First lady Military kids 'the greatest' Religious Leaders Call for Ban on Chewing Tobacco in Baseball; Bishops Bet Basketball Finals Mentoring Program Focuses Role Models Boys Cabinet Minister Mandate Letters The Digital Era Richard Garriott’s Portalarium Raises Money Facebook Games Under8s are underwhelmed by role models Allwheel drive a growing preference luxury cars Mexican fans Ralph Lauren doesn't want | Sarah Ditum New millionaires hope to serve as India’s lower castes When Palin Snuck Out See Ivana Trump [Role Models] Why Chris Dodd Is Doing Everything Wrong With MPAA Young Cons Strike Again BLAKE LIVELY DETERMINED NOT TO FALL INTO FAME TRAP Brewer Kids say the wisest things Hemsworth Covers 'Men's Health' May 2011 Comment Man who flipped off troo

QUANTICO, Va., June 4 (UPI) -- First lady Michelle Obama Friday told graduates of a small Virginia military high school they are "the greatest" and are role models for all Americans. An unusually broad coalition of religious leaders teamed up this week against smokeless tobacco in Major League Baseball. They urged the players union to agree to a proposed ban on tobacco use at games. Even though chewing tobacco has been a longstanding baseball tradition, the leaders said the players have a responsibility to [...] Justen Boyd, a family advocate for Family Focus Lawndale, spends Friday afternoons, like this one on May 6, at Goldblatt Elementary in Chicago with a group of boys, talking about school, life, their neighborhood and why an education is important. With the new Parliamentary session set to kick off today with the election of a new speaker, new cabinet members are busy brushing up on the myriad of issues they will face in the coming months. The appointment to cabinet comes with a private mandate letter from the Prime Minister that sets out his expectations and policy goals. If Canadians focused on digital policies were given the chance to draft their own mandate letters, my weekly technology law column (Toronto Star version, homepage version) speculates that they might say the following: Christian Paradis, Minister of Industry: As the new Minister of Industry, it falls to you to make the digital economy strategy initiated by your predecessor Tony Clement a reality. The centrepiece of the strategy should be universal, competitively priced broadband service. With a majority government in place, we have four years to open the market to new competitors, facilitate the introduction of new wireless broadband alternatives, encourage the market to offer fibre connections in all major markets, foster new local competitors, leverage the role of high speed research and education networks, consider using spectrum auction proceeds to fund broadband initiatives, and address anti-competitive pricing models. We ... Portalarium, the social and mobile game company founded by game pioneer Richard Garriott, has raised a second round of funding. Altogether, the Austin, Texas-based startup has raised $3.6 million to date. The financing includes money from m8 Capital in the United Kingdom and Founders Fund (the investment fund which includes PayPal co-founder Peter Thiel) in San Francisco. Garriott has vowed to create the same kind of fun games on Facebook as he did at earlier stages in his career. Earlier this year, Garriott said in an interview that Portalarium is aimed at exploiting the business opportunities in the "third age of video games." For those of you who didn't grow up playing games, it may help to know that Garriott was present for the first age of video games, with the debut of great single-player games such as  Ultima, which was followed by many sequels. In 1997, under his alter ego Lord British, Garriott extended his role-playing fantasy world to the online multiplayer game Ultima Online. Garriott considers the rise of Internet-connected games to be the second age of video games. Garriott tried to exploit that age with Tabula Rasa, one of the most ambitious sci-fi online ... The idea that footballers such as Wayne Rooney and David Beckham are role models for children is a myth, according to new research. **Detroit Free Press** Monday, May 30, 2011 Ford and General Motors have turned to all-wheel drive to boost the appeal of their Lincoln and Cadillac luxury brands. Customers believe it improves performance and safety. They accept higher sticker prices and lower fuel economy to get those benefits. About 50 percent of the CTS models that Cadillac sells have AWD. "All-wheel drive will take on an even bigger role as we introduce new models," said Jim Vurpillat, Cadillac global marketing director. All-wheel drive has traditionally appealed to buyers concerned about driving in bad weather. Today, it's associated with advanced technology and overall vehicle sophistication and capability. "It gives people confidence," Vurpillat said. About 30 percent of vehicles sold in the United States will have AWD by 2015, said Paul Lacy of consultant IHS Automotive. "The trend is driven by the growth in all-wheel-drive cars and crossovers," Lacy said. Some of ... The Polo brand is popular with Mexican drug dealers. It's hard not to enjoy it when a company's exclusivity policy goes wrong Good branding is about knowing your market. Not "knowing" as in "being acquainted with", but something much more intimate. Biblical, even. A successful brand identifies its customers, understands them, and finds out exactly which emotional buttons to push in order to wring maximum profit out of those potential purchasers. That's how it's supposed to work, anyway. But sometimes, the market gets away from the marketers. Take Ralph Lauren. The company has spent nearly 50 years defining and refining preppiness. Its website is full of vomtastic talk of "American style" and "inviting people to take part in our dream"; the advertising is full of clean-cut boys starring in what could be a burlesque versions of The Great Gatsby. And then it turns out that some of the biggest fans of the label aren't gilded Wasp youths after all, but thick-set and stubbly Mexican drug dealers. In 2010, the Polo brand got some possibly-unwelcome exposure when Edgar Valdez Villareal – linked to the Beltrán-Leyva drug cartel – was arrested and