The Independent has a great article by former Wall Streeter Philipp Meyer titled American Excess: A Wall Street Trader Tells All. I’ve included some s

The Independent has a great article by former Wall Streeter Philipp Meyer titled American Excess: A Wall Street Trader Tells All. I’ve included some snippets from the article below, but you really should read the whole thing. I didn’t fit the typical profile of a trader. I was an English major working on a novel at night. Most everyone else was a maths or economics major, most everyone else had relatives or family in banking. I’d spent a year walking around studying flashcards with maths problems, multiplying random licence-plate numbers in my head, just to prepare for the interviews. I memorised The Wall Street Journal every morning....

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Rebuilding Ground Zero: Larry Silverstein Named Ernst & Young Entrepreneur Of The Year

Larry Silverstein, President, CEO, Silverstein Properties, Inc., was named the Ernst & Young Entrepreneur Of The Year 2010 national winner in the Real Estate, Hospitality and Construction category. Now in its 24th year, Ernst & Young's Entrepreneur Of The Year is the world's most prestigious business award for entrepreneurs. The award encourages entrepreneurial activity and recognizes leaders and visionaries who demonstrate innovation, financial success and personal commitment as they create and build world-class businesses. To view the multimedia assets associated with this release, please click: http://multivu.prnewswire.com/mnr/ey/47191/...

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Champions League final: Barcelona's Lionel Messi - behind the mask of the world's best player

Lionel Messi shuffled into the press conference room at the Nou Camp to be assailed by an army of photographers thrusting cameras towards a face that betrayed absolutely nothing. Not pleasure, not dismay, not irritation, not weariness. They might as well have been snapping a blank canvas. What was he really thinking behind that mask? On their Champions League final media day, Barcelona had set up one set-piece event in front of a packed house to spare the world’s best player being hawked through umpteen ‘must have’ interviews. No other player was afforded this luxury. And, of course, the irony was that Messi had less to say...

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Champions League final: Henrik Larsson on the Manchester United line-up for Wembley

ow retired, Sweden's Henrik Larsson won a Premier League title with Manchester United and both La Liga and the Champions League with Barcelona. He here runs the rule over the former ahead of Saturday's Wembley showdown . .Champions League apps this season: 9. Goals: 0. Assists: 0. Yellow cards: 1. Red Cards: 0. He has everything that you want from a goalkeeper - a great presence between the posts, superb positional sense - and he is a brilliant shot-stopper. Sir Alex Ferguson has bought two of the best keepers in his time at United in Peter Schmeichel and Van der Sar and that is one of the big reasons he has been so successful....

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Edwin van der Sar's giant gloves 'impossible' to fill as Manchester United goalkeeper

dwin van der Sar will have the details of Barcelona’s penalty takers at the touch of his fingertips on an iPad ahead of the Champions League final and every inch he covers at Wembley on the last appearance of his illustrious career on Saturday night will be mapped out by computer technology. Yet when Manchester United’s 40-year-old goalkeeper first laid hands on the European Cup with Ajax in 1995, he did not even possess a mobile phone. Little wonder that the Dutchman believes he will be drawing the line under something which feels almost prehistoric when he packs the gloves away for the final time after Saturday night’s game....

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man utd vs barcelona 2010/2011 final - wembley ,Champions League final: the key tactical issues

1. Barcelona’s possession play Within the first few minutes, we will see how Manchester United intend to cope when they don't have the ball. It's always the key question against Barcelona: how do you stop them from bossing the game? Well, the sobering answer is that you probably don't against this lot, at least in terms of enjoying more possession. That said, a variety of tactics are open to opponents who want to make it hard for Pep Guardiola's side to settle into their rhythm. Levante were the latest to offer an option when they pushed on to Barça's defenders whenever goalkeeper Victor Valdes had the ball. ...

