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 | Posted by djque | Mon, September 5, 2022 at 10:29 AM |
 LOUDOUN COUNTY, Va. - The Washington Commanders announced today that Ryan Kerrigan has been named assistant defensive line coach. Kerrigan will fill the role previously held by Jeff Zgonina who was promoted to the role of defensive line coach in training camp.
Kerrigan signed a one-day contract on July 29th, retiring as a member of the Burgundy and Gold. He is the Commanders all-time official sack leader and appeared in 172 games for the franchise from 2011-20.
"Ryan Kerrigan is one of the most accomplished players in this franchise's history," said Head Coach Ron Rivera. "Following his retirement, we had a great talk about his goals for life after playing. Ryan had an interest in coaching and we were able to allow him to shadow our coaching staff this summer. He is an extremely hard worker with tremendous knowledge of the defensive line position group. I look forward to watching him develop as a coach and assist Coach Zgonina in the defensive line room."
Kerrigan finished his career in Washington appearing in 172 games (143 starts) and registered 457 tackles (333 solo), including 117 for loss, 95.5 sacks, three interceptions which were all returned for touchdowns, 25 passes defensed and 26 forced fumbles.
Along with being the franchise's all-time leader in official sacks, Kerrigan is also one-of-three players in NFL history to record 60-plus sacks and 3-plus interceptions returned for touchdowns joining Jason Taylor and Julius Peppers. He is also second in franchise history in multi-sack games (18), trailing only Dexter Manley.
Kerrigan was selected in the first round (No. 16 overall) of the 2011 NFL Draft by Washington. He was a four-time Pro Bowl selection during his tenure with the organization. Kerrigan was recently selected as one of the 10 new additions to the 90 Greatest List. He also had a streak of 139-consecutive games played from 2011-19  Share on Facebook ·  Bookmark on Delicious | Posted by djque | Wed, August 10, 2022 at 7:29 AM |
 The Motown songwriter and producer Lamont Dozier in 1969. He helped write dozens of Motown classics. Between 1963 and 1972, he and his partners, Brian and Eddie Holland, were responsible for more than 80 singles that hit the Top 40 of the pop or R&B charts.Credit...Michael Ochs Archives, via Getty Images
With the brothers Brian and Eddie Holland, Mr. Dozier wrote dozens of singles that reached the pop or R&B charts, including "You Can't Hurry Love," by the Supremes.
Lamont Dozier, the prolific songwriter and producer who was crucial to the success of Motown Records as one-third of the Holland-Dozier-Holland team, died on Monday at his home near Scottsdale, Ariz. He was 81.
Robin Terry, the chairwoman and chief executive of the Motown Museum in Detroit, confirmed the death but did not specify a cause.
In collaboration with the brothers Brian and Eddie Holland, Mr. Dozier wrote songs for dozens of musical acts, but the trio worked most often with Martha and the Vandellas ("Heat Wave," "Jimmy Mack"), the Four Tops ("Bernadette," "I Can't Help Myself") and especially the Supremes ("You Can't Hurry Love," "Baby Love"). Between 1963 and 1972, the Holland-Dozier-Holland team was responsible for more than 80 singles that hit the Top 40 of the pop or R&B charts, including 15 songs that reached No. 1. "It was as if we were playing the lottery and winning every time," Mr. Dozier wrote in his autobiography, "How Sweet It Is" (2019, written with Scott B. Bomar).
Nelson George, in his 1985 history of Motown, "Where Did Our Love Go?" (named after another Holland-Dozier-Holland hit), described how the youthful trio had won over the label's more experienced staff and musicians. "These kids," he wrote, "had a real insight into the taste of the buying public" and possessed "an innate gift for melody, a feel for story song lyrics, and an ability to create the recurring vocal and instrumental licks known as 'hooks.'"
"Brian, Eddie and Lamont loved what they were doing," Mr. George added, "and worked around the clock, making music like old man Ford made cars."
In his memoir, Mr. Dozier concurred: "We thought of H.D.H. as a factory within a factory."
Lamont Herbert Dozier - he was named after Lamont Cranston, the lead character in the radio serial "The Shadow" - was born on June 16, 1941, in Detroit the oldest of five children of Willie Lee and Ethel Jeannette (Waters) Dozier. His mother largely raised the family, earning a living as a cook and housekeeper; his father worked at a gas station but had trouble keeping a job, perhaps because he suffered from chronic back pain as a result of a World War II injury (he fell off a truck).
