Steelers win= MIllions for all!!

I have a soft spot for Arizona. I love rooting for underdogs. I think Sedona is one of the most beautiful towns in the country. Don't even get me started on the majestic beauty of the Grand Canyon.read more to find out why iom rooting for Pittsburgh


However, come Sunday, I'll be rooting for the Pittsburgh Steelers. Sorry, Cardinals. It's not personal: It's just business.

See, according to a Pittsburgh-based wealth management firm, the market has soared an average of 25.5% in the five previous years that the Steelers have won the Vince Lombardi trophy. Why should this year be any different, right?

Don't follow the logic?
Of course you don't. It's bogus. It's illogical. It's too small a sample to be anything more than fluke.

How many people do you see parroting the old Super Bowl mantra -- that if an NFC team or one from the pre-1970 NFL wins, that the market will usually close higher -- this year? Not too many, right? Not after the New York Giants won it all last year and the market still got spanked.

I have nothing against a Pittsburgh financial firm rallying around the home team, but let's hope that they don't make their investing decisions that way.

Reasons to keep investing

Investors might have little hope for 2009 if January is any indication of what’s to come. The Dow lost 9% this month. But I dont want anyone giving up.

deeper look at the indices showed that one-third of S&P 500 stocks finished January higher, as did a third of the S&P Mid-Cap 400, some quite substantially. Palm [PALM 7.67] added 150% to its share price, while Shaw Group [SGR 27.80 ] jumped 36% and Morgan Stanley [MS 20.23] 26%. Google registered a double-digit gain, too.

And this is just a small sampling from the list of companies that thrived during the worst January in history. Walgreen [WAG 27.41] and Wyeth [WYE 42.97], Symantec [SYMC 15.33] and Sallie Mae [SLM 11.45], Peabody Energy [BTU 25.00], National Oilwell Varco [NOC 48.12], Monsanto [MON 76.06 ] and many more returned profits to their shareholders.

There’s always a bull market somewhere. And if not an entire market, then at least some stocks. So don’t take your cue from the averages. They’ll blind you to opportunity.

This isn’t, of course, an endorsement of the present market. Im not a fan. He wants you playing defense with high-yielding and recession-resistant stocks. Think BP [BP 42.47], Tupperware Brands [TUP 20.56], Kraft Foods [KFT 28.05]. Watch UPS [UPS 42.49 ], Emerson [EMR 32.70 ] and Clorox [CLX 50.15], too. Poor quarterly reports might knock these names down enough to bring their dividend yields up. And Im all about accidental high yields right now.

Everyone is going to have to focus on preserving capital until we find some stability in the markets, and the economy. There’s been a lot of talk about President Obama’s good bank/bad bank plan, which would set up a federal institution similar the Resolution Trust Corp. used during the savings-and-loan crisis to help ailing financials, but concerns about the plan’s details pushed stocks down on Friday. There is, though, still a good chance that we’ll get an updated version of the RTC, so investors need a strategy if that happens.

Rule number one: If the word “nationalize” is mentioned, say in regard to Bank of America [BAC 6.58] or Citigroup [C 3.55], expect more bad months to come. The government should be helping, not managing, these banks.

I even go so far as to say that Washington should take a “forbearance” approach to this problem, looking the other way while doling out cash. Give banks the money they need to get on their feet, and let them renegotiate the loans that are so badly hurting their balance sheets. In exchange, the government gets a promissory note of sorts, a guarantee that the money will be returned. Only if some firms couldn’t pay it back would the good bank/bad bank plan then be put to use. Defaulting banks’ assets would be seized immediately and their healthy assets sold to good banks like JPMorgan Chase [JPM 25.51] and Wells Fargo [WFC 18.90].

As for the bad assets, those toxic collateralized debt obligations at the center of this credit crisis, Lets go back to my earlier idea of a government-sponsored trading desk. The desk would bring together buyers and sellers, who right now are unwilling to budge on price due to fear of being stuck with worthless paper. The government would buy from one side at a reasonable price and sell to the other at a slight profit. That way a value could finally be put on these CDOs, holders of them wouldn’t get hit with such a big loss and those who want the paper would see there’s less risk in the market.

Why do i think this will work? Because this is exactly how we emerged from the savings-and-loan crisis. Excluding the trading-desk idea, that is, which is my alone. So im convinced it would work. In the meantime, though, keep playing defense.

