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Seen that? - 2005: A Year Of Diabetes Breakthroughs
in Daily Diabetic, on November 9, 2009
... one nine year old has written an autobiography about living with Type 1 diabetes, and now he is an activist. This brave and intelligent young boy will now travel to meet with the Prime Minster and de...
Avandia, Under Fire Once More!
in Daily Diabetic, on July 27, 2009
...vandia is facing another criticism:
liver failure and death in some patients.
Researchers from the activist group Public Citizen reported the said connection to Avandia :
They wrote in the journ...
A video on social efforts from Dr. Patrick Dixon
in Audeamus - How dare we..., on March 31, 2009
...xon from his speeches related to supply chain and business. Recently I found out that he is also an activist in social welfare oriented activities. In this video from Patrick, he talks about the effec...
How About a Cellular Tower Right In Your House?
in The Mobile Technology Weblog, on December 10, 2008
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Ever hear of a femtocell? No it's not a woman-activist's smallest unit of life. AT&T is hoping the word will become much more common in months to come. Femtocells are small boxes tha...
Harbinger Hedge Fund Picks Next Battle
in The Hedge Funds Weblog, on August 26, 2008
...nger vs. Cleveland- Cliffs Inc. The mining company is urging shareholders to reject a bid by the activist hedge fund that would give them veto power over one of Cleveland-Cliffs proposed acquisitio...
Carl Icahn and SOX
in Sox First, on July 31, 2008
... shareholder meeting. The meeting was supposed to be showdown between founder Jerry Yang and activist investor Carl Icahn until they signed a truce last week but the pressure is still on. Oi...
Celebrity Green Team
in The Celebrities Weblog, on June 12, 2008
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Many celebrities are activists who use their star power to champion causes that they are sympathetic to.
These days one of the most popular causes is the "Green Initiative"; an issue th...
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in The Mobile Technology Weblog, on June 11, 2008
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Electrosensitive Group Files Lawsuit Against Public Wi-Fi
in The Wireless Weblog, on May 28, 2008
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"The anti-Wi-Fi contingent in Santa Fe is spearheaded by Arthur Firstenberg , a well-known activist whose previous credits include founding the Cellular Phone Task Force and authoring the b...
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in The Mobile Technology Weblog, on May 2, 2008
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in The Mobile Technology Weblog, on May 1, 2008
...ree SMS, Twitter, and more!
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Nancy Todd Political Activist or Card Player Wins WPT Ladies Championship
in Internet Poker, on April 26, 2008
...ing on!
While I'm trying to figure out the possible correlation to this Nancy Todd (political activist ), Nancy Todd Tyner is your WPT Ladies Champion after defeating a very tough vanessa ...
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in The VoIP Weblog, on April 26, 2008
...d of April 2008.
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in The Mobile Technology Weblog, on April 25, 2008
...at the end of April 2008.
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Hedge Fund Losses Reported By UBS
in The Hedge Funds Weblog, on April 21, 2008
...of its report to the swiss banking regulator public because of pressure from Ethos Fund, an activist shareholder.
More at; Hedgeco.Net
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Activist Investor TCI In Japan
in The Hedge Funds Weblog, on February 21, 2008
... , or TCI, has been pressuring the electricity wholesaler to improve corporate governance.
The activist investor has even said in a statement that it would take the Japanese government to court i...
Carl Icahn's corporate governance blog debut
in Sox First, on February 12, 2008
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Corporate raider and shareholder activist Carl Icahn plans to set up a corporate governance blog, according to news reports . There is nothing on The Icahn Report yet but Icahn says he plans to ...
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in The Mobile Technology Weblog, on January 31, 2008
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in The Mobile Technology Weblog, on January 21, 2008
...isit MobileActive.org .
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Brad Pitt Takes Break From Acting To Rebuild New Orleans
in The Celebrities Weblog, on December 23, 2007
...y these days even though he's on a sabbatical from his job of acting.
Like his philanthropist, activist wife, Angelina Jolie, Brad has undertaken a charitable project; that of helping to rebuild ...
Fixing Transparency will Fix Everything: Consumer Cautions
in Audeamus - How dare we..., on November 24, 2007
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CSR activists are playing hardball, impatient to let free-market Darwinism decide the fate of business. Fighting for a personal platform, they do not see the damage they cause.
