What Bhutto's Assassination means in Dollars and cents. . .

-Stocks Fall After Bhutto Assassination-

"NEW YORK (AP) -- Stocks fell in Thursday after the assassination of Pakistani opposition leader Benazir Bhutto and after the Commerce Department reported a weak increase in durable goods orders. The Dow Jones industrial average fell more than 100 points.

Bhutto's assassination raised the possibility of increasing political unrest abroad, always an unsettling prospect for investors. Oil and gold prices rose following the news."

News has an impact on everything.

Bhutto Assassinated in Attack on Rally

NEWS MATTERS. Terrible deal for her, her family and for her country. It takes a strong individual to go out and followthrough with their movement when they know the dangers involved.

"The attacker struck just minutes after Bhutto addressed thousands of supporters in the garrison city of Rawalpindi, 8 miles south of Islamabad. She was shot in the neck and chest by the attacker, who then blew himself up, said Rehman Malik, Bhutto's security adviser."-ABC News

"Ms. Bhutto’s death is the latest blow to Pakistan’s treacherous political situation, and leaves her party leaderless in the short term and unable to effectively compete in hotly contested parliamentary elections that are two weeks away, according to Hasan Askari Rizvi, a leading Pakistani political and military analyst.

The assassination also adds to the enormous pressure on the Bush administration over Pakistan, which has sunk billions in aid into the country without accomplishing its main goals of finding the Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden or ending the activities of Islamic militants and the Taliban in border areas with Afghanistan.

Ms. Bhutto, 54, returned to Pakistan this year at a time of great volatility in a state that has been under military rule for eight years. She was the leader of the country’s largest opposition political party, founded by her father, Zulfikar Ali Bhutto, one of Pakistan’s most flamboyant and democratically inclined prime ministers."-NY Times

Time

Time is flying wow. . . . I haven't posted in over a month! Insane. . . All I can say is "Pledging". LOL. The year is about to be over. . . What can you say about the year you have had? Did you grow any from December 26, 2006 to now? What have you experienced? Hmm. . .

DAFT PUNK ALIVE 2007!!!!!

Daft Punk ALIVE 2007 is out now!! WHOOO!!! If you can’t wait to pick up a hard copy from a store click on that good ol’ iTunes store and make it happen. Daft Punk is phenomenal and their show is phenomenal. One of theeee best I have ever seen in my life and I’ve seen a pretty substantial amount everything from Jay Z to N Sync when they were in their prime lol.

If you don’t believe me watch a little bit of this:

The writer-entrepreneur

The future of writing in entertainment. . . interesting article in thee LA Times.

"Visiting a UCLA film class the other night, I was asked to name the most influential filmmakers of our era. The choices were pretty obvious: Steven Spielberg, Peter Jackson, John Lasseter, George Lucas. . . . As the names spilled out, I realized they all have something in common. They're filmmaker-entrepreneurs, artists-turned-businessmen who helped start their own companies to further their work, became financially independent and created a world that operates under a radically different set of rules from the vacuous studio assembly lines. It's telling that the current strike is about new media yet both sides seem to be following old-school models.

"The world is about to change," Frank says. "Anyone with an Apple computer can make a movie now -- it's never been a more democratic medium. The studios should be very afraid. Once the independent financiers start going directly to writers, things could change really fast. I ask myself every week -- why aren't we all working with them? Look at the movies they've made. They are the new Medicis."- LA Times

RIP Dr. West

Very tough deal for Kanye. I’ve been talking about this with different people since it happened. Anytime you lose someone who is close to you its tough, but especially when it is the person who gave you life it has a horrific effect. Something that I never wish upon anyone. May she rest in peace and may Kanye take the time he needs to get to a point where he can live sanely with it. When stuff like this happens you never fully “recover” you just learn to live with it.

Blows me a way that my father’s fire station went on the call. Hits way too close to home. I hope that we all give extra thanks for the people we have in our life and continue to live everyday like it’s your last and take nothing for granted.

Trillions: PetroChina shoots past trillion-dollar mark

Why make Billions when we could make . . . . . . . . . . . .TRILLIONS *lol in my best Dr. Evil voice.*

Ladies and Gentlemen economic history (Invest with Caution).

[SHANGHAI -- PetroChina Co. became the world's first company valued at more than a trillion dollars Monday, catapulting over U.S. energy titan Exxon Mobil Corp. as eager Chinese got their first shot at investing in the oil giant when its stock began trading on the Shanghai exchange.

Billionaire investor Warren Buffett, chairman of Berkshire Hathaway Inc., sold his entire stake in PetroChina in mid-October. He has urged investors to be cautious about Chinese stocks.

More than 200,000 people have died and millions have been displaced in the Darfur conflict, which pits rebels against militias known as janjaweed, backed by the government. Buffett and other high-profile investors have been pressed by activists to divest themselves of PetroChina shares.]- LA TIMES

"Hovi's Home!"

