Why not a Jamaican-style Christmas season?
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- Why not a Jamaican-style Christmas season?
- The AFL club business
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- For US troops, a holiday lift from home
Why not a Jamaican-style Christmas season?
Jamaica Observer – Dec 24, 2004
That is not necessarily a bad thing. After all, a number of other cultures ape some of our home-grown cultural inventions. Witness the cults founded on the basis of Bob Marley and reggae, worldwide. Witness Jamaican jerk cuisine invading traditional cuisine in North America and parts of Europe. But there are imitations and imitations. The sight of a young man dressed in woolen Santa Claus outfit complete with high boots in 89 heat, inviting shoppers into a store in Kingston is so funny, it is ludicrous.
The AFL club business
The Age – Dec 24, 2004
Geelong is arguably the greatest financial success story ofrecent times, having faced down a $6 million debt in 1999. The debtwill be paid off by March, all while building a new grandstand. Geelong chief executive Brian Cook said the Cats’ success hadbeen based on four factors – a high yield per supporter who comesto matches, controlling costs, raising income outside normalfootball activities and being patient in nurturing home-growntalent via the draft rather than using expensive trades. In fact, Geelong will find itself next year in the position ofbeing able to increase its total player payments to 100 percent. “Things have changed dramatically now in football clubs,” Cooksaid. “It’s about having myriad objectives in a club to make itsuccessful, of which winning a premiership is the main one, butthere’s also objectives such as customer satisfaction, profit, ourstadiums and how safe they are.
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Press-Enterprise – Dec 24, 2004
The restaurant is completely separate from the Baily restaurant in downtown Temecula. Menu choices are centered on salads, sandwiches and pasta dishes. Some of the ingredients are home grown. "We have a garden here and in the summer we use fresh tomatoes, peppers and eggplant," Baily says. "It’s kind of fun to play around with. We serve a lot of zucchini on our specials. " The relatively small menu offers two appetizers, shrimp cocktail ($7.
For US troops, a holiday lift from home
Christian Science Monitor – Dec 24, 2004
(In fact, Lieutenant Grider and his platoon spent Thanksgiving night on a raid searching for terrorist leader Abu Musab al-Zarqawi. ) But like many families of service members, the Griders live with a nagging fear that at any moment solemn men in dress uniforms could appear on their front step. Anxious to let his son and comrades know people back home appreciate them, Mr. Grider has joined community efforts to deliver shipments of holiday cheer to troops separated from family and loved ones during the holiday. In Elmhurst, the York High School’s National Honor Society adopted the Punisher platoon for the holidays, filling an entire room with some 5,000 pounds of food, candy, and gifts and then collecting more than $1,700 in cash for postage. In mid-November, they shipped 114 boxes of presents to the platoon. A neighborhood block club rallied children on their street to send drawings to the soldiers…
, also heard about the platoon. Vetter had grown up during the Vietnam conflict and recalls making Valentine cards for veterans in a Chicago hospital. But she could never erase the images of Americans insulting soldiers coming home from the war. “I was deeply disturbed,” she says. “These men and women had sacrificed for our country and were spat upon when they came back. Vetter’s co-worker, Kim Olms, had learned from her cousin in Iraq that many troops received little mail, which dwindled further as their deployment dragged on.