The upcoming movie “Precious” looks to be an incredible movie, based on a heart wrenching story! The film stars Mo’Nique, Paula Patton, Mariah Carey, Sherri Shepherd, Lenny Kravitz and introduces Gabourey Sidibe, produced by Lee Daniels, Sarah Siegel-Magness and Gary Magness. Oprah Winfrey, Tyler Perry, Lisa Cortés and Tom Heller are Executive Producers. The movie hits the theaters November 6th, and the soundtrack is available in stores now! Check below for more info “Precious!”

taken from press release

Oprah Winfrey & Tyler Perry Present A Lee Daniels Film
“PRECIOUS”
Based On The Novel ‘Push’ By Sapphire
Movie In Theaters November 6th

TRACKLISTING
1.I Can See In Color – Mary J. Blige
2.He Is The Joy – Donna Allen
3.Was That All It Was (3:48) – Jean Carn
4.Did You Ever See A Dream Walking – Sunny Gale
5.Come Into My House – Queen Latifah
6.Just A Closer Walk With Thee – Mahalia Jackson
7.Love Is The Message – MFSB (featuring The Three Degrees)
8.Now That I Know Who I Am – Nona Hendryx
9.System – Labelle
10.Somethin’ s Comin’ My Way – Performed by Grace Hightower
11.It Took A Long Time – Labelle
12.Letters – Mario Grigorov

Executive Producer: Lee Daniels and Mary J. Blige
Soundtrack Producer: Lynn Fainchtein

HD Movie Trailer

*Mary J Blige – I See In Color (iMeem link)
http://www.imeem.com/maryjblige/music/wn6Var6B/mary-j-blige-i-can-see-in-color/

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Motown is ready for the holidays with their Ultimate Christmas Collection. To ring in the holiday season, Motown has released two holiday themed albums. The “Jackson 5: Ultimate Christmas Collection” is a must have.  We are treated to a flashback album of Jackson 5 holiday hits, including “Santa Claus Is Coming To Town”, “Frosty The Snowman” and more holiday classics.  “The Ultimate Motown Christmas Collection” continues the soulful holiday cheer, with its’ double disc collection of Christmas music.   Music from Smokey Robinson, Marvin Gaye, The Supremes, Stevie Wonder, The Commodores and tons more are on this CD.  Info on the new Motown holiday albums and music links are here to help get you in the holiday spirit early!

Jackson 5: Ultimate Christmas Collection (Available Now)

TRACKLIST

1. Have Yourself A Merry Little Christmas
2. Santa Claus Is Coming To Town
3. The Christmas Song
4. Up On The House Top
5. Frosty The Snowman
6. Little Drummer Boy
7. Rudolph The Red-Nosed Reindeer
8. Christmas Won’t Be The Same This Year
9. Give Love On Christmas Day
10. Someday At Christmas
11. I Saw Mommy Kissing Santa Claus
12. Season’s Greetings From Michael Jackson
13. Little Christmas Tree
14. Season’s Greetings From Tito Jackson
15. Up On The House Top (DJ Spinna Re-Edit)
16. Season’s Greetings From Jackie Jackson Jackie Jackson
17. Rudolph The Red-Nosed Reindeer (Stripped Mix)
18. Season’s Greetings From Jermaine Jackson
19. Someday At Christmas (Stripped Mix)
20. Give Love On Christmas Day (Group A Cappella Version)
21. J5 Christmas Medley

AUDIO: Season’s Greetings From Michael Jackson

AUDIO: Jackson 5 – Santa Claus Is Coming To Town

The Ultimate Motown Christmas Collection (Available Now)

TRACKLIST

Disc 1
1. Santa Claus Is Coming To Town – Jackson 5
2. What Christmas Means To Me – Stevie Wonder
3. Season’s Greetings From Eddie Kendricks
4. Rudolph The Red-Nosed Reindeer – Temptations
5. Season’s Greetings From The Supremes
6. My Favorite Things – The Supremes
7. Deck The Halls/Bring A Torch, Jeannette, Isabella – Smokey Robinson
8. Ave Maria – Stevie Wonder
9. Season’s Greetings From Thelma Houston
10. Joy To The World – The Supremes
11. God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen – Smokey Robinson
12. Silver Bells – The Supremes
13. Someday At Christmas – Stevie Wonder
14. Season’s Greetings From Jr. Walker
15. Winter Wonderland – The Funk Brothers
16. Jingle Bells – Smokey Robinson
17. Season’s Greetings From The Commodores
18. My Christmas Tree – Temptations
19. White Christmas – The Supremes
20. Season’s Greetings From The Velvelettes
21. Merry Christmas Baby – Four Tops
22. Give Love On Christmas Day – Johnny Gill
23. Christmas In The City Marvin Gaye
24. Season’s Greetings From The Temptations
25. Silent Night – Temptations

