Archive for May, 2009
http://www.youthnoise.com/playcity Chicago wants to host the 2016 summer Olympics. Chicagoans share their opinions on the matter.
YouthNoise Play City: Sport for Good
* audio courtesy of lotagblanco at ccmixter.org, (CC 2.5)
Duration : 0:3:55
Sample of a old mix tape by an Unknown DJ ??
Tracklist
Tyree – Video Crash
Bad Boy Bill – Jack It All Night Long
Steve Silk Hurley – Jack Your Body
Adonis – No Way Back
Mike Dunn – Dance U Mutha
House Master Boyz – Trax U Lost
Santos – Work The Box
Rickster – Nightmoves
Julian Jumpin Perez – Jack Me Till I Scream
Pierres Pfantasy Club – Fantasy Girl
Mr Lee – I Cant Forget
The It – Donnie
Jesse Velez – Girls Out On The Floor
Duration : 0:10:28
Chicago, the “windy city” is known for its multicultural population as well as its dramatic architecture and love for the arts.
In detail, Chicago has:
1. at least 3 million people
2. harbors, parks, beaches, clubs, and ethnic restaurants
3. 29 miles of lakefront, museums, neighborhood festivals, and cultural attractions
People visit the city as often as winds do. Also, tourists favor the mid-western hospitality of the people. They also share stories of their enjoyment in going to exhibits in museums like Degas, Monet, and the whimsical “Cows on Parade” of Summer 1999.
The businesses blended with the multicultural aspects of the city are said to be the driving “winds” that spur creativity among people who visit or study in Chicago. As always, it is inevitable to have fashion schools within a city that celebrate and support the arts and dynamism of culture.
The following are some featured fashion design schools in Illinois:
1. The International Academy of Design and Technology is located in Chicago.
The institute offers the following degree programs:
A. Bachelor of Fine Arts, Major in Fashion Design and Marketing
B. Associate of Applied Science in Fashion Design and Marketing
The curriculum of Fashion and Design assimilates the study of new trends and innovations in the thriving international industry of fashion with the mastery of traditional skills, thus providing a holistic background to both fashion amateurs and masters alike when it comes to designing.
A. Bachelor of Arts, Major in Merchandising Management
B. Associate of Applied Science in Merchandising Management
The program of Merchandising Management provides students and professionals as well as with the opportunity to contend within the job market by integrating theoretical concepts with practical implementations. However, students can rest assured that after graduation their skills on developing suitable visual displays, and utilizing appropriate business practices and scales are honed to help them achieve profitability in the long run.
2. The Illinois Institute of Art is primarily situated in Schaumburg. The degree programs they offer vary by location.
The Illinois Institute of Art is, basically, an association of schools in different locations. Collectively, the Art Institute is considered as a leader in the area of applied science education.
Their courses such as Fashion Marketing and Fashion Design are restructured on a regular basis to reveal ideas garnered from industry advisors, leaders, and employers for relevance and practical applications in the marketplace.
The Art Institute also possesses seasoned faculty members who are also affiliated to the local community of functions. Thus, this provides students with plenty of occasions for consultation with industry professionals and practicing designers. As students’ knowledge and skills improve through the programs, they are required to plan an initial design and execute it into a finished product to cap their stay in the institution.
3. International Academy of Design and Technology
The school has campuses in Chicago, Los Angeles, and Orlando. They provide program areas and a variety of degree levels designed to fit your unique career track. In detail, they offer:
A. Diploma in Fashion Design
B. Diploma in Merchandising and Fashion Marketing
These are only three among the plenty list of schools in this city. The decision now lies in your hand. Within the “windy city” are competitions and strict trainings from various places in the job arena. Where do you think the “will of the wind inside you” will bring you and your high hopes of hitting it big in the fashion industry?
Ronald Piper
http://www.articlesbase.com/careers-articles/the-wind-inspires-it-all-the-driving-force-behind-chicago-fashion-schools-122362.html
Street gangs are defined as a group of individuals, usually youth, banded together under a common identity for the purpose of carrying out persistent illegal activity. This activity may revolve around dealing narcotics, robbery, pimping, burglary, racketeering, extortion, vandalism, and the hostile defense of their turf from other gangs. The sorting and cataloging of gang members and the study of street gang culture is a whole branch of criminology all in itself.
The knowledge of street gang activity amongst the municipal police is often so intimate that they can read graffiti messages and know the street names and specialties of each member. Frequently they keep their ear cocked for activity within their neighborhood, and understand the significance of events in a light that makes little sense to those who don’t follow gang activities.
In North America, the primary cities which have significant gang activity are Los Angeles, Chicago, Houston, St. Louis, and Detroit. However, any major city may play host to a gang.
Much research is done to study what conditions give rise to gangs. Most experts agree that the causes are a combination of impoverished neighborhoods, racial minorities, troubled homes, and youths who don’t fit in. Young men especially join street gangs to prove their machismo, give themselves a community sense of identity, defy authority within the “system”, and compensate for low self-esteem and feelings of being an outsider.
