About

Your purchase helps provide low-income schools and organizations with athletic apparel. WHAT'S YOUR PURPOSE?

Mission

ONE-P is a new and innovative sports apparel line that promotes wellness and lifelong activity by encouraging youth to get involved in sports and physical activities.

Company Overview

Roy Uy graduated from North Park University in 2009 with a degree in Physical Education and Health. After months of filling out applications and searching for job in a dismal economy, he simply could not find work as a teacher. Still wanting to educate young people in how to be active and live healthy, he had to think of another way.

While at his local gym, he noticed a wide variety of people exercising, each pursuing his or her own personal fitness goals. Seeing this sparked an idea: physical activity goes beyond teaching kids in a classroom…it’s a lifestyle. Everybody has a unique goal for their passion and achieving that goal is what creates a purpose in life.

Roy thought, "What if I created innovative sports apparel that helps people achieve their purpose of wellness and lifelong activity." And that’s when ONE-P was born.

ONE-P is about our ONE PURPOSE to promote an active and healthy lifestyle.

With every purchase, ONE-P will be able to provide low-income schools and organizations with athletic apparel; this enables consumers to become benefactors as well as role models.

Check out the video, their website and Kickstarter here: www.onepapparel.com

Kandi Burruss was born on May 17, 1976 in Atlanta, Georgia to a single mother, Joyce Jones[citation needed]. Kandi has stated she was definitely a daddy's girl before her father left the family when she was 4. Kandi was very close to her brother Patrick, who was older by 7 1/2 years and later died in a car accident when Kandi was a young teenager. Her first major appearance, on BET's Teen Summit, introduced her to the public. Kandi attended Tri- Cities High School in East Point, Georgia.

Steve Green is an extremely enthusiastic and passionate person who has a zest for life.

If anyone has met Steve, they know that his energy is contagious and will motivate you to get into action, NOW!

Steve's strengths are creating connections online and offline for his clients. He has spent years building his online communities and people are consistently sharing that they have met business connections through one of Steve's Social Media Communities.

According to TweetGrader, Steve Green is ranked in the top 16,000 out of the top 11 million Twitter personalities. Steve also has a Klout Score of 71, and a Kred Score of 910!

Twitter: 26,000+ Followers

Facebook: 4900 Friends

Foursquare: 3000+ Followers

LinkedIn: 1500+ Connections

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Google+: 500+ Circles

He has produced over 100 business and social networking events, including; Hotel Grand Openings, Luxury Rental Building Grand Openings, Earth Day Celebration Events, Live #Foodiechats, and even Green's House of Dance!

Lang was appointed to the Illinois House in 1987 by the Niles Township Democratic organization to fill the vacancy when Lang mentor Representative Alan Greiman became a judge.

In May, 2000 Lang raised money and formed an exploratory committee for a possible bid for the Democratic nomination for governor in the 2002 race.[2] By July, 2001 Lang had raised $1 million.[3] After raising $1.06 million but trailing in a field of six candidates, Lang withdrew in September, 2001,[4] and fellow Illinois House of Representatives member Rod Blagojevich eventually won the Democratic nomination and governorship in 2002.

In May, 2004, the Illinois Campaign for Political Reform, a non-partisan public interest group, analysed 13 1/2 months (January 1, 2003 – March 16, 2004) of campaign contributions to Illinois politicians from the gambling industry. Lang ranked 4th, after the Illinois House and Illinois Senate majority leaders and the Illinois Senate President, with a total of $82,084.50.

As one of the Illinois House’s strongest gambling proponents, Lang has received hundreds of campaign contributions from the gaming industry. Lang's political fund remains one of the Illinois House’s most robust with nearly $750,000 in donations and investments as of March 31, 2011. Harrah’s operating company has donated at least $35,000 to Lang between 1999 and March 31, 2011. Neil Bluhm, a developer who opened a Des Plaines, IL casino in the summer of 2011, donated at least $16,000 as of March 31, 2011.

Lang received about $92,000 from gambling interests between the start of 2010 through July, 2011, making him one of the top recipients.

In February, 2011 Citizens for Lou Lang ranked 20th with $771,477 in assets among Illinois political action committees.

