yooo

Hello everyone is me Jonathan and I am in my new job, the Bizacademy. Is very professianal here and the atmosphere here is incredable. So far is going great i learned what an entrepuenor is and the responibility needed to run a business or corporation. I am totally excited about this two week program and cant wait to start it.
My team, the shuffle alliance to win today's presentation and to maintain our second position lead and hopefully go to third place. I have done a keynote presentation that if done correctly it will be another victory for my team. Im leaving it to the hands of Phillip to proform magnficintly. Good luck

JAQuana's BAck

Today is my first day back from my relocation. Minisink had me working at PArks & Recreation Borough Office. It was soooo dreadful and Borrrrr- ring. I started work at 9:00 and filed papers until 6 o'clock in the evening. It was so terrible. I misses Harlem LIveeeeee sooooo much. But at leat Jaquana's BAcccckkkk.....

Where still a lil shaky

Where still a lil short of points but I know that we'll catch up an hopefully we'll steal next week from anonymous!

yooooooooooo

Yoo hi you doing is your boy Jonathan holding it down and i want to say that i love spending time here and i love the atmosphere here. I wish my mother would understand that I love it here and enjoy leaving here late at night finishing some work. My mother threated me and stated that if i came late again that she wont allow me to go to Harlemlive anymore. I was mad that i heard that but i know where she is coming from. She cares about me like every other mother knows how to. Is that love what keeps me going through in life. A mother's love for a child could not be topped by any other love out there. But in reality i will never let here pull me out of this program. I love HL too much for this shit to happen. Also queens is very deep and to go home in that A train is very difficult to do. You see late at nights the A train runs local and u know i get to my house by 2 am and it break my moms heart seeing me come home sooo late. Anyways i dont want to talk about train related problems because then team joc will make fun of me. Yeah any ways i learned alot from those minisink (NYC mission society) classes, they taught me how to avoid the military recruiters and how to ba an activist. I would love to be activist because they fight for what they believe in and i love that. I would say i would follow in the footsteps of Malcom X and Che Guevarra. They inspire me to keep on going and never stop believing in what you believe in. Hopefully when i reach adulthood i already made a difference in the community or in people's lives. I will have to maintain and keep focus on what i know is right and to know what actions i must do to make things right. Right now my intentions is to bring the Henry people back. I have lost at least three people from the wall incident and they haven't returned. I am worried that they wot come back. But i wont lose hope because when things go wrong it hardly goes wrong twice. Also Rich is not giving up hope so pray to God, Jesus, Allah or who ever you pray to.
I am Jonathan Alarcon a wanabee activist and i will become one!!!

"Harlemlive", The next real world.

Today started off pretty good.I got to harlemlive around 12:30, and did what i had to do.I than left to my other job,i felt as if today was a day that everything goes smooth.even though my team is in second place now i hope if get back in first and win,because noone loves a loser.I do not want to lose. well any lets get back to the real world.The people in harlemlive has been very interresting. I think everyone haves differents sides in themself that no one knows.well anyway im just writing this blog becauce im bored.Good luck to all teams and let keep it going.

Ohhh My God

Watching these animals is uncall for. These are my peers but lately they be acting like a pack of wild animals. Joy runs through the face of the victorious that includes both teams anonymous and joc. They are so happy that both of them have cooperated with each other and performed magnificently. The thing is that the alliance was put to sleep because or best writers were taken from us. We blame the god damn hole in the wall but it was us that we loss. We have fallen back in work and everything else. I feel this is all my fault but it is. HAHAHA You hear this IM loafing around mourning our loss but I should be working on some projects and sh*t like that!!!
The alliance have to win this time. I can feel the other team becoming more advance than me and my team and is what is scaring of me. Well I shouldn't be scared of something that cannot physically hurt me but it hurt my heart knowing we not winning. Look the alliance is going to win this we need to step up our game because the other team is getting on us.
I want to talk about girls now. Listen this is my blog I can say what ever I want and I think what I about to say is least futile.
I am a 17 year old Latino who is single and searching for his one and truly to appear. I am a senior with a 95% point average and likes long walks on the beach. I am caring and faithful and will never cheat on my girl. I am looking and if you like what you read then hit me up in Harlemlive.
Also I am an immigrant that loves to dance,reggae reggae, and more reggae!!!!!!!!!!!
Yo this is jonny hit me up!!!

