30th Nov2011

Four Lions (Full Movie)

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Four incompetent British jihadists set out to train for and commit an act of terror.

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30th Nov2011

N*ggas Ruin Everything: Mercedes Discontinues The “Maybach” Brand

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“Now, If only I could get black people (read as: n*ggas) to discontinue Tyler Perry…” – Blair

N*ggas already ruined Tommy Hilfiger, Polo, Nautica, Cristal,  Community, TupacMyspace, Facebook, etc.   

What are n*ggas gonna ruin next? iPhones?

Mercedes-Benz’s ultra-luxury Maybach brand will be no more starting in 2013, according to the Detroit News.

While having a century’s worth of history, the Maybach marquee was revived in the U.S. market in 2003 to compete against Rolls-Royce and Bentley. During that time, the brand essentially sold only one model in two lengths: the Type 57 and Type 62. Amenities included a fully reclining rear seat, electrotransparent sunroof, rear refrigerator and standard champagne flutes.

A range-topping $1.38 million convertible variant, the Maybach Landaulet, was recently added to the lineup.

Despite the glitz, the Maybach lineup is essentially gussied-up Mercedes-Benz S-Class models. The Maybach brand also wasn’t held in the same regard as Rolls-Royce or Bentley, despite its storied history.

Instead of focusing more resources on Maybach, Mercedes has decided to expand the S-Class lineup. The redesigned fifth-generation S-Class will launch later next year with six variants, according to the Detroit News. That’s nearly double the option set offered today, and it will likely lead to more expensive sticker prices on the top Mercedes.

Last year, Maybach only sold about 200 cars compared with Rolls-Royce’s 2,700 and Bentley’s 5,100 vehicles, according to the Detroit News.

Even though the $350,000-plus Maybachs aren’t what we’d call daily drivers, the brand’s parent company was holding off on pulling the plug. But in the stratospheric showroom where Maybach plays with Bentley (owned by Volkswagen) and Rolls-Royce (a subsidiary of BMW), the Maybach was a long-time underachiever. At a price point where even one-percenters are challenged, only about 3,000 of the vehicles were sold since the brand was resurrected a decade ago.

This week the axe fell, when Daimler Chairman Dieter Zetsche told a German newspaper that the brand would be discontinued in 2013. “We came to the clear conclusion that the sales chances for the Mercedes brand were better than Maybach’s,” he said.

For those who may be waiting for that Maybach or order, there is good news: The existing supply will be delivered until it is exhausted.

Guess this is never coming out —>

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30th Nov2011

FIRST ANNUAL PHILADELPHIA INTER-COMMUNAL GIVEBACK FEAST/CONCERT

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30th Nov2011

hasHBrown – This Is It Feat. Dannie Walker

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30th Nov2011

Higher Math in High School Means Higher Earnings Later

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There is a well-established correlation between years of schooling and labor market success. However, it stands to reason that it is not just years of education that affect future earnings. The curriculum-the kinds of courses a student takes-certainly must have an effect. For example, it seems reasonable that students who take more-advanced math courses in high school should be more likely to pursue postsecondary education and to have higher earnings. For a number of reasons, it is important to understand whether this is true.

 

First, if high school curriculum does affect educational and labor market outcomes, policies aimed at encouraging students to take a more-advanced curriculum may be a way of increasing both college attendance and later earnings. Second, with the recent elimination of affirmative action programs in California, minority access to postsecondary education may have suffered. If so, this would have severe implications for income inequality between different ethnic groups. Encouraging minority students to take more math might improve their chances of enrolling in college. Third, if a more rigorous curriculum does affect the probability of going on to college and having higher earnings, perhaps more money should be spent on improving curriculum, as opposed to other options, such as spending designed to reduce class size.

 

In Math Matters: The Links Between High School Curriculum, College Graduation, and Earnings, Heather Rose and Julian R. Betts find a strong relationship between taking advanced math courses in high school and earnings 10 years after graduation. For their analyses, they used data collected in the High School and Beyond survey of a representative sample of students who were in grade 10 in 1980. This survey includes detailed data from the studentshigh school transcripts, information about the highest educational degree the students attained, and information about earnings nearly 10 years after students should have graduated from high school. The survey also contains rich demographic data, as well as information about students‘ families and high schools, which allowed the researchers to account for many non-curriculum factors that may also be related to college graduation and earnings.

 

Course-Taking Behavior and Long-Term Implications

 

There was a great deal of variation in the course-taking behavior of the 1982 senior high school class. Twenty-six percent of students completed only vocational math courses and nothing more before leaving school. Another 8 percent stopped taking math courses after completing pre-algebra. Thirty-one percent took an algebra or geometry course, but nothing beyond, and 31 percent took a more-advanced algebra course. Only 4 percent completed a calculus course. This variation in course-taking behavior had long-term implications for these students, affecting how much education they obtained overall and how much they eventually earned in the labor force.

