January 10, 2012
5:53 pm
by: ted89

Urgent Hip Hop News

Despite moving into her own place, Emily Bustamante confessed to Teairra Mari that she hopes her break with rapper Fabolous, the father of her son and on-again, off-again boyfriend of nine years, isn’t permanent. Emily said that Fab has been making changes for the better since she took the initiative to leave.

In the continuing pursuit to revive her singing career, Olivia Longott went to visit the studio of Rico Appreciate, who has produced hits for Beyoncé (“Sweet Dreams”), Kelly Rowland (“Motivation”), and Usher (“There Goes My Baby”), among others. He, like Olivia’s manager Rich Dollaz and countless others, told Olivia that she needs to put more emotional honesty into her music in order for people to connect with her. She appeared to finally process the advice, but by the time she was shown singing a sad song with a smile on her face, Rico told Rich that he would be reluctant to work with her unless she was prepared to show her true self.

In the episode’s pivotal scene, Yandy shocked Teairra and Olivia by walking into a Miami club with Kimbella and Erica. But the real explosion came when Yandy came face-to-face with Chrissy for the first time since Yandy said she intended to quit as Jim Jones’ manager. Chrissy said that Yandy was about to be fired, and sent a disrespectful email to Jim that blended personal and professional matters. Voices were raised as soon as they started talking, and soon a scuffle was taking place as Yandy said she earned her money while Chrissy slept with Jim for hers.

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Common isn’t unfamiliar with the rap beef – in 1994, he released “I Used to Adore H.E.R.” – a song reminiscing on his enjoy for hip-hop, and its perceived downfall at the hands of West Coast gangsta rap. Naturally, rap outfit Westside Connection answered the call, and the beef grew heated until a truce was mediated by Nation of Islam Minister Louis Farrakhan.

However, it’s not 1994, and Common isn’t a young rapper trying to find his way. He’s an established entertainer, fielding White House invites and Hollywood movie and television scripts – why is Drake even on his radar?

It’s unclear why Common is coming after Drake in the first place. It’s fine not to be a fan of the guy, but trying to implicate him for what you feel is the downfall of the hip-hop genre is not just lazy, it’s simplistic. It reeks of jealousy. Drake may not be the greatest rapper alive, but he certainly isn’t driving hip-hop to hell in a hand-basket. Common’s allegations seem like a misguided attempt for attention.

Another theory about why Common is coming after Drake has to do with Common’s ex-girlfriend. Drake was recently quoted in a Complex magazine article saying, “I really, really really like and care for Serena Williams,” without elaborating on their relationship. Cue angry ex-boyfriend Common, launching an attack on the new guy who may have taken his girl and is now flaunting it.

Despite the heartbreak, it’s still not worthy of a rap feud. Really enjoy hurts, Common, and hip-hop changes. Drake is likely the rapper of the moment, but eventually he’ll have to pass the crown to someone else. It’s the nature of the game. Common should be beyond feeling the need to defend his place in hip-hop, especially when he wasn’t attacked by a truly formidable opponent.

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January 9, 2012
5:26 pm
by: ted89

Health Insurance Controversy

sky on Jan 9, 2012 at 10:46 am

Speaking at the Nashua Chamber of Commerce this morning, Mitt Romney said, “If you don’t like what [insurance companies] do, you can fire them. I like being able to fire people who provide services to me.” Romney was making the case for increasing the availability of individual health insurance plans with higher deductibles and cost sharing. “I want individuals to have their own insurance,” the former Massachusetts governor said, arguing that Americans who pay more for their own health care insurance plans will spend less on unnecessary services:

ROMNEY: That’s the system we have in health care, everyone just keeps piling on because it’s free…In some places overseas, they have this idea of co-insurance, where people are responsible for a percent of their bill. Let’s say 10 percent. In Switzerland, you’re responsible for, I think 20 percent of your hospital bill. So, if you’re going to have a knee replacement you shop around to see who is going to have the best record and who is reasonably priced…We’re going to have to bring into health care the dynamics of a consumer market so that people have an incentive to look at the cost.