Breaking Ethics...
In Depth George Clooney Interview
in The Celebrities Weblog, on November 19, 2007
...aid back, cool guy, with class, does not mean he lacks passion. Indeed he's quite outspoken and activist minded when it comes to issues with which he has concern.
What I admire about the guy is t...
Blog Action Day 2007
in The Parenting Weblog, on October 16, 2007
...and their future by help protecting the environment.
You need not join Greenpeace or become an activist . You can do something as simple as:
Rather than use plastic, bring a bag when you ...
Jonn Edwards On Hedge Funds
in The Hedge Funds Weblog, on October 9, 2007
...t operation out. On top of that, we have started a fund, a home rescue fund, with a local community activist group in New Orleans to actually provide help to people who are having their homes foreclos...
10 tips for countering shareholder activists
in Sox First, on October 5, 2007
...esting take from the global spin merchants at the Brunswick Group on how to deal with shareholder activists. As detailed by Alan Rappeport in CFO.com , the group has provided 10 tips for handl...
ISS supports News Corp reform
in Sox First, on October 4, 2007
...t month, I did a blog on how Rupert Murdoch was facing a challenge from an Australian shareholder activist Stephen Mayne who had put a motion for News Corp to ditch its system of Class A and Class B...
Eddie Vedder
in The Parenting Weblog, on September 21, 2007
... came across an interesting blog and stumbled upon, who else, but my favorite grunge rocker-slash- activist Eddie Vedder. As a teen in the 90's, I was very much influenced by the grunge scen...
Mayne vs Murdoch
in Sox First, on September 13, 2007
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Rupert Murdoch has to deal with a persistent and effective Australian shareholder activist in Stephen Mayne. News Corp tried unsuccessfully to stop a proposal from Mayne that the company scrap its...
Sean Penn Gets Political
in The Celebrities Weblog, on August 18, 2007
...n Penn, the gutsy, outspoken actor is raising eyebrows again.
Penn, who is an ardent anti-Iraq war activist, recently made a trip to Venezuela and spent time with tough guy president, Hugo Chavez ...
Institutions demand more disclosure
in Sox First, on August 15, 2007
...ude environmental, sustainability and governance risks, according to a leading corporate governance activist, Erik Mather. For a podcast of the interview with Mather, check out on our program at The...
ATVers Fined/Jailed Because No Laws to Enforce OHVs
in Under My Helmet, on August 13, 2007
...ot environmental nut jobs that lie, cheat and steal to get more areas closed, but now we've got activist Federal Judges too?...
Is Ricky Martin Nuts Or What?
in Latina Viva, on August 11, 2007
...ldren's rights, he doesn't want "to preach moral in underclothes" . "As an activist I am the first who thinks that the governments must be firm when it's time to adopt a k...
The bottled water lie
in Sox First, on August 7, 2007
...hat the H2O it puts into Aquafina comes from the same source as tap water. This follows the work of activist groups like Corporate Accountability . Bottled water is the perfect symbol of our culture...
Report > Eco-Minded Mayor Bloomberg Takes Two Suburbans To Work
in carzz.org, on August 1, 2007
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It was only last month that New York City's outspoken, green-activist Mayor Michael Bloomberg nearly rammed a London-esque congestion zone scheme down New Yorker...
Shelly Palmer Interviews Ray Beckerman about RIAA Lawsuits
in Digital Music - The Future, on July 19, 2007
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Shelly Palmer interviews activist and attorney Ray Beckerman, author of the blog
Recording Industry vs The People , which is "[a]bout the RIAA's attempt to monopolize digital mus...
Shelly Palmer Interviews Ray Beckerman about RIAA Lawsuits
in P2P File Sharing, on July 19, 2007
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Shelly Palmer interviews activist and attorney Ray Beckerman, author of the blog
Recording Industry vs The People , which is "[a]bout the RIAA's attempt to monopolize digital mus...
Open Letter to Universities Whose Students Have Been Targeted by the RIAA
in Digital Music - The Future, on July 13, 2007
... has experienced limited success with just a few schools like Ohio University banning P2P.
Activist attorney Ray Beckerman joins a few attorneys ( Attorneys Fight For Students ) and Harvard p...
