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What's Ivanka Trump's next move?
Exactly seven weeks from today, Donald Trump won't be President anymore. And likewise, his eldest daughter, Ivanka, will be out of a job.
See, Ivanka -- along with her husband, Jared Kushner -- have spent the last four years by her dad's side in Washington, emerging as major behind-the-scenes (and sometimes in front of them) players in the, um, tempestuous Trump administration. While Ivanka won't be working in the White House anymore, she's not going to just disappear.As The Washington Post's Jacqueline Alemany (SHS 2007)
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Nicole Eisenman and Keith Boadwee
The FLAG Art Foundation presents Nicole Eisenman (SHS 1983) and Keith Boadwee, on view December 12, 2020-March 13, 2021 on its 9th and 10th floors. The recipient of The Contemporary Austin’s 2020 Suzanne Deal Booth / FLAG Art Foundation Prize, Eisenman created thematically-linked solo exhibitions for The Contemporary (Sturm und Drang, on view at the museum in Austin, Texas, February 27-November 15, 2020) and FLAG. Eisenman expanded the exhibition at FLAG to include artist Keith Boadwee; their shared use of humor and critical observation questions both real and imagined power structures, upends art history, and lampoons notions of “good taste.”
Nicole Eisenman employs a plurality of styles and visual references in her drawings, paintings, and sculptures to give shape to the many forms of the human condition. At FLAG, Eisenman’s cast of characters are emblematic of the patriarchy—frat guys, paunchy businessmen, and bald eagles—the foundations of which she gleefully undermines through absurdity, caricature, and gallows humor. A concurrent exhibition of upwards of 250 abject drawings by Keith Boadwee dovetails with Eisenman’s presentation. Installed en masse, Boadwee’s works depict a near infinite variety of scatological scenes that assert one’s agency over their body, its functions, messiness, and pleasures.
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Yvette Chaskel published Douglas Rushkoff talks cyberpunks and Bitcoin with Isaac Morehouse on Streamanity in News 2021-02-01 10:48:33 -0500
Douglas Rushkoff (SHS 1979) talks cyberpunks and Bitcoin with Isaac Morehouse on Streamanity
What was originally rumored at CoinGeek Live has finally happened, and is now live on Streamanity.
Crash Inc. CEO Isaac Morehouse and the cyberpunk, author, producer, podcaster, media theorist, and visionary Douglas Rushkoff got together to discuss a variety of topics exclusively on Streamanity.
Both Morehouse and Rushkoff participated in the “Social & Online Content Creators: Moving On-Chain to Make Money” panel on day two of CoinGeek Live. The panel explored the numerous ways that Bitcoin offers a better alternative to the current content creation outlets, as well as how content creators can move on-chain to make money in the digital era that we live in.
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Yvette Chaskel published Cleveland Cavaliers hire Greg Buckner as an assistant coach in News 2021-02-01 10:37:47 -0500
Cleveland Cavaliers hire Greg Buckner as an assistant coach
The Cleveland Cavaliers seem to have a solid coaching staff at this point, when looking at their current situation heading into the 2020-21 season.
Assistant coaches such as Dan Geriot and Lindsay Gottlieb (SHS 1995) appear to have really aided Cleveland from a player development standpoint as key assistants for Cleveland, as well as Cavs director of player development/assistant coach Mike Gerrity.
And it seems to me that the Cavs have their long-term answer at head coach in J.B. Bickerstaff, who took over in that role post-All-Star break last season for John Beilein, who then stepped down from that role and has an unspecified role within the Cavaliers organization.
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Yvette Chaskel published The Bizarre Injury Aaron Sorkin Sustained While Writing A Fight Scene in News 2021-01-26 17:32:09 -0500
The Bizarre Injury Aaron Sorkin Sustained while writing a fight scene
If Aaron Sorkin's name sounds familiar, that's not because he's a famous actor or singer. However, he is a well-known and respected figure in show business. That's because he's arguably "Hollywood's most celebrated and scrutinized screenwriter," according to The Hollywood Reporter. That status is, in part, because he "has long been fascinated by the crackling combo of politics, media, and the law," and uses his shows and movies to work out and share the results of that particular passion, Los Angeles Magazine points out. In fact, "[t]hroughout his long, impressive career," he "has dramatized some of the most topical subjects of the day."
