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Indian lifters on Monday added five bronze medals on the second day of the Asian Junior Weightlifting Championships held at Bangsaen, Thailand.
In 77kg junior men category, Kojum Taba won a bronze each in clean and jerk (162kg) and total lift (285kg). In women's 63kg category, Punam Yadav bagged a bronze each in snatch (87kg), clean and jerk (114kg) and total lift (201kg).
Harshdeep Kaur finished fourth in women's 53kg with a total lift of 165kg (74+91).
On Sunday, Saikhom Mirabai Chanu had won three sliver in women's 48kg category.
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Media network mergers came unglued, conglomerates were broken up, and new players—in several senses—arrived on the video scene. In radio, attention focused on a top personality, satellite radio began marketing efforts, and public radio was riding high.
In American television much of 2003 was consumed by the bitter and often surprising battle over the attempt by the U.S. Federal Communications Commission (FCC) to relax the rules that tried to minimize concentration of the ownership of television stations. The FCC, led by its conservative chairman, Michael Powell (the son of U.S. Secretary of State Colin Powell), proposed new rules, including ones that would allow one owner to control TV stations reaching 45% of the country, up from 35%, and that would end a ban on a company's owning a newspaper and an over-the-air station in the same city. Protest movements formed, but it was not until after the FCC had voted to change the rules, in June, that the protesters' effectiveness began to be felt. The movement brought together a rare coalition of conservatives and liberals, including the National Rifle Association and the National Organization for Women, who were joined by their fear that increasing media-ownership concentration would squeeze local voices out of the nation's most powerful communications medium. In the September week that the changes were to take effect, however, a federal appeals court issued a stay against their implementation. Both houses of Congress, although led by the Republicans, separately voted to overturn one or more of the new rules. With all of this up in the air at year's end, the rules-change picture was, as Powell said, "muddied." The television networks and big media companies continued to push aggressively for the changes, but what was surprising was the degree to which this seemingly arcane issue eventually caught the attention of average Americans. A compromise was reached on November 24.
Merger-and-acquisition activity continued through 2003. The top story was likely the troubled financial picture at the Vivendi Universal entertainment conglomerate and the signals it sent to NBC, the last American network without a major-studio partner. NBC parent General Electric (GE) reached an agreement to merge Universal, whose TV and movie interests were worth some $13 billion, with the network; GE would own 80% of the new company, which would be named NBC Universal and would be the world's sixth largest media company. In the deal GE acquired Universal's film and TV studios and a 5,000-film library; the USA Network, the SCI FI Channel, and the Trio cable network; the Spanish-language Telemundo network; and an interest in the Universal Studios theme-park chain. Universal was the production company behind the popular Law & Order criminal-justice television series; Law & Order, Law & Order: Special Victims Unit, and Law & Order: Criminal Intent were mainstays of NBC's prime-time schedule. NBC executives even discussed the possibility of creating an all-Law & Order cable channel and of using Universal's movie library in the increasingly popular video-on-demand services, but the primary benefit of the merger was the protection that it would give NBC from dependency on advertising for its sole revenue stream. All the other major American television networks were already partnered up with or part of more broad-based entertainment companies. FCC and U.S. Department of Justice approval of the NBC-Universal deal was still pending at year's end, but industry analysts saw few likely roadblocks to its completion. In September the New York Supreme Court ordered Vivendi to pay its former CEO Jean-Marie Messier the €20.6 million (about $23.4 million) severance package that had been promised him but had been halted by a French court while stock-market regulators investigated recent Vivendi financial statements.
Perhaps even more important in 2003 was the attempt by Rupert Murdoch's News Corp. to gain control of the leading American consumer satellite-subscription service. DirecTV beamed cable and network channels and other programming into more than 12 million American homes. Murdoch had coveted DirecTV for years, and in April News Corp. agreed to spend $6.6 billion to buy a controlling 34% interest in Hughes Electronics Corp., the DirecTV parent and a subsidiary of General Motors Corp. The service would fill a major hole in News Corp.'s worldwide satellite offerings and give the company another outlet for its own programming. Regulatory approval was pending. Murdoch named his youngest son, James, CEO of the British pay-TV company British Sky Broadcasting (BSkyB). News Corp. owned 35% of BSkyB, and Murdoch sat as company chairman.
Liberty Media paid $7.9 billion for a 57% share of the QVC home shopping network, which reached 85 million households. The FCC cleared Liberty's 98% ownership of QVC; the other 2% remained with QVC's management team. Liberty acquired UnitedGlobalCom (UGC), a cable provider to 11 million subscribers in 25 countries. UGC's main subsidiary, Amsterdam-based United Pan-Europe Communications, was reorganizing following bankruptcy.
In October British regulators approved the £4 billion (about $6.7 billion) merger of Granada and Carlton Communications, both of which ran the commercial TV network ITV. American rivals Viacom Inc. and Haim Saban announced interest in the merged company, since new legislation allowed companies outside the European Union to buy into Britain's commercial TV broadcasters. Viacom president Mel Karmazin was looking at ITV competitor Channel Five, which was owned by pan-European broadcaster RTL and Britain's United Business Media. Saban, who had made a fortune in American children's television, closed a long-fought deal to buy Germany's biggest commercial broadcaster, ProSiebenSat.1, from the insolvent KirchMedia.
SBT, Brazil's second largest network, was ostensibly offered in July to Mexican media giant Grupo Televisa by owner Sílvio Santos, who dramatically indicated that he had only six years to live. Santos, who had hosted a 10-hour variety show on Sundays for three decades, also claimed that he was negotiating with José Bonifacio de Oliveira Sobrinho, a former executive of SBT's main rival, Globo TV. In July Microsoft Corp. chairman Bill Gates disclosed ownership of a 7% stake in Grupo Televisa, which clarified the large-scale deployment of Microsoft's channel guide for cable TV by Televisa's subsidiary Cablevision México. Similar deployments in Mexico and Costa Rica were later made by cable companies Cablevision Monterey, Megacable, PCTV, and Cabletica. Refocusing on its television business, TV Azteca, Mexico's number two broadcaster, spun off mobile-phone operator Unefon in October. TV Azteca and the new Azteca Telecom were owned by Mexican tycoon Ricardo Salinas Pliego.