still strong from phillip

my team shuffle aliiance is still strong enen though alot of people arnt here and we won for presentation monday also im trying to set up interveiw with dj coco chanelle from hot97 im waiting for her response also anyhting is possible like nike so it's easy i helped a new girl yesterday with her newbie card and it was fun but the said thing is she's on team anonmys i personally think team anomys should of got goof points because they didnt have no photographer/video person was there and no web people from thier team was there im happy my team today is gettin our questions for kurtis blow tomorrow at the hiphop church also intrveiws for next week but check this (my team is like dwayne wade team we to hot,and like the heat this year we couldnt be stop)asy we winning

We lost

Even though our team wasnt that far behind I still think we lost for this week.Half our team is gone so it's hard for me to get work done but I have to do w/e I gotta do to get my team back on top.Today me and Lino met some rapper who's signed to Universal Records and with our onversation I know he'll com e throught for us and we already have a whole bunch of connects so im positive that out team will be in lead again for the third week.

im not a bussiness man im a bussiness man

im not a bussiness man im a bussiness man because im putting events on the calendar and i talked online with jae millz a rapper from harlem he was on making da band and on smack dvd's i told him about harlemlive so i can do a interveiw and he said he will call me so i can do a interveiw with him also I RESCHEDULED A interveiw with kurtis blow my team shuffle alliance have so many interveiws from hot97 to bet i feel like im on a tour and next week kanye west is going to be at bryant park thanks to gem for making this possible

Im going crazy

Hey guys....Ive been so SOO stressed out lately. last week it seems liek everything in my life was callpsing. Harlem live was on the brink of being shut down for all syep participants such as myself for the entire summer, interrupting our whole summer media challenge. the week that we were faced with all these problems was also the week that most of our interviews were scheduled. of course through all the choas goind down, me missed those interviews and meetings and now that all the madness is over, we have to catch up and reschedule everything that wa smissed last week, which is so overwhelming. Last week I also borke up with my long time long....for undisclosed reasons and I almost lost my other job becasuse i hadent been there in so long (took a break from all the stress but didnt call them...i lied n told them i went to grenada for a funeral). In the end, i still have my jobs (both of them), but no love =(..I miss him but what can I do....until again- Gem

Yooooooooooo

Hi you doing is me Jonny holding you guys down!!! As i work hard to get this points for my team i think of something. I think if we ever recover from what happen last week. We lost a ton of great group members to the hands of "The Man" or the DYCD. I have also noticed that my team haven't done anything since the DYCD incident. I feel that the alliance is going to fall to the hands of team anyomous. I heard they have 10 stories lined up and are ready to whip it out. HAHA "whip" but yeah sooo i saw the most biggest rats i have ever seen in manhattan. I was at 125th and i was chilling with Rebecca and the crew and a rat pass by i was like damn!!! The city needs to get cleaner!!!

I have been the leader of the alliance since July 5th. I have seen my team going up and up in the tables and it seems that we are going to win. I am sad that i will have to leave Harlemlive on August 1st. But i won't leave Harlemlive just like that, i will do my best to support my team with everything it takes. If i have to put some hours after work then be it. You know i won't let my team lose everything. I have to do everything for my team. People say that i maybe Editor In Chief. What the F***!!!! I do not want to be that. Too much responsibilities for me. No thanks!!!!

This has been Jonny the only latino (Light Skinned) chilling in harlem like always!!! Dont Forget me Harlemlive when you kick me out or when you find me with a girl on top of me (couch) or when i leave this place a mess. I fought for you Harlemlive so dont forget that!!!!!!!!

i told yall harlemlive/we still here

yep on friday july 21 2006 at 5 in the afernoon harlem live we worked hard all thursday and went down to dycd and settled the dispute and we won so since today is monday we got presentations at 6 and a meeting at 12 noon today i doing a blog and practice on my newbie card i now how to do it but i want to explain it step by step alos go to harlem live website slash tutorials where i can learn more about webdesign and im happy because im learning so much bout harlem live because im interested in computers i have fun like on friday on our way back from dycd we told people about harlem live and what our jobs are also putting on a little show of dancing of course i won but then lost but its all good because my team shuffle alliance is astill in the lead im happy because harlem live benn open like 10years and its cool to learn abuot it basicly told yall like jay-z

YOOO IS JONNY!!!!