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Yvette Chaskel published Chegg Inc (CHGG) PRESIDENT, CEO & CO-CHAIRMAN Daniel Rosensweig Sold $2 million of Shares in News 2021-01-26 17:09:19 -0500
Chegg Inc (CHGG) PRESIDENT, CEO & CO-CHAIRMAN Daniel Rosensweig Sold $2 million of Shares
PRESIDENT, CEO & CO-CHAIRMAN of Chegg Inc (30-Year Financial, Insider Trades) Daniel Rosensweig (SHS 1979)(insider trades) sold 28,000 shares of CHGG on 11/19/2020 at an average price of $70.64 a share. The total sale was $2 million.
Chegg Inc is a student-first connected learning platform empowering students to take control of their education to save time and money. It offers its products and services under Chegg services and required materials categories. Chegg Inc has a market cap of $9.15 billion; its shares were traded at around $71.02 with and P/S ratio of 15.85. GuruFocus has detected 3 severe warning signs with Chegg Inc. .
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Yvette Chaskel published COVID hit startups badly – but something surprising is happening in News 2021-01-26 16:42:35 -0500
COVID hit startups badly – but something surprising is happening
At the end of last year, the Middle East's startup scene was on the up and up. The region's ride-hailing service, Careem, was acquired by Uber in a $3.1bn deal, and the wider industry witnessed record levels of engagement.
Research from MAGNiTT, a startup data platform, revealed that $704m was invested across 564 different startups across the region in 2019. "To put it into perspective, 2009 saw $15m of funding in five venture deals," the company noted.
"The story remains success breeding success," Christopher Schroeder (SHS 1982) co-founder Next Billion Ventures and author of Startup Rising: The Entrepreneurial Revolution Remaking the Middle East, told ZDNet. "The massive mobile penetration [is] attracting investment from within the region," Schroeder observed, and that investment is coupled "with more global tech companies exploring ways to enter".
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Yvette Chaskel published Author And Journalist Tom Ricks: Founding Fathers Expected Today's Political State in News 2021-01-26 16:32:21 -0500
Author And Journalist Tom Ricks: Founding Fathers Expected Today's Political State
Tom Ricks spent decades as a journalist, including covering the U.S. military for newspapers and writing books about the war in Iraq.
Then he decided to take a step back, moving to an island in Maine where he's been reading the words of George Washington, Thomas Jefferson and others.
He says it's important to read the works of these founders, "because we still live in the house they designed."
Ricks has written a book called First Principles: What America's Founders Learned from the Greeks and Romans and How That Shaped Our Country.
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Yvette Chaskel published Aaron Sorkin Explains Why 'The Newsroom' Felt Like a "Pebble in the Shoe" in News 2021-01-26 16:26:04 -0500
Aaron Sorkin Explains Why 'The Newsroom' Felt Like a "Pebble in the Shoe"
Aaron Sorkin (SHS 1979) was never able to get The Newsroom to where he wanted it to go, which happened for a number of reasons.
In a recent video interview with Vanity Fair in which he discussed his entire career, the Oscar-winning screenwriter dove into the issues he faced with the HBO series.
"I was never able to get it quite right," Sorkin began. "I always felt like I had a pebble in my shoe. I felt like I could write a good scene. I could put a couple of good scenes together." Sorkin compared the situation to a football team that can put together two good quarters of play, but not a full game's worth.
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Yvette Chaskel published Media Multitasking Disrupts Memory, Even in Young Adults in News 2021-01-26 16:03:09 -0500
Media Multitasking Disrupts Memory, Even in Young Adults
The bulky, modern human brain evolved hundreds of thousands of years ago and, for the most part, has remained largely unchanged. That is, it is innately tuned to analog information—to focus on the hunt at hand or perhaps the forage for wild plants. Yet we now pummel our ancient thinking organ with a daily deluge of digital information that many scientists believe may have enduring and worrisome effects.
“This is an impressive study,” comments Daphne Bavelier, a professor of psychology at the University of Geneva in Switzerland, who was not involved in the new research. “The work is important as it identifies a source of interindividual variability when one is cued to remember information”—the differences in attention among the study participants. “These findings are novel and tell us something important about the relationship between attention and memory, and their link to everyday behavior ..., [something] we did not know before,” adds Harvard University psychologist Daniel L. Schacter (SHS 1970), who was also not involved in the study.
