Manhattan madam who made millions is jailed

By msnbc.com staff

A petite, green-eyed madam who bragged she made millions running a brothel in New York City has been charged following a five-year investigation into her business.

Anna Gristina, 44, a mother of four, was indicted on Feb. 22 by a Manhattan?grand jury for promoting prostitution, DNAinfo.com,a local Manhattan blog, reported. Prosecutors say they have nearly a hundred hours of audio and visual surveillance that demonstrate Gristina paired prostitutes ? some underage ? with influential men out of a brothel based in a?building on East 78th Street.


In the tapes, court records say, she admits to making millions during her 15 years as a madam.

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Gristina was arrested while working with a Morgan Stanley banker who was helping her, court documents say.

A judge levied a $2 million bail because prosecutors worried that she was a flight risk given her British passport and network of wealthy clients.

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Frost Sullivan white paper examines next generation collaboration tools supporting social business

MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif., March 1, 2012 /PRNewswire-Asia/ ? As today?s enterprises grow increasingly global with workers, partners and customers located around the world, businesses must support flexible, cost-cutting and effective communication and collaboration on all fronts.? To succeed in this fast paced, evolving environment, organizations require a functional solution that lets users bridge geographic and cultural boundaries through a single interface.? Video conferencing, especially, brings together remote workers for face-to-face communication and promotes stronger business relationships, among other benefits.? ??

Frost Sullivan?s whitepaper, Identifying the Value of Video Collaboration: Critical Steps for Supporting Social Business, analyzes advanced communication and collaboration applications that are changing the way workplaces function in day-to-day operations.? The research finds that through utilizing next generation tools, such as video conferencing, enterprises can expect to bolster the bottom line, cut down on decision periods, reduce costs and boost productivity.?

In a time when many employees work remotely, travel often and collaborate frequently with clients, partners and colleagues around the globe, interconnectivity plays an important role in employee performance.? Companies must support this cultural and technological shift to ensure their teams are equipped with modern tools to manage the advanced challenges.? Additionally, travel expenses are constantly on the rise while markets continue to level out, requiring superior communication tools to sustain ease of production and create meaningful partnerships.

?From our examination of the workplace, we found that companies adopting strategic collaboration tools now will be two to five years ahead of the competition,? said Frost Sullivan Vice President of Enterprise Communications Collaboration Research Melanie Turek.? ?Forward thinking organizations are seeing measurable value in advanced communications solutions that allow for true collaboration, leading to enhanced thought leadership, customer support and productivity.?

Businesses are also reevaluating how they approach meetings and collaborative work. Today?s employees don?t always want or need pre-planned meetings with prepared agendas; today, they must be able to function on an ad hoc basis, with the flexibility and accessibility they need to quickly solve problems and make decisions.

?Video conferencing supports the shift in the way people work, allowing participants in different time zones and locations to not only increase personal interaction, but also to share data and information via social business,? said Turek.? ?This saves employers the overhead and loss in productivity caused by constant travel, and companies can see a reduction of capital, infrastructure, operational and energy costs with hosted video conferencing solutions.?

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'Hunger Games' Tracking Big: But What Does It Mean?

This week's Hobnobbing explains the film's pre-release numbers.
By Amy Wilkinson


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Fans of Suzanne Collins' dystopian teen drama "The Hunger Games" have long predicted that the series' big-screen adaptation would emerge victorious from its box-office battle. And now, it seems, preliminary estimates support the stan speculation.

Deadline reports that the early tracking figures for the March 23 release are "numbers every film studio can only dream about," with 23 percent of respondents selecting the film as "First Choice" and 54 percent indicating "Definite Interest." In fact, one estimate Deadline editor Nikki Finke received predicted the film could open to more than $70 million — narrowly besting the "Twilight" opening-weekend gross of $69.6 million. All good news for fans fretting over the series' fate ... but what do these numbers really mean?

Tracking, in essence, measures the results of a studio's marketing campaign and is by no means an exact science.

"The real use of tracking is to measure the effectiveness of the marketing weeks out from release, so you can make adjustments while there's still time," Vinny Bruzzese, president of the worldwide motion-picture tracking firm OTX, told TheWrap as part of an interesting piece examining the practice. "By the time the official prediction comes out on the day of the release, it's fairly useless."

Clearly, Lionsgate's clever campaigns (including Capitol Couture, puzzle scavenger hunts and advanced screening giveaways) have resonated with fans and non-fans alike, gaining plenty of exposure for the fledgling franchise. However, we must remember that tracking is not necessarily meant to prognosticate box-office returns (TheWrap's story calls such predictions nothing more than "parlor tricks").

For argument's sake, however, let's say that "The Hunger Games" does indeed meet its $70 million expectations. Lionsgate CEO Jon Feltheimer told Bloomberg that the debut installment would need to earn $100 million in overall domestic sales to justify a sequel. With a potential $70 million opening weekend, the film would need to gross only $30 million more to reach that benchmark. And unless attendance drops off as steeply as the Arena's cliff, it will prevail, all but guaranteeing "Catching Fire" will, well, catch fire.

Are you cautiously optimistic about the "Hunger Games" box-office outlook? Sound off in the comments below and tweet me @amymwilk with your thoughts and suggestions for future columns!

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Swift invites teen with leukemia to awards show

By Natalie Finn, E! Online

Taylor Swift knows from "Mean." And it turns out she's also pretty familiar with being absolutely lovely.

The country-pop superstar regretfully had to turn down an invitation to attend a prom in New Jersey with 18-year-old Kevin McGuire, who's battling leukemia.

But Swift came up with one heck of an alternative!

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"Kevin, I'm so sorry but I won't be able to make it to your prom," Swift wrote on Facebook today. "But I was wondering, the ACM Awards are coming up. Would you be my date? Love, Taylor"

?Well, shoot!

What were the chances that, assuming McGuire is able to go, he would turn that down?!

"I don't know what else to say," he said, per Philadelphia's CBS 3. "I was just trying not to throw up!"

"I have cancer. Cancer doesn't have me," he added. "Taylor, I would love to go with you."

The idea of getting Taylor to go to the Sterling High School prom in Somerdale, N.J., originated with McGuire's big sister, Tori. Knowing that her brother's spirits needed lifting, Tori started the Facebook page "Taylor Swift take KEVIN MCGUIRE TO PROM! "

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"Kevin is the kindest, most noble 18-year-old a person could even fathom meeting," Tori wrote, "and throughout his ups and downs Kevin never even questioned 'why me?' Nothing, and I mean NOTHING brightens Kevin's day more than Taylor Swift."

McGuire, a varsity football player, was first diagnosed with leukemia when he was 13 and had been in remission since 2010 but recently suffered a relapse.

He is currently undergoing treatment at Children's Hospital of Philadelphia--and it's an interview he gave to Philly's Fox 29 about Tori's efforts that really helped get the ball rolling on Twitter and Facebook. Swift ended up hearing the news while in Australia promoting her latest film, The Lorax.

While 93,840 people have liked the idea of Swift going to the prom in June, 71,417 already adore the idea of McGuire going to the Academy of Country Music Awards with her on April 1.

And we have a feeling the number of likes will skyrocket.

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