Wednesday, December 30, 2009
Chicago parking meter rates go up next week - chicagotribune.com
Link: http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/chi-chicago-parking-meter-rate-increase-1230,0,4444061.story?track=rss&utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed:+chicagotribune/news+(chicagotribune.com+-+Latest+news)&utm_content=Google+Feedfetcher (sent via Shareaholic)
Best ex-offender reentry practices
In Indianapolis: An ordinance crafted by Mayor Gregory Ballard’s administration and passed unanimously by the City/County council gives businesses consideration in their bidding on public contracts if the agree to hire qualified ex-offenders who are referred through a pre-employment system within the Mayor's office. There is a tracking system in place to match offenders to businesses and to track retention of these offenders for at least one year.
What Health-Care Reform Will Mean for You - Newsweek.com
Link: http://www.newsweek.com/id/228630?from=rss&utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A newsweek%2FTopNews %28UPDATED - Newsweek Top Stories%29&utm_content=Google Feedfetcher (via shareaholic)
Tuesday, December 29, 2009
Three Pound Universe: New Illinois Laws include grants for groups helping exoffenders develop a business plan
FYI, new Illinois laws taking effect January 1, 2010 includes: “Ex-Offenders” Loan Program (HB 436/PA 96-0656): Allows DCEO to provide grants to organizations and entities that work with ex-offenders and their re-entry into society, who would then provide low-interest loans to qualified ex-offenders seeking to develop a business plan.“
Link: http://jethrobodine.blogspot.com/2009/12/new-illinois-laws.html (sent via Shareaholic)
The Cash Committee: How Wall Street Wins On The Hill
We need reform now!
Link: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/12/29/the-cash-committee-how-wa_n_402373.html (sent via Shareaholic)
California Cuts Mammograms for Low-Income Women - Newsweek.com
Tuition increases, public employee furloughs, early prison releases, delayed vendor payments, and other service cuts are happening @ all levels of state and local government, in every states. It's still really ugly out there for most people, especially those who depend on government services or provide services to government
Link: http://www.newsweek.com/id/228563?from=rss&utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A newsweek%2FTopNews %28UPDATED - Newsweek Top Stories%29&utm_content=Google Feedfetcher (via shareaholic)
Handling problems the Obama way - - POLITICO.com
Link: http://www.politico.com/news/stories/1209/31021.html (sent via Shareaholic)
Monday, December 28, 2009
THE FIX
This should be E-Mailed to the White House and all of your local politicians to show support for such a Great Solution.......We the people can force their hand on this one......Get involved........ LOL
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Donating talent, time to help nonprofits -- chicagotribune.com
"...Businesses often encourage employees to join a nonprofit board to gain management experience, she said. In addition, charity work helps a company's image.
In fact, reputation is the top driver of corporate citizenship, according to Boston College's Center for Corporate Citizenship, which surveyed 756 small, medium and large businesses this past summer.
About 38 percent of companies surveyed had cut back on philanthropy and corporate giving due partly to the recession. Small companies in particular reported a decreased emphasis on philanthropy, with 61 percent agreeing that corporate citizenship needs to be a priority, down from 69 percent in 2007, the report said..."
Link: http://www.chicagotribune.com/business/columnists/chi-mon-minding-literacy-1221-dec21,0,2812429.story (via shareaholic)
Corporation for National and Community Service Information Related to the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009
The Corporation has released a Draft Notice of Funds Available (NOFA), and is soliciting public input through January 15, 2010. The final NOFA is expected to be released in February of 2010. Please click here (PDF) for more information about the Social Innovation Fund NOFA, and to provide your feedback.
Link: http://www.nationalservice.gov/about/serveamerica/innovation.asp (via shareaholic)
Napolitano: Airline Security System 'Did Not Work'
The good news is the Obama administration was willing to correct a mistake, unlike the Bush 2 administration. The bad news is even smart administrations have a tendency to be defensive and say there is no problem first, before they examine, consult with the experts and then respond.