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Conservatives have long claimed that giving Americans more “skin in the game” — that is, increasing their sensitivity to prices — would encourage individuals and families to make more informed health care choices, avoid costly treatments and eventually lower health care costs. But there is very little evidence to suggest that asking people to pay more out of pocket would actually reduce health care costs, particularly since most of the spending is concentrated among the sickest Americans (those who suffer from multiple chronic conditions and cannot choose to forgo care).

As Yale professors Theodore Marmor and Jerry Mashaw pointed out in the Philadelphia Inquirer last year, “if free medical care led to more reckless overuse, countries like Canada and Germany, where patient costs are either zero or minimal, would suffer disproportionate inflation in expenditures or severe access pressures. They don’t.” Indeed, the theory doesn’t even hold up in the American health care system, where individuals with higher cost sharing in the employer based system with higher cost sharing don’t seem to spend less than Medicare enrollees with smaller cost sharing.

Of course, it might be good to check into insurance quotes so you don’t have to rely on the government to make your choices. We figure that good health insurance quotes are our own responsibility!

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November 27, 2011
2:19 am
by: ted89

A Banksy print For everyone

Shepard Fairey recently completed a new mural in Los Angeles on the same building that he used to illegally ‘bomb’ with his art. Now the building owner invited and hired Shepard to come paint the walls. This mural is a prime example of how far Fairey has taken the street art movement with his Obey campaign, and his leadership.

There is no official ‘Leader’ of the street art movement, but if there were it would be Shepard Fairey. Sure, Banksy might be a bigger household name, but he has remained delightfully incognito. Shepard is both an artist and a face for the movement, and with all due respect to Banksy, no one has done more to pioneer the movement and help form street art into what it is today, both in terms of unsanctioned art and as spokesperson for the genre.

When Shepard first started doing ‘street art,’ there was no such thing as street art. Sure, there were graffiti writers spraying their names, and bands were promoting their shows through flyers, but Fairey was the first combine elements of both and embrace print medium itself like Banksy print as his main artistic voice. From stickers, to stencils, to posters and wheat pastes, Fairey has taken his campaign all over the world. Some of it is legal, much of it is unsanctioned, and the result is that Shepard’s street art has been embraced by mainstream culture so much that Fairey was selected to compose an image of Barack Obama for the 2008 presidential election campaign.

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November 21, 2011
6:34 pm
by: ted89

New Hip Hop Updates For you

The flipside of all this really is that, the two getting now reached such lofty heights, they appear much less hungry to prove themselves. Consequently, you can find moments in “Watch the Throne” that really feel complacent. The songs “Lift Off” and “Welcome towards the Jungle” come to thoughts. It is difficult, in a large number of situations, for rappers to preserve their hunger when their lives turn out to be so distinctive from exactly where they began. They shed a few of their original motivation. West, to me, appears forever motivated by his rabid narcissism, his blessing and his curse. Jay-Z, due to the fact feigning retirement in his classic “Black Album,” appears to become motivated by a vague want to remain on leading of the game – a want, I suppose, which motivates every single rapper to some degree. However, his good results could possibly be his undoing, for he has small left to acquire or shed in this region. “The Nets could go 0-82,” he raps, “and I’d appear at you like this shit gravy.”
Nevertheless, each artists are remarkable at what they do, and it is actually crucial to note that you’ll find a few tracks on the album which are just cold. The aforementioned “N***** in Paris” is particularly catchy. Exactly the same is correct of the other single from the album, “Otis.” Other tracks are hidden gems: “Gotta Have It,” created by the Neptunes by way of worldstarhiphop, is actually a banger. Bonus track which was found on Worldstarhiphop “The Joy,” created by Pete Rock, should really only be held with oven mitts. “New Day,” in which West and Jay-Z advise their sons on the best way to live life, is gold at the same time. All in all, the album is neither of the artists’ most desirable perform, however the reality of the matter is the fact that West and Jay-Z couldn’t flop if they attempted. As Mel Brooks when put it, “It’s fantastic to become the king.”

