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Saturday, January 28, 2012
Russell Brand To Star In Michael Bay's 'Hauntrepreneur'
Brand will also perform at Amnesty International's Secret Policeman's Ball, along with Coldplay, Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert.
By Jocelyn Vena
Russell Brand
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Russell Brand has nabbed a starring role in the Michael Bay-produced "The Hauntrepreneur."
The movie will revolve around a "peculiar man" (presumably Brand, given his penchant for those types of roles) who is hired by a family to help them adjust to living in a new town. Calling himself the "Hauntrepreneur," he creates a haunted house full of kooky characters to try to help them get acclimated to their new surroundings, Variety reports.
Paramount has yet to comment on the casting. It marks the latest move Brand has made since filing for divorce from Katy Perry over New Year's weekend.
On Wednesday, it was announced that Brand will perform as part of an Amnesty International benefit March 4 at New York's Radio City Music Hall. It marks his first public appearance since news broke of his split from Perry. Coldplay, Mumford & Sons, Jon Stewart, Stephen Colbert, Reggie Watts and others will also appear at Amnesty International's Secret Policeman's Ball.
Brand will next be seen in "Rock of Ages," alongside Tom Cruise, Julianne Hough, Mary J. Blige and Alec Baldwin. The big-screen adaptation of Broadway's rock musical will open June 1. He's also attached to Diablo Cody's "Untitled Diablo Cody Project," which also will feature Hough.
Additionally, he's working with the FX network on a series of six half-hour late-night comedy specials that will be filmed in front of a live audience as well as an animated comedy he co-created that will air on the Fox network.
Source: http://www.mtv.com/news/articles/1677931/russell-brand-hauntrepreneur-movie.jhtml
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Friday, January 27, 2012
Millions now manage aging parents' care from afar
WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. (AP) ? Kristy Bryner worries her 80-year-old mom might slip and fall when she picks up the newspaper, or that she'll get in an accident when she drives to the grocery store. What if she has a medical emergency and no one's there to help? What if, like her father, her mother slips into a fog of dementia?
Those questions would be hard enough if Bryner's aging parent lived across town in Portland, Ore., but she is in Kent, Ohio. The stress of caregiving seems magnified by each of the more than 2,000 miles that separate them.
"I feel like I'm being split in half between coasts," said Bryner, 54. "I wish I knew what to do, but I don't."
As lifespans lengthen and the number of seniors rapidly grows, more Americans find themselves in Bryner's precarious position, struggling to care for an ailing loved one from hundreds or thousands of miles away.
The National Institute on Aging estimates around 7 million Americans are long-distance caregivers. Aside from economic factors that often drive people far from their hometowns, shifting demographics in the country could exacerbate the issue: Over the next four decades, the share of people 65 and older is expected to rapidly expand while the number of people under 20 will roughly hold steady. That means there will be a far smaller share of people between 20 and 64, the age group that most often is faced with caregiving.
"You just want to be in two places at once," said Kay Branch, who lives in Anchorage, Alaska, but helps coordinate care for her parents in Lakeland, Fla., about 3,800 miles away.
There are no easy answers.
Bryner first became a long-distance caregiver when, more than a decade ago, her father began suffering from dementia, which consumed him until he died in 2010. She used to be able to count on help from her brother, who lived close to their parents, but he died of cancer a few years back. Her mother doesn't want to leave the house she's lived in for so long.
So Bryner talks daily with her mother via Skype, a video telephone service. She's lucky to have a job that's flexible enough that she's able to visit for a couple of weeks every few months. But she fears what may happen when her mother is not as healthy as she is now.
"Someone needs to check on her, someone needs to look out for her," she said. "And the only someone is me, and I don't live there."
Many long-distance caregivers say they insist on daily phone calls or video chats to hear or see how their loved one is doing. Oftentimes, they find another relative or a paid caregiver they can trust who is closer and able to help with some tasks.
Yet there always is the unexpected: Medical emergencies, problems with insurance coverage, urgent financial issues. Problems become far tougher to resolve when you need to hop on a plane or make a daylong drive.
