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– December 11, 2010Posted in: What's Hot
New Music| December – “Dreamcatcher”
Great track by new artist and apolloKIDZ @DECEMBERcreates.
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Launch Party Dec 11th!
– December 11, 2010Posted in: What's Hot
Help us pop inexpensive bottles to celebrate the Launch of apolloKIDZ.com “The Comment Section of the Innanetsâ€.
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Paul Wall Quits Sippin’ Sizzurp
– December 10, 2010Posted in: Misc.
i’m surprised it’s taken him this long considering he’s from Houston and has seen what happens as a result
“I’ve always been a big defender of [sippin] syrup. Even when [Pimp C] passed, when Screw passed, when Moe passed, I kinda made excuses. I said it was other things that killed them, just their whole lifestyle. That’s part of being a drug addict. You make excuses and try to validate what you’re doing . . . My kids would wake me up in the morning and I wouldn’t want to get out of bed. It was just the way they looked at me, and the way my wife would look at me. She was constantly trying to get me to stop. I wouldn’t have any energy at times. The syrup makes you real irritable . . . I can’t be a good father to my kids and be addicted to a drug, regardless of what drug it is. Growing up, I went to all the drug programs for the families of drug addicts. So I was always aware of the problem. Since I was related to a drug addict, I found myself turning into what I’d hated all my life. That’s exactly what I was afraid of.â€
http://www.crunktastical.net/2010/12/10/quick-quotes-paul-wall-prompted-stop-sippin-syrup/
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‘I’m Not a Lesbian’
– December 10, 2010Posted in: Misc.
Oprah Winfrey looked to settle the gay rumors swirling about her relationship with best friend Gayle King in an interview with Barbara Walters, Mediaite reports. “I’m not a lesbian—I’m not even kind of a lesbian,†Winfrey said. The persistent “dumb rumors” are irritating, she said, because “it means that somebody must think I’m lying. That’s number one. Number two: why would you want to hide it? That is not the way I run my life.â€
As for King, “She is the mother I never had,” Winfrey said, tearing up. “She is the sister everybody would want. She is the friend that everybody deserves. I don’t know a better person. I don’t know a better person.” The interview airs tomorrow night on ABC.
Video: http://www.newser.com/story/107149/oprah-to-barbara-walters-im-not-a-lesbian.html
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Ms. Lauryn Hill @ The Bowery Ballroom 1/1/11
– December 10, 2010Posted in: Misc.
Yo who’s down?
Doors: 8:00 PM / Show: 9:00 PM
$75 advance / $75 day of show
Buy Tickets: http://www.ticketmaster.com/event/00004589A53E69BE?artistid=795402&majorcatid=10001&minorcatid=202
Read More: http://www.boweryballroom.com/event/5726
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Rich Boy Throws Some G’s On Pre-Paid Credit Card Line
– December 10, 2010Posted in: Misc.
Southern rapper Rich Boy has officially evolved his music career to the next level by partnering with Plastic Cash International LLC to create his own line of debit MasterCards.
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#Facebook hosts first ever #HackerCup via @mashable
– December 10, 2010Posted in: Misc.
Facebook is known for its hackathons — all-night coding sessions designed to help create new products or improve others. Now the company has announced its first Hacker Cup.
Facebook says it’s “bring[ing] engineers from around the world together to compete in a multi-round programming competition.†The Hacker Cup is very similar to Google’s popular Google Code Jam.
Contestants will be challenged with solving algorithmic-based problem statements. Those who successfully solve the problems in the allotted period of time will advance to the next round.
Registration opens on December 20 and the 72-hour qualification round will start on January 7, 2011.
This round will consist of three problems. Only the competitors that can correctly solve at least one problem will advance to the first online round.
The first online round will consist of three sub-rounds that each last three hours. The top-scoring 1,000 participants from each of these sub-rounds will advance the the second online round.
