Dec 17, 2012

Stone ageless: 20,000 fans go wild as Mick, Keith, Ronnie and Charlie mark 50 years

By Tom Bryant

Stone ageless: 20,000 fans go wild as Mick, Keith, Ronnie and Charlie mark 50 years

26 Nov 2012 00:00

The sprightly legends – who average 68 year of age – kicked off with I Wanna Be Your Man in a blistering set

The Rolling Stones strode on stage to celebrate 50 years as a band last night and got 20,000 fans rocking.
The sprightly legends – who average 68 year of age – kicked off with I Wanna Be Your Man in a blistering set including Paint It Black, Wild Horses and Gimme Shelter with R&B’s Mary J Blige.
Strutting Mick Jagger, wearing black skinny trousers and a fedora at London’s O2 Arena, said: “What a year it’s been for British celebration. The Queen’s Diamond Jubilee. We didn’t do that.
“The Olympics. We didn’t do that either. James Bond – we didn’t do the song for that. But we’re glad we here tonight.”
Mick also joked about controversy over ticket prices, which ranged from £95 to £950. “Everyone all right in the cheap seats?” he asked. “But they are not really cheap are they, that’s the trouble.”

The Rolling Stones: First night at the 02 Arena

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The foursome of Mick on vocals, Keith Richards and Ronnie Wood on guitar and Charlie Watts on drums were joined by ex members Bill Wyman and Mick Taylor.
The legends are due to play another show at the venue on Thursday and three more in the US. But a source said: “Given the demand is sky-high and last night’s fireworks, extra dates are looking more likely by the minute.”
And Keith said recently: “My experience is that once the juggernaut starts rolling, it ain’t gonna stop.”
The band, who have this year produced photo book The Rolling Stones 50 in collaboration with the Mirror and written two new singles, are reportedly getting £15.7million for the five shows.
It’s been five years since their last tour. Last week Ronnie revealed they were still trying to decide which songs to play.
He said: “We’ve been thinking long and hard about the setlist but still haven’t finalised it. You forget how hard it is.”
There are still tickets on sale to see The Rolling Stones on Thursday night here.
- To order your copy of The Rolling Stones 50 book, call the Mirror Bookshop on 0871 8036772.

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MIck Taylor back with the Stones--Mick Taylor Predicts More Rolling Stones Rocking Ahead

Mick Taylor Predicts More Rolling Stones Rocking Ahead

by Gary Graff, Detroit | December 14, 2012 5:30 EST

Mick Jagger (lead singer of 'The Rolling Stones') with new band member, Mick Taylor (guitarist) following the announcement of Brian Jones leaving the group (9th June 1969). In Hyde Park, London on 13th June 1969.; (Photo by Monitor Picture Library/Photoshot/Getty Images)

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Rolling Stones Q&A: 'This Juggernaut Is Almost Unstoppable'

Mick Jagger and Keith Richards of the Rolling Stones talk to Billboard abour their upcoming live shows and their plans for 2013.

Rolling Stones Flee After Fans Invade Stage in 1965 'Charlie' Clip

In 1965, Rolling Stones manager Andrew Loog Oldham commissioned 
director Peter Whitehead to  shoot cinema verite footage of the group's 
two-day September Irish tour  in an effort, as he put it, to let the 
lads get their "celluloid legs"  and see who most captivated the camera 
offstage. The footage was  collected into a slapdash film called 
"Charlie Is My Darling" (because  the Stones' taciturn drummer was 
deemed most camera-friendly) that was  shopped the following year but 
never officially released or aired --  although wobbly bootlegs have 
been circulating for decades -- and the  reels sat in film cans, largely
 untouched, for more than 40 years.

Rolling Stones Start Up Reunion With London Blowout

"It took us 50 years to get from Dartford to Greenwich," said Mick 
 Jagger to 20,000 close friends on Sunday night, at what you might call 
 the lip of the 02 Arena stage. The Rolling Stones were in the process 
of  laughing in the face of logic with an extraordinary, 150-minute  
celebration of their 50 peerless years.

Rolling Stones Give Brooklyn What It Wants

When even Mick Jagger shows some Brooklyn pride, it's hard not to 
get  into the spirit of things. And the Rolling Stones were nothing if 
not spirited  on the first of four New York-area performances this 
month.

