Drought continues for home-grown talent
The News Review:
- Drought continues for home-grown talent
- St. Mary’s Officials Explore How To Respond to Threat of Gangs
- Monster funds could imperil the globalization that feeds them
- FACTBOX-Soccer-Main points of draft EU white paper on sport – Soccer
- Helping Firefly Energy could help area.
- These three writers say we should get closer to our food
Drought continues for home-grown talent
SLAM! Sports – Jun 10, 2007
With Trust The Artist winning yesterday’s Western Canada Pacing Derby it has now been 11 years since an Alberta-sired horse has won Edmonton’s top harness race. Barona Ferrari came close, but had to settle for second. The 4-5 favourite at post time, Barona Ferrari’s game plan was to make one big move down the stretch. Instead, driver Rod Hennessy had to chase Trust The Artist from the first turn because nobody was putting any pressure on the leader. “(If) you are sitting sixth in a quarter of 28.
St. Mary’s Officials Explore How To Respond to Threat of Gangs
Washington Post – Jun 10, 2007
Maryland State Trooper Greg Kies has a statewide perspective on how communities address the gang issue. For more than a year, he has given seminars to various jurisdictions about what he sees as a growing gang problem throughout the state. Various jurisdictions are plagued by home-grown gangs or from recruitment by outside gangs. “The gangs want to go out and increase their membership and increase their crime base,” Kies said. “It’s lucrative to do that. “In the past, Kies said, leaders in some localities have denied there is a problem until it’s a full-blown one. “People have had an aversion to saying the word ‘gang’ in their community,” he said.
Monster funds could imperil the globalization that feeds them
International Herald Tribune – Jun 10, 2007
Countries looking for high returns on their reserves will have a different taste in assets. Singapore, which has the second-biggest sovereign wealth fund after the United Arab Emirates, is an interesting example. Singapore's fund has sought assets with solid financial returns that boast attributes not easily found in home-grown companies. That is exactly what China, South Korea, Brunei, Malaysia, Taiwan and other Asian governments are looking to do. China already has seen its share of trouble. Two years ago, a bid by its third-largest oil company, Cnooc, for Unocal was scuttled by the U.
FACTBOX-Soccer-Main points of draft EU white paper on sport – Soccer
ESPN – Jun 10, 2007
TRANSFERSThe EU executive accepts the setting of deadlines fortransfers of players in team sports, but any rule on thetransfer of players must be proportionate and respect EU law. PLAYERS’ AGENTSAn impact assessment will be carried out by Brussels with aview to possible EU-wide rules for agents. This will assess whether they present a risk of indirectdiscrimination and is legal under EU law. UEFA, Europeansoccer’s governing body, already imposes such a rule. TV RIGHTSThe Commission acknowledges that collective selling isimportant for the redistribution of income and is a tool forachieving greater solidarity within sports. But in the area of sports media rights, the paper does notsay whether Brussels favours a system of collective selling or asystem of individual selling by clubs.
Helping Firefly Energy could help area.
Free with registration – Journal Star (Peoria, Illinois) – AccessMyLibrary.com – Jun 10, 2007
– The Firefly factor may sound like the title of a mystery novel, but it’s what some community leaders believe could make Peoria a player in the technology sweepstakes. Efforts to help Firefly Energy Inc. , a Peoria start-up firm that wants to build a better lead acid battery, are important if this area is going to keep home-grown ideas at home, said National City Bank President Doug Stewart. “The Peoria area is a hotbed of ideas,” said Stewart of research efforts centered around Caterpillar Inc. , the federal Ag Lab and the growing medical community. But while plenty of research takes place in the Peoria area, ideas that start here have traditionally gone elsewhere for development, he said. “The whole Peoria Next effort came about when a group of people decided to try to keep some of that technology in Peoria,” said Stewart.
These three writers say we should get closer to our food
New York Daily News – Jun 10, 2007
But she already knew, she writes in “Animal, Vegetable, Miracle: A Year of Food Life” (HarperCollins, $26. 95), that she was “a dweeby ant in a grasshopper nation. Home-grown and true farm food may take a little more labor, Kingsolver means, but she likes it that way. And as one of three authors with new books on eating locally and the perils of the modern food supply, she’s in good company. For Kingsolver, the appeal of being a locavore (a California-created term for her kind) isn’t just improved flavor and nutrition, avoiding killer peanut butter or reducing her carbon footprint, although she touches on all those things. A main motivation, we learn, is the lifestyle local eating brings. “The opposite of work is play,” she writes, “.