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Space in front at Qualcomm Inc. on Pacific Heights Road, on Friday, still turning into company commons, anchored a new wall of window faces on the innovation operations heights. Morely Construction workers hammered out the walls, squaring out the five story and a top floor building. Moving ahead on a work line towards a 2014 finish.
Building up the building collection in the Qualcomm enterprise city in Mira Mesa leads recovery construction work. The building foundation Morley put in during Spring last year sets up the Pacific Heights growth for an increase in the largest company workfold in San Diego. There is no time for penny wise expansion work with the next big wave of innovation coming in mobile technology.
Company head Paul Jacobs stays busy, with the CES 2014 conference work on the inventions made possible by 4G LTE Advanced at hand in Las Vegas, and plans fast market launches. Customer offers in mobile, the "largest tech product in history" Qualcomm says, have to move ahead, without delay. Mobile is "creating unprecedented opportunities."
Ultra HD processors workers using mobile can depend on to view ultra HD displays for the first time, make the planning work thrive. Company growth will not leave out San Diego workers who never leave mobile innovation work undone. Smartphones and tablets still play key roles in workplace innovation. The worker enterprise has not reached its limits. Low power video playback. One gigapixel per second image processing. Low light condition picture features. Innovation step keep coming.
Pacific Heights company growth is high pressure growth. Even the day Morley workers finish outfitting the office spaces company employees will quit their days in will not put Qualcomm growth in the past.
San DIegans can already forget about the old company parking lot near Pacific Heights Road and Pacific Center Boulevard intersection. The large parking structure Morley built in back made room to clear out the front parking and start another building project. Excavated dirt stays rough on the lot. Work done by Morley on the second company addition mounts. The digging machines keep rolling across the dirt.
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The series will begin in June 2013.
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9:42pm. I like it here.
This has been my office for nearly 4 months. Nearly 4 months since I went into web development full time. Went in with zero knowledge of our platform and now I think I'm doing quite alright with it — the boss jokes that I'm "sibeh kiang" sometimes. I come in late most days, and I get to solve real problems on the web. By some happy coincidence the coffeeshop downstairs is owned by the same guy who used to run the place near church years ago, and this same auntie still works for him, and it feels good to order my tea from her.
In some ways I still have no idea what I'm meant to do in life, though these four months have been a homecoming of sorts — I was always a huge nerd, I built my own computers and kept no friends through primary school, it was amazing, and those later years spent dabbling/studying/failing in print/web design, photography, film (even advertising, TV, radio)… those were great, I did so many things in school that I would never have had the chance to otherwise, and that's the only justification I need when people ask me why I didn't just go to college with my grades or study IT, I had a hell of a ride, did you? but it always felt like going in circles, and not concentric ones, but circles that sometimes brought me closer to where I thought I wanted to be, and oftentimes further.
So I'm pretty glad I get to be a regular geek again, and talk about regular geek things, even if I'm tired all the time and don't care about regular geek things anymore. I come in late in the mornings, and now I have the room to myself, Arms and Sleepers' Matador is on iTunes, and the train is 2 minutes away but I think I'll take the slower bus home.
A photo from Saturday's show. Also:
ATC will be playing at the Esplanade Waterfront Stage on 27th February for some event which I'm not particularly sure about as details have not been out yet (I wonder why). From what I heard, Deepset from KL and Everybody Loves Irene from Indonesia will be playing as well.
Can't wait!
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It Seemed Impossible, but... To God be the Glory
- Saturday, August 02, 2008
The hot August afternoon did not discourage the football teams. Sweating, running, tackling was all part of the game. It was almost over and the Loretta High School Mustangs were winning. Then disaster struck. The star player, Van Johnson, was down! He was young, but he weighed 215 pounds and it was all muscle and daring. Mustang fans moaned, "Why won't Van get up? We can't win the game without him."
But Van was in pain and struggled to breathe. He remembers the day so well and writes about that moment in his book, Tackle the Impossible! "On a routine play, the other team's quarterback took the ball and began to run. 'I'll get him,' I thought as I shot from my inside linebacker position. I tackled him, and the thud echoed into the stands. But as I fell - I felt my neck snap. Instantly, my strength and prowess vanished, I was just a frightened 15 year-old. I'm going to die, I thought."
Winning was now insignificant. Survival was imperative. With no feeling from his neck down, Van was carefully placed on a stretcher and rushed to the hospital. The next days were even more difficult with the knowledge that he was paralyzed. What would the future hold for a
young man whose dreams were shattered?
Years later during another hot summer afternoon, high school graduate Joni Eareckson Tada was enjoying a visit to a beach before college began in the Fall. Her friends swam to a raft further out into the water for some extra fun. Joni followed them as they played in the water. However, the dive she made from the raft ended in tragedy.
She writes about it this way in her book The God I Love: "I recalled diving and striking something hard, like a log. Immediately, I heard an electric buzz that I felt shooting through my body. I sensed that my arms and legs had curled up in a fetal position. They seemed locked. I tried to move but couldn't."
Were future plans changed? Yes. Did despair and loneliness settled into the minds of these two young people? Yes. Was God at work in their healing as they pressed on toward the future? Yes. But it took weeks and years for their tragic accidents to unfold into blessings.
Van and Joni both have ministries that looked impossible years ago when they were in the beginning stages of survival. But first they had to surrender their lives, just as they were. In whatever circumstances, we must first ask God's guidance and surrender to His plans.
The powerful promise of God in Jeremiah 29:11 gives assurance to all who trust His word:
"For I know the plans I have for you, says the Lord, plans for welfare and not for evil, to give you a future and a hope."
We need go no further than our computer to discover the ministries that both Van Johnson and Joni Eareckson Tada have today. The web site for Van, www.recreationagain.com, features his inventions of recreational adventures for those in a wheelchair.
The web site for Joni, www.joniandfriends.org, opens up a multitude of activities in which Joni is involved. She closes her memoir, The God I Love, with this profound statement: "There are more important things in life than walking."
So what do we gather from these two people who have survived and thrived in their lives? There is always hope and a loving God who makes a way when there seems no way...
