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- Dinkum tucker
- Wind energy, surprisingly to some, has economies of scale, too
- There’s No Place Like Home Inns
- Troubled Luna sees stocks dip: Since it went public, the company has…
- Songwriter attempts streamlined second CD
- Embracing the blues.
Dinkum tucker
NEWS.com.au – Mar 8, 2007
article-tools –> March 08, 2007 12:00am THE global market has led to anomalies – such as Californian oranges on sale in Australian supermarkets while struggling growers here plough up orange groves. In a welcome move to give Australians a choice between home-grown and imported food, a new labelling system is proposed. Under the new scheme cans and packages will bear a triangular label carrying the words "Australian Grown" below a yellow kangaroo on a green background. The labels are expected to appear on shop shelves from mid-year. Agriculture Minister Peter McGauran plugged local tucker: "Australian farmers grow the cleanest and greenest food in the world – it’s no surprise consumers seek out our home-grown produce. " At least shoppers will find this easier.
Wind energy, surprisingly to some, has economies of scale, too
International Herald Tribune – Mar 8, 2007
Jeremy Rifkin, the author and futurist who argues that millions of people will soon be generating their own hydrogen from renewable energy, said that waste was built into large central projects because of electrical transmission losses. “If you go and put it in the desert and bring it back in, you lose 7 to 9 percent on the way,” he said. More to the point, Rifkin said, home- grown energy is going to be cheaper. “It's a question of who owns and controls it at the end of the line,” he said. “If you own it on your own, it's going to be at a cheaper price than if the utility company is going to sell it to you. ” But it is not just corporations that are finding that bigger may be better. Hull, Massachusetts, is about as far from an oil or gas well as it is possible to get in the United States.
There’s No Place Like Home Inns
Motley Fool – Mar 8, 2007
That profitability may not seem like much, but that’s the price you pay for rapid expansion. Over the past year, Home Inns has grown from 68 to 134 locations, with another 48 inns currently in development. That grants the company the luxury to project an impressive 60% to 70% top-line spurt here in 2007. Why is Home Inns so bent on breakneck expansion? Pick a reason, any reason:
The 2008 Olympics will bring a plethora of foreign travelers into China. China’s booming economy is making travel a popular leisurely pursuit. Occupancy rate clocked in at a stunning 93% for all of 2006.
Troubled Luna sees stocks dip: Since it went public, the company has…
Free with registration – Roanoke Times – AccessMyLibrary.com – Mar 8, 2007
| Roanoke Times (Roanoke, VA) (March, 2007). 8–Luna Innovations’ stock dropped more than 5 percent Wednesday, a blow to a company that has become emblematic of the region’s struggle both to put down technological r.
Songwriter attempts streamlined second CD
Northwest Herald – Mar 8, 2007
) For singer-songwriter Todd Carey, there’s no better place to perform music than Chicago. The Winnetka native moved to Los Angeles in the late ’90s to study music at the University of Southern California, but decided to come back to Chicago in 2005. “I missed the vibrancy of audiences in the Midwest,” Carey said. “People in L. wouldn’t surrender to the music… With “Watching Waiting,” he tried to make a more cohesive album than his last effort, 2005’s “Revolving World. ”“Everything was streamlined, from the writing of the songs to the recording and mixing of them,” Carey said. “My last record was definitely more of a home-grown affair. With this record, we wanted to make something that held together as a bigger body of work. ”Carey knew the record was going to be special once he walked into the studio. “It just kind of took on a life of its own,” Carey said. “Good art comes when the unexpected happens in the process and things become greater than the sum of their parts.
Embracing the blues.
Free with registration – Europe Intelligence Wire – AccessMyLibrary.com – Mar 8, 2007
(From Bristol Evening Post) Joan Armatrading is currently on tour promoting her new blues album, but she told Keith Clark that, even after 35 years in the spotlight, she still gets a dose of the nerves before she goes out on stage In 1972, Joan Armatrading released her debut album, Whatever’s For Us, a fine collection of eclectic well-crafted self-penned songs effortlessly sung in a voice that was rich, warm and full of soul. It announced the arrival of one of Britain’s finest artists, a hugely influential singer-songwriter who has never bowed to the pressures of commercialism, but has given us such wonderful songs as Love And Affection, Down To Zero, Drop The Pilot, Show Some Emotion and Me Myself I. For her latest album, she has moved into a field of music that she has always touched on but never fully embraced until now, the blues. Simply titled Into The Blues, the album contains a set of songs that are unmistakably Joan Armatrading but are soaked in the traditional form. “It’s songs that I’ve written with a blues element,” she explained. “I think I’ve always wanted.