"There are lots of things that you have to do that become these real exercises in futility," said Ed Rose, 49, who lives in Boston but, like his sister, travels frequently to Chicago to help care for his 106-year-old grandmother, Blanche Seelmann.
Rose has rushed to his grandmother's side for hospitalizations, and made unexpected trips to solve bureaucratic issues like retrieving a document from a safe-deposit box in order to open a bank account.
But he said he has also managed to get most of the logistics down to a routine.
He uses Skype to speak with his grandmother every day and tries to be there whenever she has a doctor's appointment. Aides handle many daily tasks and have access to a credit card for household expenses. They send him receipts so he can monitor spending. He has an apartment near his grandmother to make sure he's comfortable on his frequent visits.
Even for those who live near those they care for, travel for work can frequently make it a long-distance affair. Evelyn Castillo-Bach lives in Pembroke Pines, Fla., the same town as her 84-year-old mother, who has Alzheimer's disease. But she is on the road roughly half the year, sometimes for months at a time, both for work with her own Web company and accompanying her husband, a consultant for the United Nations.
Once, she was en route from Kosovo to Denmark when she received a call alerting her that her mother was having kidney failure and appeared as if she would die. She needed to communicate her mother's wishes from afar as her panicked sister tried to search their mother's home for her living will. Castillo-Bach didn't think she could make it in time to see her mother alive once more.
"I won't get to touch my mother again," she thought.
She was wrong. Her mother pulled through. But she says it illustrates what long-distance caregivers so frequently go through.
"This is one of the things that happens when you're thousands of miles away," Castillo-Bach said.
Lynn Feinberg, a caregiving expert at AARP, said the number of long-distance caregivers is likely to grow, particularly as a sagging economy has people taking whatever job they can get, wherever it is. Though caregiving is a major stress on anyone, distance can often magnify it, Feinberg said, and presents particular difficulty when it must be balanced with an inflexible job.
"It's a huge stress," she said. "It can have enormous implications not only for someone's quality of life, but also for someone's job."
It can also carry a huge financial burden. A November 2007 report by the National Alliance for Caregiving and Evercare, a division of United Health Group, found annual expenses incurred by long-distance caregivers averaged about $8,728, far more than caregivers who lived close to their loved one. Some also had to cut back on work hours, take on debt of their own and slash their personal spending.
Even with that in mind, though, many long-distance caregivers say they don't regret their decision. Rita Morrow, who works in accounting and lives in Louisville, Ky., about a six-hour drive from her 90-year-old mother in Memphis, Tenn., does all the juggling too.
She has to remind her mother to take her medicine, make sure rides are lined up for doctor's appointments, rush to her aid if there's a problem. She knows her mom wants to stay in her home, to keep going to the church she's gone to the past 60 years, to be near her friends.
"We do what we have to do for our parents," she said. "My mother did all kinds of things for me."
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Thursday, January 26, 2012
Analyst predicts Google?s mobile ad revenue to hit $5.8 billion this year (Appolicious)
TechCrunch has the story, which cites Cowen analyst Jim Friedland, who estimates that Google is raking in $7 per mobile device per year, both running Android and Apple?s iOS platform, since Google ads reach other platforms through search and web ads as well. That?s going to help Google?s mobile ad revenues jump significantly, Friedland says ? going from $2.5 billion in 2011 to his estimated $5.8 billion this year.
The biggest driver for that spike is the greater proliferation of mobile devices around the world. This benefits Google as much as any other company by allowing Google to advertise. Smartphone activations in 2012 are expected to rise to 914 million worldwide from 508 million last year. The chunk of Google?s ad revenue that comes straight from mobile ads (as opposed to web ads) is expected to pick up significantly as well, rising from an estimated 3 percent in 2010 to 7 percent in 2011, and doubling again by 2012 to 14 percent, Friedland says. He expects it to increase to a $20 billion revenue stream by 2016, accounting for an estimated 23 percent of Google?s ad business. All those figures are estimates because Google doesn?t release mobile ad revenues regularly.
