Finally, a multi-billionare is teaching the next generation about the importance of having a financial IQ. All too much does our school system fail at teaching kids one of the most important life lessons “How to personally manage your money”.
The Secret Millionaires Club, a cartoon for children starring billionaire investor Warren Buffett, is now available to watch for free on the Internet. The cartoon is designed to help kids understand saving, investing, business, hard work, and analyzing money problems. Given that almost none of this is taught in the school system within the United States, I think it is doing a tremendous good for people who want to learn to be financially independent or who wonder how to get rich.
Click HERE for episodes and the official website! If/When I have kids this will be REQUIRED learning material.
So word on the street is that 50 cent lost something like 56 lbs for a movie role. The only role in development in his IMDB profile doesn’t give much detail. So I’m curious if they are making a drama about a blind man living in the south who hides his hate and prejudice behind a white robe. If so, I hope Chappelle gets a bit role as a janitor, or a guy pretending to be a janitor, in marijuana clinic. Afterall I, for one, would be happy to see black actors sticking together, we don’t want another Wayne Brady situation going down.
Wow! One Shot. No Cuts. Beautifully shot and kinda damn funny. Oh and Asher Roth killed it as usual. If you hate him, at least appreciate the artful craft of this.
On Saturday, the Tennessee Titans drafted Florida State safety Myron Rolle in the sixth round of the NFL Draft with the 207th overall pick.
Rolle, whom you previously knew as the Rhodes Scholar who spent his past season in Oxford studying for a graduate degree in medical anthropology, graduated in 2 1/2 years from Florida State, where he played safety for three years. Then he chose to skip his senior year to take advantage of the Rhodes Scholarship, an honor that only 32 men and women garner every year.
You’ve probably heard of a few of the alums from the Rhodes, guys like President Bill Clinton and former NBA great Bill Bradley.
What you may have heard and brushed off was this: Multiple NFL teams, scouts and executives questioned Rolle’s commitment to football because he made this decision.
Why?
Because the thinking goes — and we’re defining “thinking” broadly here since many of the scouts, coaches and executives making these comments would be pumping gas for a living without football — that Rolle is too smart, that his priorities in life don’t revolve entirely around a pigskin bouncing on a field.
Welcome to the 21st century NFL, where your commitment to the game doesn’t get questioned if you fail multiple drug tests, drive drunk or rape a woman. But woe unto you if you have the audacity to graduate early from college and take a year off to pursue a Rhodes Scholarship. Then you’re a smart guy, the NFL’s own version of the untouchable caste in India. That’s why the Tampa Bay Buccaneers, including head coach Raheem Morris, could ask Rolle at the Senior Bowl how it felt to desert his teammates for his senior season.
Rolle’s “desertion”?
Accepting the Rhodes Scholarship in Oxford.
If only we could all be so lucky to be deserted by our teammates for this.
Would the Tampa Bay Bucs “brain trust” have asked a player who left college early to play pro football how he felt about deserting his teammates?
Doubtful.
Share Would the Bucs have asked a player who was caught smoking pot how he felt about letting his teammates down?
Doubtful.
Nope, because Rolle wears the NFL’s own scarlet letter, intelligence. And that’s just something the NFL can’t stand. The league wants their players focused on football or nothing else, barefoot and padded.
Before there was Claire Hux, Smbol and I were in a really fun indie-eletronic-rock group alled “Heavens to Metroid”. I miss those days. I (DLake) am in the unlit left corner playing synthesizers, cowbell and making lots of feedback noise while jumping up and down and flailing my arms. Fun times…
The rate at which our puritanical society works always astonishes me. Yet the way that forms of racism creep into our daily lives sadly doesn’t. Take a new music video by Erykah Badu, which has caused a bit of chaos in our cultural milieu of late and has resulted in a charge of disorderly conduct and international media coverage.
Badu’s video for her latest single, “Window Seat,” embedded below, shows the singer stripping her clothes as she walks through downtown Dallas, ultimately ending up naked at the spot where Kennedy was assassinated.
