Personal Encounter: Home grown parchments
The News Review:
- Personal Encounter: Home grown parchments
- Time For Tudors?
- RPT-UN Council supports rebel leader as Ivory Coast PM
- Hong Kong may be forced to drop W-CDMA
- What and who are ‘French writers’?
- $10M worth of marijuana seized from SoCal suburban home
- LTTE air strike could be copied by other groups: experts
Personal Encounter: Home grown parchments
Jerusalem Post – Mar 28, 2007
“There are Japanese paper makers whose full-time jobs are creating the labels, or outer packaging,” says Neumann, who spent two years studying paper making in that country. The Neumanns hold workshops and demonstrations for visitors in the open courtyard, or in the adjacent low stone buildings built by pioneer settlers who over a century ago founded the town that put Carmel Wines on the tables of Jewish families throughout the Diaspora. The courtyard, which incorporates the Neumann family home, the paper mill, shop and a few other small buildings used for storage, also sports a large paper mulberry tree from which some of the paper is produced. The Neumanns cultivate paper mulberry plants in small plantations in and around Zichron, and import other fibers from the Far East. A quietly spoken and modest man, Neumann studied the art of paper making in Beersheba before his stint in Japan, where he was apprenticed to local experts. “The history of paper-making links many cultures,” he explains, brandishing a wooden mallet in one hand while fishing a gooey lump of mulberry bark pulp out of a water tank at his side. “Paper as we know it today developed from rice paper made in China already in 105 A.
Time For Tudors?
Forbes – Mar 28, 2007
We created Identity with an American partner. We created Biggest Loser and Nashville Star. It’s a combination of home-grown product that we create and then sell around the world and products that we acquire from around the world. I’m a big proponent of the notion of world connection and being a global citizen. So I keep that in mind as I travel the world looking for these ideas and selling these ideas. I get inside all of these cultures, and I love that. How do you get a sense for what people in other cultures are watching? Are you looking at ratings and published reports in these markets?No.
RPT-UN Council supports rebel leader as Ivory Coast PM
Reuters AlertNet – Mar 28, 2007
A string of foreign-brokered peace deals has failed to reunite the country, previously a haven of stability in West Africa. The latest peace agreement has already led to the creation of a joint army command center to focus on demobilizing militia fighters from both sides, raising hopes for reunification. Analysts and some diplomats say it could meet with more success than previous accords because it is the first to be "home grown" — agreed on by Gbagbo and Soro directly and brokered by a neighbor, Burkina Faso, trusted by both sides. France said last week it would send home about 500 of its 3,500 peacekeepers in Ivory Coast, who are supporting more than 7,000 U. troops policing a buffer zone between the rebel and government halves of the country. AlertNet news is provided by.
Hong Kong may be forced to drop W-CDMA
Inquirer – Mar 28, 2007
Although no 3G licences have been issued to cover the mainland yet, the Chinese government recently announced that’trail’ TD-SCDMA networks are to be built in eight Chinese cities. TD-SCDMA is, of course, China’s own home-grown version of 3G and a direct competitor to W-CDMA which is alreadyoffered in Hong Kong by the likes of Hutchison (3), Sunday and CSL. A shake-up of the whole Chinese mobile network industry is very definitely underway. For example, Hong Kong’s Ming Pao newspaper recently reported that China’s SASAC (State-owned Assets Supervision and AdministrationCommission), has recommended that the nation’s four main mobile operators should be restructured into threecompanies. The plan is to ensure more effective competition in the industry. The paper also reported that fixed line operator,China Telecom, wants to buy the cdmaOne based network operated by China Unicom.
What and who are ‘French writers’?
International Herald Tribune – Mar 28, 2007
Their endorsement of francophone fiction implied recognition that, since the postwar Nouveau Roman, French literature has cut itself off from the world with its navel-gazing obsession with text over story. “When French literature goes beyond its own borders, it self-destructs because it is only read on the banks of the Seine,” noted Mabanckou, who won the Renaudot prize last year for “Mémoires du Porc-épic,” or “Memoirs of a Porcupine” and who now teaches French literature at the University of California, Los Angeles. This literary isolation has in turn reinforced the prevailing view here that colorful francophone writing set in exotic climes is somehow inferior to more intellectual home-grown fiction. “My novels, written in French and published by Gallimard, are placed in bookshops in the Vietnamese literature section,” complained Anna Moï, a Vietnamese writer who, along with Mabanckou and Djibouti's Abdourahman A. Waberi, signed the manifesto. For these writer-lobbyists, then, the first step should be the elimination of the very category of francophone writers. “The emergence of world literature in French,” the manifesto announces, “is the death certificate of francophonie.
$10M worth of marijuana seized from SoCal suburban home
San Francisco Chronicle – Mar 28, 2007
(AP) — Authorities on Wednesday seized nearly $10 million worth of marijuana being grown inside a four-bedroom home that was being used as a pot greenhouse. Narcotics investigators confiscated more than 1,800 plants in every part of the house along with lights, an irrigation system and other equipment used to cultivate marijuana, said Los Angeles County sheriff’s Lt. No one was home when authorities served a search warrant. The raid came a week after investigators seized about $12 million worth of pot found inside a sprawling, seven-bedroom home several miles away.
LTTE air strike could be copied by other groups: experts
Hindu – Mar 28, 2007
28 (PTI): The LTTE air strike on a Sri Lankan airbase has raised questions about the security of Indian airspace, with experts making it clear that New Delhi needs to take steps to counter threats from the sky as other militant groups could emulate the Tamil Tigers. A former top official of the Research and Analysis Wing (RAW) said though there was no immediate security threat to India, “the medium and long-term threats will arise from the likelihood of copy-cat terrorism and the LTTE one day using it against an Indian target”. Some of India’s home-grown extremist or terror groups like the Maoists, who have territorial control over rural areas in different parts of the country, “might be tempted to emulate the LTTE”, former RAW officer B Raman said. Another prominent defence expert, Bharat Verma, said “despite New Delhi’s pretention of an emerging great power, a non-state actor like LTTE developing air force capabilities shows that India’s influence in its neighbourhood is rapidly shrinking”. Verma, editor of the Indian Defence Review, said: “The foremost reason for this is New Delhi’s incompetence to strategise and boldly take steps to neutralise forces like LTTE, or Lashker-e-Taiba for that matter, that pose a direct challenge to our security.