Disc 2
1. Season’s Greetings From Smokey Robinson
2. The Christmas Song (Merry Christmas To You) – Smokey Robinson & The Temptations
3. Children’s Christmas Song – The Supremes
4. Season’s Greetings From David Ruffin
5. The Little Drummer Boy – Temptations
6. I Saw Mommy Kissing Santa Claus – Jackson 5
7. Season’s Greetings From Four Tops
8. Christmas Here With You – Four Tops
9. This Christmas – Diana Ross
10. Season’s Greetings From Willie Hutch
11. Christmas Cheer – Boys
12. Let It Snow – Boyz II Men
13. Season’s Greetings From The Spinners
14. Christmas Everyday – Smokey Robinson
15. One Little Christmas Tree – Stevie Wonder
16. Season’s Greetings From Martha & The Vandellas
17. Noel – Smokey Robinson
18. Purple Snowflakes – Marvin Gaye
19. Season’s Greetings From The Elgins
20. Wish You A Merry Christmas – Kim Weston
21. It’s Christmas Time – Smokey Robinson
22. Season’s Greetings From Shorty Long
23. Xmas Twist – The Twistin’ Kings
24. I Want To Come Home For Christmas – Marvin Gaye
25. Season’s Greetings From Smokey Robinson & The Miracles
26. A Child Is Waiting – Smokey Robinson

AUDIO: Season’s Greetings from the Commodores

AUDIO: Stevie Wonder – What Christmas Means To Me

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In one of the most bizarre and controversial endings to a tennis match ever, Serena Williams lost her temper and the semi finals to Kim Clijsters. Serena showed her annoyance in the referee’s call and lost the match to a double penalty because of it! She was warned in her first match, after hitting her racket on the ground. When she was penalized in her second match for a line fault, she barked back at the line judge while walking toward her. The remaining seconds of the match turned into a sudden mini-conference, with the tournament referee coming out. At one point, Williams could be heard saying “I didn’t say I would kill you!” She walked over to Kim and offer apologies to Kim, and left the court.

Serena seemed to totally lose her temper, after being called for a foot fault. The call itself is questionable, as was Serena’s reaction. As a result, Kim Clijsters moves on as the first unseeded player to go to US Open Finals in over ten years. The usually reserved and quiet tennis crowds got a little loud as well, booing and cheering, telling Clijsters “you were gonna win anyway!”

Take a look at the video and stay tuned for more on this story as it develops.

Whats up folks! Hope you all are ready for the extra long weekend, as we slide into Labor Day! In the last few days, California has been usually hot, due to wildfires raging close to Los Angeles, which helped whip up a suffocatingly hot weekend as temperatures rose to blistering heights. In the midst of that, music icon Michael Jackson’s funeral took place
As if that weren’t enough, one Californian rose the bar in public protesting by upping Bush’s shoe thrower and took a bite out of the health care debate. With this much news hitting the wire in one week, I think we all are very happy to take an extra day off. Here’s a quick rundown of some the news, links, and other assorted goodness! Have a great Labor Day Weekend!
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The health care debates continue and I am still a bit lost! If you are like me and need a little help reading through the lines and separating the hype from the real issues, then take a look at the links below. Feel free to leave a respectable comment on Health Care Reform below!

The Five Biggest Hurdles to Health-Care Reform-Time.com
By Jay Newton-Small / Washington Monday, Jul. 27, 2009

“There are other thorny issues. The House, for example, envisions giving insurance to about 10 million currently uninsured by broadening the guidelines of Medicaid, the state/federal program for the poor. The problem is that many governors of already cash-strapped states are voicing their opposition to this proposal; while the current bill says Washington would foot the bill for these new Medicaid enrollees, states that are having a hard enough time as it is paying their share of the program are wary of what might happen several years from now.”

How Health Care Reform Would Impact You -GE Miller from Mint Life Blog

Who stands to benefit the most from Obama’s health care reform?

