SCHOOL DINNERS: Move over Jamie, it’s all home-grown food.
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- SCHOOL DINNERS: Move over Jamie, it’s all home-grown food.
- Faces at the farmers market.
- What’s Next as Jones the saviour hangs up his boots?
- A clear distinction
- RCP: New immigration rules ‘deleterious to patient care’
SCHOOL DINNERS: Move over Jamie, it’s all home-grown food.
Free with registration – Europe Intelligence Wire – AccessMyLibrary.com – May 17, 2006
SCHOOL DINNERS: Move over Jamie, it’s all home-grown food. | Europe Intelligence Wire (May, 2006). Like so many schools across the country.
Faces at the farmers market.
Free with registration – Sacramento Bee – AccessMyLibrary.com – May 17, 2006
25 a bunch, and chives, $1. 50 a bunch Vegetables, herbs, flowers and olive trees flourish on the 45 acres that is Towani Organic Farm in Bangor, in the Sierra foothills near Oroville. It all began 18 years ago when a local farmer asked to buy Sharon Casey’s home-grown herbs. Now, farming is a full-time job for Casey and her husband, Guy Baldwin. Stooping is the toughest part of the job, says Baldwin, 49. “You try not to do any one task repeatedly,” he says of the occupational hazard. The couple can often be found out in the fields starting at 7 a.
What’s Next as Jones the saviour hangs up his boots?
The Independent – Independent – May 17, 2006
Mr Jones joined Next when the retailer formerly known as Hepworths merged with Grattons, the mail order business he was then running. Back then, in the mid-1980s, he was number two to George Davies, who was busy trying to carve out a niche for Next somewhere between “Marks & Spencer and Jaeger”, as he put it. Most of Next’s high street rivals were home grown – this was long before the Spanish and Swedes took over the high street with their low prices and constantly changing catwalk-inspired fashions. In fact, Next’s biggest threat came from within: Mr Davies’ over-exuberance meant the group massively over-extended itself, at one point owning such clothing retail anomalies as Eurocamp, the European camping sites operator, and Dillons, the newsagent chain. Yet the “grey Yorkshireman”, as he described himself in his autobiography, saved the day with a no-nonsense, unemotional approach to the business, which lives on in the retailer’s fashions. Bit by bit, the group clawed its way out of impending bankruptcy, selling distracting businesses to pay down its crippling debt mountain and shutting extraneous stores. In recent years, Next has thrived while Marks & Spencer has stalled, mopping up a share of the hotly contested womenswear market and expanding into bigger, better located sites.
A clear distinction
St. Petersburg Times – May 17, 2006
By CHRIS SHERMANPublished May 17, 2006You can see right through it and barely taste or smell it, so you may well have missed the growing importance of the Tampa Bay area's newest product: vodka. Yes, the spirit that fortifies life in near-Arctic winters and puts a frost on Sex on the Beach calls our sunny shores home – or at least home port. Vodkas of all prices and stripes – imported, home-grown, distilled from potatoes, rye or Florida wildflower honey, in massive quantities and in small handcrafted batches, for $10 or $40 – are passing through the bay area on their way to growing world applause. Though Florida's young vineyards and wineries have started to draw some tourists and fans, vodka is, well, relatively invisible. Yet when liquor mavens met in San Francisco last month to test 1,600 vodkas, rums and whiskeys, they sent two gold medals this way. One went to Touch, a honeyed "artisan vodka'' launched last year by Nick Carbone of Tampa, a young entrepreneur who gave up investment banking to follow his vodka dream to a tiny distillery in east Tampa. The other gold went to a much bigger brand, Vikingfjord, a potato vodka that is the bestseller in Norway.
RCP: New immigration rules ‘deleterious to patient care’
Politics.co.uk – May 17, 2006
During the training period IMGs have made, and are continuing to make, a huge contribution to the NHS in terms of service provision, audit and research, and developing practice. Many factors have led to an increase in unemployment of junior doctors in the UK over the last few years. This has affected both IMGs and home grown medical graduates. Attempts to address this problem have been made on several levels. Firstly, the structure of postgraduate medical training is changing with the implementation of Modernising Medical Careers (MMC). Secondly, there has been a change in the immigration rules for IMGs. The current permit free training arrangement will cease to exist.