Sometimes when I am feeling nostalgic, I put in an old movie; the other day, I put in Road to Bali and Road to Rio. I love Hope and Crosby’s road movies; they take me back to a simpler time, or to a time that I wish to think was simpler.  Tonight, I watched Andy Williams’ Christmas Show at the Moon River Theater in Branson.  That’s what he did.  For two hours, Andy Williams whisked me back to the early 1960s, to a time before the Vietnam War grew hot, before the Beatles grew their hair, before Archie Bunker flushed a toilet on national TV.  For two hours, I was a child, sitting with my long-departed parents, watching our favorite Christmas Special.

Williams began his recording career in 1944 singing back-up to Bing Crosby.  In those days, Crosby was at the top of the charts, and anyone who wanted to get ahead in the music business became a crooner, like Crosby.  At one point, in the early 1930s, Frank Sinatra (according to a biography) had made up his mind to become the “next Bing Crosby.”  By the mid 50s, Williams was no longer in Crosby’s shadow, and had begun a successful recording career of his own.

At the same time that he began his recording career, Williams began to get small parts in film, usually playing a musician.  When he got national exposure by earning a regular spot on Steve Allen’s show, his recording career took off.  His first album was Andy Williams Sings Steve Allen, followed a little later by Andy Williams and Andy Williams Sings Rodgers and Hammerstein. Williams soon found himself in demand as a guest on television variety shows.  He made an appearance on the Dick Clark Show.   He appeared six times in the late 50s on Pat Boone’s television show, which played host to other big names, such as Shirley Jones, The McGuire Sisters, The Mills Brothers, and Joel Grey.  And, in 1957, he got a shot at his own summer TV show, a forerunner of his long-running variety show.

Andy Williams’ Variety Show took several forms over the next two decades; names changed as sponsors changed, and as the show changed networks.  In his first series, Andy partnered with singer June Valli.  The next summer, Andy partnered with Dick Van Dyke in the Chevy Showroom Starring Andy Williams.  And, in 1959, the Chevy name was dropped from the show.  In 1961, Williams first recorded the song that would become his theme song, Moon River. He performed it the next year at the Academy Awards ceremony, where it won an Oscar for the writers, Henry Mancini and Johnny Mercer (the song was sung by Audrey Hepburn in the movie Breakfast at Tiffany’s).  Williams’ performance led to a TV special that same spring, where Andy again teamed with Dick Van Dyke.  The special was produced by TV giants Bud Yorkin and Norman Lear (who would go on to produce All in the Family, Maude, and most of the great sitcoms that would  - in the next decade – spell the end of variety shows like The Andy Williams Show).  For this special, Andy also enlisted the help of Ann Margaret, Andy Griffith, and Henry Mancini. The special proved so popular that Williams was asked to again star in a TV series.  That fall, The Andy Williams Show that I grew up with premiered on NBC and ran for 115 episodes.

The Andy Williams Show was reduced to three episodes a year through 1967 and 1968, but when it came back in 1969, the show was again broadcast weekly,  and was stronger than ever.  TV, however, was about to change.  In the early 1970s, the variety show was at its peak.  One could flip through the channels and watch The Sonny and Cher Comedy Hour,  The Carol Burnett Show, The Flip Wilson Show, The Wacky World of Jonathan Winters, The Bobby Goldsboro Show, The Dean Martin Show, and This is Tom Jones, just to name a few.  But by 1976, few variety shows remained on the air.  The Lawrence Welk Show had retreated first to PBS, and then to syndication.  Donny and Marie rubbed against the grain when they introduced their variety show in 1976; it lasted one season.  Tony Orlando and Dawn outlasted most, running through 1977, and The Bobby Vinton Show ran through 1978.  The Andy Williams Show ran its natural course, ending in 1971.

When not in the studio, Andy ran a successful record company (Cadence Records – one of Williams’ discoveries is Ray Stevens, who also starred in his own variety show, which Williams produced), and continued to star on TV specials, including his remarkable Christmas specials.

It is in the spirit of those Christmas specials that Andy Williams presents his show in Branson.  His show is paced well, of high production quality, and entertaining as ever.  Backed up by a 10-piece band, a chorus of about a dozen, and a half-dozen special guests, Williams shines.  He is not above making fun of his age, and, in fact, has crafted an entire routine around “Cookie Bear” pestering Andy about his age.  Speaking of age, let’s just lay to rest any rumors: Andy still sings well – remarkably well – still does an occasional soft shoe, and is still able to carry a note higher and longer than most people half his age.  I was truly impressed.

