Sydney beaches guarded after race riot warning
The News Review:
- Sydney beaches guarded after race riot warning
- Inside old factory, tiles a riot of color
- Bikanervala to extend overseas presence.
- SDSU has Long way to go
- So this is Christmas?
- Gerrard says Liverpool fear no one now
Sydney beaches guarded after race riot warning
USA Today – Dec 18, 2005
“I urge honest law-abiding people who want to spend a non-violent day of fun in the sun to make their way to Cronulla and help support those innocent business operators,” he said. However, media have reported throughout the week on email, mobile phone and website messages calling for more “protests”. Visitors to one newly established website were asked to meet near Cronulla on Saturday for a rally against “home-grown terrorist gangs” — a reference to the mainly-Muslim people of Middle Eastern appearance targeted last weekend. The Sydney Morning Herald reported that one neo-Nazi website called for fresh shows of strength in Sydney and the western city of Perth, while “on the usually laid-back surfing website. com there is a post urging protesters to set fire to a Sydney mosque”. Meanwhile, the government announced a new U.
Inside old factory, tiles a riot of color
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel – Milwaukee Journal Sentinel (subscription… – Dec 18, 2005
They’re being lost to remodeling and demolition. And with them goes a home-grown link to the Arts and Crafts tradition, the late 19th-century movement of artisans who exalted hand-made crafts over the shoddy, impersonal products of the machine age. Dudley and Roberts live in Phoenix, Ariz. They trace their interest in Arts and Crafts tiles to a 1992 trip to Pecs, Hungary, where they visited a museum devoted to works of the master ceramist Vilmos Zsolnay. A few years later, Roberts, who grew up in South Milwaukee, just down the street from Continental Faience and Tile, rediscovered the place when she was home for a family reunion. “It’s kind of like an onion: The more you slowly peel away, the more you learn,” she said of the pair’s tile obsession.
Bikanervala to extend overseas presence.
Free with registration – Economic Times – AccessMyLibrary.com – Dec 18, 2005
18–NEW DELHI — The home grown Bikanervala is fast emerging as a global brand and is targeting 26 outlets in US, Dubai and Nepal by 2006-end. The group has at present 18 outlets in these coun.
SDSU has Long way to go
San Diego Union Tribune – Dec 18, 2005
"My plan is to start in the city and branch out, with San Diego County being the No. 1 target," Long said. "I do believe in home-grown talent. I want to keep kids close to home and build a fence around the city and try to keep them here. That's going to be a priority for us. "From there, it will be the rest of California. We have some inroads in Hawaii.
So this is Christmas?
The Age – Dec 18, 2005
Well, turkey stuffing to that, I say! Perhaps it’s time theyrealised that it’s Easter when we’re supposed to share thesuffering and Christmas when they should hand out the frankincenseand myrrh. Not too much of the latter about right now, isthere?Still, there are a couple of colourfully wrapped local goodiesto consider this year, though the networks have generally deckedthe halls with last year’s offerings from overseas. Plenty of bargains, to be sure, but not enough of themhome-grown. A word of thanks, then, for those who did make the effort thisyear. They include Tom Gleisner and his colleagues from ThePanel, that once-cool and youthful group of chatterers who, inthe years before Andrew Denton came along, seemed to be everywhere,but eventually at Ten grew grumpier, older and more reclusive,preferring, it seemed, fly fishing, deep thinking and nostalgia totelevision. And yet, for the festive season’s lonely and, at this time ofyear, most worthy of charitable causes, they’re back again, live onChristmas night. Surprising many of us this year was Adam Hills, that witty,likeable presenter who stood out among those on television who werenot Eddie McGuire.
Gerrard says Liverpool fear no one now
Newindpress – Newindpress (subscription) – Dec 18, 2005
“Liverpool believe they can still have a say in the Premier League title race and on Friday the five-times European champions were drawn to face Portugal’s Benfica in the last 16 of the Champions League. Good mix”We’ve got some big challenges ahead and the next couple of years could be very successful,” said Gerrard. “There is a good mix of foreign and home-grown players. “Hopefully we will go back feeling confident and can get a result against Newcastle. We’ve been playing really well of late. There’s a great team spirit. “”Against Benfica or anyone domestically we are confident of getting the right result,” he added.