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SCI FI Channel Names Howe President
NEW YORK, January 17: Dave Howe, currently the general manager and executive VP of SCI FI Channel, has been named president of the NBC Universal-owned network. Howe will oversee original development, programming and marketing, global brand strategy and market development, strategic planning, media relations and SCI FIs recently launched public affairs initiative, Visions for Tomorrow. He will also oversee SCI FI Magazine and SCI FI Digital, the division that operates SCIFI.COM, SCI FI Pulse and DVICE.com. Additionally, Howe is tasked with launching a new global brand identity for SCI FI and driving the brands expansion and diversification strategy beyond broadcast and digital media. The company has plans to expand into new areas such as video gaming, mobile, licensing and merchandising and the youth market.
Meet the Spartans narrowly beats Rambo in weekend box office
The film was rated PG-13, while R-rated "Rambo" was popular with older men. "We are thrilled with the numbers," said Bert Livingston, senior vice president of distribution at Fox. "We made it for young people and they came." Harvey Weinstein, co-chairman of the Weinstein Co., which co-distributed "Rambo," said he expected the film's mature audience to sustain its popularity at the box office. "I think we'll have a great hold," Weinstein said. "Rambo" is the fourth installment of the trademark franchise and stars Stallone as the eponymous Vietnam vet spending his retirement in Thailand when a group of missionaries enlists his help in aiding a village endangered by civil war in Myanmar. The top 12 movies raked in $117.8 million, up 32 percent from the same weekend last year, when Fox's "Epic Movie" led the box office with $18.6 million.
A Late Warning of Catastrophe Ahead
Krasnodar Territory Governor Alexander Tkachev called the spill an ecological disaster at a meeting of the territorial administration. Thirty thousand birds have died and the number of fish that have died is uncountable, he noted. The damage is so great that it is hard to assess. It can be called an ecological catastrophe. Tkachev said that one of the main causes of the catastrophe in the Strait of Kerch was the foolhardiness of the ships' captains, who received storm warnings and hoped for luck.
Most of the owners of the ships sunk in the strait say that the captains bear no responsibility for the situation, and the cause was an act of God and late warning from the coast guard of the approaching storm. There are indications that most of the vessels that sank were simply not designed to withstand such conditions.
Hospital fire was 'wake up call'
Since October 2006, 22 NHS trusts have received notices they are breaching fire safety laws, File On 4 has found. Ms Shawcross said she was shocked the enforcement notices had to be served. An investigation is continuing into the cause of the 2 January 2008 blaze at the Royal Marsden, which is not one of the trusts served with an enforcement notice. .
Finnish students adjust to campus life
The transition to America has been much easier with a familiar face, Saari said. His first time in the States, he said there have been a lot of surprises, including the layout of Rocky Mount. "It's a lot different than Europe and Finland," Saari said. .
We rage at Hain and Conway but miss the real profligacy
Instead, expensive agency accountants or outside consultants were doing the job. Consultants were also employed whenever difficult or unpopular decisions had to be made. "Managers didn't want to tackle vested interests themselves; it was too uncomfortable. But they didn't listen to us, because we were nobodies. So instead we had teams of people, some on £5,000 a day, repeating our views back to management, and getting hundreds of thousands of pounds for it." A consultant who earns more than half a million a year, much of it from public-sector work, confirms that very often what his teams do is quite unnecessary. "We're brought in to knock heads together, as in the merger of prisons and probation services. And it makes anxious bosses feel better to say, look, we spent a few million on consulting and reporting, so the conclusions must be right.
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