The Globe and Mail: Nation Builders – Main page
The News Review:
- The Globe and Mail: Nation Builders – Main page
- Landline – 02/04/2006: Capers Caper . Australian Broadcasting Corp
- The Oakland Press: Local News
- Rolling Stones at Super Bowl a logistics challenge
- US Air Patrols Along Montana-Canada Border
- Roll over that roller-coaster
The Globe and Mail: Nation Builders – Main page
Globe and Mail – Feb 4, 2006
Lazaridis’s company, Research In Motion, is a home-grown success story based in Waterloo, Ont. His co-CEO, Jim Balsillie, is another bright guy; they’ve been friends since Grade 6. A thousand firms died when the tech bubble burst, but not RIM. Today, it employs 2,000 brainy people. They have enriched the nation and made RIM a world leader, and that’s why Mr.
Landline – 02/04/2006: Capers Caper . Australian Broadcasting Corp
abc.net.au – Feb 4, 2006
They’ve got two sets. They’ve got a very fine root system that picks up any moisture on the surface and they’ve got a tap root that can go down normally about 10m to 12m just looking for any moisture. When I was over in Italy, I saw capers grown against the sea cliffs getting full sea spray, so I knew that they could handle the salt. Basically where olives thrive, capers will also grow. PETER SCHOLEFIELD: They don’t like too much water, in that in this trial we had a high and a low water treatment, and the high one was too high and so the low was – seemed as though it was about right. PRUE ADAMS: Horticultural consultant Peter Scholefield was brought in to help out with the Mannum caper trials at the end of the 1990s… A number of people have emailled us to say, “We’ll never eat another caper other than Australian capers. ” So we’ve been very fortunate in that. TV SHOW: If I were to use one of your words, I would have to say I’m absolutely stoked that they’re doing this and they taste so fantastic! PRUE ADAMS: In a recent episode of the ABC’s new show, ‘The Cook and The Chef’, well-known cook and author Maggie Beer sang the praises of Australia’s first home-grown capers and caperberries. JONATHAN TREWARTHA: Maggie Beer has been incredibly supportive to us. She had the original idea that they could be grown in Australia, and then the first day that I presented her with actually a jar of capers, she was very ecstatic. PRUE ADAMS: In fact, the list of people catching on to Australian capers reads like a who’s who of the culinary world. SAMANTHA TREWARTHA: Maggie Beer uses and sells them.
The Oakland Press: Local News
Oakland Press – Feb 4, 2006
Rock and his Twisted Brown Trucker band kicked off a two-night Super Bowl XL weekend stand Friday at Joe Louis Arena delivering the same kind of eclectic high-energy performance that fans have come to expect. If any out-of-town visitors were able to get into the show – no mean feat given the loyalty of Rock’s hometown fans – they were treated to a microcosm of Detroit music from rock to rap, soul to country, all fused into a fierce fireball of sound that felt like a nonstop fourth quarter of a tight football game. With fellow hometown rocker Bob Seger waiting in the wings for a planned encore surprise, Rock did have football on his mind, addressing the controversy over the Rolling Stones playing Super Bowl XL’s halftime show rather than a home-grown act. Rock told the sold-out crowd that while he understands the Super Bowl is bigger than Detroit, “I don’t care if you’re the president of the United States or my family… Rock and his Twisted Brown Trucker band kicked off a two-night Super Bowl XL weekend stand Friday at Joe Louis Arena delivering the same kind of eclectic high-energy performance that fans have come to expect. If any out-of-town visitors were able to get into the show – no mean feat given the loyalty of Rock’s hometown fans – they were treated to a microcosm of Detroit music from rock to rap, soul to country, all fused into a fierce fireball of sound that felt like a nonstop fourth quarter of a tight football game. With fellow hometown rocker Bob Seger waiting in the wings for a planned encore surprise, Rock did have football on his mind, addressing the controversy over the Rolling Stones playing Super Bowl XL’s halftime show rather than a home-grown act. Rock told the sold-out crowd that while he understands the Super Bowl is bigger than Detroit, “I don’t care if you’re the president of the United States or my family.