Rolling Stones Add Bruce Springsteen, Lady Gaga, Black Keys to Final '50' Show

The Rolling Stones have invited Bruce Springsteen, Lady Gaga and 
the Black Keys  to their final "50 and Counting" concert, celebrating an
 astounding  half-century as a band, being held Saturday at the 
Prudential Center in  Newark, NJ. The concert will be telecast live 
pay-per-view in a Ken  Ehrlich-produced special called "One More Shot."

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As the Rolling Stones prepare to wrap their 50 And Counting "tour" with Saturday night's pay-per-view show in Newark, N.J., former guitarist Mick Taylor -- a guest at four of the five concerts -- predicts we'll be seeing more of the group in the probably near future.

"I think the Stones have always done things their own way, and they will always continue to do things their own way," Taylor, who was with the Stones from 1969-74, tells Billboard. "I think everybody is having a good time on stage. It's more than just nostalgia. I think they just feel re-energized and possibly very enthusiastic about doing things in the future. I just have an intuitive feeling that if they want to do some more shows, they can. There's no reason why they shouldn't be able to."

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Taylor -- who recorded some new guitar parts for the 2010 expanded re-release of "Exile on Main Street" -- acknowledges that he "had my doubts" about how the Stones would hold up on stage these days, and how he'd fit in with them. But he says that any concerns were dispelled after rehearsing for the two shows at London's O2 Arena in November. "It's been really amazing, thrilling and exciting," he notes. "It's been great to play with the band again. I still get the same feeling that I used to get when we played on stage before. I'm a lot more outgoing and not quite as shy as I used to be, so in that respect it's different. I feel re-energized by the experience, too."

Taylor joined the group for "Midnight Rambler" on the shows he's played so far, recalling that "it was always one of the highlights of the shows during my tenure with the Stones in the 70s." And he's enjoying its current incarnation with three guitarists (himself, Keith Richards and Ron Wood). "We didn't even think about it; in a strange way all three guitars kind of blend seamlessly into each other, especially if the sound is really good on stage," Taylor says. "It's one of the longest songs we play at the moment, and it gives Mick (Jagger) the opportunity to play some blues harmonica, which he's very good at."

Taylor says the Stones began working on "Can You Hear Me Knocking" before Thursday's show in New Jersey, but he wasn't sure if it would be performed at Saturday's show. The "One More Shot" pay-per-view concert begins at 9 p.m., with Bruce Springsteen, Lady Gaga and the Black Keys also scheduled to make guest appearances.

On his own, Taylor has been working on "a stack of songs I'd like to record," which he plans to get back to after wrapping up with the Stones. But while he's not sure what his old band will be doing next year, he's "absolutely" will to play more shows if the call comes. "I'm up for 150 percent, yes," he says. "We weren't thinking about 50 years back when I was (in the band). We were living in the moment...and I'm really enjoying the moment right now."

Dec 14, 2012

Jimmy Miller/ Judy Miller...who is Mr. Jimmy?

Who is Mr. Jimmy?

Judith Miller

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Judith Miller
Judith Miller
Born	January 2, 1948 (age 64) New York City, New York, U.S.
Residence	United States
Occupation	Journalist, columnist, author

Judith Miller (born January 2, 1948) is an American journalist, formerly of the New York Times Washington bureau. Her coverage of Iraq's alleged Weapons of Mass Destruction (WMD) program both before and after the 2003 invasion generated much controversy.^[1] A number of stories she wrote while working for The New York Times later turned out to be inaccurate or simply false.^[2]^[3]^[4]^[5]
Miller was later involved in disclosing Valerie Plame's identity as CIA personnel. When asked to name her sources, Miller invoked reporter's privilege and refused to reveal her sources in the CIA leak. Miller retired from her job at the New York Times in November 2005. Later she was a contributor to the Fox News Channel and a fellow at the conservative Manhattan Institute. She is currently a member of the Council on Foreign Relations.^[6] On December 29, 2010, numerous media outlets reported that she had signed on as a contributing writer to the conservative magazine Newsmax.^[4]^[7]

Early life and education

Born in New York City to a Jewish father and an Irish Catholic mother, Judith Miller grew up in Miami and Los Angeles, where she graduated from Hollywood High School. Her father, Bill Miller, was the owner of a night club in New Jersey and later in Las Vegas.^[8] Her sister Susan has a degree in photography from the San Francisco Art Institute. Her half-brother Jimmy Miller^[8] was a record producer during the late 1960s and early 1970s, working in support of the Rolling Stones, Traffic, the Spencer Davis Group and Delaney and Bonnie, among others.
Judith Miller attended Ohio State University where she was a member of Kappa Alpha Theta sorority. She graduated from Barnard College in 1969 and received a master's degree in public affairs from Princeton University's Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs. In 1971, while at Princeton, Miller traveled to Jerusalem to research a paper. She became fascinated with the Israeli-Palestinian dispute, and spent the rest of the summer traveling for the first time to Egypt, Jordan and Lebanon. As a correspondent for The Progressive and National Public Radio, Miller turned her academic interest into a professional one, traveling to the region and cultivating a network of sources.^{[citation needed]} In 1993, she married Jason Epstein, an editor and publisher.

