A witness described seeing the suspect in a string of shooting attacks in Santa Monica, California on Friday that left six people dead before police killed the suspect at a local college. “He actually kind of glanced up at me, and then he saw two cars pull up to the corner” Jerry Cunningham-Rathner…
Tea party firebrand Michele Bachmann to quit House next year (+video) (via The Christian Science Monitor)
Copyright ImageClick to View Rep. Michele Bachmann (R) of Minnesota speaks at the 40th annual Conservative Political Action Conference in National Harbor, Md., March 16. Bachmann said Wednesday, that she will not run for re-election in 2014.(Carolyn Kaster/AP) One of the tea party’s most controversial…
Soldier places a small American flag before each grave marker in advance of Memorial Day at Arlington National Cemetery in Virginia. (McClatchy-Tribune / May 23, 2013)
On this Memorial Day we should pay tribute to all our veterans who served and in some cases, sacrificed their lives in the many wars, past and present, so we would have peace and freedom. The day has become a national observance, which originated at the close of the Civil War. Soon the graves of our…
In light of the major social and economic issues around the world, the EOTM Awards has established new accolades to recognize entrepreneurs, helping to ensure they are working with more of tomorrow’s global leaders, today.
A colorful tribute in the spirit of entrepreneurship, the EOTM’s are set to honor entrepreneurs of all genres.
Below are some of the awards that will be handed out on ENTREPRENEURS BIGGEST NIGHT, which goes down on Sunday, August 4, 2013 at the beautiful Pacific Design Center in West Hollywood, California. Seating is limited, purchase your tickets today.
Below are a few of the new EOTM Award Categories celebrating entrepreneurship.
Social Entrepreneur Honors – Shining light on entrepreneurs that wholeheartedly explore the root causes of pressing problems affecting individuals, communities, and nations, and developing models for sustainable solutions.
These remarkable human beings act as the change agents for society, seizing opportunities others miss in order to improve systems, invent and disseminate new approaches and advance sustainable solutions that create social value.
EOTM’s Company of the Year – Company must have a fully marketable product or service and a high degree of market acceptance. Companies in this category must also have revenues in excess of $5 Million and if not profitable, are generating cash flow and are financially self-sustaining.
Lifetime Achievement Award in Entrepreneurship – The Lifetime Achievement in Entrepreneurship recognizes entrepreneurial excellence as reflected in the individual’s success in business and significant impact on their given industry. Nominees must have had a long career of entrepreneurial achievements that place them in the top echelon of their peers.
To nominate a worthy entrepreneur please visit www.eotmawards.com.
About the EOTM Awards
The EOTM Awards is an accolade presented by the EOTM Radio & TV Network celebrating entrepreneurial achievements and performances in business, philanthropy and the arts (recordings, television, radio, and literature, film, directing and writing). The EOTM Awards Show will also present “Christopher Kennedy Lawford” to key individuals and organizations that promote human rights and social justice.
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FILE - In this Oct. 1, 2012 file photo, Tumblr founder David Karp participates in the "Bloomberg Leadership Summit" seminar in New York. In a deal announced Monday, May 20, 2013, Yahoo is buying New York-based Tumblr, the online blogging forum, for $1.1 billion. About $275 million will go to Karp, 26, who dropped out of high school to concentrate on computer programming and started Tumblr six years ago. (AP Photo/Charles Sykes/Invision for Advertising Week)
Video News by NewsLook Yahoo’s purchase of Tumblr has put a focus on the New York Tech scene. Commissioner of Media Katherine Oliver highlights the reasons the city is drawing tech start-ups.
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A woman carries her child through a field near the collapsed Plaza Towers Elementary School in Moore, Okla., on Monday A tornado as much as a mile wide with winds up to 200 mph roared through the Oklahoma City suburbs flattening entire neighborhoods, setting buildings on fire and landing a direct blow on an elementary school. Photo credit: Sue Ogrocki/AP
Twenty children were among at least 91 people killed when a powerful tornado swept through an Oklahoma City suburb, tearing down blocks of homes and two schools, local officials said. The state medical examiner’s office released the latest death toll but the number was climbing rapidly, as emergency…
Justice Thomas: Black communities in decline (via The Gainesville Sun)
Pittsburgh Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas says he is heartbroken over the poverty and social troubles among many black communities but has no answers on how to solve these problems. Thomas spoke last Tuesday at Duquesne Law School in Pittsburgh. He said he doesn’t bear any ill-will toward others…
Amanda Bynes Poses in a Busty Lacy Bra Snap (via NewsLook)
Video News by NewsLook Amanda Bynes has shared snaps of herself wearing lacy lingerie after reports claimed she has demanded and been given full access to her millions.
