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Michael Wolff, Felix Dennis: Not Nuts

Dorian Benkoil — Tue, 12 Aug 2008 22:14:20 +0000

In the latest episode of Naked Media, media critic and Vanity Fair columnist and Burn Rate author Michael Wolff tells host Dorian Benkoil why he’s not crazy for launching yet another startup, Newser.com, while Steven Kotok, general manager of Dennis’ The Week tells us why the Maxim publisher isn’t daft for sinking money into one more weekly news magazine. Plus: more tips for being an entrepreneur, and why Rush Limbaugh’s goose is cooked.

Inside the NYPD Episode 9 - Police Academy Training

Jason Kichline — Mon, 28 Jul 2008 21:26:20 +0000

No more is the image of the fat cop chomping on donuts.

For six straight months, twelve hours a day, five days a week, these men and women endure intense mental and physical conditioning. The level of academic work they do is equivalent to approximately twenty-nine college credits. Their physical training lasts several hours each and every day. And these recruits receive detailed weapons and driving training.

These men and women are trained to be a part of one of the greatest law enforcement agencies in the world, and it was an honor to get a first hand look at the process.

I’m really looking forward to continuing my work on this series and the many more exciting episodes we have on their way.

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Building the Broadband Economy - ICF 2008

Jason Kichline — Fri, 20 Jun 2008 13:30:27 +0000

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ICF Co-Founder John Jung sits down with Dr. Joe Morrow, Member, Dundee City Council.; scotland; technology; it; john jung; green; BBE; scribe media; ICF; Building the Broadband economy; Dundee; Dr. Joe Morrow; Intelligent Community Forum; The ICF presents Part 1 of the Sustainability Forum. ICF's Executive Director Robert Bell moderates an expert panel of technologists, economists and urban planners including Bruce Mehlman, Dr. Joseph Fuhr, Ken Zita & Waikeen Ng.; it; technology; green; BBE; scribe media; Ken Zita; ICF; Building the Broadband economy; Dr. Joseph Fuhr; Bruce Mehlman; Robert Bell; Waikeen Ng; Intelligent Community Forum; The ICF presents Part 1 of the Sustainability Forum. 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ICF Director of Development Louis Zacharilla sits down with District Mayor Jung Ju Maeng of Gangnam District, Seoul, South Korea.; Gangnam District; it; technology; green; BBE; scribe media; Louis Zacharilla; ICF; Building the Broadband economy; District Mayor Jung Ju Maeng; seoul; Intelligent Community Forum; South Korea; ICF presents a conversation among leaders of the region's universities on the role of their institutions in building a knowledge-based workforce. With Jerry M. Hultin & Garrick Utley, moderated by Mel Horwitch, Professor, Polytechnic University.; Garrick Utley; it; technology; green; BBE; Jerry M. Hultin; scribe media; Mel Horwitch; Levin Institute; ICF; Building the Broadband economy; Polytechnic University; Intelligent Community Forum; ICF presents a conversation among leaders of the region's universities on the role of their institutions in building a knowledge-based workforce. With Jerry M. Hultin & Garrick Utley, moderated by Mel Horwitch, Professor, Polytechnic University.; Garrick Utley; it; technology; green; BBE; Jerry M. Hultin; scribe media; Mel Horwitch; Levin Institute; ICF; Building the Broadband economy; Polytechnic University; Intelligent Community Forum; John Jung moderates a Conversation with Lee Rainie & Jean-Claude Burgelman on the ongoing transformative role of the Internet on a global and local level, from new applications to social impacts.; ICF; it; john jung; Jean-Claude Burgelman; Lee Rainie; broadband; ScribeMedia.Org; BBE 2008; John Jung moderates a Conversation with Lee Rainie & Jean-Claude Burgelman on the ongoing transformative role of the Internet on a global and local level, from new applications to social impacts. Part 2; ICF; it; john jung; Jean-Claude Burgelman; Lee Rainie; broadband; ScribeMedia.Org; BBE 2008; ICF Executive Director Robert Bell leads a case-study conversation on Northeast