Bangladesh bombings were home-grown, envoy says
The News Review:
- Bangladesh bombings were home-grown, envoy says
- Live from New Orleans: Abu Ghraib!
- Struggling to succeed in Paris
- Russia’s Afghan War, a Soviet Taboo, Breaks Box Office Records
- BGS National Grassland Management Competition
Bangladesh bombings were home-grown, envoy says
Reuters AlertNet – Oct 11, 2005
Bangladeshi Foreign Secretary Hemayet Uddin said bombs that rocked Bangladesh on Aug. 17 were set by home-grown militants who "intended to give a message to the world outside that Bangladesh is slipping away from the moderate image that we have. " "We are confident that this did not have an international connection," he told a group of reporters and scholars. Uddin, visiting Washington to meet with Pentagon, State Department and National Security Council officials this week, said he was seeking to expand counter-terrorism programs with the United States. Four people died and at least 115 were wounded in about 500 nearly simultaneous attacks in August. Uddin said that they were mostly rudimentary bombs and the carnage would have been catastrophic had the attackers had foreign bombing expertise.
Live from New Orleans: Abu Ghraib!
CounterPunch – Oct 11, 2005
But for anyone looking for confirmation that brutality and abuse is not a war-time aberration but a home-grown reality in American law enforcement. , no need to wait. An Associated Press Television News tape from New Orleans provides a sneak preview. 64 year old Robert Davis was hit at least 4 times in the head last Saturday night as he stood outside a New Orleans bar near Bourbon Street. As he seemed to resist, flailing at his attackers, 4 officers 3 white and 1 light skinned dragged him to the ground and then kneed and punched him twice, leaving him with blood flowing from his arm into the gutter.
Struggling to succeed in Paris
International Herald Tribune – Oct 11, 2005
"I feel there are people here looking for new designers – you just have to meet the right person at the right time. But the question is how? And when? And where?"The 30-year-old native New Yorker, whose first two collections of androgynous and elegant womenswear were presented with little success, is not the only fashion designer here wondering when serendipity will strike. Despite the city's haute couture history, its enviable one-of-a-kind boutiques, and the recent brouhaha about specialist buyers hunting down new talent, few home-grown Parisian designers actually make the cut. "We've been losing our hold as the epicenter of fashion for some time now," said Nicolas Delarue, co-founder of At Large, a Paris-based public relations agency that specializes in promoting young fashion designers. "It's just like our wine industry. Other countries are producing more competitive stuff. "The Today in Fashion & Style.
Russia’s Afghan War, a Soviet Taboo, Breaks Box Office Records
Bloomberg – Oct 11, 2005
opening weekends in September. The haul beats out the two previous records for domesticfilms, both set in the past year, as well as the foreign recordholder in Russia, Hollywood's Matrix-2. The box-office take climbedto $10. 8 million in the first eight days, already recouping the $9million production budget, according to Slovo. Filmmakers have enjoyed bigger budgets as Russia's seventhyear of oil-driven economic growth fuels consumer spending. Slovo tapped bank loans and investors to finance “NinthCompany,'' said the film's producer Yelena Yatsura… It alsopartnered with Russia's fourth-largest TV channel, CTC, which withdistributor Gemini Film International, helped cover some of the$3. 7 million already spent on advertising, she said. Home Grown The audiences are also growing for home-grown films, which nowaccount for about a quarter of the $250 million a year domesticmarket, Yatsura said in an Oct. 7 interview in Moscow. Thatproportion could rise to 40 percent, she predicted. The day of $100 million box-office films may come within thenext five years, said Bondarchuk, sitting in the same office wherehis father, Sergei, worked on “War and Peace. '' That film won the1968 Academy Award for best foreign film.
BGS National Grassland Management Competition
Stackyard – Oct 11, 2005
The system is evolving from a mixed farm to an expanding dairy unit with currently 182 cows. The animals graze the fields close to the buildings, while arable crops such as wheat, barley and peas are grown across the road for feeding to the cows or selling off the farm. The aim is to have 200 high yielding cows, producing high quality milk from as much home-grown feed as possible. The Addison’s have invested in a new milking parlour and comfortable winter housing for the cows. One redundant stable block is now being converted into a conference centre. Care for the environment is a high priority – old hedges are being maintained and new ones planted, and a pond is being restored. The farm will join the new ELS environmental stewardship scheme, which encourages nature conservation.