Seeing Cookie Bear, by the way was just one of the joys of watching Andy Williams’ Christmas Show.  The guest stars for this season were astounding.  Classical dancers Pasha & Aliona presented an indescribable routine.  It is not fair to call them dancers, for their dance is magical, changing costumes in front of your eyes, quicker than you can comprehend.  Their routine will leave you wondering what you just saw.  Dean Church, arguably the best fiddler in the world, is a treat, and the Warnock girls may be the most talented sisters to perform in Branson since the Lennons Sisters.  The guest star that stands out in my mind, however, is Bob Anderson, a veteran of Las Vegas and a Branson favorite.

Williams played host to an innumerable list of guest stars on his TV show, from Roy Rogers to Kenny Rogers, from Charlie Callas to Mama Cass.  Andy gave the Osmond Brothers their big break, and gave a showcase to the last of the great Vaudevillians (people like Jimmy Durante, Phyllis Diller and Charlie Callas).  Watching Anderson interact with Williams on his Branson Christmas show is a close recreation of the old series.  Anderson does a spot on, if not perfect, impersonation of the Rat Pack, Robert Goulet, Tom Jones, and dozens of other voices, including Andy himself.

Andy has written his autobiography, Moon River and Me, which is on the Los Angeles Times best sellers list.  I look forward to reading it.  The season is almost over, but if you get a chance in the next week to get to Branson, be sure to catch Andy Williams’ show.

Mun ei yleensä tuu kateltuu telkkaria ku iltasin, mut tos joku aika sit (kesk = kauan ennen sikakaranteenia) satuin sit röhnöttää sohvalla jo päiväsaikaan, olisko ollu joku arkikrapula tai vastaava… anyway, nelonen päällä ja ruudusa So you think you can dance (Tanssi jos osaat) -niminen jenkkisarja ja jotenki jäin koukkuun – instant bondaus!

Kysees on siis vähä niinku Idols tai Talent, mut pelkästään tanssijoille: riittää, että osaa tanssia – lajilla ei väliä, tosin sit joutuu kyl adaptoituun itelle vieraisiinkin tyyleihin. Aluks on noloja karsintoja, sit tiukkaakin tiukempi vegasviikko. Ja sieltä sitten karsitaan top 20 varsinaiseen “ohjelmaan” 10 miestä ja 10 naista.

Ite ohjelmassa tanssiparit arvotaan ja joka viikko sit arvotaan parille myös tanssilaji. Siellä on esim moni b-boy ollu paskat housussa ku arpa on osunu vaikka quickstepin kohalle. Siinä on kyl yks perkele tanssilajiks, huhhuh. Hiki kirpoo otsalle pelkästä kattelusta. Ei ne tuomarit sitä turhaan kutsu termillä “kiss of death”

Jumalainen juontaja, Cat Deeley <3

No juu, mut joka viikko kolme vähiten ääniä saanutta paria joutuu tanssiin vielä soolot ja ekana viitenä viikkona tuomaristo päättää ketkä mies ja nainen tippuu pelistä pois. Sit top 10:n kohalla kaikki valta on katsojilla aka jenkkiäänestäjillä, joiden äänet määrää ketkä tipahtaa. Kisassa etsitään siis jenkkilän suosikkitanssijaa, ei niinkään aina “parasta”. Tanssilajeista edustettuna on ollu ainaki hip hop, krump, perus valssit (wiener, hidas ja tavis), tangot (normi ja arkku), foxtrot, samba, salsa, mambo, rumba, broadway, chacha, jive, nykytanssi, jazz, disco, bollywood, paso doble, quicstep, jne jne jne… kaikkee löytyy kyl.

Mut siis ihan loistavaa, meitsi likettää. Täs sarjas on oikeesti lahjakkaita ihmisiä (+ hotteja pimuja, useempi selkeesti päivän_pimu_matskua), ihan parhaat tuomarit, loistavat koreografit ja kakkoskaudesta eteenpäin hoteista hotein juontaja Cat Deeley. Mietin pitkään et mikä tekee tästä niin paljon idolsii hienomman formaatin ja tajusin, ettei täs tuu ollenkaan sitä myötähäpeen ja yleisen vitutuksen tunnetta, ja se jos mikä on priceless! Ja tietty varmaan yks tekijä on sekin et tanssin itekin, niin tää kolahti senkin takia ihan täysillä. On toi tanssi vaan hieno liikuntamuoto ja upee taiteenlaji! <3456677

En tajua miten oon pystynyt missaa ton sarjan näin pitkään. No mut parempi kai myöhään ku ei milloinkaan, nyt oon siis kattellu nettitelkusta ekat viis kautta kokonaan hävyttömän lyhyel aikavälil ja kutoskautta sitä mukaa ku se jenkeis ilmestyy! Oottekos te muut seurannu kyseistä sarjaa?