When Mr. Dozier was 5, his father took him to a concert with an all-star bill that included Count Basie, Nat King Cole and Ella Fitzgerald. While the music excited the young boy, he was also impressed by the audience's ecstatic reaction, and resolved that he would make people feel good in the same way.
As a high school student, Mr. Dozier wrote songs, cutting up grocery bags so he would have paper for the lyrics, and formed the Romeos, an interracial doo-wop group. When the Romeos' song "Fine Fine Baby" was released by Atco Records, a subsidiary of Atlantic, in 1957, Mr. Dozier dropped out of high school at age 16, anticipating stardom. But when Atlantic's Jerry Wexler wanted a second single, Mr. Dozier overplayed his hand, saying the group would only make a full-length LP. He received a letter wishing him well and dropping the Romeos from the label.
After the Romeos broke up, Mr. Dozier auditioned for Anna Records, a new label called founded by Billy Davis and the sisters Anna and Gwen Gordy; he was slotted into a group called the Voice Masters and hired as a custodian. In 1961, billed as Lamont Anthony, he released his first solo single, "Let's Talk It Over" - but he preferred the flip side, "Popeye," a song he wrote. "Popeye," which featured a young Marvin Gaye on drums, became a regional hit until it was squelched by King Features, owners of the cartoon and comic-strip character Popeye.
After Anna Records folded in 1961, Mr. Dozier received a phone call from Berry Gordy Jr., brother of Anna and Gwen, offering him a job as a songwriter at his new label, Motown, with a salary of $25 a week as an advance against royalties. Mr. Dozier began collaborating with the young songwriter Brian Holland.
"It was like Brian and I could complete one another's musical ideas the way certain people can finish one another's sentences," Mr. Dozier wrote in his memoir. "I realized right away that we shared a secret language of creativity."
They were soon joined by Brian's older brother, Eddie, who specialized in lyrics, and began writing songs together - although hardly ever with all three parties in the same room. Mr. Dozier and Brian Holland would write the music and supervise an instrumental recording session with the Motown house band; Eddie Holland would then write lyrics to the track. When it came time to record vocals, Eddie Holland would guide the lead singer and Mr. Dozier would coach the backing vocalists.
In his memoir, Mr. Dozier summed it up: "Brian was all music, Eddie was all lyrics, and I was the idea man who bridged both."
Sometimes he would have an idea for a song's feel: He wrote the Four Tops' "Reach Out I'll Be There" thinking about Bob Dylan's phrasing on "Like a Rolling Stone." Sometimes he concocted an attention-grabbing gimmick, like the staccato guitars at the beginning of the Supremes' "You Keep Me Hangin' On" that evoked a radio news bulletin.
And sometimes Mr. Dozier uttered a real-life sentence that worked in song, as he did one night when he was in a Detroit motel with a girlfriend and a different girlfriend started pounding on the door. He pleaded with the interloper, "Stop, in the name of love" - and then realized the potency of what he had said. The Holland-Dozier-Holland team quickly hammered the sentence into a three-minute single, the Supremes' "Stop! In the Name of Love."
In 1965, Mr. Gordy circulated an audacious memo to Motown staffers that read in part: "We will release nothing less than Top Ten product on any artist; and because the Supremes' worldwide acceptance is greater than other artists, on them we will release only #1 records." Holland-Dozier-Holland stepped up: While they didn't hit the top every time with the Supremes, they wrote and produced an astonishing 10 No. 1 pop hits for the group.
"I accepted that an artist career just wasn't in the cards for me at Motown," Mr. Dozier wrote in 2019. "I still wanted it, but I was constantly being bombarded with the demand for more songs and more productions for the growing roster of artists."
When Marvin Gaye, who had turned himself from a drummer into a singing star, needed to record some material before he went on an extended tour, Mr. Dozier reluctantly surrendered a song he had been saving to relaunch his own career as an artist: "How Sweet It Is (To Be Loved by You)." Mr. Gaye showed up for the session with his golf clubs, late and unprepared, and nailed the song in one perfect take.