The birth of a baby on March 24, 1823, in Putnam County, N.Y. was exciting. There were no troubles on the horizon for little Fanny Jane Crosby. All was well until her eye infection began at six weeks of age. The doctor prescribed the wrong medication, and the baby never regained her sight.
Even though there was anguish and fear within her family, their child grew into a fine young woman. She attended the New York School for the Blind and later became a teacher there. The hope and compassion that she gave them encouraged her students.
Kenneth W. Osbeck writes in his book, 101 Hymn Stories: "It is estimated that Fanny Crosby wrote more than 8,000 gospel song texts in her lifetime. Her hymns have been and are still being sung move frequently than those of any other gospel hymn writer."
Looking back upon the life of this great hymn writer, we remember the first weeks of her life. What would her future be? Would she always need to be cared for? Could she become a productive member of society? Her response to these questions can be found in the poem she wrote when she was eight years old:
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okay listen, don't let them tell you something you like is stupid! if you enjoy somthing it's good whatever others say.
try to find out what it is, they think is stupid about cosplaying. try to convince them from the opposite! I for myself can say, it's a terribly money and nerve eating hobby but it's kind of worth all of this. you actually have to learn to sew (except you buy your cosplays) and I think having a project to work on and even tho you'll be wanting to just throw everything away bc you hate it, you won't and you will finish your costume and when you do so you are the most statisfied person ever.
idk I think cosplay really gives you something you need to finish, a project and I feel like this is somthing important to have? also HEY YOU'RE GONNA LEARN HOW TO SEW that's always good!
anndddd for cons, you will meet a lot, lot of fantastic people who will share your interests, big plus??
I feel kinda dumb hmmm so what I'm basically trying to say, try to convince them, that it's a good hobby. you'll have something to work on physically, you're gonna learn how to sew, finishing goals, even if it's just to make a costume is something huge in life!, new friends…… tell them it's kind of like theatre? just without the acting on stage, being able to be another person sometimes is really relaxing.
if they'll still think it's dumb, screw em, IT'S YOUR LIFE!!! I'm sure you can do it!! if you wanna talk drop me a message de-anon and I'll message you on my main account ))!!!
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other people have been askin' too, so maybe I could give lessons of somethin'!
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"Be patient, work hard, know that God's working for you, and never let your age define your success." Carlos King offers up this sage advice from the standpoint of one who has lived its truth. With his recent success working as Co-Executive Producer for Love and Hip Hop Atlanta, a reality show which attracted an enormous following of more than 3 million viewers with its season premiere alone, King is living proof that patience, faith, and hard work can indeed pay off.
As a young boy growing up in the "Motor City" under the watchful eye of a father who toiled for the Ford Motor Company for twenty long years, Carlos King had already set his sights elsewhere. He recalls living amongst many plant workers who defined their success by whether or not they worked for one of the "Big 3" plants. While he respected the work that his father did, he decided early on that Detroit life was not for him. He kept himself sane by watching television, a past time which fueled his dreams of working in the entertainment industry.
"Detroit isn't really the type of place for entertainment," King explains. "Being somebody that just knew that I wanted to get involved in the entertainment industry somehow, I was always this kid who just dreamed of making it big and moving to New York City. I always had this type of ambition because I knew that I didn't want to just live in Detroit for the rest of my life, and when the opportunity came for me to move to NY you know the rest was history!"
After moving to New York in 2002 and interning for big time shows the likes of The View and 20/20, he eventually went on to work for BET as a production assistant. It was during his stint there that his mentor, Joy Chen, called and offered him the opportunity to work on the then new reality show called The Real Housewives of Atlanta.
"I was like, 'Oh God—I got to move to Atlanta for like 3 months', and the money wasn't going to be good; I was going to have to take a pay cut, so it wasn't going to be an easy transition for me. But I always saw the bigger picture because I wanted to do reality. I started working on The Real Housewives of Atlanta and it was the best decision I ever made, because that kind of jumpstarted everything for me. It has been nonstop for me since 2008. That show really propelled my career to unforeseen heights, and you know I never regretted that decision."
He continued to work on Atlanta housewives as a producer for four years before moving on to become the Co-Executive Producer for Love and Hip Hop Atlanta with Mona Scott Young, the Executive Producer of the series. Through word of mouth he heard that Young was bringing the then New York based show to Atlanta, and he eagerly jumped at the opportunity. The show became an immediate success, earning recognition as the top rated cable show for women 18-49 years old.
"I called Mona Scott Young myself and I told her that I wanted to work on the show," King recalls. "We had a meeting like the next day and she fell in love with me; I fell in love with her—and she got me a position as Co-Executive Producer. When I came on board they were already casting and I cast Carly. I was like, 'Mona, Carly is going to be good; she's messy, trust me!' I knew immediately after seeing Jocelyn and the whole love triangle that this show was going to be a monster hit. And then it became the number one show on cable!" King proudly exclaims.
As though having the number one cable reality show isn't noteworthy enough, King also has a few other projects under his sleeve. He has been working on a new show with his good friend and mentor, Tyler Perry. Called Tyler Perry Comes to OWN, the show premieres May 26th on Oprah Winfrey's OWN Network. Prior to working on this project, King worked with Winfrey as a show producer for Oprah Behind the Scenes for a year. It was under Winfrey's tutelage that he learned how to run a production empire as the Oprah Winfrey show was embarking on its final season.
"It was definitely a blessing being able to work with her," says King, "and just kind of be a sponge and watch how she operates, and just really learn how to run an empire."
King also has a new production company called Kingdom Reign that he is especially proud of. The company came into fruition in September and has been growing ever since. In addition to developing shows, the company provides consultations for people who are interested in pitching shows. It also helps develop talent for those who are interested in doing, or are already involved in, reality television.
"I want to continue developing shows that are hot topics discussions for people who love to watch reality TV, explains King. "I don't think this genre is going anywhere, so I really just want to take things to the next level and have my company be the premiere destination for the reality shows that ignite controversy and conversation [while offering] really quality programming."