Whether Google?s mobile ad revenue really could get up above $5 billion depends on smartphone sales for 2012. Last year, Google said during an earnings call that its total display ad business, including mobile, was hitting around a $5 billion annual run-rate. This suggests a really big increase to get just the mobile side up that high. Then again, if smartphone sales really do hit nearly a billion worldwide, that increase in Google?s ad revenue could definitely happen.
More big advertising figures from Google are a good thing when it comes to smartphones, if only because it continues to support the proliferation and refinement of Android and Google?s other mobile offerings. Even Google apps spread to other platforms like iOS are made with an eye toward advertising revenue.
Given the pace at which the smartphone and mobile markets have been growing just in the last few years and months, it seems entirely possible we could be seeing 914 million smartphones worldwide by the end of 2012. It?ll be interesting to look back in 11 months and see how the landscape changes, with more mobile devices, an increasing market and of course, more advertising.
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Greenlight Capital fined $11M for market abuse (AP)
LONDON ? High-profile hedge fund manager David Einhorn and his U.S.-based Greenlight Capital Inc. have been fined 7.2 million pounds ($11.2 million) for trading on inside information, Britain's market regulator said Wednesday.
Roughly half the penalty will have to paid by Einhorn, making it the second-largest U.K. fine imposed on an individual by the Financial Services Authority, a spokesman for the watchdog said.
In a statement the FSA said Einhorn had been tipped off that leading British pub operator Punch Taverns PLC was about to begin raising money by issuing new shares only minutes before he began dumping millions of the company's shares on June 9, 2009.
As the value of Punch shares would have fallen following the announcement of the share issue, Greenlight avoided making a substantial loss by selling them early.
The authority said that while it accepted that Einhorn did not believe he was breaking the rules, the tip-off "was inside information and Einhorn should have appreciated this." It added that the lapse was particularly egregious given Einhorn's prominence.
"Einhorn is an experienced professional with a high profile in the industry," said Tracey McDermott, the authority's acting director of enforcement and financial crime. "We expect someone in his position to be able to identify inside information when he receives it and to act appropriately. His failure to do so is a serious breach of the expected standards of market conduct."
Einhorn said in a statement that while he believes he did nothing wrong, he and his company had decided to put the matter to rest "rather than continue an arduous fight."
He added that the fine would not be borne by Greenlight funds.
Einhorn is a charismatic figure best known outside the world of finance for his poker-playing prowess, winning a major 2006 tournament, and his unsuccessful attempt to secure minority ownership of the New York Mets.
In the industry, he built a fearsome reputation for publicly criticizing overvalued companies, including Lehman Bros., which he accused of putting the entire financial system at risk several months before the investment bank spectacularly collapsed.
His book, "Fooling Some of the People All of The Time," explores how weak regulators and compromised officials have allowed Wall Street companies to run amok.
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Online:
Financial Services Authority: http://www.fsa.gov.uk/
Greenlight Capital: https://www.greenlightcapital.com/
Einhorn's book: http://foolingsomepeople.com/
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Wednesday, January 25, 2012
Tim Thomas: Six other athletes who snubbed the White House
Tim Thomas and the Boston Bruins won the NHL's Stanley Cup last June. It's an annual tradition that US championship sports teams receive an invitation from the President to be honored at the White House for their athletic feats.
However, there is a small portion of those ?privileged? individuals who have turned down such invitations on political, moral and personal grounds. Thomas, the Bruins goalie, is the latest to join the group.
Here?s a list of six athletes who have snubbed American presidents.
The indefinite postponement of the 1986 Chicago Bears White House reception, due to the Space Shuttle Challenger disaster, reached an abrupt end when 25 years later President Obama invited his favorite NFL team.
However, NFL Hall of Famer Dan Hampton declined the invitation.
"It's my own personal choice that I choose not to go," Hampton said, according to the Huffington Post.
?You know, life's about opportunities and seizing the moment. And you know what, I understand why we didn't go the week after the game -- or two weeks or three weeks -- because if indeed it was the Challenger that the White House and the regular administration was dealing with, I understand that. But there were other months -- March, April, May, June -- we could of went,? he said.
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