Top three Ticketed cars

Read more to find out if you are the owner of one of these 3 cars!!
1. Hummer (big surprise? Cops are more likely to ticket a car that stands out.)

2. Toyota's Scion line (Fix believes this is because they are popular cars for teenagers.)

3. Audi A4

Leaders of the next Market rally

There are two types of market strategist: Those who think it's time to buy, and those who think it's going to be time to buy.


"I think, from an investor's standpoint, you can look on bad days to accumulate positions that you might want to hold over the next few years, and hold your nose until confidence starts to rebuild," Paulsen told CNBC.

Recommendations:

Paulsen has some definite ideas about where investors should go shopping. He thinks some financials will turn out to be astonishing bargains, but only if the investor knows which ones will survive.

"I'd rather look at some of the beat-down industrial stocks [.DJUIG 196.34 ], or the retailers [.DJRET 241.26], or even some tech stocks [.DJUST 356.15], as opposed to the financials," he said.

Bape webstore Coming Soon

The apocalypse is upon us! NOw we all know that authentic Bathing Ape is very hard to find sometimes but Bape recently announced that they’d be opening up an online webstore, where presumably, you can go to purchase the latest from Nigo’s ultra-limited, overdesigned products at exorbitant prices. Bathing Ape pundits add that the independent company might be struggling to stay afloat in these times of economic struggle–what do you think? Is the digital store a calculated move, an attempt at maximizing profits in a time of financial downturn or has the brand finally decided to aid customers looking for product?

My Greatest Failure

I am not a sneaker head

I am not a blogger

I am not a writer

I am not a collector

I am not a fan

I am not a musician

I am not a DJ

I am not a graphic designer

I am not proficient with the entire Microsoft Office Suite

I am not a mathematician

I am not a computer expert

I am not a millionaire

I am not well-versed in PHP or MySql

I am not an engineer

I am not a builder

I am not a mechanic

I am not a kid anymore

I am not an addict

I am not an athlete

I am not a taker

I am not a faker

I am not a conventionalist

I am not a rationalist

I am not an Atheist

I am not methodical

I am not in a rush

I am not playin’

I am not taking a shave

I am not taking a break

I am not dead money

I am not explaining well

I am not believing some of my words

I am not an editor

I am only one man.

My name is David B. and i am a Entrepreneur

Vote for HOLLYWOOD HOLT!!

Hollywood Holt's video for “Hollywood” is currently up and running in MTV U’s “The Freshman” competition. There are a total of five videos in the contest and the video with the most votes will go into rotation on the network. All you need to do is click the link below and vote for Hollywood Holt…you can vote as many times as you want!!
Click the link to support the cause.


http://freshmen.mtvu.com/freshmen_nominees/hollywood_holt

Pfizer close to making huge drug deal!

Pfizer Inc, the world's largest drugmaker, is in talks to buy Wyeth, sources familiar with the situation said on Friday, and one source put the possible value of the deal at about $67 billion.

Pfizer may pay about $50 per share for Wyeth, but the price may change as negotiations continue throughout the weekend, the source said. At $50 per share, Wyeth would fetch roughly $66.6 billion.

Such an acquisition, which sources said could come within days, would help Pfizer cope with a major gap in revenue in 2011 when its blockbuster Lipitor cholesterol treatment will begin to face U.S. generic competition.

Spokesmen for Pfizer and Wyeth declined to comment.

It would diversify Pfizer into vaccines and injectable biologic medicines by adding Wyeth's big-selling Prevnar vaccine for childhood infections and Enbrel rheumatoid arthritis treatment. Pfizer would realize major cost savings by streamlining areas that overlap.

But the deal also raises questions about whether another huge acquisition is the right medicine for Pfizer, which has struggled after digesting two huge deals in the past decade. And it threatens to spark another round of layoffs in the drug industry at a time the U.S. economy is already on its knees.

"I think it's eminently doable," said Barbara Ryan, an analyst with Deutsche Bank. "The question is whether others enter the fray. It's going to come down to price. The deal is attractive at this price, it's not attractive at any price."

Ryan said Pfizer could pursue Bristol-Myers Squibb or biotech giant Amgen Inc if a Wyeth deal falls through. Biogen Idec has also been mentioned as a possible Pfizer target, Credit Suisse analyst Catherine Arnold said.

