If you love Skechers USA Inc. shoes, you might love them a bit less in a minute. That’s because the footwear maker is under the gun at the moment for its all-male board of directors. Criticisms logged from CtW, an adviser to union pension funds that has helped to shake up companies, described that the nine-member board “suffers from lengthy tenures and a lack of gender diversity.”

 As they wrote, calling for changes before Sketcher’s annual meeting this spring, “The CtW Investment Group urges a complete and immediate overhaul of Skechers U.S.A., Inc’s board of directors in light of several serious governance risks.”

Six of the company’s directors have been serving for at least 12 years and only five of them are independent.  Sketchers has said they are not available for comment. But CtW Executive Director Dieter Waizenegger has said that if Skechers doesn’t act, CtW may campaign against either some or all of the directors.

As Waizenegger said, “The longer you are on the board, the less obvious it is you can be independent.”

Skechers is certainly doing well in the market place, if not the board room. Their sales in 2012 reached $1.56 billion. Founded in 1992 by Robert Greenberg, who is still the chairman and chief executive, and his son Michael Greenberg, who is the president and a director, the family controls most shareholder decisions.

Because the world really needs yet another amusement park, Twentieth Century Fox is now getting into the game. They just announced their plans to unveil “Twentieth Century Fox World.” They will open it in 2016 as part of Malaysia’s Resorts World Genting. This is a leisure and entertainment complex an hour outside of Kuala Lumpur.

The 25 acre park is supposed to have 25 rides and attractions that will be based on Fox films like “Rio,” “Ice Age,” and “Planet of the Apes” among others. As Jeffrey Godsick, president of Twentieth Century Fox Consumer Products said,

Although many American small businesses report that they are nervous as a result of the government shutdown, they are, nonetheless, hiring. The National Federation of Independent Business has reported that small business owners have added an average of .11 workers per firm in the past month. This is in contrast to the downsizing seen in September.

Many small businesses were hit by the government shutdown, with an estimate that the 16 day shutdown could have taken as much as .6% points from the fourth quarter GDP growth.

Friday the government is expected to release a comprehensive employment report for October. It is predicted that the report will show that the shutdown held back hiring. Approximately 9% of businesses, which is the smallest share since 2006, reported that they laid off an average of 2.8 workers. The NFIB said, “Reports of workforce reductions have reached sub-normal levels. But owners report sub-par levels of hiring, so job growth remains anemic.”

At Christie’s in London is a never-before auctioned piece of art that has everyone abuzz. It’s a Francis Bacon piece of British artist Lucien Freud and it’s expected to sell for a shocking 100 million US dollars.  Bacon’s last painting sold, “Triptych” sold in 2008 for 86 million dollars. This one, Bacon’s 1969 “Three Studies of Lucien Freud” was one of Bacon’s most important pieces.

Auctioneer Francis Outred is sure that it will break the last record. As he said, “That was a later painting, from the late ’70’s and it wasn’t of a very iconic subject, like Lucien Freud, so for many reasons I think this is a much more commercial and better painting, so I would confidently hope that this would break the 86 million dollars that was achieved for that painting.”

Francis Outred, head of Post-War and Contemporary Art at Christie’s Europe continued, “Each head is sliced in half and we see a movement of the head, a shift of the foot, a fidget of the hands, all created by the flick of the brush, so it is really a masterpiece by Bacon in terms of the way, the technique that he has used to portray his great friend.”

Interestingly, the three panels were actually separated for close to 15 years and were only reunited in the late 1980s. The auction for this work will take place on November 12.