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Pomegranates and Roses recognised by Gourmand World Cookbook Awards

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Pomegranates and Roses recognised by Gourmand World Cookbook Awards

Emily Shardlow | December 12, 2012

Congratulations to Dubai based chef and author Ariana Bundy, whose cookbook Pomegranates and Roses, My Persian Family Recipes recently won the Best Asian Cookbook Award in the UK section of the Gourmand World Cookbook Awards 2012.
Pomegranates and Roses will now qualify for the Gourmand Best in the World Competition, the results of which will be announced on the 23rd February 2013 at the annual awards ceremony in Paris.
I have a copy at home and am convinced that this is a book to savour and pore over, as well as cook from. It’s filled with whimsical illustrations, elegantly styled photographs, tales of Bundy’s family history and life in Iran and also provides a wealth of information about traditional Persian food.
The recipes meanwhile are generous, thoughtful and although relatively simple, require the cook to add spices with a delicate hand and be aware of unani, which is the balancing of ‘hot’ and ‘cold’ ingredients. The results meanwhile are great – I have had particular success with shirin polo (sweet rice with orange peel, carrots, almonds and saffron).
Pomegranates and Roses is widely available in bookshops across the UAE and would make a really lovely present for a keen cook.

how I made my really cute PIGGY PILLOWCASES--my sewing obsession

Well, first I went to the quilting class of Kathy Green---one of my sewing heroes...

then I saw the barnyard pig fabric...one of the other students was making a pillowcase...

I felt as if I would expire if I could not have that fabric....so I immediately went to Rosie's Calico Cupboard and bought it...It was about 8 dollars a yard...100% cotton.

I used the pillowcase pattern Kathy gave us in class...it is all over you tube...it is basically the burrito technique with french seams...it is very simple.,,,(after I cut it incorrectly and had to re-cut it so the pigs would be right side up on the bed.)

I had the lace from a purchased table runner....and now I am trying to sell them....or use them for a wall hanging....anything to just keep talking about them because they are soooooo cute.

to purchase the cute pigs go to.........www.chloetoo.com......

or purchase right here with paypal....it's the same thing.

one barnyard pillowcase..........19.00

two barnyard pillowcases.........35.00

tax and shipping are included

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An Iraqi in Paris: a lifetime of movement, forced and long-dreamt

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An Iraqi in Paris: a lifetime of movement, forced and long-dreamt

Nick March

Jul 15, 2011

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Iraq in the early months of 1979. Saddam Hussein is circling endlessly around Baghdad, building his influence, tightening his grip on the mechanisms of power, ready to seize complete control of the country within a matter of months. Indeed, tomorrow (July 16), marks the 32nd unhappy anniversary of the occasion when he became the nation's leader.