Season 2 of Love and Hip Hop Atlanta will premiere on Monday, April 22nd at 8p.m.
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LAWT Asst. Managing Editor
'Free Angela', a gripping documentary reflecting the historic events that catapulted a young Angela Davis into a controversial political icon during the turbulent late 1960's will made its limited release recently.
In Hollywood there are very few Black distributors and there isn't one on the level of CodeBlack Entertainment's Jeff Clanagan.
Moviegoers will see Jamie Foxx, Denzel Washington and Halle Berry on the big screen
and feel sense of connection to their character.
Then there are your successful Black screenwriters such as Tyler Perry, Spike Lee and John Singleton who are also behind the lens directing their projects.
Hollywood has not always been kind to Blacks. Since the turn of the century when Oscar Micheaux became the first Black film star in 1914, the industry has mass-produced a negative perception of Blacks.
Way before the success of current stars, Blacks could only get in front of the camera if they wanted to play the role of the maid or the butler, as white filmmakers such as D.W. Griffith produced such despicable films such as 'Birth of A Nation', until an even worse--Black filmmaker- Lincoln Theodore Monroe Andrew Perry- arrived with the character of 'Stepin Fetchit.'
Clanagan is determined to embrace the Black market and thus become responsible to it.
"The reality is there have been a lot bad experiences for African Americans because we are trying to assemble in Hollywood instead of creating our own commerce and business," explained Clanagan in a recent exclusive interview from his Lionsgate office Santa Monica office.
Clanagan is the CEO of CodeBlack Entertainment, the first independent, vertically integrated Black owned film studio, actively engaged in the business of feature film production, film distribution, worldwide DVD and digital assets distribution, urban marketing consulting and production of programs for television broadcast and syndication.
He blames as divide and conquer syndrome and crab in the bucket mentality among Blacks as one of the primary obstacles.
"There are five or six major studios and four or five networks, but they don't have an obligation to give us anything," he declared. "The people who run those studios or networks are descendants of people from the past, so they don't have an obligation to us. So, we go in with our hands out and we get crumbs as opposed to recognizing our economic power that we have proven and harnessing that power to create our own business."
CodeBlack Entertainment was created to facilitate positive representations of African-Americans in film. A multi-faceted entertainment organization, CodeBlack provides a consistent stream of urban-themed programming that is distributed across theatrical, digital, broadcast and internet-based platforms.
It owns the larges catalog of Black material in the world, an expansive library that consists of dramatic, comedic, romantic and faith-based titles featuring top African American and Latino talent.
In just a short period of time Clanagan has already established CodeBlack Entertainment as an independent distributor of urban-themed content releasing urban content through theatrical, DVD, and broadcast channels and has further increased its equity by developing a strategic business alliance with one of Hollywood's biggest media conglomerates Lionsgate.
The company has a multi-picture deal with Lionsgate, to produce original urban films targeting the African-American market.
Previously he enjoyed such a relationship with Fox where he produced film adaptations of the 1980s Off-Broadway gospel musical hit Mama, I Want to Sing! as well as the popular play A Good Man is Hard to Find. In June 2009, the entered into a partnership with basketball player Shaquille O'Neal to produce and distribute the All Star Comedy Jam series. Featuring some of the most celebrated stand-up comics.
Most recently CodeBlack has enjoyed enormous success with comedian Kevin Hart and has a long working relationship with Lionsgate.
Clanagan elaborated; "Once you are able to create you own business and can do it on your on, then instead of asking for stuff you are able to create partnerships based on your ability to produce. I am not saying that you have to be in business with studios, but there is a way that you can be in business with them as a partner."
As he sees it there isn't a system for Black executives to exist at the studios and networks and conversely when Blacks attend college they are not learning about public relations and marketing jobs behinds the scenes, but instead are taught to go for the more popular jobs in front of the camera.
"The other part of that dilemma is that as actors and producers we fail to arm ourselves with the proper information so that we can go in and intelligently negotiate the best deal for us," he added. "What I mean by that is we don't understand the numbers and the economics of the movie business."
Clanagan decided upon the name CodeBlack to directly deal with the stigma of racism in the industry. He courageously ran to who his race, instead of from it. Studios executive have ultimately respected him for his stance.
So, CodeBlack Entertainment doesn't just have the right man for it's job, but Hollywood has the right man to be The Black Power of Hollywood.
By BRIAN MAHONEY
Associated Press
NEW YORK (AP) — The Brooklyn Nets are losing one of their biggest names as they prepare for the playoffs.
Jay-Z owned just a little piece of the team, but was a large presence when the franchise changed homes and identities this season.
The rap mogul is selling his stake in the Nets so he can become certified as a player agent, possibly before the end of the season. The process is underway, with paperwork already filed, a person with knowledge of the details said Wednesday.
NBA rules prevent anyone from being involved in ownership and player representation.
Yahoo Sports, which first reported Jay-Z's plans, said his Roc Nation company has partnered with Creative Artists Agency (CAA) and hopes to compete for players in this June's NBA draft.
Jay-Z owns less than 1 percent of the Nets, but has had a major impact with the franchise's move to his hometown. He had input and in some cases complete control of everything from the interior of the $1 billion Barclays Center to the design of the team's black-and-white uniforms, which he debuted himself during his run of eight sold-out concerts in September that served as the debut of the arena.
A spokesman for Jay-Z, whose real name is Shawn Carter, did not respond to a message.
Friendly with LeBron James and a number of sports superstars, Jay-Z could quickly make Roc Nation a force in the agency field. The company recently signed New York Yankees All-Star Robinson Cano. The Nets hoped his reputation and friendships would help them three years ago when James led a loaded field of free agents, but the Nets, then playing in Newark, failed to land any of them.
Jay-Z attended only a handful of games this season, but his affiliation with the franchise provided a necessary buzz for its first season in Brooklyn. He sat in his courtside seat next to wife Beyonce in November when the Nets beat the Knicks in their first matchup as New York rivals, providing the trash talk afterward when he tweeted that the city was under new management.
