That’s why today the online retail giant announced that it will be expanding in downtown Detroit, creating a new technology hub focused on hiring full-time, high-tech employees.
Detroit Mayor Mike Duggan, University of Michigan President Mark Schlissel, Michigan State University President Lou Anna K. Simon, Dan Gilbert, and Peter Faricy, the vice of Amazon Marketplace, joined Governor Rick Snyder at the Cobo Center for the announcement.
“There’s a recognition that Detroit is not just a place for Detroiters or Michiganders, but a place for people around the world,” the governor said, speaking to roughly 100 attendees. “This is about attracting people that otherwise wouldn’t come to Amazon or Detroit.”
Currently, Amazon leases space on one floor downtown where nearly 100 employees work. This expansion will grow Amazon to multiple floors in early 2016 to create a new tech hub that will be paired with its existing hub in Seattle, Washington. These new jobs in Detroit will be software development, engineers, and advertising sales. READ FULL STORY HERE
Congratulations Niagara! The amazingly talented Artist, Niagara Detroit, is featured in the Museum of Modern Art in New York 2016 Calendar Book! You can order your copy HERE
This spiral-bound 12-month appointment calendar is richly illustrated with work featuring typography and lettering throughout the Museum's collection. Made in Italy. 53 images.
Your world seems a bit more settled today than it did yesterday. However, you might not even realize you have passed through the eye of a storm and are coming out the other side now. You are a survivor because your individuality prevents you from losing yourself completely to the confusion of intense cosmic weather. Don't be afraid to fight for what is yours. Take time to reflect on your journey, appreciate your accomplishments and head into the future with a brave heart.
My Mom sent me all 4 seasona on DVD of SOAP! I binge watched them all weekend. Laughed myself sick! This show from 1977-1981 really stands up in the 21st century..Here is more info on this funny show. I tried to pick a favorite character, but hey are all so good...but to me the funniest one is Bob the Dummy...see the video below.
Soap (wiki) is an American sitcom that originally ran on ABC from 1977 into 1981. The show was created as a night-time parody of daytime soap operas, presented as a weekly half-hour prime time comedy.
Similar to a soap opera, the show's story was presented in a serial format and included melodramatic plot elements such as alien abduction, demonic possession, murder, and kidnapping. In 2007 it was listed as one of Time magazine's "100 Best TV Shows of All-TIME," and in 2010, the Tates and the Campbells ranked at number 17 in TV Guide's list of "TV's Top Families".
The show was created, written, and executively produced by Susan Harris, and also executively produced by Paul Junger Witt (Harris' future husband) and Tony Thomas.
Each returning season was preceded by a 90-minute retrospective of the previous season. Two of these retrospectives were made available on VHS in 1994, but were not included on any DVD collections.
The show aired 85 episodes over the course of four seasons. Eight of these (including the final four) aired as one-hour episodes during the original run on ABC.
These hour-long episodes were later split in two, yielding 93 half-hour episodes for syndication. Like most sitcoms of the era, Soap was videotaped, but this coincidentally helped further its emulation of the daytime soap opera format, as most such productions were also videotaped.
All episodes are currently available on region 1 DVD in four separate box sets. There is a box set of season 1 on region 2 DVD. In the past, the series has rerun on local syndicated channels as well as on cable on Comedy Central and TV Land. It ran on over-the-air television on Antenna TV, until December 30, 2012.
The cast included three former soap opera actors. Robert Mandan (Chester Tate) had previously appeared on Search for Tomorrow as a leading man for Mary Stuart, and Donnelly Rhodes (Dutch Leitner) had played the first husband of Katherine Chancellor on The Young and the Restless. Arthur Peterson, Jr. ("The Major") played Rev. John Ruthledge in the radio version of Guiding Light.
MAIN CAST:
Rod Roddy ...Announcer (84 episodes, 1977-1981)
Katherine Helmond ...Jessica Tate (82 episodes, 1977-1981)
Richard Mulligan ...Burt Campbell (82 episodes, 1977-1981)
Cathryn Damon ...Mary Campbell (80 episodes, 1977-1981)
Ted Wass ...Danny Dallas (74 episodes, 1977-1981)
Billy Crystal ...Jodie Dallas (73 episodes, 1977-1981)
Robert Mandan ...Chester Tate (73 episodes, 1977-1981)
Jennifer Salt ...Eunice Tate / ... (64 episodes, 1977-1981)
Jimmy Baio ...Billy Tate (62 episodes, 1977-1981)
Diana Canova ...Corinne Tate-Flotsky / ... (59 episodes, 1977-1980)
Arthur Peterson ...The Major (57 episodes, 1977-1981)
Jay Johnson ...Bob Campbell / Chuck Campbell... (57 episodes, 1977-1981)
Robert Guillaume ...Benson DuBois (49 episodes, 1977-1980)
Donnelly Rhodes ...Dutch Leitner (35 episodes, 1978-1981)
After 60 years, Erroll Garner is now being recognized as not only a pioneer within the jazz community but an important composer whose brilliance influenced music history.
Iconic Jazz artist Erroll Garner's greatest concert album was already one of the best selling jazz albums of all time. The newly expanded album, The Complete Concert By The Sea, released jointly by Sony Legacy and Octave Music Publishing Corporation on September 18, 2015 - in celebration of the concert's 60th anniversary, debuts at #1 on Billboard's Jazz chart and #93 on the Top 20.
The set contains the complete live concert recording including 11 previously unreleased tracks, the original edited Columbia release from 1956 (digitally restored and remastered at The Magic Shop, NYC using the Plangent Process) and bonus material including announcer Jimmy Lyons and interviews with the Erroll Garner trio: Denzil DaCosta Best, Eddie Calhoun, and Garner himself, recorded directly after the concert.
The complete live concert recording – newly uncovered by the Erroll Garner Jazz Project and digitally remastered in its entirety after six decades – is produced by Guggenheim® Award-winning jazz pianist and Director of Jazz Studies at the University of Pittsburgh Geri Allen and 4-time GRAMMY®Award-winning producer Steve Rosenthal.
