yandy smith talks single motherhood, importance of fathers and more

Yandy Smith is all about unity and wants to see African Americans families represented in a better light on television and in film. The ?Love & Hip Hop? star and businesswoman recently partnered with her good friend, Noel Calloway, to produce a movie called?Life, Love, Soul,?which?addresses all aspects of family life from the African American perspective.?Smith and Calloway feature a 17-year-old student who must deal with the effects of his mother suddenly dying and his father taking on the role of sole provider in the film. Through the teen?s experiences the audience witnesses heartbreak and the epidemic of single parent homes that are progressively becoming the norm in the African American community.

Yandy Smith recently sat down with?EURweb.com?to talk about her film and its hidden messages that call for social change. Check out what the reality star had to say!

About the film and its relevance in today?s society.?

?Noel Calloway, the director, and I go way back to high?school. We were good friends then. He reached out to me about six years ago to come on board with the project. At that time my career was going crazy and I was all over the place, I was on the road. So I couldn?t get as involved as I wanted to. He sent the script. I read over the script and I absolutely fell in love with it. When I got back in town, I reached back out to him and asked how could I be a part of it. I got involved about two years ago. It?s been an ongoing relationship ever since then. The message of the story hit home and definitely wanted to be a part of it

Anything that shows our Black families in a positive way is always a beautiful story. And I think there are so many conversations that this movie sparks, in reference to family, in reference to fatherless homes, in reference to young people starting their families, I think that this is something that needs to be out there and something that I want to support because there are so many different situations and conversations that movies like this evoke. And even in the wake of Trayvon Martin situation I think this is something that ties right into that.?

Yandy?s take on single motherhood and the importance of fathers.

?Sometimes, we as women, especially women of color, feel we can do it all, we are everything to everyone. But sometimes, I feel like if we can take a step back and think about the role these fathers have on their children, we?ll realize that we do need them. Of course we can do a lot, right now, not by choice, I am a single mother. Now I?m playing the role of mom and dad, however I understand that this does not take away from what his father can do because there are certain conversations I would never be able to have. There are some things that I would never be able to physically show my son just because I?m not a man. Sometimes, some of us single mothers get kind of big headed and want to be able to (say) ?I did it on my own? and some of us do a very good job. But I still think that does not take away from what a father brings to the situation, especially for our young men and boys. Even to our young girls, even to our young women. I grew up and I was very close to my father, he wasn?t in the house with us though. But there are so many things that my dad told me growing up that I still take heed to. It was something, conversations that my father needed to have with me. My father was a victim of addiction so that was the main reason he wasn?t in my household, but even with that addiction, there are so many that my father taught me that to this day are very important to me and resonate with me.?

On?Mendeecees and his incarceration.

?Mendeecees is still very very involved with me and the children and we?re still together. Right now he is awaiting a bail hearing, an arraignment hearing. He hasn?t gotten any further information yet about anything. So it?s just been a waiting process with that situation.?I just feel like when you love someone, you stick by their side no matter what they?re going through, when things are great. You?re there when things are not so great. You should be there for them if you love them. Even if I wanted to go somewhere else or move on, I do love him. So I?m going to support as much as I can and do my very best to get him home to his boys.?

Mendeecees turned himself in for drug trafficking a few months back while the ?Love & Hip Hop? cameras were rolling. He and Yandy, along with their sons, were featured on several episodes of the show prior to the confession.

The picture above shows Yandy, who is holding up a Miss Jessie?s baby product, with her son Omere

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Dual-SIM HTC One Max for China Unicom leaked, may pack a fingerprint reader

Much like HTC itself, leaksters have also been hard at work to help promote this company. Courtesy of ePrice, the latest spy shots feature the upcoming 5.9-inch One Max, and specifically, this is a dual-SIM model destined for China Unicom. Like the One Dual (or better known as 802w, 802t or 802d in China), this much bigger device sports a removable metallic back cover for access to the dual SIM slots, along with what appears to be a microSD slot at the top right corner. There are also a set of docking pins towards the bottom right on the back, so chances are we'll see official dock accessories for this bad boy.

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Twitter banks on Nathan Hubbard to head up commerce

Twitter has hired former Ticketmaster chief Nathan Hubbard as its new head of commerce, as the microblogging giant continues to push toward enabling e-commerce through the platform.

Hubbard, who left the ticketing company two weeks ago, said in a tweet he was "excited" to join the company, which has more than 200 million active users as of February.

He will report to Twitter's head of global revenue, Adam Bain, reports Bloomberg.??

Hubbard's role will involve finding merchants and payment providers to work with, rather than compete with, according to the financial publication. He said he plans to help offer retailers tools for selling products and services within tweets.

From the company's very inception, it was difficult to see how it would make money over the long term. However, over time, Twitter began rolling out sponsored tweets and various advertisements. The social network already serves ads to all US users after it flung open the door to businesses and advertisers earlier this year.

It comes at a time when rumors surrounding a potential Twitter initial public offering once again floated in recent days. Twitter co-founder Jack Dorsey said in April that a public offering was not yet in the cards. In spite of this, the San Francisco-based company is estimated to be worth about $10 billion.

