Richard attended President Obama's facebook townhall - April 20 @ 1:45pm PDT

President Obama's facebook townhall - April 20 @ 1:45pm PDT / 4:45pm EDT

Today 4:30pm at

facebook HQ & www.facebook.com/WhiteHouse or...

WHAT'S HAPPENING President Barack Obama will hold a special "Facebook Live" townhall to connect with Americans across the country. WHERE & WHEN IT'S HAPPENING Where? Well, everywhere! The event at Facebook's headquarters, with CEO Mark Zuckerberg & COO Sheryl Sandberg, will be live streamed for anyone to watch. Just come back here at the right time: Wednesday, April 20 @ 1:45pm PDT / 4:45pm EDT. Unless invited to attend in person, please do not show up at Facebook HQ. You can watch and participate via the event's live stream. WHAT IT'S ABOUT President Obama will connect with Americans across the country to discuss the tough choices we must all make in order to put our economy on a more responsible fiscal path, while still investing in areas like innovation that will help our economy grow and make America more competitive. HOW YOU CAN PARTICIPATE Facebook will be selecting questions for President Obama to answer during the event. Submit questions now by posting them right here, on this event's wall. As an alternative, you may submit a question via WhiteHouse.gov/facebooktownhall. STILL READING? Then you definitely need to make sure you're a fan of the White House on Facebook! Facebook.com/WhiteHouse

Richard Gibson wrote on President Obama's facebook townhall - April 20 @ 1:45pm PDT 

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  Instead of having high growth-industries in the urban community, other (less than desirable) industries have filled in that gap (including the drug and sex industries). For many urban youth, Sports and Rap music became the only visible alternative form of urban upward mobility. Some have argued that the Rap music industry addresses the industrial void we have in our urban communities and has provided jobs and the opportunity for solo professionals to create wealth. But what makes rap music problematic is that it is not just an industry that creates opportunity; it’s also attached to the stigma of the “underground" economy, which “gangster” rap has been defined by. Youth are constantly bombarded with glorified images of pimps, prostitutes, gangsters, drug dealers and career criminals.

  
  
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  I have taken an honest look at the lack of high profile positive urban role models, explored the existing joblessness, the high crime-rate, the appalling educational system, lack of parenting, substance abuse, hunger and poverty which are the ingredients that lead to crime, drug dealing, violence, death and costly prison terms. All of which take time, talent and money away from real proactive solutions.

  
  
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  I am Richard Gibson the architect behind Urban Success (US) Collaborative. The US Collab is designed to significantly broaden the involvement of major corporations, foundations, interns and volunteers. The result will be social marketing campaigns and social benefit enterprises that are in support of education, career awareness, career training and employment opportunities.
  
  US collab and 21st FLEET Interns, will serve as a SELF-Advocacy initiative to enhance teaching and learning through the purposeful use of new social network services, multimedia and technology. The US collaborative will provide the necessary resources for a range of efforts for building digital and physical media content, from building basic websites to developing advanced projects that utilize the power of multimedia in the context of carefully designed teaching and learning modalities

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  The Urban Success (US) Initiative will use Edutainment to effectively impact lasting educational reform, while establishing more creative and positive messages in the various genres of music by which teens are influenced. Our vision is to transform their perspectives about themselves, education, their community and their roles in society through technology. We are making education cool and engaging!

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Greetings Family, Friends and Followers:

I created a splash page on @aboutdotme – Please, check it out! 

http://about.me/richardgibson

For the past several months I have been heavy into the development of WhosWhoSocial.com and Worldhits.org. I am nearing the completion of the last few DEMO modules and will enter into Beta testing within the next couple of weeks. 

As many of you already know, I have always been a dedicated supporter of education and career development services for our urban youth. I believe WhoswhoSocial.com will feed the passions of  today's urban youth, which is social networking, music and entertainment. Through WhosWhoSocial.com we will nurture the entrepreneurial spirit and create a culture of "Urban Success" as well as provide an outlet for distribution and promotion of Music, Film/Video, and much more. Allowing the user/our members to associate themselves with the widely known celebrities we will cover on a monthly basis. We will even provide opportunity and teach solo professionals how to leverage the social media to create a WORLD fan base and how to capitalize on followers financially. Users will even have access to create their own store on Worldhits.org allowing them to sell or trade items with a percentage of the money they make going to help provide technology in schools and in after school programs. Our sites will truly cater to the aspiring entertainment solo professionals and new entertainment media entrepreneurs.

