What's happening in America today from a Generation X|Y point of view.
Sunday, July 31, 2011
Friday, July 29, 2011
Wednesday, July 27, 2011
Monday, July 25, 2011
LAUNCH 2011 Fundraising Event for the Rob Benzon Memorial Foundation was a success!!
LAUNCH 2011 Fundraising Event for the Rob Benzon Memorial Foundation was a success!!
Sunday, July 24, 2011
Friday, July 22, 2011
Thursday, July 21, 2011
Lohan back in court and being sued by the Betty Ford clinic for $1 million (USD) for an alleged assault on an employee
Lindsay Lohan made a brief appearance in a Los Angeles court Thursday (July 21) for a probation hearing. The judge said Lohan needs to speed up her community service to make sure she meets a deadline to complete 480 hours within a year. The actress has completed 33 hours at a shelter for women. Lohan has completed one shoplifters anonymous class and is having trouble enrolling in court-ordered psychological counseling. Lohan will have to return to court on Oct. 19 for another update. Lohan has another legal worry to deal with. The 25 year old was sued on Thursday (July 21) for $1 million (USD) for an alleged assault on an employee of the California rehab center where the actress spent three months in treatment for drug and alcohol abuse. The former employee claimed in a civil lawsuit that Lohan:
- yelled at her
- threw a phone at her
- grabbed her wrist and twisted it
Of course the only reason this happened (allegedly) was when Lohan was asked to submit to a breathalyzer test in December at the Betty Ford Center near Palm Springs.
Wednesday, July 20, 2011
Monday, July 18, 2011
Giuliani to GOP: Stay out of the bedroom and focus on fiscal policy
He may not agree with the vote in New York to legalize gay marriage, but former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani said the Republican Party should butt out of the bedroom and stick to fiscal policy.
"I think the Republican Party would be well advised to get the heck out of people's bedrooms and let these things get decided by states," Giuliani said Sunday on CNN's "State of the Union." "We'd be a much more successful political party if we stuck to our economic, conservative roots."
New York became the sixth state to legalize same sex marriage in June when a bill passed by the Republican-controlled state legislature was signed by Democratic Gov. Andrew Cuomo. Giuliani, who is considering a run for president in 2012, has long supported civil unions. Although he said he believes marriage is between a man and a woman, he can "live with" the legalization in New York.
"I think it's wrong, but there are other things that I think are wrong that get decided by democratic vote," Giuliani told CNN Chief Political Correspondent Candy Crowley. "I see more harm, however, by dwelling so much on this subject of gays and lesbians and whether it's right or wrong in politics."
New York became the sixth state to legalize same sex marriage in June when a bill passed by the Republican-controlled state legislature was signed by Democratic Gov. Andrew Cuomo. Giuliani, who is considering a run for president in 2012, has long supported civil unions. Although he said he believes marriage is between a man and a woman, he can "live with" the legalization in New York.
"I think it's wrong, but there are other things that I think are wrong that get decided by democratic vote," Giuliani told CNN Chief Political Correspondent Candy Crowley. "I see more harm, however, by dwelling so much on this subject of gays and lesbians and whether it's right or wrong in politics."
Sunday, July 17, 2011
Singer turned actor Justin Timberlake takes a stake in $35m purchase of Myspace from News Corp.
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| Justin Timberlake takes a stake in $35m purchase |
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| Justin Timberlake promoting his "The Social Network" in London |
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| It's all about connections |
Nicole Winnaman, president and founder of entertainment branding firm Winnaman & Associates, learned a little more than two weeks ago that Irvine-based advertising network Specific Media was in talks to acquire Myspace from News Corp. The executive, who has paired musicians like Justin Bieber, Britney Spears and Pink with well-known consumer brands, approached Timberlake's manager with a proposal to take a stake in the struggling Myspace as part of the new owner's attempt to bring sexy back to the once-dominant social network."
