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Monica (full name Monica Arnold, born October 24, 1980) is a R&B singer who first attained commercial success in the 1990s and, after a relatively unsuccessful period during the late 1990s and early 2000s, has seen her career experience a second wind within the past year.
Hailing from Atlanta, Monica achieved prominence in the American hip-hop scene at the young age of fourteen in 1995, thanks to BET, MTV, and urban radio's support for her debut single, the sassy "Don't Take It Personal". Almost immediately, the media drew comparisons between Monica and
Brandy who had also emerged as a teen female R&B vocalist just a year earlier. Monica's debut album,
Miss Thang became a urban success in America, thanks to the singles "Before You Walk Out Of My Life" and "Like This And Like That," which maintained Monica's popularity in hip-hop and on MTV through 1996.
Monica did not really break big with mainstream America until early 1997, when "For You I Will," off of the Space Jam movie soundtrack became a top 40 pop hit. The following year, "The Boy Is Mine," Monica's duet with
Brandy and the first single off of both of their sophomore albums became the biggest hit of the summer and the biggest hit of 1998 in general in America, spending a total of 13 weeks atop the Billboard Hot 100 Singles chart and garnering multi-platinum sales of the single. To date, it remains as one of the top ten most successful American singles, according to Billboard chart success, in history.
Monica maintained her mainstream commercial success with the followup singles "The First Night" and "Angel Of Mine," both of which became number one pop hits in America and TRL video favorites on MTV. The album's fourth single, "Street Symphony," was a more creative and less urban approach for Monica, however it failed to chart or sell notably in America. Its video received only minor airplay.
Monica's career saw a lull between the years 1999 and 2003, during which time Monica was dealing with more personal tribulations, including the suicide of her boyfriend. She released some soundtrack singles during this time, which failed to take off. In 2003, she returned with her third album,
After The Storm. It spawned the single "So Gone", a Missy Elliott-produced hit that was a staple at urban radio and urban music video stations during the summer of '03, but failed to cross over to the mainstream. Other singles off the album include "Knock, Knock," a sequel to "So Gone," "U Should've Known Better," which became an urban hit in the spring and summer of 2004; and "Get It Off," a single that was remixed and released only to dance radio and clubs.
Her singles from her three albums, and any soundtracks, include:
Miss Thang (1995) 3x Platinum*"Don't Take It Personal (Just One Of Dem Days)"*"Before You Walk Out Of My Life"*"Like This And Like That"*"Ain't Nobody" (featuring Treach from Naughty By Nature)
Space Jam Soundtrack (1996)*"For You I Will"
The Boy Is Mine (1998) 3x Platinum*"The Boy Is Mine" (duet with
Brandy)*"The First Night"*"Angel Of Mine"*"Street Symphony"
Down To Earth Soundtrack (2000)*"Just Another Girl"
After The Storm (2003) Gold*"All Eyez On Me"*"Too Hood"*"So Gone"*"Get It Off" (club single)*"Knock Knock"*"U Should've Known Better"
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Published: Fri, 04 Jul 2008 02:12:29 GMT - Source: Sfbay.Craigslist.Org - Read the articleLibrariesInformation Literacy Roundtable presents inaugural Michigan Information Literacy Initiative (MILI) program
Even though it is last minute; here is a great opportunity!!The Information Literacy Roundtable Board invites you to attend the June 6 inaugural Michigan Information Literacy Initiative (MILI) program at Michigan State University in East Lansing.The MILI program is a day-long series of workshops to help you enhance your planning, instruction and teaching skills. Our speakers are committed to providing you with interactive programs that will enhance your skills and provide you with real tools and methods you can put to work right away in your own teaching environment.Here is a quick outline of the MILI Program:Keynote speaker: Dr. Caroline Stern, Ferris State UniversityBeyond Instruction: Practical Techniques and Resources for Developing Information LiteracyDr. Stern asks us "how can librarians maximize the opportunities they have to offer instruction in the limited time they have with their learners". She'll discuss learner analysis, goals and