United Arab Emirates: Economy soars on back of poor
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- United Arab Emirates: Economy soars on back of poor
- Indiana’s messy coaching roller coaster
- What makes a house feel like home?
- Q&A with Angels owner Arte Moreno | Sports | Baseball | PE.com |…
- Tabua oversees Cup teams
- NZ Herald Blogs Should Kiwis still have the right to a UK Commonwealth…
United Arab Emirates: Economy soars on back of poor
Infoshop News – Feb 22, 2008
United Arab Emirates: Economy soars on back of poor
Eric Ellis in Dubai
February 10, 2008
LAST Saturday in the Arabian emirate of Dubai, the great and good of the Australian Football League slapped the backs of expatriates and home-grown potentates in a dollar-drenched celebration of all things Australian, Dubaian and corporate. Collingwood and Adelaide opened the 2008 football season in an exhibition match as Emirates Airlines-sponsored hucksters such as Eddie McGuire gushed about the soaring ambition of this glistening sheikdom, as if its business-friendly monarchy has somehow reinvented capitalism in transforming Dubai from a Bedouin backwater to a global metropolis. Dubai and its neighbouring Gulf emirates have posted economic growth in recent years that would embarrass China, but what wasn’t mentioned during OzFest is the invisible worker army whose endless toil is so essential to Dubai’s massive boom, not least turning a polo ground into an unlikely venue for Aussie rules sur-les-sands. They mostly live in a slum called Sonapur, hidden in the dunes between Dubai and Sharjah.
Indiana’s messy coaching roller coaster
USA Today – Feb 22, 2008
Davis’ departure after so many home-grown recruits flew out of the state, they looked like migratory birds (down). Indiana charging up the rankings this season, suggesting why Sampson landed the job even with all his carry-on baggage from Oklahoma — promising he had seen the error of his ways with that devil’s tool, the telephone (up)… Indiana charging up the rankings this season, suggesting why Sampson landed the job even with all his carry-on baggage from Oklahoma — promising he had seen the error of his ways with that devil’s tool, the telephone (up). Oh look, a letter from the NCAA (down, down, down).
What makes a house feel like home?
Christian Science Monitor – Feb 22, 2008
It’s where we always gather on bad-weather days to play Monopoly or work on a jigsaw puzzle or just read. It’s where we daydream – where little girls can be Jo March or Nancy Drew and little boys can be Davy Crockett or George Patton. And where grown-ups can think wonderful things into being. Above the hearth in one of his homes, Frank Lloyd Wright inscribed the words, “Around these hearth stones, speak no evil word of any creature. ” Before a roaring fire, only good thoughts belong. There would be an awful emptiness if the books we love were missing from our home, so I’d search for a great big bookcase to hold books. Slowly, we would reaccumulate the books we cherish – from “A Child’s Garden of Verses,” “The Little Engine that Could,” and “Goodnight Moon” to books by Dickens, Twain, Hemingway, and Frost… ” We’d need green plants in our home because they make everything feel fresh and vital. I’d put a pair of topiaries on the mantle, a basket of ivy in a corner, and never-fail philodendron on the coffee table. On the porch, I’d put a big pot of yellow and purple pansies in the spring, bright red geraniums in the summer, golden chrysanthemums in the fall, and a wreath of greens in December. If possible, I’d plant a lilac bush just outside the kitchen window where its “spring is here” aroma would fill the air when I fling open the window in May. Just for me, I’d search for another old-fashioned desk like the one I’ve had forever, a desk that’s the heart of our home, where I sort the clutter from my days and tend to matters that matter.
Q&A with Angels owner Arte Moreno | Sports | Baseball | PE.com |…
Press-Enterprise – Press-Enterprise (subscription) – Feb 22, 2008
(Erick) Aybar is just a raw athlete. He is going to make some mistakes, he’s going to make unbelievable plays and something hit straight to him, we’ll see about. He’s 24 and home grown. I watched him in the Dominican and everybody’s like he made all these errors (12 in 36 regular-season games). Have you ever seen the field? (Dodgers shortstop Rafael) Furcal made a lot more errors, played less games and made more errors. I was walking around the infield and I mean there’s boulders in that thing. There’s a line if you’re an infielder where you start thinking about your manhood.
Tabua oversees Cup teams
Fiji Times – Feb 22, 2008
“That’s why we have to develop our local talent who will fill in when needed. “He said it was important for local-based players to have regular game time and face stronger and stiffer competition in a calendar year. “We need to lift the standard of competition among our home-grown players and the Colonial Cup is just the place to do it,” Tabua said. Tabua expects a fiery start when the Stallions host the Highlanders in the opener at Lawaqa Park starting 6pm today. “Both teams have several young and enthusiastic players so it’ll be an interesting and fiercely contested encounter,” Tabua said. In last week’s pre-season friendlies, the Stallions edged the Bligh Roosters 27-24, the Knights defeated the Sharks 36-21, and the Highlanders beat the Crusaders 28-25. First round fixtures: Today, 6pm, Lawaqa Park, Sigatoka: Stallions-Highlanders; referee: James Bolabiu, touch Judges: Misaele Petero, Laisa Kauyaca; fourth official: Sione Tanoa.
NZ Herald Blogs Should Kiwis still have the right to a UK Commonwealth…
nzherald.co.nz – Feb 22, 2008
I honestly don't think that the UK want any further immigration from the Indian sub-continent, including of course, Pakistan and Bangladesh amongst others. Therefore, they must stop all immigration from their old Dependants! The UK also now has a major immigration problem exacerbated by being a part of the European Union, but it was their choice to join, and to leave their old friends to fend for themselves. It's not about where my grandmother was born or the fact that my greatgrandfather was killed in Gallipoli. Grow up! Get a work visa, work hard and no worries you can live around the corner from 'the Rovers Return' and drink warm pints forever! Our interests (cultuarlly and in business) are increasingly in the Pacific region. It's not an emotional argument it is a natural progression and has been since the UK joined the EEC.