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IN
THIS ISSUE
1.
Business: Future Development
of African Mega-Cities
2. Business: How to Manage
a Small Business
3. Business: Operating a
small business from home
4. Business: What about
the price of Gold?
5. Business: Russian Investment
Boom in South Africa
6. Business: Submit Your
Opinion on the BBC web site
7. Business: The Increasing
Problem of Outsourcing
8. Education: National Archives
of Australia
9. Education & Conservation:
Farewell to Steve Irwin
10. Education & Environment:
Sudan Needs Desperate Help
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1. Business: Future
Development of African Mega-Cities
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Nairobi
- Massive migration from
rural to urban Africa is
threatening to grow mega-cities
across the continent with
potentially devastating
consequences, a conference
has heard. The alarming
predictions and dire warnings
came at the opening of the
fourth Africities meeting
of African city planners
in the Kenyan capital of
Nairobi, itself one of the
metropolises endangered
by rapid and unchecked growth.
To read the full report,
go to our NEWS
DESK link.
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2. Business: How to
Manage a Small Business
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The
world of business can be
a difficult one, particularly
for those entering the business
world as owners or managers
of a small business.
Fortunately,
there are a number of resources
online that can ease this
transition. The United States
Small Business Administration
has created this resource
that is designed to give
business owners a basic
overview of how to manage,
market, and lead their business.
The site is divided into
several discrete sections,
including Management for
Growth, Leadership and Marketing
& Sales. Within each
section, visitors can read
essays that address such
topics as the management
of employees, buying a franchise,
equity financing, and strategic
planning.
One
of the highlights here is
a free online growth strategies
course. The site is rounded
out by an area that provides
information about some of
the Administrations special
initiatives designed to
help women, minorities,
and veterans. Visit
this site.
Editor's
Note: The Delamere Group
offer many helpful suggestions
on starting and running
a small business. Visit
our webpage on Business
Services.
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3. Business: Operating
a small business from home
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New
York - Nearly half of all
United States businesses
are run from home, and most
companies owned by women
are home-based, according
to a government report released
on Wednesday. The report
was based on information
collected from more than
2.3 million firms as part
of a survey of business
owners. To read the full
report, go to our NEWS
DESK link.
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4. Business: What
about the price of Gold?
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Gold
Fields Mineral Services
(GFMS), the London based
precious metals consultancy,
says the gold price could
break through the $700 per
troy ounce mark in the last
quarter of 2006 on the back
of higher demand from investors.
To read the full report,
go to our NEWS
DESK link.
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5. Business: Russian
Investment Boom in South
Africa
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Russian
Federation president Vladimir
Putin's official visit to
South Africa looks set to
precipitate multi-billion
dollar investments in local
industry by Russian business.
"It's true that we
are considering major projects
worth billions of dollars
in investments," he
told journalists at a media
briefing. To read the full
report, go to our NEWS
DESK link.
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6. Business: Submit
Your Opinion on the BBC
web site
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Mayors
from across the African
continent will meet next
week in Nairobi at Africities
2006. How successful is
your local government? Local
governments are increasingly
looking to the business
sector for ideas on how
best to provide services
such as electricity and
sanitation. Send us your
views and experiences using
the form on the site. Visit
the BBC.
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7. Business: The Increasing
Problem of Outsourcing
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BRITAIN's
biggest insurer yesterday
axed 4,000 jobs - including
450 in Scotland - and announced
it is to move part of the
workforce to India. To read
the full report, go to our
NEWS
DESK link.
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8. Education: National
Archives of Australia
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How
is a nation formed? That
question alone has vexed
political scientists, historians,
and aspiring nation-builders
for centuries. The answer
is often quite complex,
and only in rare cases do
we have a complete answer.
The National Archives of
Australia has recently created
this website which explores
the various documents that
tell about the creation
and formation of their country
as a commonwealth.
The
homepage presents a map
of the country, divided
into its contemporary political
divisions, allowing visitors
to click on each area to
read primary documents that
provide insight into each
locale. Areas such as New
South Wales include transcripts
and original documents,
such as the secret instructions
to Captain James Cook on
what to do if he finds land
and the New South Wales
Courts Act of 1787. Other
sections of the site include
Pathways, which allow users
to delve into these documents
in a thematic fashion (related
to issues surrounding land
and the like) and a basic
timeline that begins in
60,000 BC and continues
to 1836. Visit
this site.
From
The Scout Report, Copyright
Internet Scout Project 1994-2006
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9. Education &
Conservation: Farewell to
Steve Irwin
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This
was a made-for-television
memorial service which brought
together the two contrasting
worlds which Steve Irwin
occupied: the expansive
wilderness of the Australian
Outback, and the extraordinary
fame of Hollywood. To read
the full tribute, go to
our NEWS
DESK link.
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10. Education &
Environment: Sudan Needs
Desperate Help
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Oscar-winning
actor George Clooney has
made an impassioned speech
to the UN Security Council
over continuing violence
in the Darfur region of
Sudan. To read his speech
and the full report, go
to our NEWS
DESK link.
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This month's quote
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"To
do the useful thing, to
say the courageous thing,
to contemplate the beautiful
thing: that is enough for
one man's life." ~
T. S. Eliot (1888-1965)
American Poet
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