Täs maistiaisia omalla spoiler-vastuulla:

Lacey & Pasha (hip hop) Hauska.

Heidi & Benji (mambo) Ei tästä setit enää paljo proommaks mee… saati nopeemmaks. Tää sai mut kiinnostuun lattaritansseista! Lähetääks P-man kursseille?

Courtney & Mark (jazz) ja huhhuh ku toi pimu on KUUUUUUUMA!

Anya & Danny (jive) Tää oli se mikä tuli telkusta ku satuin koukuttuun ja voin kertoo et propsit ei tästä koukutuksesta mee Avril Lavignelle (no offence), vaiks se skedetyttö onki.. jokkut ne osaa.

Jeanine & Brandon (paso doble) Jeanine <3

Ashleigh & Jacob (hip hop) Tää on ny viimesimmästä jaksosta mitä oon katellu ja tosi hyvää settii vaikka toi tyttö on ballroom ja jätkä contemporary!

… josko riittäis tältä erää, lisäilen kommentteihin si kiinnostuksen mukaa lisää suosikkeja. Oho, tulipa tästä pitkä… vähemmän kaljaa, enemmän unta. Ny unta palloon ja kuolaa petariin. Öitä tyypeille!

Pasha: Can you hand me a teabag please?

Me: Sure, you want one of the Twinings from the Variety Pack?

Pasha: Sure.

(I take out a random teabag – a blue Lady Grey packet.)

Pasha: Can I have the green one please?

(I place Lady Grey back in her box and retrieve the last green Irish Breakfast packet.)

Me: So you like Irish Breakfast.

Pasha: Yeah.

Me: Ok, I can get a whole box of Irish Breakfast next time.

Pasha: No, I like the Variety Pack.

(I look inside the box and notice that out of seven individually wrapped teabags five of them are Lady Greys.)

Me: Well, you clearly like all of them except Lady Grey.

Pasha: No. I like it.

(I look puzzled because I am.)

Pasha: It just has the word ‘Lady’ in it.

Setelah heboh dengan kasus selingkuhnya dengan Idea pasha, istri dari pasha ungu ini ngotot untuk bercerai dengan pasha. lantas apa obsesi sebenernya dari Okie Agustina ini yang notabene ditiap – tiap infotaintment masih saja bawa – bawa nama mantan suaminya?

Okie Agustina, yang dulu sempet menjadi istri yang menurut pandangan saya seperti istri solekah, karena berbaju yang tertutup, kok rasanya harmonis sekali dan sangat disayangkan kalo akhirnya mereka cerai.

OK, setelah cerai mulai dia menjamah dunia hiburan dengan menjadi model video klip, menjajal dunia tarik suara, dan yang terakhir menjajal dunia perfilman. wow, fantastis.. Apakah karena obsesinya ini si okie ngotot minta cerai dari suaminya?? entahlah, pengen jadi artis kaleeeeeeeeeee….

Sensasi dari film nya ini juga mulai ditiupkan untuk menaikkan pamornya. Dia mengaku menyesal karena dalam film nya ini dia harus memakai lingerie dan menjadi salah satu adegan yang terpampang dalam film ini. lho kok menyesal? apa dia gag tahu apa pura – pura gag tahu? dari judulnya aja dah kelihatan kalo film nya pasti seronok kok, coba simak judul film nya ” HANTU BINAL JEMBATAN SEMANGGI ” ???????

aaahhh, ada – ada aja nih si Okie, mau buat sensasi ajah pake muter – muter segala. yaaa, Okie Agustina, yang dulu sering memakai baju muslimah dan berkerudung, sekarang tampil di layar lebar dengan memakai lingerie…..

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Watching the horrific events at Fort Hood unfold yesterday, it saddens me to admit that one of the first things that came to my mind, once the shooter was identified, was “oh no, what is the right-wing going to do with this?” Today, after seeing some fair and some not so fair coverage of the Fort Hood Massacre, it reminded me of what General Colin Powell said on Meet the Press in October of last year. When asked by host, Tom Brokaw whether he was prepared to announce whether he was endorsing John McCain or Barack Obama, Powell answered with a very long explanation on how he came to the decision to endorse Barack Obama for president and how he felt about the recent actions of the GOP. Towards the end of his answer, he said something that needs to be said again and again, regarding some of the countries reaction to the events at Fort Hood.

