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Focus on the most realistic chance to make the most money at all times.
Jay-Z has amassed a fortune of $450 million by living this philosophy, from dealing drugs as an adolescent to selling records, clothes, liquor and more as an adult.
Attach yourself to other successful brands.
One of Jay-Z's best-known boasts is that he "made the Yankee cap more famous than a Yankee can." Whether or not you agree with that statement, Jay-Z has certainly added to his victorious aura by associating himself with the Yankees, Michael Jordan, Warren Buffett and others.
Keep business and pleasure separate.
Jay-Z rarely speaks about his wife Beyonce, and it seems to have done wonders--many years into their relationship, they're far from being tabloid regulars like other celebrity couples. But that doesn't mean there's not a lot to say.
Don't give free advertising to other brands unless there's a good reason.
In the late 1990s Jay-Z mentioned Iceberg clothing in a few of his songs and sales spiked. When he tried to parlay that into an endorsement deal, the company declined--so Jay-Z started his own, and called it Rocawear. Since then, he's been paid to endorse GM, Hewlett-Packard, Budweiser and others, and the only free advertising via references in his songs is for brands like Maybach.
Never publicize anything less than a victory.
Jay-Z doesn't talk much about his deals that fell apart or his products that flopped--his Armadale vodka and the Las Vegas location of his 40/40 Club. As a result, he's able to maintain a victorious image.
Don't split profits with others if you can avoid it.
Jay-Z famously parted ways with former business partners Damon Dash in 2004--partially because of different management styles, partially because his name sold products, not Dash's.
Cross-promote your products at all times.
Jay-Z never misses a chance to use one item's buzz to promote another. He's used his songs to advertise his Rocawear clothing line, S. Carter sneakers and 40/40 night club--and some products you might not even know he owns.
Attack any threat to your business, but don't take it too far.
Jay-Z has always been aggressive in protecting his business interests, and sometimes to a fault. In 1999 he was arrested for allegedly stabbing record producer Lance Rivera for bootlegging his album.
Ask lots of questions, never stop learning.
One of the things reiterated by most people who've worked with Jay-Z--be they lawyers, record label executives or other musicians--is that they can't help but notice his thirst for knowledge. He constantly absorbs information from people, books and situations, adding to his base like a hermit crab.
Don't get stuck in conventional ways of thinking.
Rather than extend his record deal with Def Jam and parent company Universal (CEO Doug Morris pictured here), in 2008 Jay-Z inked a 10-year, $150 million deal with Live Nation that encompassed touring, recording, and a bevy of other businesses. The agreement was as ambitious as it was unorthodox.
The Maryland Senate approved a bill Wednesday that would dramatically increase the state’s requirements for renewable energy, even as the measure faces uncertain odds in the House of Delegates.
The Clean Energy Jobs Act would require 50 percent of the state’s electricity to come from renewable sources such as wind and solar by 2030.
The bill passed by the Senate also disqualifies trash incineration from receiving subsidies for renewable energy. That component of the bill targets facilities such as Baltimore’s Wheelabrator incinerator, which is the city’s largest single source of industrial air pollution.
The current goal in Maryland law is 25 percent renewable energy by 2020.
And while the Senate voted 33-13 for the renewable energy bill, the House of Delegates has not moved forward on its version of the bill.
The House Economic Matters Committee took a vote last week to defeat the bill, but fell two votes short. There also were not enough votes to support the bill, so the committee has kept the bill on hold.
Advocates hope the Senate’s move will give the measure momentum that could carry over into the House.
The Chesapeake Climate Action Network and other advocates are planning a news conference Thursday morning to continue to press their case that lawmakers should pass the bill.
A trash incinerator in Southwest Baltimore is the city’s largest single source of air pollution. But a state law has nonetheless allowed it to collect roughly $10 million in subsidies over the past six years through a program intended to promote green energy.
NEW YORK (AP) — The U.N. Security Council was headed Friday toward a vote — and a likely U.S. veto — on a resolution that asks the secretary-general to propose ways to ensure “international protection” for Palestinian civilians.
The council set an afternoon meeting on the Arab-backed resolution after weeks of urgent discussions about the escalation of violence in Gaza in the last two months.
U.S. Ambassador Nikki Haley vowed Thursday to veto Kuwait’s resolution as drafted. She called it “grossly one-sided and morally bankrupt” for not mentioning Hamas, the militant group that controls Gaza.