presented to the press in a green ... MUMBAI — Ashok Khade heads a flourishing $32 million construction business in India's commercial capital, Mumbai. He employs 4,500 people, is building a dockyard for his company, drives a gray BMW and wants to buy a helicopter next year. This delightful nugget about an early Sarah Palin encounter with her _possible_ presidential rival's ex-wife comes from the April 3, 1993 edition of the _Anchorage Daily News_: More » We've certainly suggested that Chris Dodd was making a big mistake by focusing on the MPAA's old talking points in his new role as chief of that lobbying organization. Rather than leading Hollywood to a future of new business models and smarter embrace of what consumers want, he's kicked things off by being anti-consumer, anti-technology and a supporter of previous policies that have failed massively. It's not exactly a recipe for success. Marty Kaplan, a professor at USC, is pointing all this out in a wonderful opinion piece, explaining to Chris Dodd why he's focused on the wrong things. He uses the recent SSRC Report to explain why Dodd is barking up the wrong tree in claiming that the two things to focus on are "education" and "enforcement," a two-pronged strategy that has failed to do anything useful for the industry for over a decade: > _ The problem with this is that there's no evidence that education works. There have been hundreds of vigorous anti-piracy educational campaigns all over the world -- more than 333 in developed countries alone as of 2009 -- and they've failed. It's not that consumers don't get that media ... (John) We wrote here about Josh Riddle and Dave Rufful, two Dartmouth students who use rap to spread their message of conservatism and Christianity. Their web site is The Young Conservatives. The Cons are back with a new video that takes on the Obama/Reid/Pelosi money-hemorrhaging spending regime: The Washington Times interviewed Riddle earlier this month: > **GH: Despite continual attacks, insults, and threats against you and Dave, you continue to irk leftists and spread your message. What's the secret to staying positive as young conservatives?** > > JR: The positive is being able to look ourselves in the mirror every night knowing we don't compromise on our morals or principles. We do what we think is right and try and be good role models for younger kids interested in politics. It is important for them to know that people out there are willing to rise above the rhetoric of left v. right, talk about ideas/numbers/founding principles, and attempt to move forward to a society where freedom reigns supreme. Blake Lively is determined not to make the same "mistakes" as other young stars such as Lindsay Lohan, because she is convinced impressionable young fans need more "great role models".The Gossip Girl star, 23, is adamant she is not part of the... To all stock brokers and investment advisers: Straighten up and fly right. You're role models. Yes, you're supposed to set a best example for your clients and the SEC, but some of the wisest young minds in the world are watching you, too. Chris Hemsworth shows off his guns on the cover of Men's Health magazine's May 2011 issue. Here's what the 27-year-old Thor actor had to share: On his role models, including Anthony Hopkins: "Anthony Hopkins. His whole approach to this business, his work ethic and attitude on set was inspiring, however many films down the track he still [...] Regardless, I still donated to the ACLU to help Boor and others fight cases like this Although I don't necessarily blame individual Law Enforcement Officers for doing their jobs, I do blame the states, counties and municipalities (and their residence) who refuse to raise taxes to maintain law enforcement levels. This forces the officers into the role of "revenue collector" rather than "public protector". Most "speeders" I see pulled over are middle-class soccer moms and office workers who lose track of local speed limits due to some distraction. These folks make easy targets since they are most likely to just send in a check with their ticket (not realizing that even the reduced points are recorded on their permanent record). Police presence alone should be enough to keep the average motorist's speed in check. Instead officers are put into a position of intimidating, criminalizing and extorting the very public they are meant to protect. This sets up the us-and-them paradigm - exposing the officers to more crude gestures and discourtesey during common traffic stops. The truth is, traffic stops of the extreme speeder (30mph over the limit) is a rare occurence. The police will talk about the ... Text messages from press row … High-profile, can't-miss quarterbacks such as Troy Aikman , Peyton Manning and Sam Bradford paved the way for Andrew Luck . ... **** > **LOS ANGELES (April 27, 2011) **Lifetime Television and actress-producer- director Demi Moore have entered into a multi-project development deal that includes the pick-up of the interview series _The Conversation_, hosted by British television personality and renowned photographer Amanda de Cadenet, and the development of scripted dramas for the network. Based on de Cadenet's popular web series, the hour-long_ __Conversation_ will feature intimate interviews with high-profile celebrity role models and every day women about a wide variety of topics, including sexuality, body image, career and finances, politics, relationships and human rights, among other subject matters. Lifetime has ordered eight episodes of the series__, which will be produced by decadenet, Inc.  Moore and de Cadenet will serve as executive producers with Rob Sharenow, Gena McCarthy and David Hillman of Lifetime.  Andrew Fried (_Iconoclasts_) will co-executive produce. In addition to _The Conversation_, Moore is developing two scripted dramas for Lifetime that she will executive produce. Welterweight veteran Chris Lytle is a no nonsense fighter in the Octagon, so not surprisingly, he doesn't mince words when it comes to rising crime rates among the youth of the United States. "It's no mystery, there is no 'why is this happening... Related Breaking News Stories: 1. 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