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Willie ColónSince: 714 days ago Location: ÜT: 40.616172,-73.759461Bio: Producer, Musican, Political Activist, Writer

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“Ay Willie deja de ser tan negativo”

by Willie Colón on Friday, May 27, 2011 at 2:24pm

Hay mucha gente buena, inocentes, que dirán “Ay Willie deja de ser tan negativo” cuando me expreso sobre lo de Marc y J-lo. Para ustedes es entretenimiento pero para nosotros es coger la historia de tu vida, de tu lucha, de tus aspiraciones y pisotearlas por hacer un proyecto malo. La idea es ocultar a la raíz para ellos poder cosechar los frutos sin compartir.

Me dicen que ellos enaltecen los boricuas. ¿Presentarnos como tecatos es enaltecernos? Yo NUNCA fui tecato (adicto a la heroína). No voy a decir que no probé de varios estupefacientes pero nunca me he metido una jeringuilla. Sin embargo, la película de Marc y J-lo no solo me tilda como tecato sino no el que introdujo a Hector a la droga. Desde que salió esta película el insulto más común que me lanzan es “Drogo” o “Tecato”. Si estos es enaltecer a los boricuas, por favor no me enaltecen más.

Uno de los productos de la estrategia de Marc y J-lo es disfrazarlo como un salsero de la mata. Me perdonan pero cotorrear los soneos de Hector no es ser un Salsero. A billetazos han podido salir con las suyas. Tanto así que cuando yo me quejo de que esta usando mi material. Algunos me mandan a callar. XD

He tratado de trabajar con ellos, pero cada vez la idea es coge este billete y lárgate. Me contrataron para ser consultor sobre el libreto y se limpiaron el trasero con mis notas, que eran muy sencillas. Hizo un clonaje de mis producciones pero decidieron usar otro productor. En otra ocasión me invitaron hacer un dúo en el Madison Square Garden y después de esperar un largo rato. Mandó a un asistente para decirme que había cambiado de idea. Ni me dio cara. ¿Así es que ellos enaltecen y respetan a los boricuas?

Sé que hay muchos desilusionados por mis palabras y me disculpan. Si quiere vocea tu opinión pero sin regaño ni insultos, porque te pagaré con la misma moneda y después te doy delete.

 

 

ROBERT DeBELLIS’s Obituary by New York Times

 

This man was like a father to me. I am alive today because of Dr. Bob DeBellis. I am heartbroken to find out today that he had passed away while I was out of the country. He was a true renaissance man. Physician, sailor, musician, comedian. I will miss the man who took care of me from my late teens to a few weeks ago.

Este viejo me cuidó y aconsejaba como mi papá. Roberto DeBellis era un médico, navegante, pianista y comediante.Desde mi adolecencia me curó de tantos males. Si no fuera por él Ya yo estuviera cantando con Los Panchos. Asi es la vida, mientras más tiempo vivimos van desapareciendo las cosas que más queremos, hasta que nos toque hacer ese último viaje solito. Te debo mi vida, que Dios te cuide Dr.

Robert H. De Bellis’58

Monday, May 16, 2011

1930 - 2011

Robert H. De Bellis, M.D., associate clinical professor of medicine-oncology and a 1958 graduate of P&S, died May 15, 2011, at age 80.
Dr. De Bellis graduated from Queens College in 1951. After graduating from P&S, he was an intern at Jacobi Hospital/Bronx Municipal Hospital, then completed a hematology fellowship in 1964 at Columbia.

After the completion of his fellowship, Dr. De Bellis focused on basic nucleic acid research. His most recent research interests included the development of anti-sickling agents for patients with sickle cell anemia. His clinical interests included breast cancer, lymphomas, and chronic leukemias. He also maintained a general internal medicine practice.

He served for many years on the Board of Directors of the New York State Society of Medical Oncology and Hematology and as an associate editor for the Journal of Thanatology. He received a 2010-11 Ewig Educational Award recognizing clinical teaching excellence in the Department of Medicine.

Dr. De Bellis had a wide range of interests outside of medicine including sculpture and art and had several of his pieces exhibited here on campus. He was an inveterate amateur jazz pianist. Most of his spare time was spent on his sailboat and he frequently sailed in the Northeast and the Caribbean.
He is survived by his wife, Frances, son Robert and his wife, Amanda, and daughter Stacy Chamberlain and her husband, Tom.
“The Department of Medicine mourns the loss of Dr. De Bellis, respected for his practical knowledge of oncology as well as for his friendship and his collegiality,” said Donald Landry, M.D., Ph.D., the Samuel Bard Professor of Medicine and chair, Department of Medicine.