Specific Media, a digital media company, announced earlier this month its acquisition of Myspace, a leading social networking destination for consumers, celebrities and artists. As part of the deal, Emmy and Grammy winning artist Justin Timberlake will also take an ownership stake and play a major role in developing the creative direction and strategy for the company moving forward. Specific Media and Timberlake plan to unveil their vision for the site in an exclusive press conference later this summer.
“There’s a need for a place where fans can go to interact with their favorite entertainers, listen to music, watch videos, share and discover cool stuff and just connect. Myspace has the potential to be that place,” says Timberlake. “Art is inspired by people and vice versa, so there’s a natural social component to entertainment. I’m excited to help revitalize Myspace by using its social media platform to bring artists and fans together in one community.”
Myspace has created a robust social networking infrastructure that connects people with the artists and content they love. Specific Media and Timberlake plan to evolve Myspace into the premiere digital destination for original shows, video content and music.
Specific Media will also leverage the Myspace social networking infrastructure to deploy socially-activated advertising campaigns, enabling brands to turn their campaigns viral by allowing users to share their favorite ads with friends
Brothers Tim, Chris and Russell Vanderhook founded Specific Media in 1999 to address the needs of the burgeoning online advertising space. Since then, the company has developed into one of the world’s largest online advertising companies, with capabilities spanning addressable advertising, original programming and cross-media distribution. By bringing its advertising technology and Fortune 500 client base to Myspace, Specific Media is creating a digital hub where consumers, content and brands connect based on mutual interest and relevance.
“We’re thrilled about the opportunity to rebuild and reinvigorate Myspace,” said Tim Vanderhook, CEO of Specific Media. “We look forward to partnering with someone as talented as Justin Timberlake, who will lead the business strategy with his creative ideas and vision for transforming Myspace. This is the next chapter of digital media, and we are excited to have a hand in writing the script.”
As part of the agreement, News Corporation will take a minority equity stake in Specific Media. Additional terms of the agreement are confidential and will not be disclosed.
About Myspace
Myspace, Inc. is a leading social entertainment destination powered by the passions of fans. Aimed at a Gen Y audience, Myspace drives social interaction by providing a highly personalized experience around entertainment and connecting people to the music, celebrities, TV, movies, and games that they love. These entertainment experiences are available through multiple platforms, including online, mobile devices, and offline events.
Myspace is also the home of Myspace Music, which offers an ever-growing catalogue of freely streamable audio and video content to users and provides major, independent, and unsigned artists alike with the tools to reach new audiences. The company is headquartered in Beverly Hills, CA.
http://www.myspace.com/pressroom/
About Justin Timberlake
Justin Timberlake is an actor, singer/songwriter/producer, and entrepreneur. He has become an accomplished artist who is now widely considered one of pop culture’s most influential entertainers. Timberlake came to fame as a member of the pop group, *NSYNC and, through a successful solo career, has gone on to win six Grammy Awards, two Emmy Awards and dozens of accolades from around the world. As an entrepreneur, Timberlake co-created the popular denim lifestyle brand, William Rast; launched a spirits company with 901 Silver Tequila; runs the Tennman Records label and founded the award-winning Mirimichi Golf course located outside Memphis, TN.
About Specific Media
Specific Media is a digital media company driving viewership for content owners, engagement for brands and relevance for consumers. With capabilities spanning original programming, cross-channel distribution and addressable advertising, the company connects audiences, content and brands, adding meaning to each touch-point. As people discover new ways to consume content, Specific Media creates impactful media experiences no matter where they are.
www.specificmedia.com.
The American Dream defined by Historian and writer James Truslow Adams in his 1931 book, "Epic of America".
The American Dream defined on Twitpic
The American Dream DEFINED: The American Dream is that dream of a land in which life should be better and richer and fuller for everyone with opportunity for each according to ability or achievement. It is a difficult dream for the European upper classes to interpret adequately, and too many of us ourselves have grown weary and mistrustful of it. It is not a dream of motor cars and high wages merely, but a dream of social order in which each man and each women shall be able to attain to the fullest stature of which they are innately capable, and be recognized by others for what they are, regardless of the fortuitous circumstances of birth or position.-- Historian and writer James Truslow Adams in his 1931 book Epic of America.