This week was a test of our love and determination to be in Harlemlive. There was drama in Harlemlive for students getting pulled from Harlemlive. I was included in this drama and was effected most dearly. Clearly the SYEP people do not know that this is my home. A procter once said "A man can find happiness in his home but cannot find happiness else where". Harlemlive is my home and no one can take that away from me. Today was a day of infamy for Harlemlive a day we will never forget. It was tense in the morning awaiting the DYCD administrative people to arrive nd we tried getting ready. Then as I turned my face i saw them walking through the door. I was astonished they actually came to Harlemlive. I would have think they had had such a busy life then to worry about a bunch of minority children accomplishing (to there point of view) nothing.

We are the youth, the strongest arsenal Harlemlive has. It was the youth who brought Harlemlive to where it is. But the youth cannot function without grand leadership. To be a leader one knows the consequences that is resulted by his or her action, knows what fear can do to their followers and knows what advice can be given to their followers when it is a time of despair and discomfort. That leader is Richard. People think he is silly at times but he knows right from wrong. Without him harlemlive will break apart. Is like when Brad left we thought we weren't going to make it. I thought when a problem affected Harlemlive who was here to fix it. But we came through. We did our thing and we are more closer to each other than ever. I can now say that Harlemlive will never fall to any problem someone throws at them. He are stronger than ever and we will continue to become powerful each year.

This media challenge is going to the Alliance hand down. We are more focused then ever. We have lost powerful people on the way to greatness but have gain people too. The challenge is far from over but me writing this blog is keeping me from posting stories, editing on the site, or ordering people to do something~~HAHAAHA~~. Is great to have power but one know his limits.

I Got My Right Foot In, But They Pullin My Left Foot Out

Ahhhh, my team. How is the deck doin over there. I haven't been able to call any one yet because I haven't figured out what I'm going to do completely. If whether or not I'll stay or leave. Believe me, I want to stay, but there's a higher voice than mine, and if she says otherwise, I have no choice but to abide by her decision. This whole hole in the wall epidemic is like a cartoon. I don't understand how someone can take responsibility for something that they don't really know about. Rich, I hope you kiss and make up with these people real fast because I don't have the morale and strength to tell myself I'm going to another site. I can't tell myself I'm going to enjoy my time there as much as I have up there. And that's including the A-Train exploits. By taking us out, DYCD and other organizations for Summer Youth could be destroying a lot of the potential talent that HarlemLIVE possesses. They don't understand that this place gives teens the freedom to do what they want with their work that school doesn't. Maybe they aren't cool with that, but it is what it is. We videotape what we want, edit what we want, and our pens and keys can write and type whatever our minds can fathom.
As for Shuffle, keep ya heads up babyy. It aint over till it's over. Holla at me babyy...
IT'S THE ROC!!!

wats really good

Wednesday, July 19, 2006
my day so far is beautiful we have two people taking care the cracks on the wall also mobb deep is gonna be downtown ima see them perform and get thier autograph i will also try to get thier interveiw while thier i also went to get breakfast for rich n others and mail letters im doing my job =for the team that put me as the weakest person on my team shuffle alliance but we winning ya dig we going all the way also im writing blogs so my team can get more points but thats nessary what um second week we still ahead so my team is the greatest like muhammed ali but bein im like jay-z i need to retire check dis out yeah,its philmoney ayo,my team shuffle alliance cuz we never leavin/anomis and joc shook grab thier chest like the pledge of alligence/joc say its goin down think they hot/joc threw a album off the roof and now they are down/anomis think they get cheaddar/its sad how they stole our journalist rebbeca/anomis and joc really not compition to me/they wouldnt be ready if they had a rocky and eye of the tiger of the beat.thats just a sample but we on top like icin on a cake easy

Lucky Team

So far we have great connects and our team is winning so there's nothing that can stop us.I dont think the other teams have dedicated members like how Shuffle does and even though we have an opportunity to vote someone out,our team will still stand strong.No one can stop us now.I love my team and I love all the hard work.I know that as a leader im still maintaining all the hard work and today I learned all the tricks to Video Editing and since im a fast learner I know that my video can stand just as tall as those who been doing this for a year or more.

GOod WEEk, Good WEek , GOOd WEek

I can just feel it that this week is going to be a good one.Yesterday I went out on a story in the Bronx at St. Anthony Catholic School. besides the blazin' heat I had fun. It was a lot of note taking but heyyy ....that's my job as a journalist. Today I interviewed my former doctor. I really got a chance to see my old nurse and see the changes of the clinic. I am really enjoying this. So far this week has been exciting especially with the presentations.

