A Dog, A Cat, A Rat, Why Can't We Do This?

From: joanna
Date: Mar 30, 2008 10:54 AM

From my friend in the Netherlands via myspace. Thank YOU for posting this Joanna! Great video that should "OPYN MINDZ"!

Bobby Sharpe


Even when trained Pillow posted this wonderful and yet funny video:)
and before seeing the end title? I thought now this should be the perfect example for humanity to realize all races together can be ONE!

High Five Bro!!!!
Joanna

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Buddy Miles, Drummer, Singer, Friend Gone At 60

Buddy Miles, 60; drummer with Hendrix, voice of California

raisins

Buddy Miles, the rock and R&B drummer, singer and songwriter whose eclectic career included stints playing with Jimi Hendrix and as the lead voice of the California Raisins, the animated clay figures that became an advertising phenomenon in the late 1980s, has died. He was 60.

Miles died Tuesday February 26 of congestive heart failure at his home in Austin, Texas, according to an announcement on his website.

A massive man with a distinctive, sculpted afro, Miles hit his peak of popularity when he joined Hendrix and bassist Billy Cox to form Hendrix's Band of Gypsys, which the New Rolling Stone Encyclopedia of Rock & Roll called "the first black rock group." Miles had played with Hendrix on the guitarist's influential "Electric Ladyland" album released in 1968.

The Band of Gypsys made just one album, a live set recorded on New Year's Eve in 1969-70, and two of Miles' songs, "Them Changes" and "We Got to Live Together," were included on the album. He gave the recording a memorable drum riff on one of Hendrix's signature songs, "Machine Gun."

But, according to Miles, the Band of Gypsys association was brief and stormy. He told The Times in 1988 that Hendrix's management, not the guitarist himself, fired him within a month of the concert. He thought Hendrix's managers were leery of continuing with an all-black group.

"It had to be a racial thing," Miles told The Times. "I think it had to scare them because of the political aspect at the time."

Miles was born Sept. 5, 1947, in Omaha. He developed an interest in drums at an early age and by 12 was playing in his father's jazz combo. Within a couple of years he was in demand as a session player and a sideman, working with top-name R&B groups, including Ruby and the Romantics and the Delfonics. According to the Rolling Stone encyclopedia, he played on the session that produced the Jaynetts' 1963 hit "Sally Go Round the Roses."

While playing with Wilson Pickett in 1967, he was approached by guitarist Mike Bloomfield, who asked him to join the blues, rock and soul group Electric Flag. Miles played on three of the band's albums before forming his own group, the Buddy Miles Express, in 1968. Next came his association with Hendrix.

Over the years, Miles recorded two albums with Carlos Santana, one of which went platinum, and worked with other leading music figures, including Muddy Waters and John McLaughlin. He re-formed the Buddy Miles Express in the mid-1970s and had a hit with his song "Them Changes."

By the late 1970s, however, Miles' career came to a halt over convictions for grand theft and auto theft. He served time in the California Institution for Men at Chino and at San Quentin State Prison. He was incarcerated until 1985 and formed bands at both prisons.

After he was released, he sang with Santana's group and got the raisin gig while working on an album with the guitarist. The popular television commercials for the California Raisin Advisory Board featured a quartet of singing and dancing Claymation figures with Miles, as Buddy Raisin, doing the lead singing covering Marvin Gaye's "I Heard It Through the Grapevine."

The commercial's popularity spawned a million-selling offshoot album of remakes of rock and soul oldies, "The California Raisins Sing the Hit Songs."

It breaks my heart to keep posting these stories of the passing of some of the great music legends of our time. And fellow musicians and personal friends. Buddy was all that! Not to mention, "he was one hell of a drummer and unreal vocalist". He was also alot of fun to hang out with. Though YOU are crossed over now Buddy, your music will still be here with us. I am sure I will catch up with YOU again on the other side, or, "Down By The River".MySpace.com - Buddy Miles - Dallas, Texas - Rock / Blues / Jam Band - www.mysp

Them Changes,

Bobby Sharpe Dragon, Book of Shang www.myspace.com/akuasharpe

Big Bang Theory Long Before Earth

Distant Star's Explosion Shatters Record

WASHINGTON (March 21) - The explosion of a star halfway across the universe was so huge it set a record for the most distant object that could be seen on Earth by the naked eye.

The aging star, in a previously unknown galaxy, exploded in a gamma ray burst 7.5 billion light years away, its light finally reaching Earth early Wednesday.

The gamma rays were detected by NASA's Swift satellite at 2:12 a.m. "We'd never seen one before so bright and at such a distance," NASA's Neil Gehrels said. It was bright enough to be seen with the naked eye.

However, NASA has no reports that any skywatchers spotted the burst, which lasted less than an hour. Telescopic measurements show that the burst - which occurred when the universe was about half its current age, before Earth was formed - was bright enough to be seen without a telescope.

"Someone would have had to run out and look at it with a naked eye, but didn't," said Gehrels, chief of NASA's astroparticles physics lab at Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Md.