outcomes, and practical methods of instructional delivery that can improve the instructional design of your instruction sessions.Track A - Suggested for Librarians with more than 3 years of instruction experienceInstructional Design for Information Literacy: Theory-Based Practical TipsOur keynote speaker, Dr. Caroline Stern, reviews instructional design basics and "how to" practical, classroom-tested models for instructional design that can help improve the development and delivery of instruction.Effective Needs AssessmentDr. Monica Tracey, Wayne State University, focuses on identifying and using the tools of Needs Assessment including identifying learner characteristics, knowledge, skills and ability assessment. You'll walk away with a Needs Assessment Toolkit to help you answer the question, "what do they want?"Track B - Suggested for Librarians with less than 3 years of instruction experienceUsing a VAKuum to Learn About Yourself as a Teacher and Your Students as LearnersLeslie M. Behm, Michigan State University, focuses on VAK, the visual, auditory, and kinesthetic learning styles. Find out what the differences are and how to work with your material to make your teaching more effective.I'm Up Here! Presentation and Teaching Techniques that Engage Your Audience from Start to FinishVeronica Bielat, Wayne State University and Elise Brown, Kendall College of Art & Design, explore the methods of effective presentation and ways to develop a classroom environment of cooperation and collaborative learning.Learn how to engage your students the minute they enter the door of your classroom.Sign up for MILI today!! Make sure you tell us which track you would like to participate in the Additional Information area of the Registration Form.For questions about MILI please contact:Veronica BielatWayne State University Education Librarianag6887 at wayne.edu(313) 577-4217 phone
Published: Wed, 02 Jul 2008 16:40:11 GMT - Source: Information-literacy.Net - Read the articleIssuesBroadcast networks falsely suggested that Clark criticized McCain's service
In their June 30 evening news programs, all three broadcast
networks misrepresented comments retired
Gen. Wesley Clark made about Sen. John McCain on the June 29
broadcast of CBS' Face The Nation.
ABC News correspondent
David Wright asserted that McCain's experience as a prisoner of war made Clark's comments
"especially provocative" without telling viewers that Clark had said
-- just moments prior to the comments Wright aired -- that "I certainly
honor his [McCain's] service as a prisoner of war. He was a hero to me
and to hundreds of thousands of millions of others in the Armed Forces as a
prisoner of war." While also ignoring Clark's praise of
McCain's POW record, CBS News correspondent Dean
Reynolds falsely suggested that Clark had questioned McCain's
patriotism and had "critici[zed]"
McCain's "service, including five years as a POW." And Brian
Williams, anchor of NBC's Nightly News, falsely suggested that Clark had impugned McCain's "war record" and
that Clark's
comments contrasted with Williams' own account of McCain's heroic
service, when, in fact,
in the very comments that Williams, too, left out, Clark praised McCain's
heroism.
In delivering their reports, all three
networks also
deceptively cropped Clark's comments, each airing a
video clip of Clark saying, "Well, I don't
think riding in a fighter plane and getting shot down is a qualification to be
president." But as in reports on cable news channels,
neither Wright nor Reynolds nor Williams reported or in any
way indicated that in making that
remark, Clark was repeating Face the Nation
host Bob Schieffer's words. Indeed, Clark's
assertion came in response to Schieffer's statement that unlike McCain, Sen.
Barack Obama has not "ridden in a fighter plane and gotten shot
down."
The reports followed a day of distortions of Clark's
comments on
cable news, including
MSNBC anchor Monica Novotny's false claim that Clark had "blasted McCain's military record."
From Clark's June 29
interview on CBS' Face the Nation:
SCHIEFFER: Well, you -- you went so
far as to say that you thought John McCain was, quote -- and these are your
words -- "untested and untried." And I must say, I had to read that
twice, because you're talking about somebody who was a prisoner of war. He was
a squadron commander of the largest squadron in the Navy. He's been on the
Senate Armed Services Committee for lo these many years -- how can you say that
John McCain is untested and untried, General?