Hong Kong property developer Lai Sun sold its one-third stake in Asia Television Ltd. (HKATV), the smaller of the territory's two free-to-air broadcasters, for HK$230 million (about U.S.$29.6 million). HKATV's CEO Chan Wing-kee bought the shares, increasing his ownership of company shares to half. Television Broadcasts (TVB) launched its Galaxy pay-TV service in Hong Kong in December. Tom.com, the media company of Li Ka-shing, Hong Kong's richest businessman, bought 64% of the Mandarin-language China Entertainment Television (CETV) from AOL Time Warner, which retained 36%. In late October, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, in a joint venture with CNBC Asia Pacific, launched an MGM movie channel on satellite and cable TV systems in Asia to broadcast subtitled motion pictures from MGM's 4,000-film library.
In American television programming, the year's surprise was the initially modest cable makeover show that aimed to bridge the gulf between gay and straight men. Queer Eye for the Straight Guy debuted on NBC's Bravo cable outlet in July, featuring a "Fab Five" of gay men, each with special expertise. In each episode they made over a style- or grooming-challenged straight man nominated for the show, usually by his wife or girlfriend. Snappy repartee from the gay men gave it more pungency than most makeover shows, and the program reflected a trend of increasing media acceptance of homosexuality. The audience grew weekly, and the show even proved popular during a few prime-time airings on broadcast network NBC. After a short initial season, a second season of 40 episodes began in November, and the producers were beginning to clone Queer Eye to run in other countries.
The most popular prime-time series, in both the season that ended in May and the early portion of the one that began in September, was again CBS's CSI: Crime Scene Investigation, a stylish and carefully detailed drama about a Las Vegas, Nev., forensics team. The most popular comedy was, again, NBC's Friends, a series about six young New York City pals that was expected to end its 10-season run with considerable fanfare in May 2004. The Emmy Awards, however, went to NBC's political drama The West Wing, which won despite creator and head writer Aaron Sorkin's exit from the show, and to veteran CBS family comedy Everybody Loves Raymond. The show's star, Ray Romano, had won an Emmy himself in 2002. (See Biographies.) In 2003 James Gandolfini, who played America's favourite bad guy—Tony Soprano on HBO's The Sopranos—for a fifth season, took the award for best actor in a drama. (See Biographies.)
In the spring the American television networks mostly distinguished themselves with dedicated and costly reporting from the U.S.-led invasion of Iraq. Hundreds of reporters from the U.S. and many other countries were "embedded" with U.S. and British military units, which led to wider coverage of the military action but also increasing possibilities of injury and death. Further, embedded journalists were open to charges that the picture they presented of the war was unbalanced at best, jingoistic at worst. (See Special Report.) Australian Psychological Society members urged parents to shield preschool to preteen children from TV's relentless 24-hour coverage of the war.
The 2003–04 American prime-time TV season began in disarray. As the calendar year drew to a close, five of the six broadcast networks, all but CBS, had suffered ratings declines—compared with the beginning of the prior season—among the 18-to-49-year-old viewers advertisers most coveted. Network executives blamed the sharp declines, especially among young men, on a change in the methodology that the Nielsen Media Research audience-measurement service was using to calculate viewership, but Nielsen pointed to other factors—including increased Internet and video-game usage and programming that did not target men—as potential reasons for the dramatic change. With or without young men, none of the nearly 40 new series for the fall television season, including an NBC situation comedy with luminary Whoopi Goldberg, was proving to be especially popular in the beginning months of the season. There were modest successes, such as the CBS drama about a young woman routinely visited by God, Joan of Arcadia, but no undeniable breakaway hits.
Although it was the season's clear ratings success, CBS became embroiled in controversy over its movie about former president Ronald Reagan and his wife, Nancy, that it planned to air in November. As conservative groups and the Republican Party raised objections to the portrayal of conservative icon Reagan, who was suffering from Alzheimer disease, CBS declared the program unfair to the president and declined to air it. They sold it to corporate sibling Showtime, a pay-cable channel. Some critics charged that the network's capitulation was politically motivated, given its interest in regulatory issues before the Republican-led government, but CBS chief Leslie Moonves insisted that it was merely a matter of the movie that was delivered being different from the one that the network had contracted to buy.
Across the Atlantic, the BBC also was embroiled in a political dispute, this one with Prime Minister Tony Blair over a May 29 report that the government had exaggerated the threat of Iraq's weapons program. A judicial inquiry was set to look into the apparent suicide of British weapons expert David Kelly, which was possibly related to talks he had had with BBC reporter Andrew Gilligan. Also, the BBC was criticized by News Corp. for buying American and other foreign programs that boosted BBC domestic ratings at the expense of commercial broadcasters. It was suggested that the BBC sell some of its more popular programs to other channels.
The Arab satellite station al-Jazeera launched an English-language Web site in September, five months after hackers had brought its temporary Web site down during the Iraq war. Al-Jazeera reporter Tayssir Alouni was arrested and jailed in Spain, accused of being a member of al-Qaeda. In Saudi Arabia an unprecedented TV program, Saudi Women Speak Out, allowed eight women to speak openly about subjects such as the right to drive, unemployment, and political participation.
A SARS (severe acute respiratory syndrome) channel was established in May jointly by Singapore Press Holdings, Media Corporation of Singapore, and StarHub to broadcast news and information about the epidemic. (See Health and Disease: Special Report) Action star Jackie Chan starred in a TV commercial broadcast globally to revive tourism in SARS-hit Hong Kong. A Philippine UNICEF project involving Probe Media Foundation, Asia News Channel, and National Broadcasting Network taught teenagers to search, shoot, and script video news features on topics of interest to the youth for airing as the Kabataan News Network.
A Taiwanese soap opera, or chinovela ("Chinese" + "television" + "novella"), made a hit in Asia. Liow sing hua yen ("Meteor Garden"), based on the Japanese comic book Hana yori dango ("Men Are Better than Flowers"), starred the boy band F4 and Barbie Xu.
News Corp.-owned British subsidiary NDS Ltd. provided China's cable authorities with broadcast encryption technology for distribution nationwide, but News Corp. (and other foreign media) content remained restricted on domestic networks. China's state broadcasting authority disallowed TV commercials for feminine hygiene products and hemorrhoid ointments during mealtimes. Similarly, Vietnam's cultural police disallowed TV ads for condoms and toilet paper at mealtimes. The Ukrainian parliament passed a law banning alcohol and tobacco advertising on TV and radio and restricting ads in print media because of health considerations.
