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“My goal is to ensure that to the greatest degree possible, energy consumed in Pennsylvania is produced in Pennsylvania, by Pennsylvanians,” the Governor said. PennSecurity Fuels InitiativeThe PennSecurity Fuels Initiative will foster economic development, energy independence and environmental protection through the use of alternative fuels by requiring all diesel fuel and gasoline sold in Pennsylvania to contain a percentage of ethanol or biodiesel. The initiative will require that 1 billion gallons of home-grown biofuels be produced and consumed in Pennsylvania by 2017 – an amount equal to what the state will import from the Persian Gulf by that time. Pennsylvania is already well on its way to increasing production of homegrown alternative fuels. By the end of this year, Pennsylvania businesses expect to have the annual capacity to produce approximately 60 million gallons of biodiesel fuel. More capacity will come on-line in the near future. The Energy Independence FundThe Energy Independence Fund will be used to support the following clean energy activities: * $244 million – Household appliance rebates and PA Sunshine Grants * $106 million – Venture capital, grants and loans for expansion of alternative energy companies * $500 million – Clean energy projects and development or equipment costs for specific energy economic development projects A small — just one-twentieth of one cent for each kilowatt of power — public benefits charge on electricity use will generate a revenue source for the Energy Independence Fund.
Franchising and Nouveau Consumerism in the Middle East and Beyond
E-Commerce Times - Sep 26, 2007
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Taipei Times - Sep 26, 2007
Much of that criticism centers on his failures to overcome sectarian differences in Iraq, the lack of an agreement on such key factors as dividing the country’s vast oil wealth and his inclination to remain too sympathetic to his own Shiite faction. “He is trying to put all the Sunnis and Shiites together, but the Sunnis push him away,” said Mustapha al-Nasiri, 46, an Iraqi petroleum engineer now selling real estate in Boston. He argued that while not all Sunnis are bad, they formed the core of the Baath Party and of al-Qaeda in Mesopotamia, a home-grown insurgent group that US intelligence agencies say is foreign led. Another Iraqi immigrant worried that all the criticism would only help Iraq’s enemies. “They make him weak,” said Hussein Al-Jabouri, a 41-year-old businessman from Dearborn Heights, Michigan. He said he also wanted to know what the prime minister’s plans were for developing mostly Shiite, southern Iraq, plans he said were long overdue. Maliki, however, was long about the difficult struggles still ahead but short on specifics.
Bergman actress to make comeback
BBC News - Sep 26, 2007
She will play a grandmother in the film, In a Mirror, In a Riddle, which is based on a novel by Jostein Gaarder, author of best-selling Sophie’s World. Ullmann, 68, has not taken the leading role in a Norwegian film since the 1969 drama An-Magritt. Her last on-screen appearance was in Bergman’s 2003 TV movie Saraband. Speaking about her new role, the actress told Norwegian daily newspaper Dagbladet: “This is not only the first (Norwegian) part I have taken on since An-Magritt, it is also the first I have been offered.
Southern Cakes: Rediscovered heritage led to collection of regional…
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26–Nancie McDermott has developed a reputation as an expert in Thai and other Asian cooking since the publication of her first cookbook, Real Thai: The Best of Thailand’s Regional Cooking, in 1992. That book is still in print, and she has followed it with a handful of other successful Asian books, magazine articles and cooking classes. So why has she just written a book about Southern baking? “Because I came home,” she said in a telephone conversation last week. McDermott’s Southern Cakes (Chronicle, $19. 95) came out this summer. It’s her eighth cookbook. Home since 1999 has been Chapel Hill, where she lives with her husband, Will Lee, and daughters, Camellia, 16, and Isabelle, 12… When Lee’s job brought them back to North Carolina, McDermott was suddenly thinking about skillet cornbread, fried okra, biscuits and all those wonderful cakes her grandmother made during McDermott’s weekend visits to her grandparents’ farm when she was a child. She also started cooking more Southern food, in part to pass along part of her personal food history to her daughters. More and more, she began thinking of the wonderful tradition of cake baking that Southerners have, and of how such traditional baked goods have been underappreciated in this era of sophisticated cooks who tout dishes from around the world while seeming to ignore the wonders of home-grown dishes. “It made me think that baking.