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Christmas Gifts For The Music Lover
Trying to figure out the perfect holiday gift for the music lover in your family? Here are some ideas we found that are sure to please:
Audio Video Table by Versatables. At less than $600, the Audio Video Table, available online, is guaranteed to make any music lover's jaw drop. This "desk" designed to hold multiple computer monitors, speakers, CPUs, and even a full-length keyboard (or other sound editing system) allows the artist to turn his/her room into a sound mixing studio. Additional components can be added to customize the perfect gift. Shipping is free and Versa Products, Inc. offers a lifetime guarantee on every product it sells.
Guitar Center Gift Certificate. If you love music, you love Guitar Center. One of the country's largest musical instrument chains, the store offers instruments, clothing, décor, and more. Ordering online is safe and easy, as with Versa Products' site as well, and Guitar Center offers free shipping on orders of $49 or more.
Concert Tickets. Check out Ticketmaster's website for the latest concerts coming to a venue near you. Tickets and a limo ride to and from the concert is something anyone will enjoy, particularly a music fan. For a fun way to present your gift, present them in an album frame with colorful holiday wrapping paper placed behind the tickets. The frame makes a great gift for collectible album covers after the concert is over. Another fun presentation idea is to purchase a calendar of the recipient's favorite band and mark the concert date inside. Tape the tickets on the date and give him/her something to hang up and look forward to.
Guitar Hero on Xbox. Guitar Hero III made its debut in time for the holidays and is bound to be a popular gift this year. The new cordless guitars make the game even more enjoyable and a whole new set of popular songs will keep your music fan entertained either by him/herself or with friends.
An Apple iPod. Most people have an MP3 player but the latest Apple iPod's can't be beat. They keep getting smaller, sleeker, and considerably more powerful when it comes to downloadable disk space. Several places now sell all kinds of fun accessories for the iPod as well, including speakers and docking stations.
Vintage Concert Shirts. You may not have the easiest time finding these, but amazon and ebay are great places to start. And don't limit your search to just t-shirts. Other memorabilia from famous singers and musicians are available. My sister bought her husband a pair of Dean Martin's cuff links (my brother-in-law is a huge Dean Martin fan), and it was his favorite gift of the season.
Funky CD holder from CD Rack Em. It doesn't have to be funky. With a variety of styles from traditional wooden holders to wavy metal ones, CD Rack Em has a CD holder that will fit the recipient's style regardless of what that style is. Even with MP3s on the rise, true music fans still have a lot of CDs and home made mixed CDs lying around. Why not display them in a way that's aesthetic and functional?
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Who was the American Idol contestant whose mom/aunt was a Gold Digger who performed with Dean Martin?
Contestant was rejected, but mom/aunt begged Simon for another chance. Contestant was rejected again, and mom/aunt told her to accept the reality. Looking for the contestant's name. Thanks!
That's a tough one, but my mom knew a GoldDigger - Betty Rosebrock...from OH and moved to NY and then CA when Dean hired her.
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Role Models for Baby Boomer Generation
Professor Hasan A. Yahya
A proverb says: “Tell me what you read, I tell who you are”. This morning, it came to me the idea to write about the persons who influenced me as an intellectual person from baby boomers generation, believes in freedom, justice, and human rights. Those I read or know about through my young life as a high school student, and afterwards as a teacher and TV employee and were role models, formulating my life. I was connected mentally and politically with five great persons: Mao Zedong of China, Jamal Abdul-Nassir of Egypt, Che Guevara of Cuba, and Dwight Eisenhower, and John F, Kennedy of the USA. All were living in my time between 1950 to 1975.
In 1956, the school attended a film at Zarqa-Jordan. The film was about King Hussein of Jordan to the USA visit. When Eisenhower was president. The first time I heard about America. That memory remained in my mind and pushed me all times to achieve my stay in life at the United States of America. It’s too strange for a 11 years old person to love America from that time.
My mentality still follow their steps in looking to the world. Where justice, identity, and dignity are most important for people everywhere. From Mao I learned that one person can make the difference, from Jamal Abdul-Nassir I learned to be an Arab over national identity, as Jordanian by passport, or Palestinian by birth. From Guevara, I learned to stand against Capitalist exploitation of poor countries. Finally, I learned from John F. Kennedy the decision making to reach justice no matter the cost, which he paid his life for that cause. And Eisenhower, I learned to love America.
Other personalities I admired and my life was influenced by them and play in my mind as role models, felt proud in their times and mine to know are: Martin Luther King, Muhammad Ali Klay and Malolm X, While the three were non-white, they have similar qualities of the previous persons. Other personality I was fond to read for was two western philosophers: Both British: George Bernard Shaw, and Bertrand Russell (later on the second became American). They all look for what the author was looking for in his early years, justice, identity, and dignity of human being.