Pfizer has secured roughly $25 billion in funding for the Wyeth deal, one source close to the talks said. Getting financing for the deal helps Pfizer surpass one of the biggest hurdles amid tight credit markets. Pfizer would pay more cash than stock in the deal, but final details have yet to be nailed down, the source said.

Pfizer would pay two-thirds of the cost in cash and a third in stock for Madison, New Jersey-based Wyeth, The Wall Street Journal reported.

Talks were accelerating on Friday and a deal could be announced in the near term, one source said, while cautioning that negotiations could still fall apart.

New York-based Pfizer had $26 billion in cash and cash equivalents and short-term investments on its balance sheet, as of its latest quarterly filing. It had $16.3 billion in short-term borrowings and long-term debt.

One complication to the financing is that some of the cash on Pfizer's balance sheet is overseas and it would have to repatriate those funds to purchase Wyeth, one source explained.

Pfizer may be able to purchase Wyeth's international assets separately and thus avoid the tax and foreign-exchange complications of repatriating funds, the source said.

Wyeth shares closed up $4.91, or 12.6 percent, at $43.74 on the New York Stock Exchange. Pfizer rose 24 cents, or 1.4 percent, to close at $17.45.

Wyeth has been in talks to buy Dutch vaccine firm Crucell, whose shares fell 9.6 percent on Friday on fears that deal might now be in doubt.

But sources told Reuters the Pfizer-Wyeth talks will not necessarily scuttle Wyeth's Crucell deal. Wyeth has been holding talks with both Pfizer and Crucell in recent weeks, sources said.

ANOTHER DEAL FOR PFIZER?

Pfizer became the world's largest drugmaker with its purchase in 2000 of Warner-Lambert and the $60 billion acquisition three years later of Pharmacia.

The question for investors, many of whom continue to hold the stock largely because of its industry-topping dividend, is whether another acquisition of that scale will revive Pfizer over the long term, or only temporarily boost results.

Ultimately, a huge acquisition could make it harder for the merged company to grow from its larger revenue base and to prevent bureaucracy from stifling innovation.

Pfizer exemplifies the overriding problem for many large drugmakers, which have struggled to produce new blockbusters to replace those on which they lose exclusivity.

"We have, for many quarters now, said that Pfizer essentially has no realistic way of replacing the many drugs that are scheduled to go generic apart from doing a mega-merger," Sanford C. Bernstein analyst Tim Anderson said in a research note.

The global economic downturn has created a buyer's market for cash-rich drugmakers, prompting several deals.

Wyeth's market capitalization as of Thursday was about $52 billion, so at $60 billion, the deal would represent a 15 percent premium. Pfizer was valued at about $118 billion.

COST SAVINGS

Aside from Enbrel, for which Wyeth shares rights with Amgen, and Prevnar, Wyeth also is developing experimental Alzheimer's disease drugs, which could be a major opportunity although some believe such drugs are a longshot.

Pfizer would also gain Wyeth's large consumer health division that includes Advil painkillers more than two years after it sold off its own consumer health business to Johnson & Johnson.

Pfizer's fortunes rose initially after its Warner-Lambert and Pharmacia deals thanks to huge merger-related cost savings, and outright ownership of Lipitor from Warner-Lambert.

Recently its performance flagged and shares dropped to more than 10-year lows in late 2008, after savings dried up and its $7 billion-a-year research budget failed to bear much fruit.

Pfizer, which reports fourth-quarter earnings next week, has said it expects 2008 revenue to be roughly similar to its 2007 revenue of $48 billion. It expects decent profit growth thanks to deep cost cuts.

Vans Spring 2009: Chukka!

Vans’ huge Spring 2009 collection rolls on with the newest addition to their line-up, a pair of Chukkas. Mixed with suede and leather, these two Chukkas feature a cool look that is available in either black and white or red and cream. Leather can be found on the front while the rest of the Chukka is made of quality suede with an patterned inner lining to complete the classic van look. Look for the two Chukkas to release in stores near you. But they are now available at Essense.com now.

Coraline Movie X Nike = illest Dunks of the year

In conjunction with LAIKA’s new movie “Coraline,” Nike will release its Coraline Nike Dunk that will be given away to lucky winners who enter a contest through Coraline.com.