If you happen to live under a rock and you happen to have your laptop with you under this rock where you then proceed to check out my blog then you may be hearing this for thee first time, Thee new Jay Z album is sick! Well played Trebek with all thee 70s samples! Gotta love it. If your like me it makes me scroll through my ipod to thee “C” section for some old school Curtis Mayfield. So mandatory!

LeBeast James

Whether you are a current athlete, an ex-athlete who dreads thinking about squats or suicides or a girlfriend who watches Sunday football with your boyfriend for extra brownie points, you gotta respect how thee grind to become a superior athlete, correlates to every facet of success in any shape or form.

Very Dope Article Excerpts:

[The average 22-year-old male is, as we speak, staring out the front window of his fraternity house, a beer buzz in his ears, wishing he could stay for 3 more years. But what of the achievers? The thousands of motivated 22-year-olds out there applying to med schools, eyeing MBAs, or maybe busting ass in a meaningful (low-pay) internship? All of those talented, brass-ring-grabbing men have much to be proud of and yet still have to polish up résumés with nothing on them but test scores and student-government presidencies.

We're not saying LeBron James is remarkable for his "God-given talent," as he calls it. Many men are blessed with professional-grade abilities. We're saying that to take what he's been given and invest it in something greater, to operate at an elevated level among his peers, and to do so in the face of world-class pressure and media expectations before he could even take a legal drink, is remarkable. And it's worth further study.

"I grew up and had a sense of direction because I made my mind up early," says James. He describes this fast maturity as a two-stage event. The first came on the court in eighth grade: his virgin dunk. "Every year at our middle school we had a teachers-versus-the-basketball-team game," he says. "I'd never tried one before. I just went up there and got one down. Bam! Everybody went crazy."


"Commitment," he says. "Commitment is a big part of what I am and what I believe. How committed are you to winning? How committed are you to being a good friend? To being trustworthy? To being successful? How committed are you to being a good father, a good teammate, a good role model? There's that moment every morning when you look in the mirror: Are you committed, or are you not?"]- MENS HEALTH

GOOGLE Phone

Everyone who knows me, knows that I am abnormally obsessed with Google, they think that I work for them and solicit their products. *Disclaimer* I do not work for Google although thatd be rad because they have an amazing work enviroment, I just think that thee creative genius behind the execution of amazing and efficient tools is phenomenal. Their long awaited phone shall be interesting to see. Cheers to thee Techies of the world.

Out of my entire Biography DVD collection The One on Larry Page and Sergey Brin is clearly my favorite!!! So Sick how they Created Google basically from LEGO’S and sheer GENIUS! Anything is possible!!

Interesting Fact for my fellow Mathematics Nerds who already know this.

GOOGLE: "googol a unit of quantity equal to 10^100 (1 followed by 100 zeroes). The googol was invented by the American mathematician Edward Kasner (1878-1955) in 1938. According to the story, Kasner asked his nephew Milton Sirotta, who was then 8 years old, what name he would give to a really large number, and "googol" was Milton's response. Kasner also defined the googolplex, equal to 10^googol, that is, 1 followed by a googol of
zeroes. These inventions caught the public's fancy and are often mentioned in discussions of very large numbers." aka HIGHEST NUMBER IN THEE WORLD



“SAN FRANCISCO, Nov. 5 — Google took its long-awaited plunge into the wireless world today, announcing that it is leading a broad industry alliance to transform mobile phones into powerful mobile computers that could accelerate the convergence of computing and communications.

Mobile phones based on Google’s software are not expected to be available until the second half of next year. They will be manufactured by a variety of handset companies, including HTC, LG, Motorola and Samsung and be available in the United States through T-Mobile and Sprint.”

"American Gangster"

Of course everyone was obsessed with thee opening of American Gangster this weekend –Over 46 Million Opening Weekend-. An “action packed” movie, with any film that trys to depict non fiction in a fiction form never does it fully justice. Peep thee real article from the words of the real man that’s this movie briefly portrays: Frank Lucas. *Never am I promoting crime at all* Simply insight to the real story.



["Who'd think I'd be in a shit $300 car like that?" asks Lucas, who claims he'd clear up to $1 million a day selling dope on 116th Street.

Indeed, few passersby might guess that Lucas, at least according to his own exceedingly ad hoc records, once had "something like $52 million," most of it in Cayman Islands banks. Added to this is "maybe 1,000 keys of dope on hand" with a potential profit of no less than $300,000 per kilo. Also in his portfolio were office buildings in Detroit, apartments in Los Angeles and Miami, "and a mess of Puerto Rico." There was also "Frank Lucas's Paradise Valley," a several-thousand-acre spread back in North Carolina on which ranged 300 head of Black Angus cows, including a "big-balled" breeding bull worth $125,000.] –NY MAG 2000

Grind

Sorry for thee massive delays. Its been a tad bit busy in thee life of Billions. We are back live. I wont neglect you like this ever again!