Ohio, with Lev Gonick, CIO, Case Western Reserve University.; Estonia; ICF; northeast ohio; Robert Bell; Intelligent Community Forum; ScribeMedia.Org; BBE 2008; Lev Gonick; ICF Director of Development Louis Zacharilla leads a case-study conversation on Tallinn, Estonia,with Toomas Sepp, Tallinnin City Secretary.; ICF; Toomas Sepp; Tallinnin estonia; Intelligent Community Forum; ScribeMedia.Org; BBE 2008; Louis Zacharilla; ICF's founders serve as a panel of experts responding to the case study of a community striving to develop a new economy while preserving its traditional strengths. With Dianah Neff, Senior Partner, Civitium. Part 1; john jung; Dianah Neff; Louis Zacharilla; Building Broadband Economy; ICF; sustainability; Robert Bell; Intelligent Community Forum; ScribeMedia.Org; BBE 2008; ICF's founders serve as a panel of experts responding to the case study of a community striving to develop a new economy while preserving its traditional strengths. With Dianah Neff, Senior Partner, Civitium. Part 2 ; john jung; Dianah Neff; Louis Zacharilla; Building Broadband Economy; ICF; sustainability; Robert Bell; Intelligent Community Forum; ScribeMedia.Org; BBE 2008; ICF's founders serve as a panel of experts responding to the case study of a community striving to develop a new economy while preserving its traditional strengths. With Dianah Neff, Senior Partner, Civitium. Part 3; john jung; Dianah Neff; Louis Zacharilla; Building Broadband Economy; ICF; sustainability; Robert Bell; Intelligent Community Forum; ScribeMedia.Org; BBE 2008; ICF Executive Director Robert Bell leads a case-study conversation with County Executive Andrew Spano of Westchester County, New York.; westchester county; john jung; Dianah Neff; andrew spano; Louis Zacharilla; Building Broadband Economy; ICF; sustainability; Robert Bell; Intelligent Community Forum; ScribeMedia.Org; BBE 2008; ICF Director of Development Louis Zacharilla leads a case-study conversation with Mayor Allen Joines, of Winston-Salem, North Carolina, USA, one of ICF's Top Seven Intelligent Communities.; john jung; Dianah Neff; north carolina; Louis Zacharilla; Building Broadband Economy; ICF; winston-salem; sustainability; Robert Bell; Intelligent Community Forum; ScribeMedia.Org; BBE 2008; ICF's annual award presented to individual or an organization whose work promotes the development of broadband as an engine of economic growth, social inclusion and human progress. This year's winner: Scot Rourke, President, OneCommunity ; onecommunity; john jung; Dianah Neff; scot rourke; Louis Zacharilla; Building Broadband Economy; ICF; sustainability; Robert Bell; Intelligent Community Forum; ScribeMedia.Org; BBE 2008; Conference Wrap-Up with ICF Chairman John Jung.; john jung; Dianah Neff; Louis Zacharilla; Building Broadband Economy; ICF; wrap-up; sustainability; Robert Bell; Intelligent Community Forum; ScribeMedia.Org; BBE 2008; The Intelligent Community Forum presents: Building the Broadband Economy 2008- An international meeting place and idea exchange for local government officials and their private-sector partners in telecom, IT, finance, real estate and consulting.

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EU and the US in the Globalized Economy: Politics and Priorities

ScribeMedia.Org — Thu, 12 Jun 2008 20:30:23 +0000

On Monday, June 9, 2008 The Rt. Hon. Peter Mandelson PC, European Commissioner for Trade, delivered the Winston Churchill Lecture in New York City. Whoever moves into the Oval Office on 20 January 2009 will be the first US President whose foreign economic policy from day one will so clearly need to face up to a fundamental shift of global economic and political power from West to East. In the annual Churchill lecture, delivered in New York, EU Trade Commissioner Peter Mandelson argued that this means rethinking some central assumptions about how power works in the global economy, and how American and European governments can best defend their people and their interests. "The Atlantic world is no longer the centre of the economic world", Mandelson says, "because the economic world no longer has a centre". Mandelson argues that our response to that fact could have immense consequences.