Word is that these sneakers will not be available for retail and less than 1,000 were made. Coraline was written and directed by Henry Selick and based on the internationally best-selling novel by Neil Gaiman. Nike co-founder and Chairman Phil Knight created LAIKA , which is the studio that created this movie.I must say, this is a great way to get people in the theater to watch this movie. It probably isnt something that i would normally PAY my money to go see, but indeed these shoes are making me want to do so. Check out Coraline.com. and see if you can find the kicks!



Special thanks to HypeBeast for the Photos!

Diversified stocks for the upcoming year! My Fave 5

Don’t waste time trading the new Obama presidency.I say that, in a market this tough, investors want a diversified portfolio full of dividend-paying stocks.


My five favorite Dow stocks for 2009: Johnson & Johnson [JNJ], Caterpillar [CAT], Hewlett-Packard [HPQ], Verizon Communications [VZ] and Home Depot [HD].

My fave 5 have been down 3% since i start recommending these stocks, during the week of Jan. ? But the Dow’s dropped 8% over the same period, while the S&P 500 has slipped 9%. That’s relative outperformance by the fave 5. And if they held up well during this downturn, there’s a good chance they’ll rebound first when the market turns up.

Consider the dividends, too, which are a big reason I picked these stocks in the first place. Other than Hewlett-Packard, all of these companies pay more than 3%, Verizon as much as 6%. Once you factor in the quarterly dividends, the All-Star portfolio is down only 2.1%. With the returns from the annual dividends, the portfolio’s actually up a half percent.

Dividends account for about 50% of a stock’s appreciation. They offer much-needed protection during volatile markets, and they boost your return. Plus, other investors are attracted to the increasing yields as the share price drops, further buoying the stock. This is at least partly why my fave 5, have the Dow and S&P.

STOCK PICKS!! Banks, BIotech, telecom

The Dow moved higher as President Obama started his first day in office. The market pros shared investment advice on CNBC.


You have an absolute opportunity to buy State Street. I bought it yesterday for three times earnings. Clearly I love the opportunity that exists in State Street.

Morgan Stanley would be another one and also First Horizon [National] .The risk remains in some regional banks that have outside exposure to commercial real estate development…

Bullish On Biotech
"The way you play biotech is, you play the companies they use; if they're going to use a beaker that costs a hundred grand, you buy the companies that produce the equipment.

You buy companies like Millipore [MIL ] or Qiagen [QGEN], where you know their products are going to be used across a wide range of biopharma industries.

AT&T [T ] reaffirmed their dividend again; I have no idea what three months is going to yield for us, but I want to get paid while I'm waiting. Verizon [VZ], still growing, taking market share, doing well.

New Fashion Geek Clothing!!!

My favorite clothing line has now released more items from their winter line, New tees, hoodies and thermals. See more pictures and info after the "read more"



Leaders 1354-Downtown Chicago
672 N. Wells
Chicago, IL 60654
312.787.7144

"Can I kick it" Obama tee

In response to popular demand, the Mick Boogie X Motivation X Leaders X Dope Couture collab tees are now available in a patriotic color way, released just in time for Inauguration Weekend. Limited to 44 pieces in each colorway. Get one while you can, they won’t last long! Obama apparel has become a fashion statement, make our statement, exclusively!


Obama tee

The pitch you need to get a job in a declining market..

Your “pitch” aka your “elevator pitch” aka your “30 second intro” is one of the most important things you’ll need for your job search.


Why?

Because it will help you make a great first impression and first impressions are EVERYTHING!

A pitch explains, in 30 seconds or less, why you would be a good candidate for a specific position.

If done well, it can literally open doors for you and individuals will want to continue that conversation that can lead to that terrific job. Stumble on your pitch, and doors can literally slam shut!

Most of my clients have difficulty working on this very short, very precise piece, which is basically an overview of their current state of affairs.

Here is how it works … create your pitch by filling in the blanks:

Hi my name is: ___________________

I have ____ years of experience in the ____________ industry as a _________ .

My specialty is ______________.

I have a ___________degree in _______________ at _____________University.

My strongest skills are _______________, _______________, and _______________ and they are perfectly matched with your company’s objectives which include ______________, __________________, and ____________________.

Because of this I would be an excellent candidate for your _______________ position.

This is the foundation of your 30 second pitch.

First, type it out, and then practice saying it, over and over and over and over again until it “rolls off the tip of your tongue”. After a few modifications, and with practice, you should feel very comfortable saying it. It’s a great way to start off an interview.