J. Torre + Dodgers = Glory

"At 67, Joe Torre is beginning a new chapter as manager of the Dodgers. Renowned nationally, celebrated for leading the New York Yankees to four World Series titles and 12 straight postseason appearances, he is a long way from a formative period when a baseball life may have represented a refuge from the tension of a Brooklyn home in which his father, an NYPD detective, dealt physical and verbal abuse on his family."-LA Times

My grandfather must be doing flips in his grave! Whoooooooo!!!! Ehhhh Dodgers!! Ill be there as usual with my peanuts and ranch sunflower seeds.

Who Moved My Cheese?

Perfect Easy read. I read it often to stay aware and conscious of change in my life. Perfect timing. Finish out the year strong and prepare to conquer the next!

You can find used copies at Amazon.com for around 72 cents. You probably spend more than that on your morning cup of coffee, or maybe those new heels you just bought, maybe on those new kicks, maybe more on that new shirt you "needed because it wouldnt be there if you waited another day", maybe more than you spent on eating lunch out when you could have planned properly ahead of time and taken with you, or maybe on more than that magazine you bought because someone who is "cool" was on the cover. . . . Just a thought or 2.

Not too shabby to invest in yourself. . .

FIREs in SoCal

Stay unscathed and Stay on top of thee news. May thee GLORY be with you!

http://earth.google.com/

AMY + London + Live = Goosebumps

Overly dope!!!


Directions: Click on your iTunes, type in "A-m-y [Space Here] W-i-n-e-h-o-u-s-e" and Click "Buy Album" use $7.92 to purchase "iTunes Festival London- Amy Winehouse (Live)"

Its a little collection of glory I like to refer to as Cochlea Crack [Trademark here]. Do your ears thee favor. . . . they deserve it.

R.I.P. Muhammad A. Nassardeen

"Muhammad A. Nassardeen, an entrepreneur who encouraged African Americans and others to patronize African American-owned businesses and promoted the practice as a much-needed strategy for revitalizing the community and addressing problems such as unemployment, has died. He was 54.

Nassardeen, the founder of Recycling Black Dollars, died Thursday after suffering a heart attack in his Inglewood office, said Daniella Masterson, a family spokeswoman."- LA Times

RIP Mr. Nassardeen. Unreal. You will be remembered for all of your glory. Life is short! Live it to thee fullest and be remembered for something that was positive.

RIP Jim Michaels

"When Jim Michaels took the helm of Forbes in 1961--he had joined the company in 1954--he brilliantly turned what was then a second-rate publication into not only the leader of the business category but also one of the best magazines both here and around the world. He virtually created modern business journalism. He saw Forbes as the "drama critic" of business. Under his stewardship, Forbes became the definitive source of who was doing well, and who wasn't, and why. Michaels died Oct. 3 at age 86." - FORBES

I cant even imagine what I would do without my FORBES! Scary thought.

FINFO

FINFO [It’s Your Money]

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Mandatory! check it out, they have some amazing tools that would otherwise cost you thousands of dollars. I highly encourage you to use this amazing resource to thee absolute fullest.

Shouts out to Inman. Job Well done bro.

"I am one with my BlackBerry."

So my Friend calls me . . . . and I don’t answer because I’m in thee middle of a very important GTalk convo via My CraccBerry as I’m driving which is always safe ::LOL::. (I recommend NEVER doing this) and I immediately receive this message “Dude answer your phone”. At that point I call back and she tells me about this hilarious article that is clearly the story of my life and it’s comforting to know that I’m not the only one who experiences chronic “ringxiety”. Some of my pals have recently converted over to thee dark side, ::Evil Laugh::; CloudHopper, Jess, Tav. . . too many to name. Welcome again. Thanks Kristin for suggesting this winner. I included a tiny taste of thee Glory below. Reading thee entire article is mandatory. Proceed accordingly and Enjoy. If your like me everything they say your response should most likely be “DUHH!!”.


* IS THAT YOUR MOBILE OR JUST FEELING THE VIBE? *- LA TIMES

[If your hipbone is connected to your BlackBerry or your thighbone is connected to your cellphone, those vibrations you're feeling in the car, in your pajamas, in the shower, may be coming from your head bone.

"Some people have biological clocks, I might have a biological BlackBerry."

Anecdotal evidence suggests that "people feel the phone is part of them" and that "they're not whole" without their phones, said B.J. Fogg, director of research and design at Stanford University's Persuasive Technology Lab.

"I'll feel it, look at it. It's not vibrating. Then it starts vibrating," he said. "I am one with my BlackBerry."]