In the beginning seconds of “Window Seat” explicit homage is paid to the 2009 video by the duo Matt and Kim for “Lessons Learned,” embedded below, which provides an interesting case for a cross-racial nudity comparison.
The two videos, at face value, are quite similar. Both document artists walking the public streets in a striptease strut, their respective song playing in the background as they move in slow-motion past gawking pedestrians. Both end in a sort of surreal calamity. And both mark a significant point in the careers of both musicians.
But outside the video screen we see two different stories. Matt and Kim’s video had no legal consequences. In fact, Kim spoke of the friendly relationship they had with the police during and after the filming. While no cops were present at Badu’s guerrilla shoot, Badu was smacked with a $500 disorderly conduct charge.
But more important, Badu’s corporeal exhibition elicited national repute. The Dallas Police Department claims it has been receiving calls from people “across the country to express their concern.” The response to Matt and Kim’s two person skin-fest was nothing but positive, which begs the question of whether a black body in downtown Dallas has a more disorderly character than two white bodies in Times Square, New York City.
CNN.com is my homepage. I get my news from twitter, facebook, aol.com (when i log into aim), random pop culture blogs, and cnn.com. 90% of the stories are garbage, 9% are informative things I need to know, and then 1% a headline like this pops up. Cnn.com is smart because they really don’t go into too much detail about things since their readers have the attention span of a 2 year old watching sesame street.
This story/post/blurb (whatever the hell it is since it’s like 4 paragraphs long and a 3min video) is something I’m extremely passionate about. Our education system is really like public washing machines. Antiquated, old, and pointless. Why in 2010, where if I go to japan and wanted a candy bar from a vending machine I could sync my smart phone to my bank account and pay for it via bluetooth, DO I NEED TO USE A BUNCH OF QUARTERS?! I understand why, the infastructure. New things need major overhauls in the system/foundation, which then = money. I get it… it’s always a money issue. Why did it take us until last year to make it mandatory for everyone to use HD/Digital tv as standard? Because of our Infastructure. I think it is because we focus our priorities on the wrong things. We think in the industrial revolution (which happened almost 150 years ago). We are now exiting the technology revolution and entering the financial revolution (or at least they are living symbiotically with each other). From education, to analog television, to quarters in a washing machine, it’s OLD and it NEEDS TO EVOLVE!
I personally had a tough time in school (relatively speaking). I knew how to BS my way through papers, tests, and classes (I call it hustling). I did what was the bare minimum to get by with a C+/B average (High School and college). I would always get frustrated with school and ask my mom and teachers “Why do I need this, it’s stupid, I don’t care about it and it’s boring.” I was blessed enough to find Music Technology and Audio Production as a focus of study in college. I love technology, computers, and music, so it made sense for me. I then realized post college (aka Real Life, aka where i learned the majority of the things I know to this day) I could actually make money doing things I was truly interested and passionate about (Music Production, Engineering, Composition, etc.) I was lucky I guess. (either that, or my calling from the universe was a strong one)
All I have to say is… so well done. Some of you “younger” folks may have never played Mike Tyson’s Punchout, so you won’t get the whole joke. But it’s still funny.
This is a re-post from Joy Ike’s extremely informative and needed blog “Grassrootsy”. Joy Ike is an amazingly talented Pittsburgh, PA based singer/songwriter that I’ve had the pleasure of booking (one of they many hats I wear) at Joe Squared. She gave an email interview, and I got to blabbering as I usually do and realize it was pretty damn informative. Hope you enjoy! [Click Here for the original]
Todays interview is with Daren, booker of Baltimore’s Joe Squared and member of Disco/Pop/Hip-Hop Group, Claire Hux. Daren shares an overwhelming amount of knowledge with readers about how venues run and how to book and successfully promote your show. The below information will certainly make you re-think the way you or your band operates. It’s a long, but excellent post. Take the time to read it. Your comments are welcomed.
