W.House hopeful McCain details energy platform
The News Review:
- W.House hopeful McCain details energy platform
- Birth of our own cuisine
- Brilliance plans US sales as early as 2007
- AC makers gear up for energy efficiency deadline
- ‘Artisan’ spirits – liquor with local flavor
- Why do we hate pigeons so much?
W.House hopeful McCain details energy platform
Washington Post – Apr 23, 2007
" "I don’t have to recite his credentials," he toldreporters after the speech. McCain said he supported using home-grown sources like cornand switchgrass to make fuel to replace foreign supplies, butsaid he would drop tariffs and subsidies which have keptimports in check. Speaking to reporters following his remarks, McCain said hewould let lapse a 54 cent-per-gallon tariff on ethanol importswhich expires at the end of 2008. "I have opposed subsidies and import tariffs and I wouldcertainly let it drop," McCain told reporters, referring to theimport tariff. In his speech, McCain also repeated his call for the UnitedStates to cut its emissions of heat-trapping greenhouse gasesthrough a cap-and-trade system.
Birth of our own cuisine
NEWS.com.au – Apr 23, 2007
Today, the most acclaimed restaurants are often "modern Australian". Our chefs are highly regarded in restaurants overseas, feted for their originality and envied for their lack of ties to a traditional cuisine. Increasingly, most chefs here are constructing menus from home-grown produce. "I’m a very produce-driven chef and my philosophy is to use the best and freshest I can and while I still use foie gras or imported caviar, generally the best and freshest is going to be Australian," Moran says. Alex Herbert of Bird Cow Fish in Sydney, another chef heading north for the celebration, agrees. "I don’t want to be using Californian oranges that have travelled thousands of miles, I want to be using the freshest I can. "
The best there is "is in season from as close to the consumer as possible", says the venerable Maggie Beer.
Brilliance plans US sales as early as 2007
San Diego Union Tribune – Apr 23, 2007
com > News > Business — Brilliance plans U. sales as early as 2007.
AC makers gear up for energy efficiency deadline
Economic Times – Apr 23, 2007
“We are targeting a 50
per cent jump in our AC volumes with new ‘health’ oriented features introduced
in our ACs. We are also planning to launch Star rated ACs before the deadline
set by the BEE,” Samsung India Deputy Managing Director R Zutshi
said. Following the trend,
home-grown major Godrej has also introduced a new ‘i-sense’ technology, which it
claims maintains coordination between the actual temperature in the room and the
one selected by the user. “We
are getting ready for the BEE’s mandate and getting the models approved,” Godrej
Sales and Marketing Vice President Kamal Nandi said, adding the company is
eyeing 10 per cent market share this fiscal, up from 5 per last year.
‘Artisan’ spirits – liquor with local flavor
San Diego Union Tribune – Apr 23, 2007
In Virginia, Wasmund adds toasted fruitwood chips to his barrels of whiskey, cutting the aging process from three years to as little as three months. Each bottle is hand-numbered and sealed with wax. In Michigan, farmers sell clear eau-de-vie brandy made from their home-grown cherries, pears and peaches. “Capturing local flavor and ambience – that’s the whole thing,” said Kris Berglund, a Michigan State University chemical engineer and microdistillery pioneer. MORE LIKE WINE
Artisan spirit producers have more in common with winemakers, who celebrate local and seasonal variations, than liquor-industry giants who strive for consistency, said Vermont Gold distiller Duncan Holaday. “We don’t want to be industrial, where every piece is exactly the same as the next,” said Holaday, a former anthropologist. Easing regulations have helped in some states.
Why do we hate pigeons so much?
BBC News – Apr 23, 2007
These are more of a menace than the humble pigeon, yet they are a protected species. Ken should be grateful he hasn’t got to deal with flocks of them in Trafalgar Square!Howard Parker, Ramsgate
I hate pigeons because they eat growing crops in the vegetable garden and allotment. Thus depriving me of my home-grown organic veg. Jen, Ipswich
Another reason is the fact that they can make an unwelcome deposit on your head!John Hethrow, London
What about those “seaside pigeons” AKA Herring Gulls. Here in Brighton they provide more of a nuisance that pigeons. I have never seen a pigeon rip open a bag of rubbish and drag it all over the road.