Here's something that confuses me; we read that at times you were fully God, in that you could suddenly slip through a crowd unseen, walk on water, raise the dead, but at other times, like when you were tempted in the wilderness or when you were in the garden praying, you showed you were human and fearful of what was to come. How could you be both? In Gesthemane you prayed for your very life and was tormented to the point of sweating blood droplets. I don't get it.
I never stopped being the Son of God, and yet the only way my sacrifice could be acceptable for its purpose, was for me to be fully human. I had to become a human high priest so I could enter into the Holy of Holies and offer one final sacrifice, for humans, as a human. I can see how this is confusing to you. If I were to truly be able to relate to my creation, it was necessary that I experience all the emotions associated with mankind. I needed to feel fear, I needed to face mortality, I needed to know the abandonment and the silence of a Father. It is only because I allowed myself to feel these human emotions that I am fully aware and equipped to provide the strength and comfort needed for my children when they face their own doubts and fears. So yes, I never left behind my Godship, and in fact I used it to give me the strength needed to fully experience your "humanship".
Lord, if it were only necessary that you shed blood and experience death in order to complete your plan, why did you choose to endure such tremendous and tortuous pain instead of a quick easy death? The Romans nearly killed you when they flogged you before you ever got to the cross. I've read about how gruesome a punishment this was, and the damage done to the flesh, the muscles and nerves. Why Was this necessary?
The simple answer to that can be found in my book of Isaiah, where it reads that I was to be wounded and bruised for the transgressions or sins of all people before my time on earth and after. I bore the punishment for every lie, every theft, every murder, every heinous act committed by anybody in history. That's quite a lot of iniquity, I must say. I took those lashes for every Jew killed in Germany, every Christian martyred in history, every child put to death before being born, every lie spoken under oath, every lynching, every act of hatred, every thought of malice, every single act that goes against the holy life I request. When you take on the sins of the whole world for all history, the punishment must fit the crime. With each lash, I forgave, with each drop of blood, I cleansed sin, with each open wound, I provided healing, even to those holding the whips. I received lashes so all could be healed from diseases like cancer, so deaf could hear and so blind could see. I understand that this may be beyond your ability to comprehend, which is all right-you simply need to accept it. It is only through bloodshed that sacrifices are received. I gave mankind every last drop I had once and for all-it was never intended to be an easy process.
Lord you tell us that we should be willing to take up our own crosses and follow you. I read somewhere that the cross beam weighed between 80-100 lbs. and that you were expected to carry it over 600 yards uphill while it tore into your open wounds with each step. The pain must have been unbearable! Why would you want us to do the same thing? Do you really expect us to suffer in the same way and to the extent you did?
It's true that carrying your own cross is a tough assignment, but some have misconstrued what I am asking. In Roman times, when I was sentenced to death, the cross was always seen and understood to be their symbol of death. When I suggest you take up your cross, I am not asking you to bear the weight of suffering as I did, but rather to be willing to die to yourself so that you may become alive to me. Remember my words, "whoever wants to save their life must lose it, but whoever loses their life for me will save it". In every way my followers must be willing to die to themselves, and in many cases, die a physical death, but the eternal rewards are priceless compared to the temporary joys of living to themselves. Following me means putting to death all ways and desires that go against my teachings. It is only when you die to yourselves that you can live through me.
Can I ask about the cross? We have all seen images or paintings of you hanging on the cross. Sometimes you are made to look very peaceful as if you weren't feeling anything or were in some type of altered state, while others and even movies show you were in great torment and agony. What was it really like? Could we aver fully understand what you were going through?
Child, there was nothing peaceful about my death on the cross. It was the most gruesome form of capital punishment known and perfected by Romans for ultimate suffering and cruelty. I knew how horrific it was going to be when I am quoted in the Psalms, "I am poured out like water and my bones are out of joint. My heart has turned to wax within me and has melted away. My strength is dried up and gone and my tongue sticks to the roof of my mouth; you lay me in the dust of death. Dogs surround me, evil men circle me; they pierced my hands and feet. I can see and count all my bones. People stare and mock me. They gamble for my garments". And in Isaiah it is said that I am so severely tortured I no longer resemble a human form. There is nothing peaceful or divine in the way I suffered on the cross for you. I could not breathe due to the way I was suspended by the nails with all my weight hanging there, and when I tried to push myself up using my feet, just so I could catch a breath, the pain and pressure on the numerous nerves in my feet that were destroyed by the nails was excruciating. And yet even with all the pain that was almost rendering me unconscious, the most painful part were the hours that my Father and I were separated because of the filth of the sin I bore-I had never been abandoned by Him before that and it tore at my heart to not feel His love and companionship. I truly experienced Hell during those hours of our separation. It hurt me and caused a much deeper pain than the wounds from my flogging and nails mercilessly driven into my hands and feet.