The pink-loving hip-hop diva picked up two trophies Sunday in the American Music Awards. Minaj kicked off the fan-favorite ceremony by sporting a pair of speakers on her much-talked about posterior. She was later honored as preferred rap/hip-hop artist, besting a group that included mentor Lil

Wayne, and won preferred rap/hip-hop album for Pink Friday.
“There’s so a lot appreciate in this space,” beamed the pink-haired Minaj.

Adele had been the leading nominee with 4 awards, but did not have significantly of a presence in the show: She was absent from the ceremony considering she is recovering from current throat surgery. She won an award for preferred pop/rock female artist. The award, like many other people, had been announced backstage.

When she talks, K. Flay uses big words.Nascent.Dichotomous. Alienation.It is the sort of vernacular that writers splay all more than the page when they’re trying to sound intelligent.
But Flay actually is intelligent; there is her dual degrees from Stanford in psychology and sociology, for one thing. At this time, as she phones in from San Francisco, Flay’s speaking on the topic of identity, a fitting topic considering that the 26-year-old is within the process of creating one of her own. The thing is, however, it is not the one she originally had in thoughts.

With shoulder-length brown hair and an endearing smile, Flay is even more Bethany Cosentino than Big KRIT; the newcomer is challenging our stereotypes of how an MC will need to appear and act.

But she’s also turn out to be one of hip-hop’s most intriguing new talents. As shown on her breakout three-part mixtape she released in April — called I Stopped Caring in ’96 — there is a grit beneath her privileged exterior. Flay spits rhythmic licks in terse, agitated fashion, with pristine enunciation and verbal posture.

The North Omaha native just released a brand new song called “Turn Me Up.” KETV NewsWatch 7′s Ryan Luby and KETV photojournalist Ashley Nodgaard had been inside the studio near 36th and Lake Streets as Marie put together the final verse.
“Do it until we get it proper,” Marie said to recording engineer Wade Milliner.
Marie worked on the song with Omaha hip-hop artist K-So, who now lives in Atlanta. They recorded the majority of the song in a friend’s North Omaha home some months ago.
The final verse just needed “a small far more attitude,” Marie said having a smile.
Marie said she got interested in a singing career as a freshman at Omaha’s Northwest High School.
“The guys, they’d be outside rapping, and beatboxing, so I kind of got into that whole culture thing,” Marie said.
Marie then transferred to Benson High School before her junior year.

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November 21, 2011
5:49 pm
by: ted89

Lego advent calendars

All right, you happy culture warriors, keep your powder dry. Wait until Thanksgiving before you start kvetching about how Christmas is turning back into Saturnalia. Better yet, wait until you check out the Lego Star Wars advent calendar.

It’s fun, it’s liturgical year-friendly. One Lego city advent calendar sells on Amazon for $38 — almost exactly what a carton of Pall Malls costs at the Pima reservation in Scottsdale.

On every day of the season, kids get to open a new window and claim a new block or figurine. On every day of Lent, the ingenious Christian parent could deepen her child’s understanding of sacrifice by locking one back up. (Yes, I know — I’m advertising my ignorance about kids and parenting: by Ash Wednesday, two-thirds of the pieces will have been lost or swallowed. Work with me. I’m just trying to get everyone’s creative juices flowing.)