It’s also a great way to start off a networking conversation by modifying and shortening it:

Hi my name is: ___________________

I’m a ___________ in the ______________ industry for ______ years now.

Then immediately follow it up with questions for the other person. Remember, people love to talk about themselves, so ask these very open ended questions:

• How did you get into the ____________ business?

• What do you like most about your job?

• What do you have to do to be successful in your _________ industry?

Why these questions? Three reasons:

Reason #1: They are open ended questions, which gets the other person to do most of the talking.

Reason #2: They are very positive questions. We want to maintain an upbeat atmosphere. That is why I didn’t list the question: what do you like least about your job? That isn’t going to get the person to think happy thoughts. And when people aren’t happy, they don’t want to network and they don’t want to open doors for others.

Reason #3: People love to talk about themselves and when they do, and you listen to them, they think you are fascinating! People who think you are fascinating will introduce you to their friends and the networking will continue.

So practice your pitch until it’s smooth as can be. And remember that networking is about developing a mutually beneficial relationship. It’s not about asking for a job. It’s about getting to know that person and continuing to meet individuals they know, and it’s about introducing them to people you know.

Happy pitching and happy networking and good luck with your job search!

Eighty81 x Don Cannon present “Cool Guys Always Finish First”

Eighty81.com in conjunction with DJ Don Cannon present “Cool
Guys Always Finish First”. It celebrates the cool guys that you always looked up to as a kid whether it was your older cousin, crazy uncle, Dwayne Wayne or Ric “The Nature Boy” Flair. It features an ensemble of today’s coolest artists with exclusive tracks from Freck Billionaire, Fly.Union, Pacific Division, Naledge (Kidz in the Hall), Curren$y, Al Fatz, Ray Cash, Chip Tha Ripper and Little Brother among others.


Eighty81.com x DJ Don Cannon “Cool Guys Always Finish First”

January 24th…Leaders1354 x Reebok

They released the blue lines in November and now they’re bringing you the red lines. They’ll be releasing this Saturday at the brand new downtown location (672 N.Wells). The “Leaders1354 Jam” is made up of metallic silver, 3M, perforated suede, crackled leather, patent leather, premium leather, ostrich, and croc’d leather. The sole inspiration was from CTA (Chicago Transit Authority) train system map and the actual train. Chicago operates around the red, blue, green, yellow, orange, purple, brown, and pink line trains so they’re all represented by the speckles. The red and blue line trains the cities major lines and both run close to both store locations (hence the two colorways). The transparent blue tinted out sole represents Lake Michigan with the Chicago Transit map visible through it.

Triumvir x Fly x Nike SB Dunk Mid Beijing

Undoubtedly, this is one of the more creative Nike Dunk SB releases we will see this year and i always like shoes that seem to have some real thought put into them. Although photos of the Nike SB Dunk Mid Beijing surfaced in late 2008, they are now available at select retailers such as DQM.


Designed by Triumvir, the theme of the shoe was based on a Beijing native’s view of their own city. With that said, this sneaker possesses many detailed features inspired by Beijing’s icons including dust, noodles, traffic, highways and Tiananmen Square.

What has Weed done for you.. Live above the influence.

Heres the transcript:
This is actually a very funny video, the actors in it seem so proud of what their doing. BUt my favorite has to be the african american guy at the end,lol.


Scene #1: (Guitar music begins. A teenage boy with dark hair is shown standing in the middle of what appears to be a room decorated for a young girl.)

Boy #1: "I stole from my little sister"(He exclaims in a happy voice.)

Scene #2: (Scene changes, guitar music continues. A teenage girl is shown placing her school report card on the kitchen’s refrigerator door for display.)

Girl #1: "I got straight D's"(She brags with a smile on her face.)

Scene #3: (Scene changes. A teenage boy with blonde hair is shown slouching in his bed in a half-upright position.)

Boy #2: "I left my girlfriend 27 messages last night."(He confidently explains.)

Scene #4: (Scene changes. A teenage girl stands over her mother -- who is sitting in front of a mirror, sorrowfully gazing – the girl smiles)

Girl #2: "I made my mother cry"(She says proudly.)