My Lord, you're right, I can't begin to imagine what that was like for you. I'm so sorry. My heart breaks even now, but I still have questions, if it's ok. Your last words on the cross were "it is accomplished". What did you mean? What did your torture and death accomplish?
You may want to sit down for this one-it will take some explaining. Of all the verses I left for you, those three words changed everything forever. When I said "It is accomplished", it carried much weight and meant so much in both Earthly and Heavenly realms. First, it sealed and completed the perfect plan, the will of my Father set from the beginning of time. He sent me for one purpose only, to suffer and be crucified, the perfect sacrificial lamb for the remission of all sin. I accomplished my Father's will. Secondly, the word used for this was often used in those days to indicate a debt had been satisfied or paid in full. If the wages of sin are indeed death, someone had to die to pay the punishment or penalty for those sins. With my death, I paid the full price for the rest of history so that all peoples could accept the gift of forgiveness and eternal life without themselves having to die to pay that price. I accomplished and paid that debt. Third, that same word is sometimes used to indicate the end of a period and the beginning of another one. My death and sacrifice ended the age once and for all when blood sacrifices were required to atone for sins, and it began the age when my grace which I purchased for you with my own sacrificial blood would now be the only way and only requirement to be restored to my Father. I and I alone fulfilled and completed the Old covenant so that the New covenant of my blood would once and for all time cover your sins. I accomplished the will of my Father, I accomplished paying the debt in full for sin and I accomplished fulfilling the law and instituting grace. So you see child, when I cried out "it is accomplished" I changed the world forever!
I see now what you mean. Those were indeed three very weighted words. And after you said them, all kinds of strange events occurred. The one I wonder about is the dead people already in their tombs coming back to life and walking the earth. Why did that happen?
I guess in my own way I wanted to remind them just who I was and what I was capable of. You see, many of those who had shouted for my death were present when I raised my good friend Lazarus from the dead. How quickly you people forget things even when you see them with your own eyes. I knew that I would conquer death and come back to life in three days so that many would see and believe, but I wanted to display to them first, that they did not take away my life as they suspected and celebrated, but that in fact I willingly laid it down for them knowing I could take it back up at any time. But I also wanted them to know that I alone had the power over death and resurrection so I showed them this by bringing back those who were known to be dead, some buried and entombed by the very people watching me die on the cross. Only after I breathed my last breath did many of those present understand who I truly was. The dead lived again, the decayed were restored. This is the best meaning of your Easter-new life found only through me.
Lord, there is a lot of confusion on where you went when you were in the tomb. Some say you went to hell to stole away the keys of death from Satan and some say you went elsewhere. Where were you while your body was in the tomb?
I left several clues and indications for you in my words. To the repentant thief who died with me that day, I said he would be with me in Paradise, not hell. Paradise in my Word means Heaven. And when I died you recorded my words, "Father, into your hands do I commit my spirit". Do you suppose my Father was in hell? Of course not. At that moment I and my Father were once again united. My Father can not dwell in the presence of sin. So Heaven is implied here as well. And my servant Paul also recorded the words that to be absent in the body, for believers, is to be present with the Lord. You will find no passage in my Word that indicates my enemy was ever given the keys of death. I alone posses those. And ministering to those fallen angels and those who were dead as in the times of Noah, I see that you are puzzled by this. It is only confusing to you in that you have placed a very short time on this passage and have neglected that I was alive in the days of Noah and was preaching to them through him. I have always preached to the dead in the spiritual eternal realm of existence. It is not limited to a three day period of being in the tomb. I was spared from decay. I did not descend into hell as punishment. I did not wrestle away something I already possessed and displayed when the dead came back to life when I died on the cross. I hope this clears it up a bit for you.
