Front Page Of Today's Trinidad Guardian

Trinidad cyclist Phillip living the dream

By Julian Guyer (AFP)


LONDON — For Trinidad's Njisane Phillip, just being at the Olympic Games is an achievement in itself.

Yet after another impressive display at the London Velodrome on Sunday, the 21-year-old is within sight of one of the more unlikely track cycling medals of this or any other Olympics.
Phillip, the lone rider at this Games from a Caribbean island better known for its cricketers than its cyclists, won through to the semi-finals of the men's sprint with a 2-0 victory over Denis Dmitriev of Russia.

He now finds himself up against Britain's Jason Kenny, silver medallist in this event in Beijing four years ago and now the favourite for gold.

But that daunting prospect made no dent whatsoever in Phillip's joy at riding through to the last four, having just edged out Dmitriev in a desperately close first of two races before powering past his opponent in the second.


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BP London 2012

Check out this feature of Njisane by one of his sponsors, BP Trinidad & Tobago. click here.

"Njisane was first introduced to cycling by his father, Nicholson Phillip, a former cyclist and member of the Humming Bird International Team. For many years, Njisane viewed the sport as a hobby rather than a potential profession, but gradually came to the realisation that he was a gifted cyclist. Njisane now competes in keirin and sprint, with sprint being his favourite event. He enjoys it because it is technical and gives the sprinter more control over their opponent." Read More on the BPTT website.

Scehdule of Events

Njisane will be representing our beloved Trinidad and Tobago in the Men's Sprint (Track) and the Men's Keirin (Track)


Schedule of events:

Men's Sprint

Sprint Qualifying: Saturday August 4th, 2012 10:00

Sprint 1/16 Final: Saturday August 4th, 2012 11:01

Sprint 1/16 Final Repechages: Saturday August 4th, 2012 16:00

Sprint 1/8 Finals: Saturday August 4th, 2012 16:35

Sprint 1/8 Finals Repechages: Saturday August 4th, 2012 17:34

Race for 9th-12th Place: Saturday August 4th, 2012 18:20

Quarter Finals: Sunday August 5th, 2012 16:34

Race for 5th-8th Place: Sunday August 5th, 2012 18:47

Semifinal: Monday August 6th, 2012 16:00

Finals: Monday August 6th, 2012 17:43

The event starts with a 200m time trial to determine the rankings for the 16 riders in the first round. From then on the competition is a knockout, going to quarter-finals, semi-finals and the final, which are all the best of three heats. 

Men's Keirin

First Round: Tuesday August 7th, 2012 10:00

First Round Repechages: Tuesday August 7th, 2012 11:19

Second Round: Tuesday August 7th, 2012 16:34

Finals: Tuesday August 7th, 2012 17:50

The event starts with heats (with repechages), with the best 12 riders progressing to the second round. The top six riders go through from the second round to the final, with the bottom six competing again for 7th–12th place rankings.

Pictures you may have missed! #London2012

London 2012 Summer Olympics

JLDynasty Blog has been away for a while but we are back! Over the course of the next couple weeks we will be here to give you all the information you could want on "the talent". Some of us know him as "J" but the world will soon recognize the name Njisane "Jus-Amazing" Phillip as he represents our beloved red white and black in this years' summer Olympic games. Be sure to check in everyday for new updates, follow J on twitter @iJUS_AMAZINGJLD and team @JLDYNASTY and tweet hashtags #JLDynasty #i4tandt!!! Let's GO TRINBAGO!


-Lershaun

Live a Little

"You take life too seriously...."

It's a phrase I've heard time and time again. It's starting to hit home with me lately. Anyone that truly knows me knows I'm on a mission to succeed. I'm trying to live above and beyond. I'm not trying to be like my parents, I'm trying to be better. I'm trying to be better for them, and for me, and for my children to come. But among all of the things I think of, I plan, I execute, I seem to forget one little fact....I'M ONLY 19!! More recently I've been making time for partying and hanging out but what I started to notice was that going to work was more important to me than living a little. It seemed more important to take on some headache than smile a little. I'll settle to keep this one short. The end all be all is that everyone has to live a little. Everyone should make time to have some fun. Be responsible but LIVE YOUR LIFE. I'm working on ridding myself of this one little issue....Always chasing a dollar. These days I've just been living. Not worrying about how much I'm spending but how much fun I'll have. DO IT AND ENJOY IT.

COLLEGE SUCKS!!!!

So I get here and I realize some things....

First of all, college isn't for everyone. College isn't even for some of the people that generally do well in their academic endeavors. I can safely say so because I am one of those people. Once you start to think about your goals and your purpose in college things start to disconnect. I have always been a pretty goal oriented person and I've always chased the knowledge necessary to get where I want to go on my own. I came to college and realized that the degree I was chasing, I could have studied independently and been alot more successful than people receiving these degrees. It makes sense to go to college for something technical. To become a doctor, or architect, or engineer, or physicist. But not a business owner.