The Nets have clinched their first playoff berth since 2007 and are in position to have home-court advantage in their first-round series.
Your enthusiasm has an effect on the outside world on Monday and Tuesday. It's almost as if flowers lift higher out of the earth when you walk by. Midweek, walks are great, and in keeping with your mood, when progress is a concern but speed is not. Thursday and Friday are especially molasses-filled days, but, like molasses, they are not without a certain amount of sweetness. You will reap rewards for your perseverance. Saturday and Sunday, by comparison, are strapped-to-a-rocket speedy. Expect your hair to get wild.
You are of two minds about everything at the beginning of the week. The best advice is to shop around. Don't take the first thing that catches your eye if it's not right. Don't feel pressured to accelerate through the decision-making process. Starting Wednesday, everything will be easier, and you'll feel good just from being in the company of people who know you. Thursday and Friday find you happy as well, appreciative of everything you have, wondering if you've become a glutton, what with all the excess that surrounds you. Nevertheless, this weekend you will be in the mood to shop.
Whatever you're feeling on Monday, you're not alone. The people around you are more complicated (and more understanding) than you may realize, and talking with them -- or finding another way to express yourself -- is a grand idea. Tuesday's great for communicating as well. Wednesday and Thursday are more introspective days (you will have to call on inner resources to get everything handled), and Friday involves an awkward squabble with someone nearby (a coworker or a neighbor). But Saturday and Sunday are bursting with goodness and, possibly, romance.
The slightest suggestion recalls a whole world to you on Monday and Tuesday. A smell, a color, even a word brings you right back to something from your past (and all the attendant emotions). On Wednesday and Thursday, dinner parties, charming people and your house all figure strongly, and Friday is full of crazy ideas and a sense of urgency about generating newer, crazier ideas. Saturday is the kind of day when you'll walk to the store and, on a whim, decide to keep walking -- just to see how far you can get, to make an adventure of your afternoon. Sunday, however, is made for completing tasks.
A nice-to-meet-you attitude on Monday and Tuesday is the way to go. Prepare to shake hands with someone who, in the course of a casual conversation, will change your opinion of something. On Wednesday, you won't see anyone except the people you work with, and on Thursday you won't have much room for thoughts except those related to work. But Friday is a total mixed bag: celebrities, the law, your boss, your ego -- all of these things may figure in. The weekend, conversely, is about none of those things. The weekend is about friends, dreams and hopes.
High-spiritedness can quickly become combativeness when tempers run short. On Monday and Tuesday, keep your head on long-term goals (your relationships with the people around you, for instance) rather than short-term questions (who stole your stapler?). It isn't until Wednesday that you begin to feel truly compatible with others this week. Thursday and Friday find you getting a lot done -- and finding more and more things to do (one door, alas, leads to another) -- and the weekend is loaded with potential. It will be a great weekend or a nothing weekend, depending entirely on you.
Whatever else happens, Monday and Tuesday afford you time to spend with you-know-who -- time stretching into forever. What will you do together? It's entirely up to you. But a dose of selflessness isn't a bad idea. What would this other person like to do? Wednesday and Thursday, your mind is still on other people (attachments and alliances are strong themes), and Friday finds you scrambling to find a creative way to tell someone how much you appreciate them. Saturday and Sunday, expressing yourself comes more easily. You'll come up with so many new ideas you won't remember them all.
While your impulse to deal with issues as they arise is a good one, it's not the right impulse on Monday and Tuesday. Avoiding conflict is the order of the day. Things could easily get out of hand. Wednesday and Thursday are better suited to working things out -- although, to your frustration, the best solution most likely requires that you give in on some point (a small point, a painless concession). Boldness is key to getting beyond the obstacles Friday has in store for you, but this weekend you're better off proceeding on tiptoe. Sunday is deep.
Your checklist is a game on Monday and Tuesday -- a competition with yourself, a true test of your effectiveness. You welcome the challenge. You like creating these kinds of games for yourself, and you like getting things done. The secret to Wednesday is in the details, but Thursday and Friday you'd be wise to take a step back and look at everything through wider goggles. On Saturday there is so much going on that you'll have no chance at depth or meaning in your social interactions -- but you'll be so busy this won't even occur to you. Sunday's busy too.
Your family is in your thoughts on Monday and Tuesday. You are feeling loyal and worried in that loving, protective way, and the best thing to do might be to pay a visit. If that's not possible, try to connect in some other way. Wednesday is much more you-centered -- a creative project will have you grinning -- and Thursday or Friday evening might be right for a small trip somewhere, for a couple of hours or overnight. Camping? A motel with a pool in a no-name town? The weekend returns you very much to the real world, full of flaky people, talkative strangers and faithful, brilliant friends.
You're easing into a new approach to your life. Monday and Tuesday, you're feeling a bit radical, a bit bohemian -- or maybe you're just reading too many French novels. It's changing the way you dress though, no? And the way you interact with people? Your values? Wednesday and Thursday, your self-discovery takes on even more dimensions, and on Friday you are baffled not only by your own strangeness but by the strangeness of life itself. It's a wild week for you, internally. And then it becomes wild externally: An out-of-left-field love affair rocks your weekend.
Everything takes on a certain murkiness on Monday, and by Tuesday you'll have no idea which way is up. That kind of disorientation can be fun, so long as you're in the mood for it. Wednesday and Thursday, find antidotes to the ambiguous abstractedness. Make dinner at home. Put down your thoughts in writing. Play an album you know by heart. On Friday, nothing is as strong as the pull of your heart, which may explain why, on Saturday, you'll open up a book of poetry. Sunday isn't a boring day, but you should try to keep the activities cerebral rather than athletic.
By DARLENE SUPERVILLE
WASHINGTON (AP) — A White House celebration Tuesday night of Memphis soul music is an affirmation of the decades of hard work that went into making it a classic American music sound, said some of the artists tapped to perform.
"I'm proud to do this," said Sam Moore, half of the Sam & Dave soul duo, known for the hit "Hold On, I'm Comin'."