Lord when you did come back to life and appear to people, some, even your own disciples, refused to believe even though they could see you. Why did even your own followers not believe you would rise again from the grave?
Yes this troubled me greatly. I once rebuked them for not believing I would rise again. Man tends to have short memories. They had just witnessed my ability to restore life after death and decay, but they didn't remember. Some of them thought that as the Messiah I would be a mighty conquering type of a Jewish King who would deliver them, but after they witnessed how I endured such severe punishment and torture with no defense, I believe they simply lost their faith in me, as if my power and authority had somehow been removed, rendering me helpless. They never understood that I allowed every bit of it to happen. I even reminded them one last time in the garden when the Jewish leaders and their guard came to arrest me. At my words, they all fell backwards. I gave them many hints and special insight as my followers that I was the Son of God, but when tragedy struck, they were overcome by fear. Fear sometimes leads to doubt and memory loss. I did exactly what I had told them I would do, but they did not remember my words when faced with their own fear and mortality. Even my enemies who put me to death remembered I had declared I would rise again after three days, and they requested my tomb be guarded. The enemy knows my words even when my followers sometimes forget. My servant Thomas is sometimes called the Doubter, but the truth is at first they all doubted. It was only after they could see me and touch me that their faith returned. I blessed them for it, but suggested that those who would follow me later even though they would never physically see me, would be even more blessed than they. To their credit, when their faith was restored, with my help they changed the world.
My Lord, thank you for all you did for us. We will never be able to measure the depth of love you must have for us to endure things that we can't even imagine. I never want your Passion to become just a story to me. I still want to know so much more, but I'd like to give you the final words for this interview. Please feel free to share your heart for us as we enter into our Easter reflections.
Bless you child. You pretty much already have all my heart recorded in my Word. Remember, I am the author. You are right when you say you will never understand the immeasurable love I have for you. Much has changed since my sacrifice, but much remains the same. There are still many today who profess to be my followers but have cold hearts. You could never know they were my disciples by their actions or their words. I warned people that at some point men would become lovers of themselves and their own words, and that they would lead many others away from the truth with false misrepresentations of my words and character. I still weep over cities when I see the evil that takes place on their streets. I still feel the tinge of betrayal when one of my own sheep leaves the pen and refuses to return. I am saddened when I hear one brother cut down another over insignificant differences or ideas. And I am angered when my people pervert my words to make them into a more non-offensive version that looks nothing like my original intent and meaning. And yet my arms remain open to receive all who admit their need of me. It is my desire that all people would come to the reality of my truth, my sacrifice, the high price paid for their redemption and the eternal joy and reward of following me and living a full and abundant life according to my ways. I would that everyone who remembers me when you recall my sacrifice would be in awe of who I am and who they have now become through my blood, my death and my resurrection. You are in a world full of darkness. It is important now more than ever before that each of you be a light in your dark corners so that I may be glorified through your lives and that they may be drawn to me through my spirit alive in you. Don't quickly forget my words as you live out your faith. Your fruit will bear witness to my love and reality. As it is written, I loved the world so much that I gave my own life so that anyone who believes in me can be saved and restored to an everlasting life with me in my Father's house. Don't lose heart, I really am coming back for those who are mine. I love you with a never-ending infinite love. I have since the beginning of time.


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Mario Guerrero, 1975November 21, 2006
I have always been drawn to the concept, in baseball transactions, of the "player to be named later," but the truth is I've never really understood it. How much later is later? Are there parameters set in place for the quality (or, as anecdotal evidence suggests, the lack thereof) of the player? Does the giving team or the receiving team name the player? If it's the giving team, why wouldn't they just throw a baseball uniform on the crotchety one-legged Korean War veteran who folds their towels and give him train fare to get to the receiving team, and if it's the receiving team, why wouldn't they just name the guy leading the giving team in slugging percentage? Or is there some specialist in the employ of the league commissioner whose sole job is to fairly and justly assess each trade involving the "player to be named later" clause and to then balance the scale of each deal by aptly identifying and, yes, naming the player to be named later? And if so, how can I get this job?
I don't have the answer to any of these questions, but perhaps some progress toward illumination on this matter can be made in further consideration of my cardboard childhood companion Mario Guerrero, shown here in his 1975 card in the ol' Topps hold the bat straight out in front of you and gaze with wistful regret into the middle distance pose.
