Anderson Cooper's CIA Secret Anderson Cooper has long traded on his biography, carving a niche for himself as the most human of news anchors. But there's one aspect of his past that the silver-haired CNN star has never made public: the months he spent training for a career with the Central Intelligence Agency. Following his sophomore and junior years at Yale—a well-known recruiting ground for the CIA—Cooper spent his summers interning at the agency's monolithic headquarters in Langley, Virginia, in a program for students interested in intelligence work. His involvement with the agency ended there, and he chose not to pursue a job with the agency after graduation, according to a CNN spokeswoman, who confirmed details of Cooper's CIA involvement to Radar. "Whatever summer jobs or internships our anchors had in college couldn't be less consequential," she added. "He doesn't want to be any more of a target than he already is," says one Anderson confidante.
Le tableau de bord des Medias sociaux Article disponible en pdf Suite à ma critique du « Social Networking Media ROI Calculator », et comme je préfère être constructif, voici ma méthode pour mettre en place la mesure du ROI des actions sur les médias sociaux. Le principe est simple : la mesure des actions sur les médias sociaux dépend d’un seul facteur : les objectifs de la marque. C’est pour cela qu’il est pour moi utopique de chercher à publier une méthode de calcul universelle. Pourquoi un tableau de bord? Il permet de concevoir la stratégie de la marque sur les médias sociaux Mettre en place la stratégie de la marque sur les médias sociaux implique de connaitre la situation actuelle. Il permet de piloter les plans d’action Sans trop chercher à se focaliser sur le court terme – les actions sur les médias sociaux doivent principalement être mesurées sur le long terme – le tableau de bord permet de présenter les données chiffrées disponibles afin de comprendre quels angles d’attaque fonctionnent le mieux.
FUNNEL INCORPORATED | GREEN INFOGRAPHICS Environmental issues can be overwhelming and confusing which is why organizations seeking better communication tools to persuade, change and challenge constituents turn to Funnel Incorporated for information design, infographics and icons. One well-executed infographic or icon can be used for fundraising, presentations, media outreach, online, annual reports, events and more making this investment cost effective as well. "Transparent organizations seeking to avoid the green washing backlash are wise to eschew superficial claims, window dressing and data manipulation," says Lin Wilson, Creative Director of Funnel Incorporated. “We advise clients to stick to the facts and respect its audience by presenting data in a clear and thoughtful manner." This fact-based approach appeals to an audience more apt to care for a cause it understands. "We excel in taking a difficult scientific process and making it easier for people to understand through pictures and text," continues Wilson.
How Two Scammers Built an Empire Hawking Sketchy Software | Magazine Illustration: Alvaro Tapia Hidalgo Before they built an international underworld empire — before they weaseled their way onto millions of computers, before their online enterprise was bringing in hundreds of millions of dollars a year, before they were fugitives wanted by Interpol — Sam Jain, now 41, and Daniel Sundin, 33, were just a couple of garden-variety Internet hustlers. The two, who met around 2001, started out with a series of relatively modest scams and come-ons. Capitalizing on post-9/11 paranoia, Jain sold anti-anthrax gas masks. Then, in August 2003, Jain and Sundin had a breakthrough thanks to the arrival of the so-called Blaster worm. Coincidentally, Sundin had already written some firewall software called Computershield. Source: Panda Security The plan worked. Over the next few years, imitators sprang up. IMI employees didn’t know each other’s real names — everyone just went by an online nickname.
Outil d'analyse de site web | WooRank Beautiful Brochures and Booklets « Smashing Magazine Advertisement In corporate design brochures and booklets are a standard tool for promotion and advertising. They are tiny books or magazines which lay around in conference halls, offices and waiting rooms. Sometimes they contain an annual report of the company or showcase the portfolio of an artist. Brochures can also be included in CDs and DVDs; however, usually they are given away as freebies (e.g. they may contain a calendar or some poster inside). In either case, booklets serve advertising purposes and since they are usually short (max. 25-30 pages) they need to look good and be informative in order to focus users’ attention and effectively convey the message. This post showcases beautiful examples of brochure and booklet design. You may want to take a look at our related posts Brochures and Booklets Urban Picnic6 Ant and blanket pattern graphics are used to interperet the common picnic in this event brochure for Architecture Week. 2008 Calendar8A pretty colorful calendar concept.
Litcham Cryptogram: a medieval mystery | Past Horizons Article created on Wednesday, October 5, 2011 Historian/Archaeologist with twenty years experience of working in built heritage conservation, project management and interpretation. Project director of the Norfolk Medieval Graffiti Survey (NMGS) - a volunteer led community archaeology project that aims to undertake the first large scale, systematic survey, of medieval graffiti in the UK. Joint Winner- Awards for the Presentation of Heritage Research 2011 and 2013 winner of the Marsh award for Community Archaeology. A community archaeology project based in Norfolk has stumbled upon a medieval mystery that has so far defied the best efforts of both archaeologists and historians to unravel its meaning. Whilst examining a rural Norfolk church, members of the Norfolk Medieval Graffiti Survey (NMGS) came across an intriguing inscription etched deeply into one of the pillars of the building. The Litcham Cryptogram Litcham Cryptogram. Recording a mystery Investigating over 650 churches
Everybody Bikes It's not just for hipsters and yuppies: It’s certainly true that many of the bikers pedaling around the hipper city precincts appear to be of the bourgeois-bohemian persuasion. But take a look across the country and bicyclists are a diverse lot, including immigrants who lack the documentation to get a driver’s license and people who are too poor to own a car. These are disproportionately minorities. (Chart by Grist) Babies prefer to gaze upon beautiful faces - 06 September 2004 Newborn babies prefer to look at attractive faces, says a UK researcher, suggesting that face recognition is hardwired at birth, rather than learned. Alan Slater and his colleagues at the University of Exeter showed paired images of faces to babies as young a one day old and found that they spent more time fixated on the more attractive face. "Attractiveness is not in the eye of the beholder, it's innate to a newborn infant," says Slater. Developmental psychologists have known for years that babies have preferences for certain objects, such as high contrast images, and curvy, biological shapes. Slater's research, using extraordinarily young infants, supports the idea that babies are not mere blank slates, but instead come into the world with a fairly well developed perception system. Pretty people The group took pictures of a variety of female faces and asked adult subjects presented to rate them for attractiveness. More From New Scientist More from the web Recommended by