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English tea service
Telegraph.co.uk – Sep 17, 2005
sinensis bushes for sale with more to come and a few other nurseries also sell them. This year’s organic green tea from the estate will be enough to provide about a 1,000 “tasting” sachets and even before the plucking it has sold out. Home-grown tea will hardly threaten the Indian tea industry, but green tea from the clippings of one’s own bush sounds just as appealing as home-grown asparagus or some other delicate garden treat – and more fun. For those with limey soil, a pot is the answer. The tea-hedge I had in mind – the thought of brewing up with the clippings instead of carting them to the municipal dump was most appealing – is therefore impractical but, Jonathon Jones says, it would be unreliable anyway because C. sinensis is slow-growing and if there were a bad winter they would get burnt, and the growth held back even more. They can survive the cold, though absolutely no frost in the growing season – and they also need protection from a hot summer sun.
Dispatch Online – Your premier Eastern Cape news site
Dispatch Online – Sep 17, 2005
They are born of a concerted effort which had its roots in a meeting some six years ago, organised by new SABC CEO Dali Mpofu. By BONGANI SIQOKO
and ZINE GEORGE
IT is “payback time” for the Eastern Cape as home-grown millionaires pour their wealth into their home region – thanks, in part, to a series of golf days. Leading the pack are empowerment tycoons Bulelani Ngcuka and Saki Macozoma, who between them are investing more than R2 billion in business ventures around the province. Ngcuka’s company Amabhubesi Investments is investing a whopping R1,7 billion in a shopping complex in Jeffery’s Bay; housing development and tomato farming projects in East London; and a dairy farming project in Middledrift. Macozoma owns a 25 percent share in Swiss Villa Farms, which is developing a golfing estate in Chintsa. Once completed the R1,2bn river golfing estate will create about 900 permanent jobs.
Iraq’s future
Times Online – Sep 17, 2005
This sadistic boast has been followed by a savage and shameless campaign of suicide bombings. Al-Zarqawi’s vow should render the ethical and political debate about Iraq more straightforward. Those who insisted that the Iraqi “insurgency” was home-grown can hardly maintain that stance when it is being championed by a Jordanian national in the name of a group established by a Saudi-born fanatic. Those who contend that these extremists are best seen as nationalists aggrieved by the Western presence in Iraq cannot truly sustain that claim when they explicitly call for civil war. Those who cling to the notion that the zealots have somehow been alienated from the political process and have to be appeased cannot, surely, fail to observe their glorification of violence. Conflict within Iraq may well prove harder to create than al-Zarqawi and his ilk have calculated. The Shia community has been extraordinarily resilient in the face of intense provocation.
Only a close look reveals artist’s work
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel – Milwaukee Journal Sentinel (subscription… – Sep 17, 2005
She started her career selling at craft shows and school bazaars in the area. So, one can’t help but notice that, except for the select touches of whimsy discretely sprinkled and easily missed, there is no hint of country in her home. When queried on this apparent discrepancy, Loduha laughed and explained, “This is my grown-up home. ”
Her grown-up home is 3,600 square feet of comfortable living and good taste. A recent addition evolved to include the library, a master bedroom suite, a third-floor office space and a gorgeous backyard patio. Freelance writer Peggy Devitt Katz spent a pleasurable few hours learning more about Loduha’s house, her studio and her seventh annual “Christmas Village” holiday show, to be held at Zoofari at the Milwaukee Zoo from Nov.
A strong sense of place
The Age – Sep 17, 2005
Justover 100 years later a different Carmichael created paintings aboutthis event. These are masterly works rich in narrative andmetaphor. And it is, to me, astonishing, that in an age when the ABC hasreduced its home-grown drama output to virtually nil, suchnarratives are being reclaimed for posterity by painters ratherthan filmmakers. In later works, Carmichael plunders art history inself-referential paintings such as Inventing Jackson Pollock -after Courbet (1995) and Spring in Delft – afterVermeer (1997). In these, we see the same vigorous imagination that has longbeen the hallmark of the Scottish school and linked to hisnear-contemporaries Alexander Fraser, Joyce Cairns and IanHoward. Yet there is something of the “travelling man” about Carmichaelthat is closer to the minstrel life of Bob Dylan than it is to thePort Seton-bound but Italian-based John Bellany. My two favourite paintings in this exhibition – which can beseen alongside works by Ernest Decimus Stocks and a show calledGumnuts and Glazes: the story of Premier Pottery, Preston1929-1956 – are his stunning images of a Chinese plaster cast of anIndian elephant, Persistence of memory (1987-88) andThe first day (1989).
Nissan’s Micra C+C goes into production
Easier – Sep 17, 2005
6 litre petrol, Sport grade, will come off the line at around 08. 30 and is destined for a customer in the UK. The C+C is a truly home-grown product as it was designed at London-based Nissan Design Europe, developed at the Nissan Technical Centre Europe in Bedfordshire, and will be built by Nissan Motor Manufacturing (UK) Ltd in Sunderland. It represents a £95 million investment, taking the total investment by Nissan in the Sunderland plant to over £2. This roof module is being produced by specialist German supplier Karmann GmbH, which, in a first for both companies, has set up a ‘factory within a factory’ inside Nissan’s Final Assembly Shop.