Saturday, March 28, 2009

NCAA Men's Hockey - Vermont Crushes Yale
USCHO.com News

BRIDGEPORT, Conn. (March 27) — For an NCAA game, the teams were about as disparate as could be.

The second-seeded Yale Bulldogs took the ice riding a four-game winning streak, scoring 15 goals on the way to their first-ever ECAC Hockey Championship. Vermont, on the other hand, had dropped to a No.3 seed, in part because of a three-game losing streak in which its stalwart defense surrendered 14 goals. .....

... The second-year striker zipped the puck back across Madore's net to Sean Backman, but the high-scoring sniper from Cos Cob, Conn. couldn't put enough lumber to the rubber to drive it home. "I think the key moment in the game tonight was the ...

Thursday, March 26, 2009

Art society judges student work for scholarship
Greenwich Post


... gifts $2200 to three outstanding students and presents two works of each winner at the ASOG Spring Show at the Garden Education Center in Cos Cob. ...

Wednesday, March 25, 2009

Columnist Tom Friedman Keynotes F2C: Freedom to Connect Conference
Market Wire

SILVER SPRING, MD--(Marketwire - March 24, 2009) - F2C: Freedom to Connect producer David S. Isenberg today announced that three-time Pulitzer Prize winner and New York Times columnist Thomas L. Friedman has been selected as keynote speaker at F2C: Freedom to Connect. F2C is the conference that connects beltway tech policy wonks with telecom practitioners and infrastructure builders across the United States and Europe. Friedman will speak on "Green Innovation," a topic that amplifies the major themes of F2C: Freedom to Connect. F2C, held here March 30 & 31st, is about building an open, abundant Internet as a central component of a thriving economy and a clean environment. Several F2C speakers will address successes and failures of broadband implementations around the world. F2C will cover the $7.2 billion broadband stimulus package and the $110 billion in the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act that also may be used to build broadband connections to the Internet. Several of the networks they have built serve as models for stimulus funding.

Thomas Friedman joined the New York Times in 1981. His two most recent books, "The World is Flat," and "Hot, Flat and Crowded," show how technology can address energy and environment issues and lower many barriers that divide the world's peoples. "Tom has a genius for telling compelling stories about geeky topics," said Isenberg, who has produced F2C for five years. "We're looking to Tom for lessons about how to tell our story effectively."

More information on F2C: Freedom to Connect is at http://www.freedom-to-connect.net/.

ABOUT F2C: Freedom to Connect: F2C has been produced every year for five years by isen.com, LLC, an independent telecom analysis firm based in Cos Cob, CT. Isen.com, LLC was founded by David S. Isenberg, who serves as its Principal Prosultant(SM) and Managing Member. Isenberg is author of The Rise of the Stupid Network, a 1997 essay about the coming changes in telecommunications, written while he was a Distinguished Member of Technical Staff at AT&T Bell Labs. There's more information at http://isen.com/.

Tuesday, March 24, 2009

PepsiCo's Quaker, Gatorade And Tropicana Business Units Release...
Logistics Online

... headquartered in Orlando, FL. Pegasus Capital Advisors, a private equity fund manager with offices in New York and Cos Cob, CT, retains a majority interest in iGPS. Founded in 1995, Pegasus provides capital to middle market companies across a wide ...

Monday, March 23, 2009

Egg hunt to send children scrambling for treats
Greenwich Post


Get tickets at Greenwichlions.org or Griffith E. Harris Insurance, Post Road, Cos Cob Patriot National Bank-Greenwich branches. ...

Sunday, March 22, 2009

Himes hears seniors’ anger about economy
Greenwich Post


After delivering a brief overview of his first few months in office, the freshman congressman, a Cos Cob resident, took questions from a group of more than ...

