Engineering Social Progress
The News Review:
- Engineering Social Progress
- A dark side to the ethanol boom?
- Namibia: Success Story of Liza’s Journey of Caring
- Don Arden
- What’s Cooking Vegetarian
- Moore keen on Socceroos
Engineering Social Progress
Bahama Journal - The Bahama Journal - Jul 26, 2007
Criminals will continue to terrorize this country as long as The Bahamas fails to create and establish healthier families, better schools and more socially responsive churches…
Sadly, this nation has reached the point in its disintegration where there is demonstrably an abundance of evidence pointing in the direction of class warfare. The social threads which once held community life together have frayed so dramatically and so insidiously that a generation of young Bahamians has come to accept deviance as a social norm. This explains why there is so little public outrage when home grown terrorists strike out with impunity against rich and poor, black and white, pastor, politician or peasant. Today, report after report coming our way, speak to the reality that home-grown terrorists and human predators are destroying this nation. What is interesting about this and other excesses is that the public at large is apparently so numbed that practically no group has emerged to demand that government and its social partners get their act together to effectively tackle the problem of crime in The Bahamas. As the record so eloquently attests, successive governments in The Bahamas have summoned commissions, undertaken studies to deal with crime and the fear it evokes. To date, there has been far too much talk and far too little real action.
A dark side to the ethanol boom?
Christian Science Monitor - Jul 26, 2007
It comes from a benign, wholesome, home-grown plant, and it produces no nasty greenhouse gases that cause climate change. But a backlash to corn ethanol is emerging. Environmentalists, economists, and poverty activists all are raising questions.
Namibia: Success Story of Liza’s Journey of Caring
AllAfrica.com - Jul 26, 2007
"I got married to Patrick in January 2003 and we have a beautiful two-year-old daughter, Joyce. There was no honeymoon because I was working. I did not want to leave my home-grown dream and go to Europe. We spoke about it for a long time, and he finally understood me. My love for Patrick is not based on where we stay, and I managed to win his heart over and he decided to stay with me here in Kavango," she said. Relevant Links Southern AfricaAid and AssistanceCapital FlowsChildren and YouthNamibiaSustainable Development At the time her friends thought she was crazy. "They would say 'how can you get married to a Shirumbu (a white man) and not want to go to Europe'? But I knew in my heart we were doing the right thing.
Don Arden
Telegraph.co.uk - Jul 26, 2007
In the mid 1950s, realising that his long-term prospects as an entertainer were limited, Arden shrewdly reinvented himself as an agent and promoter. He was among the first to realise the commercial possibilities of rock and roll, which most people dismissed as a fad. Eschewing such home-grown acts as Cliff Richard (whom Arden dismissed as “pathetic”) and Billy Fury (”not fit to wipe Eddie Cochran’s arse”), Arden organised package tours bringing American artists such as Sam Cooke, Brenda Lee and Little Richard to Britain for the first time. He was particularly close to the singer Gene Vincent, an alcoholic who walked with a limp and carried a loaded pistol wherever he went - “a habit,” Arden confessed, “I would later adopt myself”. Arden also attempted to bring Elvis Presley to Britain by holding out the bait of an appearance on behalf of one of the Duke of Edinburgh’s charities, but the plan faltered when “The King” stipulated that he should receive a personal invitation from the Duke himself. In the 1960s Arden turned his attentions to British artists, proving highly effective in managing such acts as the Nashville Teens, Amen Corner and the Small Faces, who had five consecutive hit singles under his direction, one of which, All Or Nothing, he produced himself. Arden would later confess that one reason his acts were so successful was that he regularly bribed DJs and paid young mothers to buy singles at shops which supplied sales figures for the charts.
What’s Cooking Vegetarian
Washington Post - Jul 26, 2007
Add olive oil gradually, then salt, and start tasting. _______________________Steubenville, Ohio: Canning! Right up my alley. Helped my daughter make a basic tomato sauce from Roma tomatoes and my home grown herbs and canned it in pints (got 12). She is rather a novice at canning and needs a lot of help. I use a pressure canner and have for 45+ years. Follow directions that come with it and you won’t have a problem. They have been improved greatly over the past couple of decades.
Moore keen on Socceroos
NEWS.com.au - Jul 26, 2007
He has a great attitude and the technique and skills you’d expect of a Brazilian. "But the experience that Moorie and Danny bring will be so good for the younger players. "
The Queensland fans won’t have to wait long to see their home-grown product as the Roar play Adelaide at Suncorp in the opening round on August 25. Meanwhile, Melbourne Victory have signed another Brazilian - Leandro Love - on a one-year loan deal from Japanese J-League side Vissel Kobe. Leandro has been signed as back-up to Danny Allsopp and Archie Thompson. Share this article.