Justice: Delayed, Dismissed, Denied
Dec 31, 2009 journalism, philly, video
I know I am not in the majority.
I intentionally have zero plans for New Year’s Eve.
And to make my life even simpler, the internet isn’t working at home.
I will spend my time re-reading this however.
(How you might ask? I have it printed out and on my iPhone.)
In this four part Philadelphia Inquirer series (Courts, Fear, Fugitives, Guns) Craig R. McCoy, Nancy Phillips, and Dylan Purcell address the failed court system and witness intimidation in Philadelphia.
Sad, fascinating, stunning, troublesome.
I am guessing few will spend the time to read it (I think it goes over the popular 140 character limit), which is too bad because it is worth it.
Interesting to also see what kind of multi-media packages newspapers are putting together to save their skin/fight off the inevitable. This one is kind of meh. Idea was good, but there’s some flaws in the execution.
Tags: court system, courts, Craig R. McCoy, Dylan Purcell, Justice: Delayed Dismissed Denied, Nancy Phillips, Philadelphia Inquirer, witness intimidation
If you have $200 and are still figuring out what to get me…
Dec 31, 2009 journalism
This is perfect for you for me.
The Complete National Geographic on 160-GB Hard Drive
Explore 120 years of amazing discoveries, fascinating maps, and the world’s best photography with The Complete National Geographic. This definitive collection of every issue of National Geographic magazine, digitally reproduced in stunning high resolution, brings you the world and all that is in it. Use the advanced interface to explore a topic, search for photographs, browse the globe, or wander on your own expedition.
Access all of the maps, photos, and magazine issues found on the DVD collection in one external hard drive. Browse and search the entire collection without needing to swap out DVDs. Lightweight and travel-friendly, the hard drive is just 3″ x 5″ and requires only a USB connection. We’ve left plenty of hard disk space to accommodate future upgrades. We’ve also allocated approximately 100GB of hard disk space for your own personal use.
- Rediscover every printed page—every article and advertisement, and thousands of photographs—from 1888 through 2008
- Reference hundreds of the magazine’s classic maps digitized as part of the magazine’s archive for the first time
- Use Geobrowse—a visual geographic search tool—to find articles, photographs, and maps about the location you choose
- Browse special “read lists” from National Geographic or personalize your archive by creating and saving your own lists of favorite articles
- Test your knowledge of subjects including exploration, the environment, geography, history, cultures, and more with a trivia game that links to related articles
- Includes a bonus DVD with tips on how to take better photographs, an exclusive behind-the-scenes look at how National Geographic Magazine is put together, and interviews with NGM photographers revealing the backstory behind their famous photographs
- USB cable included
- Partitioned hard drive includes separate space for 100GB of your personal files
Tags: complete, every issue, NatGeo, National Geographic
Exhibit C
The full version.Finally dropped on iTunes a minute ago.
Wish Just Bleezy would have kept his mixtape DJ-esque mouth shut up. It’s akin to the swagger-jacking/scene stealing/moment ruining epic that Lil Mama pulled on Jay and Alicia.
The way I describe this song to people is always the same.
It is so good it makes me want to cry and punch myself in the face at the same time.
I have gone entire 8 hours days at work, listening to this track on repeat.
In any event, Jay had this to say:
I made this because i have loved Michael Jackson all of my life. All of my memories from about 5 years old or so (which is about as far back as i remember with some ease) can be tied to or associated with or landmarked by some musical contribution of Michael Jackson at that time. From then, all the way to now. He is a dark fingerprint on a very large part of who I am and who most of the people I know personally are. And thats why i posted this picture along with this song. The response to this song is amazing, and overwhelming and i appreciate all of the love and support it is recieving from everywhere. And i dedicate all of this positive energy toward a Great Hero of mine (although not perfect) who has performed many miracles in his physical life and who has and will be for many moons continue to be a glowing light in the dark for those who see something better inside of themselves and have the will and desire to pursue it. Evolution. May our good works be recorded and duplicated, and may our sins be recorded and forgiven. Amen.
I sorta dug the uber-slow widening of a great Michael Jackson pic. But as Commie Eddie pointed out, the song has nothing to do with MiKeJack.
Tags: Exhibit C, Jay Electronica, Michael Jackson
Move Your Money
Dec 31, 2009 etc.
Well, this kind of hits home, doesn’t it?
The philosophy is pretty simple. People got screwed and are getting screwed but the large banks. Smaller, community banks did not take advantage of their customers and have continued to make money available to their customers. It is something the big banks aren’t doing, perpetuating financial and economic problems, while they continue to pay themselves off.
To research credit union options click here.
Check out their site here and their Facebook page here.
The idea seems sound. But something also doesn’t quite seem right either.
No one, or no company, claims ownership of the site. Also, the site has a device to find your neighborhood community banks with a “B” or higher rating, but it doesn’t say who issues the grade or the criteria for receiving a grade. The company that offers the service is Institutional Risk Analytics, a unit of Lord, Whalen LLC. Their site seems a little amateurish and finding or figuring out exactly who they (Institutional Risk Analytics or Lord, Whalen LLC) are and what they might do is a little nebulous. The closest I could come was “Management Consulting Services” for Lord, Whalen LLC. I just wonder the relationship between the sites/companies.
I emailed MoveYourMoney.com and InstitutionalRiskAnalytics.com and am awaiting a response. I will post anything I get here.