Link: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/12/28/napolitano-airline-securi_n_404730.html?igoogle=1 (sent via Shareaholic)
Paul Krugman - The Big Zero - NYTimes.com
"Then there are the politicians. Even now, it’s hard to get Democrats, President Obama included, to deliver a full-throated critique of the practices that got us into the mess we’re in. And as for the Republicans: now that their policies of tax cuts and deregulation have led us into an economic quagmire, their prescription for recovery is — tax cuts and deregulation"
Link: http://www.nytimes.com/2009/12/28/opinion/28krugman.html?_r=2 (sent via Shareaholic)
Sunday, December 27, 2009
ROSS DOUTHAT, Op-Ed Columnist - The Obama Way - NYTimes.com
",,,[Obama] most resembles Ronald Reagan and Edward Kennedy. Both were highly ideological politicians who trained themselves to work within the system. Both preferred cutting deals to walking away from the negotiating table...The upside of this approach is obvious: It gets things done. Between the stimulus package, the pending health care bill and a new raft of financial regulations, Obama will soon be able to claim more major legislative accomplishments than any Democrat since Lyndon Johnson.
The downside, though, is that sometimes what gets done isn’t worth doing. The assumption that a compromised victory is better than no victory at all can produce phony achievements — like last week’s “global agreement” on climate change — and bloated, ugly legislation. And using cynical means to progressive ends (think of the pork-laden stimulus bill or the frantic vote-buying that preceded this week’s Senate health care votes) tends to confirm independent voters’ worst fears about liberal government: that it’s a racket rigged to benefit privileged insiders and a corrupt marketplace floated by our tax dollars.
At the same time, Obama doesn’t enjoy the kind of deep credibility with his base that both Reagan and Kennedy spent decades building. When Kennedy told liberals that a given compromise was the best they could get, they believed him. Whether the issue is health care or Afghanistan, Obama’s word doesn’t carry the same weight.
This leaves him walking a fine line. If Obama’s presidency succeeds, it will be a testament to what ideology tempered by institutionalism can accomplish. But his political approach leaves him in constant danger of losing center and left alike — of being dismissed by independents as another tax-and-spender, and disdained by liberals as a sellout."
Link: http://www.nytimes.com/2009/12/26/opinion/26douthat.html (sent via Shareaholic)
Saturday, December 26, 2009
News: New Approaches to Job Training - Inside Higher Ed
Link: http://www.insidehighered.com/news/2009/12/18/wia (sent via Shareaholic)
At-risk kids: Successful Harlem Children Zone a possible solution for Chicago -- chicagotribune.com
"On average, $5,000 a year is spent per child...about two-thirds of the money from private sources, such as foundations and donors who include many Wall Street financiers. The rest comes from state government."
Link: http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/education/chi-harlem-childrens-zone-dec27,0,4930521.story (sent via Shareaholic)
Articles about $100 netbooks and 10-inch Asus Eee PC Netbook for $229.99 | The Cheapskate - CNET News
Link: http://news.cnet.com/8301-13845_3-10415629-58.html (sent via Shareaholic)
Articles about $100 netbooks: http://www.google.com/search?source=ig&hl=en&rlz=1G1GGLQ_ENUS326&q=$100+netbooks&btnG=Google+Search&aq=f&oq=&aqi=
Schools have trouble tapping stimulus funds - USATODAY.com
I was talking to my sister, a professor in North Carolina, about problems schools are having obtaining stimulus funds yesterday evening.
Link: http://www.usatoday.com/news/education/2009-12-23-school-bonds_N.htm?loc=interstitialskip (sent via Shareaholic)
After the federal stimulus passed in February, North Carolina school officials thought they had found a way to repair the 58-year-old gym and other crumbling school structures. The stimulus provided money for Qualified School Construction Bonds, which is intended to let school districts raise capital through interest-free bonds to fund construction.
The program also was expected to boost North Carolina's construction industry. Ben Matthews, director of school support for North Carolina's Department of Public Instruction, estimated it would create 11,000 jobs.
But the bond program has become entangled in financial and bureaucratic red tape. Only $2.3 billion of the $11 billion in bonds available this year have been sold as of last week, data compiled by Bloomberg show.