The flat-screen technology firm Cambridge Display Technology, a University of Cambridge spin-off that was vying with the Eastman Kodak Co. in producing next-generation flat screens from organic LEDs (light-emitting diodes), laid off 20% of its staff to reduce manufacturing costs. South Korea's Samsung Electronics joined with Japan's Sony Corp. to manufacture LCD (liquid crystal display) flat screens, while the largest maker of LCD panels, LG.Philips, a joint venture between South Korea's LG Electronics and Dutch group Philips Electronics, planned to invest $2.6 billion in new flat-screen production. Motorola, Inc., signed with the Hong Kong firm Proview International Holdings to make flat-screen televisions and computer displays. China's TCL International Holdings and the French electronics maker Thomson combined their TV and DVD business to become the world's largest TV maker and produce 18 million TV sets annually, with sales of more than €3 billion (about $3.5 billion).
Télévision Française 1 (TF1) and Canal+, France's two top commercial TV operators and owners of satellite TV services, planned to pipe digital TV over high-speed, high-capacity phone lines. Europe's first high-definition television (HDTV) channel, Euro 1080, made a trial broadcast in September for a planned launch in 2004. Anthony Wood, creator of the ReplayTV digital TV recorder, unveiled his Roku HD1000 media player, which displayed or played digital media such as photos and music on HDTV sets.
TiVo, a maker of TV-recording devices, introduced a TV-audience-measuring system for advertisers and network programmers. It tracked customer viewing data gathered from TiVo's 700,000 users. J-Phone, a Japanese unit of Britain's Vodafone Group, announced that users could now watch TV programs on mobile phone screens. Personal video players with 20 gigabytes of memory arrived from France. Archos AV320 and Thomson's Lyra RD2780 had 96- and 89-mm (3.8- and 3.5-in) screens, respectively, and could play back digital video from a video camera, the Internet, or TV.
Over the summer India's four biggest cities—Mumbai (Bombay), Delhi, Chennai (Madras), and Kolkata (Calcutta)—began to shift to a set-top-box system for watching cable TV, a move designed to reduce piracy. The box usually cost about $120, however, and so would be out of reach of many potential viewers. India had the third largest cable TV subscriber base in the world (44 million) because of low rates.
The big news in American radio was made, not surprisingly, by its biggest star, nationally syndicated right-wing talk-show host Rush Limbaugh, whose show was said to reach some 20 million listeners weekly. First, in early October, Limbaugh lost his side job as a National Football League commentator on the ESPN sports cable TV channel after suggesting that the well-regarded quarterback Donovan McNabb was overrated by media eager for African American quarterbacks to do well. More startling, however, was the admission later that month by Limbaugh that for years following back surgery, he had been addicted to painkillers sometimes prescribed by doctors but also popular with recreational drug users. The admission seemingly was forced by reporting in the National Enquirer, a supermarket tabloid often derided for its willingness to pay for information. A former maid of Limbaugh's told the paper that she had been her employer's drug connection and had purchased for him large quantities of OxyContin and other pills. Limbaugh left his show and checked himself into a rehabilitation centre in Arizona. He returned to the air in November after what he called "five intense weeks, probably the most educational and intense five weeks on myself that I have ever spent." He did not try to reconcile the help he received with his frequent on-air calls for harsher punishment for drug use.
The battle to win consumers to the new subscription-based satellite radio technology heated up with aggressive marketing at Christmastime. In December, XM Satellite Radio was the leading player, with over one million subscribers, and Sirius Satellite Radio was a distant second with 200,000. Sirius officials said the service needed two million subscribers to be profitable. Some industry analysts were predicting rapid growth for the services, which broadcast a wide variety of music and other programming with limited or no commercials, as satellite radios began to be included in new-model cars. Sirius launched a broadcast service of 60 types of music into stores and office buildings, hoping to break into the "elevator music" market dominated by Muzak, while XM paired up with Canadian Satellite Radio to sell its services in Canada.
In the meantime, as consolidation elsewhere in the radio business led to homogenization and a loss of local voices, one clear benefit was a gain in listenership for National Public Radio. Moreover, Joan Kroc, the widow of McDonald's restaurant founder Ray Kroc and a devoted public-radio listener, left NPR more than $200 million in her will, an amount NPR said was "believed to be the largest monetary gift ever received by an American cultural institution." NPR officials said that the money would go into an endowment to help create financial stability for the nonprofit organization, which had often scraped for funds. The U.S. Congress approved a budget of $557 million in 2004 for the Broadcasting Board of Governors, overseer of the Voice of America and other overseas radio broadcasters. It also authorized the establishment of a 24-hour Middle East radio and TV network. On November 28 the venerable Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty announced that it would cease broadcasts to the three Baltic States, Slovakia, Romania, Bulgaria, and Croatia at the end of the year.
U.S. regulators approved Univision Radio, the product of a merger between Univision and Hispanic Broadcasting that brought more than 50 TV stations and 68 radio stations together. The Miami, Fla.-based Spanish-language broadcaster Radio Unica Communications filed for bankruptcy to clear the way for its sale to Multicultural Broadcasting for $150 million and the separate sale of its radio network and promotions company. Its AM operations included Radio Unica Network and stations covering Spanish-speaking markets in Florida, New York, Texas, and California.
Former Peruvian president Alberto Fujimori, living in exile in Japan, got his own radio show. Financed by friends in Peru, The Chino's Hour (in reference to Fujimori's nickname) offered the disgraced leader's political commentary. The Voices of Kidnapping, a call-in program on Radio Caracol, remained a lifeline for Colombians who broadcast messages to their loved ones held hostage by groups of insurgents and criminals. It was the brainchild of Herbin Hoyos, himself a kidnapped-and-escaped radio journalist.
Britain's radio sector seemed ready for mergers and consolidation once the competition commissioners approved. Newly relaxed media ownership laws boosted stocks of Capital Radio, Chrysalis, Emap, and GWR. American companies such as Clear Channel and Viacom showed little interest, however.
After two years of advertising declines and cost cutting to maintain earnings levels, newspapers in mature Western democracies experienced a financially tepid 2003 with an anxious eye to the end of the worst advertising recession in more than half a century.
The genesis of an economic recovery in North America and Western Europe came without job gains and left newspapers that had become reliant on employment advertising in the past decade struggling to see a turnaround in economic fortunes. Local retail advertising remained strong even as the retail environment continued its strategic shift away from local stores, which promoted themselves on the basis of value, toward national and international megastores that discounted goods and services at the expense of traditional advertising and marketing expenditures. Nevertheless, there were signs of optimism, including the end of double-digit decreases in employment advertising, interest-rate-fueled growth in real-estate and automotive advertising, and sharp growth in nationally focused display advertising and inserts. In some countries the fragmentation of television and radio audiences and the impact of the Internet on television-viewing time helped to better position newspapers in the advertising marketplace.