AND THEN.... You learn that gaining a degree means absolutely nothing. What you find out is that in almost every industry it isn't what you know but who you know. The saying has been CONFIRMED. This past year, I've gotten further along in the fashion and entertainment industry through networking than I have by studying and using my college boy title. Through the people I know, I've gotten my whole foot in the water now instead of just my toe. I have yet to become fully involved but I've heard that you learn while you start working and not really while you're in school. It is easy to teach theory but difficult to understand it. And theory itself doesn't help you prove yourself in the field.

LASTLY....PROFESSORS!!!! UGH!!! Remember when I said that college may not even be for some people who have always been good in school? Well one of the reasons why is that college doesn't guarantee that you learn anything. What I began to observe is that most people only apply themselves to keep their GPA up. Most people only try to get that A. It isn't really about what you learn because you tend to forget it the next semester anyway. Now that being said...I learn that college is only a game of strategy. That working hard and studying everyday and doing all of your homework and taking a lot of notes doesn't guarantee you that A. I learned that it's all about the professors you choose. This semester is probably going to be my worst semester ever and only because of the professors I have. I'm not a learn from the book type of person. 3 of my 4 professors I don't quite understand. One of them has a terribly annoying voice and overwhelming accent. Her notes don't quite match her tests. The second of the 3 rants and raves while trying to explain the subject. He finds ways to throw his opinion about politics and policies every chance he gets completely losing site of the reason he is there. He also teaches as though we should already know these things. If we knew it, we wouldn't be sitting in your class. The last of the four has no thorough grasp of the subject. He talks and talks. No structure, no organization, no sense of where he is and where he's going. He also has trouble with names and dates and considering it's history he SHOULD. MY GPA may sky rocket next semester considering the ratings I found on www.ratemyprofessor.com are the real deal. I'm going after the easy A's. But now I feel like I shouldn't have to pay this much money to chase an A verses chasing some actual knowledge. Sadly, the only class I'm doing really well in is a class I took my sophmore year in high school. A SHAME.



College isn't all it's cracked up to be. Don't be fooled. It's prestige only follows the idea that education is key. Don't be fooled. You may walk out learning nothing.

I Hate Politics

So today at school we had what they call a "Town Hall Meeting". The idea is that students can come and sit down and listen to representatives of student government address some of the changes being made and some of the concerns of the student body in front of an administrator. Well they encouraged us to come and join in the conversation and I decided that I had something to say. Some students raised valid points and others might have had good points if they were better able to articulate themselves. Anyway, what I started to realize was that with any concern or question raised by the student body, student government and administrators had an answer for everything. Now why that's an issue is because if they truly had all the answers we wouldn't have any concerns now would we? I guess people just like to hear, "We're working on that." My issue was with the lack of knowledge and communication in and between the different departments within the school. I can't receive the proper credit for my classes because no one knows what they count for. THAT'S A PROBLEM. I'm not really sure what I have to say about this town hall meeting in general but in the end I simply HATE POLITICS. They promise all of these things and I bet it still doesn't happen. I'll raise hell one of these days about this credit thing but I'll give them some time to figure it out first.

Check Me Out on the blog for DrJays.com

In the wake of the crisis in Haiti, www.drjays.com put together a benefit event to raise money to send to Haiti through UNICEF. The event was called "Shop For Haiti" and the website got some of their brands to donate clothes, shoes, jewelry etc. for them to sell. 100% of the money raised went to Haiti. The event was held at La Pomme in Manhattan and music was done by DJ Miss Saigon. There was video and pictures taken at the event and I made the video reel. Check it out here (the January 2010 Video Wrap Up)....The event starts at 6:48 in the video and I appear from 8:10.

Big shoutouts to my boy Andrew Fennell for my spot in the video.

- Lershaun

Welcome to the revamp

Well it isn't as impressive as I'd like it to be but I've got homework lol....The blog will be updated quite frequently from now on so stay tuned

JLD TEE'S DROP SUMMER TIME!!!!

MAKE SURE YOU GET 1

PRODUCT OF TRINIDAD

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KKXmoPiBEWw

And I Wonder...

I want you to go to a mirror and look into it. Count how many flaws you notice.......If you actually counted the flaws then something is wrong. No one is perfect so accept them. I am flawless in mine own eye. I've realized what I'm not good at. I've realized that stupid mistakes are going to happen. I've realized that I'm an easy person to like and just as easily dislike. I've realized that there are alot of things in my life that I must work to be better at. I've realized that there is ALWAYS room for improvement. And I Wonder......

