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Oklahoma was shook down to its core with a devastating tornado destroying the area yesterday afternoon, taking along with it two elementary schools, miles of suburban homes, roads, and anything else that crossed its path. This tragic twister took the lives of 24 civilians, eight of them being children and has hospitalized a total of 242 patients.
At 2:40 a tornado warning was sent out to the civilians of Moore. Shortly after a giant 12 mile long collection of debris was left behind as the storm violently ripped its way from New Castle to Moore for a total of 40 minutes. The tornado was recorded to be 2 miles long with winds traveling up to 200 mph. The twister showed no remorse when it reached the schools of Briarwood Elementary and Plaza Tower Elementary as teachers did everything they could to prepare for impact and protect their students.
Briarwood Elementary School was completely leveled by the storm, having its walls and roof blown down. The students, only one week from summer vacation, spent their afternoon huddled in corners, covering their heads under the protection of their teachers bodies. Though Briarwood was completely and utterly destroyed, miraculously each student in what was once their school building was accounted for. Much of this was due to the heroic acts of the teachers who did everything they could to protect them.
Teachers Sheri Bittle and Cindy Lowe are storm-survivors, rescuers and nothing short of heroes. Sheri Bittle instructed her students to immediately get in the corner of their classroom and to place their backpacks over their heads for protection. Cindy Lowe mentions how she witnessed the tornado coming and tried to calm her students as much as she could reminding them of their drills. She bravely placed her body over theirs to try and protect her students as much as possible which was happily the case.
Due to the excessive debris and miles of ruins left by the storm it was extremely difficult for parents to make their way to the Briarwood. Many families walked for miles just to make it to the destroyed building and began running toward their children once they spotted them. Those families who could not make until later in the evening would find their children still in the care of their heroic teachers. These heartwarming reunions between these children and their loving parents touched all who witnessed them.
Immediately after the passing of the tornado, search teams and rescuers immediately rush to the scenes of the schools to search for the children buried in the debris. Other school Plaza Tower Elementary had a more devastating outcome resulting in the lose of seven of its students. A massive search continued for the entire night in hopes to find other survivors that could still be trapped. Still over two dozen children are unaccounted for.
Oklahoma has survived something so tragic, but the hard times are no where near over. Many families are separated, have lost loved ones, are being hospitalized, with their homes completely in ruins. The entire ZING Revolution team offers our hearts and prayers out to the victims of this disaster. To help the victims text REDCROSS to 90999 to donate.
Dominique Pagan is currently a student at LIU Post who has found a new passion for social media. Having attended 5 different schools in the past 6 years Dominique likes to consider herself as the “professional new student.” In her spare time you can find her watching an episode of UK series Skins or aiming for a new high score in Rock Band. She plays basketball for the LIU Post Pioneers and her favorite phrase is “wow… that’s crazy.”
The 2013 Billboard Music Awards was an award show not to be missed, but for those who tragically did don’t freak out because here are some highlights of the show!
Many stars such as Justin Bieber, Chris Brown, Pitbull with Christina Aguilera, Bruno Mars, Prince and others had memorable performances on the stage last night, and one of the most memorable being that of Taylor Swift. Taylor Swift rocked the show with and amazing performance of her hit song “22″ and reminded all fans why she is the adorned country pop sensation she is today.
Another major artist present at the awards was the legendary Madonna, and she was happily honored with Billboard’s Top Touring Artist Award. This incredible superstar who has an enormous amount of classic hits, has been a leading force in this industry for over three decades. Knocking out Bruce Springsteen, Lady Gaga, Roger Waters and Coldplay, Madonna’s amazing MDNA tour was the second largest tour by a woman artist. This tour only coming second to Madonna’s other tour Sticky and Sweet. In her speech she makes sure to thank as many people as she possibly can that made her tour possible, including her children that worked the tour and last but not least her fans because “a showgirl needs her fans.”
Though it seemed like a “girls night” at the awards many men held their own with awards won and performances. Our boys One Direction, though they were not able to make it to the awards won a total of three awards which were Top New Artist, Top Pop Artist, and Top Group Award (well done boys!!).
Justin Bieber was a big winner at the awards show, winning the Top Male Artist and the even more popular Milestone Award. He also graced the awards with two performances that night that were “Take You” and “That Power.” Chris Brown engages the audience with his impressive acrobatic stunts in his amazing performance of his very popular hit song “Fine China.” Other male artist did phenomenal jobs performing such as Miguel, Bruno Mars, and the show ends with an astonishing performance by Prince. Yes the 2013 Billboard awards is definitely one to go down in the books and congratulations to all those who won and were able to perform last night. Wonder how the Billboard awards will top this show next year?!
Let’s celebrate Taylor’s amazing, award-filled night by skinning our devices! Don’t you want “WINNER” as something your stuff says about you?