'Obamanos!': One Year Into Obama's Presidency : NPR
Listening to Henrik Hertzberg, author of Obamanos: The Birth of a New Political Era on CSPAN has helped me resolve my New Years political resolution is going be to focus more on political reforms our political system needs rather than getting caught up in assessing whether I am inspired or disappointed in politicians. I am disappointed in the so-called health reform; but recognize it is a historical step forward that still requires work. My main interest in 2010 is engaging more of the disadvantaged and those left out of the American political and economic systems, in putting forth their own best solutions.
Excerpt from recent NPR Hertzberg interview:
"Rick, when do people who supported Obama, liked Obama, when do they go from hope to disappointment? How long do you have to be in office for that transformation to happen?
Mr. HERTZBERG: Well, judging from the way a lot of people are reacting already, I guess one year would be about the right quantity of time. I don't think they should go from hope to disappointment in that way. I think that it reflects some of the weirdnesses of our political system, that people do end up disappointed in a performance which I think has been, on balance, a very fine performance by Obama as president."
Link: http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=120093233 (sent via Shareaholic)
Friday, December 25, 2009
Facing Ali (2009)
For the holidays, I'm checking out some great sports videos and movies. Yesterday, I saw Invictus and started watching "Dhani Tackles the Globe" . Today, I saw this great documentary, which featured Ali's opponents. It was better than listening to commentators hearing the real experts talk about boxing.
A beautiful, honest film, 24 December 2009
Author: jimbob12404 from Accord, NY
I wasn't sure what to expect with this film. I had not heard anything about it and when I was able to get a copy I figured it would be a puff piece, but it is much much more than that. Interviews with several opponents of Muhammad Ali reveal a lot about both the interviewees themselves, and their lives, and their almost unanimous love for Ali. Footage of each fighter's bouts with Ali is plentiful and exciting, and watching it will make you cry when you realize how much he has lost over the years. Something else that will make you cry is what one of his greatest opponents--I won't say who it is---cries openly for Ali and calls him "a great guy...and I hope he gets to live the way we all live...he's earned it." This film just knocked "Tyson" out of the top spot in my best sports documentaries of the year list.
Link: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1419318/ (via shareaholic)
Once-homeless man 'rescued' from streets isn't there yet :: CHICAGO SUN-TIMES
Businessman meets homeless man, set up a Web site -- www.savetroy.com -- and started e-mailing people he knew, asking them to help him help Troy.
http://www.suntimes.com/news/metro/1958307,troy-mccullough-homeless-122509.article (via shareaholic)
Inflated Expectations: Crowd-Sourcing Comes of Age in the DARPA Network Challenge: Scientific American
Team members deluged their friends with Facebook invitations and encouraged those friends to invite their friends.
http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=darpa-network-challenge-results (via shareaholic)
Thursday, December 24, 2009
Once homeless, woman finds future in nursing -- chicagotribune.com
School coordinator Angela Anselm said a survey of a previous class showed everyone found jobs.
Link: http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/chi-ap-il-homelesstohopeful,0,7590004,full.story (via shareaholic)
Invictus is highly recommended
I saw Invictus tonight. What a great movie, what great acting, and what a great story.
Link: http://www.poemhunter.com/best-poems/william-ernest-henley/invictus/ (via shareaholic)
Gabrielle Lyon: Can You Tell Me How to Get To Science Street?
Thoughts from leader of innovative partnership with her husband to increase minority scientists and mathematicians,... "I applaud the Obama administration's ambitious goal of helping young people experience the wonder and discovery of science first hand. Elmo should help inspire our youngest children to have fun with science in their everyday lives. But we need more than media efforts, special days and competitions to transform science as usual. For young people like Carla to have a chance to contribute to the knowledge economy we need an inclusive, expansive and collaborative approach to science education that puts kids least likely to get involved with science at the center of comprehensive strategies..."
Link: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/gabrielle-lyon/can-you-tell-me-how-to-ge_b_400568.html (via shareaholic)
Wednesday, December 23, 2009
ZNet - The (Fading) Call of Obama
Paul Street, an independent writer was the research director for the Chicago Urban League.
