Home grown: small businesses of all sorts are sprouting on the Garden…
The News Review:
- Home grown: small businesses of all sorts are sprouting on the Garden…
- Letter from China: Is the US plunging into ‘historical error’?
- Loudoun Community Events Week
- CORRECTED: Raul Castro, Cuba’s heir apparent, hits 75
- A theme cruise for everyone, from Web geeks to fitness and film buffs
- Room service: The Ivy House, Chalfont St Giles, Bucks
Home grown: small businesses of all sorts are sprouting on the Garden…
Free with registration – Hawaii Business – AccessMyLibrary.com – Jun 1, 2006
Piles of debris littered the streets and sidewalks. Small boulders and flesh chunks of land lay resting alongside the mountains they had slid off. And outside the Kauai Marriott fronting Kalapaki Bay, the guest parking lot, formerly home to scores of rental cars, was full of yellow tractors removing heaps of mud. Indoors, however, it was a completely different story. Sure, businesspeople and island leaders made small talk about how the rain had lasted an unprecedented 40 days and 40 nights. But it was clear that not even rains of biblical proportions could cast a shadow over the event that had brought them all together–the island’s first-ever Small Business Expo, hosted by the Kauai Chamber of Commerce. Inside the Puna Ballroom, where a healthy mix of retailers, financial institutions and small business-advocates exhibited goods and services from their respective booths, expo attendees were abuzz with business enthusiasm.
Letter from China: Is the US plunging into ‘historical error’?
International Herald Tribune – Jun 1, 2006
More interesting still is how China and the United States approach military spending. China, conscious of its daunting social needs, and more important, of the fact that "catching up" with the United States is not essentially a military endeavor, is building on the cheap. Advanced weapons systems are bought from Russia, rather than home grown. All sorts of things are cobbled together and reverse-engineered. Other items, like prohibitively expensive aircraft carriers, have been forgone altogether. Contrast that with the Pentagon's penchant for extravagance on new weapons acquisition. Even where old weapons systems are concerned, self- denial often seems missing from the vocabulary.
Loudoun Community Events Week
Washington Post – Jun 1, 2006
-noon Saturdays through November, Fifth and Lee streets. Home-grown and homemade items from local producers. CABOOSE TOURS, all ages, 9-11 a… No child care provided. Call your local library. MusicCOMMUNITY BAND, all ages, join even if you have not played in years, 7-9 p. Mondays, Fauquier High School band room, 705 Waterloo Rd.
CORRECTED: Raul Castro, Cuba’s heir apparent, hits 75
Washington Post – Jun 1, 2006
The army was the first institution in Cuba to introduce capitalist business administration methods. Still, Kirk believes it would be wrong to bank on Raul Castro leading Cuba along the Chinese path of capitalist development under Communist political control. “There is a generation of Cuban leaders in their 40s and 50s more than prepared to develop a home-grown model,” he said. Raul Castro would face enormous expectations for economic liberalization and political renewal if he succeeds Fidel. Less publicly visible than other leaders, such as National Assembly speaker Ricardo Alarcon or vice-president Carlos Lage, Raul lacks Fidel’s legitimacy among Cubans, said Dan Erikson of the Inter-American Dialogue, a Washington think tank. Cuba has not officially debated the question of succession since the last Communist Party Congress in 1997. “Many in the Cuban leadership are hesitant to push for a change from Raul, knowing that this could open a Pandora’s box that could provoke infighting,” Erikson said.
A theme cruise for everyone, from Web geeks to fitness and film buffs
Seattle Times – Jun 1, 2006
Crystal has its annual Food & Wine Festival at Sea. Every transatlantic crossing of Cunard’s Queen Mary 2 is themed with an agenda chock full of enrichment to gratifyingly fill the days at sea. Some are even more specialized: Norwegian Coastal Voyage sailings highlight the music of Norway’s most famous home-grown composer Edvard Grieg. Here’s a glimpse of some theme cruises compiled from industry news and a quick Google search:
Tech-surfing at sea. That is, if you’re a geek-a person whose idea of heaven is rolling up your sleeves and dealing with bits and bytes. Apparently surfing the Web at sea is more appealing than lolling around a packed convention center, suggest Geek Cruise founders Neil and Theresa Bauman. Convinced that die-hard PC programmers and Apple acolytes wanted more contact with industry specialists, the couple launched the first techie cruise in 2000.
Room service: The Ivy House, Chalfont St Giles, Bucks
Telegraph.co.uk – Jun 1, 2006
The blackboard menu looks very inviting and I make up my mind pronto: home-made tomato and roasted vegetable soup, followed by pan-fried sea bass fillets with ginger and lemongrass butter on a bed of pak choi. Now Audrey is offering me a taste of Barossa Valley Chardonnay (one of those the Ivy sells by the glass) to see if I like it; I do and we order a bottle. Meanwhile, my husband has returned from the blackboard with his choice: grilled halloumi with a home-grown herb dressing with salad and, to follow, pan-seared venison with a cranberry and redcurrant sauce, laced with red wine and chestnuts. We’ve got what is probably the worst table in this crowded restaurant, near the entrance, though we don’t mind a bit because the entertainment level is high, what with two ”girls’ night out” parties and the Turkish waiter wearing a weird and wonderful Christmas tie. “I wore it at a party here yesterday,” he tells us, “so tonight I just had to wear it again. ” All the staff manage to make us feel they are pleased we are here. When I ask if I could have some water, the waitress says: “Certainly.