Howard urges tolerance after violence
The News Review:
- Howard urges tolerance after violence
- Blatter queries foreign player role
- Xbox launches in Japan
- Britain now speaking a new language
- Ricketts racially abused
Howard urges tolerance after violence
TVNZ – Dec 12, 2005
Australia’s small Muslim community has expressed feelings ofalienation since the Iraq war, reporting racist verbal abuse andoccasional assaults. Australia is a staunch US ally and was one ofthe first nations to commit troops to Iraq and Afghanistan. Local Muslims have also expressed concern about recent newanti-terror laws, which they fear could target them, and warningsof home-grown terrorism by intelligence authorities. The Howard government has used security as a major issue in itslast two election victories, but the prime minister dismissed anysuggestion his government’s warnings about home-grown terroristshad fuelled the rampage. “It is impossible to know how individuals react but everythingthis government’s said about home-grown terrorism has been totallyjustified,” said Howard. “It is a potential threat. To suggest that one should remainsilent.
Blatter queries foreign player role
rte.ie – Dec 12, 2005
“The solution is that there should be a minimum,” Blatter told reporters. “FIFA’s idea is we should have at least six players eligible for the national team of the country in which they play. ”
Speaking before the FIFA Club World Championship in Japan, the FIFA president was asked if he thought it was “unfair” that Liverpool sometimes fielded as few as two Englishmen in their starting XI. “One of the principles of the European Union is the free assimilation of people,” said Blatter.
Xbox launches in Japan
Australian IT – Dec 12, 2005
article-tools –> Lisa Baertlien in Los Angeles | December 12, 2005. module-subheader –> MICROSOFT is counting on the online gaming capability and high-definition graphics of its Xbox 360 console to unseat Sony as Japan’s leading console maker. Microsoft, which launched the Xbox 360 in Japan this week, has struggled hard to gain ground in that market against home-grown rivals Nintendo and Sony, whose PlayStation 2 console is the global best seller. “We are up and running here,” Microsoft’s Xbox marketing chief Peter Moore said. Microsoft, which was a distant third in Japan with its first Xbox, held a launch party for hard-core gamers in Tokyo’s Shibuya, a trendy shopping and entertainment centre. “We think (Japan) is the springboard to Asia,” Mr Moore said. Japanese gamers will take to its Xbox Live online game service that enables players to chat, compete, try game demos and shop, he added.
Britain now speaking a new language
Times of India – Dec 12, 2005
”
Kerswill
said there was some evidence similar ways of speaking were emerging in
multicultural cities such as Birmingham, Bristol and
Manchester. “We think some of
the features of this multi-ethnic kind of speech will become more mainstream
through force of numbers with migration, and because it is fashionable and
cool,” he said. “In central
London a home-grown variety of English is appearing now among people who want to
mark themselves out culturally and socially. Their speech is something that’s
entirely new. ”
The spread of
the dialect is being encouraged by a wave of successful London rap stars such as
Lady Sovereign and Dizzee Rascal. The slang spreads as the music
is broadcast on national radio stations… ”
The spread of
the dialect is being encouraged by a wave of successful London rap stars such as
Lady Sovereign and Dizzee Rascal. The slang spreads as the music
is broadcast on national radio stations. G Money, a DJ at 1Xtra, the BBC youth
radio station, said: “Music is responsible for its spread, especially with
stations like 1Xtra playing it on a national basis instead of the local
stations. ”
Kerswill’s team
first identified the dialect at an inner-city college in Hackney, east London,
during a three-year research programme into teenage
English. The £275,000
study, funded by the Economic and Social Research Council, involved analysing
the conversation of 32 teenagers aged 16 to 18. Half
were from white British backgrounds and half from immigrant families.
Ricketts racially abused
Jamaica Gleaner – Dec 12, 2005
According to a report on the League One club’s website, the 28-year-old Ricketts was sent off after teammate Steven Schumacher had given Bradford City a 1-0 lead over Southend in the 34th minute at Roots Hall and the big Jamaican shot-stopper “gesticulated to the home supporters behind the goal”. Bradford’s coach Collin Todd, who brought another Jamaican Ricardo Gardner to Bolton Wanderers, demanded more consistency from the officials following Ricketts’ ejection. All he did was to put his index finger up to indicate 1-0, this after being racially abused a few minutes beforehand by one of their fans,” Todd was quoted as saying on the club’s website.