Friday, March 20, 2009

Citizens say: Get King Street fire house up and running to save lives
Greenwich Citizen


Now is the park in Cos Cob dead as a doornail?
If so, is there money in the budget for the park that can be put to new use -- say for the King St. fire ...
Chicken Soup for the Soul Launches New Book Club
PRESS RELEASE

COS COB ---Chicken Soup for the Soul Publishing, LLC., the company behind the Chicken Soup for the Soul book series, one of the best-selling and most-beloved series of all time, is launching its first-ever book club in April 2009. The company has teamed up with two industry leaders, Traffic Marketplace, the world's fifth largest online advertising network [source: ComScore], which is set to handle global marketing, and Alta Resources, the global leader of integrated sales, service and fulfillment solutions supporting many other world-class brands. The book club ushers in a new era for Chicken Soup for the Soul -- providing customers direct and convenient access to the newest books -- and is yet another sign of the fresh energy and momentum behind the company. Over the past year, against the grain of poor economic conditions, Chicken Soup for the Soul Publishing, LLC. has:

appointed Simon & Schuster, Inc. one of the world's foremost publishing companies, as its book distributor for all of its new books;

hired IMG Licensing, the world's leading licensing agent, as its exclusive North American licensing representative;

entered into an agreement with dick clark productions to develop a television show based on the series;

published over 30 new books;

and entered into new relationships with some of world's biggest brands, including its recently announced arrangement with Golf Digest. "At a time when many are in need of hope and inspiration, we believe our book club will help Chicken Soup for the Soul impact more lives in positive ways," said William J. Rouhana, Jr., CEO of Chicken Soup for the Soul. "We designed this book club to provide convenience and a higher level of service to our customers, many of whom buy Chicken Soup for the Soul books to give as gifts. We are pleased to be joined by more world class companies to increase the reach of our message." Traffic Marketplace, a company that reaches more than 142 million unique users each month through 30 billion advertising impressions, has committed to aggressively use its world-renowned online reach to promote the book club.

"We are excited about this new relationship with Chicken Soup for the Soul, a brand that has a wonderful reputation and millions of fans around the world," said Jim Waltz, president of Traffic Marketplace. "We look forward to spreading the word about the book club to millions through our many marketing channels." Alta Resources will handle all back end services and customer care for the book club. In aligning itself with Alta Resources, Chicken Soup for the Soul works with a company that shares its commitment to delivering an exceptional customer experience.

Alta Resources' consumer care receives customer satisfaction scores for leading market share consumer packaged goods brands ranging from 95 percent to 99 percent. "Chicken Soup for the Soul is a fitting partner for Alta Resources because they share our focus on customer care," said Jim Bere, CEO of Alta Resources. "We look forward to providing Chicken Soup for the Soul book club members with an unparalleled customer experience."Upon joining the book club, members will receive three books and sign up to buy eight more within 18 months. In a unique feature, members will be able to direct the shipment of each month's books to friends or family members as gifts by managing their account online.

About Chicken Soup for the Soul Publishing, LLC: Chicken Soup for the Soul Publishing, LLC, publishes all the latest titles in the famous Chicken Soup for the Soul book series which are distributed through Simon and Schuster, Inc. Since 1993, books in the Chicken Soup for the Soul series have sold more than 112 million copies, with titles translated into more than 40 languages. Chicken Soup for the Soul Publishing also licenses the right to use its famous trademark to high quality licensees through IMG, the world's premier licensing agent.

The company is currently implementing a plan to expand into all media, is developing a television show with dick clark productions and is working on several other TV shows and movies. Additionally, the company is developing a major Internet presence dedicated to life improvement, emotional support and inspiration. In 2007, USA Today named Chicken Soup for the Soul one of the five most memorable and impactful books in the last quarter century.

For more information visit: http://www.chickensoup.com/.For more information, or an interview with any of the listed parties, please contact Rusty Shelton at (512) 478-2028, ext. 220 or rshelton@phenixpublicity.com.

SOURCE Chicken Soup for the Soul Publishing, LLC

Tuesday, March 3, 2009

Goodhue captures Minor League Golf Tour title
The Stuart News

... in less than two weeks. At 146, Goodhue finished one stroke ahead of another Connecticut golfer, Frank Bensel of Cos Cob, who closed at 76-147 at the Santa Lucia River Club. Bensel had been one of the first round co-leaders, but finished with bogey ...

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