Mario Guerrero slipped quietly into the major leagues a couple years after coming to the Red Sox organization as a player to be named later. Specifically, he was the player to be named later in one of the worst deals in Red Sox' history. So "later" in this case turned out to mean a couple of things. In a strictly literal sense, later meant 100 days, from March 22, 1972, when the first players involved in the deal were exchanged, to June 30, 1972, when the identity of the player to be named later was finally revealed. But in this particular deal, which prior to the involvement of Mario Guerrero featured the Red Sox sending future Cy Young award-winner Sparky Lyle to the Yankees for fading mediocrity Danny Cater, "later" also (and more accurately) meant "too late." Mario Guerrero's arrival to the Red Sox in the context of this deal was akin to the arrival at a thoroughly burglarized home of a somewhat interesting seashell sent from the private beach connected to the brand new Caribbean retirement mansion of the burglar. Under other circumstances, perhaps the recipients would have appreciated the quiet, unassuming beauty of the seashell, but in this case they could only hold the seashell to their ear and listen to a facsimile of the ol' Matthew Arnold unplumbed, salt, estranging sea.


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November 13, 2007
They're all here, JUSTIN BIEBER, Taylor Swift, MICHAEL JACKSON, REINDEER SINGING "WHITE CHRISTMAS", Nat "King"Cole, Bing, NEW ARCHIES, Elvis, Rudolf, JOSH GROBAN FROM NOEL!, Neil Diamond, Band-Aid, "THIS CHRISTMAS", NEW ALVIN AND THE CHIPMUNKS, ALAN O'DAY, Jingle Cats, Carpenters, NEW JULLIANNE HOUGH, Brenda Lee, PAUL EVANS, Tony Orlando and Dawn and so much more! HOURS AND HOURS OF FAMILY FUN with the original Christmas music clips and new Christmas Video animations!
When Whoppy and Streaker were little more than kittens I sat down with them on their first Christmas Eve and sang Christmas songs on my guitar. Ten years later they're playing Christmas songs for me that they found on the Internet! Sound outrageous? Not as outrageous as some of the the videos they found!
Here are the Singing Reindeer and "White Christmas", by Clyde McPhatter and The Drifters, one of my aunt Wan's favorites, which my friend Publicist/ Writer Gary Stromberg, sent me as a Christmas card. http://gpsinformation.info/main/merryxmas.swf
JUST ADDED! MICHAEL JACKSON"S NEWLY RE-MASTERED "LITTLE CHRISTMAS TREE" from the new JACKSON FIVE ULTIMATE CHRISTMAS ALBUM
Growing up in the 50's, Irving Berlin was one of my greatest influences. He wrote other classic songs like "Easter Parade', "True Love", "Always", and "God Bless America", but none ever touched as deeply as his classic, "White Christmas". When I started in the music business, I remember going from door to door in 1650 Broadway, trying to get my songs published. One day I walked into Irving Berlin Music, which occupied a suite of offices on the second floor. I asked the receptionist If I could see Mr. Berlin, and play him a few of my songs. Holding back a smile, she says, "I'm sorry, but Mr. Berlin, no longer comes into the office…besides this company only publishes Irving Berlin songs!" This "Brash Brotha'" from the Bronx, smiles and asks, "In that case may I just take a look at his piano?"
She smiles back and says she shouldn't be doing this…and takes me into the room where he did his writing. This is the instrument, I read about in Life Magazine. Berlin, with no formal training, was only able to play in the key of C. So he had this upright piano made with a "gear shift", to change keys or modulate with a flick of the wrist! Although I want to sit and play, I don't want to overstep my bounds, so I just gently and respectfully touched it on my way out.
