Home Grown: High Country Arts
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- A cure in their backyard
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Home Grown: High Country Arts
Mail Tribune – Mar 13, 2006
Home Grown: High Country Arts Owners: Don and Linda BurdaAges: 54 and 55Address: 20979 Highway 62, Shady CovePhone number: (541) 878-4006 Number of employees: Six Advertisement Web site: highcountryarts. comE-mail: hcarts1@earthlink. netEDITOR’S NOTE: This is one in a weekly series of profiles on locally owned and operated businesses in Southern Oregon. What do you do and how long have you been doing it? We manufacture a lot of different products out of elk, deer and moose antlers and fallow deer and red stag antlers from Europe, Australia and New Zealand. We’re licensed by the Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife to buy antlers for craft purposes. We also have hickory twigs and poles with bark still on it shipped in from Tennessee. Our primary business is supplying other retailers, catalog companies, furniture stores, gift and souvenir stores, such as Grand Teton National Park in Wyoming.
High-speed railway to use local tech
CCTV – Mar 13, 2006
And the government has decided to use Chinese technology in the hundreds-of-billion dollar project. This is part of a commitment to rely on home-grown technology in building the country’s own modern railway systems. Planning for this new railway has been underway for more than a decade. Over the years, Japan, Germany and France all showed interest in its construction. Now it’s been decided that the key technology must be home grown. Sun Yongfu, Vice Minisiter of Railway said: "The Beijing-Shanghai express railway will reach speeds of up to 300 kilometres per hour… Planning for this new railway has been underway for more than a decade. Over the years, Japan, Germany and France all showed interest in its construction. Now it’s been decided that the key technology must be home grown. Sun Yongfu, Vice Minisiter of Railway said: "The Beijing-Shanghai express railway will reach speeds of up to 300 kilometres per hour. It will shorten the current travel time from 13 hours to under 5. We will achieve that by developing our own advanced technology. "
The Beijing-Shanghai line is the country’s busiest railway route, with a transport load four times that of the national average.
A cure in their backyard
Hindu – Mar 13, 2006
Sriram
MYSORE:
Over 60 people from different walks of life were introduced to the medicinal properties of many plants, which can be easily grown in kitchen gardens, during a two-day weekend camp in Mysore. The camp not only inspired an interest in gardening but also enlightened the participants about the medicinal properties in over 100 varieties of plants that can be used to cure many ailments. Organised jointly by the Forest Department and Sanjivini Trust, an organisation comprising Ayurveda and alternative medicine professionals from Mysore, the two-day camp began with theory classes at Aranya Bhavan in the city, where the participants sat through sessions on the therapeutic value of home-grown plants. Subject experts taught the participants how the extracts from the plants can cure a variety of eye, nose and throat ailments, besides considerably mitigating the pain from other diseases. After the sessions of Saturday, the participants were taken to the Forest Department’s nursery on Hunsur Road on Sunday. A demonstration on extraction of plant parts and preparation of medicine from them was conducted for the benefit of the participants. “The participants belonged to different walks of life.
Those Who Do the Dirty Work for the British
Arab News – Mar 13, 2006
Unless thousands of Spanish young men or French lassies pitch up in Wigan, Manchester Nottingham or Shoreditch, eager to stick their arms in boiling hot sudsy water for 12 hours at a time for under