Wood chips with everything.
The News Review:
- Wood chips with everything.
- British reporters get a taste of San Francisco life
- Britpop? It’s just so last century
- Let the cyber games begin
- Glamour – shaken and stirred
Wood chips with everything.
Free with registration – Europe Intelligence Wire – AccessMyLibrary.com – Nov 8, 2005
(From Irish Independent) What is wrong with us that we can’t get ouract together on waste? WOOD chip can deliver heat and electricity for approximately one-third the price of oil. Everyone knows this, and everyone also knows that Ireland is awash with wood chip. Why then are we doing so little to utilise this cheap, home-grown fuel and cut back on our dependence on oil? It is little short of a national disgrace the way our various agencies are apparently unable to make this simple technology available to every home in the country. I have attended five seminars over the past few weeks and each.
British reporters get a taste of San Francisco life
San Francisco Chronicle – Nov 8, 2005
“The homeless!” Wade said. “This morning I was having breakfast at a place called Lori’s Diner (in San Francisco) and some mad woman was pounding on the window, yelling at us. And there are millions of men panhandling me. It’s actually quite astounding. ” Stephen Daniels, photographer for Danpics, said he was stunned that fast food hadn’t ruined the country as much as he expected, having seen the headlines about obesity before flying over. “I expected everyone in America to be fat,” he said. “The people, especially the women, are much slimmer than I imagined.
Britpop? It’s just so last century
Telegraph.co.uk – Nov 8, 2005
Whether it is the epic romanticism of Coldplay, Keane and Snow Patrol; the punk intensity of Babyshambles, Razorlight and the Subways; the stomping pop rock of Kaiser Chiefs, Hard Fi and the Ordinary Boys, or the edgy manifestos of Bloc Party, the Futureheads and Kasabian, British rock bands are as creative as ever. If there is a spirit of adventure and eclecticism abroad, its new poster boys and girls may be an extraordinary ensemble called Guillemots. I checked them out at the Hoxton Bar and Grill last week, and I haven’t witnessed such a music-business feeding frenzy since Oasis came to town. The guest-list queue snaked through the cramped bar with music publishers, A&R representatives, agents, pluggers, PRs and journalists jostling for position alongside three record-company MDs. At first I thought this a little odd, because Guillemots are not some sharply honed, pin-up pop sensation… If there is a spirit of adventure and eclecticism abroad, its new poster boys and girls may be an extraordinary ensemble called Guillemots. I checked them out at the Hoxton Bar and Grill last week, and I haven’t witnessed such a music-business feeding frenzy since Oasis came to town. The guest-list queue snaked through the cramped bar with music publishers, A&R representatives, agents, pluggers, PRs and journalists jostling for position alongside three record-company MDs. At first I thought this a little odd, because Guillemots are not some sharply honed, pin-up pop sensation. Their debut EP is quirky and weird, suggesting a kinship with such US indie art-rockers as Mercury Rev and the Flaming Lips. Live, however, Guillemots were a revelation. Bearded keyboard player and vocalist Fyfe Dangerfield has some of the gauche charm of Chris Martin and the live-wire showmanship of Damien Rice, commanding attention for his extraordinary songs, arranged with brio by a six-piece line-up.
Let the cyber games begin
The Age – Nov 8, 2005
In a separate gaming development this week, Helen Coonan,Minister for Communications, launched an electronic gamesinvestment fund to provide capital for early-stage investment inlocal games development. She said games exports were estimated at over $100 million ayear and could be expected to reach $500 million by the end of thedecade “provided investment growth” could be secured. She added that Australian markets had very little experience ofinvestment in developing home-grown gaming technologies in a worldin which the electronic games industry was rapidly overtaking olderforms of media, such as film, in popularity and rate of industrygrowth.
Glamour – shaken and stirred
EastDay.com – Nov 8, 2005
This is the thing – cocktail making has long
been recognized as something akin to alchemy and a well mixed drink something to
behold. One of the classic gin martinis on the Glamour Bar menu won a cocktail
competition in Chicago in 1951 so drinkers can be near enough certain they’re
drinking the very same cocktail that Ol’ Blue Eyes Frank Sinatra himself would
have consumed. The other award-winning drink on the menu is a home-grown one
created by the Glamour Bar’s head bartender, Xu Zizheng (Nick). An unassuming
individual though clearly of some considerable discernment, Xu was first
switched onto cocktails by the 1988 Tom Cruise movie “Cocktail. ” Firstly
mastering the rather cumbersome Long Island Iced Tea it wasn’t long before Xu
was getting to grips with the altogether more subtle Martini. “Every drink is
different, as is every customer and it’s the art of a good bartender to make the
drink to suit the customer,” Xu says. “Some people like their drink strong, some
don’t.