About the speaker:

Peter Mandelson studied Philosophy, Politics and Economics at St Catherine’s College, Oxford. After working as an economist at the Trades Union Congress and as a current affairs TV producer, Peter Mandelson was later appointed Labour Party Director for Campaigns and Communications in 1985. Later he was Tony Blair’s Campaign Manager in the May 1997 election. In 1992 he was elected as MP for the constituency of Hartlepool. Peter Mandelson was appointed to the British Cabinet as Secretary of State for Trade and Industry 1998 and in 1999 he was appointed Secretary of State for Northern Ireland. Peter Mandelson is honorary Chair of Policy Network, a European and international think tank whose journal and conferences promote the exchange and debate of centre-left policy ideas and European social democratic thinking. He was appointed European Commissioner for Trade in 2004. The infomation above was provided by British American Business, Inc.

Inside the NYPD episode 7: The Bomb Squad

Tom Small — Fri, 07 Mar 2008 23:21:27 +0000

With bomb suits, bomb-sniffing dogs, remote-controlled robots, and nerves of steel, the NYPD Bomb Squad walks towards the suspicious package while all others run the other way.

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Cars From the Sky: Cai Guo-Qiang at the Guggenheim

Alexandra Lerman — Thu, 06 Mar 2008 16:04:03 +0000

Inopportune: Stage One, Cai Guo Qiangâ€™s installation depicting a car doing a back flip from the Guggenheimâ€™s lobby to the top of the ramp, is so stupefying that I sat beneath it for half an hour before wondering just how it defied gravity, and getting anxious that it might come crashing down. A serious contender for the most audacious work to ever grace the atrium, Caiâ€™s installation is bound to be a big draw for the Guggenheim. Speaking at Thursdayâ€™s press preview, the artist was lightly ironic about his installationâ€™s unintentional effects. â€œYesterday I saw Guggenheim people had started making a poster of it to sell in the museum store,â€ Cai said with a soft smile. â€œI am sure they will make a lot of money on it.â€ If not for Caiâ€™s calm and dignified demeanor, it might be easy to dismiss him as a showman. The taxidermy, the suspension cables, the antique boat swimming in broken china, the display of â€œblack fireworksâ€ in the middle of the afternoon documented on video â€“ these are the theatrics that the art-viewing elite is trained to regard with mild distaste. But Cai, the first Chinese artist to get full-rotunda treatment in the Guggenheim, comes from a country where art is supposed be big, bright and beautiful, a country that has put a premium on grand scale and sweeping gestures for the last few generations. The most modest work in the show, a scroll painting of tigers by the artistâ€™s father, an amateur artist, hints at Caiâ€™s interpretation of Frank Lloyd Wrightâ€™s spiraling hive as a scroll unfurling upward. His concept of the space displays his aptitude for wedding his vision with institutions of Western modernity and drawing out their â€œChineseâ€ aspects â€“ a talent he has consistently used to demonstrate the potential for theatrics and spectacle at the core of installation art.

VIDEO by Alexandra Lerman - the Arts and Culture editor of ScribeMedia.Org. She is also a video artist, VJ and the founder of Ambitious Outsiders Collective. ARTICLE by Brian Droitcour - a writer, translator and art critic. He recently relocated from Moscow to New York. POCKET SIZE HD CAMERA by Panasonic

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Looting the Iraqi National Museum

Jason Kichline — Thu, 07 Feb 2008 16:07:52 +0000

This short documentary started off as a graduate school project. I took a journalism class last semester where we were asked to pick a subject dealing with the current conflicts in the Middle East. I played around with some ideas and while on line just stumbled onto the story of the looting of the Iraqi National Museum. I had remembered it, but it was a vague memory devoid of any real details. As I started to consider this event as a project, I realized how little I knew. Like many international events, we were keyed into it at the time, but as the weeks went by others things happened, and we moved on to the next big thing. After some research I found out the former director of the Iraqi National Museum now lives in New York. Dr. Donny George, who teaches at Suny Stony Brook in the Asian studies department, returned my call the next day. In the middle of a snow storm I took the LIRR out to the Island to interview him. When I got there Dr. George was nowhere to be seen. I found someone who got him on the phone and after talking with him found out he thought we were meeting the next day. He said I could wait, but it would be a few hours. The Asian studies department invited me to their Christmas party down the hall and later in the day, Dr. George arrived. I set up in his office and recorded a genuine, dynamic interview about the looting of the Iraqi National Museum. I also learned why he had to leave the country, his home, and his career. While it was a valuable, educational experience for me, I feel like I only scratched the surface of this complex, historical, and still misunderstood event. It was well worth the wait on that blistery December evening to document his words and experiences. Thanks to Dr. George for giving me the opportunity to shed some light on an important chapter of the war in Iraq.