ROBERT DeBELLIS Obituary: View ROBERT DeBELLIS’s Obituary by New York Times

DeBELLIS–Robert. The Board of Directors and members of The New York State Society of Medical Oncologists and Hematologists express profound sorrow at the loss of our esteemed colleague and friend, Dr. Robert DeBellis. Dr. DeBellis was a member of NYSSMOH from its inception; his wisdom and enthusiasm will be greatly missed. We offer our heartfelt prayers and deepest sympathy to the DeBellis family for their great loss. Abraham Mittelman, MD President, NYSSMOH

Published in The New York Times on May 18, 2011

Robert DeBellis M.D.

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DeBELLIS Robert M.D., of Englewood on May 14, 2011. Beloved husband of Frances (nee Chaconas). Devoted father of Robert and his wife Amanda, Stacey Chamberlain and her husband Tom. Dear brother of Rose Staff. Loving grandpa of Vincent, Philomena, Tony and Miles. Dr. DeBellis was a graduate of Queens College and Columbia University Medical School. He was a physician at Columbia Presbyterian Hospital for over 50 years. Friends may call at the Barrett Funeral Home, 148 Dean Drive, Tenafly on Monday 2-4 and 7-9 PM. Funeral Service Tuesday 10 AM at the funeral home. Interment George Washington Memorial Park, Paramus. In lieu of flowers, the family requests that donations be made in Robert’s memory to Genitourinary Oncology Research Fund, c/o Dr. Daniel Petrylak, Herbert Irving Cancer Center, Room 919, 161 Fort Washington Avenue, NY, NY 10032. For directions visit www.barrettfuneralhome.net

Published in The Record and Herald News on May 15, 2011

APELLIDOS ESPAÑOLES Es bueno aprender……
La Real Academia del Idioma Español nos informa: El sufijo EZ al final de los apellidos hispanos proviene de una raíz hebrea sefardí y tiene la connotación de hijo de. Es así como apellidos considerados muy castizamente españoles como Álvarez, significa hijo de Álvaro; Rodriguez, hijo de Rodrigo; González, hijo de Gonzalo; Martínez, hijo de Martín; Hernández, hijo de Hernando. Sólo existe una excepción gramatical a esta regla y es Chávez, que es hijo de Puta, ya que de ninguna manera podría ser hijo del Chavo..

SPANISH SURNAMES Good to learn…
The Real Academy of the Spanish Language informs us: The suffix EZ at the end of the Hispanic surnames comes from a Hebrew root sefardí and has the connotation of “SON OF”. Last names that are so familiar and reconized as Spanish as Álvarez, means Álvaro’s son; Rodriguez, Rodrigo’s son; González, Gonzalo’s son; Martínez, Martín’s son; Hernández, Hernando’s son. The only grammatical exception that exists to this rule is in Chávez’case,  who is a SOB, and by no means could he be the son of El Chavo..  :S

 

NOTIVER | La Noticia en el Momento en que Sucede - Willie Colón, Rey Ruiz, Luis Enrique, y Tito Nieves, que show!

Willie Colón, Rey Ruiz, Luis Enrique, y Tito Nieves, que show!

21 Mayo, 2011 05:32:00

Por Marcos Miranda
Reportero de NOTIVER
Video Miguel Ángel López Solana/ NOTIVER
Fotos Veracruznews, JEO, Marmico

Por segundo día consecutivo el “Salsodromo” de Boca del Río registró un lleno total, para ver cantar a Willie Colon, Rey Ruiz, Luis Enrique, y Tito Nieves, cerca de 120 mil almas llenaron el boulevard Vicente Fox, desde temprano abarrotaron el lugar en este segundo día del primer Festival Internacional de la Salsa, “de Boca para el mundo”.

En esta ocasión todos los salseros se bajaron para convivir con sus fans y asistentes, la noche se prestó para que este concierto luciera su máximo esplendor, que fue adornado con los fuegos pirotécnicos que se lanzaron entre intervalo de cada show artístico.
A las 8:30 de la noche salieron al escenario los conductores Cecilia Galeano y Ernesto Laguardia, y a partir de ese momento todo fue rumba y sabor, el primero en abrir esta mágica noche fue Rey Ruiz.
“El Bombón de la Salsa”, salió a escena, y el rugir del público conocedor no se hizo esperar, la ovación fue inmensa y los aplausos mas, “Me siento sumamente contento de estar participando en este inmenso festival, tienen el mejor festival y primero en Latinoamérica, así que dense un aplauso y dénselo a su alcalde Salvador Manzur Día”, diría ante su público.
Una hora y 45 minutos tardo su show, en donde interpretó gran parte de sus éxitos así como los temas de su reciente producción musical “Mis preferidas”, incluyendo su reciente sencillo musical “Me equivoqué”.
El cubano a su salida del escenario fue homenajeado por el ayuntamiento de Boca del Río el alcalde Salvador Manzur entregó un reconocimiento por su participación en este primer gran festival salsero de Boca del Río.
Prendería a los asistentes con su canción “así se compone un son”, en donde verso y hacia versos alusivos al festival y Boca del Río que hizo que los asistentes se le entregaran.
Rey se bajoó del escenario caminó por la pasarela, convivió con su público, y deleitó a todos con sus canciones, todos se pusieron a bailar al ritmo de Rey Ruiz. Una hora con 45 minutos tardó su show.
Vendría el turno del nicaragüense Luis Enrique, el público se le brindó a la primera, este salsero supo aprovechar el “Plus” que le dejó Rey Ruiz, e hizo bailar a todos, hasta tocó los timbales cosa que hizo que el Salsodromo se cimbrara de tantos aplausos que recibió.
El Príncipe de la Salsa como también se le conoce a Luis Enrique, cantó acompañado de su orquesta integrada por 10 músicos y tres coristas todos vestidos en color blanco. Mientras que el cantante eligió combinarlo con el color negro en un chaleco y jeans.