Paid circulation of daily newspapers had been in decline in North America since 1989 and in Western Europe since 1990. In 2002 circulations in Western countries declined 1.3%—the sharpest one-year decline since 1995. While circulations of daily newspapers had dropped 2.2%, the circulation slide increased to 3.5% in 1997 as the Internet increased in popularity. Significant research in the United States, the United Kingdom, France, Belgium, Norway, and other countries showed that a smaller number of young adults over time were reading newspapers or were reading them with less frequency than previous generations. Not only was the reading habit occurring less in formative teenage years, but new evidence showed that even young adults who had developed the habit were reducing their reading frequency. Rising Internet usage, combined with these long-term trends among young people, continued to impact sales frequency of print daily newspapers.
While regional daily newspapers in the United Kingdom saw circulations decline after the major companies discontinued discounting, newspapers in the United States and elsewhere saw circulations inflated through third-party sales, giveaways to schools, and other marketing offers—blessed by each country's circulation audit bureau. To illustrate the level of gimmickry involved with newspaper subscriptions, a South Korean government commission found that more than 75% of subscription offers since 2000 had come with a discount or gift. Meanwhile, the U.S. became the latest country to create national do-not-call lists that protected consumers from intrusive telemarketers, a move expected to impact those newspapers that relied on telemarketing for more than half of their subscription acquisition.
The launch of free commuter newspapers throughout Europe in the past eight years sparked similar ventures by traditional publishers in Italy, The Netherlands, and the U.S., among others. Led by Metro International, daily newspapers began launching weekly entertainment and youth-oriented newspapers. The Chicago-based Tribune Co. launched a free commuter newspaper in New York City called amNew York, and the Washington Post Co. launched a similar venture called Express. Other such daily papers were being planned.
Similarly, traditional publishing companies accelerated their creation of Spanish-language daily newspapers in the U.S.—including Belo in southern California and Dallas, Texas; Knight Ridder in Fort Worth, Texas; Tribune in Chicago and Florida; and others.
The lesson learned through the distribution of free commuter newspapers and Spanish-language newspapers was that there were vast numbers of nonreaders and infrequent readers in certain markets that might best be reached through new newspapers instead of traditional ones. That trend extended to newspaper publishing in Latin America, South Africa, and Asia, where down- to midmarket newspapers were aimed at undereducated, nonreading segments of the population.
In recent years Latin American launches had included Epensa's Correo in Lima, Peru; Diarios Modernos's Nuestro Diario in Guatemala; and La Nación's Al Día in San José, Costa Rica. In each case the newspapers were launched in markets that were saturated by existing newspapers, but the new offerings created hundreds of thousands of new daily readers.
Another success story was the national launch in 2002 by South Africa's Media24 of the Daily Sun. Similar in style to the Latin American down-market dailies and the Bangkok newspaper Thai Rath, the English-language Daily Sun captured the imagination of the South African newspaper industry. A decade after the end of apartheid, the majority of South Africa's 34 million blacks, while quickly moving up social and income ladders, remained poor and undereducated. The Daily Sun targeted the fast-rising aspirant black population with raucous headlines, many photographs and maps, and short well-written stories in its fixed-page tabloid format. The Daily Sun had a 250,000 daily circulation, with a readership that largely had never before read a newspaper. In Nigeria the informal Free Readers Association launched a partnership with vendors to allow people who could not afford to buy newspapers to read them at newsstands.
Perhaps the most significant financial and strategic transaction in 2003 was the purchase by Australia's John Fairfax Holdings of New Zealand's Independent Newspapers Ltd. The largest publishing companies in Denmark, Jyllands-Posten and Politiken, merged. U.S.-based Gannett purchased Scottish Media Group. The New York Times Co. exercised an option to buy out the Washington Post's ownership share in the International Herald Tribune. After a dispute between family owners, Freedom Communications put its company up for bid only to reach a settlement that allowed family members who wanted to opt out of ownership to do so. The Seattle (Wash.) Times Co. and the Hearst Corp. tussled over a joint-operating agreement.
In other developments the San Francisco Examiner, sold by Hearst three years earlier in a complex exchange sale of assets, laid off most of its staff and switched from paid to free distribution. Even as Axel Springer Verlag went through challenging economic times in Germany, the company launched a 700,000-circulation daily newspaper in Poland called Fakt. Hong Kong's popular Apple Daily was launched in Taiwan, with an immediate distribution of 750,000. Business-oriented daily newspapers such as the Financial Times, The Wall Street Journal, De Financieel Economische Tijd, and others continued to languish in the global business-to-business advertising slump, which thereby prompted rumours of sales and market repositioning.
Size increasingly seemed to be an issue for publishers. In the hypercompetitive London market, the broadsheet The Independent launched a same-day tabloid edition in what executives equated to offering toothpaste in different sizes to the marketplace. While Norwegian newspapers continued to move away from broadsheet formats, British editors suggested that even their newspapers could be converted to tabloid format if the market preferred it. In Sweden, Dagens Nyheter experimented with a combination of broadsheet and tabloid editions.
Newspapers continued to send mixed signals on whether an industry standard would ever be developed for their popular Web sites. Marketers at newspapers that converted their Web sites to a free-registration basis saw nonreaders of their print titles opt in to digital access at rates of two and three times the print circulation base—names used to sell newspaper-branded products. Other companies, notably CanWest in Canada, declared it irrational for newspaper companies to give away content for free and announced steps to eliminate most free access. In most cases newspapers were implementing strategies somewhere between two extremes—allowing free access to certain content and combinations of pay-per-view and timed access for other content.
The lines between media continued to blur; a Shanghai television station launched a daily newspaper, and a French television company bought a minority stake in a free commuter newspaper.
The New York Times was rocked by a scandal involving a journalist who deceived editors and plagiarized articles. The newspaper's top two editors eventually resigned, and questions were raised about management styles. A new book that alleged close ties between editors of France's leading newspaper and the country's political establishment prompted ethics inquiries at Le Monde, and both Le Figaro and La Tribune experienced their own scandals. In mid-November Canadian press baron Conrad M. Black resigned as CEO of Hollinger International, whose holdings included major newspapers in Chicago, New York, London, and Jerusalem. Black and his partners were accused of taking $15.6 million in unauthorized payments; he faced the U.S. Security and Exchange Commission in December.