While more than forty years passed on the absence of these persons, their ideas and spirit still live with the author, and show in his writings and beliefs. I did not meet any of them except Muhammad Ali Klay, the heavy weight Champ, whom I met in Kuwait, I was the program coordinator, for Kuwait TV, in 1969 where my office was close to the studio where his interview took place. The authorities in Kuwait were planning a friendly match for him, with local boxers. I asked him to sign for my one year son small book. He was young, energetic, proud, and a winner. He took the book and signed his name. He was in fact my role model to stand tall for difficulties of life, career, and challenges. Unfortunately, the signature was lost with the small book, after leaving Kuwait in 1982 for good.
I live in Malcolm X’s Lansing city, and graduated from Michigan State University. I knew Malcolm X through the film depicting his life, as well as his biography book tiled: Malcolm X.
In Arabic literature, I was familiar with writings of Tawfiq al-Hakim, Taha Hussein, Mahmoud al-Aqqad, Al-Manfaluti, Ihsan Abdul-Qaddos, Ghassan Kanafani, Gibran Khalil Gibran, and Nagib Mahfouz. Special interest was with Du’a al-Karawan of Taha Hussein, Qandil Um Hashim of Yahya Haqqi, and al-Liss wal-Kilab of Mahfouz. Fortunately most of them were social scientists (Sociologists) influenced me to choose sociology as well as administration as my career. From Arab poets, Ahmad Shawqi, Hafiz Ibrahim, Abdul-Rahim Mahmoud, Nizar Qabbani, Abul-Qasim al-Shabbi and Ibrahim Tuqan.
From Old poets, Emri’ al-Qays, Tarafa bin al-Abd, Antarah bin Shaddad, abul-Ala’ al-Ma’rri, Bashar bin Burd, and Abu al-Tayyib al-Mutanabbi.
From old writers: al-Jahiz, al-Ghazali, al-Kalil bin Ahmad, Ibn Khaldun, Ibn Tufail, Ibn Sina and Ibn Rushd.
My background readings almost all of the above and try to be like them through life, Iam becoming an encyclopedia in almost all fields of knowledge.
My role models from religious leaders and Prophets, Jesus, Joseph, Muhammad (PBUT) and Umar bin al-Khattab (RD).
However, other persons I liked in my young years and still like them, I grew up on two sources of media through Egyptian and American films. I was fond to see American films between (1957-1965) From actors, I still remember Victor Mature, in Samsun the Great, Spartacus, the Slave casting Kirk Douglas and Tony Curtis, Jerry Louise. James Dean, Dean Martin, and Henri Bogart, Rock Hudson, and John Wayne, and the cast of the serial Roots, about Black history.
Other literature and novel writers Albert Camus (al-Bu’asa’), Henrik Ebsen (The Toy), Leo Tolstoy (War and Peace),Jean Jacquues Rousseau Ernest Hemingway, Jean Poll Sartre, William Shakespeare, George Bernard Shaw and series of detective Arsine Lapin. In addition to Bertrand Russell, Karl Marx, and Karl Manheim in later years.
From Arab actors, I was fond of Farid Shawqi, Rushdie Abaza, Umar al-Sherif, Ahmad Ramzi, Emad Hamdi, Anwar Wajdi, Abdul-Mun’im Madbuly, Ismael Yasin, Adel Imam, and Muhammad Sobhi beside many others. From Arab celebrities singers, I was fond of Arab singers, Farid al-Atrash, Muhammad Abdul-Wahhab and Abdul-Halim Hafiz. From Arab actresses and singers, Fatin Hamamh, Shadia, Najwa fuad, Najat al-Saghira, Warda, after the unforgettable voices: Umm Kalthum, Asmahan, and Layla Murad.
From politicians, one in particular was a role model for me too, King Hussein of Jordan, whom I met several times during my high school years and after. He’s the only leader which I have a picture with in 1964 when I was a member in Hussein Camps which he initiated for the youth, and when was the secretary of the first Boy-Scout Committee for Zarqa District.
These great persons in addition to the ones I wrote about them, Muhammad, Ibn Sina, Solomon Asch, Stanley Milgram, Charles Darwin, and Ibn Rushd constitute the role model not only for the author but to his generation as well. Therefore they will be covered soon under: Persons I Admire series. (1051 words) www.hasanyahya.com
About the Author
Hasan A. Yahya is an American Arab scholar, and a professor of sociology. Has a 2 Ph.d degrees from MSU. He published 19 Arabic and 8 English books and 200 plus articles on sociology, psychology, politics, poetry, and short stories in both Arabic and English. Philosophically, his writings concern logic, justice and human rights worldwide. Dr. Yahya resides in Michigan, USA. www.dryahyatv.com
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