The 25 competitors who score the highest in the second online round will advance to the finals, which will be held at Facebook’s campus in Palo Alto. Facebook will fly the 25 participants in and pay for their expenses.
At the in-person final round, a winner will be crowned and not only given the title of “world champion,†but also $5,000 in cash.
If you want to brush up on your skills before the competition starts, you can visit Facebook’spuzzles page.
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Sports Training Has Begun for Babies and Toddlers
– December 10, 2010Posted in: Misc.
As a fitness coach in Grand Rapids, Mich., Doreen Bolhuis has a passion for developing exercises for children. The younger, it seems, the better. “With the babies in our family,†she said, “I start working them out in the hospital.â€
…“This is Baby Mozart stuff; you play Mozart for the baby in utero and it comes out some sort of fine arts major,†he said. “There are millions of American parents worried to death that their children might fall behind somebody else’s kid. So the emphasis in youth sports has become more, more, more, younger, younger, younger.â€
Read more: http://www.nytimes.com/2010/12/01/sports/01babies.html?partner=rss&emc=rss
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Do Energy Drinks Improve Athletic Performance? #Health
– December 10, 2010Posted in: Misc.
But the evidence that energy drinks can make you a better athlete is sketchy at best. “There’s good evidence that caffeine is ergogenic,†said Dr. Erin Duchan, a pediatrician and co-author of a review of the current science about energy drinks for athletes, published recently in The Physician and Sports Medicine. “It can, in the right circumstances, improve athletic performance,†she added.
…should you or your teenage soccer player be drinking energy drinks? Not if your aim is to improve sports performance, Dr. Higgins said. “I wouldn’t recommend energy drinks to athletes,†he said. “Look at the name. These are not sports drinks.â€
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City homeless agency’s count is off #NYC #homeless
– December 10, 2010Posted in: Misc.
smh..
The city’s homeless agency Thanksgiving, when it claimed 36,654 homeless people stayed overnight in shelters on the city’s dime.
Though the city declared the figure the “total shelter census,” a closer look reveals the city placed up to 1,200 more homeless people – all single adults – in various shelters that night.
Critics say the city underreports the numbers to minimize the homeless problem. City Councilwoman Anabel Palma said an accurate census is “vital” to determine the needs of “one of our city’s most vulnerable populations.”
Palma introduced a bill Wednesday to require the Department of Homeless Services include all homeless in its “total shelter census,” including shelters for displaced families run by another agency. A hearing on the issue is set for today.
The hidden numbers look like this:
The day after Thanksgiving, 471 homeless adults stayed in Safe Haven shelters – emergency shelters for the street homeless – while 379 more stayed in shelters for military vets.
Add to that scores of street homeless housed at YMCAs and hotels when Safe Haven beds weren’t available, a population the Coalition for the Homeless estimates at 200 to 400 a night.
That comes to as much as 1,250 – but it could be even higher if displaced people are figured in.
Also not included in the total census are the 221 families – about 650 people – the Department of Housing Preservation and Development (HPD) put in its shelters, which are separate from the DHS shelters.
These are families displaced from homes by fire and other unsafe conditions, some of whom stay in HPD shelters for months.
Homeless shelter resident Dane Kum, 62, said he served in Vietnam and has been staying at a veterans’ shelter in Long Island City for eight months.
“If you don’t count, you don’t exist in their eyes,” Kum said.
Patrick Markee of the Coalition for the Homeless said the city insists the homeless population is decreasing while, he says, the opposite is true.
He notes the most recent Mayor’s Management Report claims the “average number of single adults in shelter each day” dropped 3.1% from fiscal 2008 (6,737) to fiscal 2009 (6,526).
Add in Safe Haven and veteran shelters data, Markee says, and the average rises 3.3% in that same period.
DHS tracks the number of homeless in Safe Haven and military shelters but removed them from the nightly census in 2008. A spokeswoman wouldn’t say why.
