Guess What? Playing With Your Kids Can Help Your Job Performance

http://mybrownbaby.com/2012/01/guess-what-playing-with-your-kids-can-help-your-job-performance/

By NICK CHILES

Sometimes science can deliver tasty little morsels of good news. Here’s the latest one I heard: playing with your kids can actually reduce your stress at work. Talk about your great two-for-one deals. Come on, that’s like saying that eating more chocolate cake can help you lose weight. That having more sex can make your marriage better. (Oh, wait, that one is true, isn’t it?)

When you’re a busy, overstressed parent, it seems like you spend half your time fussing with your kids, and the other half telling them you don’t have the time to do… whatever it is they are trying to get you to do at the moment. Kids being kids, their request usually has something to do with play. And according to a study of stress by scientists at the LIKES Foundation for Sport and Health Sciences in Finland, we should start agreeing to their play requests if we know what’s good for us. Participants in the study who engaged in more leisure-time physical activity showed lower amounts of job stress. How cool is that—the more we play, the less stress we exhibit on the job.

Winston Warrior – Keep Movin’

NICKI MINAJ covers JUICY Magazine

JUICY magazine’s March/April 2012 cover girl and Grammy-nominated recording artist, Nicki Minaj returns and not just to hip-hop, she’s ready for Hollywood with a role in ICE AGE 4 plus OPI and MAC deals. Not to mention, her wig stylist, the fabulous Terrance Davidson ranks his TOP SIX creations for Nick Majesty exclusively for JUICY

 

JUICY magazine, the one-stop destination for all things: Celebrity Life, Hair & Beauty, check out these great reads this March/April 2012.

X-Ecutioners vs. Da Beatminerz Showcase

The X-Ecutioners vs. Da Beatminerz

Two Iconic and Influential Hip Hop Crews Join Forces for a Memorable Showcase

 

January 31, 2012- New York, NY:  The X-Ecutioners and Beatminerz have announced that they are partnering for a once in a lifetime showcase.  The event will highlight the key members in each legendary crew, and will even feature a few very special guest MCs doing short, but memorable cameos. 

 

The upcoming showcase, which will take place at New York City’s Highline Ballroom on Sunday, February 12^th, 2012, will be a unique celebration dedicated to two of New York City’s groundbreaking Hip Hop collectives; The X-Ecutioners for their innovative, trailblazing turntablism and Da Beatminerz for their production of some of the greatest songs and albums in Hip Hop history.

    

Olivia- “Walk Away”

Quintescence- Let me

PS..Dot – Read A Book

Los Talks “The Crown Aint Safe” – Hip Hop Shop

JAMIESON – I Came, I Saw Vol.3 (Part 1)

Joshua Gunn – The Making of Believe

Apollo Announces Black History Month Schedule

Apollo Theater Celebrates Black History Month with Wide-Ranging Programs in February 2012

 

Apollo Amateur Night 2012 Season Opens with

“Dream” Guest Star Jennifer Holliday

 

      New Interactive Amateur Night Digital to Launch Introducing The Remix Round

Apollo Open House Weekend with Community Sing Event Led by 10-time Grammy Winners Take 6

 

Apollo Music Café Series Returns with Intimate Concerts

by Innovative Emerging Artists

 

Bill Ortiz “Winter In America” Featuring Tony Lindsey and The Grouch

Jewels f/ Logic Wise – I Mean Business

The 5W’s – Paris Toon (of Mothers Favorite Child)

Who: Paris Toon

What: Soul Jazz Producer/ Songwriter

Why: Paris Toon is the Billboard Award-winning lyricist and musical enigma behind Brooklyn born Jazz Soul band Mother’s Favorite Child. He is an extraordinary (soon to be published) poet, composer and producer who never seems to stray for a moment from his forward driven vision of success in the music worldWhere: Based in Arizona

When: Born in Brooklyn 2000

Angelina Jolie & Brad Pitt Don’t Let Their Kids Google Them—And For Good Reason

http://mybrownbaby.com/2012/01/angelina-jolie-brad-pitt-dont-let-their-kids-google-them-and-for-good-reason/

Let Google tell it and Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt are great parents or absolutely suck as a mom and dad to their six kids, are homewreckers or genuinely fell in love while Brad was married to Jennifer Aniston, and are awesome at fundraising for great causes or total publicity whores who give money for attention. Whatever the gossip wags say about the international superstars, their kids will never figure it out from reading blogs and gossip sites, because Jolie and Pitt don’t let their kids Google them. Ever.

Pitt told Germany’s Bild newspaper that he and longtime companion Jolie have  blocked their names on the computers of kids, Maddox, 10, Pax, 8, Zahara, 7, Shiloh, 5, Knox and Vivienne, 3, so their international crew adoptees don’t have access to the crazy things people say about their parents. “They can’t Google their mom and dad. I don’t want to make myself dependent on what other people think.” Pitt added that he and Jolie ignore the chatter, too. “We don’t even notice all the noise,” he said.

Busta Rhymes “Why Stop Now ft. Chris Brown”

Musik Junkies TV W/ David E Beats

Woman Gets 8 Years Prison for Saying Black Men Kidnapped Her

http://yourblackworld.net/2012/01/uncategorized/woman-8-years-prison-black-men-kidnapped/

by Dr. Boyce Watkins, Your Black World

You may remember Bonnie Sweeten out of Philadelphia from about a year ago.  Sweeten is the woman who made a fake call to police from the trunk of a Cadillac, claiming that she’d been kidnapped along with her daughter.  The truth?  They’d actually taken a trip to Disneyland.

A judge put an end to Sweeten’s antics, at least for a while.  She has been sentenced to 100 months in federal prison, equivalent to eight years, four months.   U.S. District Judge William H. Yohn Jr. made things very clear for Sweeten.

“You’ve done great wrong, and you have to pay the price,” Yohn said. Yohn called Sweeten a “master con woman,” and guessed that she’d committed 2,000 acts of fraud over a five year period.

Blacastan f/Emilio Lopez, OuterSpace & V-Zilla “Sand Storms”

Fokis f/Sadat X “#Justsayin”

BUSTA RHYMES & CHRIS BROWN BEHIND THE SCENES PART 2 – “WHY STOP NOW”

DJ Absolut Ft Ace Hood, Pusha T & French Montana ” Untouchable “

KRUSH – PRINCE AK ft. DRIFT, MIDDY, FAM FAMIL, DOITALL

Smif-N-Wessun- Wontime

Beanie Sigel, Young Corona, Shyst, Hugg E. Bear- “Stand Up”

Papoose – I’m Like That

JOHN LEGEND ft LUDACRIS – TONIGHT

In Process: “Why Stop Now ft. Chris Brown” Music Video

Maino- “I Still Love You”

MGK Joins Record-Setting Tech N9ne ’2012 Hostile Takeover Tour’ – Lace Up Debut Album Coming Soon!

EST 19XX/BAD BOY/INTERSCOPE RECORDING ARTIST MGK ON RECORD-SETTING 2012 HOSTILE TAKEOVER TOUR MTV’s 2011 HOTTEST BREAK-THROUGH MC SETS OUT   CROSS-COUNTRY FOR 90 SHOWS IN 99 DAYS!