The never-ending battle over censorship and press freedom continued in many countries. The Jordanian government closed a weekly newspaper and detained three journalists over an article about the Prophet Muhammad's sex life; the Zimbabwean government continued to shutter a number of daily newspapers; and Venezuelan Pres. Hugo Chávez Frías at one point used currency controls to deny newspapers the U.S. dollars they need for importing newsprint. Subtle and not-so-subtle pressure from the government of Pres. Vladimir Putin in Russia prompted the closure of several newspapers there. Meanwhile, the fall of Saddam Hussein's government in Iraq yielded the launch of dozens of new daily newspapers in an array of news and opinions not seen since the collapse of communism in Central and Eastern Europe more than a decade earlier.
The government in China continued its long-term goal of moving the newspaper industry from its subsidized status to being entirely exposed to the free market, and it discontinued the practice of free-subscription offers to households. Analysts expected newspaper closures, but it was unclear whether a private-sector Chinese newspaper industry would be dominated by regional or national dailies.
While the U.S. magazine industry began rebounding in 2003 from its two-year economic slump, its greatest gains came from the electronic sector. The Online Publishers Association, which represented 25 Internet publishers, reported 23% higher advertising revenues among its members during the first nine months of 2003 compared with 2002. During the first quarter of 2003, Meredith Publishing's online advertising revenue increased 80%, and Ziff Davis's online revenue rose 87%. The increases came partly from improved technology that gathered information about online users, which publishers used to sell other products to readers or advertisements to advertisers.
Louis Borders, founder of Borders Books, launched <Keepmedia.com>, a Web venture that allowed users to read content and archives of more than 150 magazines for a $4.95 monthly fee. The site had an intelligent database that tracked what subscribers read and used that information to steer them to additional content. Folio magazine reported, "In effect, it creates a second market for magazine stories, not unlike a foreign release for films."
Total advertising revenue for print and online magazines increased 9% during the first nine months of 2003 compared with the same period in 2002. Magazine publishers were worried, however, that as do-it-yourself checkouts spread at grocery and department stores, single-copy sales would continue to fall. In order to distinguish self-checkout areas, many retailers had removed customary magazine racks and other product displays. According to a 2002 supermarket study, only 12% of shoppers who used self-checkout lines bought nearby products, compared with 20% in traditional checkouts. Single-copy sales were down in the six months ended June 30 compared with a year earlier; according to the Audit Bureau of Circulations, 54% of titles reported that their sales were off from 2002.
More than 850 publishing delegates gathered at the Carrousel du Louvre in Paris for the 34th Fédération Internationale de la Presse Périodique (FIPP) World Magazine Congress in May. The event was a homecoming in France, where the FIPP had been founded more than 75 years earlier. The record attendance came despite China's last-minute decision to keep its 118 delegates at home owing to the SARS (severe acute respiratory syndrome) scare. The appointment of William T. Kerr, chairman and CEO of Meredith Corp. USA, as FIPP chairman was announced at the closing ceremony. He replaced Gérald de Roquemaurel, chairman and CEO of Hachette Filipacchi Médias, who completed his two-year term.
In July the Canadian government announced deep cuts to a fund designed to help protect domestic magazines from American domination. The Canadian Magazine Fund would decrease to $16 million in 2004 from the $32.6 million publishers shared in 2003. Government officials said Canada's magazine industry was on "a solid footing and enjoying healthy growth." A feared saturation of the market by big American magazines after legislative changes in 1999 did not materialize. The government would reallocate some funding to subsidize community newspapers, particularly those catering to ethnic and aboriginal communities.
Wal-Mart's 2,800 stores stopped selling Maxim, Stuff, and FHM in May because of their racy content and in June added blinders to hide cover lines of Cosmopolitan, Glamour, Marie Claire, and Redbook. The chain added the family-oriented American Magazine to its shelves and gave the June-launched magazine a big boost. According to "Capell's Circulation Report," Wal-Mart accounted for 15% of all single-copy magazine sales. Media buyer Carol McDonald of OMD Chicago told Folio magazine, "Let's face it, if you're not in Wal-Mart, you're not doing business in this country."
Another new magazine, Lucky, was named Advertising Age's Magazine of the Year in 2003. The women's magazine, which called itself "the magazine about shopping," told readers how and where to buy clothing, beauty items, and household products. It surpassed one million subscribers during its first two years.
Martha Stewart Living cut its rate base from 2.3 million to 1.8 million subscribers in October. Single-copy sales of the magazine fell 18% for the first half of 2003. Martha Stewart Living Omnimedia revenues suffered after insider-trader allegations began swirling around Martha Stewart, the company's founder, in 2002. Stewart resigned as chair and CEO of the company in June 2003. The company began regular publication of Everyday Food, a recipe magazine, with the September issue after a six-month test run. It was the first Stewart magazine that did not include her name in the title—a decision she described as a "strategic business move."
Some best-selling novels that focused on life in the women's magazine industry appeared in 2003. Lauren Weisberger's The Devil Wears Prada was joined by Lynn Messina's Fashionistas and Caroline Hwang's In Full Bloom. Before writing their respective novels, Weisberger had worked at Vogue and Messina had been employed by In Style. Stephen Glass, the former New Republic writer who was fired for having fabricated 27 stories, also published his autobiographical novel The Fabulist. His story was dramatized in the film Shattered Glass, which starred Hayden Christensen and was widely released in November.
Toward the end of a seesaw year, many in publishing were hopeful that a third-quarter uptick in book sales in 2003 represented recovery and growth in an industry that had been facing challenging conditions despite increases in both domestic consumer expenditures and publisher net-dollar sales in 2002.
Following a lacklustre 2002 retail holiday season, the new year brought a weak economy, war in the Middle East, and increasing competition from other entertainment media. As a result, in the early months of 2003, trade-book sales fell, and the Census Bureau of the Department of Commerce reported that results for the first five months of the year were 2.6% off the previous year's sales. The publishing industry (including both chain and independent booksellers), however, entered the second half of the year buoyed by more positive sales trends, thanks in large measure to best-selling author J.K. Rowling's fifth Harry Potter title, Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix.
