Home-grown talent pays off for Buffaloes
The News Review:
- Home-grown talent pays off for Buffaloes
- Roland Gribben on two bright sparks who survived the car maker’s…
- TD-SCDMA offers hope for China’s mobile makers
- Jose Mourinho as film star
- Moscow, (GUARDIAN NEWS SERVICE)
- Why buy a home when you can rent one?
Home-grown talent pays off for Buffaloes
Broomfield Enterprise – Broomfield Enterprise (subscription) – Sep 21, 2007
“We have a lot of good out-of-state players, but I think we definitely have produced some great players in Colorado. Fran Munnelly, who helped Hempen put CU’s young program on the map during her brilliant career from 2002-05, is from Arvada. Now she’s a volunteer assistant trying to help develop the next generation of home-grown stars. “It shows that anybody can step on the field and make a difference,” Raley, also a freshman, said when asked about Marshall’s quick transition from high school phenom to Big 12 newcomer of the year. “Just because we’re freshmen it doesn’t mean that we can’t do anything on the field. We can make a difference, too. But there is a difference between dominating in high school and competing against the Stanfords of the world in college.
Roland Gribben on two bright sparks who survived the car maker’s…
Telegraph.co.uk – Sep 21, 2007
KidsShould Be Kids, a website set upby Danish born Malene Stanley toprovide a range of t-shirts,dresses, trousers and tops for boysand girls is being supported byBusiness Link West Midlands tosmooth the way for onlinepurchases. It may be small beer but thebusiness ‘acorns’ agency estimatesits support programme, expectedto help 86,000 businesses andindividuals thinking of setting upon their own by 2010 believes itsactivities will provide a £400mboost to the regional economy. Strategists and policymakersare hoping a mixture of newhome grown businesses, inwardinvestment and the growth of theexisting heavyweights will providea powerful base to create jobs in aregion with a higher proportion ofyoung people than elsewhere inBritain. There are fewer industrialflagships in the Midlands but thebiggest and best of them arecontinuing to break new groundand in a number of cases theirlinks with their birthplace aremore tenuous. The world, ratherthan the Midlands, is their oyster. Cadbury Schweppes, the homeof chocolate and a classic exampleof Victorian social conscience, isthe world’s biggest confectionarycompany employing over 70,000. Just 6,000 are on the UK payroll,half of them at Bournville, theCadbury contribution to employeecaring and sharing, but scores ofglobal brands make up thecompany.
TD-SCDMA offers hope for China’s mobile makers
VNUNet.com – Sep 21, 2007
China’s introduction of 3G networks has been held up by bureaucracy forseveral years while researchers work to perfect the country’s home-grownTD-SCDMA technology. Despite severe teething troubles during testing, TD-SCDMA is now reported tobe ready, and the government is expected to begin issuing 3G licences in timefor the Beijing Olympic Games. "Of the projected 140 million handset sales in China in 2008, 20 to 50million will support China’s proprietary 3G standard, representing a penetrationof 14 to 35 per cent," said Hua Yang, secretary general of the.
Jose Mourinho as film star
Telegraph.co.uk – Sep 21, 2007
Yet he combined un-English self-praise with a refreshing turn of phrase, alien to the mumbling sport-speak of the home-grown manager. His self-introduction set the tone: “Please don’t call me arrogant, but I’m European champion and I think I’m a special one. “Setting aside what that said about his character, the manner of expressing it stirred memories of the sayings of a previous European hero: “When the seagulls follow the trawler…”. Eric Cantona was a character, and Mourinho in his field is another. His departure will not end the vicissitudes of Chelsea and its rich owner.
Moscow, (GUARDIAN NEWS SERVICE)
Hindu – Sep 21, 2007
But I’m invincible, thanks to the aura that comes courtesy of many, many vodkas. Chaos, intoxication, recklessness: welcome to Russian Hollywood. It’s May 2005, and I’m on the Moscow set of Day Watch, the second in the series of home-grown blockbusters that have transformed the Russian film industry. I nurse a bloody palm, trying to work out if my efforts will make it to the final cut. The film-makers are looking to the future, too – to fanning the box-office fires. Night Watch, the 2004 prequel, became the biggest grossing film of all time at the Russian box office, taking 464m roubles. Its record was overtaken in autumn 2005 by 9th Company, a Nam-style war flick set in Afghanistan.
Why buy a home when you can rent one?
Economic Times – Sep 21, 2007
The explosive growth of the past three
or four years is unlikely to occur again in the future. Some exceptional mutual
funds have given returns of 800-1000 % over a five-year period, but that, too,
is going to be difficult to replicate (this is why I reckon a 12% CAGR for
mutual funds). Historically, too, property has grown at a sedate,
single-digit rate. An 8% return thus seems realistic over a 20-year period. In
fact, after deducting 0. 5% for society charges, property tax, and so on, net
growth would be around 7.