It was a long time coming but the introduction of a playoff for Division I college football in 2014 was hailed as a good thing, an improvement to the Bowl Championship Series that determined a national champion. Perhaps so, but with the four-team playoff system now in place the likelihood of a very memorable and […]
Go Maman Launches The French Greetings Song
1888PressRelease – Just In Time For Your Family Trip To France Go Maman Is Helping Children And Adults Alike To Learn French With Catchy Songs And Fun Games. “Just like in pop music, I wanted to find the chorus or beat that you just can’t shake. I watched my daughter dancing along as my band […]
West Africa Single Currency: The Lesson To Learn From European Single Currency By Dr. Mehenou Amouzou
(1888 PressRelease) Before talking about a single currency or economic association between the states members, we need to examine the current political structure that allows a single faction to confiscate power for twenty years or more. Western Africa states which are represented by Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS), a commission comprised of countries […]
What Did We Learn From The Economic Crisis?
I recently attended a conference at the Aspen Institute in Prague entitled, “What Did We Learn from the Economic Crisis?” There were three highly reputable speakers; Lord Meghnad Desai, Professor at the London School of Economics; Jacek Rostowski, former Minister of Finance in Poland; and William White, Chairman of the Economic Development and Review Committee […]
Stock Markets Are Bad Granfalloons, and Need To Stop Being Taken So Seriously
by Donald Croft Brickner Oh, what — the world’s stock markets haven’t crashed … yet? Before tackling the American DJIA, etc. stock markets for major problems in their conception — to my knowledge, a huge topic rarely discussed with a straight face of late — please grant us now a brief detour into what I […]
Of Birds and Soldiers – The Day of the Sparrow at Berlinale Forum
Der Tag des Spatzen/The Day of the Sparrow Philip Scheffner, Germany 2010, 100 min World Premiere 19 February 2010 Delphi Filmpalast, Berlin On 14 November 2005, a sparrow was shot dead in the northern Netherlands after toppling 23,000 of 4.3 million dominoes that had been laid out for a television event. The death of the […]