Link: http://www.zmag.org/znet/viewArticle/23434 (via shareaholic)
Tuesday, December 22, 2009
Black in the Age of Obama - NYTimes.com
[H]ow to air anxiety without further arming Obama’s enemies?
Link: http://www.nytimes.com/2009/12/05/opinion/05blow.html (via shareaholic)
The 25 Funniest Sketches Of The 2000s (VIDEO)
Happy holidays, laugh your ass off!
Link: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/12/22/funniest-sketches-decade_n_398850.html?igoogle=1 (via shareaholic)
Drew Westen: Leadership, Obama Style, and the Looming Losses in 2010: Pretty Speeches, Compromised Values, and the Quest for the Lowest Common Denominator
I hope this isn't true: "...the president has accomplished the remarkable feat of both demoralizing the base and completely turning off voters in the center."
Link: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/drew-westen/leadership-obama-style-an_b_398813.html (via shareaholic)
Monday, December 21, 2009
Naomi Klein: For Obama, No Opportunity Too Big to Blow
"If Barack Obama had come to Copenhagen with a transformative and inspiring commitment to getting the U.S. economy off fossil fuels, all the other major emitters would have stepped up." This is starting to be a regular refrain, PBO.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/naomi-klein/for-obama-no-opportunity_b_399414.html (via shareaholic)
Op-Ed Columnist - A Dangerous Dysfunction - NYTimes.com
"...Bush-era Democrats weren’t nearly as determined to frustrate the majority party, at any cost, as Obama-era Republicans..."
Link: http://www.nytimes.com/2009/12/21/opinion/21krugman.html?_r=1&src=twt&twt=NytimesKrugman&igoogle=1 (via shareaholic)
Sunday, December 20, 2009
The political world's winners and losers in health-care reform - washingtonpost.com
Key number in 2010 elections is President's job approval ratings. Under 50% has lead to significant seat changes, in most midterm elections. PBO currently @ 50%.
Link: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/12/20/AR2009122002431.html (sent via shareaholic)
Brain Power - Studying Young Minds, and How to Teach Them - Series - NYTimes.com
The teaching of basic academic skills, until now largely the realm of tradition and guesswork, is giving way to approaches based on cognitive science.
Link: http://www.nytimes.com/2009/12/21/health/research/21brain.html (via shareaholic)
Why I Still Believe In This Bill | The New Republic
"...As weak as it is in numerous areas, the Senate bill contains three vital reforms. First, it creates a new framework, the “exchange,” through which people who lack secure workplace coverage can obtain the same kind of group health insurance that workers in large companies take for granted. Second, it makes available hundreds of billions in federal help to allow people to buy coverage through the exchanges and through an expanded Medicaid program. Third, it places new regulations on private insurers that, if properly enforced, will reduce insurers’ ability to discriminate against the sick and to undermine the health security of Americans..."
Link: http://www.tnr.com/blog/the-treatment/why-i-still-believe-bill (via shareaholic)
Book Review - 'Sweet Thunder - The Life and Times of Sugar Ray Robinson,' by Wil Haygood - Review - NYTimes.com
"...At the peak of his success, in the 1940s and ’50s, Robinson epitomized the tough grace and style and confidence of an entire generation...."
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/12/20/books/review/Hamill-t.html?ref=todayspaper (via shareaholic)
Op-Ed Columnist - Tiger Woods, Person of the Year - NYTimes.com
"...Though the American left and right don’t agree on much, they are both now coalescing around the suspicion that Obama’s brilliant presidential campaign was as hollow as Tiger’s public image — a marketing scam designed to camouflage either his covert anti-American radicalism (as the right sees it) or spineless timidity (as the left sees it). The truth may well be neither, but after a decade of being spun silly, Americans can’t be blamed for being cynical about any leader trying to sell anything..."
: http://www.nytimes.com/2009/12/20/opinion/20rich.html?pagewanted=2&em (via shareaholic)
How health lobbyists influenced reform bill - chicagotribune.com
How the game is played.
Link: http://www.chicagotribune.com/health/chi-health-lobbyists_bddec20,0,5453763,print.story?igoogle=1 (via shareaholic)
News Analysis - Obama, Denied Full Victory on 2 Issues, Takes Validation - NYTimes.com
"Mr. Obama has put a high value on process and keeping things moving, recognizing that history generally does not remember the to and fro, only the big sweep of presidential accomplishments."
