Brown refuses to rule out tax rises to fill £10bn ‘black hole’
The News Review:
- Brown refuses to rule out tax rises to fill £10bn ‘black hole’
- Podcasters prepare for video
- Sterile male medflies loosed in breeding war Tactic is to entice…
- Marketing begins at home.
- State dines out on our global reputation
- Fletcher, O’Shea extend Manchester United deals
Brown refuses to rule out tax rises to fill £10bn ‘black hole’
The Independent – Independent – Oct 14, 2005
Higher oil prices have caused the difficulties all economies face. ” Vince Cable, Treasury spokesman for the Liberal Democrats, accused Mr Brown of trying to hide behind the oil price rise even though independent analysis had shown it had caused that less than a quarter of the economic slowdown. “The vast majority of the problem is home grown due to weakness in private investment and nervousness among private consumers about their large levels of personal debt and the possibility of a bursting of the housing bubble,” he said. Mr Brown replied: “If the problem was as home grown as you suggest, why is it that Germany, France, Italy and the Netherlands are all growing slower than us?” He added: “In no other decade would a trebling of oil prices in the British economy have led to anything other than a recession, but this decade. ” He insisted the OECD report had praised Britain as “the most stable economy of the G7″ and a “paragon of stability”… ” Vince Cable, Treasury spokesman for the Liberal Democrats, accused Mr Brown of trying to hide behind the oil price rise even though independent analysis had shown it had caused that less than a quarter of the economic slowdown. “The vast majority of the problem is home grown due to weakness in private investment and nervousness among private consumers about their large levels of personal debt and the possibility of a bursting of the housing bubble,” he said. Mr Brown replied: “If the problem was as home grown as you suggest, why is it that Germany, France, Italy and the Netherlands are all growing slower than us?” He added: “In no other decade would a trebling of oil prices in the British economy have led to anything other than a recession, but this decade. ” He insisted the OECD report had praised Britain as “the most stable economy of the G7″ and a “paragon of stability”.
Podcasters prepare for video
Australian IT – Oct 14, 2005
Podcasting, a term based on the name for Apple’s portable media player, allows customers to download audio, and now video, segments for free to their computers and portable devices. Radio shows are among the most popular podcasts, but amateurs have helped turn podcasting into an eclectic global phenomenon. Apple’s video-enabled iPod models promise to stoke the fervour of home-grown broadcasters. “I’m thrilled by the possibilities of combining devices,” said “Soccergirl”, whose opinionated and sexually suggestive program was listed among the 40 most popular podcasts on Apple’s iTunes service. The 26-year old librarian, who chooses not to reveal her real name, already produces short video segments that can play on viewers’ computers. The new iPods “will make it easier for many of my listeners to watch my video as easily as they listen to my show”, she said. Other early adopters of video podcasting are likely to include clergy of all stripes.
Sterile male medflies loosed in breeding war Tactic is to entice…
San Francisco Chronicle – Oct 14, 2005
The state Department of Food and Agriculture is also using a bacteria extract called Naturalyte in a 220-yard radius around the two spots where the medflies were found. It acts as a bait and kills the bugs but won’t harm people, Van Wassenhove said. More medfly traps have been set in an 81-square-mile area around the Santa Teresa neighborhood, and Van Wassenhove expects a quarantine will be imposed within a week to stop people from taking home-grown produce out of that area. Those who do so could be fined. Commercial growers would have to get the county to certify their produce was medfly-free before they could sell it. Van Wassenhove said a few more flies might show up in traps in the coming days and weeks, but he doubted that any other steps would be necessary unless larvae appear in the spring. Swarming an area with the sterile males has been an effective tactic against medflies since it was first tried in Southern California in 1996, said Steve Lyle, a spokesman for the Department of Food and Agriculture.
Marketing begins at home.
Free with registration – Farmers Weekly – AccessMyLibrary.com – Oct 14, 2005
–> COPYRIGHT 2005 Reed Business Information Ltd. With supermarket power squeezing their production margins, could British farmers be doing more to promote home-grown products? any of the 105 recommendations made by the Curry Commission on farming back in 2002 were sensible and appropriate. They recognised the dire state of the industry after foot-and-mouth and anticipated the reform of the CAP that was about to happen. OK, they were expressed in New Labour-speak and irritated a lot of people. Phrases like the "disconnection between farmers and the market", the need to "reconnect" them and of "embedding" ideas into DEFRA policy are just Whitehall jargon for getting to know your customers and.
State dines out on our global reputation
NEWS.com.au – Oct 14, 2005
content-row clearfloat –> THE approaching Tasting Australia festival has cemented Adelaide and the state’s regions as international attractions of gastronomic proportions. Local food, wine and tourism leaders are poised to welcome more than 300 visiting celebrity chefs, food writers, photographers, agriculture and food-production experts as well as thousands of keen and hungry fans to South Australia next week when the food, wine and beer festival kicks off. But after years of home-grown concern that our own food and wine industries have been left out in the cold by the 10-day biennial event, this year more local participants than ever are involved in many of the 70 events. Festival director Ian Parmenter has estimated close to 3000 food industry professionals from SA will be involved in associated restaurant events and the major public Feast of the Senses at Elder Park on the final Sunday of the festival. “It has to rub off in a positive fashion,” he says. “Response from outside SA has been very strong this year. ”
More South Australians also want to be involved, with Parmenter citing Regency TAFE’s hospitality course apprentices’ volunteer involvement in many of the major events during the festival.
Fletcher, O’Shea extend Manchester United deals
go.com – Oct 14, 2005
Ferguson’s intention to hand the Edinburgh-born player his debut against Aston Villa in 2000 was scuppered by the Football Association because Fletcher was still technically a schoolboy. After battling through two injury plagued seasons after that, Fletcher finally made his first senior appearance against FC Basle in 2003, since when he has appeared another 77 times, most latterly taking some of the attacking responsibilities off skipper Roy Keane. ‘We were always confident both of them would make it,’ Ferguson said of the home-grown pair. ‘It took a long time for Darren to emerge because he had two years of injuries. ‘He has done fantastically well to emerge from that start to his career but it tells you something about his character. ‘He is an excellent person, with great ability, who is improving all the time. ‘Fletcher’s presence in the United line-up at Sunderland tomorrow could depend on whether Ferguson thinks Park Ji-Sung’s legs will hold out after the South Korean’s outstanding performance for his country in their friendly win over Iran in Seoul on Wednesday.