Now the original "White Christmas" by Bing Crosby, from "Holiday Inn". http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T8swRkzkO2s
BRAND NEW! JAY and THE AMERICANS…"CHRISTMAS IN AMERICA" http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r_4l1HCO9oY
Here's "Oh Holy Night" by Celine Dion http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Jr-2eyRtV4
Here's the WHAM classic, "Last Christmas" http://www.slack-time.com/music-video-1724-Wham-Last-Christmas
BRAND NEW! Our pal Ron Dante sent over a video from his new "Archie's Christmas Album"…Archie's Christmas Party"! It's the first Christmas album for the cartoon icons. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ht3Xq3Agxx0
How did Whoppy And Streaker know I loved "Do They Know It's Christmas?" http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w5cX_ncZLls&feature=related
JUST ADDED…"OH HOLY NIGHT", in church last Christmas with American Idols David Archuletta http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xIg5D7aAtic&feature=related
Here's Nat King Cole singing ,"The Christmas Song"
Johnny Marks, the composer of "Rudolf", as well as "Rockin' Around the Christmas Tree", was definitely the King of Christmas? The song became so popular, that everytime a reindeer was drawn or painted with a red nose, he would get a royalty! Johnny was a character out of a Damon Runyan story, hair slicked back 40's style, always nattily dressed, the kind of a guy you'd see at the race track waiting in line at the $100 window. He was quiet and assuming most of the year, but at Christmastime, he'd be in his glory! I remember once in the mid-sixties, during the holiday season , Johnny took my wife and I to lunch at Jack Dempseys'. The restaurant was located right next to the Brill Building and the poor man couldn't take a bite without one his songwriter or publishing pals coming over to interrupt. Without question he was definitely one of my songwriting heroes! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rFNxZKC1rz0
ORIGINAL CLIP! Elvis from his 1968 special singing, "Blue Christmas".
Mary's Boy Child" – Boney M
NOW THE CRYSTALS " AND "SANTA CLAUS IS COMING TO TOWN" http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B3zudVvBEB4
Here's the WHAM classic, "Last Christmas"
"All Alone on Christmas" – Darlene Love
MAKING OF THE JULLIANNE HOUGH CHRISTMAS ALBUM! Two time grand prize winner of "Dancing With The Stars" who's enjoying her first #1 country album, has just released her first Christmas CD.http://www.umgnashville.com/artist/media/mediaplayer.aspx?mid=1204&aid=208
BRAND NEW! ONE OF THE BEST VERSIONS OF "I'LL BE HOME FOR CHRISTMAS" I'VE EVER HEARD! BY THE ONE AND ONLY RASCAL FLATTS http://new.music.yahoo.com/videos/RascalFlatts/I%27ll-Be-Home-For-Christmas–205697487
We interrupt our program for a Christmas message from a twelve year old Michael Jackson. I wish I had a video of him doing a song I wrote with George S. Clinton, Jr. "Little Christmas Tree" from the Classic Motown Christmas album…but I don't. Here he is with one of my favorites,"I Saw Mommy Kissing Santa Claus" http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-2890892773539045335&q=santa+claus+is+coming+to+town&total=721&start=10&num=10&so=0&type=search&plindex=0
THE SHIRELLES "MAMA MY SOLDIER BOY IS COMIN' HOME" https://artiewayne.wordpress.com/2009/12/19/the-shirelles-christmas-song-mama-my-soldier-boys-coming-home/
"Christmas (Baby Please Come Home)" – Darlene Love (live on Letterman, 2005)
Destiny's Child, "8 Days Of Christmas" http://www.fanpop.com/spots/christmas/videos/469940
JUST ADDED! OFFICIAL LADY GAGA "CHRISTMAS TREE" http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o_36TiPIjVI
"Neil Diamond performing live in 1971 , "Holly Holy" http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RQwqQwD6OOw
NEW! Here's "DUETS" with ELVIS PRESLEY, and Carrie Underwood, Martina McBride, LeAnn Rimes, Sara Evans, Gretchen Wilson, Anne Murray, Amy Grant, Karen Fairchild, and Wynonna Judd, in the first Christmas compilation of its kind. Here's Elvis and Martina McBride with "Blue Christmas" http://blog.cmt.com/2008-11-17/martina-mcbride-duets-with-elvis-presley-for-christmas/
JUST ADDED!MICHAEL BUBLE "ALL I WANT FOR CHRISTMAS IS YOU" http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AB7fEnWyZ1k&feature=related
Here's U2 and "I Believe In Father Christmas" http://www.ilike.com/artist/U2/videos
Kenny G and "Have Yourself A Merry Little Christmas" http://www.ifilm.com/video/2791593
"WHERE ARE YOU CHRISTMAS" BY FAITH HILL http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cSMjgNMdzEI&feature=related
TAYLOR SWIFT "LAST CHRISTMAS" http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aQylnK8SoLE&feature=related
About ten years ago after inexplicable weakness and episodes of falling down in the street. I checked into UCLA Medical Center for 3 days of test. They kept me for 3 weeks! It was a few days before Christmas, I was in a ward with many who were far worse off than me…and we did our best to keep each others' spirits up. Somehow, I lost my phone book, and the only numbers that I could remember was my Mothers', who had moved to West Virginia, and that of my long time friend Alan O'Day, who was on his way out of town.