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Amanda Knox may return to Italy for a murder retrial, she said as she launched a memoir about her nightmare, including frank details about sex, drugs and her harrowing time behind bars. In interviews to promote the book — which also recounts how she considered suicide in jail — she said she hoped…
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President Barack Obama declared Friday night that the capture of a second suspect in the Boston Marathon bombings “closed an important chapter in this tragedy.” But he acknowledged that many unanswered questions remain about the motivations of the two men accused of perpetrating the attacks that unnerved…
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Boston Police say a 19-year-old college student wanted in the Boston Marathon bombings is in custody after a manhunt that left the city virtually paralyzed and his older brother and accomplice dead. Police announced via Twitter that Dzhokhar Tsarnaev (JOH’-kahr tsahr-NY’-ev) was in custody. His brother…
A Boston Marathon runner leaves the course crying following Monday's bombings ---- Photograph by Winslow Townson, AP
Three people are reported dead and at least 23 injured following explosions at the Boston Marathon finish line at 2:50 p.m. Monday afternoon, according to CNN. A critical care doctor at Tufts Medical Center and an official with the marathon, Dr. Richard Caprari said he believes 30-50 people were injured…
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On April 2nd actor/entrepreneur Wesley Snipes was released from a federal prison and transferred to the New York Community Corrections Office where he will be confined to house arrest until July 19th. TMZ was the first to break the story.
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In 2006 Snipes was convicted on three misdemeanor counts of failing to file tax returns in 2008 and began serving his sentence in 2010.
The Vampire Slayer belonged to a group that challenged the government’s right to collect taxes. Prosecutors argued he failed to file returns for at least a decade and owed over 17 million dollars in back taxes.
While some celebrities engage in various attempts to avoid paying taxes, from filing false returns to hiding money overseas, regardless of the method or fame of the individual, the government can force those guilty of tax fraud to pay back taxes and penalties, and serve time in confinement—a costly lesson for an avoidable mistake.
Other celebrities that paid royally to Uncle Sam
1. Martha Stewart: Stewart was forced to pay $220,000 in back taxes and penalties to the State of New York.
2. Ja Rule: Multi-platinum selling rap artist Ja Rule failed to pay taxes on more than $3 million that he earned between 2004 and 2006 while living in Saddle River, NJ. He pleaded guilty to three counts of unfiled taxes, admitting he hadn’t filed for five years, according to U.S. Attorney Paul Fishman. The rapper was sentenced to two years in prison. The hip hop star told a federal judge that he had received bad financial advice and had trouble coping with fame.
3. Lauryn Hill: Next up is hip hop icon Lauryn Hill who just happens to reside in the Garden State of New Jersey. In 2012 the grammy-winning singer pleaded guilty in federal court, to three counts of failing to file federal income tax returns. Hill pleaded guilty to failing to file federal returns between 2005 and 2007, despite earning an income of more than $1.8 million. Each count carries a maximum penalty of one year in prison and a $100,000 fine.
4. Willie Nelson: After seizing most of his assets in 1990, the federal government forced Willie to pay over $16 million in back taxes and fines for his involvement with a bogus tax shelter.
5. Nicolas Cage: According to the IRS, in 2009 Cage owed approximately $6 million in back taxes. The actor accused his ex-manager and accountant of making poor investment choices.
6. Marc Anthony: In 2007, the IRS served Anthony with $2.5 million in back tax bills. Then in 2010, he received two additional bills totaling over $3 million for unpaid taxes on real estate. Marc Anthony also blamed management.
7. Heidi Fleiss: Known as “The Hollywood Madam,” Fleiss ran a prostitution ring during the early 1990s. Although she never named names, her business attracted clients who were well-known and well-off. Ultimately, she was arrested in June 1993. Fleiss was convicted of federal tax evasion charges, which carried a seven-year prison sentence.