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Friday, July 15, 2011
ANDREW CHRISTIAN CASE BRIEF
Los Angeles based clothing line, Andrew Christian, has been designing and producing contemporary collections of urban-inspired menswear since its inception in 1997. Andrew Christian presents fashion-forward underwear, swimwear, edgy tees, woven bottoms and accessories that are truly unique.
This year Andrew Christian released a line of "uber-trendy" printed men's underwear. The Gothic, Sport, Fashion, and Basics-themed lines are available in a range of styles from low and super-low-cut briefs, boxer briefs, and jock straps. Each style is intricately designed using nail-head studding and printed graphics, utilizing innovative fabrics such as sports mesh, sheer, and baby thermal for superior comfort and style.
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| Andrew Christian (born January 9, 1978 in Fresno, California) |
One of Andrew's best sellers is his amazing line of technically advanced custom woven men's underwear. The underwear comes in 4 themed lines:
- street
- sport
- fashion
- basics
and are available in a range of styles including:
- low cut
- super-low-cut
- boxer briefs
Andrew Christian is not just about underwear, he has been producing contemporary collections of urban inspired menswear, swimwear, edgy tees, and accessories since its inception in 1997. However, it was Andrew's innovative underwear designs that established the company as a force in the fashion world. Andrew's designs can now be found in exclusive boutiques such as Kitson Men (Los Angeles), Fred Segal (Los Angeles), and Patricia Field (New York), to the "majors" including Harvey Nichols.
Andrew Christian’s body enhancing and fashion underwear has been featured on Good Morning America, Fox News (National), Entertainment Tonight (ET), CBS News (National), MSNBC’s Hardball, Yahoo, Daily Mail (London),The Wall Street Journal, Maxim, NY Daily News, Boston Globe, New York Magazine, Los Angeles Times, LA Weekly, Dallas Morning News and as far away as the Times of India.
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Flagship Boutique
8943 Santa Monica Blvd.
West Hollywood, CA
Mon-Thurs 12PM-10PM
Fri-Sat 11AM-12AM
Sun 11AM-10PM
This boutique features the latest and greatest creations from Designer Andrew Christian including Limited Edition items like his tanks and neck ties...that can't be purchased anywhere else...most can't even be purchased on AndrewChristian.com. So if you want hard to find Limited Edition items, the Flagship Boutique is a great destination. At the Flagship, Designer Andrew Christian has hand-picked from other designers items that he thinks are important in today's fast-paced world of fashion and compliments his own line. This Flagship was hand designed by designer Andrew Christian to reflect his own modern architectural aesthetic and features 2 swimmer mannequins diving in from the skylight overhead and an optic white wave wall behind the cash wrap and a bright red back wall that draws you into the experience.
Store Website: http://www.andrewchristian.com/retail-weho1.htm
Thursday, July 14, 2011
Saturday, July 9, 2011
Friday, July 8, 2011
Global Obesity Pandemic enters "sour spot"
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| A menu of a fast food restaurant in New York. |
Obesity Pandemic: Beyond Saturation Point- Yanks, Aussies, and the Chinese are all getting fatter
When does your neighbor’s weight become your problem too? Obesity has now reached epidemic proportions worldwide. Yet we continue to eat ourselves and the planet to death for the sake of the economy.
More than one billion adults worldwide are overweight—at least 300 million of them clinically obese— according to the World Health Organization, which also warns that obesity is a major contributor to the growing global burden of chronic disease and disability.
But here is a provocative thought: What if obesity isn’t so much a by-product of modernity, but a symptom that something else is fundamentally awry? What if the relentless emphasis on economic growth has led to ‘sweet spots’ for both environmental well-being and human wealth being overshot?
For Garry Egger, professor of lifestyle medicine at Southern Cross University, and Boyd Swinburn, professor of population health at Deakin University, both in Australia, “obesity is the canary in the coal mine that should alert us to structural problems in society.”
