PHOTO: CHEN TSE-MING, TAIPEI TIMES
The News Review:
- PHOTO: CHEN TSE-MING, TAIPEI TIMES
- US fighting the war the terrorists sought
- States want to see the details first
- Putting IT together
- ‘Grey’ city of art, style and comic capers
PHOTO: CHEN TSE-MING, TAIPEI TIMES
Taipei Times – Sep 9, 2005
PHOTO: CHEN TSE-MING, TAIPEI TIMES Now the curtain has come down on the Taipei 2005 Summer Jazz Festival and organizers are still busy finalizing the line up for this year’s Taichung Fall Jazz Festival, fans of the musical genre looking for something a little bit different should consider checking out the new crossover creations of popular local jazz ensemble Metamorphosis at Taipei’s Red House Theater this weekend. Founded in 1997, Metamorphosis has done more than most to promote jazz in a nation more in tune with Mando-pop and Western rock. In the late 1990s it became the in-house band for Taipei’s oldest and most respected jazz venue, The Blue Note, and was one of the first local jazz acts to incorporate its own original works into its sets. The largely improvisational pieces proved hugely popular with the local jazz crowd. In 2001 the combo released the first-ever locally produced jazz album to feature original works by a Taiwanese jazz band. It did, however, make enough of a splash in the then diminutive jazz circles to create a buzz…
In fact they were pretty awful, but the album did prove that a local jazz act could create and record its own works. ” Since the band’s early days’ jazz has taken hold in Taiwan. And although it’s still a genre enjoyed by a minority, the combo’s home-grown brand of jazz has proven hugely successful. Metamorphosis is now a regular not only at the Blue Note but it also performs several times a month at Taipei’s Witch House and the Riverside Music Cafe. Members of the popular local jazz combo will be moving far away from their jazzy roots this weekend, however, and will hopefully be creating a whole new buzz with a set of original jazz based vibes. Metamorphosis has, for a limited period, joined forces with several classical Chinese musicians and morphed itself into a hybrid ensemble that combines contemporary jazz standards with traditional oriental sounds. The auxiliary combo consists of three traditional jazz musicians and five classical Chinese instrumentalists and was the brainchild of Peng and composer Lai Hsiao-li (¿>ūW).
US fighting the war the terrorists sought
International Herald Tribune – Sep 9, 2005
In the event, they were quite sufficient to lead to the defeat of the Spanish government and the decision of its successor to withdraw its troops from Iraq. What seems most notable about the Madrid attack – and the attack on Jewish and foreign sites in Casablanca on May 17, 2003, among others – is that the perpetrators were "home-grown" and not, strictly speaking, Al Qaeda. "After 2001, when the U. destroyed the camps and housing and turned off the funding, bin Laden was left with little control," Marc Sageman, a psychiatrist and former CIA case officer who has studied the structure of the network, has written. "The movement has now degenerated into something like the Internet.
States want to see the details first
NEWS.com.au – Sep 9, 2005
Islamic groups condemned the terrorism crackdown as divisive and predicted it would make Australia more vulnerable to a home-grown attack. ACT Chief Minister John Stanhope was the most outspoken leader, saying that on the face of it, John Howard’s terror laws infringed on basic human rights. Mr Stanhope told The Australian he was concerned that it was not clear who would be subject to the proposed control orders, or what judicial processes would apply to the proposed preventive detention regime. The states expressed surprise at Mr Howard’s pre-emptive release of the new terrorism package before a COAG meeting due on September 27, when the subject will be discussed. Under Mr Howard’s proposals, law reform would be required in the states, so their support will be imperative.
Putting IT together
The Age – Sep 9, 2005
And now you have the excuse you needed,and so some good could come of it quite easily. War stories Anne Buzeika, University of Auckland: The discussionabout systems is quite interesting because that’s probablybeen the biggest challenge. The Auckland College of Education was amuch smaller entity that had home grown systems. It had systemsthat worked specifically to the needs of that business and theywere systems that had been developed alongside the users andalongside the people who wanted the information from thosesystems. Of course we’ve merged with the university [of Auckland]which uses PeopleSoft, and there’s no intention or there wasnever even thought of taking the university’s systems andputting them into ours, which were a lot smaller. So we were goingto merge our systems into theirs. What we’ve done iswe’ve come up with a compromise to ensure that the users haveto buy into it.
‘Grey’ city of art, style and comic capers
Telegraph.co.uk – Sep 9, 2005
The Royal Palace and Art Museum border the Place Royale. Go right for the two Sablons, with chic cafés and antique shops, then the secluded park and orangery of the Jardin d’Egmont. The shops £60 buys a beaded cardigan from La Belle & La Bête (rue Dansaert 73 ), one of many home-grown fashion shops on this street. £25 is the cost of a framed Tintin cartoon lithograph from the official boutique (rue de la Colline 13). £3 buys a slab of sweet stuff from Pierre Marcolini’s high temple of chocolate (Place du Grand Sablon 39). Guidebook Top 10: Brussels & Bruges, Antwerp & Ghent (Dorling Kindersley Eyewitness, £6.