I’m also troubled by, not what Senator McCain says, but what members of the party say. And it is permitted to be said such things as, “Well, you know that Mr. Obama is a Muslim.” Well, the correct answer is, he is not a Muslim, he’s a Christian. He’s always been a Christian. But the really right answer is, what if he is? Is there something wrong with being a Muslim in this country? The answer’s no, that’s not America. Is there something wrong with some seven-year-old Muslim-American kid believing that he or she could be president? Yet, I have heard senior members of my own party drop the suggestion, “He’s a Muslim and he might be associated terrorists.” This is not the way we should be doing it in America.

Kareem Rashad Sultan Khan's mother at his grave in Arlington Cemetary

I feel strongly about this particular point because of a picture I saw in a magazine. It was a photo essay about troops who are serving in Iraq and Afghanistan. And one picture at the tail end of this photo essay was of a mother in Arlington Cemetery, and she had her head on the headstone of her son’s grave. And as the picture focused in, you could see the writing on the headstone. And it gave his awards–Purple Heart, Bronze Star–showed that he died in Iraq, gave his date of birth, date of death. He was 20 years old. And then, at the very top of the headstone, it didn’t have a Christian cross, it didn’t have the Star of David, it had crescent and a star of the Islamic faith. And his name was Kareem Rashad Sultan Khan, and he was an American. He was born in New Jersey. He was 14 years old at the time of 9/11, and he waited until he can go serve his country, and he gave his life. Now, we have got to stop polarizing ourself in this way. And John McCain is as nondiscriminatory as anyone I know. But I’m troubled about the fact that, within the party, we have these kinds of expressions.~~Colin Powell

His words were important last year, but even more so relevant today. The following are two a thoughtful pieces written by Kamran Pasha and Jon Soltz.

A Muslim Soldier’s View from Fort Hood

Soldiers praying

Kamran Pasha—Major Nidal Malik Hasan is a murderer and has brought great shame upon every American Muslim in the armed forces.

There are currently over 10,000 Muslim soldiers in the U.S. military, men and women who are patriotic and love their country and their fellow service members. Hasan’s evil actions, the murder of his fellow soldiers at Fort Hood, have now brought those honorable soldiers’ loyalties into question.

The Islamophobe community on the Internet is trumpeting how Hasan’s behavior is reflective of the threat Americans face from their Muslim neighbors, and how radical Islamists have infiltrated the ranks of our military. Calls for purging the military, and perhaps even the United States, of its Muslim members have already begun.

Today there are dozens of families mourning the attack on their loved ones by a fellow-in-arms. And there are hundreds of Muslims at Fort Hood who knew Hasan and are stunned that he would betray their country and their community with such cold, calculated ease. Hasan’s rampage has truly shattered many more lives than we can begin to imagine.

I spoke today with a friend who is a Muslim soldier stationed at Fort Hood. He is a 22-year veteran of the U.S. Army and a recent convert to Islam. He agreed to share his perspective with me if I granted him anonymity. So we will call him Richard.

Richard is exactly the kind of soldier we need to protect our country from those that seek to do us harm. A combat veteran who has served in Iraq, Richard became interested in studying Islam initially as a strategic means of understanding his adversary in the aftermath of the September 11 terrorist attacks. But as he began to study the religion’s teachings, he became struck by how different they were from what was being claimed by men like Osama Bin Laden.

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Kamran Pasha is a Hollywood filmmaker and author of “Mother of the Believers”

Many Issues With Tragedy at Ft. Hood — A “Muslim Problem” not One of Them, FOX News

Grave of Major James Michael Ahearn

Jon Soltz—Yesterday was one of the most tragic days in the military, in the midst of a slew of tragic days as we continue to see casualties in Afghanistan. Innocent soldiers lost their lives, and many more were injured, at the hands of a very troubled Major at Ft. Hood. Our hearts go out to all those who lost their lives, their families, and those wounded.

Like many, I’m angry and confused, as well, at how this could possibly happen. But, until the facts are all known, I won’t jump to conclusions, or cast aspersions at a large group of Americans, like the disgraceful hosts of FOX and Friends.

During an interview with Geraldo Rivera, the FOX and Friends hosts twice implied that this is some kind of Muslim problem. Of course, they didn’t come out and say it outright, they couched it in the form of a question, like FOX News can be so good at. You know, like their teasers, “President Obama. Does He Hate America?”

Brian Kilmeade asked if it’s time to have “special debriefings” or “special screenings” of all Muslims in the military. Because, as he said, “If I’m gonna be deployed in a foxhole, if I’m gonna be deployed in an outpost, I’m gonna want to know that the guy next to me isn’t gonna want to kill me.”