A council diplomat tells The Associated Press the U.S. also has proposed extensive amendments that would condemn Hamas? for its role in the recent violence. The diplomat spoke on condition of anonymity because the discussions were private.
It’s not clear whether the amendments have the votes to pass.
The Security Council has been deeply divided and paralyzed over dealing with the decades-old Israeli-Palestinian conflict and the burst of violence in Gaza.
In two months of mass protests at the Gaza border, some 110 Palestinians were killed and thousands wounded by Israeli military fire. Israel said its troops were defending its border and accused Hamas of trying to attack under the cover of the protest.
Hamas and a smaller Islamic militant group bombarded southern Israel with rockets and mortars Tuesday, and Israel responded by striking targets throughout Gaza. Hamas said Wednesday it had agreed to a cease-fire with Israel.
It asks U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres for a written report within 60 days on ways to ensure “the safety, protection and well-being of the Palestinian civilian population under Israeli occupation,” including recommendations about “an international protection mechanism.” The measure also urges humanitarian access and seeks “tangible steps” toward reconciliation between different Palestinian factions.
Israeli Ambassador Danny Danon called the draft biased and “not worthy of consideration by the Security Council.” Neither Israel nor the Palestinians are members of the council.
At Kuwait’s request, the council has held multiple emergency meetings on the border clashes. The U.S. called an emergency session Wednesday on the barrage of rockets and mortars the day prior.
Senate Finance Committee Chairman Orrin Hatch (R-Utah) said Congress must pass trade promotion authority (TPA) before the Obama administration completes work on a massive Asia-Pacific trade agreement.
"Doing so may lead to doubt as to whether the U.S. could have gotten a better agreement, ultimately eroding support for TPP and jeopardizing its prospects for passage in Congress,” he said.
U.S. Trade Representative Michael Froman Michael B.G. FromanUS trade rep spent nearly M to furnish offices: report Overnight Finance: Trump hits China on currency manipulation, countering Treasury | Trump taps two for Fed board | Tax deadline revives fight over GOP overhaul | Justices set to hear online sales tax case Froman joins Mastercard to oversee global business expansion MORE, who testified before House and Senate committees said negotiations are nearly done on the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP).
Meanwhile, Froman said the 12-nation TPP is inching closer to the finish line, and the time frame for completing TPP is “a small number of months."
"We are not done yet but I feel confident that we are making good progress and we can close out a positive package soon," Froman told Senate Finance lawmakers.
He told lawmakers that trade promotion authority, also known as fast-track, would apply a broad framework for the White House to negotiate trade agreements, including the TPP and the deal between the European Union and the United States.
Froman argued that fast-track, which allows trade deals to go through Congress unamended, also gives Congress a bigger stake in the discussions and their ability to steer the contents of agreements.
Trade supporters have argued that the 11 other nations negotiating TPP won't put forward their best offers without the assurance that Congress won’t change the agreement.
But House Ways and Means Committee ranking member Sander Levin (D-Mich.) said the focus should remain on the TPP and Congress shouldn’t give up its leverage on fast-track until lawmakers are “fully confident that USTR is on a clear path toward effectively meeting” trade goals.
Congress needs a fully active role to get TPP right, he said.
The Tuesday hearings covered a broad range of issues from agriculture market access to currency manipulation concerns.
While Froman said that the Obama administration is very concerned about currency manipulation, he deferred to Treasury Secretary Jack Lew Jacob (Jack) Joseph LewOvernight Finance: US reaches deal with ZTE | Lawmakers look to block it | Trump blasts Macron, Trudeau ahead of G-7 | Mexico files WTO complaint Obama-era Treasury secretary: Tax law will make bipartisan deficit-reduction talks harder GOP Senate report says Obama officials gave Iran access to US financial system MORE, whose agency handles the issue.
Sen. Charles Schumer, (D-N.Y.) said he was disappointed to learn that currency provisions won't be part of the TPP and that means he most likely won't support the agreement under those circumstances.
Sen. Debbie Stabenow (D-Mich.), who along with Levin is considering standalone currency legislation, said dealing with currency values "is an absolutely critical issue in terms of making sure that American workers, American people are getting a good deal of trade agreement."
Republican Sen. Rob Portman (Ohio), a former U.S. Trade representative, told Froman that while he understands that currency is a Treasury issue, the issue is about intervention and there is broad Democratic and Republican concern about the issue that he says affects the so-called level playing field for the United States with all of its trading partners.
"I hope you will put time and effort into it," he said.
