Coley is Quarenta on Fire!

The Legends panel: Michael Jackson, Prince, Madonna, Janet Jackson, Whitney Houston and Mariah Carey Discuss Nominess: Brandy and Justin Timberlake

The Legends Panel is BACK and this time with a new additions; Mariah Carey and the one the only WHITNEY HOUSTON!!
 
So children hold onto your tea and get your flashlights because things are about to be spilled and its about to get very dark!

Enjoy Bitches!


Hero With A Turtle Shell: From The Lyle Files

Lyle and Lou were not about to let a turtle become Honey Boo Boo's next Road Kill main course.  I love it when these two go from Texas to London and back.

Enjoy!


Nothing Gets Between A Man and His Boot: From The Lyle Files

At least theres a reason he showed up half naked to pick his wife up from work.
My favorite line:  "Nobody stopped to help, honk or anything, fat guy stuck in the mud"


Peppers & tihS: From The Lyle Files

Somebodys a lil salty first thing in the morning.

No Pants, No Problem: From The Lyle Files

Whats a woman to do when her husband pics her up from work wearing nothing but boxer briefs and a smile, why pull out her smart phone and get a video confessional of course. Oh the sight it must have been Lyle "wallerin" in the mud.

You can find Lyle on YouTube as  lylehps and on Twitter as @Crocodile_Lyle

Enjoy!

I forgot, Lyle DOES NOT have an accent!

The BlackBerry is Back! BlackBerry 10; Always Bet On Black!

The past two years have not been easy for Research In Motion better known as BlackBerry. The company once held the title as King of Smartphones, if you didn't have a BlackBerry, well you literally had a just a phone. RIM successfully relegated others who tried to low second class and in the blink of an eye they went from King to Court Jester. It didn't matter that NONE of its competitors could match the speed that a BlackBerry could deliver or send email or that other qwerty keyboards were substandard, that fact was RIM missed the mark with touch screens and applications. Out of this a new breed of users was born "dual devicers."

Many people like myself who know and use the productivity functions and want to send and receive email, text and chat at light speed didn't give up their BlackBerrys, we added a second device, but most didn't. Unfortunately most migrated (and understandably so) to the Orchard or gave into the Rise of The Machines, fast forward to 2013 and I have a feeling those who migrated away will want to return home.

The first BlackBerry 10 device, the touch screen model scheduled to launch in March will be the Z10,  the traditional qwerty keyboard model (for diehards like ME) the Q10 is scheduled for a late spring/early summer release.

The first video below is the entire launch event, If you don't want to watch the whole thing I posted clips that highlight SOME of the new features. My favorites are BlackBerry Balance, Story Maker, Video Chat and Screen Share and I love Time Shift Mode for perfect pictures EVERY TIME!

Now watch the clips below THEN call your mobile phone company and see when you're eligible to upgrade!



The Legends panel: The Beyonce Superbowl Performance, Beyonce Vs Michael Jackson, Prince, Madonna and Janet Jackson

This time The Legends panel has a sit down with the "Queen B" herself Beyonce'. Once again I gotta give it to Mike for using that King of Pop sized umbrella to provide the most shade. Prince, Janet and Madonna with her tea, it's a wrap, the collective used their fly swatters and squashed that B!  Enjoy!

The Legends panel: Lady Gaga Vs Michael Jackson, Prince, Madonna and Janet Jackson

This is HILARIOUS! I have to give it to whoever made it, Michael threw the best shade of them all and he sounds JUST LIKE Michael! And the chopping is terrific! Throwing Nikki and Justin in was icing on the cake.

The Sting, Stigma and Irritation of Long-Term Unemployment

Over the weekend I was telling a good friend of mine about a interview I watched on WHRO-WORLD that addressed the issue of long term unemployment.  The interview addressed (for lack of a better word)  discrimination against those umemployed for 6 months or longer.  I know this first hand because getting a interview can be a mixed bag: excited at the opportunity & wondering if your going to be treated like a leper during the interview. I've found a easy way to deal with unemployment "unless I ask for help or youre supporting me, thanks for the concern but it's none of your business." 

Sometimes unemployment bothers the employed more than the unemployed. Employed people have myths about the unemployed: 1) unemployed people are lazy  2) unemployed people would rather collect unemployment  3) there are plenty of jobs out there.  I'll address  two and three: #2 ANYONE who thinks someone would rather have less that 10% of 100% of what they're used to is a IDIOT! #3: NO THERE ARE NOT! A majority of jobs posted online or advertised in other forms are done so for regulatory or  appearance purposes. People LOOOVVEEEE to call someone who's unemployed and tell them ANY and EVERYWHERE they've seen a "Help Wanted" sign or "I heard ____ is hiring"  Because everyone knows the most attractive perspective employees are applicants applying for minimum wager (or slightly higher) jobs who've made 40's, 50's, 60's and higher, because they're there for long haul! Trust me the unemlployed knows who's hiring and chances are they've already applied and been rejected or worse, heard nothing.

Finding a job now is like surviving on The Walking Dead, if you don't know someone on the inside you better have damn good survival skills until you can break in on your own.

