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Happy New Year everyone! And to celebrate the beginning of 2012, I invited the noted trendologist, Marian Salzman, the author of the excellent Little Book of Nexts, into our New York City studio to preview the year and tell us what will be the top trends of 2012.Source: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Techcrunch/~3/DvtF2JJh5Jg/
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Nearly four decades of professional hockey futility for Broome County ended in June as the Binghamton Senators won a Calder Cup championship to cap a roller coaster 2010-11 season.
The B-Sens captured their city's first pro hockey title with a 4-2 finals victory over the Houston Aeros. Binghamton had been home to a professional team for 38 years, and a member of the American Hockey League for 29.
To welcome the players' return, an estimated 5,000 people turned out for a championship parade downtown and rally outside the Broome County Veterans Memorial Arena, celebrating the title run that was chosen as the top local sports story of 2011.
After struggling for much of the regular season, the B-Sens finished strong to earn an Atlantic Division playoff spot through the AHL's crossover rule.
As the fifth seed from the East Division, they rallied for a historic series win against the Manchester Monarchs before knocking off the Portland Pirates and sweeping the Charlotte Checkers to reach the finals.
The B-Sens were led by first-year coach Kurt Kleinendorst and assistant Steve Stirling -- who underwent emergency quadruple bypass surgery the day before the team traveled to Houston for its championship-clinching Game 6 win.
Robin Lehner became the second rookie goalie to capture the Jack A. Butterfield Trophy as MVP of the playoffs, going 14-4 with a 2.10 goals-against average and .939 save percentage in 19 postseason starts after taking over for regular-season team MVP Barry Brust.
Late-season trade acquisition Ryan Potulny led the league in playoff scoring with 26 points. Captain Ryan Keller finished with 25, including two series-winning goals to end the championship run.
The rest of the best, as voted on by the Press & Sun-Bulletin sports department:
2. Jon Jones captures UFC title: Jones, a Union-Endicott High graduate, became the youngest champion in UFC history when, at the age of 23, he defeated Mauricio Rua by third-round TKO on March 19 to win the light heavyweight title. Jones subsequently defended his title twice, improving his career record to 15-1.
3. Football title to M-E: A rousing second-half rally to a 27-20 victory over Burnt Hills-Ballston Lake attached an exclamation mark to a 12-0, Class A state-championship football season for Maine-Endwell.
After claiming a second consecutive Section 4 title, the Spartans played some of their best football of the season in state-playoff victories over East Syracuse Minoa and, in the semifinal round, a 19-16 conquest of top-ranked Rochester Aquinas Institute on one unforgettable night in East Syracuse.
Seventeen of 22 M-E starters were underclassmen.
4. Queen of the Court: During a dominant senior season in which her 30.6 points per game led Harpursville to a berth in the Class C state championship game, Hannah Kimmel rewrote Section 4's basketball record book.
Kimmel finished with 2,692 varsity points, No. 7 all-time among New York females and No. 1 in Section 4, gender notwithstanding.
She moved on to Sacred Heart University in Fairfield, Conn., but is sitting out her freshman season as result of a knee injury.
5. Greene Flash: In a senior year unprecedented in Section 4 distance running annals, Chad Noelle of Greene established Section 4 records in five outdoor events, won the Millrose Games high school mile in Madison Square Garden, broke Alberto Salazar's 36-year-old meet record in winning the Loucks Games' 3,200, repeated as Division II state champion at 3,200 meters, and captured the overall state title at 1,600 meters. He moved on to the University of Oregon.
6. CV wins first state baseball title: Chenango Valley capped a 20-2 season with a 7-4 victory over Section 1's Briarcliff in the state Class B title game, a game played over two days and two different fields -- Binghamton University, then NYSEG Stadium the following day -- due to inclement weather. Pitchers Austin Lewis and Mike Fillers earned first-team nods and catcher Mike Fernald a spot on the second team of the State Sports Writers Association's Class B all-state team.
7. Coaching legend passes: Richard E. Dick Baldwin, who coached basketball teams for 40 seasons at Broome Community College and five at SUNY-Binghamton to 961 victories, died in December at age 90. Mr. Baldwin in 1987 passed former University of Kentucky coach Adolph Rupp as all-time winningest college coach.