L'Oreal found guilty of racism
in Sox First, on July 8, 2007
...eal for for a cool £652 million ($US1.3 billion), prompting claims that the self-styled social activist was a hypocrite. Some time later, Roddick claimed she was really a "trojan horse" ...
CFOs need more than financials
in Sox First, on July 2, 2007
...nancial metrics like reputation risk, global competition, and increased scrutiny from the media and activist groups. Strong on the financials, but not the so-called soft stuff. To back this up, we no...
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in Wangtam, on 2007-06-20
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Activist Hedge Funds In the News
in The Hedge Funds Weblog, on June 18, 2007
...whether each director has honored his fiduciary duties."
Jana Partners is a $5 billion dollar activist hedge fund based in San Francisco and SAC Capital Advisors is a group of hedge funds founde...
Christy Turlington Hooks Up With Roberto Coin
in The Jewelry Weblog, on June 6, 2007
...Working with Christy was such a wonderful opportunity because not only is she a mother, wife, and activist but she truly signifies the real woman. She is internationally recognized as one of the most ...
Microsoft Lawsuits: The Free Software Foundation Strikes Back
in The Gadgets Weblog, on May 18, 2007
...jects, we have a new development: according to PC Magazine , the Free Software Foundation , the activist arm of the open source movement, has launched a campaign to inform the public about the evi...
Tuesday Highlights
in The Hedge Funds Weblog, on May 1, 2007
...&A practice at Cadwalader, Wickersham & Taft, told CNBC's "Closing Bell" that activist shareholders are unlikely to break up Citigroup. "For very large companies like Citigr...
Hedge Fund Strategies
in The Hedge Funds Weblog, on April 13, 2007
...ess and make informed bets on their future direction. Tends to hold positions longer than a trader. Activist stock pickers try to personally intervene in company affairs. CEOs hate them.
distressed...
Gross Roach Jewelry
in The Jewelry Weblog, on March 25, 2007
... a leash set and sold ready to wear.
Okay, as a native Floridian, it's not like I am a roach activist. I've killed my share and then some, but, I still can't help but feel like this is ...
Hedge Funds To Oust "Grand Theft Auto" CEO
in The Hedge Funds Weblog, on March 8, 2007
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More news on activist hedge funds ;
"A group of high-profile hedge funds that collectively control about 46% of Take-Two Interactive Software has launched a proxy battle to "revie...
Hedge Funds & Activist Investments
in The Hedge Funds Weblog, on February 19, 2007
... With so many activist hedge funds announcing their status as major shareholders and taking positions of control within already established companies, I would think that investors would be well advi...
Starbucks coffee roasted
in Sox First, on February 3, 2007
...pressos from a pound of coffee. That's worth up to $160 a pound. Quite a margin. According to activist group Oxfam , Starbucks has refused permission for Ethiopian farmers to trademark their bea...
Introducing New Motorcycle Blog
in Creative Weblogging, on January 8, 2007
...r-looked or mis-understood. Under My Helmet will try to bridge the gap between you, the motorsports activist, and the environment by providing you with news and opinion coverning our impact on the evn...
Rotten Apple: Greenpeace
in Sox First, on December 8, 2006
... most environmentally sound? Apple has been ranked stone motherless last by greenpeace . The activist group reckons that Apple uses toxic chemicals, does a bad job on recycling and fails to pro...
Peace Corps podcasts available
in Audeamus - How dare we..., on December 1, 2006
...he producer of this movie with the baggage that he brings along with him. He's a politician, an activist, etc., and no matter how much I might agree with his assessment about climate change and gl...
San Francisco Faces Wi-Fi Showdown
in The Wireless Weblog, on November 21, 2006
...xecuted one or two pilot projects, there would not have been the steady drumbeat of constituent and activist discontent that has lead to the Supervisors' current decision," he says.
Still, ...
UN pays tribute to Yunus
in Audeamus - How dare we..., on November 18, 2006
...unus, who founded the Grameen Bank, Mr. Malloch Brown hailed the Bangladeshi as a banker, advocate, activist and champion for the poor. "You have done wonderful things for development and by doin...
Digital Freedom Launches
in Digital Music - The Future, on November 7, 2006
... A new activist organization, Digital Freedom, has launched. The group has a strong pedigree in both the technology and consumer rights sectors with over 12 partners, including the Consumer E...