The starburst would have appeared as bright as some of the stars in the handle of the Little Dipper constellation, said Penn State University astronomer David Burrows. How it looked wasn't remarkable, but the distance traveled was.

The 7.5 billion light years away far eclipses the previous naked eye record of 2.5 million light years. One light year is 5.9 trillion miles.

"This is roughly halfway to the edge of the universe," Burrows said.

Before it exploded, the star was about 40 times bigger than our sun. The explosion vaporized any planet nearby, Gehrels said.

I thought this was a really fascinating story for a number of reasons. There are so many of us/you that have all these preconceived theories etc about how Earth and all came to be. Most of those theories are totally bogus and hold NO facts whatsoever. The more time passes, the more things come into play that refute alot of what YOU have been taught to believe. As the title of this blog suggests, YOU have to have "Opyn Mindz" to further your journey properly.

Big Bang, It Was,

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Shirley Bassey Is 71 And "Gettting The Party Started"

American born music divas can squabble over the title of being "The Queen," but when it comes to pop music, there is only one "Dame."

That's Dame Shirley Bassey.

This week, the 71-year-old chanteuse releases her latest music project, 'Get the Party Started,' consisting of daring covers of pop hits such as Lionel Richie's 'Hello,' Roberta Flack & Donny Hathaway's 'Where is the Love?,' Gloria Gaynor's disco romp 'I Will Survive' and an ambitious rendition of Pink's once-ubiquitous chart-topper, which is the set's title track. All of this is juxtaposed with renewed remixes of Bassey's most beloved vocal platters such as 'Big Spender,' 'I Who Have Nothing' and 'This is My Life.'

Producers like the Glimmers, Mark de Clive-Lowe and Bugz in the Attic helped put a new spin on the previously released songs, while songwriter/producer partners Catherine Feeney and Nikki Lamborn helped craft the newness for the Welsh born diva.

"I thought maybe I could use a change," Bassey said in a recent interview with National Public Radio. "But I didn't know it would be that much of a change. I keep trying to put a spoke in the wheel, but they keep coming up with something new."Some critics have heralded the opus – Bassey's first in 10 years.

According to the April issue of Harp Magazine,"Pink should be green with envy; Bassey now owns this song."

You can get the rest of this story at Shirley Bassey: Just Turning 71 and Still Ready to 'Party' - Black Voices Blogs . I love Shirley Bassey and it is so nice to see her back and kicking with a new disc. She does a killer job on Pink's "Get This Party Started". Go get 'em Shirley!

Forget Gas Prices, Go To The Grocery Store

High Wheat Prices Raise Grocery Costs

LUBBOCK, Texas (AP) — If you think the cost of gassing up your car is outrageous, wait until you need to restock your pantry.

The price of wheat has more than tripled during the past 10 months, making Americans' daily bread — and bagels and pizza and pasta — feel a little like luxury items. And baked goods aren't the only ones getting more expensive: Experts expect some 80 percent of grocery prices will spike, too, and could remain steep for years because wheat and other grains are used to feed cattle, poultry and dairy cows.

"It's going to affect everything ... impact on every section of the grocery store," said Michael Bittel, senior vice president of King Arthur Flour Co. in Norwich, Vt.

White bread cost an average of 85 cents a pound in 1998 and $1.03 in February 2006. The price rose to $1.32 a pound last month, according to federal data.

And that's on top of overall food price increases of 4 percent last year and an additional 3.5 to 4.5 percent expected this year, according to federal data. Most years see 2.5 percent increases.

And YOU thought gassing up your car was expensive! Prices in the super market are getting totally ridiculous for a variety of reasons. That is why I posted this article. Hey, if YOU are going to be hungry and cant afford some of the food YOU need, YOU might as well know why. Click the link for the rest of the story iWon Money & Investing .

Show me the money(for food and gas)

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"What, I Can't Buy Sex Anymore"?

Madam: Sex Too Hard to Sell These Days

HAMBURG, Germany (AP) - The oldest bordello in Hamburg's red-light district is shutting down for lack of business, according to newspaper reports published Friday.

The family-run Hotel Luxor, established in 1948, is being sold to an investor and will close down for good next month, madam Waltraud Mehrer said, according to the Hamburg Morgenpost and Bild newspapers.

She blamed the decline in business on easily available Internet porn, the rise of call-girl services, and "noisy discos and dance clubs" on the same street as her business, the newspapers reported.
"You can't make any big money selling sex in St. Pauli any more," she was quoted as saying, referring to the area that includes the red-light district. "The only thing still in operation are the table dance clubs."

The club's heyday was in the 1970s, when it was open 7 days a week, with 12 prostitutes on hand.

"Our customers were well off, they didn't scrimp," she said. "That's also changed today."

Hotel Luxor today employs four prostitutes, and is only open Tuesday through Friday nights.

"Two thousand euros (US$3,080) per night - it was like that once," one of the women, who gave her name only as "Nicole," told the Morgenpost. "Now I can only dream of that. I've been here a year and only earn around euro200 (US$308) per shift."