Scene #5: (Scene changes and speeds-up into fast forward. A teenage boy is shown waking up on a couch after what appears to be a party where he was intoxicated. As the scene continues in fast forward motion, people draw a mustache and uni-brow on his face, and put cheese curls in his nose as a prank. They write "DORK" on his forehead and "I (heart) Sara" on his cheek. The people disappear. He opens his eyes and looks at the camera.)

Boy #3: "I let people draw on me."(He exclaims happily with a smile.)

Scene #6: (Scene changes. There is a guy sitting in the drivers seat in his car, parked in front of a garage.)

Boy #4: "I ditched my friends and they had to find their own way home."(He says in a very excited and happy voice; he smiles and nods approvingly as the scene fades away.)

Scene #6: (Scene fades away. Screenshots of all six smiley, self-confident, and proud teenagers flash by. The overall tone is clearly sarcastic.)

TEXT: "What has weed done for you?"


Not only is the last guy the funniest of them all, it gives the impression taht you can indeed drive home while under the influence

I want everyone to post, what weed has done for them.

My Tribute to the Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.

History is indeed made up of significant events which shape our future and outstanding leaders who influence our destiny.


Martin Luther King's contributions to our history place him in this inimitable position. In his short life, Martin Luther King was instrumental in helping us realize and rectify those unspeakable flaws which were tarnishing the name of America. The events which took place in and around his life were earth shattering, for they represented an America which was hostile and quite different from America as we see it today.

Martin Luther King, Jr. catapulted to fame when he came to the assistance of Rosa Parks, the Montgomery, Alabama Black seamstress who refused to give up her seat on a segregated Montgomery bus to a White passenger. In those days American Blacks were confined to positions of second class citizenship by restrictive laws and customs. To break these laws would mean subjugation and humiliation by the police and the legal system. Beatings, imprisonment and sometimes death were waiting for those who defied the System.

Black Americans needed a Martin Luther King, but above all America needed him. The significant qualities of this special man cannot be underestimated nor taken for granted. Within a span of 13 years from 1955 to his death in 1968 he was able to expound, expose, and extricate America from many wrongs. His tactics of protest involved non-violent passive resistance to racial injustice. It was the right prescription for our country, and it was right on time. Hope in America was waning on the part of many Black Americans, but Martin Luther King, Jr. provided a candle along with a light. He also provided this nation with a road map so that all people could locate and share together in the abundance of this great democracy.

We honor Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. because he showed us the way to mend those broken fences and to move on in building this land rather than destroying it. He led campaign after campaign in the streets of America and on to the governor's mansion - even to the White House - in an effort to secure change. Today Black Americans have federal legislation which provides access and legal protection in the areas of public accommodations, housing, voting rights, schools, and transportation. These rights were not easily won, nor readily accepted, but the good will and conscience of an enormous spectrum of our society both Black and White said "Move On."

Thank you Dr. King for being the drum major who was able and ready to lead our nation to greater heights through love and peace.

Supra TK Society Grey Patent

Supra has one of the best skateboard teams around, and as far as footwear, they always keep their riders looking fresh. The long awaited, Terry Kennedy TK Society Pro Model has finally made it’s way onto the Supra website.

The Supra TK Society Grey Patent is unique to say the least. The extreme high top features double straps around the ankle area, and an all grey patent material. As for the skate-ability of the kicks, that is up to you to decide. One thing thing that is for sure about the TK Society, is that it will definitely turn heads, but in a good way or a bad way?

My stock pick for the upcoming Obama administration!

I say keep a close eye on Roche and Genentech.As you may know Genentech shares rose Friday after a published report said Swiss drugmaker Roche was preparing to sweeten its offer to buy the portion of the U.S. biotechnology giant it does not already own.

The Financial Times' Alphaville web site said Roche was preparing to offer about $95 per share, likely ahead of its release of its year-end financial report in early February.

If the deal happens, Roche could win billions of dollars in cancer drug revenue as well as strong R&D. And both are presenters at the conference.

The obama administration insiders say that he will lift the laws and regulations, on biotech research. With genentech leading this sector, i say that it will be up atleast 25% by the end of 2010. Jump now while its cheap.

So whats up with time travel?

In one of the wildest developments in serious science for decades, researchers from all over the world have recently been investigating the possibility of time travel; but they have realized that according to the equations of Albert Einstein's general theory of relativity (the best theory of time and space we have), there is nothing in the laws of physics to prevent time travel. It may be extremely difficult to put into practice; but it is not impossible.