The two researchers produced a recent book, Planet Obesity, which argues that as obesity is endemic it cannot be merely dismissed as a result of sloth and gluttony on the part of individuals.
Obesity is an example of human success reaching and exceeding its peak, says Egger. “We can be said to be entering a ‘sour spot’, where the very success we have achieved is threatening to unravel centuries of improvements in the standards of living, levels of health and ever-increasing life spans.”
Heavier HumansBut here is a provocative thought: What if obesity isn’t so much a by-product of modernity, but a symptom that something else is fundamentally awry? What if the relentless emphasis on economic growth has led to ‘sweet spots’ for both environmental well-being and human wealth being overshot?
For Garry Egger, professor of lifestyle medicine at Southern Cross University, and Boyd Swinburn, professor of population health at Deakin University, both in Australia, “obesity is the canary in the coal mine that should alert us to structural problems in society.”
The two researchers produced a recent book, Planet Obesity, which argues that as obesity is endemic it cannot be merely dismissed as a result of sloth and gluttony on the part of individuals.
Obesity is an example of human success reaching and exceeding its peak, says Egger. “We can be said to be entering a ‘sour spot’, where the very success we have achieved is threatening to unravel centuries of improvements in the standards of living, levels of health and ever-increasing life spans.”
For much of human history, life was a struggle for survival, so people remained relatively lean.
In modern times, it is no wonder that waistlines expand with access to energy-dense, nutrient-poor processed foods with high levels of sugar and saturated fats. This, along with low relativefood prices, reduced physical activity, and sophisticated marketing, has led to skyrocketing obesity rates.
For example, compare what has happened in Australia and China.
From a base of almost no obesity in the 1950s, Australia has become one of the heaviest nations on Earth. In the last 20 years, obesity rates increased faster than in any other OECD country. Today, 61 percent of adults are overweight or obese. And the proportion of people overweight is projected to rise a further 15 percent in the next 10 years.
In the 1980s, the Chinese referred to visiting Australians as ‘jelly bellies’. China was only in the initial stages of market reforms initiated by Deng Xiaoping and the widespread starvation experienced in the 1960s was still fresh in the national memory.
Fast forward to 2011: China, now an economy in transition, has experienced a threefold increase in obesity. The overall rate is still below five percent, but in cities it is already over 20 percent and rising. While this is low compared with Western countries, the size of the country’s population means that one-fifth of the one billion overweight and obese people in the world are Chinese.
Egger and Swinburn make clear that the issues around obesity and health are complex. Indeed, much of the chronic disease associated with obesity could be linked to a low-grade body-wide inflammation influenced as much by behavioural and environmental factors as by obesity.
However, it is clear the modern lifestyle is becoming a major health risk for diet-related chronic diseases, including Type 2 diabetes, cardiovascular diseases, hypertension and stroke, and many forms of cancer. The consequences range from increased risk of premature death to serious chronic conditions that reduce the overall quality of life.
In the 1980s, the Chinese referred to visiting Australians as ‘jelly bellies’. China was only in the initial stages of market reforms initiated by Deng Xiaoping and the widespread starvation experienced in the 1960s was still fresh in the national memory.
Fast forward to 2011: China, now an economy in transition, has experienced a threefold increase in obesity. The overall rate is still below five percent, but in cities it is already over 20 percent and rising. While this is low compared with Western countries, the size of the country’s population means that one-fifth of the one billion overweight and obese people in the world are Chinese.
Egger and Swinburn make clear that the issues around obesity and health are complex. Indeed, much of the chronic disease associated with obesity could be linked to a low-grade body-wide inflammation influenced as much by behavioural and environmental factors as by obesity.
However, it is clear the modern lifestyle is becoming a major health risk for diet-related chronic diseases, including Type 2 diabetes, cardiovascular diseases, hypertension and stroke, and many forms of cancer. The consequences range from increased risk of premature death to serious chronic conditions that reduce the overall quality of life.
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