Rolling Stones at Super Bowl a logistics challenge
Macon Area Online – Feb 4, 2006
We’re in the middle of a football game. “Television viewers, numbering in the tens of millions, will have no inkling of the enormous set-up and removal process taking place during the broadcast’s commercial breaks, or the months of planning and rehearsal that went into the effort. And many will be unaware of the controversy that flared in Detroit when the Stones, rather than Motown music acts and other home-grown talent, were chosen to play at halftime. The uproar was quelled after organizers announced that Motown legend Stevie Wonder would headline the pregame show, and “Queen of Soul” Aretha Franklin was tapped to perform the National Anthem, along with three local church choirs and a group of New Orleans musicians. “The Super Bowl certainly pays respect to the host city, but it’s certainly bigger than the host city,” said Mischer, a veteran of Olympic broadcasts and televised awards shows taking his third turn as producer of a Super Bowl halftime. He noted that Irish rock band U2 headlined the halftime show in 2002 in New Orleans. And the 1998 game in San Diego featured a halftime Motown tribute marking the record label’s 40th anniversary… The uproar was quelled after organizers announced that Motown legend Stevie Wonder would headline the pregame show, and “Queen of Soul” Aretha Franklin was tapped to perform the National Anthem, along with three local church choirs and a group of New Orleans musicians. “The Super Bowl certainly pays respect to the host city, but it’s certainly bigger than the host city,” said Mischer, a veteran of Olympic broadcasts and televised awards shows taking his third turn as producer of a Super Bowl halftime. He noted that Irish rock band U2 headlined the halftime show in 2002 in New Orleans. And the 1998 game in San Diego featured a halftime Motown tribute marking the record label’s 40th anniversary. All told this year — combining the pre-game show, Franklin’s rendition of “The Star Spangled Banner” and the Rolling Stones — Mischer will preside over about 24 minutes of music that has become a staple of a four-hour annual sports spectacular that draws well over 80 million viewers. ABC, which is televising the game this year, will carry the broadcast on a five-second delay, which the Walt Disney Co. -owned network instituted two years ago for all live sports and entertainment events, said a spokesman said.
US Air Patrols Along Montana-Canada Border
Vive Le Canada – Feb 4, 2006
Alas it is the legacy of the Liberal government and Mr. So patroll the borders I say, and keep those American guns in America while the Americans keep home grown Canadian bud in Canada!by. I believe this has stopped. Does the US really need helicopters to stop grain trucks?by Frenchy Tue Apr 04, 2006 10:40 amDown here in Windsor the Detroit river is being patroled by American Coast Guard boats, and mounted on these boats are fifty caliber machine guns. Not since the war of 1812 have any part of the Great Lakes been patroled by gunships.
Roll over that roller-coaster
News Today – Feb 4, 2006
Actually, we should be teeming with many Sennas and Alonsos. Maybe F-1 tracks do not measure up to our standards. Have you ever been on a bus in some remote village in some corner of the country? Try it, you will appreciate what I am trying to drive home. I once did in interior Kerala. It was a typical Kerala bus ? with two conductors, one docile-looking driver and a wobbly engine. Appearances had never been more deceiving. The two conductors were pretty animated, hurriedly going about their work amidst a flurry of whistles, which the driver alone could decipher whether it was for stopping or starting… But nobody really seemed to care. The engine itself roared as if it was serviced by Ferrari mechanics, negotiating dicey curves with apparent no loss of speed. After several tortuous twists and turns on the rain-splashed road during which we managed to avoid several oncoming (rather onrushing) buses by a comfortable margin of a few centimetres, I began to feel that our home-grown Michael Schumacher's feet were permanently glued to the accelerator pedal and the only thing that could actually stop the vehicle was the petrol tank running dry. Such excitement, I assure you, is now available in cities too. Most of us can vouchsafe for that in Chennai at least. So what are we waiting for? Let those sluice gates open, get those adventure tourists in, make the excitement flow. With Indian roads who needs those giant roller-coasters! And, while we are on it, let that gent know that in India even roads can be attractions.