Dominique Pagan is currently a student at LIU Post who has found a new passion for social media. Having attended 5 different schools in the past 6 years Dominique likes to consider herself as the “professional new student.” In her spare time you can find her watching an episode of UK series Skins or aiming for a new high score in Rock Band. She plays basketball for the LIU Post Pioneers and her favorite phrase is “wow… that’s crazy.”
[Written by new prospective intern Kasey Snyder]
I like to say that I love music from every angle. Depending on my mood, I’ll listen to anything from country to classical, as every piece pertains to a specific memory. Give me Shelter by the Stones reminds me of getting lost in the backwoods of Carolina, Eroica by Beethoven reminds me of my study breaks from economics, and Tom Petty evokes the drives from New York to DC. The point is that every genre of music has had a specific effect on me that I transmit into certain memories.
For most people, music relates specifically to their mood, but most people do not like every genre. I remember going to an OAR concert in high school and looking over to see my best friend Eddy listening on his iPod to the new Lupe album. Not everyone likes all kinds of music. Many New Yorkers dislike country, some of my friends have never heard of Daft Punk, and most only know Lynyrd Skynyrd when I say, “the guys who sang Sweet Home Alabama.” But there is a median that everyone from every background of music and generation can find; the Man in Black.
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When I was growing up, I had the mug shot of Johnny Cash on my wall. He was the bad boy who made it big that my friends and I all aspired to be. I was lucky enough to be old enough to remember his last big hit, Hurt, originally written by 9 Inch Nails. Hurt, in my opinion is one of the best covers ever sung. Something about Cash singing about his life as it was coming to an end was the perfect way to end such a brilliant and influential life.
Right now I am sitting in the library with my classmates Yana and Danna studying for my finance exam. I asked them about their thoughts on Johnny Cash. While both of them claimed to know and like him, Danna couldn’t name a single song. So I asked her what she knew about him and she responded, “I don’t know he’s one of those cool older guys from the sixties.” I could only respond with a sigh and handed her my earphones so she could remember who he was. But although not everyone knows all of his songs or how he made his name, no matter what you listen to or your race, gender, orientation, generation, or style, everyone knows the Man in Black.
The ZING fam loves new additions, especially when they consist of well to do artists with crazy followings and an even greater eye for art. We’re proud to induct Charles Gilchrist in the ZING family of artists and we’re actually obsessed with his artistic take on sacred geometry.
What’s sacred geometry? (Don’t worry I asked the same question after our meeting too!) Luckily I did a little research so I could fill everyone in! It is used in planning and constructing religious structures like churches, temples, mosques, monuments altars, etc, along with sacred spaces and religious art. There are sacred meanings ascribed to certain geometric shapes and certain geometric proportions.
According to Paul Calter (he wrote a book on this stuff), “In the ancient world certain numbers had symbolic meaning, aside from their ordinary use for counting or calculating … plane figures, the polygons, triangles, squares, hexagons, and so forth, were related to the numbers (three and the triangle, for example), were thought of in a similar way, and in fact, carried even more emotional value than the numbers themselves, because they were visual.”
Gilchrist is known for his sacred geometry art and is re-emerging into the world of art TONIGHT with a special event you can livestream from home! (Obviously
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So, like the event description said, tune in. Check out what Gilchrist is all about and skin your stuff with his stuff!
Sarah Rzasa is a writer and a self proclaimed pretend social media guru. She spends most of her time hopelessly plotting how she can turn her life into an episode of Sex and the City over a coconut iced coffee. Most recently she has been labeled, “A cool adult who likes One Direction.” She’s still unsure what to make of that. Follow her on twitter for a series of embarrassing quotes and life moment.
Hey Trekkies! Hope you are excited (as you should be) because it is finally here!! The new movie Star Trek Into Darkness premieres tonight and this film is a must see!
Captain Kirk and his heroic team are not ones to disappoint so the movie is expected to crush the box office. Us Sci-Fi lovers know that a movie of this caliber showing in an era such as this one, where special effects and graphics have been at an all time high, is going to be something special. ZING is, naturally, especially excited for the movies premiere since we are such big fans ourselves.
To prove our Trekkie-ness we’ve played around with some classic Star Trek ZING skins and all that Star Trek space magic you love. And trust me, we’ll be reliving the movie over and over again with Star Trek skins for our electronics.
As any and every directioner knows, One Direction had One BIG Announcement for everyone. The countdown was established on onebigannouncement.com, the group’s main site, and of course, they sent out tweets letting everyone know that the countdown had commenced for #1BIGANNOUNCEMENT. When I, personally, checked out this countdown, I realized that it was counting down to noon (UK time) which is 7:00 am NYC time (technically, it was 10 after, but semantics, right?). Luckily for everyone involved, I’m at the airport, rocking the free wifi and the world’s cutest fedora, ready for instant posting.
One big announcement is…
The 2014 “Where We Are” STADIUM TOUR!!!!
So far, the stops that have been announced are only in UK, Ireland, and Latin America, and will begin at the end of April but if there is anything we all know about One Direction, they are sure to expand this line-up. Stay tuned and we’ll keep you updated on everything 1D!