 

Correlation or Causality?

 

Although the level of math courses a student takes is correlated with college graduation rates and earnings, correlation does not necessarily imply causation. To net out the true effects of curriculum, the researchers took into account as many other potentially contributing factors as the data would allow: the student’s demographic characteristics, including ethnicity and gender; measures of student motivation and ability, such as grade point average; family background, including parental education and income; and high school characteristics, including school size, teachers‘ education level, and the percentage of disadvantaged students at the school.

Through a series of statistical models, the researchers “washed out” each of these contributing factors until they had a pure mathematics effect. They found that the higher the level of the math course taken in high school, the greater the probability that a student would graduate from college.

 

Math and Earnings

 

The researchers’ statistical models demonstrate that part of a math course’s effect on earnings can be explained by its effect on the student’s ultimate level of education. However, part is also explained by a cognitive effect that makes a student more productive. For example, students who take more-advanced math classes learn skills that may be directly applicable to certain jobs. They may also learn logic and reasoning skills that indirectly make them more productive.  Skills acquired through learning advanced math may also teach students how to learn, so that once they are on the job, they are promoted to more demanding and more highly paid positions than those who have acquired fewer “learning skills.”

 

Again accounting for all of the variables noted above, the researchers show-for each level of high school math course-how much of the total earnings increase results from the “cognitive effect” and how much from the “educational effect.” For example, after controlling for the student’s demographic, family, and high school characteristics, one extra course in algebra or geometry is associated with 6.3 percent higher earnings. Of this effect, 3.1 percent derives from the student’s ultimate education level and 3.2 percent appears to be related to the direct cognitive effect.  Of this cognitive effect, 3.0 percent remains even after controlling for the student’s ability.

 

Conclusions and Caveat

 

The main message of this study is that math matters. Another principal message is that it is not simply the number of math courses a student takes that is important; what matters more is the extent to which students take more demanding courses, such as advanced algebra and geometry. That said, the authors note that for a number of reasons it would be a mistake to suddenly require that all students take advanced courses such as calculus. Such a mandate might well need to be preceded by improved teacher training as well as curriculum intervention in middle schools or even elementary schools, so that high school students are prepared to undertake advanced coursework.

 

In addition, it is likely that policies that force highly advanced math courses on students would increase dropout rates or result in watering down the work required to complete such courses.  What the authors do argue is that their statistical models show that the effect of math courses on earnings does not appear to vary much with respect to student or school characteristics and that a rigorous math curriculum at any school can benefit students of any type. Hence, it is important that schools have the resources to provide all students with an equal opportunity to take some of the more advanced math classes, and students should be encouraged to do so.
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30th Nov2011

I Am Not A Rapper Presents: ___ Podcast – Season 1,Episode 3 – #SavedByThePodcast

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big blog template saved by the bell cast I Am Not A Rapper Presents:     Podcast – Season 1,Episode 3   #SavedByThePodcastAnother week, another podcast… Did you miss us? Dont lie…

This week Our group discussion featured  Kevin Golden x Spit x Mr. Blair x Special guest I Am Not A Rapper fashion blogger Andrea (V3nusVsMars)

Topics Discussed: Facebook Porn x Google F*ck ups x Blair’s attack on ”The Skorpion Show” x The negative image of African American Muslims x Lark Voorhies married to Martin Lawrence? x #NBABack ? & What does the NBA Lockout ending actually mean? x  Real T.O. Tears x Questlove Vs Michelle Bachman x Kevin being honorary Darkskinned  (Just for kicks, Google “Darkskinned”) x of course the infamous #FML Stories x etc…

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This weeks musical interludes provided by: 1) The Vacationers – Trip   2) Black Star – You Already Knew   3) Kendrick Lamar – Rigamortis Remix Feat Busta Rhymes    4) Dj Pogo – Alice (Disney Remix)

 

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30th Nov2011

Louis CK: Apple Is A Woman, Microsoft Is A Man…”The Next Steve Jobs Will Be A Chick”

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louis ck Louis CK: Apple Is A Woman, Microsoft Is A Man...The Next Steve Jobs Will Be A ChickLet me start offby saying that in the natural order of things, girls appear to be the preference. They tend to make up 51% of the population overall, because men tend to do stupid things and die off before they’re 40. So if you trust in nature, nature is saying that the world is a better place when there are more girls around than boys. It’s not just me saying girls are better.

I myself have two daughters, a 9-year-old and a 6-year-old, and I’ve learned from those girls how to be a better man. If I’d had a boy, then there’d be two shitty versions of me. The last thing I need to do is fail twice with two different people: me and my son. But I benefit from an uncomplicated relationship with my daughters–I get to observe how great they are. I’m always learning from them, and they are well-mannered with far better living habits than I have. When I get up in the morning, for instance, they’re already dressed, with their teeth brushed and looking nice. I’m not capable of any of that.

