THE SOURCE: “NATO’s Final Frontier” by Charles A. Kupchan, in Foreign Affairs, May–June 2010. Lord Hastings Ismay, the first secretary-general of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization, reportedly once said that the organization’s purpose was “to keep the Russians out, the Americans in, and the Germans down.” But times have changed. Today, NATO is making a [...]

Jesse Wigutow, the writer of It Runs in the Family , has been hired to draft Summit Entertainment’s The Osterman Weekend , reports Variety . The film, based on the espionage thriller by Robert Ludlum, was previously adapted into a film by Sam Peckinpah (his final work) in 1983. Wigutow also worked, uncredited, on the [...]

Becoming a More Effective Manager Management has a lot to do with the desire to make things better. Since the manager’s job description is to make the company that he or she works for more efficient and successful, it is a constant strive for perfection — or the closest that you can get to perfection. [...]

Although the project is now on indefinite hold and may never see production, Pixar has released thirty conceptual images from Newt . Originally planned as the studio’s summer 2012 release, Newt would have followed the world’s last two blue-footed newts who, after scientists pair them together for mating, quickly find that they don’t exactly get [...]

Jeffrey Gonsiewski, 56, Wood Dale, Illinois, a former suburban bank vice president pleaded guilty to federal fraud charges, admitting that he changed the terms of at least 100 loans for at least 50 customers and caused the bank to lose at least $ 5.5 million. Gonesiewski, formerly vice president of the loan department at First Security Trust and [...]

Take the Samsung Galaxy S, low-end it a tad, and take out the radios. What you’re left with is the Samsung Galaxy Player 50, a 3.2-inch multitouch multimedia player running Android 2.1. The screen itself is LCD and not Super AMOLED like the Galaxy S phones, but this guy has a 2MP camera and 802.11n Wifi. [...]

Virtual Offices ? Making Your Business Look Bigger! It’s no secret that small business operators often try to make themselves look bigger. It’s a matter of survival really. Corporate clients are often reluctant to deal with a one person business, particularly one that appears to be run from home or purely online. Many online and [...]

Three images from the first part of Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows are now available online, following their debut in the print edition of Empire . The images, shown below, show off Sirius Black’s broken mirror, Harry using the Lumos spell and a long shot of the heroic trio traveling on foot. Click the [...]

Doninador Palalay a.k.a. Dominador Palalay, Marie Tejada Medina and Benjamin Aquino Moraleda III were indicted for allegedly operating a foreclosure rescue scam in Las Vegas, Nevada, during 2008 and 2009. The defendants allegedly operated the foreclosure rescue scam under the business name of PDM Financial Group, Inc. The indictment alleges that PDM Financial Group is alleged to [...]