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As per The YBF and http://msdramatv.com/2011/11/06/rumor-is-dirty-money-is-over-kalenna-harper-drops-out-wants-to-focus-on-solo-career/

The P. Diddy inspired group, Diddy-Dirty Money, has apparently hit a snag – as group member Kalenna Harper has apparently called it quits — so that she can focus  on launching her solo career.

The 29 year-old singer/songwriter that is 1/3 of the Diddy-Dirty Money group, Kalenna, is now looking to focus her energies on her career as a solo artist. Although the singer emerged on the scene as part of the Dirty Money squad, which won for Best Group at the 2011 BET Awards, Kalena says the group is no longer her concern:

“As of now, Kalenna is solely focusing on her solo career and that is all that concerns her at the moment,” her rep tells TheYBF.com. “Dirty Money is a hind thought and doesn’t seem to be in any future plans.”

Kalenna is now set to release “Got To Work,” her debut solo single and viral visual on 11/11/11. The songstress describes her music as “experimental harmonies over worldly tracks paired with lyrics from a diary tucked deeply into heart that has beat to and for so many.”

Um..Sounds…like a mouthful?

Of course I will stay on top of this as I am 1 of the few, The proud and the Brave Diddy Stans >.<  Seriously stay tuned because with every Bad Boy break up there is a scandalous and Juicy story behind it which I intend on sniffing out.

Stay Tuned.

A Los Angeles police murder detective has been criticized for posting a photo from a murder scene in south Los Angeles to his Twitter account last week.

A Twitter-addicted murder detective has come under fire for his extensive use of the micro-blogging site, which include uploading pictures of dead bodies.
LAPD Homicide Detective Sal LaBarbera, a 30-year veteran with the city’s South Bureau, with 24 years spent as a homicide investigator, has been called ‘callous’ over what many see as his inappropriate and overuse of Twitter.

LA Taco wrote a story criticising him after he uploaded a picture of a recently murdered man whose bloodied corpse was lying on the sidewalk covered in a stained sheet.
He put the caption: ‘Guess where I’m at, it never ends’, under it.
The website said his actions were ‘cold’ and that he showed no compassion towards the family of the victim.

The FBI and LAPD squad leader is an active member of the social networking site and tweets several times a day, uploading pictures of everything from things he sees on his job to food and scenery shots.

Grim tweetings: Mr LaBarbera posts a picture of a murder victim

Page: Detective LaBarbera extensively tweets on his job and other day-to-day activities

Detective LaBarbera has more than 1,500 followers and said of his homicide picture: ‘That’s the same exact photo the news folks would have taken.’
According to City News Service, the victim was 32-year-old Oscar Arevalo was shot dead on the sidewalk, in the 10600 block of Wilmington Avenue, around 9am.

Casual: Sal LaBarbera’s Twitter profile pic, which says he was born and raised in New York

Police have since announced that they believe two gang-affiliated suspects walked up to him, delivered the fatal bullets and ran away.

When asked by the LA Weekly about the criticism, Detective LaBarbera – who was born and raised in New York – said he sees no problem with the photo, or with his Twitter activity in general., and claims that thousands of cops all over the country do it.

SOURCE: NY DAILY NEWS

In 2006, someone finally decided to check up on a London woman named Joyce Vincent who was badly behind in her rent.

What they found was a skeleton on the couch. She had been dead for nearly three years, the TV still on and the Christmas presents she had wrapped for friends lying on the floor along with a landslide of mail piled up inside the front door of her apartment.

Vincent, 38, lived alone in Wood Green, a declining but packed area of London, a city of eight million people. Her corpse was so desiccated that the coroner couldn’t figure out a cause of death, couldn’t even identify her from dental records until the police tracked down a photograph of her that showed her smiling.

It could happen to any of us. Apparently she just sat down and died as the TV, turned to BBC1, flickered and chattered away for cycles of leafy springs, hot summers, endless rain and every news event you and I lived through in those years. Her window was open in her busy apartment block above a street-level shopping mall, but the smell from nearby garbage bins disguised the stench of her rotting body.

Vincent had been estranged from her father and four sisters — her much-loved mother had died when she was 11 — but by all accounts, she was a vivacious, accomplished woman, said to resemble a pre-decline Whitney Houston. She had a pile of friends and a terrific job at Ernst & Young until, without apparent reason, she quit in 2001.

Not that there were many accounts. It took a determined filmmaker named Carol Morley many years to hunt down any truths about Vincent’s depressing — even horrifying — death and make a documentary called Dreams of a Life, now playing at the London Film Festival. Morley posted ads in newspapers and on the doors of the black cabs that shoot around the city, but even then it was tough to track down people who’d admit their shame at having let Vincent slip from sight.

The story is paralyzingly sad, all the more because Vincent was the model of what women especially set out to be: smart, kind, ambitious and attractive, and yet these qualities failed her. Perhaps they actually doomed her and contributed to the howling loneliness of her death. Morley talked to her local MP, Lynne Featherstone, one of the few who tried to investigate how and why she died. “I gather she was very beautiful, which for reasons totally spurious makes it more poignant because we always think beautiful people have everything go their way,” Morley wrote recently in The Observer.

The boyfriend of her youth, who kept in touch with her until 2002, bitterly regrets his inattention, but told Morley that Vincent always seemed confident and in control. “The trouble with Joyce was that she was very fanciable,” he said. “Wherever she went and whatever she did, there were people trying to get her into bed. It was a burden that she was so beautiful and she was very clever, a lot more intelligent than she let on. I think she had several lives.”