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/12/20/us/politics/20obama.html?ref=todayspaper (via shareaholic)
Saturday, December 19, 2009
Interview with Dave Bing: Can Detroit Be Saved? - WSJ.com
Mr. Bing is brimming with other ideas to make Detroit more livable. One challenge he faces is how to successfully downsize. "We have a city that still has a footprint from when we had almost two million people. In the 2010 census, we'll be lucky if we've got half of that population with the same footprint and infrastructure."...He has a clear prescription of how to bring the middle class back: "I think public safety is number one. A productive school system is number two. Because without either one of those being effective and efficient, you can forget everything else."
Link: http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748703558004574581650636077732.html (via shareaholic)
Friday, December 18, 2009
Health gap kills 3,200 black Chicagoans every year
As disappointed as I am with the current Senate health care bill, we need to pass it to help 30 million, without health care.
http://www.suntimes.com/lifestyles/health/1946391,black-health-gap-121809.article (via shareaholic)
Thursday, December 17, 2009
How President Obama Can Take Back His Presidency -- New York Magazine
"After 300-plus days in office, the president remains, for many of his supporters, a worryingly indistinct figure. One whose pragmatic sensibility is crystal clear but bedrock convictions are still blurry. And whose White House has proved less than fully adept at the marriage of politics and policy, preferring all too often to fall back on their boss’s charm and dazzle to advance the ball upfield."
http://nymag.com/news/politics/62377/ (sent via shareaholic)
Nation's Largest Union: Change Health Care Bill Or Else
"President Obama must remember his own words from the campaign. His call of 'Yes We Can' was not just to us, not just to the millions of people who voted for him, but to himself. We all stood shoulder to shoulder with the President during his hard fought campaign. And, we will continue to stand with him but he must fight for the reform we all know is possible," Stern wrote.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/12/17/seiu-urges-changes-in-sen_n_395411.html?igoogle=1 (via shareaholic)
Chicago-based Nation of Islam wrongly targeted :: CHICAGO SUN-TIMES :: Metro & Tri-State
"This is an ongoing pattern of the U.S. intelligence agency," said Conrad Worrill, director of Northeastern Illinois University's Center for Inner City Studies.
"The government has been conducting intelligence on the Nation of Islam since the 1930s into the '40s, and throughout its history has been subject to surveillance, and as it related to the black movement of the 1960s, was specifically a part of the government counter-intelligence program of J. Edgar Hoover."
Link: http://www.suntimes.com/news/metro/1944678,chicago-nation-of-islam-targeted-121709.article (via shareaholic)
Democrats' Blues Grow Deeper in New Poll - WSJ.com
Being President is tough. Be tough, President Obama.
Link: http://online.wsj.com/article/SB126100346902694549.html?mod=WSJ_hpp_MIDDLENexttoWhatsNewsTop (via shareaholic)
GOP lawmaker seeks documents on Obama healthcare deals - TheHill.com
President Obama you need your base to help you against stupidity like this. Lead.
Link: http://thehill.com/homenews/house/72679-gop-lawmaker-seeks-documents-on-obama-deals-with-healthcare-groups (via shareaholic)
The New York Times does some real — and maybe really damaging — reporting on Tiger Woods National Sports Journalism Center
I don't care about Tiger's women but performance enhancing drugs would be a much harder problem to ignore since his attraction is as the decades best athlete.
Link: http://sportsjournalism.org/sports-media-news/the-new-york-times-does-some-real-and-maybe-really-damaging-reporting-on-tiger-woods/ (via shareaholic)
Universal Health Care? We Keep the Candy, But You Can Have the Wrapper. No. Wait. Give Us the Wrapper Too. | Black Agenda Report
Bruce Dixon has been a longtime Barack Obama observer.
Link: http://www.blackagendareport.com/?q=content/universal-health-care-we-keep-candy-you-can-have-wrapper-no-wait-give-us-wrapper-too (via shareaholic)
Olbermann: Ruined Senate bill unsupportable - Countdown with Keith Olbermann- msnbc.com
Mr. President, you are leader of the free world. Lead.