Moore said he was kicking off the concert in the East Room after an introduction by President Barack Obama. The 77-year-old said it's his first time meeting Obama and he joked about possibly wearing a diaper — just in case.
"You just hope you don't slosh in your shoe," he said in between rehearsals. Moore did not give away any details about his performance.
Artist William Bell said the concert reaffirms years of hard work that began in the 1960s when Stax Records was created in Memphis, Tenn., and the label cranked out one soul and R&B hit after another for more than a decade.
Among its artists were Otis Redding, Isaac Hayes, The Staple Singers, Bell and Sam & Dave.
"As kids coming up, we didn't think it would last this long," the 73-year-old Bell said of the music genre during a rehearsal break. He said he would perform one of his hits, "You Don't Miss Your Water."
Tuesday's concert is the 10th in the "In Performance at the White House" series. The lineup includes Alabama Shakes, Steve Cropper, Ben Harper, Queen Latifah, Cyndi Lauper, Joshua Ledet, Charlie Musselwhite, Mavis Staples, Justin Timberlake, Bell and Moore, with Booker T. Jones as music director and band leader.
Al Green was listed in the original lineup but, about an hour before the show, the White House released a statement from the singer's spokesman who said Green had suffered a back injury that will keep him from traveling and that he will be unable to perform. Green sent his regrets.
The entire program is set to air next Tuesday on PBS stations nationwide. It will also be broadcast at a later date over the American Forces Network for service members and civilians at Defense Department locations worldwide.
The program also honors Memphis, where whites and blacks came together in the 1960s to make a soulful blend of gospel and rhythmic grooves despite it being a segregated city.
Earlier in the day, the first lady kicked off a workshop featuring Moore, Staples, Timberlake, Musselwhite and Harper for students from 16 schools and organizations in Virginia, California, Memphis, New York City, Maryland, Florida and Washington, D.C.
She noted Memphis' history as the birthplace of Elvis Presley's rock and roll and B.B. King's blues.
"And while you can hear both of those influences in Memphis soul, this music has a style and a story uniquely its own," Mrs. Obama said, before launching into the story of Stax Records.
She noted that the label also represented "somebody my husband thinks he sounds like" — Green. "Let's just tell him he does, OK? Since he is the president, we like to boost him up a little bit."
It was a reference to Obama singing a few bars of Green's "Let's Stay Together" in February 2012 during a Democratic fundraiser at New York's Apollo Theater.
Mrs. Obama also tried to encourage the students, including some aspiring musicians, by noting that the artists perched on stools in front of them have spent decades perfecting their talent to get where they are.
She recalled playing the piano as a young girl and said she regretted not keeping it up. But she said the skills learned through music can be useful in other avenues of life.
"The discipline, the patience, the diligence I learned through the study of music, those are all skills that I apply every single day in my life," Mrs. Obama said. "I applied them as a student, as a lawyer, as a first lady, and definitely as a mother."
Started in February 2009, the "In Performance at the White House" series has celebrated the music of Stevie Wonder, Paul McCartney, Burt Bacharach and Hal David, Hispanic music, music from the civil-rights era, Motown and the blues, Broadway and country music.
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Final Fantasy X - Summoner Yuna CosplayWore this cosplay for the first time to DTAC 2011, where these photos were taken.
Just some teaser pics for this costume, because there is a big spring /summer shoot that will take place this year for this costume when I will actually have my staff and a better background.
Hehe, this cute and amazing at the same time. :3
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The New Hyde Park Memorial Junior High School Mathletes team, consisting of over 40 members, won first place as school district champs in the seventh, eighth and ninth-grade divisions.
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Twenty-three-year-old Victoria Inguanta of New Hyde Park has a unique approach to her artwork. The New Hyde Park Memorial High School and Marymount College graduate takes the human body and combines figurative and abstract work using just a pencil and her canvas.
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The Sewanhaka Central High School District honored five educators with the Superintendent's Teacher of the Year Award and recognized staff members with 25 years of service to the district at its Opening Day Ceremony last week, which was highlighted by presentations and student-musician performances.
Held at Sewanhaka High School, the ceremony began with the New Hyde Park Memorial High School Select Choir performing the Star Spangled Banner under the direction of choir director Robert McKinnon.
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Tara Notrica is your typical 49-year-old mother of two. Along with her husband Barry, she is kept busy by her 14-year-old son Jared and 10-year-old daughter Samantha. One more thing: she has been battling Mast Cell disease in addition to other autoimmune diseases for the past eight years. Josh York, the CEO and founder of GYMGUYZ, an in-home personal training company, has been working closely with Notrica to help her cope with her disease.
"GYMGUYZ is all about the three C's: convenient, creative and customizable workouts," said York. "We come to the setting of your choice from homes, offices, churches, and bring our fully loaded van, which has 365 pieces of equipment," he continued.
