Billionaires: The Next Generation
by Andrew Farrell
Friday, August 15, 2008
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When Michael Birch met an American brunette named Xochi at a college bar in London, he wasn't just meeting his future wife. It was also the beginning of a beautiful business.
Earlier this year the couple sold their social-networking site, Bebo, to AOL for $850 million. Their cut: about $600 million. An impressive haul for anybody, but especially for Michael and Xochi, who are just 38 and 36.
More from Forbes.com:
• In Pictures: Next-Gen Billionaires
• In Pictures: The Youngest Billionaires
• In Pictures: The World’s Youngest Women Billionaires
The world's current crop of billionaires has plenty of money but not much youth. The average age of the 1,125 people on Forbes' list of the world's wealthiest is 61. It's impossible to predict exactly who will replace them, but don't bet against people like the Birches.
Read the rest of the article: http://finance.yahoo.com/career-work/article/105575/Billionaires-The-Next-Generation
Wednesday, August 20, 2008
Saturday, August 02, 2008
It's Time to Take a Stand
Many people know that I used to be an education...a high school Biology teacher for 8 years. I became a teacher because I wanted to help children, to give them vision for their future. I quickly found out that the United States education system is in no way, shape or form about giving children vision for their future. The school I taught at in Arizona was supposed to be one of the best. However, I had 30 kids to a class, no money for supplies, a rigid curriculum I had to complete (even if the kids didn't understand it) and the policies were about order and passing the mandated "No Kid Left Behind" act passed by Bush.
There were days I cried. About 10 - 20% of my students were drugged with some form of drug, mostly Ridilin which turned them into unemotional zombies. Their spirits were lost and so was mine.
There were times I complained, explaining that the kids were bored and disinterested in the curriculum. I remembered when I was in high school...full of life and energy at that age and being asked to spend 8 hours stuffing my brain with confusing information that had no real meaning or value was exhausting and sometimes made me angry. I probably would have been drugged too...
The state of our society disturbs me. In case you aren't aware, 20% of children between the ages of 0 and 18 are currently prescribed anti-anxiety, anti-depression or anti-psychotic. 20%!
THERE ARE 4 MILLION SCHOOLCHILDREN ON ADDICTIVE STIMULANT DRUGS IN THE U.S. ALONE. ANOTHER 1.5 MILLION ARE TAKING ANTIDEPRESSANTS THAT CAN DRIVE THEM TO SUICIDE, AND INCREASING ANECDOTAL EVIDENCE POINTS TO A LINK BETWEEN ANTIDEPRESSANT DRUGS AND VIOLENT BEHAVIOR AS WELL. MEANWHILE, A NATIONAL PLAN NOW IN THE OFFING WILL SCREEN ALL SCHOOLCHILDREN AND ESCALATE THIS ABUSE OF CHILDREN WHILE POSING A NEW THREAT TO SOCIETY.
Millions of children are diagnosed with ADD, ADHD and Bi-Polar Disorder using criteria such as "interrupts teacher", "cuts in line", "looks out window and daydreams during class". With this diagnose comes the drugs. It's astounding to me that our society, with all of our resources, technology and supposed wisdom is allowing this to happen. Children are dying everyday as a result of "trust in doctors" and the pharmaceutical industry. (Click here for a report). You also may not know that every child who has committed the act of violence in their school resulting in the deaths of other students has been on either anti-anxiety or anti-depression drugs. They are known to cause the side-effects of homocidal thoughts and suicide (recent legislation was passed requiring a black box label on all prescription bottles stating this).
The children are our future and it's time that we as adults take a stand for their safety, education and protect their rights by saying NO! to the pharaceutical industry, the government cronies who are paid by the pharmaceutical industry and the psychiatrists who have never helped anyone.
Educate yourself, take action, spread the word.
Most recently, I've been stunned to discover the Teen Screen Act and the Mother's Act. New Jersey recently passed an act requiring all health care providers to educate mother's and their families about Post-Partum depression and recommending therapies post birth. Yes, indeed, they are recommending drugs to mothers before they even give birth. This act even made it to the Senate with a proposal to mandate this in all 50 states, but thanks to the Citizen's Commission on Human Rights, it was not passed (but it could be re-proposed in the future).
And now there's Teen Screen, a mental-health screening being conducted in schools to screen children for mental health defects. It's being offered in 43 states and, according to their website, you can actually see how your state's "Mental Health" is. So, just how crazy is your state? Can you beleive that! Talk about perpetuating false information and propoganda! The questions used to determine if your child is sane or not,"Have you ever had a moment of intense fear.", "Have you ever been scared that someone is going to hurt you?"...the tests are so arbitrary and non-scientific. And, if your child is labelled they are labelled for life. Some states have already passed this mandatory screening into law (Indiana) and it's being proposed to become an Act mandating screening of children in all 50 states.
You'll be interested to know that the largest funders of these Acts are the pharmaceutical companies, who's future lies in pumping your kids full of drugs. Since when did daydreaming, not wanting to follow orders or not wanting to do homework make a kid bad or mentally disturbed. Haven't we all had that experience as children. Children are full of life and energy, full of creativity. Our society is turning them into drones...into drug popping, enslaved zombies. It's time to take action, to take a stand.
