Baseball Is Alive In The Heartland
The News Review:
- Baseball Is Alive In The Heartland
- North Korea struggles with Net
- Scripting despair for budding talents
- Nowra boy Rogers to put on a show for home fans as Heat hits the…
- Namibian president urges need for scientists to exploit natural…
Baseball Is Alive In The Heartland
Forbes – Oct 21, 2005
290 with 35 stolen bases. He also made baseball’s minimum wage of $300,000. The Astros have 15 home-grown players on their 25-man active roster, compared with seven for the Yankees and three for the Red Sox. They’re products of a development system that includes a $1 million training facility in Venezuela, a big source of baseball talent. “Other businesses are pulling out of Venezuela,” says Astros General Manager Tim Purpura, who estimated the team has increased its scouting resources by 45% over the past five years. Instead of winter shopping sprees to land big-name players, Houston invests lesser sums in higher salaries for scouts and top-of-the-line training equipment. “Scouting and player development are the R&D of baseball,” Purpura says.
North Korea struggles with Net
Australian IT – Oct 21, 2005
The centre, set up in 1990, acts as the regime’s gatekeeper, selecting only approved information and downloading it onto the Intranet, whose content is mostly limited to science and technology and available only to selected research institutes, universities, factories, and a few individuals. South Korea’s Unification Ministry estimated that only a tight circle of leaders, including dictator Kim and his military henchmen, would have direct access to the internet through a German portal that set up a joint venture with North Korea last year. Through the portal, North Korea has set up several dozen propaganda websites. At the Kumsong school around 12 students were in each of the three classrooms shown to foreign journalists. Each desk had a computer made in Taiwan, running Microsoft operating systems. The boys – no girls were seen – study English for two hours each day and spend hours honing computer skills and developing their own programs. School vice president Pak Ryong-Kil said the institute was set up in 1966 on the orders of Kim, then heir apparent to North Korea’s founding father Kim Il Sung.
Scripting despair for budding talents
Times of India – Oct 21, 2005
Consider this: These two
organisations recently put in place the Uttar Pradesh Film Policy (apparently)
to provide financial assistance to well-known filmmakers interested in shooting
films in the state. Although the policy came into effect in 2004, not a single
script (of the 50-odd sent in) was approved by UPFDC. And, the scheme fell flat on
its face. It still exists on paper but there aren’t any takers.
Nowra boy Rogers to put on a show for home fans as Heat hits the…
Free with registration – Asia Africa Intelligence Wire – AccessMyLibrary.com – Oct 21, 2005
(From Canberra Times) At 19 he is one of the youngest players in the Canberra Heat men’s volleyball team. But tomorrow night Alex Rogers will take centre stage when the Heat takes on Western Australia in his home town of Nowra. The Shoalhaven Basketball Stadium will host the Heat’s round five Australian Volleyball League clash as a way of supporting their home-grown talent Rogers, who has already represented his country in the Australian junior side. Heat coach Alexis Lebedew has welcomed the support from the Nowra.
Namibian president urges need for scientists to exploit natural…
Free with registration – Asia Africa Intelligence Wire – AccessMyLibrary.com – Oct 21, 2005
–> COPYRIGHT 2005 Financial Times Ltd. (From BBC Monitoring International Reports) Excerpt from report by Namibian television on 20 October [Presenter] President Hifikepunye Pohamba says tertiary institutions can provide solutions to the challenges facing the country in the process of nation building by research and academic inquiry. The president believes that basic solutions to developmental challenges should be home-grown. This means that the country’s.