I wonder how you improve perfection. As i said before I think I am flawless. The answer I've come up with....Well, the first step is realizing your faults. Being aware and accepting of the fact that no one in this world is perfect is that in itself as close to perfection as you will ever get. No one in this world can ever reach their peak if they think that they have already reached that plateau. The fact that you can never be as good as you can be is the basis for my belief in the word progress. PROGRESS means the world to me. It gives me something to look forward to because I have accepted that I can do better. I can dress better, eat better, look better, organize better, prioritize better, strive better, study better, draw better, sing better, dance better, act better, and im sure by now you get the point. What is true for me is true for every human being. Don't let anyone ever tell you that you aren't good enough because they aren't perfect. You aren't good enough just means that someone else have progressed further than you have and it should only be motivation to do better. BETTER BETTER BETTER. PROGRESS PROGRESS PROGRESS.

I won't rant and rave any longer but I had to let it be known. I'm done. (P.S. you can probably look forward to a tattoo with progress on me sometime...I haven't quite made my mind up yet but I will)

The Gender Class

So this girl and I tend not to agree on many things with. I personally think that society has grown beyond he's a pimp she's a hoe. When a rapper talks about hoes and bitches, just think about what he's actually talking about. HOES AND BITCHES! Celebrities are sort after by groupie women and gold diggers in general. These women sleep with them and bow to their every whim to be put in a video. You can't seriously tell me that intelligent, self-respecting women would allow themselves to be portrayed like that. Now on a more personal level. Girls aren't in general called hoes, jumps, pops, smuts, sluts etc etc without reason. My friends from school and I just had this conversation. My boy Denzel said he knew a girl that slept with 10 of his friends who are all friends with eachother (and that's just his neighborhood). She's a certified pop. The general consensus is that you can have fun and do what you want but keep standards at the least. Every guy you have sex with doesn't necessarily have to be a boyfriend for you to avoid the name calling. I say you're a hoe if you have sex with guys for what they can give you. I say you're easy if you have no standards (i.e. "he's cute" and that seals the deal) or if you don't realize you've had sex with more guys than there is in your high school class picture. To say the least, girls aren't called hoes for no reason. And to address the guy does the same thing he's a pimp thing. Well, its all a pride thing. Guys are just as self conscious and insecure as females are on the low. It's more like competition. If everyone a guy hangs with is nice at basketball and he's terrible they will remind him of it every chance they get. In an equal parallel, guys will remind you that you "ain't on their level" as a sort of "i'm better than you" thing. I can't deal with hoes so I think it says something about the trend. Hoes seek hoes. Think about it.

Jay Z on Oprah

I missed it so for the rest of you that did here it is

Jay-Z on Oprah Part 1 from LowKey on Vimeo.

Jay-Z on Oprah Pt.2 from LowKey on Vimeo.

Jay-Z on Oprah Pt.3 from LowKey on Vimeo.

Jay-Z on Oprah Pt.4 from LowKey on Vimeo.

Crying in class

I saw this video and started holding back tears in class it was so funny....here's the link

http://www.facebook.com/video/video.php?v=120554701784

The mess I ran across on mediatakeout

What's goin on with souljaboy's head?
So they were talking about his little ass chain but umm can we please talk about that hot ass mess of a leather fila track suit Rick Ross got on....Smh that's a shame! he's wearing the whole cow man! The environment, Rick, the environment!
They were praising the boyfriend but umm what happened to her? lol Whitney and Bobby need to step their games upKanye just need to leave that poor girl alone. She still bad though :-)

that is all...after that it's who's taking naked pictures and all that explicit nonesense...until next time :-D

P.S. i'm F***IN excited for the Jordan XI Space Jams to come out....might go to bmore and camp out to make sure I get those

Am I trying to get social?

So there was a mini club fair in my school...It was a fairly feeble attempt on my part to become a bit more social lol....We'll see if it works....First question I asked was whether the club held meetings...why?...well because i'd be attending ABSOLUTELY NONE of them lol....Between work and just regualr classes I don't see myself having time for random extra-curricular activity but who knows maybe perhaps that may change in the near future....Until then meetingless clubs and trying to make friends by asking for hw in my classes lol

A world first: Vaccine helps prevent HIV infection

BANGKOK – For the first time, an experimental vaccine has prevented infection with the AIDS virus, a watershed event in the deadly epidemic and a surprising result. Recent failures led many scientists to think such a vaccine might never be possible.

The vaccine cut the risk of becoming infected with HIV by more than 31 percent in the world's largest AIDS vaccine trial of more than 16,000 volunteers in Thailand, researchers announced Thursday in Bangkok.

Even though the benefit is modest, "it's the first evidence that we could have a safe and effective preventive vaccine," Col. Jerome Kim said in a telephone interview. He helped lead the study for the U.S. Army, which sponsored it with the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases.

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via Yahoo! Associated Press