If you've been on my blog alot, you're probably thinking, "Holy Cow...this is so unlike Shannon...where's the positive, fun stuff?" It's right here. It's by educating ourselves that we get to be at cause. Not buying into the media BS, but really educating ourselves with truth and taking action. Being at cause brings joy, fulfillment and a bright future for all.
To educate yourself fully, go to www.cchr.org
Here's a couple of videos I suggest watching:
The Mother's Act Petition Site: http://www.thepetitionsite.com/1/stop-the-dangerous-and-invasive-mothers-act
More on Teen Screen: http://www.psychsearch.net/teenscreen.html, http://www.teenscreentruth.com/,
There were days I cried. About 10 - 20% of my students were drugged with some form of drug, mostly Ridilin which turned them into unemotional zombies. Their spirits were lost and so was mine.
There were times I complained, explaining that the kids were bored and disinterested in the curriculum. I remembered when I was in high school...full of life and energy at that age and being asked to spend 8 hours stuffing my brain with confusing information that had no real meaning or value was exhausting and sometimes made me angry. I probably would have been drugged too...
The state of our society disturbs me. In case you aren't aware, 20% of children between the ages of 0 and 18 are currently prescribed anti-anxiety, anti-depression or anti-psychotic. 20%!
THERE ARE 4 MILLION SCHOOLCHILDREN ON ADDICTIVE STIMULANT DRUGS IN THE U.S. ALONE. ANOTHER 1.5 MILLION ARE TAKING ANTIDEPRESSANTS THAT CAN DRIVE THEM TO SUICIDE, AND INCREASING ANECDOTAL EVIDENCE POINTS TO A LINK BETWEEN ANTIDEPRESSANT DRUGS AND VIOLENT BEHAVIOR AS WELL. MEANWHILE, A NATIONAL PLAN NOW IN THE OFFING WILL SCREEN ALL SCHOOLCHILDREN AND ESCALATE THIS ABUSE OF CHILDREN WHILE POSING A NEW THREAT TO SOCIETY.
Millions of children are diagnosed with ADD, ADHD and Bi-Polar Disorder using criteria such as "interrupts teacher", "cuts in line", "looks out window and daydreams during class". With this diagnose comes the drugs. It's astounding to me that our society, with all of our resources, technology and supposed wisdom is allowing this to happen. Children are dying everyday as a result of "trust in doctors" and the pharmaceutical industry. (Click here for a report). You also may not know that every child who has committed the act of violence in their school resulting in the deaths of other students has been on either anti-anxiety or anti-depression drugs. They are known to cause the side-effects of homocidal thoughts and suicide (recent legislation was passed requiring a black box label on all prescription bottles stating this).
The children are our future and it's time that we as adults take a stand for their safety, education and protect their rights by saying NO! to the pharaceutical industry, the government cronies who are paid by the pharmaceutical industry and the psychiatrists who have never helped anyone.
Educate yourself, take action, spread the word.
Most recently, I've been stunned to discover the Teen Screen Act and the Mother's Act. New Jersey recently passed an act requiring all health care providers to educate mother's and their families about Post-Partum depression and recommending therapies post birth. Yes, indeed, they are recommending drugs to mothers before they even give birth. This act even made it to the Senate with a proposal to mandate this in all 50 states, but thanks to the Citizen's Commission on Human Rights, it was not passed (but it could be re-proposed in the future).
And now there's Teen Screen, a mental-health screening being conducted in schools to screen children for mental health defects. It's being offered in 43 states and, according to their website, you can actually see how your state's "Mental Health" is. So, just how crazy is your state? Can you beleive that! Talk about perpetuating false information and propoganda! The questions used to determine if your child is sane or not,"Have you ever had a moment of intense fear.", "Have you ever been scared that someone is going to hurt you?"...the tests are so arbitrary and non-scientific. And, if your child is labelled they are labelled for life. Some states have already passed this mandatory screening into law (Indiana) and it's being proposed to become an Act mandating screening of children in all 50 states.
You'll be interested to know that the largest funders of these Acts are the pharmaceutical companies, who's future lies in pumping your kids full of drugs. Since when did daydreaming, not wanting to follow orders or not wanting to do homework make a kid bad or mentally disturbed. Haven't we all had that experience as children. Children are full of life and energy, full of creativity. Our society is turning them into drones...into drug popping, enslaved zombies. It's time to take action, to take a stand.
If you've been on my blog alot, you're probably thinking, "Holy Cow...this is so unlike Shannon...where's the positive, fun stuff?" It's right here. It's by educating ourselves that we get to be at cause. Not buying into the media BS, but really educating ourselves with truth and taking action. Being at cause brings joy, fulfillment and a bright future for all.
To educate yourself fully, go to www.cchr.org
Here's a couple of videos I suggest watching:
The Mother's Act Petition Site: http://www.thepetitionsite.com/1/stop-the-dangerous-and-invasive-mothers-act
More on Teen Screen: http://www.psychsearch.net/teenscreen.html, http://www.teenscreentruth.com/,
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