Home-grown Onions leaves Kent batsmen with indigestion
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- Home-grown Onions leaves Kent batsmen with indigestion
- Overseas doctors protest at change in immigration rules
- Iran, Russia reach ‘basic’ agreement on enrichment
- Giteau set to join Force
- Bonham and Hinchey: Ali finally cashes in with $50 million naming deal
- Dawn service a time for reflection, not spectacle
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Home-grown Onions leaves Kent batsmen with indigestion
Times Online – Apr 22, 2006
A richly deserved win will, weather permitting, come today after some abysmal Kent batting in their second innings, when wickets were tossed away against disciplined bowling on a slow pitch. Durham came into this match without four first-choice pace bowlers but they were hardly missed, the second string completely outbowling their Kent counterparts, none more so than Graham Onions, 23, yet another home-grown talent to go with Stephen Harmison and Liam Plunkett, now with England. In January, Onions, with only 13 wickets from his previous 12 first-class appearances, took himself off to Bombay to get some outdoor winter work and further his cricketing education. He impressed the England batsmen after bowling at them in the nets at the Cricket Club of India in the first few days after their arrival on the sub-continent. Tall and whippy, Onions hits the seam and gets lift. The first of his five victims yesterday, Neil Dexter, played inside a fine leg cutter that went down the celebrated Canterbury slope.
Overseas doctors protest at change in immigration rules
Guardian Unlimited – Apr 22, 2006
They will only get a permit if the hospital offering them a job can prove that no “home-grown” applicant from the UK or the EU could fill the vacancy. There are more than 117,000 doctors in the NHS, and medical schools here are training record numbers – up by 2,836 (56%) between 1997-8 and 2004-5. A “bulge” is expected in August, when the new home-grown doctors apply for their first jobs. That leaves up to 15,000 overseas doctors with little chance of qualifying as specialists. About this article
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Iran, Russia reach ‘basic’ agreement on enrichment
Times of India – Apr 22, 2006
Russia has offered to
enrich uranium for Iran to allay concerns that Tehran could use
domestically-produced enriched uranium to make nuclear
bombs. But progress on the deal
has been hindered by Iran’s refusal to bow to demands that it halt all
home-grown enrichment work. A
“basic agreement”on enrichment with Russia was previously announced by Iran in
February but talks subsequently appeared to
stall. Ali-Asghar Soltanieh,
Iran’s envoy to the International Atomic Energy Agency, said a full agreement
was now close in reach. “He
announced the basic agreement on a joint uranium enrichment firm on Russian soil
and said that there are only some issues regarding technical, legal and
financial matters that need more assessment or exchange of ideas,”radio
quoted Soltanieh as saying from
Russia. Western nations, who
are threatening to press for UN sanctions, accuse Iran of seeking to develop
nuclear weapons and insist Iran stops enrichment.
Giteau set to join Force
TVNZ – Apr 22, 2006
“Although there is support for Matt in the corporate sectorhere, I think the figures being bandied about in WA are just sohuge it has the potential to just blow the contracting process outof the water,” Fagan told the ABC. “I certainly think mechanisms like a salary cap need to belooked at, and I think that I’d find support for that in both NewSouth Wales and Queensland. Fagan said it was becoming increasingly difficult for clubs toretain home grown talent. “Our offer was comparable to those of the other states but thecorporate sector’s jumped in and just put an astronomical figure infront of Matt Giteau by way of sponsorship, and that certainlyblows us out of the water,” Fagan said. With Force coach John Mitchell having conceded the squad’s depthis nowhere near what is required for Super 14, several players aswell as Giteau have been linked with a move west. Queensland Red Drew Mitchell has been touted as a possibletransfer, along with potential rugby league converts Ryan Cross andWillie Tonga.
Bonham and Hinchey: Ali finally cashes in with $50 million naming deal
Rocky Mountain News – Apr 22, 2006
Others suggest that greed and selfishness are theculprits; athletes are more interested in the almighty dollar andthemselves than in bringing home the bacon for their country. We suggest there are at least two more reasons: a lack of burningdesire and commitment. When this country decides it’s imperative toregain its position of global leadership in home-grown sports, it willdo whatever is necessary to accomplish it. And corporate America willbe a part of that renaissance. Look for our men’s basketball team,under the leadership of Jerry Colangelo and coach Mike Krzyzewski, tobe an example of this rebirth at the 2008 Beijing Olympics. NFL Draft Day race goes to Sprint: The NFL draft is just a weekaway. If you don’t have time to watch the NFL Network’s 16 hours oflive coverage, don’t worry: You can get previews, player profiles andhighlights on a Sprint cell phone.
Dawn service a time for reflection, not spectacle
The Age – Apr 22, 2006
In recent times, there has been controversy about the impact ofroadworks and the swelling tourist tide on the former battlefields. One positive aspect of last year’s Farnham fuss was that it raisedthe question of what was, or wasn’t, appropriate on the peninsula -even in a concert separate from the official commemorative service. New Zealand’s PM put the kybosh on Whispering Jack but made itclear that her home-grown Finn brothers would also not beappropriate. In the flood of letters and talkback calls debating this issue,two struck me as especially poignant. The first recalled a lonepilgrim to the peninsula starting to sing the Eric Bogle songAnd the Band Played Waltzing Matilda in the pre-dawnsilence then, slowly, thousands participating in an improvised, andvery moving, singalong. The second, rejecting the Disneyfication ofthe site, described the impact of “the grim sadness of the place;its silent melancholy”. The place is its own memorial.
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Asia Times Online – Apr 22, 2006
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