CLARK: Because in
the matters of national security policy-making, it's a matter of understanding
risk. It's a matter of gauging your opponents, and it's a matter of being held
accountable. John McCain's never done any of that in his official positions. I
certainly honor his service as a prisoner of war. He was a hero to me and to
hundreds of thousands of millions of others in the Armed Forces as a prisoner
of war. He has been a voice on the Senate Armed Services Committee, and he has
traveled all over the world. But he hasn't held executive responsibility. That
large squadron in the Air -- in the Navy that he commanded, it wasn't a wartime
squadron. He hasn't been there and ordered the bombs to fall. He hasn't seen
what it's like when diplomats come in and say, "I don't know whether we're
going to be able to get this point through or not. Do you want to take the
risk? What about your reputation? How do we handle it" --
SCHIEFFER: Well --
CLARK: --
"publicly?" He hasn't made those calls, Bob.
SCHIEFFER: Well -- well, General,
maybe he --
CLARK: So --
SCHIEFFER: Could I just interrupt
you? If --
CLARK: Sure.
SCHIEFFER: I have to say, Barack
Obama has not had any of those experiences either, nor has he ridden in a
fighter plane and gotten shot down. I mean --
CLARK: Well, I
don't think riding in a fighter plane and getting shot down is a qualification
to be president.
SCHIEFFER: Really?
On the CBS Evening News,
Reynolds aired video of Obama saying in a June 30 speech: "No party or
political philosophy has a monopoly on patriotism. And surely we can arrive
at a definition of patriotism that, however rough and imperfect, captures the
best of America's
common spirit." Reynolds then claimed, "And yet, that lofty
sentiment contrasted with statements made Sunday by one of his more high-profile supporters, retired
General Wesley Clark, who dismissed John McCain's military record as an
irrelevance." Reynolds then aired -- with no additional context -- video
of Clark saying on Face the Nation: "Well, I don't think riding in
a fighter plane and getting shot down is a qualification to be president.
[video break] He has traveled all over the world, but he hasn't held
executive responsibility." In fact, at no point during his Face the Nation interview did Clark
question McCain's patriotism,
as Reynolds had falsely suggested by claiming that Clark's
comments "contrasted" with Obama's "lofty
sentiments."
Immediately after airing the cropped footage of the Clark interview, Reynolds said: "McCain's
service, including five years as a POW, is a central part of his biography.
Today, he called Clark's criticism
unnecessary." Reynolds' suggestion that Clark
criticized McCain's service is false. Indeed, Reynolds chose not to air Clark's statement on Face the Nation that "I certainly honor his service as
a prisoner of war. He was a hero to me and to hundreds of thousands of millions
of others in the Armed Forces as a prisoner of war."
On ABC's World News,
Wright said: "John McCain campaigned in Pipersville,
Pennsylvania, where, to this day, he
can't raise his arms above his shoulders because of injuries he suffered
in Vietnam.
Shot down in combat and tortured relentlessly for five and a half years as a
POW, the experience shaped the core of his character. And that makes this
comment by Obama supporter Wesley Clark especially provocative." Wright
then proceeded to air -- with no additional context -- Clark's
statement that "I don't think riding in a fighter plane and getting shot
down is a qualification to be president." Wright's suggestion that Clark in any way diminished or disputed what McCain endured
in Vietnam is false; Clark did the opposite, praising McCain as a
"hero," in comments that, again, Wright
did not air.
Wright's report also contained video of Larry J.
Sabato, director
of the Center for Politics
at the University of Virginia, who said of Clark's comment: "This is almost the
equivalent for them of an attack on Obama's race by the McCain side.
It's just something you don't do." Neither Sabato nor Wright
explained during the report how Clark's
praise of McCain's heroism and assertion that it does not qualify McCain
to be president "is almost the equivalent" of "an attack on
Obama's race."
