Chuck Taylor (and Other Sneaker Names) Revealed

Some sneaker names are obvious—Air Jordan, anyone? But Mental Floss uncovered the origins of some popular brand names that are a bit more mysterious:

Converse Chuck Taylor All Star: A former high school basketball star, Chuck Taylor joined the Converse team in 1921 and helped launch the shoe to stardom.
Puma Clyde: The nickname of Walt Frazier, the Knicks player who asked Puma to design a wider basketball shoe.
Keds: Originally planned to be named “Peds” after the Latin word for feet, but someone else owned the rights to that name.
Reebok: Named after the rhebok, a fast African antelope.
Adidas: Does not stand for All Day I Dream About Soccer—it’s named for its owner Adi Dassler.
ASICS: An acronym for a Latin phrase meaning, “A healthy soul in a healthy body.”

It Isn't Too Good To Be True

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When good arrives in a big way, we sometimes say "This Is Too Good To Be True". To decipher the difference between a huge Blessing and a con, we have to be aligned with Divine Mind (GOD). By being aligned with Divine Mind, we can feel our good before it show's up. By feeling, we have already placed our order with the Universe (Divine Mind). Meditation, prayer and faith keeps us aligned. When our good manifests it's because we are in direct alignment with Divine Energy (GOD) . Let's not miss out on what we asked or prayed for. Affirm with power, THIS ISN'T TOO GOOD TO BE TRUE, THIS IS SUPPOSED TO HAPPEN FOR ME.

We get what we really want!
Have A Wonderful Life!

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Soccer, Come on Down: Carey Says You're Gonna Win

When he’s not giving away cars and vacuum cleaners to giddy contestants on The Price is Right, Drew Carey is busy revolutionizing sports. The 51-year-old comedian is a co-owner of the Seattle Sounders, arguably Major League Soccer’s most popular club. And his plan, which he puts into action in sports bars and executive meetings, is to boost soccer's profile by letting fans take charge, the Los Angeles Times reports.

One expert warns that letting fans elect the team president and vote on the GM's fate could be ruinous, but Carey, an ex-Marine, says he likes "the idea of this being a movement.” Watching fans cheer amidst showers of green and blue confetti, he marvels: “This is what American soccer can be.

This Guy Will Be Selling You Stuff Very Soon

Outside the realm of the NBA, Dwight Howard is hardly a household name. Just you wait, reports Advertising Age. The 23-year-old star of the Orlando Magic seems to have it all—youth, charisma, eccentricity, character—and advertisers are taking notice. Howard has a ton of endorsement deals already, most notably with Adidas, but he's largely been relegated to supporting roles in ads. Industry insiders think that's about to change.

"We're seeing that transformation now," says a marketer. "He's established himself as a dominant force." Nearly 9 million viewers tuned in to watch Orlando crush LeBron James' championship dreams, and Howard's jersey sales bumped up to No. 6 from 10 in the regular season. As the 7-footer faces the Lakers later tonight, advertisers will be tuning in along with hoops fans.

Black Eyed Peas' The E.N.D. Pure, Shameless, Awesome

The Black Eyed Peas' new album, The E.N.D., isn’t of much consequence, but that’s just as well. Reviewers generally appreciate the party-hardy attitude.

“Ever true to their defining characteristic, the Peas have no shame,” Ann Powers writes in the Los Angeles Times. “Fergie puts on ill-fitting dreadlocks for the faux-Jamaican Electric City and goes hilariously punk in Now Generation, a rant about social media that sounds something like Bob Dylan's Subterranean Homesick Blues rewritten on a Sidekick."
“The BEPs are—to borrow from those other old-school greats, A Tribe Called Quest—'devoted to the art of moving butts,' and even if they do it with a minimum of subtlety and pacing, they still do it pretty well,” Leah Greenblatt writes in Entertainment Weekly. “When the group's glitchy future-funk beats sync up with Fergie's unabashedly feminine melodies, as on the sweetly insidious Meet Me Halfway, they find pure Top 40 nirvana.”
“The Peas hone their post-millennial party anthems to an even more piquantly peppy sheen,” Will Dukes writes in Spin. “The Peas keep it exuberantly funky. Witness the trance-y Rock Your Body, which sounds like would-be stripper music for suburban Bratz doll collectors.”

Hip-Hop Busts Out in China

You might not expect to hear freestyle rapping in Mandarin, but that sound is growing in China as youths grab hold of the outlet hip-hop offers, Time reports. “This music is free and creative. We can say what we want,” says one rapper. “There are no restrictions.” Even so, another artist points out, “the main concern is social stability. I can’t say anything that gets close to politics.”

Hip-hop is creating a common language shared by expatriates and locals, foreigners and natives. One radio show featuring up-and-coming Chinese DJs has grown to 10 million listeners and is syndicated in 85 cities, but the Chinese-American host says survival as a freestyler is still a concern among young artists: “They’ve seen people in the states get rich doing it. Nobody here’s gotten rich or famous doing it.”

BIG UP's To All My Haters!

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Haters Haters Haters. What would we do without em. Some of us love them because they motivate us to keep it cracking, others lose sleep failing to realize you can't please everybody, and there is the actual hater himself whose job is to give destructive criticism, to stop you by any means necessary.

Haters are like crabs in a barrel, when they see you trying to climb out of there comfort zone they all gang up to attack. If you persist, these crab haters do something to kill your joy and your dreams completely. Haters are here and growing everyday. You can not move forward alone. GOD has to be present for help and protection. These haters are actually breaking one of the ten commandments by killing. Most of us think about killing as taking someone's life, but that's exactly what a hater is doing - taking the life of your happiness and slitting the throat of your desires. Now remember, Desires DE........Of Sire........ The FATHER. So if a hater is trying to kill what you DE SIRE, he's spitting in GOD's face because GOD placed that DE SIRE. So haters better run for cover because GOD won't let a disrespectful person like this win over you, unless you fail to take everything to HIM.
Once you go to GOD, you got supa tight Michael Jackson & 50 cent type security.

Haters have nothing going for themselves so they can't stand to see anybody moving on up.

Be a person that gets motivated by haters, they are small obstacles that can be knocked the F*** out. Haters beware, GOD don't like ugly. If you' re messin with somebody that has the protection of GOD, you are doomed!

BIG UP To All My Haters! Shawty Lo
Hate on Me..... I'm Gonna Do Me Jill Scott

Have A Wonderful Life!

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