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Champions League final: Johan Cruyff believes Barcelona coach Pep Guardiola could walk away after Wembley

Pep Guardiola has plunged Barcelona into uncertainty ahead of Saturday night’s Champions League final by refusing to dismiss Johan Cruyff’s claims that he could walk away from the Nou Camp following the Wembley clash against Manchester United. Guardiola, whose contract as Barcelona coach expires in June 2012, is known to have strong admirers within the Chelsea hierarchy. Guus Hiddink may have emerged as Chelsea owner Roman Abramovich’s first choice to replace the sacked Carlo Ancelotti, but Guardiola will command serious consideration at Stamford Bridge. With former Barcelona player and coach, Cruyff, on Friday voicing his concerns...

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Barcelona v Manchester United: Champions League final live Follow all the build-up and minute-by-minute commentary from the Champions League final bet

Image 1 of 4 Flying the flag: Barcelona fans descend on London en masse ahead of the Champions League final with Manchester United16.00: Barcelona fans appear to be taking over central London, apparently using the same guide book that American film makers leaf through when looking for establishing shots for a shift to the capital when picking out targets.Red telephone boxes - check; Trafalgar square lions - check; double-decker buses - check; Big Ben - check. If you are a seller of comedy union flag top hats, plastic policemen’s helmets or barely edible fish and chips I suggest...

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Silverstein Properties and Newest 7 World Trade Center Tenant, law firm WilmerHale, Are First to Adopt Green Lease Language Crafted by Mayor’s PlaNYC

Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg today joined WilmerHale co-managing partner William J. Perlstein and World Trade Center developer Larry A. Silverstein at the signing of WilmerHale's 7 World Trade Center lease, which is the first to incorporate groundbreaking language crafted by industry leaders working with the Mayor's Office of Long-Term Planning and Sustainability to promote enhanced energy efficiency and sustainability. Under traditional leases, building owners are responsible for the upfront cost of energy efficiency improvements. Tenants, however, are the immediate beneficiaries of those upgrades, in the form of reduced energy costs. Because...

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NYC Tip: Washington Square, Our Campus

Returning home for the summer usually involves sharing stories from college, and both casually and self-importantly reminding friends that “yeah, NYU doesn’t have a campus.” While those who go to real college get schwasted at frat houses, NYU undergrads become regulars at East Village bars, intern in Brooklyn, and in between, master the New York City subway system. Then, we subtly brag about it through Facebook updates. Fuck a campus, we go to school with Matilda.But as I’ve learned in recent years, this fascination with an atypical college experience is anything but universal. Last semester, Dan wrote a poignant post that received over 40 comments...

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Apple Bumps Google and Facebook Finally Makes it: Top 100 Most Valuable Global Brands

Thanks to the iPhone and iPad, Apple bumped Google in this year's list of Top 100 Most Valuable Global Brands, the first time that Apple has held first place. Google has been the No. 1 brand for the last four years in a row. "I would say the big story to me is the tale of the tablet. If you see just how much Apple's brand value has gone up, the iPad is large part of that," said Eileen Campbell, CEO of Millward Brown, the global research agency that published the list. Last month, Apple announced a 95 percent increase in profit with second quarter earnings of $5.99 billion. The company announced it sold 18.65 million iPhones that quarter,...

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Sony forecasts return to modest profit Jonathan SoBle Tokyo— The Financial Times Published Thursday, May. 26, 2011 8:31AM EDT Last updated Thursday, M

Sony forecast it would return to a modest net profit this year after suffering its worst loss in 16 years in the wake of Japan’s devastating earthquake and tsunami.The forecast profit of ¥80-billion ($978-million U.S.), issued by the technology group on Thursday, was more cautious than analysts had expected even after the disaster, which disrupted supply networks across industries including semiconductors and cars. More related to this story Sony reports new online security breach in CanadaSony to post $3.2-billion annual lossSony discovers another breach Infographic Sony PlayStation accounts Video PlayStation data...

