Shop local: Bruntsfield
The News Review:
- Shop local: Bruntsfield
- Barbie beware: Sindy returns as the teen-next-door
- Minorities report bias in second-home areas
- PM defends tax plan
- Tigers vs. Gloucester – 3p.m. 16.09.06
- Diasporian News of Saturday, 16 September 2006
Shop local: Bruntsfield
Telegraph.co.uk – Sep 16, 2006
Eddie’s Seafood Market, 7 Roseneath Street (0131 229 4207) Shellfish is the speciality in this popular fish market, which is about five minutes from Bruntsfield. Farmers’ market Edinburgh’s farmers’ market is on Castle Terrace every Saturday from 9am to 2pm. It is by far the best place for home-grown vegetables, wild mushrooms and game in season. edinburghfarmersmarket.
Barbie beware: Sindy returns as the teen-next-door
Telegraph.co.uk – Sep 16, 2006
Having sold 100 million dolls over 40 years, Sindy has the benefit of experience over Bratz, but whether she can capture young hearts and minds remains to be seen. Steve Town, a director of the Toy Retailers Association, said: “At the moment Bratz is very strong and Barbie is fighting back. Having said that, Sindy is a home-grown British icon and was the first teenage doll in this country. “Her roots were as a girl next-door. It remains to be seen whether kids want that now. Children are far more sophisticated these days, unfortunately in some ways. ” Jenni Smith, a chartered educational psychologist, said: “Childhood is getting shorter and shorter, so girls who used to identify with grown-up dolls are now too old for dolls and are into boys themselves.
Minorities report bias in second-home areas
Pittsburgh Post Gazette – Sep 16, 2006
“But I was stunned at how blatant this was. ”
Discrimination apparently doesn’t go on vacation. As part of the past decade’s real-estate boom, minority home-ownership has grown. About 52 percent of minorities owned their own homes in 2005, up from 48. Affluent minorities have also been scooping up vacation homes, nearly doubling their share of the second-home market in recent years: African-Americans, Latinos and Asians accounted for 11 percent of vacation-home purchases between 2003 and 2005, up from 6 percent in 2002 or earlier, according to the National Association of Realtors. But as second-home purchases by minorities have risen, so have the number of real-estate-related discrimination complaints in those markets, say housing watchdog groups and lawyers.
PM defends tax plan
NEWS.com.au – Sep 16, 2006
The government plans to spare overseas-sourced executives of Australian companies from having to pay capital gains tax on any increases in their share and options packages. The move is a major win for foreign bosses but would put Australian chiefs at a distinct disadvantage. Home-grown bosses pay tax on their wages and the jump in the value of their shares. Pressure is expected to be stepped up on the government to drop the laws which clearly favour overseas executives. However, Mr Howard said the proposed legislation was a Budget measure which he was determined to press ahead with. "Well there was until recently part of the tax law that meant people who came here for certain periods of time were treated in a fairly penal fashion under our tax laws," Mr Howard said. "And it means some chief executives felt having served here for a short period of time, they then had to go back to the country from whence they came.
Tigers vs. Gloucester – 3p.m. 16.09.06
sportnetwork.net – Sep 16, 2006
The first score of the half was a Goode penalty, which stretched the lead to ten points at 19-9, after which Moody was replaced by Abraham (you see the revolving door theme now). A clearing kick landed in the Crumbie terrace a minute later. Although we like to welcome new players to our club, both home-grown and overseas, Martin Castrogiovanni might have been forgiven for thinking otherwise. As the Tigers subs warmed up along the touch line, the Italian prop received an earful of rugby ball, as it was thrown back towards the pitch by a spectator. As a prop, he will have had worse and at least he saw the funny side of it; maybe hard not to with several hundred people laughing. Walker failed with a penalty attempt for Gloucester on 43 minutes after Tigers were penalised for holding on. This was soon forgotten when the visitors scored their first try through James Forrester.
Diasporian News of Saturday, 16 September 2006
ghanaweb.com – Sep 16, 2006
Emmanuel Ashie – Moor NDC Executive Member said elephants are not domestic animals and don´t understand why NPP call themselves elephants. This comment sent the whole Audience into laughter. The elephants he said have lost its way back home to the bush and in the process are trampling and destroying everything they see and come across in Ghana in their quick but unorganized attempt to go home so come 2008 these dangerous elephants need to be captured safely and redirected back home to the bush from where the came from. After all this was over the moderator: Mr. Yaw Beremah introduced the special guest speaker Mr. Kwasi Tamakloe to a standing ovation. Without a prepared speech he grabbed both the mike and bull by the Horn… On the $547 million Millennium Challenge Account which has been hailed as the 2nd Coming of Jesus Christ by President Kuffuor. Tamakloe cautioned against the numerous conditions attached to it and cautioned too much against Government relying on it as a Magic Silver bullet for all our socio-economic problems at the expense of indigenous and sustainable home-grown economic Policies. He also cautioned about the reliance on handouts since in most cases these Donations although on Paper never materialize into real cash. On the issue of the Cocaine Drug Scandal he lamented about the damage this was doing to the image of Ghana in the International Community and amongst its development Partners. He mentioned about the negative impact it has on investments and economic Policies when a government is perceived by the International Community as in Alliance with International Criminal Cartels and the reluctance of any well-intentioned individual or institution to have anything to do with the government or its Institutions. He pleads with the Government to expedite and bring to book without fear or favor the real individuals behind these Cartels operating in Ghana and to restore the International Community’s confidence in the country.