| Virtual world, real money
Whole new worlds are taking shape in cyberspace. But is it really just a case of second lives, same old messes? Matt Philp investigates. Dave Manley's story begins like the stories of so many other naive arrivals to a new town. Broke, with no prospects, he falls back on his only asset: his body. Dancing at a strip club leads to work as an escort (only with women, mind). Eventually, he banks enough to finance a climb to respectability. But this is where the going gets weird. In real life, Mr Manley is a genial, bald, bearded 71-year-old from Dunedin and his foray into the sex industry was not only vital, it was virtual. The stripping was entirely the work of his online alter-ego or "avatar" a tall, buffed, Nordic hunk he calls Jay. Mr Manley is living out his racy second life in Second Life, the Internet-based, fully immersive 3D world where you can be whoever you want to be, and which, it is claimed, now numbers four million registered users, or "residents".
James L. McKenney, at 77; high technology visionary
Technological advances never really startled James L. McKenney, who always seemed to see around corners and anticipate change, from the advent of e-mail and the Internet to compact discs replacing vinyl records. "In 1975, my Dad comes back from visiting Japan and says, 'All your records are going to go away,' " said his son Bill of Lexington. "So, I told my friends what he said, and they looked at me like I was from Mars." The McKenneys, father and son, were not from another planet, but Dr. McKenney's intellectual orbit curved years ahead of most. He created the first online computing facility at Harvard Business School and introduced a computer-based simulation exercise, known as the Business Game, to the graduate curriculum in 1961. Dr.
Energy Industry Management Consortium Launch Harvard ...
Midwest ENERGY Association, SkillSoft, and Harvard MangeMentor Plus work together to bring actionable tools, practical advice, and relevant online training topics to experienced and emerging leaders in the energy industry. Minneapolis, MN (PRWEB) March 27, 2007 -- Midwest ENERGY Association (MEA) announces a new Leadership Development Initiative to help utility, pipeline, and contractor companies develop and strengthen their management teams. The online and classroom courses are organized into two tracks that feature MEA built courses, selected SkillSoft courses, and includes the option of 24/7 access to 41 topics from Harvard ManageMentor Plus the curriculum was chosen by industry organizational development and operations training experts to provide emerging and experienced leaders with the tools and knowledge needed to effectively deal with the day to day activities on the job.
Drawing from his creative side
It's not often kids are rewarded for drawing pictures of their teachers during class or their preacher during church. But when you have a knack for creating caricatures like Jonny Hawkins does, people don't mind the doodling as much. Hawkins, 40, became a full-time cartoonist in 1990, but his mother told him she felt him drawing in the womb. He sold his first cartoon in 1986 for $15 while in college. They now average around $100, with his highest ever going for $700 to the "Harvard Business Review." .
Having faith in women
Chicken Little was wrong. The sky isn't falling, but the glass ceiling appears to be. In February, Harvard announced the appointment of its first female president. The month before, Nancy Pelosi (news, bio, voting record) was sworn in as the first female speaker of the House of Representatives. Bigger still, Sen. Hillary Clinton " /> Hillary Clinton is the Democratic front-runner for the presidency. In politics and academia, women are finally getting their due. .
Online Casinos Intend To Make A Game Of It
By Alice LaPlante
InformationWeek
April 7, 2007 12:01 AM (From the April 9, 2007 issue) Daniel Negreanu under stands the odds. As one of the most successful poker tournament players in the world, "Kid Poker" became the youngest player to win the World Series of Poker in 1998, and he continues to dominate high-stakes games. In December 2005, wary of increasing government hostility toward Internet gambling, he knew it was time to fold. "Clearly, it wasn't going to be possible to live in the U.S. and run an online poker operation," he says. So he sold his successful online poker site, Full Contact Poker, to Big Stack Enterprises, in Curacao. Negreanu, as usual, was ahead of the game. Ten months later, on Sept.
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