It's a policy of most hospitals to send as many patients home for the holidays to be with their family and friends. Soon, I was the only one left in the ward, since I had nowhere else to go. One lonely night, as I sat feeling sorry for myself, I heard a group down the hall, singing Christmas carols. I followed the voices to the the children's ward…where I heard the joyous sounds of "Jingle Bells". It was the Salvation Army, passing out toys and candy, and singing to the kids, who were confined to their beds. I joined in on "Silent Night", "Jingle Bell Rock", and "Rudolf the Red Nosed Reindeer", but when they started singing "White Christmas". Tears started running down my face, and I had to sit in another room to compose myself. This song, written by Irving Berlin, always brings back memories of family and friends in a snow covered New York City…flooding me with emotions.
10 years later, I told Toni Wine ("Candida","Groovy Kind Of Love") I told her the story…and showed her some lyrics I had written that fateful night, "I Lose it When I Hear "White Christmas". She loved it, but wanted to make the story more universal. Over two writing sessions, which we started on Irving Berlin's piano, that was given to Toni many years ago, we came up with….
words and music by Toni Wine and Artie Wayne
They can play "Jingle Bells" all day
talk about Santa's Sleigh
I'm alright on a very "Silent Night"
But then my tears begin
when they sing I can't join in
'Cause I Lose it When I Hear "White Christmas"
Bein' without you just ain't no fun
What kind of thrill is cookin' for one?
Can't deny I wanna' cry myself out
Here's to Holiday spirit
don't wanna' be anywhere near it
'Cause I Lose it When I Hear "White Christmas"
And Baby I know…You needed to go
But why did you have to leave me now?
Don't feel like spreading good cheer
Just wanna' sleep in the New Year
'Cause I Lose it When I Hear "White Christmas"
'Cause I Lose it When I Hear "White Christmas"
Copyright 2005-CasmoTwine
FOR THE REST OF THE 99 VIDEOS CLICK ONTO https://artiewayne.wordpress.com/2006/12/22/nookies-top-holiday-video-picks/
Then click onto THE STORY BEHIND THE MOTOWN CHRISTMAS ALBUM…the classic album that almost never saw the light of day. Diana Ross, The Miracles, The Supremes, The Temptations, The Jackson Five, Stevie Wonder, and Michael Jackson all contributed to one of the greatest Christmas albums of all time, THE MOTOWNCHRISTMAS ALBUM. It is also the story of how George Clinton, Jr. and I wrote "Little Christmas Tree" for Michael Jackson. Read all about it here.
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If you liked WHOPPY AND STREAKER"S 99 CHRISTMAS MUSIC VIDEOS, please feel free to share it with a friend…but if you loved it, please feel free to send it to your entire address book! MERRY CHRISTMAS, HAPPY HANUKKAH, HAPPY KWANZA…ENJOY TO THE WORLD!
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Special thanks to Barry Oslander for Whoppy and Streaker's Christmas bows.
Copyright 2007 by Artie Wayne
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I bought an Apple TV tonight.
I've watched Ask a Ninja, Rocketboom, my show, and Ze Frank on it so far.
Works as advertised. Easy to setup. It rocks.
It makes me want to put out a high res version of my show. But, it's pretty watchable, even at the low resolution it is.
I'm watching Kevin Schofield on my 60-inch TV on it. The tour he gave me of MS Research's TechFest really rocks. I'm watching the second part.
I think I'm going to use this almost wholly to look at Internet video shows.
The integration with iTunes really is great. This is a winner. I take back anything I wrote about it before.
Oh, and it also supports 1080i HD. Read the comments, my brother points out that while it says on the menu that it supports 1080i, it actually doesn't output in that resolution.
I picked it up at the Palo Alto Apple store tonight. They still had them in stock after the Office 2.0 party I attended down the block with Maryam.