Edit:
Christopher Whalen from Institutional Risk Analysis responds:
Dear Chris:
Thank you for requesting information about our bank ratings and our participation in the “Move Your Money” effort sponsored by the Huffington Post and Roosevelt Institute. The Move Your Money campaign is meant to provide people a one-click option to find local, solvent community banks. IRA has donated its Bank Stress Index ratings content free of charge to the Move Your Money portal. The zip code lookup tool shows FDIC-insured banks with at least a “B” rating from the IRA Bank Monitor’s stress index as of Q3 2009.
IRA publishes quarterly stress ratings for all FDIC-insured banks and thrifts. We have two products designed to meet the bank safety and soundness monitoring needs of individuals, financial advisers, bankers and small businesses who want to be able to identify good banks and be able to monitor their performance on an ongoing basis and at an affordable price. IRA also offers customized reports for specific institutions and other subscription and institutional advisory services.
IRA Bank Cart: The consumer version of the IRA Bank Monitor enables you to purchase a $1,000 per year, all you can eat subscription that allows you to see all of the current summary bank profiles and ratings in The IRA Bank Monitor. Users may also purchase subscriptions to single bank reports for $50 per year. Click the link below to register and get more information about The IRA Bank Cart: www.irabankratings.com
Each IRA Bank Report includes financial performance measures and IRA’s new safety and soundness letter ratings for each institution. The subscription provides four quarters of financial performance for each bank using the same metrics contained in the professional version of The IRA Bank Monitor. The reports are delivered into your shopping cart on www.irabankratings.com and are displayed in HTML, allowing us to provide functionality such as charts and other displays. A sample report is attached FYI.
IRA Bank Monitor: The professional version of The IRA Bank Monitor is a unique financial analysis tool for all FDIC insured depository institutions. The IRA Bank Monitor includes Stress Index ratings for all banks and BHCs, performance and Basel II risk factors, and Economic Capital benchmarks. The system display includes bank units as well as a “bank only” rollup of holding companies. Single seat, internal use only licenses are $10,000 per year for the web version of the IRA Bank Monitor. Enterprises licenses and customized implementations of the IRA Bank Monitor are also available via our web services model.
For institutional investors, we also offer the IRA Advisory Service for detailed monitoring of the financial performance of financial institutions. To request a demo and/or trial to professional version of The IRA Bank Monitor or Advisory Service, please register on our professional web site: http://us1.institutionalriskanalytics.com/Register.asp
Please let me know if you have any questions about any of our services.
Regards,
Christopher Whalen
Managing Director
Institutional Risk Analytics
cwhalen@institutionalriskanalytics.com
Office: 1-914-827-9272
Mobile: 1-914-645-5304
www.institutionalriskanalytics.com
Edit, Part 2:
Dennis Santiago from Institutional Risk Analytics responds:
Thank you for your email. IRA is a supplier of bank risk and stress information to the professional finance and banking industry. We also have contracts with government agencies. The Huffington Post contacted us just before Christmas and asked if we would consider donating some of our subject matter expertise to an initiative literally dream. We elected to do so. Please contact the HP about the site itself and the video. All we did was contribute the zip code tool.
The archaic look of our site is because most of our product delivery is corporate work terminal and cloud components fitted into other people’s systems oriented. Most professional systems are in fact rather dull looking.
Dennis Santiago
Chief Executive Officer
Institutional Risk Analytics
371 Van Ness Way, Suite 110
Torrance, California 90501
t. 310.676.3300
c. 310.918.6021
f. 310.943.1570
e. dsantiago@institutionalriskanalytics.com
w. http://www.institutionalriskanalytics.com
Tags: banking, banks, economy, finances, financial, Institutional Risk Analytics, InstitutionalRiskAnalytics.com, It's A Wonderful Life, Lord, Move Your Money, moveyourmoney.com, Whalen LLC
Flavor Flav + Auto Tune + A Love Ballad=
Disaster.
Sorry Flav.
Tags: Flavor Flav, I'll Never Let You Go
Nino Bless- It’s My Time
I know I said I was laying off the hip-hop content to round things out, but it ain’t my fault a lot of dope shit is coming out. For once…
Nino is the homie. Always on some real shit.
Tags: It's My Time, Nino Bless
New MADVILLAIN project…?!?!
Thanks Gas.
MadVillain = MF Doom + Madlib
Argh, so dope…
Take credit like Bernie/
Madoff with more shares than smears than on a gurney…
Edit- First was a BBC radio rip, this bonus sampler is JRocc spinning at Fat Beats on East Village Radio:
Tags: BBC, East Village Radio, Fat Beats, JRocc, Madlib, MadVillain, MF Doom
Young Forever
Dec 22, 2009 etc.
Pretty dope vid and track.
You can see DJ Neil Armstrong is the background of the concert shots.
Tags: Jay-Z, Mr. Hudson, Young Forever
Trae on ThisIs50.com
I promise I will fit in some non-rap related posts today.
Here’s my favorite rapper from Houston.
Talented dude, hood dude, nice dude, good dude.
LOLz @ the shoutout to Nancy Byron during the interview…
Tags: Mtv, ThisIs50.com, Trae, Trae tha truth
Jay Electhannukah
So Jay called into Shade45 for their Hannukah show, hosted by Paul Rosenberg.
The convo was pretty interesting.
Tags: interview, Jay Electronica, Paul Rosenberg, Shade 45