Link: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/34455168/ns/msnbc_tv-countdown_with_keith_olbermann (via shareaholic)
Wednesday, December 16, 2009
Jobs Bill Squeaks Through Despite Dem Defections
People fear Speaker Pelosi and like President Obama. Fear is better than love in politics, Mr. President.
Link: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/12/16/house-jobs-bill_n_395107.html?igoogle=1 (via shareaholic)
Detroit's Unemployment Rate Is Nearly 50%, According to the Detroit News
President Obama, we need your help and letting Congress do it aint enough. If you want a second term.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/12/16/detroits-unemployment-rat_n_394559.html?igoogle=1 (via shareaholic)
Expanded Health Care Coverage? Rumors Are Greatly Exaggerated, Unless Paying Fines Is Now 'Health Care'
Is President Obama is looking to be a one-termer so he can go back to selling books? The White House is fully on board with selling this nonsense as some sort of impossible-to-pass-up opportunity for America.
Link: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/12/16/expanded-health-care-cove_n_394775.html?igoogle=1 (via shareaholic)
When football 'experts' talk, 'scrooten' their take on things -- chicagotribune.com
"[Lovie Smith] getting the verbal bejesus kicked out of him, even though he'd sure get a lot smarter if he had a running back, some wide receivers, entire offensive and defensive lines, linebackers and safeties."
Link: http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/columnists/chi-kass-16-dec16,0,2820416.column (via shareaholic)
The two faces of O - NYPOST.com
Huh? Where is the change we can believe in?
http://www.nypost.com/f/print/news/opinion/opedcolumnists/the_two_faces_of_oTswtJpCjQusQCFCMdiluJ (via shareaholic)
Tuesday, December 15, 2009
Rep. Capuano Tells Fellow Dems: 'You're Screwed'
"Voters less interested in tax credits than they were in direct money for jobs."
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/12/15/rep-capuano-tells-fellow_n_392685.html?igoogle=1 (via shareaholic)
Leonard Shapiro - Golf media had little inkling about Woods's off-course behavior - washingtonpost.com
"How ironic. After consistently deciding to avoid taking a stand on so many issues of the day, Woods has finally found a cause worth fighting for: his own right to privacy..."
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/12/14/AR2009121401836.html?hpid=topnews# (via shareaholic)
Monday, December 14, 2009
Sunday, December 13, 2009
Saturday, December 12, 2009
If Only Tiger Were a Socialist - The Daily Beast
Different take on this mess
http://www.thedailybeast.com/blogs-and-stories/2009-12-11/if-only-tiger-were-a-socialist/full/ (via shareaholic)
Friday, December 11, 2009
Young Latinos seem to face a tougher future -- latimes.com
"Never before in this nation's history has a minority ethnic group made up so large a share of the youngest Americans."
http://www.latimes.com/news/nation-and-world/la-na-latino11-2009dec11,0,2971018.story (via shareaholic)
Thursday, December 10, 2009
YouTube - Mike Ditka and Snoop Dogg Sunday Night Countdown commercial
This always makes me laugh and reminds me of how hip hop sensibilities have penetrated the commercial main stream. Hope they make a longer version
(via shareaholic)
Why Small Businesses and Restaurants Are Seeing Greater ROI Using Social Media - Twine Interactive Raleigh NC
Why your business should set up a FaceBook Fanpage, a Wordpress blog or a Twitter account http://www.twineinteractive.com/blog/details/why_small_business_and_restaurants_are_seeing_greater_roi_using_social_medi/ (via shareaholic)
The Real Story of 'Invictus' | Newsweek International | Newsweek.com
"... A deft look at what a difference inspirational leadership can make, even in a nation with such a seemingly intractable past..."
http://www.newsweek.com/id/226323?from=rss&utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A newsweek%2FTopNews %28UPDATED - Newsweek Top Stories%29&utm_content=Google Feedfetcher (via shareaholic)
Wednesday, December 9, 2009
YouTube - African Development Initiative
Link: (via shareaholic)
On Mon, Dec 7, 2009 at 12:51 PM, Justin Walker White
<jwwhite@fas.harvard.edu <mailto:jwwhite@fas.harvard.edu>> wrote:
Hey Family,
So I just finished my final project for a film class I am
taking. The class is called African and American Studies 158:
Making Media Across Cultures. Basically, we have been studying
how to use social media and viral videos to promote development
and public service initiatives both domestically and
internationally.
