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Amber's Amazing Animal Balloons is a business by Amber Liggett of Beaver County. Her balloons have delighted residents throughout Beaver and Allegheny Counties, and across the country! She is a 15-year-old who has had her own business since she was 9-years-old. CLICK THIS LINK TO SEE AMBER'S SEGMENT OF BIZKID$!!!

According to the testimony of three officers, high ranking officials in the NYPD regularly used the n-word to address suspects, and instructed officers to treat black people like animals and 'shoot to kill' if necessary. How do we protect our communities from police departments that treat us like animals?

Success does not happen overnight. It takes hard work, perseverance and continual self-improvement. Every highly successful entrepreneur has a great story to tell. Often times, you'll be amazed by what most of them have gone through before becoming famous entrepreneurs. They may be ordinary people but they do not have ordinary minds.

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Twitter is the great equalizer. It doesn't matter if you have 100 followers or 10,000, you can break news. That's because all tweets are recorded and indexed at search.twitter.com. If someone types the right keyword(s), they can find your tweet.

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Airdate: Wed, Jan 18, 2012 UTC Call in number to speak with the host Join Columbia Journalism School (@ColumbiaJourn) in the latest of its timely, useful webcasts about technology and media. We'll discuss the implications of the U.S. Congressional bills known as SOPA (Stop Online Piracy Act) and PIPA (Protect IP Act), which have attracted tremendous attention in the last few days.

Thirty years ago, in the dead of night, a group of six Parisian teenagers pulled off what would prove to be a fateful theft. They met up at a small café near the Eiffel Tower to review their plans-again-before heading out into the dark.

Heart & Soul, an 18-year old wellness magazine historically serving African-American women, has been sold by independent owner Edwin V. Avent to a group of investors known as Brown Curry Detry Taylor & Associates, LLC (BCDT) who plan to expand the magazine's focus to include "all women of color," including Latina and Asian populations.

Nate Dogg: Regulatin' A tip of the MarketBeat cap to Nathaniel Dwayne Hale, A.K.A. Nate Dogg. The smooth-as-hell West Coast R&B singer has died too young at the age 41. Closely affiliated with West Coast hip-hop legends Snoop Dogg and Dr. Dre, Hale's silky vocals had the unique ability to sound simultaneously melodious and physically menacing.

Don Cornelius, the creator and longtime host of the groundbreaking music show ‘Soul Train,' has died. He was 75. According to the New York Times, the police responded to reports of gunshots at Cornelius's Sherman Oaks home. They found Cornelius with a gunshot wound to the head that appeared to be self-inflicted, according to the Los Angeles County coroner.

Floyd Mayweather Jr. has taken his quest for a fight with Manny Pacquiao to Twitter. The unbeaten Mayweather publicly challenged and taunted the Filipino superstar on Tuesday, daring Pacquiao to meet him May 5 in Las Vegas. "Manny Pacquiao I'm calling you out let's fight May 5th and give the world what they want to see," Mayweather tweeted.