Perhaps sensing that they were not being offensive enough, Gretchen Carlson chimed in, “Could it be that our own military is so politically correct right now…to be careful about treatment of Muslims that they would have allowed this to go by?”

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Jon Stoltz is the Co-Founder of VoteVets.org, served as a Captain in Operation Iraqi Freedom

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“I won’t let you fail, Meg. I just won’t.”

This is my lover. I call him the pasha. The pasha looks at me from the kitchen counter. His eyes are marvelous, the color of butter browning. Beurre noisette, the French call it. Hazelnut butter. One lick and you melt.

That’s how it was for me. The first time I saw the pasha, I wanted to lick him. Couldn’t think of anything else. My nostrils flared. I tucked my hair behind my ears and buried my nose in my book.

Later, on our first night together, once I had the whole brown length of him spread out beneath me, my hands traveled over him as greedily as a refugee through a rice paddy, shucking him of clothing, savoring the long grains of limb and torso. Trained as a massage therapist, I was well drilled in the art of touching, in tenderness, in respect. I handled bodies the way a baker kneads her soft white balls of dough, gently, the layers of muscle and fascia and bone-deep strictures of gristle softening beneath my hand’s steady heat.

But the pasha’s body made me crazy. I wanted to rake my nails across his chest. I wanted to claw him, to see the bloodied welts rise in his flesh. I needed to stamp my own territorial markings over his net of scars.

“What’s this?” I asked, my fingers trailing a harsh ridge of skin.

“Knife wound,” he said, teasing a nipple, his touch more tender than I could have imagined.

“And this?” as I traced a long vicious scar up his arm.

“Fracture.” He cupped my cheek in his hand. “The bone came through. They had to stick it back in.”

My fingers found a particularly angry blaze across his ribs. I looked at him, but he didn’t answer right away.

“Gunshot,” he said finally, tumbling me back into the bed.

***********************

The pasha’s body makes me want a baby.

We’re driving to the supermarket. He’s talking about radio broadcaster John Batchelor – “This guy, he’ll cover the stuff that no one else covers. Stories you won’t hear anywhere else,” – but all I can do is stare at his forearms.

“For example, one of his favorite subjects is Taiwan,”

The pasha’s forearms are thick.

“because Taiwan is a pro-democracy, pro-capitalism enclave just off the coast of China,”

Dark coarse hair curls out of his skin.

“and it faces constant threat from the Chinese mainland.”

When he grips the steering wheel, the sinews of his forearms bulge in ways that make me dizzy. I think of lions ripping apart their prey, the blood-hard columns of their necks rippling in stark relief against fur-dense flesh, their jaws clenched shut, uncompromising.

The pasha has a thing about jaws. Whenever he sizes up another man, it’s the line of the jawbone that earns his nod of approval. “Good chin,” he’ll say, eyes narrowing speculatively. “Strong. Good jawline.”

I tease him about it, but now, sitting under the chiseled ridge of his jaw, I admire the tautness of him. I remember my delirium in those first few days, at the sheer masculinity of the man beside me. “I love your man’s body,” I’d told him, clumsily, and he had smiled and reached for my hand. And when he touched me, I had felt it: baby, a throb, a desire for it, a shot of longing, splitting me wide, like an arrow through an apple, his seed in my womb, how the word womb suddenly gained weight, the rich round heaviness of it, and the organ inside me pulsed, eager for ripening.

I tease him about it, but the truth is, “good chin,” is just a shorthand, a byproduct of the pasha’s seemingly mystic ability to cut you straight down to your core. He strips you down with his eyes before you’ve said a word, seeing in an instant your loneliness, your desperation, your grief. He reads people the way the rest of us read recipes, noting the ingredients, the exact proportions of feeling, the ratio of wisdom to regret.

The pasha’s body is in constant vibrato. He wades through an atmosphere thick with informants – fluctuations in mood or mental temperature whisper to him. Sometimes they shout. His mind burns with it, this barrage of information. His body throws off heat in clouds; the air around him is filmy with insight, like those old celluloid reels, frame after frame flashing before his eyes, he phosphoresces with it, this psychic deluge, he might catch fire.

He seems to know instinctively, as Torricelli wrote, that “we live submerged at the bottom of an ocean of air.” We are held captive in an ever-gathering molecular tsunami, and he feels the suck of things usually undetected, how greed can turn the air dank with chemical stink, the electrical burn of malice, anger’s blinding white-out balm. His skin prickles in the dark, alert not just to water vapor’s thickening but to the sturm und drang of human emotion. His heart twists, he feels it in the throat, a tickle, a constricting, the polarities of motive jolting him, positive and negative, good and evil, the alternating current of human intent. I’ve seen it happen, his hackles rising as surely as mercury in a barometer, moments before a fight breaks out.

