Enough home-grown talent to man Dragons’ lair
The News Review:
- Enough home-grown talent to man Dragons’ lair
- Islam Online- News Section
- Perspective – 15 December 2005 – John Sutton
- Victimhood: a dangerous place
- China not to issue 3G licenses early next year despite TD-SCDMA tests…
- Move over Bollywood, here’s Bhojpuri
- Google rumoured to buy Opera
Enough home-grown talent to man Dragons’ lair
The Age – Dec 15, 2005
Put next year’s post-college kids on court with the above fiveand you would have a winning line-up. As you would with WollongongHawks’ Glen Saville or Mathew Campbell, both former Bendigojuniors, or Sam Mackinnon (Brisbane Bullets) or Tony Ronaldson(Perth Wildcats). All four have shown an interest in coming homeonce out of contract. And Wade Helliwell and Damien Ryan, Victorians playing in Italy,have another option when they decide to come home. Smith stated the obvious yesterday when he said: “Victoria hasplenty of great young talent, who will now be presented with anopportunity that otherwise may have been missed with only oneVictorian team. It’s an obvious point that has gone begging for too long.
Islam Online- News Section
Islam Online – Dec 15, 2005
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notion of influential ‘back-door’ mosques is a figment of the
imagination. "
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asserted that British foreign policy and the "double
standards" of London and Washington in their dealings in the
Middle East were a major factor in the rise and spread of terrorism. Sir
Christopher Meyer, the former British ambassador to Washington, said
Saturday, November 5, that the Iraq war has fuelled home-grown
terrorism in Britain. "There
is plenty of evidence around at the moment that home-grown terrorism
was partly radicalized and fuelled by what is going on in Iraq. "
A
leaked secret memo written by Foreign Office Permanent Secretary
Michael Jay warned Blair a year ago that the Iraq war was fuelling
extremism at home and making Britain seen as a crusader state. A
report from Britain ‘s Joint Terrorism Analysis Centre (JTAC) further
said that events in Iraq "are continuing to act as motivation and
a focus of a range of terrorist-related activity in the UK". Also
read:.
Perspective – 15 December 2005 – John Sutton
abc.net.au – Dec 15, 2005
Why the Australian Government is ploughing resources into such ill conceived schemes when it could and should be adopting a raft of measures to provide apprenticeships for Australian youth is the question Australian parents should be asking. To positively address the yawning skills crisis in Australian the CFMEU has produced a ten-point plan that we believe will solve the shortage of skilled trades people in the construction industry by helping to get more young Australians into apprenticeships and keep them there so they develop skills that will remain in Australia and plug the hole in our industry’s skill shortages. Our problems are home grown and our solutions should be home grown too. The CFMEU’s document addresses the kinds of real issues that the Government and employer groups have thus far avoided at the nation’s cost. Further Information
Deaprtment of Education, Science and Training: National Skills Shortage Strategy.
Victimhood: a dangerous place
The Age – Dec 15, 2005
Let’s immediately acknowledge two facts: the vast majority ofAustralian Muslims are not mired in victimhood, and those who areusually have real grievances, including discrimination andhostility from other Australians and a remarkable lack of supportfrom the Prime Minister. But they still have to move to a betterpsychological address. The London bombings in July shocked Muslim communities andeveryone else because the bombers were “home-grown”. AustralianMuslim leaders had long condemned terrorism, but now, for the firsttime, they acknowledged there were problems within their owncommunities that only the communities could tackle. “We have to domore,” said Sheikh Fehmi Naji el-Imam, secretary of the VictorianBoard of Imams. And their honesty reaped good fruit in the wider community,which increasingly understood that the issue was not a matter ofdivisions between Muslims and the rest but between extremists andthe rest, who included nearly all Muslims. This was evident in thereaction to the recent arrest of 18 men on terror charges.
China not to issue 3G licenses early next year despite TD-SCDMA tests…
Forbes – Dec 15, 2005
Chen Jinqiao, an official from China Academy of Telecommunications Research under the Ministry of Information Industry (MII), said that the 3G licenses will not be issued at the beginning of 2006 despite better-than-expected TD-SCDMA field tests. Chen said technology and equipment compatible with China’s home-grown 3G mobile standard TD-SCDMA is ready for commercial deployment. He also said China is expected to see an annual growth of 60 mln users after the launch of 3G. zang@xinhuafinance.
Move over Bollywood, here’s Bhojpuri
BBC News – Dec 15, 2005
The industry, catering to 200m people who speak the Bhojpuri language – a dialect of Hindi – and live in the states of Bihar and Uttar Pradesh, is raking in cash like never before. Sticking to home-grown Indian family melodramas and throwing in some glamorous faces and slick foreign locations for a contemporary feel, Bhojpuri films are often outperforming Bollywood biopics at the box office these days. Take, for example, two of the Bhojpuri mega hits of 2005, Sasura Bada Paisawela (My Father-in-Law is Rich) and Daroga Babu I Love You (Dear Policeman, I Love You). Both did more business in Bihar and Uttar Pradesh than the A-list Bollywood releases, Bunty Aur Babli, a version of Bonnie and Clyde, and Mangal Pandey – The Rising, about the 1857 Indian mutiny. Star cast
Made on a modest budget of $65,000, Sasura Bada Paisawela took in over $3m at the box office. Daroga Babu mopped up nearly $900,000 on a similar budget.
Google rumoured to buy Opera
Earthtimes.org – Dec 15, 2005
In his personal blog, Kelblog, he has quoted a “usually well informed source” to say the acquisition is on the cards. Chappaz says such a move can be expected in the light of Microsoft’s latest product in the browser segment, its Internet Explorer, IE 7, which is touted to have search technology integrated as one would expect given the success of Firefox and Netscape with integrated search. ‘Google browser’ when and if it arrives, whether Opera or home grown could then see some tough competition from IE7 but with such a good brand, search engine results and market leading reputation combined with the other offerings like gmail, news, blog search, book search, maps, froogle, earth, voice, the new music search and more besides or in the pipeline, Google has, perhaps the real Browser wars battle will begin. Why Opera could be an attraction is the fact that it has adaptations for smart phones and is a major player in the mobile phones market. And Google may not want to reinvent the wheel. Google is also ambitious about entering the wireless technology field. There is no official confirmation from Google on the report.