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November 17, 2011
6:23 pm
by: ted89

The NYPD is seeking 3 guys observed inside a video beating up a man who scolded them for spitting around the L train. The video, beneath, was initially posted on WorldStarHipHop, an Online cesspool that is cashed in substantial on senseless battle movies. The site’s reputation has designed a kind of voyeuristic feedback loop, in which disassociated bystanders right away videotape violent incidents and act as if they are currently watching a video online. This specific video serves as an ideal instance of how violence becomes immediate entertainment in recent times: because the young man is receiving brutally beaten, the lady recording the battle is heard gloating “WorldStarHipHop, infant!” in the 50 2nd mark:

Ugh, nicely, no less than she held her cellphone horizontally despite the fact that gleefully documenting another person else’s suffering. Based on ABC seven, the video was recorded just immediately after two a.m. on November 8th on an L train close to the Myrtle Wyckof quit, and it could bring about assault charges if police ever uncover the perpetrators. CBS two reports that there’s no word around the extent with the victim’s injuries. Around the plus side, the video’s gotten above 47,000 views on Planet Star, infant!

The victim fights back but is outnumbered and it is repeatedly kicked inside the head. Soon after the altercation, the assailants run away and disoriented, the man sits down in an empty car or truck, each of the bystanders possessing left. No word however as for the extent of his injuries.

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November 7, 2011
4:28 pm
by: ted89

Grandfather clocks and the time change

Take, for example, the dairy cow who doesn’t know what a clock is..

Daylight saving time, which ends at two a.m. tomorrow, has lengthy frustrated dairy farmers. Their cows should be milked each and every two hours, regardless of no matter if a government policy adds or erases an hour off the clock.

“If you have got a typical herd, and they are not organic … Them cows are going to be milking,” stated John Jordan, farm manager at Maryland Sunrise Farm in Gambrills. “Their udders cannot take that hour, you realize what I’m saying?”

Jordan, who worked for decades with dairy cows, says you will find two solutions to obtain the cows back on schedule, besides letting them develop into uncomfortably full and possibly causing wellness trouble. Milk them a full hour early, that is not effective, or invest the subsequent many hours adjusting milking occasions by 15 minutes.

Either way, Jordan mentioned, daylight saving time is no friend towards the farmer.

Neither is it for the watchmaker, whose telephone begins ringing with many people fretting aboutdestroying beneficial timepieces inside the switch.

“When you’ve to go backwards, individuals get stunned on ways to do that,” mentioned Buddy Huguley, owner of Buddy Huguley’s Clock and Watch in Annapolis. He’s been in business enterprise for 32 years, but the issues stay exactly the same.

“A lot of time, think or not, they come in to have me reset their watches,” Huguley stated.

The daylight saving time travails with the watchmaker involve various customers with Rolex watches who fear they’ll break the seal by adjusting the time, and owners of grandfather clocks. Gears of older clocks cannot tolerate moving backwards, and some do not have silencers so “falling back” basically entails 11 clangs forward.

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October 31, 2011
4:08 pm
by: ted89

Most people look to their local news stations to inform them of the days events. Journalism is based on truth and integrity. Generally when individuals look at the news they may assume that everything being presented to them is fact. Individuals are being presented information that isn’t entirely true. This semi true information is being presented to viewers thru video news releases.

There are many dilemmas concerning the use of these video news releases being used as real news on local and national television stations. The use of video news releases used by television newsrooms were documented by the Center for Media and Democracy (CMD) over a period of ten months. From this investigation CMD found that thirty-six video news release’s had been used by these news media groups.

What exactly is a video news releases, it is a public relations tool used where a short clip is produced and sent to media outlets. The video news release’s do offer viewers information. Since video news release’s are made by those in public relations they are for the most part used to sell a product or a certain point of view to the viewer. It is important that the public knows about the purpose of video news releases. When video news releases are presented to the public by media outlets as news reports, viewers are not given the correct information. Most news outlets that show these video news release’s show parts of the video news releases and do not inform views that the information provided is a prepared video new releases, and not based on information gathered by a reporter.

Video news releases are clips that sometimes can not be distinguished between original news programs. These video news releases have been showed by television stations unedited. These unedited video news releases do not give viewers information into who these video clips are produced by. Some of the sponsors of these video news releases are non-government organizations, government organizations, and corporations, among others. Journalist that use video news releases as their own work are committing plagiarism with them. If TV journalists label the video news releases and allow their viewers the opportunity to see who is sponsoring the video news releases then they are okay.