The associative signs of identity will vary in form but always be present. The gang members might wear clothing which matches in style, color, or detail, have the same tattoo, same hairstyle, or even a common piece of jewelry. Most gangs have a designated turf, which is their home area, or other places which they claim as their own, and also have an identifiable organization or hierarchy. Usually the leader will simply be the currently most senior member, and a pecking order chains down from there. It is also somewhat common for a gang to be based on a common idea of hatred for other ethnic groups or religions, or promotion of their own race or religion.
Some speculation has suggested that street gangs are also a natural byproduct of the inherent short-comings in any society. Particularly, gang members seem to crave structure. While they reject the rules of society they have their own tight, unbreakable code. While they disdain conforming to society, they will adhere to their own dress code. They have their own value system and honor code. Street gangs may simply be the underprivileged providing their own structure and order when they perceive chaos and disorganization elsewhere.
In dealing with a gang as a law enforcement professional, the best policy is to seek the mentoring of a peer who knows the gang’s history. Once in the presence of a familiar authority figure, a gang member may be more cooperative, as long as you aren’t asking them to rat out another member. It is because their allegiance is always stronger within their group than it ever will be to anyone else, a gang member’s word should never be trusted until you know all the facts surrounding a given case.
In some cases, gangs have become so strong that the influence of the police is effectively dulled. there are sections of divisions in Los Angeles, for instance, where police officers simply will not go unless it’s in force, with a whole convoy of squad cars going in at once. At this point, the line between a street gang and a terrorist organization grows very thin. A separate issue is the other varieties of gangs, such as prison gangs and biker gangs. Street gangs might become prison gangs when all the members are incarcerated at the same time, but mainly prison gangs form within prison by the association of previously unconnected individuals.
The Internet has given rise to a new, far more dangerous development, which is the formation of international street gangs. While it was previously a rare thing for gangs to have affiliations outside of their own few city blocks, today there are dozens of gangs with members in several cities and countries throughout the world. amongst others, they are tracked closely by the FBI. The parallel rise of international organized crime is no coincidence with this, and indeed connections between Internet crime and street crime with a common gang identity have been discovered.
It may be unsettling to think that what used to be a handful of rough boys in a neighborhood is now an international organization with it’s own web pages, but it’s an idea we all have to face. This kind of takes the zip out of all those “cyberpunk” novels we were reading back in the 1980′s when we were imagining what the new wired world would be like. It turns out the cyberpunk universe carries it’s own problems from the street punk universe… and isn’t nearly as much fun as we thought it would be.
Josh Stone
http://www.articlesbase.com/careers-articles/law-enforcement-career-introduction-to-gangs-140503.html
Here’s another public service announcement from McGruff the Crime Dog – “The Gilstraps” – making sure you’re aware of some of the scams that thieves can pull, such as dressing up like movers and pretending to move the stuff in your house while really stealing it.
Has a Copyright of 1979. From the Ad Council.
Take a bite out’a crime!
This aired on local Chicago TV on Friday, January 23rd 1981.
Visit The Museum of Classic Chicago Television at http://www.FuzzyMemories.TV for more fun!
Duration : 0:0:59
Chicago’s venerable alderman (retired) from Hyde Park, 101-year old Leon Depres, also known as “the conscience of the city”, expresses his opposition to the effort to bring the 2016 Olympics to the Windy City. Depres, the original gadfly of the chicago city council during the time of the elder Mayor Richard J. Daley, reprises his role, this time as critic of Mayor Richard M. Daley.
Duration : 0:3:11
Chicago native filmmaker Steve James, director of “Hoop Dreams”, “Stevie”, and many other great films and documentaries, was hired by the Chicago Olympic Committee to direct this short film to help keep Chicago in the running for the 2016 Olympic Games.
It’s pretty cool. The athletes are all real people. I like the boxer the best.
Also, check out this link for an interview with the director Steve James:
http://video.nbc5.com/player/?id=103447
Duration : 0:3:21
A vocational school is an institution operated for the purpose of giving the students the necessary skills to perform certain jobs. These schools do not aim to further a liberal arts education instead offer to teach job-specific skills.
Vocational education being offered in the past usually focused on specific trades such as becoming an automobile mechanic or welder. Such training and education were then associated with the activities of lower social classes. As a consequence of this, vocational schools attracted a level of stigma. The youth would prefer going to universities and colleges for their education rather than at vocational schools.
However, during the course of time, the labor market begins to develop itself into a more specialized market. More and more economies begin to demand more specialized skills from the workforce.
Governments and businesses are now beginning to invest in the vocational education through publicly funded training organizations and subsidized apprenticeship or traineeship initiatives to provide for their need for more people with specialized skills. And also because of this, post-secondary level vocational education is now being provided by an institute of technology, or by a local community college.