Digital Freedom Launches
in P2P File Sharing, on November 4, 2006
... A new activist organization, Digital Freedom, has launched. The group has a strong pedigree in both the technology and consumer rights sectors with over 12 partners, including the Consumer E...
Nine Year Old Goes To Parliament To Fight For Diabetes Treatment
in Daily Diabetic, on October 19, 2006
... one nine year old has written an autobiography about living with Type 1 diabetes, and now he is an activist. This brave and intelligent young boy will now travel to meet with the Prime Minster and de...
Interview with Lord Michael Hastings
in Sox First, on October 13, 2006
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This week, I had a chat with Lord Michael hastings , the former journalist turned activist who works as KPMG's international director of corporate citizenship, when he is not sitting in ...
Free pass for CSR abusers?
in Audeamus - How dare we..., on August 21, 2006
...mple, under the leadership of John Browne, the giant energy company BP has enjoyed a free ride from activist attacks because of the company's aggressive advertising campaign promoting global warmi...
Abuse of Whose Power
in Digital Music - The Future, on July 28, 2006
A nice piece of activism comes from YouWouldnt.net , which features a video that is a parody of an MPAA propaganda piece called Abuse of Power.
The web site says:
Would you start a war? Loot a pension fund? Circumvent the Constitution? Monopolize the media? Unless you are a government offici...
Abuse of Whose Power
in P2P File Sharing, on July 28, 2006
A nice piece of activism comes from YouWouldnt.net , which features a video that is a parody of an MPAA propaganda piece called Abuse of Power.
The web site says:
Would you start a war? Loot a pension fund? Circumvent the Constitution? Monopolize the media? Unless you are a government offici...
Audeamus Great Reads #4
in Audeamus - How dare we..., on June 22, 2006
...oe )
First off this week is an annoucement of the "Agent of Change Award" established by activist and writer Yvonne Bynoe in association with Soft Skull Press . You can find out more abo...
The shareholders are revolting
in Sox First, on June 21, 2006
Plenty of focus on the new breed of shareholder this season. A record number of shareholder resolutions were on file for this year and they were mainly in three areas: global warming, toxins and political contributions, says Thomas Kostigen from MarketWatch . There is also growing support for...
The Hypocrisy of Anita Roddick
in Sox First, on May 14, 2006
...ind the report of Dame Anita's play for the moral high ground here . Yeah right, says activist Baby Milk Action. You can read their response here . Baby Milk Action's campaigns and n...
The Audeamus Awards Round #2
in Audeamus - How dare we..., on May 2, 2006
...story "Young, gifted and not for profit" ...
*What kind of social entrepreneur are you? Activist, change agent, market pioneer, market influencer? The Columbia Business School's Resea...
Tilting at Windmills
in IfEnergy, on April 28, 2006
...onsible development."
Such attacks -- those come from , the Web site of Maryland anti-wind activist Jon Boone -- are not atypical. Similar language turns up on , on , and on a dozen othe...
Diabetes Activist Grace Vanterpool Honored
in Daily Diabetic, on March 9, 2006
Slough, located in the UK, has one of the largest population of diabetics in the world. Many people are uneducated about the disease, increasing the danger of serious illness.
One nurse decided to change that. The head of Action Diabetes, Grace Vanterpool, nicknamed ' amazing grace '...
Help Wanted: Wal-Mart Global Seeks Ethics Guru
in Sox First, on March 6, 2006
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Under attack from unions, activists and squeezed suppliers, Wal-Mart is on the offensive. First, Wal-Mart announced that former United Nations ambassador and Atlanta mayor Andrew Young will...
Gilead and Bristol-Myers Squibb Develop Once-A-Day AIDS Pill
in The Biotech Weblog, on January 23, 2006
... it's a huge thing these companies are going to do," said Nelson Vergel, an AIDS treatment activist in Houston. "If they give it at the right price to developing countries, it's goin...
Musicals
in carzz.org, on January 19, 2006
... SUV for Girl. Girl gets in a car accident and leaves Boy. Girl falls in love with an environmental activist. Boy gets sentenced to death for crimes against humanity." Ha! I guess it was just a m...
