The $300 Million Blunder
04.02.2011
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Few investors have made as many mistakes navigating markets over the past two weeks as Philippe Jabre.
Mr. Jabre, one of Europe's best-known hedge-fund managers, bought Japanese stocks on news of the earthquake, and then suffered when the Nikkei Stock Average quickly tumbled 13%. Making matters worse, Mr. Jabre got nervous and sold his shares last week, just before a rebound in Japanese stocks. The miscues cost his firm about $300 million, the worst few days of his career. > View article
Ned Vizzini Speaks at Contest-Winning School
03.25.2011
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Students at Utica High School got a treat March 22 as a nationally recognized author came to speak at their high school.
Ned Vizzini, the author of such books as "It's Kind of a Funny Story," "Be More Chill" and "Teen Angst? Naaah," spoke to students in the UHS auditorium about the stresses of being a teen and how to become a writer.
According to UHS journalism teacher Stacy Smale, the students won a contest to have the Brooklyn, N.Y., native speak at their school.
"We were in the top five in the whole country," she said. > View article
Ray Kurzweil's Time Magazine Cover Story
02.15.2011
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If computers are getting so much faster, so incredibly fast, there might conceivably come a moment when they are capable of something comparable to human intelligence. Artificial intelligence. All that horsepower could be put in the service of emulating whatever it is our brains are doing when they create consciousness — not just doing arithmetic very quickly or composing piano music but also driving cars, writing books, making ethical decisions, appreciating fancy paintings, making witty observations at cocktail parties.
If you can swallow that idea, and Kurzweil and a lot of other very smart people can, then all bets are off. From that point on, there's no reason to think computers would stop getting more powerful. They would keep on developing until they were far more intelligent than we are.
Read more: http://www.time.com/time/health/article/0,8599,2048138,00.html#ixzz1E2XePEIv > View article
Dr. Steve Perry speaks to Philander Smith College
01.19.2011
Gotham ArtistsLittle Rock residents should abandon efforts to “reform” poorly performing schools, focusing their energy instead on opening new ones capable of educating the community’s children, a nationally known public school leader said Tuesday. > View article
Face Off featured in Time Out New York
01.18.2011
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If you experienced traditional Japanese culture yesterday at Japan’s New Year’s Day Celebration: Oshogatsu, get a taste of its wacky modern cousin with Face Off presents: BATSU! at Je’Bon Noodle House (15 St. Marks Pl between Second and Third Aves; 212-388-1313, faceoffunlimited.com; 8pm; $10, with 7–7:30pm dinner reservation free). Batsu is a Japanese variety-show genre that translates as “penalty game,” and members of improv group Face Off will submit themselves as contestants in Je’Bon’s live version, in which losers are forced to undergo various Jackass-like punishments. You can participate yourself, or soak up the schadenfreude-—we recommend the latter. > View article
Dan Choi on the repeal of DADT
12.20.2010
Lt. Dan Choi > View profileFormer army lieutenant Dan Choi -- who was discharged from service under the military's Don't Ask, Don't Tell policy after coming out and since has emerged a powerful voice advocating for repeal -- spoke out over the weekend about the Senate's landmark vote to lift the ban. > View article
David M Scott's new book on sale now
12.03.2010
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Wake up, it's revolution time! Gone are the days when you could plan out your marketing and public relations programs well in advance and release them on your timetable. It's a real-time world now, and if you're not engaged, then you're on your way to marketplace irrelevance.
"Real time" means news breaks over minutes, not days. It means ideas percolate, then suddenly and unpredictably go viral to a global audience. It's when companies develop (or refine) products or services instantly, based on feedback from customers or events in the marketplace. And it's when businesses see an opportunity and are the first to act on it.
Caught up in old, time-consuming processes, too many companies leave themselves fatally exposed by flying blind through this new media environment. You don't have to be among them. Discover Real-Time Marketing and PR and get a clear path to navigate and succeed in the changed business landscape.
In this eye-opening follow-up to The New Rules of Marketing and PR, a BusinessWeek bestseller, David Meerman Scott reveals the proven, practical steps to take your business into the real-time era. Find out how to act and react flexibly as events occur, position your brand in the always-on world of the Web, and avoid embarrassing mistakes and missteps. Real-Time Marketing and PR will also enable you to:
* Develop a business culture that encourages speed over sloth
* Read buying signals as people interact with your online information
* Crowdsource product development, naming, and even marketing materials such as online videos
* Engage reporters to shape stories as they are being written
* Command premium prices by delivering products at speed
* Deploy technology to listen in on millions of online discussions and instantly engage with customers and buyers > View article
Vizzini De-Stresses Radford U
11.23.2010
Ned Vizzini > View profileOn Nov. 2, 2010, Radford University and R-SPaCE welcomed New York Press writer Ned Vizzini. Vizzini spoke in a packed Bondurant Auditorium telling students “How Not to Go Crazy in College.” RU students and other students from adjacent cities attended, expecting to find a way out from their daily stress. > View article
Richard Roeper's Holiday Movie Preview Now Available
11.19.2010
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In-laws in town and need to entertain them? Time off from work and need to entertain yourself? Remedies aplenty as REELZCHANNEL—TV About Movies® today announced Richard Roeper’s 2010 Holiday Movie Preview, a half-hour special of REELZCHANNEL Spotlight premiering Saturday, November 27 at 10:30am ET/ 7:30am PT.