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Yvette Chaskel published Aaron Sorkin Explains Why 'The Newsroom' Felt Like a "Pebble in the Sho in News 2021-01-26 15:39:17 -0500
Aaron Sorkin Explains Why 'The Newsroom' Felt Like a "Pebble in the Sho
Aaron Sorkin (SHS 1979) was never able to get The Newsroom to where he wanted it to go, which happened for a number of reasons.
In a recent video interview with Vanity Fair in which he discussed his entire career, the Oscar-winning screenwriter dove into the issues he faced with the HBO series.
"I was never able to get it quite right," Sorkin began. "I always felt like I had a pebble in my shoe. I felt like I could write a good scene. I could put a couple of good scenes together." Sorkin compared the situation to a football team that can put together two good quarters of play, but not a full game's worth.
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Yvette Chaskel published Sun Valley Film Festival announces 2020 lineup (Barbara Kopple) in News 2020-05-08 16:09:26 -0400
Sun Valley Film Festival announces 2020 lineup (Barbara Kloppe)
SUN VALLEY, Idaho — The 2020 Sun Valley Film Festival is coming up and organizers have unveiled this year's film selections. The five-day festival features both fiction and documentary entries, including films that recently debuted at Sundance, like Black Bear, Nine Days and Never Rarely Sometimes Always.
The filmmakers for those movies and others will be in attendance. You can also catch Idaho offerings, including Girls are Strong Here, the winner of last year's 1 Potato screenwriting contest.
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Bob Wilber (SHS '45)
Bob Wilber, a saxophonist, clarinetist and bandleader who spearheaded a traditional jazz revival in the face of a postwar modernist boom, and kept the faith well into a new century, died on Aug. 4 in Chipping Campden, England. He was 91.
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Yvette Chaskel published Join Us May 11th for the Scarsdale ALL Alumni Reunion! Celebrating the 100 Year Anniversary of Scarsdale High School! in News 2019-04-10 22:25:22 -0400
Join Us May 11th for the Scarsdale ALL Alumni Reunion! Celebrating the 100 Year Anniversary of Scarsdale High School!
The moment we have all been waiting for is here! The Scarsdale Alumni Association is very excited to announce we will be holding an ALL Scarsdale Alumni Reunion to celebrate the 100 year anniversary of Scarsdale High School on Saturday, May 11, 2019! All Scarsdale alumni from all class years are invited!
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Eric Rothschild (SHS 1954) passing
We just have received the sad news that Eric Rothschild has passed away. A member of the Scarsdale High School class of 1954, Eric was regarded highly for his work as a longtime history teacher at the high school, arriving there to teach in 1964. Eric served as chair of the High School Social Social Studies Department from 1973 to 1998.
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Yvette Chaskel published Eve Ensler (SHS 1971) introduces James Lecesne at TMI fundraiser in Kingston in News 2018-10-29 15:29:18 -0400
Eve Ensler (SHS 1971) introduces James Lecesne at TMI fundraiser in Kingston
Eve Ensler, left, playwright, performer, feminist and activist best known for her play "The Vagina Monologues", introduces Academy Award-winning screenwriter, author, actor and co-founder of the Trevor Project James Lecesne, at the TMI Project Voices in Action 2018 Benefit and Storytelling Showcase at BSP in Uptown Kingston on Saturday night.
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Adam Bloom (SHS 2000)
Adam Bloom, of Nantucket, died Friday, Jan. 8, 2016 in his home on West Chester Street. He was 33. Adam was born March 3, 1982 in Santiago, Chile. He grew up in Scarsdale, N.Y. and spent time on Nantucket every summer of his life.
Adam graduated from Scarsdale High School in 2000, attended Lynn University in Boca Raton, Fla. and received a sound-engineering certificate from the Institute for Acoustic Research in New York City.
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Yvette Chaskel published What to answer someone that asks for an event that is not listed on our events page? in Admin FAQ 2017-08-14 17:01:08 -0400
What to answer someone that asks for an event that is not listed on our events page?
A:Search any past emails regarding the event in case we missed. If we have no information we should tell him/her that we have not yet received the details of the event to post on our site. That we will post it on our event section as soon as someone provides us the details.