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Nassau County Police Activity League Special Needs Unit hosted the recent Special Olympics New York Basketball Tournament held at Town of Oyster Bay Hicksville Athletic Center home of Nassau County PAL (NCPAL). Thirteen basketball teams, each with up to ten players, participated in the games. NCPAL-
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Stellar Om Source
Joy One Mile
RVNG International
The solo project of Christelle Gualdi, Stellar OM Source is one of the myriad outfits that grew out of the OPN/Emeralds/Ferraro axis, the "zeitgeist of artists trending away from their noisy roots via polyphonic escapism," as the press release tells us. "Joy One Mile" is Gualdi's first album for RVNG and orients itself around the recognizable bass synthesis of the famous Roland TB-303. "Polarity" opens the album and pulls no punches, with arpeggiations and sprightly drums orbiting TB-303 rhythms. Later, "Trackers" unfurls itself from of a web of cycling digital synth tones, reaching a frenetic, dancefloor-ready pitch. Ultimately, "Joy One Mile" does not surprise or innovate, but rather offers up a cohesive and well-crafted set of songs that will appeal to fans of the aforementioned artists as well as devotees of RVNG's diverse yet coherent catalog. - Alex Cobb, Experimedia
"Abandon," the new full-length album by Margaret Chardiet's Pharmakon project, couldn't open more aptly – a processed scream of anguish is held and allowed to develop, imbued with horror film synth, spoken vocals, and crashing, panning electronic hisses and pops. It's not until three minutes into the track that the listener is given some space, as a lurching bass tone begins to subtend sequenced oscillations, creating a rhythmic bed for Chardiet's truly tortured vocals. While the second piece follows a similar trajectory, all swarming masses of synth skree, stalking rhythms, and menacing vocals, the album's third track, "Pitted," yields something new (and more arresting), possessing a dirge-like component that recalls Zola Jesus at her most primitive. There's a raw physicality to the track that serves as the perfect lead-in to the album's final movement, "Crawling on Bruised Knees," a hypnotizing, largely instrumental work that constitutes a savvy denouement to the proceedings. A harrowing album of stark and brutalized songs, Pharmakon's "Abandon" will likely appeal to fans of Wolf Eyes, Black Dice and, beyond that, industrial music in general. – Alex Cobb, Experimedia
Alan Licht
Four Years Older
Editions Mego
New recordings from Alan Licht are always welcomed by me and received with a sort of happy nostalgia, the NY-based guitarist's '90s output (particularly "Sink the Aging Process" and "The Evan Dando of Noise" being somewhat formative records for me in my teenage years). "Four Years Older" is an interesting concept for a record, with Licht presenting two iterations of a guitar piece that he's been playing live for several years. Side A, recorded in 2012, begins with ecstatic ring-modulated guitar licks, blooms into something more stately and reverb-heavy, returns to furious atonal fretwork and ultimately dissolves into a beautiful, resonant drone. It's an arresting piece that I imagine would be quite powerful in a live setting. The B-side documents the same piece, we're told, performed in 2008. The recording does sound older and Licht, if anything, sounds even more impassioned and frenetic, carving scalding arcs of guitar noise for the duration of the side. All in all, an interesting experiment of an album and a worthy listen taboot. - Alex Cobb, Experimedia
Proper Headshrinker
Editions Mego
The stupendously titled "Proper Headshrinker" is EVOL's follow-up to "Rave Slime," an influential out-techno record which came out nearly three years ago. Stephen Sharp and Roc Jimenez trade in a type of conceptual electronica that is both strikingly defiant and undeniably hypnotic. The album's ten tracks all clock in at 3 minutes exactly and are uniformly constructed around simple cyclical patterns of mangled sawtooth tones. For many, this will be a polarizing record (if not an outright endurance test), as Sharp and Jimenez make no concessions or apologies for their aesthetic throughout. As ever with eMego releases, the production spec is high and the material is all the better for it. A pristine, crystal clear mastering job by Russell Haswell and a cut by D&M augments the physicality and brutality of this music. Ultimately, "Proper Headshrinker" is a focused and rigid masterclass in post-techno formalism that, frankly, could probably be used in military operations. – Alex Cobb, Experimedia
STREAM+REVIEW// Betacicadae - Mouna on Elegua Records
Out of nowhere (at least to me), comes this debut album by Betacicadae, presented as a painstakingly assembled edition on the Elegua imprint. Betacicadae is the nom de plume of Kevin Scott Davis who has concocted a superlative suite of recordings culled from a wide range of instrumentation including, we're told, "guitars (electric, bass, lap steel), wood flute, vibraphone, harp, violin, percussion, synthesizers, effects pedals, and digital software." The album opens with "Pahoa," a sort of looming mass of held, billowing tones and subtle field recordings. It's quite lovely and immediately offers the listener transport into the rich sonic world that awaits him. The piece develops slowly, with a beautiful, elegiac melody that recalls perhaps "October Language"-era Belong and deepens with each pass. "Gold Country" is another highlight, with field recordings and bowed and plucked guitars slowly orbiting one another before whirling together into pure white light. Closing with choral vocals and coiling drone clouds, "Mouna" is a quite lovely listen, one which instills me with a firm sense of place and a type of implacable nostalgia. Recommended. - Alex Cobb, Experimedia
Joseph Minadeo
Come Down Now
Pattern Based
A new name to me, Joseph Minadeo has put together a quite lovely and astutely composed album with "Come Down Now." Across the record's ten tracks, Minadeo sculpts radiant synthesized tones into quasi-New Age (not in any pejorative sense of the term) edifices. High-end detritus and static are married with delicately evolving drones and slowly developing melodic arcs, as on the superb and aptly titled "Ebow the Particle," which opens the record. The following piece, "With Parachutes or Not with Ron Tucker," recalls some of Federico Durand's more evocative output, with chimes, keys and vast decays worked with childlike wonder into a beautiful ambient lullaby. There is enough nuance and originality, to say nothing of compositional and musical prowess, in Minadeo's work to separate it from the current pack of "pastoral ambient" DSP cosmonauts. Recommended for fans of the current 12k ethos, Own Records, etc. – Alex Cobb, Experimedia
Jim Haynes
The Wires Cracked
Editions Mego