On June 21 the title—with a record first printing of 6.8 million copies—went on sale, and within days the book's American publisher, Scholastic, estimated that over five million copies had been sold. Quickly, Scholastic went back to press for an additional 1.7 million copy second printing. During the summer consumers also flocked to bookstores to purchase Living History, Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton's memoirs. In addition, the relaunch of TV impresario Oprah Winfrey's book club sent millions out to purchase the backlist classic East of Eden by John Steinbeck. As sales of hardcover children's titles led the way, U.S. Census figures showed bookstore sales up over 10% for June, July, and August 2003 (the most recent figures available) over the same period in 2002.
Despite a potential fall recovery, in the minds of many in the industry the prognosis was still guarded. According to the Book Industry Study Group's (BISG's) 2002 Consumer Research Study on Book Purchasing, trade-publishing growth was flat, and there were no projected changes in the trend. With a sales increase in adult trade titles between 2001 and 2002 of only 1%, consumers purchased 1.63 billion units and spent almost $13 billion in 2002, the last year for which final figures were available. Though publisher revenues were rising, the boost appeared to come from price increases rather than a growth in unit sales. BISG's Book Industry Trends 2003 projected total consumer expenditures of all book sales in 2003 of $37.6 billion, a rise of 2.8% over 2002. Those sales, however, were projected to be realized on a 0.5% drop in unit sales, and BISG projected only a 0.7% rise in unit sales in 2004. With consumers 50 years or older accounting for 53% of trade books purchased, the industry faced significant challenges in widening and deepening its market.
Many in publishing, however, pointed to several positive signs. One was the phenomenal cultural and consumer event surrounding the publication of the latest Potter title. Nationwide, thousands of bookstores created elaborate events and staged in-store activities for customers that involved the book's settings and characters. For independent booksellers offering such unique experiences, the events helped strengthen ties to customers in a year that saw their market share grow to 15.5%. On the political front, booksellers and librarians in Vermont, Massachusetts, and other states worked during the year with lawmakers on the state and national level to amend the USA PATRIOT Act to preserve the privacy of book-related records.
In a sign that India was finally coming to grips with the issue of piracy, in July Pearson Education successfully pursued Hyderabad publishers through the courts for copyright infringement, and the Delhi High Court published a landmark injunction in August 2003 to stop Indian publisher Pushpa Prakashan from producing illegal translations of J.K. Rowling's Harry Potter titles. Since 2000 some 250,000 titles had been seized. Pirated copies of Rowling books in translation also began to appear in China. Any translations available on the Internet, however, were not subject to copyright laws. AOL Time Warner put its book division up for sale for at least $400 million but allegedly dropped the price to $300 million when potential bidders, including Bertelsmann subsidiary Random House, failed to make any offers. In May Bertelsmann showed renewed interest after it sold its scientific publishing arm, BertelsmannSpringer, for €1.05 billion (about $1.21 billion) to private equity firms Cinven and Candover. In July, in the face of fierce opposition by the Bundeskartellamt antitrust body, Bertelsmann subsidiary Random House Deutschland, owner of Goldmann, agreed to drop its controversial takeover of Ullstein Heyne List (Germany's largest trade publisher), which was owned by Axel Springer. It proposed instead to purchase only paperback publisher Heyne. The European Commission rejected the French government's request to refer the takeover of the European and Latin American businesses of Vivendi Universal Publishing by the Lagardère Group (owner of Hachette Livre) to the competition authorities in France and insisted that the case be kept in Brussels. Its investigation was opened in June, and the final report was due in January 2004. The U.K.'s Taylor & Francis (T&F) remained active on the takeover front. In January it bought Bios Scientific for £2.7 million (£1 = about $1.61). T&F subsequently paid $95 million for the U.S.-based CRC Press. In July T&F subsidiary Routledge acquired Kogan Page's 200 active higher-education titles. Also in July, after nearly 50 years of independence, Frank Cass & Co accepted a takeover bid worth £11.3 million, with an additional £3.7 million dependent upon future performance, mainly because it was struggling to get space in large high-street booksellers. It claimed that its difficulty in doing so represented a form of "cultural censorship." In July the merger was completed between Aschehoug Dansk Forlag and Egmont Lademann, both owned by the Egmont Media Group, to create Denmark's second largest publisher, with an output of 1,000 titles annually. The European Commission announced that printed products would continue to be eligible for reduced rates of value-added tax. Although VAT accordingly remained at 0% in the U.K. and a few other member states, it was expected that a VAT minimum rate of 5% would be established in due course. The German book industry experienced a 2.7% drop in sales during the first half of the year. Local sensibilities were also offended by the fact that a book in English, Rowling's Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix, headed the best-seller list for the first time. The Copyright Amendment (Parallel Importation) Bill 2002 was passed in a much-amended form by the Australian Senate. The final version excluded printed books and thereby effectively upheld the status quo of territorial copyright.
In a sign that India was finally coming to grips with the issue of piracy, in July Pearson Education successfully pursued Hyderabad publishers through the courts for copyright infringement, and the Delhi High Court published a landmark injunction in August 2003 to stop Indian publisher Pushpa Prakashan from producing illegal translations of J.K. Rowling's Harry Potter titles. Since 2000 some 250,000 titles had been seized. Pirated copies of Rowling books in translation also began to appear in China. Any translations available on the Internet, however, were not subject to copyright laws.
AOL Time Warner put its book division up for sale for at least $400 million but allegedly dropped the price to $300 million when potential bidders, including Bertelsmann subsidiary Random House, failed to make any offers. In May Bertelsmann showed renewed interest after it sold its scientific publishing arm, BertelsmannSpringer, for €1.05 billion (about $1.21 billion) to private equity firms Cinven and Candover.
In July, in the face of fierce opposition by the Bundeskartellamt antitrust body, Bertelsmann subsidiary Random House Deutschland, owner of Goldmann, agreed to drop its controversial takeover of Ullstein Heyne List (Germany's largest trade publisher), which was owned by Axel Springer. It proposed instead to purchase only paperback publisher Heyne.
The European Commission rejected the French government's request to refer the takeover of the European and Latin American businesses of Vivendi Universal Publishing by the Lagardère Group (owner of Hachette Livre) to the competition authorities in France and insisted that the case be kept in Brussels. Its investigation was opened in June, and the final report was due in January 2004.
The U.K.'s Taylor & Francis (T&F) remained active on the takeover front. In January it bought Bios Scientific for £2.7 million (£1 = about $1.61). T&F subsequently paid $95 million for the U.S.-based CRC Press. In July T&F subsidiary Routledge acquired Kogan Page's 200 active higher-education titles. Also in July, after nearly 50 years of independence, Frank Cass & Co accepted a takeover bid worth £11.3 million, with an additional £3.7 million dependent upon future performance, mainly because it was struggling to get space in large high-street booksellers. It claimed that its difficulty in doing so represented a form of "cultural censorship."