Vocational education has diversified over the years and now exists to provide training in industries such as retail, tourism, information technology, funeral services and cosmetics, as well as in the traditional crafts and cottage industries. People now have a wide selection of vocational training to choose from to personally equip them with skills for their chosen jobs.
If you are looking for Chicago vocational schools, you will be able to find a number of them online. If you are looking forward to honing a certain technical skill in order to land a job, a good vocational school may be able to provide you with the education that you are looking for. There are vocational schools all over Chicago that offer a wide range of vocational training.
There is the Chicago School of Massage Therapy for those of you who want to become future massage specialists. There is also the Cooking and Hospitality Institute of Chicago for those who want to follow a culinary path to success. The American Academy of Art in Chicago also offers vocational courses for those who are interested in graphic design, commercial art and illustration.
There are many more vocational schools in Chicago that offer a wide range of training and education for those of you looking to improve or further advance their vocational skills. Such skill will be able to help you help you succeed in a chosen career that you choose to take.
Low Jeremy
http://www.articlesbase.com/advertising-articles/vocational-schools-in-chicago-71455.html
Dr. Ignatius Piazzaâs announcement a little over three days ago that Front Sight Firearms Training Facility would be offering free, comprehensive firearm training to designated School Safety Monitors from any and all schools across the nation caused not a small amount of stir. Not surprisingly, many teachers, administrators and parents were frightened by this notion. Many conservative thinkers (thatâs small âcâ conservative, not big âCâ Conservative) are convinced that guns are evil; to them the very thought of putting them into schools is anathema.
But knowledge is the key to this problem, for through knowledge comes responsibility. With responsible gun control in capable hands, school shootings, murders and atrocities will come to a screeching halt. Dr. Ignatius Piazza, owner and founder of Front Sight Firearms Training Facility, the largest firearms training facility in America, is willing and eager to do whatever it takes to prevent further horrors in America. He is willing to train any designated school staff members in responsible, effective use of firearms, to prevent further atrocities on school grounds.
Dave Clark, a graduate of Front Sightâs training routine and a recently retired junior high school teacher of 25 years had this to say about Front Sightâs training program:
âFront Sight provides safe and responsible training to a level that exceeds law enforcement standards. Among the many lessons taught, I learned universally accepted rules in justifiable use of deadly force. More importantly, I learned when not to shoot and how to be more mentally prepared to see a lethal confrontation coming before it happens in order to avoid it. The firearms training is second to none and clearly gives the graduates the skill needed to save the lives of those in their charge if ever attacked. If my school district chose to adopt a policy of sending selected teachers to Front Sight for concealed handgun training, I would wholeheartedly support it and volunteer as a Safety Monitor. There is no reason for our children to continue to be victimized when free, professional training is available to stop school attacks.â
Retired law enforcement firearms instructor, Mike Waidelich from Bakersfield, California strongly supports the Front Sight concept of arming and training teachers.
“Nearly every tragedy on school grounds in the entire 30 years of my law enforcement career could have been prevented or the damage done considerably limited, by the presence of an armed and trained individual.”
In schools adopting Ignatius Piazzaâs program, teachers will be trained to carry a concealed weapon, so potential attackers will not know which teachers are armed and which are not. As to the effectiveness of concealed weapons preventing crime, Piazza references John Lott, Jr., from the University of Chicago School of Law. Lott published Crime, Deterrence and Right-to-Carry Concealed Handguns in July 1996. Mr. Lott’s research of cross-sectional time-series data from all 3054 U.S. counties from 1977 to 1992 found that allowing citizens to carry concealed weapons deterred violent crime and appeared to produce no increase in accidental deaths. If those states which did not have right-to-carry concealed handgun provisions had adopted them in 1992, approximately 1,570 murders, 4,177 rapes, and over 60,000 aggravated assaults would have been avoided yearly.
With such evidence and support, can we as voters do anything but support both Dr. Ignatius Piazza and our school districts in their decisions to send their Safety Monitors to his Front Sight institute to be trained for free? What school can afford to not send their teachers to this free training? Speak to your district officials, contact your administrators, inform them of the necessity of arming your schoolâs teachers â this is how we will handle Americaâs epidemic of atrocities.
Jayden Adams
http://www.articlesbase.com/politics-articles/take-it-from-the-experts-ignatius-piazza-139088.html
Sometimes, secrets are the real crime…
www.everysecretcrime.com
Available June 2008
When the son of a celebrity attorney is murdered in the upscale Chicago suburb of Falcon Ridge, police make an arrest within hours. But Chicago TV reporter Reno McCarthy thinks they’ve closed the case too soon. As the body count begins to rise, Reno discovers a community steeped in corruption and greed, a startling link to secrets of the past, and a psychopath lurking in the shadows who’s planning to make Reno’s next live shot… his last…
Duration : 0:0:56