This week is going good....GOod WEEk ...GOOd WeEk...GOod WEek

I Got My Bird Yayy!!!

This weekend I went away with my sorority this weekend. It was not as fun as I would have hoped. Since we (meaning my '05 line sisters) were Neos they treated us if as though we were beneath them. But it was good that our deans had our backs and told the other sisters that we already crossed and it is not our faults that they had to wait 5 years for them to get their Bird. Another thing wrong about this weekend was the location. I mean I love the woods as much as the next guy but the next guy hates the woods...LOL (inside joke)
During this weekend I saw Bambi and his family. You might think .... o she's a punk for being scared of deers but its one thing from seeing a picture and seeing them in real life. If that wasn't scary enough there was this trailer park and as I was walking past the 1st trailer there was 2 hugely big rockweilers who attempted to attack my sisters and I.
Now the sad part of my weekend was not being able to help my team, Shuffle Alliance. They needed me to be at a video class on Sunday but I was not able attend it. Its okay because I will stay tonight to learn what I missed.~Uno~

PHILSIGNER

THIS IS MY THIRD WEEK AT HARLEM LIVE WHEN I COME IN I SIGNED AND STARTED ON MY BLOG FOR MY TEAM SHUFFLE ALLIANCE FRIDAY. I HELPED A NEWBIE FILL OUT HIS NEWBE CARD ALSO TAUGHT HIM HOW TO POST A BLOG ALSO THE CHORES AND HARLEM LIVE IS A MEDIA RAN BY YOUTH I LEARNED LITTLE BY LITTLE TO PUT THE STORIES ON THE POST AT HARLEM AND HOW TO FETCH TO COLUMBIA SO THEY CAN REVEIW THE STORIE. I ASLSO WENT TO THE EAST IN HARLEM TO DELIVER A LETTER ALSO WE LEARNED IF THE DOOR SLAM WE GET GOOF POINTS AND I LIKE IT HERE YOU GET TO MEETY ALOT OF PEOPLE AND LEARN ABOUT WRITING STORIES AND COMPUTERS FOR FINDING STORIES AND HOW TO USE THE CAMERA TO TAKE PICTURES AND VIDEO TO MAKE A VIDEO WHILE THE JOURNALIST IS INTERVEIWIN A PERSON ALSO POS WHICH STAND FOR PERSON ON STREET I CAN MAKE ANEWBIE CARD AND SAVE THE ESSAY IN THIER FOLDER ALSO I DID A POS B4 TO DO THAT U GIVE THE PERSON YOU INTERVEIW HAND THEM A PAPER ABOUT WAHT HARLEM HARLEM LIVE THEN ASK TO TAKE A PICTURE OF THEM THEN THEN THE JOUNALIST TYPE THE STORIE.

ouch..my head hurts!

so yeah....everyone is wondering why i've been running around in circles like a foul in a meathouse, why I seen to be just "doing nothing". In my defense, I would first like to note that everyday since I have started coming to harlem live ironically Ive been having these day long headaches.sometimes the small pounding in my head is very soft but at time when I try to focus on reading, or researching or writing (anything that involves concetration), i get these really disruptive headaches. SO what I have decided to do Is be here during the day with the group, helping around finding out what stories need to be done,but doing my own research on my own time, and gettging the majority of my work done at home...which keeps me up LATER at night when I get home from HL...which why I apparently passed out for a couple hours today at the office. Im just so overwhelmed with things to do, im always busy, if not at Harlme live, with my summer SAT classes, with my other job in Brooklyn, and these headaches havent been making them any better. On wednesday, I went to the doctor who did some tests as to what might be going on but I havent go the results back yet. I just hope im okay and the headaches are the result of stress of somesort, which wouldnt be too surpising seeing that Im not the only one here at HL who feels the pressure and has become a lil stressed as a rsult of it. I just need to take it easy, it's summertime for god sakes!

i'm back

wats really good dis ya boy phillip and my team shufflealliance is in the lead but its more tougher like if the door sl;am we get ggof's but of course it's easy write blogs everyday and dont be on sconex i also learned a little bit bout putting stories online and doing nebies cards also i did chores before i left also alot of new people to meet also alot of work also never come without a pen i ama web design/reporter so ill see yall tomorrow

Let Me Handle The Mic Again....