8. Windsor claims title: Windsor High claimed the program's third state softball championship in eight years with a 3-1 win over Rhinebeck on a soggy June Saturday at Queensbury. Upon completion of a 20-4 season, Black Knights pitchers Cara Martin and Leslie Dempsey were recognized as New York's co-Players of the Year in Class B.
9. Kelly, McCormick among 5 state wrestling champs: Johnson City's Sean McCormick and Chenango Forks' Kyle Kelly won Division I state titles at the state wrestling tournament at Albany, McCormick in the 112-pound weight class and Kelly at 96. Winning state titles in Division II were Tioga's Derak Heyman (140), who won his second title, Marathon's Lucas Malmberg (96) and Lansing's William Koll (103).
10. Dick's Open welcomes Watson: Thirty-five years after his last Broome County visit, Tom Watson -- winner of 39 PGA Tour and 14 Champions Tour titles -- teed it up for the Dick's Sporting Goods Open at En-Joie Golf Course. Before some of the largest galleries that week, he shared 38th place on rounds of 72, 67 and 74. "Nice to be here," he said upon exiting, "enjoyed the spiedies."
Source: http://www.pressconnects.com/article/20111231/SPORTS/112310326/1112/
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As aptly captured by Time magazine, 2011 was the 'Year of the Protestor.' From the Arab Spring to the UK riots to the Occupy Wall Street (OWS) demonstrations, 2011 witnessed an outpouring of popular discontent aimed at governments and businesses alike. But while OWS dominated headlines here at home with its anti-capitalism message, a quieter, but just as transformative story was taking shape in parallel: that of businesses leading the charge to make the world a better place for the majority. It is a variety of capitalism that would have been fundamental to Adam Smith but is exceptional among capitalists in the 21st century.
With little fanfare, corporations are responding to social challenges - from poverty, to environmental degradation and access to technology. 2011 may one day be remembered as the year when CEOs began to address many problems of society and the year when sustainability joined profit as a driving force of decision making in corporate boardrooms and value creator for corporate stakeholders.
Below are seven influential actions in 2011 that captured this emerging shift in business' relationship with society and caught my eye. With Rio +20 taking place this summer, look for the trend to continue in 2012.
1. Michael Porter and Mark Kramer's Creating Shared Value
The leading voices encouraging businesses to embrace corporate social responsibility (CSR) over the past two decades, Porter and Kramer published perhaps their most influential research to date in 2011. Their report is a pragmatic "how-to" for companies to integrate social challenges into their corporate fabric and thereby increase profits, shareholder value and long-term sustainability for their businesses.
2. Making the Business Case for Social Responsibility
Until this year, the economic benefits of incorporating sustainability in business practices remained largely unknown. As a result, CSR has been seen mainly as a PR tool, helping drive brand imaging. That is about to change thanks to two new Harvard Business School studies. In one study, three Harvard professors showed that over the last eighteen years the stock performance of companies that embraced environmental and social policies greatly outperformed similar companies that did not have the same ethics. Another study revealed that companies that successfully engage in CSR benefit from cheaper bank loans and higher levels of investments.
3. Rethinking the Role of Business
Calls for transforming business are coming from CEOs themselves. In an influential book published on the eve of Harvard Business School's 100th anniversary, business leaders across the world describe their visions for creating a more sustainable capitalist system by transforming their businesses into models of social responsibility.
4. Nestle: Encouraging Sustainable Agriculture
Nestle is one of the first major companies to embrace Porter's Shared Value Concept across its entire operations. In 2011, it operationally launched Nescafe Plan, a $331 million global initiative to boost productivity, sustainability and incomes of millions of farmers across the world. This year alone, they planted 4 million coffee trees in Columbia and began mentoring 10,000 cocoa farmers in Indonesia, the third largest producer of cocoa in the word.
5. Vodafone: Leveraging Cell Phones to Empower Women
Earlier this year Vodafone trained a group of women in Qatar, many of whom were never allowed to hold a job before, to operate their own Vodafone shop. The program is the first of its kind in traditionally conservative Qatar and the greater Middle East, and has empowered its owners and their customers to become more economically independent. In Egypt, Vodafone helped increase female literacy rates from the national average of 70% to 98% in the village of Siwa. These are just two of the dozens of projects within a larger global campaign launched by Vodafone, Hillary Clinton and the United Nations to empower women across the world.