He’d never tell you so himself, but the pasha’s body is an instrument of detection unrivaled by science.

***********************

“I won’t let you fail,” he tells me, and I believe him. The pasha doesn’t accept defeat. “Listen, Meg. Are you listening?” I nod. “You have to write your book.”

I’m listening. Sometimes it’s the only mooring I have to my dreams, this woolen voice, whose words unravel thick and thistle-burred, the way the “r”s spiral around in the back of the throat, “Writer,” he calls me, “you’re a writer, Meg,” smoky, like peat moss, how each word drifts away from his lips, as light and crisply launched as a paper boat.

Sometimes he sighs and runs his hands through his hair. This is when I’m being obstinate, when nothing he says sparks anything in me but tears and frustration, when all I can offer is I can’t. “Look,” he says. “You have to do this for yourself. Don’t do this for me. If you want to write a book, write a book. You can do that, can’t you? You have to write for yourself.”

I’m afraid if I don’t write, you won’t love me anymore.

I told him that once. Can you imagine? Puny and weak. Most men would shrivel at those words. They’d turn stony with silence, the gift of their love and encouragement flung back at them like a Medusa’s head. Why did I raise the stakes so high? But the pasha isn’t most men, and he only pushes harder.

“Don’t do this for me,” he tells me, but it’s no use.

Everything is for you, my love. Everything.

Vu sur le site animal-sans-foyer.ch, voici Pasha, un jeune chat de type snowshoe de quelques mois. Pasha possède une bonne éducation, calme et aimant les enfants. Il doit pouvoir sortir.

Voici sa fiche complète :

• ID animal : 24460
• Date : 20.10.09
• Sexe : Mâle castré
• Tranche d’âge : moins d’un an
• A poil court
• Taille moyenne

Et les coordonnées de la personne de contact :

• Personne de contact : Ruth Morgenegg
• Dorfstrasse 70, 8912 Obfelden (ZH)
• Téléphone: +41 900 57 52 31 (Fr. 2.13/Min.)
• Email: ruth.morgenegg@bluewin.ch
• Site: http://www.nagerstation.ch/

Si vous vous sentez d’assumer un animal de compagnie, plus particulièrement un siamois/snowshoe, et de lui apporter tout ce dont il a besoin et beaucoup d’amour en plus, n’hésitez pas l’ombre d’une seconde et prenez contact…

Croisons les doigts pour le chouette Pasha !

It’s shocking to hear that International Islamic University Islamabad has become a victim of terrorist attacks killing reportedly 7 people including female students.

Islamic University Islamabad is a premier Islamic Institution in the Muslim world where students from various countries with different backgrounds study (with having college,university and maddrissah backgrounds).
The Islamic University blast is different from GHQ one , it has a symbolic value . It is intended to show that the perceived enemy is against Islamic education for women as well.The orchestrated media campaign and Rehman Malik’s rote statement that they did same in Sawat on girls school now they have hit IU, shows the agencies (foreign or local) did this to take everyone on board (specially the anti war people) for backing the war in Waziristan.

Teacher of Osama bin laden and jihadist leader Sheikh Azzam also taught at Islamic University Islamabad so it cannot be a result of religious extremism or so. Rehman Malik,Shuja Pasha and team will be considered as responsibles for this attack if they don’t probe this independently and keep the view that it is not done by USA or India without any investigation.

We demand full scale independent investigations for these activities and all the military operations done in this war against humanity which is leading our country to disaster.

Our people and specially our government and military should realize that our nation has gone into a self destructive mode due to some selfish decisions by Zionist pets in our ranks.

We need to come out of this self destructive mode and war against humanity because it is destroying our nation,country,military and humanity as a whole.

Clasamentul lunii septembrie rezultat în urma voturilor primite online pe blogul topului, pe e-mail şi prin scrisori, pe adresa redacţiei este următorul:

5. Cristian Faur- Pentru ea, jumătatea mea

4. Millenium – Asta e viaţa mea

3. Adriana Vlad – Vreau doar iubirea ta şi Ovidiu Komornyik – Adelina

2. Direcţia 5 – Inima şi Andra -Aripi de iubire

1. Pasha - Tu nu vezi cerul şi Paula Seling – Prin ochii tăi pot visa

Jakarta Janda Pasha ‘Ungu’, Okie Agustina, semakin berkibar menggeluti profesi barunya sebagai artis. Semakin sibuk, Okie dikabarkan mulai menelantarkan ketiga anaknya. Benarkah?