This story originally appeared as "Twitter hires former Ticketmaster chief Nathan Hubbard as new commerce head" on ZDNet.

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Rural Andean churches plagued by sacred art theft

LA PAZ, Bolivia (AP) ? The thieves tunneled under the thick walls of the colonial-era Roman Catholic church in the tiny southern Bolivian town of San Miguel de Tomave, emerged through the floor and made off with five 18th-century oil paintings of inestimable value.

It was the third time the highlands church had been plundered of sacred art since 2007. Most of the finely-etched silver that once graced its altar was already gone.

"Who would have thought they would take the canvases, too?" the Rev. Francisco Dubert, the parish priest, asked of the 2-meter-by-1.75-meter oils depicting the Virgin Mary.

Increasingly bold thefts plague colonial churches in remote Andean towns in Bolivia and Peru, where authorities say cultural treasures are disappearing at an alarming rate. At least 10 churches have been hit so far this year in the two culturally rich but economically poor countries.

"We think the thefts are being done on behalf of collectors," said the Rev. Salvador Piniero, archbishop of Peru's highlands Ayacucho province. Religious and cultural authorities say criminal bands are stealing "to order" for foreigners.

Bolivian churches have been robbed 38 times of 447 objects since 2009 ? of highly stylized decorative silverwork, canvases, polished gold and silver altar pieces and gem-encrusted jewelry, said the country's cultural patrimony chief, Lupe Meneses.

In Peru, at least 30 thefts from churches and chapels have been reported since January 2012, including two this month: Churches in Ayacucho and Puno provinces were robbed of ornamental silver laminate, or gold and silver crowns, earrings and necklaces.

In Tomave, other canvases were left behind, Dubert said, indicating the thieves knew exactly what they wanted. "These churches are being robbed because terrible people want to own beautiful things." Donna Yates, a University of Glasgow archaeologist blogged afterward.

Yates, who is studying the Andes thefts for a global, European Union-funded project, said the hemorrhaging of priceless ecclesiastical art in the region has continued at a steady pace "but it's getting more brazen."

"Who is behind it? I can't say," Yates added. "The market for these goods is in Europe and the United States," she says, with Santa Fe, New Mexico, one destination as a magnet for collectors of Latin American art.

Cultural officials in the Andes have long struggled to protect Incan and pre-Columbian cultural treasures. Now, colonial sacred art has become a similar worry. By law, it is all national patrimony, its export illegal.

Where possible, churches are being fortified. Video cameras were installed and nighttime guards posted last year at Ayacucho's main cathedral in Huamanga, host to Peru's biggest annual religious pilgrimage.

But poor, rural parishes are on their own, particularly along the highlands plateau where Spanish colonial missionaries built isolated settlements.

In January, church thieves stole 12 gold crowns and a pair of silver shoes of a baby Jesus statue in the isolated Ayacucho town of Santo Domingo de Chungui, said regional culture director Mario Cueto.

He appealed afterward "for greater monitoring on highways and at international airports." But the thefts almost always go unsolved.

In one of the most audacious thefts, national treasures disappeared in April from the Church of the Virgin of Copacabana on Lake Titicaca.

A wooden 16th-century statue of Bolivia's patron saint was stripped of 18 precious jewels worth an estimated $1 million by thieves who poisoned two mastiffs and laced the parish workers' evening meal with tranquilizers. While everyone slept, the thieves broke a window and gained entry with a ladder.

A visiting priest and the female owner of a hostel where he was staying were arrested in the theft. Prosecutors say they are suspected of assisting a criminal gang.

Most targets are more like the Tomave church, unprotected by anything more than a lock and chain on the door when last burgled in December. Most are built above 13,100 feet and at least 60 miles from the nearest police station. As for burglar alarms, electricity is unreliable when it exists at all.

"Security is impossible," said Yates. "You are left with the kind of situation where you could either try to take all the goods out of these rural churches, which is ethnically questionable because you are taking people's heritage away from them."

Even if the art were removed, there is no place to safely store it.

Not even the La Merced church in Bolivia's southern regional capital of Potosi, whose silver mine was once the Spanish empire's economic engine, was immune from one of the year's biggest heists.

Among loot stolen after an alarm was deactivated: An 18th-century scapular shield encrusted with pearls, diamonds, rubies and emeralds worth an estimated $1 million. Also taken: part of a huge silver archway laminate.

Peru's cultural patrimony director, Blanca Alva, says much of the stolen silver is simply melted down. If it were merely stolen, she said, "at least it would be conserved and I'd hope it could be recovered."

Yet authorities have had little luck recovering colonial art. Officials at Bolivia's Culture Ministry were reluctant to share details of stolen items, fearing it could boost their black-market value.

A rare victory came in 2005 when 18th-century paintings of St. Francis of Assisi and Jesus Christ stolen from the San Pedro de la Paz church in Bolivia were recovered in Lima, Peru, where someone had tried to sell them to foreigners for $100,000.