“Indie artists really need to learn the art of promoting themselves. It’s part of being indie. It’s like paying your taxes, you don’t want to do it, but it’s the price you pay for a civilized society.” ~Daren of Joe Squared
1. Tell us a little bit about Joe Squared.Joe2 is an interesting venue. It’s a high-quality pizza/salad/pasta-type restaurant and bar during the day and then becomes a music venue, bar, and lounge at night. Joe Edwardsen (founder, owner) is an amazingly ambitious and intelligent guy that decided Baltimore needed a “different kind” of pizza place (back in Nov 2005, when he opened). They just had Dj’s at first and I was lucky enough to be one of his first customers. The band I was in practiced next door and we would go in there and get wings or chicken fingers. They only had DJ’s on Friday and Saturday. Haha. I actually remember asking him if they had any openings and he politely denied me. Fast forward to about a year later. I ended up working there as a delivery driver part-time to fund my music dream. Since I was a dj/engineer/producer, I knew how all the gear worked and in my spare “down” time I would organize the DJ booth. I finally got a regular dj gig there. Haha! I became attached and would yell at all the DJ’s that didn’t put everything back the right way. Joe finally got his live music license (summer 2007), and thats when we started booking bands. We started out with just a few bands a week with regular DJ slots. Now we book up to 6 days a week with only one DJ night (“Dig” on Tuesdays). We’ve revamped and upgraded everything and have figured out a system hat works. Only took us 3 years. Ha! Our venue is odd because we are a restaurant first and then a venue, so we know it would be awkward to charge a cover for people who are sitting…and we have a regular “bar crowd” that we would hate to turn down. So the 15% of the bar rule (artist get %15 of sales) came about; which from my experience is a bit higher than most venues. But we really love our artists. We’ve found that blues, garage, rockabilly, bluegrass, jazz, acoustic, and rock acts have really enjoyed playing at our establishment and we get alot of those genre’s asking to play.
You need to have a strong grasp of mid 90’s hip hop to get a few of these… but it’s very rewarding. Some of my favourites (click the pictures and the youtube song accompanies the graph/chart. pretty ill.)
Ginkgo biloba is among the most popular dietary supplements for brain health. In 2007, Americans spent $107 million on it.
STORY HIGHLIGHTS
Study: No evidence that ginkgo biloba reduces normal, age-related cognitive decline
Last year, same researchers found ginkgo doesn’t impact dementia, Alzheimer’s
Other ways to keep brain healthy: exercise body and mind, eat right and manage stress
(Health.com) — Ginkgo biloba has failed — again — to live up to its reputation for boosting memory and brain function. Just over a year after a study showed that the herb doesn’t prevent dementia and Alzheimer’s disease, a new study from the same team of researchers has found no evidence that ginkgo reduces the normal cognitive decline that comes with aging.
Should you take ginkgo to slow down the effects of age on the brain? “The answer appears to be ‘no,’” says the lead author of the study, Steven T. DeKosky, M.D., the vice president and dean of the School of Medicine at the University of Virginia.
In the new study, the largest of its kind to date, DeKosky and his colleagues followed more than 3,000 people between the ages of 72 and 96 for an average of six years. Half of the participants took two 120-milligram capsules of ginkgo a day during the study period, and the other half took a placebo.
The people who took ginkgo showed no differences in attention, memory, and other cognitive measures compared to those who took the placebo, according to the study, which was published in this week’s Journal of the American Medical Association.
To all of our NYC fans, tonight & tomm (Wed Dec 16th & Thurs 17th) Claire Hux is performing a live DJ Set (Morsy & DLake) @ Sutra and Happy Ending (Lower East Side). Both are free parties and should be crazy!
To all of our Baltimore & Philly fans, we are playing a slew of Live Shows and DJ Gigs @ The Ottobar, Sonar & The Barbary (Philly). Come out and support!
On Saturday, the 
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