Proprietor of the estimable Helen Scarsdale imprint and long-time Bay Area experimental music figurehead, Jim Haynes' output never ceases to wow me. My first exposure to his work was the wonderful "Magnetic North" (a glorious and worthy candidate for vinyl treatment *hint hint*). That album, along with the perhaps even richer "Telegraphy by the Sea" which followed it, cemented my enduring interest in Haynes' recordings, an interest that's never once been met with a letdown. 2011's "The Decline Effect" saw Haynes make a large leap forward with his aesthetic, and indeed "The Wires Cracked" constitutes yet another significant development of his craft. The album opens with "Oscar," an ominous, undulating cloud of amorphous sound. Haynes obscures (or rusts, as he likes to say) his source materials past the point of recognition. We're told in the press release that his palette is comprised of "shortwave radio static, electric field disturbances, controlled feedback manipulation, and numerous textural scrapings," but in Haynes' deft hands these disparate sources cohere into organic, colossal forms. The side-long "November" contains arguably the album's most arresting movements, beginning with highly-detailed industrial clatter which dissolves into a beautiful, cinematic bed of soft tonal manipulations and textures which rank with some of the most flat-out gorgeous sounds that I've heard from Haynes. Simply put, a true cracker of an album – one of my favorites on eMego in quite some time. Highly recommended. – Alex Cobb, Experimedia
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Night Tyme Vybes
Scissor Tail
I hope I can be forgiven if an album called "Night Tyme Vybes" instantly conjures for me a bit of dread and/or skepticism, projecting a nightmarish soundscape of '90s pop culture pastiche and heedlessly stacked synthesizer arpeggios. Instead (and refreshingly), what we have here is a quite enjoyable and honest set of lo-fi songs that wouldn't be out of place on Time-Lag Records or even Woodsist. "Candlelyght" (again with the y's) opens the album, recalling something pre-Young God Devendra Banhart might have penned and possessing the sort of timelessness that is so vital and hard to achieve with this type of music. It's these moments where Hurricanes of Love are at their best, presenting a brand of stripped down blues that manages to thrive by virtue of its authenticity and skillfully wrought songcraft. Recommended for fans of the abovementioned labels/artists. – Alex Cobb, Experimedia
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Traces Two
Editions Mego / Recollection GRM
eMego sublabel Recollection GRM continues its sterling public service campaign with "Traces Two," a collection of "forgotten" archival works plucked from the verdant INA GRM vaults. Those familiar with RGRM's first editions (and with the aesthetic of INA GRM as such) will find much to love here. The highlight for me is surely Dominique Guiot's "L'oiseau de paradis," which opens with clarion tones and bewildering oscillations and feedback. Apparently inspired by the "rules of cinematic writing," the piece is indeed a filmic journey, developing a sort of language or narrative logic of its own throughout its duration. Rodolfo Caesar's "Les demux saisons" is a jittering, thrilling edifice that provides nothing if not highly imaginative listening. Indeed, "Traces Two" is an engaging and dynamic listen – a compilation that feels like a coherent distillation of the INA GRM/RGRM agenda. – Alex Cobb, Experimedia
Kobuku Senju
Joining the Queue to Become One of Those Ordinary Ghosts
Following excellent releases by Pelt and Trouble Books, among others, MIE continues its hot streak with this lovely album by the Japanese-Norwegian quintet Koboku Senjû, a group that consists of Tetuzi Akiyama, Toshimaru Nakamura, Martin Taxt, Eivind Lønning, and Espen Reinertsen. The LP documents a live performance from 2011 and is a sterling slice of adventurous free improvisation that wouldn't be out of place on labels such as Erstwhile or 23five. The group dynamic here is really quite rich and immersive, with the players each keenly attuned to each other's decisions and palette. For much of the record, it's Nakamura's trademark no-input mixer atmospheres that provide underpinning for exhilarating interplay between brass, reeds and guitar. The record's two side-long pieces are both very detailed, transportive improvisations that warrant repeat and focused listening. Very recommended and another superlative pressing from MIE. – Alex Cobb, Experimedia
A top ten list from Experimedia writer Alex Cobb who also runs the Students of Decay label.
1. Kendrick Lamar
good kid, M.a.a.d. City
2. Actress
Honest Jon's
3. Nina Kraviz
4. Af Ursin
Trois Memoires Discretes
La Scie Doree
5. Chromatics
Kill for Love
Italians Do It Better
6. Ingenting Kollektiva
Fragments of Night
Invisible Birds
7. Ab-Soul
Control System
Top Dawg Entertainment
8. Roc Marciano
9. NHK'Koyxen
Dance Classics Vol. 1
10. Schoolboy Q
Habits and Contradictions
Top Dawg Entertainment
"Honorable Mentions"
High Aura'd
Sanguine Futures
Evan Caminiti
Dreamless Sleep
(Thrill Jockey)
Frank Ocean
Channel Orange
(Def Jam)
The Slaves
Ocean on Ocean
Helen Scarsdale Agency
My first exposure to The Slaves came with the release of "Spirits of the Sun," their quasi-devotional drone epic that was published by Digitalis earlier this year. After poking around a bit on the 'net (and checking out Slaves member Birch Cooper's equally stunning, short-run solo LP), I gleaned that the duo's true opus had already been recorded and released in micro-edition and was due for an imminent rerelease on the always superb Helen Scarsdale. "Seventeen" opens the record and establishes a familiar palette as that which the duo manifested on "Spirits of the Sun," with wraith-like, chanted vocals hovering and weaving throughout cresting feedback and held tones. In short, it's beautiful. There's something a bit more expressly post-shoegaze (for lack of a better term) about the sonics here than what we encountered anywhere on the pair's Digitalis LP, perhaps less synthesis and more processed guitars, or more likely it's the barely-there rhythms that coalesce to form arcs of wondrous, hypnotic sound. The record comes to a head at several points, such as on the sublime "Wild Ride" and on the album's ultimate track, the dirge-like "Dokude." All in all this is a terrific, completely immersive record and Helen Scarsdale has done us all a major service by publishing it in a proper edition. - Alex Cobb, Experimedia
Bee Mask
When We Were Eating Unripe Pears
Spectrum Spools
Chris Madak's Bee Mask project returns for another full-length outing on eMego sub-label Spectrum Spools, following a well-received slight detour of a 12" on the Room 40 label in which he explored slightly less abstract climes and focused more on rhythm and repetition, a tendency that also rears its head on this record. "When We Were Eating Unripe Pears" is perhaps best understood as the "proper" follow-up to his initial offering for Spectrum Spools, "Canzoni dal Laboratorio del Silenzio Cosmico," and offers the listener rich, alien soundscapes that are rife with detail. Burbling, chiming, seething, rising, panning - Madak's palette is diverse yet coherent, with disparate tonal arrays held together by a deft sense of pacing and recurrent motifs, rhythmic or otherwise, that show up throughout the album. "The Story of Keys and Locks" blooms suddenly into a sequencer-driven reverie that recalls co-conspirator John Elliott's work as Outer Space, all claustrophobic arpeggiations and high-end detritus. Obversely, "Fried Niteshade" and "Rain in Coffee" exist in more open spaces, with writhing, bubbling tones pinging and humming softly as if rotating in concentric orbits. Ultimately, "When We Were Eating Unripe Pears" is right at home in the Spectrum Spools stable, and if you're a fan of the imprint's output this should be a no-brainer. - Alex Cobb, Experimedia