When I was a child, trust was a rather straightforward concept. It had to do with telling the truth. If someone lied to me, that meant that they couldn’t be trusted. But it didn’t mean they couldn’t be a friend, it just meant that I couldn’t believe some of the things they said.
Of course, there was another area of trust involved: there was tattling, when a child betrayed your trust by informing on you to your parent, teacher or other adult in authority. This was more troubling, because it went beyond merely unreliable information: it meant that it wasn’t safe to play with them.
The concept of trust become broader as I learned more about life. There were betrayals, misrepresentations and outright thefts.
When I moved to the city from the country, I discovered that people weren’t always what they seemed, and that nice person I invited into my home left with my father’s good camera. That was a pretty serious breach of trust.
Put this way, the first thing that I realized is that trust isn’t just based on the actions of another person; it is derived from your own perspective.
The terms in this definition are subjective: the same actions could produce different levels of trust in different people if their opinions about caring, competence or trust differ from each other.
Caring, for example, is a devilishly difficult thing to nail down. How do we know how much someone else cares about us? We could base it on specific actions, but where do we get the criteria for evaluating those actions?
The same could be said of competence or commitment — they tend to be derived from one’s internal set of beliefs and assumptions rather than any objective criteria.
The biggest revelation in this definition is that trust is inherently and inescapable relational. If we don’t share our thoughts and feelings with each other, the degree of trust in our lives will tend to come in the form of automatic, knee-jerk activation of our pre-existing biases, for good or ill.
Very few of us are scoundrels undeserving of any trust, but there are many of us who apply the broad brush of distrust to people who don’t deserve it.
A careful cultivation of relationships includes learning what another person has to offer and then sharing what we need when we need it.
As the song, “Lean on Me,” says, “For no one can fill those of your needs you don’t let show.” Cultivating trust requires good faith on all sides, including a willingness to share one’s vulnerabilities as much as one’s judgments, and a willingness to forgive at least as strong as the urge to convict.
It could well be that our ability to achieve a climate of trust is more in our hands than we sometimes imagine.
Nearly two dozen Marine helicopters – including new four-bladed UH-1Y “Yankee” Hueys and AH-1Z “Zulu” helicopters – took to the air over north San Diego County on May 4, flying in a chevron formation above Interstate 5 as they flew between Camp Pendleton, Calif., and Miramar Marine Corps Base in San Diego. Check out a video and report by the local CBS affiliate here.
It was a sight that, in the pre-9/11 world, would have drawn numerous complaints of vibrating walls and interrupted conversations from residents in the hilly communities along the freeway. Still, a few complainers aired their gripes at several online forums.
It’s not an every-day occurrence. The training squadron at Camp Pendleton’s air station, home to the Corps’ West Coast “skid row,” organized the three-hour midday flight to give aircrews experience in larger flight formations, much more than helo pilots in typical two- or four-plane sections would normally do. “Most of it was a flight designed to showcase what we do here,” Maj. Rodney Dean, a pilot with Marine Light Attack Training Squadron 303, told KFMB-TV.
Check out a few photos here taken before the formation left Miramar to return home. If you can’t get enough, there’s another video view here from the local NBC affiliate.
Motorola appears ready to do more development on top of Android, with its acquisition of 280 North, a company that develops web applications.
The deal happened "earlier this summer," according to Motorola, and was first reported on Wednesday by Techcrunch. Motorola did not disclose the purchase price.
280 North is best known for its 280 Slides application and for Cappuccino, an open source application framework. Users of 280 Slides can build presentations in their browsers, easily finding media online to add to their presentations and pulling in PowerPoint documents.
Cappuccino includes tools that let users develop rich web applications.
Motorola is interested in using 280 North's technology and expertise to develop Android applications.
"The transaction provides Motorola with specialized web-app engineering talent and technology that will help facilitate the continued expansion of Motorola's application ecosystem," Tama McWhinney, a Motorola spokeswoman, said in a statement. "We believe 280 North will be instrumental in helping us continue to foster the Android ecosystem with innovative web-based technologies and applications."
Motorola has bet big on Android. In order to differentiate itself from other manufacturers using the OS, it built MotoBlur, a user interface that combines information from social networking sites including Facebook and Twitter. But Motorola recently said that while it will continue to load MotoBlur on future phones, it would stop advertising and promoting the MotoBlur brand.
The acquisition comes as Motorola continues to prepare to spin off its handset business. The company first started talking about the spin-off in 2008 and has shelved the idea since. It now hopes to separate the business early next year.