I'm back on the mic after a one day hiatus babyy. what it do? I had to take a small break in the middle cuz i was a little tired. I can't really even lie. I'm still somewhat exhausted right now, but I'm tryin to get thru it. besides that, the A-Train was cool again today, thankfully, I was able to take the whole ride without any interruptions what so ever. However, I was listening to my Jay-Z.

-Can I Live?-

When all of a sudden, this group of Levert-like singers appeared on the train while Hova's track was flowin thru my ears. I said, aww man, not again. At least it wasn't a fight, but at the same time, I had to stop my music, and with that being one of my favorite songs ever, It was a true difficulty pressing the pause button. But this group was something I had to listen to. Not only cuz I was pretty sure I wasn't going to see them again, but the sounded good. And for me to hear them thru my earphones was amazing. It took me back to the scene of the movie "New Jack City," where Nino Brown, a.k.a. Wesley Snipes took over the Carter building for his crack enterprise, and the R&B group Levert sang "Living In The City" in the background of the clip. They sounded real professional, and I hoped they were young. But I couldn't see them since I was on the other end of the train, and they seemed to be singing specifically to the people on the other side. However, the swung their voices slowly to my side, and their piches sort of brought chills to my spine, cuz I never saw anything like that in person. Litttle did I know, when I saw them, I saw faces of a time that came and went a long time ago, and their time , more than likely, came and went a long time ago. It was a bitter sweet moment, just to see so much talent, that could have been used to create classic albums and revenue for a huge music corporation, belittled to a tool just to help four men get by day to day, and hope to sing again tomorrow on another train. It was very sad but true to think about, as I have come across countless talents in my days in the subway, that could have made it big, but just never got break. From saxaphonist, to artists, to pianists, and singers. Damn, nevermind Jay-Z and me.

Can They Live?

IT'S THE ROC!!

first day at hl

Its my first day at Harlem live and i just did all the newbie stuff. At first there was alot of confusion and Rich didn't know what i was here for. After that cleared up i jumped straight into my newbie card and everything else. I met a couple people and they led me in the right direction. I'm on this team (even though i was on anon) and im proud to be here. I'm enjoying myself and i hope i learn alot about web design as well as make a bunch of new friends. 8)

jaquana-FRidAY

As y'all might already know it's Jaquana. Yesterday we had a meeting and Rich evaluated who wants to be here and not. I was one of the people who he said ''wasn't sure if I wanted to be here". Believe it or not I do want to be here even though my friend Tanae left yesterday. I think me staying showed alot about my dedication and character. But I'm determined to show people that I do want to be here.........even if I have to work my hardest and search for the best stories. I really like the experience at Harlemlive and I will take advantage of this opportunity.

"Harlemlive", The next real world. #2

what's good, it's lino again. Today show was ok,beside that the director from the show (Rich) took out a member from our team. I feel that the director of the show, (Rich) should had left that member on my team. I think it was a good idea to put troy on a team. So now the show gets better. Anyway everyone is treating everyone good, but if this keep up we will not have a show. "Harlemlive", The next real world.

It's a new day, THursday

I just came to work and things are going pretty good. This week is going very fast and it is interesting. It's a lot of work but I'm having fun doing it. I really am enjoying harlemLive... AT first I thought it was going to different or boring but I was wrong. It is far from boring it keeps me busy. Harlem Live look out because this NeWBie is on theeee roll....

" Harlemlive",The next real world.

what's popping, it's your boy lino. harlemlive is like a MTV show, everyone have their problems with someone. Wheather the person is on your team or if the person is on the next man team. Today two people from the anonymous team were fighting. I love it when they fight because, it show that the teams are not working together and my team is going to win. I know this is the first week and my team so far has a good start, but i just hope that we can keep it up, but we might have to drop a couple of people(i aint saying no names). Well anyway people, get ready for the next show because this is going to be one hell of a show. "Harlemlive", The next real world, by the video team. ( Hey Troy, How you like my video idea?)

Aight Pass Me The Mic Back....