"That's why this country should have a specialized (antiquities) police, like Italy," said Carlos Rua, the ministry's chief of artistic restoration.

No country in the region has more than a handful of police working regularly on antiquities thefts.

The rare times that plunderers are caught, consequences can be dire.

Police held up by a swollen river arrived too late in Quila Quila, a Quechua-speaking village in Bolivia's southern highlands, to save the thieves whom villagers caught the previous day absconding from their church with canvases and jewels.

Local journalist Henry Ayra said the men were caught, beaten and buried in the churchyard on March 5, 2012.

Local police Maj. Bismark Pereira told the AP his men unearthed and carted away the handcuffed corpses. He he could not confirm reports the men were buried alive.

"The community," said Pereira, "had entered into a pact of silence."

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Bajak reported from Lima, Peru. Associated Press writer Carla Salazar also contributed from Lima.

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Victorino (2 HRs) powers Boston past Orioles 13-2

BOSTON (AP) ? Shane Victorino homered twice and added a two-run double. He also walked once and got on another time when he was hit by a pitch.

He reached base safely five times in all. Four times he scored. And a career-high seven RBIs in all for Victorino in Boston's 13-2 victory over the Baltimore Orioles on Tuesday night.

"I don't think he could do much better," said Red Sox manager John Farrell, whose top three batters had three hits apiece. "That's why they're at the top of the order, to have that kind of on-base (percentage) ahead of our power hitters."

But that wasn't good enough for Victorino, the No. 2 hitter, who drove in most of Boston's runs on his own. It was the second two-homer game of his career, and his most RBIs in a game ever ? topping his previous high of five.

"He's been playing great all year," second baseman Dustin Pedroia said. "And the plays he made in the outfield ? I don't remember anything like it."

Felix Doubront pitched 6 2-3 innings of four-hit ball, and Mike Napoli also homered for AL East-leading Boston. Pedroia and leadoff hitter Jacoby Ellsbury had three hits apiece for the Red Sox, who improved to 2? games ahead of Tampa Bay in the division when the Rays lost to the Los Angeles Angels 6-5 later Tuesday night.

"Every game is big from here on out," Pedroia said. "We played great tonight, but it doesn't carry over for tomorrow."

J.J. Hardy and Danny Valencia each had two of Baltimore's four hits. Wei-Yin Chen (7-7) lasted just 3 2-3 innings, allowing eight runs on eight hits and three walks. He struck out five and hit a batter and allowed three homers to lose for the fourth time in five starts.

Chen, who has allowed six homers in his last three starts after allowing six for the rest of the season, called it the worst game of his career.

"It's hard to believe we were ahead in this game 2-1," Orioles manager Buck Showalter said. "You've got a team playing well over there. That's why they are where they are. If you make some mistakes, especially in this park, you're going to pay for it."

Doubront (10-6) had only one bad inning, allowing the first four batters in Baltimore's two-run third to reach. But he retired 14 of the next 16 before leaving to a standing ovation from the Fenway Park crowd of 36,226.

In all, Doubront gave up two runs on four hits, a walk and a hit batsman. He struck out seven and has allowed three or fewer runs in 21 of 24 starts.

"We had one opportunity against him and cashed in two, but there was potential for more," Showalter said. "He pitched well and we did not pitch well."

Victorino started the scoring in the first when he walked, took third on Pedroia's double and scored on David Ortiz's sacrifice fly. After Doubront allowed his only runs in the third to give the Orioles a 2-1 lead, Boston came back in the bottom half with two of their own when Will Middlebrooks singled and scored on Victorino's two-run shot ? the 100th homer of his career.

Napoli led off the fourth with a homer to spark a five-run inning and chase Chen. Boston added three more in the fifth on Victorino's second homer.

The Red Sox started a nine game homestand after playing 16 of the previous 19 on the road. They were 4-2 on their most recent trip, to California to play the Giants and Dodgers. In all, the Red Sox will play 18 of their final 30 games at home.

NOTES: Red Sox infield prospect Xander Bogaerts made his Fenway debut as a defensive replacement in the ninth inning. ... To honor their connection with the Jimmy Fund, "God Bless America" was sung during the seventh-inning stretch by a patient at the Dana Farber cancer clinic, 4-year-old Darla Holloway, who has acute lymphoblastic leukemia. ... Red Sox starters have held opponents to two or fewer runs in seven straight games. ... Pedroia is batting .424 (14-for-33) with 6 doubles, a triple, 4 RBIs, and 7 runs over his current eight-game hit streak. ... It was Chen's fourth loss in five starts. ... Victorino is the first Red Sox player with four runs and seven RBIs in a game since Dwight Evans in 1988. ... Baltimore INF Wilson Betemit made his 2013 debut after sustaining a knee injury in spring training. He grounded out to third for the final out of the game in his only at-bat. To make room for him, the Orioles optioned infielder Ryan Flaherty to Single-A Frederick. ... The Red Sox made a minor-league trade, sending RHP Clayton Mortensen to Kansas City for OF Quintin Berry.

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