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Just when we thought Queen Letizia of Spain couldn't get any more stylish, the beautiful monarch wears one of the world's most glamorous tiaras: Queen Maria Christina’s Cartier Loop Tiara. The royal wore the incredible headpiece at the Royal Gala Dinner in honour of Chinese president Xi Jinping and his wife Peng Liyuan at Madrid's Royal Palace on Wednesday evening. Doesn't she look stunning? Letizia glows in the intricate jewelled tiara, made from diamonds and pearls set in platinum. The tiara reminds us a little of the late Princess Diana's Lover's Knot Tiara, gifted to the Duchess of Cambridge.
Savvy moviegoers know that the early part of the year is when big studios turn much of the country's movie theaters into a dump; it's the big-studio equivalent of early spring cleaning or, if you're feeling less charitable because life can seem particularly short when the movies are so bad, throwing out the trash. This week's contribution to our national slag heap and an early candidate for worst film of the year is "Freedomland," an inept, lethally dull drama directed by Joe Roth and written by Richard Price, based on his novel, about a white child who may have gone missing in a New Jersey public housing complex, where the residents are all black.
Samuel L. Jackson plays Lorenzo Council, a detective on the job in the projects when the call comes in. Along with his partner, Boyle (William Forsythe, always a sight for sore eyes), Lorenzo helps keep the peace in a tough neighborhood, where the white working-class town next door seems to pose as much of a threat as the usual social ills, if not more. Neither apparent saint nor evident sinner, Lorenzo soon proves himself a thoroughly lousy cop after he takes charge of a witness, Brenda Martin (Julianne Moore). Having wandered into a hospital at night, her hands slicked with blood, Brenda initially tells a story about being carjacked in the projects by a black man. Then she adds an explosive detail: her 4-year-old, Cody (Marlon Sherman), was asleep in the back seat.
Boom! Lorenzo starts bellowing at Brenda and flailing for his asthma inhaler as the camera starts flopping around like a newly hooked trout. As inexplicable as it is inappropriate, Mr. Jackson's eardrum-rattling delivery can't help but bring to mind Dave Chappelle's lethally funny sendup of the actor's performance style in a phony beer commercial on "Chappelle's Show." In that bit, the comic plays Mr. Jackson dressed in old-fashioned garb à la Samuel Adams and madly engaged, at full roar, with getting restaurant patrons to drink his beer. "Can you stop yelling at me, please?" one customer pleads. "No, I can't stop yelling," the imitation Mr. Jackson replies between expletives. "Cause that's how I talk! You ain't never seen my movies?" Apparently, Mr. Roth has.
Mr. Jackson is certainly capable of doing better, as is Ms. Moore, who here delivers one of the few authentically awful performances of her career. Wildly miscast as a grammatically challenged former drug addict, the actress wanders through much of the movie in a blanked-out daze, pausing only to deliver a morsel of exposition and, in one scene, a soliloquy in which she explains how she ain't done nothing right in her life but had this kid.
It's no wonder that Mr. Price, who shows up for a brief cameo, looks embarrassed. There's more, including a severe-looking Edie Falco as part of a missing-child organization, some implausible dramatic turns and a handful of fine actors -- including Aunjanue Ellis, Anthony Mackie and Clarke Peters -- who all deserve permanent deliverance from the Hollywood ghetto.
"Freedomland" is rated R (Under 17 requires accompanying parent or adult guardian). There is a fair amount of profanity and some violence.
Directed by Joe Roth; written by Richard Price, based on his novel; director of photography, Anastas Michos; edited by Nick Moore; music by James Newton Howard; production designer, David Wasco; produced by Scott Rudin; released by Columbia Pictures. Running time: 113 minutes.
WITH: Samuel L. Jackson (Lorenzo Council), Julianne Moore (Brenda Martin), Edie Falco (Karen Collucci), Ron Eldard (Danny Martin), William Forsythe (Boyle), Aunjanue Ellis (Felicia), Anthony Mackie (Billy Williams), Marlon Sherman (Cody) and Clarke Peters (the Reverend Longway).
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SHANNON, Miss. — Deep in the mountains of Afghanistan, Jamie Locastro heard the sharp patter of bullets raining above him in the Korengal Valley.
A month earlier, Jamie trained with his 120-man brigade, getting used to the humidity and 120-degree weather. He joined the infantry to be like his father, Tommy.