Yeah, What It Do Babyy, It's the Ace, of the suit with the rhombus-like shape. Day went aight. Got back on the A-Train again. Today it was better than yesterday. Even though I had to see if I could go and get a shirt for my brother birthday. All the Cancers represent for my brother!!!!! I hopped back on the train and came up to HL with no problem this time. However, that was still only the beginning of my day. I had to get an interview done with a sportswriter for one of my career profiles. I had to go to 59th street on Lexington Ave. I took the R-Train, (no problems) but I got a little paranoid, mainly cuz I never took that train before. I got to Fifth Ave. and I had to ask someone where 59th and Lexington. Little did I know, that was the next stop on the train. Therefore, I was cool, just like the Gang babyy, just like the Gang.......EXCEPT! IT WAS SO HOT TODAY MAN, I felt like God was hungry and decided to put my in the oven for dinner! I mean daaaamn, where was the oxygen today. I'm walkin up Lexington and 59th lookin like im about to either steal somethin or rob somebody. I was lucky to get into theBloomberg Building safe+sound. Once in though, it felt like pure heaven. There shoulda been Angels in there dressed in white playing harps and singing "ahhhhhhhh." I felt like I really met 50 Cent at the Pearly Gates at that moment. In reality though, there were steel counters, and limestone statues on the wall. And that's just the lobby! Around the corner there were more steel counters, and pillars, and they took a picture of my face with a camera in the wall. I coulda been on an interview to join the MIB if I didn't know any better! Next, I hit the elevators to go and see my interviewee, and the elevators had green and red lights to indicate which elevators were going up and which were going down (Team Joc What It Do Babyy!), that was crazy too. Now to the best part of the building: Floor Six. You come through the elevator and there is someone to greet you when you walk in. He told me where to sit, to wait for my interviewee, but I barely paid attention to what he said cuz I turned around and saw the snack bar that Rich had told me of. To tell you the truth, the snack bar was HUGE understatement for what I saw. Number one: Snack Bars aint free. All those chips, and sodas and juices and food and candy was just there for the taking. I coulda took anything I wanted, but I didn't want to be too greedy so I just got an Iced Tea....Anyway, the interview went great. I got my notes, and I plan on interviewing more writers for my career profile goal. Shuffle Alliance is a about to go in, real big like Manny Fresh. IT'S THE ROC!!!

July 12,2006

HEY...HEY....HEY.....once again my name is Jaquana Mitchell Jones and i'm working at HarlemLive for the summer. I am having a pretty good experience.Today is going okay so far.I came in at 12:00 and time is going so fast. I'm just looking for stories and calling people setting up interviews. I am basically doing what I'm doing what I'm supposed to.

Out in the field

Though it was a hot day today to be outside, we went out to do a story on organic fresh farms in the heart of Harlem. I have walked past these farms before and never thought once that it was owned by one person, I always assumed a certain organization did. This particular one was owned by an African American women trying to bring organic vegatables to the community at an offordable price. My camera man and my reporter did a great job on the shot and the interviews. The assingments are not as bad as i thought they were going to be. I can honestly say that the day was very productive and that memebers of my group took equal parts.

Yooooooooooo

Well hello this your boy jonny up in hurr doing my thing.
I feel I am a totally different person. I found out that I have grown from the previous media challenges. I feel that I have a great responibility for my team's action and their decisions. I feel that I was given this power to control for the good of humanity and to demonstrate what I can do for my team. This is not the same Jonathan harlemlive knew in the past who in fact would scream out oooahhhhhh!!!!!! And make monkey noises to amuse others and to get attention. I have a goal now. My goal now is to make sure that my team wins. When I find that taste of victory then my thirst will be quenched.

Every man desires something in the universe. I desire victory so much that I will do anything do obtain what I desire. The Shuffle Alliance will reign victorious on the August 19th 2006. The Shuffle Alliance is like any powerful group that never gives up and never kneels to anyone. The Shuffle Alliance can be compared to the Black Panthers who never backed down to discrimination from the white race or to ethnic conflicts from the White's man republican form of government. The Shuffle Alliance is like a deck of cards always together and working together to create something grand and unique. The Shuffle Alliance will produce great stories, gargantuan videos, and finish the clickable map of Harlem. I am co Leader of the Shuffle Alliance and will dedicate most of my time to the advancement of my team and will direct our team members to greatness. But I cannot do this act alone, I will need everyone's effort to produce magnificent works of literature, marvelous videos, and exquisite web designs.

Shuffle Alliance will climb any mountain, swim any ocean and fly the endless skies to reach perfection!

Diamond's Back On The Mic Now....