“Oh nggak lah, aku kan juga pergi-pergi nyari duit. Nyari duit buat anak-anak,” cetusnya saat ditemui di studio ANTV, Cawang, Jakarta Timur, Senin (5/10/2009) malam.
Okie menolak disebutkan telah menelantarkan ketiga buah hatinya karena mulai terbuai dengan kesibukan sebagai selebritis. Okie mengungkapkan kalau selama ini ia selalu menitipkan ketiga anaknya kepada orang tuanya jika pekerjaan memanggilnya.

Mendapat tudingan miring, Okie pun tak ambil pusing. “Aku nyari pahalanya saja, orang mana tahu kebutuhan aku,” imbuhnya.

Saat ditanya apakah Pasha masih menafkahi, Okie tak mau menjawab.

Prieteni,

Aşteptăm în continuare voturile voastre pentru piesele propuse la TOP ROMÂNESC în luna septembrie atât prin vot online pe blogul emisiunii cât şi pe e-mail la topromanesc2009@gmail.com sau pe adresa redacţiei Radiodifuziunea Română, str. General Berhelot nr 62-64 Bucureşti, pentru Top Românesc (Titus Andrei).

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Echipa Top Românesc, 2 octombrie 2009

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Andrei Tudor i-a scris prima lui piesă cu care a câştigat în acest an premiul I la festivalul Mamaia. E drept, alături de alte 3 mari voci ca Paula Seling, Mircea Romcescu, Adriana Vlad, toţi cu acelaşi drept pentru creaţiile care le-au fost destinate. Pentru Pasha, căci aşa i se zice, cu siguranţă premiul acesta vine să confirme  că 2009 este anul cel mai bun din propria sa carieră. Şi dovadă stau numai trofeul festivalului internaţional de muzică “George Grigoriu”, premiul I la secţiunea Creaţie de la festivalul naţional “Mamaia” sau locul III la selecţia naţională a Republicii Moldova pentru Eurovision. Republica Moldova pentru că Pasha vine din ţara vecină şi este exemplul cel mai bun că moldovenii de peste Prut au gusturi în materie de muzică, de voci. Pavel Alexandru Parfenie are 23 de ani şi propria sa trupă botezată “Sun Stroke Project”. Despre colaborarea cu Andrei, primul compozitor care i-a încredinţat o piesă, Pasha spune: “Pe Andrei Tudor acolo l-am cunoscut. Este nepotul renumitului George Grigoriu şi a rămas încântat de interpretarea vechiului şlagăr al bunicului său „Noi nu suntem îngeri”. Pe aceeaşi lungime de undă am fost şi cu mama compozitorului român”. Piesa care a obţinut locul I la “Mamaia” a fost propusă la Top Românesc în luna septembrie şi, dacă vă place, o puteţi vota pe acest blog. Talentul tânărului născut în ţara vecină este moştenit din familie. Mama, profesoară de pian la Şcoala de muzică din localitate, şi tatăl, interpret şi chitarist, l-au educat în spiritul dragostei pentru frumos şi muzică.  Paşha îşi doreşte acum să participe la Eurovision 2010 indiferent că o va face pentru Moldova sau România. Este absolvent al Colegiului de Muzică din Tiraspol şi vrea să-şi continue studiile muzicale.  Este un tânăr talentat despre care cu siguranţă vom mai auzi şi vom mai scrie căci valorile au întâietate la Top Românesc. Iar Pasha a călcat pe acest tărâm al celor care nu fac compromisuri ca să ajungă în vârfurile clasamentelor muzicale.

Echipa Top Românesc, 30 septembrie 2009

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Echipa Top Românesc, 29 septembrie 2009

In this article I want to show once again that Taharian tribes differ substantially from the known Gor as portrayed in most Second Life Gor Sims. Unfortunately most players do not know those differences and apply “normal” Gorean politics to a Tahari SIM. This often results in bizarre structures and players being confused about how to correctly play their characters.

In order to understand what is actually the cause for this mix up, lets look at the Governmental structure in a “normal” Gorean city:

The high council

The normal Gorean city is Governed by what is called the high council. The council is formed by the heads of the 5 high castes: The initiates, the scribes, the builders, the physicians and the the lowest of the five: The warriors. The men of each caste vote (in most cities women do not have voting rights but may be elected) a head of caste. This head of caste is the one who represents the caste in the high council.

In the really big cities, there might be one person that represents all of the low castes, this person does not have voting rights in the council but can take part in meetings and voice his opinion.

The council votes about laws, regulations and hold trials. Usually praetors, magistrates and the ambassador report to the council. The power of the council is absolute, if the council says leaves are black then leaves stop being green.

