Our View: Home-grown conservation works
The News Review:
- Our View: Home-grown conservation works
- McGuinty Government Invests In Green Technology
- F1, NASCAR, GP2, Champ Car, IndyCar, ALMS and More! If It Goes…
- Thank you, for dropping us on unknown planets
- Sporting Life – Football News | Football Transfer News, Live Football…
- VIEW: She has got a point
Our View: Home-grown conservation works
Mankato Free Press – Mar 20, 2008
The Lura Lake Association has moved beyond the lake itself, helping raise money to purchase hundreds of acres of farm land along the Blue Earth River and restoring it to native vegetation. Government is vital in protecting the environment. But as Brush, Putnam and a broad band of supporters have shown, taking pride in your own backyard can be a most powerful force.
McGuinty Government Invests In Green Technology
Canada NewsWire – Canada NewsWire (press release) – Mar 20, 2008
“We are on the side of Ontarians who want a growing economy and a clean
environment,” said Premier McGuinty. “This initiative promises to make Ontario
a leader in clean waste-to-energy technologies, creating new markets and new
jobs for Ontarians. It’s a great example of why our government invests in
innovation: to turn home-grown ideas into home-grown jobs. ”
All Ontarians have a role to play in making our province greener. The
government has already taken action by protecting a greenbelt that stretches
across southern Ontario from development, introducing tough new laws that
protect our drinking water, producing more renewable energy and doing more to
conserve electricity. But we know more needs to be done. That’s why our next
step will be the announcement of a climate change plan – a step that will help
all Ontarians do their part to make our province cleaner and greener while
keeping the economy strong.
F1, NASCAR, GP2, Champ Car, IndyCar, ALMS and More! If It Goes…
PaddockTalk – Mar 20, 2008
Players registered for at least 24 months in the Galaxy’s youth program become eligible to sign a professional contract with that team without entering the MLS SuperDraft. During the next few years, the Galaxy will look to create teams in up to six age groups. Players on these teams will wear the club’s colors and train under the team’s coaching staff. Players on the Galaxy’s youth teams may be able to compete with other youth club teams at various times during the year. MLS youth programs will not jeopardize a player’s NCAA eligibility. Teams with existing youth programs that meet the established criteria may begin registering players to their Home Grown Player List this season. Therefore, the first “graduates” of these programs could move directly onto MLS rosters as early as 2008.
Thank you, for dropping us on unknown planets
Calcutta Telegraph – Mar 20, 2008
But when you entered your teens, your dreams became more complex, and you didn’t have Dish TV shoving Harry Potter down your throat. Back then, the writers who fired your imagination and lit up your daydreams, put you in spaceships and dropped you off on strange, unknown planets were Asimov and Clarke. If we ever develop a strong home-grown science fiction tradition in India, Clarke will be one of the people responsible. His influence extends far beyond fiction, of course; he’ll be remembered for his work in telecommunications and his theories on space travel, but to me the most important thing Clarke has given the world is his Second Law: the only way of discovering the limits of the possible is to venture a little way past them into the impossible. lCalcutta-born Samit Basu is a science fiction and fantasy writer. Basu’s The Simoqin Prophecies was published in 2004 when he was 23, making him the youngest science fiction author in India to find a mainstream publisher.
Sporting Life – Football News | Football Transfer News, Live Football…
Sportinglife.com – Mar 20, 2008
“In his autobiography, Michael Owen said the old National School at Lilleshall ‘in large measure made me the player I am’, and lamented the closure of what he called the ‘FA’s university for England’s most promising youngsters’, that took place during Howard Wilkinson’s reign as FA technical director,” Howe added. “That decision needs to be re-examined, as does the mothballing of the national academy at Burton. “Young English players find it increasingly difficult to step up to first teams because of the influx of foreign players and I would like to see some quota system introduced so more young home-grown players are given a chance to break through, especially in the Premier League.
VIEW: She has got a point
Times of India – Mar 20, 2008
Surely, she is entitled
to her opinion and choice of role models? It is unfair to castigate her just
because she does not venerate an Indian idol. If entrepreneurs and other
professionals can benchmark themselves against the best in the world, what is
wrong with athletes and other sportspeople doing the
same?
In Anju’s case, the
reason could be partly explained by the fact that her statements suggested an
uncomfortable truth. That Indian sportspersons have no home-grown world
champions to emulate. Let’s face reality. In the 60 years of independence,
the country has produced world champions mostly in hockey and cricket. And the
success story of the former began to sour almost two decades ago, culminating in
a humiliating defeat at the recent Olympics qualifier. As a nation, India is woefully
starved of sporting glories.