It’s unclear how the bill will benefit the majority of Americans who already have employer sponsored health care plans at this point. In theory, premiums should be decreased because the insured are no longer footing the bill for the uninsured. The reform aims to immediately help:

1. Those without any insurance.
2. Those who have paid for expensive individual policies on their own.
3. Employees of small businesses that have trouble affording the cost of joining a group plan.
4. Low income Medicare participants who are left paying for whatever is not covered by Medicare for their medical bills and prescriptions.

Whether intended or not, the legislation could also mean more profits for insurance companies by making it a requirement for all Americans to purchase an insurance policy, be it by subsidy or out-of-pocket.

Bachmann: We should ‘make a covenant, to slit our wrists, be blood brothers’ against health care reform.

Controversial Congresswoman Michele Bachmann suggest a unusual alliance!

“This [health care reform] cannot pass…What we have to do today is make a covenant, to slit our wrists, be blood brothers on this thing. This will not pass. We will do whatever it takes to make sure this doesn’t pass…Right now, we are looking at reaching down the throat and ripping the guts out of freedom. And we may never be able to restore it if we don’t man up and take this one on.”

Some doctors say enough is enough. One way to help bring the cost of health insurance down is for us to take personal responsibility of our health!
Health reform idea: Put down the doughnut
Critics say consequences of individual choice missing from reform debate
But Spady is part of a growing chorus of medical professionals, researchers and ordinary citizens who contend that the touchy topic of individual responsibility has been all but ignored in the debate about how to reform the nation’s health care system — and how to pay for it.

“Seldom does anyone suggest how — or if — the individual’s role should be reformed,” argued Lisa Herrington, 46, a former health industry administrator who launched a discussion of the topic in May on the blog “Thoughts that Make You Think.”

“Having health insurance coverage doesn’t make a person healthy. It’s what you do with that coverage and your personal choices that make the difference,” she added.

Pelosi Says Health Care Bill WILL NOT Pass The House!
“In a recent statement, Pelosi made the following claim: “A bill without a strong public option will not pass the House.” “Any real change requires the inclusion of a strong public option to promote competition and bring down costs. If a vigorous public option is not included, it would be a major victory for the health insurance industry.”

FACTBOX: Health care reform provides political risks, awards
Here’s a look at some of most important lawmakers as they return from a monthlong recess — and look ahead to the 2010 election when the entire 435-member House of Representatives is up for re-election, along with 38 of the 100 senators.

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Health Care Reform Debate

Here’s a video of Al Franken talking with debators at a health care reform debate. Thankfully, everyone walked out of this one with all their digits in tact!


Health Care Reform: Then and Now – New York Times Video
Though its approach to overhauling health care is different than that of its predecessors, the Obama administration hasn’t been able to avoid all of the political and public relations problems that earlier health care efforts confronted.

BILL MOYERS JOURNAL | Bill Moyers on Health Care | PBS

BE ON THE LOOK OUT FOR JULY SHOW DATES IN LOS ANGELES TO BE ANNOUNCED THIS WEEK!!!!!!!!!!!!! (http://ping.fm/p/7gUIf)

Wildfires continue to burn through thousands of acres in Southern California, adding to the record breaking, heat filled summer. Ash and soot fill the skies in menacing gray clouds that can be seen for miles, as the fires burns for miles as well.  Mount Wilson, Flintridge, Mount Gleason and Acton,  Angeles National Forest, Glendale and Pasadena are all feeling the heat.  Mount Wilson is being watched closely, as it is the site for many media antennas.  If they go, so will several local news channels and some emergency response communications as well.  Areas as far north as Sacramento are also fighting fires.

Station Fire at Night, originally uploaded by jhapeman.

Two firefighters lost their lives battling flames as their truck overturned.  “Our hearts are heavy as we are tragically reminded of the sacrifices our firefighters and their families make daily to keep us safe,” Schwarzenegger said in a statement. ABC 7 Eyewitness News is reporting the names of Fire Captain Tedmund “Ted” Hall and Firefighter Specialist Arnaldo “Arnie” Quinones as the victims.

Others have fallen victem to the flames as well.
“While thousands have fled, two people who tried to ride out the firestorm in a backyard hot tub were burned. The pair in Big Tujunga Canyon, on the southwestern edge of the fire, “completely underestimated the fire” and the hot tub provided “no protection whatsoever,” Sheriff’s spokesman Steve Whitmore said Sunday.” -Yahoo News/AP

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Southern California Fires Google Map! from LA Times

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!!!EMERGENCY EMERGENCY EMERGENCY!!! Please crosspost.