Men are more like Microsoft: They’ll just make a fake version of what that chick made, then try to intimidate everybody into using their product.

But on a deeper level of ability, my girls are interested in other people. They notice stuff and take part in doing things that I don’t know if a boy would notice. They do the right thing, they treat people well, and they listen to other people–boys at their age are just these little balls of want. This is, of course, a generalization; a lot of girls end up being selfish and obnoxious as grown-ups, just like some men are really sensitive and thoughtful. But I generally prefer females to spend a lot of time with. Girls are good roommates; they’re good company when you go shopping; they’re a lot of fun to hang out with in the car when you’re just sitting in traffic. Those little things add up to a better life.

Overall, I think it’s a good time to have a girl in the 21st century because things are changing, with more opportunities for women. But girls are still the underdog, which means they’ll work harder, and everybody loves an underdog. The next Steve Jobs will totally be a chick, because girls are No. 2–and No. 2 always wins in America. Apple was a No. 2 company for years, and Apple embodies a lot of what have been defined as feminine traits: an emphasis on intuitive design, intellect, a strong sense of creativity, and that striving to always make the greatest version of something. Traditionally, men are more like Microsoft, where they’ll just make a fake version of what that chick made, then beat the shit out of her and try to intimidate everybody into using their product.

Wait a second–why am I trying to persuade someone to have a girl? It’s backward. The fact that people have kids because they want something from them is bizarre. As soon as you have a child, that script gets flipped for the rest of your life anyway. It’s not about you anymore. I say this so when you have a girl, you don’t ask yourself: What am I going to get out of this girl? You’re supposed to focus on: What does this girl need from me and what kind of parent do I need to be to her? That’s the question you should be asking yourself right now, not whether or not you’ll be missing some boy’s stupid Little League game.

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30th Nov2011

SUPPORT! The “Youth Music Initiative” (Video)

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About this project

My name is Margel Overton and I have been teaching and performing with students in the Philadelphia area over the last few years. After dealing with budget cut backs in arts programs it has become obvious that the youth need a place to create their music on their terms. This cd is a first step and way for them to connect with other young artists and with you, the people that are concerned with the lack of outlets for our talented and driven young people.

Every dollar you give will go into this project. Equipment, Renovations, Mastering expenses, Artwork, Manufacturing the CD’s and Vinyl LPs and Promoting the record when it is completed. We will make a quality project in a studio built by the students with your help!

*Music Program – facilitated by Margel OvertonMargel.overton@gmail.com ; http://soundcloud.com/margel-sophant

*Video – shot and edited by David Hall – davehall0@gmail.com ; vimeo.com/davidhallmultimedia

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29th Nov2011

The Comedy Central Roast Of Charlie Sheen (Full Video)

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R. I. P. Patrice O’Neal

Hosted By Seth McFarland (Creator of Family Guy)

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29th Nov2011

Senior Rob Siter Scores 1,000th Point in Mighty Macs 88-71 Win

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MBMMC at it again… Congratulations homie

Immaculata University senior guard Rob Siter became the second Mighty Mac men’s basketball player to eclipse the 1,000-point mark with a game-high 23 points in Immaculata’s 88-71 win against CSAC foe Philadelphia Biblical University on Monday night.

Immaculata improves to 2-3 overall and 1-1 in the CSAC. Philadelphia Biblical falls to 2-3, 0-1 in the league.

Siter scored his final layup of the night with 2:23 to play in the contest and surpassed the 1,000-point mark with 1,001 career points. Siter also finished with a team-leading eight rebounds and five steals.

Capture5 Senior Rob Siter Scores 1,000th Point in Mighty Macs 88 71 Win

Todd Stokley recorded 14 points and eight rebounds, and Nelson Torres also registered 14 points in the contest. Jeffone Hill had 11 points and four assists while Jarrell Gardner tallied 10 points.

It was a back-and-forth game during the first eight minutes that ended with a 15-all tie at the 12:08 mark. The Mighty Macs scored 11 straight points to open up an 11-point advantage (26-15) with 9:34 to play in the first half, and never gave that lead away.

Immaculata led 44-36 at halftime.

The Crimson Eagles trailed by nine, 48-39, 1:28 into the second half, but that would be the last time Philadelphia Biblical chipped Immaculata’s lead to single digits. A 9-0 run during a span of 3:48 gave the Mighty Macs their largest lead of the night, 79-58, with 5:15 left in the contest.

Philadelphia Biblical had four scorers in double figures, led by 19 points from Jeff Bishop. Charles Kennedy had 11 points and a team-leading eight rebounds.

Immaculata travels to Rosemont on Wednesday night for an 8 p.m. tip with the Ravens.

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