America West family gathers for bittersweet farewell
The News Review:
- America West family gathers for bittersweet farewell
- Briefs: Vintage watch
- ‘You may be top of the league but our tickets are more expensive…
- It’s 5 * for Hilton again!
- Motorsport.com: News channel
- Lugar Knows US Farmers Will Keep on Pumping
- Great Scott’s hat-trick of tries
America West family gathers for bittersweet farewell
USA Today – Sep 21, 2005
Employees of America West Airlines and others gathered at the corporate headquarters in Tempe on Tuesday for a carnival to say goodbye to the company name as it merges with US Airways next week. There was free popcorn, cotton candy, snow cones and games. But there was a bittersweet feeling, like at a high school graduation, a sense of something ending, even as something is beginning. For hours, people filed by, examining the memorabilia, much of it from founder Ed Beauvais’ private collection, letting memories wash over them, laughing at the old hairdos and younger faces in the photos.
Briefs: Vintage watch
St. Petersburg Times – Sep 21, 2005
Italy, Spain, Germany and the United States all posted top wines, and the top reserves are now coming into the stores. Crack them open now if you wish. ISRAELI NOUVEAU To celebrate the growing harvest of better wines from Israel, critic Daniel Rogov has put together a guide to more than 1,000 home-grown wines he has tasted, many of them rarely seen here. Rogov’s Guide to Israeli Wines 2006 (Toby Press, $19. 95) ranks 140 wineries from no stars to five stars. Most familiar of Rogov’s standouts is Golan Heights Winery, best known in the United States by the Yarden label. Other five-star wines to look for include Amphorae and Castel.
‘You may be top of the league but our tickets are more expensive…
Telegraph.co.uk – Sep 21, 2005
Having said all this, the loss of interest in football is not necessarily a bad thing since it enables other sports to gain more of the limelight (cricket being the perfect example). This country is far too obsessed with football which has a detrimental effect on the success of lower profile sports. Rob Tong,EpsomMy interest in football started dwindling when the majority of teams abandoned home-grown players. It is compounded now by the lack of ambition shown by teams, and not just those in a relegation dogfight. Maybe, taking a lead from rugby, some sort of bonus point system could be adopted for goals or maybe having goals scored as the criterion rather than goal difference. I think football’s bubble has burst, lack of entertainment, the cost and the atrocious behaviour of some of the pampered superstars all contribute. Gary Topp Why not award a point to each team for every goal scored, so if Wigan beats Man Utd 5-2 (lovely thought) Wigan gets five points and United 2 points.
It’s 5 * for Hilton again!
Tonight – Sep 21, 2005
“This is great news – especially as I suspect this year’s programme did not have as much depth as previous years, due to a critical lack of funding both nationally impacting on the number of productions available, and regionally as one of our main sponsors was not part of the festival this year, meaning we had no flagship production. A major priority for the year ahead is to source more funding. ”
Still, with an impressive 38 shows; 12 Music Revival Concerts and 11 Brainfest lectures, visitors to the festival were treated to a wide variety of the cream of the theatrical crop scooped jointly from the National Arts festival and work currently on the boards in KZN and further afield. Interestingly, many of the productions were home-grown South African productions. From fully-fledged full-length drama productions such as Wood for the Trees, and Paul Slabolepszy’s delicious The Art of Charf, to more intimate one-handers such as Stef Junker’s The Great Escape, Cokey Falkow’s stand-up comedy, John Whiteley’s delightful Don’t Put a Teat on the Whisky Bottle, Craig Morris’s Hero and Ian von Memerty’s Captain Entertainment Music and Mayhem. Interestingly, much of the often animated after-show discussion in the two food tents centred around the original work of various talented theatrical duos – Ben Voss and John Van de Ruit’s sketch-based satire Black Mamba (one of the first shows to sell out), the charming, original and quirky DeWet’s Dream written and performed by Luke Rous and Meren Reddy, and festival stalwarts Ellis Pearson and Bheki Mkhwane in Wave. Music maestro Christopher Duigan once again presented his sublime Musical Revival Concert Series… A major priority for the year ahead is to source more funding. ”
Still, with an impressive 38 shows; 12 Music Revival Concerts and 11 Brainfest lectures, visitors to the festival were treated to a wide variety of the cream of the theatrical crop scooped jointly from the National Arts festival and work currently on the boards in KZN and further afield. Interestingly, many of the productions were home-grown South African productions. From fully-fledged full-length drama productions such as Wood for the Trees, and Paul Slabolepszy’s delicious The Art of Charf, to more intimate one-handers such as Stef Junker’s The Great Escape, Cokey Falkow’s stand-up comedy, John Whiteley’s delightful Don’t Put a Teat on the Whisky Bottle, Craig Morris’s Hero and Ian von Memerty’s Captain Entertainment Music and Mayhem. Interestingly, much of the often animated after-show discussion in the two food tents centred around the original work of various talented theatrical duos – Ben Voss and John Van de Ruit’s sketch-based satire Black Mamba (one of the first shows to sell out), the charming, original and quirky DeWet’s Dream written and performed by Luke Rous and Meren Reddy, and festival stalwarts Ellis Pearson and Bheki Mkhwane in Wave. Music maestro Christopher Duigan once again presented his sublime Musical Revival Concert Series. Amazingly, he personally oversaw all the concerts and performed in eight of the 12 concerts himself, as well as being the guest for the KZNPO Saturday afternoon concert top.
Motorsport.com: News channel
Motorsport.com – Sep 21, 2005
Nevertheless, the teamwill be tackling the sixteenth round of the championship with the samedetermination as ever. That will be particularly true for RubensBarrichello, who will be starting his home grand prix for the thirteenthtime this weekend, especially as it is the last time he will appear in frontof his fellow “Paulistas” bearing the red colours of the Scuderia. The Brazilian Grand Prix has been won by a home-grown driver just seven timesand despite coming very close on several occasions and starting from poleposition for the last two years, a third place in 2004 is the best resultBarrichello has managed at the track where he first tried his hand atcompetition at the wheel of a kart. “In performance terms, I have always gone well here,” says Rubens. “However,looking at the current situation, both in theory and in practice, we do nothave a car capable of delivering a win. Nevertheless, I will face theweekend in a positive frame of mind, as you never know what might happen. “Look at Hungary, where we were expecting very hot conditions and a difficultweekend.
Lugar Knows US Farmers Will Keep on Pumping
Bluffton News Banner – Sep 21, 2005
economy and defense for years to come. However, ethanol and biodiesel not only have some environmental
advantages over petroleum but also they are home grown and renewable. It is clearly in our interests to become less dependent on foreign oil,
especially from the Middle East. We can hope that area of the world is gaining more stability now but
we need more control over vital energy sources. We can count on
American agriculture to keep on pumping. Wells County interests seek to
be involved in bio-fuel production as well as in helping to supply the
main ingredient.
Great Scott’s hat-trick of tries
Herts 24 – Sep 21, 2005
After a successful summer youth tour of the Southern Hemisphere, Datchworth head coach Mark Pittaccio put his faith in some home-grown talent, fielding three 18-year-old players at Datchworth Green. Billy Johnson had an excellent game at No 8, with the centre partnership of Scott Quarmby and Henry Mountain looking dangerous. With Quarmby picking up a hat-trick of tries, a penalty and four conversions, the senior teams at Datchworth are clearly reaping the rewards of the club’s effective youth development scheme. After a sustained period of pressure in the visitors’ 22, Quarmby opened the hosts’ account with a three-point penalty. The youngster then added a try after good work from Ben Gillett and Henry Mountain.