In November, 2011, the Illinois Campaign for Political Reform analysed 10 months (January 2011 – October, 2011) of campaign contributions to Illinois legislators from the electric power industry, including the state-regulated electric power monopoly ComEd, its parent company Amergen, and their political action committee. Among Illinois House members, Lang ranked 3rd, after House Speaker Michael J. Madigan and House Minority Leader Tom Cross, with a total of $15,500.00

Tommy Chong is brilliant and someone I truly admire. I felt like he was my soulmate on the phone. He has so much wisdom and compassion it's pretty remarkable. On top of him being an amazing writer, comedian, actor, etc., Tommy shedded light on his journey through jail, coming up in the comedy scene, how his life is different now with prostate cancer and much more.

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Kevin Porter is a Chicago native who decided he needed a break from the winters and a change of scenery to stoke the fire. He moved out to Long Beach, CA with a couple of fellow riders to explore what the west coast had to offer. What he found was a better sense of well being and a more laid back atmosphere that he now enjoys. Kevin spends much of his time riding the local parks and street spots when he is not traveling the country doing demos, filming or competing. One thing that Kevin can't go a day without, coffee. The self proclaimed coffee connoisseur, and former coffee shop owner, has been searching the Long Beach area for the best coffee – adding a little adventure to his travels. Kevin has been working hard on tearing up the dirt competitions at the Dew Tour, and will continue fly his body and bike over big gaps with his smooth and powerful style.

Dupri got his start as a dancer for the hip hop group Whodini when he was twelve. He made an appearance in their music video for the song "Freaks Come Out At Night". In 1990, he produced his first act- the female hip hop trio Silk Tymes Leather.[4] He later formed the teen duo Kris Kross (Chris Kelly and Chris Smith) after meeting the boys at a local mall in 1991. The group's first album, Totally Krossed Out, was released in 1992 and went multi-platinum due to their singles "Jump" and "It's a Shame".

He established his own record label called So So Def Recordings in 1993. Shortly after, he discovered female R&B group Xscape at a festival in Atlanta and signed them to the label. Their first album, Hummin' Comin' at 'Cha, went platinum. During the same year, on Yo! MTV Raps he met Da Brat through Kris Kross, signed her to his label So So Def Recordings, and released her debut Funkdafied (1994) which went platinum. So So Def Recordings entered into a distribution partnership with Columbia Records in 1993. He contributed to Lil' Kim's 1996 album, Hard Core on the track "Not Tonight".

In 1998, Jermaine Dupri was involved in the release of Destiny's Child's eponymous debut album. Dupri renewed the focus on his own music career and released The Party Continues, the lead single from his debut studio album Jermaine Dupri Presents Life In 1472: The Original Soundtrack. Also that year he met Lil Bow Wow and signed him to So So Def Recordings. The two would later part ways but continued to collaborate on later projects. The deal with Columbia was terminated in 2002, and in 2003 Dupri switched to Arista Records. Jermaine worked on Mariah Carey's Christmas album, Merry Christmas II You, as well as with Weezer and Lil Wayne on the song "Can't Stop Partying." He also collaborated with DJ Chuckie to make a vocal version of the song "Let The Bass Kick".

He contributed to several of Mariah Carey's albums, most notably working with her on 2005's The Emancipation Of Mimi with the smash hit "We Belong Together". It stayed at number one for fourteen non-consecutive weeks, becoming the second longest running number one song in US chart history, behind Carey's 1996 collaboration with Boyz II Men on "One Sweet Day". He has also made a contribution to R&B singer Usher's career, producing many songs from his albums My Way, 8701 and Confessions.

Unabashed, uninhibited, irreverent, mystical and musically gifted... Those are just a few adjectives that describe rap music's newest, most fearless hip-hop lyricist, Joie 13. Purveyor of the genre of music soon to be known as Narco-Pop, Joie 13 blends narcotic lifestyle tales with popular music over hauntingly gritty and soulful tunes. The result? A peak into the world of drug crimes with the most magnetic soundtrack and passionately powerful storytelling. Joie 13's story is partially embedded in his name, which embodies a myriad of complexities akin to his own make-up. "Joie is a nickname which I changed the spelling of to reflect my daughter Zoie," Joie 13 states. "13 is my shoe size which I've always been self-conscious of since I was young. And 13 is also an infamous number. There is a lot of body geometry in the number - 13 major joints in the body for instance. And there are a lot of ways that nature is aligned using the number 13. There are 12 planets but 13 cycles in a year. It's kind of a double entendre."

