| China: Due for a Reality Check
Waste disposal and pollution will grow into bigger and bigger problems, as the landscape sprouts more factories and industrial complexes. Some Beijing officials, as well as those at local levels—the country has 41,636 townships—have a stronger interest in winning business than they do in preserving the environment. A significant number are undoubtedly in bed with the factories seeking building permits and other privileges. Yes, the Chinese government is good about assuring its foreign trading partners of its ecologically sound policies, but enforcement ranges from tricky to impossible. Communist officials in localities have great power. A mayor who likes the idea of a new tool-and-die factory can make it happen with relatively few checks and balances. And no Chinese official at any level seems capable of stopping the intellectual-property theft.
A time of split-screen politics
At the weekend the journalist Christopher Caldwell asked why it was that presidential candidates posed more for photos with factory workers than ballet troupes, pointing out that in real America there were now more choreographers than metal-casters. Yet the image most constantly associated with US economics during the election is the ordinary guy on the line, not the ordinary gal in the office. And while the candidates hit each other over the heads with their own economic rescue plans, traders in Congress and the White House, make bargains over what the real recovery package will look like. This upper and lower story division is not just an American phenomenon. It is rather wonderful that poor old Peter Hain should have been told to quit - in advance of his actual departure - on the basis that his short campaign to be Labour deputy leader (which he never became) had proved that he was somehow too incompetent to be a Cabinet minister (which he had been for years).
Home Furnisher's Customers Warned
Domain has four Connecticut locations, in Farmington at Westfarms mall, and in Brookfield, Milford and Stamford.
Domain Inc. filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection on Friday. The company said in a statement that its 27 stores will remain open as the company searches for new investors. The statement also said the company could be sold or liquidated.
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The Billary Road to Republican Victory
Amazingly, neither party seems to fully recognize the contours of the road map. In the Democrats' case, the full-throttle emergence of Billary, the joint Clinton candidacy, is measured mainly within the narrow confines of the short-term horse race: Do Bill Clinton's red-faced eruptions and fact-challenged rants enhance or diminish his wife as a woman and a candidate? Absent from this debate is any sober recognition that a Hillary Clinton nomination, if it happens, will send the Democrats into the general election with a new and huge peril that may well dwarf the current wars over race, gender and who said what about Ronald Reagan. What has gone unspoken is this: Up until this moment, Hillary has successfully deflected rough questions about Bill by saying, "I'm running on my own" or, as she snapped at Barack Obama in the last debate, "Well, I'm here; he's not." This sleight of hand became officially inoperative once her husband became a co-candidate, even to the point of taking over entirely when she vacated South Carolina last week.
SCI FI Channel Names Howe President
NEW YORK, January 17: Dave Howe, currently the general manager and executive VP of SCI FI Channel, has been named president of the NBC Universal-owned network. Howe will oversee original development, programming and marketing, global brand strategy and market development, strategic planning, media relations and SCI FIs recently launched public affairs initiative, Visions for Tomorrow. He will also oversee SCI FI Magazine and SCI FI Digital, the division that operates SCIFI.COM, SCI FI Pulse and DVICE.com. Additionally, Howe is tasked with launching a new global brand identity for SCI FI and driving the brands expansion and diversification strategy beyond broadcast and digital media. The company has plans to expand into new areas such as video gaming, mobile, licensing and merchandising and the youth market.
Where next for the FTSE 100?
Experts warn that further falls could trigger tipping points for the market, with charting experts naming anything from 5500 to 5850 as the crucial levels for the FTSE 100. Brokers have also been scrambling to reassess the next move for blue chip UK stocks with some still hopeful of a bounce back. 'There are still hard times ahead, and we fully expect the first six months to be volatile, we believe that the FTSE 100 could hit 6900 by the end of the year', said Richard Hunter of stockbrokers Hargreaves Lansdown. .
Bob Ford | Coming clean, finally, on '07
They have accumulated once again like old traffic tickets stuffed into the glove compartment. Despite the best intentions and resolutions of each new year, a large number of corrections and clarifications that should have been published in this section throughout 2007 did not appear because of the diligent effort of the author. This cannot be forgiven, and it is time to come clean and make another fresh start. The Fourth Annual Corrections Column is not something to be proud of, but, promise this time, it won't happen again. In a column on May 23, Bob Ford wrote: "You were wrong. The Eagles are just fine. Turns out they didn't need anything for this coming season from the NFL draft. They didn't need to use a first-round pick for help in the defensive backfield or to polish the linebacker corps or buy some insurance on the defensive line.
Golden Hope Mines Ltd.: Frank Candido Joins Board, Options Granted ...
Frank Candido is currently a principal/partner of Optimus Asset Management Inc. ("Optimus"), a Montreal based company that he co-founded in 1994. Optimus is a firm specializing in the financing/consulting of early stage and Micro Cap companies, both private and public. Mr. Candido has played an extensive role in the restructuring of Golden Hope Mines Ltd. through his extensive contacts in the financial industry, both with institutional investors and high net worth individuals. Mr. Candido is a graduate of Concordia University and McGill University. He has successfully completed his CSC (Canadian Securities Course) and his Series 3 (United States) as a registered Commodity Trading Advisor (CTA). "We welcome Mr. Candido to the board and as an officer of our growing company. Frank has been an essential part of the restructuring of Golden Hope.
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