Al-Qaeda ’stepping up US efforts’
The News Review:
- Al-Qaeda ’stepping up US efforts’
- Worms are killing the planet
- Africa: Stock Markets Boost Economies
- Louisville a slugger on livability scale
- The kitchen garden graduate
- Japan gives dancers a royal welcome
Al-Qaeda ’stepping up US efforts’
BBC News – Jul 17, 2007
But Ms Townsend said the US was determined to work together with its allies around the world to combat the danger of extremism. She added that tracking down al-Qaeda leader Osama Bin Laden was still a “huge priority” for the US. Analysts see a danger that home-grown terrorists, connected by increasingly radical internet sites, may strike in the US. However, they say this threat is not as great as in Europe. Homeland security officials have urged Congress to pass a new surveillance bill that they say will allow them to monitor terror suspects in the face of huge advances in communications technology.
Worms are killing the planet
Times of India – Jul 17, 2007
In an interview with a
leading renewable resources journal, Jim Frederickson, senior research fellow at
Britain’s Open Universities faculty of technology, said the German research
showed that worm composting has deleterious effects on the environment that
should be considered more
seriously. Worms naturally
produce nitrous oxide gases when they are put into the process of
composting. Worms can be used
for home grown composting or commercial composting and are typically red worms. They are used to recycle food scraps and other organic material into valuable
soil worm compost, otherwise known as vermicompost. This compost can then be
used to grow plants. “We have
concentrated on getting waste out of landfill and into worm composting systems
but they can actually produce more greenhouse gases than landfill sites
produce,” Frederickson told Materials Recycling Week, a leading publication for
the recycling and waste-management
industry. In Germany and other
environmentally aware countries, governments have supported the composting of
waste in efforts to reduce the land filling of biodegradable waste.
Africa: Stock Markets Boost Economies
AllAfrica.com – Jul 17, 2007
Hosted by the Capital Markets Authority (CMA), the award honours Mr Charles N. Kikonyogo, former Governor of the Bank of Uganda, who helped grow public confidence in the Ugandan banking industry with innovative, home-grown economic policies. GA_googleFillSlot(”AllAfrica_Story_Inset”); CMA has had a remarkable impact over the last decade promoting, developing and regulating the capital markets industry in Uganda. As head of East African Breweries Limited (EABL), a listed company on the Uganda Securities Exchange, I can say with confidence that CMA has had a positive impact not just in Uganda, but more broadly in the entire East African region. Many of the people who attended the award dinner have committed countless hours to ensuring the success of Uganda's capital market, its economy and communities. Their efforts are matched by work all across the continent to ensure that Africa is poised to grow in the future.
Louisville a slugger on livability scale
Rocky Mountain News – Jul 17, 2007
He said 3,000 to 4,000 people turn out each week. “I think it’s those kinds of events that really make this townspecial. There’s a lot of home-grown stuff that goes on. People cancome down and hang out with their neighbors, bring their kids,” hesaid. The fair takes place every Friday night through Aug. This Fridaynight, country-rock band Poco is taking the stage… The fair takes place every Friday night through Aug. This Fridaynight, country-rock band Poco is taking the stage. • Louisville Community ParkThe new park boasts an impressive list of amenities, including apavilion with restrooms and plenty of picnic benches, an outdoor stage,bocce-ball courts, horseshoe pits and a dirt-bike hill. The site at 955 Bella Vista Drive also features a sprawlingfenced-in, off-leash dog park. They even get their own pond filled withreclaimed water. For anyone else who wants to get wet, a “sprayground” shootsfountains of water into the air at the stomp of a button.
The kitchen garden graduate
Telegraph.co.uk – Jul 17, 2007
I haven’t had to buy salad, herbs, new potatoes, garlic or onions since February, but generally what you can grow in an average-sized garden is going to punctuate rather than provide your supper. To make the most of my many small harvests, I’ve adapted to a new way of eating – a handful of blueberries on muesli, salads of new potatoes, broad beans and mini beetroot with a few asparagus spears; a sneaky picking of rhubarb before letting the plant recover for next year. I may not exactly be gorging on home-grown produce, but I’m enjoying the seasonality of things, the short bursts when crops come to the fore: wintery sprouting broccoli followed by asparagus and broad beans and finally the tomatoes, sweetcorn and squashes of high summer. Right now, though, I’m in a dilemma. Friends are coming over and, in a swoon of uncharacteristic domesticity, I’m making summer fruit millefeuille. On investigating, however, I have a total of five ripe strawberries in the garden, one of which houses a slug. Ruing the fact that I did not feed the plants weekly with seaweed fertiliser, snip off the runners to focus their energy, or mulch with straw to stop the fruits from rotting and being munched by molluscs, I am forced to do the unthinkable: buy strawberries in a shop.
Japan gives dancers a royal welcome
The Age – Jul 17, 2007
Fridaynight’s premiere was the first time the ballet had been stagedwithout its star, Steven Heathcote, the dancer for whom Murphychoreographed the role of Prince Siegfried. Heathcote retired fromprincipal roles two weeks ago. Kazumi Hara of the Japan Performing Arts Foundation saidoverseas dancers were idolised by Tokyo audiences, who have longsupported imported ballet, which traditionally eclipses home-grownwork. “Dancers from foreign companies are highly respected and treatedlike stars,” Hara said, “but few Japanese dancers can make a livinghere and must go overseas to forge a career. Wall scrawls and more than 100 handmade collage postersbackstage commemorate touring productions from ballet companiesincluding London’s Royal, Paris Opera, American Ballet Theatre,Lithuanian National, the Bolshoi, Kirov, Imperial Russian andLeningrad State. Next to La Scala’s poster — a two-metre-high gold carvedreplica proscenium arch — hang the Australian Ballet’s lessostentatious contributions from 1987 and 1996 — mauveblock-mounts featuring a silhouette carriage for Manon,marionettes for Coppelia and a somewhat incongruous cartoonyellow boxing kangaroo for Anne Woolliams’ Swan Lake. On Stage Shimbun dance critic Yukito Kado said hebelieved Japanese audiences would grow to love the AustralianBallet if it made more frequent visits.