URGENT URGENT URGENT – shelter completely out of space! 70+ dogs alone taken in last night due to fires, bringing the total up to 150+ dogs. Fire has tripled in size overnight and additional 10,000 homes may have to evacuate. If you have any contacts with TV/radio stations, please contact them to get the word out. Thank you.

From Mary Temple, adoption supervisor at Pasadena Humane Society: Can any of you rescuers and animal lovers help PHS out by bringing crates to our shelter for the fire victims’ animals and rescue some of our animals? 361 S. Raymond Ave. Pasadena, CA 91105 PHS will be open by 9 a.m. instead of 11 a.m. on Sunday, August 30th.

The Pasadena Humane Society is the only licensed wildlife center in the 30 mile radius of the wildfires. They are rapidly taking in displaced & injured wild animals, in addition to domestic animals & livestock. The dogs and bunnies are outdoors in this horrible air quality & there are dogs in the P2, P3, P4, P5 kennels facing west w/no shelter from the sun in the afternoon. Please please, if you can adopt or rescue please consider: http://pasadenahumane.org

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For evacuation information on Station Fire please call 211.

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Time Lapse Test: Station Fire from Eric Spiegelman on Vimeo.

Apocalypse, originally uploaded by anosmicovni.

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Michael Vick is back in the news, as he signs a new contract with The Philadelphia Eagles. Vick stated that he wants to be a part of the answer, and not the problem, as he spoke about his attempts at reform, and thanked Eagles coach Andy Reid and team owner Jeffrey Lurie. Vick signed a deal for one year, for 1.6 million dollars with a second year option. The reinstatement of the controversial NFL player has been met with both positive and negative fan reaction. The perception of Vick is mixed, some people are rallying around him and showing support for the former Atlanta Falcon quarterback, reserving any judgment or hard feelings. Some Philly season ticket holders are selling their tickets online in protest, and many people are up in arms and will not forgive the “convicted canine killer” (description belongs to Wolf Blitzer, not mine). I posted the  question to my friends on Facebook and got quite a few responses.  Read their remarks below, and feel free to post your as well!!

What do you think? Should he be allowed to play again or is it a bad move for Philly and NFL?

“Bill Smith, founder of Main Line Animal Rescue in the Philadelphia suburbs, said the group will be renting three billboards near the Eagles’ stadium blasting the signing of Vick.” – taken from “Vick Looking For Second Chance With Eagles”- NFL On Fox.com

Comments from Facebook

Kasatra Cue- Evans

He served his time and he should be able to do anything he wants too . There are so many people out free for worser crimes. Just yesterday I saw where a man who committed a sexual crime with a young child only got five years of probation. I think the child was like 6 and they gave him the light sentence because the childs story of the incident was not always the same. I have a dog and I do not feel he should continue to be ridiculed for a crime he has been punished for.

Chris T. Joseph

Yes. Just like those other NFL athletes that killed a human life while drinking and driving who only got suspended and they are back playing. A life is a life! However give everyone the same treatment. Vick goes to prison for dogs and other people get a slap on the wrist for killing a human, doesn’t sound fair to me. People saying Vick shouldn’t play should go and holler the same at those NFL players who took a life or lives of a HUMAN BEING!!!

Barbara Norl

Well, does the NFL have “Have you ever been convicted of a felony?” on their application??? I think it depends on what the NFL’s guidelines are for that kind of stuff (which I don’t happen to know). That would determine if he should be playing or not. It shouldn’t be because of his skill or celebrity. He shouldn’t be a special exception. I do  not condone what he did and have no sympathy for him being locked up for it BUT I do agree that he has done his time according to the law and should be allowed to play again if it doesn’t conflict with the NFL’s contract rules.

David McGuire

Let him play… I think its an ongoing shame how that team treats McNabb tho…

Danny Howard

Kill a person, and it’s OK; kill a dog and America hates you forever regardless of your efforts to reform yourself. I admit, he’s no angel, but who is? Should he be denied the right to earn a living, even after a two-year stint in prison? Yes, he should. America needs to move on and let him earn a living.

Jimmy McCall

I am ok with it. He served his time.

Anthony Huggins

I think he should be allowed to play again but he will not be looked at the same…Hell, the Eagles might do something now!!

My Facebook page is here, btw!

Laron Cue