For my final project, I have been woking with Darryl Finkton,
who recently became a Rhodes Scholar (click here
<http://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2009/11/rhodes-scholars-named/>
for article), on enhancing his website for the African
Development Initiative, which is an umbrella group of
development projects in Africa that he oversees.
Anyway, below is a link to the flagship video for the website
that we made. It took us about 6 hours of filming and 15 hours
of editing just to get the 4-minute video down pat. We get
graded on how many views we get and how well we can spread it
around using a variety of social media, so please take a look
and send it around to /everyone/ you know! Also, please let me
know what you think!
LINK HERE:
I will be home in about ten days. Love you!
Justin
Tuesday, December 8, 2009
Tiger Woods's Wife, Elin: An Angry White Woman | Newsweek Life | Newsweek.com
From my perspective this may be only beneficial result of the Tiger Wood mess: Getting rid of the mad black woman stereotype
http://www.newsweek.com/id/226245?from=rss&utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed:+newsweek/TopNews+(UPDATED+-+Newsweek+Top+Stories)&utm_content=Google+Feedfetcher (sent via shareaholic)
Social Enterprise Angels - Social Investing in Action:Contest for social enterprises
Anybody know whether there is anything like this organization or competition to fund social enterprises in Chicago?: http://www.insidetoronto.com/news/local/article/228164--translating-well-in-competition (via shareaholic)
Goldman Sachs Launches 10,000 Small Businesses Initiative
Goldman Sachs will invest $300 million through a combination of lending and philanthropic support to Community Development Financial Institutions (CDFIs). The investment will increase the amount of growth capital available to small businesses in underserved communities and expand the capacity of the CDFIs to deliver enhanced technical assistance to small businesses
http://www2.goldmansachs.com/our-firm/press/press-releases/current/10-k-business.html (via shareaholic)
Monday, December 7, 2009
Tupac Makes Vatican MySpace Playlist (AUDIO)
Years after I gave her son a Tupac Shakur album my ex-girlfriend told me she hated it because of all the foul language. Changes, the song on Vatican list has no bad language. Even though I am a R&B, Jazz and Blues guy Tupac was the rapper who opened my ears to this music and I most appreciated.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/12/06/tupac-makes-vatican-myspa_n_381928.html (via shareaholic)
Tony Dungy: Lack Of Black College Coaches 'Disgraceful'
After the 2006 season, Dungy recommended then-Vikings defensive coordinator Mike Tomlin for the head coaching position at a BCS school. Tomlin didn't get an interview. A month later, the Steelers hired him as their head coach, and within two years he led them to a Super Bowl win.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/12/06/tony-dungy-lack-of-black-_n_382087.html (via shareaholic)
Sunday, December 6, 2009
Obama Silent On Public Option In Speech To Senators
Lots of thoughtful comments attached to this article. http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/12/06/obama-silent-on-public-op_n_381847.html?igoogle=1 (via shareaholic)
Brian Banks has shared a Huffington Post article with you
Brian Banks has shared a Huffington Post article with you:
Obama Silent On Public Option In Speech To Senators
Obama Silent On Public Option In Speech To Senators
They also included a personal note:
I agree with one of the comments that says, "...Obama needs to tend to the faithful a little more and the beltway, a little less."
- sent by Brian Banks
David Brooks - The Harlem Miracle - NYTimes.com
Yes, we can educate our kids. Checkout 60 Minutes story and David Brooks column about success of Harlem Children Zone. http://www.cbsnews.com/video/watch/?id=5890448n&tag=contentMain;cbsCarousel
Link: http://www.nytimes.com/2009/05/08/opinion/08brooks.html (sent via shareaholic)
ComingSoon.net: Movie Trailers, New Movies, Upcoming Movies, 2009 Movies, Films, DVDs, TV, Videos, Clips
2 news movies I am looking forward to seeing this X-mas Invictus and The Blind Side show black people as more than boys in the hood. What is John Singleton doing by the way? Also looking forward to The Princess and the Frog which also features one of Disney's first major black characters. It is important for all kids to see positive black role models on the big screen. Arguably, part of President Obama's appeal to youth is due to Bill Cosby's appeal as Dr. Huxtable. Which raises a question, what up with TV? Other than cable where are major, nee lead black characters?