This holiday season includes a stellar lineup of diverse movies featuring the biggest Hollywood stars, ensuring every movie fan has a something to see in theaters.
“The journey they take turns this magical world of wizardry into what is essentially a really cool road movie,” is how Roeper describes the epic adventure that is Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 1, which releases this Friday in theaters. Tune in to hear what else he has to say about the penultimate Potter movie. Speaking of movies with massive fan bases, Roeper looks at the mid-December release TRON: Legacy calling it “a surefire blockbuster with the power to captivate the whole family.”
Family Fun
With families in mind, Roeper’s Family Fun movies include The Chronicles of Narnia: Voyage of the Dawn Treader and Disney’s Tangled. Don’t forget about the 3D-animated Yogi Bear featuring the voices of Dan Aykroyd and Justin Timberlake as the picnic-crashing Yogi and Boo-Boo bears.
Girl Power
To honor the tour de force women will have in theaters this holiday season, Roeper presents his Girl Power movies, including Burlesque starring Christina Aguilera and Cher, Country Strong with Gwyneth Paltrow and Black Swan starring Mila Kunis and Natalie Portman.
Matt vs. Ben
And in the spirit of shoppers scrambling to score deals in stores, what’s a little friendly competition between movie stars on the big screen? Roeper is ringside for Matt vs. Ben in light of the releases for Ben Affleck’s The Company Men and Matt Damon’s True Grit, which opens just two weeks after The Company Men.
English Royalty and Big Stars
Wrapping up his Holiday Movie Preview are two Oscar® contenders in The King’s Speech with Colin Firth and The Tempest with none other than Russell Brand co-starring with Academy Award-winner Helen Mirren. And finally, no holiday movie preview is complete without massive star power. Roeper’s Big Stars movies feature The Tourist with Johnny Depp and Angelina Jolie and The Fighter with Mark Wahlberg and Christian Bale. > View article
Lt. Dan Choi re-enlists!
10.20.2010
Lt. Dan Choi > View profileWest Point grad Lt. Dan Choi--who famously outed himself on national TV, thereby initiating his ouster from the Army under its gay ban--marched to New York's Times Square Armed Forces Recruiting Station on Tuesday to re-enlist. (Yahoo!) > View article
Ned Vizzini inspires Ontario high school students
10.14.2010
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Ned Vizzini had reached the end of his rope, frantically pouring over pages of his haphazardly written book and wasting away with only scraps of food sitting in his stomach, when he finally decided to pick up the phone.
Dialing the number for the suicide hotline in Brooklyn, New York, on a cold November night in 2004, the then 23 year old was desperately reaching out to anyone who would listen.
"I sat back at my computer and I realized, I'm going really crazy," he said, recalling his mental state before a room full of students from Henry Street High School on Oct. 6.
"'All I've had to eat today is half a bagel that I've managed to keep down -- I don't want to live, I don't want to be here.'" > View article
Lt. Choi Wows at Ohio State
10.13.2010
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Everybody is a "somebody." That was the message Lt. Dan Choi had for students at Ohio State on Monday night.
Choi, a former member of the U.S. Army and an Iraq War veteran, was discharged from the military for breaking the Don't Ask, Don't Tell policy when he came out on The Rachel Maddow Show.
Don't Ask, Don't Tell is the military's ban on openly gay and lesbian service members.
Choi spoke to a crowd of about 350 people about his activism in the gay rights movement, his coming out process and the need to stand up for those without a voice. > View article
Lt. Choi speaks at the Coffee Party Covention
10.04.2010
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(LOUISVILLE, KY) Sept. 28, 2010 — Participants in the first Coffee Party Convention arrived home to 40 different states on Sunday and Monday, energized and determined to pursue electoral and legislative goals outlined during the three-day event.
Meredith Diamond drove six hours from Oberlin College with classmate Xenna Goh, and was struck by the agreement she witnessed across party lines. "It made me see a real hope for the sort of engagement the Coffee Party is pushing for, something I hadn't thought possible until this weekend."
The most emotional speech at the convention came from Lt. Dan Choi. In his first public remarks since last week's filibuster of a Defense Authorization Bill that included a conditional repeal of Don't Ask Don't Tell, Choi spoke of love, equality, and determination, bringing listeners to tears.
"Love is non-partisan," Choi said. "Love does not belong to any specific group. And the equality of love is also non-partisan. ... Equality is non-partisan because the priority of our rights and our liberties, as if freedom is some kind of finite resource, is most anti-American." > View article
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