Hello friends!
Just wanted to remind you guys that Sidewalk Project is on April 4, 2009 at the Weslayan Café. This is just one of the projects I run through my non-profit One World United. I wanted to invite you guys personally, to come out, enjoy some live music, view/buy some amazing art from local artist and enjoy some Weslayan Café food. This event we’re raising money for Sunflower Mission (http://www.sunflowermission.org/). This is a free event, open to the public so invite everyone you know. Also you are allowed to bring your own bottle of wine (ONLY WINE. No beer or liquor.). Super fancy plastic cups will be provided at the event.
Here are the details:
April 4, 2009
Weslayan Café
2900 Weslayan St #A
Houston, Tx
If you have any questions, just message me through facebook, email me at jsuh@createadifference.org or call me.
If you’d like to perform or feature your art…
We are still looking for more artist to be featured at our show.
Also if you’d like to perform either, reading, singing, dancing or playing some music, we’re open to that too. Just email us at info@createadifference.org and we’ll get you setup. Remember that your art or music will be sold on site with a percentage of the profit going to Sunflower Mission.
NORTH CANTON, Ohio — A simple change to the design of the gallon milk jug, adopted by Wal-Mart and Costco, seems made for the times. The jugs are cheaper to ship and better for the environment, the milk is fresher when it arrives in stores, and it costs less.
By Ken Fisher | Published: October 14, 2007 – 11:38PM CT
Over the weekend, a small storm erupted over new legal language that Verizon Wireless is passing quietly on to its subscribers. It appears as though the cellular provider is changing its terms of service to give the company the right to share sensitive calling data with third parties.
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At issue is so-called Customer Proprietary Network Information (CPNI) data. While CPNI data does not include explicit information identifying your name and address or your phone number, it does include data on the calls you make and receive, and the services that you may make use of. This includes information about the features of your phone and its capabilities. The data could easily be mined to see what kinds of businesses you call and how often.
Verizon Wireless has been contacting its customers via snail mail to inform them of their intent to share CPNI data with its “affiliates, agents and parent companies (including Vodafone) and their subsidiaries.” The company says that customers who do not want their CPNI data shared need to call 1-800-333-9956 to “opt-out.” Upon dialing the opt-out number, Verizon customers will be prompted for their phone number, billing ZIP code, and last four digits of their Social Security Numbers (in the case of businesses, their Employer ID numbers). Failure to opt-out will be interpreted by Verizon Wireless as “consent” to the company’s data-sharing practices.
Although the Federal Communications Commission has said that it is very concerned about the protection of CPNI data, and is exploring the possibility of strengthening its rules on the issue, Verizon’s opt-out notice appears to fulfill the Commission’s CPNI disclosure requirements.
The Skydeck company blog was the first to suggest that what Verizon wants to do here is use CPNI data to offer targeted advertising. For its part, Verizon Wireless only says that it hope to improve its “services,” but give no concrete examples of what such improvements would look like. Without a doubt, the notice given by the company is extremely vague. Skydeck has a scanned PDF copy available for your perusal.
Verizon Wireless may just be a first mover among other telcos. The race is on in the telecom industry to tap the well of advertising for mobile services, and this opt-out approach is guaranteed to give Verizon a lot of CPNI data to share, an undeniable treasure trove of information for marketers. We don’t envision Verizon selling this data to third parties, using it instead to build its own analytic advertising system to capitalize on the targeting in-house. The company isn’t likely to broadcast such plans until they are very close to fruition, however.
We will update this story when we hear back from Verizon about this new policy. In the meantime, if you’re a VZW customer and don’t want your CPNI data shared, you know the number to call.
NEW YORK (Reuters) – A New Yorker dubbed “Subway Superman” received the city’s highest civic award on Thursday after pinning down a stricken stranger on subway tracks just enough to allow an oncoming train to run over the top of them.
