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   Nikki Canedy-Kosmoski  

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   - Pennsylvania -

will identify a potential customer’s target market, and work – jointly – to determine the right strategy. A custom-built package will be tailored to help reach the pertinent goals and maintain success… Read more on YOUR TICKET TO THE MEDIA   

One of Nikki’s most recent projects is the promotion of

April “DogCatcher” Walker’s

SKIN A DOG book (see Haplifnet feature).

- Nikki and Sean Riggs, most recently, in Philadelphia -

On behalf of Haplif & Haplifnet I wish Nikki and April lots of success!

Frank Kalder (Global Haplifnet)    

Supplementary: DESIGNER FASHION GUIDE – Paris ▪ Milan ▪ London – by Jana Mohd  

This is way-out a most recommendable and unique book:

More Than One Way To Skin A Dog  

by April “DogCatcher” Walker of Philadelphia, USA.

- most gorgeous DogCatcher appeal -

Necessary information allows us to make informed decisions. Women have the right to know the truth about the men in their lives… read more on April’s marvelous website

You may get in contact with her via Twitter and Facebook  or, additionally, subscribe to her smashing NEWSLETTER.

 haplif – Frank Kalder (Global Haplifnet)

Supplementary: DESIGNER FASHION GUIDE – Paris ▪ Milan ▪ London – by Jana Mohd

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UPDATE – April 23, 2010

April “The Dogcatcher” Walker Launches Book Signing Tour at Horizon Books (see SkinaDog Club page on Facebook).

Why the Fight for Financial Reform Needs to Get Much More Personal

Excerpt

Yet, when it comes to selling financial reform, Democrats are making the same mistake all over again. The nuts and bolts of the legislation — which are even harder for the public to get its head around than they were with health care — are being given a full airing in Congress, on op-ed pages and blogs, and on TV. And these devilish details — capital requirement levels, proprietary trading restrictions, the independence of the proposed consumer financial protection agency, etc., etc. — are critical. They are critical because it was getting them wrong that promoted the devastation in people’s lives we now see around the country. But the human element is once again getting short shrift.

This is a big-time blunder. Ask the proverbial men and women on the street where they stand on the Volcker Rule, and watch their eyes glaze over. The administration needs to make it clear: we don’t need to overhaul our financial system because the Wall Street sandbox has gotten a little messy, and bank CEO bonuses have gotten too big. We need to overhaul our financial system to make sure that system isn’t rigged to destroy the lives of millions of middle class Americans who worked hard, played by the rules, and ended up holding the short end of the stick when the big banks drove our economy over the edge of the cliff… Read more by Arianna Huffington, Huffington Post

This is a great and thoroughly realistic appraisal of the US political situation — and the perpetuated Democratic mistakes — combined with sound suggestions aiming at what the administration ought to do better.

Supplementary: Global Haplifnet – vanguard topics

 haplif – Frank Kalder (HuffPost profile/comments)

The new Japanese consumer

The attitudes and behavior of Japanese consumers are shifting dramatically, presenting opportunities and challenges for companies in the world’s second-largest retail market.

After decades of behaving differently, Japanese consumers suddenly look a lot like their counterparts in Europe and the United States. Celebrated for their willingness to pay for quality and convenience and usually uninterested in cheaper products, Japanese consumers are now flocking to discount and online retailers. Sales of relatively affordable private-label foods have increased dramatically, and many consumers, despite small living spaces, are buying in bulk. Instead of eating out, people are entertaining at home. Workers are even packing their own lunches, sparking the nickname bento-danshi, or “box-lunch man.”

This fundamental shift in the attitudes and behavior of Japanese consumers seems likely to persist, irrespective of any economic recovery… Read more by Brian Salsberg, McKinsey

haplif – Frank Kalder  (Global Haplifnet)

Bankers have indicated that they may agree to far-reaching reforms, as the World Economic Forum in Davos ends.