Desesperado, Quédate, Cómo volver a ser feliz, Date un chance, No me des la espalda, Mi mundo, Cambia, Lo que pasó, pasó, entre muchos temas fueron interpretado por Luis Enrique.
Muy versátil en su show, tocó dos guitarras, no al mismo tiempo verdad, pero una por una, bailó, convivió con el público, y tocó los timbales, nadie se movía del Salsodromo una hora con 30 minutos tardaría su show.
Para las 11:30 vendría el show de Tito Nieves, quien al principio tuviera un poco de problemas con el audio, pero por fortuna nada que no se pudiera resolver, que aun así con fallas técnicas como buen profesional que es siguió cantando pero al tiempo apresurando a su Staff de sonido para que le arreglaran las bocinas de monitores.
Con menos kilos, el salsero llegó mas flaco que de costumbre, cantando su mas grande éxito, “Fabricando Fantasías”, que hizo bailar a todos hasta el alcalde Salvador Manzur acompañado de su esposa Luchy Bonilla bailaron hasta que se cansaron a ritmo de Tito Nieves. Una hora con 45 minutos su show
El broche de oro lo realizaría el “Rey de la salsa”, el maestro Willie Colon, abriendo con un popurrí, a la una con 30 minutos comenzaría a tocar junto con su orquesta, a pesar de hora no se movía ni un alma del Salsodromo.
Abriendo con “Che, Che, Cole”, aquella canción que hicieran famosa cuando cantaba a dueto con el ya desaparecido Héctor Lavoe, siguió Idilio, Bacalao, y otros éxitos, todos querían escuchar a Willie Colon, el maestro de la trompeta, prendió igual a los espectadores.
Casi dos horas duró su show, eran las 2:30 de la madrugada y todos querían seguir escuchando salsa en Boca del Río, el cantante se sorprendió por ver tanta gente y a esa hora que les dijo, “Yo pensé que no iba a ver gente aquí por ser la hora, pero mírate tu aquí están ya se cansaron” preguntó.
A las 3:20 minutos terminaría el show de Willie Colon que con su trompeta haría solos de trompeta y eso provocó la ovación de todos los asistentes, una noche madrugada de gala llena de alegría fue lo que se vivió este segundo día en el festival Internacional de la Salsa.
Para este sábado en su tercer día participaran, Adolescentes Orquesta, Eddie Santiago, Willie Chirino y la espectacular Olga Tañón.

To me it very peculiar that “Mr. Peace on Earth” is cuddling up to the intelligence community. WAC

Obama Honors CIA, Intelligence Community for Bin Laden Killing – Bloomberg

Obama Honors CIA, Intelligence Community for Bin Laden Killing

By Roger Runningen - May 20, 2011 3:25 PM ETFri May 20 19:25:54 GMT 2011

President Barack Obama thanked the spies and analysts of the Central Intelligence Agency today for their persistence in helping U.S. forces track down Osama bin Laden and vowed to pursue every lead they develop from a trove of documents and computer files taken during the operation.

The intelligence operation that led to bin Laden’s hideout in Pakistan will be studied for “generations to come,” the president said at agency headquarters in Langley, Virginia, outside Washington.

“As you go about your work with incredible diligence and dedication every single day, I hope all of you understand how important it is, how grateful I am and that you have the thanks of a grateful nation,” he said.

Obama told the CIA employees that their work didn’t end with the death of bin Laden. The intelligence material taken by the Navy SEALs when they left the terrorist leader’s compound in Abbottabad, Pakistan is “the largest trove” of information ever seized from a terrorist leader.

“Today, every terrorist in the al-Qaeda network should be watching their back,” Obama said. “We are going to pursue every lead.”

