Monday, May 2, 2011

ALABAMA TORNADO's

This week has been the most emotional week of my college life. Not only I have lost friends my hometown and near by areas where I grew up was destroyed. On April 27, 2011 a deadly twister took the lives of many and still counting. People lost everything. This weekend I saw things similar to these pictures with my own eyes. The President came down to visit the state after he declared a State of emergency. I have shed tears of sadness for those who have lost everything and love ones and I have shed tears of how blessed I am to have my family alive because this could have very well been me. Take a look at the images and just please Pray for Alabama.



Aftan Merrida Media Influenced on Reading

Archie Hubbard Singing River Recording Artist of The Year

Monday, April 25, 2011

Aftan Merrida News PKG and Video Project

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SCS5kxiCfUI

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PkQDLtZ-vQI

These two links are my news package story and my video production project. I produce and edit both of these stories at the University of North Alabama.

Norio Ohga, Who Led Sony Beyond Electronics, Dies at 81

Norio Ohga, one of the leaders of Sony has died. He joined Sony as a full-time employee in 1959.
The cause was multiple organ failure, the company said in a statement.
“Mr. Ohga was the principal architect of Sony’s move beyond its stronghold of sleek consumer electronics gear and into music and movies. The biggest steps came when Sony bought CBS Records for $2 billion in 1988 and, a year later, Columbia Pictures for $3.4 billion.”

At the time, when Japan Inc. seemed unstoppable, those acquisitions — along with a Japanese real estate company’s purchase of most of Rockefeller Center — were symbols of Japan’s rising economic power and wealth. There was worried talk of the Japanese commercial “invasion” and the loss of American “cultural assets.”


Mr. Ohga’s vision that drove “Sony’s evolution beyond audio and video products into music, movies and game, and subsequent transformation into a global entertainment leader.” Still, Mr. Ohga wanted to do more than expand Sony’s corporate empire. Linking electronics and entertainment, in his view, would increase the value of each and secure a lucrative future for Sony.



There were good years in Sony’s media because of him. “Sony was a great product company, and Ohga made it better,” said Michael A. Cusumano, a professor at the Sloan School of Management at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

This is important because without this man and his hard work to Sony many of our modern technologies would not be possible today.

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/04/25/technology/25ohga.html?_r=1&ref=technology

IPHONE Keeps Track of Everywhere You Go

Washington DC to New York from Alasdair Allan on Vimeo.