Link: http://www.comingsoon.net/ (sent via shareaholic)
'Muslim President' Hates Charlie Brown: Tenn. Mayor - Obama's West Point speech forced postponement of Christmas special
The craziness of birthers, teabaggers, extreme right-wingers, etc is encouraging even more nuttiness and is a very visible sign of how the continuing decline of American education is really our biggest danger. We need to find a way to make college affordable, provide preschool and tutoring/mentoring; and to improve k-12 education for all, if we want to globally compete economically, and to maintain the democratic ideals that make our system of governance great. Unfortunately, many of our leaders, despite being well educated themselves, choose to cater to the crazies rather than rejecting the stupidity.
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SNL Tiger Sketch a Bit Sketchy - Host Blake Lively not awful, Rihanna scores with 'Shy Ronnie'
While I agree domestic violence is not a laughing matter, especially on a show featuring Rihanna, I thought this was funny even though I am a Tiger fan.
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Op-Ed Columnist - May It All Come True - NYTimes.com
Americans and Afghans share a common frustration with their leaders, many of whom seem "...dysfunctional and massively corrupt — focused more on extracting revenues for private gain than on governing..." I say ENOUGH
Link: http://www.nytimes.com/2009/12/06/opinion/06friedman.html?_r=1&ref=todayspaper (sent via shareaholic)
Saturday, December 5, 2009
Zakaria: Obama the Realist | Newsweek Politics | Newsweek.com
"It is now clear that Obama is attempting something quite ambitious—to reorient American foreign policy to-ward something less extravagant and adversarial."
http://www.newsweek.com/id/225824?from=rss&utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A newsweek%2FTopNews %28UPDATED - Newsweek Top Stories%29&utm_content=Google Feedfetcher (via shareaholic)
In Defense Of Desiree Rogers: Axelrod Says Social Secretary Is Getting Bum Rap
Enough with the stupid and fake issues, "...she serves at the pleasure of the President and First Lady and THEY know they didn't hire her to provide security."
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/12/05/in-defense-of-desiree-rog_n_381294.html?igoogle=1 (via shareaholic)
Shakira on Importance of Early-Childhood Education | Newsweek International | Newsweek.com
An Example of Real Leadership, by one of the world's stars
http://www.newsweek.com/id/225652?from=rss&utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A newsweek%2FTopNews %28UPDATED - Newsweek Top Stories%29&utm_content=Google Feedfetcher (via shareaholic)
Friday, December 4, 2009
Obama Says Recovery Efforts Come Before Deficit Reduction
"Obama said he believes that the best way to reduce the deficit is through economic growth"
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/12/04/obama-says-recovery-effor_n_380513.html?igoogle=1 (sent via shareaholic)
Tiger's real crime? Not playing the media's game - Jason Whitlock
Whitlock is right, "This is all a bad joke. This whole affair highlights why the mainstream media have lost the public's trust. We don't deserve it. We're controlled by hidden agendas."
http://msn.foxsports.com/golf/story/10464562 (sent via shareaholic)
Wednesday, December 2, 2009
Elizabeth Warren: America Without a Middle Class
Families today spend less than they did a generation ago on food, clothing, furniture, appliances, and other flexible purchases -- but it hasn't been enough to save them. Today's families have spent all their income, have spent all their savings, and have gone into debt to pay for college, to cover serious medical problems, and just to stay afloat a little while longer.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/elizabeth-warren/america-without-a-middle_b_377829.html?igoogle=1 (via shareaholic)
5 Worst Cities in America for Urban Youth, Beyond The Bricks - Educational Crisis for Black Boys, Our Children Are at War and Are Losing Badly
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