I don't think Im takin the A-Train anymore to get to HL. I only took that train 2 times, but each time I took it , someone wanted to pop off, or fight, for those that are deficient in Hood Talk. But that train is bugged out man, for real. The first time I got on it to arrive to HL, some people got Into a fight on the car next to the one I was in. Now I could understand that people gotta handle their businees, but on a moving train? My peoples, nobody would be able to get out of the train if someone started shootiin off or whatever. Next thting you know, the guy sittin next to me starts yellin all on te train about how they shouldn't be fightin eachother on the train cuz you can't move nowhere! I could understand that too, but did he have to YELL IN MY EAR? Btween 59th and 125th was where we stopped, making me even later than I had to be. Lol, I skipped takin that train the next day to save myself from the trouble.....Fastforward to this morning, I decide to try out the A one more again. anyway, everything is going good, and im on schedule to arrive to the site ahead of time. 34 St. was where the drama started. DJ Kay Slay shoulda been there for that one. I'm posted on the door of the train, listenin to my Cherrelle and all that-"I Didn't Mean To Turn You Onnn"- vibin, until I hear loud voices through my Creative earphones. I turn around, and what do I see? A West Indian woman, and a Spanish man fighting over something. don't neccessarily know what they were speakin on but it got a little violent to say the least. Then, out of nowhere, another guy comes out and tells the spanish guy to stop yellin at the woman like that. I agreed with him on that. But It was like seein Superman comin to save the day. "I will punch you in your face right now, my dude, what's really good? Huh? what's really good?" That was what the Superman-like character said to the Spanis dude. Luckily it died down after that. But I was just in the middle of a huge argument wit really nowhere to breeze to if somebody did pull out a gun or somethin. Them A-Train's kid, 'll tell ya. they don't be the move sometimes........IT'S THE ROC!!!

First Day of the Alliance.

As we were assigned job fields for our group I was pretty excited with the slection our team leader made. I look forward to working with the different members of my team because some of them I'm just meeting them properly for the first time. I guess you can say that i'm prepared for any tasks or obsticles that come toward my team and i'm confident that we can work together to overcome them. So far we have a respectful and positve attitude towards each other and I hope that we can build on that instead of a negative change.

phillip aka webdesigner

this ya boy phillip and i love harlem live from meeting new people and learning more about computers also working with the community also listening to music to concentrater on working its very fun i can also interveiw people on the streets so if you wanna learn about computers come to harlem live the first day i was a newbie so i took a picture i also made a profile for myself
this week week we went to a park and played activities to know each other better like we was blind folded and had a animal and was spreaded through the park and had to get together using only our animal sounds i learned also how to put pictures on the profile and how to ddo presentations as a group this will be good so when i get to school i can write on how i spent my summer at harlem live i love technology and im also taught technology in my school i will also learn about journalism which is stories on the street also reporting which is writing the stories and video which is recording any important events

We're here live with shuffle alliance....

This is Gem Ross reporting live with Shuffle Alliance for on the status of the summer media chalenge 2006. The 2006 media challenge has been with a great start with 3 eager teams ready to rack up point. we're here with the shuffle alliance group from harlem live and asked their views on the start of the race and how things have been going. Queen of diamonds from shuffle live has said that her team hs a great start. They did a POS on the bush administration and has gotten some wonderful feedback from the harlem community. Their team color is green and they have divised a strategic plan on this summer's media plans. their interview line up also sound great: they plan on writing stories on one very influencial harlem reverend, an NFL player, and an NBA player. Sounds like the shuffle alliance has it in the bag for the 2006 summer media challenge. This is Gem Ross once again live with the shuffle alliance here at harlem live, over and out!

Shuffle Alliance Captain

Hello to all the curious readers my name is Shelise and I had a busy day.Today my the Shuffle Alliance team nominated me as their Captain and the first thing that came to mind was for me to give in my all to make sure we win.I remember a Numerologist took the numbers of my birthday and told me that im ahead of everything.So im taking my team with me as I stay ahead of everything.Trust was taken from me from my team and trust is what im giving back.As a leader I took two of my team members outside on the streets of 125th to do a P.O.S. (Person On the Streets) and we gained a relationship with three intelligent men on out President on Bush.Though alot of people aren't interested in Bush I know with my Video Editing skills I cam open the eyes of my peers.I know with being Captain i'll still keep the name of greatest newbie in HarlemLIVE!

I Had a good Day!!

