Home Bureau reaches across generations to help others
The News Review:
- Home Bureau reaches across generations to help others
- Ska’d for life
- For family reunion, there’s no place like childhood home
- Qatar seeking return on football investment
- - Sponsorship for clubs in Calcutta has plummeted
Home Bureau reaches across generations to help others
Spencerport Westside News - Jul 31, 2005
Home Bureau reaches across generations to help others In the early 1900s, farming was the way many families made their living in upstate New York. During these times, many women didn’t have many opportunities to socialize outside the home or learn new ways to better their lives and so an organization was formed with the purpose of educating young married women about family and farming life. This organization, called Home Bureau, has grown to encompass six chapters throughout New York state. The Home Bureau is a New York state women’s organization formed in Ithaca, New York. Longtime Home Bureau member Irene Weirich explained, "One of the Home Bureau’s early goals was to make sure that every farm home had a radio. Another goal was to help the farm woman improve her family and farming life by teaching her skills such as sewing, cooking, knitting, canning and crocheting. " The Home Bureau was established in 1919 as part of the Cornell University Cooperative Extension.
Ska’d for life
The Observer - Jul 31, 2005
There’s the Ordinary Boys, beloved by Morrissey, and a gang of their fans, the Ordinary Army, born well after Madness’s heyday. There’s Hard-Fi, who, arguably, owe a greater debt to the Specials than Madness. But Hard-Fi have proved once again that this particularly British double helix of cheer and unease, one shared by many of the home-grown bands of the early Eighties, makes for peculiarly successful pop music. Now Madness have returned, with an album of cover versions. They played a series of half-secret gigs last year as the Dangermen, and the sentimental karaoke of those concerts was raided for a 13-track studio album. This time around, the stars are a little more aligned. It’s summer, and ska-pop sounds apposite in the sunshine…
A potential cod-reggae calamity is averted on their rendition of the Supremes’ ‘You Keep Me Hanging On’, thanks to Madness’s lightness of touch. You’ll let Madness off for things that you would never let, say, naff old UB40 get away with. The real pleasure here, though, lies in the lesser-known vintage 45 rpm records dusted off by these well-versed island music heads. All good bands are fans, and Madness are clearly having a splendid time reliving their musical youth. A few tracks stand out. (The Prodigy sampled it for ‘Out Of Space’ and producer Kanye West sped up its ‘Lucifer, son of the morning’ refrain for Jay-Z on Jay’s last album.
For family reunion, there’s no place like childhood home
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel - Milwaukee Journal Sentinel (subscription… - Jul 31, 2005
Mom, Dad and nine kids crammed into a ranch-style home near Pewaukee Lake throughout the 1970s - three kids in this bedroom, three more over there, three more over there. Everyone grew up and most moved out of state. It changed hands again at least once since then. The mother, Rosella, who now lives in Florida, is about to turn 70. Her grown kids are surprising her with a reunion in Pewaukee.
Qatar seeking return on football investment
Newindpress - Newindpress (subscription) - Jul 31, 2005
Unfortunately, the Gulf state with one of the highest per capita incomes in the world has failed to make much of impression in world football despite pouring vast quantities of money into the game. Officials say bad luck has played a part in Qatar’s failure to advance. But despite the influx of foreign stars to help boost the domestic game, it is clear that home grown players still need more experience. The presence of big-name players such as Frenchman Marcel Desailly, Argentina’s Gabriel Batistuta and Claudio Caniggia, Dutchman Frank de Boer and Germany’s Stefan Effenberg alone is insufficient to foster the development of a strong national team. Football officials recognise that for the national game to develop, top Qatari players will need to play abroad professionally. However, Qatar’s funding and efforts put into developing the “Stars League” has borne some fruit only a few years after its establishment. The presence of top former internationals has undoubtedly raised the general level of the domestic game.
- Sponsorship for clubs in Calcutta has plummeted
Calcutta Telegraph - Jul 31, 2005
“The first was TV,” he says. “Once the local audience got to see the 1982 World Cup on TV, local heroes were quickly forgotten,” he says. Even as exposure to world football made the Bengali question the abilities of home-grown stars, TV channel ESPN was forced to withdraw the telecast of local matches after a single season 10 years ago because “the standards were too low”, despite a $3,00,000 contract with the Indian Football Association. For the city fan, it meant further alienation from local football along with an overdose of the Beckhams and Ronaldos. Games they play Sociologist and historian Partha Chatterjee, director of the Centre for Studies in Social Sciences says, “Lack of TV coverage of local football has contributed to the decline in interest. Secondly, the local matches stand nowhere if you compare them with what you see at the international level. ” The other ? and more recent ? reason, feels Guha, was the rise in popularity of cricket, a game that was being radically promoted in the country.