Time has fascinated people throughout our history; we have constantly come up with every increasingly more complex and accurate ways to measure the passing of this thing which we call time. However, I wonder how many people realize that time itself is not exactly the same wherever you are. Astronomer Carl Sagan had it right when he said that time is "resistant to simple definition." Lots of us think we know what time is, but it is hard to define. You cannot literally see or touch time, but you can see its effects. The evidence that we are moving through time is found in everything -- our bodies age, buildings weather and crumble, trees grow. Most of us feel the pressure of time as we are pushed to meet deadlines and make appointments. Our lives are often dictated by what time we need to be somewhere. Ask most people to define time and they are likely to look at their watch or a clock. We see time as the ticking of the hands on these devices. We know that there are 60 seconds in a minute, 60 minutes in an hour, 24 hours in a day and 365 days in a year. These are the basic numbers of time that we all learned in grade school.

Albert Einstein was the first to show in his Theory of Relativity that time was not, in fact, a smooth river, constant in its flow, but something that could be affected by motion and by gravity - an effect known as time dilation. Einstein did not consider time and the three spatial dimensions as being separate, but as being linked to form a four-dimensional quantity known as space-time. He defined time as being the fourth dimension of our universe. The other three dimensions are of space, including up down, left-right and backward-forward. Time cannot exist without space, and likewise, space cannot exist without time. This interconnected relationship of time and space is called the space-time continuum, which means that any event that occurs in the universe has to involve both space and time.

According to Einstein's theory of special relativity, time slows as an object approaches the speed of light. This leads many scientists to believe that traveling faster than the speed of light could open up the possibility of time travel to the past as well as to the future. The problem is that the speed of light is believed to be the highest speed at which something can travel, so it is unlikely that we will be able to travel into the past. As an object nears the speed of light, its relativistic mass increases until, at the speed of light, it becomes infinite. Accelerating an infinite mass any faster than that is impossible, or at least it seems to be right now.

It sounds like science fiction, but it is taken so seriously by relativists that some of them have proposed that there must be a law of nature to prevent time travel and thereby prevent paradoxes arising, even though nobody has any idea how such a law would operate. The classic paradox, of course, occurs when a person travels back in time and does something to prevent their own birth -- killing their granny as a baby, in the more gruesome example, or simply making sure their parents never get together, as in Back to the Future. It goes against commonsense, say the skeptics, so there must be a law against it. This is more or less the same argument that was used to prove that space travel is impossible.

According to one interpretation of quantum physics (there are several interpretations, and nobody knows which one, if any, is "right"), every time a quantum object, such as an electron, is faced with a choice, the world divides to allow it to take every possibility on offer. In the simplest example, the electron may be faced with a wall containing two holes, so that it must go through one hole or the other. The Universe splits so that in one version of reality -- one set of relative dimensions -- it goes through the hole on the left, while in the other it goes through the hole on the right. Pushed to its limits, this interpretation says that the Universe is split into infinitely many copies of itself, variations on a basic theme, in which all possible outcomes of all possible "experiments" must happen somewhere in the "multiverse". So there is, for example, a Universe in which the Labor Party has been in power for 15 years, and is now under threat from a resurgent Tory Party led by vibrant young John Major.

How does this resolve the paradoxes? Like this. Suppose someone did go back in time to murder their granny when she was a little girl. On this multiverse picture, they have slid back to a bifurcation point in history. After killing granny, they move forward in time, but up a different branch of the multiverse. In this branch of reality, they were never born; but there is no paradox, because in he universe next door granny is alive and well, so the murderer is born, and goes back in time to commit the foul deed!

Once again, it sounds like science fiction, and once again science fiction writers have indeed been here before. But this idea of parallel universes and alternative histories as a solution to the time travel paradoxes is also now being taken seriously by some (admittedly, not many) researchers. Their research deals with both time, and relative dimensions in space.

President Barack Obama

I would like to take a little of your time to share something wonderful with you. Tomorrow, we are going to experience something that no one have ever imagine, a moment that we all have been raise in our culture, to think that it was impossible for black people to achieve; a moment that was only possible in our dreams, a moment that will make the History of the United States and of the Black community: the nomination of the 44th president of the United States, Mr. Barack Obama.