Now YOU know, when brothels are having a hard time staying in business, the worlds economy is really screwed up. Hey, and this was NO ORDINARY place, this is/was a landmark. I'm telling YOU, the Universe and Earth are under going a major cyclical change. When sex and gambling start to fall off, "it's time to check the calendar".

Good consensual sex rules,

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Sopranos Movie?

'Sopranos' Movie Rumor Revealed

LODI, N.J. (AP) - Hold the poles! Is a Sopranos movie in the works? The real-life manager of the strip club that fronted for the Bada Bing on HBO's "The Sopranos" thinks there might be. Satin Dolls manager Nick D'Urso says he's holding off on renovations to the strip club in Lodi, N.J., after getting a tip that a movie would be made. He wouldn't name the tipster.

An HBO spokeswoman says there's no truth to the rumor that plans are in the works for a film about Tony Soprano and his mob crew. As first reported in The Record of Bergen County, D'Urso says he'll wait until after the summer to renovate in case the tip pans out. Satin Dolls has already auctioned off its bronze-colored stripper poles and replaced them.

Nick D'Urso, is the director of Satin Dolls, the gentleman's club in Lodi, N.J., that serves as the Bada Bing in 'The Sopranos.' He's put plans to renovate the bar on hold amid rumors that there may be a movie in the works.

Well, let's keep our fingers crossed that there is a movie. That would be worth waiting for.

"Bad and Good are Perceptual,"

The Mob just is.................

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Congratulations Hillary, Let's Keep It Going

Congratulations to Hillary Clinton on her primary wins on Tuesday March 4. It was such a pleasure to see her get some due for a change. Hopefully, this will give her some momentum moving forward. I still believe she is the best of the field for the nomination and presidency. Therefore, she will emerge victorious.

Nothing personal Barack, but, it is not your time yet. Sit back and get some playing time and wait for your turn. Oh, and try to reign in your wife, who happens to turn alot of people off.

Hillary For President,

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Doomsday Vault Planning For The Future

'Doomsday Vault' to Protect World's Seeds

LONGYEARBYEN, Norway (Feb. 26) - A "doomsday" seed vault built to protect millions of food crops from climate change, wars and natural disasters opened Tuesday deep within an Arctic mountain in the remote Norwegian archipelago of Svalbard.

"The Svalbard Global Seed Vault is our insurance policy," Norway's Prime Minister Jens Stoltenberg told delegates at the opening ceremony. "It is the Noah's Ark for securing biological diversity for future generations."

European Commission President Jose Manuel Barroso and 2004 Nobel Peace Prize winner Wangari Maathai of Kenya were among the dozens of guests who had bundled up for the ceremony inside the vault, about 425 feet deep inside a frozen mountain.

"This is a frozen Garden of Eden," Barroso said.

The vault will serve as a backup for hundreds of other seed banks worldwide. It has the capacity to store 4.5 million seed samples from around the world and shield them from man-made and natural disasters.

Dug into the permafrost of the mountain, it has been built to withstand an earthquake or a nuclear strike.

Norway owns the vault in Svalbard, a frigid archipelago about 620 miles from the North Pole. It paid $9.1 million for construction, which took less than a year. Other countries can deposit seeds without charge and reserve the right to withdraw them upon need.

The operation is funded by the Global Crop Diversity Trust, which was founded by the U.N. Food and Agriculture Organization and Biodiversity International, a Rome-based research group.

"Crop diversity will soon prove to be our most potent and indispensable resource for addressing climate change, water and energy supply constraints, and for meeting the food needs of a growing population," said Cary Fowler, head of the Global Crop Diversity Trust.

Svalbard is cold, but giant air conditioning units have chilled the vault further to -0.4 Fahrenheit, a temperature at which experts say many seeds could last for 1,000 years.

Stoltenberg and Maathai delivered the first box of seeds to the vault during the opening ceremony — a container of rice seeds from 104 countries.

"This is unique. This is very visionary. It is a precaution for the future," Maathai, a Crop Diversity Trust board member, told The Associated Press after the ceremony.

The seeds are packed in silvery foil containers — as many as 500 in each sample — and placed on blue and orange metal shelves inside three 32-foot-by-88-foot storage chambers. Each vault can hold 1.5 million sample packages of all types of crop seeds, from carrots to wheat.

Construction leader Magnus Bredeli-Tveiten said the vault is designed to withstand earthquakes — successfully tested by a 6.2-magnitude temblor off Svalbard last week — and even a direct nuclear strike.

Many other seed banks are in less protected areas. For example, war wiped out seed banks in Iraq and Afghanistan, and one in the Philippines was flooded in the wake of a typhoon in 2006.

I don't know about YOU, but, I think this is a pretty cool story. Once again, it shows that there are some humans on this Earth that do care and are trying to look out for the future instead of running around like "the brainless idiots" they are killing each other and basically reversing any strides humanity has taken.

Hope YOU enjoy reading this kind of stuff as much as I enjoy posting it. Remember, "opyn mindz" make for better lives all around.

Bad and Good are Perceptual,

Reality just is.....

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