In July the merger was completed between Aschehoug Dansk Forlag and Egmont Lademann, both owned by the Egmont Media Group, to create Denmark's second largest publisher, with an output of 1,000 titles annually.
The European Commission announced that printed products would continue to be eligible for reduced rates of value-added tax. Although VAT accordingly remained at 0% in the U.K. and a few other member states, it was expected that a VAT minimum rate of 5% would be established in due course.
The German book industry experienced a 2.7% drop in sales during the first half of the year. Local sensibilities were also offended by the fact that a book in English, Rowling's Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix, headed the best-seller list for the first time.
The Copyright Amendment (Parallel Importation) Bill 2002 was passed in a much-amended form by the Australian Senate. The final version excluded printed books and thereby effectively upheld the status quo of territorial copyright.


text: Shapeways: Bring your creativity to life in 3D http://www.shapeways.com/forum/index.php Shapeways: Bring your creativity to life in 3D Buying multiple quantities http://www.shapeways.com/forum/index.php?t=rview&goto=21173&th=4074#msg_21173 They're detailed but both uploaded fine with no errors. .4mm x 1.4mm x 1.4mm One is metal the other plastic. I placed an order for 32 of each of them..making the total count of 64 pieces. My total order says it costs $26.24 with 0 VAT (I'm in USA) So is this my total?? UPS extra charges? It says this total price is the cost of shipping and everything..says so in the Terms and Conditions but I just wanted to make double sure. Ok, moderators, please check my order and see if there are any problems, thanks. I just paid thru Paypal. (AFTER I ORDERED AND PAID THRU PAYPAL MY SHOPPING CART STILL HAS THE 64 QUANTITIES IN IT)??? -David ]]> CustomCool 2010-12-02T07:37:39-00:00 Re: Buying multiple quantities http://www.shapeways.com/forum/index.php?t=rview&goto=21191&th=4074#msg_21191 largest dimension's 1.4mm? To be honest, if they're that small I have doubts that they'll print at all; isn't the minimum size 5x5x5mm? You'd probably be better off combining the 32 items into a single file, and attach them together with a sprue so none of them get lost. That way you're also not paying the startup price for the plastic 32 times. Andy]]> Drawn-SteelHero 2010-12-02T17:11:57-00:00 Re: Buying multiple quantities http://www.shapeways.com/forum/index.php?t=rview&goto=21195&th=4074#msg_21195 Youknowwho4eva 2010-12-02T17:34:17-00:00 Re: Buying multiple quantities http://www.shapeways.com/forum/index.php?t=rview&goto=21199&th=4074#msg_21199 And why would I pay a start-up cost 32 times, I already paid thru Paypal. My order is placed and no one has contacted me otherwise. If, in the end, they are too small, yes I can redo my design and attach them all together with a thin "sprue"(is this correct?) so the total volume better matches my minimum. Also, I could make them larger if need be. Can Shapeways "resize" them for me? Ex. 2X, 3X, 4X, etc? Shapeways CEO where are you? Thank you. -David]]> CustomCool 2010-12-02T20:35:53-00:00 Re: Buying multiple quantities http://www.shapeways.com/forum/index.php?t=rview&goto=21200&th=4074#msg_21200 It's automated, still not perfect. And why would I pay a start-up cost 32 times, I already paid thru Paypal. My order is placed and no one has contacted me otherwise. That start-up fee is included in the price for any polymide based material. The Detail materials don't have this start up. If, in the end, they are too small, yes I can redo my design and attach them all together with a thin "sprue"(is this correct?) so the total volume better matches my minimum. If they are small, then it is a good idea to connect them with a small piece of material (still meeting the thickness requirements) sometimes called a "sprue". I'm guessing because it is much like an injection molded parts sprue. Also, I could make them larger if need be. Can Shapeways "resize" them for me? Ex. 2X, 3X, 4X, etc? Not yet. Shapeways CEO where are you? NY? ]]> Youknowwho4eva 2010-12-02T20:43:20-00:00 Re: Buying multiple quantities http://www.shapeways.com/forum/index.php?t=rview&goto=21202&th=4074#msg_21202 So someone will contact me to tell me they can't be made? Or will the computer just put the order thru and make me some unusable products that I'll be charged for? Well, if I "have" to make them larger to meet the minimum thickness then I would not order 32 of each. I would only get 4 or 8 of each(sprued together). It really depends on how big I must make them. (correction) My total model's thickness is .4cm x 1.4cm x 1.4cm Some of the walls are .3 or .4 mm Will this still work? What is the minimum wall thickness? Thanks for everyone's help. -David]]> CustomCool 2010-12-02T21:00:56-00:00 Re: Buying multiple quantities http://www.shapeways.com/forum/index.php?t=rview&goto=21203&th=4074#msg_21203 To learn all the rules for each material check here (can be found under materials under the support tab above) http://www.shapeways.com/materials/ But real quickly: all plastic materials (except Alumide) 1mm, Alumide 1.5mm Sandstone 3mm, Metal 3mm depending on size below I believe 5cm^3 can be less, down to 1mm. And glass is 3mm but very very tricky design rules.]]> Youknowwho4eva 2010-12-02T21:09:21-00:00 Re: Buying multiple quantities http://www.shapeways.com/forum/index.php?t=rview&goto=21204&th=4074#msg_21204 Andy]]> Drawn-SteelHero 2010-12-02T21:43:06-00:00 Re: Buying multiple quantities http://www.shapeways.com/forum/index.php?t=rview&goto=21206&th=4074#msg_21206 I've rescaled my 2 models by 3x. Now the minimum wall thickness is .4mm x 3 = 1.2mm Total width is .4cm x 3 = 1.2cm Total H&L is 1.4cm x 3 = 4.2cm I will wait for any credits back before I place this new order. Thanks again. -David]]> CustomCool 2010-12-02T23:17:29-00:00 Re: Buying multiple quantities http://www.shapeways.com/forum/index.php?t=rview&goto=21207&th=4074#msg_21207 GHP 2010-12-02T23:27:30-00:00 Re: Buying multiple quantities http://www.shapeways.com/forum/index.php?t=rview&goto=21210&th=4074#msg_21210 ]]> CustomCool 2010-12-02T23:36:49-00:00 Re: Buying multiple quantities http://www.shapeways.com/forum/index.php?t=rview&goto=21362&th=4074#msg_21362 The explanations above are correct: the model will most likely be canceled by an operator. If you'd like to speed up the cancellation and get a refund, just mail email@example.com - they'll sort it our for you. Cheers, Bart ]]> bartv 2010-12-07T10:21:13-00:00


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Anthropologist Pat Shipman says that when our prehistoric ancestors began interacting with animals they developed empathy for them.
