Can You Believe Motown Has Been Around 50 Years?

Everyone thinks of Marvin Gaye,The Supremes,The Temptations,The Jacksons,etc... when you think of the Motown Sound.That's why I found this documentary called "Standing The Shadows Of Motown" to be very worthy of note. It's the first time that I've ever heard of the Funk Brothers. This video contains the trailer of that documentary. I saw it on cable a couple of years back.And to commemorate Motown's 50 year anniversary,BBC has done a great feature on them. Here's an excerpt:

"If you didn't know it was the 50th anniversary of Motown, you would find it hard to tell from a casual drive around Detroit, the city which gave the pioneering record label its name.

There are no signs indicating that this is a year of celebration.

But Detroit has not been Motown's headquarters since 1972, when founder Berry Gordy's ambitions to break into Hollywood led him to relocate to Los Angeles.

He had success there, but it was nothing compared to the label's 1960s heyday when it produced a string of hits.

Its spiritual home has remained at 2648 West Grand Boulevard, the house where the Gordy family lived and where Mr Gordy - as most Motown artists still call him - built one of the most successful empires in musical history, kickstarted by an $800 loan from his father.

Gordy decided to call the label after a nickname for Detroit. Motown - or motor town - reflected the city's then flourishing motor industry.

"The day he started, he asked us to join him - we casually said no," reflects Abdul "Duke" Fakir, the last surviving original member of one of Motown's most popular bands, The Four Tops.

"We knew him, but we didn't think a black man could have a chance in the music industry in Detroit." (END OF EXCERPT) Read the rest here:http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/7822940.stm

Just Eating Has Become An Issue! There Is Another Salmonella Outbreak In 42 States!

At least 400 people have been sickened in a salmonella outbreak across the country. I am always wary of anything canned. These days I only cook fresh foods as much as I possibly can. The less food has been handled by someone else the better off you will be. A processed food may be the culprit this time around.Here's more from WSJ.com:

"An Ohio company recalled its creamy peanut butter after Minnesota health authorities identified the sandwich spread as the likely source of a wave of salmonella infections in the state.

Minnesota investigators found that every one of the 30 people with recent salmonella infections in that state had eaten peanut butter before falling ill, and confirmed in the "overwhelming majority" of those cases that the victims had eaten King Nut brand, according to state Department of Health spokesman Doug Schultz. The Minnesota salmonella strain matches the bacteria that have sickened at least 369 people in 41 other states since early September, although Minnesota authorities haven't connected the peanut butter to the national outbreak.

Minnesota officials, who are working with the federal Food and Drug Administration and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, expect further test results as early as Monday. CDC spokeswoman Lola Russell identified peanut butter as "one of the major hypotheses" for the source of the outbreak."(END OF EXCERPT)Read the rest here:
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB123172133257172179.html?mod=googlenews_wsj

But looking at this video that focused on the last salmonella outbreak,which wasn't even a year ago,fresh foods can be contaminated also.With the economy being the main focus,what's going to happen to the FDA under the Obama administration?The Food & Drug Administration has been a serious issue for a long time.

How Cool Is This Special Edition Of "Marvel's Amazing Spider-Man" With Obama In It!

Wow,even Spiderman is a fan of Barack Obama. Marvel Comics will feature President Obama in a special edition of their Spiderman series.How cool is this picture,dude? Here's more from BBC:

"The comic, a special bonus story in Marvel's Amazing Spider-Man #583, starts with Spider-Man's alter-ego Peter Parker taking photographs at the inauguration, before spotting two identical Obamas.

Parker decides "the future president's gonna need Spider-Man" and springs into action, using basketball, another passion of Mr Obama's, to determine the real Mr Obama and knocking out the impostor.

Mr Obama thanks him with a fist-bump. Last June, Fox News television presenter E.D. Hill was taken off the air after she accused Mr Obama and his wife Michelle of greeting each other with a "terrorist's fist jab".

Joe Quesada, Marvel's editor-in-chief, said Marvel Comics wanted to give him a "shout-out back" by featuring him in a bonus story after the President-Elect said he had collected Spider-Man comics as a child."(END OF EXCERPT) Read the rest here:http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/howaboutthat/4178474/Barack-Obama-appears-in-Spider-Man-comic.html