Meanwhile, in Al-Habbaniyah, a short distance west of Baghdad, Samuel Shimon is dreaming of Hollywood. Shimon is in his early twenties, a frustrated filmmaker desperate to escape the prospect of life under Saddam. To do so, he has a breathtakingly simple plan. He will make his way to the US, where he will carve out his fortune as a movie director.
Three decades later, he has yet to make good on that plan.
Instead, his flight from Iraq took him first to Damascus, then onwards to Amman, Beirut, Nicosia, Cairo and Tunis before, in 1985, he found himself as a refugee in Paris. He would stay there for more than a decade, before upping sticks once again, this time to London in 1996, where he has since settled.
What he experienced in the French capital would provide all the material Shimon needed to write and later publish An Iraqi in Paris, his somewhat autobiographical novel.
It is a work that was almost overwhelmingly well-received when first published six years ago in both Arabic and English and was later nominated for the Lettre Ulysses Award for the Art of Literary Reportage in 2006 and longlisted for the Dublin Literary Award the following year. It is also a funny, charming, episodic work that has recently been repackaged and republished in English by Bloomsbury Qatar.
Shimon, who I meet in an Abu Dhabi hotel, says this new edition is far more faithful to the Arabic original than the previous English-language version, which had been the handiwork of six different translators.
"It is only one now and I am very happy," he says, referring to the collaborative efforts of Piers Amodia and Christina Phillips, who share translation credits on the Bloomsbury Qatar version.
"I used to write chapters for the book and then would publish them periodically in newspapers. These were printed over a period of 10 years and, consequently, there were many different translators. This new translation is exactly like the Arabic. It is more consistent."
He is an engaging and charismatic figure, a natural if rapid-fire raconteur. A conversation with Shimon moves quickly from place to place, zigzagging in an instant from Iraq to Beirut to London to Hollywood. His mind brimming with ideas, his speech ready to break off at a tangent, as another thought springs up almost magically in front of him. You struggle to keep up with him, but regardless, you have fun trying to hang onto his coat-tails.
He is many things then, but not remotely sentimental - at least not for the country he left behind all those years ago.
When I ask him if he would like to go back to Iraq, he says, without pause, that "I've never been back. I don't have nostalgia. I don't feel like I need to go back. Many people want to go home, but I don't. The Iraq I left is not the same country that it is today." This is the romantic turned realist.
But where is home? He does not answer. In a sense he doesn't need to, home is London and has been since the mid-Nineties. Instead, his imagination is moving again, his words heading west to the land of opportunity.

Page 2 of 2"I was telling my wife I would like to go to Los Angeles. I said to her the other day: 'I am 55 now, I really want to live in LA for a few months.' I am dying for movies. I have to go. I learnt at six years old how to tell stories. When you are that young and you watch American films, you become a dreamer." This is the realist reverting to the romantic once more.
His wife is Margaret Obank, the publisher of Banipal, an independent magazine devoted to modern Arab literature, on which Shimon serves as editor. He jokes that working with his partner is a "big problem", before opening up his heart. "She is a wonderful person. I always like to show her I love her more and more," he says. "We are very good friends. She works too much. In that way we are similar."
First published in 1998, Banipal marked its 40th edition this year with an extremely topical issue entirely devoted to Libyan fiction. The edition, which had been in preparation for months, arrived just as crisis deepened in the North African country, demonstrating Banipal's knack for being a relevant and timely voice on the Arabic literary scene.
But it has not been without a struggle to make that voice heard. Shimon wrote of this in his revealing introduction to the Libyan fiction issue: "I remember some mean Arab intellectuals spreading a few rumours here and there, saying that publishing a second issue would not be possible. When the second issue was published, they said the third issue would not be. But the magazine continued on its journey." He is nothing if not determined.
He enlarges on this during our interview. "I came from the street. When we started Banipal they said I was a dreamer. They said: 'How are you going to make money from it?' People said we cannot continue. But we have been doing it for 14 years non-stop."
They won't be stopping anytime soon, either. Next up, in October, is an issue on Emirati literature, supported by the Emirates Foundation, which explains his presence in the capital in the heat of the summer. "I tell you the truth," he says, "I like the Emirates; I feel happy here, I feel quiet."
Quiet maybe, but always alive to possibility. By his own admission he works 24 hours a day. He does so, because "I don't have anything else. Only making magazines, reading in Arabic. When I am doing these things I am very happy. I feel I am mixing literature with cinema in my mind. I like that and I cannot separate it anymore. I have many stories you see, I can tell you hundreds of stories."
His next story will be his next book, The Militant Lingerie. "It will be funny, interesting and dangerous," he says, another autobiographical novel that, this time, will lean heavily on the period the author spent in Lebanon.
"It is about this young Iraqi guy who comes to Beirut during the civil war. He meets this young lady and he falls in love. It is a beautiful story about relationships and revolution," and with that, Shimon the film director, the dreamer, the author starts to map out another scene in his mind.

Dec 13, 2012

from occupied palestine.....the teenagers want to make a "Happy" video, too

The Teenagers of Palestine Want to Make a "Happy" Video, too.......

......trying to understand the middle east and the arab-israeli conflict....here is a student enjoying his birthday...I am so sorry for all of the young lives that are lost on each side.

I would like to try and depict individuals just trying to live in peace and go to school, cooking....celebrating a birthday.

I am sure anyone would say I am just being too simple.

This seems like a very, very lovely young man and I am sad for his loss. I know his mom is sad, too.

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Mohamed was born in 12-12-1995 and killed by IDF in 12-12-2012 - In this pic, he celebrates his bday at his school. pic.twitter.com/iPAlMmci>.........

Dec 17, 2012