| Sex, lies & surveillance
Some of the clients listed have never actually used Morgan Turner Freeman for a specific job. "They just like people to know they've got us on their side," says Michaels. "Sometimes people just flash around one of our business cards. 'We're going to get these guys looking at you.' That happens a lot." Where a Damien Delzoppo will sort out a crisis in the tour bus circuit (one operator serially slashing the tyres of his Asian-tourist toting competitors) for $2500, Michaels' firm will shut down a multimillionaire theft of construction business for a multinational for about $250,000. "The trick to dealing with a big company is shrinking down the number of people who you're talking to. The less people who know that we're taking a particular route to get the job done the better. We prefer to deal with only the person who is writing the cheque." He points to a recent construction job in Singapore, where an inside mole was diverting business to another operation run by a former employee.
Humanitarian Aid and Nation Building: Can Outsiders Really Help?
All of these are life saving activities.
The second obligation is governance and capacity building. We need to assist governments at all levels to develop transparent and accountable governments, promote rule of law, and develop civil society. This is not the same as elections. I would not suggest that elections are an immediate requirement in a nation-building exercise. They should come later, but rule of law is a critical element in governance and capacity building.
The third obligation is disarmament, demobilization, and reintegration, and that's an activity that the military has to do. If you look at Haiti and at the current events in Iraq, the military is very reluctant to engage in the disarmament of populations. It is not really what they do.
Pheasants Forever celebrates 25th anniversary
What's unique about Pheasants Forever is its business model. From day one, the group has empowered county chapters to determine how 100 percent of their locally raised conservation funds will be spent.As a result, chapter volunteers get to see the fruits of their labor in the form of local habitat projects. .
Lighter side of sports
Darrell Waltrip says every time he thinks of Dale Sr. at Daytona, 'I cry like a rat eating an onion.' How come they can't talk like that in the other sports?"
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Scott Ostler of the San Francisco Chronicle, summarizing the upcoming baseball season in the Bay Area: "The A's are rebuilding, the Giants are fumigating.'' .
Friends learn to ride motorbikes for epic 7,000-mile trip
THREE former Worcester students have been learning to ride motorbikes ready for a 7,000 mile journey across Europe. Mike Finlay, Sarah Lonbay and Flick Copp, who all attended King's School, Worcester, will be joined by friend Mikey Mansergh for the epic trip later this year. They will travel 7,631 miles across 26 countries and 30 borders. .
IPOWER Joins RatePoint Partner Program
NEEDHAM, Mass. & PHOENIX --(Business Wire)-- RatePoint, the leader in providing businesses with the only comprehensive online reputation management and customer feedback platform available, and IPOWER, Inc. (www.ipower.com), a leading web-site hosting provider for small businesses, today announced a new partnership that will give IPOWER customers access to the RatePoint platform and consumer approval program.
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