| Commissioner Kathy Thompson bids office goobye at open house
COSHOCTON - It's been eight years since Commissioner Kathy Thompson was first appointed to the Board of Commissioners. She was greeted by more than 50 fellow county employees and friends from the community Friday at a going away open house. Thompson will resign Sunday to assume new duties as the executive director of the Coshocton Foundation on Monday, April 16. .
Diverse Grouping of Business Method and Computer & Data Patents to ...
CHICAGO-(Business Wire)-April 5, 2007 - Ocean Tomo Auctions today announced it will sell lots offering a variety of patents ranging from business and computer technologies to data systems and storage methods at The Ocean Tomo Spring 2007 Live Intellectual Property Auction on April 19th at the Union League Club of Chicago. .
Ericsson: 3G, WiMax auctions ought to take place this year
The Brazilian unit of Swedish telecoms equipment provider Ericsson is optimistic that Brazilian telecoms regulator Anatel will launch auctions for 3G and WiMax licenses this year, Ericsson's director of technology and products Paulo Bernardocki told BNamericas. .
Japan Catches Art Fever as Sales Rise at Auction, Tokyo Fair
April 19 (Bloomberg) -- A Hisashi Tenmyouya painting sold at Tokyo's contemporary art sale at the weekend for 16.5 million yen ($139,000), an elevenfold gain for the work in three years and a sign Japan's long-dormant art market may be catching up. ``Nue'' was the top lot at Shinwa Art Auction's April 14 sale, which took a record 183 million yen in feverish bidding. The event followed last week's Art Fair Tokyo 2007, Japan's biggest art fair, where sales tripled to 1 billion yen from the previous event in 2005. ``I couldn't believe it,'' said Sueo Mizuma, owner of Mizuma Gallery, who sold the Tenmyouya work in 2004 to a collector for 150,000 yen. ``Tokyo art fever has just started.'' Prices of modern and contemporary art in Japan are still a fraction of those in the West and trail the increases in China in the past five years.
Examining corporate bids, bottlers' claims
In the 2000 movie "Return to Me," a customer insists that the waitress, played by Minnie Driver, bring her bottled water because she prefers it to tap water. Out of the customer's sight, the waitress pours a bottle of water down the drain, refills the plastic bottle with tap water, sticks a straw in it and takes it to the woman. The customer then remarks: "Ah! Such a difference." A similar but real episode played out in Cleveland on a bigger scale last year. Documentary filmmakers Alan Snitow and Deborah Kaufman and journalist and film critic Michael Fox detail it in their thought-provoking new book, "Thirst: Fighting the Corporate Theft of Our Water." In an ad campaign, Snitow, Kaufman and Fox write, Fiji Water boasted that its water was "purified by island trade winds" and free of pollutants.
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