She seemed to have linked up with a brutal boyfriend. It was a battered women’s shelter that placed her in the subsidized rental where she died, and she may have felt ashamed of her perceived failure.

But why didn’t the friends whose names were on the wrapped gifts ever track down their mysteriously vanished friend?

The scariest thing about Vincent’s death is of course that with a few wrong turns, any of us could die this way. A lost job, divorce, a time of lying low and the remorseless nature of living in one of the huge cities that dot the planet and, bang, you vanish.

This is the kind of truth that keeps serial killers like Robert Pickton going, but there’s no indication that Vincent was murdered, no knife nicks on her bones at any rate. It’s just the nature of the city. It’s why Liz Lemon of the TV comedy 30 Rock teaches herself the singleton’s Heimlich manoeuvre, throwing herself onto the back of a chair to regurgitate a piece of steak.

Urban non-myths like Vincent’s death tableau are why people gird themselves to date even the sad prospects they have met online, their faces frozen into panicked smiles. It’s partly why people marry unsuitably or have children they don’t really want, why rural people resent urban types who seem to have prospered by definition, why so many of the seven billion on earth flock to the city—they fear solitude but think it surmountable.

Urban loneliness is asphyxiating, as Jonathan Raban wrote in his poignant 1974 sociology classic, Soft City. “Just as the city is the place where you can choose your society, so it is also the place where you can ‘drop’ discarded friends, old lovers, the duller members of your family.” And where you yourself can be dropped, as happened to Vincent.

The city is hard, not soft, Raban wrote, meaning that you can make no impression on it. “Lonely people often feel sick with guilt that they are suffering in the middle of such apparent abundance; what is wrong with them that they should be singled out to watch TV while millions are on the street below their windows.”

No one questioned Vincent’s non-stop TV. No one smelled her from the littered pavement. This was the price she and hundreds of millions like her pay for chasing the urban dream and finding it “vain, wanting and destructive,” as Raban described it.

I often look at the condo towers seeding like a forest all over Toronto and its suburbs and wonder about the stark lives being lived. People put out hopeful little café tables and chairs on their balconies, but I have yet to see a brunch party a few hundred metres from the Gardiner or Hwy 407. Who is huddled inside staring out at a city of sociable plenty and yearning for recognition?

Ah, look at all the lonely people. Shuddering at Vincent’s awful end, I suspect we could all end up like Eleanor Rigby. We must die alone by definition, but who will help us if no one notices.

SOURCE: http://www.guardian.co.uk/film/2011/oct/09/joyce-vincent-death-mystery-documentary

Happy Birthday to one of the most powerful military entities in the world who also has the world’s best ground troops (SEALS) and arguably the world’s greatest PILOTS????!!!

CNO’s Birthday Message

CNO\’s B-day Message

LadySteele supports the Troops!

RIP to a Boss!  Apple Co-Founder Steve Jobs passed away last night at 56. Jobs succumbed to a long battle with pancreatic cancer. He leaves behind a revolutionary legacy and changed the way we live our daily lives. For those unfamiliar with the importance of his work, check this out: http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2011/08/24/technology/steve-jobs-patents.html

“There may be no greater tribute to Steve’s success than fact that much of world learned of his passing on a device he invented.” via POTUS Obama

RIP Steve

In other sad news we also lost Fred Shuttlesworth a Civil rights Icon.

As a preacher and civil rights activist Fred has survived beatings, water hose and bombings even receiving severe chest injuries as a result of his refusal to back down from the good fight. I wish we as a people were as strong as our predecessors, for more on his story click here:  http://www.politico.com/news/stories/1011/65268.html May he truly RIP

According to VladTV Luke Campbell is calling out some major hip-hop heads. “I’ve got a message for Lil Wayne, his Cash Money Brothers, DJ Khaled, Puff Daddy and all the rappers from other parts of the country who now live in Miami,” he wrote October 4th. “I’m tired of seeing these cats using up our beaches, soaking up our sunshine, taking over the night clubs, and sleeping with our women without investing anything into the community. There used to be a day when out of town rappers were scared to throw their weight around Miami. It didn’t matter if they were coming from New York or Los Angeles, they knew better than to act like they owned this mother f*cker.”

Jay Z is quoted as saying  ”J. Cole’s success is testament to amazing artist development and Cole’s hard work,” Jay-Z said, via a press release. “I want to congratulate him on a #1 album and more importantly a great body of work.” Cole’s first solo album (Cole World), which he’s been meticulously working on for the past five years, has sold 218,000 copies according to Nielsen Sound Scan.

Justin Bieber has announced via twitter that Mariah Carey is the special secret guest on his Christmas album and the pair will duet on her single ‘All I Want For Christmas.’

We always say RIP but Mr. Shakur is always making his rounds in our realm. TMZ first reported of a sex tape which features Tupac receiving “Happy Time” from a groupie while performing! As news that a sex, sorry footage of  Tupac being orally pleased swept the net, most women forgot that he is in fact not alive and decided that  Posthumous peen was a ok! LOL I confess I was one! Moving on though in a new report as per TMZ it appears that a bidding war has started for licensing for the footage with YouPorn offering $150,000 for the footage, The seller is holding out for more offers…check out the story here:  http://www.tmz.com/2011/10/03/tupac-shakur-sex-tape-for-sale-offer-porn-company-deal-contract-bought-sold/?adid=hero1#.TothI_5Fuso

Today (October 4) marks the five-year anniversary of the late great Amy Winehouse’s five-time Grammy Award-winning LP. What were some of your favorite tracks off the album? Deeply troubled she was but there is no denying that Amy was very talented!

Check out the full album below

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R.I.P