CubeMe (Free subscription) | yesterday
Thom Andersen is a film teacher, Los Angeles resident, and film fanatic. He believes that his city, the most photographed in the world gets short shrift on the silver screen. To illustrate this point, Andersen has stitched together a montage … Full Description of scenes from hundreds of different movies, and created [...]
Indian Express (Free subscription) | yesterday
... demanded at the time of that scandal sounded freshly scripted in 2008. But back in 2002, when Andersen was convicted of obstructing justice by shredding Enron related documents, there was a great cry for an independent agency with the power to go after both the accounting firms and their clients, and enforce immediate sanctions against auditors that compromised public interest. Had that...
Amspecblog (Free subscription) | 06/01/2009
Ericka Andersen goes a little further than most when she bravely asks a liberal friend what is up with the Che fetish. The friend answers: Che was a doctor who took a trip on his bike all around SA and worked as a volunteer in a rudimentary jungle hospital in Sao Paolo, Brazil and later decided to change his life goal from being a physician to being a revolutionary in the name of the voiceless…...
Justinsomnia (Free subscription) | 03/01/2009
Dad made the Andersen’s Pea Soup we got him for Christmas. Looks like it made A LOT. I wonder how it compares to his Campbell’s?
Lulu's Vintage (Free subscription) | 02/01/2009
Play by C. Ronson black lace dress. You can purchase this new dress for $108- over at Urban Outfitters Betsey Johnson black sequin dress. You can purchase this new dress for $360- over at Urban Outfitters Andersen & Lauth silver...
enrevanche (Free subscription) | yesterday
Looks like India is having its very own Enron/Arthur Andersen moment, but this time the players are Satyam and PricewaterhouseCoopers : The chairman of India’s Satyam Computer Services resigned on Wednesday after confessing to fixing the IT outsourcing company’s books for the past “several” years, the country’s first major fraud case to emerge following the global financial crisis. In a letter...
The Blog of Walker (Free subscription) | yesterday
Ericka Andersen in Ladyblog makes a very good point, about instilling eating habits in young children. It's not just about sparing them from the bad stuff, it's also about getting them ready to make their own choices. Writ large, this can apply to a sobering amount of our government infrastructure. Same segregating, same mentality, same behavior, same consequences. I'd rather have less infrastructure...
The Stage (Free subscription) | yesterday
Sherman, Cardiff: The Sherman has long established an enviable reputation for all the family relevant plays that provide an alternative to Christmas pantomime. The latest offering of this Hans Christian Andersen fairy tale certainly maintains that high standard. Anna Linstrum's pacey direction, full of visual effects, ensures there are lots of imaginative contrasts in both style and mood as...
Movie City Indie (Free subscription) | 05/01/2009
Thom Andersen's masterful essay-film (2004) on Los Angeles will likely always be restricted for viewing, as the weave of clips from movies shot in the city were not, and likely could not feasibly, be cleared. Fair use? Not in this 169-minute instance. Here's the list of films Andersen uses in his epic. Andersen follows up a year later in Cinema Scope , reflecting on Michael Mann's...
The Telegraph India (Free subscription) | yesterday
There are many ways of preparing a balance sheet. A clever auditor will tell you, if you are a good client, how he can disguise a dismal accounting reality as an attractive investment prospect. The collapsed energy conglomerate, Enron, and its now deceased auditors, Arthur Andersen, are recent examples. What is true of accounting is equally true of diplomacy and statecraft.
Deseret Morning News (Free subscription) | 06/01/2009
Gary Andersen was introduced to 9,000 Aggie fans Monday night during Utah State's 70-61 basketball win over Idaho.
Genealogy and How (Free subscription) | 06/01/2009
Daily summary of new genealogy queries posted on CousinConnect.com, for January 04, 2009: New Queries Posted: 116 Total Active Queries: 182196 Total Active Users: 186367 Yesterday's 116 new queries included the following surnames: ACREE , AMBROSE , ANDERSEN , ANDERSON , ANDRUS , ANNIS , AUCHAMPAUGH , AVANT , BARKHEIMMER , BATES , BEACH , BENNETT , BENSON , BILLS , BISCHOFF , BITZ , BOSTON ,...
Gawker (Free subscription) | 05/01/2009
Kurt Andersen, who invented "snark" in 1986, is now "microblogging" at Twitter, the official web service of imagined pithiness. Andersen cofounded Spy with the amusing-looking Graydon Carter, where...
Seth Godin's Blog (Free subscription) | 06/01/2009
I just heard Kurt Andersen quote E.B. White with this glorious phrase.How willing is your organization to be lucky? What about you in your career and your marketing efforts? Or in the people you meet or the places you go...
Vox (Free subscription) | 06/01/2009
Torben M. Andersen , 6 January 2009 How will the shrinking labour force pay for the pensions and healthcare of the growing elderly? This column argues that linking retirement ages to longevity would alleviate a significant part of the deterioration in public finances and ensure that the burden of adjustment is carried by those gaining from increases in longevity. Full Article: How should governments...
