Anthrax…Ricin…and home grown terror.
The News Review:
- Anthrax…Ricin…and home grown terror.
- Rural electric co-operatives support compromise bill
- Mag leak ends Harry’s tour
- Boeing loses out in $40bn US deal
- TheStar.com – Sports – 70vechkin?
- Why is the baton always passed abroad?
- Surgical openings – 01 Mar 2008 – NZ Herald: New Zealand National news
Anthrax…Ricin…and home grown terror.
OpEdNews – Mar 1, 2008
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Anthrax…Ricin…International Terror? It all pales next to an average day in America. Basically there are two forms of terror as we commonly relate to such…home grown generic domestic self inflicted terror, and, politically motivated terror which can be either domestic or international in origin. The former is vastly more destructive than that latter.
Rural electric co-operatives support compromise bill
Craig Daily Press – Mar 1, 2008
“Co-ops move at the speed of democracy because they are owned by the members,” Isgar said. “It is difficult to have a standard policy because the co-operatives don’t have the same rate structure. ”The compromise calls for rural electric co-operatives to accept and give credit for up to 10 kilowatts of home-grown energy from residential customers and 25 kilowatts from commercial and agricultural customers. The governor’s energy czar, Tom Plant, coined a new term for the compromise bill, which creates a specific statewide policy on net metering but gives the co-operatives the flexibility they wanted in how to implement it. “I call it speciflexity,” Plant said. The compromise bill still must pass the Senate and be returned to the House for approval of the Senate amendments before it reaches the governor’s desk. Clifton said the association, which includes the Steamboat Springs-based Yampa Valley Electric Association, will continue to fight House Bill 1107, which barely passed the House Wednesday on a 33-32 vote and now goes to the Senate for consideration.
Mag leak ends Harry’s tour
NEWS.com.au – Mar 1, 2008
"We have to expect that every fanatical fighter in 1000 miles of him will be pulling out all the stops to find him. "
The UK media had agreed to keep his deployment top-secret because of fears for the 23-year-old’s safety and that of his squad. But the New Idea website broke the news and a German website and influential American internet page the Drudge Report followed. New Idea, which bragged of its breach, yesterday denied it had any knowledge of the news blackout… "This is in stark contrast to the highly responsible attitude of the whole of the UK print and broadcast media, along with a small number of overseas media, who have entered into an understanding with us over the coverage of Prince Harry on operations. "
The Prince has been serving as a battlefield air controller and light tank commander in Helmand Province. In an interview he gave, but which was not to be published until after his tour of duty, he admitted that on his return home he could be a "top target" for home-grown jihadists sympathetic to the Taliban. Share this article.
Boeing loses out in $40bn US deal
BBC News – Mar 1, 2008
“We had two very competitive offers in this competition,” Sue Payton, assistant secretary of the Air Force for acquisition said. “Northrop Grumman clearly provided the best value to the government,” she said. Home-grown
Boeing had been emphasising its home-grown credentials while lobbying for the contract.
TheStar.com – Sports – 70vechkin?
Toronto Star – Mar 1, 2008
750*Lockout shortened seasonGP: games played G: goals GPG: Goals per game
WHO’S HOT?
EDMONTON OILERSBroke the NHL record with their 13th shootout win (Dallas was 12-1 in 2005-06). MATHIEU GARON OilersEdmonton goalie is 9-0 in shootouts this season. WHO’S COLD?
MARIAN HOSSA PenguinsOut indefinitely with sprained MCL after 13 shifts with the Penguins following trade from Thrashers. OTTAWA SENATORSFired their coach and still can’t win. Talk now has them missing the playoffs?JOHAN HOLMQVIST StarsGoalie goes from struggling in Tampa to seldom used backup in Dallas. WHO’S NEWS?
• Leafs GM Cliff Fletcher’s post-trade-deadline press conference was a zinger.
Why is the baton always passed abroad?
Telegraph.co.uk – Mar 1, 2008
In today’s economic and cultural climate, this would be well-nigh impossible (Hickox’s City of London Sinfonia has just had its well-earned funding axed by the Arts Council). There is no question that we have the talent, but at present many of the younger generation of British conductors, such as Daniel Harding at the Swedish Radio Orchestra and Mark Wigglesworth at La Monnaie opera in Brussels, are earning their crust elsewhere. Surely, at a time when fostering links within the local community is part of a music director’s job description, we should be finding new ways of supporting and nurturing our home-grown conductors?I wonder what the three Bs of British conducting – Barbirolli, Beecham and Boult – would have made of the internet site YouTube. This great British trio are all to be seen conducting on this extraordinarily wonderful 21st-century phenomenon, as are Toscanini, Furtwangler, Walter et al, and the roll call of instrumentalists is similarly impressive. In fact, there is so much rare footage of great musicians of every genre on YouTube that everyone will find something to enthral them. The joy of the site lies in discovering films you never believed you would set eyes on again. I had long since abandoned all hope of ever seeing a magnificent performance given on television in the ’60s by Maurice Gendron of Debussy’s Cello Sonata.
Surgical openings – 01 Mar 2008 – NZ Herald: New Zealand National news
New Zealand Herald – Mar 1, 2008
The pressure this country faces for qualified medical professionals is faced all over the world. The opportunity to recruit from overseas is not going to get any easier. There are other compelling reasons to want more home-grown doctors. A system so reliant on overseas staff makes forward planning for an integrated training system at home exceedingly difficult. Then there is a moral, philosophical component. Is it right, asks Professor Martin, for a relatively affluent, developed country like New Zealand to not ensure it produces enough medical practitioners to meet its own needs?”Because you have to remember that doctors that come here are from countries that can afford to have gaps to an extent even less than we can. “The medical school is trying to help attract New Zealand graduates to smaller centres and this year sent a group of students for a fifth year of training in Whangarei.