Mr. Dozier and the Holland brothers left Motown in 1967, at the peak of their success, in a dispute over money and ownership, and started two labels of their own, Invictus and Hot Wax; their biggest hit was Freda Payne's "Band of Gold," a Top 10 hit in 1970.
"Holland-Dozier-Holland left and the sound was gone," Mary Wilson of the Supremes lamented to The Washington Post in 1986.
Mr. Dozier wrote some more hits with the Hollands (many credited to the collective pseudonym Edythe Wayne because of ongoing legal disputes with Motown) and struck out on his own in 1973, resuming his singing career.
He released a dozen solo albums across the years, but without achieving stardom as a singer; he had the most chart success in 1974, most notably with the song "Trying to Hold On to My Woman," which reached the Top 20, and "Fish Ain't Bitin'," with lyrics urging Richard Nixon to resign, became a minor hit when his label publicized a letter it had received from the White House asking it to stop promoting the song.
Mr. Dozier had greater success collaborating with other artists in the 1980s, writing songs with Eric Clapton, the Simply Red frontman Mick Hucknall (who puckishly released "Infidelity" with the credit "Hucknall-Dozier-Hucknall") and Phil Collins, who hit No. 1 in 1989 with the Dozier-Collins song "Two Hearts."
Information on survivors was not immediately available.
Mr. Dozier served as an artist-in-residence professor at the University of Southern California's Thornton School of Music and as chairman of the board of the National Academy of Songwriters, imparting his hard-won wisdom to younger writers.
"Always put the song ahead of your ego," he wrote in his memoir. And he revealed the secret to his relentless productivity: "Writer's block only exists in your mind, and if you let yourself have it, it will cripple your ability to function as a creative person. The answer to so-called writer's block is doing the work. | Posted by djque | Sun, July 24, 2022 at 12:31 PM |
 Meet Isaac Barnes, the young founder and President of Eminent Future, whose Black-owned tech firm has been awarded a $13.4 billion dollar defense contract with the U.S. Airforce and the U.S. Spaceforce. Isaac is a marvel, reminiscent of young Black leaders transcending generations of relevant and personable individuals who have made such an extraordinary mark in history.
Hailing from Grand Rapids, Michigan, and growing up disadvantaged yet determined, Isaac's saga is one recognizable, with an unfamiliar progression. After dropping out of college, he would serve piously with the US Marines, where he prospered as a software engineer and data analyst supporting the Commandant of the Marine Corps. Isaac then went on to work for the Secretary of Defense to produce federal websites and digital products that saved millions of dollars for the Department of Defense.
Isaac received numerous awards and accolades for his innovations. His passion for technology and being a steward for the people led him to serve with influence under both the Obama and Trump administrations. His team led the 2017 presidential records transition efforts for President Obama.
Notwithstanding his apparent success and still seeking the need to serve by leading, Isaac went on to be the first Black multi-millionaire President of a Federal Digital Product and Innovation Company, Eminent Future. Serving as the President of Eminent Future, he has been paramount in securing a defense contract worth more than $13.4 billion whilst positioning the company to be one of the fastest-growing companies in Arlington, Virginia.
Isaac emphatically states, "The biggest issue that we have in America is that we are not working together as one unit; we are not combined." Isaac combines leadership, entrepreneurship, technology, and spirituality to design growth opportunities within and between organizations and inclusive of communities to generate and instill that cohesive unity in America.
On the heels of his remarkable accomplishments, Isaac, in conjunction with business partner Jose Risi established two crypto tokens, xMooney, and a stealth project. xMooney encourages its miners to reduce their carbon footprint while ensuring a more stable and secure blockchain.
Now, Isaac is using his platform and resources to give back. He is a vocal advocate for diversity in tech and is working to close the black tech gap. His story inspires anyone who wants to make a difference in the world. He believes cryptocurrency and Web3 are the future, and he is creating pathways for more black and brown people to join the movement.
About
Isaac is a natural-born leader, and the President of Eminent Future, a digital product and innovation company focused on creating societal change, winning over $13B in federal contracts with the Pentagon, White House, and Department of State. He led software development teams for both President Obama and President Trump. He goes by Future President because he plans to run for office in the early 2030s and is passionate about helping to upgrade democracy, create pathways for more people to create generational wealth, and break generational curses using technology. More information can be found on IsaacBarnes.com and his company's website at EminentFuture.co |
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