The council then votes an administrator who basically runs the city based on the laws voted upon in the high council. The magistrates execute the councils and the administrators decisions. It has to be notes that it is the magistrates who are are in command of the city guards not the head of the red caste!

Magistrates are the only power that can issues a warrant of arrest or order the enslavement of a citizen. In many Second Life Gor cities this is done wrong and an ubar or worse: the captain issues a warrant of arrest against a citizen or enslaves a citizen. That is totally wrong as the guards have no such power.

An Ubar is the head of the warriors caste who has been given by the council temporarily the power and command over the city in times of crisis, such as a war. In that function he rules by decret. When the crisis is resolved he gives back the command of the city to the council, assuming he respects the warriors code.

This is how it should be.  Now what is different in the Tahari oases?

The short answer is: Non of the above exists in the Tahari

There are no castes hence forth there are no head of caste, there is no council, there is no administrator, no Ubars as such and no such thing as elections. Not even a civil register or slave papers.

Instead the tribes are headed by the high pasha. Now lets look at where they come from. The following quote from Tribesmen describes it best:

“It is not unusual for the genealogy of most of the pashas sovereign in the various eases to contain a heritage of raiders. Most of those in the Tahari who sit upon the rugs of office are those who are the descendants of men who ruled, in ruder days, scimitar in hand, from the high, red leather of the kaiila saddle. The forms change but, in the Tahari, as elsewhere, order, justice and law rest ultimately upon the determination of men, and steel.”

In another words, the pasha is the descendent of a man that was simply the strongest in a group of raiders. He settled down in an oasis and founded a tribe.  Simple as that.

The pasha is council, ubar, head of whichever profession, magistrate and head of the warriors, in command of the guards – all in one person. His ruling is absolute, untouchable and about the concept of an elected council he would burst out laughing and probably kill the person suggesting such non sense. He sees the tribe as the heritage of his grand grand parents, the oasis was their land and a council would be seen as intruding in his birth rights.

However the Pasha delegates some of his power:

Military power is given to a captain. The captain runs the warriors and the guards. Civil power is given to a Magistrate or Judge. He decides in trials of criminal and civil nature.

Both of these report to the Pasha.

The Pashas, Suleiman as well as Hassan the Pasha of the Kavar where described as very strong and honorable men. They cared for their people to the extend that Hassan disguised himself as a bandit and traveled the Tahari to find out what is the real reason for the provocations of the Aretei.

Therefore a Pasha was not perceived by the men and women of a tribe as a tyrant but more so like the father of the tribe, a patriarchal structure.

Conclusion:

We should forget about things like ubars, castes and councils. There is no place for them in the Tahari desert. Of course, if your character is from another city, you have a caste. But it is irrelevant and not recognized by the tribesmen of the Tahari nor does being of caste give any special rights or status other then that of a guest.

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Menjalankan ibadah puasa dengan keluarga besar memang sungguh nyaman rasanya. Namun jika tali silaturahmi itu sudah terputus, puasa seorang diri tidaklah kalah nikmat. Itu yang kini dirasakan Okie, janda Pasha”Ungu”. “Puasa tahun ini lebih indah, lebih nikmat tanpa dia (Pasha),” ujar Okie. Okie memang benar-benar ingin lepas dari Pasha, apa lagi setelah tindak kekerasan yang dilakukan oleh Pasha terhadap dirinya.

Ibu 3 anak itu pun sepertinya tak ingin memanfaatkan momen bulan Ramadan sebagai ajang untuk saling memaafkan dengan Pasha. “Setelah kejadian yang kemarin belum ketemu kok, kalau memaafkan masing masing aja deh,” cetusnya. Hidup bersama ketiga anaknya dan keluarga sudah lebih dari cukup bagi Okie.

Pasha ‘Ungu’ akhirnya diperiksa kepolisian terkait statusnya sebagai tersangka dalam laporan tindak kekerasan sang mantan istri, Okie Agustina. Pasha dikenakan wajib lapor seminggu dua kali.

yaaa, begitulah namanya kehidupan. mungkin secara materi udah bisa dibilang berlebih, tapi ternyata permasalahan dalam rumah tangga juga slalu ada. menurut saya sih, si oky nih nyang pengen terkenal ajah. coba ajah liat pas rumah tangga mereka masih rukun – rukun ajah. berbaju muslimah, memake krudung, santun, sekarang setelah bercerai, dandanan nya jauh dari kesan muslimah nya.

yaa, itu semua pilihan masing – masing, semoga kita semua bisa mengambil hikmah dari kejadian tersebut..

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