Home-grown brands shine at Beijing auto exhibition
The News Review:
- Home-grown brands shine at Beijing auto exhibition
- Screen scoundrels
- Supercenters square off with old grocers – Pittsburgh Tribune-Review
- That Old Kentucky Home is looking mighty fine for the holidays
- India first missile intercept test a success – defense research…
- Needed: A Big Stick
- Terror Vision: The 9/11 aftermath
Home-grown brands shine at Beijing auto exhibition
Jamaica Gleaner – Nov 26, 2006
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BEIJING (AP)
Home-grown Chinese brands stole the show Saturday, November 18, at the opening of the Beijing Auto Show, upstaging their bigger and better-known international counterparts with original designs and big ambitions. “A couple of years ago at the Beijing Auto Show, the (Chinese brands) were like children,” said Malcolm Bricklin, a U. businessman looking to partner with a Chinese company to make cars for export to North America by the end of 2009. “Now they are road class, big time.
Screen scoundrels
NEWS.com.au – Nov 26, 2006
"Rupe was one of those larrikin villains who engage in skulduggery, but whom Australians love to worship," Tingwell said from his Melbourne home. "He would beg, borrow or steal for a roll of film, but at least he was among those who believed that Australians should be telling their own stories on the big screen at a time when Hollywood ran the show. "
Tingwell is among a handful of home-grown pioneers who help to tell the story of "Australia’s movie-making Bonnie and Clyde" in Alec Morgan’s new docu-drama, Hunt Angels. The movie, with Ben Mendelsohn as Kathner and Victoria Hill as his partner Alma Brooks, follows the pair from the 1930s until Kathner’s death in 1954. Australian film historian Andrew Pike sums up Kathner as an archetypal movie-making maverick from an era when home-grown movies counted for little. "He and Alma Brooks may have been scoundrels, incompetent technically, quixotic. But they did touch on iconic images and themes that are central to Australian popular culture," he said.
Supercenters square off with old grocers – Pittsburgh Tribune-Review
pittsburghlive.com – Nov 26, 2006
Generic to gourmet, fresh to frozen, imported to home-grown, the offerings vary as grocers battle based on quality, perceived value, store atmosphere and, to an extent, price. But shoppers have the final say… 9 percent, according to Trade Dimensions Inc. The largest home-grown grocer doing battle with Wal-Mart is privately owned Giant Eagle, celebrating 75 years of operation. 1 in market share, the O’Hara-based company constantly evolves, adding products, services, even looks. Examples include the Giant Eagle Advantage loyalty card, selling other retailers’ gift cards, getting heavily into the convenience store business and recently going upscale with two Market District stores. Last week, Giant Eagle announced its in-state generic drug program, offering between 125 and 150 generic drugs, 300 total prescriptions, counting various dosages, for $4 each.
That Old Kentucky Home is looking mighty fine for the holidays
Pittsburgh Post Gazette – Nov 26, 2006
Little Bardstown is also famed as Bourbon Capital of the World, with more than 90 percent of the amber liquor made in central Kentucky. The story goes that the Rev. Elijah Craig of Georgetown, Ky. , accidentally combined corn-rye whiskey with a charred oak barrel in 1789 and produced America’s first home-grown “water of life. ” The new liquor, with its distinctive caramel flavor and color, soon took the county name of Bourbon, which was a tribute to the French dynasty that supported American independence. Bourbon pilgrims glide among Jim Beam’s American Outpost in Clermont, Maker’s Mark Distillery, a National Historic Landmark in Loretto, and the Heaven Hill Distilleries Bourbon Heritage Center in Bardstown. For an overview, pop into the Oscar Getz Museum of Whiskey History in the center of Bardstown — and check out Abraham Lincoln’s liquor license.
India first missile intercept test a success – defense research…
Forbes – Nov 27, 2006
The test is part of the country’s efforts to develop a home-grown ballistic interception system. The Prithvi missile, in particular, is part of India’s Integrated Guided Missile Development Program to build a missile arsenal ranging from nuclear-capable ballistic missiles to short-range weapons. The test saw a surface-to-surface Prithvi-II (earth) missile shot down over the Bay of Bengal by a similar missile fired seconds later. The weapons were fired from the country’s Chandipur-on-Sea and Wheeler Islands testing sites respectively, about 45 nautical miles, the officer told Agence France-Presse on condition of anonymity. The Prithvi-II missile, which is capable of carrying conventional or nuclear warheads, was last tested on November 19.
Needed: A Big Stick
Washington Post – Nov 26, 2006
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Terror Vision: The 9/11 aftermath
The Independent – Independent – Nov 26, 2006
“Beyond the herds of stereotypes roaming across the great plains of Bruckheimer-land, Muslims haven’t been slow to grasp the potential of terror-vision. Channel 4’s Jihad TV earlier this month examined how terrorist groups are exploiting the potential of cheap video equipment and the internet to wage a ferocious propaganda war against what they see as anti-Muslim imperialism, peppering the web with images of suicide bombings and the beheading of hostages like a kind of YouTube from hell. Closer to the mainstream, Syrian TV viewers have been gripped by a home-grown drama series called The Renegades, which examines the actions and motivations of suicide bombers, and explores the way terrorism destroys Muslim lives and families as surely as any others. Its director, Najdat Anzour, says he’s in talks with Channel 4 to get the series shown in Britain. But can Anzour’s other-side-of-the-coin perspective immunise him against the strange power of the War on Terror to suck people in and unplug their critical faculties? FX’s other new import, The Unit, was created by playwright and screenwriter David Mamet, in collaboration with Shawn Ryan. Mamet wrote such lacerating demolitions of American values as Glengarry Glen Ross and House Of Games, while Ryan masterminded the morally ambivalent police drama The Shield. But despite a dominating lead performance by Dennis Haysbert (now liberated from playing President Palmer in 24 by an assassin’s bullet), their combined efforts haven’t managed to make The Unit much more than a superior Special Forces soap, with the husbands out mowing down terrorists while their wives raise kids, complain about military secrecy or have affairs with senior officers.