Hey everyone its Ya boy Kareem, as you can see by the title of this blog I had a good day, I arived at Harlem Live at 10:30 thismoornig after a good weekend I was Eager and redy to get started on reporting on stories. today we where broken into groups i very happy with my group i think we have great potential and we have a great chance to win this years summer media challenge. after we also found out that the dcyd is trying to shut us down, When I herd this I was very disaponted because this has been my best job exspirence yet. today we also Did a person on the street our topic was on the Bush administration. The peoples responce was very blunt they did not feel bush did nothing for any of the minority groups. thats it for now talk to you soon one.

Matyia

We just got into our team for the summer youth challenge here at HarlemLive. our tem is called the Shuffle Alliance. The name was made up by Johnnie who also made the symbol. He did alot of work on Saturday night for our team. So now we have to do a bunch of things today including this blog that im writing. Well so far we have done a lot. We have completed all of the profiles for our team members. Shelise, Gem, and Kareem went out to do a POS on Bush. Phillip was doing something on the computer. And I was helping with the blogs and other stuff. Now we are getting ready for our presentation.

Andrew Demetrios

My first day at Harlem Live was better than I thought it was gonna be. Everyone here is comittied to working and are gonna make sure I work hard to. Im gonna learn video, and possibly journalism. I have a good feeling about the experince i'm going to have here. I'm going to work as hard as I can to help my team feel good about picking me. I promised my group I would try my hardest and that's what im going to do.I know my team Shuffle Alliance is gonna work together and win this whole thing.Nobody is here to stop us and somebody do I gonna make sure we knock them down!!

JONNIE

hey wussup its ya boi jonnie....and im reppin that shuffle alliance.and yea tha name was ALL my idea : its all about how life is a card deck and were the cards that have been dealt for our time, and were an alliance. yea. but newayz shuffle alliance is gunna win, we got a good team and we got a good chance. iv been wit HL for three years and i still havent won so i REALLY wanna win this year.Nobody gonna stop me and my team now and being co-captain is my role so im taking and running for it.Im so dedicated with Shuffle Alliamce that i had to run alllllll the way downtown for a job interview and run back to HL to get the work done.I didnt even get to eat because of all the work so you know ya boi is serious!!

jaquana aka diamond beauty

HI!!!!! My name is jaquana for all yall who dont know. I am very creative, outgoing,and imaginative. I enjoy skating, dancing, and playing the violin. I love to write anything and everything from poetry to scripts. Right now I'm just getting the items together with the group. I just started HArlemLive precisely July 5,2006. HarlemLive is something special. It's not like any place I have worked before. I get a chance to express myself freely and basically express my skills.Harlem live is a very exciting place to be.Indeedly, it's the perfect place for me.

Diamonds on the mic now.....

We all up in HarlemLIve, gettin' our group together and in check babyy. It's about to be all good in a few. As soon as our whole team get it right, well be unstoppable. Everyone wanna get on our name, and frankly, I can't blame em. Jonathan was buggin out on that one. But It's all good, we could just take thatand roll wit the punches. I'm a reporter with the Shuffle Alliance. I intend on at least tryin to do my thing wit the team. Hopefully it will show in the future.the day is the tenth of July, and everyone just has to get their group set up. We on our way. Our color is green, we already have an emblem done by Boss Jonathan. It displays a green G in the middle of an Ace that's on fire. How does that sound to you? It looked alright, but not everyone agreed on the first decision. I aint have no problem with it personally, but when Gem came thru the door, she wanted to change the color to pink, along with Matyia, and Gem hated the emblem. In the end, we just decided to keep what Boss Jon came up with and that's it. We rollin wit that. ITS THE ROC!!!!!

dAy oNe 4 tHa QueEn oF DiaMonds(aKA LatRiCe)

hey wussup everyone tha names Latrice and Im startin the official blog of the Shuffle Alliance....im just a reporter but since i made the blog (no one else wantedto) then imma have the first say. so here i go:

The Shuffle Alliance.....yea thats right....so far everytime someone has heard our name they've laughed.ok yall (and yea i did say yall....im from tha south thats what we say down there) while it might seem dumb, it does have meaning. ill leave that for jonny to explain...but newayz we just started the shuffle alliance...were all just chillin and plannin our stuff for the future....my names Latrice...reppin tha dirty dirty south ( we got that bomb fried chicken!!) imma reporter and we gunna have stories like no other!! ....im one of tha koolest kid ull eva meet....and i love all my pplz at HL! now imma turn it over for my other ppl.

but before that, one last thing:

WE GON MAKE IT DO WUT IT DO BAByY!!! HL aint READY! and thas real