Clearly, 13 serves as a numerical muse for the fashionable feather headpiece toting emcee, but what really fuels Joie 13's unique sound and provocative content is his life experience. Raised in the automobile industry town of Lansing, Michigan (also home to other greats like Malcolm X and Magic Johnson), Joie 13 is the product of a bi-racial union. His late German and Irish mother, whom he credits with teaching him self- reliability, raised him and his sister in a single parent home. "My mother used to tell me I was in the future," Joie 13 says, "I had a bad temper when I was young. I would get it into with black kids about being bi-racial and with white kids about being half-black even though I wasn't really affected by color." Joie 13 found inspiration in sports, playing soccer in a select league that traveled state to state. But that wasn't enough to keep him away from trouble. He also had a penchant for crime. "I wanted to be a spy. I was intrigued by James Bond. I was a little thief," he admits. "But I was into stealing from stores out of necessity. I didn't have money growing up. My mom worked hard to provide for us but we were poor." Thus began Joie 13's exploration and involvement into the underworld of crime and later narcotics. Stealing wore off rather quickly largely in part because that called for a certain type a person – a person Joie 13 wasn't. But drug dealing and doing presented something different. Something Joie 13 refers to as a culture and while he has paid his debt to society for the crimes he has committed, he still considers himself a part of that culture.

With this tumultuous yet gripping past, Joie 13, musically inspired by the soulful offerings of Prince, Wu-Tang Clan, E-40 and The Temptations' lead David Ruffin, crafts a hybridization of hard beats and wicked rhymes creating songs equally as alluring and provocative as his life. After moving to Washington DC, Joie 13 was finally able to pursue his musical interests. The catapult was a friend gifting him with a beat machine on Father's Day. "I had just went through something with a business partner and it made me reevaluate my life. I had also just got my daughter back in my life after two to three years. So in June I made a decision to do this music thing. I wanted to give my daughter something tangible." With that beat machine Joie 13 took his years of free styling and being a music enthusiast to the next level. And when doors, open, opportunities fly in. In October of 2012, GZA ended up at the same studio Joie 13 had been working out of. Word got to Joie 13 that Wu-Tang was in the building and he immediately made his way there with a song he had wrote with Raekwon in mind and another song that would be great for Killa Mike who was also in the studio that day. As time passed, things moved quickly. Joie 13 quickly established a partnership with Kay, Raekwon's brother and well- known music industry manager.

With his first mixtape 13 Ravens in the works, Joie 13 pushes the proverbial envelope resulting in the production of melodic beats complimented by shockingly real and deep lyrics. As for the undeniable forthcoming feedback, Joie 13 simply states, "I'm actually welcoming it. I'm well read. My mother had over a 1000 books. I want to engage the conversation. I like human reactions. I want people to talk." This sentiment is clearly exemplified in his music. Joie 13 gets extra introspective on the head-nodding track "Biracial Angel" where he speaks directly to being a mixed child, how the world see race, and identity drama. At one point, Joie reveals that despite being birthed and raised by his white mother, he was forced to register as black when he went to jail. He also poignantly points out: "They don't say Richard Nixon was the 37th white president. Why do they say Obama is the first black president?" While this song may show one facet of Joie 13's personality, he delves into the underworld on another mixtape singles called "American Psycho." On this infectious, mid-tempo, instrumental, Joie 13 cleverly countdowns 13 reasons why a rival rapper met his fatal demise. It is precisely this type of unique storytelling ability and fascinating perspective on the world that sets Joie 13 apart on a musical, mental, and mystical level. Prepare for the influx: Joie 13. 13 Ravens. 2013.

Cheryl Scott was gracious enough to take time out of her busy schedule to come on The Scott Emo Show to discuss what it's like to be a meterologist, her favorite drink, snacks, places in Chicago and much more!

Kevin Smith from The Kevin Smith Agency owns a State Farm franchise in Logan Square (in Chicago) and he is certainly an influencer in the city and across the nation. He is redefining the perception of the insurance agency culture by implementing the cool factor to his business. For example, he throws exclusive dinner, music and charity partners, he has Banksy art hanging up in his office and much more. Kevin is committed to building an incredible business and wants to live the life he wants to lead - he certainly is an inspiration to those looking to start their own business, but doing it through your own vision and not conforming to what everyone else is doing!

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