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“SummerQAmp, launching today, is a nationwide initiative to train a new workforce in high-tech skills and help create tech jobs for American youth. It was developed as a commitment to the White House’s Summer Jobs initiative, a call to action for businesses, non-profits and government to work together to provide pathways to employment for low-income and disconnected youth this summer.”
(via thenextweb)
POTUS was fired up at the UAW today.
Fuck yeah Barack Obama.
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(Photo: Patrick Semansky / AP via the New York Daily News)
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The Best of Andy Rooney Volumes 1 & 2: Movies & TV
This is kind of bullshit guys, because, let’s be honest, you should just do a huge DVD box set that includes EVERY SINGLE ONE of Andy Rooney’s curmudgeonly but cute and out-of-touch rants. According to Amazon, “Run Time: 245 minutes”. Doesn’t that seem like WAY TOO LITTLE ANDY ROONEY?
Sad face.
How will my fiance react?!
News: AC Slater’s “Big Brooklyn Bass” single is out today
Trouble & Bass and Party Like Us Records luminary AC Slater is known for his brand of big Brooklyn bass, so why not name your next single that, right? So that’s what he did, and now as of today, the single is available for purchase on the Trouble & Bass Web site, and you can stream it below. Get ready to pump those hands.
(mp3) AC Slater - Big Brooklyn Bass
Godspeed!
News: Drive Thru Records turns fifteen
Drive Thru Records are releasing their entire back catalog through iTunes this season, and they’ve already set out over 40 of them to date, and, to be honest, we spent a lot of formative years with the Drive Thru catalog (Dashboard Confessional, Finch, Home Grown, Midtown, Senses Fail, Allister, et al.) so kudos to the brother-sister duo for continuing on in their quest that started in their home.
Godspeed!
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During their first week, members of Occupy Wall Street, the ideologically vague and strategically baffling effort to redress social inequities, put together a library on the north end of Zuccotti Park whose disparate offerings included “Last Exit to Brooklyn”; Gay Talese’s article in The New Yorker on the collaboration of Tony Bennett and Lady Gaga; and Abbott’s Digest of New York Statutes and Reports, Volumes 4, 9, 33 and 34. By the middle of last week, as the numbers entrenched in the park grew, copies of “Animal Farm,” Barbara Ehrenreich’s “Nickel and Dimed” and “Meltdown,” a book outlining the 2008 financial crisis, were well placed. Specific ambitions still had not emerged, but a new intensity had begun to replace the limp theatrics.
The New York Police Department could not have intended to operate as a public relations arm for Occupy Wall Street, but its invidious treatment of the demonstrators last weekend went a tremendous way toward galvanizing sympathy for the group’s good but porous intentions. Video widely seen on the Internet of a high-ranking officer, later identified as Deputy Inspector Anthony Bologna, attacking what appeared to be docile protesters with pepper spray prompted public outrage and investigations by the Internal Affairs Bureau of the Police Department and Manhattan prosecutors.
Early Monday evening, helicopters flew over Wall Street, in anticipation of what — excessively boisterous readings of Orwell? — was hardly clear. The group’s march on the financial district’s Luxury Night Out was still a day away. The Broad Street outpost of Hermès was in no imminent jeopardy.
Like a toddler who throws his food on the floor, gets in trouble and then just does it again, the Police Department overreacts to peaceful protests, invites ire and then reprises its actions the next time it encounters agitation. Inspector Bologna is a defendant in lawsuits claiming wrongful arrests at protests during the Republican National Convention in 2004.
Among the more than 100 arrests made since the protest began, on Sept. 17, were three more on Wednesday for that decidedly questionable menace: loitering while wearing a mask. While the police would do well to avoid criminalizing costumes, the department would do even better to remember that when people are carted away by law enforcement merely for carrying cameras — as one seemed to be in another well-circulated image — more cameras are sure to come.
”The New York Times, “Every Action Produces Overreaction.”
(via inothernews)
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News: Porter Robinson is releasing his debut EP, “Spitfire”
Young up-and-coming electronic dance music producer Porter Robinson just finished signing with Skrillex’s new OWSLA “project” (read: record label or distribution of some kind) and now the first release from that collaborative project is the debut EP from Robinson, Spitfire. Six new songs and remixes from Kill The Noise, Downlink, Knife Party and more, Spitfire will be out on Beatport next Tuesday, September 13.
Tracklist:
01 Spitfire
02 Unison
03 100% In The Bitch
04 Vandalism (feat. Amba Shepherd)
05 The State
06 Seconds (feat. Jano)
07 Unison (Knife Party remix)
08 Unison (Mikkas remix)
09 100% In The Bitch (Downlink remix)
10 The State (SkisM remix)
11 Spitfire (Kill the Noise remix)
Godspeed!