Dance Classics Vol. II
The first volume of "Dance Classics" was a huge favorite around these parts, its primal, haphazard (and undeniably catchy) polyrhythms were nothing short of addictive. I was beyond pleased then to hear that Kouhei Matsunaga was returning to the PAN label for another installment. "Vol. II" blooms into being in a similarly compelling way as did its predecessor, with a rollicking track that perhaps recalls Gold Panda at his most bare. "703" conjures a similar soundworld to that which dominated the first "Dance Classics," all skittering rhythms, high-end filigree and a head-nodding bedrock sequence. Ultimately, my reaction to this LP is the same as it was with the first volume, that Matsunaga makes fascinating and urgent avant-techno to which I find myself wanting to return over and over again. - Alex Cobb, Experimedia
Lee Gamble
Diversions 1994-1996
PAN's turn towards the rhythmic has been nothing short of enthralling to me and, from a curatorial perspective, impressive in its seamless integration with the rest of the label's more experimental releases. "Diversions 1994-1996" has an interesting backstory, its source material reportedly culled from old Jungle mixtapes, assembled into the looming, spectral masses that occupy the record's two sides. The effect of Gamble's process and production tactics is one that is fundamentally deconstructive, much in the way that, say, the Dead C's appropriation of rock tropes is. We hear recognizable elements of techno and Jungle divorced from their usual environs, existing here as fragments and signifiers. A focused and unique record, "Diversions" is one of PAN's finest drops to date. - Alex Cobb, Experimedia


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Greetings Everyone! I've been reading everyone's comments and all have been helpful, although I have been getting mixed singles with some postings. But I'm thinking of relocating to Yonkers and I'm a bit unfamiliar with choosing the right, safe neighborhoods for my two boys and not to mention I'm a bit limited because I don't have a car. I'm looking for low income rental so I figured I would base majority of my apartment search on or near a good middle school, although I have one child in college and the other in middle (nuts)..But how is the living area around Pearls Hawthorn school or any neighboring schools? And if anyone know if colleges are near as well that would be great as well.. Any suggestions or resources are welcome...
I am very greatful that I chosed this school for my daughter. She is a high honor stuedent in the IB program, and will be on the 7th. grade next year. Great teachers!!
My husband and I were a little scared to send or daughter to a public middle school in Yonkers. She really wanted to try so we let her and we are very pleased with our decision. She is a high honor student and worked very hard to get there. Her teachers were very helpful and were always there on email to help us. She just finished 6th grade and we are very pleased with the school and the teachers.
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EMS Zebra Hunting Or Doing What's Right?
This week we revisit a bit the idea of Zebra Hunting in EMS. Do you see more paramedics needing to do interventions than others? Do they have more patients who need saving or are they over reacting or hunting for something that isn't there?
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Well! Feeling celebratory? Feeling festive? Feeling fine? Good: Celebrity DJ (just go with it) DJ Cassidy has unveiled the first single from his as-yet-untitled upcoming LP, "Calling All Hearts," featuring certifiable talents Jessie J and Robin Thicke. The trio are set to head out on tour together next February in a fifteen-city national tour, and Cassidy's track ties the three talents together nicely.
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This is the third shape variant of the Festival Flower. The most often known version shows a flower-like shape with five leaves. This one has twelve leaves. The variant called "Fill the circle" has no leaves at all.It is unknown in which way this twelve-leaves-variant is related to the other two.
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Regional, same day freight has propelled Best Cartage's growth and success
A three-truck dredge company that made its way in the 1980s by pulling containers off of the rail in Greensboro, N.C., was picked up in 1987 by three partners who had the intent of changing the small company's direction.
Best Cartage, now based in Kernersville, N.C., worked its way into the dry van segment and eventually found its niche in short haul, same day and early next day delivery.
"We do a lot of just-in-time business," VP of Fleet Operations Roy Cox says. "That is primarily our niche."
Some of the carrier's biggest customers are in the corrugated box industry, and they serve a five-state area around North Carolina, including all or parts of South Carolina, Virginia, Tennessee and Georgia.
They currently run 132 trucks and employ 150 drivers, Cox says, and all of its growth has been "natural, and slow and steady," though there were jumps in '95 and '99, both from securing large accounts in the corrugated box industry.
"In that niche market we kind of grew to be one of the premier carriers in the industry," Cox says. "Word of mouth spread our name around. The service we provided — which takes great drivers to do — earned us more business in the same industry. It was kind of a domino effect."
Cox says the fleet also puts an emphasis on driver experience and driver retention, and in 2010 and 2011 also Best Cartage was named one of the Truckload Carriers Association's Best Fleets to Drive For.
Of its top perks, home time is a major player, Cox says, as drivers are home every weekend — due to the regional runs — and even some during the week. The company has a corporate chaplain, workout room and, Cox says, "a family atmosphere."
"What I hear a lot of drivers say is they don't feel like a number; they're treated with respect," Cox says. "They're treated like people and I think that's what they truly appreciate. Even though we've grown larger, there's still definitely a family atmosphere."
Of the three owners that bought the fleet in 1987, two have retired and sold their shares to a current single owner. Though their business took a small hit by the recession, "we were able to tighten up our expense controls, batten down the hatches a bit," Cox says.
"We maintained the same customer base, we just had to deal with a lower volume of business," he says. "We just stayed focused on ourselves and our expense controls and continued to take care of our customers."
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It was suggested on another post that there was something wrong with the old live action Spider-Man tv series. You know the one with Nicholas Hammond as Peter Parker/ The Amazing Spider-Man.
Looking at this photo I can't imagine what the issue was…
Okay I'm lying. Even when I first saw it (probably at the age of about 8) I seemed terrible.