Home grown business is best for NI
The News Review:
- Home grown business is best for NI
- Telco gears up to test domestic 3G network
- Pot growers lure home invaders
- Maoists pose biggest security challenge: PM
- Burton might miss out as FA approve centre
Home grown business is best for NI
Belfast Telegraph - Dec 21, 2007
The Republic has prospered for many reasons other than the taxation rate. Practice accountants do not run business, they do not create business, they live off the backs of business. It is time to re-appraise the whole ethos of Invest NI and the merry band of consultants and accountants who decide which companies to assist. These are people who do not understand what is involved in trying to make a pound. They demand fledgling businesses pay thousands to consultants and accountants in preparing reports and projections. Let’s stop talking about tax loopholes and blaming Gordon Brown. Stop begging for multinational companies who come for the duration of financial assistance and then leave town.
Telco gears up to test domestic 3G network
china.org.cn - Dec 21, 2007
But the move doesn’t mean that home-grown TD-SCDMA phones and long-awaited services will be commercially used nationwide soon, analysts said. The telco will purchase 30,000 TD-SCDMA (time division-synchronous code division multiple access) phones and 10,000 TD-SCDMA data cards to test the pilot network. Interested firms have until Sunday to get the bid documents. Gao Songge, a China Mobile’s spokesperson, declined to reveal the budget of the purchase and timetable… But the move doesn’t mean that home-grown TD-SCDMA phones and long-awaited services will be commercially used nationwide soon, analysts said. The telco will purchase 30,000 TD-SCDMA (time division-synchronous code division multiple access) phones and 10,000 TD-SCDMA data cards to test the pilot network. Interested firms have until Sunday to get the bid documents. Gao Songge, a China Mobile’s spokesperson, declined to reveal the budget of the purchase and timetable. Each TD-SCDMA model costs about 2,500 yuan (US$338) to 3,000 yuan.
Pot growers lure home invaders
Portland Tribune - Dec 21, 2007
Other growers use shotguns and dogs, while running their ventilation through cat litter to prevent passers-by from detecting their grows. Ideas may go to ballotHome invasions are likely to be part of the case made by Republican former lawmaker and possible attorney general candidate Kevin Mannix in an initiative for which he is gathering signatures. It would substitute marinol tablets, containing the active ingredient in marijuana – for the leafy, home-grown stuff currently used in the program. Mannix contends that it would curb abuses and unintended consequences of the program. But medical marijuana advocates say Mannix’s initiative would make medicine much more expensive for needy patients. They are floating an initiative of their own, which would create a series of approved farms and dispensaries, thus decreasing the number of grow operations. Both could reach voters on the November ballot, giving voters a choice of which way to go.
Maoists pose biggest security challenge: PM
Economic Times - Dec 21, 2007
“The reach of terrorists is such that no one can say that they
are fully immune from such attacks,” he noted and called upon the states
to strengthen their intelligence gathering capabilities so as to generate
actionable and precise intelligence - “the key to fighting
terror. ”
Also, given that
terrorists have of late been focusing on soft targets like public transport
systems, religious shrines and crowded public places, the Centre on Thursday
told the states to spruce up their surveillance systems and have the preventive
mechanisms in place to reduce the probability of terror attacks. The prime minister also struck
a word of caution against home-grown terror outfits that offer logistical
support to the bigger, more organised groups. “While the actual
perpetrators of terrorist violence may belong to a few known organisations, we
need to guard against their attempts to recruit local sympathy and
support,” he said.
Burton might miss out as FA approve centre
Telegraph.co.uk - Dec 21, 2007
As even the Romanians do with their impressive new NFC outside Bucharest. The NFC is also about providing a hot-house for cultivating English coaches, so that the Premier League’s leading clubs do not instinctively look overseas, or over Hadrian’s Wall and Offa’s Dyke, for their tracksuited tsars. Some home-grown coaching talent does rise up, like Paul Ince at MK Dons, or Gareth Southgate courtesy of a forward-thinking chairman in Middlesbrough’s Steve Gibson, but there is currently no English manager in the league of Fabio Capello, Sir Alex Ferguson, Arsene Wenger, Rafa Benitez, David Moyes or Mark Hughes.