8. Pete Rose: Rose made his name with the Cincinnati Reds, first as a player and later as a manager. Despite his many on-field accomplishments the Baseball icon was caught gambling on games, including those played by his own team. He was sentenced to five months in prison and fined $50,000 for tax evasion, according to The Associated Press.
9. Martha Stewart: The savvy business woman accumulated a $220,000 tax debt for not paying taxes on her East Hampton, New York, home, which she claimed she spent very little time at and therefore thought she didn’t need to pay taxes on. She was sentenced to five months in prison and five months of home confinement. Stewart was also fined $30,000.
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It was 45 years ago today that civil rights leader Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. was killed by an assassin’s bullet in Memphis. Below is an excerpt MLK’s last speech, he was assassinated in Memphis, Tennessee the next day on April 4, 1968.
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MLK was an American clergyman, activist, and leader in the African-American Civil Rights Movement. He is best known for his role in the advancement of civil rights using nonviolent civil disobedience. King has become a national icon in the history of American progressivism.
On October 14, 1964, King received the Nobel Peace Prize for combating racial inequality through nonviolence. In 1965, he and the SCLC helped to organize the Selma to Montgomery marches and the following year, he took the movement north to Chicago. In the final years of his life, King expanded his focus to include poverty and the Vietnam War, alienating many of his liberal allies with a 1967 speech titled “Beyond Vietnam”. King was planning a national occupation of Washington, D.C., called the Poor People’s Campaign. King was assassinated on April 4, 1968, in Memphis, Tennessee. His death was followed by riots in many U.S. cities. Allegations that James Earl Ray, the man convicted of killing King, had been framed or acted in concert with government agents persisted for decades after the shooting, and the jury of a 1999 civil trial found Loyd Jowers to be complicit in a conspiracy against King.
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‘I’ve Been To The Mountain Top.”
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North Korea on Saturday declared it was in a “state of war” with South Korea and warned Seoul and Washington that any provocation would swiftly escalate into an all-out nuclear conflict. The United States said it took the announcement “seriously”, but noted it followed a familiar pattern, while South…
August 4th marks the 2013 EOTM Awards, a high profile celebrity studded red carpet and awards show to be held in Los Angeles, California. An accolade presented by the EOTM Radio & TV Network celebrating entrepreneurial achievements and performances in business, philanthropy and the arts.
The event is more than just a awards show, its a Hollywood Awards Show REMIX honoring entrepreneurs of all walks.
Check out the website here, some of your most favorite celebs have already confirmed. Its a great place to be — and you too can have the opportunity to be there! Why? Because EOTM Media is giving away 2 free tickets to the EOTM Awards!
To win the tickets you have to FOLLOW @eotmawards and retweet the following tweet:
You have the chance to win the tickets until Monday April 1st @ 12 noon pacific time. @EOTMAwards will announce the winner the same day via Twitter.
The rules are simple:
We pick a retweet of anybody following @EOTMAwards. So if you are not following that account be sure to do so, you can’t win if you don’t. And off course retweet!
Travel expenses are NOT included, you are winning 2 standard seating tickets.
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This Week on The Kick It Spot: via EOTMRadio.com
So put your life on cruise control as the always fascinating, always exciting and always interesting radio show “The Kick it Spot” entertains you once again. On Thursday, March 21, your host, Teangelo, discusses the hottest celebrity news, gossip, and what’s trending. His latest adventure will surely intrigue and excite you.
Relationship topic of the week: There will be F-ing involved, so F nicely. Part II
Fans of “The Young and the Restless” get ready and enjoy radio show “The Kick it Spot” this week as your host, Teangelo, interviews the legendary Jeanne Cooper and talks about her recent book release “Not Young; Still Restless.” For 40 years she has played the fabulously, wealthy Katherine Chancellor on the Emmy Award winning daytime soap opera “The Young and the Restless”. Cooper will be discussing her memoir, sharing intimate details about the show and her personal life. Join us as Teangelo asks the questions you want to know and gets the inside story as only he can. If Cooper is truly still “Restless” Teangelo will find out why.
“The Kick it Spot” airs this Thursday, March 21, @ 8pm PST. Be sure to tune in as we talk about love, Hollywood happenings, and whatever else comes to Teangelo’s mind.
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