This is just an overview of what is possible with a music based talent directory and student driven social network site. My vision for this site is for improving the education and economic development opportunities of urban youth and young professionals on a large scale world-wide.  Ibelieve if we can put money in students and artists pockets legitimately they'll find their way to live a legitimate life. For this reason I think we will be in the running for becoming one of the fastest growing social network websites for 2011. That is one of my short term goals.

We are connecting the dots between urban development and corporate workforce development. By using new social media responsibly, we will set new trends that make it cool to be educated, employed and/or self-employed. We must emphasize that education and/or the skills trades are a viable alternative to “underground economics” and a life wasted behind bars.

The desired outcome from our social network community building is that young people and adults will become better informed in order to make better choices, become more socially engaged and aware of a wide range of realistic pathways to upward mobility and wealth. 

On behalf of undeserved Urban Youth and their families worldwide we are seeking advisory board members, letters of support and partners to expand the scope of the social network services into an online virtual career development system.

On my new About.ME splash page I have links to my blogs, Linkedin, Facebook, Twitter and Flickr. Also, I have included a new interview on YouTube for your review. Please take a look at what we have done so far.  Worldhits.org  is still under development but a lot of the Key Features work even now.

When you visit our soon to be launched Beta test site (WorldHits.Org). Check out our innovative Drop Down Menu, the Demo Social/Community section, The Hitsworks Business Incubator, Virtual Auditions in the Hits-Lab chat room, Read the WHO Blog, You can LIKE us in our Bottom Tool Bar and much more. You can read the positive comments on WhosWhoSocial.net and Please, follow us on Twitter and Facebook.       

When you go to http://about.me/richardgibson, you will notice at the bottom a group of Social Network icons and links to my interview that is posted on Youtube. There is also a link to 21st FLEET's Ning site. When you click on the Facebook icon located on the Splash page a window will pop up. At the top you will see  words such as Twitter, Blogger etc. that will navigate you to more information that will appear within the pop up window.http://about.me/richardgibson

Sly & the Family Stone's success

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F2K4WVITaQM 

Along with James Brown and Parliament-Funkadelic, Sly & the Family Stone were pioneers of late 1960s and early '70s funk. Their fusion of R&B rhythms, infectious melodies, and psychedelia created a new pop/soul/rock hybrid the impact of which has proven lasting and widespread. Motown producer Norman Whitfield, for example, patterned the label's forays into harder-driving, socially relevant material (such as The Temptations' "Runaway Child" and "Ball of Confusion") based on their sound. The pioneering precedent of Stone's racial, sexual, and stylistic mix, had a major influence in the 1980s on artists such as Prince and Rick James. Legions of artists from the 1990s forward — including Public Enemy, Fatboy Slim, Beck and many others — mined Stone’s seminal back catalog for hook-laden samples.

After a mildly received debut album, A Whole New Thing (1967), Sly & The Family Stone had their first hit single with "Dance to the Music", which was later included on analbum of the same name. Although their third album, Life (also 1968), also suffered from low sales, their fourth album, Stand! (1969), became a runaway success, selling over three million copies and spawning a number one hit single, "Everyday People". By the summer of 1969, Sly & The Family Stone were one of the biggest names in music, releasing three more top five singles, "Hot Fun in the Summertime" and "Thank You (Falettinme Be Mice Elf Agin)" / "Everybody is a Star", before the end of the year, and appearing at Woodstock.

1969 Lamborghini Miura

Miles Davis is said to have driven his Miura around with a .357 Magnum stashed under the seat and enjoyed outrunning police cars while terrified passengers like Jimi Hendrix held on for dear life. He crashed the car in 1972, breaking both ankles in the process, and immediately ordered another. http://www.jaylenosgarage.com/video/1967-lamborghini-miura-p400/207082

The world's most famous and stylish musicians owned one

Between 1966 and 1972, Lamborghini built what has come to be known as the "Holy Grail" of its many famous sportscars: the legendary Miura. Named after a Spanish ranch famed for its ferocious bulls, the Miura's (pronounced me-you-rra) flamboyance and engineering astounded the public when it was unveiled at the Turin Motor Show in 1965. It quickly became the supercar of choice for the coolest of the cool and richest of the rich - members of royal families and two of the world's most famous and stylish musicians owned one, for starters.

Miles Davis is said to have driven his Miura around with a .357 Magnum stashed under the seat and enjoyed outrunning police cars while terrified passengers like Jimi Hendrix held on for dear life. He crashed the car in 1972, breaking both ankles in the process, and immediately ordered another. Frank Sinatra arrived at the Lamborghini factory outside carrying a roll of specially tanned wild boar skin with which he instructed the workmen to upholster the interior. He chose orange metallic paint for the exterior and matching shag carpet within.
http://www.jaylenosgarage.com/video/1967-lamborghini-miura-p400/207082