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Dallas Morning News – Dallas Morning News (subscription) – Mar 7, 2008
com Nancy Myers is a Dallas freelance writer. Mention begonias, and many home gardeners envision the small wax-leaf type – a reliable, easy-care, floriferous mainstay of many a summer flowerbed. But this is only a small segment of the bigger begonia picture. Some of the more exotic species and fancy-leaf hybrids are nothing short of beguiling, often revered for foliage over flowers, though many boast bright blooms. "I was drawn to the begonia family by its diversity," says Don Miller, via e-mail. He is a longtime buyer for North Haven Gardens and president of the American Begonia Society’s Dallas branch… Rhizomatous types, such as ‘Challenger,’ are grown from rhizomes that creep along the ground. These are easy-care begonias with year-round appeal because of their intricate leaves and massive displays of flowers, though most bloom only in the spring. Rex begonias are a type of rhizomatous grown for their multicolored leaves, and come in varied patterns and colors. Cane begonias, which have a bamboolike appearance, include the popular angel wing. Semperflorens, or the wax types, are probably the most widely grown begonias. Tuberous types are beautiful, but not ideally suited to Dallas’ climate. Separate still are shrub begonias, trailing and thick-stemmed types.
Rolling Stone magazine seeks India success
BBC News – Mar 7, 2008
The first issue hit the news stands last week with a quirky marketing spin – five different covers featuring Led Zeppelin, Bruce Springsteen, Amy Winehouse, Jay-Z and Anoushka Shankar were put out together with a mix of local and original content. Riding on an increasingly liberal media policy which allows foreign titles to publish and a mini-explosion of home-grown rock bands in the country, Rolling Stone India is the 15th international rollout of the magazine. It will be published monthly, instead of fortnightly like its US counterpart. 46) a month, it costs a fifth of the imported US edition. Music-mad
“We are looking at a circulation of around 50,000 copies to start with,” says Radhakrishnan Nair, editor of the Indian edition, which is being published by a Mumbai-based publishing group MW… So, in the launch issue, interviews with Ringo Starr, Bruce Springsteen, Johnny Depp and Jay-Z and a paean to the return of Led Zeppelin coexist with a piece on Indian sitar player Anoushka Shankar, trivia about fledgling Indian bands, and a profile of Soulmate, a popular blues band from India’s music mad north-eastern hill-town of Shillong. There is also a music feature by leading Indian novelist Amit Chaudhuri, who says he found the riff to Eric Clapton’s Layla in a “handful of notes” in an Indian raga and counts Herbie Hancock, Joni Mitchell, Neil Young and Paul Simon as his influences. “We look forward to being a part of the Indian scene in our small way, reverent of the past and excited and challenged by the future,” says Jann Wenner, the legendary US edition editor, who launched the magazine with $7,500 from a second-floor loft above a printing press in San Fransisco in 1967. Growing interest
Time will tell whether India-born western music will generate enough interesting fodder for the magazine month after month, considering the fact that Bollywood has a near-total stranglehold on the country’s music retail market. But Rolling Stone India is betting on the fact that there is a growing interest in rock music across India.
Four companies – including AECL – competing to build provinces new…
Toronto Star – Mar 7, 2008
Four companies – including AECL – competing to build provinces new nuclear reactors
March 07, 2008
Chinta Puxley
THE CANADIAN PRESS
Under pressure from Ottawa to choose Atomic Energy of Canada Ltd. to build Ontario’s first new nuclear reactors in more than a decade, the province announced today that the Crown-owned company is among four in the running for the job. While Premier Dalton McGuinty has said the government is looking at the international market to get the best deal for Ontario taxpayers, the federal natural resources minister has argued Canada’s nuclear future hinges on whether home-grown technology is used in Ontario. The province plans to close its coal-fired plants by 2014 and is counting on residents to conserve energy, but Energy Minister Gerry Phillips said Friday the lights can’t stay on without new nuclear capacity at either the Darlington or Bruce power plants. "Nuclear has been the backbone of our electricity system," Phillips said, noting more than half the province’s energy last year came from nuclear plants. "With any major facility… Their proposals, due by the end of June, will be examined by a large team of senior bureaucrats from various government ministries, as well as representatives from Ontario Power Generation and Bruce Power. Ontario has come under pressure recently to choose the Candu reactors built by Crown-owned AECL as opposed to a foreign company. "We must build the Candu technology at home," Federal Natural Resources Minister Gary Lunn told the Globe and Mail in December 2006. “It’s imperative for the Canadian nuclear industry. If we can’t compete at home, I would suggest it wouldn’t look very good for our technology elsewhere around the world. " Phillips’ predecessor, now Finance Minister Dwight Duncan, admitted previously that "AECL effectively becomes a Candu repair shop" if it doesn’t win the Ontario contract. A group of companies that rely on the Candu industry have also banded together to lobby the province to "provide a long-term multi-billion dollar economic boost for Ontario’s economy and send a strong signal of support to potential international customers," the group said in a statement Friday.
Sunday Herald: Opinion & Debate: Opinion & Debate
Sunday Herald – Mar 7, 2008
When the City snarls, the Treasury forgets about
fair taxation. And the rest, the median, conclude that this is how the world
works. Last week we saw a notable act of home-grown philanthropy. It made all the
papers. Anthony d’Offay, a London picture dealer, handed over his collection
of 725 works of post-war and contemporary art to the National Galleries of
Scotland and the Tate. The d’Offay collection is “worth” £125
million. The benefactor has instead accepted the prices he first paid,
amounting to £26.
Tech.view Dropped call
economist.com – Mar 7, 2008
Kyocera tested the Chinese market. But all got beaten back. Third, the manufacturers designed products around home-grown technical standards and special features that are not used elsewhere. (Most foreign visitors to Japan grumble upon discovering that their phones are incompatible with the country’s wireless networks. ) So the Japanese makers can only build phones tailored to the overseas market at a high cost and lower margins, making it an unattractive business to enter. Fourth, high-end customers who want sophisticated phones drive the Japanese market, but the main growth in the wireless industry overall is in emerging markets, which need cheap phones. The world’s top three makers—Nokia, Samsung and Motorola—focus on this segment.