Home-grown crops accelerate drive towards biofuels
The News Review:
- Home-grown crops accelerate drive towards biofuels
- It’s tomato time: Everywhere you look, slices of heaven fresh…
- Named and shamed
- Drop the charade — Jones has run out of excuses
- Job from hell: Canteen worker
- Radico in JV with Diageo
Home-grown crops accelerate drive towards biofuels
Times Online – Aug 23, 2006
Used on article pages to rotate the images of a story. Sugar beet grown in East Anglia will be fermented to produce butanol, which will be blended with petrol and sold at more than 1,200 filling stations. The Government plans to accelerate the introduction of butanol and other biofuels by setting oil companies tough targets for producing renewable fuels that have much less impact on the environment. Ministers are considering doubling the target for biofuels from the current requirement for 5 per cent of all fuel sold by 2010 to 10 per cent by 2015. Companies will pay a penalty for failing to hit the target. The Energy Saving Trust, the government-funded environmental body, said butanol was more promising than other biofuels, such as ethanol or biodiesel, because it does not rely on drivers buying special cars or spending hundreds of pounds adapting their engines.
It’s tomato time: Everywhere you look, slices of heaven fresh…
Free with registration – Sacramento Bee – AccessMyLibrary.com – Aug 23, 2006
” Hoffman apparently is eating way more than his 18-pound allotment. Over in Rio Linda, Don Ravenscraft is tending his garden, giving special attention to the tomato crop. Last year, Ravens- craft won $5,000 in the NatureSweet home-grown tomato contest sponsored by Raley’s. He’s a man who knows a great tomato. Ravenscraft says he’s growing four types this year. “I’ve got three small ones, similar to the one I won with last year, and I’ve got one medium-size one for slicing tomatoes,” Ravenscraft says. “Personally, I think the small ones are sweeter, so I tend to concentrate on those.
Named and shamed
BBC News – Aug 22, 2006
and if you want to see the entire list you’ll have to buy a copy of the Radio Times, but remember other listings magazines are available. The best of the worst: top twenty
List compiled by John Naughton for the Radio Times, the complete top 50 is published in today’s edition
20 Ross Kemp: Alive In Alaska (1999)
19 Dream Team (1997-2006)
18 George and Mildred (1976-1979)
17 OTT (1982)
16 Thompson (1988)
15 Breakfast Time (1983-1989)
14 The Good Old Days (1953-1983)
13 The Borgias (1981)
12 The Black and White Minstrel Show (1958-1978)
11 Heil Honey I’m Home! (1990)
10 A Year In Provence (1993)
9 Through The Keyhole (1983-)
8 Thomas the Tank Engine and Friends (1984-1991)
7 Love Thy Neighbour (1972-1976)
6 Wright Here, Wright Now (2002)
5 Annie’s Bar (1996)
4 Quickfire Balls (2006)
3 Triangle (1981-1983)
2 Minipops (1983)
1 Naked Jungle (2000).
Drop the charade — Jones has run out of excuses
USA Today – Aug 22, 2006
She has testified before a federal grand jury in the BALCO case that she never used steroids. Telling tall tales might leave her vulnerable. America now boasts quite a lineup of home-grown champion cheats, at least if you believe their specimens: Tour de France winner Floyd Landis, Jones and Olympic 100-meter champion Justin Gatlin, who Tuesday agreed to an eight-year ban. The limitless reservoir of gall among such athletes truly is remarkable. With straight faces, they keep telling crooked stories. That is particularly true of Jones, who two years ago in her autobiography emphasized in bold caps her opposition to the festering drug culture in sports:
“I HAVE ALWAYS BEEN UNEQUIVOCAL IN MY OPINION: I AM AGAINST PERFORMANCE-ENHANCING DRUGS. I HAVE NEVER TAKEN THEM AND I NEVER WILL TAKE THEM.
Job from hell: Canteen worker
Times Online – Aug 22, 2006
But I had to take it because it was the only job within cycling distance of my house. The first hurdle was the “uniform” I was required to wear. The manager of the cafe had decided that he wanted to go for a rustic, home-grown, local-purveyor-of-fresh-food look, with the result that we had to wear elasticated trousers, cheap polyester men’s shirts (even for the girls), striped shin-length aprons and clip-on bow ties. As one of only two girls working on the counter, we were told that the cafe couldn’t accommodate our particular uniform needs and we could wear what the boys wore. Cycling to and from work dressed as a sexually confused butcher is still one of my most horrific memories. This, however, was peanuts compared to the actual work. I now know that hell is formica-coated, and serves liver and onions to coach-loads of pensioners day-in, day-out.
Radico in JV with Diageo
Times of India – Aug 22, 2006
Home-grown liquor
major Radico Khaitan on Monday announced plans to set up a 50-50 joint venture
with the world’s largest spirits maker Diageo to develop liquor brands for the
growing Indian market. While
financial details of the deal were not announced, the firms said the joint
venture will target the Indian made foreign liquor market. “The financial details will be
avaialble only post-regulatory clearances. Both the companies are well funded,
so there would not be any monetary issues,” a Radico Khaitan spokesperson
said. The JV will not look at
setting up a separate units, but will work from their existing units.