Top regulators warned that they could take drastic action to take some of the risk out of the financial industry.

However, the annual meeting of some of the world’s most powerful business leaders and politicians ended with few new plans or real achievements.

There was agreement though that job creation and free trade had to be key ingredients of any economic recovery.

Larry Summers, economics adviser to US President Barack Obama, probably coined the most memorable phrase of this year’s Davos when he said the world was experiencing a “statistical economic recovery, but a human recession”… Read more by Tim Weber, BBC  

haplif – Frank Kalder (Global Haplifnet)

Due to a system’s repair HAPLIF & HAPLIFNET will be offline a couple of days.

haplif – Frank Kalder

Excerpt – For these Americans and so many others, change has not come fast enough. Some are frustrated; some are angry. They don’t understand why it seems like bad behavior on Wall Street is rewarded but hard work on Main Street isn’t, or why Washington has been unable or unwilling to solve any of our problems. They are tired of the partisanship and the shouting and the pettiness. They know we can’t afford it. Not now.

So we face big and difficult challenges. And what the American people hope what they deserve is for all of us, Democrats and Republicans, to work through our differences, to overcome the numbing weight of our politics. For while the people who sent us here have different backgrounds, different stories and different beliefs, the anxieties they face are the same. The aspirations they hold are shared: a job that pays the bills, a chance to get ahead. Most of all, the ability to give their children a better life.

You know what else they share? They share a stubborn resilience in the face of adversity. After one of the most difficult years in our history, they remain busy building cars and teaching kids, starting businesses and going back to school. They’re coaching Little League and helping their neighbors. As one woman wrote me, ”We are strained but hopeful, struggling but encouraged.”

It is because of this spirit, this great decency and great strength that I have never been more hopeful about America’s future than I am tonight. Despite our hardships, our union is strong. We do not give up. We do not quit. We do not allow fear or division to break our spirit. In this new decade, it’s time the American people get a government that matches their decency, that embodies their strength… Full text at New York Times

HuffPost comment (excerpt):

While most State of the Union speeches have a bit of a kitchen-sink feel to them, this one seemed particularly so with its blink-and-you-missed-it mentions of “earmark reform” and cracking “down on violations of equal pay laws — so that women get equal pay for an equal day’s work.” It felt less like an overriding vision for the country, and more like an attempt to deliver at least one applause line for every constituency in the country.

That’s not political leadership. Obama clearly understands this. It’s why he ended his speech by mocking politicians who “do what’s necessary to keep our poll numbers high, and get through the next election instead of doing what’s best for the next generation.” And he just as clearly has the ability to articulate a bold vision for the nation and lead it where it desperately needs to go… By Arianna Huffington

haplif – Frank Kalder (Global Haplifnet)

The new proposal from Obama intends to limit speculation by commercial banks and to keep financial institutions from growing so big that they pose a risk to the economic system.

“When you see more and more of the financial sector basically churning transactions and engaging in reckless speculation and obscuring underlying risks in a way that makes a few people obscene amounts of money but doesn’t add value to the economy — and in fact puts the entire economy at enormous risk — then something’s got to change,” Obama said in an interview released yesterday by Time magazine.

Obama has branded bank executives as “fat cats” and proposed a fee on large banks to cover shortfalls in the government’s $700 billion financial rescue fund.

Expanding on earlier measures, Obama endorsed Volcker’s proposal to restrict proprietary trading by commercial banks. That would separate commercial banks from investment banks, a line blurred a decade ago by the repeal of the Depression-era Glass-Steagall Act.

This restriction would affect some of the biggest banks, including Bank of America Corp., Goldman Sachs and Citigroup Inc. … Read more at Huffington Post (VIDEO embedded)

The U.S. and the global community have come through a terrible financial crisis. A high price was paid particularly by the American people. Of course, it simply cannot be returned to business as usual.

Supplementary: Global Haplifnet – vanguard topics  

haplif – Frank Kalder (HuffPost profile/comments)