Wesley Autrey, 50, jumped onto the subway tracks at a station in Manhattan’s Harlem neighborhood on Tuesday to help Cameron Hollopeter, who had suffered a seizure and fallen.
Autrey held down Hollopeter’s convulsing body in the track bed as the train passed just centimeters above them. Both were uninjured, but Hollopeter, 20, remains in hospital undergoing tests to discover what caused his seizure.
Autrey, whose knitted cap was brushed with grease and dirt from the train passing overhead, played down his daring act as he accepted the Bronze Medallion — for exceptional citizenship and outstanding achievement — from Mayor Michael Bloomberg.
“You see somebody in distress, you help out,” Autrey told a news conference, as he was flanked by his 4- and 6-year-old daughters, who had watched their father jump onto the subway tracks. “I was just in the right place at the right time.”
While Bloomberg called Autrey a “true hero” and the New York Post newspaper dubbed him the “Subway Superman,” the construction worker — who went to work as normal after the incident — said the real heroes were U.S. troops in Iraq.
Along with the civic award, Autrey was also given a year’s worth of free rides on New York’s subway and buses, then met with real-estate mogul Donald Trump, who gave him a $10,000 check, along with two other checks from undisclosed donors.
The Walt Disney Co. gave Autrey and his family a one-week fully paid trip to the Disney World theme park in Orlando, Fla, and tickets to the Broadway smash hit musical “The Lion King.”
The New York Film Academy, where Hollopeter studies, said it had given Autrey $5,000 and offered scholarships to his daughters, while The New York Daily News reported Autrey had been offered a television show apartment make-over.
Autrey — whose boss didn’t believe his excuse for being late to work until he saw on the Internet what Autrey had done — is also scheduled to appear on both “The Late Show With David Letterman” and “The Ellen DeGeneres Show.”
“Good things happen when you do good,” Autrey said. “What better way to start a new year than saving a life?”
Autrey said he has visited Hollopeter in hospital and met the young man’s father.
Previous recipients of New York’s Bronze Medallion include civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr. The last recipient was Housing Authority employee Felix Vasquez, who caught a baby thrown from a New York City burning building in 2005.
Wannabe rapper has to beg club not to cancel his concert
By Jeannette Walls
MSNBC
Updated: 1:35 a.m. CT Nov 7, 2006
K-Fed’s New York City gig at Webster Hall wasn’t cancelled as some predicted — but it reportedly took some big-time begging on his part.
“They were going to cancel this concert, but he begged them to keep it on,” a Webster Hall bartender told Star. “He had to fight with them to keep this concert.” Only 300 people showed up at the club that holds 1,500.
K-Fed was scheduled to go on at 7 pm, but the crowd was so sparse that the aspiring rapper waited for three hours in hopes that more fans would appear.
J5- I kinda feel bad for this guy. His wife, (Britney Spears), divorces him and lets him know by text messaging him, and his career which he never had is going down the shitter. I’m sorry Fed. I hope life gets better for you.
CHICAGO, Illinois (AP) — Oprah Winfrey has famously given members of her audience new cars, paid off their debts and fulfilled their wildest dreams. Now she’s given them what she calls the “gift of giving back.”
On a show that aired Monday, Winfrey gave more than 300 audience members $1,000 debit cards sponsored by the Bank of America to donate to a charitable cause.
Winfrey called the show her “favorite giveaway ever.”
“I can honestly say that every gift I’ve ever given has brought at least as much happiness to me as it has to the person I’ve given it to,” the 52-year-old talk-show host said. “That’s the feeling I want to pass on to you.”
People can give the entire sum to one person — relatives aren’t eligible — or they can split it among charitable causes. Audience members also received a DVD recorder to tape their stories for a future show.
“You’re going to open your hearts, you’re going to be really creative, and you’re going to spend it all at once on one stranger or spend a dollar on every person,” Winfrey said. “Imagine the love and kindness you can spread with $1,000.”
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