Some widely used video news release term are: video news release (VNR), edited piece, voice over, feed, b-roll package, b-roll, downlink, and uplink. A video news releases is usually 90 second or less, it is a paid video news clip that is produced for broadcast on a news media outlet. An edited piece which is often called a package is a completed video news release. A voice over is a narration of the story. A satellite transmission of information is often called a feed. A feed of interviews and a b-roll which usually includes a script is a b-roll package. The b-roll included in a b-roll package is a video clip used to resemble a news story. When media is received by satellite it is called downlink, it is the opposite of uplink which is media distributed by the satellites.

“Fake TV News: Widespread and Undisclosed” is the name the report released by the Center for Media and Democracy. The report is the end result of the ten month investigation conducted by CMD’s senior researcher and Daniel Price who was the reach consultant. The report shows how video news releases also know as fake news are made by public relations experts and are then being broadcast by news outlets as news.

Daniel Price a research consultant for the report and also a media critic has been tracking public relation propaganda since 1993. “I was really irritated when I found out that the stations use real reporters to re-voice the publicists voice. Then the stations would air it. And in most cases, stations failed to balance the clients message with independently-gathered footage or basic journalistic research,” said Price.

Andy Ludlum, a news director at KFWB explained that prepackaged information is sent out by publicist so radio broadcasters can use them on the air. Video news releases are an opportunity for publicist to get free publicity and promote their product or client at the same time. Ludlum stated that “Occasionally, I get a radio news release and those are problematic. I think that mot of them are so boring I would not want to read them anyways.”

When Jim Hill a broadcast journalism professor at California State University of Northridge was a reporter at CNN, he said that video news releases had been labeled. Hill stated that “When I used to report I would pride myself on getting the information from direct participants. If I had to talk to a public relations consultant I would consider the interview to be a failure. I would only get information from them if it was general information.”

Hill didn’t like using pr officials and press releases, he always tried to do his own reporting. Hill believes that journalism credibility depend on independence. “We use people as journalist to get information, and people use us,” said Hill.

Lori Baker-Schena a public relations professor at CSUN spoke to Hill and told her video news releases are great tools. Baker-Schena told Hill that if the department had the funds she would include video news releases in her public relations classes.

Maureen Rubin also a public relations professor at CSUN said there isn’t a problem with information that is pre-recorded. Rubin said, “VNRs are legitimate use material. The VNR’s are creating awareness about a service, product or event that maybe beneficial to a great deal of people. Many small stations cannot afford to send reporters out to cover every major events.”

Rubin said that is the information is accurate and answers the five w’s: who, what, when, where and why then there shouldn’t be any problems. Rubin also stated that it isn’t the job of the public relations firm to label the video news releases but the job of the television stations that are airing the VNR’s.

“…The most important thing is that news stations are passing of the information as their own reporting and it clearly is the work of publicist, some VNR’s have publicists pretending to be a reporter,” said Price.

A formal complaint was filed simultaneously by the Free Press a media reform group and CMD asking the Federal Communications Commission to enforce a crack down on fraud dealing with television news programs. The two groups are asking for fake TV news to be labeled for example video news releases. The groups are asking if those who produce video news releases are mandatory in labeling their products.

Price also stated that “the bottom line is, if its not labeled, it’s not journalism – it’s ventriloquism.”

Price said the use of VNR’s by media outlets is “a big issue.” David Greenberg doesn’t think this issue is a public issue. “I don’t think the public cares. For those of us that are in the craft we care,” said Greenberg.

Ludlum had the same view as Greenberg does care if the video news releases are disguised or not, unless the person is a journalist they simplify will not care.”

The news outlets that use video news releases should specify they are using video news releases in their broadcast, so viewers are aware of where the information is coming from.

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October 31, 2011
4:05 pm
by: ted89

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