'Year of the Fish': We're Not in Disneyland Anymore (The New York Sun)
Conflicting artistic agendas swamp the would-be fairy tale "Year of the Fish," David Kaplan's confused and ultimately irksome Cinderella concoction that seems promising before becoming weighed down by stilted characterizations and disastrous editing. The film adapts Tuan Ch'eng-Shih's Chinese version of the Cinderella fable from 860 C.E., in which the young heroine befriends a fish that becomes ...
Boost for modern art (The Star)
Contemporary art rarely gets the limelight it deserves. However, with the Bombay Sapphire Arts Project 2008, artists who dabble in contemporary art like installation and video, will be able to project their best during the mini art festival.
THE ROLLOUT ROLLS ON (Film Journal)
After months of inching along, the U.S. digital-cinema rollout is finally showing signs of momentum again as we move into the second phase of deployments with what will eventually amount to over a billion dollars of equipment purchased.
BT appoints Nigel Perks as Chief HR Officer for BT Global Services (BT Group)
BT today announced the appointment of Nigel Perks as Chief Human Resources Officer, BT Global Services. Perks will report to Francois Barrault, CEO BT Global Services and Alex Wilson BT Group HR Director. He becomes a member of the Global Services leadership team and starts on October 20, 2008.
Budget Increase held to 6.06% (Fulda Free Press)
The city council was looking at a 25.8% increase in the budget for next year which included an 8.27% for TIF (Tax Increment Financing). The total 2009 budget is $294,642, a $16,841 increase over last year.
Utility turns to in-house counsel (The Nashua Telegraph)
Pennichuck Corp. has named Roland E. Olivier, a longtime corporate attorney, to a new position of general counsel to guide the company in its eminent domain fight with the city of Nashua. The company said Monday that Olivier also will direct Southwood Corp., a land holding company. ... - By BOB SANDERS New Hampshire Business Review
After shuttering her darkroom, Gwen Laine had a change of art (Rocky Mountain News)
A creative block is not unusual for an artist or a writer. But when it leads someone to close her studio, get rid of her equipment and not produce work for 18 months, that's more like making a clean break. That's what it took, however, for Gwen Laine to find her way back to photography.
3Com appoints new vice president and corporate controller (Computer Business Review)
Mr Farris joins 3Com from Innovation Group, a provider of software, supply chain management, business process outsourcing and technology solutions to the global insurance industry, where he was CFO for the company's North American subsidiary.
Tracy hires firm to find new police chief (Pleasanton Tri-Valley Herald)
The current chief, who will retire at the end of October, will have spent nearly nine years in Tracy and a total of 35 years in law enforcement.
Sage Software Healthcare Appoints Lindy Benton as Chief Operating Officer (PR Newswire via Yahoo! Finance)
The Sage Group plc announces that Sage Software Healthcare, one of Sage's four operating divisions in North America, has appointed Lindy Benton as Chief Operating Officer.