6. GE's Ecomagination
A division of GE, Ecomagination, is leading the charge in providing finance for start-ups developing clean technologies and infrastructure. Over the summer, GE awarded its first Ecomagination Challenge Awards, a contest that will distribute $200 million to innovative start-ups. Going even farther, GE also established a $20 million fund to scale and commercialize the products identified by the challenge. The contest has turned the traditional R&D model on its head - moving energy and infrastructure research away from labs of governments or large companies into the outside entrepreneurial community.
7. Dow Chemical: Revitalizing Michigan's Battered Economy
Earlier this year, the US Small Business Administration partnered with Dow Chemicals and other businesses to establish a $130 million investment fund in Michigan that "will seek investments that would create jobs, diversify the state's economy and generate a profitable return." Dow's $15 million investment represents a growing trend of businesses partnering with Governments to address investment short falls in everything from infrastructure to small businesses. The CEO of Dow is encouraging other companies to pool their financial resources to help create jobs across the country, a move that will benefit companies, cash-strapped governments and ultimately, American workers.
So, as we enter 2012 perhaps we can be grateful for those corporations and individuals who have acted for the improvement of our society for all. As we enter an election year where the theme will be to divide us, it might be worth remembering that those being demonized are in many cases part of the solution not the problem.
Lynn Forester de Rothschild is CEO of EL Rothschild, LLC and the co-Chair of the "Better Values, Better Markets" Task Force at the Henry Jackson Society in London. You can follow her onFacebook, Twitter, and at Ldereport.com.
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SAN FRANCISCO (AP) ? Former Hewlett-Packard CEO Mark Hurd's efforts to impress an HP event hostess included showing her his checking-account balance holding over $1 million, according to a letter detailing the sexual harassment allegations that led to his ouster.
The letter was obtained late Thursday by The Associated Press after the Delaware Supreme Court ruled that disclosing it did not violate Delaware laws. In rejecting efforts by Hurd's lawyers to keep it confidential, the court concluded that the letter does not contain trade secrets, non-public financial information or third-party confidential information.
The ruling said information that is only "mildly embarrassing" is not protected from public disclosure. Some sentences concerning Hurd's family were ordered redacted from the letter, however.
Celebrity attorney Gloria Allred sent the letter last year on behalf of Jodie Fisher, who was hired as a contract employee to help with HP networking events and who later accused Hurd of sexual harassment.
Although an HP investigation did not find any evidence to support the harassment claim, it uncovered inaccurate expense reports for his outings with Fisher. Hurd was ultimately forced out in August 2010. He now works as co-president at rival Oracle Corp.
Allred alleged in the letter that, while Fisher was ostensibly hired an HP event hostess in late 2007, she was really brought on to accompany Hurd to HP events held out of town. Throughout 2008 and 2009, Hurd made it clear he expected to have a sexual relationship with Fisher, using his "status and authority as CEO of HP," Allred alleged.
Allred claimed that Hurd made several sexual advances toward Fisher, which Fisher rejected. In 2008, while walking with Fisher in Madrid, Hurd stopped at an ATM and showed her his checking-account balance "to impress her," according to the letter.
After Fisher rejected him a final time in October 2009, she was not hired for any future HP events, Allred alleged.
Allred also alleged that in March 2008, Hurd told Fisher that HP was likely to purchase technology services vendor EDS. HP announced the $13 billion acquisition in May of that year.
HP shareholder Ernesto Espinoza had sued to have the letter unsealed. Hurd's attorney, Amy Wintersheimer, said his lawyers had requested that the letter be kept confidential because "it is filled with inaccuracies."
"The truth is, there never was any sexual harassment, which HP's investigation confirmed, and there never was any sexual relationship, which Ms. Fisher has confirmed," Wintersheimer said in a statement.
Both Allred and Palo Alto-based Hewlett-Packard Co. had no comment on the letter's contents.
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Ortutay reported from New York.
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