Archive for July, 2010
what did the people think about it…Top Minority Business – Panda Express
Saturday, July 10th, 2010
In a highly saturated fast-food industry, the Asian owned Panda fast food enterprise is conquering the taste buds of Americans with gourmet Chinese cuisine. Andrew Cherng (626-799-9898) started the enterprise with his father in 1973. With a SBA loan they set up their first restaurant, Panda Inn, in Pasadena California. Ten years later, an opportunity to move their high-end restaurant into a fast-food setting became available, and Panda Express was born. Andrew’s wife joined the company, after a successful career with Hughe’s Aircraft and the two of them took the business to the top. Today, PANDA RESTAURANT GROUP, has four restaurant chains, the original Panda Inn: its clone fast food Panda Express, the newly added Japanese restaurant chain Hibachi-San, and the convenient order-to-pick-up Panda-Panda. The company grosses over $400 million in sales, has over 6,000 employees and has close to 500 locations. Their goal is to own 10,000 locations in their lifetime.
Duration : 0:5:25
Cyprus – Getting it Wrong -2of11- Martin Packard MBE
Wednesday, July 7th, 2010
Martin Packard MBE explains his family and personal background as well as his motivation in providing a first hand historical record of how he came to be posted to assist General Sir Peter Young in a peacekeeping role on the island of Cyprus during January 1964, following the outbreak of intercommunal violence between the Greek and Turkish speaking communities on the island at Christmas 1963.
Martin Packard:
“From the outset let me say that I’m a very passionate believer that am appalling injustice has been done to Cyprus and to all Cypriots. I don’t believe that is just something recent. I think that right from my time, and knowledge of Cyprus, going back into the 50’s the island’s been treated in the most appalling way that would not be tolerated in any other society.
“On the other hand I’m not a great believer in conspiracy theories. I think that there was a general mind-set at the time when I became intimately involved in Cypriot affairs in 1964. There was a general mind-set among NATO powers that whatever else happened, the governance of Cyprus must not be left ultimately in to the Cypriots. There was a variety of reasons for that, but it was generally accepted. So, the injustice came from this general ‘attitude’ first of all of the NATO powers. It came from the manner in which covert and intelligence operations were conducted in the region, and I’ll talk a little bit more about that later, particularly through the stay-behind and the GWD and the sheepskin organisations, which meant that extreemists within both communities were being armed through NATO and given special training in assassination and disinformation. And it is expressed as well, this injustice, in the degree to which I believe Cypriot history of that period has been subsequently distorted, and people have accepted views of Cypriot history up to 63-64 that were very very wide of the mark.
“I think everything that came later, the McMillan Plan 50′, the imposed constitution 60’s, the Acheson Plan in 1964, and the Annan Plan much later – all of these were concoctions that were designed to suit outsiders’ interests rather than the interests of the Cypriot people. And I believe, very strongly, that this was a terrible part of the ‘Getting it Wrong’ process because I think that had there been policies that were genuinely democratic and applied to Cyprus, it could have become a very constructive member of the community of nations of the Eastern Mediterranean and there would have been huge benefits to every single party concerned.
“Most of the book is about the period that I have read have been books by academics who have had to inevitably depend on very limited information. Reading Lord Hannay’s book, reading other books about Cyprus, I was struck by the degree to which they have simply excluded huge parts of the genuine history of that 63-64 period which the Turkish Cypriots very much represent as being the hinge at which Cyprus as it were moved into the separated stage at which it now finds itself.
“The problem with academic books is that there is so much that has not been reported and particularly in factors that are critical of Cyprus, and that, to my mind also comes back to the activities of the intelligence community there, and the way in which those intelligence communities deliberately distorted history in order to suit their own objectives.
“I think the importance of my book is that it squashes a number of myths. It gives people a basis from which to work over the 1964 period. It obviously, for me, gave me a chance to talk to people like yourselves and discuss with you the views that I have about what happened at that time.”
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Duration : 0:9:30
Alyssa Barnes Reports on Minority Business Owners in Statesboro
Sunday, July 4th, 2010
Reporter Alyssa Barnes reports on minority business ownership in Statesboro, Georgia and the inportance of buying local to your area.
Duration : 0:1:30
Stuart Samson MBE in ON THE DAY
Sunday, July 4th, 2010
BUY THE FULL-LENGTH DVD. Send email to John@McDonaldProductions.com. Clips of interview with the former Director of Piping for the entire British Army, the “lone piper” at the Edinburgh Tattoo and member of the Spirit of Scotland Pipe Band. The feature length documentary will have its world premiere at the Glasgow Film Theatre on August 14 at 5:30 pm. More info at http://www.OnTheDayMovie.com
Duration : 0:2:43
How does a small minority business owner gets a loan for $50,000 these days?
Thursday, July 1st, 2010I do not have the best credit rating. However I am very trust worthy and a very hard and smart worker I do now want a hand out and I have never asked for one
and I am in a services business. I am willing to pay a above the normal rates
Thank you
No lender will talk to you unless you provide them with a valid business plan. Go to http://www.sba.gov , http://www.score.org or http://www.bplan.com for sample business plans and instructions on how to write a business plan.
Then, go to http://www.score.org/ and in the upper left hand corner, enter your zip code. On the next screen, you will get information on the nearest SCORE chapter. Call them and arrange for a free meeting with a SCORE counselor to review your business plan and discuss various loan options available to you.
SCORE is a nonprofit association dedicated to entrepreneur education and the formation, growth and success of small business nationwide. SCORE is a resource partner with the U.S. Small Business Administration (SBA).
SCORE has 389 chapters in locations throughout the United States and its territories, with 10,500 volunteers nationwide. Both working and retired executives and business owners donate time and expertise as business counselors.
Comcast Newsmakers: Paul Clanon on Diversity at the CPUC
Thursday, July 1st, 2010
Paul Clanon, Executive Director of the California Public Utilities Commission, talks about the CPUC’s Utility Supplier Diversity program and a 3/4/10 workshop to help women, minority, and disabled veteran owned businesses become certified so they can be entered in a supplier database that is accessed by participating utilities throughout the State.
Duration : 0:5:4