A Home-Grown Idea For a Breakfast Drink
The News Review:
- A Home-Grown Idea For a Breakfast Drink
- Jones plots Samoa ambush
- Iraqi political factions travel to Cairo to meet
- The prickly tale of Charlie and the urchin factory
- Antipodean class should tie up Golden Boot
- Threats change the face of travel
- Sports of The Times; For Marbury, It’s Tougher To Go Home Once…
A Home-Grown Idea For a Breakfast Drink
New York Times – Nov 20, 2005
” About 20 years ago, Mr. Brown added oyster mushrooms to the mix, growing them exclusively for Franklin Mushroom Farms in Franklin, near Willimantic. At the time, specialty mushrooms like oysters, shitakes or portobellos were little known, but now they are popular in both restaurant and home cooking, Mr. The ascent of such fancy mushrooms gives him hope for his black currant ambitions. He has bought a $100,000 currant harvester from Finland, and has spent about $260,000 to buy and plant some 130,000 currant bushes over 65 acres. He is setting up a $300,000 bottling operation that would make Maple Lane the state’s only farm to both grow currants and bottle them as juice on site… ” Maple Lane has been producing some 2,400 gallons of black currant juice each week for the past year and a half, Mr. It is sold in several supermarkets in the state, including Whole Foods and Shaw’s, as well as in smaller stores that specialize in Connecticut-grown products, he said. Brown said once his on-site bottling operation is up and running, he would begin experimenting with black currant juice blends.
Jones plots Samoa ambush
Times Online – Nov 20, 2005
With Samoan soldiers of fortune all over the globe, this tour party blends home-grown amateurs, New Zealand-based amateurs and overseas professionals. Of the 30-man squad, 18 are amateurs, although only three are in today’s 22 against Scotland. But Jones says rewarding home-grown players is vital: “There are new Semo Sititis growing up in the islands, and we have to nurture them. ” Jones says Samoa must argue for the rules on sevens to be changed, allowing Samoans who have played for New Zealand and Australia to return to Samoa at 15-a-side, and for former tier-one internationals, such as Andrew Blowers, the one-time All Black, to be able to return to tier-two nations. He suggests, too, that if New Zealand schools give Samoa’s talented youngsters scholarships, it is no reason for them to be lost to Samoa. Jones accepts that on this tour exposing amateurs to the big time could see Samoa come unstuck: “We ask our players to grow up quickly, with the danger we could be heavily beaten by Scotland or England. But we desperately need the competition, and when you throw 15 Samoans on the field, you can spring an ambush which can knock off the best teams in the world.
Iraqi political factions travel to Cairo to meet
San Francisco Chronicle – Nov 20, 2005
This is an Iraqi reality,” al-Jaafari later added. Ousted Iraqi President Saddam Hussein drew on the Baath Party for the inner circle of his Sunni-dominated government. But Sunni leaders insist that there is a difference between foreign terrorists such as Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, who target innocent Iraqi civilians, and the home-grown insurgency, which they say is fighting against an illegal foreign occupation and targets only U. Only after the withdrawal of American troops and through negotiations with insurgents will the violence ebb, Sunni leaders said Saturday. “The claim that ending the occupation will lead to chaos is just a pretext that seeks to extend the stay of an illegitimate occupation,” said Harith al-Dhari, a Sunni who heads the hard-line Muslim Clerics Association, which is believed to have sway with some insurgent groups.
The prickly tale of Charlie and the urchin factory
The Independent – Independent – Nov 20, 2005
Tens of thousands of the prickly marine animals are to be cultivated in the Highlands as a luxury food. Sea urchin gonads, or roe, are already sought after in Paris restaurants and in Japan, where they are used in sushi. But Scottish MPs and seafood farmers are confident their own, home-grown urchins will soon be a familiar feature of British haute cuisine. The plan is for thousands of the spiny sea hedgehogs to be “grown” on fish farms and sold as a delicacy. Sea urchins have been found to live comfortably alongside farmed salmon, feeding on leftover fish food and cleaning algae off the sides of cages. Marine scientists researching the best sea urchins to cultivate for food have already supplied juvenile species to farmers, who are waiting for them to mature. Each sea urchin has five gonads, which are scooped out by diners and eaten raw.
Antipodean class should tie up Golden Boot
Times Online – Nov 20, 2005
It made Farrell’s honour look dangerously like tokenism, that he had won in large part because it had been many years since the award had been made to an Englishman. The award will surely return to the southern hemisphere tomorrow. The only outstanding home-grown candidate is Bradford’s Stuart Fielden, whose performances throughout the Bulls’ unbeaten run to the Super League Grand Final and in Britain’s opening Tri-Nations matches have been almost superhuman. But given that Fielden admits his early-season form was inconsistent, it is hard to make a convincing case for the Yorkshireman to take the award ahead of the likes of Andrew Johns, Stacey Jones, Anthony Minichello or Ruben Wiki. Johns, who won the Golden Boot in 2000 and 2001, made a remarkable comeback from injury to play a series of outstanding matches for club, state and country before accepting that his knee would not carry him through the remainder of the Tri-Nations tournament. Few could argue that a fit Johns is not the best creative player in the world, but that is not the same as making the case for him having been the best over the past 12 months.
Threats change the face of travel
NEWS.com.au – Nov 20, 2005
Seven per cent said the threat had made them stop catching trains, while six per cent had disembarked from a train because something looked suspicious. And 35 per cent said they sometimes worried when they saw someone who looked “different”. The survey coincided with debate over the Federal Government’s new anti-terrorism laws and the arrest of 17 men alleged to be members of a home-grown terrorist network. Police alleged that planning for an attack was in its final stages. Half the survey respondents did not think the Government could be trusted to provide appropriate security. Law and order provoked the strongest response. An overwhelming 81 per cent believed police were losing the war against crime.
Sports of The Times; For Marbury, It’s Tougher To Go Home Once…
New York Times – Nov 20, 2005
It is not easy to come home. It is not easy to play in New York. And it is particularly not easy when New York is home… Pedro Martínez, competitive and manipulative, managed to lion-tame New York last season. Cliff Floyd has been a grown-up in his tenure with the Mets. And Cameron was the kind of sunny, verbal, skillful player Mets fans have always liked. The Mets are going to miss Cameron, but they will love Ramirez’s home runs and runs batted in, if they get him. The first time Ramirez sleepwalks to first base or takes the weekend off while stationed in the outfield, the fans will let him have it. It’s the same way indoors.