Stuart Draper is a ScribeMedia intern and an all-around-politically-minded fellow.

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Anderson Cooper - Planet in Peril

ScribeMedia.Org — Wed, 06 Feb 2008 23:49:16 +0000

We caught up with Anderson Cooper at the CMJ Film Festival to hear his approach to bringing "Planet in Peril", the CNN special report on environmental issues, to life. Fielding questions from audience members, Anderson retells how he gained a newfound interest in environmental issues; how developing the series affected him personally; and shares his experiences visiting some real communities across the globe.

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The Future Speaks Chinese

Jason Kichline — Sat, 19 Jan 2008 23:36:22 +0000

nÇ huÃ¬bÃºhuÃ¬ jiÇŽng guÃ³yÅ/huÃ¡yÅ/pÅtÅnghuÃ ? (Do you speak Mandarin?) The future speaks chinese. These are the lessons taught at The China Institute on 65th street in New York. This summer, a class of 18 high school students signed up to take part in an intensive Chinese language course called "Star Talk". The goal of the program is the broaden students knowledge of foreign languages and cultures through a total immersion program. For eight hours a day, five days a week, throughout the month of August these students lived in Mandarin. The goal of the program? To have each student participate in a five minute skit, completely in Mandarin. Not only did they need to learn the language in order to properly communicate with one another, but on their last day of class, they were brought to the Chinese neighborhood in Flushing, Queens to purchase goods using their newfound language skills. Programs like these seem particularly timely in a age where China is rapidly progressing as a global economic power. With more and more jobs being outsourced to countries where it is cheaper to do business, and major US companies beginning to realize the raw untapped power of the Chinese media, it seems that more and more of our children will have a need to learn one of the most dominate languages on the planet. yÄ«zhÇ’ng yÇ”yÃ¡n yÇ’ngyuÇŽn bÃ¹gÃ²u! (one language is never enough!)

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Green News You Can Use

Curtiss Martin — Fri, 18 Jan 2008 21:22:06 +0000

An inventor in California has developed a windbelt, which is an affordable generator alternative, based on the principles of the Tacoma Narrows Bridge failure. It should have use in the developing world. Via architect.com

Do you think about the impact of your plane ride when you take a vacation abroad? Maybe you should consider a stay-at-home vacation.

The country's fourth-largest coal producer, Massey Energy Co., will pay a $20 million fine for routinely polluting hundreds of streams and waterways in West Virginia and Kentucky. And while this is the largest civil penalty ever for violating the Clean Water Act, the fine may be a small price for a company whose profits reached nearly $100 million in 2007. The company settled to avoid facing fines which could have been as high as $2.4 billion according to the EPA.

New York City might be getting its first bike only parking lot! If somebody can find the $200,ooo needed to make it happen.

Meanwhile, in light of recent fatal cycling accidents in Portland, bike boxes will be laid out at 14 intersections across the cityâ€š to provide a clearly designated place for cyclists. Price tag? $150,000, plus another $50,000 to outfit trucks with better mirrors. Can NY keep up with Portland?

The North American Auto Show opened last weekend touting green technology, but that hasn't stopped the automakers from pushing big trucks as well. From All Things Considered on NPR.

China just banned all free plastic bags. How long will it take for a similar action in the US? From All Things Considered on NPR.

How many gallons of water does it take to make a hamburger? Hundreds and hundreds! And that's not including the water involved in getting your burger from the plant to the plate. Beef takes more water than practically every other food studied. Via Re-Nest.

Venice is quickly learning how to deal with rising sea level.

With Indian car company Tata Motors releasing the world's cheapest car, more Indians are getting behind the wheel. With cars finally in reach, the challenge now is learning to drive.

With the Olympics approaching, Beijing is touting their Blue Sky air quality program. But American environmental consultant, Steven Q. Andrews, questions claims that the air has improved. His report concluded that irregularities in the monitoring of air quality account for all reported improvements over the last nine years.

Look forward to more news briefs from our friends at Sherwood Design Engineers and be sure to check out their company blog for more of their thoughts on greenbuilding, sustainability and ecology.

Photo of Shawn Frayne courtesy of Popular Mechanics

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