Home-grown
The News Review:
- Home-grown
- Opinion: O’Dowd’s patience with Rockies pays off
- ZTE leaps on news of bond issue to fund 3G
- The great leap backward
- A rare moment of calm in the capital
Home-grown
economist.com – Oct 18, 2007
To supply outdoor plantations, rivers are dammed and water piped as far as two miles. Plants are nourished with fertilisers and tended by workers brought to America specifically for the purpose. Ageing hippies are responsible for only a few such operations. Kent Shaw, a state narcotics officer, reckons four-fifths of outdoor marijuana plantations are run by Mexican criminal gangs.
Opinion: O’Dowd’s patience with Rockies pays off
Colorado Springs Gazette – Oct 18, 2007
But O’Dowd, whose expertise is in building a good farm system as he did in Cleveland, stuck to his word keeping the players at home and bringing in players of direct need. I didn’t agree with trading Jason Jennings to Houston for Willy Taveras, Jason Hirsh and Taylor Buchholz. Jennings was one of the home-grown guys O’Dowd talked about. He was one of the team’s best pitchers, too — if not the best. The whole deal went against O’Dowd’s preachings. Jennings ended up playing hurt and lackluster for the Astros.
ZTE leaps on news of bond issue to fund 3G
People's Daily Online – Oct 18, 2007
45 percent yesterday. "The big-cap 3G-related shares, such as China Unicom and ZTE, are expected to benefit from the coming 3G, and they are favored by investors," Yue Congzhong, an analyst at Zhongshan Securities, said in a recent note, who set ZTE’s price target above 60 yuan. ZTE will raise four billion yuan through the sale of five-year convertible bonds to finance research, manufacture and construction of 11 projects, including a home-grown TD-SCDMA (Time Division-Synchronous Code Division Multiple Access) phone and a new handset platform. ZTE, the biggest public telecommunications equipment vendor in China, got the lion’s share of China Mobile’s 23. 7-billion-yuan order in April to adopt 3G networks in 10 cities, based on home-grown TD-SCDMA technology. "The coming 3G will bring a capital feast to equipment makers and handset vendors," said Wang Jianping, an official at China Center for Information Industry Development. Investment in 3G will reach 50 billion yuan to 60 billion yuan annually from 2007 to 2011, Wang added.
The great leap backward
The Age – Oct 18, 2007
And then youneed to consider all the pieces of kit that come with so-calledembedded systems. These embedded systems processors are the brains behind themicrowave in the kitchen, the washing machine in the laundry andeven the car in the driveway – its engine control unit andanti-lock brakes, among others. Without feeding the family with home-grown vegies, making ourown clothes and living in a yurt outside Nimbin, dodging theubiquitous stream of ones and zeros will be nigh-on impossible. Time to set some boundaries on my two days of digitaldeprivation. I am not going to go without power and water and Ireserve the right to use my car but otherwise I’ll try to dowithout every other digital device in my life. Day one does not get off to a good start as I fail to correctlyset the old alarm clock that I dug out of the bottom of thecupboard. Don’t ask me how, but after years of pressing the samebuttons to set my digital clock, the simple act of setting awind-up device appears to be beyond me… When day two dawns things get off to a better start as I havefinally got the hang of the alarm clock. Doing without email andthe internet today should be easier as it’s a Saturday and there’sno work to be done. However, going without music is a much bigger problem. I lovemusic and we have something playing in the house (generally jazz)pretty much all the time. All my music is now stored on a laptopand an iPod, making it easy to pipe around the house using a systemof wired and wireless speakers. It’s a neat use of digitaltechnology but one I’m going to have to get by without using for aday at least. A mate who lives nearby owns a turntable that I can probably usewithout breaking the spirit of the experiment.
A rare moment of calm in the capital
economist.com – Oct 18, 2007
The strategy was pioneered in the province of Anbar, west of Baghdad, and has only recently been applied to Baghdad’s own suburbs. So an “oil spot” of stability, to use an American buzzword, seems to have spread from western Iraq into the capital’s outskirts, thanks both to increased troop numbers and to a Sunni backlash against al-Qaeda. The tribal militias of Anbar and the Ghazaliya Guards, both mainly Sunni, have evidently turned against al-Qaeda, though most of its fighters in Iraq are now home-grown.