On Nightly News,
Williams said: "[S]uddenly John McCain's war record is an issue in the
campaign. Not that there are any questions about his war record, mind you: Annapolis
graduate, Naval aviator, shot down over Hanoi
during the Vietnam War, captured, tortured, held as a POW for five
years." Williams continued, "But yesterday on Face the Nation, retired General Wesley
Clark, who also has a stellar military record, was speaking as a surrogate for
Barack Obama when he said this";
Williams then showed video of Clark
saying, "Well, I don't think riding in a fighter plane and getting
shot down is a qualification to be president." But as
Clark's complete
comments make clear, Clark was not in any way impugning McCain's war record, as
Williams' comments suggested he was doing. Indeed,
Clark did the opposite, praising McCain as a hero
in comments that, again, Williams did not air.
From the June 30 broadcast of NBC's Nightly News with Brian Williams:
WILLIAMS: Now to the presidential
campaign, where suddenly John McCain's war record is an issue in the
campaign. Not that there are any questions about his war record, mind you: Annapolis
graduate, Naval aviator, shot down over Hanoi
during the Vietnam War, captured, tortured, held as a POW for five years. But
yesterday on Face the Nation,
retired General Wesley Clark, who also has a stellar military record, was
speaking as a surrogate for Barack Obama when he said this:
CLARK [video
clip]: Well, I don't think riding in a fighter plane and getting shot
down is a qualification to be president.
WILLIAMS: The Obama campaign said
today, quote, they reject Clark's
statement, but not before John McCain himself weighed in.
McCAIN [video clip]: I know that
many -- that General Clark is not an isolated incident, but I have no way of
knowing how much involvement Senator Obama has in that issue. I know he has
mischaracterized some of my statements in the past, including our involvement
in Iraq.
OBAMA [video clip]: I will never
question the patriotism of others in this campaign. [video break] And I will
not stand idly by when I hear others question mine.
WILLIAMS: So we've heard from
Clark, McCain, and Obama.
From the June 30 broadcast
of ABC's World News with Charles
Gibson:
WRIGHT: I'm David Wright. John
McCain campaigned in Pipersville, Pennsylvania,
where, to this day, he can't raise his
arms above his
shoulders because of injuries he suffered in Vietnam. Shot down in combat and
tortured relentlessly for five and a half years as a POW, the experience shaped
the core of his character. And that makes this comment by Obama supporter
Wesley Clark especially provocative.
CLARK: Well, I
don't think riding in a fighter plane and getting shot down is a qualification
to be president.
McCAIN: And if that's the kind of campaign that Senator
Obama and his surrogates and his supporters want to engage, I understand that. But it doesn't reduce the price of a
gallon of gas by one penny.
SABATO: This is almost the
equivalent for them of an attack on Obama's race by the McCain side.
It's just something you don't do.
From the June 30 broadcast of the CBS Evening News with Katie Couric:
[begin video clip]
REYNOLDS: Obama now wears an American
flag pin in his lapel and is often at events where Old Glory is prominent. He
clearly believes patriotism should be off the table.
OBAMA: No party or political
philosophy has a monopoly on patriotism. [video break] And surely we can arrive at
a definition of patriotism that, however rough and imperfect, captures the best
of America's
common spirit.
REYNOLDS: And yet, that lofty
sentiment contrasted with statements made Sunday by one of his more high-profile supporters, retired
General Wesley Clark, who dismissed John McCain's military record as an
irrelevance.
CLARK: Well, I
don't think riding in a fighter plane and getting shot down is a
qualification to be president. [video break] He has traveled all over the
world, but he hasn't held executive responsibility.
REYNOLDS: McCain's service,
including five years as a POW, is a central part of his biography. Today, he
called Clark's criticism unnecessary,
but then added this:
McCAIN: And if that's the kind
of campaign that Senator Obama and his surrogates and his supporters want to
engage, I understand that. But it doesn't reduce the price of a gallon of
gas by one penny.
[end video clip]
REYNOLDS: Now, Obama later rejected Clark's comments about McCain, but they certainly
got a lot of attention. Katie [Couric, anchor]?
COURIC: And Dean, we heard that
today, Barack Obama and Bill Clinton actually had a phone conversation. Do you
know anything about that conversation? What was said and the tone of it?
Published: Tue, 01 Jul 2008 07:05:05 GMT - Source: Mediamatters.Org - Read the article
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