Heres some advice, if you know someone who is unemployed and  GENUINELY want to help them, don't ask them about their job search ask them "how are you?"  "can I take you to lunch or a movie" or "is there anything I can do to help" but don't ask the last one unless you mean it and are prepared to do it.

The U.S. Long-Term Unemployment Crisis Stumps Economists

Michelle Hall, 44, hasn’t worked since last June, when funding ran out for her administrative job at Peaceful Acres Horses, a sanctuary in Pattersonville, N.Y. She applies for jobs online and usually hears nothing. “It’s a feeling of what I’ll call emptiness,” she says. “I have a lot of skills that are very applicable across the board, from file clerk to middle management.”

Hall is the face of a new problem that remains poorly understood: chronic, long-term unemployment that continues even as job growth resumes across the economy. The rate of short-term unemployment—six months or less—is almost back to normal. In January it was 4.9 percent of the labor force. That’s only 0.7 percentage point above its 2001-07 average. But the rate of long-term unemployment, 3 percent in January, is precisely triple its 2001-07 average, according to a Bloomberg Businessweek calculation based on Bureau of Labor Statistics data. (Those two rates—4.9 percent and 3 percent—add up to the overall unemployment rate of 7.9 percent.) A striking statistic: The long-term unemployed make up 38 percent of all workers without jobs, double the average share and just a few notches down from the 2010-11 peak of 45 percent.

Economists are puzzling over what has changed. Is it generous benefits that make it easy to stay unemployed? Or erosion of skills that render people unemployable? Or discrimination by employers? Peter Diamond, an economist at Massachusetts Institute of Technology who received a Nobel prize for his work on labor markets, says that regardless of the causes of long-term unemployment, the harm it causes justifies strong efforts to stimulate the economy, so even the long-term jobless are absorbed. Other public policy problems, he says, take second place. “We have an unemployment crisis and only a debt problem,” Diamond says.


One way to visualize this issue is to compare U.S. unemployment with job openings since 2001. The result can be seen on the attached chart: a scorpion-shaped curve that tracks the swelling ranks of the long-term jobless. The chart’s creators were Rand Ghayad, a Ph.D. candidate in economics at Northeastern University, and his adviser, labor economist William Dickens. Their work was part of a report they wrote that was published last year by the Federal Reserve Bank of Boston. It was so striking that the Boston Fed named Ghayad a visiting fellow.

Ghayad and Dickens show unemployment only for people out of work more than six months. The chart depicts a conventional pattern until the summer of 2009:  Job openings became scarce, and unemployment rose. After that, more jobs began to open up, but long-term unemployment kept rising. The long-term jobless rate has fallen a bit over the past year but is still far higher than it was the last time there were this many openings, from 2003 to 2004.

Ghayad sent out fictitious résumés to employers in 50 metro areas to see how they reacted to long spells of unemployment. He found that an “applicant” out of work more than six months had little to no chance of being called back. The résumés of those out of work for less than six months drew more interest when they showed the applicants had relevant industry experience. At more than six months of no work, having industry experience didn’t help at all, Ghayad found.

Even if employers do pass over the long-term unemployed, that’s not prima facie evidence of illegal discrimination. Employers could argue—rightly or wrongly—that being out of work signals something is wrong. It’s not illegal in most states for companies to factor in an applicant’s job status when filling a position.  It would have been under President Obama’s American Jobs Act, which was introduced in 2011 but has been blocked by Republican opposition.

The optimistic take is that the bulge is the result of an unusually deep recession and will shrink with time and growth. Picky employers will have to hire the long-term unemployed once the economy fully recovers and the labor market tightens. That’s why MIT’s Diamond favors more fiscal and monetary stimulus. “We could cure our problem in fairly short order if we had an adequate stimulus,” agrees Steven Kyle, an economist at Cornell University.

The pessimistic take is that the jobs aren’t coming back. Andy Stern, former president of the Service Employees International Union, says the long-term unemployed are among the first to suffer from what he predicts will be a more generalized job drought, which will be the result largely of automation. Says Stern, who stepped down from the SEIU in 2010 and is a senior fellow at Columbia University’s Richman Center for Business, Law & Public Policy:  “You ain’t seen nothing yet.”

 

The bottom line: Thirty-eight percent of all the jobless in the U.S. have been unemployed for six months or more, according to the Labor Department. 

 

Retrieved February 19, 2013:   http://www.businessweek.com/articles/2013-02-07/the-u-dot-s-dot-long-term-unemployment-crisis-stumps-economists

 

It's Not The Gun ...

I've kept quiet on the gun debate because guns aren't the problem, its the preoccupation with them. I come from a family of hunters, military and law enforcement but there was never a focus on guns only respect and the fact they can mean life or death. The Oscar Pistorious story really got me thinking  "what if that was my daughter, sister or friend" or  "what if he was my brother, son or friend" but what I'm pretty sure of,  it didn't have to happen.
This made me think about of a former friend who bought a gun for no reason and all of a sudden got this "bad ass attitude"  I immediately knew it wasn't the gun, it was what she THOUGHT the gun would do for her. After doing some reading its apparent Oscar had some issues  he THOUGHT guns could solve.  The takeaway from this story is,  it's not the gun, it's who's holding it and why. 

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