The leading American anthropologist says these ancient humans' relationships with animals helped propel humanity towards global domination.
The Observer reported that Shipman said interacting with animals on an intimate basis led humans to help develop sophisticated tools and evolve enhanced communication skills.
She traced humanity's animals connection to 2.5 million years ago when hominids first made tools.
"These apemen didn't just pick up stones and use them to hammer or pound prey or plants," Shipman told the Observer. "They shaped those rocks for specific purposes. They had a mental image of the kind of tools they needed and created them by chipping away at a large piece of stone until they got what they wanted."
She said these tools were used to cut up carcasses, which led our ancient relatives to begin scavenging for meat from carcasses of prey killed by leopards, cheetahs and other carnivores.
Shipman has even more in depth explanations about the birth of the relationship between animals and our ancestors in her new book "The Animal Connection."
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Hot Dog 1 : The ones that the vendors sell in the seats for $2.50 in the silver packet. Steamy goodness!
Hot Dog 2 : The "grilled" ones that hang out with the bratwursts and smokies, available at the concession stands such as "Doggy's Dogs" et al. These babies will set you back $3.75!
Now, why can't you buy a $2.50 hot dog at the concession stands? Why do I have to wait for the hot dog cuties to come around and sell me their wares from the red foam Kahn's bags? They never seem to be there when I am craving the pink tastiness...
And really, what is so special about the $3.75 dogs except that they are negligibly larger (debatable) and slightly browner (sometimes)? They taste pretty much the same to me... not enough to justify the price difference methinks.
Plus I like the steamed ones better anyway! Three of those dogs will set you back the same as two of the high-falutin "grilled" dogs and will fill yer belly a lot better for $7.50!
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Some novel solutions are suggested to cope with the twin problem of global warming and increasing energy needs. Global warming has arisen due to climate change, which, in turn, has come about due to the increase in greenhouse gases, notably carbon dioxide. These gases trap incoming solar radiation and heat up the earth and its atmosphere.
One direct result of this is the melting of polar ice and glaciers, leading to a slow and steady rise in sea level. At this rate of rise, it is apprehended that low-lying coastal areas and islands might be flooded and swamped off.
How has this happened? Not because of natural causes (as some would fondly assert), but due to our burning more and more organic fuel — coal, wood, oil and petroleum.
The way humanity has been guzzling energy during the last century has led to significant rise in the levels of atmospheric carbon dioxide. The gas would not go away from the earth, since (unlike hydrogen or helium) it is too heavy to be pulled out of the earth's gravity. Hence the greenhouse effect, global warming and sea level rise.
Some look to ways of 'fixing' or using up the carbon dioxide. One great way is provided by Mother Nature herself — photosynthesis. Green plants and algae absorb carbon dioxide and water, and convert them, using sunlight, into carbohydrates.
Hence the suggestion: plant more trees, create more efficient algae and spread them all over. They should sponge off the man-manufactured carbon dioxide and reduce global warming.
Scale humongous
Not a bad idea, but the scale involved is humongous. The amount of land that can be used for this is not much, since we cannot usurp areas growing food grains, or where people live in dense groups.
Deserts and arid zones are one possibility. Hence the attraction to certain desert plants such as jatropha and jojoba. They not only help siphon off carbon dioxide but also produce oil that can be used as what has come to be called as 'biodiesel.'
Indeed, many governments and companies promote such biofarming a bit too eagerly; we need to stop and think of what areas are being taken up (or over), addition to the greenhouse gas burden through biodiesel burning, viability of the oil as an all-purpose fuel and so forth.
There is a spirited and informed debate on this issue, on the Internet.
Focus has also turned to coastal areas and mudflats near the sea, where the salinity does not allow farming of the usual food crops.
Salicornia magic
But there are plants that grow and flourish here. One such plant is salicornia, also called sea asparagus, or umari keerai.
In the U.S., one Dr. Carl Hughes of the Environmental Research Lab of the University of Arizona (and head of the non-profit Seawater Foundation) has keenly advocated propagating it. He has suggested diverting seawater inland into coastal lakes where salicornia can be farmed.
Why salicornia? First of all, its tips are edible, not just by animals but also by us. The plant yields oil that is edible (rich in polyunsaturates), and usable as biodiesel. The September 5, 2003 issue of The Hindu carries an informed report, by its Agriculture Correspondent, on salicornia.
Better photosynthesizer
And salicornia is a better photosynthesizer than wheat and some other grains. It uses what botanists call the C-4 pathway, converting the captured carbon dioxide first into compound containing four carbons (oxaloacetate), using the enzyme PEPCase.
Wheat can only convert the same gas into a one carbon less, C-3 molecule (phosphoglycerate), using the enzyme RUBISCase.
Salicornia (like sugarcane) laps up carbon dioxide better, does so in saline water, and gives oil (or biodiesel, if you wish).
The Central salt and Marine Chemicals Research Institute (CSMCRI) at Bhavnagar, Gujarat, has been working on salicornia (and jatropha too) for some time now. Its Director, Dr. Pushpito Ghosh, points out that apart from the oil, the plant produces several other valuable products.
Indeed, he suggests using salicornia oil, not neat, but as a blend with others, since this way it keeps better and also it suits our tastes better.
Byproduct salt
One other interesting product that comes out of the plant is its salt, which contains a small but nutritionally adequate amount of potassium.
CSMCRI has also found a nitrogen- fixing microbe that is symbiotic with salicornia, which is salt-tolerant; a double whammy of carbon and nitrogen fixing set up in one. And they have taken a patent on a molecule that the plant produces which is antibacterial.
This is all well, but would it not be very useful if we could grow food grains that are salt-tolerant? That would be a boon to tsunami-hit and brackish areas. Professor HY Mohan Ram of Delhi reminds us of such a rice variety that used to be grown in Kerala.
The Manila-based International Rice Research Institute (IRRI) has a stock of 40 strains of rice, which can tolerate salty growing conditions. Some of these varieties are currently being evaluated at Karnal in Haryana.D. BALASUBRAMANIAN


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