We started to hear about Mr. Obama at the Democratic Convention in 2004. But no one ever thought that this man could make the History of a country, of a continent, of a nation. Our President had a mission, a goal, and it was to change the course of History.

Our Black nation has suffered a lot during the last years; we were desperate because we thought that nothing was possible for Black people. We have to work 4 times harder to get the same rights of everybody else. We had the slavery, and we were targets of tease and mockery. But there were innovators and pioneers who drew the road for Barack Obama; there was Rosa Parks, a woman who protested against the seats that were reserved to White people only. Because of her bravery, she started the National Movement of the Civil Rights in the United States. There was also Dr. Martin Luther King, who had a Dream and this regardless the persecutions, that there will one day have a Black President for the United States, and his prediction has been realized today. There were many other people that drew the road for Obama such as Malcolm X and Ghandi.

A wind of change and hope has blow out on us when our President started to talk; he got us interested in politics with his charisma and his personality. The Americans voted in a manner that has never been use before. Obama's team used their imagination: they used internet and social networks such as Black Planet, YouTube, etc to promote his message of change and peace, to make us experiment something that we didn't have in us anymore: the power to dream, the power to believe in us, the power to believe that a change is possible, that nothing is impossible to the one who believe: "Yes we can!"

President Obama is a model for our generation: a model of perseverance, of creativity, and a model of hope by his attitude. We will be inspired by him to conquer every circle of the society, to overcome every barrier. He is a model of excellence and not of mediocrity. Our vision has changed and we now know that nothing is impossible to the one who believe that he can achieve his goals, fulfill his dreams, that we can be the head and not the rear, that the doors are wide open for us.

President Obama is not only the president of the United States, but he's also the President of the World!

We thank him for this powerful story of courage and perseverance that will allow us to surpass our limits and to go to the next level.

Do not miss the inauguration of our President Barack Obama!



God Bless You.

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The bailout game!

Dylan Ratigan’s new favorite thing to do is play "The Bailout" video game online. I have grown quite fond of the game myself, its quite ammusing, actually.You can play too!


You can play online at www.thebailoutgame.us -- or just click here.

Why is the street so bummed out?

Why is the Street so bummed out about a report that Bank of America will be seeking more TARP money to cover losses in Merrill Lynch?

Why is the Street so bummed out about a report that Bank of America [BAC 7.18 -1.14 (-13.7%) ] will be seeking more TARP money to cover losses in Merrill Lynch?
First there is the obvious expectation of higher losses, which implies higher losses at other firms that have made acquisitions.
But what's really killing Bank of America's stock is the realization that the TARP II terms are going to be far more onerous.
There has been speculation, for example, that Treasury will of course get preferred stock for their money, but at a higher coupon (9 percent and higher), and that they will likely force them to cut the common dividend, which is currently at $0.32. To what? Some think it could be as low as $0.01.
We'll know when they report earnings January 20th.
The implication is that the dividends of all the banks are under scrutiny, particularly if they take more money. Jamie Dimon said he was comfortable with JP Morgan's [JPM 22.82 -1.52 (-6.24%) ] dividend of $0.38. That may change if he is forced to take more money.

Old Michael Jordan Commercial

After watching the Air Jordan 2009 teaser yesterday. this old commercial came to mind for a number of reasons.

What are your thoughts?

Onitsuka Tiger February 2009 Releases

A look into the February collection is presented by Onitsuka Tiger showcasing the Lawnship, SECK LO, Coolidge and Vickka. A common theme of low-profile silhouettes is partnered with subtle color combinations which is found all throughout the February releases and is one of things that the Japanese brand does best. Offered is a variety of colors, styles and materials creating a very diverse selection of sneakers. Catch all the models when they drop next month at Onitsuka Tiger retailers.

Award winning Photographer, Anthony Johnson-Kenwood Academy HIgh School

This has to be one of my favorite photos of all time. And for Anthony to be so young, he sure has talent.

Often he use to call himself my protoge, i use to downplay it, but now that he has grown up and is doing all the right things in life. Im proud to even be able to say that i know him. Over the months, ill be posting more photography by him and others that i know of. If you want to see more of his photography, and possibly even purchase some.you can shoot him an email or Send him a facebook message, his name is Anthony Johnson, and his network is Kenwood Academy '11.

Hilarious Video by Alphacat

this is definately one of the funniest things ive seen since step brothers the movie, take a look!