| Jaime Wright signs deal with surfwear giant Hot Tuna
HER claim to fame has been fronting for a local beer brand, but Bondi Blonde babe Jaime Wright was popping the champagne this week after landing herself a deal with surfwear giant Hot Tuna. The 27-year-old posed for the label's latest clothing campaign on the streets of Bondi and Paddington yesterday, ahead of inking the deal as the Aussie face of the brand in Las Vegas next month. While her first foray into the international fashion market hit a hurdle last year when Paris Hilton reportedly pulled out of an endorsement arrangement for Wright's own shoe brand, it appears to have laid the groundwork for her Hot Tuna gig. "Dean Harrigan (the CEO of Hot Tuna in Australia) lent me his boat, Playstation, after I did a bit of modelling work for him. We shot my shoe campaign on it and after that he came to me with the offer," she told Confidential.
On TV: It's time for me to hit the pause button
A larger reason that makes it so hard to give up this column is that it means bidding farewell to the smartest, most loyal group of readers anyone can ask for. You have honored me with your continued attention, your encouragement and, quite often, your spirited disagreements. We've seen television go through a lot of changes together. When my first column was published five years ago, Joss Whedon fans could get our weekly fixes of "Buffy the Vampire Slayer" and "Angel" on their respective networks, UPN and The WB. "The West Wing" remained in fine form on NBC and Fox's "24" was a worthy addiction. And, cable! FX was coming out swinging with "The Shield" and Bravo gave us "Project Runway," one of the few unscripted series on television that feeds the mind instead of draining it.
Love all things surfing? Then blast off to Cocoa Beach, Fla.
I'm standing in the aisle of the main sales floor, watching a clerk restocking shell-covered jewelry boxes. She stops to help a customer looking for flamingo-themed wind chimes. They are temporarily out of stock this time of year -- they are a popular Christmas item -- but she promises to have them by week's end. Not only will they get them in, there will probably be three or four models to choose from; clerk and customer know that if they could be found anywhere, this would be the place. As the sales person says, "Ron Jon speaks for itself." New Jersey, 1959: Ron DiMenna has a developed and growing passion for surfing. He has tired of his homemade surfboards and wants to order his own custom California board. His father advises, "Buy three, sell two at a profit, then yours will be free." He does just that, and in 1961, opens a little surf shop in Long Beach, N.J.
The Sinai Peninsula
This once-sleepy Bedouin village on the Gulf of Aqaba has grown up over the past 13 years into a haven for backpackers, desert trekkers, divers, shiftless layabouts and vacationers looking to escape the neon and noise of Sharm El-Sheikh. Its a good 8-10 hour drive or bus ride from Cairo, but just two hours north of Sharm. .
Once a quiet alternative to Sharm El-Sheikh, the Red Sea’s Hurghada ...
With its year-round sunshine, water sports and exciting nightlife, Hurghada has become one of the nation's top resort destinations. Basically a long stretch of resorts that somehow feel less contrived than Sharm El-Sheikh, Hurghada retains elements of the small Egyptian town it once was. .
48 jobs lost at factory
This thread was going along really well,with interesting posts, and then what happens the lunatics take over again with their stupid rants at one another,do you really think anyone is interested in your sexual preferances,you seem to hijack every thread with the same rubbish get a life for goodness sake,or maybe a job do anything but change the record its getting really boring. .
Book Review--The New Capitalists: How Citizen Investors Are Reshaping ...
Book Review--The New Capitalists: How Citizen Investors Are Reshaping the Corporate Agenda
by Bill Baue This book introduces a series of new concepts such as the civil economy, the circle of accountability, and the capitalist manifesto that harness capitalism toward social purpose. SocialFunds.com -- In May 2005, GE launched its Ecomagination initiative, a development many consider to have cemented corporate sustainability as a core business strategy--eclipsing the trend of companies adopting corporate social responsibility (CSR) as an add-on. The New Capitalists (Harvard Business School Press 2006) explains how this development also illustrates an even more elemental trend. The book traces the event to its roots in shareowner activism by an "obscure coalition of Catholic nuns [who] argued that environmental responsibility would be good for GE's bottom line." This coalition, operating under the umbrella of the Interfaith Center on Corporate Responsibility (ICCR--characterized as "the single most potent source of investor activism" in the US) exemplifies the emerging power of "citizen investors" who are helping create a "civil economy."
Civil economy, the term coined by authors Stephen Davis, founder of corporate governance analyst firm Davis Global Advisors, Jon Lukomnik, former New York City Deputy Comptroller, and David Pitt-Watson, former CEO of Hermes Focus Asset Management, mirrors civil society.
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