Ozzie and Nikko Smith return home
The News Review:
- Ozzie and Nikko Smith return home
- Nokia pushes push with E series handsets
- Quake wrecks terror on militants
- Blatter launches fresh series of blasts
- Smart Cards For Foreign Workers By The End Of The Year
- Mediterranean Fruit Flies Prompt Quarantine
Ozzie and Nikko Smith return home
MLB.com – Oct 13, 2005
LOUIS — While there have been several father-son baseball duos in Major League Baseball history, it is rare to find a father-son celebrity duo connected by a city’s love for baseball. On Thursday evening, the Cardinals brought back two home-grown celebs to take part in pregame and in-game ceremonies of Game 2 of the National League Championship Series. Cardinals Hall of Fame shortstop Ozzie Smith threw out the ceremonial first pitch while son Nikko — a former competitor on Fox’s “American Idol” — gave a Stevie Wonder-meets-John Legend rendition of “God Bless America” during the seventh-inning stretch. “He’s probably more recognized than me,” Ozzie said, laughing at the thought of being a Hall of Fame baseball player, yet having a son who is more widely known. “It took me 19 years and it took him six weeks. He had 30 million people watching him a week.
Nokia pushes push with E series handsets
Inquirer – Oct 13, 2005
Then we have two offerings from Seven – Mobile Mail and Always-On Mail. Hmm – bothpush??Then we have Goodlink from Good and Mobile from Visto. Plus a brand new offering – Nokia’s very own home grownBusiness Center. If you then try to look at installed userbases and market shares, things get very interesting indeed. For example,some mobile operators are claimed as clients by multiple vendors. Particularly the Italian operators, it seems. Then you get into arguments over how many devices actually sport ‘true’ push email clients.
Quake wrecks terror on militants
Times of India – Oct 13, 2005
“They can be replaced by other
brain-washed individuals in the jehadi factory run by Pakistan’s ISI,” said the
official. The assessment is that while infiltration may show a slight
decline, violence levels will be kept up in Jammu & Kashmir in the days to
come to show militancy in the state is “home-grown” and not fuelled from across
the border.
Blatter launches fresh series of blasts
go.com – Oct 13, 2005
You should have a competition which is openfor everyone. ‘Professional Footballers’ Association chief executive Gordon Taylor wasdisappointed with Blatter’s allegation, saying: ‘It is sad indictment of WestBrom and the Premier League. ‘Blatter’s solution to prevent the richest clubs hoarding all the best talentwas to put a limit on squad numbers and ensure more home-grown players wereincluded. ‘I don’t only speak about the English Premier League – I speak about Italyand Spain, where it is the same situation,’ he added. ‘What the big clubs are doing is taking more than the number they need, theytake 25-30 or more players. ‘They can only field 11 and three substitutes but they take them away fromthe other clubs and the competition is not open, it is a competition for therich. ‘To go on a salary cap will not help because we cannot intervene in theeconomic system and the European Union would not accept it.
Smart Cards For Foreign Workers By The End Of The Year
Bernama – Oct 13, 2005
2 million foreign workers in the country, by the end of the year. Home Affairs Minister Datuk Seri Azmi Khalid said the system would encompass three categories of workers: general category (construction industry, manufacturing and restaurants; plantations and vegetable farming. He said the system was being introduced to help the authorities monitor foreign workers and the smart cards issued to them would contain their personal information as a replacement for passports. He said with the new system, companies could come to the Immigration Department and have their applications for foreign workers processed the same day. “We have also appointed 20 companies to manage the supply of foreign workers for the various categories,” he told reporters after holding a “buka puasa” (breaking of the fast) function for the media here Wednesday. Azmi said no one would be able to beat the system as it contained various security features. “The old passport system was not very secure as forgeries could be made and sold to foreign workers,” he said.
Mediterranean Fruit Flies Prompt Quarantine
abc7news.com – Oct 13, 2005
The hope is that female flies will breed with the sterile males, then fail to reproduce and die off. The county is taking action after two Medflies were found in a south San Jose neighborhood in the past week. Officials have quarantined an 81-square mile area, prohibiting the transport of home-grown fruits and vegetables. Greg van Wassenhove, Santa Clara Co. agriculture commissioner: “An urban area, why can’t we live with this pest? We’ve got to look at the bigger picture. Now 60-percent of the nation’s fruits and vegetables come from California, so we want to keep that economy alive and protect that produce. ” Story continues below Advertisement digGetAd(“Rectangle”); Officials will also be spraying selected areas by ground with an organic compound.