And now a home-grown adventure series for young adults
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- And now a home-grown adventure series for young adults
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- Young, black, female? You could be just the spy MI5 is looking for
- Golfing gossip
- Gulf Times – Qatar’s top-selling English daily newspaper – India
- Brand-building a long-term mission of enterprises
And now a home-grown adventure series for young adults
Hindu – Jul 15, 2006
About a paragraph from Chapter One! A particularly dramatic one, though, where the young protagonist Nikki spots the murderer coming out of a cruise cabin with a blood-stained knife. Pankaj was just the right person to launch the book, said Dutt, considering that the motto of the series is: “You dare and you will get it. ”
Sporty touch
Perhaps to drive this motto home a little more forcefully, Oxford Bookstore and Wisdom Tree had roped in two more sportspersons for the event — former cricketer Syed Kirmani and hockey coach Harinder Singh. The two graciously held the book and smiled for the photo shoot.
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SportingNews.com – Jul 15, 2006
“Pretty short,” he says. The trouble is that most organizations with young catchers on the way are hoping to use them in their own lineups for a decade or more. Everybody sees what the Twins’ Joe Mauer and the Braves’ Brian McCann are doing, and they dream about one day getting similar production from a home-grown catcher. The Pirates certainly view Neil Walker that way, even with young Ronny Paulino already in the majors. The Padres have Class AA catcher George Kottaras ranked near the top of their prospect list. The Indians (Kelly Shoppach), Diamondbacks (Miguel Montero), Braves (Jarrod Saltalamacchia), Orioles (Brandon Snyder), Phillies (Jason Jaramillo), Reds (Miguel Perez), Blue Jays (Curtis Thigpen) and White Sox (Francisco Hernandez) all have promising prospects as well. However, Saltalamacchia was struggling mightily before recently landing on the DL.
Young, black, female? You could be just the spy MI5 is looking for
Telegraph.co.uk – Jul 15, 2006
The campaign comes as MI5 is undergoing one of the biggest transformations in its history. By 2008, the organisation will increase the size of its staff from 2,800 to 3,500 and, in an attempt to combat the threat of home-grown Islamist terrorists linked to al-Qaeda, will establish separate offices in cities outside London. As part of the expansion it says that it needs to recruit more women from ethnic minorities who specifically want to train as “mobile surveillance officers”. Although more than half of MI5′s employees are women, fewer than 200 are from the ethnic minorities and only a handful of those are trained as covert surveillance operatives. It is not known how many recruits MI5 needs, but those who pass a series of interviews and selection tests will be enrolled on an initial 75-day course which will teach them basic spying skills. The course and surveillance training programme are both intensive and demanding and it can take up to two years before trainees are deployed on operations.
Golfing gossip
BBC News – Jul 15, 2006
The field features players flung together from far afield – the likes of Paraguay, India, Finland and Thailand all have interest. But Ged e-mailed suggesting that the Open is losing its way when it comes to assembling the field. He believes it is wrong to have the international qualifying tournaments because this limits the chances for “home-grown” players. Birch, from the Turks and Caicos Islands, also dropped us an e-mail to say he would like to see more English players involved – there will be at least 23 on duty at Royal Liverpool, roughly 15% of the field. But what should be remembered is that this championship is The Open, not the British Open, and it seeks to crown the champion golfer of the year. It happens to be staged in Britain because our links courses represent the historic roots of the game, but there is actually no absolute reason why it has to be staged in the UK. Not that the R&A are considering taking the championship beyond its current rota of courses.
Gulf Times – Qatar’s top-selling English daily newspaper – India
Gulf Times – Jul 15, 2006
Recent terror attacks including the carnage on trains in India’s financial capital have shown that foreign networks, well-entrenched in India, rely on local youth and indigenous groups to do their dirty work. In their latest reports to the Indian establishment, Indian security agencies have pointed out that terrorist groups have continued infiltrating, to consolidate their operations in southern and western India. The intelligence reports claimed that Lashkar-e-Toiba (LeT) and Jaish-e-Mohammed (JeM) had recruited and trained local youth and were working in close co-ordination with an indigenous network. Officers from India’s Anti-Terrorism Squad said a “new LeT module” had planned and carried out the Mumbai bombings with a wing of the outlawed Students’ Islamic Movement of India (Simi).
Brand-building a long-term mission of enterprises
chinadaily.com.cn – Jul 15, 2006
Since the reform and opening up policy was implemented in the late 1970s,
China’s manufacturing industry has made remarkable progress. But the lacking of
influential brand-name enterprises still baffles further development of national
economy, Huo said. Based on the practical situation, the Party Central Committee and the State
Council have put forward the innovative-nation strategy and called on the
speedup of home-grown brand-name building, he added, citing the great
significance of this Brand Promotion campaign. Chaozhou, the reputed capital of ceramics and china, has nine Chinese famous
brand corporations, among which five are manufacturing ceramics and china,
said Chaozhou Mayor Tang Xikun. “The city so far has built up seven characteristics pillar industries, such
as Yashili soy milk powder, Shunfa pressure pot, Xiaomimi candies, and the
Zhenglong battery,” said Tang. He said the city highly appreciates the Commerce Ministry’s effort of
organizing the tour to help drive the brand building ideology among enterprises
and people. And Chaozhou has always followed this path, consistently launching
and fostering brand names.