The CIA in August 2010 located the residence of a member of bin Laden’s inner circle, who served as one of his few trusted couriers. A month later, the agency showed Obama secret assessments that indicated bin Laden may be in the high-security compound, because the custom construction suggested someone of significance.

The detective work set in motion a series of clandestine actions that led to Obama’s April 29 authorization to conduct a raid. “We gave President Obama and his team accurate, relevant, timely intelligence,” CIA Director Leon Panetta said in a May 2 statement.

Panetta has already praised the agency’s counter-terrorism center and the Office of South Asia Analysis for their expertise, creativity and tradecraft in tracing bin Laden to a safe house in Pakistan, and for the SEAL strike team.

Panetta, 72, has been nominated as the next U.S. defense secretary.

To contact the reporter on this story: Roger Runningen in Washington at rrunningen@bloomberg.net

To contact the editor responsible for this story: Mark Silva at msilva34@bloomberg.net

 

West: Obama ‘a black mascot’ and ‘black puppet’ - Political Intelligence - A national political and campaign blog from The Boston Globe - Boston.com

 

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West: Obama ‘a black mascot’ and ‘black puppet’

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Cornel West, shown speaking last year in Martin Luther King Jr.’s former church, labeled President Obama ‘a black mascot’ and ‘black puppet’ during an interview.

By Matt Viser, Globe Staff

Cornel West, a Princeton University professor and leading black intellectual, is harshly criticizing President Obama, a candidate he once supported but now calls “a black mascot of Wall Street oligarchs and a black puppet of corporate plutocrats.”

West, a former Harvard University professor, said during an interview with the website Truthdig posted yesterday that the president has not been true to his race.

“I think my dear brother Barack Obama has a certain fear of free black men,” West said. “It’s understandable. As a young brother who grows up in a white context, brilliant African father, he’s always had to fear being a white man with black skin. All he has known culturally is white…When he meets an independent black brother, it is frightening.”

The White House did not have an immediate comment. West did not respond to messages left at his office.

Republicans have questioned Obama’s origins — to the point where he felt compelled to release his long-form birth certificate to prove he was born in Hawaii — but West also uses Obama’s past to draw into question the president’s racial bearings.

“Obama, coming out of Kansas influence, white, loving grandparents, coming out of Hawaii and Indonesia, when he meets these independent black folk who have a history of slavery, Jim Crow, Jane Crow and so on, he is very apprehensive,” West said. “He has a certain rootlessness, a deracination. It is understandable.”

West is a professor at Princeton’s Center for African American Studies and is the author of "Race Matters." He was a professor at Harvard, but left in 2002 amid quarrels with then-president Lawrence Summers.

West also recounts personal slights — that his phone calls didn’t get returned, and that he couldn’t get a ticket with his mother and brother to the inauguration.

It is not the first time West has raised questions about Obama. Last year, during an interview with NPR, he said he wished the president were more “Martin Luther King-like.”

Matt Viser can be reached at maviser@globe.com. Follow him on Twitter @mviser.

 

Ritmo Bomba puertorriqueña
EL SHOW DE WILLIE COLÓN fue una gira organizada en el 1978. Participaron Celia Cruz, Hector LaVoe, Ruben Blades y Yomo Toro. Mon Rivera estaba contratado tambien pero falleció unas semanas ante.
PUERTO RICAN BOMBA RYTHYM
EL SHOW DE WILLIE COLÓN was a tour organized in 1978, featuring Celia Cruz, Hector LaVoe, Ruben Blades & Yomo Toro. Mon Rivera had also been signed but he passed away a few weeks prior.

 

Featuring the great Charlie Palmieri and the father of Latin trombone Barry Rogers. Marc Quiñones and Willie Colón

 

 

Nissan Is Named New York City Taxi of Tomorrow, Beating Out Ford and Karsan - NYTimes.com

May 3, 2011, 11:35 am

Nissan Is Named New York City Taxi of Tomorrow, Beating Out Ford and Karsan

By MICHAEL M. GRYNBAUM

A rendering of the new New York City taxi designed by Nissan.

From our colleagues at City Room:

New York City’s new taxicab will be a bulky, traditional van manufactured by Nissan — with no moonroof included.

The Nissan NV200 van, a light commercial vehicle already in use in Asian and European markets, has won the city’s Taxi of Tomorrow competition, according to a city official told of the decision. Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg is set to announce the decision on Tuesday.

The choice of the Nissan represents something of a culture shock to New Yorkers more accustomed to a traditional sedan made by an American manufacturer.

The Nissan model, which can potentially be converted to an all-electric engine, beat out contenders from Karsan, a Turkish company that submitted a stylish, amenity-laden design, and Ford, which builds the fleet’s current mainstay, the venerable Crown Victoria.

Read more here.