Home Grown: Rainbow Ribbons
The News Review:
- Home Grown: Rainbow Ribbons
- Growing leaders in the backyard
- Condi’s Three-Day Return to Birmingham Mix of Tears, Remembrance
- The making of Muslim Australia
- Frieze show puts the ‘art’ into party
- It’s ‘chopped and screwed,’ and it sells
Home Grown: Rainbow Ribbons
Mail Tribune - Oct 24, 2005
How long have you lived in the Rogue Valley? Leah was born in Lakeview and moved to the Rogue Valley in 1964. Joel was born in Central Point. What inspired you to go into this line of work? Leah: We breed and raise quarterhorses, and I wanted to spend more time at home. You can’t do that when you have a five-day-a-week job in town. We heard the business might come up for sale. Instead of retiring from work, I would have a little bit of income. By working out of the house, when one of the mares was ready to foal, I could be there and help train the quarterhorses as well… How do you define success for your business? The quality of our awards has been the big thing. We’ve had customers since 1999 and still have almost all those customers. Their shows have grown and that’s helped. The shows have gotten larger so more entrants are going and showing their animals. There’s nothing that goes out that isn’t perfect as can be. The satellite division is in a new building in Gold Hill, and there is one full-time person working under contract. That has freed me up to look for other awards to provide for our customers.
Growing leaders in the backyard
News & Observer - Oct 24, 2005
Let your correspondent defend what some in the highfalutin towers of higher education might call a provincial attitude. Certainly we’ve been blessed with the hiring of some capable people who are not, as we say, from around here. And we don’t want to fill every job, every time, with someone home-grown. Sometimes, a fresh, outside perspective is needed. But if the university system is not developing its own leadership for the future, then it needs to find out why not — and how it can do better. There are advantages in looking within a given university or the overall system for a chancellor. He or she presumably would be well-acquainted with the political scene inside and outside the university… There are advantages in looking within a given university or the overall system for a chancellor. He or she presumably would be well-acquainted with the political scene inside and outside the university. A home-grown candidate of some years service to a particular campus or the system would — one would hope, anyway — come with built-in loyalty and would not have to be courted with corporate-type perks and a salary inflated by competition. The whole national search thing has come into fashion because of an infectious belief that university leadership positions require the same management skills as those of a business executive. Some skills are similar, but not all. That attitude speaks in part to the need of campus presidents and chancellors to spend a lot of time raising money. Yet some of the people who’ve proved to be supremely competent at running a campus over long years in this state are products of “the academy” and learned a lot of what they know about management by listening to people and going on their own true instincts.
Condi’s Three-Day Return to Birmingham Mix of Tears, Remembrance
Black America Web - Oct 23, 2005
We performed in skits together. We were children together,” she said. “When America experienced its own home-grown terrorism, it was meant to shatter our spirit,” Rice said. “It was meant to say that we couldn’t rise up. It was meant just a few weeks after Martin Luther King had said, ‘I have a dream’ (to say) no, we didn’t have a dream, and that dream was going to be denied. And when I think of Addie and Denise and Carole and Cynthia, I think of their triumph and the fact that that dream was not denied. ” “Because we were not denied, Birmingham was not denied, and because Birmingham was not denied, America finally came to terms with its birth defect, finally came to terms with the contradiction.
The making of Muslim Australia
The Age - Oct 23, 2005
Bubblingbeneath this rhetorical surface is a set of assumptions about whatis often called Islamic culture. This is the post-London bogeyman. It is why so much editorial space in the aftermath of the Londonbombings was devoted to placing multiculturalism in the dock forhome-grown terrorism. What former National Party senator John Stonecalled in The Australian the “failed culture” of Islam hadexposed the inherent vulnerability of multiculturalism. But all of this overlooks the fact that Islam is not a cultureat all. It is the faith of well over 1 billion unspeakably diversepeople of such unspeakably diverse cultures. To think of theirculture in the singular is to enter into the deepest, mostirredeemable incoherence.
Frieze show puts the ‘art’ into party
The Observer - Oct 23, 2005
‘I think the selection committee may have previously been tougher on home-grown talent, and the percentage of British galleries represented has gone up this year. For us that’s a really good development. ‘The money pouring into the art market is also increasingly home-grown. From a slow start in the first year, British collectors accounted for half of all sales last year and this year the proportion is expected to rise. The success of Frieze has also stimulated the market for younger, less established artists. Four smaller art fairs have sprung up alongside Frieze: the Zoo, also in Regent’s Park, the Scope at St Martin’s Lane Hotel, the Pilot fair in Clerkenwell and the Affordable Art Fair in Battersea. ‘It’s really difficult to get people to see your work when you’re just starting out,’ says Nina Mankin, a young sculptor exhibiting at the Affordable Art Fair.
It’s ‘chopped and screwed,’ and it sells
USA Today - Oct 23, 2005
Not only are most mainstream albums “chopped and screwed,” but underground mixtapes are also big sellers. Swisha House founder Mike “5000″ Watts, a leading proponent of the music, does almost all the remixes of Universal Records rap albums, in addition to his own records. He says the languid sound reflects Houston’s lifestyle. “We are more laid-back like that,” he says, “especially over here in the ‘hood. ”
But the industry recognizes that the lucrative market for screw music has long since expanded beyond the city. Universal executive Pat Monaco says the market, though significantly smaller than that for a normal album, is still substantial.