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Skyworks To Buy Advanced Analogic For $262.5M In Cash, Stock

Analog chip designer Skyworks Solutions Inc. (SWKS) agreed to buy Advanced Analogic Technologies Inc. (AATI) Thursday for roughly $262.5 million in cash and stock, adding a portfolio of power-management semiconductor products it expects to immediately boost earnings. Advanced shares surged 53% to $5.96 in after-hours trading, still shy of the offer's nominal value, while Skyworks stock was down 1.9% at $26.52. Through the close, shares in Advanced have risen 15% in the last year, underperforming the growth in the market at large. The deal comes little more than a week after the analog chip designer unveiled another takeover, agreeing to buy privately held chip-design company SiGe Semiconductor Inc. for up to $275 million. The takeovers lengthen a growing list of consolidations...

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Are Your Kids Safe From Drowning? Memorial Day weekend kicks off pool and swimming season

Although official summer is still weeks away, Memorial Day weekend is a traditional time for most area pools to open and, experts say, a time for parents to learn how to keep their kids safe from drowning. In Virginia, between 2005 and 2009, there were 464 fatal drownings and 83 percent of those were "unintentional injury deaths," according to Heather Board, who manages the Virginia Health Department's Injury Prevention Program. (Not all of those deaths are from swimming pool drownings.) Drowning is the #1 leading cause of death for children ages 1-4 in Virginia, she noted. Also this week, the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission...

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Hong Kong art fair opens with nod to China's Ai Weiwei

Hong Kong's growing international ART HK 11 fair has opened with a nod to Chinese activist artist Ai Weiwei, currently in detention in China. One of his works, a sculpture from 2007 called Marble Arm, is among the thousands of exhibits. It features a defiant raised middle finger. Protest T-shirts and badges in support of Mr Ai are also on sale. Mr Ai - a vocal critic of the Chinese government - was detained in April trying to board a flight for Hong Kong. The Chinese government has alleged that Mr Ai is involved in tax evasion and destroying evidence; his supporters say the charges are politically motivated...

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Gold knocked from three-week peak by sharp silver selloff

Shoppers browse for gold jewellery in Vientiane, Laos. Euro-denominated gold slid by about 1 per cent but still held near a record just above €1,088 (Dh5,660) an ounce struck on Wednesday. London: Gold fell yesterday after a sharp sell-off in the silver market, but still remained within sight of three-week...

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Preay Lang forest community demands a halt to deforestation

Call to preserve Prey Lang Kha Sros, 49, protests against land concessions the government has granted in Prey Lang forest during a rally at Freedom Park in Phnom Penh. Kha Sros and about 200 other villagers who depend on the forest for survival painted their faces and donned leaves as hats to show the importance of the area. (Photo by: Heng Chivoan) The venerable monk Loun Savath paints the face of Boeung Kak lakeside community representative Tol Srey Pao during a protest at Freedom Park in Phnom Penh yesterday. (Photo by: Thomas Miller) Thursday, 26 May 2011May TittharaThe Phnom Penh PostVillagers from four provinces ...

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Spanish Demonstrate Unemployment and Austerity Measures

A demonstrator carries a placard reading “One more day of reflection” as she dances with others at Sol Square on May 21, 2011 in Madrid, Spain. A growing number of angry Spaniards have, encouraged by youth groups and social media campaigns, taken possession of the Sol square setting it up with tents and kitchens ahead of Sundays regional and municipal elections held in Spain. (Photo by Jasper Juinen/Getty Images)Demonstrators dance and play their drums at Sol Square on May 21, 2011 in Madrid, Spain. (Photo by Jasper Juinen/Getty Images)Demonstrators gather at sunset after another day of protests at Sol Square on May 21, 2011 in Madrid,...

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Female Martyrs Train With Al- Aqsa Martyrs Brigade

A Palestinian female volunteers for the al- Aqsa Martyrs Brigade, a militant group part of Fatah movement, stands with her weapon in this undated photos. Unlike Hamas and Islamic Jihad, the ideology of al-Aqsa is rooted in Palestinian nationalism not political Islam, and is the only Palestinian group that accepts and trains women to be “martyrs”. (Photograph by Courtney Kealy/Getty Imag...

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