Too Much Of One Ingredient...
Good God - Rachael Ray seems to be on half the packaging in the grocery store now. Oversaturated...
Wednesday December 20, 2006 at 8:08am
Pet Owners
Just amazing to me what pet owners will spend their money on. The glory of catnip...
Wednesday December 13, 2006 at 8:21am
Accounting Firms
I know it takes creativity to look a little different than the others in your field, but c'mon! Use a little, at least on the web...
Huddleston, McKenzie & Associates, P.L.L.C. (Washington State)
Hamilton & Musser, P.C. (Pennsylvania)
Sunday December 3, 2006 at 10:03am
The Forbes Curse
Zhou Yiming, the youngest tycoon on Forbes magazine's list of China's 400 richest people last year, was sentenced to life imprisonment on Friday in Suining in Southwest China's Sichuan Province."The Suining Intermediate People's Court announced the verdict this (Friday) morning on the charge of contractual fraud," said Tan Shengbin, director of the court's general office.
Zhou had accepted the charges against him and did not say whether he would appeal to a higher court, Tan told China Daily.
Zhou, a 32-year-old businessman, had been arrested after he acquired nearly US$69 million through his stake in Sichuan Mingxing Electric, a major supplier of water, electricity and gas to 3.8 million residents in Suining.
The case began in August 2002, when Sichuan Mingxing Electric, a listed company, decided to sell shares worth 380 million yuan (US$48 million) a 28 per cent stake in the firm on the stock market.
Friday December 1, 2006 at 12:26pm
My Clothes Don't Hold the Same Value...
In an interesting article about starpower and its effect (or lack of) in continued giving for the hungry in Africa, Walrus Magazine dropped this little nugget:
In April, Oxfam convinced Keira Knightley to auction off the dress she wore to the Academy Awards. The gown - Vera Wang, deep-claret silk taffeta - raised $7,900, which according to an Oxfam press release is "enough to feed 5,000 children for a month in Tanzania."
This seems like a brilliant idea as long as there are takers to buy the clothes afterwards. But it brings a thought - why doesn't some enterprising designer pitch their clothes for just this very purpose for movie stars to wear for their biggest nights? Perhaps Oxfam and others should talk to the designers, rather than the buyers, and see how receptive they would be to trying such a pitch. If they haven't already...